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Understanding Ice Crystal Habit Diversity with Self-Supervised Learning
Joseph Ko, Hariprasath Govindarajan, Fredrik Lindsten, Vanessa Przybylo, Kara Sulia, Marcus van Lier-Walqui, Kara Lamb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07688

Understanding Ice Crystal Habit Diversity with Self-Supervised Learning
Ice-containing clouds strongly impact climate, but they are hard to model due to ice crystal habit (i.e., shape) diversity. We use self-supervised learning (SSL) to learn latent representations of crystals from ice crystal imagery. By pre-training a vision transformer with many cloud particle images, we learn robust representations of crystal morphology, which can be used for various science-driven tasks. Our key contributions include (1) validating that our SSL approach can be used to learn me…

Ah yes, it's our mission as Italian business to fix USA breakfast by making sure Nutella in the morning becomes a habit.
«The purchase also helps #Ferrero elbow in on the morning meal, a category where the company has scant exposure beyond Nutella, which isn’t yet commonplace as a breakfast food in the US. Ferrero “really wants to get the breakfast table sorted,” said Bloomberg Intelligence a…

"if donald trump is still president a year from now, LA will still be dealing with troops periodically entering public spaces and generally just shitting on everything for a day, and by then it will basically just be a habit for people to screen their social media and groupchats for advance warning of a need to shelter in place until the moment passes. it’s going to get even less effective for them to be here the longer they keep doing it. "

Hop around the puddle
Unlike the youthful habit
Jumping into them.
#dailyhaikuprompt - puddle
#haiku
#poem

"""
But there is no certainty that madness was content to sit locked up in its immutable identity, waiting for psychiatry to perfect its art, before it emerged blinking from the shadows into the blinding light of truth. Nor is it clear that confinement was above all, or even implicitly, a series of measures put in place to deal with madness. It is not even certain that in this repetition of the ancient gesture of segregation at the threshold of the classical age, the modern world was aiming to wipe out all those who, either as a species apart or a spontaneous mutation, appeared as 'asocial'. The fact that the internees of the eighteenth century bear a resemblance to our modern vision of the asocial is undeniable, but it is above all a question of results, as the character of the marginal was produced by the gesture of segregation itself. For the day came when this man, banished in the same exile all over Europe in the mid-seventeenth century, suddenly became an outsider, expelled by a society to whose norms he could not be seen to conform; and for our own intellectual comfort, he then became a candidate for prisons, asylums and punishment. In reality, this character is merely the result of superimposed grids of exclusion.
The gesture that proscribed was as abrupt as the one that had isolated the lepers, and in both cases, the meaning of the gesture should not be mistaken for its effect. Lepers were not excluded to prevent contagion, any more than in 1657, 1 per cent of the population of Paris was confined merely to deliver the city from the 'asocial'. The gesture had a different dimension: it did not isolate strangers who had previously remained invisible, who until then had been ignored by force of habit. It altered the familiar cityscape by giving them new faces, strange, bizarre silhouettes that nobody recognised. Strangers were found in places where their presence had never previously been suspected: the process punctured the fabric of society, and undid the familiar. Through this gesture, something inside man was placed outside of himself, and pushed over the edge of our horizon. It is the gesture of confinement, in short, which created alienation.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

I'm a sucker playing Castlevania.
My biggest problem is the habit to rush the stage like Super Mario... 🤦‍♂️
#castlevania #rondoofblood #konami

It's really not my habit to intrude
Furthermore, I hope my meaning won't be lost or misconstrued
But I'll repeat myself at the risk of being crude
There must be 50 ways to kill your dictator

Sometimes I’ll just leave the Buzzr channel (they air old game shows) on in the living room for my #dogs to watch. Best part, they totally settle down on the couch to do so, I’ve just made a habit of leaving it on sometimes because I think they like it

Sometimes I’ll just leave the Buzzr channel (they air old game shows) on in the living room for my #dogs to watch. Best part, they totally settle down on the couch to do so, I’ve just made a habit of leaving it on sometimes because I think they like it

Joy has a habit of returning :ablobcatheartsqueeze:

Optimal Consumption-Investment for General Utility with a Drawdown Constraint over a Finite-Time Horizon
Chonghu Guan, Xinfeng Gu, Wenhao Zhang, Xun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05115

Optimal Consumption-Investment for General Utility with a Drawdown Constraint over a Finite-Time Horizon
We study an optimal investment and consumption problem over a finite-time horizon, in which an individual invests in a risk-free asset and a risky asset, and evaluate utility using a general utility function that exhibits loss aversion with respect to the historical maximum of consumption. Motivated by behavioral finance and habit formation theory, we model the agent's preference for maintaining a standard of living by imposing constraints on declines from the peak consumption level. To solve t…

2025-06-01
getting this one in early and I've been /
on the fence about writing it; I think it's
fun and cute but given the current climate
in the world - literally and figuratively -
I think it could easily be misinterpreted as
a cynical doompost, especially with my habit \________/\________/\___/____/
of writing files that are mired in double
meaning.

