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"All principled humanity fell on deaf ears. At the time of writing, over 30,000 Palestinians have been massacred in Israel’s retaliation, of which so many are children that UNICEF’s James Elder called this “a war on children.” It has been five months of a genocidal bombardment that is unprecedented in the intensity and firepower used on a trapped population."

The Making of the Genocidal Mind | Hazlitt
The genocidal mind is not the preserve of cartoon monsters in history books. It is a collusion of psychological habits groomed and grown in people like us when we fixate on our private gardens.

Apparently there has been a blockchain in “the Public and Commercial Notices section of the Times” for over 30 years ⁉️ https://medium.com/@johnmarkoff/rethinking-blockchains-8d3aba41d05b

Rethinking Blockchains - John Markoff - Medium
Once long ago I briefly gained a bit of notoriety for writing “My other blog is the New York Times, have you read it?” It was my way of gently teasing Dave Winer. At the time the new dgital media…

The Golden Palm - complete series 🌴✍️👯‍♀️
Dramatized rom-com series | Total listening time: 1h 30m
Two best friends and writing partners go on a Writers Retreat at the luxury Golden Palm. Kate wants to write, but Naomi wants to celebrate how well her latest “solo” book is doing. Romance is always around the corner at The Golden Palm, bu...

The Golden Palm - complete series 🌴✍️👯‍♀️
Dramatized rom-com series | Total listening time: 1h 30m Two best friends and writing partners go on a Writers Retreat at the luxury Golden Palm. Kate wants to write, but Naomi wants to celebrate how well her latest “solo” book is doing. Romance is always around the corner at The Golden Palm, but so is deception, as old jealousies bubble to the surface. 1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Jul 21, 2023.

"It’s time to stop ignoring the fact that the tech industry is currently deeply entwined with the U.S. war machine, and is profiting from the slaughter of civilians in Palestine. "
#US #Israel #TechIndustry

AI Is Already Being Used to Kill Palestinians in Gaza
Artificial intelligence is currently being deployed by the Israeli military in its brutal assault. The tech isn’t a future threat—it’s here.

This week I feel as if I’ve forgotten how to write. It’s time to go back into the stream, to enter the waters. One way I do this is by invoking oracles and their art-counterparts, surrealist games and chance operations.
I’ve been at work creating some new writing oracles, but meanwhile here are two paragraphs from recent weeks where I am raising different forms of oracle-energy.
#AmWriting…

Democrats Ask Biden to Investigate Grocery Store Price-Fixing | TIME
https://time.com/6977026/democrats-biden-executive-authority-grocery-prices/

Exclusive: Democrats Urge Biden To Investigate Grocery Store Price-Fixing
A group of Democratic lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to investigate grocery store chains for price manipulation, writing in a letter sent Sunday night that he should use executive authority to take additional enforcement action to address rising food prices without the help of Congress.

"The post-Roman period came to be known as the Dark Ages first because they were seen to be unenlightened, until Caesar Baronius retconned it: they were dark because of the lack of written records. In the Digital Dark Ages everybody is writing: posting to Reddit; sending e-mails; chatting in Telegram; producing Office 365 documents. But nobody will be able to read anything they write, and so knowledge of this time will be forgotten. Software has truly eaten the world."

The Digital Dark Ages
There are three interesting things to do with a computing museum. Museum directors and curators should be aware of all three and design galleries, present information, and make archives available to address them all.

periodic reminder for everyone to properly tag your posts with the language youre using!! you can set the language of your post while writing it, the exact method depends on the platform youre using. tagging a post with the proper language helps other users in many ways - you can filter and search for posts in just the languages youre interested in, and text to speech and automatic translation systems will have an easier time providing accurate results!
when i see posts tagged with the wrong language, its usually someone posting in a language different from their default posting language. i understand that a mistake like that can happen, but please do try your best - and if you notice you mistagged a post in the past, you can always edit it and change the language!
thanks for coming to my mildly aggressive post

“Another problem I had with all my folder full o’ posts strategy was that I didn’t know whether a post was nearly done or a scrap of an idea. I was lost. Every two months or so I’d have to click through each file to repopulate my memory buffer with the statuses of each post. […]
I needed a tool to make sense of those words. […]
It’s overkill, but it’s my overkill, and I love it.”
@…

My Notion Blogging Kanban
Six years ago, I started a good blogging habit of writing down any idea I had as a draft post. This was a good practice because the idea was now out of my head and I wouldn’t stay up at night thinking about it. Over time that grew to about eighty posts in different states of completeness and it became overwhelming. 16,000+ words, terribly organized.

