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from my link log —
Behind the scenes of Rust string formatting and format_args!().
https://blog.m-ou.se/format-args/
saved 2023-12-05 https://

#ndwgoecountdown Führungen durch das Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
Ein Rundgang zu Laboren und Reinräumen des MPS Göttingen bietet Einblicke in Forschungsthemen, Arbeitsweise und aktuelle Weltraumprojekte des Instituts. Die Führungen dauern 60 Minuten und starten im 20-Minuten-Takt.
Teils enge Räumlichkeiten, Teilnehmerzahl beschränkt, Teilnahme nur nach…

The New European rebrands as The New World, expands its coverage, and moves to a magazine format; the title made £2.6M in 2024 revenue and had 35K subscribers (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a9b5d243-d905-42c4-b62c-1f640175005a…

‘Remainer’ paper New European rebrands to push beyond Brexit roots
Title formed after 2016 UK vote is relaunching as The New World to reflect coverage of global politics and culture

Ramstein-Format berät über weitere Unterstützung
Vor dem Hintergrund anhaltender harter Kämpfe in der Ukraine kommt am Mittwoch im NATO-Hauptquartier in Brüssel die Ukraine-Kontaktgruppe (UDCG) im sogenannten Ramstein-Format zusammen. Zu dem Treffen haben der deutsche Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius und sein britischer Kollege John Healey eingeladen.
Thema der Gespräche wird die weitere Unterstützung der Ukraine im Kam…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine-Verbündete beraten über weitere Hilfen ++
Auf Einladung Deutschlands und Großbritanniens kommt am Mittwoch die sogenannte Ramstein-Gruppe zusammen, um über weitere Hilfen für die Ukraine zu beraten - die USA nehmen nicht teil. Moskau fordert die Anerkennung der eroberten Gebiete.

This thread is a goldmine of technical arcana. Andiamo would never mislead… https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114622441513185735

today's "I can't believe I wasted half a hour on this" computer issue: whether Wireshark validates the Ethernet checksum in packets depends on the capture format you're using
.snoop: nope, and ignores all settings including "always check FCS"
.pcap: yep
saving a .snoop file as a .pcap file makes it immediately check all FCS

A new date format just landed.

from my link log —
Don’t use ISO/IEC 14977 Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF).
https://dwheeler.com/essays/dont-use-iso-14977-ebnf.html
saved 2025-05-17

A New 5 bit/2D-symbol Modulation Format for Relative Intensity Noise-dominated IM-DD Systems
Felipe Villenas, Kaiquan Wu, Yunus Can G\"ultekin, Jamal Riani, Alex Alvarado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01761

A New 5 bit/2D-symbol Modulation Format for Relative Intensity Noise-dominated IM-DD Systems
We propose a novel 5-bit/2D-symbol modulation format based on PAM-6 optimized for IM-DD systems dominated by relative intensity noise. The proposed modulation scheme improves SNR by 0.94 dB compared to conventional PAM-6 and achieves near-optimal BER performance.

Mamy nowy format daty.

Do you need inspiration how to present a dataset in a clear figure and what package to use? Check out #rstats

From data to Viz | Find the graphic you need
A classification of chart types based on their input data format.

"Twelve years after “As We May Think”, and simultaneous with the developments of the IBM 1401 and FORTRAN, copies of “Datamation” started popping up on selected newsstands. This magazine was the godfather of all programming magazines, and held its crown for 41 years (quite a few ages in computer time!), until being phased out as an online magazine in February 1998."

#ZIBTalk - Ein sehr zweifelhaftes Format. Martin #Engelberg (#ÖVÜ) schwelgt in alterternativen Fakten und scheut nicht davor zurück, Shoura

Context as Memory: Scene-Consistent Interactive Long Video Generation with Memory Retrieval
Jiwen Yu, Jianhong Bai, Yiran Qin, Quande Liu, Xintao Wang, Pengfei Wan, Di Zhang, Xihui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03141

Context as Memory: Scene-Consistent Interactive Long Video Generation with Memory Retrieval
Recent advances in interactive video generation have shown promising results, yet existing approaches struggle with scene-consistent memory capabilities in long video generation due to limited use of historical context. In this work, we propose Context-as-Memory, which utilizes historical context as memory for video generation. It includes two simple yet effective designs: (1) storing context in frame format without additional post-processing; (2) conditioning by concatenating context and frame…

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

I hate long posts.
The worst part of Mastodon, by far.
The _inherent format_ of the _clients_ makes it hard to read them, or worse, makes them very interruptive to the other people's content around you.
Stop it. )=

