Tootfinder

Long-term Monitoring of Scintillation in the #Pulsar J0332 5434: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ae485916-3549-4300-b44f-b009b2be98f4 -> SETI Institute Tracks ‘Twinkling’ Pulsar Signals to Sharpen Cosmic Clocks and Hunt for Alien Signals: https://thedebrief.org/seti-institute-tracks-twinkling-pulsar-signals-to-sharpen-cosmic-clocks-and-hunt-for-alien-signals/

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 93708 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

Spent some time today to use my GPS tracks and geo-located images to improve #OpenStreetMap around the trail to/from Choquequirao.
Next up will be doing the same for the trail to Machu Picchu - and then getting some images from along the way on Wikimedia Commons.

A large number of armed Customs and Border Patrol agents responded to the crowd by hurling smoke grenades, shooting pepper balls and deploying at least three rounds of tear gas over the area,
even with children and seniors in the area.
At least four protesters were detained.
“When you’re using these tactics, you are asking people to be hospitalized,”
said Oscar Sanchez, a member of a rapid response network that tracks immigration enforcement activity.
He said h…

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd
The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who protested the tactics of immigration agents.

The week-end was full of #boardgames 🤓
* Epochs: Course of Cultures
* Roll Player
* Millennia: Tracks of Time
* Chants for the Old Ones

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Wraithe/115571465145460782
And we’re back. No worm city (I asked - apparently first thing I asked, which tracks) and apparently Trump is still president so..not “so long suckers”
*ahem* um, yeah, glad to still be here wit…

Book Review: ‘Every Day Is Sunday,’ by Ken Belson https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/books/review/every-day-is-sunday-ken-belson.html

The Austrian Data Protection Authority ("DSB") issued a decision finding that Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks students and uses student data for Microsoft's own purposes.
https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-microsoft-365-education-tracks-school-child…

noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education tracks school children
Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 80270 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

Ich habe so um 2000 herum gerne Lowfi Beats/Lowfi Hip Hop als Hintergrundmusik gehört. Obwohl ich nicht immer angestrengt gelauscht habe, wenn die Beats im Hintergrund vor sich hinplätscherten, habe ich doch zwischendurch immer aufgemerkt, wenn eine Komposition im Sound-Bett originell war.
Das Genre ist für mich mittlerweile nicht mehr hörbar, weil entsprechende Playlists komplett mit seelenlosen Plastik-Tracks geflutet wurden. Es ist alles nicht schön mit der generativen KI.

🐭 High-speed imaging tracks live brain cell activity in awake mice
#brain

High-speed imaging tracks live brain cell activity in awake mice
A research team from the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has achieved a breakthrough in brain imaging by developing the world's first technology to capture high-resolution images of the brains of awake experimental mice in a nearly noninvasive manner.

How Does Instrumental Music Help SingFake Detection?
Xuanjun Chen, Chia-Yu Hu, I-Ming Lin, Yi-Cheng Lin, I-Hsiang Chiu, You Zhang, Sung-Feng Huang, Yi-Hsuan Yang, Haibin Wu, Hung-yi Lee, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14675

How Does Instrumental Music Help SingFake Detection?
Although many models exist to detect singing voice deepfakes (SingFake), how these models operate, particularly with instrumental accompaniment, is unclear. We investigate how instrumental music affects SingFake detection from two perspectives. To investigate the behavioral effect, we test different backbones, unpaired instrumental tracks, and frequency subbands. To analyze the representational effect, we probe how fine-tuning alters encoders' speech and music capabilities. Our results show tha…

This week’s #MondayRandom10, from my playlist of 2074 tracks:
1. Lex Junior—“Blue Skies”
2. Simon & Garfunkel—“The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)”
3. Pop Will Eat Itself—“Ich Bin Ein Auslander”
4. Filter & The Crystal Method—“(Can’t You) Trip Like I Do”
5. The B-52s—“Roam”
6. Iggy Pop—“Lust for Life”
7. Ministry—“Psalm 69”
8. Split Enz—…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Bizarre Tracks:
🎵 Sensory Delights
#BizarreTracks
https://shop.mentalgroove.ch/track/bizarre-tracks-sensory-delights

Putting the Dutch offshore wind train back on the tracks
The Dutch offshore wind programme is in trouble. While 4.5 GW is in operation and another 1.5 GW under construction, the original plan was to rapidly build out capacity to 21 GW by 2032. That target is now out of reach.
My thoughts on how this happened, and what to do about it!

