Does anyone have a good starting point for Bayesian ranking of text-based content?
Application in mind is placing of news articles on a page-based layout, and I'd like something more sofistikated than LIFO or manual text-based grading.
Ultimately I would probably have a set of curated exemplar articles of high and low rank to toss at a Bayesian classifier.
The system need not be perfect (and I'll probably add some random jitter to it), but it should be useful.
Boosts appreciated.
So, our less-than-ten-year old defective-from-the-factory Samsung cooker has bitten the dust. I'd like to hear from the bakers and chefs what ovens you've had, whether or not you like them, and SPECIFICALLY WHAT you like or dislike about them.
My own priorities are utility and reliability (the Samsung failed on both accounts). We do a lot of bread baking, as hot as possible (290 -- 315C / 550-600F), other baking anywhere from 120--230C (250--450F), as well as broiling and roasting.
Bread baking likes a steamy oven. The oven need not have a steam feature but should be able to hold steam if added (e.g., a pan on the oven floor). The unit as a whole must handle bread-baking temps without melting or damage (another massive fail of the Samsung).
Other nice-to-haves: convection, and settings for bread proofing and fruit/meat drying.
The range hobs should support a Moka pot, which requires burner grates that support a small-diameter vessel (6--10cm / 3--4 in). Closed-cross designs work, open-cross does not. (This is a curiously common failing of many cookers.)
Griddle and wok rings would be nice, but not necessary.
Gas range preferred (I know), "dual fuel" electric oven works.
Boosts appreciated.
#dearMastomind #ovens #baking #sourdough #recommendations #Bakestodon #BoostsAppreciated
Edit: Answer seems to be Willima James Sidis, though I'm having trouble turning up a citation.
I'm trying to remember the name of the young prodigy who'd been bullied as a child, somewhere in the US (Cleveland sticks in my mind though I may be wrong on that), took refuge in the library, read Principia Mathematica, and corresponded with Bertrand Russelll over errata. Russell mistook the youth for a maths professor initially.
Obviously early 20th century.
Ring any bells for anyone?
#DearMastomind #DearHivemind #Maths #prodigies #BertrandRussell
VirtualBox Linux under MacOSX is very inconsistently laggy
I've been wrestling with this for a few weeks. Running a Linux guest under VirtualBox mostly under X11 (XQuartz) sees frequent GUI lockups of several seconds. It's not clear if the guest itself is freezing or if there's a networking issue.
Config shown below. Issue seems to have emerged after a host upgrade. I've tried virtually all the networking options (host only, bridged, NAT, etc.), with no change, also both the ethernet (en0) and WiFi port for bridging, dittos.
Occasionally after various restarts (guest soft boot, hard boot, OS host hard boot) things seem to improve, but I've gone through that full dance today with no joy.
No clear similar issues that I've noted elsewhere, though my search-fu may be weak.
I'll update this toot if/when the issue is resolved.
Boosts appreciated.
Dear Mastomind / Lazywebs: Is it feasible for a Web browser itself to support toggling support of video (or audio) support or codecs absent injecting JS into a page for that purpose?
My hope is that it might be possible to toggle the availability / support of common video codecs (such as: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HEVC/H.265, VP9, and AV1), so that a browser would simply ignore an video / audio content.
I'm hearing that this is not trivially possible. If that's not the case ... I'd be quite happy.
Boosts / tagging clueful devs appreciated.
#DearLazyWeb #DearMastomind #browsers #video #VideoCodecs #WebAnnoyances
#DearMastoMind: Is it possible to block DMs only from a specific account or profile?
In related news: autoresponding that you don't read replies is ... fucking stupid.
Oh, and something that would be really useful would be a quick way of looking up a website and getting a rough classification as to what type of content it presents.
Wikipedia can offer some of this, occasionally sources such as Crunchbase, though the first is hard to parse.
The Alexa Crawl (Amazon, originally by Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive) used to offer this as well, though I think that's no longer active.
If anyone knows of other / better sources, I'd love to know.
Is it just me, or does #Threadreader now need a Twitter login to create / view a thread?
#DearHivemind / #DearMastomind: I'm trying to find an essay on the evolution of a "scene", possibly from the aughts.
