Tootfinder

The list of swift challenges on this post align very closely with my own challenges.
One day, when I am not obsessed with Godot I should contribute to fix these:
https://forums.swift.org/t/our-journey-with-swift-thus-far-some-no…

Our journey with Swift thus far - some notes and reflections
Hello! Background Our team is quietly working on developing a new electronic trading system using Swift on macOS and Linux, building on our experience from two previous projects that have been done in C, Objective-C, C++, Java, C# and even for a while, homegrown DSL. All running on multiple OS:s at various points; NeXTSTEP, OpenStep, Windows NT, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux. These past projects have been fairly sizeable, with over 25 million lines of code and several hundred components between them o…

I'm working and suddenly a princess, a knight, and a squirrel ride along outside.
#carnival #Karneval #Fasching

Soooo....I'm doing a thing...🤭😏
As a lot of you know, Tooters shut down recently and the way it was handled in the end is regrettable.
However, I felt for longest time while it was up, that it was consistently one of the BEST run instances on Fedi with how they protected their users from some of the insanity that happens here.
That being said, with Tooters being gone, it leaves a bit of a hole in my Fedi heart and I know a lot of others as well.
So, I'm creating a new, very limited for now, politically-light (as little politics as possible locally), AI friendly (AI art welcome), Sharkey instance for some folks within my circle that I've grown to consider my friends.
The Social Zone is meant to be a place to escape the very political society we currently all live in and just be social with one another about our hobbies, interests, and day to day lives.
I'm still working out all the details but when I launch it, it's going to be invite only because I'm new to something like this and I want to get it right. Especially because those I will invite are people that are close to me and I don't want to disappoint them.
Depending on how things go for the next few months, including if I can even get this thing started correctly, I MIGHT be open to allowing more members in, down the line.
But, this is just getting started. I registered the domain yesterday and just started researching Sharkey today and how hard it would be to spin something up. Then, of course, there's configuration settings and administration with Sharkey that I have to familiarize myself with.
All in all, I'm very nervous, but excited that I decided to take this next step in my Fedi adventure and hope to eventually "give back" to the entire community, the same positive energy that you've all given me over the past wonderful year of being on this amazing platform.
Please do not ask for invites. I will not be handing them out anytime soon. I've already asked about 5 of you along with some IRL folks and I feel I would like some time to get this right for them first.
Thanks for reading. I hope you understand why I'm choosing to do this and hope you're as excited as me to see where things can go and understand why I feel it's important to have these types of "politically-light" spaces so people can escape such topics from time to time.
Keep on keeping on, Fedi. The future is bright and I'm ready to learn along with you. More info about TheSocial.Zone coming soon!
Your friend,
B.A.

Motive Unknown ☠️🕵️‍♂️🗡
Narrated mystery | A Cyberpunk murder mystery following Detective Derek Reyne as he tracks down a mysterious killer operating outside of the cities rules. Working with contacts old and new, Reyne works to try and understand and stop the murderer, while coming to grips with his own growing nihilis...
https://www.…

The US DOJ says a former Google software engineer has been charged with stealing AI technology from Google while secretly working with two China-based companies (Eric Tucker/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-google-justi…

Ex-Google software engineer charged with stealing AI technology while working with Chinese companies
The Justice Department says a former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China. Linwei Ding was arrested in Newark, California, on four counts of federal trade secret theft. The case against Ding was being announced at an American Bar Association Conference in San Francisco by Attorney General Merrick Garland, who along with other law enforcement leaders has repeatedly w…

We wrote a guide for getting started with OpenTelemetry with Rust! While not feature complete, the Rust SDK has more than enough to help you improve your observability massively in any Rust application.
Check it out: https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2024/04/10/using-ope…

Working with OpenTelemetry using Rust
Adding OpenTelemetry to a Rust application and using the OpenTelemetry collector

We're moving to a new building at work this summer and I am super excited that there's an Ace Hardware right across the street...
While I enjoy the work I do, I really miss being downtown or in Bay View where I could actually walk to places.
Working outside the city can be really depressing, which should be obvious by the fact that I'm excited about a hardware store nearby.

