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Goodness me. If you're a guitarist (or want to be) and you need your mind blown (in a good way, with possibilities)... https://yewtu.be/watch?v=WknTbYOet4c or

Wow, this 'cultural exchange' is most delightful: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=GRzh0SAJmig or https://www.youtube.com…

Lightweight Cryptanalysis of IoT Encryption Algorithms : Is Quota Sampling the Answer?
Jonathan Cook, Sabih ur Rehman, M. Arif Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08165

Lightweight Cryptanalysis of IoT Encryption Algorithms : Is Quota Sampling the Answer?
Rapid growth in the number of small sensor devices known as the Internet of Things (IoT) has seen the development of lightweight encryption algorithms. Two well-known lightweight algorithms are SIMON and SIMECK which have been specifically designed for use on resource-constrained IoT devices. These lightweight encryption algorithms are based on the efficient Feistel block structure which is known to exhibit vulnerabilities to differential cryptanalysis. Consequently, it is necessary to test the…

Google announces the Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model, more lightweight than Gemini Pro, with a context window of 1M tokens and the multimodal capabilities of Pro (Pranav Dixit/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/googles-new-gemin

Google's new Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model is lighter than Gemini Pro and more accessible
Gemini 1.5 Flash isn't really meant for consumers. Instead, it’s a faster and less expensive way for developers building their own AI products and services...

I really love Cotton Bureau’s lightweight 100% cotton T-shirts because they’re thin and comfortable enough to wear as undershirts, perfect for the microclimates of the #sfba.
Does anyone sell these shirts in solid colors in larger volumes? I wear them under shirts, so I don’t need the designs.
#clothing

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07236 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

Lightweight Deep Learning for Resource-Constrained Environments: A Survey
Over the past decade, the dominance of deep learning has prevailed across various domains of artificial intelligence, including natural language processing, computer vision, and biomedical signal processing. While there have been remarkable improvements in model accuracy, deploying these models on lightweight devices, such as mobile phones and microcontrollers, is constrained by limited resources. In this survey, we provide comprehensive design guidance tailored for these devices, detailing the…

For folks still actively using #Github for their #libre software activities, this is worth a read: https://sfconservancy.org/Give…

A lightweight dual-stage framework for personalized speech enhancement based on DeepFilterNet2
Thomas Serre (S2A, IDS), Mathieu Fontaine (S2A, IDS), \'Eric Benhaim (S2A, IDS), Geoffroy Dutour (S2A, IDS), Slim Essid (S2A, IDS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08022

A lightweight dual-stage framework for personalized speech enhancement based on DeepFilterNet2
Isolating the desired speaker's voice amidst multiplespeakers in a noisy acoustic context is a challenging task. Per-sonalized speech enhancement (PSE) endeavours to achievethis by leveraging prior knowledge of the speaker's voice.Recent research efforts have yielded promising PSE mod-els, albeit often accompanied by computationally intensivearchitectures, unsuitable for resource-constrained embeddeddevices. In this paper, we introduce a novel method to per-sonalize a lightweight dual-stage Spe…

Nice little (short & sharp) #eqnz just now... https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2024p197752 currently a 3.5...

Accuracy Evaluation of a Lightweight Analytic Vehicle Dynamics Model for Maneuver Planning
J. R. Ziehn, M. Ruf, M. Roschani, J. Beyerer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08343

Officially ditched VS Code for Brackets (https://brackets.io). I like it a ton better and it's not Microsoft. Win win.
Switched to LibreOffice (https://lib…

A modern, open source code editor that understands web design
Brackets is a lightweight, yet powerful, modern text editor. We blend visual tools into the editor so you get the right amount of help when you want it. With new features and extensions released every 3-4 weeks, it's like getting presents all year long.

These 'dark patterns' in User Interfaces/Experience should be banned here in Aotearoa NZ, too. https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/dark-patterns-are-now-illegal-in-india-6b3c35c5ce50

The Minimalistic Dillo Web Browser Is Back
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-303a1773-f3448fbaa4036f00
The Minimalistic Dillo Web Browser Is Back Over the decades web browsers have changed from the fairly lightweight and nimble HTML document vi…

🐟 A lightweight fish pen to move farms to deeper seas
#fish

A lightweight fish pen to move farms to deeper seas
The University of Queensland has co-led a project to design a cost effective yet robust pen to expand fish farming into deeper ocean areas to help feed the growing global population. The research is published in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.

