The 100baseT1 decode benchmark is dropping below real time when I have a lot of traffic on the link. Do not want.
Sooo now to figure out how to either double the speed of the decode or steal some more time from something else along the critical path like the edge detector or CDR filters that I've spent a ton of time optimizing.
It looks like the workload scheduler might be a weak point here: the greedy algorithm makes the eye pattern run as soon as data is available, which ma…
Random 4:30am thoughts on “letting sounds be sounds”…
When one’s attention shifts from “what is making this sound?” to “how is this sound unfolding in time?” the brain engages musical processing pathways like temporal prediction, pattern extraction, motor simulation, affective resonance, etc.
This is why the same sound can be alleged background noise one moment and highly musical the next. Nothing external changes, but the listening stance does. You’re perceiving structure in the…
Life Treats 🥇
生活奖励 🥇
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One of the weirder cold contacts I've gotten:
> I cannot write this email opener.
>
> The research signals explicitly disqualify this contact and company. City of Cape Town operates municipal infrastructure (water, sanitation, electricity, waste) with no database technology stack, distributed systems, or data engineering workloads that align with <cold email org>'s offerings.
Misfiring LLM or some dark pattern, Edgelord nonsense?!?
Test Pattern
A podcast about movies and our relationship with them, hosted by Angus Truskett...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/test-pattern/
@… @… @… I don't "hear" anything, but I get the rhythm pattern, the thoughts and emot…
Light curve of the defective #Proba3 satellite in the sky, from the video https://x.com/s2a_systems/status/2030056859353194647 - the "CSC shows currently a repeating rotation pattern of approximately 1150 seconds."
Having a go at threading a crackle weave on my 8 shaft table loom, using an algorithmically generated pattern by Ralph Griswald #weaving
I have some sketches of an essay that I need to write, but I think it's worth brain-dumping a bit more in the mean time.
#LLMs are an attempt to make tech grow forever. But like, how many "your mom/a friend, but done by a precarious worker instead" apps do we really need? Everything right now is in the AI grift hole, but there's almost nothing of interest (even if you ignore the ethical concerns). Like, no, I don't fucking want a robot to lie to me about my groceries. That doesn't sound like a useful feature. There's a lot of useless shit being pumped out to prop up the bottom line, and a lot of people just want to be able to use their old phone for more than a couple of years.
No one is happy with this. No one wants this. Except the billionaires who are forcing us all to drink the capitalism koolaid, because they'd rather exterminate life on earth than live in a world where they experience consequences.
Nothing grows forever. That's not how literally anything in reality works, or has ever worked, at all in history. Some people think that the universe itself may work like that, but that's only an educated guess. Finite things don't grow forever. Every organism, every society, every technology, every dynamic and adaptive system we have ever known goes through a growth phase and then goes in to a stabilization phase. Or, following a Malthusian pattern, grows until it reaches a catastrophic point and collapses. Like lemmings. Or reindeer. Or cancer.
This is what they took from us
#ThisIsWhatTheyTookFromUS
Yikes! Google is far past its "do no evil" era.
I really object to the amount of crapware that is auto-loaded onto our machines - it is as if we don't own the computers, but Google, Microsoft, and Apple do.
"Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane."
(BTW, I mostly use Linux and FreeBsd, although I use MacOS frequently. I try to avoid using Chrome - I most…
City Vibes 🎀
城市律动 🎀
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@… Loren, twice is a pattern 😂
Stress testing the R9700 a bit with a gigapoint of waveform data (2x 512M point differential capture sent to me a while back by some folks at @… ).
The GPU-accelerated CDR PLL and eye pattern runs on the entire dataset in under a second (although it does use 26 GB of VRAM in the process... the GPU CDR needs a *lot* of scratch space with ultra deep …
Wait a moment - Hurvin Anderson
#art #painting
The Trump administration’s pattern of granting sympathetic, right-wing influencers with large digital followings
special access to its mass deportation operation
is broad and involves dozens of people.
TPM chose to focus in depth on four influencers, each with different audiences, approaches, and backgrounds.
They are Ben #Bergquam,
his sometimes associate Josh
"Israel is legalising a pattern of impunity. One population is granted explicit impunity for organised sexual violence while the other is now subject to execution within 90 days, in a military court system that convicts 96 percent of Palestinians – often on the basis of confessions extracted through torture."
Israel’s death penalty law is not about executing Palestinians | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
trois mixtapes en route pour la france — une pour paris, une pour aix en provence, et une pour plomeur (wherever that is!)
#mixtape #cassette
What unholy clucker-fuck fusion of cuisines is this?
I
MUST
GET
ONE
#Shitpost #shitposting
#NowPlaying ❝He didn’t say a lot, actually, at the beginning. He just kept listening. And then 25, 30 minutes later, you know, suddenly, he… went back to his desk and pulled out a paper called, “The Pattern and Effectiveness of Forager Allocation Among Flower Patches by Honeybee Colonies.”❞
Since coming back from Germany for HARRIS I've been chasing a weird issue on my ThunderScope 100baseT1 test setup.