Putting the Dutch offshore wind train back on the tracks
Putting the Dutch offshore wind train back on the tracks

Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/brazil-fast-tracks-paving-controversial-highway-in-amazon-with-new-licensing-rul…

Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule
Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, including paving a highway that cuts through one of the most intact parts of the Amazon Rainforest in northwestern Brazil. The BR-319 highway runs through 885 kilometers (550 miles) of rainforest, connecting Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, with Rondônia state farther […]

Got that new Eye Ball tape 😍
(Tapes sold out but you can still hear and buy the tracks here: #PhysicalMedia

"Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #Trees

Brazil fast-tracks paving controversial highway in Amazon with new licensing rule
Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, including paving a highway that cuts through one of the most intact parts of the Amazon Rainforest in northwestern Brazil. The BR-319 highway runs through 885 kilometers (550 miles) of rainforest, connecting Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, with Rondônia state farther […]

Spain to launch €60 monthly nationwide public transport pass | Spain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/15/spain-to-launch-60-monthly-nationwide-public-transport-pass
> Bus and train initiati…

Global #TippingPoints Report 2025: https://global-tipping-points.org/resources-gtp/ (summary and full report) -> Bleaching, Melting, Slowing - New report tracks growing risks of Earth system tipping points: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest-news/files/bleaching-melting-slowing-new-report-tracks-growing-risks-of-earth-system-tipping-points-4 -> The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, landmark report finds: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/13/climate/tipping-points-coral-reef-ice-amoc

China is expediting IPO approvals amid its AI rivalry with the US, recently approving listings for chip designers MetaX and Moore Threads in just three months (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-fast-tracks-tech-ipos-counter-…

China Fast Tracks Tech IPOs to Counter US AI rivalry
The tech rivalry with the U.S. has made China take an unusual step: It is accelerating the pace at which startups go public in hopes of increasing investment in the tech sector. In recent months, securities regulators in China approved the public listings of two chip designers, MetaX and Moore ...

Christmas music is more popular than ever, with listeners embracing it earlier in the year; by December 10, 20 of Spotify's top 25 tracks were Christmas-themed (Elias Leight/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/music/…

Truly one of my fave tracks of all time — such a calm & warm energy, dubby ambient techno at its finest...
Toffes Värld - Bortom (2017)
#Music4Coding

On the Complexity of Bicycle Unitracks
Ivan Molodyk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10388 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10388…

On the Complexity of Bicycle Unitracks
This paper concerns the geometry of bicycle tracks. We model bicycle as an oriented segment of a fixed length that is moving in the Euclidean plane so that the trajectory of the rear point is tangent to the segment at all times. The trajectories of front and back points of the segment are called bicycle tracks, and one asks if it is possible that the front track is contained in the rear track (other than when they are straight lines). Such curves are called unitracks or unicycle tracks. In 2002…

🪨 Rocks on train tracks strand 900 Machu Picchu tourists amid protest
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/17/rocks-on-train-tracks-strand-900-machu-picchu-tourists-amid-protest

🐽 🇪🇺 #Microsoft 365 Education darf Schüler nicht tracken | @…
https://

I tried batch uploading "a couple" (several hundreds) of my GPX tracks from the recent years into #wanderer . It went all smooth! And I finally have the "white areas" which I didn't walk or cycle -- yet! :D
When people ask me if I'm out and about often, I never know what to say. I try to get into nature once in a while, yes.

