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Peering through Lenovo’s transparent laptop into a sci-fi future. 🤔
https://www.theverge.com/24082244/lenovo-concept-transparent-laptop-mwc-2024-drawing-tablet

The whole industry has been working on increasing contrast for decades and now Lenovo wants to sell us a transparent display.
And a flat glass surface for a keyboard on laptop? That’ll make butterfly keyboards feel like IBM buckled spring.
Don’t get me wrong, I think a transparent display is amazing, especially for signage, but on a laptop? No.
#technology

Peering through Lenovo’s transparent laptop into a sci-fi future
Lenovo’s ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop is a 17.3-inch notebook with a transparent screen and a built-in tablet for you to doodle on.

Lenovo demos the ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop concept, with a 17.3-inch MicroLED panel and a built-in drawing tablet (Jon Porter/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24082244/lenovo-concept-transparent-laptop-mwc-2024-drawing-tabl…

Peering through Lenovo’s transparent laptop into a sci-fi future
Lenovo’s ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop is a 17.3-inch notebook with a transparent screen and a built-in tablet for you to doodle on.

Mentafy: Kontrolle des Schreibprozesses für Lehrende, KI-Hilfe für Nutzende
Stammt der Text vom Prüfling oder der KI? Ein Start-up aus Köln möchte Arbeitsprozesse für Lehrende transparent machen und KI-Tools dabei nicht verdammen.

Femtosecond Laser Turns Glass Into a “Transparent” Light-Energy Harvester
https://scitechdaily.com/femtosecond-laser-turns-glass-into-a-transparent-light-energy-harvester/

Femtosecond Laser Turns Glass Into a “Transparent” Light-Energy Harvester
Researchers found that exposing tellurite glass to femtosecond laser light creates semiconducting nanocrystals, opening the possibility of turning glass into electricity-generating surfaces using only light. What happens when you expose tellurite glass to femtosecond laser light? That’s the quest

Der andere transparente Laptop. (Geht es nur mir so, dass das durchaus attraktiv aussieht? Gibson Sandbender?)
https://www.core77.com/posts/129031/A-Laptop-Designed-for-Prisons

A Laptop Designed for Prisons - Core77
As we've written before, companies manufacturing electronics designed to be used in prisons make them transparent, so that inmates cannot use them to smuggle contraband. Previously we'd looked at some prison radios as well as transparent electric typewriters, but product pipelines evolve, and now there are

Realised last night that JavaScript Database (JSDB) doesn’t run the constructor on persisted custom objects (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb#custom-data-types) when deserialising them because I didn’t know that you apparently have to define your constructor manual…

jsdb
A zero-dependency, transparent, in-memory, streaming write-on-update JavaScript database for the Small Web that persists to a JavaScript transaction log.

Julia Angwin launches Proof, a nonprofit studio aimed at elevating journalism by using the scientific method as a guiding ethos; Angwin is founder, CEO, and EIC (Julia Angwin/Proof)
https://www.proofnews.org/a-letter-from-our-founder/

A Letter From Our Founder
At Proof, we don’t chase stories. We develop hypotheses and test them. We aim to be transparent about what we know and what we don’t.

Accelerating Scientific Application through Transparent I/O Interposition
Steven W. D. Chien, Kento Sato, Artur Podobas, Niclas Jansson, Stefano Markidis, Michio Honda
https://arXiv.org/abs/2401.14576

Accelerating Scientific Application through Transparent I/O Interposition
The ability to handle a large volume of data generated by scientific applications is crucial. We have seen an increase in the heterogeneity of storage technologies available to scientific applications, such as burst buffers, local temporary block storage, managed cloud parallel file systems (PFS), and non-POSIX object stores. However, scientific applications designed for traditional HPC systems can not easily exploit those storage systems due to cost, throughput, and programming model challenge…

“The slow crash of newspapers and magazines would be of limited interest save for one thing: Traditional media had at its core the exalted and difficult mission of communicating information about the world. From investigative reports on government to coverage of local politicians, the news served to make all the institutions and individuals covered a bit more transparent and, possibly, more honest.”

How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future
Roger Fidler tried his best, but the excellent business of journalism is gone for good. Can the idea of “news” survive in a digital world?