Robust COVID-19 Detection in CT Images with CLIP
Li Lin, Yamini Sri Krubha, Zhenhuan Yang, Cheng Ren, Xin Wang, Shu Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08947 htt…

Robust COVID-19 Detection in CT Images with CLIP
In the realm of medical imaging, particularly for COVID-19 detection, deep learning models face substantial challenges such as the necessity for extensive computational resources, the paucity of well-annotated datasets, and a significant amount of unlabeled data. In this work, we introduce the first lightweight detector designed to overcome these obstacles, leveraging a frozen CLIP image encoder and a trainable multilayer perception (MLP). Enhanced with Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) for robu…

Deep Learning for Cosmological Parameter Inference from Dark Matter Halo Density Field
Zhiwei Min, Xu Xiao, Jiacheng Ding, Liang Xiao, Jie Jiang, Donglin Wu, Qiufan Lin, Yin Li, Yang Wang, Shuai Liu, Zhixin Chen, Xiangru Li, Jinqu Zhang, Le Zhang, Xiao-Dong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09483

Deep Learning for Cosmological Parameter Inference from Dark Matter Halo Density Field
We propose a lightweight deep convolutional neural network (lCNN) to estimate cosmological parameters from simulated three-dimensional DM halo distributions and associated statistics. The training dataset comprises 2000 realizations of a cubic box with a side length of 1000 $h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$, and interpolated over a cubic grid of $300^3$ voxels, with each simulation produced using $512^3$ DM particles and $512^3$ neutrinos . Under the flat $Λ$CDM model, simulations vary standard six cosmologic…

Nice little (short & sharp) #eqnz just now... https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2024p197752 currently a 3.5...

This morning's outlook in Ōtautahi. Auspicious (and I didn't even get wet!).

These 'dark patterns' in User Interfaces/Experience should be banned here in Aotearoa NZ, too. https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/dark-patterns-are-now-illegal-in-india-6b3c35c5ce50

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17861 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Soft Wrist Exosuit Actuated by Fabric Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
Recently, soft actuator-based exosuits have gained interest, due to their high strength-to-weight ratio, inherent safety, and low cost. We present a novel wrist exosuit actuated by fabric pneumatic artificial muscles that has lightweight wearable components (160 g) and can move the wrist in flexion/extension and ulnar/radial deviation. We derive a model representing the torque exerted by the exosuit and demonstrate the use of the model to choose an optimal design for an example user. We evaluat…

Hazzah! Just upgraded the final Drupal 9 site (to Drupal 10) for which I'm responsible... *Big* load off my mind. Lots of technical debt paid... Just hoping there aren't too many subtle gotchas not immediately apparent with such complex systems.

Today I'm finding myself in the awkward position of being resentful that 99% of human society is founded on what I'm quite sure are fundamental lies and general delusion.
I struggle to see how we can rebuild something durable on that murky foundation. Because that's where I see us now.

After driving our EV (& 32 yo manual ICE car) for the past 6months, here's some unsolicited advice to auto mechanics: if you're not already actively train(ed|ing) to work on EVs & auto electronics, down tools & run - don't walk - to enroll in a course. The market for EV mechanics is burgeoning somethin' crazy & that for ICEs is contracting. You can be in the right place at the right time.

Amazing seeing the aurora outside tonight! Lots of others have taken better pictures than I could...

Good that these rogues have been rounded up... https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511485/dogs-believed-to-be-behind-attacks-in-mt-albert-caught the outrage is valid. But why don't we take a similarly dim view of cats, d…

Yeah. Diesel drivers feeling aggrieved about motoring representatives pointing out that new RUCs disproportionately affect EV drivers based on impact (on roads & environment in general). Yes, both sorts of vehicles have mining & manufacturing cost (about equal) but diesel & petrol drivers forget the evidence shows the fuel supply line they depend on - getting it to them & them burning it in situ - exacts a far greater cost on the world than EVs, per kilometer.

In addition to being very sad, this sounds extremely dodgy: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/511482/boeing-whistleblower-found-dead-in-us
In Russia, people with unpleasant truths tend to fall out of windows. In the US... they tend to 'se…

Wow, I've *really* gone off IT Professionals NZ. They're trying to sell me (a lapsed member who couldn't reconcile the high cost & zero value) a seminar on AI & other marketing buzzwords in Ōtautahi with 'exciting presentations from Microsoft and Ernst & Young reps'. Ugh. They actively cheerlead for (as any competent IT pro knows are) the least credible, most depraved corporations around. They're committed to sawing off the branch their entire membership i…

Life could be much worse right now...

