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How Classroom Rituals Help Create Community
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_classroom_rituals_help_create_community?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content…

How Classroom Rituals Help Create Community
Small practices, repeated regularly and with intentionality, can help students feel a sense of belonging at school.

Epic Games launches MetaHuman, its game developer tool to quickly create realistic digital human characters, now embedded as part of Unreal Engine 5.6 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678403/epic-games-metahumans-unreal-engine

Epic is making it easier to create MetaHumans
Epic Games’ announced at its State of Unreal show MetaHuman Creator is now embedded within Unreal Engine and that they can be used in engines like Unity and Godot.

Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/195904/trump-palantir-data-americans
Voor iedereen die zich nog afvroeg of privacy in de VS nog een rol van betekenis speelt of dat er …

If you just need a pretty figure from a dataset and not the full power of R, have a look at #gui

The Nevada Legislature rejects a proposal to create a $95M annual tax credit for the Sony- and WBD-backed Summerlin Studios project in Las Vegas (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/las-vegas-studio-prosposal-dies-1236417137/

Las Vegas Studio Proposal Dies in Nevada Legislature
A plan to build a $400 million studio in Las Vegas died in the state legislature on Monday night, after lawmakers balked at subsidies.

I consider these kinds of events to be nearly useless symbolism, preaching to the choir.
I do accept that these events are useful as means to meet others, but one should not expect these events to have even the slightest impact on the maga/white-nationalist/musk-ites... Nor do I think they have much impact on those who are in "the middle" and do not particularly engage in politics.
"Nearly 1,000 gather at Main Beach to create ‘Resist!’ human banner protesting Trum…

Nearly 1,000 gather at Main Beach to create ‘Resist!’ human banner protesting Trump administration
Around 1,000 people gathered Saturday morning at Santa Cruz Main Beach to spell out the word “Resist!” The event, organized by Indivisible Santa Cruz County, aimed to protest the Trump administration and celebrate Santa Cruz Pride’s 50th anniversary.

Spending hours manually updating your Excel dashboards and reports? Copying, pasting, reformatting... 😩 It's tedious, time-consuming, and leaves room for error. What if your key visuals updated automatically when the source data changes?
Excel has a powerful, often overlooked feature perfect for this: the Camera Tool! 📸
It lets you create dynamic, linked visuals from different sheets onto one central summary page. 👉

It doesn't take much to create a #fedi alternative to #Linkedin. We just need structured profiles (featuring experience and education) and posts (that let people know if they could still apply or position is taken).

The neurological basis for non-visual illustration https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jill_00117_7 "this article poses the question of whether there is a theoretical precedent for creating visual imagery in the minds of blind peopl…

Faced with the growing risk that #LightPollution represents for the development of astronomy in Chile, international observatories with a presence in the country have formed a joint organization dedicated to protecting the dark skies of northern Chile: https://giantmagellan.org/2025/06/03/dark-skies-council-international-astronomical-observatories-join-forces-to-protect-chiles-skies/ - the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), the Giant Magellan Telescope, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory (LCO), signed an agreement to create the Dark Skies Council; through this alliance, the institutions will work in a coordinated manner to protect Chile’s privileged skies.

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DORIAN: Exactly.
AVON: You really are insane, aren't you?
DORIAN: By now I probably would be.
AVON: If it wasn't for this mysterious room.
DORIAN: And what it contains.
SOOLIN: [Enters] And what might that be, Dorian?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/467…

Blakes7Bot | Search
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OpenS2V-Nexus: A Detailed Benchmark and Million-Scale Dataset for Subject-to-Video Generation
Subject-to-Video (S2V) generation aims to create videos that faithfully incorporate reference content, providing enhanced flexibility in the production of videos. To establish the infrastructure for S2V generation, we propose OpenS2V-Nexus, consisting of (i) OpenS2V-Eval, a fine-grained benchmark, and (ii) OpenS2V-5M, a million-scale dataset. In contrast to existing S2V benchmarks inherited from VBench that focus on global and coarse-grained assessment of generated videos, OpenS2V-Eval focuses …

