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I was just at my local 'drug infested sex den' and it seemed pretty quiet...
'Uh...': Fox News ridiculed after claiming 'libraries turned into drug-infested sex dens' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-libraries-den/

'Uh...': Fox News ridiculed after claiming 'libraries turned into drug-infested sex dens'
A lot of Americans will be checking out their local libraries after Fox News ran a segment on their transition into "drug-infested sex dens." Host Jesse Watters told his fellow Fox News panelists Thursday that an under-reported crime spree had spread through public library systems and he had one p...

"Definitely the most underrated project on github without exception." — a recent response to the State-of-thi.ng user survey 2024, currently open until end of the month. If you have been using any of the hundreds of libraries in this larger project, please do consider participating...
https://forms.gle/XacbSDEmQMPZg8197<…

thi.ng user survey 2024
It's already been almost 9 years since the last user survey for these projects. Please help me/us to get more insights into your own experiences, your interests, hopes and pain points — allowing the project and everyone involved to move forward more intentionally. There're 15 questions here, with ~10 of them marked as mandatory. The main focal points are the matrices in the middle of the survey. Please also do use the final freeform comments box to share any further feedback you might have. …

Cross-ecosystem categorization: A manual-curation protocol for the categorization of Java Maven libraries along Python PyPI Topics
Ranindya Paramitha, Yuan Feng, Fabio Massacci, Carlos E. Budde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06300

Cross-ecosystem categorization: A manual-curation protocol for the categorization of Java Maven libraries along Python PyPI Topics
Context: Software of different functional categories, such as text processing vs. networking, has different profiles in terms of metrics like security and updates. Using popularity to compare e.g. Java vs. Python libraries might give a skewed perspective, as the categories of the most popular software vary from one ecosystem to the next. How can one compare libraries datasets across software ecosystems, when not even the category names are uniform among them? Objective: We study how to generate…

Downcast to hear that 9 of Nottingham's 12 libraries are now under threat of closure to "save money". When you take into account well-being and education, closing libraries is such a false economy. The council did lose a chunk of money with their ill-fated Robin Hood Energy enterprise some years ago, but I mostly blame the government for the cuts to local areas. Nottingham isn't the only council in this kind of predicament. :-(
#Nottingham #libraries #ToriesOut

VERMONTERS - you can RECYCLE YOUR ECLIPSE GLASSES at various locations. In Chittenden County, CSWD is running a program with “Astronomers without Borders” and has collection bins at all their locations, many local libraries and a number of other locations mentioned here: h…

Almost 30 responses already! Most recently from Australia, China, Wales.
Our survey should take about 15 mins, closes next week:
https://forms.gle/JgArpbL6VNM6W3Vk9
What happens after a project has gathered data enriched by crowdsourcing, machine learning/AI, or both? Does the data end up in a…

Challenges for integrating volunteer and AI-enriched metadata into collections platforms
What are we studying? There's a long history of crowdsourcing projects at cultural heritage institutions (GLAMS, or galleries, libraries, archives and museums; including citizen science and citizen history projects). More recently, GLAMs have experimented with machine learning or 'AI' to create, enrich or enhance data about collections. However, some projects struggle to integrate the data created or enriched by online volunteers and/or machine learning into collections management and discovery…

On the Consideration of AI Openness: Can Good Intent Be Abused?
Yeeun Kim, Eunkyung Choi, Hyunjun Kim, Hongseok Oh, Hyunseo Shin, Wonseok Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06537

On the Consideration of AI Openness: Can Good Intent Be Abused?
Openness is critical for the advancement of science. In particular, recent rapid progress in AI has been made possible only by various open-source models, datasets, and libraries. However, this openness also means that technologies can be freely used for socially harmful purposes. Can open-source models or datasets be used for malicious purposes? If so, how easy is it to adapt technology for such goals? Here, we conduct a case study in the legal domain, a realm where individual decisions can ha…

Study finds that we could lose science if publishers go bankrupt
Back when scientific publications came in paper form, libraries played a key role in ensuring that knowledge didn't disappear. Copies went out to so many libraries that any failure—a publisher going bankrupt, a library getting closed—wouldn't put us at risk of losing information.
But, as with anything else, scientific content has gone digital, which has changed what's involved with preservation.
O…

Study finds that we could lose science if publishers go bankrupt
A scan of archives shows that lots of scientific papers aren't backed up.

