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I was reminded today that this is the absolute best post/thread I've ever seen on the Fediverse.
https://beige.party/@Alice/110083835185447532

Action-Adventure „Shadow Frontier“: Ist das wirklich „Star Trek“?
Bloober arbeitet an einem Survival-Spiel, in dem man in die Rolle von Ro Laren schlüpft. Die übliche „Star Trek“-Ästhetik scheint abwesend.
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Action-Adventure „Shadow Frontier“: Ist das wirklich „Star Trek“?
Bloober arbeitet an einem Survival-Spiel, in dem man in die Rolle von Ro Laren schlüpft. Die übliche „Star Trek“-Ästhetik scheint abwesend.

heise | Consul für macOS im Test: Der Formatwandler
Die Mac-App Consul konvertiert Dateiformate durch bloßes Ändern des Namens.
https://www.heise.de/tests/Consul-fuer-mac

Consul für macOS im Test: Der Formatwandler
Die Mac-App Consul konvertiert Dateiformate durch bloßes Ändern des Namens.

"Brazil’s expanding offshore oil frontier puts biodiversity at risk: study"
#Brazil #Biodiversity

Brazil’s expanding offshore oil frontier puts biodiversity at risk: study
In late August 2019, fishing communities along the northeast coast of Brazil reported black oily stains washing up on beaches, with crude clumping between the roots of mangroves, on the shells of turtles and on growing numbers of beached fish. The origin of the spill was never confirmed: Then-president Jair Bolsonaro first blamed a Venezuelan […]

Patriot Front formed in 2017 under Thomas Rousseau after the
“Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va.
The group’s manifesto calls for the formation of a white ethnostate.
https://extremism.gwu.edu/patriot-front

Important development in AI, "Small Models are Closing the Gap to Frontier AI"
https://paulkedrosky.com/chart-of-the-day-small-models-are-closing-the-gap-to-frontier-ai/

Chart of the Day: Small Models are Closing the Gap to Frontier AI
A quiet story in AI isn't that large models keep getting better, it's that small ones are catching up quickly. In 2022, reaching 60% on MMLU, a test of academic reasoning, required a 540-billion-parameter model. By 2024, a 3.8-billion-parameter model hit the same threshold — a 142-fold parameter reduction in

hyves: Hyves friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users of Hyves, an online social networking site in the Netherlands (comparable to Facebook at the time). Nodes represent users and an edge exists if two users are friends. These data were crawled in December 2010.
This network has 1402673 nodes and 2777419 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Bericht: Peking prüft Einschränkung des Zugangs zu Chinas führenden KI-Modellen
Der Zugriff auf Chinas fortschrittlichste KI-Modelle könnte schwieriger werden. Die Regierung in Peking diskutierte mit KI-Unternehmen mögliche Beschränkungen.

Bericht: Peking prüft Einschränkung des Zugangs zu Chinas führenden KI-Modellen
Der Zugriff auf Chinas fortschrittlichste KI-Modelle könnte schwieriger werden. Die Regierung in Peking diskutierte mit KI-Unternehmen mögliche Beschränkungen.

college_freshmen: Dutch college freshman (1995)
A small network of friendships among freshmen at Dutch College in 1994-1995. Friendship ties were surveyed at 7 different times over the year, and each edge is timestamped. The direction of an edge indicates that person i named person j, and the edge weight represents their level of friendship, ranging from -1 (risk of conflict) to 3 (best friend).
This network has 32 nodes and 3062 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Tim…

slashdot_zoo: Slashdot Zoo friend-foe network (2009)
A network of interactions among users on Slashdot (slashdot.org), a technology news website. Users name each other as friends or foe. The friend label increases the scores of post, and the foe label decreases the score.
This network has 79120 nodes and 515397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed