@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsYou are in a train compartment with two couples. You're thinking: if I were with someone… no, we wouldn't be talking to each other. We would be looking at each other meaningfully, commenting on how noisy the others are.
@brichapman@mastodon.socialthe future is not a countdown — https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-future-is-not-a-countdown?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhen you're thinking that the phone didn't load the whole photo, then realize it's just snow at the lower half.
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social"Another way to look at it is, what was the biggest battery in the world a few years ago, which was the Hornsdale South Australian Tesla big battery … households right now are installing the equivalent of a Hornsdale big battery every three and a half days."
https://www.
@gray17@mastodon.socialthinking of writing a cli tool with an interactive prompt and/or tui, and I'm questioning the need for non-tui interactive mode, it feels like an artifact of the teletype era.
weak justification: tui removes information from screen, which you might need. this is not a big deal in window systems, but console ttys are still useful.
maybe instead of a full tui it can just tui the 5-6 lines it adds. this is not supposed to be doable in terminfo/curses, but everyone is ansi-termin…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems1. Plan going to Opole, via Kościan.
2. When you enter the train to Kościan, you discover that the change to Opole is delayed 15 minutes already. Consider changing in Leszno instead; if the delay increases, you'd have more options there.
3. Discover that there aren't any more options in Leszno today. Your change is delayed 30 minutes already. Return the reservations, and take one the other way, to Poznań instead.
4. Train station in Kościan. The displays aren't showing any delays, trains are announced normally. Tell people about the delays, so they won't stand in the -10°C waiting for the train to arrive.
5. Take the train to Poznań, and try to figure out what to do next.
6. Discover that the only reasonable choice going forward is Inowrocław: no delays and good return connection. It's the same train, so take another reservation. Your current seat is already taken there, so move elsewhere.
7. Your train should be followed by another one in the same direction, that departs from Poznań 6 minutes later. However, your train ends up waiting for another delayed train, so the other train goes first. The delay further increases as your train needs to slow down after the other train.
8. Reach Inowrocław 10 minutes later. That's not a problem, since you didn't have enough to see for all the time there anyway.
9. Discover that the town is more interesting than you thought, and you'd use more time.
10. When you almost get to the station, discover that your train is 10 minutes late. Not that you have any use for that time at this point.
11. When you're at the station, the train keeps increasing delay while waiting at the previous station, in Bydgoszcz. The station displays are completely useless, as they show only a random subset of regional trains, for no apparent reason. The announcements include all trains, but are rarely given.
12. The delay keeps increasing. Start thinking about getting a reservation for the next train to Poznań, in case it arrived first. You can't return the reservation after the planned departure time, and you can't have two reservations simultaneously, so reserve the seat from Mogilno, the next station.
13. The next train arrives first. While on board, you discover that you're not going to have any train home for 1.5 hr. Take another seat reservation to Leszno, where you can change into a suburban train and get home 15 minutes earlier than from Poznań. This time, your seat is still free.
14. The train departs 15 minutes delayed from Poznań. After all, you're changing trains in Kościan.
So I was going to go south, to Opole, via Kościan. Instead, I've ended up slingshotting north to Inowrocław, and getting back home via the same train as if I were in Opole.
#rail
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.pageFATHOMS-RAG: A Framework for the Assessment of Thinking and Observation in Multimodal Systems that use Retrieval Augmented Generation
Samuel Hildebrand (Louisiana State University), Curtis Taylor (Oak Ridge National Lab), Sean Oesch (Oak Ridge National Lab), James M Ghawaly Jr (Louisiana State University), Amir Sadovnik (Oak Ridge National Lab), Ryan Shivers (Oak Ridge National Lab), Brandon Schreiber (Oak Ridge National Lab), Kevin Kurian (University of Florida)
@drbruced@aus.socialSeems like a good day to bring back this 2021 post: https://systemsapproach.org/2021/07/19/decentralizing-the-internet-again/
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioOf course we humans have never had a single “shared reality,” and we never will. But there are times places when we’ve had more robust ongoing sharing and boundary-crossing and comfort with the limits of our own understanding — “shared reality” not as a fact, but as a direction.
These thoughts are still forming, and I think that’s where my thread ends for today: no answers, but yet another plea for systems thinking.
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@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialThere is a cult of action at the heart of tech.
This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.
AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.
Doing what is easiest is only going to make things worse. The only helpful course of action is to fix the system.
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageLearning to Make MISTAKEs: Modeling Incorrect Student Thinking And Key Errors
Alexis Ross, Jacob Andreas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11502 https://arxiv.org…
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageEarly Results from Teaching Modelling for Software Comprehension in New-Hire Onboarding
Mrityunjay Kumar, Venkatesh Choppella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07010 https://
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsIn the olden days when I was a young 'un, I used not to wear a scarf, because "whatever for?!"
Nowadays I'm thinking of it as a seal, and therefore it is obligatory. Even in bed, where it seals the space between my head and the blanket *.
* But more seriously, it's helping when I'm on the verge of throat infection.
@brichapman@mastodon.socialthe future is not a countdown — #climateanxiety
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caCanadians.
Is it time for Canada to ramp up its own defense industry?
We may not be capable of building the really large stuff. But I am thinking a focus on the essentials, mainly defensive or dual use.
Drones. (Land, sea and air)
Air Defense systems.
Armoured Personnel Carriers (we already do)
Ammunition
Artillery.
Small Arms.
We already produce some of this. We could produce more. Do we produce Air Defense systems currently?
Unfortunately the world is in need of more, not less, arms.
#ukraine #russiaukrainewar #canada #canpoli #cdnpoli
https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/115752916537770053
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.pageFlowSearch: Advancing deep research with dynamic structured knowledge flow
Yusong Hu, Runmin Ma, Yue Fan, Jinxin Shi, Zongsheng Cao, Yuhao Zhou, Jiakang Yuan, Xiangchao Yan, Wenlong Zhang, Lei Bai, Bo Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08521
@brichapman@mastodon.socialthe future is not a countdown — #climate
@brichapman@mastodon.socialThere’s a lot we can’t control. But we can choose how we show up.
My free substack is for those who want to meet the world’s uncertainty with presence, not panic.
https://substack.com/@bricchapman