Damn. My OnePlus 6T (runningLineageOS 20) has started occasionally spontaneously rebooting and then taking *ages* to finish the boot process. I daren't wonder too hard about what it's actually doing... but this isn't ideal as I prep for some international travel. Sigh. Might have to prioritise my repair (cracked screen and bung battery) of my son's now superseded OP 3T for which I have already procured replacement parts (aliexpress, of course)... Will report on progress.

Happy to be contributing more power to the grid right now than we're consuming as our solar generation ramps up for the day.

Welp, this is a cryin' shame. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516411/archives-nz-shutting-down-digitisation-programme Among many other crying shames being perpetrated by this new gov't.

Ruh roh. https://chaos.social/@HonkHase/112064448239296905

How unexpectedly lovely is this?! https://yewtu.be/watch?v=yMW_p8UYGmA or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMW_p8UYGm

How unexpectedly lovely is this?! https://yewtu.be/watch?v=yMW_p8UYGmA or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMW_p8UYGm

Right - successfully upgraded my second 'non-trivial' Drupal 9 site to Drupal 10 in as many days. It's not straightforward, but few worthwhile things are. And paying off technical debt is worthwhile.

Wow. This is seriously impressive and eloquent. Stand with principle. https://social.coop/@raph/112407007515735951

Great to see this in the capital! https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516271/endangered-bats-heard-in-wellington-region-for-first-time-in-years

Anybody know who's advising Te Tumu Paeroa on legal & technology issues? Because they've been led down a very dark garden path here: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/microsoft-

@… I've got a kōwhai flowering right now... That's not usual, is it?

Wow, just on RNZ now ConsumerNZ are (finally!) saying that using POLi for payments in NZ is putting people at risk, breaching bank terms and voiding protections. Holy cow. No duh!
I tried to take this issue to my bank (Kiwibank), who sent me to the banking ombudsman and from there to ConsumerNZ a few years ago. Nobody wanted to know. They all threw up their hands... and now suddenly they're making a fuss about it. Wonder what's suddenly changed?
Link:

Chuffed we were able to make the decision to buy this car https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/350264313/top-cars-2024-value-packed-mg4-ev-wins-top-small-car-honours as our first-ever new car. It's been great so far, for…

Great to see this in the capital! https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516271/endangered-bats-heard-in-wellington-region-for-first-time-in-years

Anybody know who's advising Te Tumu Paeroa on legal & technology issues? Because they've been led down a very dark garden path here: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/microsoft-

@… I've got a kōwhai flowering right now... That's not usual, is it?

Wow, just on RNZ now ConsumerNZ are (finally!) saying that using POLi for payments in NZ is putting people at risk, breaching bank terms and voiding protections. Holy cow. No duh!
I tried to take this issue to my bank (Kiwibank), who sent me to the banking ombudsman and from there to ConsumerNZ a few years ago. Nobody wanted to know. They all threw up their hands... and now suddenly they're making a fuss about it. Wonder what's suddenly changed?
Link:

Chuffed we were able to make the decision to buy this car https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/350264313/top-cars-2024-value-packed-mg4-ev-wins-top-small-car-honours as our first-ever new car. It's been great so far, for…

Fascinating Friday evening viewing... https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Zrv1EDIqHkY or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrv1EDIqHk<…

It occurs to me that now would be a great time to start a new tech services consultancy. Such a wealth of skilled & experienced (and principled) technologists looking for new roles.

Didn't know I needed this morning jolt of polka-rock: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wbsEZzgCwmI or https://www.youtube.com…

I wonder how many people who, at every turn, are breathlessly shilling/hawking corporate-owned 'AI' (a marketing term that really just means large language models or a 'souped up predictive text' service) really think they're making the world better with their efforts...

Lots of folks in Aotearoa NZ will know of Don McGlashan - a documentary on him is being created, and the producer is trying to fun the release. I've just made a modest contribution, because I'd love to see this! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shirl

Finally. Some good news. https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/112050805752491792

@… good to hear you on RNZ today, by the way. Nice work.

"It's [the vendor's] research showed the technology was not biased"... Uh. Yeah. How about we just don't do this? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516006/microsoft-bans-us-police-using-ai-for-f…

It's satisfying when you tidy up all your self-hosted instances of some complex package... I've got 5 instances of NextCloud upgraded to the latest point release, 27.1.7, passing all internal configuration checks, and earning a security rating of "A " (using https://scan.nextcloud.com/

Just stumbled on these comments I made back in 2009... https://www.itwriting.com/blog/1967-silverlight-4-ticks-all-the-boxes-questions-remain.html and I pointed out how stupid it was for people to develop for Microsoft Silverlight. …

I quite like her approach on weighty topics (although probably not for the easily offended): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lXY3InloDBQ or https://www.

