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"IC1396 Elephant's Trunk Nebula."
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IC1396 Elephant's Trunk Nebula
Telescope: Meade LX200 ACF 10" OTA Camera QHYCCD QHY268 M Mount: 10Micron GM2000 HPS II LRGB Total Integration: 60 h SHO 20 + 20 +20 h Software: N.I.N.A.Flickr
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I can count on one hand the number of my clients over the past couple of years who haven't either over-architected for scale or were unnecessarily concerned about it (prior to coming to me for strategic advice, of course ๐).
You don't need to understand Distributional Little's Law to figure this out, it's obvious with primary school level math.
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The New Internet
We donโt talk a lot in public about the big vision for Tailscale, why weโre really here. Usually I prefer to focus on what exists right now, and what weโre going to do in the next few months.tailscale.com
"Meteors over the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope."
KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
BINGO! THIS!
My masters degree in the 1980s was in part about this. The problem is, if you aren't willing to listen to a woman about what the future can hold, then you aren't ready for a genuinely better future.
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I'm not surprised by the growing inequality in sci-fi, because there has been growing inequality since the 1950's!
I mean, growing inequality among white men in the USA (and west in general), of course.
Add to that, the fact that publishing has gotten less anti-diverse, then it's just sensible that there is more recognition of inequality since the 1950s.
The complete lack of any mention or analysis of the gender/race/sexuality of the authors or characters is telling.
They say that "dystopia" is just when what happens to most of us happens to white dudes. Well, back in the 1950s if you wanted to tell a story that wasn't about white dudes, you got pulped (see Far Beyond the Stars).
Is it good to also have stories that imagine a better future? Sure. But the trends in sci-fi since the 1950s is more just a matter of some lifting of the blinders of 1950s censorship, as well as increasing inequality since Reaganomics.
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"Almost meteorite-dropping fireball over Poland - 13/07/2024, 21:41:31 UT"
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Just heard Trump describe VP Harris as โLion Kamala.โ
I like it. A powerful apex keystone cat.
if you like him, but would like an slower and thoughtful videos, try Beau of the Fifth Column on YouTube , a journalist with a Southern accent and a liberal spirit. Iโm a big fan of him.
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Beau of the Fifth Column
The discussions of a southern journalist who is tired of a lack of common sense.YouTube
Funded PhD Position in metagenomics of environmental films
Texas Tech University
Exciting funded PhD opportunity studying metagenomics of environmental films
See the full job description on jobRxiv: jobrxiv.org/job/texas-tech-uniโฆ
#biofilms #bioinformatics #biology #metag...
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Funded PhD Position in metagenomics of environmental films
Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!jobRxiv
In Grasmere, on a bridge over the river Rothay.
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The NIH panel on postdocs proposes to shorten the eligibility period for K99 to 3 years down from 5 years.
I understand their motivation is reducing the training period for successful faculty, but I think an unintended consequence is it is going to reduce scientific innovation. If you have to show you are on a successful trajectory that early, people are going to choose safe projects.
Windermere in the morning.
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AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature
ย Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data fromย the Internet, can lead to a collapse in the ability of the models to generate diverse high-quality outโฆNature
@Girl Of The Sea Asked after my frog paintings. Here is one of them! It's a local species known either as the banjo frog because of the sound it makes, or the pobblebonk. Many of them live in the nearby creeks and ponds of Hurstbridge. One of them was even carried into the house by one of my cats (it had gotten into their catio). I then safely put it back outside!
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I like the stamp - to my eye it is an ancient Egyptian cartouche in an arts and crafts style.
Licking toads? That's one of those things that makes me wonder "how did that ever get started, was there a lollypop shaped toad that just looked like it needed to be licked?"
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"I like the stamp - to my eye it is an ancient Egyptian cartouche in an arts and crafts style."
BINGO! With just a touch of Asian influence.
It's much easier than trying to sign my name without wrecking my painting. Also, these days it's probably the best defense I can figure out against AI scrapers. Watermarks and image poisoning can be routed around. But by making my signature integral then anyone saying to an AI, do a frog in the style of KJP, they're going to get that cartouche. Or a mangled version of it.
