@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-12 19:40:54
Substack launches the Substack Recording Studio, letting creators prerecord videos with up to two guests, share screens, and auto-generate clips and thumbnails (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/substack-launches-a-built-in-recor…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-12 07:11:11
Google unveils WAXAL, a new open speech dataset for 21 African languages to ease speech technology development; African institutions own the dataset (Damilare Dosunmu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/google-waxal-african-languages-ai-sovereignty/…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-02-13 00:40:02
The launch of #Crew12 is planned for 10:15 UTC today: webcasts from NASA and ESA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCM-Kwq91cc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_5RWX-GsQo from 8:15 UTC plus the ESA Launch Kit at https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/HRE/EPSILON_LaunchKit_EN.pdf and updates on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/commercialcrew/ and the latest timelines at https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Watch_live_Crew-12_launch_and_docking_updated and https://www.spacex.com/launches/crew12 and https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-coverage-for-agencys-spacex-crew-12-launch-docking/
@hw@fediscience.org2026-04-13 08:57:33
There's roughly two ways I've acquired skills in programming languages in the past: the "hard" way for writing code (e.g., "Learn Python the Hard Way"), and the "easy" way for learning to read a new programming language by skimming the language specs or leafing through a book on the topic (e.g., "The Supercollider Book").
I suppose there's a third way now for me: Reading up on software architecture design (e.g., stuff like "500 lines or less"), so that co-creation skills with large language models are improved?
For example, Yoav Rubin's article on "An Archaeology-Inspired Database" in 500 lines or less really made me think about Clojure in a new way.
Thoughts on this?
#AIResearch #Software #programming
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-03-14 08:09:51
Auto-translation on #Mastodon: a love-hate relationship.
I can sort-of read most Nordic, Germanic and Romance languages -- enough to pick up the gist. I can't read Slavic, Finno-Ugric, or anything from outside Europe. Reading languages I'm not familiar with is a muscle which weakens if I don't use it.
Autotranslate enables me to read a lot of content on Mastodon in languag…
@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-01-14 02:41:15
Linguistic Cartographies: Narratives of Displacement and Belonging Through Language Contact in Political Literature https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/12/linguistic-cartographies-narratives-of-di…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-04-13 17:00:05
unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-12 17:41:50
YouTube launches an app for the Apple Vision Pro, with standard videos, 180° and 360° videos, and YouTube Shorts; devices with the M5 chip can play 8K videos (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/12/youtube-app-apple-vision-pro/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-11 14:56:11
TikTok launches an opt-in Local Feed in the app's US version, including content related to travel, news, events, shopping, and dining near the user's location (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/tikt