Spent some time creating an account on darkvisitors.com, adding deps to my site, writing logic to dynamically create a robots.txt file with data from dark visitors' API only for the API to return a 500 Internal Server Error...
Serves me right for not testing the API in the terminal first..
For now I'm sticking with the static robots.txt I got from @…

"A hundred years ago, in the fall of 1922 and winter of 1923, the Bolsheviks expelled hundreds of artists and intellectuals from Russia, forcing them to leave the country on what became known as the “philosophers’ ships.” (…) A century later, Russia’s artists are once again leaving, this time because of the war in Ukraine and political persecution at home." (source:

‘After Russia’ In a new album, exiled popular musicians revisit the Russian émigré poetry of 100 years ago — Meduza
A hundred years ago, in the fall of 1922 and winter of 1923, the Bolsheviks expelled hundreds of artists and intellectuals from Russia, forcing them to leave the country on what became known as the “philosophers’ ships.” Many of the exiled writers and poets continued to write in Russian, destined never to meet their readers back in their home country. A century later, Russia’s artists are once again leaving, this time because of the war in Ukraine and political persecution at home. To c…

Looking at my ToDo/planned list I realized that many things on it will never happen the way I keep trying to do them: You can only ever take so many hours away from sleep to do something and it doesn't work well with long-term or more complex projects.
I had thought about applying to grants for small software projects/book writing projects (got both on my list ;)) but realized that the application process would again cut so deeply into my little time that the small chances of getti…

“In a dream world, every national library would have enough funds to bring on an amazing team of people. Governments often don't have that” says professor Ian Milligan, who is writing a book on the #InternetArchive’s origins.
The Internet Archive has not previously acted as custodian of a country’s whole collection, although it has worked with a number of national and regional

The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island
By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation's history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding its already outsize role in preserving the digital world for posterity.

Another old friend has gone 😧
In 1961 - 1964 we spent time in the Edinburgh Univ staff club, putting the world to rights. I discovered only later why he sometimes seemed a bit distracted -he was writing his famous papers!
The staff club vanished ages ago, the world got worse and now Peter has gone.
https://

Incunabula (@incunabula) on X
Peter Higgs, discoverer of the Higgs Boson, has blinked out of existence. https://t.co/1wmxdG77ys

Paper-Crumpling Study About the Nature of Anger Is the Best Thing I've Read in a Long Time https://www.404media.co/writing-your-feelings-on-paper-and-throwing-it-in-the-trash-reduces-anger-scientists-find/…

🇬🇧 The longer form of #blog posts has temporarily started to tire me out a bit, plus I have an additional project on the side for the blog that consumes some of my time. Because of this, lately I've been finding a lot of joy in writing shorter notes like this recent one about #KoboldLetters

Two Besties Reading
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Two Besties Reading | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Two Besties Reading Hosts: Elise and Ash Category: Arts Sub-Category: Books & Writing First Episode: 2024 Don’t have time for a traditional book club? Your new reading besties have got you…

Just two questions before Kahn confesses to writing to their polling. And, then, this.
“The amount of time and energy that we put on the nuances of the story, the nut graf, compared to the amount that spent at the end of that process on the headline is still probably disproportionate. Some huge number of people only interact with the headline.”
For the most self-aware outlet in America that’s willfully obtuse.

Joe Kahn: 'The newsroom is not a safe space' | Semafor
The New York Times' executive editor said the paper is a “pillar” of democracy but not a tool of power.

