Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

In my day job, I work for a media company that focuses on the toy industry.

Apropos of nothing, I decided to add the Mastodon plushie (aka #Plushtodon) to the latest products on our Toy Insider website.

Please boost this so our editors will frustratingly tell me to stop trying to make Mastodon happen.
https://thetoyinsider.com/products/mastodon-stuffed-toy/

We had an awesome chat( https://embedded.fm/episodes/500 ) with Komathi Sundaram about her passion for testing and automation!
We dove into the unique joys of testing vs. development, setting up CI servers, and all kinds of tests.

Here's an excerpt from the show:

#testing #engineering #conference #embedded #electrical #software

If you wanna help me make #Anubis happen, please look into pitching in on GitHub Sponsors or Patreon:

https://github.com/sponsors/Xe
https://patreon.com/cadey

If you're looking to hire world class talent, I know some brilliant people looking for work now. I would love to connect you to them.

Carol Lee: https://www.carol-s-lee-phd.com/
John Flournoy: https://johnflournoy.science/

Find me at: https://www.drcathicks.com/

I've written an unhealthy amount of words on "the cloud" and specifically Europe's woes. In the post below I tie many articles together into a hopefully useful overview. It may be good to know that nothing I write on the cloud is novel or original, I mostly hope to report things as they are. Which is scary enough already! https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-overview/

Parakeet-TDT-0.6b-V2 - a Hugging Face Space by nvidia https://huggingface.co/spaces/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2 (it’s good) #AI #AudioTranscription #OpenSource

how much will the sleep vaccine cost? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Don’t need much sleep? Mutatio...

I'm looking for a good book that treats high-dimensional geometry. I am in particular looking for something on the geometry of high-dimensional polytopes.

Any recommendations? Please retoot for reach.

🔧 GenAI-Accelerated #TLAplus Challenge is live!
Use GenAI to enhance TLA⁺ specs, tools, or workflows.
Submit your project for a chance to win a prize.
Details: https://foundation.tlapl.us/challenge/index.html

Do you approve of the state of the software industry?

Question for sociologists:

Is there a term for the Overton window that is not linked to political discourse, but rather covers individual personal behaviour?

As in, something that used to be considered an expression of simple decency and respect becoming unusually deferential (ex: lifting or tipping one's hat), or something once commonplace becoming extremely rude (ex: urinating in the street)?

Or would the term "Overton window" apply to that as well?

(Boosts for reach appreciated.)

There may only be two people who can stop OpenAI's for-profit pivot https://www.understandingai.org/p/there-may-only-be-two-people-who (very clear writing about OpenAI as for-profit vs non-profit) #AI #OpenAI