• 10 Posts
  • 699 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 6th, 2023

help-circle

  • tetris11@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlGIMP 3.0.0 RC1 Released
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    24 hours ago

    Its very easy to use and my goto image editor, but I say that from a position of familiarity of having learned where everything is and what all the keybindings are over many years.

    In contrast, Krita seems like a far better image editor, but because the interface is bewildering to me, I’ve shied away from it.











  • I’m a spy for Facebook and or the Russian/US government. Maybe something to do with China on the side too, not sure. In my free time I shill BP products to the children in my neighbourhood and have a passive income clubbing seals during my winter break. Due to a debilitating sense of laziness, I invite food delivery workers into my home and have my way with them in lieu of payment. At night I climb unto my roof to look at the star(s) whilst perching over the street and mutter to any night joggers about being vengeance incarnate. My interests include anime, dog-walking, and folding paper cranes.



  • This should be quite easy to do (in principle). Every scientific paper has a doi, and any citation of said paper will create a directed backlink to that paper.

    You can use this to build a connected graph of dois (nodes) bound by references (edges), and then use that as a basis for clustering (e.g. DBSCAN) which would naturally group papers by their topics.

    To represent this in a 2D space you could do fancy embedding using some kind of distance metric between each doi, but you actually don’t need that if you know that one of your 2-axes is going to be time.

    For less fancy embeddings, you can just feed the entire graph into graphviz and it will handle the rest.






  • I was cycling home one evening down a remote unlit path, when I saw this kid slumped up against a tree in a ditch. Concerned, I doubled back and called out to him “hey, are you okay?”

    He didn’t look my way, just quietly responded with some hesitation “…yes.” Unsettled by the hesitation, I asked him again another way “is all well? Do you need help?”

    Again, he barely looks my way and in a very quiet voice responds “…no.” I didn’t know what to do at this point, as a non-native speaker I’d exhausted my conversation options.

    I try to cycle on but do so slowly, looking back at an increasingly skeletal looking figure resting against that tree in that small ditch.

    In the distance I see another cyclist coming way, and I hail him to a stop with my flashlight. The guy thankfully speaks English, and I tell him about the kid and the tree, and to check up on him.

    I ride on a bit more but I look back to see that the other cyclist did stop and appears to be having an equally difficult monotone conversation with the kid too. Resigned to the fact that I did all I could, I cycle on.

    A little bit further down the path I see two kids walking towards me. “Hey!” I cry, “there’s another kid down by that tree over there! Do you know him?”

    “Yeah, he’s our friend” comes the easy reply, and then the kicker, “we’re playing hide and seek.”