Sources: Gemini's image generation tool had a technical fix to reduce bias in its outputs but Google didn't anticipate the overcorrection and wasn't transparent (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google Left in ‘Terrible Bind’ By Pulling AI Feature After Right-Wing Backlash
Google tried using a technical fix to reduce bias in a feature that generates realistic-looking images of people. Instead, it set off a new diversity firestorm.

Rafah Attack Escalates “Most Transparent Genocide of All Time,” Scholar Says | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/rafah-attack-escalates-most-transparent-genocide-of-all-time-scholar-says/

Rafah Attack Escalates “Most Transparent Genocide of All Time,” Scholar Says
Israel now aims to unleash a ground invasion in Rafah, the city where over 1.5 million Palestinians have taken refuge.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09905 has been replaced.
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FAT-GEMs: (Field Assisted) Transparent Gaseous-Electroluminescence Multipliers
The idea of implementing electroluminescence-based amplification through transparent multi-hole structures (FAT-GEMs) has been entertained for some time. Arguably, for such a technology to be attractive it should perform at least at a level comparable to conventional alternatives based on wires or meshes. We present now a detailed calorimetric study carried out for 5.9~keV X-rays in xenon, for pressures ranging from 2 to 10~bar, resorting to different geometries, production and post-processing …

Julia Angwin launches Proof, a nonprofit studio aimed at elevating journalism by using the scientific method as a guiding ethos; Angwin is founder, CEO, and EIC (Julia Angwin/Proof)
https://www.proofnews.org/a-letter-from-our-founder/

A Letter From Our Founder
At Proof, we don’t chase stories. We develop hypotheses and test them. We aim to be transparent about what we know and what we don’t.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03573 has been replaced.
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Smart Blockchain Networks: Revolutionizing Donation Tracking in the Web 3.0
A donation-tracking system leveraging smart contracts and blockchain technology holds transformative potential for reshaping the landscape of charitable giving, especially within the context of Web 3.0. This paper explores how smart contracts and blockchain can be used to create a transparent and secure ledger for tracking charitable donations. We highlight the limitations of traditional donation systems and how a blockchain-based system can help overcome these challenges. The functionality of …

Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦐🦠
Deep-water habitats in the ocean often have very stange looking #zooplankton. This is Phronima, a meso-pelagic parasititoid hyperiid

For the first time, I made transparent melt and pour soap base. No, I can't see it either.
#SoapMaking

Vision-based robot manipulation of transparent liquid containers in a laboratory setting
Daniel Schober, Ronja G\"uldenring, James Love, Lazaros Nalpantidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16529

Vision-based robot manipulation of transparent liquid containers in a laboratory setting
Laboratory processes involving small volumes of solutions and active ingredients are often performed manually due to challenges in automation, such as high initial costs, semi-structured environments and protocol variability. In this work, we develop a flexible and cost-effective approach to address this gap by introducing a vision-based system for liquid volume estimation and a simulation-driven pouring method particularly designed for containers with small openings. We evaluate both component…

«The whole point of a transparent, democratically accountable process for expert technical deliberation is to resolve the epistemological challenge of making good choices about all of these life-or-death questions.»
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/25/black-boxes/

2021 retro-link! https://mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics-engineering - Hiding images in plain sight: an acrylic magic window that can project a picture.

Windows that are also solar panels would be huge, but if femtosecond laser is required, that seems not ideal for manufacturing. https://spectrum.ieee.org/next-generation-solar-transparent-glass

Shining Laser Light on Glass Creates a Solar Cell
New energy and sensor applications could await

My partner caught this little guy having breakfast in the back garden this morning
#photography #Photomonday #macrophotography

Oh, the comfort of not having to play peek-a-boo with the original post from another tab ->
GitHub - virtulis/substitoot: A transparent toot fetcher for Mastodon. Loads missing replies to boosted toots in your feed directly from the source server.
#substitoot

GitHub - virtulis/substitoot: A transparent toot fetcher for Mastodon. Loads missing replies to boosted toots in your feed directly from the source server.
A transparent toot fetcher for Mastodon. Loads missing replies to boosted toots in your feed directly from the source server. - GitHub - virtulis/substitoot: A transparent toot fetcher for Mastodo...

