#what is IEEE

[podcast-hemocytoblast]

What if when Michael got Distortioned he/they/it/(?) had just kept showing up to work? Imagine Gertrude comes into the archives and finds a bunch of paperwork filled out in yellow highlighter and folded into impossible shapes, and then Michael-Distortion just walks into the room door-style and sits down at his work computer so it can email Gertrude a phishing scam.

[immortalsins]

professor admitted he's reading every section of everyone's coursework paper individually (all the intros at once, all the method sections at once, etc) so won't know which corresponds to which. i'm trying to stop repeating myself so much in papers but now i'm having to make sure everything is justified/explained in every section because someone can't be arsed to read a piece of work as it's meant to be read

[lookwhatyoumademedo]

guilty as sin is my top taylor song this year and at first it surprised me but then it came on as i was listening to my wrapped and ohhhhh my god i forgot how GOOD this song is

[crowley1990]

We got a big talking to today about plagiarism and chatGPT and how a quarter of us either have to resubmit by Sunday (with a cap of 40% for the resubmit) because they flagged over 20% on the AI detector but I just tested my assignment, that I actually did write entirely myself, and I'm coming in at 14%?? With most of what was flagged being my actual bibliography! Just because a million people have written the exact same collection of words does not mean its ai or plagiarised, that is just what referencing looks like 😭

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

Replace ass with thighs in husks's drinking game, and charlie would *also* be downing a whole bottle.

one bottle down, a hell of a lot more to go

Charlie: "-and don't get me STARTED on the whole entirely too hot REST of her!"

Angel Dust: "What, like her winnin' personality?"

Husk: "Her temper sure is fucking hot."

Charlie: "ARMS!!"

Charlie: "Her arms you guys. Hhholy shit her arms...."

Husk: "They look normal as fuck to me."

Charlie: "THEY'RE. SO. FUCKING. STRONG. Do you have aNY idea how strong her arms are!? You ever been CARRIED in them???/"

Angel Dust: "She threw me off a roof once, Chuckles."

Charlie: "Throwing isn't the only way those hands and forearms are good at getting people off!"

Husk: "Fuck this. I need you to be knock out drunk in the next five minutes."

Charlie: (swaying in chair) "She wears those looooog fingerless gloves, all fancy, and I loooove... slooowly pulling them off... giving forearm kisses... knuckle kisses... kiss the scar on the palm of her hand..."

Husk: "DRINK."

Angel Dust: "Hold up on the booze Kitten Man, I gotta professional interest in this now. Go on, Morning Starlet."

Charlie: "The way she -hic-" (goat bleat) "-she sometimes gets fed up and drags me down for other, other kisses half way through heheh -hic-" (goat bleat) "HEH."

Angel Dust: "Now THIS I wanna hear!"

Husk: "Well I sure as bleating don't."

Angel Dust: "What's her technique like, Charlie Chip? I gotta whole personality chart based on how someone locks lips an' I've been DYIN' ta get her on there so's I can roast her in a whole new way!"

Charlie: "She drags me down for kisses sometimes, y'know...? ..a lot of the times..."

Angel Dust: "Yeah sure I heard you, but what KINDA kisses-"

Charlie: "The, BEST, kisses! Breast kisses??? Those- those too."

Charlie: "Vagg- HIC-" (goat bleat) "-ieee...."

Charlie: (giggles) (slumps over)

Angel Dust: "Oh c'mon!"

Angel Dust: (shaking her) "Wake UP bitch! What about booby smooches!? Does she start with upper lip or lower? Open or closed? She don't lead with her tongue does she?? Charlie! OPEN YA EYES AN' SPEAK TA ME, YA WAS JUST ABOUT TO GET TO THE ACTUALY INTERESTIN' STUFF!!!"

Vaggie: "What stuff."

Angel Dust: (SCREAMS)

Husk: "Your sex stuff."

Angel Dust: (ducking behind husk) "I DIDN'T HEAR NOTHIN' I SWEAR!"