Before leaving for HARRIS I unplugged the TS, left the rest of the setup untouched, and brought the TS with me to demo to people while traveling.
After coming back the TS appears fine (passed calibration, and gives good-looking eyes on 100baseTX).
But when hooked back to the same, theoretically unmodified baseT1 test setup, I get weird diagonal distortion, …
As a scientist myself, I have been wondering, if there was a pattern of #Epstein's support to research. In addition to support for "AI" research, there's this:
"One disturbing explanation for Epstein’s support of science comes from his interest in genetic determinism. This idea, which dates to the eugenics era, is still fashionable in some wealthy circles [...]."…
A simple write up on how to partially recover data from QR code that won’t scan.
Recently I found a modern artwork titled “It won’t scan because there are 4 of them” by kaqdai (fig. 1). Taking a closer look at it, I found that all the other bits (timing patterns, format information, and the remainder of the alignment pattern all look quite legit. So I decided to see if…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/116458442461704301
Almost as if there’s a pattern here or something: liars lie, murderers murder, thieves stealing people’s land and homes steal people’s land and homes, monsters committing genoc…
Urban Illusions and Fallacies - A Day In The Park V ⛲️
城市的幻影和谬误 - 公园的一天 V ⛲️
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If you live in/near Sheffield UK and want to develop your live coding practice, why not apply to join the pattern club live coding residency? https://numbers.patternclub.org/o/docs/forms/vGiWDYshQaK93bcQq3wStU/4
I always wondered how an "Indian" pattern came to be called "Paisley". Then I saw a road sign to Paisley outside Glasgow airport, and things started to click. But I didn't look too deep, and now don't need to, because the amazing Avery Trufelman got on it.
https://articlesofinterest.substack.c…
Has science gone too far?
When you get an email from Apple—or, really, anyone telling you to complete a digital security measure—check the URL they’re trying to send you to...
That advice is fine for the technically savvy but doesn't work for a lot of people who don't have the knowledge to mentally parse urls.
getsupport.apple.com/customer...
getsupport.apple.com.phish.xyz...
People just pattern match on the substring "apple.com" because they don't understand tha…
Research and Development for Spring and Summer phases -- I wore these ears Friday and to the first day of ITHACON
#photo #photography #sliceoflife
"Rising living costs, persistent gendered divisions of labor & long-standing pattern of delayed marriage cannot be solved by cash alone." - Prof. Masakazu Yamauchi, Waseda
▶️ How Japan Finally Made It Impossible to Make Babies
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1QPMcWpJEg
Vermutlich könnte man anhand von Ähm-Pattern in der Sprache auch Personen identifizieren. #justthinkin #podcastedit
"Society functions like a hive, where no single actor directs the whole, yet a coherent pattern emerges from the interaction of countless parts."
"This does not mean that leadership, institutions, or strategy are irrelevant. It means that they are not sufficient to explain historical outcomes on their own."
"History…It is made in the accumulated choices of ordinary people, acting within the constraints and possibilities of their own lived realities.&quo…
Neanderthal DNA is largely missing from the human X chromosome.
“We found a pattern indicating a sex bias: gene flow occurred predominantly between Neanderthal males and anatomically modern human females,”
said Dr Alexander Platt, a senior research scientist at the University of Pennsylvania and first author of the research.
The ancestors of modern humans and the closest related species, the Neanderthals, diverged, forming two distinct groups, about 600,000 years ago.
Heck this is shiny; got an apparently full set of 6 of these with plates in our loft. The mark seems to be for the Czeck maker Haas & Czjzek, possibly pre world war 2. I can't find this exact pattern online.
#pottery
🚨 new study alert🚨
Antarctica, after net losing ice through the noughts and teens started to level off and gain ice the last 5 years.
We show that westerly winds and atmospheric rivers as well as sea ice loss helps to explain the pattern.
The brilliant @… led a fine paper with colleagues at DMI, KNMI and in New Zealand.
I will post a pop sci blog on it later, but read the whole thing here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03242-3
I •do• actually expect to see some kind of shift over the next week. I don’t think their “Victory! Now we’re leaving(ish)!” press conference last week was something we can take at face value, but I also don’t think it was just a ruse.
After they murdered Alex Pretti, the writing was on the wall. One killing of a white observer they could try to write off; two is a pattern. They’re losing support they desperately need — from politicians, from the press, from judges, from less-extreme right-wingers — and the longer they continue doing what they’ve been doing, the further they dig themselves in a hole. I’ve been expecting for a while that they would declare MISSION ACCOMPLISHED and change strategy.
"'If she wants to run for Congress, then she needs to be held to a behavioral standard,' Regier, who has since moved out of state, said in an interview. 'Especially if she’s going to call out other candidates to be held to some sort of behavioral standard. And it’s just this pattern of behavior.'"
Thank you @… for the "deleted files" feature! I keep things in my Nextcloud that aren't under source control - mostly write-once content things like conference talks, notes folders, etc. And I just deleted the wrong filename pattern .... oops!