CSS-Tricks might be back?
This first post in nearly a year is authored by a Digital Ocean dev advocate:
“Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes”
https://css-tricks.com/accessible-forms-with-pseudo-classes/#comment-1808192
Yes, …

Accessible Forms with Pseudo Classes | CSS-Tricks
Hey all you wonderful developers out there! In this post, I am going to take you through creating a simple contact form using semantic HTML and an awesome CSS

Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals
Doctors have for the first time released details of their spending on a major clinical trial,
demonstrating that the true cost of developing a medicine may be far less than the billions of dollars claimed by the pharmaceutical industry.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is challenging drug companies to be transparent about the cost of trials,
which has always been shrouded in secrecy.

Canva and Affinity publish a joint pledge promising to keep Affinity's software "fair, transparent, and affordable", including keeping "perpetual licenses" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/27/2411342

Canva won’t force Affinity users into paying subscriptions
Canva and Affinity have promised to continue providing perpetual one-time payment licenses for Affinity design software, even if subscription-based pricing is introduced.

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Light-induced Nonlinear Spin Hall Current in Single-layer WTe$_2$
In this theoretical investigation, we analyze light-induced nonlinear spin Hall currents in a gated single-layer 1T$'$-WTe$_2$, flowing transversely to the incident laser polarization direction. Our study encompasses the exploration of the second and third-order rectified spin Hall currents using an effective low-energy Hamiltonian and employing Kubo's formalism. We extend our analysis to a wide frequency range spanning both transparent and absorbing regimes, investigating the influence of ligh…

Enhancing Trust and Privacy in Distributed Networks: A Comprehensive Survey on Blockchain-based Federated Learning
Ji Liu, Chunlu Chen, Yu Li, Lin Sun, Yulun Song, Jingbo Zhou, Bo Jing, Dejing Dou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19178

Enhancing Trust and Privacy in Distributed Networks: A Comprehensive Survey on Blockchain-based Federated Learning
While centralized servers pose a risk of being a single point of failure, decentralized approaches like blockchain offer a compelling solution by implementing a consensus mechanism among multiple entities. Merging distributed computing with cryptographic techniques, decentralized technologies introduce a novel computing paradigm. Blockchain ensures secure, transparent, and tamper-proof data management by validating and recording transactions via consensus across network nodes. Federated Learnin…

20/ Also 13/ ist ja genau mein Humor, aber es gab auch dieses Transparent, das für das Radrennen am Scharmützelsee wirbt. Es findet am 4.9. um 10:00–16:00 statt. Und zwar 2022.
#radscharmützel
Beim genaueren Betrachten ist mir jetzt aufgefallen, dass was durchscheint. Ich werd wohl noch mal hinfahren müssen, um herauszufinden, was da steht.

Vision-based robot manipulation of transparent liquid containers in a laboratory setting
Daniel Schober, Ronja G\"uldenring, James Love, Lazaros Nalpantidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16529

Vision-based robot manipulation of transparent liquid containers in a laboratory setting
Laboratory processes involving small volumes of solutions and active ingredients are often performed manually due to challenges in automation, such as high initial costs, semi-structured environments and protocol variability. In this work, we develop a flexible and cost-effective approach to address this gap by introducing a vision-based system for liquid volume estimation and a simulation-driven pouring method particularly designed for containers with small openings. We evaluate both component…

Revisiting Elastic String Models of Forward Interest Rates
Victor Le Coz, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18126 https://

Revisiting Elastic String Models of Forward Interest Rates
Twenty five years ago, several authors proposed to model the forward interest rate curve (FRC) as an elastic string along which idiosyncratic shocks propagate, accounting for the peculiar structure of the return correlation across different maturities. In this paper, we revisit the specific "stiff'' elastic string field theory of Baaquie and Bouchaud (2004) in a way that makes its micro-foundation more transparent. Our model can be interpreted as capturing the effect of market forces that set t…

Shining Laser Light on Glass Creates a Solar Cell - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/next-generation-solar-transparent-glass

Rep Yokela is arguing that bc the "Transparent NH" website already exists, that this bill is unnecessary https://www.nh.gov/transparentnh/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13057 has been replaced.
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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…

How to Sustain a Scientific Open-Source Software Ecosystem: Learning from the Astropy Project
Jiayi Sun, Aarya Patil, Youhai Li, Jin L. C. Guo, Shurui Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15081

