More retro fun with #IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis. We're right next to the end of the game, but after I finish it I intend to load an earlier save and check out the other routes we missed =^.^= twitch.tv/ElMagnificoGames #FoA #Autistic #VTuber

We're knee deep in #IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis and look at that artwork! 🫢 It's breathtaking! Anyway, I estimate that we're about half way through this playthrough (there are multiple routes) and I'm live now (twitch.tv/ElMagnificoGames) #FoA #Autistic #VTuber

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#pillon #simonepillon #foa #marcellofoa #centrodestra #afuera

Sikke en dygtig kat! 🥰👍
#kat #foa #cat

My first attempt at #bookbinding
#woodgas #foa #solarpunk

https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356896

#ClimateResilience Centers' funding opportunity announcement #FOA

…extend #DOE #climatescience and research capacity by supporting…Minority Serving Institutions…and…Emerging Research Institutions…to address the needs for #regionalresilience; including new science to describe #climatechange induced impacts…also aim to foster capacity at regional and local scales by connecting with affected communities and stakeholders to translate basic research into actionable #science…

Футбольные алгоритмы глобальной оптимизации (часть 2)

В предыдущей статье я рассказывал о некоторых метаэвристических алгоритмах, инспирированных динамикой футбола и стратегическими элементами футбольного матча. В этой мы продолжим знакомство с семейством таких алгоритмов. Алгоритм футбольной оптимизации ( Football Optimization Algorithm, FOA ) FOA — это популяционный алгоритм, в котором пространство поиска имитируется футбольным полем. Индивидуальные решения представлены отдельными игроками, которым присваивается набор параметров (переменные решения) и значение мощности (функция приспособленности). Все игроки делятся на два типа: основные и запасные. В процессе поиска игрокам присваивается рейтинг, а игрок с лучшим рейтингом становится обладателем мяча. На каждой итерации рейтинг переоценивается и право владения мячом передаётся основному игроку с самым высоким рейтингом. Каждый раз при передаче мяча происходит обмен параметрами между двумя игроками. Игроки корректируют свои позиции, чтобы быть ближе к мячу, и постепенно направляются к воротам. То есть после каждого паса другие игроки перемещаются в положение, где они могут получить мяч, и дают больше возможностей игроку, владеющему мячом, в соответствии с уравнением, где игроки перемещаются к лучшему игроку на x единиц.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/first/articles/847866/

#Алгоритмы #метаэвристика #MVPA #FOA #SLO #Тикитака #WCO

#OSS in #HigherEd

U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign awarded $459K grant from the #NSF to create inclusive #EdTech environments and advance workplace equity for persons with disabilities in #STEM fields.

Project builds on #OpenSource tools that augment visual charts into touchable (braille), readable (text), and audible (sound) representations.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1056143

(Want to promote more open source in #HigherEducation and #OpenScience? Join Friends of Apereo / #FoA: https://www.apereo.org/events/foa-2024)

#OSS in #HigherEd

A $400K US grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is earmarked for Queens University's 3D Slicer, an #OpenSource platform for medical imaging, data analysis, visualization, and image-guided therapy, and will support software maintenance, growth, development, and community engagement.

https://www.queensu.ca/artsci/news/open-source-software-program-receives-critical-funding-0

(Want to promote more open source in #EdTech and #OpenScience? Join Friends of Apereo / #FoA: https://www.apereo.org/events/foa-2024)

#OSS in #HigherEd

Graduate and undergraduate researchers at the #Wharton School, have created an #OpenSource tool to help social scientists analyze the dynamics of team communication. The tool offers a new way to break down complex interactions, enabling researchers to systematically measure and optimize how teams collaborate across a variety of environments.

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/wharton-hu-css-lab-mechanics-collaboration

(Want to promote more open source in #EdTech, join Friends of Apereo / #FoA: https://www.apereo.org/events/foa-2024)

MONZA, NUOVA OCCUPAZIONE DEL FOA BOCCACCIO IN SEGUITO ALLO SGOMBERO DI GIOVEDI https://www.radiondadurto.org/2024/06/22/monza-nuova-occupazione-del-foa-boccaccio-in-seguito-allo-sgombero-di-giovedi/ #piazzaPodgora #occupazione #Movimento #NAZIONALI #boccaccio #Politica #sgombero #monza #Foa

Regeringens ekspertudvalg lægger op til en ændring af serviceloven, så kommunerne i højere grad kan tage økonomiske hensyn, når de tager beslutninger om hjælp og støtte på socialområdet. Udmeldingen møder kritik fra FOA.

#dkpol #kommune #velfærd #dkøko #dksocial #arbejde #FOA #dkmedier #Arbejderen

https://arbejderen.dk/indland/ekspertudvalg-oekonomien-skal-bestemme-mere-paa-socialomraadet/

Since the start of this year, Danielle Allen has been making the case that it’s time to renovate our democracy.