Fast Truncated SVD of Sparse and Dense Matrices on Graphics Processors
Andres E. Tomas, Enrique S. Quintana-Orti, Hartwig Anzt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06218

Fast Truncated SVD of Sparse and Dense Matrices on Graphics Processors
We investigate the solution of low-rank matrix approximation problems using the truncated SVD. For this purpose, we develop and optimize GPU implementations for the randomized SVD and a blocked variant of the Lanczos approach. Our work takes advantage of the fact that the two methods are composed of very similar linear algebra building blocks, which can be assembled using numerical kernels from existing high-performance linear algebra libraries. Furthermore, the experiments with several sparse …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12609 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

AndroLibZoo: A Reliable Dataset of Libraries Based on Software Dependency Analysis
Android app developers extensively employ code reuse, integrating many third-party libraries into their apps. While such integration is practical for developers, it can be challenging for static analyzers to achieve scalability and precision when libraries account for a large part of the code. As a direct consequence, it is common practice in the literature to consider developer code only during static analysis --with the assumption that the sought issues are in developer code rather than the l…

I need #libraries to make some tough decisions on publishing deals in the Netherlands and deal with some grumphy researchers for a year or two.. direct that anger at the publishers - win win situation!
https://scholar.social/@rmounce@mastodon.social/112331518463257849

Pretty petty: Louisiana HB 777 Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association
https://bookriot.com/louisiana-hb-777/

Louisiana HB 777 Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association
Louisiana Library workers or libraries who seek membership in the largest professional organization would be criminalized for doing so.

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ALA kicks off National Library Week revealing the annual list of Top 10 Most Challenged Books and the State of America's Libraries Report (Raymond Garcia/News and Press Center)
https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2024/04/ala-kicks-national-library-week-revealing-annual-list-top-10-most-challenged
http://www.memeorandum.com/240408/p81#a240408p81

"AI, Theological Libraries … and me" https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/asl/2024/04/01/ai-theological-libraries-and-me/

Qiskit-Torch-Module: Fast Prototyping of Quantum Neural Networks
Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht, Maniraman Periyasamy, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler, Daniel D. Scherer, Andreas Maier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06314

Qiskit-Torch-Module: Fast Prototyping of Quantum Neural Networks
Quantum computer simulation software is an integral tool for the research efforts in the quantum computing community. An important aspect is the efficiency of respective frameworks, especially for training variational quantum algorithms. Focusing on the widely used Qiskit software environment, we develop the qiskit-torch-module. It improves runtime performance by two orders of magnitude over comparable libraries, while facilitating low-overhead integration with existing codebases. Moreover, the…

Nonprofit library tech cooperative OCLC, which owns WorldCat, acquires CloudLibrary, a digital lending service used by ~500 libraries in 20 countries (John Maher/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-to…

OCLC Acquires CloudLibrary Digital Content Platform
Nonprofit library technology cooperative OCLC—the company behind WorldCat, the world’s largest global catalog of library collections—has acquired CloudLibrary, a technology platform offering access to a variety of digital content through libraries.

Audiobooks: subscription, digital libraries or Š la carte? There's room for all! - The New Publishing Standard
https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2024/05/02/audiobooks-subscription-digital-libraries-…

Audiobooks: subscription, digital libraries or à la carte? There's room for all! - The New Publishing Standard
The Dutch experience, and the emerging picture from Spotify, shows very clearly there is room for all models, and that publishers and authors that eschew one or the other are simply missing out.

Libraries are enjoying a renaissance in usage. They're also battling book bans and bearing the brunt of a host of societal issues — from caring for unhoused people and migrants to distributing COVID tests and Narcan for drug overdoses.
#libraries

Libraries are on the front lines of America's problems
Books? Sure, but also free legal help, "digital navigators" and "sensory rooms."

Are you a Canadian citizen or permanent resident who has published a book as a writer, editor, translator, photographer, illustrator, or narrator? You might qualify for the Public Lending Right Program from the Canada Council for the Arts. It provides creators with payment for the free public use of their works in libraries. The annual registration period runs from Feb. 15 to May 1.

