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On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011) - Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon -

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011)
Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon

Cousins: Hard feelings on Penix pick not 'helpful' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40144421/falcons-kirk-cousins-beef-michael-penix-jr-not-helpful

Falcons' Kirk Cousins - Beef over Michael Penix Jr. not helpful - ESPN
Falcons QB Kirk Cousins said it's not constructive to have hard feelings over his new team drafting Michael Penix Jr. in the first round.

An appeal to my many distant but helpful friends. I have a film scanner that I have not used for a year or so but certainly have used many times and has always worked fine, until today.
This is a new problem. Much has changed since I last used it. The scanner driver is x86 only, and only works on old OSes, so I am using a MacBook Pro x86 running MacOS 10.14.6.
I have no control over this.
...

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011) - Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon -

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011)
Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon

Israeli Massacres Continue in Gaza, as Returnees to North are Targeted and Refugee Camp is Bombed
https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/massacres-continue-returnees.html

Israeli Massacres Continue in Gaza, as Returnees to North are Targeted and Refugee Camp is Bombed
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The brief interlude of the Iranian rocket attack on Israel, in which almost all the projectiles were shot down or intercepted, did nothing to slow the Israeli assault on Gaza. Unfortunately for the Palestinians, no helpful foreign power is intercepting Israeli rockets fired at dense urban neighborhoods with deadly effect. The Israelis murdered another 43 people on Sunday, many of them from the sky. Reporters for CNN, some of them stringers on the ground in Gaza, r…

Anyone got a good suggestion as to why pledge: filesystem during ssh login might be hanging for 90s? dmesg and sshd logs have nothing obvious. Nothing helpful in the internet searches either.

I downloaded the Be Helpful guide from the RNIB. It has lots of tips on how to offer help to blind and partially sighted people.
https://www.rnib.org.uk/our-campaigns/be-helpful-guide/

Be Helpful guide
If you're affected by sight loss, we're here for you

Helpful git things (https://drhayes.io/blog/helpful-git-things/)

GeoSACS: Geometric Shared Autonomy via Canal Surfaces
Shalutha Rajapakshe, Atharva Dastenavar, Michael Hagenow, Jean-Marc Odobez, Emmanuel Senft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09584 <…

GeoSACS: Geometric Shared Autonomy via Canal Surfaces
We introduce GeoSACS, a geometric framework for shared autonomy (SA). In variable environments, SA methods can be used to combine robotic capabilities with real-time human input in a way that offloads the physical task from the human. To remain intuitive, it can be helpful to simplify requirements for human input (i.e., reduce the dimensionality), which create challenges for to map low-dimensional human inputs to the higher dimensional control space of robots without requiring large amounts of …

It's that time of the year again: if you support users online, and more so if you're part of an open source community, please take a deep breath and read @… "How to be helpful online" guide

Just updated: Make Better Documents, a quick guide I wrote up with some tips on how to make your professional documents more effective. It covers many of the most common errors I’ve seen (or that I’ve _done_) and some suggestions on how to address them. I hope it’s helpful, and feel free to share your tips on what else could be included. h…

Make better documents. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Oakland sounds like a YIMBY success story, but I wonder if this "glut in market-rate and luxury housing" makes the picture equally rosy for folks in the lowest quartile of income? Medians hide so much. It would be helpful if we could also see 25th percentile rent and 10th percentile rent graphed alongside median rent

Bay Area rents are on the rise again — but not in this one city
“Everything is priced through the roof,” says one recent apartment hunter.

This is a great tip! I didn’t even know about the `place-` properties until @… showed me, super helpful!
https://front-end.social/@kizu/1124338963…

Enjoying™ running Steam Big Picture on Windows. Best bit is when it forgets the controller exists (often immediately after I've been playing a game WITH THE CONTROLLER) and I have to find the keyboard and mouse to click things.

No, tell a lie, best bit is when it randomly task-switches mid-game back to Big Picture. Really helpful in, say, Rocket League.

