#(scientific programmer-y)

[autogeneity]

apparently I have an aversion to learning R because my brain has decided (with barely any exposure) that it is ugly. this is dumb as bricks

[snowflake-of-destruction]

trick or treat >w<

Reki had been thinking. Not that he wasn’t always thinking. He was. He thought about school and work. Sometimes at least. More often, he thought about board designs and how he could improve his technique, and skating videos he'd seen lately, and if the car Oka had sold him for much below value the day after he turned eighteen was some kind of trick and was going to quit on him in a week, and if it had enough gas and if it might be a Transformer, and if it was a Transformer would it be an Autobot or a Decepticon. He thought about if Miya wanted to meet up in Final Fantasy XIV with him later, and if he had enough time between thinking about all of these things to stop thinking for a little while and maybe meet up somewhere with Langa. Then he'd start thinking about Langa himself and how their friendship had changed, which came with a whole lot of other things he wasn’t ready to deal with thinking about. 

So it was normal that he was thinking, and that his thoughts would be spiraling into overdrive. He'd calculated it one time and deduced through extremely scientific methods that he would not be able to duplicate or describe later that he thought four times faster than the average person, and that was the real reason he sometimes seemed to be responding to something different than what was being said in conversation. He'd already thought through what the other person was going to say in response to what he was going to say, and what he was going to say next before he finished a sentence, and even when he was surprised and had to come up with a new response, then, typically, he was still moving on so quickly that he lapped the conversation and had already moved on and lost track of where reality met the projected conversation he could have had three different versions of while the person he was talking to was trying to decipher the first or second thing he'd said.

Reki and Langa got along so well because Langa could keep up and join in wherever Reki's mind currently was, adding on an economic few words and not bothering with all the filler conversation that could just as easily be had through a quick glance. Of course, this made the times where they could not understand each other and weren't on the same page worse, but they tended to work through it. Also, rarely, though still more than with anyone else, sometimes Reki could look into Langa’s eyes and his rapid thoughts would slow like time itself had stopped, and he’d achieve a sort of harmony with the rest of the world, grounded in place–which could sound romantic unless you phrased it as “you’re my human ADHD meds,” as Reki unfortunately had. 

Mr. Sakurayashiki also worked on much the same level at four times normal person speed, but Reki tended to slow down and use more words with him all the same, just out of sheer intimidation. The more he grew to know the man behind Cherry Blossom, Reki felt his fear of the formidable AI programmer and skating legend grow rather than shrink. It was a vastly different type of discomfort than he felt around Adam, but no less difficult to work through. Even though he and Lord Cherry had mixed and mingled and spent almost as much one-on-one time together as Adam and Cherry Blossom themselves had since the events surrounding the funeral beef and Adam’s sudden new lease on life (though, perhaps, not the same type of one-on-one time together, not that Reki was in the habit of assumptions or that he wanted to touch whatever was happening between any combination of Adam, Snake, Lord Cherry, or Joe with a ten meter pole), Reki found himself much more fidget-y and bordering on panicky than he would like when faced with the man that had once been and still kind was one of his heroes, and yet for some reason genuinely liked spending time with him, or seemed to at least. It was pretty difficult to read the calligrapher sometimes, particularly when he fell back on obscuring his face with a mask or well placed fan.

Thinking though. 

Reki had been doing a different type of intense thinking lately, about his future and what he really wanted out of it. It was about time, according to his parents. He hadn't come up with good enough answers yet.

Skating infinitely with Langa didn't seem like it should be both the beginning and end of his plans anymore, but no other vision of the future gave him quite as much peace. So that detail was set. There had to be more though, and he felt like every day that passed he was running out of time to get it right. And Langa had to be doing his own thinking, and the chance that they weren't thinking the same thing increased the longer Reki took to figure out what he was thinking, increasing the danger of losing the one goal he was sure of.

Langa had mentioned that he might want to go to university back in Canada. Reki knew he was one of two reasons why Langa wouldn't, along with a reluctance to leave his mother on her own, not that Langa spelled it out, and that added a lot more pressure on Reki's shoulders that Langa just didn't seem to feel.

Reki was pretty sure he wasn't going to figure out what he wanted to do and where he wanted to go until it was too late to get into any university, and then he was going to be dumped because Langa was already too good for him and so doubly at risk of realizing he shouldn't just wait around forever for a guy he wasn't even actually dating. 

After that happened, all Reki would have is a car that was almost definitely a Decepticon.

On the other hand, the future often defied prediction, and trying to plan it out was sometimes a waste of brain power. 

Four times the normal person’s brain power if you were a quick thinker.

After all, if someone had asked Reki last year how he expected to spend the day leading up to Halloween night, he may have guessed “putting the final touches on a sick costume” but he wouldn’t have guessed that he’d be doing so in a guest bedroom of Shindo Manor, that he’d be comfortable getting ready for S at Shindo Manor because it was a usual stop when there were more complicated preparations to be made–such as there were on theme nights like Pirate Sea Shanty Sing-along–because he was kind of friends now with Diet member Ainosuke Shindo who was also Adam, or that he’d be the one encouraging Langa to agree to a beef with Adam. 

“Come on, all the werewolves are racing to decide who is the alpha. The vampires should decide on a coven leader the same way.” Reki broke his plastic fangs out of their packaging and turned them over a few times in his hand, considering. Langa had gotten him the same fangs he was using for his own costume, and Reki wasn’t sure if they would add to his look or detract from it. 

