10 Amazing Indicator Species That Reveal Environmental Truths
Nature has its own built-in alarm systems that alert us to environmental problems long before they become obvious. Known as “indicator species,” these creatures have special characteristics that make them especially sensitive to shifts in their surroundings. Some respond to air pollution, others to water quality changes, and still others to soil contamination. By watching […]

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10 Puzzles of Evolution That Scientists Still Can’t Explain
Evolution has shaped life on Earth for billions of years, gradually refining species through natural selection and adaptation. Yet despite everything we know about the process, there are still considerable gaps in our understanding. Some biological traits appear too complex to have evolved gradually, others seem to contradict traditional evolutionary principles, and a few remain […]

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Part 1 of the move (Kassel to Braunschweig) is complete. Today we dropped off the van, handed over the apartment, and took the opportunity to take one last walk through the nearby park and nature. Part 2 (second home to new primary residence) will follow soon. ⌘ Read more

Supermarket shelves stripped bare far from TC Alfred impact zone
Supermarkets across Queensland grapple with grocery shortages in the wake of the natural disaster, with flooding expected to affect the supply of fresh vegetables in the coming months. ⌘ Read more

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4 steps to building a natural language search tool
Empowering humanitarian action with open source: A natural language search tool for UN Resolutions.

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Observing and monitoring Large Language Model workloads with Ray
Ambassador post by Swastik Gour Introduction The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-4, PHI2, BERT, and T5 revolutionized natural language processing, with these models empowering high-end applications, including chatbots, recommendation systems, and analytics…. ⌘ Read more

10 Terrifying Human Encounters with Swarming Animals
Swarming is a fascinating yet unnerving phenomenon where animals move together en masse, often causing unintentional chaos for humans. Whether it’s birds, bees, or marine predators, swarming is typically a natural behavior tied to survival, such as migration, mating, or finding food. However, when these mass movements clash with human activities, the results can range […]

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10 Exciting Things Entering the Public Domain in 2025
When a work enters the public domain, it’s like releasing an immortal animal into the wild after it has been caged for a hundred years. Now freed from copyright restrictions, the work can be studied, reinterpreted, and explored in ways that better reveal its true nature. Scholars, creators, and fans are granted new freedoms to […]

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Électricité : le poids des erreurs de l’Allemagne
Un article de Henri Bonner Les écologistes à travers le continent créent la pénurie et le manque… Ils veulent en somme une réduction des niveaux de vie et de confort… au prétexte de la défense de la nature ou de la planète. Comme dans une religion, l’idéologie prend le dessus sur la réalité ou les […] ⌘ Read more

The 10 Largest Moons of Our Solar System
The night sky holds countless celestial wonders, but few are as captivating as the moons of our solar system. While Earth boasts just one moon, other planets have entire families of moons, each unique in its size, composition, and history. These natural satellites range from small, rocky chunks to massive, planet-like bodies with complex surfaces […]

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How researchers are studying the impact of GitHub Copilot on the nature of work for open source maintainers
An interview with economic researchers analyzing the causal effect of GitHub Copilot on how open source maintainers work.

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(#pw5moua) @sorenpeter@sorenpeter What was the nature of the chats? 🤔
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**(#w7qc4ra) @eapl.me Regarding supporting languages:

That said, coming from platforms like X and Masto, where switching languages is easy, I n …**
@eapl.me @eapl.me Regarding supporting languages:

That said, coming from platforms like X and Masto, where switching languages is easy, I naturally read content and write into my timeline in at least three languages. Changing my “account” is not a simple as switching languages, and in those platforms have another m … ⌘ Read more

JMP: CertWatch
As you may have already seen, on October 21st, it was reported that a long-running, successful MITM (Machine-In-The-Middle) attack against jabber.ru had been detected. The nature of this attack was not specific to the XMPP protocol in any way, but it was of special interest to us as members of the XMPP community. This kind of attack relies on being able to present a TLS certificate which anyone trying to connect will accept as valid. In this case, it was done b … ⌘ Read more

Kubernetes policy driven resource optimization with Kyverno
Member post originally published on Nirmata’s blog by Boris Kurktchiev Introduction As organizations increasingly turn to Kubernetes to deploy and manage containerized applications, they face unique challenges in efficiently allocating resources. The dynamic nature of Kubernetes often leads… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net The headline is interesting and sent me down a rabbit hole understanding what the paper (https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.279/) actually says.

The result is interesting, but the Neuroscience News headline greatly overstates it. If I’ve understood right, they are arguing (with strong evidence) that the simple technique of making neural nets bigger and bigger isn’t quite as magically effective as people say — if you use it on its own. In particular, they evaluate LLMs without two common enhancements, in-context learning and instruction tuning. Both of those involve using a small number of examples of the particular task to improve the model’s performance, and they turn them off because they are not part of what is called “emergence”: “an ability to solve a task which is absent in smaller models, but present in LLMs”.