Raiders’ Changes This Offseason Could Create ‘Volatility’ for Jakobi Meyers https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-changes-this-offseason-could-create-volatility-for-jakobi-meyers/?adt…

If I ever create a microblogging platform, I'd call it "The Void".
Posts would be "shouts". Comments would be permanently disabled. Likes would just add an ever increasing number of eyes around the edge, staring at what you wrote from every angle 👀

Did someone find a setup where their #NextcloudAssistant performs sensible tasks?
I have context agent running. It seems to provide general access to some #Nextcloud apps as I am asked if I want to create bogus calendar entries when asking the example commands like "list my calendars&qu…

Kleines #Kahoot Quiz zu #Pfingsten für meine Grundschüler Kl. 4, vielleicht kann es jemand brauchen ...
https://

A centralized intelligence database on all Americans is not inherently legal.
It likely breaks the Privacy Act of 1974, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments.
This must be stopped. Contact your Senators and Representative and ask them to stop it. I use @… to call mine.

Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American
Trump’s dystopian plan is already underway.

Nietzsche Discovers AI Art
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/605
#existentialcomics #aiart

EVOKS (Editor for Vocabularies to Know Semantics) "allows you to:
- create a #SKOS vocabulary from scratch
- import SKOS vocabularies in RDF/XML or Turtle format
- edit SKOS vocabularies without using its textual representation
- work collaborativley
- publish the vocabulary with a single click in the vocabulary browser

Learning to Upsample and Upmix Audio in the Latent Domain
Dimitrios Bralios, Paris Smaragdis, Jonah Casebeer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00681 https://

Learning to Upsample and Upmix Audio in the Latent Domain
Neural audio autoencoders create compact latent representations that preserve perceptually important information, serving as the foundation for both modern audio compression systems and generation approaches like next-token prediction and latent diffusion. Despite their prevalence, most audio processing operations, such as spatial and spectral up-sampling, still inefficiently operate on raw waveforms or spectral representations rather than directly on these compressed representations. We propos…

"Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else", but how to do this with Linked Data? Eero Hyvönen is quoting Leonardo Da Vinci as an intro to his presentation "How to Create a Portal for Digital Humanities Research Using a Linked Open Data Cloud of Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs: Case SampoSampo"
paper:

Last boost, related #uspol take:
"Here's RFK's plan:
1. Claim vaccines cause autism
2. Push vaccine skepticism, lower vax rates
3. Create autism registry - people avoid getting a diagnosis to stay off it
4. Point to the decrease in autism diagnoses as "proof" vaccines cause autism"
via a screenshot of a tweet by a Skyler Johnson @Skylerfo…

Conclusions from the excellent #AlternativeDefenceReview
https://cnduk.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ADR-digital.pdf

Does rainfall create buoyant forcing at the ocean surface?
Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Eric D'Asaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24277 https://

Does rainfall create buoyant forcing at the ocean surface?
Rain affects the buoyancy of the upper ocean in two ways: The freshwater flux in rain makes the water fresher and lighter, stabilizing the ocean (a negative buoyancy flux). The convective systems that produce rain are often accompanied by cold, dry air, often called 'cold pools', and reduced short-wave radiation, which makes the water colder and heavier, destabilizing the ocean (a positive buoyancy flux). We estimate net buoyancy fluxes using in situ measurements from twenty-two moored buoys in…

What is a post-June 1 cut? Cowboys can create more salary cap space https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/what-is-post-june-1-cut-designation-dallas-cowboys-salary-cap-space

“I will kill you” — overused, no longer threatening
“I will create your WikiFeet page” — horrifying, a real thing anyone can do, to most the name is self-explanatory yet has terrible implications

(1/3) Please join me today on Zoom at 12pm ET / 11am CT / 10am MT / 9am PT for "Beyond the Algorithmic Feed," a free MediaEd Club webinar for the Media Education Lab:
https://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php/events/beyond-algorithmic-feed
While som…

