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Douglas E. Welch

How to Stop Thinking Too Much via Raptitude [Shared]

I appreciate Sam Harris’s apt analogy about inner monologues — being caught up in your own thinking is like having been kidnapped and held hostage by the most boring person on earth. You’re forced to listen, as though at gunpoint, to an internal commentator who insists on telling you its impressions of everything it notices or thinks about.

Nothing is too petty, too repetitive, or too obvious for the boring kidnapper’s ongoing monologue: Susan was wrong to criticize people who wear Crocs to the grocery store; a certain politician is the worst person alive and here’s why; your ex-partner was definitely out of line when he accused you of wasting dish detergent that time; the two halves of this Oreo don’t line up, but it would be so much nicer if they did.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/07/28

#Thinking#mind#overthinking
サファイア・ネオ

ＡＩ絵生成　Генерація зображень ШІ
ＡＩ絵生成ソフトで何処が失敗してるかと云えば、人間の体の構造や比率を充分学習させてないと云う点が大きい。
Основна помилка програмного забезпечення для створення зображень ШІ полягає в тому,

note.com/poison_raika/n/n501ac

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note（ノート）ＡＩ絵生成　Генерація зображень ШІ｜ポイズン雷花ＡＩ絵生成ソフトで何処が失敗してるかと云えば、人間の体の構造や比率を充分学習させてないと云う点が大きい。 各部位の配置や形状、詳しい構造等を３ｄモデルを絵に重ねて学習させる等の新しい仕法を開発する必要が有るのは明確です。 ただ画像を見せて学習させると云う従来の仕法では限界が有るのは明らか。特に手足の部分に乱れが非常に高い頻度で発生するのは皆さんもよく感じてるでしょう？ 勿論、人間だけでは無い。動物や物においても充分学習出来てない部分が多々有ります。 後は見えない部分も又３ｄで可視化して、全体を３次元で解析出来るシステムの構築が必要でしょう。対象が３ｄか２ｄに関わらず、そう云うアプローチ
#AI#3d#image
💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Awesome Strategies To Visualize Change With Time
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medium.com/@yuanbo.faith/aweso <-- shared technical article
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databrewer.co/R/gallery <-- shared further examples & background/processes
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“This article summarizes effective strategies to visualize temporal changes, illustrated with inspiring graphic examples (with link to source code [and methods])…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #datavisualisation #visualisation #R #code #methods #scripts #opensource #spatiotemporal #temporal #temporalchange #visualise #graphic #examples #opendata

N-gated Hacker News

Ah, the eternal quest for #stability in the wild west of dynamically typed languages 🤠. Our intrepid explorer discovers the radical concept that #Clojure, a language known for its stability, might actually be stable! 🧐 This #groundbreaking revelation is brought to you by a #Slack search and a tweet—truly the pinnacle of rigorous #research #methods. 📜
potetm.com/devtalk/stability-b #dynamicallyTypedLanguages #tweet #HackerNews #ngated

potetm.comStability by Design
UniversityofGroningenLibrary

"Publishing #diamond #OpenAccess is a noblesse oblige for us. Let everyone benefit from research, so that we contribute together to appropriate care and improve the quality of life for people with #intellectual #disabilities."

Read the interview with Alain Dekker, editor of an open access book on #psychosocial #support #methods:

🔗 rug.nl/library/open-access/blo

The book, published in 2024, has been downloaded >10,000 times by now.

#research #care #psychology #SocialWork

📷 by Silvio Zangarini

Douglas E. Welch

14 Ways to Quickly Improve Your Photography fro, Digital Photography School [Shared]

Feeling like your photography skills have plateaued? It happens to the best of us. One minute, you’re cruising along, picking up new techniques and elevating your sense of composition and light like a boss – and the next, you’ve hit a creative wall.

But don’t worry! While there’s no single magic bullet for improving your photography, I do have plenty of techniques and exercises that are designed to help you level up your skills, and that’s what I share in this article.

