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Catching up on the last few years of generative ML.
(Pixelwise) average a bunch of pictures of dogs and you get something so blurry it probably doesn't look like a dog. But take lots of random paths from cats to dogs, take the vectors along those paths, average them out to define a vector field in the ambient space, and integrate to get paths, and now you have paths that go from cats to dogs without blur. It's bizarre that something so simple is incredibly powerful.
(It's even weirder than that because this method is sort of self-sacrificing. You can use it to generate pairs that can be used to train a conventional neural net to convert cats to dogs without blur. You don't need to mention the paths or vectors after that.)
(Caveat: I haven't tested specifically on the problem of converting cats to dogs, that's just an illustrative example, but I'm 99% sure it'd work fine.)
Anime Feminist’s Top Picks for 2025
2025 brought us multiple passion projects from talented women across the anime industry, and we only hope to be as lucky in 2026.
https://www.animefeminist.com/anime-feminists-top-picks-for-2025/
#anime #news #japan #animation #shojo #scifi #lgbtq #yuri #romance #isekai #music #theapothecarydiaries #kusuriya #horror #netflix #crunchyroll
朝早いフォロワーさんもいる
I really, almost pathologically hate wasting food, but now that my son’s d&d group have all turned 13 I basically get a weekly visit from a pack of hyenas, so it’s not really a problem these days.
알바 끝! 1월 알바는 이걸로 끝이다
-11 degrees, but look at the numbers! #minneapolis
A golden snub-nosed monkey at the Dalongtan Golden Monkey research centre in Shennongjia national park, #China. The district is now home to 11 populations of golden snub-nosed monkeys, totalling 1,618 individuals, with a habitat area of 401 sq km.
Photograph: Xinhua/Shutterstock
오늘은 40도 까지밖에 올라가지 않지만 뜬금포로 질롱 가는 v-line 타고 의도하지 않은 여행 가는 중 #뜻밖의여정
#V-line
An Indian palm squirrel – looking remarkably like a chipmunk – enjoys a biscuit in Siliguri, West Bengal, India.
Photograph: Diptendu Dutta/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
뭐...? 원래 어려운 주제있으면 석사생에게는 팀으로 세미나하게 해준다고? 석사생에게 정기세미나는 너무 힘드니까?
구럼 난 뭐야 교수야 난 혼자 매주 호몰로지 대수 세미나 발표하라며!!!! 흐앙
#ICE out protest in Minneapolis, MN today, by US Bank Stadium. Unlike the White House photo of an arrested activist, this one is not AI altered.
Current air temp is -9 F.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ql1m1m/oc_ice_out_protest_minneapolis_mn_today/
An olive ridley turtle hatchling struggles toward the sea at the Turtle Conservation Center on Lampuuk beach, Aceh, Indonesia. It is one of 90 hatchlings released in an effort to increase the turtle population in the wild and maintain the balance of the marine ecosystem.
Photograph: Muhammad Iqbal/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#233 Editing Events
https://thisweek.gnome.org//posts/2026/01/twig-233/
今日は私の誕生日です
In parts of Victoria and South Australia, overpopulation of koalas is leading to defoliation and starvation. It’s part of a paradoxical threat facing the marsupial across Australia: in the north-eastern states, koala numbers are declining, but in parts of southern Australia, the animals are eating themselves out of house and home.
Photograph: Desley Whissen
In einer Großstadt in NRW. Nächster passender Bankautomat ist eine halbe Stunde Fahrzeit entfernt. Im Bistro nur Barzahlung. Krame Portemonnaie hervor und brabbel noch, könnte eng werden, wohlwissend, dass meine letzte Abhebung ein paar Tage her ist. Der Besitzer: „Zahlst Du einfach morgen.“ Letztlich hatte mein Bargeld gerade noch ausgereicht, ich war aber trotzdem dankbar für das Angebot.