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Discovery Rates and Characterizations of Centaurs
Joseph Murtagh, Megan E. Schwamb, Stephanie R. Merritt, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Jacob A. Kurlander, Samuel Cornwall, Mario Juri\'c, Grigori Fedorets, Matthew J. Holman, Siegfried Eggl, David Nesvorn\'y, Kathryn Volk, R. Lynne Jones, Peter Yoachim, Joachim Moeyens, Jeremy Kubica, Drew Oldag, Maxine West, Colin Orion Chandler

Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Discovery Rates and Characterizations of Centaurs
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will start by the end of 2025 and operate for ten years, offering billions of observations of the southern night sky. One of its main science goals is to create an inventory of the Solar System, allowing for a more detailed understanding of small body populations including the Centaurs, which will benefit from the survey's high cadence and depth. In this paper, we establish the first discovery limits for Centaurs throughout th…

Quite rich for someone that just sold his business for 6 billion to OpenAI
« When I first moved here I came because it was characterized by people who genuinely saw that their purpose was in service to humanity, to inspire people and help people create. I don't feel that way about this place right now. »
https://

Machine-learning-driven modelling of amorphous and polycrystalline BaZrS$_{3}$
Laura-Bianca Pa\c{s}ca, Yuanbin Liu, Andy S. Anker, Ludmilla Steier, Volker L. Deringer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01517

Machine-learning-driven modelling of amorphous and polycrystalline BaZrS$_{3}$
The chalcogenide perovskite material BaZrS$_{3}$ is of growing interest for emerging thin-film photovoltaics. Here we show how machine-learning-driven modelling can be used to describe the material's amorphous precursor as well as polycrystalline structures with complex grain boundaries. Using a bespoke machine-learned interatomic potential (MLIP) model for BaZrS$_{3}$, we study the atomic-scale structure of the amorphous phase, quantify grain-boundary formation energies, and create realistic-s…

RESOLVE: Rare Event Surrogate Likelihood for Gravitational Wave Paleontology Parameter Estimation
Ann-Kathrin Schuetz, Alexander Migala, Adam Boesky, Alan W. P. Poon, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Aobo Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00757

RESOLVE: Rare Event Surrogate Likelihood for Gravitational Wave Paleontology Parameter Estimation
The first detection of gravitational waves, recognized by the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, has opened up a new research field: gravitational-wave paleontology. When massive stars evolve into black holes and collide, they create gravitational waves that propagate through space and time. These gravitational-waves, now detectable on Earth, act as fossils tracing the histories of the massive stars that created them. Estimating physics parameters of these massive stars from detected gravitational-wa…

Hybridizing Expressive Rendering: Stroke-Based Rendering with Classic and Neural Methods
Kapil Dev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00870 https://

Hybridizing Expressive Rendering: Stroke-Based Rendering with Classic and Neural Methods
Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) has long been used to create artistic visualizations that prioritize style over realism, enabling the depiction of a wide range of aesthetic effects, from hand-drawn sketches to painterly renderings. While classical NPR methods, such as edge detection, toon shading, and geometric abstraction, have been well-established in both research and practice, with a particular focus on stroke-based rendering, the recent rise of deep learning represents a paradigm shift.…

Stellar populations in STARFORGE II: Comparison with observations
Juan P. Farias, Stella S. R. Offner, Ronan Kerr, Michael Y. Grudi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00240

Stellar populations in STARFORGE II: Comparison with observations
Recent studies suggest that most star-forming regions in our Galaxy form stellar associations rather than bound clusters. We analyse models from the STARFORGE simulation suite, a set of magneto-hydrodynamical simulations that include all key stellar feedback and radiative processes following star formation through cloud dispersal. We create synthetic observations by introducing observational biases such as random spurious measurements, unresolved binaries, and photometric sensitivity. These bia…

Sources: Meta aims to help brands fully create and target ads using AI by the end of 2026, including images and budgetary goals, building on its current tools (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-aims-to-f

With Bryce Huff trade, 49ers continue re-making defense in Robert Saleh's image https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45398149/bryce-huff-trade-shows-49ers-faith-robert-saleh-fix-defense