So viel zum Thema #Chatkontrolle und „Wer nichts zu verbergen hat…“
Wenn die Falschen an der Macht sind und die Strukturen bestehen, wird es übel.
https://www.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

Moody Urbanity - Passer By 🚶‍♂️
情绪化城市 - 路人 🚶‍♂️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250930/p163#a250930p163

This is one of the many reasons I use #Bandcamp and #Qobuz.
I actually own my #music, no corporate algorithm deciding what I “should” like, no invisible hand yanking albums away because some…

The Silksong soundtrack slaps so hard it blows my mind!
Enter Pharloom, Bellhart, Choral Chambers, Cogwork Dancers, Trobbio you name it. The tracks fit the game so well and even by themself do they get to my core!
Magical really!
https://christopherlarkin.bandcamp.com

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicPlanet
- Gambian kora music and Tibetan prayer song
Lopa Kothari picks out fresh roots-based music, and Karachi-born spiritual practitioner Manizeh guides us through two tracks: one for the road, and one that reminds her of home.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n89x

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/

I wish Spotify gave me the option to hide all tracks that are:
- Released after 2024 H1
- Less than 3:00 long
- From an artist with less than 20,000 monthly plays that I'm not following
Call it the AI slop toggle

NFL Week 7 injury report: Player statuses for all 15 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-7-injury-report-player-statuses-for-all-15-games

It's Monday. I have 2107 tracks on my playlist. I’m going to list 10 of them at random:
1. Afrojack & Saymyname, “Hot”
2. Propellerheads, “Crash!”
3. Bloodywood, “Punjabi Metal”
4. Cypress Hill, “Dr Greenthumb”
5. Jon English, “Hollywood Seven”
6. Basement Jaxx, “Get Me Off”
7. The Cure, “This is a Lie”
8. E-Klektik, “Maracana Madness”
9. Subcarpați, “Underground Folclor”
10. The Beatles, “I am the Walrus”
And then I’ll slap a …

Deezer-Ipsos survey of 9,000 music listeners in eight countries: 97% can't distinguish AI-generated music, 73% support clear labelling of AI tracks, and more (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a

Exploring Artificial Intelligence and Culture: Methodology for a comparative study of AI's impact on norms, trust, and problem-solving across academic and business environments
Matthias Huemmer, Theophile Shyiramunda, Michelle J. Cummings-Koether
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11530

Exploring Artificial Intelligence and Culture: Methodology for a comparative study of AI's impact on norms, trust, and problem-solving across academic and business environments
This paper proposes a rigorous framework to examine the two-way relationship between artificial intelligence (AI), human cognition, problem-solving, and cultural adaptation across academic and business settings. It addresses a key gap by asking how AI reshapes cognitive processes and organizational norms, and how cultural values and institutional contexts shape AI adoption, trust, and use over time. We employ a three-wave longitudinal design that tracks AI knowledge, perceived competence, trust…

This is the first time a book I've contributed to has gotten the subway platform publicity treatment.
#histodons #Montréal #HigherEd

MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) III. The White Dwarf Cooling Sequence
Evan B. Bauer, Aaron Dotter, Charlie Conroy, Tim Cunningham, Minjung Park, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21717

MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) III. The White Dwarf Cooling Sequence
We present a substantial update to the MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) library, extending the MIST model grids and isochrones down the white dwarf (WD) cooling sequence with realistic physics for WD cooling timescales. This work provides a large grid of MESA models for carbon-oxygen core WDs with hydrogen atmospheres (spectral type DA/DC), descended from full prior stellar evolution calculations. The model tracks, isochrones, and WD cooling timescale contours are available on the MIST…

Full die PIC12F683 100x scan at M3 with a little bit of passivation remaining.
There's a few small particulates on the surface from my somewhat crude "rub it with a swab" cleaning to remove residual undercut glass fragments.
Plan is to give it ~10 more seconds in HF to get more glass residue off, then maybe a very brief sonication (like 2-3 seconds), then image again to see if it cleaned up at all.
Depending on how things go I might end up just continuing to e…

Isn't this great from a surveillance perspective...? 😆
#wifi

Wi-Fi Signal Tracks Heartbeat Without Wearables
Can Wi-Fi signals really track your heartbeat? Dive into the world of Pulse-Fi and find out how it works without wearables.

