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If my bio didn’t make it obvious, I’m an anarcho-syndicalist who’s bisexual, gender-fluid, and autistic!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism

It may appear to be looking empty and quiet at the MPS Göttingen right now - but we have been bustling about and are very busy getting everything ready for our visitors at the Night of Science tomorrow! Care for a few sneak previews in today's thread?
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#ndwgoe

Back home from a bike and hike with a friend. I'm absolutely devastated.
Every muscle from my hips downward hurts. But I made it!
#nature #landscape #hiking

Been restarting the #OutdoorComputing season much later than hoped for this year... Here are the last few meters of the path to today's marvelous office-away-from-home! 😍
(Back in London, for almost 13 years I worked 70-80% of the year on a similar bench or shelter in the woods of North London... my most productive time!)

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: [In the background behind Varon's lines] They set me up beautifully.
VARON: There is a possible approach if we could cite your record: your breakdown after your involvement with those illegal political groups, the remorse that you felt, the guilt you carried has placed you under an enormous strain. And we can submit that these assaults, these aberrations were carried out whilst you were mentally... [1/2] B7B4

A High-Caliber View of the #BulletCluster Through JWST Strong and Weak Lensing Analyses: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21870 -> Analyzing the Aftermath of the Bullet Cluster’s Collision: https://aasnova.org/2025/06/20/ncis-jwst-analyzing-the-aftermath-of-the-bullet-clusters-collision/

Isetta

I'm pretty happy with the top side Samtec ARF6 launch simulations now.
S11:
* Red: No cutout, -12 dB at 10 GHz, -7 at 20 GHz, -4.8 at 30 GHz
* Blue: Rectangular ground cutout the size of the pad, -22.5 at 10 GHz, -16.4 at 20 GHz, -11.7 at 30 GHz
* Green: 30um larger than the pad on all sides (1.06 x 0.41 mm), -30.5 at 10 GHz, -22 at 20, -15 at 30.
With the oversized cutout it's more than good enough for QSGMII and 25Gbase-R.
TDR:
* Red: No cutou…

Impressions of Lisbon #Portugal

A clear sunny Winter solstice day, so why not Chicken katsu udon soup with roasted rice tea for lunch at Tokyo Canteen in Kingston?
The soup had citrus-pickled vegetables in it (daikon, carrot, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts) - which was a pleasant surprise (I just expected dashi or miso or something).
#food #canberra

We hoofed it up Mill Mountain before the heat ~really~ set in. The humidity did not wait, unfortunately, but we enjoyed it all the same.
We are now decamped in a coffee shop and pondering lunch options. I think we’re off to a bistro and bakery we’ve heard great things about. Their Better Than Sex cake is reputed to be true to its name.

Got the fan grills in which significantly lowers the chances of me putting a finger or cable into one of the rear ventilation fans which totally hasn't happened.
#homelab #minirack #fans

Kirstin Downey: Streetfront Exhibit Brings Internment Camp History Downtown (CIVIL BEAT, 20 Jun 2025)
https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/06/kirstin-downey-streetfront-exhibit-brings-internment-camp-history-downtown/

Kirstin Downey: Streetfront Exhibit Brings Internment Camp History Downtown
About 400 local residents were among the people confined at the camp during World War II.

Two different takes on the potential of AI for cataloguing in 'Catalogue and Index'
'Augmenting cataloguers' https://journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-and-index/article/view/750
'Smart enough to mislead'

Three different iOS Mastodon apps: Icecubes, Trunks, and the official, reference implementation. In addition to very different experiences and quirks, each show a noticeably different Home time line view. Order, missing toots, hashtag following, filter handling, etc.
A web browser and IceCubes seem to give the best, most consistent view I'd expect, but the scrolling bug in IceCubes makes it practically unusable for many.
:-(

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Sheltering in a Bunker, Iran’s Supreme Leader Names Potential Successors
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not only picked replacements in his chain of military command in case they are killed in Israeli strikes,
he has also named three senior clerics to replace him should he, too, be slain.
Ayatollah Khamenei, 86, is aware that either Israel or the United States could try to assassinate him,
an end he would view as martyrdom, the officials said.
Given the possibility…

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Planning for His Possible Assassination, Picks Successors
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not only picked replacements in his chain of military command in case they are killed in Israeli strikes, he has also named three senior clerics to replace him should he, too, be slain.

