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@davej@dice.camp
2025-09-17 09:03:09

Truly a wizard. Getting bromelain and pectin to play well together is difficult, even with magic. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:op2cif7ntriczcmdabnltyvt/post/3lyzhv6hrdd2j

a wizard (@towerwizard.bsky.social)
The little cat steps on the wizard's hand, waking him up. He goes to make waffles with pineapple jam and put some fish out for the little cat. As he makes tea, the air fills with the smell of huckleberry. He opens the packages and letters the dragon brought over breakfast.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2025-07-02 08:10:00

VR-Klassiker "Waltz of the Wizard" erscheint bald für iPhone und Vision Pro
Die VR-Magie-Sandbox "Waltz of the Wizard" wird in Kürze um eine iOS-Version mit AR-Modus erweitert. Eine Vision-Pro-Version ist ebenfalls in Planung.

VR-Klassiker "Waltz of the Wizard" erscheint bald für iPhone und Vision Pro
Die VR-Magie-Sandbox "Waltz of the Wizard" wird in Kürze um eine iOS-Version mit AR-Modus erweitert. Eine Vision-Pro-Version ist ebenfalls in Planung.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-08 08:40:42

The Wizard of Oz's revamp draws 4,000 to 5,000 fans two or three times per day to the Las Vegas Sphere; a source says the 1939 film may gross $1B in its new run (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2025-07-13 23:11:50

Just updated the trigger crossbar to the latest versions of all of my various RTL and firmware libraries.
Still have to convert the Ethernet subsystem on the FPGA over from the legacy EthernetBus interface over to my new AXI4-Stream based IP.
And replace the 7 series transceivers wizard on the 10Gbase-R uplink with a raw GTYXE2_CHANNEL (I'm already using raw channel primitives on the other ports)

@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-10 10:09:01

The Carbon Footprint Wizard: A Knowledge-Augmented AI Interface for Streamlining Food Carbon Footprint Analysis
Mustafa Kaan Aslan, Reinout Heijungs, Filip Ilievski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07733

The Carbon Footprint Wizard: A Knowledge-Augmented AI Interface for Streamlining Food Carbon Footprint Analysis
Environmental sustainability, particularly in relation to climate change, is a key concern for consumers, producers, and policymakers. The carbon footprint, based on greenhouse gas emissions, is a standard metric for quantifying the contribution to climate change of activities and is often assessed using life cycle assessment (LCA). However, conducting LCA is complex due to opaque and global supply chains, as well as fragmented data. This paper presents a methodology that combines advances in L…

@rberger@hachyderm.io
2025-08-11 03:26:27

“A majority of the country now knows that he’s the old man behind the curtain and not the wizard,” he said. “He still has control over Maga and Republicans in Congress but he doesn’t have the persuasive capacity any longer to keep his hold on the broad majority of the country.
“This is a sign of his weakness and that he’s not as strong as he believes he is. It’s one of the reasons why he’s looking for these avenues to re-establish his strength and power and have there be a perception that people are bending the knee.
“Every time he tries to do this, it fails and he grows more distant to the American people. That has to give us hope we have the tools in the coming months to start winning elections and building a more successful pro-democracy movement that can contain the damage that Trump and Maga are doing to the country in the coming years.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/10/donald-trump-authoritarian-democracy

@theodric@social.linux.pizza
2025-08-13 10:15:06

Return to monk

A couple Gandalf-lookin' Ortho schema monks in their dope-ass wizard robes

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-05 09:41:21

SRWToolkit: An Open Source Wizard of Oz Toolkit to Create Social Robotic Avatars
Atikkhan Faridkhan Nilgar, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Ayub Kinoti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04356 h…

SRWToolkit: An Open Source Wizard of Oz Toolkit to Create Social Robotic Avatars
We present SRWToolkit, an open-source Wizard of Oz toolkit designed to facilitate the rapid prototyping of social robotic avatars powered by local large language models (LLMs). Our web-based toolkit enables multimodal interaction through text input, button-activated speech, and wake-word command. The toolkit offers real-time configuration of avatar appearance, behavior, language, and voice via an intuitive control panel. In contrast to prior works that rely on cloud-based LLM services, SRWToolk…

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-12 21:26:54

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Dora Jar:
🎵 Wizard
#DoraJar
https://open.spotify.com/track/6q8bIgs9jfJpkM3bJmbDie

@benb@osintua.eu
2025-07-06 17:36:00

Explosion on tanker in Russian port sparks investigation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/explosion-on-tanker-in-russian.html

Explosion on tanker in Russian port sparks investigation - Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine
An explosion aboard the Eco Wizard tanker in Russia’s Ust-Luga port caused an ammonia link and is under investigation, the Russian Transportation Ministry …

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-08-28 02:20:51

i reminded myself of an acronym i learned from a book i bought over 30 years ago
there was an amazing amount of _pnambic_ AI going on in the years before the launch of ChatGPT
i wonder how much of it still exists
eg i know there are two people employed as remote-operator drivers per google “driverless” car

pnambic

[Acronym from the scene in the film version of The Wizard of Oz in which true nature of the wizard is first discovered: "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."]

