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Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

"Bangladesh protects sacred forests to strengthen biodiversity conservation"
#Bangladesh #Trees #Biodiversity

Bangladesh protects sacred forests to strengthen biodiversity conservation
With an aim to protect biodiversity that’s become fragmented and is scattered across the country, Bangladesh is listing all the old, sacred and socially important trees and forests. The Forest Department has been collecting information from the locals in various parts of the country about locations and details of sites that are centuries-old and sacred […]

epinions: Epinions product ratings (2005)
A bipartite network of users and the products they rated on the website Epinions.com. A user connects to all products on which that user entered a rating. Edge weight represents the rating score, and edges are timestamped.
This network has 876252 nodes and 13668320 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Timestamps, Weighted

« Les queers ont toujours existé Š la campagne » : derrière l’essor des Prides partout en France, la visibilité des personnes LGBTQIA hors des grandes villes
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« Les queers ont toujours existé à la campagne » : derrière l’essor des Prides partout en France, la visibilité des personnes LGBTQIA + hors des grandes villes
Après des années de centralisation militante de la question queer dans les grandes villes, la liste des « Prides rurales » ne cesse de s’allonger, allant du village à la ville moyenne. « Le Monde » a interrogé plusieurs collectifs.

A profile of London-based CloudNC, a leading provider of AI-powered CNC software that is helping US manufacturers overcome a shortage of trained operators (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/26/ai-manufacturing-parts-cnc-machines…

Can AI help America make stuff again? 
A British startup, CloudNC, is reshaping American manufacturing one precision part at a time.

On June 28th at noon I will be at 76th & Bluemound protesting... Join me if you want to hang out!
#protest #resist #fascism

Mit dem Smartphone kann man direkt im Laden #Kosmetikprodukte auf bedenkliche #Inhaltsstoffe prüfen. 📱Ist deine #Gesichtscreme unbedenklich? Beinhaltet dein Peeling

App CodeCheck - Direkt im Laden die Produkte auf bedenkliche Inhaltsstoffe prüfen
Die CodeCheck App ist meine Lieblings-App beim Kauf von Kosmetik und Lebensmitteln.Direkt über den Barcode auf dem Produkt prüft CodeCheck über das Internet, ob im Produkt bedenkliche Inhaltsstoffe enthalten sind.

How protogens are designed.
Original: #protogen

Prompt-Guided Turn-Taking Prediction
Koji Inoue, Mikey Elmers, Yahui Fu, Zi Haur Pang, Divesh Lala, Keiko Ochi, Tatsuya Kawahara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21191

Prompt-Guided Turn-Taking Prediction
Turn-taking prediction models are essential components in spoken dialogue systems and conversational robots. Recent approaches leverage transformer-based architectures to predict speech activity continuously and in real-time. In this study, we propose a novel model that enables turn-taking prediction to be dynamically controlled via textual prompts. This approach allows intuitive and explicit control through instructions such as "faster" or "calmer" adapting dynamically to conversational partne…

"Indigenous divers on Chile’s island restore seabed to protect seafood sources"
#Chile #Environment

Indigenous divers on Chile’s island restore seabed to protect seafood sources
Daniel Caniullán has been diving in the cold waters of the Guaitecas Archipelago in northern Patagonia, Chile, for more than 30 years. “Just by looking at the seabed landscape, you can tell what species you are going to find,” he says. Just as it is possible to recognize the loss of a diverse forest on […]