The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program
It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 309 nodes and 1742 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networ…

#LB Eu ansioso para terminar a arrumação do meu quarto-biblioteca e ainda me aparece isso rs.
https://pagan.plus/@gallowswitch/112401819566154409

Want to help libraries? Install Libby and check out books and magazines constantly... That's what I do!
➡️ #libraries

#RustLang is the perfect language for the "move fast, break things" era. No, I'm not implying it encourages you to break stuff. All I'm saying is that all these modern languages are specifically designed for that mindset. They optimize for corporate greed — nicely dressed as "valuing developer's time".
Developers aren't supposed to slow down and think things over. They should finish feature after feature, project after project, profit after profit. When things break, that's bad for profit. However, putting an effort to prevent things from breaking is not cost-effective.
People love to point out memory safety problems with C. However, there are two other important problems affecting C libraries — ABI and API stability. An uncontrolled ABI breakage means that existing programs suddenly breaks. An uncontrolled API breakage means that programs don't build anymore. Combine both and you're in a tight fit.
There are reasonably good solutions to both these problems. However, they require conscious effort, they require thinking — and that is costly. There are also cheap workarounds. If you link libraries statically, you don't need to worry about their ABI changes. If you vendor dependencies, you don't even need to worry about API changes. That's much cheaper for the company — though in reality, it just moves the burden down the line, to distribution developers and users, who end up fighting old, broken or even vulnerable vendored dependencies.
The problem with Rust and #Cargo is that it embraces these hacks into glorified 20M executables. Everything is linked statically, everything is vendored. You can move fast without actually breaking things — at least for the significant majority of users. To the minority, you always have the usual excuse — "we're sorry, we're just volunteers, we can't spend more energy on this, and you should get newer hardware anyway". Not that doing things better wouldn't benefit all users.
#Gentoo

with all this forking going on, you may ask yourself what this will look like in 5-10 years.
well, it's been going on for years in the #Java community. iBatis/MyBatis and Swagger/OpenAPI are just two well used libraries.
this only results confusion for the end users.
in the iBatis case, there is a clear succession. but with Swagger/OpenAPI, both are generally maintained and s…

Next time someone calls themselves a 'futurist', maybe read the futurist manifesto they're alluding to..
"We will glorify war—the world’s only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman.
We will destroy the museums, libraries, academies of every kind, will fight moralism, feminism, every opportunistic or utilitarian cowardice."
Btw the techno-optimist manifesto quotes …

"The Discarded interweaves stories about imaginary #books with reflections on libraries, both real and dreamt. In an age of decreasing literacy, disposable content, and banned books, what do we preserve and discard?"

The Discarded | Colin Hamilton | Short Fiction - Unbound Edition Press
A dazzling array of metafictions, Colin Hamilton’s The Discarded focuses on the lonely work of a solitary librarian assigned to the discard room. This hidden basement space is piled high with books purged from the stacks above. With Borgesian panache, The Discarded interweaves stories about imaginary books with reflections on libraries, both real and dreamt. Hamilton’s nuanced collection asks a seemingly simple question: In an age of decreasing literacy, disposable content, and banned books…

2024 Library Systems Report
#libraries

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Biomedical Open Source Software: Crucial Packages and Hidden Heroes
Andrew Nesbitt, Boris Veytsman, Daniel Mietchen, Eva Maxfield Brown, James Howison, Jo\~ao Felipe Pimentel, Laurent H\`ebert-Dufresne, Stephan Druskat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06672

Biomedical Open Source Software: Crucial Packages and Hidden Heroes
Despite the importance of scientific software for research, it is often not formally recognized and rewarded. This is especially true for foundation libraries, which are used by the software packages visible to the users, being ``hidden'' themselves. The funders and other organizations need to understand the complex network of computer programs that the modern research relies upon. In this work we used CZ Software Mentions Dataset to map the dependencies of the software used in biomedical pap…

Next: Finders Keepers [2015] by Stephen #King, Part II of the Bill Hodges trilogy. This one as an audiobook since I am discovering the libraries' options. #bookstodon

ALA kicks off National Library Week revealing the annual list of Top 10 Most Challenged Books and the State of America's Libraries Report (Raymond Garcia/News and Press Center)
https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2024/04/ala-kicks-national-library-week-revealing-annual-list-top-10-most-challenged
http://www.memeorandum.com/240408/p81#a240408p81

After 5 years I've updated the #InternetArchive book wishlist price catalog:
https://archive.org/details/open_libraries_wish_list_booksellers
Abe…

Executed vs Loaded: a new dimension for Application Security with eBPF https://www.oligo.security/blog/loaded-vs-executed-libraries

A bill in Louisiana would send librarians to jail for using public funds for participating in anything related to the American Library Association--please sign this petition opposing this!!! https://www.everylibrary.org/hb777statement

I loathe Google shutting down Google Podcasts and moving everything to YouTube Music. It is an incredibly confusing process for podcast creators and then shit like this happens.
You removed a podcast episode because it links to Chuck Tingle's Wikipedia page? WTF?