They show that these restricted LLMs only outperform smaller models (i.e demonstrate emergence) on certain tasks, and then (end of Section 4.1) discuss the nature of those few tasks that showed emergence.

I’d love to hear more from someone more familiar with this stuff. (I’ve done research that touches on ML, but neural nets and especially LLMs aren’t my area at all.) In particular, how compelling is this finding that zero-shot learning (i.e. without in-context learning or instruction tuning) remains hard as model size grows.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no @xuu@txt.sour.is @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org “Not cool”? I was receiving many broken (HTTP 400 error) requests per second from an IP address I didn’t recognize, right after having my VPS crash because the hard drive filled up with bogus data. None of this had happened on this VPS before, so it was a new problem that I didn’t understand and I took immediate action to get it under control. Of course I reported the IP address to its abuse email. That’s a 100% normal, natural, and “cool” thing to do in such a situation. At the time I had no idea it was @xuu@txt.sour.is .

The moment I realized it was @xuu@txt.sour.is and definitely a false alarm, I emailed the ISP and told them this was a false positive and to not ban or block the IP in question because it was not abusive traffic. They haven’t yet responded but I do hope they’ve stopped taking action, and if there’s anything else I can do to certify to them that this is not abuse then I will do that.

I run numerous services on that VPS that I rely on, and I spent most of my day today cleaning up the mess all this has caused. I get that this caused @xuu@txt.sour.is a lot of stress and I’m sincerely sorry about that and am doing what I can to rectify the situation. But calling me “not cool” isn’t necessary. This was an unfortunate situation that we’re trying to make right and there’s no need for criticizing anyone.

so NYC’s grid creates a natural observatory 🗿🌆 did you catch this year’s href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23manhattanhenge”>#manhattanhenge** ⌘ Read more

Open Source is not Socialism (or Communism)
No. Free Software and Open Source Software are not Socialist or Communist in nature. If anything, Open Source is a distinctly Capitalist concept. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ ⌘ Read more

They may be ugly and wonky but this is what natural carrots look like
Theresa Scholl says many visitors to her farm have no idea that “normal” supermarket carrots are the result of centuries of selective breeding, farming techniques and careful curation. ⌘ Read more

MacOS Sequoia 15 Beta 2 Available to Download Now
MacOS Sequoia beta 2 has been released for users participating in the MacOS Sequoia 15 beta program for Apple Developers. Technically speaking, anyone can enroll in the dev program and install MacOS Sequoia beta, but due to the nature of beta system software that is not advised for anyone who is not an advanced user … Read More ⌘ Read more

L’impossible recyclage du plastique
Très régulièrement, à la faveur d’une campagne de propag… pardon de conscientisation par l’une ou l’autre organisation de lobbying non gouvernemental, on découvre que l’Humanité rejette une quantité ahurissante de plastique dans la nature, que c’est une catastrophe et que nous allons tous mourir, ce qui explique au passage les lois de plus en plus […] ⌘ Read more

In the Hotseat: Black Python Devs Founder
Jay Miller, creator of the “Black Python Devs” organization, sits down with Lunduke after announcing a partnership with the GNOME Foundation. What are the goals of “Black Python Devs”? What is the nature of the GNOME Foundation partnership? What would they think of a “White Python Devs” organization? Many, many questions. ⌘ Read more

Introducing GitHub Copilot Extensions: Unlocking unlimited possibilities with our ecosystem of partners
The world of Copilot is getting bigger, improving the developer experience by keeping developers in the flow longer and allowing them to do more in natural language.

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Google, OpenAI race to create indispensable AI assistant
Both companies are rolling out technology that lets you talk to their chatbots in a much more natural way. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub Mobile is now generally available
With GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub Mobile, developers can collaborate, ask coding questions, and gain insights into both public and private repositories anywhere, anytime–all in natural language for users on all GitHub Copilot plans.

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GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment
We’re redefining the developer environment with GitHub Copilot Workspace - where any developer can go from idea, to code, to software all in natural language.