Apple is no longer including stickers with their computers (probably a good thing, they’ve been working for a while to really reduce packaging waste).
Here’s how the unboxing experience was like with an Apple IIgs and the beautiful classic 1980s Apple rainbow stickers. :apple_old_logo:
#retrocomputing

Giants to sign veteran offensive lineman https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/giants_to_sign_veteran_offensive_lineman/s1_14819_40093249

Giants to sign veteran offensive lineman
The Giants’ investment in Evan Neal has yet to pay off. While the team is not bailing on the former top-10 pick just yet, the third-year blocker may be set for an offseason position battle. Jermaine Eluemunor is set to sign with the Giants, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reports.  Working as a starting tackle and guard in Las Vegas at points over the past three years, Eluemunor will receive a considerable raise on his most recent Raiders contract. Eluemunor could give the Giants an option at g…

Suspect arrested in arson attack on Bernie Sanders’ office
Authorities say they have arrested an alleged arsonist accused of setting the US senator Bernie Sanders’ Burlington, Vermont, office on fire while staff worked inside
https://www.thegu…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04879 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Comparing Methods for Creating a National Random Sample of Twitter Users
Twitter data has been widely used by researchers across various social and computer science disciplines. A common aim when working with Twitter data is the construction of a random sample of users from a given country. However, while several methods have been proposed in the literature, their comparative performance is mostly unexplored. In this paper, we implement four common methods to collect a random sample of Twitter users in the US: 1% Stream, Bounding Box, Location Query, and Language Qu…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01410 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepp…

High-energy QCD dynamics from bottom flavor fragmentation at the Hi-Lumi LHC
We study the inclusive production of hadrons with bottom flavor at the LHC and its luminosity upgrade. We describe the collinear fragmentation of singly $b$-flavored hadrons, $B$ mesons and $Λ_b$ baryons, via the KKSS07 determination of fragmentation functions, while for charmed $B$ mesons, $B_c(^1S_0)$ and $B_c(^3S_1)$ particles, we employ the novel ZCFW22 set, built on the basis of state-of-the-art nonrelativistic QCD inputs. We use the JETHAD multimodular working environment to analyze rapi…

the thermostat in this place is wireless and talks to the boiler over radio... but something happened (?) and it's no longer working. and i noticed that i'm cold.
fortunately i had a recording of the thermostat's boiler-on and boiler-off commands on my flipper zero.
so now flipper zero is a key part of how i'm going to not freeze to death while asleep

Jared Goff has ‘earned’ contract extension, Lions GM Brad Holmes says https://theathletic.com/5482561/2024/05/09/jared-goff-contract-extension-lions/

Jared Goff has ‘earned’ contract extension, Lions GM Brad Holmes says
Brad Holmes said the Lions have been working on a new deal for Jared Goff for a while.

So, my Friday afternoon is spent troubleshooting a bug in a piece of software I have to use at work . The application puts working files in:
`C:\user\AppData\Roaming\app*`
`C:\user\AppData\Local\app*`
`C:\programdata\app*`
`C:\program files (x86)\app*`
This isn't at installation time, this is while it RUNs. logs. logs for plugins. .logs for user data. temp cache storage.
If you're a developer don't do this.
1/

ExACT: An End-to-End Autonomous Excavator System Using Action Chunking With Transformers
Liangliang Chen, Shiyu Jin, Haoyu Wang, Liangjun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05861

ExACT: An End-to-End Autonomous Excavator System Using Action Chunking With Transformers
Excavators are crucial for diverse tasks such as construction and mining, while autonomous excavator systems enhance safety and efficiency, address labor shortages, and improve human working conditions. Different from the existing modularized approaches, this paper introduces ExACT, an end-to-end autonomous excavator system that processes raw LiDAR, camera data, and joint positions to control excavator valves directly. Utilizing the Action Chunking with Transformers (ACT) architecture, ExACT em…

Kuo: Apple's only foldable device with a "clear development schedule" is the 20.3-inch MacBook, which is expected to enter mass production in 2027 (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/06/apple-foldable-macbook/

Kuo: Apple actively working on 20.3-inch foldable MacBook
We’ve been hearing a lot of rumors about Apple working on multiple foldable devices. While most of them refer to...

If you are working, do you:
A. Continue your task?
B. Leave it and walk around with your friend?
C. Continue working while talking with your friend?
Someone today chose B. Wasn’t me, I worked my ass off today.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09232 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

What Attracts Employees to Work Onsite in Times of Increased Remote Working?
COVID-19 pandemic has irreversibly changed the attitude towards office presence. While previously remote workers were met with skepticism and distrust, today the same applies to companies prohibiting remote working. Albeit many workspaces are half empty. In this paper, we offer insights into the role of the office, corporate policies and actions regarding remote work in eight companies: Ericsson, Knowit, SpareBank 1 Utvikling, Spotify, Storebrand, Telenor, Company-X, Company-Y, and their sites …

Today, deep in the woods, my phone suddenly stopped being able to access the Internet. First, I've noticed that the browser couldn't reach any website — but well, reception was poor and websites these days… Then, my railway timetable app couldn't fetch timetables. Okay, poor reception, or maybe they have server problems again.
Later, the reception was better for a while, but things still didn't work. Reception quickly jumped back down, so I blamed it again. And again. Finally, I've figured out this is going for far too long.
I've opened #RethinkDNS and it said "No Internet". I've disabled it temporarily, and everything suddenly started working again. Enabled again, everything's broken. WTF?!
I've dug deeper, and it turned out RethinkDNS apparently lost DNS-over-HTTPS connection… and it never figured out to reconnect on its own, or even give me a meaningful diagnostic. I had to figure out to enter DNS settings, and tap the server tile to make it reconnect.
In the end, it was DNS… but also terrible UX in this program.