Join the 2025 Maine AI 'unconference' on June 13 in Orono for face-to-face discussions whose topics will be democratically chosen by the attenders. (We've got expert panels too.) Register by this Friday—more at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito

Anstehendes Treffen der Ukraine-Kontaktgruppe in Brüssel
Vor dem Hintergrund anhaltender harter Kämpfe in der Ukraine kommt heute im NATO-Hauptquartier in Brüssel die Ukraine-Kontaktgruppe (UDCG) im sogenannten Ramstein-Format zusammen. Zu dem Treffen haben der deutsche Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius (SPD) und sein britischer Kollege John Healey eingeladen.
Thema der Gespräche wird die weitere Unterstützung der Ukrain…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Großbritannien will 100.000 Drohnen liefern ++
Großbritannien will nach eigenen Angaben bis April 2026 100.000 Drohnen an die Ukraine liefern. Heute kommt die Ukraine-Kontaktgruppe im NATO-Hauptquartier in Brüssel zusammen.

scDataset: Scalable Data Loading for Deep Learning on Large-Scale Single-Cell Omics
Davide D'Ascenzo, Sebastiano Cultrera di Montesano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01883

scDataset: Scalable Data Loading for Deep Learning on Large-Scale Single-Cell Omics
Modern single-cell datasets now comprise hundreds of millions of cells, presenting significant challenges for training deep learning models that require shuffled, memory-efficient data loading. While the AnnData format is the community standard for storing single-cell datasets, existing data loading solutions for AnnData are often inadequate: some require loading all data into memory, others convert to dense formats that increase storage demands, and many are hampered by slow random disk access…

Trésors de lames
Accordéons et bandonéons
by Laurent Jarry
French #accordion maker and collector Laurent Jarry is retiring
I recommend you order a copy of his beautiful book of accordion and bandoneon photos!
Treasury of Reeds is a massive coffee-table format vinyl album-size book with 205 colour photos spread across 350 pages
200 years of squeezebox history. …

Inspired by Marguerite Stern's "collages feminicides" in Paris/France, activists in Argentina have started using the same format here, under the label "collages femicidios Argentina" (unfortunately they seem to only be on Instagram under @collagesfemicidiosar).

hehe

Every time I convert one of my PNG images to WebP format I'm kinda blown away by how small the file becomes.

Bundestagspräsidentin #Klöckner hat ihr Amt immer noch nicht verstanden (mich wundert es nicht). Sie agiert immer noch aus einem CDU Mindset heraus.
Nach Lammert, Schäuble und Bas ist Klöckner eine ganz, ganz herbe Enttäuschung. Wie kann man nur mit so wenig Format das 2. höchste Amt in Deutschland bekommen?
Frau Klöckner, lassen Sie sich von Ihren VorgängerInnen erklären, wie man sic…

Dang it…is there a human-readable data format that is basically YAML syntax but the simple featureset of JSON (plus comments)?
I want something concise and Markdown-ish, made for human editing, like YAML, but without all of YAML’s…er, specialness.
EDIT: To be clear, this is for •primary content•, not configuration. It should •feel• like working with Markdown; it’s just that the output needs to be array-and-dict-shaped instead of HTML-shaped. (Lots of good suggestions in the replies already! TOML and KDL and are clear crowd favorites.)

Performance of the image persistence model for Euclid infrared detectors
B. Kubik, R. Barbier, G. Smadja, S. Ferriol, Y. Conseil, Y. Copin, W. Gillard, S. Dusini, K. Jahnke, E. Prieto, N. Auricchio, E. Balbi, A. Balestra, P. Battaglia, V. Capobianco, R. Chary, L. Corcione, F. Cogato, G. Delucchi, E. Franceschi, L. Gabarra, F. Gianotti, F. Grupp, E. Lentini, S. Ligori, E. Medinaceli, G. Morgante, K. Paterson, E. Romelli, L. Sauniere, M. Schirmer, C. Sirignano G. Testera, M. Trifoglio, A. Troja, L. Valenziano, M. Frailis, M. Scodeggio, J. -C. Barriere, M. Berthe, C. Bodendorf, A. Caillat, M. Carle, R. Casas, H. Cho, A. Costille, F. Ducret, B. Garilli, W. Holmes, F. Hormuth, A. Hornstrup, M. Jhabvala, R. Kohley, D. Le Mignant, P. B. Lilje, I. Lloro, C. Padilla, G. Polenta, J. -C. Salvignol, G. Seidel, B. Serra, A. Secroun, L. Stanco, R. Toledo-Moreo, S. Anselmi, E. Borsato, L. Caillat, C. Colodro-Conde, V. Conforti, J. E. Davies, A. Renzi, F. Dal Corso, S. Davini, A. Derosa, J. J. Diaz, S. Di Domizio, D. Di Ferdinando, R. Farinelli, A. G. Ferrari, F. Fornari, F. Giacomini, O. Krause, F. Laudisio, J. Macias-Perez, J. Marpaud, N. Mauri, R. da Silva, M. Niclas, F. Passalacqua, I. Risso, P. Lagier, A. N. Sorensen, P. Stassi, J. Steinwagner, M. Tenti, C. Thizy, S. Tosi, R. Travaglini, O. Tubio, C. Valieri, S. Ventura, C. Vescovi, J. Zoubian
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Next Ramstein summit to take place on June 4 in Brussels: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/next-ramstein-summit-to-take.html