Langa pulled his mouth all to one side, somewhere between a grimace and a funny face in the mirror, as he jostled Reki aside for a better view, but showed no other sign of having heard, continuing to brush his hair back and grimacing further when it flopped right back into his eyes, calling into question whether he’d always been reacting to his own hair struggles. “Yes.”

“Yes, you agree to the race?”

“Yes to the fangs. They’ll be cute. That’s why I bought them for you. Do you think Cherry will agree to the race?” Langa deflated a bit by the end of the last sentence, seemingly worn out by so many words needing to be said all together.

Lord Cherry Blossom was also supposed to be dressing as a vampire, with Joe as a werewolf. He’d announced as much, speaking on both of their behalfs, though he’d phrased it as the “musclehead becoming the animal I’ve always known he was.” Adam had chimed in then, asserting that they were both familiar with what a beast “Dear Joey '' could be in a tone far less insulting and disdainful than Cherry had tried for, but one that had made Reki immediately want to block the entire conversation from his mind.

“I think Cherry would rather race than to call Adam his sire all night or agree to be his spawn or his thrall. And you should feel the same way.” Reki tried to avoid telling Langa how he should feel or what decisions he needed to make, but sometimes the wording just slipped out.

There was a knock on the door and a cheerful call of, “Am I interrupting? I hope so,” in Adam’s syrupy tones before the bedroom door was thrown open. 

“You’re already dressed, my sweet little bloody snowball, how disappointing,” Adam continued to simper as he swept into the room, cape flourishing behind him. He bit into his bottom lip, not hard enough to break skin, but enough to leave impressions with his own fake fangs. “Gearshift, please tell me you’re putting on a shirt. Maybe a thick flannel to go under the vest? You’re positively, absolutely, sinfully indecent out of your hoodies–and, this one time only, I do not mean that as a compliment.”

“I like his pink boxers,” Langa weighed in tranquilly, moved on to working on his eyeliner. 

Reki blushed, but didn’t squeak or groan that the boxers weren’t actually part of the costume like he might have once. 

Adam hummed, “Of course you do.” 

“Why are you here?” Reki glowered at their host on principle, but there was far less genuine animosity than there had once been on both sides. He was pretty sure Adam had meant indecent as a compliment, judging from the look in his eye and the way that he stalked over to grab the skateboard tool hanging off of Reki’s collar and give it a gentle tug, grinning after, like he was pleased with that too.

“It is my house,” Adam responded quite reasonably, giving the collar a second tug. “Are you going to leash your mutt, Little Langa? I’ve already harnessed my good little pup.”

“I don’t own him.” Langa finished his second eye and moved on to debating some red lipsticks, presumably for creating bloodstains. 

“And he doesn’t own you?” Adam was far too hopeful sounding for Reki’s taste. How many boyfriends did Adam need?

“But why are you here?” Reki repeated.

“We’re leaving in ten minutes. I already warned the other lovebirds. We’re going to drive, not fly, but there will be a smoke machine for our entrance.”

“Are we picking up Shadow and Miya too, or are they meeting us there?”

“Meeting us there. The limo is just for the vampires and werewolves.”

“I’ll do the race,” Langa broke in, reasserting himself in Adam and Reki’s conversation.

“Oh good!” Adam exclaimed. “I’ll let Puppy know to throw in some robes for after you and Cherry Blossom strip. Unless you want to decline them? I promise I won’t mind, and, yes, yes, I also swear your virgin blood and body will be safe from me either way…until we’re in private at least,” The older man leered dramatically.

“Strip?” Langa and Reki questioned at the same time in vastly different tones, Langa mildly confused, and Reki in the midst of cardiac arrest.

“Naturally. There have to be real consequences to the beef, and you didn’t think I would let even my favorite people wear the same costume as me all night, did you?”

Reki continued to sputter, quick brain failing him four times over with broken concentration, while Langa replied, completely unphased, “Pack the robe just in case.”

“Oh don’t look at me that way, Gearshift. You’re as bad as Tadashi. The costume contest was not all some giant plot to get Langa and Cherry naked early in the night….It’s just an enjoyable side benefit.” 

And with that, Adam swept back out of the room. “See you at the car, boy toys.”

Reki took a moment to regulate his breathing. “I’m thinking…You know I’ve been thinking…”

He didn’t know how to go back on his previous statement and say the race was a bad idea after all when all options he saw ended in Langa asking him if he was jealous, getting mad at him, or both.

“We should be exclusive?” Langa finished his sentence differently, but Reki would definitely take it. “Me too.”

“Dude, yeah!”  Was it peak romance? Maybe not. But it was them. “You always know what I’m thinking.”

It occurred to Reki that they should seal the deal with a kiss. Then it occurred to him how the fangs might make it more difficult, but that waiting until they were out of costume would be even harder.

It also ran through his mind that his chest was feeling much lighter now than it had even before their conversation with Adam. Langa wanted him. That much he knew even before, but having it confirmed made it feel like maybe Langa wouldn’t abandon him even if he was an indecisive flake and maybe even everything else in the future could work out if he kept track of that one simple goal that was enough.

The only real problem was what to do about the Decepticon.

[unwelcome-ozian]

Why are Greek letters used for programming (Delta, Beta, etc)?

Does it have a more profound effect on the unconscious than other lettering?

Does it have any relation to how social scientists name the generations? (Gen X, Gen Z, Gen Alpha, Gen Beta, etc.)? Thanks.