How to Sustain a Scientific Open-Source Software Ecosystem: Learning from the Astropy Project
Scientific open-source software (OSS) has greatly benefited research communities through its transparent and collaborative nature. Given its critical role in scientific research, ensuring the sustainability of such software has become vital. Earlier studies have proposed sustainability strategies for conventional scientific software and open-source communities. However, it remains unclear whether these solutions can be easily adapted to the integrated framework of scientific OSS and its larger …

#irreal: "Transparent Windows: Just Say No"
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11948
Absolutely! I never understood why transparent windows are a thing at all ... 🤷

Towards Standardized Regulations for Block Chain Smart Contracts: Insights from Delphi and SWARA Analysis
Shahin Heidari, Shannon Hashemi, Mohammad-Soroush Khorsand, Alireza Daneshfar, Seyedalireza Jazayerifar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19051

Towards Standardized Regulations for Block Chain Smart Contracts: Insights from Delphi and SWARA Analysis
The rise of digital currency and the public ledger Block Chain has led to the development of a new type of electronic contract known as "smart contracts." For these contracts to be considered valid, they must adhere to traditional contract rules and be concluded without any impediments. Once written, encrypted, and signed, smart contracts are recorded in the Block Chain Ledger, providing transparent and secure record-keeping. Smart contracts offer several benefits, including their ability to ex…

Unidirectional polarization beam splitters via exceptional points and finite periodicity of Non-Hermitian PT-symmetry
Jeng Yi Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18282

Unidirectional polarization beam splitters via exceptional points and finite periodicity of Non-Hermitian PT-symmetry
We present a theoretical study of a novel polarization beam splitter (PBS), different to conventional time-reversal symmetry one, where can be totally reflected at two opposite sides with one specific linearly polarized light incident and can be transparent at only one side with its orthogonal linearly polarized light incident. %In addition, intensity of totally reflected beam would suffer from different The mechanism we employ is by both an exceptional point and finite periodicity of Non-Hermi…

Ten simple rules for collaborating with wet lab researchers for computational researchers
Mark D. Robinson, Peiying Cai, Martin Emons, Reto Gerber, Pierre-Luc Germain, Samuel Gunz, Siyuan Luo, Giulia Moro, Emanuel Sonder, Anthony Sonrel, Jiayi Wang, David Wissel, Izaskun Mallona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18348

Ten simple rules for collaborating with wet lab researchers for computational researchers
Computational biologists are frequently engaged in collaborative data analysis with wet lab researchers. These interdisciplinary projects, as necessary as they are to the scientific endeavour, can be surprisingly challenging due to cultural differences in operations and values. In these Ten Simple Rules guide we aim to help dry lab researchers identify sources of friction; and provide actionable tools to facilitate respectful, open, transparent and rewarding collaborations.

Was ist da eigentlich los? Das ging an mir vorbei? 🥴

Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals
Doctors have for the first time released details of their spending on a major clinical trial,
demonstrating that the true cost of developing a medicine may be far less than the billions of dollars claimed by the pharmaceutical industry.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is challenging drug companies to be transparent about the cost of trials,
which has always been shrouded in secrecy.

Which cities of Ukraine demonstrate the greatest transparency: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/17/which-cities-of.html

No, generative AI will not give you personalized movies from a book. Not in 5 years, not in ever.
Just please listen to the fucking grift generative AI stans are trying to make you believe. Not a single word they’re saying has any merit whatsoever.
Generative AI is complete and utter shit. More computing resources will just generate more shit faster.
I don’t understand how these people aren’t laughed off the Internet, it’s such a transparent bullshit hype.

Dual-sided transparent display
Suman Halder, Yunho Shin, Yidan Peng, Long Wang, Liye Duan, Paul Schmalenberg, Guangkui Qin, Yuxi Gao, Ercan M. Dede, Deng-Ke Yang, Sean P. Rodrigues
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13831

Dual-sided transparent display
In the past decade, display technology has been reimagined to meet the needs of the virtual world. By mapping information onto a scene through a transparent display, users can simultaneously visualize both the real world and layers of virtual elements. However, advances in augmented reality (AR) technology have primarily focused on wearable gear or personal devices. Here we present a single display capable of delivering visual information to observers positioned on either side of the transparen…

Shining Laser Light on Glass Creates a Solar Cell - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/next-generation-solar-transparent-glass

Hey, it's still #screenshotsaturday so here's the week's progress! Coded up some space heaters and a temperature sensor, and they change their output when the hero interacts with them! #gamedev