This is a fascinating read about cruising from @… have a gift link:
#cruise #atlantic #ocean

Gary Shteyngart: Crying Myself to Sleep on the Icon of the Seas
Seven agonizing nights aboard the Icon of the Seas

Report: Dallas Cowboys Eyeing Star Replacement for RB Tony Pollard https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_dallas_cowboys_eyeing_star_replacement_for_rb_tony_pollard/s1_17068_40091341

Report: Dallas Cowboys Eyeing Star Replacement for RB Tony Pollard
The Dallas Cowboys learned this morning that they lost veteran RB Tony Pollard to the Tennessee Titans. While he will certainly be missed, the Cowboys can ease the sting by signing a key free agent. Ironically, it could end up being an unofficial swap. Read below to find out who the right fit for the Cowboys is. The Cowboys are one of the favorites to land RB Derrick Henry via free agency. At the time of writing, their odds of landing him are +220. Only the Baltimore Ravens have higher odds (+1…

Does anyone actually have time to read these author blogs that everyone says we are supposed to have? Are there actually readers out there interested in how many words I wrote yesterday and what flavor of tea I drink while writing and where I like to eat lunch and how many times my cat barfed on the carpet and...
I think the whole thing is someone's idea of a practical joke on writers. :catto:
#writing

Advice for science writers: pretend, just for a moment, that you actually respect your readers' time. Stop telling rambling stories. So much of climate science writing is horrific to wade through bcs it's written using the same old rules for writing fiction novels: a hook, building energy, climax, etc. It's garbage. Don't do that shit. No one even knows how to write a useful abstract. Pretend your reader is busy doing smth important and u need to get the key points across as …

This week, the French inventor of the prose poem, Francis Ponge, teaches me something about looking at a river:
“Therefore, writing about the Loire from a place along the banks of the river, I must constantly immerse my eyes and mind in it. Any time they dry up over an expression, dip them back into the waters of the river.”
#Poetry

Booked the BC Ferry trip. Added in my own (in green) little CO2 emissions counter with the hope that the Ferry Gods will see this and apply the same transparency to all receipts. :)
#BCFerry #BCPoli

CommitBench: A Benchmark for Commit Message Generation
Maximilian Schall, Tamara Czinczoll, Gerard de Melo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05188 https://…

CommitBench: A Benchmark for Commit Message Generation
Writing commit messages is a tedious daily task for many software developers, and often remains neglected. Automating this task has the potential to save time while ensuring that messages are informative. A high-quality dataset and an objective benchmark are vital preconditions for solid research and evaluation towards this goal. We show that existing datasets exhibit various problems, such as the quality of the commit selection, small sample sizes, duplicates, privacy issues, and missing licen…

A visible ‘Online’ status (as opposed to ‘Offline’) should be earned, not shared by default.
I’ll grant you insight into my online status once we’ve established asynchronous connectivity as our norm, and I can rest assured that you’ll be respectful of my time and attention regardless of my availability at any given time.
This is the kind of granularity that is woefully lacking in our communications software.

What can possibly go wrong 🙄
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/03/07/0719222/teachers-are-embracing-chatgpt-powered-grading

In Time for Tax Day: 10,000 Ancient Bamboo Slats Reveal Meticulous Details of Governance from Famous Period https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/in-time-for-tax-day-10000-ancient-bamboo-slats-reveal-me…

In Time for Tax Day: 10,000 Ancient Bamboo Slats Reveal Meticulous Details of Governance from Famous Period
Known as Jiandu in Chinese, bamboo were the primary instrument for writing in the region for thousands of years before the invention of paper

Ivie: Lightweight Anchored Explanations of Just-Generated Code
Litao Yan, Alyssa Hwang, Zhiyuan Wu, Andrew Head
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02491 https://…

Ivie: Lightweight Anchored Explanations of Just-Generated Code
Programming assistants have reshaped the experience of programming into one where programmers spend less time writing and more time critically examining code. In this paper, we explore how programming assistants can be extended to accelerate the inspection of generated code. We introduce an extension to the programming assistant called Ivie, or instantly visible in-situ explanations. When using Ivie, a programmer's generated code is instantly accompanied by explanations positioned just adjacent…

Is the James Webb Space Telescope detecting too many AGN candidates?
Melanie Habouzit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05319 https://arxiv.…

Is the James Webb Space Telescope detecting too many AGN candidates?
In less than two years of operation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already accelerated significantly our quest to identify active massive black holes (BHs) in the first billion years of the Universe's history. At the time of writing, about 50 AGN detections and candidates have been identified through spectroscopy, photometry, and/or morphology. Broad-line AGN are about a hundred times more numerous than the faint end of the UV-bright quasar population at z~5-6. In this paper, we com…