Might continue to go up and down a bit.
It won't compile while also running any more. Not enough memory. The Mastodon Bloat is real, and in part at least cause by the Node bloat.
I think maybe the actual env-var is working now and we're back to running on un-edited glitch?
Either that or the compilation failed in such a way it thinks it worked but really is an old cache. 🤷
Nothing about managing a Mastodon server makes me want to learn Ruby. Nothing. It mostly makes me want to run away from node too.

Jared Goff has ‘earned’ contract extension, Lions GM Brad Holmes says https://theathletic.com/5482561/2024/05/09/jared-goff-contract-extension-lions/

Jared Goff has ‘earned’ contract extension, Lions GM Brad Holmes says
Brad Holmes said the Lions have been working on a new deal for Jared Goff for a while.

Another reason to run things such as #RabbitMQ as a cluster: If the #Docker image is missing the #arm64 arch one pod will stay pending while the continues working

[Hätte ich mir letztes Jahr auch denken können, dass dieses Kunstwerk am Flughafen Toronto Pearsons von Richard Serra ist: Tilted Spheres. https://www.torontopearson.com/en/while-you-are-here/art-and-culture/current-art/tilted-spheres

Tilted Spheres
In the early 1970s, Richard Serra began working with steel, the material that would define his influential artistic practice through the monumentality of his sculptures.

Discussing foreign travel with the office intern, and they mentioned visiting Berlin. I said I’d gone for a visit in 1997 while working a Summer in Germany.
This was adjudged to be particularly interesting as it was interesting to hear about times from history before they were born.

Tonight, the president will announce in his State of the Union address that he has directed the US military to undertake an emergency mission to establish a port in Gaza, working in partnership with like minded countries and humanitarian partners.
This port, the main feature of which is a temporary pier, will provide the capacity for hundreds of additional truckloads of assistance each day.”
US forces will build a temporary port on the Gaza shoreline in the next few weeks to allo…

Whoop I got accepted to #pifcamp ! Looking forward to it including working with @… and @… on some e-textile sensor sound stuff

The problem is not, as this story suggests, "high prices."
The problem is shamefully low pay in the United States.
Too many people are working multiple jobs at tipped-wage starvation scale ($2.13 US) while corporations reap the benefits of their labor.
https://…

Exciting day:
- tomorrow’s a google holiday.
- finished a design doc I’ve been working on week, probably the best I’ve written in a while.
- registered for my first track day - Sonoma Raceway in 2 months!

Former QB Calls Out Major Problem About Dallas Cowboys’ Culture https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_qb_calls_out_major_problem_about_dallas_cowboys_culture/s1_17068_40066695

Former QB Calls Out Major Problem About Dallas Cowboys’ Culture
The Dallas Cowboys have been one of the most competitive teams in the NFL, but they somehow always manage to fumble during the biggest games. There are plenty of issues the team has to address in the offseason, but they’re already working on solving some of their biggest problems in the offseason. While they’re looking for capable people who can help the team, there are some who argue that they have a bigger problem than finding the right people to help them win the Super Bowl. For one form…

It was funny when Will Ferrell did it in a movie, and his boss, Michael Keaton, took his weapon away.
This is idiotic.
“… the officer was attempting to navigate through an area barricaded by students while using a firearm “equipped with a flashlight” to illuminate his way when he shot his gun “accidentally.” The bullet struck a wall, and the spokesperson reiterated that the shooting occurred in the presence of police officers only.”
From: @…

Journa.host
The server for working journalists and news outlets on Mastodon. Home to active & retired journalists, media scholars, and a variety of news and journalism adjacent professionals. #Newstodon

This‼️
"WTF are we software people doing as an industry that makes us consume so many resources?"
https://fosstodon.org/@jbqueru/112194344328428626

Fragmented Moments, Balanced Choices: How Do People Make Use of Their Waiting Time?
Jian Zheng, Ge Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02880 https://

Fragmented Moments, Balanced Choices: How Do People Make Use of Their Waiting Time?
Everyone spends some time waiting every day. HCI research has developed tools for boosting productivity while waiting. However, little is known about how people naturally spend their waiting time. We conducted an experience sampling study with 21 working adults who used a mobile app to report their daily waiting time activities over two weeks. The aim of this study is to understand the activities people do while waiting and the effect of situational factors. We found that participants spent abo…

This article by a former OpenAI employee makes a powerful case that AI exploits the same clever game design that can make Furbies, dinosaurs, and even triangles seem sentient. It's not about modeling a brain's complexity; simpler systems can ironically feel more intelligent.
https://www.

