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Soh Kam Yung

Figuring out how heavier atoms form. As Douglas Adams said, "The secret is to bang the rocks together, guys."

"Atomic nuclei accelerate to half the speed of light, smash into a target and shatter into smithereens. The collisions create some of the same rare, unstable isotopes that arise inside stars and which, through a sequence of further reactions, end up as heavy elements.

FRIB scientists have been re-creating the recipe."

quantamagazine.org/physicists-

Quanta Magazine · Physicists Start To Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms | Quanta MagazineThe precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.
#Atoms#Stars#Processes
RaymondPierreL3

@RichardSiggs
Linking better #pay to #productivity only fuels the fallacy that productivity increases come from workers working harder. This is a non-sequitur.

Higher wages are required to maintain and improve livelyhood in society, yes. Business owners wishing to improve productivity must reinvest a portion of their profits to modernise production tooling and methods as well as expending funds into ‘research’ for such improvements.

Let’s not give the #grifting system ammunition to squeeze yet more ‘production’ out of workers using old and ineficient #tools and #processes.

Linking higher #wages to productivity is just as damaging as linking so-called wage #spirals to #inflation.

#Economics101 - don’t fall for #neoliberal economic scams

#InUnity#JoinYourUnion#Reinvestment
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Jens Oliver Meiert

Shape Up:

Want to pin archive.fo/fK0nW to this thread, as the author has quite specific views:

“It’s challenging to call Shape Up agile. In my opinion, it violates its principles by introducing unnecessary constraints to the decision-making process.”

“I feel that the Shape Up architects have never understood the principles of the agile working environment.”

(I’m a skeptic, but I’m also interested in hearing about success stories.)

#shapeup#processes
Chris Geoghooligan

When your colleague messages you on Friday afternoon and casually mentions he’s been editing files in the directory you set up for standardizing files after QC… 😧🤯🤬

That… was meant to be a protected directory where files are moved and modified by scripts and automatons. Is that why my scripts aren’t working?!!?

#VBA#Excel#SharePoint
Philo Sophies

#News 📢 from #AI #research 📂: “How #ChatGPT 💻 can benefit from human #brains 🧠 - or how we teach #machines 🤖 to #think 🤓”

My colleague #Axel #Stöcker and I have already been able to conduct some very exciting interviews on this very topic in our #Zoomposium series “#Artificial #intelligence and its consequences” and “#Cognitive #neuroscience and #epistemology”.

One “highlight”, for example, was the very exciting interview “Zoomposium with Dr. #Patrick #Krauss: ‘Bauanleitung Künstliches Bewusstsein’“, in which we asked him about the possibilities of ‘how the #theories of #consciousness - especially those of #Antonio #Damasio - could be used to develop artificial systems based on ’#felt” #information. This foundation could be used to #machine #learning and #deep #learning so that #AI #systems learn to respond to #emotions and #changes in their #environment in a similar way to #biological #organisms.

In this context #Patrick #Krauss was also currently at the „#Embodied and #Situated #Language #Processing (#ESLP2024) conference from 03 to 05 October 2024, which was organized by members of the „#Brain #Language #Lab“ of the #FreienUniversitätBerlin. There he had the opportunity to present the latest research results together with his team from #FAU.

One of #Patrick #Krauss talks was about a study „Analyzing Narrative Processing in Large Language Models”, which he had conducted in collaboration with his colleague #Achim #Schilling. The results of this study are partly based on an article “Leaky-Integrate-and-Fire Neuron-Like Long-Short-Term-Memory Units as Model System in Computational Biology”, for which he and his team were awarded the #BestPaperAward at the „International Jount Conference on Neural Networks #IJCNN2023”, the world's largest interdisciplinary conference on #artificial and #biological #neural #networks.

These current results from AI research of #Patrick #Krauss are therefore a real „jointventure” between #AI and #neuroscience, as the data and methods can contribute directly to the improvement of #large #language #models (#LLM), such as #ChatGPT, and in return the #cognitive #neurosciences can also learn something about the use and formation of #language in the #brain from this #implementation and #simulation of #cognitive #processes on #machines.

If you would like to learn more about #Patrick #Krauss ' very interesting #research #results, you can find out more here:

ai.fau.digital/speakers/dr-pat

or at: philosophies.de/index.php/2023

Jens Oliver Meiert

“Web Design as a Process” in Charts: Maintenance, Decay, Tech Debt, and Big Bang Launching:

Web design is a process. This process relates to the quality and completeness of a given website, as observed over time. We can chart and understand different types of this process.

meiert.com/en/blog/web-design-

meiert.com“Web Design as a Process” in Charts: Maintenance, Decay, Tech Debt, and Big Bang Launching · Jens Oliver Meiert
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#webdesign#maintenance#processes
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