It's a perfect early evening for our solar-system-themed kid's activities: little painted stars glowing in the sunlight at the face painting station, swirling planets painted on busy little arms, and of course everything is in motion at the bouncy castle!
@…

Every tech oligarch wants to build an Everything App - because they now have the power to do so, but also because they're completely out of ideas.
This week's issue of my newsletter tackles the rise of the "data-driven" Nothing Manager responsible for building Everything, with the "power" of #GenAI.

The Everything App is a symptom of Nothing Management (part 1)
Leaders who surrender their point of view inevitably arrive at the same conclusion: we must solve every problem for every user. This approach demolishes the possibility of real impact.

A sad neighborhood story in 2 pictures. #ohio

We should view the AI craze among investors and executives through this lens too.
It’s not the whole story by a long shot, but it’s definitely part of it — particularly the psyops of all the “Most of you will soon lose your jobs!” pronouncements from leadership.
https://social.coop/@ntnsndr/114710750541847256

Quick snap from a smaller #cycling loop today. Now relaxing and recovering for the mountain tomorrow.
#benediktbeuern #KochelAmSee

Moog Messenger Review https://www.gearnews.com/moog-messenger-review/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=topic/musicnews&utm_medium=mastodon

Moog Messenger Review - gearnews.com
The new Moog Messenger aims to deliver classic monophonic Moog sounds at a lower price. Read our review to find out if Moog is on the right track.

The MUSE view of the Sculptor galaxy: survey overview and the planetary nebulae luminosity function
E. Congiu, F. Scheuermann, K. Kreckel, A. Leroy, E. Emsellem, F. Belfiore, J. Hartke, G. Anand, O. V. Egorov, B. Groves, T. Kravtsov, D. Thilker, C. Tovo, F. Bigiel, G. A. Blanc, A. D. Bolatto, S. A. Cronin, D. A. Dale, R. McClain, J. E. M\'endez-Delgado, E. K. Oakes, R. S. Klessen, E. Schinnerer, T. G. Williams

The MUSE view of the Sculptor galaxy: survey overview and the planetary nebulae luminosity function
NGC 253, the Sculptor galaxy, is the southern, massive, star-forming disk galaxy closest to the Milky Way. In this work, we present a new 103-pointing MUSE mosaic of this galaxy covering the majority of its star-forming disk up to 0.75xR25. With an area of ~20x5 arcmin2 (~20x5 kpc2, projected) and a physical resolution of ~15 pc, this mosaic constitutes one of the largest, highest physical resolution integral field spectroscopy surveys of any star-forming galaxy to date. Here, we exploit the mo…

We've got buried treasure on view in a new display at the museum. Thanks to a recent gift and the work of a consultant and a staff member, we're displaying mingqi, or "spirit goods," in two adjoining cases in the permanent collection. Read on to learn more about how this grouping of well-preserved objects came together.

Now in Delphi, watching the sun set over the "sea of olives" and the Ionian sea beyond.
#greece #delphi

Good Morning Karlsruhe! Day 02 of the Effekte Science Festival with our booth presenting the Wiedergutmachung project, a huge digitalisation effort on historical archival documents on the recompensation processes of nationalsocialist injustice
@… @…

I made a helper for Proximity (a word association game like #Semantle). It lets you poke around the database to see what's close to what:
https://github.com/adamhotep/userscrip

Look at that! Sonnet finally got around to implementing my suggestion to add perceptually uniform color maps to current density (and presumably radiation pattern although I havent checked that yet) plots. Here's Viridis.
My one complaint is that they did it in what seems to be the reverse direction. I've already submitted a request to flip the direction of the ramp (and/or offer both as options).

