On August 24, 1995, Microsoft released Windows 95 for retail sale.

Hope @mathworks.bsky.social gets the service outage fixed soon! Fingers crossed for a quick comeback 🙌

Service Status – MathWorks

Feels kind'a silly to complain about something so trivial at a time like this, but what the heck: Karolinska IT now confirms that the Matlab outage this past week is due to a cyberattack.

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Still no explanation from @mathworks.bsky.social themselves: status.mathworks.com

@chiefscientist.org this was a nice post, Alexy.

I sincerely hope the community of geniuses does reunite, and how lovely would it be were it to be in Brendan’s honor

KNUTE

Many thanks to our guest Gerardo Vitagliano for his great talk on “Making Data Accessible using LLMs.” 👏 Thanks for the great talk!

@csail.mit.edu @tuberlin.bsky.social @ziamurai.bsky.social @mersault.bsky.social @matthiasboehm7.bsky.social

Congrats ! 🎊

BIFOLD Talk: Making data more accessible with LLMs. Speaker: Gerardo Vitagliano, Data Systems Group of MIT CSAIL.

Join us in Berlin. January 14, 2025. 10 AM.

www.bifold.berlin/news-events/...

The Internet Archive is in danger More than 900 billion webpages are preserved on The Wayback Machine, a history of humanity online. Now, copyright lawsuits could wipe it out.

Internet Archive's founder, @brewster.kahle.org, spoke with @wbur.org's Megna Chakrabarti about the lawsuits against the Internet Archive, the importance of archiving the web, and the "constantly renewed mythological goal" of the Library of Alexandria.

🎧 Listen now: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

The 2025 JuliaEO Workshop on Earth Observation started today!

If you're keen to develop your skills processing, visualizing, and classifying Earth Observation data in Julia you can find more information and register to watch online here: aircentre.github.io/JuliaEO25/

#academicsky #julialang

December 2024 marks the last issue of the print edition of JASA. (Don't worry! We're remaining online!) To commemorate our past 95 years in print, we decided to feature the cover of the very first JASA on the last print issue.

Best talk at 38C3 by team openpv.de on simulating the photovoltaic potential of roofs and facades with WebGL and OpenData in real time. Fantastic project! 🙌

Did you know that randomized Nyström approximation of A is equivalent to running the randomized SVD on A⁰ᐧ⁵? This and other surprising facts on this week's blog post on the "Gram correspondence" www.ethanepperly.com/index.php/20...

A happy author discovering the first hard copies

GitHub - facebookresearch/metamotivo: The first behavioral foundation model to control a virtual physics-based humanoid agent for a wide range of whole-body tasks. The first behavioral foundation model to control a virtual physics-based humanoid agent for a wide range of whole-body tasks. - facebookresearch/metamotivo

cool stuff from Meta AI: github.com/facebookrese...