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  1. They Sherlocked #Cleft: voice note transcription -> summary just a feature in #Apple Notes come September.

  2. For traveling, I like to be able to order off the menu in the native language. I got sick of #Duolingo's gamification and tried #Pimsleur for French. That's what I'd use if I were spending significant time there: Pimsleur is hard but no nonsense. I'm now on #Babbel but it's even easier than Duolingo and doesn't feel like I'm advancing at all. I might go back to Duolingo and submit to the gamification. Thoughts?

  3. My my, they really made some interesting decisions for the finale of #TheCurse, didn't they?

  4. Started S2 of "Slow Horses" last night. Were it not that last year brought us the stellar "Bad Sisters," S1 would have easily topped my list for best TV new for me in 2023. As it is, I'm at least delighted that there are 3 Slow Horses seasons in the can and 8 or more novels. I know they've greenlit an S2 of Bad Sisters, but that will be a tricky act. #TV #CouchPotato

  5. #Doom was released OTD 30 years ago. It, and Wolfenstein, were so mind-blowingly good from a technical perspective that Xander Antoniades wanted to just flat-out interview Carmack and Romero. _Software Development_ magazine didn't do "interviews," and "business numbers." I wrote an editorial calendar, clipped potential advertisers, commissioned some articles, and the first issue of Game Developer hit the streets in April 94. #ComputerMagazines #GDC #gamedev

  6. I think it was Cory Doctorow who came up with the metaphor of corporations as "slow #AI." The #AlignmentProblem can be seen with corporations: there's a gap between what you want the system to do ("optimize societal benefit") and how it pursues that goal ("maximize short-term profits"). At the media level the gap is between "be rewarded for entertaining people" and the pursuit of "maximize engagement." If aligning "slow AI" has led to big problems, what about when AI becomes "fast"?

  7. I'm surprised neither #Copilot nor #ChatGPT4 can write #Quicksort in #REXX. Might be a good testbed for learning how to fine-tune, e.g., #CodeLlama. (Assuming CL doesn't know REXX either.) How much code for syntax to "take"?

  8. I was thinking of doing a one shot #hillfolk/ #dramasystem evening with the NPC crowd the party has encountered (enslaved dwarves primed to revolt. I think it would be awesome if the players developed the community leaders their #DnD characters have just met). I like the more narrative style of role-play, and would like to introduce it to the table, but it doesn’t seem like hillfolk is very conducive to a single evening of #ttrpg. What do you think?

  9. Is anyone working on incorporating #FuzzyLogic into #LLMs? There was a brief period in the early 90s where “#Neurofuzzy” aimed for relevance, but nets were still shallow and fuzzy logic fizzled (AI Winter? Used but no longer called AI? Not competitive with existing control system formalities?). My #ShowerThought is that FL *feels* like it’s differentiable (continuous truth/belief values). If true, might be suited for integration with statistical machine learning. #ML

  10. How does #LLM attention solve the #Winograd scheme "The bowling ball did not fit in the suitcase because it was too [big/small]."? Is this a specific case of having memorized the example?

  11. In your #ScheduleC #Taxes, where do you put software subscription costs? Just "Office Supplies" or, I dunno', "Utilities"?

  12. Interesting article about D-Wave "#quantum" annealing computers. arstechnica.com/science/2023/0

    My niche in the aughts was "#scheduling" optimization (90% of the time it was bin-packing, technically). I started with #SimulatedAnnealing and #GeneticAlgorithms, but generally found approximation algorithms (Vazirani's book) to be most practical. PS It's a great niche. #SoftwareDevelopment

  13. @Krita This is the wave of the near-future. I bet similar "insta-scraping" will be done by all commercial "knowledge worker" tools, e.g., Word, Visual Studio, Figma, etc. What was "instrumentation" justified to find bugs is grist for the deep-learning mill. #AIEthics #SoftwareDevelopment #Instrumentation #Writing #KnowledgeWorker #Creatives

  14. Any examples of using SIFT (or SURF or ORB) in to retrieve similar images from a DB? All the code I see is just comparing two images’ features at a time. If you have 1,000 images and you want the closest, what do you do?

