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Because we love open source software (and because they have fast review times), we’ve released our updated browser extension on @mozilla.
The new extension allows you to set labels and edit titles when saving items.
Coming to other browser later this week.
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This is quite a cool achievement!
In math, "tiling" is about ways to tile the infinite plane with one shape, like you can do with hexagons, rectangles, triangles, and more complex shapes. Until now, no one had discovered an "aperiodic monotile", i.e. one shape that could tile the plane *without* regularly repeating. This is known as the "Einstein problem".
The researchers here just found such a shape, and it's surprisingly simple-- 4 thirds of a hexagon glued together in a shape they call a "hat". If you look closely at the gray lines in the image below, you can see those 4 thirds combining into the tile shape.
This was published just today, and announced within the last few hours. The server is busy. 🙂
Congratulations to @csk and the rest for solving the Einstein problem! 🏆 This is really exciting!
(@seb -- now we need a custom emoji of the tile. 🙂)
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I reimagined #Logseq main layout with a workflow that involves recent and pinned pages, current-page panes and pinned panes. All the details here on the forum as always:
https://discuss.logseq.com/t/concept-of-the-main-layout-with-pinned-pages-and-panels/16141
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I wish more people understood that "I want the computer to generate a natural language text that sounds like a plausible answer to a question about x" and "I want the computer to answer a question about x" are two very different problems.
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#AI #GenerativeAI #Spam #Text #LLMs #Content #Writing: "Whether or not a fully automated textpocalypse comes to pass, the trends are only accelerating. From a piece of genre fiction to your doctor’s report, you may not always be able to presume human authorship behind whatever it is you are reading. Writing, but more specifically digital text—as a category of human expression—will become estranged from us.
The “Properties” window for the document in which I am working lists a total of 941 minutes of editing and some 60 revisions. That’s more than 15 hours. Whole paragraphs have been deleted, inserted, and deleted again—all of that before it even got to a copy editor or a fact-checker.
Am I worried that ChatGPT could have done that work better? No. But I am worried it may not matter. Swept up as training data for the next generation of generative AI, my words here won’t be able to help themselves: They, too, will be fossil fuel for the coming textpocalypse."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/03/ai-chatgpt-writing-language-models/673318/
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Oh, man. This comic — from 1993 — could NOT be more relevant today. As usual, Bill Watterson hits it out of the park.
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Did you know?
Nearly every toot has missing replies, boosts and likes.
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#OpenSource #FreeSoftware saved me again, this time connecting my #Android device to my #Linux PC running #LinuxMint, using the immensely useful #KDEconnect. Thank you!
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One of those times where an image creates a damning indictment on humankind.
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For new #Logseq users here there is an explanation of pages, blocks, references and properties with drawings.
https://discuss.logseq.com/t/graphical-explanation-of-pages-blocks-and-references/15966
The source file of the drawings is available and can be edited using #Tldraw.
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"People in poor countries use Bitcoin to fight inflation."
No. The best they do is storing a part of their savings in "stable coins", aka USD.
Most people (from poor countries or not) are not stupid gamblers ready to put their little savings in a giant decentralized casino which can drop 30% over night from a single Tweet of Elon musk.
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Do me a favor and put your socket in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and your temp files in XDG_CACHE_HOME. /tmp is MINE
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Top climax moaner Greta Reset deleted her 2018 post about world end in 2023 because of climax
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David Sacks, one of Elon Musk's rich friends seen on twitter (1) explaining government is a worthless parasitical institution made obsolete by the VC space, and then, not much later, (2) HELP, GOVERNMENT, BAILOUT SILICON VALLEY BANK NOW!!
Similarly to #USdefaultism I noticed #MacOSdefaultism is a thing both in #WebDev and #PKM
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oh cool the new MonoLisa 2.0 release is a variable font.
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