For folk in the UK... 'If your library is facing closure or cutbacks, it's important to know your rights and understand that public libraries are a statutory service' https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/know-your-rights

At Little Free Libraries across Boston and beyond, there’s more than just books on offer
The free library movement has cultivated a sense of community and mission.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/02/06/arts/little-free-library-boston/

Little Free Libraries in Boston and beyond offer more than books
The free library movement has cultivated a sense of community and mission.

Logic-Skill Programming: An Optimization-based Approach to Sequential Skill Planning
Teng Xue, Amirreza Razmjoo, Suhan Shetty, Sylvain Calinon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04082

Logic-Skill Programming: An Optimization-based Approach to Sequential Skill Planning
Recent advances in robot skill learning have unlocked the potential to construct task-agnostic skill libraries, facilitating the seamless sequencing of multiple simple manipulation primitives (aka. skills) to tackle significantly more complex tasks. Nevertheless, determining the optimal sequence for independently learned skills remains an open problem, particularly when the objective is given solely in terms of the final geometric configuration rather than a symbolic goal. To address this chall…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03019 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

GeoT: Tensor Centric Library for Graph Neural Network via Efficient Segment Reduction on GPU
In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have ignited a surge of innovation, significantly enhancing the processing of geometric data structures such as graphs, point clouds, and meshes. As the domain continues to evolve, a series of frameworks and libraries are being developed to push GNN efficiency to new heights. While graph-centric libraries have achieved success in the past, the advent of efficient tensor compilers has highlighted the urgent need for tensor-centric libraries. Yet, eff…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11000 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

"The World Through Picture Books" – "Librarians’ favourite books from their country" by the IFLA Libraries for Children and Young Adults Section: https://www.ifla.org/g/libraries-for-children-and-ya/the-world-through-picture-book…

In today's "be sure to own actual digital or physical copies of your stuff" news, Sony claims it's offering subs "appropriate value" for deleting their digital libraries.
NEVER rely on companies to keep stuff. They do NOT care, and your stuff will be gone.
You gotta do it yourself.
Grab it and put it on your computer or a thumb drive.

Sony claims to offer subs “appropriate value” for deleting digital libraries
Customers confused as Sony claims to work with affected users individually.

Detecting Refactoring Commits in Machine Learning Python Projects: A Machine Learning-Based Approach
Shayan Noei, Heng Li, Ying Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06572

Detecting Refactoring Commits in Machine Learning Python Projects: A Machine Learning-Based Approach
Refactoring enhances software quality without altering its functional behaviors. Understanding the refactoring activities of developers is crucial to improving software maintainability. With the increasing use of machine learning (ML) libraries and frameworks, maximizing their maintainability is crucial. Due to the data-driven nature of ML projects, they often undergo different refactoring operations (e.g., data manipulation), for which existing refactoring tools lack ML-specific detection capa…

The available open source libraries for generating human models (MakeHuman, ManuelBastioniLab) appear to be written in #Python. I need something like this, but I'm working primarily in #Clojure. I'm wondering whether it would be easier to load one of the existing libraries into Jython and try to …

Hrmm, just finished setting up Immich on the homelab and it is pretty damned impressive so far. Got it saving the libraries to NFS, certs all setup, and up uploading all the photos. The iOS app is pretty solid as well. No issues so far, but we'll see how this goes. Also, that poor, poor VM... #homelab

Qiskit-Torch-Module: Fast Prototyping of Quantum Neural Networks
Nico Meyer, Christian Ufrecht, Maniraman Periyasamy, Axel Plinge, Christopher Mutschler, Daniel D. Scherer, Andreas Maier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06314

Qiskit-Torch-Module: Fast Prototyping of Quantum Neural Networks
Quantum computer simulation software is an integral tool for the research efforts in the quantum computing community. An important aspect is the efficiency of respective frameworks, especially for training variational quantum algorithms. Focusing on the widely used Qiskit software environment, we develop the qiskit-torch-module. It improves runtime performance by two orders of magnitude over comparable libraries, while facilitating low-overhead integration with existing codebases. Moreover, the…

It boggles my mind that you have this beautiful building (with allusions to the Loggia dei Lanzi/Feldherrnhalle), full of books, that you can just walk into, read in, and take books out of…all for free. Public libraries are amazing. (William Hall Library in Cranston, RI.)