PCH-EM: A solution to information loss in the photon transfer method
Aaron J. Hendrickson, David P. Haefner, Stanley H. Chan, Nicholas R. Shade, Eric R. Fossum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04498

PCH-EM: A solution to information loss in the photon transfer method
Working from a Poisson-Gaussian noise model, a multi-sample extension of the Photon Counting Histogram Expectation Maximization (PCH-EM) algorithm is derived as a general-purpose alternative to the Photon Transfer (PT) method. This algorithm is derived from the same model, requires the same experimental data, and estimates the same sensor performance parameters as the time-tested PT method, all while obtaining lower uncertainty estimates. It is shown that as read noise becomes large, multiple d…

Missiles hit Kyiv seconds after air raid alert, leaving people no time to shelter: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/25/missiles-hit-kyiv.html

[Hätte ich mir letztes Jahr auch denken können, dass dieses Kunstwerk am Flughafen Toronto Pearsons von Richard Serra ist: Tilted Spheres. https://www.torontopearson.com/en/while-you-are-here/art-and-culture/current-art/tilted-spheres

Tilted Spheres
In the early 1970s, Richard Serra began working with steel, the material that would define his influential artistic practice through the monumentality of his sculptures.

@… @… Working for 5 years for a US company now. And while I feel the same in general. It depends on the company. Would likely not make the choice myself, but this happened through acquisition so it was find a new job or stick around a…

#Angular related blog post, this time on refactoring that I thought turned out pretty nice:
https://laimis.medium.com/aggregating-

Aggregating and rendering data from multiple API calls in an Angular component
I have been rewriting some of my Angular apps recently to adhere to the new v17 syntax. While working on that, I noticed some of the uglier code patterns I had been using and took a chance to follow…

Based on their analysis of working hours, timestamps, and holidays, it seems likely "Jia Tan" worked out of Eastern Europe or Russia while doing the #xzBackdoor ⬆️.
Clever analysis by Rhea Karty and Simon Henniger.
#xz
https://rheaeve.substack.com/p/xz-backdoor-times-damned-times-and

Been looking at #gotoSocial a little.
Decided to go hardcore and build it from source, even though I don't even know the programming language Go that it's written in at all.
Went pretty well building and running it, wasn't difficult and it's easy to understand how to adapt the page templates and things.
Seems like account migration works well enough now.
Didn't notice that I'd failed to build a bunch of assets for a while so couldn't understand why the settings page wasn't working as suggested and pages were weirdly ugly and non-functional.
Building those assets is bloody node again. Annoying. Hoping to avoid that.
Anyway. It looks good. So customizable, no effort to really do a reader but you use phanphy or something for that. All I really want is good customizeable shop-windows and a functional API.
Thinking that's what I'll move to if further experimentation goes well.

You wrote a shopware plugin and suddenly your javascript isn't working anymore? Maybe you had bad luck while building, the full story you can read here!
TL;DR: storefront-build.sh might duplicate a global variable.
https://winkelwagen.de/2024/03/26/shop

Shopware: Don’t reuse variables – webpack(!?)
Good morning! We submitted our payment plugin once again, Shopware’s review can be stressful, or in other words: They are doing an amazing job finding bugs. What is going on? Is my JS still l…

You might have heard Gig workers are taking time out of their day today to protest working conditions from companies like #Uber #Lyft #DoorDash

@…
Founded in 2009, No Labels has for more than a decade peddled the familiar notion that the majority of Americans are political centrists,
-- despite numerous polls showing that people in the U.S. broadly support progressive policy proposals such as Medicare for All, higher taxes for the wealthiest Americans, and universal childcare.
While claimin…

Who's Funding 'No Labels'? Pro-GOP Billionaires Opposed to Democracy
"At the end of the day, these billionaires and large corporations are deeply invested in maintaining the status quo and opposing Democrats' agenda for working people."

What doesn't kill Gaia makes her stronger
Rudy Arthur, Arwen E. Nicholson, Nathan J. Mayne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05091 https://

What doesn't kill Gaia makes her stronger
Life on Earth has experienced numerous upheavals over its approximately 4 billion year history. In previous work we have discussed how interruptions to stability lead, on average, to increases in habitability over time, a tendency we called Entropic Gaia. Here we continue this exploration, working with the Tangled Nature Model of co-evolution, to understand how the evolutionary history of life is shaped by periods of acute environmental stress. We find that while these periods of stress pose a …

@…
🐸 Welcome back for another broadcast! Tuning in for the Day 🌱
Up working for a while, then I anticipate sleeping with the frogs and waking with the birds 🐦

This month's @… of wisdom hit a little too close to home:
> And while I don't regret sharing so much of my work per se, there were undoubtedly other things I could have been doing with my time that I didn't consider when I first ran git push or npm publish.