I'm listening to the music track of the yet to be released Netflix "Train Dreams" by Dessner. (He also did the interesting music for the "Manhunt" series.)
It seems to me that some of the better compositions and performances are in sound tracks and credits of movies and series.
(Such as the "Strange Game" tune by Mick Jagger in the Slow Horses series. But perhaps the greatest are some older things, like the B. Hermann music from Hitchock's …

FINALLY started scrobbling my shit on last.fm. This is me: https://www.last.fm/user/jake4480

jake4480’s Music Profile | Last.fm
Listen to music from jake4480’s library (18 tracks played). jake4480’s top artists: Ahkatari, place on earth, Arabic Flavor Music. Get your own music profile at Last.fm, the world’s largest social music platform.

Here's what the doctor ordered https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/115709466867787148

There is an ActivityPub proposal that involves the #DNS.
I have only just discovered it and have not considered it deeply so I am reluctant to make any grand statements. It is not obvious to me why this is useful or better than alternative approaches. It appears to involve the use of TXT RRs, any new de facto use of which makes me skeptical.

[TRACKING] FEP-612d: Identifying ActivityPub Objects through DNS
The proposal has been received. Thank you! This issue tracks discussions and updates to the proposal during the `DRAFT` period. Please post links to relevant discussions as comment to this issue. `dateReceived`: 2023-04-18 If no further actions are taken, the proposal may be set by ed...

Deezer-Ipsos survey of 9,000 music listeners in eight countries: 97% can't distinguish AI-generated music, 73% support clear labelling of AI tracks, and more (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a

I AM A NORMAL MUSIC LOVER!
I'm just spending my Sunday running my python backup script on Tidal to find what song's have been randomly removed from my fav tracks so I can re-add them.
Why does their ingestion system suck so bad???
look at the diff on this tracks file!!!

* Step through rendering code and see individual parts draw to the screen like RenderDoc or Unity's Frame Debugger.
* Run to breakpoint in reverse (or data breakpoint!!!)
* Stores a session file that tracks all of your input and code changes that's portable so you can send to coworkers.

I want to inform my fellow #Germans that I’m stranded in a Taiwanese train. There is a problem with the tracks. A rare instance.
Never have I been better prepared for disaster

This week’s pick comes from Swiss thrash titans Coroner!
So sit down, brace yourself and play this one loud. Go on, it's almost the weekend, you deserve a treat!
Don't forget to follow us for more hand picked tracks from across the epic world of #rock and #metal, curated, reviewed, and…

Coroner - Semtex Revolution
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

Iza Meltxor was 2nd in the 2025 Danby Down and Dirty with a time of 1:57:13; find more photos of this event #photo

An interesting 4-part series of articles about ore formation processes (published on Hackaday, of all places):
Introduction And Magmatic Processes
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/13/ore-formation-introduction-and-magmatic-processes/
Hydro…

Ore Formation: Introduction And Magmatic Processes
Hackaday has a long-running series on Mining and Refining, that tracks elements of interest on the human-made road from rocks to riches. What author Dan Maloney doesn’t address in that series…

Tidal For Streaming
I know that Spotify is considered to have the best algorithm for suggesting new music. However, the sound quality isn’t there. Therefore, I use Tidal for lossless hi-res playback (of at least some of the library). Today, I’ve found that Tidal does a pretty good job suggesting other tracks I would like to listen to after playing an album. Some time back, it was just suggesting rap, and other stuff I didn’t care to listen to.

Tidal For Streaming
I know that Spotify is considered to have the best algorithm for suggesting new music. However, the sound quality isn’t there. Therefore, I use Tidal for lossless hi-res playback (of at least some …

Jede Woche intensiv ein Album hören. Das letzte Album dieser Reihe lief hier sogar zwei Wochen, weil ich in der ersten Woche nicht ausreichend Zeit fand, mich damit zu beschäftigen. Dabei läuft The Overview (erschienen 2025) gerade mal etwas über 40min und hat auch nur zwei Tracks. Die es aber in sich haben, wie man es von einem Steven Wilson erwartet. #albumderwoche

OK, that's a new one: they replaced the carriage I was on. Everybody had to get off, everybody ahead of that carriage went for a ride along, they brought back two new carriages instead. Wild.
#CrossBorderRail

Generative World Modelling for Humanoids: 1X World Model Challenge Technical Report
Riccardo Mereu, Aidan Scannell, Yuxin Hou, Yi Zhao, Aditya Jitta, Antonio Dominguez, Luigi Acerbi, Amos Storkey, Paul Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07092