If I could get the games I play on a console, I'd dump this godforsaken mess in the bin.

Tough puzzle today. My name being in it was not helpful.
Connections
Puzzle #337
🟦🟦🟦🟪
🟩🟩🟦🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟦🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
https://www.nytimes.com/games/connections

Is it possible to have ears that are shaped in a way that using in-ear headphones is impossible? Or is there a trick or even a helpful video tutorial?

This is how *my* day is going.
`One or more errors occured` great, thanks. *WHAT* errors? there's no explanatory popup, there's no log file, nothing.
This says:
`This is an edge case we couldn't be arsed to handle properly either because we are lazy developers or our product management doesn't give a shit. So fuck you Mr/Ms Customer.`
not even spelled correctly. Not a good sign from a translation tool.

By the way, if you find my #Python 3.13 porting or other #Gentoo work helpful, please consider donating to my cat food fund.
#donation

The latest #JetBrainsRider release has "sticky lines,” which is helpful for deeply nested syntax (HTML, JavaScript, C#).
You can optimize how many lines are shown in settings. #dotnet #javascript

My internet has been pretty much down ALL week. I've signed up to a new provider, and that kit should arrive tomorrow.
Until then, replies from me will be delayed but still more frequent and helpful than those I'm receiving from my current ISP 😅

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03337 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbi…

Form Follows Function: A Different Approach to Neuron Connectivity
A different method of discovering how neurons are connected to process information is presented here: Design a simple logic circuit that can perform a single, biologically advantageous function. Engineering concepts can be helpful in choosing the function and in designing the logic circuit. Several implementations of the method are reviewed to demonstrate how a biologically advantageous function can be chosen, how one simple network can generate major phenomena that are widely considered unrela…

Lavender Evening Fog 🎠🫖🪻
Dramatized cozy haunted house mystery series | Total listening time: 10h 15m
Dr. Anna-Georgina Plume (Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Hollingsworth University) may be in over her head. Her specialization in educational architecture may not be helpful when her new home (also her o...
ht…

Lavender Evening Fog 🎠🫖🪻
Dramatized cozy haunted house mystery series | Total listening time: 10h 15m Dr. Anna-Georgina Plume (Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Hollingsworth University) may be in over her head. Her specialization in educational architecture may not be helpful when her new home (also her old elementary school) may be haunted. LGBT and woman showrunner, each episode has a tea pairing suggestion, the school that is central to the story is based on the real school the showrunner attende…

Parameter Constraints on Traversable Wormholes within Beyond Horndeski Theories through Quasi-Periodic Oscillations
Farukh Abdulkhamidov, Petya Nedkova, Javlon Rayibaev, Jutta Kunz, Bobomurat Ahmedov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08356

Parameter Constraints on Traversable Wormholes within Beyond Horndeski Theories through Quasi-Periodic Oscillations
{\it Hunting} compact astrophysical objects such as black holes and wormholes, as well as testing gravity theories, are important issues in relativistic astrophysics. In this sense, theoretical and observational studies of quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) observed in (micro)quasars become helpful in exploring their central object, which can be a black hole or a wormhole. In the present work, we study the throat properties of traversable wormholes beyond Horndeski theory. Also, we investigate t…

NIST CSF 2.0 is out!
Travel Update! The NIST CSF 2.0 is HERE…Along with Many Helpful Resources…
https://www.nist.gov/blogs/cybersecurity-insights/travel-update-nist-csf-20-herealong-many-helpful-resources

In tonight's #meditation, a simple, but for me helpful, sense:
the feeling of "this is me" is not the starting point of things — it's an experience.