I hate Windows: "Why does the Windows Portable Executable (PE) format have separate tables for import names and import addresses?, part 2".
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20231130-00/?p=109084

Why does the Windows Portable Executable (PE) format have separate tables for import names and import addresses?, part 2 - The Old New Thing
Keeping read-only data separate from read-write data.

From Pixels to Camera: Scaling Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors for Imaging at the Quantum-Limit
Jun Gao, Jin Chang, Bruno Lopez Rodriguez, Iman Esmaeil Zadeh, Val Zwiller, Ali W. Elshaari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24725

From Pixels to Camera: Scaling Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors for Imaging at the Quantum-Limit
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) have emerged as essential devices that push the boundaries of photon detection with unprecedented sensitivity, ultrahigh timing precision, and broad spectral response. Recent advancements in materials engineering, superconducting electronics integration, and cryogenic system design are enabling the evolution of SNSPDs from single-pixel detectors toward scalable arrays and large-format single-photon time tagging cameras. This perspective …

SpiceMixer - Netlist-Level Circuit Evolution
Stefan Uhlich, Andrea Bonetti, Arun Venkitaraman, Chia-Yu Hsieh, Mustafa Emre G\"ursoy, Ryoga Matsuo, Lorenzo Servadei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01497

SpiceMixer - Netlist-Level Circuit Evolution
This paper introduces SpiceMixer, a genetic algorithm developed to synthesize novel analog circuits by evolving SPICE netlists. Unlike conventional methods, SpiceMixer operates directly on netlist lines, enabling compatibility with any component or subcircuit type and supporting general-purpose genetic operations. By using a normalized netlist format, the algorithm enhances the effectiveness of its genetic operators: crossover, mutation, and pruning. We show that SpiceMixer achieves superior pe…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14906 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

OmniAudio: Generating Spatial Audio from 360-Degree Video
Traditional video-to-audio generation techniques primarily focus on perspective video and non-spatial audio, often missing the spatial cues necessary for accurately representing sound sources in 3D environments. To address this limitation, we introduce a novel task, 360V2SA, to generate spatial audio from 360-degree videos, specifically producing First-order Ambisonics (FOA) audio - a standard format for representing 3D spatial audio that captures sound directionality and enables realistic 3D a…

Abendessen als Reality-Format
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191198

#cybersecurity

Dang it…is there a human-readable data format that is basically YAML syntax but the simple featureset of JSON (plus comments)?
I want something concise and Markdown-ish, made for human editing, like YAML, but without all of YAML’s…er, specialness.
EDIT: To be clear, this is for •primary content•, not configuration. It should •feel• like working with Markdown; it’s just that the output needs to be array-and-dict-shaped instead of HTML-shaped. (Lots of good suggestions in the replies already! TOML and KDL and are clear crowd favorites.)

As part of the #IWP9 #hackathon, we were debugging the bringup of the RISC-V port of 9front to QEMU yesterday. It was really painful, compared to my experiences with other kernels like Linux and the ease of Rust and its built-in print format capabilities. We were finally able to use uartputs with a s…

Good Morning #Canada
On May 27, 1957, at 6:00 a.m., the CHUM radio station (1050 AM) increased power from 1,000 watts to 2,500 watts and switched from a daytime station to 24 hours. At that same moment, radios all over Toronto started playing Elvis Presley singing “All Shook Up” as the "New CHUM" became Canada’s first Top 50 music format. The station launched hundreds of careers and introduced new music to young and old alike.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MusicHistory
https://chumtribute.com/chumtribute-history.html

I just published '🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-05-25'.
https://hot.fudge.org/archive/hot-fudge-sunday-for-2025-05-25/

