Alright, ten or eleven things is a good issue 0 of a zine (for Monday).

@gemlog @claudiom @bstuf @koenig @ghostdancer @screwlisp @sennomo @mnw @seninha @stebby @maperal @Maya @esparta The live 264th episode of the #copaceticmusichour is on #tilderadio (tilderadio.org) tonight at 10 pm EDT/Saturday 0200 UTC and tomorrow night at 8 pm EDT/Sunday 0000 UTC. Tonight we feature Colombian Andean folk artist Niyireth Alarcon! #internetradio #musicshowcase #latinmusic #NiyirethAlarcon #musicacolombianaandina #MusicaAndina #musicaandinacolombiana #FolkMusic

part 3

Everyone is welcome at these events. Sometimes registration is required to participate but there is never a fee. I will always be on Gamer+ during the events which are held on anonradio, Lambdamoo, Fluxer, and Discord.

KASU
https://www.kasu.org

Gamer+DBN
https://gamerplus.org

HairyLarryLand Fluxer Invite Link
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Lambdamoo
telnet lambda.moo.mud.org 8888
co guest
@join screwtape or @join mdh

@gemlog @claudiom @bstuf @koenig @ghostdancer @screwlisp @sennomo @mnw @seninha @stebby @maperal @Maya @esparta Tune in and listen at https://tilderadio.org/listen.

Sumo opening ceremonies tonight at 18:00 PST!

Showing replays until then, actual basho starts tomorrow evening.

https://www.twitch.tv/midnightsumo
#sumo

@screwlisp
This is an accompanying article and NN software that I wrote in order to demonstrate to the young AI practitioners in IT how to translate the maths into C code. It covers Kohonen's SOM and Rumelhart's EBP, with detailed citations, in code comments, to the seminal papers.

https://github.com/amenzwa/nn

@mdhughes @dirtycommo @ramin_hal9001

YBC 7289 is just beautiful.

The square root of two to the equivalent of _six_ decimal digits _by itself_¹ on a Babylonian clay tablet from the first half of the Second Millennium.
_________
¹ Most Mesopotamian clay tablets are completely filled with text, no margins.

The value as a 32-bit floating-point number is (printed as) 1.4142135,
i.e. it is accurate up to its precision.

<brag/>
I was very lucky to see it up close once.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YBC_7289>

@screwlisp @pkw @inscript

@vnikolov @screwlisp @rat

Ok, gotta admit... that one took me a minute. :-)

Edited to add: "sabbatical" comes to mind for some reason...

MixRemix Radio - Creative Commons Jazz - 2026-07-10

https://archive.org/details/ccj2026-07-10
jazz.mixremix.cc

Pk jazz Collective - Pearls of our Life
https://archive.org/details/SCL051

Regis V Gronoff-Jazz Ballads
https://www.jamendo.com/album/114064/jazz-ballads

Saxophone 1​.​1. by Somewhere off Jazz Street
https://somewhereoffjazzstreet.bandcamp.com/album/saxophone-11

Way more out - Viktor Séthy
https://www.jamendo.com/album/133096/way-more-out

Tom La Meche-Hypnotic project
https://www.jamendo.com/album/18170/hypnotic-project

Art Yenta-Landing
https://www.jamendo.com/album/18111/landing
#jazz #blues #CreativeCommons #djHairyLarry #MixRemix #anonradio

#photography #nature #fensterFreitag #windowFriday #castle #netherlands
Kasteel in Heeswijk Dinther, Nederland.

Leukemia

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/55904206

#photography #cat #catsofmastodon #caturday #cats

Out of Arizona Teas for breakfast, oh no.
Dig in back of cupboard, I HAVE A SINGLE MR BROWN LEFT!
#coffee

@screwlisp
Sure, go ahead. The primary drivers of this article are these:

• Modern AI, despite its immense power, is based on countless, simple ideas that date back to the mid 1800s
• Modern AI depends on the advances in algorithms, CPU, GPU, and RAM but, more importantly, AI relies on the utter lack of concomitant advances in social awareness, privacy protections, and environmental regulations
• Merely learning to use frameworks and APIs is insufficient; CS students and IT practitioners must master the underlying maths and algorithms, such as gradient descent, SOM, BP, CNN, RNN, and so on, both modern-deep and traditional-shallow varieties, plus probability and statistics

@mdhughes @dirtycommo @ramin_hal9001

The enthusiast-to-skeptic arc is common once you have seen more than one cycle. What held up for me is separating the mathematics, a genuine achievement, from the deployment, where the harm actually shows up. Regulating use rather than the math is the only line that works.

Only if you pronounce a famous four-letter acronym as "ess-buckle" 🙂.

#CommonLisp
#Lisp

@screwlisp @rat

@vnikolov @screwlisp @rat This from a language community that won't shut up about sex public relations.

@screwlisp
Screwy, you are welcome to cite me anytime, as you see fit.

By the way, Ramin and I share more than similar sounding names; we share the “AI enthusiast to skeptic” trajectory, too.

In the early 1980s, I was enthralled with LISPy rule-based AI, along with LISP machines. Then, Rumelhart’s 1986 BP paper captured me, and I became an adherent of connectionism. But within 10 years, the field withered, commercially. It was not until the 2010s that AI returned to the industry, with CNNs leading the way. Small, quantised CNNs were used in real-time DSP and DIP. Imagine my delight.

But as soon as LLM took centre stage, post 2017, AI escaped from its academic bottle and began wreaking havoc in industry and society: social, financial, economic, political, and even educational. In just five years, by around 2022, blind, uncontrolled, unethical use of AI became the norm, exacerbated by the abundance of Big Data. Soon, lawyers were getting disbarred for submitting AI-generated court filings, which amounted to “defrauding the court”. Medicine and engineering did not escape this indignity, either.

I still admire and adore the mathematics and the technology; this development is one of humanity’s great achievements—like language and writing. But I detest the current unethical, unregulated use of this technology.

At present, TechBros are setting the direction, their paid-for politicians are paving the way, and we geeks are just acting like mere serfs.

There is nothing sacred about the elite’s abuse of AI. Their exploitative AI use must be regulated immediately, and we geeks must play a central role in this process.

@mdhughes @dirtycommo @ramin_hal9001

I am rather partial to the traditional use of the term "artefact".
For example, ceramic artefacts are very durable:
they can last for thousands of years.
Occasionally and with luck, one finds a six-thousand-year-old (say) pot that is almost as good as new.

Ceramics is the oldest artificial material, and still going strong.
Note that it is silicon-based.

P.S.
For examples of ceramic text storage media, see Mesopotamian clay tablets from about the Third Millennium and later.
See also the Tartaria tablets and the Gradeshnitsa tablet for older examples of proto-writing.

#Archaeology
#Prehistory

@pkw @screwlisp @inscript

I had tried to single-toot a review but the meaning I was looking for eluded me. I like All The Pieces, but it is an exhausting eight minutes to listen to - it is like three different Kalnoky songs are playing concurrently throughout, and like the other new Halfway tracks, every line is basically a parody of something else from Kalnoky's decades of composition, but then he uses your recognition as a springboard to go somewhere else instead. Exhausting. 4.8/5 would listen again.