🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

According to Instances.social QOTO currently federates with 5,532 other instances in the fediverse. You might ask how it is possible that that number is larger than the total number of instances known (108% of all instances, 5,114 instances total).

Thats because not only do we federate with all instances and have one of the largest views of the entire fediverse, but we have been doing this so long we even have old connections with instances that have since shutdown.

Furthermore #QOTO invests a lot on infrastructure to ensure that we retain a cache of **all** toots from around the fediverse and we enable full-text search. This means our users are able to search more of the fediverse, even servers that have since shutdown still have their toots in our archives.

It costs us a lot in hosting costs but thanks to generous donators and a large fund we can provide these services long into the future. We think it is worth it, and we hope you will too!

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Limit theorems for generalized density-dependent Markov chains and bursty stochastic gene regulatory networks. (arXiv:1909.00038v1 [math.PR]) http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00038

A single-layer RNN can approximate stacked and bidirectional RNNs, and topologies in between. (arXiv:1909.00021v1 [cs.LG]) http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.00021

Uhm... I'm back to the #fediverse!

Poor Fediverse! 🤣

#podcast suggestion:

I just started to listen to "Species", where every week Macken talks about a species of animal.
Unlike many other informative pieces of podcast I listened to, this is very entertaining, with fun bits of info and a very story like way of delivering juicy, hard checked facts.
I was captured from the very first episode, the Opossum.

Link: https://www.speciespodcast.com/

Hello my friendly nerds. I have found a website you might like: https://thetrove.net/ It's got them there role playin' books you nerds love. <3 Dave (Also a nerd.)

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By popular demand the #QOTO user bot now reports on both all-time instance graphs and weekly graphs.

@pschwede I was born and raised in Hong Kong for 15 years pre-1997. Hold your horses on the idea of just giving out UK citizenship for free.

Like @freemo said I appreciate the sentiment of this intent. I wouldn't mind having the option of UK citizenship myself, but there's one thing I want to point out in addition to what freemo said:

HK rioters are fighting for HK. A citizenship elsewhere means nothing to them, if HK itself cannot be protected. My brother is living in HK right now and, while not actively rioting, refuses to leave even though he has permanent residency in Australia.

Considering the power China holds over the world right now, I don't blame UK only resorting to "virtual signalling" - they're doing the best they can. Handing out citizenship for free is not a gesture of care, when the one thing that HK rioters really want is not to live somewhere else better, but to save their own home.

I've been pretty quiet on here... How's everyone doing?

In case you didnt know, #QOTO is a non-profit organization. Not only that no one who works for #QOTO is paid, not even the founder.

Despite that we have a very generous donation fund. We can currently afford to host all QOTO services, give each user a TB quota, run on production level load balanced redundant server architecture, and still have enough in our donation fund to operate for at least a decade.

This is all due to the hard work of our volunteers and the generous nature of our donators. We do this with a pledge to no advertising and never selling your data..

So don't feel guilty, claim your free accounts and enjoy. We love to see how the members of our community enrich us all. It is why the volunteers like myself and the whole team do this!

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Does anyone know how to get in contact with Isobel Yeoung?
If you do please let her know about Mastodon. She is a journalist for Vice News.

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RT @PatriotCoburn@twitter.com

Holy Shit the protesters in Hong Kong are grabbing the canisters of tear gas dropping it into liquid nitrogen and turning it into its harmless solid form.