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Wikifunctions has you covered to translate to and from Scream: * To Scream www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z22725 * From Scream: www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z22728

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Brilliant write-up by Luis Villa from a 2016 talk (almost ten years!): a reflection on freedom in free software. Instead of just saying "everyone can use this code", let's ask "can they really?" -- adopting the capability model towards Free Software and Open Source. lu.is/2016/03/free...

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I am honored to present at King's College. If you have questions or ideas about the topic of Knowledge in the Age of AI, feel free to leave them here! I'll take a look as I refine the talk. I would be very happy to see you in London, if you're around, or for you to enjoy the stream or recording.

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Beavers have built a dam where local authorities were planning to build a dam, which would have cost 1.2 million Euro. It took two days and had a bigger scope and better results than planned. Planning was going for several years. Thank you, nature! www.goodnewsnetwork.org/while-a-czec...

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Hidden Figures

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I wrote for Slate about how a conservative think tank plans to "identify and target" Wikipedia editors who it claims are abusing their position—a dangerous escalation that shifts the fight from debating edits to going after the editors themselves. slate.com/technology/2...

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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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The good thing about PhD level AI is that it still doesn't need any common sense.

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How to combine LLMs, Knowledge Graphs and Search Engines? What are the strengths and limitations? Aidan Hogan @aidhog.bsky.social , Luna Dong, Gerhard Weikum, and I were invited to talks about this topic and now wrote a paper together to capture some of the ideas. arxiv.org/abs/2501.06699

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What do I think about large language models? Let's use two quotes: "Our languages were made for telling stories, not for representing ideas very accurately." - Alan Kay "All models are wrong, but some are useful." - George Box

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Logic is not a necessary condition for intelligence. I think it's the other way around. Language was necessary for logic, and intelligence was necessary for language. There is no logic in the world to begin with. It's something intelligence created.

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Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they can talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them."

submitted 42 days ago • 234 comments

@oliverstorypunk.bsky.social @hadmar.bsky.social Ne, privat war das nicht

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One of the best recent publications I read about Wikipedia: published in AMS, for and by mathematicians, insightful for the general public and quite funny Princ-wiki-a Mathematica: Wikipedia Editing and Mathematics by David Eppstein, Joel Brewster Lewis & Russ Woodroofe www.ams.org/journals/not...

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I made a meme #Wikipedia

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TIL: After the Rolling Stones published their first song, they had trouble deciding what to record next. The producer left the session and bumped into John Lennon and Paul McCartney. He told, and they agreed to come along and help, giving the Rolling Stones their second hit, "I Want To Be Your Man".

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TIL: One reason why the Amazon rainforest is growing so vividly is that Sahara sand is being carried over the Atlantic, and falls as fertilizing rain into the Amazon basin. More than 20,000 tons of phosphorus fly over the ocean each year, picked up from Africa and deposited in South America.

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Happy New Year

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It is known that if you want to bury some news, publish it on a Friday. Especially, on the Friday before Christmas. I'm not sure what kind of narrative contains a major breakthrough on a difficult AI challenge that was announced on a Friday before Christmas. arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-...

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AI researchers are working hard on fixing that situation by publishing many many more papers.

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Cory Doctorow wrote a short story in 2018 about a man who committed violence against health insurance executives. In the post linked below he struggles with rage as he describes his thoughts following the murder of the healthcare instance CEO in New York. pluralistic.net/2024/12/09/r...

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Willem Dafoe speaking truth in this interview with @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/will...

submitted 79 days ago • 58 comments

I've been playing this deadpan German linguistics bop on repeat for the past 12 hours and I'm delighted to report that it's on youtube now!! 🎶 More, more, more morphology 🎶

submitted 80 days ago • 12 comments

I’ve read about the lapel buttonhole (there to hold flowers or decorative pins) but I’ve been unable to figure out what did Wittgenstein used to carry there and why he needed it secured to his jacket in that way. Doesn’t look like a fountain pen to me. Any pointers?

submitted 83 days ago • 7 comments

I am a programmer. A journalist asked me what makes code bad. I said... No comment.

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

My daughter just told me the following thing, if you ever need to remember that Tolkien died in 1973. 1 Ring to rule them all 9 Rings for mortal men doomed to die 7 to the dwarf-lords in their halls of stone 3 Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky

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Clusterduck #UnsolicitedDuckPic

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We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop

submitted 91 days ago • 32 comments

Via @vrandecic.bsky.social from another social network: The #wikidata Data Reuse Days 2025 event is open for submissions of proposals! Wikidata events are pretty inclusive, and people are truly passionate about open knowledge. + It is online and free to join! www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:D...

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Have you ever wondered how @wikipedia.bsky.social really works? Or who are the people who edit and improve its articles? This video is for you. This is #AWikiMinute! A series of videos that answer frequent questions about Wikipedia and the Wikimedia universe in only a minute.

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