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2024 NFL free agency: Three ways WR landscape has changed with Mike Evans, Tee Higgins now off the market

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-…

2024 NFL free agency: Three ways WR landscape has changed with Mike Evans, Tee Higgins now off the market
A once-deep free-agent crop of wideouts is shrinking fast

From @… :
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/04/04/making-sense-of-the-mess-in-floridas-ab…

Making Sense of the Mess in Florida’s Abortion Access Landscape
A radical ruling from a majority of DeSantis appointees on Florida's supreme court follows the Dobbs playbook.

Here are the best three #photos of my #wildlife encounter last year.
These Chamois were resting alsmost on the trail so that I literally ran into them as I was looking for them FAR higher up the mountain. I'd just be a very bad hunter 😀 Good that I wasn't looking for bears!
Anywa…

Hello there Framed Print by Franz Graf
Purchase a framed print of the photograph "Hello there" by Franz Graf. Choose from multiple print sizes and hundreds of frame and mat options. All framed prints are professionally printed, framed, assembled, and shipped within 3 - 4 business days and delivered ready-to-hang on your wall.

Q&A with Marissa Mayer about her app development startup Sunshine, its new photo-sharing app Shine, the AI landscape, internet business models, and more (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/05/2024

Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on her new photo app, souped up by AI | Semafor
The Shine app seems retro and her co-founder just quit. But she has big plans for new venture.

Charting the Complex Structure Landscape of F-theory
Damian van de Heisteeg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03456 https://arxiv.org/pdf/24…

Charting the Complex Structure Landscape of F-theory
We explore the landscape of F-theory compactifications on Calabi--Yau fourfolds whose complex structure moduli space is the thrice-punctured sphere. As a first part, we enumerate all such Calabi--Yau fourfolds under the additional requirement that it has a large complex structure and conifold point at two of the punctures. We find 14 monodromy tuples by demanding the monodromy around infinity to be quasi-unipotent. As second part, we study the four different types of phases arising at infinity.…

I love that this iconic car dealership in downtown LA is still standing. It’s been here my whole life. I loved Felix The Cat as a kid and always enjoyed when we’d pass by this sign. The landscape has changed so much, it’s kinda nice to see some “old” stuff remain 😊
#dtla #history

Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard), a 1955 French film revisiting the Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust ends with a call for both vigilance and comparison:
"Nine million dead haunt this landscape. Who among us keeps watch from this strange watchtower to warn of the arrival of new executioners?
Are their faces really so different from ours?
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Quicksand used to be a thing.... then disappeared. There's a fantastic episode of Radiolab that explores this - how it occupied a huge part of our "disaster scenario" media landscape, and then gradually disappeared. Great listen:
https://radiolab.org/podcast/quicksand

Hey friends! We just came back from a great hike near #garmischpartenkirchen. We wanted to do this mountain recently but the snow in the upper part was too risky for us.
Today we went there again. Beautiful ascent, nice views. Some spray rain and a slippery, dirty descent. But at the end we even had some sun!
Now we feel tired and a bit sore 😉

🌳 Seeing the wood for the trees: How archaeologists use hazelnuts to reconstruct ancient woodlands
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-wood-trees-archaeologists-hazelnuts-reconstruct.html

Seeing the wood for the trees: How archaeologists use hazelnuts to reconstruct ancient woodlands
If we could stand in a landscape that our Mesolithic ancestors called home, what would we see around us? Scientists have devised a method of analyzing preserved hazelnut shells to tell us whether the microhabitats around archaeological sites were heavily forested or open and pasture-like. This could help us understand not only what a local environment looked like thousands of years ago, but how humans have impacted their habitats over time.

This is fun.
Login to Ubuntu
Be told there is a really cool management tool named Landscape
Follow instructions for install
Instructions fail
Go to GitHub page for Landscape and find it has been depricated
Wheeeeeeee
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Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.0-102-generic x86_64)
* Documentation: #Linux #Ubuntu

Varius Artist
"frecuenciAzul"
@…
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2024/05/03/varius-artist-frecuencia…

#goodmorning! ✅ Morning walk in fresh air

World Models for Autonomous Driving: An Initial Survey
Yanchen Guan, Haicheng Liao, Zhenning Li, Guohui Zhang, Chengzhong Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02622