Point Processes and spatial statistics in time-frequency analysis
Barbara Pascal, R\'emi Bardenet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19172 https://

Point Processes and spatial statistics in time-frequency analysis
A finite-energy signal is represented by a square-integrable, complex-valued function $t\mapsto s(t)$ of a real variable $t$, interpreted as time. Similarly, a noisy signal is represented by a random process. Time-frequency analysis, a subfield of signal processing, amounts to describing the temporal evolution of the frequency content of a signal. Loosely speaking, if $s$ is the audio recording of a musical piece, time-frequency analysis somehow consists in writing the musical score of the piec…

Starting a new regimen today. Every hour, before I can use my phone, I need to do 10 pushups. If I don’t use my phone that hour, I don’t have to do them. If the time is 9:45 and I haven’t used my phone yet that hour, but want to do so, I have to do 10 pushups.

And yes, I’ve done my first 10 before writing this. 😁💪

Will be interesting to see how many pushups I end up with today. Gonna be so buff in a couple of months. 😅

"If possible, support small game makers. Just like you would ensure your vegetables are sourced locally, organically, and ethically, make sure your games are developed with respect for the souls behind the machine.
The most significant source of violence in our society was not video games per se, but the companies exploiting the workers making them."

“This displeases strivers at the top of society such as Tangen, who tend to want everyone else to strive too. These people love their jobs, are well paid, employ home help and probably die wishing they had spent more time in the office. Emotionally, I have to admit, I am in this team. Through a recent series of ill-advised decisions, I am currently working seven days a week, and started writing this on a sunny Sunday afternoon.”
https://archive.ph/2024.05.01-041043/https://www.ft.com/content/4e319ddd-cfbd-447a-b872-3fb66856bb65

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10349 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

A Comparative Analysis of Large Language Models for Code Documentation Generation
This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of Large Language Models (LLMs) for generation of code documentation. Code documentation is an essential part of the software writing process. The paper evaluates models such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Bard, Llama2, and Starchat on various parameters like Accuracy, Completeness, Relevance, Understandability, Readability and Time Taken for different levels of code documentation. Our evaluation employs a checklist-based system to minimize subjectiv…

Just days after the National Guard descended on Little Rock, Ark. to ensure nine black students could safely pass segregationist protesters to enter a formerly all-white high school,
the United Packhouse Workers of America union president sent a telegram to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, writing:
“When violence can be used to maintain injustice, juveniles and adults, both, can assume that violence pays dividends.”
It was a rare statement of support at a time when labor org…

Current challenge: writing down a few requirements to make a horizontal timeline interface accessible. We’ll structure it using landmarks, sections, and headlines, first of all, plus buttons and the left/right arrow keys to travel from one point in time to the next.
Still, I’m wondering how a screenreader user might best understand and navigate such an interface. And: is it an ordered list as well? 🤔
#a11y

The Dead Season 4: Home - Finale 🧟‍♀️😭❤️
Dramatized zombie horror stories | Total listening time: 9h 00m
In a world plagued by the undead, the stories of survivors are well-known. Over time, they become fables, legends passed down from survivor to survivor. But those are the stories of the few, not the many who continue to walk the ear...
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The Dead Season 4: Home - Finale 🧟‍♀️😭❤️
Dramatized zombie horror stories | Total listening time: 9h 00m In a world plagued by the undead, the stories of survivors are well-known. Over time, they become fables, legends passed down from survivor to survivor. But those are the stories of the few, not the many who continue to walk the earth as shells of their former selves. Created to support emerging writers by holding a competition, and fully producing their work. This is the writer’s first professional writing opportunity. 4 se…

My latest writing, on vernal pools.
https://varnelis.net/the-florilegium/vernal-pools-at-the-great-swamp/

Vernal Pools at the great swamp
Morris County, New Jersey has it good. Unlike my own Essex County, which is bereft of well-managed natural areas, neighboring Morris County has some gems. In January, I attended the kick-off event for US House Representative Mikie Sherrill’s Building Habitat at Federal Facilities Act (this may be a good time to contact your local house ... Read more

I’ve finally put down in writing all of the ways in which my ex wife is f*cking up our kids. I’ve asked her to stop. From unlimited screen time to unhealthy food, and allowing a six year old to play 18 computer games. Damn it was cathartic to get that all out. I’ve said it all verbally before - which she’s ignored - but putting it in writing is so much more satisfying and important given the legal case I’m opening against her.

