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Really interesting that two computer scientists (John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton) have won the Physics Nobel Prize this year – for their work on machine learning and AI.

Hinton caused controversy last year when he resigned from Google to be able to "freely speak out about the risks of A.I.”

arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/in-…



🌊🗺️ How do we accurately detect coastlines in satellite images? Traditional metrics might give a false sense of security. Discover why edge detection evaluation metrics could be the key to better coastline segmentation in coastal research. Dive into Conor O'Sullivan's latest article.

#MachineLearning

towardsdatascience.com/evaluat…



⚠️ Letzter Tag, um die Europäische Bürgerinitiative #TaxTheRich zu unterstützen:

Mit dieser Initiative wird die Europäische Kommission aufgefordert, eine europäische Steuer auf große Vermögen einzuführen. Die Steuer würde eine Eigenmittelquelle der EU darstellen, deren Einnahmen es ermöglichen würden, die europäische Politik des ökologischen und sozialen Übergangs sowie der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit in Kofinanzierung mit den Mitgliedstaaten auszuweiten.

eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/



We are witnessing a newspaper commit seppuku in real time.

Patrick "But Her Emails" Healy, after years of smearing Hillary Clinton, found 13 special Trump voters he can use to smear Kamala Harris.
Ok.
But now he has brought FRANK LUNTZ in to help him.




#WritersCoffeeClub 9. What motivates you to keep going when sales are low?

My Patreon subscribers, of course. 😜

Beyond that, it is awesome to see how other people make use of my translations in their own project. And to be honest, the chance to establish myself internationally as the most well-known expert on German folklore after the Brothers Grimm is pretty cool, too.

sunkencastles.com/in-other-med…




Renewables could meet almost half of global electricity demand by 2030 – IEA electrek.co/2024/10/08/renewab…






Seems I need to be more careful what I write here, as it seems one of my sneaky remarks lead to a #Linux #Kernel patch. 😂

powerpc/boot: Remove bogus reference to #lilolore.kernel.org/all/2024100905…

From @mpe – and according to the Link tag triggered by fosstodon.org/@kernellogger/11… (see Screenshot)

#LinuxKernel




Seinale hau maite dut. Lanean zulo beltz batean sartzeko aukera dago.



@NHC_Atlantic: Hurricane #Milton Advisory 16A: Milton Forecast to Make Landfall On the Gulf Coast of Florida Late Tonight as a Dangerous Major Hurricane. Weather Conditions Expected to Begin Deteriorating This Afternoon. hurricanes.gov twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic/statu…