Die Mathematik hinter diesem Paper erschließt sich mir zwar nicht, die Aussage, nach der öffentliche #Bibliothek​en summa summarum auch wirtschaftlich effizient sind, finde ich aber ermutigend: Liu, Lewis G., Harold Gee, und Charles Terng. „Are public libraries efficient? Evaluating scale economies of public libraries in the U.S. with a cost function approach“. Library & Information Sci…

A HAT Trick: Automatically Verifying Representation Invariants Using Symbolic Finite Automata
Zhe Zhou, Qianchuan Ye, Benjamin Delaware, Suresh Jagannathan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01484

A HAT Trick: Automatically Verifying Representation Invariants Using Symbolic Finite Automata
Functional programs typically interact with stateful libraries that hide state behind typed abstractions. One particularly important class of applications are data structure implementations that rely on such libraries to provide a level of efficiency and scalability that may be otherwise difficult to achieve. However, because the specifications of the methods provided by these libraries are necessarily general and rarely specialized to the needs of any specific client, any required application-…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01024 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Spectral Libraries for Analyzing Spectra of Low-Metalicity Galaxies
We present a set of isochrone-tailored spectral libraries for analyzing composite spectra of low-metallicity massive star clusters or starburst galaxies. Specifically, we have computed non-LTE spectra for stars of all initial masses for isochrones at metallicities, Z=0.006, 0.002,and 0.0004, with and without considering rotation. These isochrones were constructed by the Geneva group (Ekström et al., 2011; Georgy et al., 2013; Groh et al., 2019; Eggenberger et al. 2020). We also present a Pytho…

"The West Virginia House passed House Bill 4654 – removing bona fide schools, public libraries, and museums from the list of exemptions from criminal liability relating to distribution and display to a minor of obscene matter – in a 85-12 vote Friday, sending the bill to the state Senate."
The vague law would open librarians to criminal prosecution if "obscene" material is found in their library.

West Virginia House passes bill allowing prosecution of librarians
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates debated the merits of removing protections for public librarians and school librarians from criminal prosecution in the off chance a minor encounters books and content some consider to be obscene. The House passed House Bill 4654 – removing bona fide schools, public libraries, and museums from the […]

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I just heard "It's like a zoo for books" in the distance. #libraries

Are you a Canadian citizen or permanent resident who has published a book as a writer, editor, translator, photographer, illustrator, or narrator? You might qualify for the Public Lending Right Program from the Canada Council for the Arts. It provides creators with payment for the free public use of their works in libraries. The annual registration period runs from Feb. 15 to May 1.

The Public Lending Right (PLR) Program
It pays to have your books in Canada’s libraries! Learn more about the Public Lending Right Program

A Novel Context driven Critical Integrative Levels (CIL) Approach: Advancing Human-Centric and Integrative Lighting Asset Management in Public Libraries with Practical Thresholds
Jing Lin, Nina Mylly, Per Olof Hedekvist, Jingchun Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17554

A Novel Context driven Critical Integrative Levels (CIL) Approach: Advancing Human-Centric and Integrative Lighting Asset Management in Public Libraries with Practical Thresholds
This paper proposes the context driven Critical Integrative Levels (CIL), a novel approach to lighting asset management in public libraries that aligns with the transformative vision of human-centric and integrative lighting. This approach encompasses not only the visual aspects of lighting performance but also prioritizes the physiological and psychological well-being of library users. Incorporating a newly defined metric, Mean Time of Exposure (MTOE), the approach quantifies user-light intera…

Book banning law in #NorthDakota one year later - Opinion: "Maybe our librarians aren't 'groomers' after all?" #libraries

Port: Maybe our librarians aren't 'groomers' after all?
They told us there was a crisis in our schools and libraries. There was no crisis.

Save Birmingham libraries petition
#BirminghamUK

Sign the Petition
Save Birmingham Libraries

The American Library Association is a nonprofit organization that promotes libraries and library education.
And some states are like "Yeah, fuck that."