If you don't know NextCloud, it's the self-hosted Dropbox alternative. And when I say self-hosted, actually I'm using it as-as-service from the excellent humans over at @… . So it's more like "choice-hosted" or something
🧠 Bidirectional token-classification — unlike autoregressive LLMs, #PrivacyFilter reads input from both directions simultaneously for deeper context awareness, catching subtle #PII that simple pattern-matching or RegEx rules miss
⚡ 1.5B parameter model with only ~50M active parameters …
Maintenant, je les vois partout. 😶🌫️
#AngineDePoitrine #Photography
Are governments properly supporting the digital commons? Many adopt open source software but don't fund the upstream projects that maintain it. This amplifies a "tragedy of the commons" rather than being part of the solution. Governments have historically invented ways to shape the playing field - patents, public universities, copyright, taxes ... They can do it again!
Been working on adding some Service Registry pattern features to Choria Configuration Manager that allows dynamic infrastructure to be built - think Ingresses, Monitoring etc based on what is currently active and healty on the network.
10 minute video here https://youtu.be/JDRDmpiCG4E
I was too ill to go to the No Kings thing today.
But the sign I might have had might have said something like this:
Charles I
Louis XVI
Trump I ?
Do you see a pattern?
The U.S. Economy Is Insulated From High Oil Prices.
-- Americans Aren’t.
The overall economy has proved resilient in recent years,
even as many households have struggled.
The war with Iran is following the same pattern.
https://www.
"Citizens for Ethics suggests the donation pattern reflects a "sliding scale" where Cabinet members' financial support correlates with their standing with Trump."
Nearly all of Trump's Cabinet members are donating to him: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/donate/
Famous Robot R2-D2 at ITHACON today which was such a fun show of which I have many more shots to develop
#photo #photography #ithacon
The Resistant Wall 🧱
萬仞宮牆 🧱
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The United States has a tendency to overestimate what political outcomes can be engineered using overwhelming military power
while underestimating the fallout,
said Caitlin Talmadge,
a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specializes in Gulf security issues.
“Air power is the U.S. drug of choice
— we love to believe that it can achieve big political effects and also big military effects,
yet the historical record doesn’t support that…
It turns out that just as we can see the sun and infer the invisible circle of strongest polarisation in the sky, a bee can reconstruct the sun’s position even when it is hidden. She does this by detecting the polarisation of light across other parts of the sky.
Because the entire pattern of polarisation shifts with the sun, even a small patch of open sky is enough. From it, the bee can recover the sun’s position - and with it, her sense of direction.
Mundane Things VIII🌀
普通物件 VIII🌀
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#California #DMV is about to exhaust its
#9ZZZ999
pattern for license plates
What pattern will replace it?
A couple of years ago, I wrote that The #Builderpattern is a finite #statemachine! A state machine consists of states and transitions between them. As a developer, I want to make illegal states unrepresentable, i.e., users of my API can’t create non-existent transitions. My hypothesis is that …
The chief federal judge in Minnesota accused federal officials of continuing to #disobey judicial orders related to immigration enforcement and then #mischaracterizing the scope of their missteps.
♦️The judge, Patrick Schiltz, threatened to hold government officials in criminal contempt if the pattern con…
After some days work, I finally made my first unassisted warp, and got it on the loom and threaded up - 189 ends. It seems I had only one small mistake in the threading, just had to swap two threads. Can't wait to explore some lift patterns with this ! #weaving
Woman in Sunflower hat inside Dewitt mall at Ithaca Fairy Festival last Saturday
#photo #photography #portrait
OK, I think I'm at the point that I need to spend a few minutes narrating a demo video of this. Screenshots don't do it justice.
100baseT1 decode, eye measurements, and constellation - including S-parameter de-embedding of the directional coupler on the test fixture - running in real time on a ThunderScope.
Branches 🌿
分支 🌿
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I am trying out sleep restriction to get a healthier sleep pattern. Apologies for any grumpiness
The S.P.L.C. defines a hate group as an organization that
“has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics,” according to its website.
The indictment appears to fit within the Trump administration’s pattern of using the Justice Department to punish its political adversaries.
The S.P.L.C. has certainly been adversarial toward the president:
In an article last year, Margaret Huang, who was then the…
Mundane Things IX🌀
普通物件 IX 🌀
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Mundane Things IV 🌀
普通物件 IV 🌀
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Different Corners X ▶️
不同的角落 X ▶️
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#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta went public with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following a NYT investigation.
Huerta said she kept the secret because, “I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.”
https://w…
& Up & Down II 😵
又上又下 II 😵
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Urban Illusions and Fallacies - High Contrast 🏙️
城市的幻影和谬误 - 高反差 🏙️
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Urban Illusions and Fallacies III 🏙️
城市的幻影和谬误 III 🏙️
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Mundane Things VII🌀
普通物件 VII 🌀
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Urban Demons VI 👻
城市鬼魂 VI 👻
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Urban Illusions and Fallacies 🏙️
城市的幻影和谬误 🏙️
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Mundane Things VII 🌀
普通物件 VII 🌀
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