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What is a decision?

In a discussion about what decisions are, John Krakauer emphatically pronounced that "decisions happen for reasons", in answering 'no' to my question if it wasn't a decision with which foot to start walking from a stand-still. A recent article from the laboratory of Carolina Rezaval in Birmingham studied a decision-making process in male Drosophila fruit flies where the reasons for each decision seemed apparent.

bjoern.brembs.net/2024/09/what…



in reply to gilles geirnaert

Ha, voilà la clé 'des coudées franches" pour continuer le ball-trap:

'C’était le deal que permet la nomination de Michel Barnier et qui a été offert aux dits marchés financiers qui à ce compte là ne baisseront pas la notation française'



That went quickly. Closing remarks now from @Iratxe giving us some final takeaways at the end of this years #MDCsummit
in reply to Make Data Count

@Iratxe@mas has to end by thanking Wellcome Trust
and Digital Science
for financial support of #MDCsummit, and Wellcome for the very smooth hosting and organisation of this gathering





Tucker Carlson and the Heterodoxy-to-Holocaust Denial Pipeline (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)

nytimes.com/2024/09/06/opinion…
memeorandum.com/240906/p7#a240…



in reply to Dgar

I believe we have enough "alphas" running around, so no thanks.




JD Vance's plan to lower childcare costs: have grandma and grandpa 'help a little bit more' (Business Insider)

businessinsider.com/jd-vance-l…
memeorandum.com/240906/p6#a240…



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Last talk is from Chris Mentzel
giving some insight and examples from what came out of the #MDCsummit #datacitation corpus hackathon earlier this week. Went well and there were 5 projects that came out of it.

It’s not production level code but the outputs of the MDC DCC hackathon are on GitHub here github.com/Make-Data-Count-Com…

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Rust 1.81.0 Released: Here’s What’s New And How To Update It In Linux #Rust #Linux #Releases
ostechnix.com/rust-1-81-0-rele…

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My talk from Sofware you can Love is up

youtu.be/zMRfCZo8eAc?si=43PcRu…

I talk about Nea, an experiment in using custom allocators for better webservers. This work was sponsored by @nlnet

github.com/tweedegolf/nea

#sycl24 was awesome and it was great to meet and catch up with Roc and Zig folks in Milan