- A deep-learning search for technosignatures from 820 nearby stars | Nature Astronomy
We implement a novel β-convolutional variational autoencoder to identify technosignature candidates in a semi-unsupervised manner while keeping the false-positive rate manageably low, reducing the number of candidate signals by approximately two orders of magnitude compared with previous analyses on the same dataset. Our work also returned eight promising extraterrestrial intelligence signals of interest not previously identified. - Banning Words Won’t Make the World More Just – The Atlantic
The Sierra Club’s Equity Language Guide discourages using the words stand, Americans, blind, and crazy. The first two fail at inclusion, because not everyone can stand and not everyone living in this country is a citizen. The third and fourth, even as figures of speech (“Legislators are blind to climate change”), are insulting to the disabled. - Creating Isometric RPG Game Backgrounds
Using Stable Diffusion techniques to create 2D game environments. - Aboriginal Australian genomes reveal Indian ancestry | Nature
Northern Aboriginal Australians can trace as much as 11% of their genomes to migrants who reached the island around 4,000 years ago from India, a new study suggests. Along with their genes, the migrants also have brought more advanced tool-making techniques and the ancestors of the dingo. - <Now Go Bang!> Raster CRT Typography (According to DEC)
A closer look at the glyphs drawn by the DEC terminals VT100 and VT220. - This geologist found the oldest water on earth—in a Canadian mine –
Macleans.ca
The billion-year-old water might help unlock one of humanity’s biggest unanswered questions: Could there be life on other planets? - And Yet It Understands
When the first computer wakes up we’ll call it “a pile of sed scripts”, and there are people so deep in denial they could be killed by a T-800, all the while insisting that some German philosopher has proven AI is impossible. - Open offices are as bad as they seem—they reduce face-to-face time by 70% |
Ars Technica
To encourage unbounded, collective intelligence, offices may need physical boundaries. - Early morning university classes are associated with impaired sleep and academic performance | Nature Human Behaviour
In verwant nieuws: Paus schijnt katholiek te zijn. “Analyses of grades in 33,818 students showed that the number of days per week they had morning classes was negatively correlated with grade point average. These findings suggest concerning associations between early morning classes and learning outcomes.” - Opinion | Jimmy Carter’s Presidency Was Not What You Think – The New York Times
The man was not what you think. He was tough. He was extremely intimidating. Jimmy Carter was probably the most intelligent, hard-working and decent man to have occupied the Oval Office in the 20th century. - Explore the In Our Time archive | Braggoscope
In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 since 1998.
There are almost a thousand episodes (975 listed here), on all kinds of topics, and they are all available to listen to on the BBC website. This unofficial site is about finding what to listen to next. - My favourite 3 lines of CSS | Andy Bell
The Stack. It’s a marriage of Heydon’s Lobotomised Owl selector and my method of managing Flow and Rhythm with CSS Custom Properties. - World’s Largest Photo of New York City
- Web Tracking Under the New Data Protection Law: Design Potentials at the Intersection of Jurisprudence and HCI
In this article we first show the practical relevance of web tracking by collecting the web trackers of the 100 most popular pages of each of the 28 EU member states. Building on this, we show which data these trackers collect and analyze their legal bases. Finally, we discuss possible consequences in design and architecture for fulfilling the legally outlined requirements, taking into account a user’s perspective.
Tales of Drudgery & Boredom.