1. A stage of development of a process or function that, owing to incomplete implementation or to the complexity of the system, requires human interaction to simulate or replace some or all of

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the actions, inputs, or outputs of the process or function.

2. Of or Pertaining to a process or function whose apparent operations are wholly or partially falsified

3. Requiring prestidigitization.

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-22 03:40:27

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard:
🎵 Magenta Mountain (Edit)
#NowPlaying #KingGizzard #TheLizardWizard
https://playtodie.bandcamp.com/track/king-gizzard-the-lizard-wizard-magenta-mountain-8-bit

@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz
2025-08-30 23:46:08

@… 😎
https://beige.party/@Moss/115114711113758637

Moss Wizard (@Moss@beige.party)
Ah hah, turns out Bandcamp playlists max out at 500 tracks. I hit the limit on my #chicha and #cumbia playlist, that’s 30 hours of music! Hit shuffle and enjoy. https://bandcamp.com/gwdog/playlist/chichacumbia

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2025-06-29 05:35:17

»Solo RPGs: A Breakdown of Single Player Role-Playing Games«
You don't always have to be online or watch TV to entertain yourself ;)
🎲 https://wizardsrespite.com/2024/02/13/solo-rpgs-a-breakdown-of-single-player-role-playi…

Solo RPGs: A Breakdown of Single Player Role-Playing Games - Wizard's Respite
Take a close look at the solo RPGs. Discover their history, how they evolved over the years, and what they are today.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-07-17 12:46:59

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard:
🎵 Silent Spirit
#KingGizzard #theLizardWizard
https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/track/silent-spirit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1d4AySjvxfL7o090jL7Sjq

@zachleat@zachleat.com
2025-08-21 22:29:02

@… I put on my robe and wizard hat
…wait
(thank you!)

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-07-10 11:17:40

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Deep Purple:
🎵 Fireball
#DeepPurple
https://gloryordeathrecords.bandcamp.com/track/red-wizard-fireball

@playinprogress@assemblag.es
2025-06-29 10:57:06

gardening trivia of the day / no I don't want to get into roses I am just rabbit holing rose varieties and gardens for no reason
#TIL #roses

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Madame Caroline Testout was a late 19th-century French dressmaker from Grenoble, the proprietor of fashionable salons in London and Paris. She regularly purchased silks from Lyon, which was an important center for rose breeding. The nurseryman Joseph Pernet-Ducher was called 'The Wizard of Lyon' due to his success in developing hybrid tea roses. Madame Testout was an astute businesswoman and understood the value of good publicity. She asked Perner-Ducher to …

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In 1915, Jesse A. Currey, rose hobbyist and Sunday editor of the Oregon Journal, convinced city officials to institute a rose test garden to serve as a safe haven during World War I for hybrid roses grown in Europe. Rose lovers feared that these unique plants would be destroyed in the bombings. The Park Bureau approved the idea in 1917 and by early 1918, hybridists from England began to send roses. In 1921, Florence Holmes Gerke, the landscape architect for …

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2025-06-25 05:58:53

OMGOMGOMGOMG
I love “Chess”
#Musicals

Screenshot of blue sky post
“Andromeda Yelton
@thatandromeda.bsky.social
Follow
Wizard
Bluesky Elder
Bouba
i know everyone's into other NYC news right now but the people who need to know this really, really need to know this

https://playbill.com/article/broadway-chess-revival-finds-a-home-dates

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-07-21 03:17:34

One of my favorite fist-pump moments from Harry Potter was watching McGonagall defend Harry & the students & beat Snape.
▶️ Wizard Duel: Minerva McGonagall vs Severus Snape | Harry Potter and the ...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k0PkYscGEMw&feature=shared…

@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-24 11:57:40

Robots and Children that Learn Together : Improving Knowledge Retention by Teaching Peer-Like Interactive Robots
Imene Tarakli, Samuele Vinanzi, Richard Moore, Alessandro Di Nuovo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18365

