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Zaletą trzymania kotów w kartonie jest to, że można je wygodnie przestawić w inne miejsce, żeby umyć podłogę.
#sokota #kot

I finished my counterfactual history of Vilnius today, an example of one of my stochastic histories.
#aiart

A Novel Soil Profile Standardization Technique with XGBoost Framework for Accurate Surface Wave Inversion
Kousik Mandal, Tarun Naskar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20967 https://…

A Novel Soil Profile Standardization Technique with XGBoost Framework for Accurate Surface Wave Inversion
The inversion of surface wave dispersion curves poses significant challenges due to the non-uniqueness, nonlinear, & ill-posed nature of the problem. Local search methods get trapped in suboptimal minima, whereas global search methods are computationally intensive. The CPU time becomes challenging when dealing with a large number of traces, such as 2D/3D surface wave surveys or DAS surveys. Several attempts have been made to perform inversion using machine learning to improve accuracy and reduc…

TIL: Thorsten Kukuk works on no_new_privs/NoNewPrivs aka removing suid binaries from #openSUSE
Reading https://www.thkukuk.de/blog/no_new_privs/ I never realized how many such binaries exists.

If you are up this late, maybe you want to stay up later. Go ahead, read my latest essay, What Did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons?
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/what-did-vibe-coding-just-do-to-the-commons/

What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...

"Technical communities provide software businesses with an audience, a test bed, and eventually, a customer pool for their products and services, but this only works if the products are good enough to begin with. This insight was clearly defined by Guy Kawasaki, arguably the person who invented the field of Developer Relations, during his tenure as Chief Evangelist at Apple from 1983 to 1987."

Guy Kawasaki
There is a website out there providing an answer to the question "What is Developer Relations?," a question that this author, whose job title is precisely that one, gets a lot. According to this resource, Developer Relations is an umbrella term encompassing three major areas of activity: "Community," "Content," and "Product;" a perfect description of a job role, at least as far as this author is concerned.

Vibe coding is the single biggest transformation since ChatGPT 3.5, it is one of the biggest transformations since the dawn of computing. It will thoroughly transform Open Source. We are not ready. #VibeCoding #OpenSource

What did Vibe Coding just do to the Commons? - varnelis.net
I write a lot about art and architecture, landscape, and the impact of technology on culture, but I haven’t written about coding since the 1980s, when I sold my first article to Creative Computing magazine. Back then I was a high school kid, spending hours working in both BASIC and 6502 assembler on the VIC-20. I ...

My artist's statement on my work with AI is out. I completely rethought what I am doing. This has been a worthwhile journey, for me, and I hope, for you if you read it.
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/stochastic-histories/

Stochastic Histories - varnelis.net
stochastic histories /stəˈkæstɪk ˈhɪstəriz/ n. pl. [from Gk. stokhastikos “capable of guessing,” from stokhazesthai “to aim at, guess at” + L. historia “narrative, account”] 1. Fabricated historical narratives generated through iterative probabilistic sampling with artificial-intelligence systems, producing documentation that appears authentic through the accumulation of plausible details. 2. A mode of artistic practice that exploits ...

Wow, the case against Bolton is so much worse than the case against Trump or Biden for that matter.

My latest essay, I will offiicially release it tomorrow morning, but in the meantime, here it is!
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/stochastic-histories/

Stochastic Histories - varnelis.net
stochastic histories /stəˈkæstɪk ˈhɪstəriz/ n. pl. [from Gk. stokhastikos “capable of guessing,” from stokhazesthai “to aim at, guess at” + L. historia “narrative, account”] 1. Fabricated historical narratives generated through iterative probabilistic sampling with artificial-intelligence systems, producing documentation that appears authentic through the accumulation of plausible details. 2. A mode of artistic practice that exploits ...