A NICER view of the 1.4 solar-mass edge-on pulsar PSR J0614--3329
Lucien Mauviard, Sebastien Guillot, Tuomo Salmi, Devarshi Choudhury, Bas Dorsman, Denis Gonz\'alez-Caniulef, Mariska Hoogkamer, Daniela Huppenkothen, Christine Kazantsev, Yves Kini, Jean-Francois Olive, Pierre Stammler, Anna L. Watts, Melissa Mendes, Nathan Rutherford, Achim Schwenk, Isak Svensson, Slavko Bogdanov, Matthew Kerr, Paul S. Ray, Lucas Guillemot, Isma\"el Cognard, Gilles Theureau

A NICER view of the 1.4 solar-mass edge-on pulsar PSR J0614--3329
Four neutron star radius measurements have already been obtained by modeling the X-ray pulses of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars observed by the Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER). We report here the radius measurement of PSR J0614$-$3329 employing the same method with NICER and XMM-Newton data using Bayesian Inference. For all different models tested, including one with unrestricted inclination prior, we retrieve very similar non-antipodal hot regions geometries and radii.…

Prominence material observed by SoloHI beyond 0.5au
C. Mac Cormack (Heliospheric Physics Laboratory, Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD, USA, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA), S. B. Shaik (George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA), P. Hess (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., USA), R. Colaninno (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., USA), T. Nieves-Chinchilla (Heliospheric Physics Laboratory, Heliophysi…

Prominence material observed by SoloHI beyond 0.5au
With the combination of observations from in-situ and high-resolution remote sensing instruments, the Solar Orbiter (SolO) mission has become a particularly valuable mission for studying the inner heliosphere. With a field of view (FOV) of 40$^\circ$ to the east of the Sun, the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) is one of the six remote sensing instruments on board the Solar Orbiter (SolO) spacecraft. SoloHI's high-resolution imaging observations of the heliosphere and its higher cadenc…

Interesting study on perceptions about AI in the general US public and among US AI experts (both from academia and companies).
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-arti…

How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence
These groups are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI, but both want more personal control and worry about too little regulation.

Building Blocks of a User Experience Research Point of View
Patricia Diaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15332 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Building Blocks of a User Experience Research Point of View
This paper presents three User Experience Research (UXR) perspectives based on data, evidence and insights - known as Point of View (POV) - showcasing how the strategies and methods of building a POV work in an enterprise setting. The POV are: 1. Smart Visuals: Use AI to extract and translate text from visuals in videos (2019). 2. Assessable Code Editor: Focus on direct AI-feedback to the learner as it is the loop that requires the least effort for the highest impact(2023). 3. Opportunity Lands…

Me (to myself): Get in to work early this morning, with no messing about on the way in. Just 'a to b', fast and efficient!
Also me: [Leaves very late, grabs a unicycle and proceeds to cycling in via the following route]
🤷
https://www.strava.com/activities/14824892

#silentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
View from Many Parks Curve. October 2016

Lunch view. It's a good day.

Did a trip to admire the ”Prague Semmering” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smíchov–Hostivice_railway_line from the ground, a regional railway line with impressive curved viaducts to manage the height difference up to the hills above Smíchov station and the pla…

Smíchov–Hostivice railway line - Wikipedia

EgoPrivacy: What Your First-Person Camera Says About You?
Yijiang Li, Genpei Zhang, Jiacheng Cheng, Yi Li, Xiaojun Shan, Dashan Gao, Jiancheng Lyu, Yuan Li, Ning Bi, Nuno Vasconcelos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12258

EgoPrivacy: What Your First-Person Camera Says About You?
While the rapid proliferation of wearable cameras has raised significant concerns about egocentric video privacy, prior work has largely overlooked the unique privacy threats posed to the camera wearer. This work investigates the core question: How much privacy information about the camera wearer can be inferred from their first-person view videos? We introduce EgoPrivacy, the first large-scale benchmark for the comprehensive evaluation of privacy risks in egocentric vision. EgoPrivacy covers t…

Finally got to ride a double-decker bus! The people, they look like ants down there. #BusStuff

Beginning today with an early morning visit to Montreal’s P E Trudeau airport.. #YUL

A uniform cut-elimination theorem for linear logics with fixed points and super exponentials
Esa\"ie Bauer, Alexis Saurin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14327

A uniform cut-elimination theorem for linear logics with fixed points and super exponentials
In the realm of light logics deriving from linear logic, a number of variants of exponential rules have been investigated. The profusion of such proof systems induces the need for cut-elimination theorems for each logic, the proof of which may be redundant. A number of approaches in proof theory have been adopted to cope with this need. In the present paper, we consider this issue from the point of view of enhancing linear logic with least and greatest fixed-points and considering such a variet…

