@migurski May I introduce you to a favorite (disputed) fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Venezuela#Original_flag
Blunt discussion of suicidality in the news
Good-intention–adjacent online shitbirds saying that Boeing whistleblower didn’t die the way he did because he didn’t act exactly like they think someone in that situation must act is just extremely callous and ignorant and bad and will lead to a lot of unnecessary suffering in the world.
@brennen Everyone to one side of me is a permanently aggrieved bundle of ideological purity tests and grudges who runs Alpine Linux on a hand-loom and refuses to touch any artificial polymer, listen to recordings, or use acronyms; everyone to the other side is a superficial media Twitter schmoozer with a personal brand so big they have to walk through doors sideways, the political discernment of a Pekingese on MDMA, and a habit of telling stories hook-first. This is a documented fact.
Every page of this oozes with total crankitude, which I adore, and if that wasn't good enough, the author's real name is Ralph Thomas but he chose to publish under the bizarre anagrammatic pseudonym of Olphar Hamst
@beep Seeing a lot of hypocritical takes on the timeline today. “Oh, I would simply not be awash in blood and bile!” People need to be realistic.
@natevw Woof, I feel this – from a different angle, but still.
@marcpfister However much credit you get for doing this, it isn’t enough. I continue to use this program as a stellar example of humanitarian engagement in conversations with others in the industry.
When other people take a long time to reply to e-mail: lazy, unfriendly, irresolute, displaying a kind of disorganization characteristic of an unconscious and wasted life. When I take a long time: busy, thoughtful, rich inner world, applying the effort to do a good job, generous and sincere, an admirable and worthy friend.
been wanting to make some plotter drawings to raise money for all the gaza gofundmes in my timelines so I started trying out the DEM-to-SVG approach with sentinel-1 data estimates of destroyed areas. Gaza's pretty flat so as terrain it doesn't quite have the same effect but the gaps are still a lot. This is a screenshot from a corner of Khan Younis.
@dpiponi Ooh, see, that’s interesting to me!
@dpiponi That makes sense.
I suppose what I’m wondering could be taken from a different angle as: is that fractal “about” waves or is it “about” float32s (or other implementation details)? Presumably at some point in the complexity and time of the system, it changes from the former to the latter, but is that after, say, 100 timesteps? Or 100 billion?
When I said noise, I imagined AGWN in the air, but I suppose another option would be jittering the room dimensions.
Mt Tamalpais East, Marin County, CA
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@dpiponi So cool – the kind of thing I would ask my (math major) mom about as a kid and she’d say “Sure, in theory, maybe one day when computers are better.”
Two brainstorms just in case they’re interesting:
1. I’ve been reading about shearlets, which are near-optimal at representing the wavefront set, and I can feel things in the back of my brain churning here. (E.g., the “fractal” looks a bit like a noiselet.)
2. Would the results be subjectively different if trained with a little noise?
At @letterformarchive I’m always wishing to share the many bits of object info our staff knows (or wonders about), but the public never gets to see.
Then comes @thisisaaronland of SFO Museum, who just posted a talk on using “tools in conjunction with ideas like an on-going curatorial file meant for public consumption, as a way demonstrate proof of life in our collections and to allow the public to engage with them on playing fields they recognize and understand.” https://aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/26/matrix/#usf
My thoughts and prayers go out to #voyager1, which after journeying for half a century to reach interstellar space is still expected to answer fucking work emails
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