Social #ActuallyAutistic

opt-in, transparent telemetry in Golang:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/58894
https://research.swtch.com/telemetry-design
charts:
https://telemetry.go.dev/charts/2024-04-12

Microsoft must take security seriously again by being transparent about breaches and no longer charging its subscribers extra for must-have security features (Mary Jo Foley/Directions on Microsoft)
https://www.directionsonmicrosoft.com/memb

Das legendäre Berliner #Tuntenhaus in der Kastanienallee ist in Gefahr: Es ist verkauft worden und befürchtet Sanierung und Rausschmiss.
Und schreibt:
"Das Tuntenhaus ist verkauft worden!
Wir haben jetzt die Chance durch das #Vorkaufsrecht das Haus für immer zu sic…

Ten simple rules for collaborating with wet lab researchers for computational researchers
Mark D. Robinson, Peiying Cai, Martin Emons, Reto Gerber, Pierre-Luc Germain, Samuel Gunz, Siyuan Luo, Giulia Moro, Emanuel Sonder, Anthony Sonrel, Jiayi Wang, David Wissel, Izaskun Mallona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18348

Ten simple rules for collaborating with wet lab researchers for computational researchers
Computational biologists are frequently engaged in collaborative data analysis with wet lab researchers. These interdisciplinary projects, as necessary as they are to the scientific endeavour, can be surprisingly challenging due to cultural differences in operations and values. In these Ten Simple Rules guide we aim to help dry lab researchers identify sources of friction; and provide actionable tools to facilitate respectful, open, transparent and rewarding collaborations.

After successfully designing and #machining my own rotary broach holder from scratch, I thought I could move on to other things.
Reader, I was wrong.
Today, while driving, I realized that there is no need for a radial bearing. The Hemingway kit is clever in letting the broach float in one axis temporarily until you get it centered and lock it down. But there is no …

Was ist da eigentlich los? Das ging an mir vorbei? 🥴

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Human participants in AI research: Ethics and transparency in practice
In recent years, research involving human participants has been critical to advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), particularly in the areas of conversational, human-compatible, and cooperative AI. For example, around 12% and 6% of publications at recent AAAI and NeurIPS conferences indicate the collection of original human data, respectively. Yet AI and ML researchers lack guidelines for ethical, transparent research practices with human participants. Fewer than on…

I've been cooking for history students in my intro to #Canada course this term. This week, I made Apple Pudding using an 1888 recipe from Annie Baker (Dunham, #Québec). It was good, even without the recommended frosting.
#history

What's cooking in our archives! A taste of the past
The Museum's Recipes and Food collection includes nearly 1,000 cookbooks and recipe pamphlets produced between the mid-18th and early 21st centuries. Many

Baldi's Basics Songkran In Education And Learning
https://sj-logo-transparent.itch.io/baldi-basics-songkran-in-education-and-learning-145-not-decomplited

Conjugate operators for transparent, explorable research outputs
Joseph Bond, Cristina David, Minh Nguyen, Dominic Orchard, Roly Perera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04403

Conjugate operators for transparent, explorable research outputs
Charts, figures, and text derived from data play an important role in decision making, from data-driven policy development to day-to-day choices informed by online articles. Making sense of, or fact-checking, outputs means understanding how they relate to the underlying data. Even for domain experts with access to the source code and data sets, this poses a significant challenge. In this paper we introduce a new program analysis framework which supports interactive exploration of fine-grained I…

Road testing a new mask at Microsoft #AITour
#COVID

Making the scientific publication process more organized, structured and transparent.
https://research.vu.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/291508015/finalphdthesiswithcover - 65c528f1ccb2f.pdf

A Measure for Transparent Comparison of Linguistic Diversity in Multilingual NLP Data Sets
Tanja Samardzic, Ximena Gutierrez, Christian Bentz, Steven Moran, Olga Pelloni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03909

A Measure for Transparent Comparison of Linguistic Diversity in Multilingual NLP Data Sets
Typologically diverse benchmarks are increasingly created to track the progress achieved in multilingual NLP. Linguistic diversity of these data sets is typically measured as the number of languages or language families included in the sample, but such measures do not consider structural properties of the included languages. In this paper, we propose assessing linguistic diversity of a data set against a reference language sample as a means of maximising linguistic diversity in the long run. We…

