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(PDF, PhD thesis 2018) Improving visual-to-auditory cross-modality information conversions https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55721/ by Shern Shiou Tan, on visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (VASS) devices.
"The integration of visual recognition in parallel with the soundscape will be the…

Breaking: Thing everyone expected to happen, happens. Now what? (Charles Gaba/ACA Signups)
https://acasignups.net/25/12/11/breaking-thing-everyone-expected-happen-happens-now-what
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p150#a251211p150

"Iyengar told me she isn’t worried about Musk ruining D&D.
Musk is welcome to waste his money on “trying to make everyone play the version of D&D that he thinks should exist in the world,” Iyengar said. “That’s never been how that works. Everyone will play it how they want, or they’ll play something else.”
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Hey everyone,
Nadeen and her sister need your help to continue their education in Gaza.
They need to raise ~$2,500.
Would any of you consider taking up this cause and helping them to fundraise? Or sponsor their education?
Please share thank you 💕
#Gaza #education

KORMo: Korean Open Reasoning Model for Everyone
Minjun Kim, Hyeonseok Lim, Hangyeol Yoo, Inho Won, Seungwoo Song, Minkyung Cho, Junhun Yuk, Changsu Choi, Dongjae Shin, Huige Lee, Hoyun Song, Alice Oh, Kyungtae Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09426

KORMo: Korean Open Reasoning Model for Everyone
This work presents the first large-scale investigation into constructing a fully open bilingual large language model (LLM) for a non-English language, specifically Korean, trained predominantly on synthetic data. We introduce KORMo-10B, a 10.8B-parameter model trained from scratch on a Korean-English corpus in which 68.74% of the Korean portion is synthetic. Through systematic experimentation, we demonstrate that synthetic data, when carefully curated with balanced linguistic coverage and diver…

Travelling on train and trying to work. Thank goodness for headphones and Pollini's Chopin Nocturnes.
If only everyone else would use them too... 🙄

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115707785778663043
Thank you everyone for all your earthquakes stories and descriptions! :blobcatsweat:

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

I would like to go on record to say that I don't hate LLMs. That would be like disowning maths.
I hate how people sell it with promises that are simply lies and urging people to use it for things that it is unsuitable for, with the commercial LLMs how they train models on stolen data, how users talk themselves into believing they're talking to a human or something human-like while deskilling themselves, how institutions and organizations shoehorn it into every fucking thing, the way it is usurping computing resources and increasing prices for personal computing, how the big companies underhandedly continuously threaten everyone with "if we don't invest enough the Terminators will get us" and how it is used for very obvious large-scale financial fraud. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When I share my newsletter on socials, I try to tag everyone I linked to.
Often, they're not on Bluesky. Usually, they're not on Mastodon.
But those who aren't on LinkedIn? They are truly blessed.