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Oh great, #Google has discovered a fancy way to generate #text by "refining noise" instead of using those boring old transformers. 🤖✨ Apparently, this means they can now create #gibberish faster and with more precision. Let's all pretend we're not just watching #AI play a game of Mad Libs. 🎉🔍
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/ #Refinement #Generation #GameOfMadLibs #HackerNews #ngated

Is your team stuck writing lengthy specs during refinement? ⏱️

With Example Mapping, you can:

Focus on examples first, syntax later
Identify questions before coding starts
Split stories easily
Keep sessions time-boxed and productive

Learn more about this secret weapon here:
https://agilepainrelief.com/blog/example-mapping-your-secret-weapon-for-effective-acceptance-criteria/

#ScrumMaster #ProductBacklog #Refinement

The Feasibility Of Using LiDAR-Derived Digital Elevation Models [DEMs] For Gravity Data Reduction
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https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program/news/feasibility-using-lidar-derived-digital-elevation-models-gravity-data <-- shared article
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https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20251019 <-- shared report
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“A nice report from our colleagues in the USGS Mineral Resources Program on the feasibility of lidar-derived DEMs, including 3DEP data, for gravity data reduction…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #3dep #elevation #fedscience #remotesensing #earthobservation #gravity #submetre #accuracy #precision #dGNSS #GNSS #global #navigation #satellite #GPS #LiDAR #DEMs #gravimetrics #milligals #Bouguer #anomaly #monitoring #corrleation #refinement #datareduction #appliedscience #usecases
@USGS

A quotation from Chamfort

He who tries to make his happiness depend too much on his reason, who holds it up for examination, who quibbles, as it were, with his delights, and admits no indelicate pleasures, ends by having none at all. He is a man who cards the wool of his mattress until nothing is left, and he ends by sleeping on the boards.

[Celui qui veut trop faire dépendre son bonheur de sa raison, qui le soumet à l’examen, qui chicane, pour ainsi dire, ses jouissances, et n’admet que des plaisirs délicats, finit par n’en plus avoir. C’est un homme qui, à force de faire carder son matelas, le voit diminuer, et finit par coucher sur la dure.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 179 (1795) [tr. Merwin (1969)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/760…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #classiness #delight #enjoyment #fastidiousness #happiness #pleasure #reason #refinement #selfanalysis #selfcriticism #selfexamination

#LINKSDERWOCHE | 13/2025: Produktivität, Agile, Management und Leadership https://tomsgedankenblog.social/2025/03/31/linksderwoche-13-2025-produktivitat-agile-management-und-leadership/ #AgileCoach, #Alignment, #Ausrichtung, #BulletJournaling, #Führung, #Fokus, #Kollaboration, #Kommunikation, #Landkarte, #Leadership, #Management, #Obsidian, #ProductOwner, #Produktivität, #Qualität, #Reaktionsmodus, #Refinement, #Scrum, #ScrumMaster, #Scrum-Team, #Selbstreflexion, #Zeitsouveränität, #Zusammenarbeit

I've just published my latest article titled “How To Gather Requirements And Handle Refinements Like a Pro (The Carlspring Way)” on Medium.

#agile #requirements #refinement #kanban #requirementsgathering #scrum #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering

https://medium.com/devops-by-nature/how-to-gather-requirements-and-handle-refinements-like-a-pro-the-carlspring-way-fd7042a716f1?sk=7b384e36d14180ff54898e23b7cafadd

@ReadingFaithfully_org What a wonderful #simile ! I especially like that #refinement or #purification is a clearly implied possibility without direct mention that that relies on the hearers' (or now more likely, readers') knowledge about gold so that they have to do the rest of the work themselves (and are thereby more likely to remember).

#fiveHindrances #5hindrances #hindrances #hindrance #sensualDesire #illWill #slothAndTorpor #restlessnessAndRemorse #doubt

Well here's a fun result I got with by playing with #ADT

I was wondering if I can rewrite this #type `( [a], [(a,b)] )` in a nicer equivalent way. I suspected I could factor out all the `[a]`s somehow.

So ofc I write `(1 + a + a^2 + ...) * (1 + ab + (ab)^2 + ...)` and with a blind eye on converge I re-organize the expression into one list.

I got `(1 + a + (1+b)*a^2 + (1+b+b^2)*a^3 + ...)`.

Which is equivalent to this #refinement type: `{(x: [a], y: [b]) | len(y) < len(x) }`

Die Produktwerker: Wie umgehen mit Backlog Items unterschiedlicher Granularität? | Developer https://www.heise.de/blog/Die-Produktwerker-Wie-umgehen-mit-Backlog-Items-unterschiedlicher-Granularitaet-10268030.html #ProductOwner #ProductManagement #BacklogManagement #BacklogItems #Scrum #Agile #Refinement #SprintPlanning #ProjectManagement #Projektmanagement #Prioritization

What Should You Do After Making a Guesstimate?

#Guesstimate #Estimation #ProblemSolving #CriticalThinking #DataAnalysis #DecisionMaking #Assumptions #Feedback #Analysis #Refinement

A new program, MetalCoord, is described that classifies and utilizes the metal-coordination geometry and has been used to update metal-containing components from the CCP4 monomer library #Refinement #Restraints #MetalCoordinationGeometry https://t.co/GEAMKSEpTc

I realized (again) why I find a #refinement meeting valuable.

This meeting is the place and chance a team can challenge their understanding of a #system and of what it should do and how it will be used. This is the time to discuss risks, or pick a path if there are paths too choose from. This is the place to challenge features.

All the estimation stuff, usually done ther is only for managment. The discussion about the system is important as it fosters #knowledge.

#softwaredevelopment

Reminder: A #PRODUCT #BACKLOG #Refinement is about what the name suggests:
Refine the Backlog!
Don't focus sole on writing new Items or even adding implementation details to existing ones at that stage.
Check if the Backlog reflects your goal, vision and your user's needs!
And most of it all:
DELETE! The refinement is also the time to sort out obsolete stuff. Get rid of waste and ballast, here!
A Backlog MUSTN'T contain dozen of Items!

#Scrum #BacklogRefinement #delete #Goals #productBacklog

Sketch of an emerging Product Backlog with a wastebasket next to it.

#iteration #refinement #emergent #messages

Dysfunctions - Scope Creep: Constantly changing or expanding project requirements can lead to delays, budget overruns, and frustration among team members. #Refinement #SprintGoals

Great article :
Advanced exploitation of unmerged reflection data during processing and refinement with autoPROC and BUSTER - Vonrhein - 2024 - Acta Crystallographica Section D - Wiley Online Library
#crystalography #refinement #autoPROC #Buster
@ActaCrystD

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1107/S2059798324001487