Sonnet 043 - XLIII
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright, are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made

Citizen science illuminates the nature of city lights: #LightPollution

I’ll be at 3 No Kings events tomorrow — they’re all in Mointain View & Palo Alto, CA. The last one is a democracy fair. Joan Baez will be there & there will be songs. And cake.
https://bsky.app/profile/indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social/post/3lrjvqzruyc23

Indivisible Palo Alto Plus (@indivisiblepaplus.bsky.social)
REMINDER: Our TWO No Kings "We The People" events kick off tomorrow 2pm, with the Democracy Parade at the corner of Embarcadero and El Camino in Palo Alto. At the end of the parade, the "We the People" Democracy Fair begins in Rinconada Park. Register: indivisiblepaloaltoplus.org/no-kings-day

Our Father in Heaven - Pray As You Go
#dw4jc

Our Father in heaven - Pray As You Go
Today is Thursday the 19th of June, in the 11th week of Ordinary Time.    Juliano Ravanello sings ‘Pater Noster’, the Our Father. As you listen to this twice through, you might like to pray the Lord’s Prayer in your own language.     Pater ...

Oh hey, it's #ScreenshotSaturday , here's the latest mockup from the video game adaptation of Battle of Tarot I'm working on with some lovely people.
Everything is still a work-in-progress and not final at all, but trying to get the visual style nailed down.
#GameDev

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Bram Cohen on algorithms for determining the winner in ranked-choice voting: More complicated than you might think.
https://bramcohen.com/p/variants-on-instant-runoff

Variants on Instant Runoff
A practical view

The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, a must if you visit #Chicago. A current exhibition is selections from the corporate art collection of the former Johnson Publishing Company, of EBONY and JET magazines.
Many other fantastic displays, including an animatronic Harold Washington!

A statistical mechanical view of complex economies under the green transition
Filippo Marcuccini, Giacomo Livan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11739 https://…

A statistical mechanical view of complex economies under the green transition
We propose a stylized model of a complex economy to explore the economic tradeoffs imposed by the so called "green transition" -- the shift towards more sustainable production paradigms -- using tools from the Statistical Mechanics of disordered systems. Namely, we promote the parameters of a standard input-output economic model to random variables, in order to characterize the typical statistical properties of its equilibria. A central feature of our work is the explicit inclusion of a waste v…

It’s the hard-knock life in #Sonoma’s wine country.

On the importance of representation (and how Google skews our view), nice film by @… (ht @… for the #peertube tip)
https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/t6F3Vznp2PxEanUNgBYRfQ

Variation in the size of the Photon Sphere and Black Hole Shadow in the Modified Gravity
Kanav Ganguly, Ajay Kumar Sharma, Murli Manohar Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10414

Variation in the size of the Photon Sphere and Black Hole Shadow in the Modified Gravity
Black hole shadows are a widespread topic in astrophysics. This paper searches for an optical view of the black hole and the relationship between black hole shadow and photon sphere with curvature. We were inspired by the observations of Sagittarius $A^*$ and supermassive black hole M87$*$ through the Event Horizon Telescope. We have found the signature of the modified theory of gravity on the photon sphere and shadow. We considered $f(R)$ modified theory of gravity and new scalar degree of fre…

Um... Excuse me, that's my view.

First images of the Sun's south pole!
Solar Orbiter is the first space probe to look at the Sun's poles – and finds the magnetic field there in a state of turmoil. The Sun's magnetic field is currently undergoing a flip. During its latest flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the Solar Orbiter space probe had its first clear view of our star's poles. First images:

Got tired of AC Odyssey and decided to revisit my GOG library. It's full of classic goodies, which I often forget. Medal of Honor Allied Assault is still one of the best single player shooters. The orchestral music and the heroic story make this game a first-class experience, and the id 3 engine is built for digital gunplay.