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@… hey guys sorry to bother you but I may found a bug, and open https://github.com/ozkanpakdil/swaggerific/issues/12 do you want me to open i…

If someone tells you capitalism is about freedom, show them this. Capitalism was not, is not, and will never be about freedom — it is about ensuring capitalists can concentrate as much weath as possible about themselves, while simultaneously brutally destroying anyone and anything that threatens that concentration of wealth.
Ludlow Massacre - WCH | Stories

Returning to exhibition preparation. As soon as the display cases are locked, we begin (actually, resume) working on the next exhibition.
This letter from 1815 is on beautiful handmade paper with iron gall ink. I've removed the item from a guard book. I'm using flexible sheet magnets (right) to hold the edge flat between release layers and blotter while removing the remnants of the guard (left).

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15559 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Optimality and Noise-Resilience of Critical Quantum Sensing
We compare critical quantum sensing to passive quantum strategies to perform frequency estimation, in the case of single-mode quadratic Hamiltonians. We show that, while in the unitary case both strategies achieve precision scaling quadratic with the number of photons, in the presence of dissipation this is true only for critical strategies. We also establish that working at the exceptional point or beyond threshold provides sub-optimal performance. This critical enhancement is due to the emerg…

Could the Cowboys double-dip in the draft 2 years in a row? https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/could_the_cowboys_double_dip_in_the_draft_2_years_in_a_row/s1_17100_40054621

Hey who wants to try out a #beta of TelemetryDeck Dashboard? I've been working hard on our new role and permission system and here's the first result:
While this version of TelemetryDeck looks almost completely similar to the released version, its underlying user, roles and permissions system is completely new.
Can you help me try this out? Log in here with your regul…

(Source: emperorsofmischief on Instagram: #rats

I haven't done #VFX set supervision in a while, so being on set again makes me feel impostor syndrome: everybody's friendly and organised, I get asked for my opinion from time to time. But at the same time there are these tightly-knit groups of people all around me, working like clockwork, carrying heavy things, talking into headsets, fiddling with knobs. I'm just taking notes and stickin…

Fragmented Moments, Balanced Choices: How Do People Make Use of Their Waiting Time?
Jian Zheng, Ge Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02880 https://

Fragmented Moments, Balanced Choices: How Do People Make Use of Their Waiting Time?
Everyone spends some time waiting every day. HCI research has developed tools for boosting productivity while waiting. However, little is known about how people naturally spend their waiting time. We conducted an experience sampling study with 21 working adults who used a mobile app to report their daily waiting time activities over two weeks. The aim of this study is to understand the activities people do while waiting and the effect of situational factors. We found that participants spent abo…

If anyone uses Eleventy on Windows (especially with Powershell 7), I have a strange unicorn bug I haven't been able to fix and I'll gladly accept a working fix.
Maybe it has to do with my Windows install inside VirtualBox, not sure.
https://github.com/lwojcik/eleventy-te

"Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked" in Powershell 7 · Issue #91 · lwojcik/eleventy-template-bliss
While starting the project with npm run dev in Powershell 7 on Windows 10, the following error is displayed and the command fails: Until the issue is solved, the following workarounds seem to work:...

Robot Safety Monitoring using Programmable Light Curtains
Karnik Ram, Shobhit Aggarwal, Robert Tamburo, Siddharth Ancha, Srinivasa Narasimhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03556

Robot Safety Monitoring using Programmable Light Curtains
As factories continue to evolve into collaborative spaces with multiple robots working together with human supervisors in the loop, ensuring safety for all actors involved becomes critical. Currently, laser-based light curtain sensors are widely used in factories for safety monitoring. While these conventional safety sensors meet high accuracy standards, they are difficult to reconfigure and can only monitor a fixed user-defined region of space. Furthermore, they are typically expensive. Instea…

While I appreciate every project that I work on, I would really love something longer term, or contractural.
17 years experience of working remotely so far!
#fedihired

Andy Carolan
Andy Carolan is an illustrator and designer living in the UK. His work is playful and fun with a bold and bright style.He can be discovered flying solo or as part of a distributed team completing missions globally, spanning illustration, design and creative direction.

