ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

In an obscure corner of Kazakhstan, the remains of an ocean millions of years old have created probably the most surreal landscape on earth -- as captured by photographer Daniel Kordan

https://mymodernmet.com/daniel-kordan-kazakhstan-photography/

#Art #Photography #Nature

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It takes only 250 documents to poison a 13-billion parameter LLM.

"The asymmetry problem is fundamental: training is easy, untraining is impossible," he says. "We can't identify which 250 documents caused poisoning or remove their influence without complete retraining."

https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/only-250-documents-poison-any-ai-model

Hebden Bridge station looking rather photogenic this morning.

#goldenhour #HebdenBridge

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Trying to explain networking details and the conversation has become:

"So HTTP/3.... no, wait. Backup.
So, QUIC. No...
UDP is....
The thing about IP...
So you've got an 802.3 frame, right?
Alright, so the voltage potential alternates for 56 cycles to establish synchronization and exclusivity on the wire..."

BASIC Code is a new retrocomputing blog that posts refactored and adapted "40-year-old type-in listings from 80s books and microcomputing magazines".

https://basic-code.bearblog.dev

#basic #retrocomputing #blogs

My boss asked me "what new skills do you think web developers will need in two years", which gave me an opportunity to tell her about my recent efforts to learn urban foraging and how to identify edible plants in my neighborhood.

#WebDevelopment #UrbanForaging #ImpendingEconomicCollapse

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#flexibleWork #remoteWork #ReturnToOffice https://mastodon.social/@mklopez/115187361052628583

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic/

As I was walking home today, I had this idea: Is it possible to turn a QR code into a Truchet tiling that's still a functioning QR code? Yep.

Someone has pointed out, quite rightly, that I really should tag @standupmaths when I mention a video that he has made.

I'm not sure appearing in a video counts as a connection for an Erdős number, much as people might hope it might.

So ... the monostable (or self-righting) tetrahedron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6S5gHjuN48

#Maths #Math #MathsChat #MathChat #MTBoS

Good evening, #mastoart #mastodon

This is #SilentSunday #fotografie #photography

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#roentare #photographyisart #photooftheday #pictureoftheday #picoftheday #potd #stormhour #milkyway #sky #night #nightphotography #nightphoto #stars #nature #naturephotography #thephotohour #landscape #landscapephotography #ayearforart #country #heritage #astrolandscape #rural

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Congrats Dunks! Bloody well deserved! #BrisbaneLions

Using LLMs to chat with books and documents? That's so 1978.

In the 1970s the HELPSYS facility of Interlisp-10 let you interrogate the 700+ pages Interlisp Reference Manual via an English like syntax. You could run queries on topics and system functions such as TELL ME ABOUT EVAL or TELL ME ABOUT THE 2ND ARG OF CHANGEPROP and HELPSYS would print the relevant information or section of the manual. Here's an example session from the 1978 edition of the manual:

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/interlisp/Interlisp-Oct_1978.pdf#page=474

Interlisp-10 was the Interlisp implementation for the PDP-10.

#interlisp #documentation #lisp #retrocomputing