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Below is some of our finest humour! hehehe!
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Olympics? What's that?
We've got a city to build #pathofexile #poe #settlersofkalguur
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Even if you don't watch Olympics stuff ... watch this 2:58 sec vid. It's awesome.
Today we have the start of our post AVCon indie game developer interviews, this time we have the members of Bad Plan Studios on to talk about there game End of Ember a Binding of Isaac inspired roguelite full of horror refrences but guy who started it knows it needs some work so they're starting from scratch
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King of the bucket!
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What Is Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)?
My Australian friends may not be familiar with the term DEI, until you say what that acronym stands for. So, I found this article to share with them.
What Is Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)?
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) encompasses the symbiotic relationship, philosophy and culture of acknowledging, embracing, supporting, and accepting those of all racial, sexual, gender, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds, among other differโฆwww.inclusionhub.com
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When I drop an album this will probably be the cover!
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It Was So Cold Last Night It Was Impossible To Leave Them Out. I Love Them So Much. ๐ท: Pat Van Acker
We have some neighbours who have done something like this. Now, every so often I can hear them yell at one of their goats to "get out of the house!"
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I just realized I haven't shared sandstone #photos. Sandstone is fascinating and #beautiful and forms various crazy shapes. Endless possibilities for both large and small scale #photography. Photo is titled 'Among the Waves'.
#thursday #photo #landscape #landscapephotography #rock #pink #shape #nature #naturephotography #color #australia #photographie
#MastodonForHarris morning update - we are well over $300,000 and headed to 4000 contributions!
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Lily Tarn. Currently occupied by exactly two friendly ducks (not pictured).
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Now up: A draft syllabus for an undergrad research course focused on the great election year of 2024. Uses @zizip's latest book to frame our questions: nathanschneider.info/school/diโฆ
Feedback super welcome!
Thoughts on this AI policy?
Full context here: nathanschneider.info/school/acโฆ
Thank you! I've really been wrestling with this.
This part is especially helpful:
> Writing is sometimes an artifact meant to provide evidence of understanding
In my classes, this is almost exclusively its purpose.
Ethical use of AI: How do you ensure your compliance? ๐ค
In our review of today's ethical AI challenges, we explore the regulations to be aware of, the Big Tech marketing tricks, transparency concerns, data sovereignty, and AI vendor lock-in.
Read on ๐
nextcloud.com/blog/ethical-useโฆ
Ethical use of AI: five major challenges Nextcloud
What are the challenges of the ethical use of AI and how to employ AI tools without risking your privacy,ย reputation, and sustainability?Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
> Ethical use of AI: How do you ensure your compliance?
We expect from you, @nextcloud, more than mere compliance with the law.
For a project founded and heavily promoted as ethically right, we expect compliance with what #ethics demands.
That means: No use of technology that consumes gargantuan amounts of electricity and fresh water. No use of #LLM corpuses extracted from the internet without consent of the creators.
While that is the "AI" being offered, reject it utterly.
Combining exploration, city-building and complex resource management, Scorchlands 1.0 is out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/combโฆ
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Combining exploration, city-building and complex resource management, Scorchlands 1.0 is out now
Available now with Native Linux support and full Steam Deck support with the 1.0 release, Scorchlands has left Early Access.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Old School Rally now Steam Deck Verified with an impressive roadmap ahead gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/old-โฆ
Old School Rally now Steam Deck Verified with an impressive roadmap ahead
Old School Rally released recently and it not only looks fantastic for retro rally fans, it's also now Steam Deck Verified.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Vibrant Sokoban-style game Puzzledorf now available for Linux, works great on Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/vibrโฆ
Vibrant Sokoban-style game Puzzledorf now available for Linux, works great on Steam Deck
The developer of Puzzledorf emailed in about their rather vibrant Sokoban-style game that recently added Native Linux support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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in reply to Muse • • •It's like the Sound of Music. Rolf woos Liesl von Trapp, 'You need someone older and wiser / Telling you what to do" ... and then he runs off and joins the Nazis.
(The character of Rolf was created for the film, and was not drawn from real life.)
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