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@Seven Nice, looks a bit like Mike from Monsters Inc. mixed with the helper bots from Fallout.

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Pool Party 🏖️

4 panel comic: 1. Pennywise the clown speaks to a kid from the sewers: "Join us, Jimmy. We all float down here." 2. Jimmy screams and runs away. 3. Pennywise turns around and speaks to a group of clowns in the sewers. They are having a merry pool party and drinking umbrella drinks. Pennywise says: "He ran away!" 4. One of the clowns says, "Maybe he doesn't like pool parties." Another one says,"Try balloons next time."

In the Proto-Indo-European language, one doesn't say: "human, person of the Earth"

But instead one says: "digimon, digital monsters, digimon are the champions" and I think that's beautiful.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_vocabulary

#pie #language #digimon

PIE English Gothic manna *mon- "human man (< OE " uman beings" "Mann") o beings *dhghemon . OE guma person, human | . ] person, man", (litt. of the earth)" =~ _ guma "man” brydguma (See also : [l . "bridegroom" " *dheghom-)

@strypey @Nezchan @breadandcircuses This entire conversation is ridiculous. You'd have to either have these chain-gang-carriages electrified along specific routes, or they'd need batteries to get them between passenger-boarding points. I can't see anybody being onboard with such a ridiculously convoluted system.

@carlysagan Saw this HN discussion that reminded me of your post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39214202

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I’m scared for the world right now. It seems like everyone I interact with is just concerned with protecting themselves & their bank account &
that no one aspires to change or improve anything for the world. So I just want to say that I want to change the world. I want to change everything. I want to change the whole f-ing solar system, ok??? Ok.

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#JPEGXL / #JXL, the most requested and upvoted focus area proposal for #web #Interop, has again been rejected as a discussion topic for 2024's web platform Interop industry event, because "We did not have consensus to include this proposal."

Given the industry's broad support, lack of "consensus" sounds an awful lot like "the Google Chrome team lead who authored the AVIF format arranged for it to be vetoed."
https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/430

Screenshot of the web "Interop" proposals tracker on GitHub, where JPEG XL was the most upvoted request, by a factor over 5x any other proposal

@dreo Sure, ideally all research would require the submission of pipelines before a paper is even accepted. But we're nowhere near that standard yet, and LLM's might be a good solution for this slow transition period. All we have now are tired researchers without any time eyeballing someone else's pipeline and wondering "how did they produce that image?"

@dreo I agree with a lot of your points.

I still argue that LLM's are good at pointing out obvious flaws that tired reviewers might overlook. They're also excellent at finding the code repositories mentioned in the paper and assessing the reproducibility / maintainability aspect of the paper, something which a lot of reviewers also overlook since they focus mainly on the science.

Maybe LLM's could be a nice first-pass tool for reviewers or editors, before being passed on to a human?

@dreo If the weights are open sourced and the scientific community can tune the model for better reviews, then I am all for it.

If it's some random company promoting their "computer says no" blackbox LLM as a service to publishers, then no thank you.

There should always be a scientist-in-the-loop for these reviews, even if it's just tuning the review models

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German cycling activist Andreas Mandalka aka #natenom (43) has been killed by a 77 year old car driver while he was cycling on a road.

He was known for his efforts to raise political and authority awareness about the need for safe cycling infrastructure. Too often he was criticised and paternalised for this.

RIP #natenom

#cycling #bicycle #Activism #mobility #cars

You can see part of his work in his blog:
https://natenom.de

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I just released a new collection of Amiga #ASCIIart! Here's a few examples, but it's 5959 lines long so there's plenty more...

~(˘▽˘~)

🡆 https://www.goto80.com/dxma

@sundogplanets Please don't use Ubuntu, they're currently in the process of monetizing their product and have started putting ads for themselves in their updates. Please try Debian instead, it's what Ubuntu is based on and the Debian team still have all of our interests at heart

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this came from a conversation about why you'd vousvoyer someone in "voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir" and apparently you'd do that if it was 1974 and you're being very formal.

Apparently you wouldn't do this to proposition a group of people, though, even if it gramatically sounds like you might

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NHS across UK spends a ‘staggering’ £10bn on temporary staff | The Guardian

Reminder that this money does *not* go to the temps (mostly nurses and doctors) who only get a tiny fraction of it: it's money paid to commercial employment agencies, ie. Tory donors. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/16/nhs-across-uk-spends-a-staggering-10bn-on-temporary-staff

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Here's my contribution to #portfolioDay. I'm not a professional but maybe this is a good excuse to post something :blobartist:

Some older #pastel and #aquarelle works from 2018 and 2019, and the #inkPainting magpies from last fall.

#MastoArt #TraditionalArt #humanMadeArt #watercolor #waterColour

A framed pastel drawing of the head of a long-horned Italian bovine, gazing at the viewer.

A framed watercolour painting of a leafless tree in a snow-patched brown landscape.

A yellow and black ink painting of a pair of magpies against a dreamy, misty background.

A framed watercolour painting of a small waterfall flowing towards a pool of water in the foreground.

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It's #PortfolioDay I make a lot of surreal magical cat paintings.
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/jenny-jaybles/
https://ko-fi.com/jennyjaybles
#CatsOfMastodon #Painting

A watercolor painting of a sleepy purple cat with his eyes closed.

A watercolor painting of a blue cat on a red blanket. He is licking his paw.

An orange cat laying down on a blue background that could be a blanket or water as he seems to be floating. The feeling is very dreamy and surreal.

An oil painting of a woman's left leg bent and her right hand is reaching over with a paintbrush and painting her own leg. The painting is mostly orange with deep shadows.

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Are we doing #PortfolioDay here? I'm a Shuster Award winning Canadian cartoonist looking to do comic covers, album covers, editorial, and TTRPG illustration - hit me up! :blobcool:
Website: https://www.cuckoosnestpress.com/
Email: elaine@cuckoosnestpress.com
Store: https://ko-fi.com/elainemwill/shop

An illustration of a plague doctor in the style of a playing card, the Jack of Spades

An illustration of an old hollowed-out car, an Austin Mini, parked in a dirt driveway, with several ghosts drifting out. A fence, some trees, and a house next door can be seen in the background. The colour palette is monochrome red.

A comic book page depicting a sequence of a man angrily smashing a Fender Telecaster guitar.

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Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm a concept artist, illustrator, and indie game dev producer living in the Netherlands. I especially love painting fantasy and science fiction imagery, alien landscapes, and creatures. I'm on the lookout for future gigs!

https://anyarose.art/ 🖼️

Concept art for three planets from Second Star - Takaroa (blue with a giant meteor hole), Banyan (green and covered in thick gases), and Irkalla (rocky volcanic orange). Image includes a view of each planet from space as well as a concept of the surface aesthetic.

Portrait of two people wearing fantasy garb, On the left is a woman with long dark hair and brown eyes with a hooded cloak. On the right, a man with blue-green eyes, glasses, and a beard wearing a ranger outfit. A small blue dragon perches on the man's shoulder.

Painting of a nebula in the shape of a brown bear's face. The bear is looking directly at the viewer, with stars twinkling in the brown and purple gases that make up their form.

Painting of a nine-tailed wolfsune close to the 'camera', physically seated between the worlds of a kitsune village and a wild forest wolf pack. Both a couple of the kitsune and the wolves are looking at her with curiosity. She is illuminated by warm yellow-orange light and looks very confident about and comfortable in her unique position.

@Lemniscata

As loud as hell, a ringing bell
Behind my smile, it shakes my teeth...

#songsaboutclassicmonsters

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