Condé Nast staff marked for layoffs in November are assigned to a "central editorial group" as they await the outcome of their union's contract negotiations (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.…

Condé Nast Purgatory: Dozens of Staffers Marked for Layoffs Bide Time at “Central Editorial Group”
While their union negotiates with top execs about the scale and terms of layoffs, employees who had been working at GQ, Vanity Fair and Bon Appétit have been consigned to a unit that, sources say, mainly includes busy work.

I will be streaming in a bit more than 4 hours, working on a minimalistic 2D game engine and probably making a silly game with it while I am doing so

I'm not excited about trance as I used to be, mostly just listen to it while working now. But DIM3NSION's Stay reminds me why I was more into this in college. Simple, uplifting synths. Poignant lyrics with straightforward vocals that aren't heavily modified/sampled. No fake drops. So good! </yelling-at-cloud>
#music

So, gotta thank @… for the awesome `step-ca` guide, got the easy stuff working with `acme.sh`. Did have to tweak some stuff for my setup, but overall it was relatively painless if you ignore `apparmor` driving me crazy for a bit. #homelab

Improved Forecasting Using a PSO-RDV Framework to Enhance Artificial Neural Network
Sales Aribe Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18576 https://

Improved Forecasting Using a PSO-RDV Framework to Enhance Artificial Neural Network
Decision making and planning have long relied heavily on AI-driven forecasts. The government and the general public are working to minimize the risks while maximizing benefits in the face of potential future public health uncertainties. This study used an improved method of forecasting utilizing the Random Descending Velocity Inertia Weight (RDV IW) technique to improve the convergence of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and the accuracy of Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The IW technique, in…

Potential landing spots for Russell Wilson after pending release from Broncos https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/potential_landing_spots_for_russell_wilson_after_pending_release_from_broncos/s1_…

Potential landing spots for Russell Wilson after pending release from Broncos
It's the end of an error in Denver. The Broncos announced on Monday that Russell Wilson will be released, putting an end to a disastrous two-year marriage between the organization and the Super Bowl XLVIII-winning quarterback. In 2022, his run with the Broncos got off to a horrid start under head coach Nathaniel Hackett, who was out of his element not working alongside Aaron Rodgers.  While Wilson's numbers improved in Year 2 under Sean Payton, it was obvious the former Saints head coach was n…

#Angular related blog post, this time on refactoring that I thought turned out pretty nice:
https://laimis.medium.com/aggregating-

Aggregating and rendering data from multiple API calls in an Angular component
I have been rewriting some of my Angular apps recently to adhere to the new v17 syntax. While working on that, I noticed some of the uglier code patterns I had been using and took a chance to follow…

Unexpected converging benefits of #WFH (Working From Home) and Bluetooth speaker: being able to to take my bath while staying in a #retrofit conference to make space in my heat battery for DHW for everyone else in the family later!

You wrote a shopware plugin and suddenly your javascript isn't working anymore? Maybe you had bad luck while building, the full story you can read here!
TL;DR: storefront-build.sh might duplicate a global variable.
https://winkelwagen.de/2024/03/26/shop

Shopware: Don’t reuse variables – webpack(!?)
Good morning! We submitted our payment plugin once again, Shopware’s review can be stressful, or in other words: They are doing an amazing job finding bugs. What is going on? Is my JS still l…

The Devil is in the Details: Heterogeneous Effects of the German Minimum Wage on Working Hours and Minijobs
Mario Bossler, Ying Liang, Thorsten Schank
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17206

The Devil is in the Details: Heterogeneous Effects of the German Minimum Wage on Working Hours and Minijobs
In 2015, Germany introduced a national minimum wage. While the literature agrees on at most limited negative effects on the overall employment level, we go into detail and analyze the impact on the working hours dimension and on the subset of minijobs. Using data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey in 2010, 2014, and 2018, we find empirical evidence that the minimum wage significantly reduces inequality in hourly and monthly wages. While various theoretical mechanisms suggest a reducti…

Looking at Akkoma a bit.
Install was pretty persnickety, editing nginx config files by hand and having to stop Nginx while fetching ssl certs.
Apparently it needs to recompile at the slightest tweak of the config files? Strange decision.
Not really clear why I have to use pleroma.instance in the middle of the config. Initialy tried changing that to the name of my new test instance but apparently it isn't that. I guess "pleremoa.instance" is some kind of legacy config template from before Akkoma forked? Maybe?
Media-uploads apparently not working without further configuration. Wasn't sure why it insisted I put that in a different domain-name and then never told me how to configure to use that.
Doesn't seem likely this is the easiest activitypub server to manage after all.

I think I need something to capture the words I utter as I press "skip" on algorithmically selected music (I use #AmazonMusic quite a bit while working).
Sometimes I skip it because I don't like it, other times it's just the wrong time to listen to that sort of track.
Then I think "but then Amazon will hear what I'm saying" and I back away from the thought!

