@Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов
Radio specialist;
mathematician;
interpreter;
software engineer;
and jack of other trades.
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Learning to recognize artificial pseudo-photographs is a very interesting domain (if "interesting" is the word).
Again, repetition is the mother of learning, naturally.
Myself, I failed the sample tests (four and four images) in the article.
I partitioned them into two classes mostly correctly (real vs. artificial), but I swapped the classes.
BBC article:
See if you can spot an AI deepfake with our test
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d2wgvg55jo>
#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#FakeImageRecognition
#FakeImages
#ImageRecognition
#LargeLanguageModels
#LLM
Again, repetition is the mother of learning, naturally.
Myself, I failed the sample tests (four and four images) in the article.
I partitioned them into two classes mostly correctly (real vs. artificial), but I swapped the classes.
BBC article:
See if you can spot an AI deepfake with our test
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d2wgvg55jo>
#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#FakeImageRecognition
#FakeImages
#ImageRecognition
#LargeLanguageModels
#LLM
King Crimson
Heroes
(concert, 2016, Berlin)
We can be heroes
Just for one day
David Bowie’s song.
Robert Fripp is the guitarist who plays sitting.
_________
Adrian Belew and Tony Levin of King Crimson together with Danny Carey and Steve Vai—four of a perfect pair!—as BEAT played in concert in Sofia, Bulgaria, last night, 2026-07-09.
They also played two pieces on an encore, including Red, which is a little earlier than their main 1980s repertoire.
They specifically thanked Bill Bruford and Robert Fripp.
<https://youtu.be/2JywkrIiXW8>
#BEAT
#DavidBowie
#FridayMusic
#KingCrimson
Heroes
(concert, 2016, Berlin)
We can be heroes
Just for one day
David Bowie’s song.
Robert Fripp is the guitarist who plays sitting.
_________
Adrian Belew and Tony Levin of King Crimson together with Danny Carey and Steve Vai—four of a perfect pair!—as BEAT played in concert in Sofia, Bulgaria, last night, 2026-07-09.
They also played two pieces on an encore, including Red, which is a little earlier than their main 1980s repertoire.
They specifically thanked Bill Bruford and Robert Fripp.
<https://youtu.be/2JywkrIiXW8>
#BEAT
#DavidBowie
#FridayMusic
#KingCrimson
Rush (Lee, Lifeson, Nilles)
Xanadu
(concert, 2026-06-09, this past Tuesday)
Alone within the pleasure dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste my bitter triumph
As a mad immortal man
Never more shall I return
Escape these caves of ice
For I have dined on honey dew
And drank the milk of Paradise
Music: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson
Lyrics: Neil Peart (1952–2020)
Inspired by Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan.
(A Farewell to Kings, 1977)
Drums: Anika Nilles (of Mannheim, Germany).
<https://youtu.be/tRIk6ahh_KM?t=444>
#Drums
#FridayMusic
#Rush
Xanadu
(concert, 2026-06-09, this past Tuesday)
Alone within the pleasure dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste my bitter triumph
As a mad immortal man
Never more shall I return
Escape these caves of ice
For I have dined on honey dew
And drank the milk of Paradise
Music: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson
Lyrics: Neil Peart (1952–2020)
Inspired by Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan.
(A Farewell to Kings, 1977)
Drums: Anika Nilles (of Mannheim, Germany).
<https://youtu.be/tRIk6ahh_KM?t=444>
#Drums
#FridayMusic
#Rush
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@nprofile1q... wrote:
«IMHO, 100% dedication is naive; it won't happen.»
It has long been pointed out that one should request 2R in order to get R.
Some even recommend a significantly greater coefficient.
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«IMHO, 100% dedication is naive; it won't happen.»
It has long been pointed out that one should request 2R in order to get R.
Some even recommend a significantly greater coefficient.
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q...
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#writers do you ever write something and you can feel in your waters that this just got too far down crazy creek, and you can not possibly trust the person who wrote this to edit it themselves, which ...
Old, but I don't have an attribution:
"When I wrote this, two knew what it meant: God and I.
Now only one knows."
@nprofile1q...
"When I wrote this, two knew what it meant: God and I.
Now only one knows."
@nprofile1q...
Deep Purple
Child in Time
(before an audience, 1970)
Sweet child,
In time you'll see the line,
The line that's drawn between
The Good and the Bad.
The dawn of an age.
***
I like the camera work.
This British audience is also worth watching and near the end (09:08) two children appear as well.
<https://youtu.be/OorZcOzNcgE>
#DeepPurple
#FridayMusic
Child in Time
(before an audience, 1970)
Sweet child,
In time you'll see the line,
The line that's drawn between
The Good and the Bad.