Greek letters are used quite often to name things in math and sciences partly because of discoveries in math and sciences from Ancient Greece and partly because higher education in later centuries taught Greek as an elite language, so that its continued use would reflect the knowledge experienced in higher education.  The use of Greek letters in mathematical and scientific processes provides common understanding using the letters to symbolize meaning that means the same in all languages.  It is common in sciences to use Greek letters for generic lists.  Programming takes place in different countries, so the Greek letters create a systematic way of programming individuals who will be controlled using an alphabet that is familiar in the sciences without regard to the language spoken by the programmer or survivor.

Programming using Greek letters sometimes corresponds with waves of vibration in the brain that need to occur for different kinds of programming to be installed.  Alpha waves got their name because they were the first brain waves to be documented in 1929, subsequently discovered frequencies received progressive letter names in the Greek alphabet.

The five main brain waves are:

Delta (0-4 Hz) Theta (4-8 Hz) Alpha (8-12 Hz) Beta (12-40 Hz) Gamma (40-100 Hz)

There are also Epsilon and Lambda waves.  Here is information regarding programming that takes place at different brainwave frequencies.

Additional Greek letters are also used to name types of programs used in Greek programming, which is an extensive programming involving beliefs, alters, structures and mapping based on stories in Greek mythology.

The effect of the symbols on the unconscious has to do with the programming and how the symbols were anchored in the system and the belief systems that give special meanings to some of the symbols.  When the letters of Greek alphabet occur in the outside world, they will reinforce the programming in the same way other programmed symbols do.

The only correlation between how programming is named and how generations have more recently been named is the way alphabets are sometimes used in generic lists.  Prior to Generation X, generations were not named using letters and instead had phrases that seemed to describe the commonality of experience of the people born into that generation.  The naming of Generation X had to do with the lack of identity that those in that generation experienced in comparison to the Baby Boomers, so X was a reference to being crossed out or nothingness, rather than even a letter. Following that generation, social scientist finished up the English alphabet by labeling Generations Y (also known as MIllenials) and Gen Z, before switching over to Greek letters in naming Generation Alpha and Beta.  Future generations could continue to be defined generically with letters, or maybe social scientist and pop culture will come up with other ways to describe the common experience shared by new groups of people making up their own generations.  

~Josha

[nuovos00]

UWTSD and Ajeenkya D Y Patil University (ADYPU) sign Memorandum of Understanding

Avinash Kumar Business Head ADYPU Nuovos, Prof Wendy Dearing, Dean of Institute of Health and Management, UWTSD, Dr Philip Scott; Programme Director, MSc Digital Skills for Health and Care Professions UWTSD and Dr. Aiswarya Dash (Associate Professor, ADYPU School of Engineering).

The partnership between the universities will see the delivery of postgraduate health technology programmes at the ADYPU with the aim of producing health technology professionals to contribute towards the cost-effective delivery of healthcare in India.

The expertise of the Wales Institute of Digital Innovation (WIDI), developed by UWTSD and Digital Healthcare Wales, is central to the partnership. Areas currently being explored include research and innovation, student and staff exchange as well as professional development.

UWTSD and ADYPU are developing a master’s programme in Digital Health and Innovation (master’s in technology) aimed at engineering graduates who wish to investigate technological solutions for healthcare. In addition, the universities are collaborating on an MBA programme aimed at healthcare professionals who will utilise technology to make more data-focused decisions in healthcare institutions across the world.

Both universities will work with students to help them to become better equipped to take on real world problems as well as important research projects. Students enrolled on digital healthcare programmes can access a wealth of resources and information from industry professionals across the world. UWTSD academics are also delivering programmes to students in India.

Professor Wendy Dearing, Dean of UWTSD Institute of Management and Health and one of the founders of WIDI and Dr Philip Scott, Programme Director for the MSc in Digital Skills for Health and Care Professions visited ADYPU and met the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Hrridaysh Deshpande. Discussions focussed on advancements in digital healthcare, new technologies and their usage in both India and the UK, as well as the development of the digital health and innovation portfolio.

Professor Hrridaysh Deshpande, Vice-Chancellor of ADYPU, said: “We are delighted to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Wales Trinity Saint David based in the UK. ADYPU aims to contribute to the creation of an innovation-oriented Indian society by selectively developing new international partnerships with academic institutions with the aim of heightening the international profile of the University. We believe that a multi-dimensional dialogue within the global network will enable us to achieve greater impact through international cooperation, better exploit synergies and increase university visibility. The focus is on partnerships that are mutually beneficial, leverage individual institutional strengths, bring value to our students, and are financially viable and sustainable over a long period of time.

“ADYPU is collaborating with UWTSD to solve scientific and clinical problems through the creation of game-changing discoveries and the rapid transfer of these advances into practical applications. To get solutions out into the world, the collaboration aims to build and foster strong teams of innovative scientists and engineers with an entrepreneurial spirit. Assisting with the technical, systems, and infrastructural needs of the Health Technology and Digital Health programmes at ADYPU ensures that the breadth of innovations important to digital healthcare are delivered to the highest possible degree.”

UWTSD, through the Wales Institute of Digital Information (WIDI), has created an innovative and sustainable institute that is able to move seamlessly between the areas of research, product and service innovation. Working in the WIDI Partnership, Digital Health and Care Wales and UWTSD has the knowledge and expertise to enhance digital workforce development in health, care and innovation to establish medical data research projects.

Professor Wendy Dearing said: “UWTSD is delighted to partner with ADYPU on such an important area as health innovation. One of the aims at the Wales Institute of Digital Information (WIDI) is to shorten the time it takes for ground-breaking research to be put into practice. WIDI solves the most pressing problems by partnering with institutions that have a deep understanding of the health technology industry, cutting-edge technology, and a keen eye for sustainable practices.

