Playing with light and bokeh. Also, check out the cute little group of ladybugs!
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Open Social Web / fediverse folks: with Elon Musk's fight with the Brazilian government likely to result in X being down in Brazil, there's an opportunity to invite more folks to the fediverse.
Is anyone working on plans to recruit and welcome people here, while ensuring their safety & quality of community? It's an obvious opportunity that can be planned for.
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LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English
Feedback gets rid of overt biases but leaves subtle racism intact.
"As far back as 2016, work on AI-based chatbots revealed that they have a disturbing tendency to reflect some of the worst biases of the society that trained them. But as large language models have become ever larger and subjected to more sophisticated training, a lot of that problematic behavior has been ironed out. For example, I asked the current iteration of ChatGPT for five words it associated with African Americans, and it responded with things like "resilience" and "creativity."
"But a lot of research has turned up examples where implicit biases can persist in people long after outward behavior has changed. So some researchers decided to test whether the same might be true of LLMs. And was it ever."
image from paper: arxiv.org/html/2403.00742v1
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Selaco hits 70,000 copies sold with a big update live and sale now on gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/sela…
#FPS #Linux #SteamDeck #Selaco
Selaco hits 70,000 copies sold with a big update live and sale now on
Altered Orbit Studios have done well with Selaco. They just announced some stats, along with a brand new update and a sale live now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Co-creating authentic STEM learning experiences with Latino communities - NASA Science
Led by Arizona State University, the NASA Science Activation Program’s “Engaging Hispanic Communities in Authentic NASA Science” project advances NASA’s vision for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education by co-creating lear…science.nasa.gov
"10 Years Milky Way Timelapse Compilation | 8K HDR."
youtube.com/watch?v=vX6p1H7F9a…
- YouTube
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NASA Sets Coverage for Starliner News Conference, Return to Earth - NASA
NASA will provide live coverage of the upcoming activities for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft departure from the International Space Station and return toNASA
I really hope it has a successful return, so the teams are able to know systems worked.
The alternative result, which would justify the reason for the unoccupied return is not beneficial at all.
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Nextcloud Hub 9 launch, 2 keynotes, 2 panel sessions, >20 lightning talks, 4 workshops, networking, coding, and celebrating the community — all under the theme 'Building a safer digital world'!
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Nextcloud Community Conference 2024
Join us for the Nextcloud Community Conference 2024, an exciting week of coding, design, discussions, talks, and fun!Nextcloud
CORRECTION: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Changes Ahead of September Launch - NASA
Editor’s note: This release was updated twice on Aug. 30, 2024. First, to correct Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov’s role as a mission specialist. ItNASA
"Meteor over North Carolina."
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- YouTube
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September’s Night Sky Notes: Marvelous Moons - NASA Science
Our Moon isn't the only one that can be seen from Earth. Learn about some of the largest moons in our Solar System with September's Night Sky Notes!science.nasa.gov
NASA, ESA Missions Help Scientists Uncover How Solar Wind Gets Energy - NASA Science
A paper published in the journal Science provides persuasive evidence that the fastest solar winds are powered by magnetic “switchbacks,” or large kinks in the magnetic field, near the Sun.science.nasa.gov
Hubble Zooms into the Rosy Tendrils of Andromeda - NASA Science
Clusters of stars set the interstellar medium ablaze in the Andromeda Galaxy about 2.5 million light-years away. Also known as M31, Andromeda is the Milky Way’s closest major galaxy.science.nasa.gov
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Behind the Scenes at the 2024 Mars 2020 Science Team Meeting - NASA Science
The Mars 2020 Science Team meets in Pasadena for 3 days of science synthesisscience.nasa.gov
Tomás Balmaceda: “Creímos que las redes eran un potenciador de la democracia y hoy las vemos como un factor que la debilita”
Polarizaciones en el ámbito digital, la relación entre tecnología y vínculos, los cambios en el mundo del trabajo ...
eldiarioar.com/cultura/tomas-b…
Tomás Balmaceda: “Creímos que las redes eran un potenciador de la democracia y hoy las vemos como un factor que la debilita”
Polarizaciones en el ámbito digital, la relación entre tecnología y vínculos, los cambios en el mundo del trabajo y la forma en que se abordan en la actualidad la muerte y el duelo son algunos de los asuntos que aborda el filósofo argentino en su fla…Agustina Larrea (elDiarioAR.com)
Hoy es el natalicio de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (f.1851).
Fue una escritora, dramaturga, ensayista y biógrafa británica reconocida principalmente por ser la autora de la novela gótica Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo (1818), considerada la primera novela de ciencia ficción moderna y que logra inaugurar el género.
📸: Richard Rothwell, PD-Art, dominio público
Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dung…
Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated
What do you get when you cross Minesweeper with a sort-of dungeon crawler? Well Dungeon Divers is pretty much the answer to that.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dung…
Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated
What do you get when you cross Minesweeper with a sort-of dungeon crawler? Well Dungeon Divers is pretty much the answer to that.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
"Meteor caught on camera."
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"Stephan's Quintet taken by James Webb Space Telescope."
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, European space agency, Canadian Space Agency, Space Telescope Science Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
"The Milky Way at 50mm."
buddingphotographer, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Changes Ahead of September Launch - NASA
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 24, on the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission toNASA
T-38 Flyover of Artemis I on Launch Pad - NASA
NASA's T-38 jets fly in formation above the Space Launch System rocket on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.NASA
Mechabellum, my favourite auto-battling strategy game launches September 26 gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/mech…
Mechabellum, my favourite auto-battling strategy game launches September 26
Ah, auto battlers, at one point they seemed like they would be all the rage, but most quickly moved on. Mechabellum thankfully, feels a bit different, and quickly became a real favourite and it's set to leave Early Access on September 26.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Hubble Zooms into the Rosy Tendrils of Andromeda - NASA Science
Clusters of stars set the interstellar medium ablaze in the Andromeda Galaxy about 2.5 million light-years away. Also known as M31, Andromeda is the Milky Way’s closest major galaxy.science.nasa.gov
"Milky Way and tree from Inferno Cone."
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/XSPcMo
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25 Years Strong: NASA’s Student Launch Competition Accepting 2025 Proposals - NASA
NASA’s Student Launch, a STEM competition, officially kicks off its 25th anniversary with the 2025 handbook.Beth Ridgeway (NASA)
Mpox is spreading rapidly. Here are the questions researchers are racing to answer
Mpox clade II has been spreading since 2022. Mpox clade 1 has 2 cases outside the endemic area in central Africa.
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Mpox is spreading rapidly. Here are the questions researchers are racing to answer
Nature talks with infectious disease specialists about whether vaccines will curb this outbreak and more.Reardon, Sara
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in reply to Muse • • •Kitten Man, Kitten Man
Cute ball of fur rests upon his hand
Plays with yarn, chases flies
Makin' biscuits of every size
Meow!
Here comes the Kitten Man!
Is he cute? His paw goes boop
Even though daily his box you'll scoop
Runs 'round the house, in a whirl
Then upon your warm lap he'll curl
Meow!
There goes the Kitten Man!
In the deep of night, when the shadows unfurl
Like a treasured pet, at your side he will curl!
Kitten Man, Kiiten Man
Your friendly neighborhood Kitten Man
Let daily stress be ignored
Companionship is his reward
To him, life is a great big cat toy
To cuddle a ball of warm joy
Just ask the Kitten Man!
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