Booked the BC Ferry trip. Added in my own (in green) little CO2 emissions counter with the hope that the Ferry Gods will see this and apply the same transparency to all receipts. :)
#BCFerry #BCPoli

CommitBench: A Benchmark for Commit Message Generation
Maximilian Schall, Tamara Czinczoll, Gerard de Melo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05188 https://…

CommitBench: A Benchmark for Commit Message Generation
Writing commit messages is a tedious daily task for many software developers, and often remains neglected. Automating this task has the potential to save time while ensuring that messages are informative. A high-quality dataset and an objective benchmark are vital preconditions for solid research and evaluation towards this goal. We show that existing datasets exhibit various problems, such as the quality of the commit selection, small sample sizes, duplicates, privacy issues, and missing licen…

Jane McAlevey: "I have stopped all work to turn to home-based hospice for the remainder of my time."
😢
https://janemcalevey.com/writing/latest-news/

What can possibly go wrong 🙄
https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/03/07/0719222/teachers-are-embracing-chatgpt-powered-grading

Ended up not reading last night but writing in my journal for the first time in a forever. The book I was meant to be reading (overcoming low self esteem) encourages you to write things down. I used to keep one regularly throughout school. It was a bit of an epic update because I can't remember when I last wrote one.
Still listened to Miles Davis though, made it all the way through Kind of Blue (approx 45 mins solid writing).

#writerscoffeeclub 1 What inspired you to begin writing?
The magic of the written word, the ability to send your mind a hundred years into the future or the past, has been an urge with me ever since I wrote my first word. I was 3,5 years old, and I wrote "Papa". I can honestly say that I've written all my life, I can't remember a time when I didn't write.

On economists & anthropologists:
"#Graeber specialized in theories of value: his Debt: the first 5,000 years provides a much-needed long-term history of money. Debt is exactly the kind of book contemporary economists are incapable of writing, because it requires viewing their paradigm as the product of its own time and ideology, instead of considering it as a natural law."

Marcel Mauss, a founding father of Sci-Fi economic anthropology?
At the Sci-Fi Economics Lab we are always on the lookout for tools to broaden the scope of our economic thinking. Neoclassical economics has been so successful that it has become difficult to see the world in any other way. For this reason, I have long been drawn to scholarly work that takes on economic problems from a different intellectual background. In the past ten years it has been mostly biology for me; but, starting about five years ago, I have been drawn more and more to anthropology. .…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00027 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

LLMs as Writing Assistants: Exploring Perspectives on Sense of Ownership and Reasoning
Sense of ownership in writing confines our investment of thoughts, time, and contribution, leading to attachment to the output. However, using writing assistants introduces a mental dilemma, as some content isn't directly our creation. For instance, we tend to credit Large Language Models (LLMs) more in creative tasks, even though all tasks are equal for them. Additionally, while we may not claim complete ownership of LLM-generated content, we freely claim authorship. We conduct a short survey …

“But within the context of Isaacson’s nine books, Musk is not an anomaly. In method and thesis, it is perfectly in line with a career built on promoting elite interests under the guise of biographical neutrality and insipid humanism. This time, though, his “genius” subject is idiotic enough to throw the bullshit at the heart of the project into stark relief.”
A Bullshit Genius - The Drift

A Bullshit Genius
On a friendly stroll somewhere in Colorado in the summer of 2004, Steve Jobs asked Walter Isaacson if he would consider writing his biography.

Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature - Season 4 finale ❓📜🎓
Dramatized paranormal horror thriller series | Total listening time: 6h 44m
This course discusses the Anterran Civilization and the evidence regarding the recent archeological ruins uncovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The earliest human society, years older than previously known to exi...

Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature - Season 4 finale ❓📜🎓
Dramatized paranormal horror thriller series | Total listening time: 6h 44m This course discusses the Anterran Civilization and the evidence regarding the recent archeological ruins uncovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The earliest human society, years older than previously known to exist, will provide opportunities for analysis of ancient writing and thought. An Official Selection at the Tribeca Festival in 2022. 4 seasons, 23 episodes as of Dec 21, 2023.

