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So Facebook is now having fake chat bots asks random questions into Facebook groups. Getting closer and closer to dead internet theory
#facebook #facebookgroups

At this time I would recommend against generating 11,000 files on the desktop of a macOS computer.

I really liked the Murderbot books, I recommend the highly. The AppleTV series doesn't visually picture some of the things the same way I did in my head, but the snark? Oh the snark. Fantastic. And not just from Muderbot, the rest of the cast is fantastic. #murderbot

If you love #PersonalGrowth I really recommend you checking this app
💚 Confyday | Life Optimization App https://confyday.com/app

An adorable indie movie that's like a love-letter to the fantasy movies of the 1980s? Yes plz. I really recommend "Man and Witch" https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/man_and_witch_the_dance_of_a_thousand_steps

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An adorable indie movie that's like a love-letter to the fantasy movies of the 1980s? Yes plz. I really recommend "Man and Witch" https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/man_and_witch_the_dance_of_a_thousand_steps

If you're organising an event with an open call, I can't recommend @… enough for managing the process. Free/open source and so much easier than 'easychair' and anything else I've had to use.

If you are a last.fm user, i would highly recommend you to have a look at this project:
https://katelyn.moe/bleh/
https://github.com/katel…

Reason-to-Recommend: Using Interaction-of-Thought Reasoning to Enhance LLM Recommendation
Keyu Zhao, Fengli Xu, Yong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05069 ht…

Reason-to-Recommend: Using Interaction-of-Thought Reasoning to Enhance LLM Recommendation
Driven by advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), integrating them into recommendation tasks has gained interest due to their strong semantic understanding and prompt flexibility. Prior work encoded user-item interactions or metadata into prompts for recommendations. In parallel, LLM reasoning, boosted by test-time scaling and reinforcement learning, has excelled in fields like mathematics and code, where reasoning traces and correctness signals are clear, enabling high performance and interp…

Can wholly recommend the 2014 film #Pride, with among others Imelda Staunton and Bill Nighy. I was a teenager when both the miners' strike and #AIDS were continually in the news but I keep having it brought home to me how much I still have to learn. AIDS in particular was presented as a nasty disease you…

OK coffee snobs, let’s say we were convinced that it’s worth it to pay $1800-$2500 for a Miele coffee machine. At that price range, is that a good one? what you recommend (it was like this one): https://www.miele.ca/en/Shop/products/deta

This is really great and will only increase the success of this AI tool. I can recommend NotebookLM, try it.
https://www.theverge.com/news/678915/google-notebooklm-share-public-link

Google’s NotebookLM now lets you share your notebook — and AI podcasts — publicly
Google’s AI-powered note-taking app, NotebookLM, will now let others view your notebooks with public links.

I recommend a gin and tonic while cooking and probably another one at the table with this dish!

At first I thought "wow, there's a #privacy event in #Vilnius but then I read the post.

highly recommend Nixta Foods, a plant-based pop-up at Radio Habana Sat/Sun 12-7pm. my omnivore friends said it was the best vegan food they remember having in some time. we shared everything on the menu: various pupusas; hibiscus tacos; nachos; and glazed plantains for a dessert.

Hivemind: I noticed that my academic CV is the last document I maintain in #TeXLaTeX. Is there a #Markdown (preferably #pandoc) based CV system/template/filter that you can recommend? PDF output is required, HTML …

Do people recommend any good, properly researched books/articles on Ukraine & Russia & their histories?
So that I can get to know the views of both sides (even if I'm biased to believe one side more than the other). I'm most interested in socio-cultural and political explanations, I'm not interested in military strategy etc

Trésors de lames
Accordéons et bandonéons
by Laurent Jarry
French #accordion maker and collector Laurent Jarry is retiring
I recommend you order a copy of his beautiful book of accordion and bandoneon photos!
Treasury of Reeds is a massive coffee-table format vinyl album-size book with 205 colour photos spread across 350 pages
200 years of squeezebox history. …

Hey gang - if any of you are going to be in DC and attending the FFOTUS imperial march on June 14.
Remember, try to gather, early (so you get into the front row) across from the viewing stand (which will probably be on the south end of the white house lawn).
I recommend that when FFOTUS appears that you give him a full Braveheart mooning.
You can wear underwear - and I suggest that on the left side it has the letters "T A" and on the right "C O".
I…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05069 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_…

Reason-to-Recommend: Using Interaction-of-Thought Reasoning to Enhance LLM Recommendation
Driven by advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), integrating them into recommendation tasks has gained interest due to their strong semantic understanding and prompt flexibility. Prior work encoded user-item interactions or metadata into prompts for recommendations. In parallel, LLM reasoning, boosted by test-time scaling and reinforcement learning, has excelled in fields like mathematics and code, where reasoning traces and correctness signals are clear, enabling high performance and interp…

I forget. What do you call it when a single political appointee overturns an established, disciplined, scientific process because he's smarter than everyone else combined? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/health/covid-vac…

U.S. Will No Longer Recommend Covid Shots for Children and Pregnant Women
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upended decades of standard protocol in announcing that the vaccine would be dropped from the immunization schedule for healthy children.