Search for the chiral magnetic effect through beam energy dependence of charge separation using event shape selection
The STAR Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00278

Search for the chiral magnetic effect through beam energy dependence of charge separation using event shape selection
High-energy, heavy-ion collisions can create local domains of chirality-imbalanced quarks, reflecting the topological features of quantum chromodynamics. The chiral magnetic effect (CME) predicts an electric charge separation of quarks in such topological domains along the magnetic field ($\vec{B}$) generated by the passing of two high-$Z$ nuclei. We use a correlation observable $Δγ^{112}$ between charged meson pairs to detect the CME-induced charge separation and a novel event shape selectio…

#Rust offers different ways to initialize compile time-initialized variables. Recently, I had to create a runtime-initialized variable: existing approaches don’t work in this case. I want to describe multiple ways to achieve it in this post.
http…

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LoBAM: LoRA-Based Backdoor Attack on Model Merging
Model merging is an emerging technique that integrates multiple models fine-tuned on different tasks to create a versatile model that excels in multiple domains. This scheme, in the meantime, may open up backdoor attack opportunities where one single malicious model can jeopardize the integrity of the merged model. Existing works try to demonstrate the risk of such attacks by assuming substantial computational resources, focusing on cases where the attacker can fully fine-tune the pre-trained m…

The New York Times reports that President Trump has enlisted the firm Palantir, founded by far-right billionaire Peter Thiel,
to carry out his March executive order
instructing government agencies to share data with each other.
The order has increased fears that the government is putting together a database to wield surveillance powers over the American public.

Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American
Trump’s dystopian plan is already underway.

Does Trump's Tariff Make America Great Again? An Empirical Analysis of US-China Trade War Impact on American Business Formation (2018-2025)
Ruiming Min
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00999

Does Trump's Tariff Make America Great Again? An Empirical Analysis of US-China Trade War Impact on American Business Formation (2018-2025)
This study examines whether Donald Trump's tariff policies, particularly the US-China trade war initiated in 2018, delivered on promises to revitalize American manufacturing and create jobs. Using county-level business application data from 2018-2025, we analyze the relationship between tariff implementation and new business formation through linear regression analysis. Our findings reveal a statistically significant positive association between US tariffs on China and American business applica…

The four types of imagination and how they create our worlds https://www.newscientist.com/article/2480349-the-four-types-of-imagination-and-how-they-create-our-worlds/ (archived at

The four types of imagination and how they create our worlds
Your imagination isn't just one thing. The latest neuroscience is untangling just how diverse this faculty really is, says cognitive neurologist Adam Zeman

I've seen several requests to create a setting to hide the dropdown bar in #Jellyfin for #Roku.
I don't like this idea for a few reasons.
1. It permanently hides functionality
2. It permanently hides information
The dropdowns are how we let you know what filters ar…

Sources: Meta aims to help brands fully create and target ads using AI by the end of 2026, including images and budgetary goals, building on its current tools (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-aims-to-f

There's some discourse on generative AI "democratizing" art.
And this is so confusing to me. I create images. And when I do, I'm trying to take something in my head, and make it real. And share that image in my head with others.
It's my image in my head. If I describe that to AI to make the image, then it is just approximate. To get it closer to my image needs a better prompt.
That's writing. Writing it its own art, and you can let the reader imagi…

Hi friends!
I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so!
A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍
On the way up I noted all places where I could refuel later using my water filter. Seriously: why didn't I buy that waaays ear…

Sometimes I create really really really useful plugins for #NeosCMS.
I present: Norman Nodly, the super amazing AI assistant
He watches what you do, and gives you super motivational messages when you get feedback from the Neos backend, like when you publish successfully. He also understands more than 2 inquiries!

WordPress may be run by… that guy, but it still has a massive user base. They all need better accessibility documentation.
@… wants to improve it, but needs sponsors:
https://

Excellent keynote in the #SemDH2025 workshop by Laura Hollink on Cultural Bias in Linked Open Data. Laura is addressing all bias related aspects in cultural heritage items itself, in the data representing it, the data schemata, vocabularies, and ontologies on which the data are based, as well as in the knowledge representation languages used to create the schemata.