"It's the reality that matters (not the hype!)" - Futurist Jim Carroll
I have a good friend from my ski club who has been reading my Daily Inspiration post (what you are reading right now) for many, many years. He told me a few months back that he always finds them to be interesting and helpful - but also observed that sometimes they get a little promotional.
I suppose so.
But often, I find that I'm sharing in these posts some motivational insight that com…

What is the best conference swag you ever received? Either helpful or just memorable to you?
#conference #swag

Some teen users of Character.AI's chatbots say they find the AI companions helpful, entertaining, and supportive but worry they may be addicted to the chatbots (Jessica Lucas/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/4/24144763/ai-chatbot-friends…

The teens making friends with AI chatbots
Teens are opening up to chatbots on Character.AI as a way to explore friendship. But some chatbots, like Psychologist, offer more guidance than they’re qualified to.

#LGBTQ businesses will soon get a helpful boost in New Jersey - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/02/lgbtq-businesses-will-s…

LGBTQ+ businesses will soon get a helpful boost in New Jersey - LGBTQ Nation
It’s not easy being a minority-owned business, but this new law will definitely help.

Here’s a helpful summary with cool animation of the forthcoming eclipse. 🌖
#eclipse #totality #science

See what the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse will look like in your city
April 8, 2024, may be your best chance to view a total solar eclipse for the next two decades. See how close to a total eclipse you’ll get in your city.

The vibes portrait in the first sentence here from @… was genuinely helpful to me: https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112395594897702523

Robotic Platform Turns Shop Vac into Roomba
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-3454131b-fa967f4aee33f2ea
Robotic Platform Turns Shop Vac into Roomba The robotic revolution is currently happening, although for the time being it seems as though mo…

The latest #JetBrainsRider release has "sticky lines,” which is helpful for deeply nested syntax (HTML, JavaScript, C#).
You can optimize how many lines are shown in settings. #dotnet #javascript

New PR opened for #Jellyfin on #Roku. Now that you can navigate back and forth through the playback queue, it would be helpful to know what you're navigating to.
This PR adds small popup labels that show an icon for the media type and the title of the item when you highlight either the…

Can I just take a moment to express gratitude for `ddev snapshot restore` functionality today? Been super helpful 💙
@…

Also, let me share a helpful #FediTips with all of you.
Instead of making a post and asking "Is Facebook/Instagram/Threads down?", simply click the link below and search for your platform of choice and it will provide the answer for you.
https:/…

Oy. I got notification that a couple of laptops were being delivered by Apple for a couple clients and I almost emailed the clients saying “hey, the laptops that were supposed to be getting delivered on Friday apparently are arriving early.”
Then I realized it IS Friday.
See, procrastination CAN be helpful. I’m glad I waited to send those until after I had some caffeine; so I could NOT send them. 😂

not to be mean, but watching ThePrimagen reaction content seems pretty helpful against my #imposterSyndrome (or whatever the equivalent is when you don't actually have any professional success and you have kinda given up on it).
like "that guy knows Rust and Haskell, he must have, like, 20 brains, how does he not know all this?"
it's silly of course, but it…

Leadership lesson: There is value in asking someone to explain why they did something, even if you don't object, so you can agree with and confirm their actions. Plus it gives them practice articulating their reasoning, which is helpful.
Don't over-do it, but it can be helpful, especially when trying to build up a person/team that is less experienced.

If anyone finds themselves needing to hire a hospital type bed in the UK then I can heartily recommend MedBed Hire https://medbedhire.co.uk/
I first rang them on Bank Holiday Monday morning (after a bad night with my mother) and they were very helpful. I emailed on Tuesday evening with our requireme…

Hospital Bed Hire - Hospital Bed Rental - From £25 Per Week
Short or Long Term Hospital Bed Hire, Fast Nationwide Delivery and Installation. Full range of Foam or Dynamic Air Mattresses

#NightVale worthy #eclipse advice

This is a very helpful but also confusing graphic:
"Blue areas" = more clouds
"White areas" = less clouds
🤷
#eclipse2024

Lavender Evening Fog 🎠🫖🪻
Dramatized cozy haunted house mystery series | Total listening time: 10h 15m
Dr. Anna-Georgina Plume (Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Hollingsworth University) may be in over her head. Her specialization in educational architecture may not be helpful when her new home (also her o...
ht…

