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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Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in the ability of the models to generate diverse high-quality out…Nature
@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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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.
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 differ…www.inclusionhub.com
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When I drop an album this will probably be the cover!
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by Mark Peter**
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It Was So Cold Last Night It Was Impossible To Leave Them Out. I Love Them So Much. 📷: 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'.
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#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/di…
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Bumped into @Gargron in @waxandbeans . Good discussion and played a good album.
Thoughts on this AI policy?
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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? 🤔
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.
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What are the challenges of the ethical use of AI and how to employ AI tools without risking your privacy, 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/comb…
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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-…
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/vibr…
The developer of Puzzledorf emailed in about their rather vibrant Sokoban-style game that recently added Native Linux support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
No Rest for the Wicked now Steam Deck Verified thanks to latest update gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/no-r…
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No Rest for the Wicked from Moon Studios GmbH and Private Division has been through another major upgrade, and thanks to it the game is now Steam Deck Verified.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Visiting @waxandbeans.
Where he belongs.
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Who will fire up their parody machine to make a mopey theme song:
Linux Mint 22 is officially out now supported until 2029 gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/linu…
Linux Mint 22 "Wilma" is officially out now, as their next long-term supported release with updates until 2029 based on Ubuntu 24.04.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Spinny Dungeon is an upcoming slot machine roguelite that might eat away your time gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/spin…
While Spinny Dungeon won't suck away your money like a real slot machine, it will eat away your time.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Valve gives developers some big reasons to add a demo on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/valv…
Valve have overhauled the way game demos work on Steam in some big ways, and it sounds like a really good thing for both developers and players.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
"but I imagine this will also increase the complaints from developers on their new releases being quickly pushed down by demo releases."
How is that a bad thing? Every single person that plays your demo is exposed to a very compelling advertisement for the full game
Windermere after sunset.
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Northwest Africa (NWA) 2224 Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.
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