World Models for Autonomous Driving: An Initial Survey
In the rapidly evolving landscape of autonomous driving, the capability to accurately predict future events and assess their implications is paramount for both safety and efficiency, critically aiding the decision-making process. World models have emerged as a transformative approach, enabling autonomous driving systems to synthesize and interpret vast amounts of sensor data, thereby predicting potential future scenarios and compensating for information gaps. This paper provides an initial revi…

Completing the Node-Averaged Complexity Landscape of LCLs on Trees
Alkida Balliu, Sebastian Brandt, Fabian Kuhn, Dennis Olivetti, Gustav Schmid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01366

Completing the Node-Averaged Complexity Landscape of LCLs on Trees
The node-averaged complexity of a problem captures the number of rounds nodes of a graph have to spend on average to solve the problem in the LOCAL model. A challenging line of research with regards to this new complexity measure is to understand the complexity landscape of locally checkable labelings (LCLs) on families of bounded-degree graphs. Particularly interesting in this context is the family of bounded-degree trees as there, for the worst-case complexity, we know a complete characteriza…

I still miss Twitter, and I don't think that I will ever again manage to cultivate the community and social / community impact that I had there on another platform. This is largely because Twitter was The Place To Go for a certain group of people, and after it became toxic for those conversations, the end result was not a single destination, but a fractured landscape of competing platforms.

I’m spending the weekend in Sorrento, so took the opportunity for a long-ish run on the 2 Bays Trail. I have raced on this course 5 times but it’s nice to have the chance to slow down and enjoy the scenery. #trailrunning #straya

Hang on to your hats, kids, this is going to be a ride:
> To mark the passing of Stephen Hawking, we gathered together his 55 papers in Physical Review D and Physical Review Letters. They probe the edges of space and time, from "Black holes and thermodynamics” to "Wave function of the Universe."
Phys. Rev. D 73, 123527 (2006) - Populating the landscape: A top-down approach

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.06517 has been replaced.
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The Landscape of User-centered Misinformation Interventions -- A Systematic Literature Review
Misinformation is one of the key challenges facing society today. User-centered misinformation interventions as digital countermeasures that exert a direct influence on users represent a promising means to deal with the large amounts of information available. While an extensive body of research on this topic exists, researchers are confronted with a diverse research landscape spanning multiple disciplines. This review systematizes the landscape of user-centered misinformation interventions to f…

Still terrible after all these years? https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/03/star-wars-the-phantom-menace-still-terrible-after-all-these-years?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Tenker på d…

I hope this is right. Landscape camera placement makes more sense. The only question is where the #ApplePencil goes, or will it lose its inductive charging feature altogether? #Apple #iPad

The metric removability of interfaces in the directed landscape
Manan Bhatia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02862 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

The metric removability of interfaces in the directed landscape
The directed landscape is a prominent model of random geometry which is believed to be the universal scaling limit of all planar random geometries in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class. It comes equipped with a few different natural simple curves associated to it, such as geodesics and interfaces. Given such a curve, one might wonder whether the geometry off this curve determines the entire landscape, or if in fact, there is non-trivial extra information actually present "on" the curve.…

Sequential Recommendation for Optimizing Both Immediate Feedback and Long-term Retention
Ziru Liu, Shuchang Liu, Zijian Zhang, Qingpeng Cai, Xiangyu Zhao, Kesen Zhao, Lantao Hu, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03637

Sequential Recommendation for Optimizing Both Immediate Feedback and Long-term Retention
In the landscape of Recommender System (RS) applications, reinforcement learning (RL) has recently emerged as a powerful tool, primarily due to its proficiency in optimizing long-term rewards. Nevertheless, it suffers from instability in the learning process, stemming from the intricate interactions among bootstrapping, off-policy training, and function approximation. Moreover, in multi-reward recommendation scenarios, designing a proper reward setting that reconciles the inner dynamics of vari…

#SilentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
The Never Summer Range, September 2009

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Semi-Symmetric Metric Gravity: from the Friedmann-Schouten geometry with torsion to dynamical dark energy models
In the present paper we introduce a geometric generalization of standard general relativity, based on a geometry initially introduced by Friedmann and Schouten in 1924, through the notion of a semi-symmetric connection. The semi-symmetric connection is a particular connection that extends the Levi-Civita one, by allowing for the presence of torsion. While the mathematical landscape of the semi-symmetric metric connections is well-explored, their physical implications remain to be investigated. …

He had a weakened immune system and ultimately succumbed to multi-organ failure from an infection.
This is what you do to other people when you run around in public without a mask on.
https://toot.earth/@PetaPixel/112197622736413184

Reader's Digest UK Editor-in-Chief Eva Mackevic says the magazine will close after 86 years, citing the "unforgiving magazine publishing landscape" (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/readers-dig…

Reader's Digest UK closes due to 'unforgiving' magazine landscape
Reader's Digest magazine has closed in the UK, according to its editor-in-chief of six years Eva Mackevic.