カレンダー企画への無謀な参戦
ABC Classic was born on this day fifty years ago! And anyone can tune in to listen, around the globe. 🥰 🥳
x.com/airmainengin... 대한항공+에어버스 비행기도 그렇게 안전한 편은 아닌가보네 위험했구만 정말...
x.com/airmainenginee...
Finished is better than terrible #oldknees
FYI working towards prebuilt, relocatable builds coming from python.org is still slowly moving forward; I just initially triaged the patches from python-build-standalone that needed it https://github.com/astral-sh/python-build-standalone/issues/886
A tit perches on an ice-covered viburnum branch in Kyiv region, Ukraine.
Photograph: Ukrinform/Shutterstock
The Pretty in Pink soundtrack turns 40 with a limited edition vinyl reissue. Featuring era-defining classics from OMD, The Psychedelic Furs, The Smiths, and more, it remains one of the most influential soundtracks of all time. https://zurl.co/WZUFh
Goofing around … a male (left) and female elephant seal on a beach at Año Nuevo state park in Pescadero, California, US.
Photograph: Godofredo A Vásquez/AP
An absolutely brilliant long form article by Richard David Hames. It’s so, so good.
Some curated quotes:
Donald Trump is not an interruption of the American story; he is one of its clearest chapters. He condenses habits that long predate him—mythmaking, extraction, spectacle, racial hierarchy, masculine anxiety—into a single, gaudy figure. To look at him carefully is to see the civilisation that made him.
The United States was founded on a dazzling contradiction: “all men are created equal,” written by men who owned other humans. Its history since has been a choreography of grand ideals and systematic betrayal. One response to this tension has been hypocrisy—keeping the language of virtue while quietly doing the opposite. Another response, Trump’s response, is to drop the mask.
mnpol general strike
Is what we're doing today in MN even a "strike"? On the face of it, probably not; it's more of a one-day protest and show of solidarity.
Regardless of what the historians decide about this moment, the use of the work is a significant shift in of itself. Previously, it was a unthinkable, even socially taboo, subject. And it's one that hasn't really happened in 100 years in the whole of the US.
And yet, it's happening.
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@ploum , je me suis plongé dans "Efficient Linux at the Command Line", un ouvrage technique (et sûrement abscons si on n'est pas coutumier de l'OS au 🐧) dont les premiers chapitres se dévorent comme un bon roman. Les exemples de commandes en une ligne m'ont moins convaincu, mais l'ensemble reste un must pour découvrir la toute puissance de la ligne de commande !!!
#vendredilecture
Why was this chair left behind, when all the other furniture was taken? Now it sits alone, forgotten. Inside an abandoned mansion, somewhere in Italy
#Photography #Forgotten #Chair #Story #Italy #Abandoned #Mansion #Decay
Spoonbills at Orlando wetlands park in Christmas, Florida. This man-made wetland, originally part of Orlando’s wastewater treatment system, now thrives as a diverse bird habitat.
Photograph: Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
영화 빅숏으로 유명한 마이클 버리의 글인데 자선단체 기부는 어찌됬던간에 많이 하시네 싶고 사실 정부가 직접 해야하는데 이 나라 정부는 엉뚱한곳에 돈을 쓰는지라 돈이 없지... ㅎㅎ x.com/michaeljburr...
The Pretty in Pink soundtrack turns 40 with a limited edition vinyl reissue. Featuring era-defining classics from OMD, The Psychedelic Furs, The Smiths, and more, it remains one of the most influential soundtracks of all time. https://zurl.co/WZUFh
me: "I feel like if I don't reverse-engineer at least one or two dogshit embedded devices per week, I'll go into withdrawal"
her: "this is like drug addiction, but counterproductive"
コンカレンシーってタイプできないので今日の仕事はおしまいです #いいえ
It would be useful for reporters writing about Trump's preposterous "Board of Peace" to mention one country that is definitely not a member: the United States.
Trump doesn't have the power to join it. Any international treaty requires the vote of two-thirds of the Senate.
