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Stars, Stripes, and the Star: Cowboys Resonate on the Fourth of July https://insidethestar.com/stars-stripes-and-the-star-cowboys-resonate-on-the-fourth-of-july

iCe303 – Echoes Of The Void
#ambient

One hundred years ago today, downtown Santa Barbara was devastated by an earthquake centered just offshore.
The main commercial district, State Street, was in ruins. Some buildings completely collapsed
— the vulnerability in their designs laid bare by the power of Mother Nature. Around a dozen people died.
Yet, despite the destruction, the great Santa Barbara earthquake remains relatively obscure, seismically speaking,
even in a state notorious for its shaking.

Quake devastated Santa Barbara 100 years ago. What can it teach us?
In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.

Human-Machine Collaboration-Guided Space Design: Combination of Machine Learning Models and Humanistic Design Concepts
Yuxuan Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01776

Human-Machine Collaboration-Guided Space Design: Combination of Machine Learning Models and Humanistic Design Concepts
The integration of machine learning (ML) into spatial design holds immense potential for optimizing space utilization, enhancing functionality, and streamlining design processes. ML can automate tasks, predict performance outcomes, and tailor spaces to user preferences. However, the emotional, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions of design remain crucial for creating spaces that truly resonate with users-elements that ML alone cannot address. The key challenge lies in harmonizing data-driven effi…

James Jani is one of the best serious YouTubers out there and he burned out. So far, so common.
What I find interesting is something what he says that doesn’t resonate with me at all: “you gotta enjoy the process”
For me, I’ve NEVER enjoyed the process of creating ANYTHING.
I always:
1. wanted something to exist (sometimes out of spite 😇),
2. hated every second of making it happen,
3. enjoyed that it exists.
Guess there’re 2 types of creators. 😅
…

artificial intelligence “enables the cost of misinformation to come close to zero.” 
And it is starts with flooding Canadian city council mailboxes with climate misinformation https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/2

I'm sharing a presentation I gave at my workspace last week: "LLMs, GenAI... should we?"
Just for fun, I converted what was an ODP presentation into Markdown that my Jekyll blog could display as a regular article, then materialized the slides as such, and finally I added a slideshow feature.
I'm thinking of making a presenter mode where one window would display the slideshow, while another would display the presenter's notes, as well as the previous & ne…

72 years later, this image still seems to resonate.
'In America - At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served' (Krokodil # 4, 1953) by Yuliy Ganf. The solider at the table being well fed is labeled “war” and the neglected tables are labeled 'Education', 'Health Care', 'Libraries' and 'Art'.
#USpol

A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding Canadian city councils with climate misinformation, and already having some 'success'.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/28/investigations/weaponized-ai-chatbot-…

A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation
Internal instructions accessed by Canada’s National Observer show that the chatbot produces tailored scripts, petitions, reports and even speeches for council chambers. The messaging is all framed to resonate with municipal officials’ duty to represent local interests. The chatbot drops the cost of misinformation to "close to zero."

“We’re in a moment when the moral forces of the world and religious forces of the world have a deep responsibility to say it doesn’t have to be this way.”
—The Divinity School's William Barber in today's NY Times speaking about the wars, polarization, inequality, disinformation, and other challenges #PopeLeo must contend with as he begins his papacy

For Catholics, the Pope Is a Holy Father. For the World, He Is a Powerful Voice
The papacy is a global platform, so the issues Pope Leo chooses to focus on can resonate far beyond the church.

These arguments by @… resonate with my own reasons for not using LLMs in my work, and I appreciate these being written up in a clear manner: https://benui.ca/why-i-refuse-ai/

Planetary waves can activate resonant drag instabilities in 3D dusty gaseous discs
Ra\'ul O. Chametla, Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Gennaro D'Angelo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13592

Planetary waves can activate resonant drag instabilities in 3D dusty gaseous discs
Resonant Drag Instabilities (RDIs) in protoplanetary discs are driven by the aerodynamic back-reaction of dust on gas and occur when the relative dust-gas motion resonate with a wave mode intrinsic to the gas fluid. Axisymmetric models indicate that the RDI generates filamentary perturbations, leading to grain clumping and planetesimal formation. Motivated by these findings, we investigate the dust-gas interaction in a non-axisymmetric inviscid protoplanetary disc with an embedded low-mass plan…

A Practical Guide to Tuning Spiking Neuronal Dynamics
William Gebhardt, Alexander G. Ororbia, Nathan McDonald, Clare Thiem, Jack Lombardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08138

A Practical Guide to Tuning Spiking Neuronal Dynamics
In this work, we examine fundamental elements of spiking neural networks (SNNs) as well as how to tune them. Concretely, we focus on two different foundational neuronal units utilized in SNNs -- the leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) and the resonate-and-fire (RAF) neuron. We explore key equations and how hyperparameter values affect behavior. Beyond hyperparameters, we discuss other important design elements of SNNs -- the choice of input encoding and the setup for excitatory-inhibitory population…

Social media platforms have become so closed this days. I hate when I get a Tik Tok link. I can't do anything with that and I am not creating a Tik Tok account. How exactly do those platforms resonate around that? Aren't they making it harder to get new users? Are people really going around and creating accounts in all platforms just to be able to see that one link they received from someone?