Blink Dagon @blinkdagon@qoto.org

Hey everyone. Just wanted to eliminate the confusion and let you know that this is actually me. Hope you are having an awesome Thursday!

$ curl duck

最后附一个视频

#happynewyear2023
#art
Elizabeth Somerville

Sunset.

#msfs

我与黄胖子不出门。

Good Night World

Mastodon has rejected more than five investment offers from Silicon Valley venture capital firms in recent months, as its founder pledged to protect the fast-growing social media platform’s non-profit status. (open access link) https://on.ft.com/3YSq8PU
#twittermigration #mastodon

This is a carbonized loaf of bread from Pompeii, 79 C.E. - preserved for thousands of years in the volcanic ashes of Mount Vesuvius. The baker left his stamp, which reads: “Celer, slave of Quintus Granius Verus." Celer is known to have survived the eruption, as his name later appears on a list of "freed men." Most bread at the time was baked in community ovens, so customized stamps were used to mark individual families’ and bakeries’ loaves.

#histodons #TIL #WeirdHistory #AncientHistory #DYK

@eniko @MaddieQuestions
I knew the "Hamburger", but didn't know the Meatballs... I think I'll start calling it by that name now. actually, there's more food names:

A micro-theatre. I love it. Every park could have one.
#Cities #Urbanism #Park #PublicSpace #Theatre #Art #PerformingArts #Architecture

Dmitry Kokh from Russia has been named the Nature Photographer of the Year 2022. His winning photograph "House of Bears" was taken at an abandoned Weather Station on Kolyuchin, an island off the coast of Russia.

Christmas had been good to them this year. #grickledoodle #christmas #raccoons #holidays #boxingday

"Huts and unemployed, West Houston and Mercer Street"

From Berenice Abbott's Changing New York series, 1935.

Behind Blue Eyes

Did you know that reindeer are the only known mammal whose eyes change seasonally from golden in the summer to a wintry blue? Their eyes also become a thousand times more sensitive in winter, adapting to dim light in the near darkness to avoid predators.

Part of this is because of changes in the tapetum lucidum (TL), a mirror-like layer under the retina. 1/n

#ScienceSunday #ScienceMastodon #Christmas

PHOTO BLOG: Earlier this month, a storm chaser from the Netherlands took a wonderful photo showing several textbook ice halos, including a 46-degree halo, a 22-degree halo with parhelion (sun dogs), and an upper tangent arc. https://www.accuweather.com/en/leisure-recreation/live-news/weather-permitting-photo-blog/933860

Winter Holidays by Pixel Jeff #pixelart

Met的圣诞节快乐！

Jewish holiday tradition: Chinese food

Asian holiday tradition: Kentucky Fried Chicken

@mattodon The term probabilistic circuits was invented to unify a family of probabilistic models represented by a circuit and to make the study of their properties easier. Those models often allow interesting inferences to be computed exactly, like marginals. PPLs serve a different purpose but PCs are a valuable backbone for PPLs. There is some work on the latter but it’s rather immature. I’m interested in enabling Bayesian inference in flexible models (NNs, BNP) through PCs.