Note that different techniques will work better for different shooters, so if you don’t like a method, just skip it and move on. With any luck, you’ll find an approach that works for you, and you’ll be able to develop that creative eye once again.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/03/26

#photography#photos#education
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Aral Balkan

Oh my goodness, how did I miss that in ES7 you can use a closure as a method. Goodbye `bind()`, you will not be missed :)

e.g.,

```js
class A {
b = () => console.log(this)
}

const a = new A()
a.b() // A { b: [Function: b] }

const c = a.b
c() // A { b: [Function:b] }
```

Nice! :)

**Edit**: Be careful with this. See this note by @marsup: mastodon.social/@marsup/113799

MastodonMarsup (@marsup@mastodon.social)@aral@mastodon.ar.al Respectfully, this looks like an anti-pattern. `b` won't be part of the prototype, potentially preventing some meta programming, and you're going to get a new `b` for each instance of that class, consuming that much more memory for each instance you hold.
#JavaScript#EcmaScript7#ES7
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Thomas

I recommend reading #JacquesEllul "Le fascisme, fils du libéralisme" ("Fascism, son of Liberalism, 1937).

Ellul was an eye-witness of fascism in Italy, Germany and Spain. He argued that fascism is a method, not an ideology, a technology of the social. By using industrial organization methods it turns a society into a totalitarian enterprise.

An OCRed version of the articler is available on JSTOR (a free account is sufficient)..

#Fascism#systemsthinking#methods
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.

The phrase “go get my #PhD” intrigues me.

It implies people have a PhD lying around somewhere and it just takes a few years to go get it. As someone who got a PhD…

I think that’s basically true.

Loads of us learn a PhD’s-worth about SOMETHING — our family, local school system, favorite TV genre, etc. Reaching the edge of knowledge isn’t that hard.

The hard part is doing justice to the #history, reproducibly describing your #methods, and clearly documenting the #knowledge (and sources).

Ingo Rohlfing

Finding the needle in the haystack: archival research in European political science
link.springer.com/article/10.1 #methods
Work on #ProcessTracing primarily focused on philosophy of science, design and causal inference. This was all fine, but came at expense of focus on data collection.
It is good to see more and more articles on data collection in qualitatibe like 👆 that are concerned with practical challenges one is likely to confront

SpringerLinkFinding the needle in the haystack: archival research in European political science - European Political ScienceThis short article offers a practical introduction to archival research for political scientists working on European politics. Archival documents are increasingly recognized as a relevant data source for process tracing analyses in small-N or mixed methods studies. Previously classified archival documents are exceptionally trustworthy due to their original confidentiality. Their rich and detailed content facilitates the understanding of causal mechanisms. Still, the hurdles for working with archival sources are high for political scientists. Lack of experience, no special training in handling historic documents, and a shortage of textbooks meeting their demands are a few of the problems political scientists planning archival research face. In the article, I highlight the opportunities of archival research and demonstrate how challenges can be overcome. I emphasize that the archival field trip should only be planned once researchers have gained substantive context knowledge. In their preparation, researchers should use all the resources archives offer and develop measurable expectations from theories.
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Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich

There is a divide between #theoretical and #applied #econometrics
dlm-econometrics.blogspot.com/
dlm-econometrics.blogspot.com/
"…perhaps a fair characterization is that applied work has improved over time, but it has also become much more homogeneous.
Instead, the applied toolbox ought to be growing exponentially, yet the opposite is occurring. As I said in the prior post, this is bad, bad science."

#methods
UniversityofGroningenLibrary

"Publishing #diamond #OpenAccess is a noblesse oblige for us: we share results and avoid reinventing the wheel elsewhere. Please let everyone benefit from research, so that we contribute together to appropriate care and improve the quality of life for people with #intellectual #disabilities."

Read the interview with Alain Dekker, editor of an open access book on #psychosocial #support #methods:

🔗 rug.nl/library/open-access/blo

#research #care #psychology #SocialWork

📷 by Silvio Zangarini

IKMZ – University of Zurich

Welcome to #IKMZ, Prof. Dr. Meg Jing Zeng! 🥳

As of today, Dr. Zeng takes up the new professorship for #Computational #Social #Science at our department. She is a renowned expert on the sociocultural implications of #digital technologies and innovative digital #methods for #communication research. Dr. Zeng has published key studies on digital media #platforms, #misinformation, youth culture, and online #activism 📚

Have a great start, Meg! 🤗

@uzh @communicationscholars

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