Interesting #macroeconomics view: “Consequently, predicted TFP (aka productivity) gains over the next 10 years are even more modest and are predicted to be less than 0.55%.…even when #AI improves the productivity of low-skill workers in certain tasks (without creating new tasks for…

Case Study for Developing a UXR Point of View for FinOps Product Innovation
Jason Dong, Anna Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15314 https://

Case Study for Developing a UXR Point of View for FinOps Product Innovation
In the dynamic landscape of Cloud financial management, we are sharing a case study exploring the development of a User Experience Research (UXR) Point of View (PoV) to drive FinOps product innovation. We demonstrate how qualitative and quantitative research methods working together to navigate the challenges of understanding customer needs, aligning cross-functional teams, and prioritizing limited resources. Through a multi-phased research approach, the research team identifies opportunities, …

Apple's Journal app is coming to iPad and Mac in iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe and gains features like multiple journals, map view, inline images, and more (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/17/apples-journal-app-i…

Apple’s Journal app is coming to iPad and Mac with big upgrades - 9to5Mac
Apple’s Journal app is coming to the iPad and Mac this fall as part of iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe, with several new features included.

First full day of the Open Science Retreat #OSR25CH is in full swing. Had some wonderful conversations about Open Science, science outreach and marketing, and unconventional careers all in a single day.
And enjoying walks and views of course.

There has long been a quiet debate, currently drowned out but still very much happening, about human replacement vs human augmentation. Think of Gary Kasparov remarking years ago that he thought chess played by humans with computer assistance could be a far more interesting game than either human-only or computer-only chess.
Here’s an argument for augmentation over automation, and note how far it diverges from the current hype despite it being written from a very AI-friendly point of view:
https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/the-turing-trap-the-promise-peril-of-human-like-artificial-intelligence/

First EM simulations on the switch logic board after sorting out some licensing issues with the new Sonnet version.
V19 is a lot faster than v18, it doubles the thread cap from 8 to 16 and also replaces the legacy SSE based matrix solver with an AVX-based version (geee, i wonder where they might have got that from...).
First test is the BGA launch for LC0_PHY0_LANE1_TX, a 5 Gbps QSGMII link but also representative of some of the 25G SERDES.
Return loss is better than -13 dB…

Yesterday my schedule and the weather suited a return to gliding for the first time since the fires. I did four flights - the second was a checkout in a new type (the Grob 103), and the third a little soaring trip in the Schweizer 1-26. The first and fourth were just commuting in the Cessna 172.
#aviation #gliding

On the construction of a gradient method of quadratic optimization, optimal from the point of view of minimizing the distance to the exact solution
N. V. Pletnev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04866

On the construction of a gradient method of quadratic optimization, optimal from the point of view of minimizing the distance to the exact solution
Problems of quadratic optimization in Hilbert space often arise when solving ill-posed problems for differential equations. In this case, the target value of the functional is known. In addition, the structure of the functional allows calculating the gradient by solving well-posed problems, which allows applying first-order methods. This article is devoted to the construction of the $m$-moment minimum error method -- an effective method that minimizes the distance to the exact solution. The con…

Mapping Neural Theories of Consciousness onto the Common Model of Cognition
Paul S. Rosenbloom, John E. Laird, Christian Lebiere, Andrea Stocco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12224

Mapping Neural Theories of Consciousness onto the Common Model of Cognition
A beginning is made at mapping four neural theories of consciousness onto the Common Model of Cognition. This highlights how the four jointly depend on recurrent local modules plus a cognitive cycle operating on a global working memory with complex states, and reveals how an existing integrative view of consciousness from a neural perspective aligns with the Com-mon Model.

Digital badges have come to the Fediverse! Courtesy of @… .
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Built a NAS recently to act as a gateway/NFS storage for a couple proxmox nodes for a small business.
The proxmox nodes are stateless only ever storing VMs on the NFS share. The idea was 100% data redundancy, not so much uptime redundancy.
I'm already scheming to upgrade the link between the NAS and the proxmox nodes with at least a 10g SPF direct attach solution later. 2.5G is enough for now.

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Sonnet 069 - LXIX
Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due,
Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.
Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd;
But those same tongues, that give thee so thine own,
In other accents do this praise confound
By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.
They look into the beauty of t…

Recognition through Reasoning: Reinforcing Image Geo-localization with Large Vision-Language Models
Ling Li, Yao Zhou, Yuxuan Liang, Fugee Tsung, Jiaheng Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14674

Recognition through Reasoning: Reinforcing Image Geo-localization with Large Vision-Language Models
Previous methods for image geo-localization have typically treated the task as either classification or retrieval, often relying on black-box decisions that lack interpretability. The rise of large vision-language models (LVLMs) has enabled a rethinking of geo-localization as a reasoning-driven task grounded in visual cues. However, two major challenges persist. On the data side, existing reasoning-focused datasets are primarily based on street-view imagery, offering limited scene diversity and…

