How are things going in the UK? National newspaper is promoting shoving crisp packets down the back of the radiator as a solution to not freezing to death 👍
Pensioners urged to use crisp packets after losing £300 Winter Fuel Payments
metro.co.uk/2024/10/13/pension…
A heating expert has devised a novel solution to the Winter Fuel crisis.Tom Sanders (Metro)
About 2.5 years ago, dozens profiles on some supposedly "free speech" #Mastodon fedi were blocked for a few posts like this one. I was one of them.
The fact that it's now a book is called vindication against some nazi friendly admins
Despite Chrystia #Freeland’s denials, her grandfather was complicit in the Nazi #genocide
A new book provides the most authoritative study of Mykhailo Chomiak and the history of #Ukrainian_Nazis in #Canada
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A new book provides the most authoritative study of Mykhailo Chomiak and the history of Ukrainian Nazis in CanadaPeter McFarlane (The Breach)
Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.bbb.metalab.at
Breaking news, live coverage, investigations, analysis, video, photos and opinions from The Washington Post. Subscribe for the latest on U.S.The Washington Post
The following article investigates the Metaverse and its potential to bolster digital accessibility for persons with disabilities.MDPI
Beim Fenix FC spielen ausschließlich trans Männer. Gründer Hugo Martínez spricht über Hürden im Sport, Emotionen bei den Spielen und Ambitionen des Vereins.Inga Hofmann (Der Tagesspiegel)
#Nigeria - Zehntausende Menschen fliehen vor #Überschwemmungen
In Nigeria haben Überschwemmungen zehntausende Menschen in die Flucht getrieben.
#klimaflüchtlinge
Buenos días. Hoy me he despertado con esta canción en la cabeza: Paisa, de reincidentes: youtube.com/watch?v=7ChSe2ktuT…
Nuestos viejos han emigrado.
Como mierda les han tratado.
Muchos no han regresado
ni regresarán.
Dos millones de los nuestros
andan desperdigados.
Los que nos hemos quedado
no debemos olvidar.
Al racismo
eliminar.
Fascismo
criminal.
Google's plan to disable the best ad/tracker/spyware blocker in Chrome is imminent: techradar.com/computing/chrome…
I use Firefox and you probably should, too.
Manifesting a future where Firefox is more successful?Darren Allan (TechRadar)
It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.
#opensource #freesoftware #gamedev
blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/I…
After more than a year of public and internal discussions, we're ready to announce our new name!Minetest
Exactly one year since we reached 3,000 named contributors in #curl, we are at 3,257 names in the list.
This is a team effort.
Show Notes: Episode Overview In this episode of Unmute Presents, we dive into upcoming changes for the show and explore a powerful feature in JAWS for website navigation: Place Markers.pnc.st
In an ideal world, today's putin would be consistent with his past self.
Watch (60 Second) Insta Reel, Source: United 24 Media
Yahoo Finance says that Twitter's revenue has dropped by 84% since Elon Musk took over. finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter…
84%! It's bringing less than one sixth of what it did pre-takeover!
That's one stable genius, right there.
As neither of the current Accessibility team representatives are able to log-in to WordPress.org, team meetings are suspended until further notice. Bug scrubs will continue to run as normal.
Totally fine! make.wordpress.org/accessibili… #A11y
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.WordPress.org
Eine neue Studie der Uni Mannheim zeigt: Der Antisemitismus-Vorwurf gegen linke Studierende geht »an den Tatsachen vorbei«. Zwischen propalästinensischen Einstellungen und Antisemitimus bestehe kaum ein Zusammenhang.
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated and 1 added apps:
* BinEd - Binary/Hex Editor 🛡️
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Excel, Word, PowerPoint und Co. sind mittelmäßig. Weil sie aber allgegenwärtig sind, muss die reale Welt an ihre Mittelmäßigkeit angepasst werden. Wie aber können wir dieser Abhängigkeit vom Mittelmaß entkommen?
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Excel, Word, PowerPoint und Co. sind mittelmäßig. Weil sie aber allgegenwärtig sind, muss die reale Welt an ihre Mittelmäßigkeit angepasst werden. Doch der Abhängigkeit vom Mittelmaß können wir entkommen.netzpolitik.org
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Přímý přenos pokusu o start rakety SuperHeavy B12 s lodí Starship 30. V rámci tohoto testovacího letu loď poletí na transatmosférickou dráhu. Nepůjde tedy o ...YouTube
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The launch of the fifth test flight from Elon Musk's Space X Starship rocket has been a success.It took off in Boca Chica, Texas and was the first attempt to...YouTube
Hey, they did it! People have known for a long time that in 4 dimensions you can pack equal-sized balls so that each touches 24 others. In 2008 someone showed that's the best you can do. But in April this year, three mathematicians showed there's essentially just 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 you can accomplish this!
This way is easy to describe. Take the points whose coordinates are all integers, together with those whose coordinates are all integers plus 1/2. Use each of these points as the center of a ball of radius 1/2. Then each ball touches 24 others. This pattern is called the 𝗗𝟰 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲.
The new result shows that if you pack equal-sized balls in 4 dimensions so that each touches 24 others, you're 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑑 to create a version of the D4 lattice - possibly rotated, translated and/or rescaled.
This sort of thing is hard to show: it took a lot of fancy math and two weeks of calculation on a standard desktop computer. I believe only other dimensions where we know a result like this are 1, 2, 8 and 24. In dimension 3 it's just false: you can pack equal-sized balls so that each touches 12 others, and this is the best you can do, but there are uncountably many different ways to do it!
We prove that the $D_4$ root system (the set of vertices of the regular $24$-cell) is the unique optimal kissing configuration in $\mathbb R^4$, and is an optimal spherical code.arXiv.org
Canadian agencies like Yorktown Family Services in Toronto have developed proven tactics for de-radicalizing youth. We need to build on those breakthroughs, write Justin Ling, not let them waste away.Justin Ling (Toronto Star)
I'm a little puzzled at the salience that is being given to the Apple conclusions on #LLM #reasoning when we have lots of prior art. For example: LLMs cannot correctly infer a is b, if their corpora only contain b is a. #Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2309.12288
We expose a surprising failure of generalization in auto-regressive large language models (LLMs). If a model is trained on a sentence of the form "A is B", it will not automatically generalize to the reverse direction "B is A".arXiv.org
I tend to think so too. I suppose it shouldn't really surprise me, but I expected a bit more critical engagement.
There's lots of evidence on the limits of LLM reasoning, as well as pretty basic self-reference and so on (how many letters l does this statement include?). And yes, reasoning is being used rather technically in the sense of deductive inference.
Remember this? Where ministers belonging to the biggest party in government were hellbent on deporting a sick child before his application could be approved but their coalition partners effectively vetoed it meaning the kid and his family got asylum?
ruv.is/english/2024-10-09-yaza…
Well, it’s looking like this pissed that party’s MPs off to such an extent that the government has collapsed, meaning we’re about to have an election about the same time as the Americans.
Yazan Tamimi and his parents received asylum in Iceland yesterday. Last month they were scheduled to be forcibly removed to Spain, but the Minister of Justice stopped the deportation after an intervention by the Minister of Social Affairs.RÚV
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