Tootfinder

It was an interesting and fulfilling experience to be part of the @… working group on Winter Science in the Great Lakes. There are so many nuances to how #ClimateChange and development are likely to impact ice and seasonality in the

NATO boss Rutte (fmr Dutch PM) sends app to Trump, who promptly publishes it.
"Wow, your bombing of Iran was great; it makes the world a safer place!"
Straight from The Hague, formerly known as the International City of Peace and Justice. Awkward.

no one is home so i'm cranking it up and ... uh oh ... that sounds BAD. do i need new speakers? sob! i've had these fishers since 1986. I don't think they were anything special back then, but they have grown on me. and oh no, new speakers are expensive. 😭
oh wait the balance settings all screwed up here ⚙️ just a sec 🛠️ and 🔊 ok everything is fine. phew.
my stereo is ok — just ok — but i don't care because all i do is play scratchy old LPs anyway.

I've just been to an interesting talk on the climate:
https://www.hampshireskeptics.org/wed-23rd-april-the-world-we-want-bors-hulesch/
If you get a chance to go and see it (it sounds like it will get rolled out widely), I hope yo…

Wed 23rd April – The World We Want – Bors Hulesch
This talk is offered as an antidote to the doom and gloom that many of us can feel about the climate and ecological emergency, and the terrifying reality of natural disasters we either experience o…

#numpy is being aware of the many syntax/shape gotchas. This looks like …

DumPy: NumPy except it’s OK if you’re dum
reject clever

Aperiodic-sampled neural network controllers with closed-loop stability verifications (extended version)
Renjie Ma, Zhijian Hu, Rongni Yang, Ligang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18386

Aperiodic-sampled neural network controllers with closed-loop stability verifications (extended version)
In this paper, we synthesize two aperiodic-sampled deep neural network (DNN) control schemes, based on the closed-loop tracking stability guarantees. By means of the integral quadratic constraint coping with the input-output behaviour of system uncertainties/nonlinearities and the convex relaxations of nonlinear DNN activations leveraging their local sector-bounded attributes, we establish conditions to design the event- and self-triggered logics and to compute the ellipsoidal inner approximati…

My removal from #nasa #nyc continued afoot.
I haven’t said much of it here — but my competitive grant proposals (nasa scientists get funded this way since full cost accounting hit in 2004) have been chosen, but not funded.
There is no grant money to distribute. Folks in the know have seen that - ROSES, the acronym for research opportunities in science, does not have a 2025 call and the 2024 chosen post January 2025 don’t have money getting distributed.
If I cannot get proposals funded I will be in the same situation as every other soft money researcher.
So the soft RIF is coming for me and 1000’s of others.

I really don't give a fuck about the Commodore 64. I grew up with the damn thing. Beep boop, syntax error, another program failed to load. 1541's out of alignment again! Throw the disk at the wall like a frisbee. Beep boop

Het budget is op. Punt uit.
Als we op dit niveau blijven uitstoten gaan we over 1.9 jaar door de 1,5 °C heen en moeten we vanaf dan helemaal niets meer uitstoten om niet door te denderen.
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn

„Experts think this is bullshit.“
Scientists Explain Why Trump's $175 Billion Golden Dome Is a Fantasy https://www.404media.co/scientists-explain-why-trumps-175-billion-golden-dome-is-a-fantasy/