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WB media doing some bs again. At this point, I wonder if this would be enough for an animators union or writers union, hell even the actors union, to sue its CEO for defrauding shareholders. Y'know, since only shareholders matter in this late-stage capitalist dystopia
https://www.

Warner Bros. to delist Adult Swim-published games from Steam
Warner Bros. Discovery is telling indie devs it’s “retiring” games published by its Adult Swim Games label, game makers who worked with the publisher tell Polygon.

How many delegates are at stake on Super Tuesday? (Nick Mourtoupalas/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/04/super-tuesday-delegate-count/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240305/p2#a240305p2

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Predictive processing also sheds considerable light on a wide range of typical and atypical forms of human experience. A good starting point is to notice that there are two very broad ways for such processing to go wrong. The first is for the brain to underweight predictions and expectations. This will make it hard to detect faint but predictable patterns in a noisy or ambiguous environment. But the second general way to go wrong is for the brain to overweight expectations. In extreme cases, overweighting results in hallucinations. You seem to see and hear things that aren't there, just because […] they are at some level strongly expected.
Autism spectrum condition was initially thought to reflect a specific imbalance of the first kind — a systematic underweighting of prior expectations. […] Underweighting prior knowledge would make weak or elusive patterns hard to detect, and hard to learn too. Such patterns would include things like facial expressions, intonation, or body language, things that delicately hint, in context, at other people's mental states and attitudes. An imbalance of that kind would also make it very hard to learn these patterns in the first place, and even harder to recognize them in situations that are complicated or ambiguous. Recent evidence casts subtle doubt, however, on this bald initial hypothesis. Rather than weakened predictions, intriguing evidence is emerging that suggests that the core issue involves (not underweighting knowledge-based predictions but) actively overweighting the incoming sensory evidence.
[…]
She doesn't just feel "hunger," instead the more fine-grained specifics of the bodily signals dominate. You are feeling a whole lot of something — but what is it? According to the overweighted sensory information theory, autism spectrum condition individuals constantly encounter an excess of highly detailed and apparently very salient sensory information of this kind, coming from both inside their own body and the outside world. This sensory excess impedes the moment-by-moment identification of the broader context or scenario (in this case, hunger). In other words, the emphasis on every aspect of sensory detail effectively makes it impossible to spot the larger forest for the trees.
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(Andy Clark, The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality)
#ActuallyAutistic

"The modeller’s quest to pin the organism down and preserve it in aspic destroys the very thing that makes it living."
Subtle critique of the Free Energy Principle and other forms of "invariantist" modeling.
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A design method of an ultra wideband and easy-to-array Magic-T: A 6-14 GHz scaled model for a mm/submm camera
Shuhei Inoue, Kah Wuy Chin, Shinsuke Uno, Kotaro Kohno, Yuka Niwa, Toyo Naganuma, Ryosuke Yamamura, Kazuki Watanabe, Tatsuya Takekoshi, Tai Oshima
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03919

A design method of an ultra wideband and easy-to-array Magic-T: A 6-14 GHz scaled model for a mm/submm camera
We established a design method for a Magic-T with a single-layer dielectric/metal structure suitable for both wideband and multi-element applications for millimeter and submillimeter wave imaging observations. The design method was applied to a Magic-T with a coupled-line, stubs, and single-stage impedance transformers in a frequency-scaled model (6-14 GHz) that is relatively easy to demonstrate through manufacturing and evaluation. The major problem is that using the conventional perfect match…

Nikki Haley won her first contest in the Republican presidential nomination race on Sunday after triumphing in Washington, D.C.'s primary.
(It won’t likely change the contest’s trajectory.)

After three days of voting, polls in the Washington race closed at 7 p.m. Eastern on Sunday.
Though only 19 delegates were stake, Haley perhaps had her best chance of defeating Trump in a race where he performed poorly in the last competitive GOP presidential contest in 2016.

Nikki Haley wins D.C. primary, her first victory in GOP nominating race
Unlike Trump, Haley campaigned in Washington ahead of the primary, visiting the city on Friday.

I sat down and wrote my April recap. And to be honest: I AM TOTALLY SURPRISED!
I thought that I was *really* lazy this month. 2 weeks of grey bad weather dominated my memory. Just recapping how I spent this month was ... delighting. I don't feel lazy now any more.
I tried to make the post easy to read with captions and highlighting the important phrases.
(Yet I wonder if I always ommited the photos of the blog posts at the bottom 🤔)

Recap April 2024
April proved to be a month of varied experiences, from Line Dance championships to mountain biking and hiking adventures. Despite unpredictable weather and challenges, each weekend offered its own surprises. Stay tuned for a detailed exploration of April's journey, filled with both highs and lows.

Tommorow, "Regulatory Models for Algorithmic Assessment: Robust Delegation or Kicking The Can?", digital seats available.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/2024/apr/regulatory-models-algorithmic-assessme…

Regulatory Models for Algorithmic Assessment: Robust Delegation or Kicking The Can?
Margot Kaminski, Michael Veale and Jennifer Cobbe will compare and contrast different AI regulatory regimes

Transform Dialect Tutorial
Oleksandr Zinenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19350 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19350

Transform Dialect Tutorial
Transform Dialect in MLIR provides operations that can be used to control transformation of the Intermediate Representation (IR) using a different portion of the IR. It refers to the IR being transformed as payload IR, and to the IR guiding the transformation as transform IR. The main use case for this dialect is orchestrating fine-grain transformations on individual IR objects (operations or values) or sets thereof. For example, it may involve finding loop-like operations with specific prope…

In memory of Bi Kidude
https://amf.didiermary.fr/bi-kidude-rip/
This post mixes multiple other posts I wrote between 2010 & 2013 on various sites and blogs about Bi Kidude
Sadly, she passed away on April 17th 2013.
I met Bi Kidude, The Venerable Queen of T…

Bi Kidude - in memory of the Taarab Queen - African Music Forum
I met Bi Kidude, The Venerable Queen of Taarab, in February 2011, when attending Sauti za Busara Festival in Zanzibar. A delightful moment.