Study of a giant Large Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant, Veliki (J0450.4-7050)
Z. J. Smeaton, M. D. Filipovi\'c, R. Z. E. Alsaberi, B. Arbutina, W. D. Cotton, E. J. Crawford, A. M. Hopkins, R. Kothes, D. Leahy, J. L. Payne, N. Rajabpour, H. Sano, M. Sasaki, D. Uro\v{s}evi\'c, J. Th. van Loon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.…

Study of a giant Large Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant, Veliki (J0450.4-7050)
We present a high-resolution radio-continuum view and a multi-frequency analysis of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Supernova Remnant (SNR) J0450.4-7050, which we give the nickname Veliki. These high-resolution observations reveal a larger extent than previously measured, making J0450.4-7050 one of the largest SNRs that we know of. Additionally, we observe a higher than expected radio surface brightness and an unusually flat spectral index ($α= -0.26 \pm 0.02$), with little spectral variation…

Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 - Stage 4 results
#Dauphiné #cycling

Solace! Spirit cleansing.
(Incredible light on our morning hike today. So very grateful for these experiences, especially these days... 🙏)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #MorningWalk

Initial simulation of Samtec ARC6 connector launch. No ground plane cutout so the diffpair impedance drops to about 65Ω at the connector so far.
That will have to change, of course, but I wanted a baseline for comparison.

The Hardness of Achieving Impact in AI for Social Impact Research: A Ground-Level View of Challenges & Opportunities
Aditya Majumdar, Wenbo Zhang, Kashvi Prawal, Amulya Yadav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14829

The Hardness of Achieving Impact in AI for Social Impact Research: A Ground-Level View of Challenges & Opportunities
In an attempt to tackle the UN SDGs, AI for Social Impact (AI4SI) projects focus on harnessing AI to address societal issues in areas such as healthcare, social justice, etc. Unfortunately, despite growing interest in AI4SI, achieving tangible, on-the-ground impact remains a significant challenge. For example, identifying and engaging motivated collaborators who are willing to co-design and deploy AI based solutions in real-world settings is often difficult. Even when such partnerships are esta…

First run in over a month. No goals other than to clear my mind, enjoy the cooler evening temperatures, feel the breeze and enjoy the rustling of the leaves as the wind stirred the branches, to enjoy looking up at a nearly full moon, and let it all wash over me.
#Running

NFDI4DS is hosting its second Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs for Scholarly Data (AIKG-SD 2025) 🥳
This year's theme: “Research Towards Sustainable Societies”
🗣 Keynotes & Interactive Tutorials
☕ Networking
🏆 Poster Session & Best Poster Award
September 23/24, 2025
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Application deadline: June 27, 2025!

AIKG-SD 2025
AIKG-SD 2025: Research Towards Sustainable Societies ! Now accepting submissions ! NFDI4DataScience and the AIX Lab at Leuphana University Lüneburg is hosting its second summer school on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs for Scholarly Data. Join us for two days of interesting discussions

Bathroom? Yeah, it's right up the stairs. You can't miss it!

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Human-Centred AI in FinTech: Developing a User Experience (UX) Research Point of View (PoV) Playbook
Festus Adedoyin, Huseyin Dogan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15325

Human-Centred AI in FinTech: Developing a User Experience (UX) Research Point of View (PoV) Playbook
Advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have significantly transformed the financial industry, enabling the development of more personalised and adaptable financial products and services. This research paper explores various instances where Human-Centred AI (HCAI) has facilitated these advancements, drawing from contemporary studies and industry progress. The paper examines how the application of HCAI-powered data analytics, machine learning, and natural language processing enables financi…

Green Therapy
(an impression from an early morning hike last July)
#ForestFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Hi friends!
I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so!
A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍
On the way up I noted all places where I could refuel later using my water filter. Seriously: why didn't I buy that waaays ear…

Slow progress the last couple days because I've been going into the office for work and the commute is eating up my time I'd otherwise spend on such things.
But now it's the weekend and the switch engine board is coming together nicely.
Still have 514 nets to route - mostly the supervisor, line card management buses, and power supply but also some other odds and ends like the FPGA JTAG and part of the SPI flash.
Also I have to get the tach/PWM signals from the m…