It's on the evolution of groups and cliques. Possibly band scenes or artists. First you've got the artists / creators, then you get the afficionadoes who recognise great work on their own, then the groupies and fans, then the people who follow the crowd (and often: "social opportunities" to put that spin on it), then the opportunists who seek to benefit from the crowd itself: advertisers, pickpockets, scammers, swag sellers, etc.
If this rings bells, please respond.
Boosts appreciated.
Update: @oblomov has turned up "Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution" by David Chapman, ~2015: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
In this toot: https://sociale.network/@oblomov/110554257076535839
Thanks!
Is there any tool for aggregating long Mastodon #tootstorms into a more tractable reading format? Sort of like birdsite's ThreadReader?
Does the concept of dividing technology in "freestanding" vs. "integrated" ring bells for anyone?
I'm trying to track this down. Thought that #UsulaMFranklin might have been a source, but her Massey Lectures text doesn't include the terms AFAICT.
#DearMastomind #DearHiveMind #DearLazyWeb #Technology #TechOntology
I'm looking for tools to create / edit ePub documents, preferably directly from URLs and employing the Readability library.
The ability to append to a given document would be quite useful --- additional web pages should be treated as chapters.
Best options would be Linux (Termux/Android) or Android applications or tools.
What's out there?
I am of course familiar with #Pandoc which addresses HTML->ePub conversion, but not the Readability library element, or editing the generated pubs.
Related to my printer question: I'm also looking for recommendations for a good flatbed scanner.
Alternatively, an all-in-one printer/scanner/copier, though I suspect the separate devices approach is better.
So ... the topic of pirnters came up recently and in a recent turn of events I find myself 1) similarly in the market and B) surrounded by bullshit options.
The present madness appears to be for devices which are a) wireless-only and ii) cloud-based, which of course means that rather than printer drivers, there's a motherlovin' printer app that must be downloaded and installed. Apparently also such devices don't function unless "connected to the Internet", which ... spanks of all kinds of bad.
One such device appears on a list of recent CVE issues. Great ... now I've got to run security updates on my printer.
Criteria sought
I'm leaning somewhat toward Epson or Brother, tending away from HP, and reject anything Samsung entirely.
I'm noticing that anything that is NOT WiFi and/or Cloud based seems to be short stocked or out completely.
#printers #printing #LaserJet #KISS #InternetOfShit #DearMastomind
I'm looking for a freely-available full text (PDF, ePub preferably) of Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1846).
There's a start of one at Wikisource, but it's only the contents, index, and other supplemental material.
Neither LibGen nor Archive Org seem to have a copy of the text in English and out of copyright. (There's a copyrighted repriint at Archive.Org.)
#DearMastomind #PDFMe #Books #CharlesBabbage #DearHivemind #EconomyOfMachinery #TechOntology
#DearMastomind I am trying to grok kresd, the Knot Resolver (used on the Turris Omnia) ... and ... am encoutering impenetrable documentation.
If there's anyone famiar with it, my current goals:
https://knot-resolver.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config-overview.html
My other option is to redo my DNS configuration using DNSMasq. Which quite frankly is probably preferable as its documentation and configuration are much more sane.
#kresd #KnotResolver #Turris #Omnia #TurrisOmnia #OpenWRT #DNS #dnsmasq
I'm trying to find a quote.
I'm fairly certain it was by John Gilmore. It's about creating email, and runs something like: we made it virtually free for anyone anywhere to communicate with anyone else and it wasn't an accident.
I'm pretty sure "wasn't an accident" is in there. I'm not finding the rest of it.
Probably 1990s / early aughts.
Other than hashtags and public web search, how do you find past content on Mastodon?
Or is that simply a lost cause?
(I'm trying to track down a conversation from a few months ago that I apparently didn't hashtag appropriately.)
Q: Why is holiday leave so stingy in the US?
Life, work, school, etc., are all structured so as to minimise free time.
Why?
By whom?
Inspired by an aside in Technology Connextras, "I took a cross-country train trip" (25 Sept 2021, YouTube) reflecting on how much rail travel cuts into the already-stingy holiday allocation (typically 2 weeks) of Americans.
#Holiday #Vacation #FreeTime #UnitedStates #AskMastodon #DearMastomind #DearHivemind