The dawn of an age.
***
I like the camera work.
This British audience is also worth watching and near the end (09:08) two children appear as well.
<https://youtu.be/OorZcOzNcgE>
#DeepPurple
#FridayMusic
I've been a keen user of the "and-let* macro defined in the SRFI-2. I've even authored its sequel, SRFI-202.
But I never really liked the name.
I mean, it does reveal that conceptually it's an amalga...
I, for one, like it that "multiple-value-" is spelled out in full.
This kind of naming convention has advantages.
Myself, I am in a different kind of trouble, trying to remember
which returns multiple values and which returns a list:
`multiple-value-list'
`values-list'
By the way, given my ignorance about Scheme, I can't guess _just by the name_ what _either_ of these does, _exactly_:
`and-let*'
`given'
#CommonLisp
#Lisp
#Scheme
@nprofile1q...
This kind of naming convention has advantages.
Myself, I am in a different kind of trouble, trying to remember
which returns multiple values and which returns a list:
`multiple-value-list'
`values-list'
By the way, given my ignorance about Scheme, I can't guess _just by the name_ what _either_ of these does, _exactly_:
`and-let*'
`given'
#CommonLisp
#Lisp
#Scheme
@nprofile1q...
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@nprofile1q...
Thank you.
These two are non-interactive operations.
Is there any actual demand for opening up that buffer for interactive editing?
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @Jonathan Lamothe
Thank you.
These two are non-interactive operations.
Is there any actual demand for opening up that buffer for interactive editing?
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @Jonathan Lamothe
This week at 8UTC Sunday (40 minutes..) we have another #software #mastodon titan, nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqnpkmkksukm58epa6h4p679n06hvvr5yg9eayl9tfx0tcjhcr44nsk5l2h8 #d...
Something that came up in yesterday's show about org mode was a wish to mix major modes in the same Emacs buffer.
(I suppose that would be multimodal editing, but I can also imagine it called polymodal editing.)
A possible approach to tackle this partially is to copy a section of the buffer into a temporary buffer, edit it there in the appropriate mode, and copy it back.
This is clumsy, of course, and the effort to implement it might be too big, but such a feature would be better than nothing.
(Today I again found myself wishing I had mixed modes, and that without org mode.)
#Emacs
#MixedMajorModes
#MultimodalBuffers
#MultimodalEditing
#PolymodalBuffers
#PolymodalEditing
#OrgMode
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @Jonathan Lamothe
(I suppose that would be multimodal editing, but I can also imagine it called polymodal editing.)
A possible approach to tackle this partially is to copy a section of the buffer into a temporary buffer, edit it there in the appropriate mode, and copy it back.
This is clumsy, of course, and the effort to implement it might be too big, but such a feature would be better than nothing.
(Today I again found myself wishing I had mixed modes, and that without org mode.)
#Emacs
#MixedMajorModes
#MultimodalBuffers
#MultimodalEditing
#PolymodalBuffers
#PolymodalEditing
#OrgMode
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"MAD Bugs: Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe":
https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-even-cat-readmetxt-is-not
From the cited blog post:
«iTerm2 and the remote conductor exchange terminal escape sequences».
I expected to find this, because I have read about this kind of vulnerability many years ago in relevant `man' pages.
Worse Than Failure...
@nprofile1q...
«iTerm2 and the remote conductor exchange terminal escape sequences».
I expected to find this, because I have read about this kind of vulnerability many years ago in relevant `man' pages.
Worse Than Failure...
@nprofile1q...
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From the Fifth Millennium in the Balkans, the time and place of the first metallurgy in the world.
Copper chisels, a copper needle, and a bone needle.
Grave goods.
Found in low parts of the eastern Balkan Mountain Range (near the village of Tranak, Ruen municipality, Bulgaria).
The picture was taken at tonight's opening of the exhibition Bulgarian Archaeology 2025, Museum of Archaeology, Sofia, Bulgaria.
#Archaeology
#BalkanArchaeology
#BalkanPrehistory
#BulgarianPrehistory
#Chalcolithic
#CopperAge
#Eneolithic
#Prehistory
Copper chisels, a copper needle, and a bone needle.
Grave goods.
Found in low parts of the eastern Balkan Mountain Range (near the village of Tranak, Ruen municipality, Bulgaria).
The picture was taken at tonight's opening of the exhibition Bulgarian Archaeology 2025, Museum of Archaeology, Sofia, Bulgaria.
#Archaeology
#BalkanArchaeology
#BalkanPrehistory
#BulgarianPrehistory
#Chalcolithic
#CopperAge
#Eneolithic
#Prehistory