Discrete Mathematics with Ducks - 2nd Edition - Sarah-Marie Belcastro
https://www.routledge.com/Discrete-Mathematics-with-Ducks/Belcastro/p/book/9780367570705

Discrete Mathematics with Ducks
Discrete Mathematics with Ducks, Second Edition is a gentle introduction for students who find the proofs and abstractions of mathematics challenging. At the same time, it provides stimulating material that instructors can use for more advanced students. The first edition was widely well received, with its whimsical writing style and numerous exercises and materials that engaged students at all levels.　　The new, expanded edition continues to facilitate effective and active learning. It is de

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03107 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Decoupling the time dependent Schrödinger equation using recursive Fourier transforms
A strategy is developed for writing the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE), and more generally the Dyson Series, as a convolution equation using recursive Fourier transforms, thereby decoupling the second-order integral from the first without using the time ordering operator. The energy distribution is calculated for a number of standard perturbation theory example at first- and second-order. Possible applications include characterization of photonic spectra for bosonic sampling and fo…

#HTMX and #WebComponents: a Perfect Match
https://binaryigor.com/htmx-and-web-co

The First Time
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The First Time | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The First Time Hosts: Katherine Collette and Kate Mildenhall Category: Arts Sub-Category: Books & Writing, How To First Episode: 2018 A podcast about the first time…you publish a book.

“This displeases strivers at the top of society such as Tangen, who tend to want everyone else to strive too. These people love their jobs, are well paid, employ home help and probably die wishing they had spent more time in the office. Emotionally, I have to admit, I am in this team. Through a recent series of ill-advised decisions, I am currently working seven days a week, and started writing this on a sunny Sunday afternoon.”
https://archive.ph/2024.05.01-041043/https://www.ft.com/content/4e319ddd-cfbd-447a-b872-3fb66856bb65

tttrlib: modular software for integrating fluorescence spectroscopy, imaging, and molecular modeling
Thomas-Otavio PeulenDepartment of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, Quantitative Biosciences Institute, Rudolf Virchow Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging, University of W\"urzburg, W\"urzburg…

tttrlib: modular software for integrating fluorescence spectroscopy, imaging, and molecular modeling
We introduce software for reading, writing and processing fluorescence single-molecule and image spectroscopy data and developing analysis pipelines that unifies various spectroscopic analysis tools. Our software can be used for processing multiple experiment types, e.g., for time-resolved single-molecule (sm) spectroscopy, laser scanning microscopy, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, and image correlation spectroscopy. The software is file format agnostic, processes and outputs multiple ti…

I'm using LLM since Friday to help me writing a Visual Basic macro. I have 0 knowledge of VBA and Word API in the same time.
While I think I'd be much more efficient having a pair programming with someone who actually knows this technology, still LLM is a nice kick starter for terra-incognita places where I have no clue how to start, where to look and what I need.
Happy to have this tech.

This is the first time I've encountered so many students who don't clearly differentiate between fs and ts when writing by hand. There's a whole lot of 'shitting' going on in this year's final exam.

Policy on account management, but no reports to help us do it? A bit of a PITA for me to manual run three reports, save the output from SDSF to a flat file, clean out the crap, download then run in XLS to identify what needs cleaning? Way too manual and error prone. If I get time I may figure out writing a program so that a standard report is generated and then the output goes to records management for the security officers to review.

on a lighter note, Zestiria event in Rays is so good... thank you for taking care of being as close to the original writing as possible, even with 8 of them at the same time (which is not possible in the original game)

TL;DR: Maxwell and Faraday knew what they were writing about (or at least, they were correct…)
More practically: it is possible for a *maliciously controlled* wireless charger to do a lot of bad stuff. That control seems to need to be active, accurate, and dynamic at sub-second time scale. I.e.: a maliciously designed or highly modified charger.