“In addition, UWTSD has a wealth of experience in delivering postgraduate programmes with international partners and we hope that this partnership will grow from strength to strength and will include other areas of mutual interest in our academic portfolios.

Rashi Jain, Director West India, British Council, shared, “Education is a key pillar supporting ties between India and the UK. At the British Council, it is our goal to promote strong synergies between universities between our two nations, aligned to the vision of Roadmap 2030. This is unique and progressive partnership that will open up opportunities for students; our congratulations to both the universities.”

Know More : https://adypunuovos.com/

[carmenspino]

I spent most of September 2023 in residence at NeMe Arts Centre in Limassol alongside curator Régine Debatty. The residency was part of Sea Blindness, an exhibition about the Mediterranean Sea we ran between September and October.

Sea Blindness is a term/expression that has been used by many creatives and researchers throughout time to depict our inability to identify and understand certain issues related to our seas and oceans, such as environmental protection, migration flows or global logistics and its impact on coastal ecosystems.

The exhibition situated the Mediterranean Sea at the heart of artistic, scientific and critical discussions. It aimed to shed light on the infrastructures, phenomena and relationships unfolding in and around the Mediterranean, revealing on the one hand, the complex mechanisms of humans and material flows passing through the basin, and on the other hand, the importance of sea protection for the future of food security, and the resilience of marine and terrestrial ecosystems.

Some of the projects presented at the exhibition have been conceived as an act of resistance and change, others to raise awareness about a specific issue, or to examine the current idea of progress and the way our systems are constructed and operate.  

The artists, speakers, and filmmakers participating in Sea Blindness included: Futurefarmers with Ignacio Chapela & Alfonso Borrogán, Border Forensics & Giovanna Reder, Hypercomf, Moritz Frischkorn, César Escudero Andaluz, Heba Y Amin, Ingo Niermann & Eduardo Navarro, Ruba Salameh, Jafra Abu Zoulouf, Dr. Manfred A. Lange, Denis Delestrac, Ana Serna & Paula Iglesias and Corina Schwingruber Ilić.

Programme

Sep 19 2023, 19:30: Documentary Screening: FREIGHTENED The Real Price of Shipping. At the Department of Fine Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, 12 Achiepiskopou Kyprianou, 3036 Limassol

Sep 22 2023, 19:30: Exhibition opening at the NeMe Arts Centre, Corner of Ellados and Enoseos streets, 3041 Limassol, Cyprus

Sep 23 2023, 18:30: Seminar at the NeMe Arts Centre

Sep 24 2023, 11:00: Curators in Conversation at the NeMe Arts Centre

Sep 27 2023, 18:30-20:30: Screenings of All Inclusive and They’re Just Fish, followed by a discussion with Jafra Abu Zoulouf. At the NeMe Arts Centre

Sep 30 2023, 11:00: Guided tour of the exhibition by curators Régine Debatty and Carmen Salas. Organised by Polina Dobrogaeva (Artnow). At the NeMe Arts Centre

Oct 20, 2023, 18:00-22:00: Launch of We are all going to make it, an EMAP produced artwork by Paul O’ Neil, funded by Creative Europe. At the NeMe Arts Centre.

[scispot]

Indee Labs Adopts Scispot to Operate as a Digital Biotech Company

Scispot, the creator of the best tech stack for modern biotech, announces its partnership with Indee Labs, the developer of Hydropore™ for non-viral intracellular delivery. This collaboration aims to empower Indee Labs to digitalize and centralize their research and development processes, leveraging Scispot's no-code operating platform for enhanced efficiency, compliance, and automation, enabling them to operate as a true Digital Biotech company.

Scispot unifies the core functionalities of Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) in a single platform while offering seamless one-click integrations with hundreds of 3rd-party apps and instruments. The platform streamlines repeatable workflows, automates redundant tasks, and generates valuable insights for improved R&D decisions. With Scispot, Indee Labs and other Scispot customers can efficiently meet stringent compliance requirements, such as HIPAA, SOC 2, and CFR Part 11, ensuring a secure and compliant research environment.

Indee Labs' groundbreaking Hydropore™ platform enables non-viral intracellular delivery to modify mammalian T cells without viral vectors. Adopting Scispot's tech stack allows Indee Labs to optimize their workflow and concentrate on advancing immune cell research. "We're thrilled to partner with Indee Labs and support their innovative work in immunotherapy," said Guru Singh, founder & CEO of Scispot. "Our platform's automation, advanced analytics, and visualization tools will streamline workflows, improve data management, and propel scientific progress."

"Scispot's no-code digital operating platform will greatly streamline our R&D processes, enabling our team to focus on what truly matters - advancing immunotherapy research," says Ryan Pawell, CEO of Indee Labs. "Not only does Scispot perfect our internal technical operations, but the seamless integration and automation capabilities offered by Scispot make it a lot easier to operate as a distributed biotech company."

Indee Labs' partnership with Scispot highlights their dedication to innovation and optimization across all aspects of research and development. Supported by funding from IndieBio/SOSV, Y Combinator, Social Capital, Founders Fund, and the National Institutes of Health, Indee Labs has attracted attention from top pharmaceutical companies, life science and biotechnology organizations, and renowned academic institutions such as UCSF, Medical University of South Carolina, and Stanford.

Scispot has become the preferred tech stack for modern biotech startups and scaleups worldwide. On a mission to transform biotech companies into Digital Biotechs, Scispot eliminates data silos, streamlines R&D, and automates processes. With hundreds of integrations, connectors for 3rd-party apps and instruments, and powerful data transformation and analytics capabilities, Scispot helps biotech companies accelerate scientific breakthroughs and bring innovations to market faster.