Beautiful porphyritic granodiorite, part of the Variscan basement, on the Costa Brava, Mediterranean Spain. #geology

Urban Discoveries III 🏙️
都市发现 III 🏙️
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Complications from surgery landed my dad back in the hospital late Wednesday. Successful exploratory surgery found and hopefully stopped the internal bleeding.
If a few key numbers remain stabile, he might get released today. But in the interim, it’ll have to be a Father’s Day video call to his hospital room.
There are myriad ways in which to view this, but I’m choosing gratefulness. #HappyFathersDay

Sekai: A Video Dataset towards World Exploration
Zhen Li, Chuanhao Li, Xiaofeng Mao, Shaoheng Lin, Ming Li, Shitian Zhao, Zhaopan Xu, Xinyue Li, Yukang Feng, Jianwen Sun, Zizhen Li, Fanrui Zhang, Jiaxin Ai, Zhixiang Wang, Yuwei Wu, Tong He, Jiangmiao Pang, Yu Qiao, Yunde Jia, Kaipeng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15675…

Sekai: A Video Dataset towards World Exploration
Video generation techniques have made remarkable progress, promising to be the foundation of interactive world exploration. However, existing video generation datasets are not well-suited for world exploration training as they suffer from some limitations: limited locations, short duration, static scenes, and a lack of annotations about exploration and the world. In this paper, we introduce Sekai (meaning ``world'' in Japanese), a high-quality first-person view worldwide video dataset with rich…

Launch pad.
(Not really, but that part of the Saalfelder Weg very much makes me feel like wanting to take off... Höhengefühle!)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Good Morning ESWC2025! The last conference day is about to start. Looking forward to an interesting keynote, more presentations and interesting discussions! Most interesting to see for me this year was the presence of neurosymbolic topics almost everywhere in our community.
#eswc2025 #portoroz…

Hi friends!
I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so!
A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍
On the way up I noted all places where I could refuel later using my water filter. Seriously: why didn't I buy that waaays ear…

3DGS-IEval-15K: A Large-scale Image Quality Evaluation Database for 3D Gaussian-Splatting
Yuke Xing, Jiarui Wang, Peizhi Niu, Wenjie Huang, Guangtao Zhai, Yiling Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14642

3DGS-IEval-15K: A Large-scale Image Quality Evaluation Database for 3D Gaussian-Splatting
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a promising approach for novel view synthesis, offering real-time rendering with high visual fidelity. However, its substantial storage requirements present significant challenges for practical applications. While recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) 3DGS methods increasingly incorporate dedicated compression modules, there is a lack of a comprehensive framework to evaluate their perceptual impact. Therefore we present 3DGS-IEval-15K, the first large-scale …

UXR Point of View on Product Feature Prioritization Prior To Multi-Million Engineering Commitments
Jonas Lau, Annie Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15294 h…

UXR Point of View on Product Feature Prioritization Prior To Multi-Million Engineering Commitments
This paper discusses a popular UX research activity, feature prioritization, using the User Experience Research Point of View (UXR PoV) Playbook framework. We describe an application of multinomial logistic regression, frequently marketed as MaxDiff, for prioritizing product features in consumer product development. It addresses challenges of traditional surveying techniques. We propose a solution using MaxDiff to generate a reliable preference list with a reasonable sample size. We also adapt …

LATENTRED main board layout progress: got most of the GTYs and FPGA-MCU paths done, as well as the RGMII PHY.
Still lots more to do but I'm liking the floorplan, at least the parts that I've done.
I'm debating moving the RGMII PHY to the west a bit and adding a fan cutout directly behind the FPGA so that I can have it suck exhaust air right past the FPGA (possibly with a 3d printed air dam or something in the future). Will need to spend some time thinking about therma…

Natura Urbana VIII 🏡
城市自然 VIII 🏡
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Finished laying out the northwest corner. I think this is pretty final in that area, but I'm going to move the fan connectors and actually put one of the fans where they are.

Natura Urbana VI 🏡
城市自然 VI 🏡
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Natura Urbana VI 🏡
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Started laying out the power supply for the switch engine board. Still needs some work but it's getting there,