Character.AI rolls out features like AvatarFX for video generation, plus Streams and Scenes for creating and sharing videos with characters on a new social feed (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/chat

Chatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds | TechCrunch
Character.AI is rolling out its AvatarFX tool, which allow users to create animated, customizable videos featuring their AI chat bots.

“Remigration”—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-office-r

The Trump Administration Wants to Create an ‘Office of Remigration’
"Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department.

Snippets in Visual Studio Code
You can easily define your own snippets without any extension.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editing/userdefinedsnippets#_create-your-own-snippets

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Can Invisible Psychological Traits Organize Visible Network Structure? A Complex Network Analysis of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator-Based Interaction Patterns in Anonymous Social Networks
Exploration of the impact of personality traits on social interactions within anonymous online communities poses a challenge at the interface of networked social sciences and psychology. We analyze whether Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality types impact the dynamics of interactions on an anonymous chat system with over 288,000 messages from 6,076 users. Using a data set including 940 users voluntarily providing MBTI typing and gender, we create a weighted undirected network and appl…

WishGI: Lightweight Static Global Illumination Baking via Spherical Harmonics Fitting
Junke Zhu, Zehan Wu, Qixing Zhang, Cheng Liao, Zhangjin Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01288

WishGI: Lightweight Static Global Illumination Baking via Spherical Harmonics Fitting
Global illumination combines direct and indirect lighting to create realistic lighting effects, bringing virtual scenes closer to reality. Static global illumination is a crucial component of virtual scene rendering, leveraging precomputation and baking techniques to significantly reduce runtime computational costs. Unfortunately, many existing works prioritize visual quality by relying on extensive texture storage and massive pixel-level texture sampling, leading to large performance overhead.…

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Glucagon and insulin production in pancreatic cells modeled using Petri nets and Boolean networks
Diabetes is a civilization chronic disease characterized by a constant elevated concentration of glucose in the blood. Many processes are involved in the glucose regulation, and their interactions are very complex. To better understand those processes we set ourselves a goal to create a Petri net model of the glucose regulation in the whole body. So far we have managed to create a model of glycolysis and synthesis of glucose in the liver, and the general overview models of the glucose regulatio…

Your open source needs docs - and to get you through this experience I have written a guide to creating minimal open source project documentation in a single afternoon. https://lornajane.net/posts/2025/just-enough-docs
Assemble the basics, immediately benefit your project, and also create a space for future documentation contributions to land!

Put away pipelines, go with grids!
By David Suzuki with contributions from Senior Editor and Writer Ian Hanington
It’s good to see ideas such as increasing self-sufficiency and diversifying trade partners emerging in response to U.S. attacks on Canada’s economy and threats to our sovereignty. As usual, though, the fossil fuel industry and its supporters are taking advantage of this “crisis” to push for more oil and gas infrastructure, particularly pipelines.

Put away pipelines, go with grids!
A true nation-building project would be to create a renewable-powered integrated electricity grid throughout the country.

Join "3D Printing Adventures Penguin Style" today! We're channeling the Force (and our 3D printer) to create an awesome Darth Vader plant pot. Don't miss it! #StarWarsFans

#AI impact on work force: killing jobs, enhancing jobs or what?
Interesting read: https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/b…

How do I know May Day is gonna be big? I'm going to be able to join an event in Studio City
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “May Day Strong: We are the Many” - sign up now to join me! https://www.

Health and Human Services head RFK Jr threatens that publicly funded scientists may be stopped from publishing in leading medical journals.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/rfk-jr-medical-journals

Ontario NDP, Liberals successfully stall Bill 5 after filibustering until midnight Thursday | CBC News
Bill 5 would create so-called "special economic zones" where the government can exempt companies or projects from complying with provincial laws or regulations. It would also replace the province's endangered species act, replacing it with an new law that critics say waters down protections.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ndp-liberals-stall-bill-5-after-filibuster-1.7546691

"The waste of having processes that create defects and then use inspection to catch them is certainly something to avoid. A significant part of the effort in code reviews should be geared toward capturing learning that can be applied to current processes to improve them so fewer bugs are created in the future.
..."