Learned infinite elements for helioseismology -- Learning transparent boundary conditions for the solar atmosphere
Damien Fournier, Janosch Preuss, Thorsten Hohage, Laurent Gizon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08059

Learned infinite elements for helioseismology -- Learning transparent boundary conditions for the solar atmosphere
Context. Acoustic waves in the Sun are affected by the atmospheric layers, but this region is often ignored in forward models due to the increase in computational cost. Aims. The purpose of this work is to take into account the solar atmosphere without increasing significantly the computational cost. Methods. We solve a scalar wave equation that describes the propagation of acoustic modes inside the Sun using a finite element method. The boundary conditions used to truncate the computational do…

@… I’ll mail them today! 😃

Align and Distill: Unifying and Improving Domain Adaptive Object Detection
Justin Kay, Timm Haucke, Suzanne Stathatos, Siqi Deng, Erik Young, Pietro Perona, Sara Beery, Grant Van Horn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12029

Align and Distill: Unifying and Improving Domain Adaptive Object Detection
Object detectors often perform poorly on data that differs from their training set. Domain adaptive object detection (DAOD) methods have recently demonstrated strong results on addressing this challenge. Unfortunately, we identify systemic benchmarking pitfalls that call past results into question and hamper further progress: (a) Overestimation of performance due to underpowered baselines, (b) Inconsistent implementation practices preventing transparent comparisons of methods, and (c) Lack of g…

#Upcoming “Supermassive” is a live recording from *checks notes* 2014 of Finnish motorik band #Circle, featuring their double-edged festival lineup. Available in transparent pink or black wax via #EktroRecords

[Resident Evil 4 merchant voice] “What 're ya buyin’?”
https://www.core77.com/posts/128657/An-EDC-Dream-This-Storm-Jacket-has-18-Pockets

An EDC Dream? This Storm Jacket has 18 Pockets - Core77
This waterproof Storm Jacket, by Hong Kong clothing brand Storm Lab, has a whopping 18 pockets. There's an extra flap of fabric to help accommodate them all. One pocket, on the left sleeve, is transparent and comes with a removable "lighting module" that serves as a hands-free

"New window film drops temperature, slashes energy consumption"
#Energy
https://newatlas.com/materials/window-coating-visible-light-reduces-heat/…

New window film drops temperature, slashes energy consumption
Assisted by quantum physics and machine learning, researchers have developed a transparent window coating that lets in visible light but blocks heat-producing UV and infrared. The coating not only reduces room temperature but also the energy consumption related to cooling, regardless of where the…

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FIRST: FrontrunnIng Resilient Smart ConTracts
Owing to the meteoric rise in the usage of cryptocurrencies, there has been a widespread adaptation of traditional financial applications such as lending, borrowing, margin trading, and more, to the cryptocurrency realm. In some cases, the inherently transparent and unregulated nature of cryptocurrencies leads to attacks on users of these applications. One such attack is frontrunning, where a malicious entity leverages the knowledge of currently unprocessed financial transactions submitted by u…

Transparent boundary condition and its effectively local approximation for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation on a rectangular computational domain
Samardhi Yadav, Vishal Vaibhav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07787

Transparent boundary condition and its effectively local approximation for the Schrödinger equation on a rectangular computational domain
The transparent boundary condition for the free Schrödinger equation on a rectangular computational domain requires implementation of an operator of the form $\sqrt{\partial_t-i\triangle_Γ}$ where $\triangle_Γ$ is the Laplace-Beltrami operator. It is known that this operator is nonlocal in time as well as space which poses a significant challenge in developing an efficient numerical method of solution. The computational complexity of the existing methods scale with the number of time-steps w…

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Pattern-wise Transparent Sequential Recommendation
A transparent decision-making process is essential for developing reliable and trustworthy recommender systems. For sequential recommendation, it means that the model can identify critical items asthe justifications for its recommendation results. However, achieving both model transparency and recommendation performance simultaneously is challenging, especially for models that take the entire sequence of items as input without screening. In this paper,we propose an interpretable framework (name…

Shifts in how sex and gender identity are defined may alter human rights protections: Canadians deserve to know how and why https://theconversation.com/shifts-in-how-sex-and-gender-identity-ar…

Shifts in how sex and gender identity are defined may alter human rights protections: Canadians deserve to know how and why
Transparent public discussions are needed around how ‘sex,’ ‘gender identity’ and ‘gender expression’ are being defined and given effect in education, law, public policy and beyond.