I'm setting up a new device for someone who wants to try out Linux. What distro would you recommend?
Some information about the user:
- uses MacOS currently
- wants stuff to work (minimal tinkering after setup)
- quick to boot
The device will probs be quite an old device (~3-5 years old, 8gb RAM though) and is mostly to run OBS. I'll check system requirements when I know the device ofc, just wondering what you people think is a good distro for them.

@… If you're still around, can you recommend any paper cutters/spine separators for magazines? Thanks

Ladies and gentlemen and others, this is why I recommend hosting your own forge, like forgejo: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114536667832141959
Also, as I recently discovered: Github git implementation is pretty dumb and reports unsolvable conflicts that are automatically solved by…

tl,dr: imho beginners should start with with either Go or Lua
Friends hit me with the age old question for their child which wants to learn programming: which language should one start with?
This had me thinking quite a bit. First thing that came to my mind was #Kotlin, my favourite, but I wouldn't recommend it for beginners, because it is quite heavy in high level concepts. …

I purchased a #Plaud NOTE and #Limitless pendant.
Next, I captured 15 hours in real world settings. "AI" results ranged from passable to awful to useless.
For their current generation designs, I cannot recommend either for capturing ambient conference dialog -- the technology just i…

Learning optimal treatment strategies for intraoperative hypotension using deep reinforcement learning
Esra Adiyeke, Tianqi Liu, Venkata Sai Dheeraj Naganaboina, Han Li, Tyler J. Loftus, Yuanfang Ren, Benjamin Shickel, Matthew M. Ruppert, Karandeep Singh, Ruogu Fang, Parisa Rashidi, Azra Bihorac, Tezcan Ozrazgat-Baslanti
https://

Learning optimal treatment strategies for intraoperative hypotension using deep reinforcement learning
Traditional methods of surgical decision making heavily rely on human experience and prompt actions, which are variable. A data-driven system generating treatment recommendations based on patient states can be a substantial asset in perioperative decision-making, as in cases of intraoperative hypotension, for which suboptimal management is associated with acute kidney injury (AKI), a common and morbid postoperative complication. We developed a Reinforcement Learning (RL) model to recommend opti…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20103 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_…

SCIRGC: Multi-Granularity Citation Recommendation and Citation Sentence Preference Alignment
Citations are crucial in scientific research articles as they highlight the connection between the current study and prior work. However, this process is often time-consuming for researchers. In this study, we propose the SciRGC framework, which aims to automatically recommend citation articles and generate citation sentences for citation locations within articles. The framework addresses two key challenges in academic citation generation: 1) how to accurately identify the author's citation int…

The fuse is lit
#LA #ice #CivilWar #NationalGuard
I recommend the

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SCIRGC: Multi-Granularity Citation Recommendation and Citation Sentence Preference Alignment
Xiangyu Li, Jingqiang Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20103 ht…

SCIRGC: Multi-Granularity Citation Recommendation and Citation Sentence Preference Alignment
Citations are crucial in scientific research articles as they highlight the connection between the current study and prior work. However, this process is often time-consuming for researchers. In this study, we propose the SciRGC framework, which aims to automatically recommend citation articles and generate citation sentences for citation locations within articles. The framework addresses two key challenges in academic citation generation: 1) how to accurately identify the author's citation int…

excellent description of executive functioning predicaments
... in a thread at Ask a Manager about ADHD.
I wouldn't recommend the whole comments section this time, because there was too much "well _I_ manage" and missing the point, but I thought this comment from "Han about town" laid out the essence of it really well. Here's a snippet on the challenge of consistently filling out timesheets:
"Monetary penalties or privileges have zero effect on the behaviour, because the behaviour is not moderated by risk, reward, or consequences. It’s moderated by how well I’m able to perform a very rote, boring, *consistent* task on a repeated basis, which is very poorly."
#ADHD #neurodivergence #ExecutiveFunction #rewards

Finally whole again. Picked up a new refurb bike from revolve reCYCLING, highly recommend for anyone in Sydney.
Pictured in background, my beloved retro aluminium frame steed also from revolve. Alas, time has taken it's toll and the metal of the fear fork fractured. Looking to have it welded back together shortly.
#sydney