Smith’s First Rule of Economics (1994) is don’t make it hard for me to spend my money with you.
From: @…
https://writing.exchange/@davepolasche<…

In October 2020 I installed two Samsung SSDs as cache devices in my NAS box (Synology DS918 ).
In the past 2 weeks, *both* of them failed. I suspect it’s because I have my security cameras writing to the NAS storage, and this crept my writes up to their 100% lifespan. No data loss because they’re cache devices only; my real data is on spinning disk.
I’m actually impressed that they failed at just about the same time. A good reminder to replace failing spinning disks immediately.<…

Just discovered the garbage #Apple Music app forgot about the 200 gigs of lossless files on my disk. Including many tracks it’s unable to upload to the cloud, so they were just gone. 😱
This happened sometime in October and I was saved by it writing “Previous Libraries” files thanks to someone caring a long time ago about folks music when

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02862 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

FastLog: An End-to-End Method to Efficiently Generate and Insert Logging Statements
Logs play a crucial role in modern software systems, serving as a means for developers to record essential information for future software maintenance. As the performance of these log-based maintenance tasks heavily relies on the quality of logging statements, various works have been proposed to assist developers in writing appropriate logging statements. However, these works either only support developers in partial sub-tasks of this whole activity; or perform with a relatively high time cost …

Fast interpolation and multiplication of unbalanced polynomials
Pascal Giorgi, Bruno Grenet, Armelle Perret du Cray, Daniel S. Roche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10139

Fast interpolation and multiplication of unbalanced polynomials
We consider the classical problems of interpolating a polynomial given a black box for evaluation, and of multiplying two polynomials, in the setting where the bit-lengths of the coefficients may vary widely, so-called unbalanced polynomials. Writing s for the total bit-length and D for the degree, our new algorithms have expected running time $\tilde{O}(s \log D)$, whereas previous methods for (resp.) dense or sparse arithmetic have at least $\tilde{O}(sD)$ or $\tilde{O}(s^2)$ bit complexity.

Cowboys’ 2024 draft plans are anyone’s guess https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_2024_draft_plans_are_anyones_guess/s1_17100_40268002

Purposeful remixing with generative AI: Constructing designer voice in multimodal composing
Xiao Tan, Wei Xu, Chaoran Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19095

Purposeful remixing with generative AI: Constructing designer voice in multimodal composing
Voice, the discursive construction of the writer's identity, has been extensively studied and theorized in composition studies. In multimodal writing, students are able to mobilize both linguistic and non linguistic resources to express their real or imagined identities. But at the same time, when students are limited to choose from available online resources, their voices might be compromised due to the incompatibility between their authorial intentions and the existing materials. This study, …

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Exploring Generative AI assisted feedback writing for students' written responses to a physics conceptual question with prompt engineering and few-shot learning
Instructor's feedback plays a critical role in students' development of conceptual understanding and reasoning skills. However, grading student written responses and providing personalized feedback can take a substantial amount of time. In this study, we explore using GPT-3.5 to write feedback to student written responses to conceptual questions with prompt engineering and few-shot learning techniques. In stage one, we used a small portion (n=20) of the student responses on one conceptual quest…

Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people's character, employability, and criminality
Valentin Hofmann, Pratyusha Ria Kalluri, Dan Jurafsky, Sharese King
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00742

Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people's character, employability, and criminality
Hundreds of millions of people now interact with language models, with uses ranging from serving as a writing aid to informing hiring decisions. Yet these language models are known to perpetuate systematic racial prejudices, making their judgments biased in problematic ways about groups like African Americans. While prior research has focused on overt racism in language models, social scientists have argued that racism with a more subtle character has developed over time. It is unknown whether …

Sister Zombie, A Memoir by Anna Appleby - Limited series 🏆📝👩‍🎤
Narrated horror series | Total listening time: 12h 39m
Teenage twin sisters struggle with identity issues after moving to a small town. Also, zombies. Nominated for Best Writing and Best Actress, 2022 Indie Series Awards. A radio-play in 47 chapters. Starring Angie Morency.
Nominated for Best W...

Sister Zombie, A Memoir by Anna Appleby - Limited series 🏆📝👩‍🎤
Narrated horror series | Total listening time: 12h 39m Teenage twin sisters struggle with identity issues after moving to a small town. Also, zombies. Nominated for Best Writing and Best Actress, 2022 Indie Series Awards. A radio-play in 47 chapters. Starring Angie Morency. Nominated for Best Writing and Best Actress, 2022 Indie Series Awards. Winner, Special Mentions, International Podcasts: Best Writing and Best Show, 2022 New Zealand WebFest. 1 seasons, 47 episodes as of Apr 19, 2021.

