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Sharon Machlis

The TinyChart-3B LLM answers questions about data visualizations. It can also generate underlying data from a dataviz and Python code to re-create a similar chart.

Demo on Hugging Face: huggingface.co/spaces/mPLUG/Ti

Code: github.com/X-PLUG/mPLUG-DocOwl

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.16635 8 authors from the Alibaba Group and Renmin University of China

#GenAI #LLMs

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Bike Lock NYPD Insists Is 'Industrial' Protest Tool Is a Normal Lock Recommended by Columbia University

404media.co/nypd-bike-lock-cha

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

The results are in, after seeing about 800 boosts on the post to see how the Mastodon embed actually affects our server load. Here's what happened....basically nothing for us.

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Tesla Sucked Up Federal Funding for Supercharger Network Before Firing Whole Department

futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-fe

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mcc

OMG just got a CAPTCHA with an honest to goodness Treachery of Images "is this a pipe" problem

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Paris Marx

This is truly one of the more baffling decisions I’ve seen in a long time. Tesla is a leader in charging infrastructure, to the degree that virtually every other carmaker is even adopting its standard.

Then Elon Musk laid off the entire Supercharger team.

theverge.com/2024/4/30/2414562

#tesla #elonmusk #tech #cars #evs

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Alice McFlurry :bc:

Everyone seems to be obsessed with passive income but I’m set on passive-aggressive income, so you should probably pay me back if you care even the slightest amount about our friendship and how much I thought it meant to you.

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pixelfed

Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated using #ActivityPub

We're really excited to share this sneak peek that showcases the new onboarding flow and discovery features (Connect Mastodon) and look forward to the upcoming beta release!

Are you ready for #Loops ?

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used to have (circa 2.16) totally awesome tools for spatial interpolation and zonal statistics. no more in the current LTR version, and I've now spent too many hours trying to figure out where and when they got removed. Seems like a strange decision that only serves to benefit ESRI

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Cory Doctorow

If AI has a future (a big if), it will have to be economically viable. An industry can't spend 1,700% more on Nvidia chips than it earns indefinitely - not even with Nvidia being a principle investor in its largest customers:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2024/04/23/max

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️

This is the coolest project and I highly recommend checking out an e-bike. It can be life-changing.

@crschmidt is behind the project

#BikeTooter

cbsnews.com/boston/news/somerv

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Robert Reich

Let's be clear. There is no place for antisemitic harassment or violence on campuses or anywhere else. None.

But protesting the slaughter in Gaza is not in itself antisemitic, and having armed police arrest peaceful student demonstrators is never acceptable.

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Brent Toderian

"Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." - Lewis Mumford in 1955.

We’ve known this for a LONG time, but we’ve put massive energy, money, space, and time into pretending we don’t know it.
#InducedDemand #lawofcongestion

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Daniel Albu

Happy 27th anniversary to Winamp!

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The first version of ⚡Winamp⚡ was released as freeware on April 21st, 1997!
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Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass!

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liferstate

In the 2024 election, I am a single-issue voter, and that issue is climate. The Biden administration's climate and decarbonization policy isn't enough, not yet, but it's been tremendous, and is still ramping up. Whereas a second Trump administration would demolish the EPA and double down on fossil fuels.

#climate #ClimateChange #USpol

nytimes.com/2024/04/20/opinion

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Welp. Shorts feed still full of trash so maybe it had nothing to do with my stay in downtown Minneapolis. The YouTube algorithm has been acting very weird lately for sure and/or Cops 2024 might just be its default setting. Is there a Fediverse clone of TikTok?

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Before someone whatabouts the skyways let me remind you that they close at 8pm and are lined with empty storefronts. Many restaurants are only open from 11am to 2pm. The sushi bar I ate in last night had started closing its doors at 7pm. This is not a substitute for streetfront retail.

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I can't imagine what it's like to try to live in this neighborhood. We talk about revitalizing downtowns by converting the tall buildings to housing but there has to be some drastic changes to almost everything else around them before enough people will want to reside here for that to be a viable solution. Honestly the best case scenario I can think of might be to convert large portions of downtowns like these to hydroponic vertical farms (for food not weed).

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I also have to say, after exploring a bit last night, that this is one of the least walkable places I've ever stayed in and I don't know how I never noticed that before when I lived in the Twin Cities 15 years ago. It seems to have been emptied out by the pandemic in a particularly dystopian and sad way. The poor streetscaping was always there, but now it's laid bare because so few downtown workers are moving about.

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I just need to tell someone that the contrast between my YouTube Shorts feed when staying in Downtown Minneapolis and when back at home is wild. Lots of videos of armed confrontations between people, racially charged conversations, viral videos of police acting stupid etc.. You can't convince me that this doesn't have something to do with Google using my location to adjust its algorithm.

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