a column diagram with error birds

that mix tape is dynamite btw

Tiny Mix Tapes: Dmytro Nikolaienko (Muscut) - N.E.W.S. Distribution Tiny Mix Tapes: Dmytro Nikolaienko (Muscut)

My Technics SL-1200s are with me since exactly 30 years & 2 days.

After years of looking for a fresh yet identical replacement of my old-series blue Ortofon DJ cartridges, I finally found them within 5 minutes walk from my office at Tallinn.🙃

Thanks Dmytro!

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Join us now @cudanlab.bsky.social
for a lecture and discussion with

@erc.europa.eu CoG PI
Tuomo Hippala (@thiip.bsky.social)
on "A Multimodal Perspective on #CulturalDataAnalytics"

16:00–18:00 Tallinn time
(ten minutes from this post)

Zoom link & Details:
cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-...

Laura Helmuth is spot on, all the way to 10/10 of the thread!

I say this as someone who got a free education in Germany, who had access to non-fiction books since I was little kid, and who's life has been saved by Ru Paul twice. No shit!

Of the 5 most epic/exciting proposals I saw, out of 135 I was paid to review & 550 I saw as a panelist, 3 did not pass the panel. Getting funded is awesome, but getting blocked by the ERC says nothing about your excellence., as experts from multiple disciplines judge "true multidisciplinary" PIs.

Hey, yes, AI is an issue along with actual growth of applicants. Yet, I am not suggesting a lottery. The ERC panels do focus on the top, but rank proposals & PIs. As a four-time panelist, I estimate the panel decision power around 1 bit. Only the top ranked get funding, but top 65% are "excellent".

It would be so simple @erc.europa.eu:

Fund 10, not 20 full proposals per panel,
& spread the rest of the panel funds
across the 65% "excellent" PI applicants,
funding them individually!

Less depression, more awesome researchers with a life,
less hierarchy, more emergent peer-to-peer collaboration.

„The only remaining way to mitigate this situation is to reduce the number of applications.“

They’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas? Whether this is good or bad, it is unjustified. There is no impact analysis, no engagement with research on funding procedures. Government by vibes

Extending the re-application, triples the uncertainty of the PIs with most potential, heightens the power of host institutions with consulting offices, who want a stream of ERC applications, and simply makes PIs exchangeable.

More depression, more hierarchy, hoop-jumping now on fire, less research.

It would be so simple @erc.europa.eu:

Fund 10, not 20 full proposals per panel,
& spread the rest of the panel funds
across the 65% "excellent" PI applicants,
funding them individually!

Less depression, more awesome researchers with a life,
less hierarchy, more emergent peer-to-peer collaboration.

Screenshot of from Lemmings (Amiga 500 long play) https://youtu.be/6tQHKbCxnGQ?si=FLHCllr9D3MUfHSA&t=21454

We even have ancient cave painting evidence how it happened. :)

"Fig. 4.2. Colorings of the top 18 eigenvectors..." from Cucuringu, Mihai, Vincent D. Blondel, and Paul Van Dooren. "Extracting spatial information from networks with low-order eigenvectors." Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 87, no. 3 (2013): 032803.

Joke aside: There is a really cool 15 year old paper extracting spatial structure from cell-phone records, where the first eigenvector splits Belgium in half, and the eigenvectors 2 to 18 essentially enumerate local communities.

So how about your PC3 to PCn? 🕳️🐇 :)

www.math.ucla.edu/~mihai/Extra...

Wait, half of the PC2 variance is Finish Lemmings that crossed over Norway just to swim out into the North sea? :)

Pinchy!

Candide Thovex - The Wave YouTube video by Candide Thovex

Next, a jet ski will drag a new school alpine skier
into #Pipeline, #Mavericks, or #Nazarè,
changing water skiing forever.
🌊⛷️🏖

This convergence is epic, as #surfing 🏄‍♀️ & #skiing ⛷️
are at least 5000 & 8000 years old.

Candide is already exploring the possible moves:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-Lq...

Five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
to the patient fish 🐟 (held in her hand),
the two cute cuttlefish 🦑 (bottom left & right),
and the human-eating octopus 🐙 (upper right).

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

ISO 8601

The DeLorean date format is suspicious: xkcd.com/1179/

🇭🇺 🇪🇺 🌍 🎉

Alcyoneus - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcyone...

Man beachte auch den Possessivanspruch "seiner" Logik

Interessant ist sein Rückgriff auf die Logik, wie bei Ratzinger als patriarchal-autoritative dea ex machina. Dabei haben weder der Groszinquisitor, noch da deus verstanden, dass das Entscheidungsproblem in der Logik (mathematisch bewiesen) unlösbar ist.

#SomethingElse

"denn wir leben im Zeitalter des M, siehe #Merz.
Man nennt das #Monstruktivismus."

"Jede Zeit muss sich selbst erlösen,
weil sie an sich allein leidet."

Kurt Schwitters "Mein Merz [...]." Der Sturm (Oct 1926) S. 106f.
digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/sturm...

"Stink bugs are temporary. Love is forever."

A black and white pic of Iranian-French graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi holding a cigarette in her hands. Beside her pic is a text of her words: "The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same..."

I feel like now is a good time to share this again

'a lot of genius'

Tillmann Ohm: Designing Processes and Tools to Research Similarity Spaces of Visual Collections. YouTube video by CUDANLab

Easter Special 2/2 @cudanlab.bsky.social,
in place of a live seminar session,
we present a video double feature,
#CulturalDataAnalytics, then & now,
how it started, how it is going:

2/2 How it's going:

@tillmannohm.bsky.social
(PhD defence 2025)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZay...

Maximilian Schich, Juyong Park, and Yong-Yeol Ahn: Cultural Network Science or How it Started (2013) YouTube video by CUDANLab

Easter Special 1/2 @cudanlab.bsky.social,
in place of a live seminar session,
we present a video double feature,
#CulturalDataAnalytics, then & now,
how it started, how it is going:

1/2 How it started:

@schichmax.bsky.social
@juyongpark.bsky.social
@yyahn.bsky.social
(2013)

youtu.be/_MDwv1NPT4o

That reminds me of the time when they had 88 color Crayola crayon sets at Target for $4.44: Of course, we got 3 of them, sorting them individually by spectrum before comparing the sorts. Let me just say, there is no free lunch in the violets. :)