Kinda similar to large quantities of "#AI howtos" that show you how to use certain libraries or pipelines. When trying to reproduce the results you often find that the way the howto is structured, things don't actually work, that the claimed results don't make sense or that the library just doesn't work the way the author (which is probably an "AI") claims.
Beca…

Just stop using your computers. Hmm...
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users

Urgent security alert for Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide users
Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access.

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Next: Finders Keepers [2015] by Stephen #King, Part II of the Bill Hodges trilogy. This one as an audiobook since I am discovering the libraries' options. #bookstodon

What's in an archive? What's in a library? Do people still use libraries anymore?? Would people want a media archive for all things creative commons and public domain? What would it even look like? What's the end goal? What's the best way to enrich the Commons? The best way to preserve and move Free Culture forward? How do we win this war?
We have an encyclopedia, a globe/map, an internet archive, we have the fediverse, what are we missing?

Meet Jean Armour Polly, the woman who helped evangelize computers in libraries : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1236671339/librarian-internet-surf-libraries-jean-armour-polly

Executed vs Loaded: a new dimension for Application Security with eBPF https://www.oligo.security/blog/loaded-vs-executed-libraries

I have a job opening for a research software engineer for expanding our #Python libraries for #massspec data analysis!
You should bring Python software development skills. #massspec or

Stellenangebot Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d) als Research Software Engineer bei Hochschule Düsseldorf
Wir suchen Sie als Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d) als Research Software Engineer für den Fachbereich Medien.

Not sure any longer which libraries your script actually needs? #rstats

I loathe Google shutting down Google Podcasts and moving everything to YouTube Music. It is an incredibly confusing process for podcast creators and then shit like this happens.
You removed a podcast episode because it links to Chuck Tingle's Wikipedia page? WTF?

My first book review came out today! *Metadata for Digital Collections* by Steven Miller (2nd ed.). I really do like this book, and we use it to teach Digital Libraries here at IU and I think about its approach in my own stuff. Available here (https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jelis-…

Remote worker havens: we review the best places to work for free in central Melbourne | Melbourne | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/04/remote-worker-havens-we-review-the-b…

"The bill would remove criminal exemptions for #schools, public #libraries, and #museums that distribute or display 'obscene matter' to a minor...
The incredibly short piece of legislation gives no indicat…

West Virginia GOP Passes Deranged Bill That Could Put Librarians in Jail
West Virginia Republicans are taking the war on books to the next level.

.."UK Libraries’ decision not to pursue any [Transformative Agreements] from the large commercial publishers because they are, at the present and in their current form, not worth it."
#ScholComm #OpenAccess #Libraries
They also refer to other #TA literature:

US libraries accept pictures of cats for book fees ('Felines for Fee Forgiveness!')
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/68479195#:~:text=Public libraries in Massachusetts in,of%…

I have to contain a burst of rage every time I'm required to present my (public) university ID to access the library.
#AcademicChatter #libraries

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Film buffs who love physical media have established "Free Blockbuster" sites, which lend DVDs, similar to little free libraries, in the US, Canada, and Britain (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03…

Free Blockbuster Libraries Offer an Alternative to Streaming
The neighborhood lending libraries have popped up around North America, offering a nostalgic return to DVDs.

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Louisiana HB 777 Would Criminalize Librarians and Libraries Who Join the American Library Association (Kelly Jensen/BOOK RIOT)
https://bookriot.com/louisiana-hb-777/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240404/p45#a240404p45

software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 282 nodes and 893 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.s…

Meet Jean Armour Polly, the woman who helped evangelize computers in libraries : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1236671339/librarian-internet-surf-libraries-jean-armour-polly

Not sure any longer which libraries your script actually needs? #rstats

Gene Tan on the 'fourth age' of libraries - not just GenAI - 'It is about people coming together to generate new content that did not exist before. It is also about generating new connections and opportunities that did not exist before, especially for people who are somehow always one step behind others.
Libraries can be platforms to equalise individuals and communities through providing these opportunities for reading, learning or just to be better.'

