R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org

f(x,y) = ((((~x) + (-y)) / ((x % 24) % (y ^ x))) % (((y % y) + (-x)) % ((x - 3) ^ (y ^ y)))) % 2

Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)

"Onebit" colouring scheme.

@blakereid @mmasnick No, needs to be low enough stress for the people operating the system so they don't quit, and needs to attract or create people with the necessary technical competence to keep it running.

A communication platform like Mastodon can survive with 30 people or 300 million people, as long as one out of every 30 or so people is able to fix problems as they arise, and as long as no group of people can make the platform useless to everybody else.

Whether regular people can use it or not obviously affects the regular people, but its effect on the survivability of the platform itself is very small and possibly negative. Consider how many Commodore 64 users there are today versus how many Macintosh 512K users. Or how many IRC users (about a hundred thousand) versus how many AIM users (zero). Or how many FidoNet users (about a hundred thousand I think) versus how many Minitel users (zero).

I think you didn't think your ideas through before tooting to see if they made sense.

I've completed the implementation of Uxn, in Uxn, which allows me to spawn sandboxed processes(think uxn roms in windows). But I think while I'm here, I will make a little standalone toy which will be a step debugger with a pdp like panel that communicates each step of the evaluation with little blinking lights.

PineTime - PineWatch GNU/Linux smart watch

Impressively, random forest classifiers trained solely on expression data performed nearly as well as models trained with intolerance metrics in predicting dominant (monoallelic) genes and outperformed them for recessive (biallelic) genes

function box() { t="$1xxxx";c=${2:-=}; echo ${t//?/$c}; echo "$c $1 $c"; echo ${t//?/$c}; } # Make box around text. By bartonski
I made an explanation of how this works a while ago here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZ85aMuf6c

3D Bowl for the #BBCMicro / #AcornElectron. 447 bytes of compressed code, 539 bytes non-compressed.

Implementing a New Memory Safety Approach, Part 1 - Evan Ovadia @ Vale Lang: https://verdagon.dev/blog/making-regions-part-1-human-factor

The Yuv4Mpeg2 format (.Y4M) is a simple video format w/ an ASCII header and no compression.

I dissected a grayscale Y4M to first show the file structure, then a YUV (4:4:4) with a tiny 3x3 YUV plane for Y=0.5 as a small introduction to the YUV color space.

@chribonn @NorCal_Lynne @jeffjarvis @tomwatson Your analogy is wrong.

You don't need to understand PAL-M to watch TV usefully, but you do need to understand that different TV channels are operated by different companies, which are granted government monopolies on transmitting on those channels, and that they're heavily regulated and mostly ad-funded.

If you're sharing photos of mass graves in Ukraine or taking part in protests in Iran, you probably need to know if your instance is run by the Russian, Ukrainian, or Iranian government. You definitely need to understand that it's a possibility, and that the instance owner can read your DMs, trace your IP address, and take over your account.

Keeping activists, journalists, and their sources safe is more important than being appealing to the masses.

Just seen Twitter described as $8chan and now I can’t unsee it.

(H/t @gossithedog)

This looks like an important report:

Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free
https://zenodo.org/record/7212922/files/Against_Parasite_Publishers__Making_Journals_Free.pdf

It's interesting that in 1886 the Berne Convention said articles "may be reproduced in original or in translation in other countries of the Union, unless the authors or publishers have expressly forbidden it." But in 1908 the rule was flipped - so that articles "may not be reproduced in the other countries without the consent of the authors".

Excited to share the Complex AutoEncoder (CAE):

✨ The CAE decomposes images into objects without supervision by taking inspiration from the temporal coding patterns found in biological neurons. ✨

Now accepted at TMLR!

📜 arxiv.org/abs/2204.02075

with @phillip_lippe, Maja Rudolph, and Max Welling

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You can define operations on [-∞,∞) depending on a positive real number called the 'temperature' 𝑇 in such a way that:

1) for any 𝑇 > 0, you get a rig isomorphic to [0,∞) with its usual + and × . (A 'rig' is a ring without negatives.)

2) in the limit 𝑇→ 0, you get a version of the 'tropical rig', where addition is min and multiplication is + on [-∞,∞).

Yeah, the terminology is bad: the 'tropical rig' is a low-temperature limit! They should have called it the 'arctic rig'.

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