Husk: "I fucking did, all against my will, like usual in this fucking place. I was just trying to get her drunk off her ass."

Vaggie: "You're both lucky her ass looks great drunk."

Husk: "Don't you fucking start."

Charlie: (flops over and right against vaggie's chest)

Charlie: "... oh??? I knoooow these pecs~"

Vaggie: "Hi sweetie."

Charlie: "Vaaaaagggiiii- HIC-" (goat bleat) "-eee hiiiiii...!"

Vaggie: "Maaaa to you too, babe. I'm picking you up now okay?"

Charlie: "Hhm... I think, maaaybe, you need a better one liner than 'maaaa' if you wanna pi- HIC-" (goat bleat) "-k girls up, Vaggie..."

Vaggie: "Lucky me I'm already dating one."

Charlie: "You are??" (tearing up) "So I can't, I can't a-hic-sk you out..?"

Vaggie: (carrying her upstairs) "Charlie. We share a room."

Charlie: "OOOH and we were ROOMMATES??"

Vaggie: "We also share a bed."

Charlie: "ANd THERE WAS ONLY -HIC-" (goat bleat) "-ONE BED!!!!"

Vaggie: "Babe..."

Charlie: "SO I'VE STILL GOT A CH-HIC-ANCE WITH YOU!"

Vaggie: (chuckling) "Always, Charlie. Seduce me later when you're sober though, for now let's just tuck you in."

Charlie: "Okaaaaaa-hic- ayyy!"

Charlie: "...you know what? You look a LOT like my girlfriend..."

Vaggie: "Really."

Charlie: "It's a compliment! She's very preddy~"

Vaggie: "Thank you."

Charlie: "I miss my girlfriend, Vaggie."

Vaggie: "Well I'm sure she's around here somewhere."

Charlie: (crying) "I m-hic-" (distant goat bleat) "-miss her sooooo MUCH..!"

Husk: "...."

Husk: "You're one lucky fuck. She could've killed you."

Angel Dust: "She probably will anyway, once her supposedly sexy hands ain't full of dunk as fuck demon lady anymore. I'm living on borrowed time, Huskers."

Husk: "Now that I'll drink to."

Angel Dust: "Bitch~"

[commodorez]

Thinking up some wild combinations of expansion devices for a VIC-20 to create the ultimate VIC. Idk, is this something y'all do with your computers for the fun of it?

If you're not sure what you're looking at, the first one is a VIC-1020 expansion chassis with a VIC-20 plugged into it, along with:

C2N datasette

Xetec Super Graphix Gold centronix printer adapter

SD2IEC

3 way user port expander

1660 Modem

VIC-REL relay expansion

VIC-1111 16K RAM Cartridge

VIC-1211A Super Expander with 3K RAM Cartridge

VIC-1213 Machine Language Monitor

VIC-1112 IEEE-488 Interface Cartridge (replica)

Protecto 80 40/80 Column Board

My custom VIC-20 Dual Serial Cart Mk I

The second one here is a different 6-slot multi-cartridge expander with those last 6 cartridges installed.

The thing is, this wouldn't even fully expand the VIC-20's RAM, you'd need a denser RAM cart, or maybe more expansion slots.

The question is more about what your target use case is intended to be, if not "the most powerful VIC-20 in the history of ever". What job is the VIC supposed to be doing that it might need all of these peripherals? Most likely, you'd be attaching the things you need as you need them, and there are so many other things that could be in the mix here that aren't, for example a 1540 disk drive, several other printers, game cartridges, a programmers aid cartridge, a user port serial adapter... I could keep going.

Most of the time, I don't need nearly as many cartridges installed. In fact, the vast majority of the time I'm running just a Super Expander or a Penultimate cartridge of some kind. Either because I'm working with a minimal setup or I really just want the all-in-one functionality that a Penultimate provides (although the latter takes a bit of setup to configure the same functions that several physical cartridges provide)

More often when I am doing a multi-cart setup, I go with my 4-slot expansion due to size constraints. Fortunately, it lets me fit an IEEE-488 adapter, super expander or penultimate, machine language monitor, and now my dual serial cart -- all without going overboard.