Very happy to share this exciting news that the California Digital Library (my workplace), Lyrasis, and the Big Ten Academic Alliance Libraries are joining together to advance Diamond OA in the US! https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2024/04/better-together-btaa…

GeoT: Tensor Centric Library for Graph Neural Network via Efficient Segment Reduction on GPU
Zhongming Yu, Genghan Zhang, Hanxian Huang, Xin Chen, Jishen Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03019

GeoT: Tensor Centric Library for Graph Neural Network via Efficient Segment Reduction on GPU
In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have ignited a surge of innovation, significantly enhancing the processing of geometric data structures such as graphs, point clouds, and meshes. As the domain continues to evolve, a series of frameworks and libraries are being developed to push GNN efficiency to new heights. While graph-centric libraries have achieved success in the past, the advent of efficient tensor compilers has highlighted the urgent need for tensor-centric libraries. Yet, eff…

Americans who want to protect democracy need to stand up for public libraries (Austin Sarat/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/4610887-americans-who-want-to-protect-democracy-need-to-stand-up-for-public-libraries/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240422/p30#a240422p30

Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB) Special Issue: "Responsible #AI in Libraries and Archives"
https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/issu…

Semantic API Alignment: Linking High-level User Goals to APIs
Robert Feldt, Riccardo Coppola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04236 https://

Semantic API Alignment: Linking High-level User Goals to APIs
Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming key in automating and assisting various software development tasks, including text-based tasks in requirements engineering but also in coding. Typically, these models are used to automate small portions of existing tasks, but we present a broader vision to span multiple steps from requirements engineering to implementation using existing libraries. This approach, which we call Semantic API Alignment (SEAL), aims to bridge the gap between a user's high-l…

software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 2124 nodes and 10000 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks…

Georgia Senate passes bill banning American Library Association from state libraries (Donald Padgett/Advocate)
https://www.advocate.com/politics/georgia-senate-ala
http://www.memeorandum.com/240302/p38#a240302p38

After being hacked in the fall and down for months after, the Toronto Public Library's online services are well and truly back. I just got an email telling me the item I requested - sometime in October - is available for pickup. It was a pleasant surprise.
#Toronto #libraries

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00015 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

Experiences Porting Distributed Applications to Asynchronous Tasks: A Multidimensional FFT Case-study
Parallel algorithms relying on synchronous parallelization libraries often experience adverse performance due to global synchronization barriers. Asynchronous many-task runtimes offer task futurization capabilities that minimize or remove the need for global synchronization barriers. This paper conducts a case study of the multidimensional Fast Fourier Transform to identify which applications will benefit from the asynchronous many-task model. Our basis is the popular FFTW library. We use the a…

A whole series of blog posts on 'Artificial Intelligence' from Ex Libris including 'Introducing Our AI Metadata Generator'
https://exlibrisgroup.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-blog-series-introducing-our-ai-metadata-gene…

Artificial Intelligence Blog Series: Introducing Our AI Metadata Generator - Ex Libris
 At Ex Libris, the use of AI technology is always done to solve the real challenges of real users, librarians, and libraries. We respect the need for privacy and intellectual property considerations, and above all, we understand the importance of using trusted scholarly content to generate results and information.    

software_dependencies: Software dependencies (2010)
Several networks of software dependencies. Nodes represent libraries and a directed edge denotes a library dependency on another.
This network has 2124 nodes and 10000 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks…

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Analyzing the Accessibility of GitHub Repositories for PyPI and NPM Libraries
Alexandros Tsakpinis, Alexander Pretschner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17403 h…

Analyzing the Accessibility of GitHub Repositories for PyPI and NPM Libraries
Industrial applications heavily rely on open-source software (OSS) libraries, which provide various benefits. But, they can also present a substantial risk if a vulnerability or attack arises and the community fails to promptly address the issue and release a fix due to inactivity. To be able to monitor the activities of such communities, a comprehensive list of repositories for the libraries of an ecosystem must be accessible. Based on these repositories, integrated libraries of an application…

If you're a policy maker or senior leader wondering how to manage the challenges of generative AI for libraries, broadcasters and media, this March 11 event could be for you! Excited to collaborate with folk at the Guardian on this
https://www.even…

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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.01002 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

DocTer: Documentation Guided Fuzzing for Testing Deep Learning API Functions
Input constraints are useful for many software development tasks. For example, input constraints of a function enable the generation of valid inputs, i.e., inputs that follow these constraints, to test the function deeper. API functions of deep learning (DL) libraries have DL specific input constraints, which are described informally in the free form API documentation. Existing constraint extraction techniques are ineffective for extracting DL specific input constraints. To fill this gap, we …

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