AI image slop vs physiotherapy!
@cstross The door in the back will not open. Or at least some centimeters <40cm until it hits the wall.
When I was in my early twenties I read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information from Tufte and agonized over making charts great for users.
These days, Microsoft releases graphs like this
I'm going to be morging my changes back to the develop branch from now on!
#BBC UK unemployment rate hits five-year high of 5.2% https://w.st/tCUDU
#BBC Calculator: How will freeze on tax thresholds hit your take-home pay? https://w.st/4afxB
#BBC Is facing a Champions League play-off really that bad? https://w.st/oD8h5
My latest post digging into the Measles situation in England
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
What’s going on with Measles i...
Today in InfoSec Job Security News:
I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basically.
So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month.
https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aclaude&type=commits&s=author-date&o=desc
As I looked through the code I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.
@GossiTheDog: If it's Open Source software, did Claude also add all the Open Source licenses from which it copied the vulnerabilities and properly attributed its authors? 🤬
a nice neat “quartz of course” generator
ugh, I know what their talking about.
So far I've been trying to understand the complicated waves in the function
|1/(1−3^{-(1/2) - ix})(1−5^{-(1/2) - ix})|
@SvenGeier suggested that it would help to compute the Fourier transform this function.
This was indeed very revealing. Check out the graph below!
There are the expected big peaks at
ln(3)/2π
ln(5)/2π
ln(15)/2π
which we expect from part 3. But there are many more - and many with musical significance! Let me list them - but instead of writing each frequencies ω, which are always of the form ln(a)/2π for rational numbers a, I'll just write the numbers a. Some have fairly simple musical names:
0.0122 27/25 large diatonic semitone
0.0813 5/3 major sixth
0.0935 9/5 minor seventh
0.1626 25/9 two major thirds
0.1748 3 perfect twelfth
0.2561 5 major third + two octaves
0.2684 27/5
0.3375 25/3
0.3497 9 two twelfths
0.4188 125/9
0.4310 15
0.4432 81/5
The musical names are probably less informative than the patterns here.
Some of these peaks are barely visible. There are probably more too small to see - infinitely many of them!
(9/n)
It's a lot easier to do the Fourier transform of the zeta function itself, without absolute values around it, since we can take
1/(1 - 3⁻ˢ)(1 - 5⁻ˢ)
on the critical line s = ½ + ix, and use the geometric series to write it as
\[ \sum_{j=0}^{\infty} \sum_{k=0}^{\infty} 3^{-j/2} 5^{-k/2} e^{-ix(j\ln 3 + k\ln 5)} \]
(Sorry, I had to use LaTeX there, which only Mathstodon users will see rendered here.)
So, the zeta function has power at *all* frequencies that are logarithms of numbers of the form
3ʲ 5ᵏ
But enough for now. Good night!
(10/n, n = 10)
tonight's maths thought:
if you multiply two primes and add 1, then it can't have the two primes as factors, or anything larger than the larger one as a factor either; does this make it always prime? nah because what about numbers between the two? so try TWIN primes, they're only 2 apart! Genius!
(20 seconds of checking later)
(embarrassed look)
(p * (p+2)) + 1 = p²+2p+1 = (p+1)². Obviously, Stuart, you thicky.
My Fields medal retreats into the distance once again.
@sil also, won't adding one to the result make it an even number? Odd * odd +1 = even
One in five children infected in the recent London measles outbreak were reportedly hospitalised.
Don’t believe the anti-vaxxers when they say “it’s a mild disease” or “it’s better to get immunity naturally”.
It isn’t.
"Death.
I saw only death.
And a promise from evil that death would soon subside."
SearingTruth
abadidea
boosted
Do you know what's not accessible? Writing "a11y" in any article or documentation
I will accept it as a convenience in APIs since developers are lazy and can't spell, but fuck off with using it in text
a nice neat “quartz of course” generator
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Hear hear! Apple just approved my MastoBlaster's build - let the test begin!
@stefano 🥳🥳🥳
Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: @FOSDEM
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i’m so old, i remember when computers got cheaper over time
Matthew Skelton
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🤯 A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.
Enthusiasts launched a man from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the car was traveling.
The experiment spectacularly showed how relative speed works.
Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: @FOSDEM
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Had to spend another 30 minutes to block whole subnets of scraper bots that claimed to be googlebot or such that overloaded my server. This is all such a pain in the ass.
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116082694984669549
I am just so tired of this "AI" shit. Truly. Not just the extra maintenance burden on my but the constant discussions that lead nowhere. I can keep making the same arguments against using "AI" for anything relevant from here till the cows come home but it's not gonna change people's opinion. Because they are "on AI" or their bosses force it upon them or whatever.
But honestly. It's all been said. Neither does the tech change significantly (regardless of what the boosters tell you) nor do the other facts at hand, the brain and skill atrophy, the exploitation, the ecological impact, etc. etc. etc.
Dunno. It's hard to keep doing this whole "keep making your point and maybe some people will change their mind thing" when the facts are all on the table and people just have made decisions I find morally questionable.
Maybe I am just tired. Will keep doing the same shit tomorrow. Keep running against that concrete wall hoping that it will somehow crumble.
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Matthew Skelton
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Top thread here - I am immediately reminded of Meta's funding of carbon removal materials discovery that.......................did not turn out great
www.ft.com/content/6922...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mvmfhonrfi2pwippivfcrvdw/post/3ma7ush7fkc2i
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Top thread here - I am immediately reminded of Meta's funding of carbon removal materials discovery that.......................did not turn out great
www.ft.com/content/6922...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mvmfhonrfi2pwippivfcrvdw/post/3ma7ush7fkc2i
@ketanjoshi.co “I wish they had computed a bit less and thought a bit more,”
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