Generative World Modelling for Humanoids: 1X World Model Challenge Technical Report
World models are a powerful paradigm in AI and robotics, enabling agents to reason about the future by predicting visual observations or compact latent states. The 1X World Model Challenge introduces an open-source benchmark of real-world humanoid interaction, with two complementary tracks: sampling, focused on forecasting future image frames, and compression, focused on predicting future discrete latent codes. For the sampling track, we adapt the video generation foundation model Wan-2.2 TI2V-…

MATRIX: Mask Track Alignment for Interaction-aware Video Generation
Siyoon Jin, Seongchan Kim, Dahyun Chung, Jaeho Lee, Hyunwook Choi, Jisu Nam, Jiyoung Kim, Seungryong Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07310

MATRIX: Mask Track Alignment for Interaction-aware Video Generation
Video DiTs have advanced video generation, yet they still struggle to model multi-instance or subject-object interactions. This raises a key question: How do these models internally represent interactions? To answer this, we curate MATRIX-11K, a video dataset with interaction-aware captions and multi-instance mask tracks. Using this dataset, we conduct a systematic analysis that formalizes two perspectives of video DiTs: semantic grounding, via video-to-text attention, which evaluates whether n…

It’s #MondayRandom10 again, and here are 10 random tracks from my playlist (currently of 2068 tracks):
1. White Zombie—“Grindhouse (A Go-go)”
2. The Beatles—“Helter Skelter (2018 Mix)”
3. Cop Shoot Cop—“Room 429”
4. AG Club—“Adam Sandler”
5. Alpine Universe—“The Empire of Winds”
6. Bryce Fox—“Golden Boy”
7. Mindless Self Indulgence—“Tom Sawyer (Remastered)”

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
https://www.404media.co/email/0ba0f6a2-9195-4ced-9c40-92bb72367e7a/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Recognition Evaluation
Vaibhav Srivastav, Steven Zheng, Eric Bezzam, Eustache Le Bihan, Nithin Koluguri, Piotr \.Zelasko, Somshubra Majumdar, Adel Moumen, Sanchit Gandhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06961

Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Recognition Evaluation
Despite rapid progress, ASR evaluation remains saturated with short-form English, and efficiency is rarely reported. We present the Open ASR Leaderboard, a fully reproducible benchmark and interactive leaderboard comparing 60+ open-source and proprietary systems across 11 datasets, including dedicated multilingual and long-form tracks. We standardize text normalization and report both word error rate (WER) and inverse real-time factor (RTFx), enabling fair accuracy-efficiency comparisons. For E…

Free to Move: Reachability Types with Flow-Sensitive Effects for Safe Deallocation and Ownership Transfer
Haotian Deng, Siyuan He, Songlin Jia, Yuyan Bao, Tiark Rompf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08939

Free to Move: Reachability Types with Flow-Sensitive Effects for Safe Deallocation and Ownership Transfer
We present a flow-sensitive effect system for reachability types that supports explicit memory management, including Rust-style move semantics, in higher-order impure functional languages. Our system refines the existing reachability qualifier with polymorphic \emph{use} and \emph{kill} effects that record how references are read, written, transferred, and deallocated. The effect discipline tracks operations performed on each resource using qualifiers, enabling the type system to express owners…

Moody Urbanity - Nowhere 🔲
情绪化城市 - 无处 🔲
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Since the release of my last two albums, I have been working on a new album, due out with Evel Records in January. As we move into the new year, I felt to share one of its tracks - 'Geometry of Birds' - ahead of time.
I hope you enjoy. 🙏
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F…

Downtown Fake London (Ontario) is weird. Some of it is exactly the automobile-infested hell that @… routinely describes. But there's still quite a few people out here walking and biking in spite of the inhospitable conditions.
There's some recently-built protected cycle tracks that make me wish I could bring a bicycle here on Via and toot around for an afternoon of coffee shops. The network is super not-complete though. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️
#BikeTooter #londonon

SemiAnalysis launches InferenceMAX, an open-source benchmark that automatically tracks LLM inference performance across AI models and frameworks every night (Kimbo Chen/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/inferencemax-open-source-inference