Lavender Evening Fog 🎠🫖🪻
Dramatized cozy haunted house mystery series | Total listening time: 10h 15m Dr. Anna-Georgina Plume (Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Hollingsworth University) may be in over her head. Her specialization in educational architecture may not be helpful when her new home (also her old elementary school) may be haunted. LGBT and woman showrunner, each episode has a tea pairing suggestion, the school that is central to the story is based on the real school the showrunner attende…

Google rolls out new changes to its Search ranking to help surface good content, downrank content that summarizes others' work, and more, as AI content spreads (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091099/goo…

Google’s new ranking systems are designed to stop spam, SEO, and other manipulative tactics
By downranking obituary spam and expired domain abuse and prioritizing helpful content over AI summaries, Google says it has been able to improve search results everywhere.

I type "devil" on my phone and auto complete suggests "devil's" and then successively "in" and "the". All helpful.
And then it suggests three follow up choices: foreground, background, woods.
Thus proving the devil's in the details.
#technology #autocomplete

A while back, I decided not to upgrade my XBOX One to a new model and just stay in the PS universe. But I still occasionally play old favorites, and today I saw this, which makes my decision a lot easier to bear. I mean, WTF?
"Starting today we're updating the way the Xbox network retains game captures. Game captures stored on the Xbox network will be deleted after 90 days." New definition of the word "retain".

H2RSVLM: Towards Helpful and Honest Remote Sensing Large Vision Language Model
Chao Pang, Jiang Wu, Jiayu Li, Yi Liu, Jiaxing Sun, Weijia Li, Xingxing Weng, Shuai Wang, Litong Feng, Gui-Song Xia, Conghui He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20213

H2RSVLM: Towards Helpful and Honest Remote Sensing Large Vision Language Model
The generic large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is rapidly developing, but still perform poorly in Remote Sensing (RS) domain, which is due to the unique and specialized nature of RS imagery and the comparatively limited spatial perception of current VLMs. Existing Remote Sensing specific Vision Language Models (RSVLMs) still have considerable potential for improvement, primarily owing to the lack of large-scale, high-quality RS vision-language datasets. We constructed HqDC-1.4M, the large scal…

Nice, I managed to package this little utility 'highlight-pointer' for :nixos: #NixOS, which is very helpful during screencasts.
It was very easy to do having already made an :archlinux: #ArchLinux PKGBUILD.

pkgs/highlight-pointer.nix · main · Yann Büchau / 📦 Yanns NixOS Config · GitLab
My NixOS Config

"It's the reality that matters (not the hype!)" - Futurist Jim Carroll
I have a good friend from my ski club who has been reading my Daily Inspiration post (what you are reading right now) for many, many years. He told me a few months back that he always finds them to be interesting and helpful - but also observed that sometimes they get a little promotional.
I suppose so.
But often, I find that I'm sharing in these posts some motivational insight that com…

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011) - Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon -

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011)
Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon

Great! #Google has a meta-fact check search engine!
This query returns results in all languages; the default is to return only your browser language, but you can change between them and other languages.
h/t/ @…

Eek! Lips!

I enjoy my work a lot. It's meaningful and helpful to others and I get satisfaction out of doing it.
I *also* know, however, that when I retire - I literally won't be involved with (at a personal hobby level) or rely on (directly myself) anything I'm doing today, because all of it is focused on work enablement - and I'll no longer have a job at that point 😄
I say this now with still a few decades left before then. But yeah, the future is gonna be interesting.