But the very idea presumes several things. These include:

(1) that constitutional democracy is good for human beings;

(2) that we should want to keep and improve the one we’ve got;

(3) that long-term work on the health of our democracy is worthwhile even as we face the near-term stress of a pretty unpalatable upcoming presidential election; and

(4) that change is possible.


Several questions have cropped up repeatedly that touch on those underlying propositions.

Here are some answers to frequently asked questions.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/23/democracy-renovation-faq-danielle-allen/

#DanielleAllen
#supermajority #Mounk #Foa #supermajority #initiatives #fairness #inclusion

For me, the single bleakest data point about the health of our society concerns a difference across generations in that sense of attachment to democracy.

As political scientists Yascha #Mounk and Roberto #Foa have reported in a few different guises, there has been significant 🔸generational decline in 🔸how people value democracy.

In the starkest formulation, made in 2016, roughly 70 percent of Americans in the generation born before World War II consider it very essential, while not quite 30 percent of Americans who are now about 40 and younger do so.

This finding occasioned controversy, but the points about decline of young people’s attachment to democracy are robust.

Among those of us who have not been radicalized, on both sides of the aisle, there is work to do to forge a cross-ideological #supermajority.

First of all, people have to believe such a supermajority is possible.

Happily, the evidence abounds, especially in the results of state ballot #initiatives.

These are decided with cross-ideological supermajorities or near supermajorities voting in favor with surprising frequency.

Here are some examples:

🔹Legalization of recreational marijuana (2020): New Jersey, 67 percent;

🔹legalization of recreational marijuana (2022): Maryland, 67 percent;

🔹legalization of medical marijuana (2020): Mississippi, 74 percent;

🔹restoring voting rights to those who have completed felony conviction (2018): Florida, 65 percent;

🔹new state flag without Confederate emblems (2020): Mississippi, 71 percent;

🔹right to repair in support of small auto shops (2020): Massachusetts, 75 percent.


Look at these decisions and you’ll see American supermajorities voting over and over again for #fairness, #inclusion and the person getting the short end of the stick.

This is not only a ♦️cross-ideological supermajority ♦️in the making; it’s one with good, salt-of-the-earth values.

This potential American supermajority for constitutional democracy is what we need to forge.

No democracy can be stable without a supermajority supporting the basic rules of the game.

Inside the bounds of those rules, we can fight like the dickens over specific policy questions. But the rules themselves require supermajority support for stability.

#DanielleAllen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/22/danielle-allen-constitutional-democracy-polarization/

Faglige organisationer, som kræver en fuldstændig våbenhvile i krigen mellem Israel og Palæstina, tæller nu også FOA og 3F København. Begge har vedtaget udtalelser, som forholder sig til situationen i Gaza.

#FOA #3F #Gaza #våbenhvile #Israel #arbejde #dkmedier #Arbejderen

https://arbejderen.dk/fagligt/flere-faglige-organisationer-melder-sig-paa-banen-og-kraever-vaabenhvile-i-gaza/

Regeringen skal presse på for en permanent våbenhvile i Gazakonflikten. Det bør ske nu, lyder en opfordring fra FOA's kongres i Aalborg.

https://arbejderen.dk/debat/stop-krigen-og-send-noedhjaelp-til-de-civile-nu/

#arbejde #Gaza #Palæstina #Israel #våbenhvile #FOA #dkpol #dkmedier #Arbejderen

De nuværende trepartsforhandlinger handler om at løfte lønnen for udvalgte faggrupper i den offentlige sektor. Derfor er det endt med at blive et stort tema for OK24, da der her også skal forhandles lønstigninger.

#arbejde #FOA #OK24 #dkpol #dkmedier #Arbejderen

https://arbejderen.dk/fagligt/ok24-og-trepartsforhandlinger-kan-ikke-skilles-ad/

Budgetloven forhindrer kommuner og regioner i at bruge de penge, de har i kassen på øget velfærd til borgerne. Det er væsentlig forklaring på, at velfærden bløder, fremgik det af debatten på FOA-kongressens første dag.

#arbejde #dkpol #budgetloven #FOA #dkmedier #Arbejderen

https://arbejderen.dk/fagligt/budgetloven-til-debat-paa-foa-kongres/

Fagforbundet FOA havde fokus på det internationale arbejde på kongressens første dag. FOA donerede 50.000 kroner til nødhjælpsarbejdet i Gaza, til begejstring for de næsten 600 delegerede.

#arbejde #Gaza #FOA #fagforbund #Oxfam #dkmedier #Arbejderen

https://arbejderen.dk/fagligt/foa-donerer-50-000-kroner-til-oxfam-danmarks-arbejde-i-gaza/