InferenceMAX™: Open Source Inference Benchmarking
NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, AMD MI355X, Throughput Token per GPU, Latency Tok/s/user, Perf per Dollar, Tokens per Provisioned Megawatt, DeepSeek R1 670B, GPTOSS 120B, Llama3 70B

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThisClassicalLife
- Jess Gillam with... Ksenija Sidorova
Jess Gillam swaps favourite music with the accordionist Ksenija Sidorova, including tracks by Shostakovich, Tonu Korvits, Astor Piazzolla, Vivaldi and Otis Redding.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024fxl

‘Find My Parking Cops’ Tracks Officers Handing Out Tickets All Around San Francisco https://www.404media.co/find-my-parking-cops-tracks-officers-handing-out-tickets-all-around-san-francisco/

Automatic Music Sample Identification with Multi-Track Contrastive Learning
Alain Riou, Joan Serr\`a, Yuki Mitsufuji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11507 https://

Automatic Music Sample Identification with Multi-Track Contrastive Learning
Sampling, the technique of reusing pieces of existing audio tracks to create new music content, is a very common practice in modern music production. In this paper, we tackle the challenging task of automatic sample identification, that is, detecting such sampled content and retrieving the material from which it originates. To do so, we adopt a self-supervised learning approach that leverages a multi-track dataset to create positive pairs of artificial mixes, and design a novel contrastive lear…

Pelican is putting out a 12" EP 'Ascending' on January 9 with Flickering Resonance era tracks. The last two had a limited release in 2024, and the title track was left off Flickering Resonance as they felt it was more its own thing. Didn't know if I was gonna like Geoff Rickly's (from Thursday) vocals on the 'vocal version' of 'Cascading Crescent', but it rips: <…

Spotify updates its AI policy, including adopting the upcoming DDEX standard to label and identify AI music and rolling out a new music spam filter (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/spotify-updates-ai-policy-to-label-trac…

Spotify to label AI music, filter spam and more in AI policy change | TechCrunch
Spotify is launching a music spam filter, labeling AI tracks, and clarifying its rules around AI voice clones.

Spotify updates its AI policy, including adopting the upcoming DDEX standard to label and identify AI music and rolling out a new music spam filter (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/spotify-updates-ai-policy-to-label-trac…

Spotify to label AI music, filter spam and more in AI policy change | TechCrunch
Spotify is launching a music spam filter, labeling AI tracks, and clarifying its rules around AI voice clones.

I do love that if you format it correctly github will give you a searchable table on the website
#music

It's #MondayRandom10 time! The first 10 random tracks off my playlist (curently 2048 songs) are:
1. White Zombie – Thunder Kiss ‘65
2. Sara Watkins – Take Up Your Spade
3. Beck – Loser
4. Bomfunk MCs – Freestyler (Radio Edit)
5. Ice Cube – Everythang's Corrupt
6. Future of the Left – Animals Beginning with a B
7. Luscious Jackson – Naked Eye
8. R…

A tiny side-project that I can hopefully pull through: reverse engineering an audio box for kids that works with proprietary “tokens.” Like a cassette player but rigid af. Use and dispose. #hackerspace #netz39
First stop, getting info about chips and pins. A cheap USB microcontroller it i…

Spotify users can now connect their accounts to ChatGPT so it can provide recommendations for tracks, artists, podcasts, and playlists (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/you-can-now-connect-your-spotify-ac…

You can now connect your Spotify account to ChatGPT: Here’s how to do it | TechCrunch
You can now connect your Spotify account in ChatGPT and it will perform tasks for you, such as creating personalized playlists.