Damn! I wanted X-ray vision! 😉
Seeing infrared: scientists create contact lenses that grant ‘super-vision’;
Breakthrough could lead to range of wearables that extend range of vision and help people with colour blindness
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/m

Mit den illegalen #Siedlungen im Westjordanland sollte genauso verfahren werden wie mit Schwarzbauten. Sie müssen abgerissen und der Status quo ante wiederhergestellt werden.
Die Art der rechtswidrigen Annexion von Land zum Zweck des Siedlungsbaus, die Menschenrechte verletzt, muss international geächtet werden.
Die israelische Regierung setzt sich über internationales Recht und universe…

Green Shields: The Role of ESG in Uncertain Time
Fatih Kansoy, Dominykas Stasiulaitis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02143 https://arxiv.…

Green Shields: The Role of ESG in Uncertain Time
The rapid growth of sustainable investing, now exceeding 35 trillion USD globally, has transformed financial markets, yet the implications for monetary policy transmission remain underexplored. While existing literature documents heterogeneous firm responses to monetary policy through traditional channels such as size and leverage, it remains unknown whether environmental, social, and governance (ESG) characteristics create distinct transmission mechanisms. Using high-frequency identification a…

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EASY: Emotion-aware Speaker Anonymization via Factorized Distillation
Emotion plays a significant role in speech interaction, conveyed through tone, pitch, and rhythm, enabling the expression of feelings and intentions beyond words to create a more personalized experience. However, most existing speaker anonymization systems employ parallel disentanglement methods, which only separate speech into linguistic content and speaker identity, often neglecting the preservation of the original emotional state. In this study, we introduce EASY, an emotion-aware speaker an…

Hi friends!
I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so!
A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍
On the way up I noted all places where I could refuel later using my water filter. Seriously: why didn't I buy that waaays ear…

R doesnt need to be a hard and scientific tool 📈. You can use it to make art 🎨: #rstats

from my link log —
Representing type lattices compactly.
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/lattice-bitset/
saved 2025-03-12 https://…

"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the
universe."
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

https://blog.atuin.sh/atuin-scripts-shareable-syncable-shell-snippets/ @… scripts makes it really easy to turn a sequence of a few commands into a script.
Since I've started using it I created a few scripts I probably wouldn't have if I had to create them the old fashioned way

The new documentary, “Lawrence Welk: A North Dakota Farm Boy”will premiere May 31 at the North Dakota Heritage Center on May 31.
"Born to German-Russian immigrant parents in Strasburg, ND, Lawrence Welk built a strong work ethic and love for music growing up on the family farmstead. After touring the Midwest in his 20s, he was scouted by ABC in 1955 to create the iconic "The Lawrence Welk Show,” "

Errors in Stereo Geometry Induce Distance Misperception
Raffles Xingqi Zhu, Charlie S. Burlingham, Olivier Mercier, Phillip Guan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23685

Errors in Stereo Geometry Induce Distance Misperception
Stereoscopic head-mounted displays (HMDs) render and present binocular images to create an egocentric, 3D percept to the HMD user. Within this render and presentation pipeline there are potential rendering camera and viewing position errors that can induce deviations in the depth and distance that a user perceives compared to the underlying intended geometry. For example, rendering errors can arise when HMD render cameras are incorrectly positioned relative to the assumed centers of projections…

tl;dr: Block logins from Tor Exit Nodes using Conditional Access
One thing we (as a community) lost when we started using IdP’s like #EntraID was the ability to easily block networks and IP addresses from accessing your login pages. The work-around with Entra is to create Conditional Access Network Locations along with a policy to block successful logins from those IPs and networks.

