I'm so happy Mastodon and the Fediverse exist, next to Big Tech's increasingly repulsive social media cesspools…
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙮𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 𝘼𝙄 𝙎𝙡𝙤𝙥 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙤 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙄𝙨 𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙚
I'm so happy Mastodon and the Fediverse exist, next to Big Tech's increasingly repulsive social media cesspools…
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙮𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 𝘼𝙄 𝙎𝙡𝙤𝙥 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙤 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙄𝙨 𝙃𝙚𝙧𝙚
We all love Mastodon here
While most social media apps rely on commercial models harvesting users' data, Mastodon offers an alternative that doesn't seek profits from your data and attention.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/15/mastodon-privacy-and-security/
#leonardoCalculus #programming #knowledgeRepresentation #KR #formal #ontology #article
Leonardo Calculus Knowledge Representation: Defining sensors sense and sense2 lispdef helper action entities
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/LCKR-defining-sensors-sense-using-cl-series/
Introduces and demos lispdef entities which in the upper ontology are entities containing lisp forms which can/do provide its concrete programming implementation.
Tying these together is obviously great, none of this "just an ontology" and "just not an ontology" stuff.
And James Butcher, formerly vice president of Nature Research and BMC journals and, earlier, executive editor of The Lancet, explains on LinkedIn why #science #journal #article #processing #charges are high: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jwbutcher_scholarlypublishing-academicpublishing-openaccess-activity-7350219033255845893-aFIV/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAACBLh8BKizVOxJMKKqeH-rrEMhwmUcweK4 #APCs (2/2)
SUPERMAN (2025) #Review
This Superman (2025) Review Has Nathan Fillion Adding Another “N” To His Name! (#Link Below)
https://hubpages.com/entertainment/superman-2025-review-that-shrinks-in-freezing-weather
#reviews #filmreviews #moviereviews
#article #listicle #list #read #reading #writersofmastodon #funny #humor #superman #superman2025 #writing #writer #writingCommunity #writers #Movies #movie #cinema #cinemastodon #Film #films #filmmastodon
#programming #formal #ontology #lisp #Sandewall #knowledgeRepresentation #article #leonardoCalculus
Leonardo Calculus Knowledge Representation: Fleshing out organism’s attributes
Adding attributes to the organism type (plant, insect and bird are all subsumed-by organism). I also add a coelacanth of type organism to a world entityfile. In my view, quite a good and informational/instructional article if I do say so. What do you think?
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/LCKR-fleshing-out-organisms-attributes/
#article #ontology #programming #formal #lisp #concrete
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/plant-insect-bird-ontology/
Plant Insect Bird practical formal ontology with Leonardo calculus
I revisit my #lispgames #gamejam #gamedev. In this article I create a formal ontology to be a vehicle for my concrete game redux of the jam (which had been lacklustre if technically interesting. Let's be technically interesting and have more lustre this time round.
Thoughts, commentary, ontological guidance gentle and stern if you will please.
https://www.alojapan.com/1320295/russia-warns-us-south-korea-and-japan-against-forming-security-alliance-targeting-north-korea-2/ Russia warns US, South Korea and Japan against forming security alliance targeting North Korea #123698672 #article #GeneralNews #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #MilitaryAndDefense #news #RussiaUkraineWar #WorldNews SEOUL, South Korea — Russia’s foreign minister on Saturday warned the U.S., South Korea and Japan against forming a security partnership targeting North Korea as he visited his country’s ally for talks on further solidifying their b
**Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers**
"_Results indicate that students with stronger verbal abilities, and who are more curious, open-minded, and intellectually rigorous, are more likely to study philosophy. Nonetheless, after accounting for such baseline differences, philosophy majors outperform all other majors on tests of verbal and logical reasoning and on a measure of valuable habits of mind._"
PRINZING, M. and VAZQUEZ, M. (2025) ‘Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers’, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, pp. 1–19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2025.10007.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Philosophy #Education #Learning @philosophy
Why Switzerland is among the ten fastest-warming countries
A melted glacier lake in the Swiss Alps. Westend61 / A. Tamboly Listen to the article Listening the…
#Europe #Climate #Alps #article #beat-Climateadaptation #climatechange #drought #Explainittome #globalchange #globalwarming #health #TPT #weatherscience
https://www.europesays.com/2237100/
Ranking Judd Apatow Films 1-7 (#Link Below)
You post a link and quote from an article? Then please make the quote recognisable as such!