Google says the company will "pause the image generation of people" via Gemini "and will re-release an improved version soon" while working to fix its "issues" (Jake Rudnitsky/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomber…

Google to Pause Gemini Image Generation of People After Issues
Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it will pause the image generation of people for its new version of a powerful artificial intelligence model.

Can we predict QPP? An approach based on multivariate outliers
Adrian-Gabriel Chifu, S\'ebastien D\'ejean, Moncef Garouani, Josiane Mothe, Di\'ego Ortiz, Md Zia Ullah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16875

Can we predict QPP? An approach based on multivariate outliers
Query performance prediction (QPP) aims to forecast the effectiveness of a search engine across a range of queries and documents. While state-of-the-art predictors offer a certain level of precision, their accuracy is not flawless. Prior research has recognized the challenges inherent in QPP but often lacks a thorough qualitative analysis. In this paper, we delve into QPP by examining the factors that influence the predictability of query performance accuracy. We propose the working hypothesis …

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🐸 Welcome back for another broadcast! Tuning in for the Day 🌱
Up working for a while, then I anticipate sleeping with the frogs and waking with the birds 🐦

Robot Safety Monitoring using Programmable Light Curtains
Karnik Ram, Shobhit Aggarwal, Robert Tamburo, Siddharth Ancha, Srinivasa Narasimhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03556

Robot Safety Monitoring using Programmable Light Curtains
As factories continue to evolve into collaborative spaces with multiple robots working together with human supervisors in the loop, ensuring safety for all actors involved becomes critical. Currently, laser-based light curtain sensors are widely used in factories for safety monitoring. While these conventional safety sensors meet high accuracy standards, they are difficult to reconfigure and can only monitor a fixed user-defined region of space. Furthermore, they are typically expensive. Instea…

This month's @… of wisdom hit a little too close to home:
> And while I don't regret sharing so much of my work per se, there were undoubtedly other things I could have been doing with my time that I didn't consider when I first ran git push or npm publish.

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If someone tells you capitalism is about freedom, show them this. Capitalism was not, is not, and will never be about freedom — it is about ensuring capitalists can concentrate as much weath as possible about themselves, while simultaneously brutally destroying anyone and anything that threatens that concentration of wealth.
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A while back I created a theme officially featured in Blockbench, but I kinda abandoned it. Since I'm back to working with the program again, I might rewrite the thing.
#Blockbench #CSS

Excellent article on pitfalls in Domain Driven Design. It even manages to avoid the word CRUD: “A “Bounded Context” is an area of the business where certain processes and rules apply. It’s where the Central Concept shows up repeatedly under different set of rules that make sense for each Bounded Context“
Read this story from Hany Elemary on Medium:

The Most Common Domain-Driven Design Mistake - navalia - Medium
I have made countless architectural mistakes while working in technology. But I’ve found that mistakes made with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) are specially unforgiving. Wrong abstractions in DDD have…

Returning to exhibition preparation. As soon as the display cases are locked, we begin (actually, resume) working on the next exhibition.
This letter from 1815 is on beautiful handmade paper with iron gall ink. I've removed the item from a guard book. I'm using flexible sheet magnets (right) to hold the edge flat between release layers and blotter while removing the remnants of the guard (left).

Hey who wants to try out a #beta of TelemetryDeck Dashboard? I've been working hard on our new role and permission system and here's the first result:
While this version of TelemetryDeck looks almost completely similar to the released version, its underlying user, roles and permissions system is completely new.
Can you help me try this out? Log in here with your regul…

I haven't done #VFX set supervision in a while, so being on set again makes me feel impostor syndrome: everybody's friendly and organised, I get asked for my opinion from time to time. But at the same time there are these tightly-knit groups of people all around me, working like clockwork, carrying heavy things, talking into headsets, fiddling with knobs. I'm just taking notes and stickin…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.04934 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Multilevel Geometric Optimization for Regularised Constrained Linear Inverse Problems
We present a geometric multilevel optimization approach that smoothly incorporates box constraints. Given a box constrained optimization problem, we consider a hierarchy of models with varying discretization levels. Finer models are accurate but expensive to compute, while coarser models are less accurate but cheaper to compute. When working at the fine level, multilevel optimisation computes the search direction based on a coarser model which speeds up updates at the fine level. Moreover, expl…

Neighbor-Environment Observer: An Intelligent Agent for Immersive Working Companionship
Zhe Sun, Qixuan Liang, Meng Wang, Zhenliang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18331

Neighbor-Environment Observer: An Intelligent Agent for Immersive Working Companionship
Human-computer symbiosis is a crucial direction for the development of artificial intelligence. As intelligent systems become increasingly prevalent in our work and personal lives, it is important to develop strategies to support users across physical and virtual environments. While technological advances in personal digital devices, such as personal computers and virtual reality devices, can provide immersive experiences, they can also disrupt users' awareness of their surroundings and enhance…