#Jellyfin for #Roku 3.0.4 will be published on Thursday, May 29, 2025 5:00 PM PT
🎉 New Features
- Create minimum server version check and notification
- Show live TV channel number and logo in OSD
- Add media overview button to OSD
- Display video ending time above see…

#ZenBrowser is considering to change the behaviour of windows in the following way:
- Two windows of the same workspace show the exact same tabs.
- Tabs are not lost when closing a window.
- In order to create a new, empty window, you first need to create a new workspace.
Any opinions? I find that quite weird and don't understand the purpose. 🤔

Even for small projects, while it might work, I wouldn't want the context switching personally. Especially if the backend uses some weird templating language for generating the html snippets. I'd much rather use a fullstack framework like #SvelteKit where your endpoint is just a load function that returns some data (automatically serialized and made available to the page script), or create a proper API in another language that returns some JSON.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
ESCON: Base Commander Escon reporting, sir.
TRAVIS: Yes, Base Commander?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/396 B7B1

Blakes7Bot | Search
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#AI slop has done the unthinkable and made #Rule34 scalable https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/11

»One of Mr. Reagan's advisers, David Stockman, later wrote that the real aim of fiscal policy was to create a ›strategic deficit‹ that would slam the door and reduce the size of the federal government.« https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/opinion/ronald-reagan.html

An interesting new #OpenAccess book just dropped in the #OAPEN #Library:
Wille, J. I., Andreasen, S. J., & Wille, G. (2025). How to Create a Universe. University of Westminster Press.
…

All tools create a path of least resistance. When it comes to AI chatbots, that path is to trust the AI's outputs.
Unfortunately, all LLMs hallucinate. And as users get used to relying on the machine, their ability and willingness to spot these errors deteriorates.
Blaming the user for this is irresponsible. The problem is caused by the way these tools are designed - so it's up to us, as designers, to fix it.

Looking at some recent art that was done for a cancelled project still in NDA limbo, and man... it was so fun to work on and create. So sad I can't share any of it. 😢

I propose the following contest for the Apple designers and engineers working on the UI:
Round 1: create a folder with two apps
Round 2: after placing the folder at one the side of the screen, add two more apps to the folder.
Round 3: add four more apps to the folder but on the second screen of the folder
Round 4: move top left and 3rd icons from the 2nd screen to another, new folder
Each round should be timed.
If you are proud with your result, all good.

I used https://posemy.art/ to make this rough mock-up cover for the next ESPionage adventure; Sunny Day and Rain. It's better than pasting a collage of elements together.
"Wire frame model of a kneeling man considering a broken 8-track cassette. A lifeless arm lays partially out of frame."

PoseMy.Art
Create figure drawing reference with this free character posing tool. Pose 3D models with premade animations to create dynamic pose reference for your art.

The names aspect of the game is terribly true and underrated how frigging hilarious it ends up
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2025/04/30/we-create-worlds

I get mixed feelings when I can create a small reproduction project for an issue caused by a single version bump in a third party dependency. It's nice to know it's not my code, but a fix-release is also out of my control
Today's problem; The compiler in #Kotlin 2.1.20. I've even managed to boil it down to a 1 line change where "2.1.10" works, and "2.1.20" o…

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Hybrid Wave-wind System Power Optimisation Using Effective Ensemble Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Algorithm
Floating hybrid wind-wave systems combine offshore wind platforms with wave energy converters (WECs) to create cost-effective and reliable energy solutions. Adequately designed and tuned WECs are essential to avoid unwanted loads disrupting turbine motion while efficiently harvesting wave energy. These systems diversify energy sources, enhancing energy security and reducing supply risks while providing a more consistent power output by smoothing energy production variability. However, optimisin…

Make paint-by-number pictures in R: #rstats

GitHub - cj-holmes/paintr: Create paint by numbers images
Create paint by numbers images. Contribute to cj-holmes/paintr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Evaporation-induced freezing dynamics of droplets levitated in acoustic field
Misaki Mitsuno, Xiao Ma, Koji Hasegawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22001 https…