I was just startled because one of my followers "is on the deathbed" until I realised it was only a quote from an article. And it's not the first time something like that has happened here.
*Mark* quotes from others! Don't adorn yourselves with borrowed plumes (or deathbeds)!
When designing a scientific experiment, a key factor is the sample size to be used for the results of the experiment to be meaningful.
How many cells do I need to measure? How many people do I interview? How many patients do I try my new drug on?
This is of great importance especially for quantitative studies, where we use statistics to determine whether a treatment or condition has an effect. Indeed, when we test a drug on a (small) number of patients, we do so in the hope our results can generalise to any patient because it would be impossible to test it on everyone.
The solution is to perform a "power analysis", a calculation that tells us whether given our experimental design, the statistical test we are using is able to see an effect of a certain magnitude, if that effect is really there. In other words, this is something that tells us whether the experiment we're planning to do could give us meaningful results.
But, as I said, in order to do a power analysis we need to decide what size of effect we would like to see. So... do scientists actually do that?
We explored this question in the context of the chronic variable stress literature.
We found that only a few studies give a clear justification for the sample size used, and in those that do, only a very small fraction used a biologically meaningful effect size as part of the sample size calculation. We discuss challenges around identifying a biologically meaningful effect size and ways to overcome them.
Read more here!
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/EP092884
The famous quotes from The Biography of Guo Tuo-tuo, the Tree Planter (種樹郭橐駝傳):
Quotes on Tree-Planting Experience
"橐駝非能使木壽且孳也,能順木之天,以致其性焉爾。"- Translation: Tuo-tuo isn't able to make trees live long and flourish; he simply follows their natural tendencies, allowing their inherent nature to fully develop.
"其本欲舒,其培欲平,其土欲故,其築欲密。"- Translation: Its roots should be spread out, the soil around its base should be level, the earth should be its original soil, and the tamping should be firm.
"其蒔也若子,其置也若棄。"- Translation: When planting, treat it like a child; once planted, leave it as if abandoned.
"雖曰愛之,其實害之;雖曰憂之,其實讎之。"- Translation: Although they say they love it, they are actually harming it; although they say they worry about it, they are actually its enemy.
"見長人者好煩其令,若甚憐焉,而卒以禍。"- Translation: Seeing those in power who love to issue numerous commands, as if showing great compassion, but ultimately bringing disaster.
"傳其事以爲官戒也。"- Translation: I record this matter as a warning for officials.
https://www.alojapan.com/1317668/japan-starts-deploying-osprey-fleet-at-a-new-base-to-beef-up-southwestern-defense-3/ Japan starts deploying Osprey fleet at a new base to beef up southwestern defense #123597779 #article #GeneralNews #Japan #JapanNews #JapanTopics #MilitaryAndDefense #news #WorldNews HIROSHIMA, Japan — The Japanese army on Wednesday began deploying its fleet of V-22 Ospreys on a newly-opened, permanent base in southwestern Japan, the country’s latest move to beef up its defense amid growing tension in the region. The first of the fleet of 17
A church bombing leads Syria’s Christians to consider leaving as foreign fighters remain https://www.byteseu.com/1177554/ #123598511 #Article #bombings #Christianity #Conflicts #GeneralNews #Islam #Religion #Syria #WorldNews
https://www.europesays.com/us/50021/ Fort Worth musician raises over $337,000 for Texas flood survivors #America #Article #Arts&Entertainment #ArtsAccess #FortWorth #FortWorth #GuadalupeRiver #Texas #TexasFlooding #TX #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesofAmerica #US #USA
Articles that criticize AI, while using AI-generated illustrations.