Hey friends! I decided to hike a snowy #mountain today. Above 1400m there was a considerable amount of #snow . I still felt yesterday's cycling loop in my legs. I clearly need to get into it again.
The #mountains

"#Wildfire grows into one of largest in #Texas history as flames menace multiple small towns
A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed and blackened the landsca…

Texas wildfires: Fire grows to second-largest in state history
A cluster of wildfires is scorching the Texas Panhandle, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history. The flames blackened the landscape across a vast stretch of small towns and cattle ranches. Authorities warned that the damage to communities on the high plains could be extensive. The largest fire expanded to nearly 800 square miles (2,072 square kilometers). It jumped into parts of neighboring Oklahoma and was completely uncontained as dawn broke. No deaths or injurie…

FulFillment - Season 1 finale 🤣😜😉
Dramatized comedy series | Total listening time: 2h 33m
Two energetic co-workers navigate the ever changing landscape of their Boston-area fulfillment center. Their mishaps and adventures help them cope with the future of the modern work space.
#AudioFiction #FictionPodcast

FulFillment - Season 1 finale 🤣😜😉
Dramatized comedy series | Total listening time: 2h 33m Two energetic co-workers navigate the ever changing landscape of their Boston-area fulfillment center. Their mishaps and adventures help them cope with the future of the modern work space. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Apr 12, 2024.

Cracking morning ride… in the… sun ☀️
#biketoot #Dorset #Purbecks

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11255 has been replaced.
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M$^{2}$UGen: Multi-modal Music Understanding and Generation with the Power of Large Language Models
The current landscape of research leveraging large language models (LLMs) is experiencing a surge. Many works harness the powerful reasoning capabilities of these models to comprehend various modalities, such as text, speech, images, videos, etc. They also utilize LLMs to understand human intention and generate desired outputs like images, videos, and music. However, research that combines both understanding and generation using LLMs is still limited and in its nascent stage. To address this ga…

#DIAMAS report on the sustainability of institutional publishers (Brun, Pontille & Torny, 2024-04-02). https://zenodo.org/records/10907086

Nilay Patel, grundare av The Verge, intervjuas av youtubern Hank Green om media, internet, affärsmodeller, plattformar, att äga ens egen webbplats i en tid av plattformar, om standarder för den sociala webben och mycket mer. Ett synnerligen spännande samtal med många tankefrön om vad internet kan vara, om vi bara vill.
https:/…

Exploratory Landscape Analysis for Mixed-Variable Problems
Raphael Patrick Prager, Heike Trautmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16467 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.16467
arXiv:2402.16467v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Exploratory landscape analysis and fitness landscape analysis in general have been pivotal in facilitating problem understanding, algorithm design and endeavors such as automated algorithm selection and configuration. These techniques have largely been limited to search spaces of a single domain. In this work, we provide the means to compute exploratory landscape features for mixed-variable problems where the decision space is a mixture of continuous, binary, integer, and categorical variables. This is achieved by utilizing existing encoding techniques originating from machine learning. We provide a comprehensive juxtaposition of the results based on these different techniques. To further highlight their merit for practical applications, we design and conduct an automated algorithm selection study based on a hyperparameter optimization benchmark suite. We derive a meaningful compartmentalization of these benchmark problems by clustering based on the used landscape features. The identified clusters mimic the behavior the used algorithms exhibit. Meaning, the different clusters have different best performing algorithms. Finally, our trained algorithm selector is able to close the gap between the single best and the virtual best solver by 57.5% over all benchmark problems.

The Voor U political party in Belgium, launched by Els Ampe, is a fresh alternative in the Belgian political landscape, particularly as the country heads towards the European Parliament elections 2024 Source : https://www.

