
2025-09-21 10:03:20
King Ortler (3905m)
No picture can do it justice... For scale, note the mountain hut (Berglhütte, at 2188m) in the bottom-left corner...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
King Ortler (3905m)
No picture can do it justice... For scale, note the mountain hut (Berglhütte, at 2188m) in the bottom-left corner...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
In a censored society everyone needs debates about harmless topics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/21/fascism-women-homemaker-trad-wife?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
This whole opinion, while well-meaning and bringing up generally good points (we humans can decide what technology we research and how we use it)—misses the point: there will not be an “AGI” that derives from current “AI” technology.
What the “AI” companies are proposing and the media is accepting at face value is like saying ever more realistic graphics in computer games will suddenly reach some threshold and the graphics will become the real world.
It’s nonsense.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2025/jul/21/human-level-artificial-intelligence
The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America | US supreme court | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/justice-john-roberts-supreme-court
Exactly one hundred sixty days apart.
(This past Friday vs. early Feb, Raintal)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Phtography
The umpire who picked a side: John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America | US supreme court | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/21/justice-john-roberts-supreme-court
Planned for months, but only been away for a few days and new deep memories for a lifetime: Visiting, revisiting and documenting some personal bucket list places in Tyrol/Vinschgau, Sondrio (Valmalenco) and the Engadin, collecting references & research... Landscapes too large & overwhelming, mountain passes (and the human ingenuity to traverse them), vast valleys full of ancient history & struggles (with nature and each other), disappearing glaciers leaving behind incredible stru…
A lawsuit has been filed against Airbnb
Seized, settled, let: how Airbnb and Booking.com help Israelis make money from stolen Palestinian land | West Bank | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/feb/27/seized-settled-let-how-airbnb-and-bookingcom-help-israelis-make-money-from-stolen-palestinian-land
🎉 Meet the new GÉANT Community Committee (GCC) - Part 2
What does the GCC do?
They act as the motor of the GÉANT Community Programme, connecting our special interest groups (SIGs), task forces (TFs), and initiatives with the General Assembly and the Board of Directors, ensuring community voices are heard and ideas can turn into action.
In a remarkable turn from prominent American conservatives,
-- who until Trump’s return to power in January had long complained of a censorious leftwing “cancel culture”
-- now seem happy to reframe that, too, as “consequence culture”.
Nancy Mace, a House representative, sounded a lot like the progressives she has often decried for their political correctness when she declaredlast week, during an effort to censure one of her opponents in Congress, that “free speech isn’t f…
Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[4/5]:
- LaMP-Cap: Personalized Figure Caption Generation With Multimodal Figure Profiles
Ng, Hsu, Ramakrishnan, Kveton, Lipka, Dernoncourt, Lee, Yu, Kim, Rossi, Huang
Fluid Antenna System-assisted Physical Layer Secret Key Generation
Zhiyu Huang, Guyue Li, Hao Xu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15547 https://
A profile of Song-Chun Zhu, an AI scientist and NSF and Pentagon grantee, who left the US after 28 years to lead China's state-backed AI institute BIGAI in 2020 (Chang Che/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/n…
Crosslisted article(s) found for math.CT. https://arxiv.org/list/math.CT/new
[1/1]:
- Generalized Symmetries From Fusion Actions
Chongying Dong, Siu-Hung Ng, Li Ren, Feng Xu
Ndamukong Suh says Lions should have paid him more than Matthew Stafford
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ndamukong-suh-says-lions-should-have-paid-him-mor…
Bayesian Optimization with Expected Improvement: No Regret and the Choice of Incumbent
Jingyi Wang, Haowei Wang, Szu Hui Ng, Cosmin G. Petra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15674 htt…
Been working on n-dimensional sampling/filtering functions for https://thi.ng/tensors and created an interactive Desmos graph to illustrate 1D Lanczos filtering/interpolation:
http…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
Tiny Giant:
🎵 NgŠy Mới
#TinyGiant
https://tinygianthanoi.bandcamp.com/album/ng-y-m-i
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Ue0nMCFEAxkComspbQIck
irgendwann lernen KI agenten dass man türen repariert indem man "techniker ist informiert, bitte hinterausgang nutzen" schilder daran hängt
https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-coding-tool-replit-wiped-database-called-it…
Morning under explosions: Russia launched 619 air strikes on Ukraine in 24 hours!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/20/morning-under-explosions-russia-launched.html