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BeagleY-AI: Powering Open Source Innovation with the Texas Instruments AM67A
The BeagleBoard.org Foundation has introduced BeagleY-AI, a single-board computer that emphasizes open-source hardware in an industry-standard form factor. This initiative represents a commitment to transparency and user empowerment in computing, reminiscent of the open nature of early computers. At the heart of BeagleY-AI is the Texas Instruments AM67A system-on-chip, featuring a quad-core A … ⌘ Read more

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‘BRIEF ENCOUNTER’: Explosive claim about charged police officer
A friend of Jesse Baird has opened up about the nature of the TV host’s relationship with Beau Lamarre-Condon in an explosive interview. ⌘ Read more

How to Disable Content Blockers for Specific Sites in Safari for Mac
Some Mac users have content blockers installed into Safari, which are usually designed to prevent a part of a webpage from loading, things like preventing a remote javascript that tracks cookies or loads ads, or something that places a cookie into your browser, etc. The very nature of how content blockers work can cause interference … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/02/23/how-to-disable-cont … ⌘ Read more

How to Find Geographic Location of Apple Aerial Screen Savers (Mac & Apple TV)
The Aerial screen savers on Mac and Apple TV are absolutely stunning, capturing high resolution drone flybys of amazing scenery around the world, from dramatic cityscapes, surreal underwater scenes, a broad range of landscapes, and even satellite imagery of Earth itself. These scenes are so beautiful that it’s natural to wonder where they were filmed, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/02 … ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot Chat now generally available for organizations and individuals
All GitHub Copilot users can now enjoy natural language-powered coding with Copilot Chat at no additional cost.

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Yet another study strongly calling into question the concept of “echo chambers”. I’ve argued it here before and people pushed back, but there is growing evidence that “echo chambers” are a moral panic and not a real phenomenon that we need to worry about. It’s time to throw it out and re-think, in my opinion.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81531-x

Finalement, les bricolages ARNm ne marchent pas top
Le 6 décembre dernier, une étude majeure parue dans Nature et, à ce titre, examinée par des pairs, a fait mention d’un petit souci découvert dans la technologie d’ARN messager, cette fameuse technologie actuellement utilisée dans des produits sûrs, efficaces mais qui ne parviennent pas à éviter l’infection ni la transmission d’un virus qui ne […] ⌘ Read more

Australia’s largest canned vegetable producer to sell Thai corn in supermarkets
Simplot Australia, which owns brands including Edgell, says natural disasters have led to a shortage of Australian-grown vegetables, forcing it to look outside the country for supply. ⌘ Read more

How to Stop iPhone Siri Listening to You
Due to the nature of how Hey Siri on iPhone works, Siri is basically always listening to you and your surroundings, if the Hey Siri feature is enabled. This is necessary to hear the “Hey Siri” activation word so that Siri knows to pick up the command you give to it, and the always on … Read More ⌘ Read more

Starlink and Natural Monopolies
A couple of weeks ago Elon Musk tweeted (or Xed, or whatever it’s called today) that Starlink has broken even and congratulated its team. The company has been offering fast satellite internet access through its own Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation of more than 5000 satellites. As part of SpaceX, it’s the first company of […] ⌘ Read more

Why funky young wines are a winner for Aussie producers looking for fresh export markets
It’s out with the heavy old-world styles and in with bright, natural drops as young consumers around the globe seek wines with more Australian sunshine and fewer additives. ⌘ Read more

JMP: CertWatch
As you may have already seen, on October 21st, it was reported that a long-running, successful MITM (Machine-In-The-Middle) attack against jabber.ru had been detected. The nature of this attack was not specific to the XMPP protocol in any way, but it was of special interest to us as members of the XMPP community. This kind of attack relies on being able to present a TLS certificate which anyone trying to connect will accept as valid. In this case, it was done b … ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot Chat beta now available for all individuals
All GitHub Copilot for Individuals users now have access to GitHub Copilot Chat beta, bringing natural language-powered coding to every developer in all languages.

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technetium, being an element not found in nature, occupies a similar position to cold iron, except it does not interact with magic at all rather than ground it

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Release Radar · July 2023 Edition
After the last Release Radar, I promised the next one wouldn’t be far away, so here it is. This is the low down on some of the best open source projects that shipped major version updates in July. There’s lots of cool stuff from natural language processing, to APIs, money, and SDKs. I won’t spoil […]

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Growers warn ‘unworkable’ Pacific Islander worker changes lack critical flexibility required for horticulture
Changes to the Pacific Islander labour scheme mean workers must be guaranteed a minimum of 30 hours of work each week, but the horticulture industry says the seasonal nature of the work and weather events make that unworkable. ⌘ Read more

listen to new releases from Alaska Reid, Being Dead, Natural Wonder Beauty Concept + more
Haven’t done one of these weekly release recaps in a minute, but this was a special week… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

Natural Wonder Beauty Concept – Driving
Ana Roxanne + DJ Python share another one from their new Natural Wonder Beauty Concept album, coming this Friday… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

Decades-old winemaker pushed into voluntary administration
A winemaker says he has a heavy heart about his business’s latest step after it buckled under the pressure of natural disasters, COVID restrictions and trade tariffs. ⌘ Read more