I just saw chemtrails spam on Mastodon. It felt like seeing the first ads on the pristine digital landscape of the world wide web at the turn of the century.

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Impact of strain on the SOT-driven dynamics of thin film Mn$_3$Sn
Mn$_3$Sn, a metallic antiferromagnet with an anti-chiral 120$^\circ$ spin structure, generates intriguing magneto-transport signatures such as a large anomalous Hall effect, spin-polarized current with novel symmetries, anomalous Nernst effect, and magneto-optic Kerr effect. When grown epitaxially as MgO(110)[001]$\parallel$ Mn$_3$Sn($0\bar{1}\bar{1}0$)[0001], Mn$_3$Sn experiences a uniaxial tensile strain, which changes the bulk six-fold anisotropy landscape to a perpendicular magnetic anisotr…

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in a semimetal
Wenqi Yang, Dawei Zhai, Feng-Ren Fan, Wang Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01829 https://

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall effect in a semimetal
In the search of fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) effects, the conventional wisdom is to start from a flat Chern band isolated from the rest of the Hilbert space by bandgap, so that many-body interaction can be projected to a landscape that mimics a Landau level. Here we report the finding of FQAH in a 2D semimetal. Described by a 2π-flux dice lattice, the model features a flat band in touching with a dispersive lower band, where the band touching is symmetry-protected from being gappe…

The cosmological constant and the weak gravity conjecture
Yang Liu, Antonio Padilla, Francisco G. Pedro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02961 https://

The cosmological constant and the weak gravity conjecture
We examine the descent via membrane nucleation through a landscape of vacua where the cosmological constant is given by a combination of four-form fluxes. It has been shown that this descent can be slowed exponentially for very low curvature vacua close to Minkowski space in a wide class of models satisfying certain parametric conditions, providing a possible solution to the cosmological constant problem. We explore in detail whether or not those parametric conditions are compatible with the me…

The Abstract Towers of Sella, Dolomites.
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Mountains

Just visiting a #linedance competition today in #badtoelz. I'm not participating actively! But it was fun watching, especially when a loved one also participates. I'm now out for #cycling and…

AI for Educators Conference : https://tceajmg.micro.blog/2024/04/30/ai-for-educators.html

The Brief – The curious case of ‘partnership’ in the AI landscape
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-0291d08c-a1f38e35f5a9b511
The Brief – The curious case of ‘partnership’ in the AI landscape“Partnerships” between big tech firms and AI startups…

Looking at the monthly dataset update for busrouter.sg, saw this new bus stop named "S'pore Rail Test Ctr". Turns out it's a bus stop near the new Singapore Rail Test Centre (SRTC), located at Tuas, the 1st railway testing facility in Southeast Asia 😲 https://www.<…

Storm’s a’comin! #SoCal #desert #RainyDay

The Road to Next-Generation Multiple Access: A 50-Year Tutorial Review
Yuanwei Liu, Chongjun Ouyang, Zhiguo Ding, Robert Schober
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00189

The Road to Next-Generation Multiple Access: A 50-Year Tutorial Review
The evolution of wireless communications has been significantly influenced by remarkable advancements in multiple access (MA) technologies over the past five decades, shaping the landscape of modern connectivity. Within this context, a comprehensive tutorial review is presented, focusing on representative MA techniques developed over the past 50 years. The following areas are explored: i) The foundational principles and information-theoretic capacity limits of power-domain non-orthogonal multip…

Hey. Logged in, and the very first toot today is a (very dusty) Martian landscape, courtesy of the @… - https://botsin.space/@PersevereImgBot/

Perseverance Image Bot 📡 (@PersevereImgBot@botsin.space)
Attached: 1 image Sol 1106: Left Mastcam-Z Camera, acquired at 09:38:19.966 (local mean solar time), image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Quantum Science and Technologies in K-12: Supporting Teachers to Integrate Quantum in STEM Classrooms
Nancy Holincheck, Jessica L. Rosenberg, Xiaolu Zhang, Tiffany Butler, Michele Colandene, Benjamin W. Dreyfus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03538

Quantum Science and Technologies in K-12: Supporting Teachers to Integrate Quantum in STEM Classrooms
Quantum science and computing represent a vital intersection between science and technology, gaining increasing importance in modern society. There is a pressing need to incorporate these concepts into the K-12 curriculum, equipping new generations with the tools to navigate and thrive in an evolving technological landscape. This study explores the professional learning of K-12 teachers (n = 49) related to quantum concepts and pedagogy. We used open-ended surveys, field notes, workshop artifact…