Training Camp Presents Its Challenges for Carroll, Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/news/training-camp-pete-carroll-nfl-las-vegas
‘I’m proud to have made this stand’: over-60s arrested at Palestine Action ban protest explain their decision https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-inter
Addiction Among Indie Musicians: Tips to Help Get Health Care https://muz4now.com/2020/addiction-among-indie-musicians-tips-to-help-find-health-care/
Sum-Rate Maximization for Movable-Antenna Array Enhanced Downlink NOMA Systems
Nianzu Li, Peiran Wu, Lipeng Zhu, Weidong Mei, Boyu Ning, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15555
Live performance of "All Those Moments", a recent beautiful track by OORA with a great arc/evolution, full of analog sequences and layers...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MOp69-uum0
High-resolution Radio Study of Pulsar Wind Nebula MSH 15-52 and Supernova Remnant RCW 89
S. Zhang, C. -Y. Ng, N. Bucciantini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14476 https://
Simulating a Gaussian stochastic gravitational wave background signal in pulsar timing arrays
Reginald Christian Bernardo, Kin-Wang Ng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15756
Trump's Smithsonian review is long overdue (Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3760381/trump-smithsonian-review-is-long-overdue/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250820/p49#a250820p49
A profile of Pat McAfee, among the top American sports pundits with millions of followers and an ESPN show, and a sports bro culture dominated by ex-NFL players (Aaron Timms/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-interactive/2025/…
A Startup is Selling Data Hacked from Peoples’ Computers to Debt Collectors https://www.404media.co/a-startup-is-selling-data-hacked-from-peoples-computers-to-debt-collectors/
Replaced article(s) found for math.QA. https://arxiv.org/list/math.QA/new
[1/1]:
- Generalized Symmetries From Fusion Actions
Chongying Dong, Siu-Hung Ng, Li Ren, Feng Xu
Erosion studies from our morning hike yesterday, a ~500m long section of the valley exposing interesting structures and the fragility of life resting on the thin layer of top soil...
#Geology #Erosion #NaturePhotography
Reevaluating Anomalous Electric Fields at the Air-Water Interface: A Surface-Specific Spectroscopic Survey
Joseph C. Shirley, Zi Xuan Ng, Kuo-Yang Chiang, Yuki Nagata, Yair Litman, Arsh S. Hazrah, Mischa Bonn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15422
Samsung brings ads to US fridges | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/780757/samsung-brings-ads-to-us-fridges
Daar stond je als je als consument echt niet op te wachten...
Replaced article(s) found for math.SG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.SG/new
[1/1]:
- An L-infinity structure for Legendrian contact homology
Lenhard Ng
Simulating the unthinkable: Models show nuclear winter food production plunge
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-simulating-unthinkable-nuclear-winter-food.html
Added a customizable 2D vector field plot function for #ThingUmbrella
Robust ISAC Transceiver Beamforming Design under Low-Resolution AD/DA Converters
Tiantian Xu, Zhenyao He, Jindan Xu, Wei Xu, Jianfeng Wang, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15373
A US judge temporarily orders Meta not to respond to DHS subpoenas seeking Instagram users' info after their accounts posted an ICE agent's name (Alfred Ng/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/judge-te…
From pass to pass...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Alps
SPANER: Shared Prompt Aligner for Multimodal Semantic Representation
Thye Shan Ng, Caren Soyeon Han, Eun-Jung Holden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13387 https://
Recognizing a Palestinian state is a limited but welcome step that addresses an enduring blind spot: Palestinian rights cannot be conditioned on Israeli interests. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/20…
No footpath to be seen here, but a short impression from near the goal of our morning hike today, back down before more mountain bikers, hikers and horseflies arrived, then followed by a good day's work until late...
Ps. Sound on!
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
Honestly, you know what some blue state governors should do?
Send their NG troops to DC to "help."
Openly say that they trust their troops more than SC and OH troops to obey the law and know what's allowed and what's not,
and they're sending them to reduce the likelihood of a tragedy.
https…
Speaking of new tools: Here's some other open-ended and work-in-progress tooling I published recently:
Assorted CLI utilities for data wrangling & media conversion
https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/thing-tools
This is (will be) a Swiss-army knife type multi-tool for frequent little t…
#WaterfallWednesday meets #ThrowbackThursday — the view from the narrow bridge inside the stunning/infamous Höllental (Hell's canyon), September 2021, almost to the day... ahhh, memories!
