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Personal, waiting through your life, ASD, sad
I suppose many people in the spectrum didn't have an easy childhood, especially if they lived in rural areas. Having difficulties bonding with peers, problems, solitude, bullying. However, the worst that you could have is having your parents tell the child that you just need to survive and wait, because one day you'll go a different school, meet new people and things will miraculously "be better". Because the child will take that literally, and make a point of their childhood to wait for this better day. It will believe that the problem is just a matter time, and then it will be solved.
Then comes the time for a higher grade school. And perhaps it will be a little better. But it won't be as great as it was promised. Perhaps you will cope better, perhaps you will find a better company, but you will never be neurotypical. And you will hear, once again, that you need to wait, and at the university things will definitely be just great.
Then comes the time for university. And again, it will be a little better, but never as good as it was promised. On the other hand, you will start realizing even more that you can't fit — that you've missed an important part of your life, that you lack the experiences that other people have, that you're a child that's suddenly ended up an adult between adults. And what will you hear? Of course, when you finally go to work, things will be even better.
And what's the truth? The future never brings anything better of its own accord. What it brings instead, is the realization that you've wasted the best years of your life waiting to be an adult. And then you are old, unhealthy and surrounded by people who sorted out their lives a long time ago. And people expect from you that you will work hard 5 days a week, and somehow manage to find more energy to sort out your own life at that.
And yes, as the old maxim says, you should just cope all these years and wait for retirement. Presuming you'll actually qualify for pension, that you'll be reasonably healthy and that the world won't burn completely by the time.
#ActuallyAutistic

"Die AfD ist problematisch, sie war niemals demokratisch, haut radikal Rechts auf den Putz – ein Fall für den Verfassungsschutz"
"In Potsdam trafen die sich alle und ließen ihre Masken fallen, und skrupellos, man glaubt es nicht, von Deportation die Runde spricht. Schon einmal haben wir erlebt, was daraus folgt: Millionen wurden deportiert und von Verbrechern ausradiert."
"Jetzt ist Schluss mit diesem Spuk, was genug ist, ist genug."
Erhard Grom…

Mainz bleibt Mainz: So teilen die Narren gegen die AfD aus
Fastnacht-Sitzung in Mainz: Die Narren verteidigen von der Bütt die Meinungsfreiheit – und retten die Demokratie vor braunen Umtrieben durch die AfD

Send me Good Thoughts!
Just got back from viewing a possible new rental apartment. Still a “basement” suite (😢) but it seems to have more light than the dungeon I'm in. *Significantly* more expensive (for the same small space) but laid out better. House and suite are both brand new and landlord is an “older gentleman" and his wife. Hopefully, they'll want to meet with me.
They *might* be willing to let me have a cat which means, I *might* be able to get Wallace to l…

The Y2K problem¹ was a perfect example that if we dedicate the necessary resources to fix a problem we caused earlier things can just be fine.²
But in the end it was so disappointingly anti-climatic that we decided to take a different path regarding CO₂ and climatic disaster.
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¹Computers: basically storing the year as a two-digit-number to save space which breaks things for 99−00
²we'll see how the Y2038 problem turns out ;-)

What is Learnt by the LEArnable Front-end (LEAF)? Adapting Per-Channel Energy Normalisation (PCEN) to Noisy Conditions
Hanyu Meng, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Eliathamby Ambikairajah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06702

What is Learnt by the LEArnable Front-end (LEAF)? Adapting Per-Channel Energy Normalisation (PCEN) to Noisy Conditions
There is increasing interest in the use of the LEArnable Front-end (LEAF) in a variety of speech processing systems. However, there is a dearth of analyses of what is actually learnt and the relative importance of training the different components of the front-end. In this paper, we investigate this question on keyword spotting, speech-based emotion recognition and language identification tasks and find that the filters for spectral decomposition and the low pass filter used to estimate spectra…

Send me Good Thoughts!
Just got back from viewing a possible new rental apartment. Still a “basement” suite (😢) but it seems to have more light than the dungeon I'm in. *Significantly* more expensive (for the same small space) but laid out better. House and suite are both brand new and landlord is an “older gentleman" and his wife. Hopefully, they'll want to meet with me.
They *might* be willing to let me have a cat which means, I *might* be able to get Wallace to l…

“The simplest way of outlining the ideal university policy toward protest is to say that it should protect free speech, respect civil disobedience and uphold the rule of law. That means universities should protect the rights of students and faculty on a viewpoint-neutral basis, and they should endeavor to make sure that every member of the campus community has the same access to campus facilities and resources.”

Opinion | How to Reboot Free Speech on Campus
How do we find our way to a campus culture in which everyone can be heard?

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
LEITZ: Why?
HUNDA: Well, I had hoped we could tunnel in under the lower city and lay mines under the Magnetrix terminal, but the flood water's too high. [To Dayna and Tarrant.] In the early days of the fighting we blew the reservoirs.
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/403/285 B7B3

I didn’t know SentinelOne was so good in the MacOS space. It’s good to see. And if you manage Macs, you’ll want to read this article and see if you’ve been affected by this malware.
#cybersecurity
From: @…
https://infosec.exchange/@screaminggoat/112366510602329117

In Russland diktiert der Kreml eine »Wahl«, Militärs halten Myanmar unter Kontrolle, Länder wie Somalia, der Jemen oder Libyen versinken in Gewalt: Demokratisches Miteinander gibt es in vielen Nationen nicht – und anderswo steht es unter Druck. Wie die Lage ist, hat die Bertelsmann Stiftung im Transformationsindex protokolliert. Demnach sind Demokratien in den Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern im Niedergang, Autokratien zunehmend auf dem Vormarsch

Studie zu politischer Transformation: In immer mehr Schwellenländern erodiert die Demokratie
Zensierte Medien, unfaire Wahlen, verbotene Demonstrationen: Vielerorts bauen Staatschefs ihre Länder laut einer Analyse der Bertelsmann Stiftung zu Autokratien um. Doch manche Schwellenländer machen auch Hoffnung.