Toward Autonomous Cooperation in Heterogeneous Nanosatellite Constellations Using Dynamic Graph Neural Networks
Guillem Casadesus-Vila, Joan-Adria Ruiz-de-Azua, Eduard Alarcon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00692

Toward Autonomous Cooperation in Heterogeneous Nanosatellite Constellations Using Dynamic Graph Neural Networks
The upcoming landscape of Earth Observation missions will defined by networked heterogeneous nanosatellite constellations required to meet strict mission requirements, such as revisit times and spatial resolution. However, scheduling satellite communications in these satellite networks through efficiently creating a global satellite Contact Plan (CP) is a complex task, with current solutions requiring ground-based coordination or being limited by onboard computational resources. The paper propo…

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Semi-Symmetric Metric Gravity: from the Friedmann-Schouten geometry with torsion to dynamical dark energy models
In the present paper we introduce a geometric generalization of standard general relativity, based on a geometry initially introduced by Friedmann and Schouten in 1924, through the notion of a semi-symmetric connection. The semi-symmetric connection is a particular connection that extends the Levi-Civita one, by allowing for the presence of torsion. While the mathematical landscape of the semi-symmetric metric connections is well-explored, their physical implications remain to be investigated. …

He had a weakened immune system and ultimately succumbed to multi-organ failure from an infection.
This is what you do to other people when you run around in public without a mask on.
https://toot.earth/@PetaPixel/112197622736413184

Evolving to the Future: Unseen Event Adaptive Fake News Detection on Social Media
Jiajun Zhang, Zhixun Li, Qiang Liu, Shu Wu, Liang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00037

Evolving to the Future: Unseen Event Adaptive Fake News Detection on Social Media
With the rapid development of social media, the wide dissemination of fake news on social media is increasingly threatening both individuals and society. In the dynamic landscape of social media, fake news detection aims to develop a model trained on news reporting past events. The objective is to predict and identify fake news about future events, which often relate to subjects entirely different from those in the past. However, existing fake detection methods exhibit a lack of robustness and …

#Photography of a landscape in #Thuringia Germany, in the front a construction fence, on a hill on the left a marble-white lion statue, in the middle further down a climbing frame as a house with a slide, in the front right a short row of dark spruces (?), in the back right sheep on the slope, behind again …

The directed landscape from Brownian motion
Duncan Dauvergne, B\'alint Vir\'ag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00194 https://arxiv…

The directed landscape from Brownian motion
We define an almost sure bijection which constructs the directed landscape from a sequence of infinitely many independent Brownian motions. This is the analogue of the RSK correspondence in this setting. The Brownian motions arise as a marginal of the extended Busemann process for the directed landscape, and the inverse map gives an explicit and natural coupling where Brownian last passage percolation converges in probability to the directed landscape. We use this map to prove that the directed…

Hi friends,
one more photo from our walk on wednesday. This one I was able to capture right when I turned around.
We just came down the path on the photo when I turned around and said to my wife "ohhh wait, think that could be a motive".
And so I started to try a couple of perspectives. I struggled with the path because I feared that it would lead the viewer too quickly out of the image.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Avril Coleridge-Taylor & Chineke! Orchestra:
🎵 Sussex Landscape Op.27 (1st mvt)
#AvrilColeridgeTaylor #Chineke!Orchestra
https://open.spotify.com/track/3MN9QK4R9Lk2qYsniQRYF6

Not a Swiss Army Knife: Academics' Perceptions of Trade-Offs Around Generative Artificial Intelligence Use
Afsaneh Razi, Layla Bouzoubaa, Aria Pessianzadeh, John S. Seberger, Rezvaneh Rezapour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00995

Not a Swiss Army Knife: Academics' Perceptions of Trade-Offs Around Generative Artificial Intelligence Use
In the rapidly evolving landscape of computing disciplines, substantial efforts are being dedicated to unraveling the sociotechnical implications of generative AI (Gen AI). While existing research has manifested in various forms, there remains a notable gap concerning the direct engagement of knowledge workers in academia with Gen AI. We interviewed 18 knowledge workers, including faculty and students, to investigate the social and technical dimensions of Gen AI from their perspective. Our part…