Moody Urbanity - Oracles III 🈳
情绪化城市 - 谕 III 🈳
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 71604 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

Currently playing EP '1467kHz' by Simon Arnold: https://simonarnold.bandcamp.com/album/1467khz
It's described that it 'can be understood as an acoustic short film rather than a conventional music production', and that 'the tracks unfold in a dense jazzy atmo…

Learning Relationships Between Separate Audio Tracks for Creative Applications
Balthazar Bujard (IRCAM, SU), J\'er\^ome Nika (IRCAM), F\'ed\'eric Bevilacqua (IRCAM), Nicolas Obin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25296

Learning Relationships Between Separate Audio Tracks for Creative Applications
This paper presents the first step in a research project situated within the field of musical agents. The objective is to achieve, through training, the tuning of the desired musical relationship between a live musical input and a real-time generated musical output, through the curation of a database of separated tracks. We propose an architecture integrating a symbolic decision module capable of learning and exploiting musical relationships from such musical corpus. We detail an offline implem…

Good night with one of my all-time fave tracks by Boris Bunnik aka Conforce... Closer is an absolute masterpiece, perfect for late rainy nights, with a calm but haunting atmosphere and warm ambience...
Conforce - Closer (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oi4aUdQ94k

From the neoclassical station entrance
— with its massive emerald-green sliding steel doors, pyramid-like roof and domed ceiling
— to the wide concrete staircases leading down to the cool, musty underground platform and tracks, the station exudes a peculiar mix of mystery and urban decay.
“Be careful, there’s iron dust, mud and oil everywhere,” says Mamoru Iwai,
Keisei Ueno Station’s stationmaster and my guide inside Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station,

Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 54480 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

Nice collection of 2107 tracks I got here. Be a shame were #MondayRandom10 to happen to it.
1. The Body, “Removal”
2. Guante (ft Dem Atlas), “Matches”
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Soul to Squeeze”
4. Jack White, “Taking Me Back”
5. Einstürzende Neubauten, "Die Interimsliebenden”
6. Queens of the Stone Age, “Feel Good Hit of the Summer”
7. Marilyn Manson, “…

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 54480 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

If you’re fed up with Meta right now,
you’re not alone.
Google searches for deleting Facebook and Instagram spiked last week
after Meta announced its latest policy changes.
These changes, seemingly designed to appease the incoming Trump administration,
included loosening Meta’s hate speech policy to allow for the targeting of LGBTQ people and immigrants. 
If these changes
—or Meta’s long history of anti-competitive, censorial, and invasive practice…

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know.

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 112890 edges.
Tags: Biol…

PEN America warns that book bans in public schools have become "rampant and common", with 3,750 titles banned in 87 districts during the 2024-25 school year (Elizabeth A. Harris/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/books/book-bans-pen-america.html…

‘Rampant’ Book Bans Are Now Taken for Granted, Free Speech Group Warns
A new report from PEN America tracks restrictions on school books across 45 states.

#NowPlaying excellent new debut LP 'Fate Unknown' from HOT LOAD outta L.A. - this is rip roaring.. Kinda punk like Poison Idea but also plenty of Motorhead vibes you'll hear more and more as the tracks go on. A great batch of rowdy tunes. Love how the first hashtag on this is 'drugs' 😂

Sources: OpenAI is developing AI tools to generate music from text and audio prompts, including capabilities such as adding guitar accompaniment to vocal tracks (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-plots-gene…

OpenAI Plots Generating AI Music in Potential Rivalry With Startup Suno
OpenAI recently made a splash with artificial intelligence that generates short videos from text prompts—say, a scene from “Lord of the Rings” but with Gen Z characters, or Pokémon’s Pikachu as “The Godfather.” Now the company has set its sights on doing the same thing with music. OpenAI staff ...

#MondayRandom10: the first 10 random songs from my playlist (currently 2056 tracks):
1. Enon—Shave
2. LEN—Steal My Sunshine
3. Argatu’—Foaie Verde Murele
4. Placebo—Pure Morning
5. Soul Coughing—Disseminated
6. Gary Numan—My Name is Ruin
7. Pink Floyd—Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-7)
8. Soul Coughing—Casiotone Nation (Live)
9. Stone Temple Pil…

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 80270 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

From a selection of 2105 tracks, my #MondayRandom10 for this week is:
1. The Jubalaires, “Preacher and the Bear”
2. Sam and the Womp (ft Natty Campbell), “Come We Play”
3. Apollo 440, “Heart Go Boom”
4. 10cc, “I’m Not In Love”
5. The Chainsmokers (ft Daya), “Don’t Let Me Down”
6. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, “The Mercy Seat (2010 Remaster)”
7. Future of the…