My day just took a nosedive because some fascist jerk is celebrating a bill landing on his desk!
Honestly, it’s wild how people still put their faith in the same old power games when real change comes from people coming together, running things themselves, and kicking the fascists out of the picture.
Being autistic, I usually struggle to get what people mean, but Rudolf Rocker said some real shit that even my autistic brain understands.

In general, the difference between a “to do list” and a “habit reminder” is the latter should remind you several times, almost annoyingly so, because if we need a reminder for a habit, it means we have not formed the habit yet, and therefore we are bad at getting around to doing it.
At least, my squiggly and chaotic brain believes so.

Cowboys-Eagles Stock Market: Eagles Persevere Through Injury, Immaturity, And Lightning. https://www.si.com/nfl/eagles/news/cowboys-eagles-stock-market-eagles-persevere-through-injury-immaturity-and-lightning-01k4…

Gauge theory approach to describe ice crystals habit evolution in ice clouds
Gianluca Di Natale, Francesco Pio De Cosmo, Leandro Cieri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02472 https://

Gauge theory approach to describe ice crystals habit evolution in ice clouds
Ice clouds, particularly cirrus clouds, significantly influence Earth's radiative balance but remain poorly characterized in current climate models. A major uncertainty arises from the variability of their microphysical properties, especially the evolution of ice crystal habits under depositional growth. We propose a heuristic method to describe habit evolution based on four fundamental shapes identified in the literature and from in situ observations: droxtals, plates, columns, and rosettes. T…

I’ve always found this historical transition from biphasic sleep fascinating…
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
April March:
🎵 Chick Habit
#AprilMarch
https://bailaradio.bandcamp.com/track/april-march-chick-habit-el-greco-english-french-re-touch
https://open.spotify.com/track/2uYEezzaXYszTEhbxUCebL

Been starting to get back into reddit lately, big regrets.
So now I'm adding it to my hosts file to eventually try to break my habit of immediately typing "redd<ENTER>" every time I open my web browser while bored.

The Connecticut Data Privacy Act Gets an Overhaul (Again)
https://fpf.org/blog/the-connecticut-data-privacy-act-gets-an-overhaul-again/
@…

Just finished "Concrete Rose" by Angie Thomas (I haven't yet read "The Hate U Give" but that's now high on my list of things to find). It's excellent, and in particular, an excellent treatise on positive masculinity in fiction form. It's not a super easy book to read emotionally, but is excellently written and deeply immersive. I don't have the perspective to know how it might land among teens like those it portrays, but I have a feeling it's true enough to life, and it held a lot of great wisdom for me.
CW for the book include murder, hard drugs, and parental abandonment.
I caught myself in a racist/classist habit of thought while reading that others night appreciate hearing about: early on I was mentally comparing it to "All my Rage" by Sabaa Tahir and wondering if/when we'd see the human cost of the drug dealing to the junkies, thinking that it would weaken the book not to include that angle. Why is that racist/classist? Because I'm always expecting books with hard drug dealers in them to show the ugly side of their business since it's been drilled into me that they're evil for the harm they cause, yet I never expect the same of characters who are bankers, financial analysts, health insurance claims adjudicators, police officers, etc. (Okay, maybe I do now look for that in police narratives). The point is, our society includes many people who as part of their jobs directly immiserate others, so why and I only concerned about that misery being brought up when it's drug dealers?
#AmReading

Damn you, Gaiman, I think #TheSandman is the best flipping fantasy series, and I haven't even finished it yet ->
Brothers Osborne - New Bad Habit (Official Audio Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5MwJ6Hg0VE

Von Neumann was the subject of many dotty professor stories. Von Neumann
supposedly had the habit of simply writing answers to homework assignments on
the board (the method of solution being, of course, obvious) when he was asked
how to solve problems. One time one of his students tried to get more helpful
information by asking if there was another way to solve the problem. Von
Neumann looked blank for a moment, thought, and then answered, "Yes.".

What's your favorite term that's not a word, but really should be?
I think right now it has to be "transpondering", meaning "aircraft transponder is enabled". I follow a RCAF helicopter pilot on youtube who has a habit of using this term any time he's running through the before-takeoff checklist.

"It is important to study choices customers make and learn from them. But being deceived by what their choices mean is easier than is usually appreciated.
...
It can be frustrating to be questioned about the evidence and reasoning behind the proposed actions you support. But you really should be in the habit of doing this to yourself before you make a decision..."

In honor of today's news that AOL will soon be ending dial-up service, here's the 1996 collaboration between Prince and Kate Bush, which begins & ends with a tribute to the AOL sign-on experience, based on Prince's mid-90s habit of dropping in on fans in our weekly AOL chats: https://www.youtube.com/watch…

Excellent, informative post by #SenatorChrisMurphy addressing why bombing Iran was perhaps not the best idea:
https://op…

8 Things You Should Know About Trump's Strikes on Iran
America’s addiction to military intervention in the Middle East is a stubborn habit to break for our nation, and it’s heartbreaking.