[shesnake]

this isn't about what you have to use in your specific field of study. this is about what you think is actually good. this is about footnotes vs. in-text referencing!!!

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Astronauts' eyes weaken during long space missions, raising concerns for Mars travel

The low levels of gravity (microgravity) in space cause significant changes in astronauts' eyes and vision after six to 12 months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), according to a study published in the IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology.

Université de Montréal ophthalmologist Santiago Costantino found that at least 70% of astronauts on the ISS have been affected by spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome, or SANS.

In the biophotonics research unit he runs at the UdeM-affiliated Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Costantino assembled a group of researchers to identify the biomechanical changes responsible for this disorder.

They analyzed data collected by the Canadian team at NASA on 13 astronauts who spent between 157 and 186 days on the ISS.

The subjects had an average age of 48 and came from the U.S., European, Japanese and Canadian space agencies; 31% were women; eight were on their first mission.

Three parameters involved

The researchers compared three ocular parameters before and after the astronauts' space missions: ocular rigidity, intraocular pressure, and ocular pulse amplitude.

They measured ocular rigidity using optical coherence tomography with a customized video module to improve the quality of images of the choroid. The other two parameters, intraocular pressure and ocular pulse amplitude, were measured using tonometry.

The study found significant changes in the biomechanical properties of the astronauts' eyes: a 33% decrease in ocular rigidity, an 11% decrease in intraocular pressure, and a 25% reduction in ocular pulse amplitude.

These changes were accompanied by symptoms including reduced eye size, altered focal field and, in some cases, optic nerve edema and retinal folds.

The researchers also found that five astronauts had a choroidal thickness greater than 400 micrometers, which was not correlated with age, gender or previous space experience.

"Weightlessness alters the distribution of blood in the body, increasing blood flow to the head and slowing venous circulation in the eye," explained Costantino. "This is probably what causes the expansion of the choroid, the vascular layer that nourishes the retina."

Long-lasting changes

According to the researchers, the expansion of the choroid during weightlessness could stretch the collagen in the sclera, the white outer layer of the eye, causing long-lasting changes in the eye's mechanical properties.

They also believe that blood pulsations under microgravity can create a water-hammer effect in which sudden changes in blood-flow-pressure cause a mechanical shock to the eye, leading to significant tissue remodeling.

Eyes return to normal

According to the researchers, these ocular changes are generally not cause for concern when the space mission lasts six to 12 months. Although 80% of the astronauts they studied developed at least one symptom, their eyes returned to normal once back on Earth.

In most cases, wearing corrective eyeglasses was sufficient to correct the symptoms developed aboard the ISS.

However, the research community and international space agencies are cautious about the consequences of longer missions, such as a flight to Mars. The eye-health effects of prolonged exposure to microgravity remain unknown, and no preventive or palliative measures now exist.

The Maisonneuve-Rosemont research team is waiting for more data from NASA to continue its investigations.

"The observed changes in the mechanical properties of the eye could serve as biomarkers to predict the development of SANS (spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome)," said Costantino.

"This would help identify at-risk astronauts before they develop serious eye problems during long-duration missions."

[janmisali]

what would do if NaN was in a tie? i know you can technically do math with it but doesnt it depend on the exact bit values and stuff?

following the IEEE standard, NaN times anything is always NaN. it's not the only competitor with this "wins in the case of a tie" property (this would also happen with zero and some of the infinities), but there's a sense in which NaN breaks ties more strongly than those other competitors, as officially NaN times zero and NaN times inf are also both NaN

[digitalgla]

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[speyeralling-down-thy-majesty]

H i Ii B eS t IeeE E eE :))):):):)):

(@vapor-web)

IM SO SORRY YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH HORRIBLE TYPING PANDORA I’ll put translations in tags))

Yes¿? What happened to you now¿?