Another shorts #running day. Hoping to get out more in this weekend too. At the tail end of a head cold, but this feels helpful overall 😆
Side note, I love crossing other walkers and runners and giving a thumbs up. Most of the time it's a brief acknowledgement that we're out there doing this as humans. Doesn't matter ability, age, or anything, we're out in the world exe…

Just finished manually updating in total ~780 code blocks & snippets in over 400 files (readme's & source code), adding import statements of all used functions & updating comments over the past week (in addition to the 1st round last weekend[1])... Would be super great to hear if people find this useful/helpful (other than the two who were proposing it in the survey feedback)... 😉
Over the next months I will do another pass over the readmes to make it easier to auto-ext…

SFEndorsements is such a helpful resource for seeing who backs whom and what in #SanFrancisco’s often Byzantine #elections. https://sfendorsements.com/…

One thing I like to do in MW3 zombies is be unusually helpful, offer to revive random people, give them items, etc. This is the result. See chat message at right. Completely unprompted 💖 feelsgoodman.gif

Do you care about the future of #Thunderbird? Join this mailing list and participate in helpful discussions with your point of view: https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/planning<…

@… @…
It is nice that Chris and Alex both use realistic dialogue between players, this is always helpful to me.
I noticed that McDowall's examples seldom deliver one 'perfect' solution, but there are often different ways to…

People complain about autocorrect but it’s helpful 99% of the titties.

The BBC loves to both-sides arguments you see. They are neutral.
Except when it's banning kids from the internet. Then they only represent one side of the argument, deny that any other side could possibly exist, and insist impossible things which can't work will protect kids while offering no evidence that internet access is even really more harmful than helpful.
#bbc #onlineSafetyBill #mediaBias

This is the problem with learning *NIX commands in the 80s - they have added so many helpful command options that you didn't even know existed! How many decades has there been a -h flag for du and why did none of you tell me? 🙂
#Linux #UNIX

This is as helpful as responding “spelling!” or “grammar!” without explanation.

The 'Sandwich' meta-framework for architecture agnostic deep privacy-preserving transfer learning for non-invasive brainwave decoding
Xiaoxi Wei, Jyotindra Narayan, A. Aldo Faisal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06868

The 'Sandwich' meta-framework for architecture agnostic deep privacy-preserving transfer learning for non-invasive brainwave decoding
Machine learning has enhanced the performance of decoding signals indicating human behaviour. EEG decoding, as an exemplar indicating neural activity and human thoughts non-invasively, has been helpful in neural activity analysis and aiding patients via brain-computer interfaces. However, training machine learning algorithms on EEG encounters two primary challenges: variability across data sets and privacy concerns using data from individuals and data centres. Our objective is to address these …

as flawed as proposals like "PyPI Trusted Publishing" are, they're definitely helpful against Jia Tans. I don't want to be on a critical path to publishing opaque binaries of [project] but I don't necessarily want to maintain that manual publishing flow forever either, so asking a contributor to move to using an external service that stamps binaries seems like a decent compromise

Mike Johnson, speaking at a House Republican leadership news conference,
said it is “absurd” to try to throw him out of the office right now.
Here’s Johnson:
“I am not resigning. And it is, in my view, an absurd notion that someone would bring a vacate motion when we are simply here trying to do our jobs. It is not helpful to the cause, it is not helpful to the country, it does not help the House Republicans advance our agenda, which is in the best interest of the American …

SPECIAL EDITION APRIL #2⚡️ Punchbowl News Special Edition - APRIL #2
SPECIAL EDITION Johnson: I’m not resigning Speaker Mike Johnson took the extraordinary step this morning of publicly announcing that he was “not

SAAS: Solving Ability Amplification Strategy for Enhanced Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
Hyeonwoo Kim, Gyoungjin Gim, Yungi Kim, Jihoo Kim, Byungju Kim, Wonseok Lee, Chanjun Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03887

SAAS: Solving Ability Amplification Strategy for Enhanced Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models
This study presents a novel learning approach designed to enhance both mathematical reasoning and problem-solving abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). We focus on integrating the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and the Program-of-Thought (PoT) learning, hypothesizing that prioritizing the learning of mathematical reasoning ability is helpful for the amplification of problem-solving ability. Thus, the initial learning with CoT is essential for solving challenging mathematical problems. To this end,…

Unveiling Latent Topics in Robotic Process Automation -- an Approach based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation Smart Review
Petr Prucha, Peter Madzik, Lukas Falat, Hajo A. Reijers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05836