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Generalize Synchronization Mechanism: Specification, Properties, Limits
Shared resources synchronization is a well studied problem, in both shared memory environment or distributed memory environment. Many synchronization mechanisms are proposed, with their own way to reach certain consistency level. This thesis further found that there is no perfect synchronization mechanism. Each of them has its properties at different level. For example, to enforce strong consistency, writers may loose writing freedom or it would take more time to coordinate. This thesis propose…

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The HaLLMark Effect: Supporting Provenance and Transparent Use of Large Language Models in Writing with Interactive Visualization
The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for writing has sparked controversy both among readers and writers. On one hand, writers are concerned that LLMs will deprive them of agency and ownership, and readers are concerned about spending their time on text generated by soulless machines. On the other hand, AI-assistance can improve writing as long as writers can conform to publisher policies, and as long as readers can be assured that a text has been verified by a human. We argue that a system t…

Anyone know of a #macOS equivalent to Solaris/Linux/*BSD ‘getent' for querying the system name resolver (i.e. not just querying unicast DNS)? (And how is this not a #POSIX utility?)
I went as far as writing enough C (~30 lines) to trivially wrap gethostby{addr,name}() some time back but I should r…

New format tarot show is finally done!
What fun it's been building this big virtual stage and writing all the python programs to automatically animate it all.
Took all month, but future shows should barely take a few hours.
There's still a mistake in there but I haven't got time to re-render all the frames. Can you spot it? Shouldn't happen in future.
Anyway, presenting a tarot explanation of what the hell is going on with the world:
#tarot #worldpol #war #video #peertube

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00026 has been replaced.
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Ink and Individuality: Crafting a Personalised Narrative in the Age of LLMs
Individuality and personalization comprise the distinctive characteristics that make each writer unique and influence their words in order to effectively engage readers while conveying authenticity. However, our growing reliance on LLM-based writing assistants risks compromising our creativity and individuality over time. We often overlook the negative impacts of this trend on our creativity and uniqueness, despite the possible consequences. This study investigates these concerns by performing …

Enhancing ICU Patient Recovery: Using LLMs to Assist Nurses in Diary Writing
Samuel Kernan Freire, Margo MC van Mol, Carola Schol, Elif \"Ozcan Vieira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15205

Enhancing ICU Patient Recovery: Using LLMs to Assist Nurses in Diary Writing
Intensive care unit (ICU) patients often develop new health-related problems in their long-term recovery. Health care professionals keeping a diary of a patient's stay is a proven strategy to tackle this but faces several adoption barriers, such as lack of time and difficulty in knowing what to write. Large language models (LLMs), with their ability to generate human-like text and adaptability, could solve these challenges. However, realizing this vision involves addressing several socio-techni…

Sunday MIGHT be blog day...🤔
I haven't done that in A LONG TIME. However, there's been LOTS happening and I'm very excited for the future of the platform, right now.
I am obviously still a little cynical when it comes to corporations and their intentions with Fedi, though.
If I have time, (and if I feel good enough. Anxiety is a bitch) I'll do a writing session and detail my thoughts, reasonings, and experiences with this social movement so far.
I'll also be detailing the nuances of each cross-platform integration I have firsthand experience with.
Let me know if this is a type of blog post would be interesting or intriguing to you and it might help me with motivation to pull it off. I don't want to "yell into the void". Especially with something I have so much passion for, and will take some time to complete.
#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #IceShrimp #FireFish #Misskey #Sharkey #Lemmy #Kbin #Mbin #NodeBB #GoToSocial #Meta #Threads #Nostr #BlueSky #BridgyFed #Momostr #Bridge #Flipboard #WordPress #Blog #Blogging

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Writer-Defined AI Personas for On-Demand Feedback Generation
Compelling writing is tailored to its audience. This is challenging, as writers may struggle to empathize with readers, get feedback in time, or gain access to the target group. We propose a concept that generates on-demand feedback, based on writer-defined AI personas of any target audience. We explore this concept with a prototype (using GPT-3.5) in two user studies (N=5 and N=11): Writers appreciated the concept and strategically used personas for getting different perspectives. The feedback…