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Just a hut under a tree in the mist ...
I saw this when I was walking back from a location scouting. When I was back at the car, I turned around - already ready to drive away when I noticed this gnarly tree in the field.
The fog was just light enough to create an interesting mood I think.
#photography

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration into their curved, fully formed shape with only a single pull of a string.
This technique could enable the rapid deployment of a temporary field hospital at the site of a disaster such as a devastating tsunami
— a situation where quick medical action is essential to save lives.
The researchers’ approach converts a user-specified 3D structure into a flat s…

One pull of a string is all it takes to deploy these complex structures
MIT researchers developed a method that converts a user’s design into a flat series of interconnected tiles that can be converted to a 3D structure with one pull of a single string.

Cursor CEO Michael Truell warns that "vibe coding" advanced projects may create "shaky foundations" and eventually "things start to kind of crumble" (Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/25/cursor-

Cursor CEO warns vibe coding builds ‘shaky foundations’ and eventually ‘things start to crumble’
“Vibe coding refers to a method of coding with AI where you kind of close your eyes and you don't look at the code at all and you just ask the AI to go build the thing for you.”

A New Method for Probabilistic Spatiotemporal Forecasts of Solar Soft X-Ray “S-Class” (>X10) #Superflares: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JA034977 -> Scientists Successfully Predict When and Where Dangerous Solar Storms Are Likely to Happen: https://www.ceres-science.com/post/scientists-successfully-predict-when-and-where-dangerous-solar-storms-are-likely-to-happen - breakthrough forecasting method validated by surprise solar eruptions on the far side of the Sun.

The "Computational Theory of Mind" has become the modern secular religion, promising that if we just find the right algorithm, we can replicate intelligence.
And it is wrong ...
https://www.ocrampal.com/computation-is-limited-the-hidden-f…

Computation is not the right framework to comprehend the concept of life and intelligence
We live in a computational age. When we want to formalize our thoughts—to express ideas precisely, to build models of intelligence, to create systems that reason—we almost instinctively reach for computation. The Church-Turing thesis tells us that any "effectively computable" function can be computed by a Turing machine,

Estimation of Confidence Bounds in Binary Classification using Wilson Score Kernel Density Estimation
Thorbj{\o}rn Mosekj{\ae}r Iversen, Zebin Duan, Frederik Hagelskj{\ae}r
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20947 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20947 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20947
arXiv:2602.20947v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The performance and ease of use of deep learning-based binary classifiers have improved significantly in recent years. This has opened up the potential for automating critical inspection tasks, which have traditionally only been trusted to be done manually. However, the application of binary classifiers in critical operations depends on the estimation of reliable confidence bounds such that system performance can be ensured up to a given statistical significance. We present Wilson Score Kernel Density Classification, which is a novel kernel-based method for estimating confidence bounds in binary classification. The core of our method is the Wilson Score Kernel Density Estimator, which is a function estimator for estimating confidence bounds in Binomial experiments with conditionally varying success probabilities. Our method is evaluated in the context of selective classification on four different datasets, illustrating its use as a classification head of any feature extractor, including vision foundation models. Our proposed method shows similar performance to Gaussian Process Classification, but at a lower computational complexity.
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If you're not a fan of the Socratic method, what your employer will do is replace you with a "junior prompter".

My #silentsunday... Do you know that? You're lazy but you also know that you want some physical activity?
The weather wasn't motivating either. But I finally did one of my standard loops. It was indeed silent as there were almost no people out today.
No more than an occasional "hi". Besides that, no talking, nothing but a fox 🦊 in the distance on a field.

My contribution to #footpathFriday , just fresh from the press ;-)
I went to the local hill / mountain today to escape the fog / clouds. Well and also to see whether the fog would create some nice mood to capture along the way that I'm walking rather often.
And indeed it was a very pleasant experience to walk into the fog and breaking through it to see some blue sky.

Some more #fog ? It was a bit chill but veeerry silent.
I liked the mood there and how the bushes & trees vanished in the fog. Especially the dead tree at the end that looks like reaching out into the water.
Enjoy the silence 🙂
#photography