Unveiling Latent Topics in Robotic Process Automation -- an Approach based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation Smart Review
Robotic process automation (RPA) is a software technology that in recent years has gained a lot of attention and popularity. By now, research on RPA has spread into multiple research streams. This study aims to create a science map of RPA and its aspects by revealing latent topics related to RPA, their research interest, impact, and time development. We provide a systematic framework that is helpful to develop further research into this technology. By using an unsupervised machine learning meth…

Helpful assessment of a political problem I really hadn't recognized - and well worth thinking about as we try to improve the pipeline of candidates for Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/opinion

Opinion | The Price We Pay for Having Upper-Class Legislators
What explains the almost total absence of working-class people from elected positions in state government?

Helpful assessment of a political problem I really hadn't recognized - and well worth thinking about as we try to improve the pipeline of candidates for Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/opinion

Opinion | The Price We Pay for Having Upper-Class Legislators
What explains the almost total absence of working-class people from elected positions in state government?

What a great, helpful article:
"What to do if you get COVID
Practical tips to protect yourself from the long tail of risk.
The available science says that there are differences in outcomes for people based on the choices they make after they get COVID, provided they move quickly."
https://

What to do if you get COVID
Practical tips to protect yourself from the long tail of risk

Google rolls out updates to its Search ranking, including downranking content that summarizes others' work, to counter the spread of AI content in results (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091099/google-s…

Google’s new ranking systems are designed to stop spam, SEO, and other manipulative tactics
By downranking obituary spam and expired domain abuse and prioritizing helpful content over AI summaries, Google says it has been able to improve search results everywhere.

If anyone finds themselves needing to hire a hospital type bed in the UK then I can heartily recommend MedBed Hire https://medbedhire.co.uk/
I first rang them on Bank Holiday Monday morning (after a bad night with my mother) and they were very helpful. I emailed on Tuesday evening with our requireme…

Hospital Bed Hire - Hospital Bed Rental - From £25 Per Week
Short or Long Term Hospital Bed Hire, Fast Nationwide Delivery and Installation. Full range of Foam or Dynamic Air Mattresses

Some good safety advice for those planning to watch the eclipse on Monday.

I type "devil" on my phone and auto complete suggests "devil's" and then successively "in" and "the". All helpful.
And then it suggests three follow up choices: foreground, background, woods.
Thus proving the devil's in the details.
#technology #autocomplete

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011) - Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon -

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011)
Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon

Great! #Google has a meta-fact check search engine!
This query returns results in all languages; the default is to return only your browser language, but you can change between them and other languages.
h/t/ @…

*Current job satisfaction status*:
Stalking the hallways at work with literal fire pouring out of my orifices like the fucking #Balrog just waiting... *itching* for a senior VP or better the CEO to say anything, *anything* less than brilliantly constructive or helpful like "so when is project x do-" and I get 2 snap and go `ITLL BE DONE WHEN ITS DONE, FUCK OFF TILL THEN!. YOU'VE FUCKIN…

Google rolls out updates to its Search ranking, including downranking content that summarizes others' work, to counter the spread of AI content in results (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091099/google-s…

Google’s new ranking systems are designed to stop spam, SEO, and other manipulative tactics
By downranking obituary spam and expired domain abuse and prioritizing helpful content over AI summaries, Google says it has been able to improve search results everywhere.

Distributed Artificial Intelligence as a Means to Achieve Self-X-Functions for Increasing Resilience: the First Steps
Oxana Shamilyan, Ievgen Kabin, Zoya Dyka, Peter Langendoerfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06159

Distributed Artificial Intelligence as a Means to Achieve Self-X-Functions for Increasing Resilience: the First Steps
Using sensors as a means to achieve self-awareness and artificial intelligence for decision-making, may be a way to make complex systems self-adaptive, autonomous and resilient. Investigating the combination of distributed artificial intelligence methods and bio-inspired robotics can provide results that will be helpful for implementing autonomy of such robots and other complex systems. In this paper, we describe Distributed Artificial Intelligence application area, the most common examples of …