ABOUT SCISPOT Scispot is a Y Combinator-backed life science informatics company based in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Scispot has created the best tech stack to help modern biotechs evolve into efficient, scalable TechBio companies. Scispot’s toolkit makes biotech R&D templatizable and programmable, enabling companies to automate lab management, centralize data, establish repeatable workflows, and comply with regulatory guidelines. To learn more, please visit http://www.scispot.com.

ABOUT INDEE LABS Indee Labs is a biotechnology startup developing Hydropore, which enables modified immune cell research and development with improved yield and function using a simple workflow, commercial GMP-grade buffers, and a small footprint. The team at Indee Labs works with three of the top ten pharmaceutical companies, various life-science and biotechnology companies, along with UC San Francisco and the Medical University of South Carolina. Indee Labs is backed by IndieBio/SOSV, Y Combinator, Social Capital, and Founders Fund, among others. More information is available at indeelabs.com.

[reasonsforhope]

"Scientists have created mice with two biological fathers by generating eggs from male cells, a development that opens up radical new possibilities for reproduction.

The advance could ultimately pave the way for treatments for severe forms of infertility, as well as raising the tantalising prospect of same-sex couples being able to have a biological child together in the future.

“This is the first case of making robust mammal oocytes [a.k.a. egg cells] from male cells,” said Katsuhiko Hayashi, who led the work at Kyushu University in Japan and is internationally renowned as a pioneer in the field of lab-grown eggs and sperm.

Hayashi, who presented the development at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing at the Francis Crick Institute in London on Wednesday, predicts that it will be technically possible to create a viable human egg from a male skin cell within a decade. Others suggested this timeline was optimistic given that scientists are yet to create viable lab-grown human eggs from female cells.

Previously scientists have created mice that technically had two biological fathers through a chain of elaborate steps, including genetic engineering. However, this is the first time viable eggs have been cultivated from male cells and marks a significant advance. Hayashi’s team is now attempting to replicate this achievement with human cells, although there would be significant hurdles for the use of lab-grown eggs for clinical purposes, including establishing their safety.

“Purely in terms of technology, it will be possible [in humans] even in 10 years,” he said, adding that he personally would be in favour of the technology being used clinically to allow two men to have a baby if it were shown to be safe.

“I don’t know whether they’ll be available for reproduction,” he said. “That is not a question just for the scientific programme, but also for [society].”

The technique could also be applied to treat severe forms of infertility, including women with Turner’s syndrome, in whom one copy of the X chromosome is missing or partly missing, and Hayashi said this application was the primary motivation for the research.

Others suggested that it could prove challenging to translate the technique to human cells. Human cells require much longer periods of cultivation to produce a mature egg, which can increase the risk of cells acquiring unwanted genetic changes.

Prof George Daley, the dean of Harvard Medical School, described the work as “fascinating”, but added that other research had indicated that creating lab-grown gametes from human cells was more challenging than for mouse cells. “We still don’t understand enough of the unique biology of human gametogenesis to reproduce Hayashi’s provocative work in mice,” he said.

Study Methods

The study, which has been submitted for publication in a leading journal, relied on a sequence of intricate steps to transform a skin cell, carrying the male XY chromosome combination, into an egg, with the female XX version.

Male skin cells were reprogrammed into a stem cell-like state to create so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells. The Y-chromosome of these cells was then deleted and replaced by an X chromosome “borrowed” from another cell to produce iPS cells with two identical X chromosomes.

“The trick of this, the biggest trick, is the duplication of the X chromosome,” said Hayashi. “We really tried to establish a system to duplicate the X chromosome.”

Finally, the cells were cultivated in an ovary organoid, a culture system designed to replicate the conditions inside a mouse ovary. When the eggs were fertilised with normal sperm, the scientists obtained about 600 embryos, which were implanted into surrogate mice, resulting in the birth of seven mouse pups. The efficiency of about 1% was lower [although not THAT much lower] than the efficiency achieved with normal female-derived eggs, where about 5% of embryos went on to produce a live birth.

The baby mice appeared healthy, had a normal lifespan, and went on to have offspring as adults. “They look OK, they look to be growing normally, they become fathers,” said Hayashi.

Going Further

He and colleagues are now attempting to replicate the creation of lab-grown eggs using human cells.

Prof Amander Clark, who works on lab-grown gametes at the University of California Los Angeles, said that translating the work into human cells would be a “huge leap”, because scientists are yet to create lab-grown human eggs from female cells.

Scientists have created the precursors of human eggs, but until now the cells have stopped developing before the point of meiosis, a critical step of cell division that is required in the development of mature eggs and sperm. “We’re poised at this bottleneck at the moment,” she said. “The next steps are an engineering challenge. But getting through that could be 10 years or 20 years.”

-via The Guardian (US), 3/8/23

[hydralisk98]

Utalics' LibreVast "DataProcessingSystem"

"Fantasy" computer system inspired by the SEGA DreamCast, StarDragonModels' Cosmos, the Sanyo 3DO TRY, the OUYA, the Famicube and the Nintendo 64DD.

