Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

Flo mir 4 more good tips 👑 #3königstag #lifecoach #mentelhealth #dreikönigstag #drükönigstag

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ukraine-krieg-bundesregierung-kuendigt-lieferung-von-marder-schuetzenpanzern-an-a-b6c8e74b-fd4c-4621-860f-b1fd207a6187?sara_ecid=soci_upd_KsBF0AFjflf0DZCxpPYDCQgO1dEMph

And here it is. Germany to deliver Marder and a Patriot battery and more Gepards to Ukraine.

An English version of the blog post presenting Peer Community In and @PeerCommunityJournal. To be shared without moderation 😀 https://theconversation.com/could-peer-community-in-be-the-revolution-in-scientific-publishing-weve-all-been-waiting-for-195682

PyTorch machine learning Python package compromised in supply chain attack

A nightly build version of a machine-learning framework dependency has been compromised. The package ran malicious code on affected systems and stole data from unsuspecting users.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/pytorch-ml-compromised/

#ML #MachineLearning #cybersecurity #SoftwareSupplyChain

Meanwhile, in the "What could possibly go wrong?" department: Despite warnings and risks, Microsoft said to be integrating ChatGPT with Bing Search to challenge Google. // https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/4/23538552/microsoft-bing-chatgpt-search-google-competition

Just when time seemed to have come for poised and serious analyses of #ReceptioGate, its deeper causes and wider implications, a tabloid from Lugano opens up a new front which adds more strange twists to the story (best followed on Twitter, perhaps):
https://www.tio.ch/ticino/attualita/1634529/social-pseudonimi-lugano-facebook-signora

Fully funded PhD opportunity in #linguistics at the University of Basel (Switzerland) -- relevant topics #EnglishLinguistics, #FrenchLinguistics, #GeneralLinguistics, #GermanLinguistics, #RomanceLinguistics, #ItalianLinguistics. and similar. #PhDjobs #PhDOpportunity

Wer sich für die #Geschichte von #Mailboxen und dem frühen Internet interessiert, dem sei das Buch "The Modem World" von Kevin Driscoll empfohlen. Hier meine Rezension: https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-115768

Le soir du 31 décembre, le ciel était rose à #lausanne
Nous sommes le 3 janvier, et il fait gris mais souhaitons que cette nouvelle année soit bonne. J’avoue que j’ai des doutes compte tenu de l’état de ce monde mais bon… Bonne année !

The Grand Hotel Thunerhof was built between 1873 and 1875 to the plans by Paul Adolphe Tièche. The neo-Renaissance hotel building is 60 meters long, 30 meters wide and has a height of 20 meters. It features a spectacular staircase and atrium. The Grand Hotel Thunderhof closed in 1934 and since 1942 the building is used by city administration and the Kunstmuseum Thun. #architecture #atrium #switzerland

Academics trying to get back to work today, after a "restful" Winter break.

#academicmastodon #Academia

Claude Shannon was a rare individual. He never won a Nobel Prize, and was not a well-known scholar like Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman, but with a single groundbreaking paper, he laid the foundation for the entire communication infrastructure underlying the modern information age, making central contributions to math, science & engineering. This paper was written more than 70 years ago.

Who was Claude Shannon? How did he make the impact to the future of our time?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/

It's not only bloggers and catalogers whose work is often disrespected and exploited without acknowledgment - the same can be said of translators. Here for example is the epigraph that introduces Carla Rossi's edition of "The Book of Hours of Louis De Roucy": an oft-cited excerpt from Eustache Deschamps' poem "Miroir de mariage," in French and English. No source, credit, or bibliographic reference is given other than "Eustache Deschamps, French poet (1346-1406)."

Who authored the English version of these lines - was it the editor Carla Rossi? Apparently not, for the exact same wording can already be found on page 52 of Frédéric Barbier, "Gutenberg's Europe: the book and the invention of Western modernity," Polity Press, 2017 - translated from the French by Jean Birrell.

#receptiogate #translation #poetry #manuscripts

E guets Nöis, liebi Lüüt!
#Idiotikon #schweizerdeutsch

https://arjenwiersma.nl/writeups/emacs/22-years-of-emacs/

#programming #editor #emacs