We produced controversy maps on the chip rush in #Vietnam.
26th floor.
A timeline representing corporate, legal and public activities. A timelapse of rural change. A bit artsy.
To be translated into a digital format.
#semiconductors

We are told #genAI is going to change everything...
...but every #AI "use case" so far has direct and transparent lineage from existing malignant practices.
Offshoring, algo-washing, review fraud, information warfare, plagiarism, content mills and SEO spam, legal trolling/intimidation…

Die ePetition 163845 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Lärmschutz an Schienenwegen mit dem Titel
Transparente Gestaltung von Lärmschutzwänden an Eisenbahnstrecken
kann bis zum Dienstag 09. April 2024 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, dass die Lärmschutzwände an Eisenbahnstrecken künftig transparent gestaltet werden.
und wird begründet
Der bisherige Bau von blickdichten Lärmschutzwänden behindert die Aussicht und den Genuss…

Every bloody time I go into the back-end of a wordpress.com site, I get this drivel. Surely they can sort this. #wordpress
Doesn't happen on my wordpress.org sites.

Ups...Google
https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/?s=09

Hands up if you think public EU money being awarded by @… / @… should be subject to a transparent process where we can see all internal discussions/comments/reasoning concerning funding decisions including who made them.

Dear #PremierLeague, how is this not blatantly transparent financial shenanigans doing an end-run around the FFP regulations?
However, in figures published by Companies House, it is now clear [that Chelsea’s] losses would have been even higher [bringing them close to triggering FFP sanctions] without the sale of hotel buildings to Blueco 22 Properties Ltd, a subsidia…

The US Patent & Trademark Office is publishing its processing times in some detail. Good!
(Now if they weren't as long as they are ... but better be transparent about it)
https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/application-timeline

Trademark processing wait times
Trademark processing wait times

Fotos sind auch eine Waffe im #Klassenkampf (Frei nach dem Transparent auf einem Foto von #GiseleFreund vom 1. Mai 1931, https://…

Frankfurt am Main, 1. Mai 1931
Fotografie von Gisèle Freund

Graureiher bei einem vergebenen Versuch, sich zu verstecken. Ohne Kamera kaum zu sehen, aber dank der großen Brennweite und einer großen Blende wird der dichte Schilfvorhang transparent 😊
#DietmarSchneider #Fotogalerie

like if you published events without usernames or IPs...
not even that you salted them
and you published when a SIEM alarm fired...
how transparent with logs can a company get?

Das legendäre Berliner #Tuntenhaus in der Kastanienallee ist in Gefahr: Es ist verkauft worden und befürchtet Sanierung und Rausschmiss.
Und schreibt:
"Das Tuntenhaus ist verkauft worden!
Wir haben jetzt die Chance durch das #Vorkaufsrecht das Haus für immer zu sic…

Circle says it will no longer mint USDC tokens on the Tron blockchain, effective immediately, to "ensure that USDC remains trusted, transparent, and safe" (Tom Wilson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/crypto-

I accidentally an old computer

Transparent AI Disclosure Obligations: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How
Abdallah El Ali, Karthikeya Puttur Venkatraj, Sophie Morosoli, Laurens Naudts, Natali Helberger, Pablo Cesar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06823

Transparent AI Disclosure Obligations: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How
Advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) are resulting in AI-generated media output that is (nearly) indistinguishable from human-created content. This can drastically impact users and the media sector, especially given global risks of misinformation. While the currently discussed European AI Act aims at addressing these risks through Article 52's AI transparency obligations, its interpretation and implications remain unclear. In this early work, we adopt a participatory AI approach …

Systematic Mapping Protocol -- UX Design role in software development process
Emilio Orme\~no, Fernando Pinciroli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13143 https://…

Systematic Mapping Protocol -- UX Design role in software development process
A systematic mapping protocol is a method for conducting a literature review in a rigorous and transparent way. It aims to provide an overview of the current state of research on a specific topic, identify gaps and opportunities, and guide future work. In this document, we present a systematic mapping protocol for investigating the role of the UX designer in the software development process. We define the research questions, scope, sources, search strategy, selection criteria, data extraction, …