Peace & solitude on the Kessel ridge, the rim of a large doline funnel in the Ammergau Alps.
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
"New technologies, when introduced, are typically given names that overstate their capabilities, usually by equating them with existing familiar systems or technological artefacts. For example the first computers in the 1940s and 1950s, often little more than glorified electric adding machines, were nevertheless described as “electronic brains”. More recently, large language models (LLMs) have been touted as “artificial intelligence”, and complex physics experiments have been touted as …
Finally made that tool I've been planning for a while: A configurable batch deleter of #Mastodon #bookmarks, supporting a threshold date (i.e. only older bookmarks considered) and lists of accounts and hashtags to always keep.
Also, in other other #ThingUmbrella related news. My current consulting/advisor contract finishes end of the month, so I will have some time to write about various other recent updates (and unpublished work-in-progress) in early August... Please stay tuned! ✌️
Long time no listen to this fabulous track, today on repeat:
John Heckle - Inhuman Nature (Vercetti Technicolor's Undead Nature Remix, 2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0gXkKW0MR8
Memoirs of the CP/M creator released:
“Our father, Gary Kildall, was one of the founders of the personal computer industry, but you probably don’t know his name. Those who have heard of him may recall the myth that he ‘missed’ the opportunity to become Bill Gates by going flying instead of meeting with IBM. Unfortunately, this tall tale paints Gary as a ‘could-have-been,’ ignores his deep contributions, and overshadows his role as an inventor of key technologies that define how compute…
Would love to hear migration thoughts & plans (if any) from other FOSS maintainers (and sponsors!) currently using Github Sponsors. Are you planning/supporting to leave? Are you afraid you'll lose sponsors?
Personally, I'd also love to hear from my own sponsors (some of which are also here 👋). I'm considering migrating various public & still private htt…
Looking back at a dramatic Gehrenspitze and its pass (aka "Gehrenjoch")...
Another close-up impression of the pass itself (and view in the opposite direction):
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/115050332753156722
After almost a week of refactoring and experimenting with several different approaches, I've updated my Zig nD SIMD vector library to be compatible with the latest Zig 0.15.1, and at the same time cleaned up some internals.
The solution I settled on is a mix of techniques proposed by others, and was needed due to the removal of the struct/namespace-merging syntax in the new Zig version, which this library heavily relies on. I don't like that the new source code is now more than…
An early morning alone on the banks of the (still young) Isar river some weeks ago... Really more "flow" rather than #WaterfallWednesday, but I just absolutely cherish places and moments like this & feeling so privileged being able to experience these after decades of living in large cities... (each time also a reminder how much we stand to lose...)
Ridges are my thing, 360 views...
(Ammergauer Alps, November 2024)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
Pretty unique, non-clichéd, slow, minimal, dubby, syncopated, accented with vocal/vowel fragments:
Drames Rurals - L'empelt (2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3SSti6bdZM
TIL our garden soil is pH neutral (to my surprise). Beautiful royal blue!
#SoilSamples #Chemistry #Gardening
Invisible waterfall (standing directly above it) — Engadin, Sep 2024.
#WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
Majestic Trinity: Trettachspitze, Mädelegabel, Hochfrottspitze.
(Picture taken two weeks ago. If you zoom in & squint you can make out the crosses on the three summits...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
"Think tank" vs...
Crowdsourced collection of examples of hidden e-waste in various products...
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114864772832309511
Do (Or Don't!) Look Down... into the beautiful valley (Rappenalptal) 😍
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Video
How many more memorials to remember and warn of the horrors of war? Lessons learned, when? Ever? The same patterns repeating, over and over...
(This memorial is to remember the Italo/Austrian "White War", part of the WW1 frontline in the Dolomites at 2300m...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
My son's becoming a true master with #WorldPainter & #WorldMachine and has been creating some stunning and super detailed landscapes (not just alpines ones) for #Minecraft/Ardacraft/…
A whole bunch of hex grid tessellation options (incl. more complex & colorful ones) for #TilingTuesday in this old thread...
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11249834821340570…
It's a shame, it's only available in German, but @…'s recent talk about post-modern fascism is such a very clear, rational and well explained treatise — highly recommended watch!
https://www.
7AM, out and about on a stunning rainy morning walk between layers of fog and clouds... absolute silence...