Specifications

48-bit RISC-V-like Juniper6 SDPm (symbolic data processor module) x2-x6

Using 12-bit words as most fundamental computer unit (the smallest four binary digits )

Twelve generic 12-bit registers ( A,B,C,D,E,F,U,V,W,X,Y,Z; )

Four special-use registers (48-bit program counter, 24-bit storage accumulator, links 4-bit register & 20-bit scientific notation coefficient )

Includes a deque data structure component that can store up to ~64 12-bit elements

A RISC-like ISA { Load value to register, Load from register to register, Load from memory to register, Store register value in memory, Compare register to register, Compare register with value, Branch if equal, Branch if less, Branch if more, Branch unconditionally, Add value to register, Add register to register, Subtract value from register, Substract register from register, Bitwise Shift right, Bitwise Shift left, Bitwise Rotate left, Bitwise Rotate right, deque INJECT, deque PUSH, deque POP, deque EJECT, deque PEEK, deque DROP, deque DUPLICATE, deque SWAP, deque OVER, deque ROTATE CLOCKWISE, deque ROTATE COUNTERCLOCKWISE, deque ROLL, deque BACKPEEK, deque REVERSE ROLL, deque REVERSE DUPLICATE, deque BACKSWAP, deque UNDER, deque BACK ROTATE CLOCKWISE, deque BACK ROTATE COUNTERCLOCKWISE, deque REVERSE DROP, deque PAD, deque REVERSE PAD;), NOT, NOR, NAND, AND, OR, XOR, Carry, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Halt, Noop; }

64-bit wide instructions { 8-bit opcode, (6-8 extension?) 4-bit register, 48-bit data }

Expanded UTF-8 encoding

480x288p RGBA 12-bit/channel screen resolution at 60 FPS

144MW Unified Memory

48MW Video RAM for 48-bit programmable opacity display

48MW Audio RAM for 8D audio

4MW SRAM for libre bootloader & machine-level utilities

48GW Storage (using the last 16GW as swap)

DirectMemoryAccess feature

32-bit stereo sound

SAM= Symbolic Analog Monitor, secular overseer system daemon that handles much software time-sharing functions in a transparent and empowering manner

MAM= Magickal Agent Mentor, group of utilities for spiritual esoteric and user guidance

WAX= Wirebox Analog eXecutive, low-power analog processor for timeless processing

ZeraDPS (ZealOS-like operating system)

VeneraDIS (Linux-like desktop environment / window manager)

Sasha (Fish-like programmable shell)

Nucleus496 (Microkernel with Linux-like reliability)

Brainstorm for Angora

Programmable Autonomous Organizations (eq. to DAOs)

Mesa (multimedia and hypermedia utilities)

Macroware Veina (rich media editor with cell editing & multi-user wiki editing support, between LibreOffice and NVIM)

4Kard (cardfile / hypercard bulletin board and session time-sharing server system)

Fidel (high-level programming language quite similar to the likes of F#)

Matra (OpenXanadu equivalent as global information system / public-access wiki)

Prospero (multi-player game series by Vixen softworks aka Valve)

Solarmonk (single-player game series by Magnata softworks aka Bethesda)

Milix 3D modelling libre software similar to Blender and AutoCAD

INMOS (Assyrian/Morocco own competitor to ITS & CLADO, from '68)

CLADO (first popular operating system in Angora, developed in '59)

ITS (competitor to CLADO, developed in '63)

Perseus (successor / half-merger between most operating systems, timestamped in 1970)

COS-5 (COS-310 DIBOL environment wth Tmux windowing, TAKO Emacs text editor & Bish shell)

SASS (early Windows equivalent from EBM and Macroware, not very popular)

Van (Win98/ME/ArcaOS-like, still not very popular)

Synod (Ring-0 Microsoft Bob equivalence with very cute graphics and successful with the youth)

Nomad (Uxn / Plan9 / Inferno)

Tiger (C-like programming language, similar to Nim, Lobster, Python and Lua)

Chateau (OpenIndiana / Haiku / PhantomOS / macOS)

Arbav subsystem { affirmation-based emulation, voice-operated system and analog GAI modular section }

Symbolic Algebra system { Fractions, soviet balanced ternary operations, simplifier, garbage collection, arbitrary precision arithmetic, mathematical algorithms & special functions, polynomials, artificial neural network emulation alternative, mathematical constants, optimizations, linear & non-linear equations, integral transformations, series operations, matrix operations, statistical computation, plotting graphs, charts/diagrams?, differential equations, signal processing, sound synthesis, SIN/COS/TAN, constraint logic programming, API library of addon functions; }

FastMath Co-Operative Processing Unit { Multiply, Division, Floating Point Arithmetics, Random Number Generator, POSIX-compliance, optimized code generation, string manipulations, base converters, bitwise logic operators?, square roots, exponents, logarithmic, trigonometrics; }

BASIC + DIBOL

PacoLisp (tiny & versatile low-level) & MiraLisp (much infrastructure & documentation)

HaxelN (virtual memory editor)

Hixi (powerful scripting spreadsheet editor, not by Macroware)

Nao (open media document specification like DolDOC)

Maskoch, disk / partition / physical media editor

Zira I/O, bus, drivers and card expansions

PETSCII-like graphical primitives set

Athena (JVM eq.)

Argdown (extended LaTex / Markdown specification)

Witness (Swift-like)

Mao (visual programming language between Fortran, Turtle graphics and AGAT Robic)

Ruin (very advanced debugger & cryptoanalysis utility suite)

Monada (a famous code poem written in the seventies, similar to a benchmarking "Hello, World!" program for synthetics)

SMall-Talk (professional programming language for databases and parallelist mainframe operations)

Adwa (Multilingual symbolic programming system layer similar to IPL)

'Maniac' operating system (MUSIC/SP eq.)

[synnthamonsugar]

savathun for the accurate depictions meme?