Robots and Children that Learn Together : Improving Knowledge Retention by Teaching Peer-Like Interactive Robots
Despite growing interest in Learning-by-Teaching (LbT), few studies have explored how this paradigm can be implemented with autonomous, peer-like social robots in real classrooms. Most prior work has relied on scripted or Wizard-of-Oz behaviors, limiting our understanding of how real-time, interactive learning can be supported by artificial agents. This study addresses this gap by introducing Interactive Reinforcement Learning (RL) as a cognitive model for teachable social robots. We conducted …

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-07-06 20:26:29

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Electric Wizard:
🎵 Funeralopolis
#ElectricWizard
https://letme-eatyou.bandcamp.com/track/funeralopolis-electric-wizard-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/6rQG8QH1rGoCOeGHdrnYhb

@davej@dice.camp
2025-07-21 01:27:46

Do I at least get a poorly rushed conclusion with weird group sex at the end? https://cyberpunk.lol/@dirtwizard666/114888521066687558

DIRT WIZARD (@dirtwizard666@cyberpunk.lol)
THE TECH OLIGARCHY WANTS TO BRING EVERY NEAL STEPHENSON NOVEL INTO REALITY AND THAT IS A FUCKING PROBLEM! NEAL STEPHENSON IS A TROUBLEMITE!

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-03 18:04:57

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Sopwith Camel:
🎵 Dancin’ Wizard
#SopwithCamel
https://open.spotify.com/track/3fCaSIikAjWwBTGIVBVzFx

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-26 10:44:57

Towards Deeper Understanding of Natural User Interactions in Virtual Reality Based Assembly Tasks
Ryan Ghamandi, Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Ravi Kiran Kattoju, Joseph J. LaViola Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17124

Towards Deeper Understanding of Natural User Interactions in Virtual Reality Based Assembly Tasks
We explore natural user interactions using a virtual reality simulation of a robot arm for assembly tasks. Using a Wizard-of-Oz study, participants completed collaborative LEGO and instructive PCB assembly tasks, with the robot responding under experimenter control. We collected voice, hand tracking, and gaze data from users. Statistical analyses revealed that instructive and collaborative scenarios elicit distinct behaviors and adopted strategies, particularly as tasks progress. Users tended t…

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-09-14 02:52:27

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard:
🎵 Candles
#KingGizzard #theLizardWizard
https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/track/candles

@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-26 11:02:57

I Can't Join, But I Will Send My Agent: Stand-in Enhanced Asynchronous Meetings (SEAM)
Zhongyi Bai, Jens Emil Gr{\o}nb{\ae}k, Andrew Irlitti, Jarrod Knibbe, Eduardo Velloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17676

I Can't Join, But I Will Send My Agent: Stand-in Enhanced Asynchronous Meetings (SEAM)
We propose and explore the user experience of SEAM -- Stand-in Enhanced Asynchronous Meetings -- virtual reality meetings in which embodied virtual agents represent absent users. During the meeting, attendees can address the agent, and the absent user can later watch the recording from its perspective to respond. Through two mixed-method studies with 45 participants using the Wizard-of-Oz approach, we explored both the perspectives of the attendees in the original meeting and of the absent user…

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-07-19 01:30:23

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Midlake:
🎵 Roscoe (Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve remix)
#Midlake
https://mommusic4.bandcamp.com/track/midlake-roscoe-mom-2021-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/01qJhVPCHFFR6wJ5ptyw17

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-27 18:20:28

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Glastonbury
Myd:
🎵 The Wizard
#Myd
https://mydsound.bandcamp.com/track/the-wizard-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/2J1m0j1kJLRNsmlqk0Q2ua

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-06-26 07:28:22

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Glastonbury
Myd:
🎵 The Wizard
#Myd
https://mydsound.bandcamp.com/track/the-wizard-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/2J1m0j1kJLRNsmlqk0Q2ua

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-07-26 11:26:32

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheHueyShow
Black Sabbath:
🎵 The Wizard
#BlackSabbath
https://intensecomplex.bandcamp.com/track/black-sabbath-the-wizard-tr0uts-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1v7QD5nuWbwOG5rq11gWZB

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-07-18 10:05:17

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Radio3sPromsCountdown
Harold Arlen, André Previn, David Finck & Sylvia McNair:
🎵 The Wizard of Oz - musical film: Somewhere over the Rainbow
#HaroldArlen #AndréPrevin #DavidFinck #SylviaMcNair
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