Месяц: Май 2022

Meow

This geese family is always near the pond so the goslings have been growing before my eyes. We see each other several times a day. Yuki and I keep our distance because we have already learned (a few times) that the geese act rather aggressively to protect their young if they feel the goslings are threatened. I never thought the birds may be so courageous and even fearless. They are always together. It’s so cute;)

By the way, there are a bunch of (likely) new English nouns for you: the collective noun for a group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; when in flight, they are called a skein, a team, or a wedge; when flying close together, they are called a plump. But to be frank I have never heard any of these words from anyone.

Хэппи пёсдэй, Юки! Годик. Мы ему подарили кусок ветки дерева (за десять баксов), кусок из пластмассы, напоминающий ветку дерева видом и запахом (за десять баксов), и нормальную кость. Он сегодня метался между всеми тремя, не зная что выбрать. А вечером мы сходили в Morven Park в самый ливень, чтобы жизнь малиной не казалась.

The bird I met this morning seems to be a great supporter of Belgium or Warsaw.

Red-winged blackbird or Красноплечий трупиал. (трупиал! Причем ещё существует траурный трупиал. Но этот вот Красноплечий)

I found a great app for iOS: PiPifier. It is a Safari extension that lets you use every HTML5 video in Picture in Picture mode — even Youtube’s which normally doesn’t allow that. PiP means that you can listen to/watching Youtube music in the background. It will continue playing if you leave Safari or Youtube App. Normally background playing is a paid feature (part of Youtube Music). I listen to youtube while driving, so background playing helps a lot.

https://github.com/arnoappenzeller/PiPifier

https://github.com/arnoappenzeller/PiPifier

I always thought I can explain how anything in the world is built, at least to some extent. I always thought that I knew how machine learning works. I was even creating a chess recognition app which worked well. But the latest news from that area are really shocking. I can’t explain how the trained models can produce such wonderful results.

Look, this model explains the jokes and untwines the stories. I feel like I am being fooled. It’s too good to be true.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.02311v2.pdf

P.s. DALL-E 2 is already great https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ it creates realistic images and art from a description in natural language.

Today I learned that there is Cebuano Wikipedia which has over 6 million articles, making Cebuano the foreign language after English with the most content on the wiki. Most of the articles were created by the bot called Ljsbot. Most of these are machine-translated articles with little to no quality control but still 🙂 6.5M articles – just a bit fewer articles than English. Sverker Johansson has got a great achievement point in his CV.

Also I found that there is a most published author named Philip Parker. He has published over 85,000 books, each of which is completed in less than an hour using algorithms. Parker published the automated books through Icon Group International, using several Icon group subheading. Most of Parker’s automatically generated books target niche markets such as medicine. Example — the books can be bought on Amazon 😉 https://www.amazon.com/Juvenile-Diabetes-Dictionary-Bibliography-References/dp/0597839484

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsjbot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverker_Johansson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebuano_Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_M._Parker

https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88-265944/

This is a cedar-apple rust fungus (кедрово-яблочный гниющий гриб). Just photographed it after rain pouring down all the night. After rain, the fungus turns orange and shows its swollen spore-bearing horns. Before rain, while it grows, it looks like a coronavirus, a ball reddish-brown cones with spikes (see the photograph in comments). The botanic name is Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae

A pair of things have gotten me thinking

– apple watch strongly suggests that walking a dog is a workout for me

– I don’t let my dog go out to our backyard after dark. Because it is too late