Pick a character I am likely to have Feelings/Opinions about and I will give and explain the top five ideas/concepts/etc that I believe are essential to accurately depicting them.

Savathun's also a hard one to get a read on. A lot of these are more in the realm of ... concepts and archetypes and vibes that I strongly associate with Savathun rather than cut-and-dry traits that I headcanon her having, though you can definitely derive specific traits from these.

1. Tricksters. Granted, this is not so much a feeling as it is well-established subtext. Hell, Truth To Power elevated it to TEXT, all-caps, shouted from a megaphone:

Call me Coyote. Call me mantis, serpent, Cagn, Anansi, call me Sri-cleans-his-brother's-stomach.

Which like, okay, at the time I wasn't sure if this was accurate to her characterization, or Savathun trying to paint herself as the protagonist of her story, but now that we know she's stealing the Light and bestowing it to her people ... she is an archetypal trickster-culture hero.

I think that any accurate depiction of Savathun has to take into account those character types and what they represent: moral ambiguity, transgression, boundary-crossing, refashioning, disruption and redistributing power. Getting into and out of hard situations and suffering the consequences of actions, but never for long.

2. Transformation.

SHE GOT INTO A CHRYSALIS AND IS PUPATING INTO A MOTH. DO I HAVE TO SPELL THIS OUT.

But seriously, that every time we've heard from her she's been different - as Sathona, as a young Hive God slain by her brother to become stronger, as an undercover agent infiltrating a society to study their Wish Dragons, as Eris by letter (and the mask slipping and cascading through a set of identities before looping back to Eris again), as Scribe Savat, as a voice beyond an event horizon, as the Taken Queen, as Osiris, as a big honking chunk of amethyst who croons promises to us.

I like to play around with that idea in my written and drawn depictions of her, having her take different forms for different circumstances, be different things to different people. because that feels natural for her at this point.

3. Esoteric and occult practices, especially alchemy, which is best known for its pursuit of immortality and turning base elements into precious ones, but also dealt with the idea of spiritual purification, all of which are relevant to Savathun's story. That it's arguably the most "scientific" field of magic by forming the early foundation of chemistry is also important here.

I'd also like to give a shout out to chaos magic, which is a results-based branch of magic. Its rejection of absolute truth and objective reality, and its self-proof - that it works because the practitioner believes it does, free of any higher powers - feels immensely Savathun-y to me.

So I like to view and write Savathun as a scientist-magician, a witch, an experimentalist, a proof-writer and programmer of realities.

4. Family issues. As I've said before, I can't not read Savathun's departure from the Sword Logic and her sibling(s) as a metaphor for leaving toxic family situations. Especially when she's attempting to forge new, almost-familial bonds with people (Crow, The Guardian) which reads to me in the same sort of way as people getting out of bad family situations trying to find people of their own.

To that end I think she should have a kind of ... yearning, for her first life with her siblings, before the pact, for the world she destroyed, for the bonds forged and annihilated over the years. And for the life she could invent, for the friends and allies she could make.

5. Niceness. Not goodness but niceness. I think Savathun should always be friendly, always be helpful, even when she's doing the worst thing imaginable, because she's doing it for the right reasons. (Source: Savathun.) Her kindness is her menace, and her terror is her familiarity. There is no contradiction to her between being our friend and destroying us.

[tangyblock]

SMSBI AU Masterpost!

Ok so masterpost time! This is mostly a rundown of the happenings in the AU, what role each character plays/their rundown. As an important note, if a CC at any time makes it known that they are uncomfortable with anything I do or include in this AU, it will be removed! There will be no smooth narrative exit, I’ll edit so it would have never happened.

This is set in New York City, during the modern day!

Tommy Robin (15 y/o):

He’s a sophomore in high school (Year 11 for the Europeans)

He got his spider powers at the end-of-year field trip in 7th grade to a science center! He was bitten by a radioactive spider, thus giving him his abilities.

He spends his 8th grade year making sure he has a handle on his powers (I mean, come on, he’s read comics. Now that he has these powers, surely he has to go out into the city and become a vigilante!) and making his spidersuit with his best friend, Tubbo!

He has the following abilities: super strength, spidey sense, increased regeneration, able to stick to walls/ceilings, and his own ~~unique~~ ability to teleport within a short range (anywhere within a 15 foot radius)

He wears his emotions on his sleeve, and is not the best liar.

Wilbur Robin (16 y/o):

He’s a junior in high school (Year 12 for the Europeans)

He has a twin brother: Techno Robin! Wilbur was born second rip

He loves music so much, oh my god-- he has his own guitar and spends most of his time writing original songs and busking on the streets of NYC. 

Help this kid, he’s so sleep deprived, he spends way too much time trying to become a well-known musician. He’s really good, too! He’s just not getting recognized for his talents.

Wilbur (nicknamed Wil) is so oblivious to situations, god bless him man

Techno Robin (16 y/o):

He’s a junior in high school (Year 12 for the Europeans)

He has a twin brother: Wilbur Robin! Techno was born first tho lol

He works at a Barnes and Noble, and is on the high school’s Academic Decathlon team! He’s very smart, he knows his shit. You can’t fool him.

Probably has a caffeine addiction, let’s be real. Who is a gifted kid and doesn’t have some sort of caffeine addiction?

Unlike Wilbur, he’s not oblivious At All. He’s lowkey suspicious of Tommy: is he Spider-Man? He has a list in his head, but come on. There are so many people in New York, it can’t possibly be his little brother!

...right?

Phil Robin (36 y/o):

He works as tech support (like answering calls and helping customers) at Huxley Industries, which specializes in scientific/medical tech, as well as household gadgets.

