3664
is headed 'round the bend
no knowing when
we'll see its like again
for a short time
it lit up the night
so wave to it goodbye
as it heads around the limb
of the Sun

#Sun
#SolarStorm
#3664
#aurora
#poetry

Solar synoptic map drawn by forecaster Lash, via NOAA: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-synoptic-map

For my birthday, I'd really like it if my beloved fedi could spread word far and wide of Kitsune Tails. It's a platformer with a heartwarming story featuring queer main characters and personal discoveries in classic SMB3 style. You can find trailer, screenshots, and wishlist links here: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

It's coming out this year and the team and I have been working hard on it for several years now. Most of the team is queer in some form so by boosting you'd not only be making me happy on my birthday, but supporting a bunch of queer creators making queer art as well

"It is safer to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than to confront a fool caught in his foolishness."

- Proverbs 17:12

Even God chooses the bear.

Jack Clark’s Import AI newsletter is always fun; this one especially because it explores the shared interest Meta and the CCP have in preventing fine-tuning of their models.

In a “Palantír”-level irony, one of the projects to prevent all further learning is called SOPHON. https://open.substack.com/pub/importai/p/import-ai-371-ccp-vs-finetuning-why?r=62esl&utm_medium=ios

“Foundation” vs “Dune”

Isaac Asimov: we’re headed for some bleak imperialist nonsense but humanity’s salvation will come from using math we haven’t discovered yet

Frank Herbert: we’re headed for some bleak imperialist nonsense but humanity’s salvation will come from tripping on drugs we haven’t discovered yet

If Jack Dorsey & Elon Musk (who are friends) merely wanted to run a MAGA site full of fascists, they could have just bought Parler & saved themselves approx 43.999 billion dollars.

What they wanted was to cripple the sad remnants of investigative journalism, and the political left, which successfully used Twitter for political organizing, activism & messaging throughout the Trump regime.

Why would anyone who cares about either of these things go to Jack's #Bluesky project.

Important article by Tekendra Parmar about people getting killed with the killing orchestrated on facebook & the company not bothering to take down the threats after repeated pleading.

"On July 6, 2020, as the prominent Iraqi historian Hisham al-Hashimi was walking toward his vehicle outside his home in eastern Baghdad, a group of gunmen sped toward him on motorcycles and fired five times at point-blank range. By the time he reached the hospital, al-Hashimi was dead."

https://www.businessinsider.com/metas-moderation-is-failing-and-people-are-getting-killed-2023-6

«Weights sharing implies tied gradients accumulation.» Since it's not obvious for half of you and only a small fraction can prove it (link to the poll below), let me share this latest book section with y'all! 😀😀😀
This also justifies the backward behaviour of the node module.

Poll: https://twitter.com/alfcnz/status/1668702682700193792

Node (or branch) & sum modules: https://twitter.com/alfcnz/status/1667296871646212097

The Australasian Data Science and Machine Learning Conference (AusDM) is the premier Australasian meeting for both practitioners and researchers in data mining.

Auckland, New Zealand, 11 - 13 December 2023
Check out the CFP @ https://ausdm23.ausdm.org

Keydates (Timezone: AoE)
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Abstract submission: 4 Aug 23
Paper submission: 11 Aug 23
Paper notification: 15 Sept 23
Camera-ready: 1 Oct 23
Author Registration: 1 Oct 23
Conference: 11-13 Dec 23
#cfp #conference #DataScience #ML #ausdm