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
#PSA Since I've just been asked again if I could use more topic-specific accounts and not mix my photography with other topics — Unfortunately, nope! I'm on a single user managed instance and cannot create new accounts on this server nor do I want to create an account for every single topic I'm interested in or posting about. However, you can filter my posts by hashtags, which I'm tr…
Very much loved this article about a rattled #Switzerland after the imposed 39% tariffs:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/
Saturday AM, a story in two acts...
(Incl. placing crumbs by approaching it like a #PoissonDisk / #BlueNoise problem... 😅)
#CakeDay
There's a whole bunch of recent #ThingUmbrella updates which I still have to write about, but one of the things is the reworked, improved and more customizable optical flow (aka https://thi.ng/pixel-flow
Well, another one bites the dust... Code Climate is shutting down and their new replacement service (only upgrade option) with the fascinating strapline "Code With Vibes, Merge With Confidence" does inspire anything but... 🙄
(Been using CC for years and even though it produced a lot of false positives, it generally was a very useful tool which sent me off on several major refactoring journeys over the years, from which not only I benefited as a maintainer, but all users of my…
Great thread about #Git self-hosting options:
https://jawns.club/@skyfaller/114989129643625908
Once upon a time in Switzerland, heading into the vast land of (rapidly declining) ice, leading through a sea of colors... "Like walking through a painting" never felt more true than on that tour...
(Alt text for more detail)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
More releases today: New version of https://thi.ng/genart-api, an art-platform-independent API for browser-based generative art.
The new version (v0.28.0) addresses some recent (type) changes in TypeScript and updates the WebAssembly bindings to support the latest Zig 0.15.1 (just like releases of some of my o…
Happy Roland #808Day with this 1989 UK classic:
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SY80iH44GU
Fantastic interview with @… and @… about their recent position paper "Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia" with a comprehensive summary of hard-hitting criticisms (and realities!) of said ongoing u…
Governments freeloading on FOSS, not helping with funding (and at the same time collecting taxes on income/donations sourced otherwise) are just as exploitative as privately held companies, maybe even worse...
https://scalie.zone/@aks/115012388922867133
Full Sturgeon #Moon (from last night)
After a weekend of coding, this is my #MountainMonday today... 🥰
#LandscapePhotography #Alps #Hiking
One of the main questions of my life with its many projects and ideas... The only proven solution for me has been a round-robin approach, rather than a binary decision. So for as long as possible more a question of "when" than "what"...
https://mas.to/@oblique_strategies/115
Absolutely incredible photos in this article:
https://mastodon.energy/@jonshell/114837642341286945
Yesterday I released new versions of https://thi.ng/wasm-api (and its add-on packages), a modular and extensible bridge API & toolchain for hybrid JS/TS/Zig/WebAssembly apps, now updated to be compatible with the latest Zig version 0.15.1...
The update addresses some of Zig's breaking syntax & build …
Needing more paths in more lives to be as beautiful as this...
(This hike & experiences further up touched me like not many others have...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
Update: The "Mountain Life" calendars are all gone (#NoirCountry
Monday 7:56AM, on our way to celebrate a major anniversary — wish we could have stayed at this peaceful place all day...
#WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
Anyone else getting these ridiculous repo scraping spikes? A clean checkout of the https://thi.ng/umbrella monorepo is ~370MB. Over the past 14 days there were 222k clones (only 117 unique) of this repo which have caused downloads of a whopping ~78TB. WTF! 🤯
Even though I've been there quite a few times, I never realized that large swathes of the UK's Peak District look like a series of abstract paintings in satellite view...
Are those traces of turf harvesting?
#MapSurfing #PeakDistrict
Navigating the herd.
(There were 170 highland cattle, sometimes just a few inches away... quite a few blocking the path with their calves and feeling agitated so we had to navigate/bypass through the talus fields higher up, giving these beauties more space...)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
Instant goosebumps on each listen:
Antonio Ruscito - Alodrone (original, no beats, 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtRGiE-DnXM
Another version in this stunning 1h45m joint performance with Luigi Tozzi (timestamped link):
The moon last night, exactly 12h ago...
(Canon R7, 400mm, f8, 1/125s)
#Moon #AstroPhotography #BlackAndWhite
Had a lot of fun last night, compiling a little playlist of some of my fave old #NinjaTune tracks. So many outstanding artists, tracks, so much variety and also humor (in titles, samples, production)... mementos and signs from a more optimistic era!