For #Caturday, a reminder that Widget remains available for adoption in the NYC metro area. She would prefer a calm house without kids (we are not a calm house). She's super affectionate! #CatsOfMastodon
New preprint!
Predicting integers from continuous parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10751
We study the problem of integer distributions that have continuous parameters. This is important for distributions that are tuned by backpropagation, like those that sit at the top of neural networ…
Scaffolding, St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, August 2025
Which one would you choose?
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain
60 years ago tonight, the velvet underground at summit high school in new jersey, opening for the myddle class, both acts' 1st proper shows. sometimes called the VU's debut, rob norris’s classic scene report, “i was a velveteen” (from kicks #1) mentions they’d just been fired from cafe wha?, so maybe there was one earlier, too? some great local coverage, too!
Ah, NATO SG Rutte finally speaks up about Greenland. "NATO needs to protect it." Against Russia and China that is, not against his 'daddy' Trump.
https://nos.nl/l/2597905
Woohoo! I rescued my ESP32-S3 board; after my first attempt with esp32 rust I broke USB detection/flashing and the GPIO0 connection on the PCB wasn't apparently getting it to go into the rescue boot mode - it was stuck in boot mode 0x8 always going to the bad flash image. So I took the can off - it turns out to be easy; and got GPIO0 down to zero using a sharp scalpel wired to ground; worked great! Back to having the original image. (Note the S3 pinout isn't the same as the module…