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Landscape approximation of the ground state eigenvalue for graphs and random hopping models
We consider the localization landscape function $u$ and ground state eigenvalue $λ$ for operators on graphs. We first show that the maximum of the landscape function is comparable to the reciprocal of the ground state eigenvalue if the operator satisfies certain semigroup kernel upper bounds. This implies general upper and lower bounds on the landscape product $λ\|u\|_\infty$ for several models, including the Anderson model and random hopping (bond-disordered) models, on graphs that…

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2024/04/the-podcast-landscape-is-a-mess-and-thats-a-good-thing/
@… <…

The Podcast Landscape Is a Mess, and That’s a Good Thing
I love the phrase "wherever you get your podcasts." I celebrate, just a little, every time I hear a podcast host say that to promote their show. So much of the internet is dominated by a few massive would-be monopolists who force you to use their applications in order to access the things you want. […]

The International Lunar Observatory Association has received images from its precursor ILO-X instruments aboard the #Odysseus lunar lander: https://iloa.org/ilo-x-precursor/ - the images received from the wide field-of-view imager include portions of the lunar landscape, regolith / dust, the Sun, and the Odysseus lunar lander which continues to help confirm the lander’s orientation on the Moon, and contains other valuable information. Images to be released on Thursday 29 February 2024 (Leap Day).

#NutrientScience
1/6
In the ever-evolving landscape of nutritional supplements, it's rare to encounter a gem that truly revolutionizes our approach to wellness. Pantethine, a derivative of vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid), emerges as just that: an unsung hero in the vast world of health enhancement. Grounded in solid scientific research, its benefits are not merely anecdotal but backed by robust evidence, marking a significant stride in heart health, stress management, and dermatological care.

A scene so serene.
2 Free wallpapers for you to use!
Also uploaded to my Ko-fi completely uncompressed (Mastodon compresses images to 1280 px) for free here: https://ko-fi.com/i/IK3K4WA428
Enjoy!

A scene so serene. - Click to view on Ko-fi
Follow Be Aware on Ko-fi

The Washington Post's Taylor Lorenz is launching Power User, a weekly Vox Media video podcast on trends shaping the internet and tech landscape, on March 21 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/02/29/washington-post-taylor-lorenz-vid…

Exclusive: WaPo tech columnist Taylor Lorenz launches video podcast with Vox Media
"Power User" will launch March 21.

The road ahead & taken.
(Also near the same place, only higher up, of which I posted pics of yesterday — this one here from 1.5 years ago...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Just saw the #FotoVorschlag "Zaun" (fence) and thought "I'm there!".
This photo is part of my #pristineWinter collection. I've printed it for myself already and I must admit - I love the tiny details and the minimalism.
I hope you enjoy it as wel…

Not a Swiss Army Knife: Academics' Perceptions of Trade-Offs Around Generative Artificial Intelligence Use
Afsaneh Razi, Layla Bouzoubaa, Aria Pessianzadeh, John S. Seberger, Rezvaneh Rezapour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00995

Not a Swiss Army Knife: Academics' Perceptions of Trade-Offs Around Generative Artificial Intelligence Use
In the rapidly evolving landscape of computing disciplines, substantial efforts are being dedicated to unraveling the sociotechnical implications of generative AI (Gen AI). While existing research has manifested in various forms, there remains a notable gap concerning the direct engagement of knowledge workers in academia with Gen AI. We interviewed 18 knowledge workers, including faculty and students, to investigate the social and technical dimensions of Gen AI from their perspective. Our part…

Hey friends! Two quick impressions from my evening walk. It's getting warmer - finally! and its Friday!
Tomorrow we'll go for a cycling ride - at least that's what we planned.
#landscape #bayern #spring

“hesitating to give chemotherapy to cancer patients”
Again I ask you to ostracize your Republican family and “friends” unless they extract themselves from this death cult.

Hey friends. I just reviewed a lot of photos and came across this from last year. A couple of hikers recommended me to go into the direction where I literally ran into those animals. Well.. An unexpected encounter!
#nature #naturephotography

Hey friends, here's one more from our 1st-may-walk. I really like the perspective. Maybe I'll even print it.
But.. I'd love to see the spot in really great light, like mornings or late in the day.
But the photo is as it is and I hope you enjoy the view with me.
#nature #naturephotography

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.