Allan Greer on historians and the recent and impending changes at Library and Archives Canada. @…
LAC's "Vision 2030 expresses eagerness to attract more uninitiated users, but it has little to say about how they will 'connect with their history and culture.' It is as though archival materials were unproblematic and transparent and as though …

From explainable to interpretable deep learning for natural language processing in healthcare: how far from reality?
Guangming Huang, Yunfei Long, Yingya Li, Giorgos Papanastasiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11894

From explainable to interpretable deep learning for natural language processing in healthcare: how far from reality?
Deep learning (DL) has substantially enhanced healthcare research by addressing various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Yet, the increasing complexity of DL-based NLP methods necessitates transparent model interpretability, or at least explainability, for reliable decision-making. This work presents a thorough scoping review on explainable and interpretable DL in healthcare NLP. The term "XIAI" (eXplainable and Interpretable Artificial Intelligence) was introduced to distinguish XAI fr…

"New window film drops temperature, slashes energy consumption"
#Energy
https://newatlas.com/materials/window-coating-visible-light-reduces-heat/…

New window film drops temperature, slashes energy consumption
Assisted by quantum physics and machine learning, researchers have developed a transparent window coating that lets in visible light but blocks heat-producing UV and infrared. The coating not only reduces room temperature but also the energy consumption related to cooling, regardless of where the…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14138 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

A prototype software framework for transferable computational health economic models and its early application in youth mental health
We are developing an economic model to explore multiple topics in Australian youth mental health policy. We want that model to be readily transferable to other jurisdictions. We developed a software framework for authoring transparent, reusable and updatable Computational Health Economic Models (CHEMs) (the software files that implement health economic models). We specified framework user requirements of a template CHEM module that facilitates modular model implementations, a simple programming…

Origin of optical nonlinearity in plasmonic semiconductor nanostructures
Andrea Rossetti, Huatian Hu, Tommaso Venanzi, Adel Bousseksou, Federico De Luca, Thomas Deckert, Valeria Giliberti, Marialilia Pea, Isabelle Sagnes, Gregoire Beaudoin, Paolo Biagioni, Enrico Ba\`u, Stefan A. Maier, Andreas Tittl, Daniele Brida, Raffaele Colombelli, Michele Ortolani, Cristian Cirac\`i
<…

Origin of optical nonlinearity in plasmonic semiconductor nanostructures
The development of nanoscale nonlinear elements in photonic integrated circuits is hindered by the physical limits to the nonlinear optical response of dielectrics, which requires that the interacting waves propagate in transparent volumes for distances much longer than their wavelength. Here we present experimental evidence that optical nonlinearities in doped semiconductors are due to free-electron and their efficiency could exceed by several orders of magnitude that of conventional dielectri…

Such transparent manipulation to get managers to quit without severance.
1. Allow workers to work remotely
2. Shutter local offices
3. Mandate #returnToOffice
4. Attrition!
Remember that this is not the first time IBM pulled this trick. They did the same thing in 2017, when they were being hailed as an innovative company for reducing cost by not having physical offi…

IBM to managers: Move close to an office or quit
Their other option is to leave the company.

Every bloody time I go into the back-end of a wordpress.com site, I get this drivel. Surely they can sort this. #wordpress
Doesn't happen on my wordpress.org sites.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12022 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Chiral-Damping-Enhanced Magnon Transmission
The inevitable Gilbert damping in magnetization dynamics is usually regarded as detrimental to spin transport. Here we apply a general feature of chiral non-Hermitian dynamics to a ferromagnetic-insulator--normal-metal heterostructure to show that the strong momentum dependence and chirality of the eddy-current-induced damping also causes beneficial scattering properties: A potential barrier that reflects magnon wave packets becomes unidirectionally transparent in the presence of a metallic cap…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00955 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

FIRST: FrontrunnIng Resilient Smart ConTracts
Owing to the meteoric rise in the usage of cryptocurrencies, there has been a widespread adaptation of traditional financial applications such as lending, borrowing, margin trading, and more, to the cryptocurrency realm. In some cases, the inherently transparent and unregulated nature of cryptocurrencies leads to attacks on users of these applications. One such attack is frontrunning, where a malicious entity leverages the knowledge of currently unprocessed financial transactions submitted by u…

Finally Apple is announcing they’re done with that Macintosh experiment and are releasing the Apple IV

Finally Apple is announcing they’re done with that Macintosh experiment and are releasing the Apple IV