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eliocamp, 13 hours ago to australia

In the one month I've been in #Australia I've already been asked to sign two farewell cards. I've seen full aisles in supermarkets and dedicated stores that sell cards for any occasion one could think of.

Australia is a card-based culture, apparently.

hrbrmstr, 1 day ago to random

Good time to remind (especially folks new to R) #RStats folk that R is (in part) directly powered by Fortran https://github.com/search?q=repo:wch/r-source%20language:fortran&type=code
https://oldbytes.space/@arclight/112409105707390752

djlink, 4 days ago to random

Immich looks like a great self-hosted alternative to Google photos, and similar look, which I like since GPhotos one is actually nice. https://immich.app/

smach, 5 days ago to LLMs

The TinyChart-3B LLM answers questions about data visualizations. It can also generate underlying data from a dataviz and Python code to re-create a similar chart.

Demo on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mPLUG/TinyChart-3B

Code: https://github.com/X-PLUG/mPLUG-DocOwl/tree/main/TinyChart

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16635 8 authors from the Alibaba Group and Renmin University of China

#GenAI #LLMs

djlink, 8 days ago to random

a long time ago, for a brief period of time, there were 4 main consoles, Dreamcast, Xbox, PS2 and GameCube. You had to be there, this was an era full of games doing all sorts of mind-blowing things.

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renegadejade, 11 days ago to random

Caught between “haha, get fucked fascists” and the reminder that simply using a restroom risks violence.

NanoRaptor, 14 days ago to random

You get to make one change to any single genus of animal that’s immediately applied to all of its members worldwide.

What do you change for maximum chaos?

eliocamp, 16 days ago to australia

Now this is an office. #Australia #Argentina

eliocamp, 18 days ago to melbourne

The thing that shocked me when I arrived in #Melbourne is that the vast majority of this gigantic city is suburbs of one floor houses or duplex at the most. It's so low density compared with #BuenosAires. I found this website with an interactive population density map that confirms just how sparsely populated this city actually is.

Similar plot for Melbourn. Most ares are light blue and most people live in areas with 2000 people per squared kilometre and almost no one lives in ares with more tan 10000 people per squared kilometre. The population weighted density in 2020 is almost 3700 people per squared kilometre and the peak population density is 16900 people per squared kilometre.

eliocamp, 19 days ago to random

Today I learned about fir waves. When a tal tree dies due to wind exposure, it exposes downwind trees to the wind, with also are more likely to die. Small trees start to grow in its place that are protected by the wind by their neighbours until they are tall enough to be affected. These waves travel downwind at between 1 and 3 meters per year.

I took historic pictures from google earth to make this gif. Notice the rows of taller trees "propagating" north.

https://northernwoodlands.org/outside_story/article/doing_the_fir_wave

A gif of many satellite photos of a forest. There are many lines of lighter trees that move north.

eliocamp, 20 days ago to random

Tan lejos y a la vez tan cerca.

eliocamp, 20 days ago to random

The great thing about living in Australia is that the weekend comes earlier.

Cmastication, 22 days ago to random

Letting publicly facing LLMs execute code is great job security for exploit researchers

From: @kennwhite
https://mastodon.social/@kennwhite/112290497758846218

jennybryan, 28 days ago to random

@Cmastication do you know of a calculator for "in hindsight, was this insurance 'worth it'?"

to put it another way: what magnitude of claim will make having this insurance better than regularly saving & investing the same amount as the premiums

I can imagine working all of this out from first principles, but would be even nicer to just find a calculator or explainer on the subject

eliocamp, 29 days ago to random

"ahhh, the Australian experience. 💆‍♂️"
"Ehmm, that's New Zealand"

seachanger, 1 month ago to random

I know this is really obvious to most of us but as someone who witnessed the rampant racism, sexism, anti-gayness etc of even the 80s and 90s, it’s pretty clear that the current culture war is just a response to us emerging from those patterns! watch any movie from 1990 or around there and it will blow your mind what was common & totally acceptable. We are waking up from a very deep sleep, and some folks can’t handle it

eliocamp, 1 month ago to random

I've been thinking about that Sabine Hossenfelder video* that is doing the rounds and I have to say that I mostly don't like it. It raises real issues with how the incentives are laid out in science, yes, but the whole framing is (sometimes explicitly) that that is all academia is and there's nothing of value. Besides, these are not new issues and a lot of people have been talking about these points in a much more productive way.

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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

eliocamp, 1 month ago to random

I've just learned that Doom on the SNES used precomputed lookup tables to compute trigonometry functions because the processor was to weak to compute them in real time. I wonder if modern games couldn't use that trick to eek out a bit more performance.

mina, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

History lesson 2nd of April of 1982

(which will probably cost me Argentinean followers)

43 years ago, after almost 6 murderous years in power, the Argentinean dictatorship found itself in dire straits (not the band).

The formerly pampered Argentinean middle class had started to turn their back on them, not so much because of the thousands of killed, disappeared and tortured persons, but because they had run out of international credit and the debt fuelled Sweet Money party had ended, …

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