Evaporation-induced freezing dynamics of droplets levitated in acoustic field
This paper presents the evaporation-induced freezing dynamics of pure cyclohexane droplets levitated via acoustic levitation. Acoustic levitation has attracted considerable attention across various fields owing to its potential to create lab-in-a-drop systems. While droplet evaporation is a fundamental physicochemical process in such a platform, the freezing of droplets induced by evaporation has been sparsely explored experimentally. For pure cyclohexane, the rapid evaporation of levitated dro…

Having to use Mac instead of Linux for work soon, I finally found a concise article on the topic.
Most others are either about installing Linux on a Mac (interesting, but not my situation) or switching because they prefer Mac (uhh..) and want to use it as one.
I aim to create an workflow as similar to Linux as I manage, without having to juggle with VMs

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
ESCON: Base Commander Escon reporting, sir.
TRAVIS: Yes, Base Commander?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/396 B7B1

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

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Concurrent Composition for Interactive Differential Privacy with Adaptive Privacy-Loss Parameters
In this paper, we study the concurrent composition of interactive mechanisms with adaptively chosen privacy-loss parameters. In this setting, the adversary can interleave queries to existing interactive mechanisms, as well as create new ones. We prove that every valid privacy filter and odometer for noninteractive mechanisms extends to the concurrent composition of interactive mechanisms if privacy loss is measured using $(ε, δ)$-DP, $f$-DP, or Rényi DP of fixed order. Our results offer stro…

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Can Audio Reveal Music Performance Difficulty? Insights from the Piano Syllabus Dataset
Automatically estimating the performance difficulty of a music piece represents a key process in music education to create tailored curricula according to the individual needs of the students. Given its relevance, the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) field depicts some proof-of-concept works addressing this task that mainly focuses on high-level music abstractions such as machine-readable scores or music sheet images. In this regard, the potential of directly analyzing audio recordings has bee…

Make interactive ggplots with {ggiraph}: #ggplot #dataviz

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20720 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_…

Hybrid Wave-wind System Power Optimisation Using Effective Ensemble Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Algorithm
Floating hybrid wind-wave systems combine offshore wind platforms with wave energy converters (WECs) to create cost-effective and reliable energy solutions. Adequately designed and tuned WECs are essential to avoid unwanted loads disrupting turbine motion while efficiently harvesting wave energy. These systems diversify energy sources, enhancing energy security and reducing supply risks while providing a more consistent power output by smoothing energy production variability. However, optimisin…

Applying the Principles of Universal Design to Make Astronomy More Accessible
Amanda Quirk, Tom Rice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23498 https://

Applying the Principles of Universal Design to Make Astronomy More Accessible
Universal Design (UD), an approach to accessibility that was first conceptualized in architecture to make buildings physically accessible, has since been applied to curriculum design to make classrooms accessible for a larger range of learning needs. In this paper, we illustrate how the concepts of UD are relevant outside of architecture and the creation of curricula by highlighting examples of norms that exist in the field of astronomy that create barriers for disabled folks. we discuss ways t…

Bridging the Gap Between Semantic and User Preference Spaces for Multi-modal Music Representation Learning
Xiaofeng Pan, Jing Chen, Haitong Zhang, Menglin Xing, Jiayi Wei, Xuefeng Mu, Zhongqian Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23298

Bridging the Gap Between Semantic and User Preference Spaces for Multi-modal Music Representation Learning
Recent works of music representation learning mainly focus on learning acoustic music representations with unlabeled audios or further attempt to acquire multi-modal music representations with scarce annotated audio-text pairs. They either ignore the language semantics or rely on labeled audio datasets that are difficult and expensive to create. Moreover, merely modeling semantic space usually fails to achieve satisfactory performance on music recommendation tasks since the user preference spac…

Make fancy tables: #rstats #tables

{ggchicklet}: library for rounded Segmented Column Charts: #ggplot #rstats

GitHub - hrbrmstr/ggchicklet: 🀫 Create Chicklet (Rounded Segmented Column) Charts
🀫 Create Chicklet (Rounded Segmented Column) Charts - hrbrmstr/ggchicklet