Jukebox Friday Night on Friday 20 June and it's Matariki, the Māori New Year in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The theme is "Reflect And Renew", so let's try a song with lines about going around in circles (moving forward and starting over):

"Then in a certain moment
I lose control and at last I am part of the machinery
(The belldog) Where are you?
And the light disappears
As the world makes its circles through the sky …"

Brian Eno and Cluster ( Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius), "The Belldog" (1978)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3Ff_O62pUs

In the capital’s #Nyvky neighborhood, emergency workers are now finding #ClusterMunition parts

Another clear sign of the #genocide #Russia is committing against Ukrainians

#Cluster #munitions are banned under international law by more than 100 countries due to their indiscriminate nature & long-term threat they pose to #civilians, especially as munitions remain hidden in #ResidentialAreas

https://kyivindependent.com/prohibited-cluster-munitions-used-in-overnight-russian-strike-kyiv-mayor-says/

Recently I've combined various functions which I've been using in other projects (e.g. my personal PKM toolchain) and published them as new library https://thi.ng/text-analysis for better re-use:

- customizable, composable & extensible tokenization (transducer based)
- ngram generation
- Porter-stemming & stopword removal
- vocabulary (bi-directional index) creation
- dense & sparse multi-hot vector encoding/decoding
- histograms (incl. sorted versions)
- tf-idf (term frequency & inverse document frequency), multiple strategies
- k-means clustering (with k-means++ initialization & customizable distance metrics)
- similarity/distance functions (dense & sparse versions)
- central terms extraction

The attached code example (also in the project readme) uses this package to creeate a clustering of all ~210 #ThingUmbrella packages, based on their assigned tags/keywords...

The library is not intended to be a full-blown NLP solution, but I keep on finding myself running into these functions/concepts quite often, and maybe you'll find them useful too...

#ReleaseTuesday — New version of https://thi.ng/tsne with ~15-20% better performance[1] due to avoiding repeated internal allocations and skipping gradient updates where unnecessary...

[1] Benchmarked with multiple datasets of ~750 items, each with 192 dimensions (now ~165ms @ MBA M1, 2020)...

Proxmox for Enterprises: Imagine DRS-Like Guest Load Balancing!

ProxLB automatically rebalances VMs & Containers across a Proxmox cluster based on memory, CPU, and local disk usage, and can suggest the best nodes for further automation within CI/CDs. It supports maintenance mode, affinity and anti-affinity rules, and integrates seamlessly with the Proxmox API and ACL system. No SSH, just pure API! The best - it's free & #opensource

How do we know that globular star clusters are the oldest structures of our universe? The answer is surprisingly fascinating.

Picture number 1 is my latest capture of the largest known globular cluster in the Northern Hemisphere: M13, which I believe contains approximately half a million stars.

Picture number 2 features pictures of 0.9 m Kitt Peak's Observatory telescope, together with images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of another glob cluster: M4.

Well, it turns out that the HST could resolve, after many hours of exposures, the white dwarfs within the latter cluster. Not only that, but it could also analyze them using a technique known as spectroscopy, and determine in this way that these stars are approximately 12 to 13 billion years old.

This is not only useful for determining the cluster's age, but also for pinpointing the age of the entire universe. So, these tiny "insignificant" star remnants did us a big favor.

https://www.europesays.com/fr/133059/ Nouvelle gouvernance pour la French Tech Saint-Etienne Lyon #actu #Actualités #AuvergneRhôneAlpes #Cluster #EU #europe #FR #France #FrenchTech #News #Nominations #RépubliqueFrançaise #SaintÉtienne

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NGC 6366 vs 47 Ophiuchi
* Image Credit & Copyright: Massimo Di Fusco
https://app.astrobin.com/u/massimo.difusco#gallery
https://www.astronomy.com/picture-of-the-day/photo/cloak-of-the-owl/
https://www.optolong.com/cms/document/detail/id/418.html
https://www.optolong.com/cms/document/detail/id/431.html

Explanation:
Most globular star clusters roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy, but globular cluster NGC 6366 lies close to the galactic plane. About 12,000 light-years away toward the constellation Ophiuchus, the cluster's starlight is dimmed and reddened by the Milky Way's interstellar dust when viewed from planet Earth. As a result, the stars of NGC 6366 look almost golden in this telescopic scene, especially when seen next to relatively bright, bluish, and nearby star 47 Ophiuchi. Compared to the hundred thousand stars or so gravitationally bound in distant NGC 6366, 47 Oph itself is a binary star system a mere 100 light-years away. Still, the co-orbiting stars of 47 Oph are too close together to be individually distinguished in the image.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015A%26A...584A..59S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015AJ....149..110W/abstract
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/star-clusters-inside-the-universes-stellar-collections/#hds-sidebar-nav-1
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250512.html
https://app.astrobin.com/u/massimo.difusco#gallery

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/satellite-galaxies/en/

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250523.html

Bevor bekannt gegeben wird, was die Excellenz-Cluster sein werden, müssen alle Clusterwitze gemacht worden sein. #exzellenz #cluster

#python #technology #datascience #machinelearning #technology
#cluster #marketing #healthcare #sale #customer
7 Best Real-World Use-Case Examples & Business Applications of Cluster Analysis & Dimensionality Reduction (CADR) Techniques
The Best Outlook to Have on HealthTech, Marketing, Sales, RFM, and CRM with Popular Unsupervised ML Algorithms in Python

#exploremore

https://medium.com/@alexzap922/7-best-real-world-use-case-examples-business-applications-of-cluster-analysis-dimensionality-9e078156084b?sk=675c14bc08fd923c01ce52dfa25a6942

Say hello to our "new" free hardware 80-core cluster – these are Dell/Wyse 3040 thin clients (quadcore Z8350 Atom, 2 GB RAM, 8 GB eMMC, 1 GB Ethernet, only 10x10x3 cm^3 in size) which will be used for student experiments with distributed operating systems. Maybe we can revive Amoeba and build a small Plan9 cluster...

Good news! First (preparatory) meeting of the STORABLE Cluster (from NeoGiANT H2020 project). This cluster aims to foster collaborations, diffusion, and share ideas in the area of animal breeding, focusing on sustainability and circular economy issues. Visit our (tentative) website at https://www.neogiant.eu/neo-cluster/
Dr. Felipe Martínez-Pastor (NeoGiANT, Bianor Biotech/University of León), Úrsula Álvarez (NeoGiANT, Magapor), Dr. M. J. Martínez (AIM Ibérica, Topigs-Norsvin España), Dr. Manuel Álvarez-Rodríguez and Dr. Eduardo de Mercado (INIA-CSIC, i-Link network), and Dr. Alejandro Vicente-Carrillo (UCM) have met in Zaragoza during the 17th ITM organized by Magapor (https://itmmagapor.com/). This first meeting has helped to define a working path for STORABLE. A kick-up meeting will be held very soon with all the members!

Follow us in LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/storable) and Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/storable-neogiant.bsky.social).

#STORABLE #bianorbiotech #NeoGiANT #Cluster #H2020 #AnimalReproduction #sustainability #CircularEconomy #OneHealth #Magapor #AIM #Topigs-Norsvin #INIA-CSIC #unileon