szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

My favorite quote for today:

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

#Quotes

Od dziś jesteśmy fundacją!

Otworzy nam to nowe możliwości do działań, o których na pewno usłyszycie 💪

One hundred years ago this study, had it existed, might have been regarded as science fiction: “Machine Learning Approach for Muscovy #Duck (Cairina moschata) Semen Quality Assessment” https://improbable.com/2023/08/01/the-future-is-now-machine-learning-approach-for-muscovy-duck-semen/

Drops of water hang in a damaged spider's web after the rain.

In my garden in Berlin, but could be everywhere.

#TextureTuesday #SpiderWeb #RainDrops #Nature #NaturePhotography

Are we splitting the Web? Maybe it’s time to choose your side.

https://ploum.net/2023-08-01-splitting-the-web.html

You can keep overhead projector transparencies in ring binder sleeves, and use masking tape to conceal certain words. Then you just pull the transparency out of the sleeve to reveal the words.

You can do the same in PowerPoint but it makes the computer screen really sticky.

Each frame visualizes 475GB volumetric data, 285TB total. Look at this detail!
Commercial #CFD would need years for this, #FluidX3D does it over the weekend.

No code changes or porting required; #FluidX3D works out-of-the-box with 32-#GPU scaling. The power of #OpenCL!

The SuperNODE AMD Instinct #GPU benchmarks and #FluidX3D source code are on #GitHub: https://github.com/ProjectPhysX/FluidX3D
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Neuroscience Needs a Revolution to Understand Consciousness. Encinitas - Aug 18-20
Live and online
https://vimeo.com/845485065

Tutaj inny interesujący artykuł: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447048/ (nie czytałem jeszcze całości)

📝 Some recollections on user feedback:

I remember sitting in on feedback session for one of the biggest things we were working on and a customer said, “Yeah, I suppose this is good and all, but it seems like you’re building stuff just to build stuff.“

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/user-feedback/

Gefiederten Zorro als Showact.
Ohne Worte, was er nun so abliefert.

#photography #nature

Tiny Privacy Tip 🔒:

Do not give your name to your devices.

Give them their own unique unrelated name. Like Steve or Martha or CyberApple or MyMagicTinyPocketComputer ✨

Giving it your own name isn’t really helpful in any way to you, and through Bluetooth or WiFi scanning can make your name known to strangers in the vicinity you might not want to share your name with.

Giving weird unrelated names to your phones, computers, WiFi network, etc, is not only safer, it is also much cuter ​

#TinyPrivacyTip

If you're still using Chrome for performance reasons:
- Firefox is now faster than Chrome out-of-the-box
- Firefox uses less memory than Chrome
- Contrary to Chrome, Firefox does not restrict Ad blockers, which will make your browsing experience much faster (and safer).

I love the internet

A real fascinating story of how an 81-year-old former Air Force chap had come forward to announce he saw pulsars well before they were discovered but could not talk about it for half a century until the military instruments he observed them with were decommissioned and de-classified.

In a nutshell, he was using radar for a Ballistic Missile early warning system and noticed a pulsating signal showing up in his data, which was rising 4 mins earlier each day. He asked astronomers after writing down the location, and it was the Crab Pulsar!

The woman who discovered pulsars, Dame Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell - agreed with his discoveries.

https://www.nature.com/articles/448974a

Sent this to our team's slack channel overnight, and my supervisor told me he and another one of our team's astronomers were the folks that the Air Force chap got in touch with!

Small world, and a nice Aussie connection!

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/acp/article-abstract/983/1/642/620966/An-Independent-1967-Discovery-of-Pulsars?redirectedFrom=PDF

#Astrodon #RadioAstronomy #Pulsars #Defence #Science

My fav webcomic of all time, https://www.questionablecontent.net/ is 20 years old today. I started reading it in Jan 2009. Time flies, and I still love it.

Kochani, w moim mieście już za niecałe 16 godzin neonaziści będą uroczyście obchodzić wybuch antyfaszystowskiego powstania, i drzeć mordy, że to wcale wtedy nie chodziło o faszyzm, tylko o gejów, szczepionki i Unię Europejską.

A co tam u Was?

A passenger airline client is developing the complicated scheduling tools to ensure that pregnant employees can minimize working in states with actively dangerous restrictions on reproductive healthcare. Pilots also need to rethink where to divert if a passenger has a prenatal medical emergency.
The nearest airports are not necessarily places where care can be provided. This is a major safety, moral, and reputational risk, and it's damned shameful that we have medical "dead zones" in America

All these video streaming services and all these algorithms and all these recommendation engines and all these hundreds of tags and all these thousands of well-paid programmers and all these scores of gullible billionaires handing over money for the CEOs to set on fire and NONE

not ONE

will tell me when an episode of a show is going to be too dark to watch on a sunny afternoon.

Checking a "is show very dark" column in a database, checking the time, then popping up "Ey up Dan, watch this one a bit later on after sunset eh, you won't be able to see a bloody thing. Look, here's this other show you've been watching, this one's proper bright, have that instead maybe?" <- TECHNOLOGY BEYOND THE WILDEST IMAGINATION OF SCIENCE FICTION APPARENTLY