Hi friends, as we don't do a larger hike today so that my wife will fully recover for her upcoming business trip, I decided to write a blog post for a hike last April.
I also added 2 before/after photos which I found worthful to share. It reminds me about the upcoming hiking season. And that makes me smile 🙂
Enjoy the read!

Late-April Solitude: A Solo Alpine Journey
In the quiet majesty of a late-April solo hike, the mountain landscape revealed a subtle beauty in transition. The snow-covered peaks, the muted hues of transitioning grass, and the dance of light and shadow became a testament to the unfiltered allure of nature awakening from its winter slumber.

Hi friends, here's the last #photo from my recent blog post (from my cold #photography - #hiking trip).
This spot was a perfect opportunity to apply ND Filters and some longexposure. I loved …

Second Chances: Finding Beauty Beyond Expectations
In this blog post, I recount a journey of redemption and unexpected beauty. After a failed attempt to capture the perfect photo at a frozen waterfall, a second chance arises. Armed with newfound determination and experience, I embark on a photographic adventure, discovering hidden opportunities and

Hi all! Yesterday we did a nice walk around a nearby village. I wanted to practice using foreground. As expected: not too easy!
How low do I have to go, which aperture, are there enough flowers, are they distributed "well" enough.
Is there a midground that contributes positively?
Well. It was a nice opportunity to practice! And this is the result..
#nature

As I just posted one of the photos of the day anyways, I thought I could share a bit of a background story with you as well.
A frosty and chill day - but I went there alone as I wanted to focus more on #photography than just #hiking the summit.

Embracing the Elements: A Frosty Photo Journey
Embark on a chilly adventure with me as I navigate the brisk winds and icy terrain of a winter hike. Join me as I brave the elements, capturing the raw beauty of snow-laden landscapes and gusty summits through the lens of my camera.

As I just posted one of the photos of the day anyways, I thought I could share a bit of a background story with you as well.
A frosty and chill day - but I went there alone as I wanted to focus more on #photography than just #hiking the summit.

Embracing the Elements: A Frosty Photo Journey
Embark on a chilly adventure with me as I navigate the brisk winds and icy terrain of a winter hike. Join me as I brave the elements, capturing the raw beauty of snow-laden landscapes and gusty summits through the lens of my camera.

Had a wonderful #cycling loop with some unplanned detours and some wind. But nothing that would mitigate the fun.
I just need to somehow fix my GPS on the handlebar again.
Close to 37km pure joy and lots of nice people. I usually ring the bell 10-20m ahead so that they hear that I'm still far away and can move away in a comfortable speed. When passing, I shout a quick "thanks…

After posting a couple of #photos already, I decided to write a blogpost for this chill day in January. - yeah I know - I should write the post upfront and add the link to all the posts - well. I'm a really good marketeer. 😉

A Frozen Day: Capturing the Chill Through the Lens
In the midst of a frigid January, I embarked on a daring photo expedition to capture the frozen beauty of a nearby waterfall. Battling bone-chilling temperatures, I ventured into the icy landscape, armed with determination and camera in hand. Join me on this chilly adventure of exploration and disco

Hey friends! Here's the summit-view of the hike that I described in the last posts.
I'm so glad that I took this #photo as I had almost forgotten about the whole #hiking trip. Now I'm eager again to go out and have such a view up to the

Late-April Solitude: A Solo Alpine Journey
In the quiet majesty of a late-April solo hike, the mountain landscape revealed a subtle beauty in transition. The snow-covered peaks, the muted hues of transitioning grass, and the dance of light and shadow became a testament to the unfiltered allure of nature awakening from its winter slumber.

I posted this one recently already but I had to think about it when I read the #FotoVorschlag
"A wie..." Alpen?
So please excuse me for posting again.
The photo was taken when Sahara dust was blown over the alps. That caused the orange sky.
#nature

I posted this one recently already but I had to think about it when I read the #FotoVorschlag
"A wie..." Alpen?
So please excuse me for posting again.
The photo was taken when Sahara dust was blown over the alps. That caused the orange sky.
#nature

Hi friends!
The last two #photos from my photowalk in January! I rarely do macros but that day I wasn't out for hiking but really for #photography. So I thought, I could also step down into the frozen stream, take some time and look for tiny structures.
Needless to say that I was…

A Frozen Day: Capturing the Chill Through the Lens
In the midst of a frigid January, I embarked on a daring photo expedition to capture the frozen beauty of a nearby waterfall. Battling bone-chilling temperatures, I ventured into the icy landscape, armed with determination and camera in hand. Join me on this chilly adventure of exploration and disco

Hey friends!
We spent this #Saturday on our bikes. My wife selected a beautiful 40km loop. Lots of fields, forests, minor roads.
We didn't meet a lot of cars or other cyclists but hat a really really beautiful day with magnificent views.
I also recorded some clips. Maybe I'll compile them later as well!
And navigating with my new cycling computer could not have b…

Hey friends!
We spent this #Saturday on our bikes. My wife selected a beautiful 40km loop. Lots of fields, forests, minor roads.
We didn't meet a lot of cars or other cyclists but hat a really really beautiful day with magnificent views.
I also recorded some clips. Maybe I'll compile them later as well!
And navigating with my new cycling computer could not have b…

#goodmorning friends!
Not a single cloud on today's morning walk. Just fresh & chill air.
I'm looking forward to having a long weekend. We haven't planned anything yet except "being outside".
#getoutside

Hey all. So, likely last post this weekend with this view along a trail that I did last April. I really look forward to going there again.
This tour is - for me - pretty versatile. Forests, alpine meadows, gravel paths, rougher paths, a steep ascent to the summit, a 360° view ... Well. It'll be some time until all the snow has gone away. I guess I'll touch snow there again.

Late-April Solitude: A Solo Alpine Journey
In the quiet majesty of a late-April solo hike, the mountain landscape revealed a subtle beauty in transition. The snow-covered peaks, the muted hues of transitioning grass, and the dance of light and shadow became a testament to the unfiltered allure of nature awakening from its winter slumber.

Hey friends! My print arrived and is placed on the wall! 😍
#photo #photography #landscape

#goodmorning friends!
This is the place that I'd like to be now. But well, you can't have it all. But I do have my memories of this day! I'm so looking forward to those spring days now.
Nevertheless, don't forget the most important thing: enjoy your #sunday! I hope you…

Late-April Solitude: A Solo Alpine Journey
In the quiet majesty of a late-April solo hike, the mountain landscape revealed a subtle beauty in transition. The snow-covered peaks, the muted hues of transitioning grass, and the dance of light and shadow became a testament to the unfiltered allure of nature awakening from its winter slumber.

Hi guys,
Last chance if you want to get this #photo of my #pristineWinter collection as a print from FineArtAmerica.
As I only have 25 items free there and want to upload new ones soon, I'll drop this one from the portfolio in the next couple of days.
Or - just enjoy it he…

Into the White Framed Print by Franz Graf
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Good morning, what is the plane for today? The same is every day: getting up, having breakfast, getting out for a walk and have some fresh air, then Officeworks. 😉
#getoutside #gutenmorgen #goodmorning

Hi friends! We just did a quick 2h loop on our local hill. The weather is just so good that I wanted to share this view with you.
Btw, I rarely emphasise that some of my photos are also available as prints but they are!
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Hey Friends!
One more from my recent #blogpost . It's a bit ridiculous that it took me so long to go to this location for some #photography . Maybe I didn't go there because it is such a well known spot and because I've seen so many great

Frozen White Framed Print by Franz Graf
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Just found Video and resulting #photo and thought it might be worth sharing with you.
#nature #naturephotography

FINALLY! I finished the blog post about my #hiking adventure in the #mountains last year. It took me so long to write it because I am more emotionally connected to this tour than to many others.
Well - I hope you enjoy the read!

A Journey to New Heights: Hiking the Uncharted Summit
Join me on a wonderful mountain adventure with an early start to beat the heat, exploring the solitude of nature. Enjoy with me this fulfilling hike, capturing breathtaking vistas and concluding with a little thrill near the end.

Hey friends! Due to the strong wind today morning we changed plans from cycling to #hiking.
We went in the same area as recently - and it was amazing! This view got better and better the higher we came.
The wind was strong but rather warm, that made it really a great day.
I hope to publish some videos as well.

Hey friends! Today is not a mountain Sunday but a #cycling day! My wife also wanted to open the cycling season, so we followed my last week's loop.
Lots of head wind, but a wonderful 2h on the wheels. I'm so looking forward to being on the bike again more often after winter.
#cyclinglove