I will be streaming in a bit more than 4 hours, working on a minimalistic 2D game engine and probably making a silly game with it while I am doing so

@… When someone turns on the light in the office while you are peacefully working in the dark

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11338 has been replaced.
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Approximation in the extended functional tensor train format
This work proposes the extended functional tensor train (EFTT) format for compressing and working with multivariate functions on tensor product domains. Our compression algorithm combines tensorized Chebyshev interpolation with a low-rank approximation algorithm that is entirely based on function evaluations. Compared to existing methods based on the functional tensor train format, the adaptivity of our approach often results in reducing the required storage, sometimes considerably, while achie…

Oh boy...
"Loudon allegedly misappropriated material, nonpublic information about the proposed acquisition from his wife, a BP mergers and acquisitions manager who worked on the planned deal. The SEC alleges that Loudon overheard several of his wife’s work-related conversations about the merger while she was working remotely. Without his wife’s knowledge, Loudon purchased 46,450 shares of TravelCenters stock before the merger was announced on February 16, 2023."

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12782 has been replaced.
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Quantum Imaging Beyond the Standard-Quantum Limit and Phase Distillation
Quantum sensing using non-linear interferometers offers the possibility of bicolour imaging, using light that never interacted with the object of interest, and provides a way to achieve phase supersensitivity, i.e. a Heisenberg-type scaling of the phase uncertainty. Such a scaling behaviour is extremely susceptible to noise and only arises at specific phases that define the optimal working point of the device. While phase-shifting algorithms are to some degree robust against the deleterious eff…

Be careful with naming your Shopware storefront plugins, because you MUST use the name for your options!
https://winkelwagen.de/2024/02/15/shopware-names-are-just-noise-and-smoke/

Shopware: Names are just noise and smoke
Shopware Version 6.5.7.3 My colleague Carl told us last week, that it took him a while to get options on Shopware JavaScript frontend plugins working. I was wondering why, I did it a couple of time…

Cowboys' John Fassel spearheading new kickoff rule that could pass for 2024 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/2024/03/25/john-fassel-new-kickoff-rules/

Cowboys' John Fassel spearheading new kickoff rule that could pass for 2024
From @ToddBrock24f7: The special teams coordinator has been working to make kickoffs more exciting while keeping players safe. His proposal is up for a vote.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12782 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Quantum Imaging Beyond the Standard-Quantum Limit and Phase Distillation
Quantum sensing using non-linear interferometers offers the possibility of bicolour imaging, using light that never interacted with the object of interest, and provides a way to achieve phase supersensitivity, i.e. a Heisenberg-type scaling of the phase uncertainty. Such a scaling behaviour is extremely susceptible to noise and only arises at specific phases that define the optimal working point of the device. While phase-shifting algorithms are to some degree robust against the deleterious eff…

NFC Contender Taking Its Time on Extending Their Franchise Quarterback https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfc_contender_taking_its_time_on_extending_their_franchise_quarterback/s1_17198_40239301…

NFC Contender Taking Its Time on Extending Their Franchise Quarterback
Cowboys have reportedly decided to be patient while working on a Dak Prescott extension, but not necessarily because they don’t want him. Jeremy Fowler of ESPN in a recent report said the following: “I was told from a source with the team that the notion that the Cowboys don’t want to keep Dak Prescott beyond 2024, when he’ll be a free agent the next year, is false, that they still believe in him firmly. They want him long-term, but I would describe their pursuits at a contract extensio…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07458 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Accuracy-Time Tradeoffs in AI-Assisted Decision Making under Time Pressure
In settings where users both need high accuracy and are time-pressured, such as doctors working in emergency rooms, we want to provide AI assistance that both increases decision accuracy and reduces decision-making time. Current literature focusses on how users interact with AI assistance when there is no time pressure, finding that different AI assistances have different benefits: some can reduce time taken while increasing overreliance on AI, while others do the opposite. The precise benefit …

Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and mitigating productivity loss in human-AI interactions
Auste Simkute, Lev Tankelevitch, Viktor Kewenig, Ava Elizabeth Scott, Abigail Sellen, Sean Rintel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11364

Ironies of Generative AI: Understanding and mitigating productivity loss in human-AI interactions
Generative AI (GenAI) systems offer opportunities to increase user productivity in many tasks, such as programming and writing. However, while they boost productivity in some studies, many others show that users are working ineffectively with GenAI systems and losing productivity. Despite the apparent novelty of these usability challenges, these 'ironies of automation' have been observed for over three decades in Human Factors research on the introduction of automation in domains such as aviati…