Went out for a walk last evening around dusk in my parents' neighbourhood in Pennsylvania... lots of big houses, lots of US flags, lots of big pickups/SUVs. Only saw one TV on in a house as I walked past... but it was playing Tucker Carlson. This is bible thumpin' Trump country. How can people here really be so disaffected, credulous, & ignorant? (I'm no Christian, but how can you claim to be a Christian and not revile Trump?!)

This is superb @… an entertaining, resonant lesson for us all: https://tilvids.com/w/uDYuAtt8cZYFfspGp6zuBN or

Tonight, it occurs to me that 'prosperity' might just require good company, a tasty meal, and a good beer (or two ). Not a whole lot of capital investment required for that. And zero multinational corporations.

Dang it to heck! My cousin, with whom I was visiting (east coast, USA) this past week prior to flying back to NZ just sent me this picture of one of the great local critters I was most hoping to see (and spent hours actively looking for!) while there... a big black rat snake. Missed it by a few days.

Boom. Just managed to fix an obscure CMS Javascript error that's been plaguing me for a couple months now... Phew.
Now all I have to do is figure out *which* of the many things I tweaked *actually fixed the problem* 🤦

Lily Duval's work is stunning! https://www.lilyduval.com/critters She was interviewed on RNZ a couple days ago:

Just found out that my dear neighbour, whose friendship I valued, and with whom I visited 2 days ago, went into hospital yesterday and died overnight. He was a dear soul with an interesting and difficult story & I wish him (and his whānau) all the best.

This seemingly innocuous article - https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/497363/new-zealand-wins-trade-dispute-with-canada-over-dairy-access - about 'NZ' prevailing in an international trade dispute with Canada, un…

This is an example of how corporations are killing us. They're sawing off the branch on which we're all sitting. This has to stop. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/515487/west-coast-mine-proposal-gets-council-go-ahead

Not really my jam, but I have to admit that this is worthy of note and respect: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=R0XUW-sU57g or https://www.

Boom. GST for the 2023-2024 tax year paid.

So... what's this I see about the end of Mike Hosking on NewstalkZB on FB? It looks like algorithmic propaganda, not the truth... anyone got supporting evidence? Can I celebrate his shelving?

Every day I'm flabbergasted by how unworthy Microsoft is of its 'success'. The best thing I can say about them is that they're really good at exploiting dysfunctional bureaucracies and comprehensively inept officials who're spending other people's money. https://cyberplace.social/@Go…

Huh. What do you know. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/515524/internal-affairs-tests-itself-on-escalating-costs-of-cloud-computing The gov't is screwing up on tech decisions at a much faster rate than it …

I like to boost about job offers in the #Fediverse. I won't, however, boost any posts that include LinkedIn links. Because employment needs diversity in all things, and that's the exact opposite of Microsoft's aim. They already have vastly more power than they've earned or can be trusted with (they cannot be trusted in any way. They are the tail wagging the dog, controlling m…

View from the tops on my first ride-up-a-hill in quite a while. A lot harder than I remember it...

Thankful to be safely back at my desk in Ōtautahi/Christchurch, Aoteroa/New Zealand after a 5 week taste of spring in the US North East. Happy to have left things there better (I think) than I found them. Now, winter is coming (although it's really not that bad here in Ōtautahi. It's just fairly dark).

Nice to see this: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=cLV0CPc4G9U or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLV0CPc4G9

Ouch: https://electrek.co/2024/04/29/tesla-conducting-more-layoffs-including-entire-supercharger-team/ I wonder how much of this is due to the ass whuppin' that Chinese manufacturers are apparently handing Tesla in China wh…

So cool to see that RNZ played one of my favourite tracks by one of the best (and criminally under-recognised) bands ever during yesterday's Saturday show (with Suzie Ferguson) - https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday - namely 'Guess how much I love you…

Essential viewing: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ZWkGmw3xMTU or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWkGmw3xMT

Check out the monster amp stack at my band's gig over the weekend... Pumpin' out the jams.

Wow. Heartwarming and poignant. #EfesoCollins #WhatMightHaveBeen

Ooo, nice wee evening #eqnz - 4.6 in Canterbury.. https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2024p152292 Perfect for rocking you to sleep...

I'm all for this: https://triangletoot.party/@donaldball/112321979694673780
And offer this response:

Better late than never: #economics <…