PDFs had a rough month, with one study crediting them for 15% of cyberattacks and Meta flubbing PDF redactions to leak rivals’ secrets in court. It's possible to make PDFs secure but easy to get burned https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito…

Lets be honest, we spend too much time cleaning data. {janitor} can help with that: #rstats

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03674 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_…

Learning Safe Strategies for Value Maximizing Buyers in Uniform Price Auctions
We study the bidding problem in repeated uniform price multi-unit auctions from the perspective of a single value-maximizing buyer who aims to maximize their cumulative value over $T$ rounds while adhering to return-on-investment (RoI) constraints in each round. Buyers adopt $m$-uniform bidding format, where they submit $m$ bid-quantity pairs $(b_i, q_i)$ to demand $q_i$ units at bid $b_i$. We introduce safe bidding strategies as those that satisfy RoI constraints in every auction, regardless o…

Many people have this sense that the price of books is primarily linked to the cost of materials, manufacture, & distribution. But the majority of the cost of publishing books are in the labor leading up to the 1st copy: editorial & editorial production work, before any reproduction in whatever format. Addition labor happens later, for marketing. When you buy a book, you’re mainly paying for these kinds of labor.
From: @…

Enable Lightweight and Precision-Scalable Posit/IEEE-754 Arithmetic in RISC-V Cores for Transprecision Computing
Qiong Li, Chao Fang, Longwei Huang, Jun Lin, Zhongfeng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19096

Enable Lightweight and Precision-Scalable Posit/IEEE-754 Arithmetic in RISC-V Cores for Transprecision Computing
While posit format offers superior dynamic range and accuracy for transprecision computing, its adoption in RISC-V processors is hindered by the lack of a unified solution for lightweight, precision-scalable, and IEEE-754 arithmetic compatible hardware implementation. To address these challenges, we enhance RISC-V processors by 1) integrating dedicated posit codecs into the original FPU for lightweight implementation, 2) incorporating multi/mixed-precision support with dynamic exponent size for…

With Apache NiFi, a multimodal data pipelining tool, you can assemble existing and/or custom Java & Python processors into a variety of flows. Join Lester Martin at Berlin Buzzwords this year and watch a rich data pipeline be constructed from Kafka, stored using the Apache Iceberg table format and consumed from Trino.
Learn more:

Apache Iceberg ingestion with Apache NiFi
A cornerstone requirement of an Icehouse (Iceberg + Trino) is data ingestion. One approach is to leverage Apache NiFi. NiFi, a multimodal data pipelining tool, has a multitude of processors that can be assembled into a flow to address your specific scenarios. NiFi's low-code/no-code approach allows data engineers to rapidly build, deploy, and monitor their data ingestion & transformation pipelines. NiFi also allows custom processor development with a variety of languages, including Java and Pyt…

#photography #bloomScrolling #iris #blue

Slowly but steadily I clean up the mess I made in my notes when I moved to Obsidian from #orgmode and back again.
In addition I’m renaming the notes to #denote format and clean out some old stuff.
Today I looked through a file full of links and migrated them into Nextcloud Bookmarks…

Eigentlich werden wir durch unsere Umgebung ständig trainiert – im Grunde wie eine #KI. Je nachdem, womit wir uns beschäftigen, hinterlässt das Spuren bei uns und verändert uns. Wer also im Fernsehen, vor allem in Privatsendern, ständig Schwachsinn anschaut (wie „Dschungelcamp“ etc.), wird sich auf dieses Format kalibrieren.
Darum trägt man schon Verantwortung dafür, womit man sich „trainiert”.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06151 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csOS_…

Zerrow: True Zero-Copy Arrow Pipelines in Bauplan
Bauplan is a FaaS-based lakehouse specifically built for data pipelines: its execution engine uses Apache Arrow for data passing between the nodes in the DAG. While Arrow is known as the "zero copy format", in practice, limited Linux kernel support for shared memory makes it difficult to avoid copying entirely. In this work, we introduce several new techniques to eliminate nearly all copying from pipelines: in particular, we implement a new kernel module that performs de-anonymization, thus eli…

I just lost a days worth of work because I had the audacity to include an equation in MS Word. Somehow that corrupted the docx file. I guess it happens when word tried to translate latex style markup to whatever jank it uses under the hood to format equations.
Unbelievably frustrating but also sort of fascinating. In my lifetime I’ve watched word descend from the obvious best choice for writing on a computer to a pile of laggy jank that just isn’t as useful as other options. Or maybe …

#photography #bloomScrolling #blue #iris

#photography #bloomScrolling #iris #blue

#photography #bloomScrolling #tulips #red