chi ha vissuto gli anni 80 della vicina [a Torino] Ivrea, quando in Olivetti c'erano le premesse giuste per evitare il piattaformismo sociale bigtech, .....
aspetta con speranzosa fiducia che si cominci a fare ciò che allora non fu possibile ..... coinvolgere gli utenti, soprattutto i "non smanettoni" ...
senza fare troppo affidamento nell'utilità dei video

Chiaro è vero ??

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Se condividi i nostri ideali, puoi iscriverti su boostmedia.it e contribuire alla causa, basta poco per fare la differenza. Siamo una no profit, pertanto le quote associative servono solo per promuovere le nostre iniziative. Pensaci nel caso 😉 io ti ringrazio per il commento, a presto!

This:
“The way this technology works means that generative AI applied to anything is a form of slopification, of turning things into slop. However, where AI is undoubtedly successful is as a shock doctrine, as a way to further precaritise workers and privatise services.”

Is a quote worth remembering and ‘boosting’.

#AISlop #Slopification

“Critical thought is not something you can stochastically optimise, and I agree with Hannah Arendt that thoughtlessness is a precondition for fascism.”

Absolutely.

Here are 3 "teaser" images posted by the Rubin Observatory team on BlueSky. These are small sections of the much larger 3.2 gigapixel images.

1 and 2. Sections of the Virgo Cluster, a group of galaxies 55 million light-years away.
3. Section of the Trifid and Lagoon nebula, 4,100 light years away.

bsky.app/profile/vrubinobs.bsk…
Credit: Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NSF/DOE
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Check out this thread for some more into on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the world's largest 3.2 gigapixel LSST digital camera.

fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/11415021…
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AkaSci 🛰️

2025-03-12 15:40:13

The largest camera ever built for astrophysics (3200-megapixels, >3000 kg) was installed this week at the Rubin Observatory at Cerro Pachón in Chile.

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera, the final major component of the Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope, was transported to the summit in May 2024.

After a few more months of testing, first light is expected around 4 Jul 2025.

noirlab.edu/public/news/noirla…
lsst.org/about/project-status
#Science #Astronomy #Space
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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope

Using the largest digital camera in the world, Rubin Observatory will soon be ready to capture more data than any other observatory in history

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The Rubin Observatory generates an astronomical amount of data every night which is stored and processed in 3 main data centers located in the U.S., the U.K. and France.

Image size: 6.4 GB compressed
Images per night: 2,000+
Data per night: 16 TB
Raw data over 10 years: 50 PB
Processed data over 10 years: 500 PB
Image transfer time (from Chile to SLAC in CA): 7 seconds
Transfer speed: ~7.3 Gbps
Alerts per night: Up to 10 million

rubinobservatory.org/news/rubi…
indico.cern.ch/event/1338689/c…
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Images are transferred from the Rubin Observatory using "direct writes via the S3 API to an object store" at the US Data Facility at SLAC in CA and distributed to the UK and France sites.

Given the high bandwidth-delay product of the links between sites (~8 Gbps per image transfer * ~165 ms round trip time RTT = ~165 MB), transfers are done using specialized connection pooling/keep-alive code and TCP tuning (e.g., initial and max cwnd size, congestion control, ..).

indico.cern.ch/event/1338689/c…
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Here is a low-res screen-cap from the press conference showing a large field of view of one of the first images from the Rubin Observatory. The highlighted area near the top-left represents the 2nd image in post #2 in this thread.

Full-res images are available at fl.rubinobservatory.org/galler….

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