A chinstrap penguin with its chick. Penguins in #Antarctica have radically shifted their breeding season, apparently as a response to climate change, research has found. Chinstrap penguins are breeding 10 days earlier than before, on average.
Photograph: Ignacio Juarez Martinez
WE STAPPEN NAAR DE RECHTER VANWEGE DE OVERNAME VAN DIGID-LEVERANCIER SOLVINITY
Experts en belangenbehartigers vragen de rechter in Den Haag om een voorlopige voorziening tegen het besluit van het Bureau Toetsing Investering (BTI) namens de minister van Economische Zaken en Klimaat om geen informatie te verstrekken over het toetsingsproces.
De groep belangenbehartigers – bestaande uit Esther van Egerschot, Maxim Februari, Felienne Hermans, Bert Hubert, Joris Luyendijk, Caroline Nevejan, Reijer Passchier, Jelle Postma, Sander Schimmelpenninck, Eric Smit, Karin Spaink, Marleen Stikker, Kees Verhoeven, de stichting The Firewall en de stichting Privacy First – stuurde op maandag 12 januari een brandbrief naar BTI. Daarin drongen wij met spoed aan op die informatie inzake de overname van het bedrijf Solvinity Group B.V. (Solvinity) door de Amerikaanse tech-multinational Kyndryl Inc. (Kyndryl), zodat wij als belanghebbende burgers bij dat toetsingsproces betrokken kunnen worden.
Het besluit betreft de weigering van BTI om tijdig te voldoen aan ons urgente verzoek om hierover volledige openheid te geven, met name over de vraag of en hoe deze overname van Solvinity aan de nationale veiligheid wordt getoetst.
Solvinity beheert de infrastructuur achter #DigiD, het systeem waarmee burgers zich digitaal bij allerlei Nederlandse overheidsinstanties kunnen identificeren. DigiD is wettelijk aangemerkt als een dienst die van vitaal belang is voor onze samenleving.
De groep eist daarom openheid van de minister van Economische Zaken over de overname van Solvinity en wil weten welke mededelingen door de minister in het kader van de toetsing aan Solvinity en Kyndryl zijn gedaan en of door de minister al is bepaald dat een toetsingsbesluit is vereist. Indien het toetsingsbesluit al is genomen, eist de groep van de minister daarvan een kopie.
Zie voor meer informatie en de brieven van de advocaten de website van The Firewall
We made so many improvements with #HolosSocial, an ActivityPub server running on your phone. Big thanks to our beta testers who help us identify issues and suggest enhancements.
For tech folks: imagine pointing your domain with a CNAME to a relay and having your own ActivityPub identity with keys and data on your phone. The relay becomes just infrastructure, and you're free to move to another relay whenever you want.
That's the crazy bet we're working on!
More are at 
@HolosSocial
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それではそろそろ寝ちゃいます！
バレンタインもきっと間に合わない…！
An albino squirrel on the National Mall in Washington DC. They are extremely rare: scientists estimate that only about 20 albino squirrels exist among the nearly 2m squirrels in the US.
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
상황이 어찌되던간에 적립식 투자는 이번달에도 함. 주식: 채권: 금: 현금 = 1:1:1:1 비율 맞추고 있는데 다만 채권을 5-10년 회사채 + TIPS였는데 1-3년 회사채 + TIPS로 바꿈 보니까 시장이 5년 이상 돈빌려주는걸 이제 좀 싫어하는것 같음 누가 되던간에 못믿겠다 그런 분위기?
かいみん
Dramatic rise in water-related violence recorded since 2022.
“We can solve our water problems – I don’t argue that we will or that we will do it soon, but we can" Peter Gleick said.
Just read a post where someone stated that it is a benefit that C doesn't have anything like cargo for doing dependency management and, uh,
I've spent years struggling with awkward build systems and packages that cannot be ported between different operating systems and I've even been forced to use goddamn cmake and I am absolutely not going back to that. The fact that some people have no ability to restrain themselves from adding third party dependencies to their projects does not mean that the ability to easily create and add portable dependencies is somehow bad!
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