#dearmastomind — Public Fediverse posts

Does anyone have a good starting point for Bayesian ranking of text-based content?

Application in mind is placing of news articles on a page-based layout, and I'd like something more sofistikated than LIFO or manual text-based grading.

Ultimately I would probably have a set of curated exemplar articles of high and low rank to toss at a Bayesian classifier.

The system need not be perfect (and I'll probably add some random jitter to it), but it should be useful.

Boosts appreciated.

#BayesianMethods #ContentRanking #DearMastomind

So, our less-than-ten-year old defective-from-the-factory Samsung cooker has bitten the dust. I'd like to hear from the bakers and chefs what ovens you've had, whether or not you like them, and SPECIFICALLY WHAT you like or dislike about them.

My own priorities are utility and reliability (the Samsung failed on both accounts). We do a lot of bread baking, as hot as possible (290 -- 315C / 550-600F), other baking anywhere from 120--230C (250--450F), as well as broiling and roasting.

Bread baking likes a steamy oven. The oven need not have a steam feature but should be able to hold steam if added (e.g., a pan on the oven floor). The unit as a whole must handle bread-baking temps without melting or damage (another massive fail of the Samsung).

Other nice-to-haves: convection, and settings for bread proofing and fruit/meat drying.

The range hobs should support a Moka pot, which requires burner grates that support a small-diameter vessel (6--10cm / 3--4 in). Closed-cross designs work, open-cross does not. (This is a curiously common failing of many cookers.)

Griddle and wok rings would be nice, but not necessary.

Gas range preferred (I know), "dual fuel" electric oven works.

Boosts appreciated.

#dearMastomind #ovens #baking #sourdough #recommendations #Bakestodon #BoostsAppreciated

Edit: Answer seems to be Willima James Sidis, though I'm having trouble turning up a citation.

I'm trying to remember the name of the young prodigy who'd been bullied as a child, somewhere in the US (Cleveland sticks in my mind though I may be wrong on that), took refuge in the library, read Principia Mathematica, and corresponded with Bertrand Russelll over errata. Russell mistook the youth for a maths professor initially.

Obviously early 20th century.

Ring any bells for anyone?

#DearMastomind #DearHivemind #Maths #prodigies #BertrandRussell

Dear Mastomind / Lazywebs: Is it feasible for a Web browser itself to support toggling support of video (or audio) support or codecs absent injecting JS into a page for that purpose?

My hope is that it might be possible to toggle the availability / support of common video codecs (such as: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HEVC/H.265, VP9, and AV1), so that a browser would simply ignore an video / audio content.

I'm hearing that this is not trivially possible. If that's not the case ... I'd be quite happy.

Boosts / tagging clueful devs appreciated.

#DearLazyWeb #DearMastomind #browsers #video #VideoCodecs #WebAnnoyances

#DearHivemind / #DearMastomind: I'm trying to find an essay on the evolution of a "scene", possibly from the aughts.

It's on the evolution of groups and cliques. Possibly band scenes or artists. First you've got the artists / creators, then you get the afficionadoes who recognise great work on their own, then the groupies and fans, then the people who follow the crowd (and often: "social opportunities" to put that spin on it), then the opportunists who seek to benefit from the crowd itself: advertisers, pickpockets, scammers, swag sellers, etc.

If this rings bells, please respond.

Boosts appreciated.

Update: @oblomov has turned up "Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution" by David Chapman, ~2015: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

In this toot: https://sociale.network/@oblomov/110554257076535839

Thanks!

#SceneEvolution #Groupies #Creators

I'm looking for a freely-available full text (PDF, ePub preferably) of Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1846).

There's a start of one at Wikisource, but it's only the contents, index, and other supplemental material.

Neither LibGen nor Archive Org seem to have a copy of the text in English and out of copyright. (There's a copyrighted repriint at Archive.Org.)

#DearMastomind #PDFMe #Books #CharlesBabbage #DearHivemind #EconomyOfMachinery #TechOntology

#DearMastomind I am trying to grok kresd, the Knot Resolver (used on the Turris Omnia) ... and ... am encoutering impenetrable documentation.

If there's anyone famiar with it, my current goals:

• Point specific domains at a specific DNS server.
• Map one domain to another. E.g., youtube.com -> yewtu.be, reddit.com -> teddit.net, etc.
• Assign specific IPs to specific hosts.

https://knot-resolver.readthedocs.io/en/stable/config-overview.html

My other option is to redo my DNS configuration using DNSMasq. Which quite frankly is probably preferable as its documentation and configuration are much more sane.

#kresd #KnotResolver #Turris #Omnia #TurrisOmnia #OpenWRT #DNS #dnsmasq

#DearMastomind: What different types / uses of tables can you think of?

I'm looking with a mind to document / Web formatting and styles.

Of the top of my head:

• Short lists (such as this one), which are effectively single-column tables usually with far too much text crammed into a single line (such as this one).
• Data tables.
• Textual tables --- generally with few or no quantitative cells.
• Simple (or not-so-simple) spreadsheets, offering sort, totals, and/or other summary statistics, possibly subsetting or cross-tabulation capabilities, in an interactive or at least intelligently-computed sense.
• Graph-adjacent tables. Data tables which are directly related, possibly interactively linked, to some data visualisation(s).
• Tabular layout. Tables used principally to organise and arrange longer bits of textual content. Need not be a classic HTML table layout or grid, though approaches this.

Different uses might have different formatting, including borders, "greenbar" separators, interactive sort or filtering capabilities (typically created now with Javascript, though native browser support might be handy), etc.

If you can think of a good discussion or reference addressing this question that would also be helpful.

#layout #tables #html #css #latex #docfs #webfs #kfc #browsers