  15. PSG led twice through an own goal and Zaïre-Emery but were pegged back by Lorient. Lorient are now unbeaten in 4 of the last 5 meetings with PSG. Luis Enrique rotated his squad ahead of the Champions League semi-final vs Bayern...

    #lorient #psg #ligue1 #Football #footballnews #footballnewsupdate

    mondiaries.com/2026/05/psg-dro

  16. À #Lorient, manifestation contre les ⛔ projets miniers 🚧 en #Bretagne dans les communes de Kervignac, Hennebont, Nostang et Languidic.

    Photos : 🎺 la Fanfare invisible. 🥁

  17. #Lorient, mardi 28 avril à 18 h 30, place Aristide Briand. Mobilisation en solidarité avec la Flottille de la Liberté pour #Gaza qui tente une nouvelle fois de briser le blocus.

  18. "C’est irresponsable, l’eau est la base de toute vie." À #Lorient, citoyen.ne.s, élu.e.s, agriculteur.rice.s, syndicats, associations s’insurgent contre les projets de mines de l’État en #Bretagne qui mettent en danger l’environnement et la santé des habitant.e.s.

    ➕ : helloasso.com/associations/eau

  19. Hey pssss #jerecrute, enfin #onrecrute au réseau Low-tech Lab !

    Si la #lowtech t'intéresse, que les mots comme #animation #essaimage #professionnalisation #plaidoyer ne t’effraient pas voire te stimulent, n'hésites pas à parcourir l'offre d'emploi.
    Si t'es séduit·e par les missions et convaincu·e d'avoir le profil alors lance-toi !

    Nous sommes ravi·es de pouvoir accueillir un·e nouveau·elle membre dans l'équipe !

    #Bretagne #Lorient

    jobs.makesense.org/fr/jobs/low

  20. Lorient – Strasbourg : le FCL avec seulement deux absents, Laurent Abergel « plein d’énergie »

    Ligue 1 (31e journée). FC Lorient – Strasbourg, dimanche (15 h) La fin de saison du FC Lorient…
    #Strasbourg #FR #France #Actu #News #Europe #EU #actu #Actualités #EncontinuSports #europe #FCLorient #FCL #football #GrandEst #ligue1 #Lorient #Républiquefrançaise #Sports
    europesays.com/fr/889611/

  21. Lorient beat Marseille 2-0 to secure Ligue 1 safety, with Bamba Dieng scoring against his former club and extending their home unbeaten run to 14 games...

    #lorient #marseille #ligue1 #footballnews #football

    mondiaries.com/2026/04/lorient

  22. 🇵🇸 #Lorient. Jeudi 16. Rassemblement contre la loi Yadan à la sous-préfecture. 18 h 30-19 h 30.

    Examinée à l’Assemblée nationale les 16 et 17 avril, cette proposition de loi projette de condamner toute critique d’Israël ou de la politique de son gouvernement, ou tout appel à la libération de la #Palestine. Le projet élargit l’apologie du terrorisme aux propos "implicites" et à la "minoration outrancière". Cette loi ne s'appliquerait qu'à la seule critique d'Israël. On

  23. #Lorient. La loi Yadan ne doit pas être votée ! Poursuivons notre mobilisation !

    Rassemblement jeudi 16 avril à 18 h 30, place Glotin, en face de la sous-préfecture.

    ✍️ ✍️ ✍️ petitions.assemblee-nationale.

    Bientôt 700 000 signatures !

  24. Dimanche 5 avril à 16 h au Manège (12, rue Colbert à #Lorient), projection de 3 courts métrages palestiniens primés au festival Sard (Rennes), en présence de sa programmatrice, Anaïs Pitkevicht.

    Possibilité de réserver votre place sur Helloasso : helloasso.com/associations/j-a