A spoonful of olive oil a day lowers risk of death from dementia, study suggests https://www.diningandcooking.com/2017529/a-spoonful-of-olive-oil-a-day-lowers-risk-of-death-from-dementia-study-suggests/ #DEI #dementia #diet #food #HarvardUniversity #health #JAMANetworkOpen #Mediterranean #MediterraneanOliveOil #Oil #Olive #OliveOil #quality #risk #Study) #yessnap
7 cable management tricks I regret not learning sooner
“Cable management is a boring but necessary part of any PC build. Without it, you’ll struggle to make sense of the cable jungle inside and outside your PC, and end up shoving cables wherever you can. That poses other problems related to airflow, dus ...continues
See https://gadgeteer.co.za/7-cable-management-tricks-i-regret-not-learning-sooner/
Duns festival
I know we might be considered to bring it upon ourselves - fighting everyone north and south of the border, but the festival has been a brilliant showacse for new talent as well as established writers and performers. Not far from many in southern Scotland and worth a look.
Friday 2- Saturday 10 May.
Have to confess a bias, a neighbour who writes for much TV&Theatre has a piece here.
Just attempted to go shopping for clothes, and while I know the quality has gone down across the board it was sad to see how much quality has dropped.
Even on so called luxury brands, the quality has dropped dramatically, the cloth, the stitching, the material it has all gone downhill.
For example quite a few clothes I came across used overlocking for structural parts without using another stitch to actually provide strength. 
At this point I am honestly considering getting a sewing machine, some bolts of fabric, some patterns and attempting to sew my own clothes. #frustration #clothes #clothing #sewing #quality #lowQuality
On correct but wrong responses
For a research project I am currently evaluating all kinds of generative AI models (mostly for visual artifacts but some text based ones as well). There also is somewhat of a push at my employer to use those systems more because of "efficiency". So we all know that LLMs fabricate facts meaning: They produce text that is factually untrue. Happens a lot, those so-called hallucinations are a structural property of those kinds of systems. But I kept wondering about something else that I keep […]
Quality Improvement: You do not have to do this... survival is not compulsory.
-- W. Edwards Deming
Hi! I am Kaushiki Sen, Director of Business Operations, at #PalUpNow!. I've redefined my role per business needs, and contribute in #quality, member experience, business development, #partnerships, #blogs, #videos, and #graphics. I coach our #interns and some are growing into Area Managers for th...
Kaushiki Sen, Project Manager At PalUpNow!, Redefines Her Role
https://palupnow.com/blogs/f/kaushiki-sen-project-manager-at-palupnow-redefines-her-role
Maintaining Screenshot Quality and Color Profile in Figma, by @maxburnsi.de:
https://maxburnside.com/blog/maintaining_screenshot_quality_in_figma
"Survey data gathered by AHRQ provides much of what is known about hospitalizations for motor accidents, measles, methamphetamine, and thousands of other medical issues.
'Nobody does these things except AHRQ,' she said. 'They’re all we’ve got. And now the barn door’s closed.'”
Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/8/21051869/indoor-air-pollution-student-achievement
Please think twice before replacing your coders with AI
“Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.”
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
Total Dunning-Kruger, combined with hubris, and contempt for quality.
I am reminded yet again of this article about software written by real rocket scientists:
https://www.eng.auburn.edu/~kchang/comp6710/readings/They%20Write%20the%20Right%20Stuff.pdf
(via @pbur)
#DOGE
#SocialSecurity
#DunningKruger
#SoftwareDevelopment
#Quality
English Scientists Develop Fast, High-Quality AI Weather Model for Desktops
https://www.turing.ac.uk/blog/project-aardvark-reimagining-ai-weather-prediction
How South African wine is tackling a mountain of challenges – Drinks International https://www.diningandcooking.com/1968474/how-south-african-wine-is-tackling-a-mountain-of-challenges-drinks-international/ #ChallengesSouthAfrica #climate #ClimateIssues #ClimateIssuesReports #dodd #fighting #issues #IssuesReports #IssuesReportsOli #maintain #MaintainQuality #oli #OliDodd #quality #reports #ReportsOli #ReportsOliDodd #south #SouthAfrica #SouthAfricaFaces #SouthAfricanWine #Vineyard #Wine #WineFromSouthAfrica #WineOfSouthAfrica
Analyzing Software Quality Dimensions: Functionality, Usability and Reliability Interplay https://visualmodo.com/analyzing-software-quality-dimensions-functionality-usability-and-reliability-interplay/ 
#Software #Analyzing #Quality #Dimensions #Reliability #Usability