[bravegrumpy]

Is this anxiety? Is this a Trauma response? Am I being too careful? Or Am I just trying to get re-aquainted to blogging after a decade-long break?

I'm in the middle of writing a much longer introductory article for a different blog I run. (Not on Tumblr). It has no audience.

Throughout the blog post I have the following:

My original writing

images of my original artwork

photographs and diagrams I created

YouTube videos I did not create, but know how to attribute

text I did not create, but know how to attribute.

text I created with information I know how to attribute.

Text I created with information I do not know how to attribute.

Most of my external references are completely rephrased to further the points I'm trying to make in the text. When referencing outside information, I usually include a standard in-text reference, and an embedded link (and maybe a PDF of what I accessed) whenever possible. This is regardless of whether I'm using an exact quote.

When I do pull exact quotes, I do so within the limits of fair use.

When I say I do not know how to attribute information, I don't mean challenging attributions with difficult to find author information. I am talking about information I synthesized from a conglomeration of many different sources, most of which are unknowable to my audhd and dyslexic brain.

How do other writers overcome this?

Is it just my creative-writer brain stressing? Is there truth to this monologue?

Am I old to instinctively want to call it my bibliography?

I also will have some sort of bibliography or footnotes section at the end, with a complete IEEE or MLA style reference.

Does IEEE with footnotes, vs a verbose MLA reference truly matter?

Outside of including links and attribution, I don't include a "call to action" for the reader to subscribe to the outside source. I simply use references that are directly related to the point I'm trying to make.

While this might be an obsessive thought, I also don't really know what to do.

Has anybody else gone through the questions of "How do I appropriately reference synthesized information?"

[abalidoth]

What is the trans usb power symbol, and what does it stand for? I'm very interested and would like to learn.

It's this post:

It's a combination of the trans pride symbol, the USB symbol (the pitchfork with a circle, square, and triangle) and the IEEE standard power symbol (broken circle with vertical line through the break.) It just kinda represents the connection between transness and technology, especially for those of us who view our selves and our genders through a technological/robotic/cybernetic lens.

[anomalocariscanadensis]

i love that delany is into category theory, at least enough to name drop it. part of what really struck me with trouble on triton was the similarity between the "customized metalogics" the protagonist creates for a living and my interest in pl theory. category theory is a really natural place to go from there. the "naming, listing, and counting theory" mentioned as a subfield of category theory seems to be made up*, and the phrase suggests an idea of category theory that's more related to the natural-language concept of categories than the mathematical one, but either way it's fun to imagine.

*(though there's an offhand mention in an ieee mailing list archive; i assume it's a delany reference but i'm really not sure what's meant by it there. assigning variable names?)

[enki2]

you guys remember back in like 2012 when the IEEE got called out because their journals had published a whole bunch of obviously-nonsense machine generated papers built through a generative grammar thing specifically invented to identify spam journals, and the IEEE announced they'd start using automated screening based on the word frequency of the default grammar?

chatgpt output is now showing up in published peer-reviewed academic papers, just like template spam was more than a decade ago, and everybody still seems to be allergic to even considering the obvious solution (make sure every paper is *actually* peer reviewed by an *actual* human being, preferably with relevant experience) in favor of using unreliable statistical methods for guessing whether or not something was produced by a particular technology

guess what? while almost anything written by an LLM can be identified by a quick skim by a human being, statistical methods for identifying LLM output mostly just determines whether or not the author is a native english speaker

this is not really comparable to the (seemingly-similar) situation with sci fi magazines (where randos are flooding Strange Horizons' open submission portal with AI-generated nonsense that their handful of editors needs to wade through). everybody who submits a paper does so with their name and institutional affiliation. if the paper is bullshit, kick everybody listed on the paper out of the institution for academic dishonesty. if the institution refuses, blacklist them from the journal. the perceived benefits of submitting papers you didn't write will very rapidly dwindle.