Another shorts #running day. Hoping to get out more in this weekend too. At the tail end of a head cold, but this feels helpful overall 😆
Side note, I love crossing other walkers and runners and giving a thumbs up. Most of the time it's a brief acknowledgement that we're out there doing this as humans. Doesn't matter ability, age, or anything, we're out in the world exe…

Massive thanks to the 41 people who've participated in the recent thi.ng community survey and especially those who've left more detailed comments — very helpful! Considering the maturity of the project(s) and the (combined) ~4.5k stars on Github, I was honestly hoping for a larger sample size, but will post a summary of feedback and possible next steps in the next couple of weeks... Quite a few new insights (some also very surprising, e.g. had no idea almost 45% of users are in Europ…

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011) - Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon -

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011)
Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon

Dear git diff, it is not helpful to put angry red ^Ms at the end of my changed lines when the file itself is CRLF. You're just making me worried I've done something wrong when I haven't!

(not my files else they'd be LF as the Lord intended)

Lavender Evening Fog - complete series 🎠🫖🪻
Dramatized cozy haunted house mystery series | Total listening time: 10h 15m
Dr. Anna-Georgina Plume (Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Hollingsworth University) may be in over her head. Her specialization in educational architecture may not be helpful when her new home (also her o...

Lavender Evening Fog - complete series 🎠🫖🪻
Dramatized cozy haunted house mystery series | Total listening time: 10h 15m Dr. Anna-Georgina Plume (Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Hollingsworth University) may be in over her head. Her specialization in educational architecture may not be helpful when her new home (also her old elementary school) may be haunted. LGBT and woman showrunner, each episode has a tea pairing suggestion, the school that is central to the story is based on the real school the showrunner attende…

Dear git diff, it is not helpful to put angry red ^Ms at the end of my changed lines when the file itself is CRLF. You're just making me worried I've done something wrong when I haven't!

(not my files else they'd be LF as the Lord intended)

Lavender Evening Fog - complete series 🎠🫖🪻
Dramatized cozy haunted house mystery series | Total listening time: 10h 15m
Dr. Anna-Georgina Plume (Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Hollingsworth University) may be in over her head. Her specialization in educational architecture may not be helpful when her new home (also her o...

Lavender Evening Fog - complete series 🎠🫖🪻
Dramatized cozy haunted house mystery series | Total listening time: 10h 15m Dr. Anna-Georgina Plume (Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Hollingsworth University) may be in over her head. Her specialization in educational architecture may not be helpful when her new home (also her old elementary school) may be haunted. LGBT and woman showrunner, each episode has a tea pairing suggestion, the school that is central to the story is based on the real school the showrunner attende…

For those interested in using reactive attributes in SVG elements using https://thi.ng/rdom, I hope you'll find this small new example and comments/explanations helpful:
Demo:

Lightweight, reactive, VDOM-less UI/DOM components with async lifecycle and @thi.ng/hiccup compatible

Ray-Ban Meta glasses hands-on: AI features coming in April, triggered by "Hey, Meta", are sometimes impressive and helpful, but the AI often gets things wrong (New York Times)
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Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Use AI to See, Hear and Speak. What Are They Like?
What happens when a columnist and a reporter use A.I. glasses to scan groceries, monuments and zoo animals? Hilarity, wonder and lots of mistakes ensued.

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011) - Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon -

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011)
Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon

AI search engines review: they are worse than Google at navigational queries, mixed on information queries, and offer helpful citations in exploration queries (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24111326/ai-search-perplexity-copilot-y…

Perplexity, Copilot, You.com: Putting the AI search engines to the test
AI search tools are getting better — but can they actually do all the things Google does for users, billions of times a day? Not quite — or at least not yet.

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011) - Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon -

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011)
Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011) - Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon -

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011)
Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011) - Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon -

On the LIME Energy Saving Plug: Review (2011)
Read how this simple helpful gadget chopped the watts to save cash and carbon! #smartPlug #frugal #cutCarbon