Excellent, informative post by #SenatorChrisMurphy addressing why bombing Iran was perhaps not the best idea:
https://op…

8 Things You Should Know About Trump's Strikes on Iran
America’s addiction to military intervention in the Middle East is a stubborn habit to break for our nation, and it’s heartbreaking.

"Trump is furious with the WSJ owner, Rupert Murdoch, and threatening to “sue his ass off”. Oh please don’t, Mr President! His ass is 94 years old and incredibly wrinkled. Also, half of Britain’s political class still lives up it"
One shouldn't read Marina Hyde. It's a bad habit. But she is sometimes witty.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Webs:
🎵 It's So Hard To Break A Habit
#Webs
https://sfbdhq.bandcamp.com/track/the-webs-its-so-hard-to-break-a-habit
https://open.spotify.com/track/42e3YELFo6nvUobLHU9xLI

2/2 I continued blogging Alberniweather and on FB and Twitter but I gradually removed my personal self from Facebook and eventually during the Pandemic, I decided the Facebook environment was just too toxic even for weather stuff and I shut down my page and left Facebook completely.
The impact on traffic to Alberniweather.ca and its prominence in the community was, and still is, significant.
I have diehard followers, many who have become friends over the years, I still get the odd call from media, or even the public about random weather things.
I have good connections with a few folks at Environment Canada (though their staff have become thinner and more transient :(
and major events still get spikes of local traffic but I since about 2022, and after I removed myself from Twitter that year, I don’t blog nearly as much. I would do a few posts in a week, and then go months without posting. I just got out of the habit I guess.
But I am still interested in the weather. I still feel like Alberniweather is a useful service for people in my community. I still feel a willing obligation to inform people about the weather and I believe I am trusted to do so by the public and local leaders. I’ve never made any money at it, I sold ad space on the website for a few years but it wasn’t worth the hassle and I didn’t feel comfortable taking the money when I was councillor. I have had some generous spontaneous donations at times.
But mainly I do it because it’s interesting, and I hope it is useful for people especially when people are looking for information during a major event.
The highest traffic I have ever had on Alberniweather pre-FB exit was the local Dog Mountain forest fire in 2015.
post-FB exit: the #underwoodfire
People want easy access to reliable local, trusted, information.
Large media orgs have mostly given up on this.
I am grateful we still have an active local newspaper and radio and that both trust me and I trust them.
@… @…

I have no idea why I’m sleeping 5 hours a night recently, but for some reason, I actually do still have energy.
I hesitate to put it down to a cocktail of vitamin tablets I’ve been taking before bed, but perhaps they really are that effective?
(And to the people who recommended me Due and TickTick as habit-tracking apps, I really appreciate it; I’m trialling both and they’re very good.)

hi yall! weird and arty movies used to be a massive part of my psyche for a brief, intense time when i was younger. but then i had a particularly bad depressive slump that killed the habit. now i wanna get back into it. each day for the next week, im gonna watch one Andrei Tarkovsky film (i found a free collection on archive.org!) and post my initial reaction afterward. i saw one of his movies, Stalker, when i was about 15, and while i liked it, i know i was too young and stupid to actually …

'One hour a day for better moods, less anxiety and feeling closer to their friends and family, all of it achieved by something as enjoyable as play.
Perhaps by fall, a zest for outdoor fun with phones left indoors will become a habit.
... encouraging children to go swimming or play street hockey is hardly a horrible way to give such a boost to their physical and mental health.
Open the door. Go outside and play. Put down your phones. Summer is calling."

The (not so) lazy days of summer
Canadian children aren’t getting enough exercise, and smartphones are partly to blame. The remedy? It’s right outside your door

"Vote early, vote often." Giving our youngsters a say earlier gets them into the habit of voting - very good news for our democracy. In the same proposals are measures to stop foreign nationals from laundering donations through UK companies: a much needed tightening of the rules. https://…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Daffo:
🎵 Habit
#Daffo
https://open.spotify.com/track/5lpINpxGvNUNB96j2qLQ5a

I have recently become aware that I tend to change my profile picture based on my mood.
As someone who is #ActuallyAutistic, I have only just discovered this particular habit of mine.
The more you know!
#Autistic

Cowboys could use surplus talent to shore up holes in the roster https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-could-use-surplus-talent-to-shore-up-holes-in-the-roster

Einfach aus dem Nichts, während ich eigentlich was anderes machen wollte, kam mir eine gute Idee für ein Selbsthilfebuch:
Creative Detox: Kick the Habit of Brilliant Distractions
Die deutsche Übersetzung kommt unter dem Titel
Ideenfrei in 30 Tagen: Das Entwöhnungsprogramm für chronisch Einfallsreiche.
Kauft ihr?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
Carmel Smickersgill:
🎵 Build the Habit
#CarmelSmickersgill
#Spotify