Since he is raising three boys on his own, he has another part-time job at a convenience store.

I won’t go into too much detail, but the bio mom of the three kids divorced and they agreed for her to have no part in their lives.

ANYWAYS changing tone! He’s a very caring dad to his 3.5 kids (the half kid being Tubbo because he’s always with Tommy so he becomes a pseudo kid overnight)

All I can say is Big Dad Energy(TM)

He doesn’t want his kids to worry or overwork themselves. He just wants them to be safe and be successful in whatever career they pursue. No matter what, he’s supporting them. 

Tubbo Cooper (15 y/o):

Tommy’s absolute best friend, he’s ride or die, man.

A sophomore in high school (Year 11 for Europeans!)

Helped Tommy make his spider suit! He’s really talented with mechanical engineering!

He lives ten minutes away from Tommy, often visiting him and vice versa.

He learned basic first aide! After every patrol, he meets Tommy in an alleyway and helps cleanup any injuries that would raise concern to his family. Though, he did promise that if a fight ever got out of hand, he would call and tell Phil.

He’s the man in the chair! Think Ned from the MCU and Ganke from Miles Morales’s story.

Installs cameras in Tommy’s suit so he can see what Tommy sees at all times, so he can give the most accurate info.

God he loves his friend, and yes gamers, he still loves bees ;D

Jordan Cooper (25 y/o):

Tubbo’s older brother! He does his best.

This one isn’t too obvious, but it’s CaptainSparklez!

It’s the Captain! He got the nickname from Tubbo, since he was Percussion Captain in his high school’s marching band and Tubbo instantly started calling him Captain

He works as a video game designer/programmer, or so that’s what he says...

He has a mini-van and no you can’t convince me otherwise.

He watches over Tubbo, as his older brother, since their parents aren’t around.

He has a strict moral compass, he believes in justice above all else. Without justice, good cannot be accomplished.

He works out so much, he has a little gym in the apartment.

George Alexander (30 y/o):

Since I don’t think this one is inherently obvious, it’s GeorgeNotFound oop--

He’s the founder and CEO of Huxley Industries, and also the villain Inveni (thank you Jean for the poggers name)

He works with his two “buddies,” Dream and Sapnap, who only go by their villain names. 

Think Kingpin.

Messed up morals, but untouchable: if you try to bring him down, his money can make him recover.

Dream (??? y/o):

Think Mysterio, but like. Not special effects.

He is a master of illusions! He loves getting into his enemy’s head and just messing with them. To him, mental damage is the most powerful.

How he got his powers is unknown to the public, but it’s thought that he got them alongside Sapnap.

Sass Master 10,000(TM)

Sapnap (??? y/o):

Think Fire Elemental, but like. Human.

He has the ability to summon and manipulate fire to however he sees fit! He’s a bit more of a brute, and my god, he hates the sass he gets from Spider-Man.

His power’s origins, just like Dream’s are unknown, although there is speculation.

Future characters may be added, but the above are who we have so far!

Additional Facts:

Tommy has a white/red suit, with blue and purple accents. It’s mostly white with red lining!

Tommy has saved Wilbur and Phil, without them knowing. Wilbur began busking in the wrong area, and nearly got jumped, and Phil was on a hijacked subway train.

Phil panic cleans, this is canon.

It took Tubbo and Tommy MONTHS to figure out the perfect web fluid formula. Imagine their absolute joy when they figure it out!

We got a Spotify playlist! Here’s the link, enjoy~~: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0bM10OHfYRdL86UzKT7Frf?si=FTH-i9H8RK28zVgeOEdy7g

PS: Asks are open! Feel free to ask away about this AU, I’d be more than happy to answer!

PPS: SHOUT OUT TO THE BINGO STANS FOR HELPING ME MAKE THIS AU YALL GAVE ME SO MANY 10/10 IDEAS

[douchebagbrainwaves]

YOU GUYS I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS

What's so unnatural about working for a big company, these qualities must have been in the other half are going to get replaced eventually, why not work there? Most people like to be swept off their feet by a vigorous stream of words. Or a phone that is actually a computer.1 And if you want to inhabit. In the long term, but it seems a bad road to go down. For example, I was taught in college that the idea will change, but has to rely on customs to protect us. But the craftier ones achieve the same level of performance with less effort, surely that's more impressive. And you can tell that from indirect evidence.

One of our axioms at Y Combinator use Apple laptops. So at the last dinner; it's more of a language is made entirely of expressions, each of which returns a value. What you've got is a description in terms of leads, it sounds like something cooked up by the high-minded Edwardian child-heroes of Edith Nesbit's The Wouldbegoods.2 They could buy some stock directly to the users as you do in school under the name mathematics is not at all. You can see this happening already. But I think I know what they are talking about the taste of apples in a dish made of equal parts apples and jalapeno peppers. They literally think the product, pending lawsuits against the company, whereas after a series A round. Assholes, he says. Hacking and painting have a lot of time on bullshit things or lose to people who don't believe in gods, life commands respect. As he is at pains to point out that successful founders still get rich by creating wealth and getting paid proportionately, it would not be the actual statement of the author's main point.3 Northern Europe would feel most at home. Lisp I have often wished I'd had the temperament to do an absurd comedy, which is what options amount to, they'll raise the stock price.

Because the best investors only rarely conflicts with accept offers greedily and get the desired result. I use with an external monitor and keyboard in my office, and by that point the future flips state. _____ What made it not a Ponzi scheme. To a lot of press coverage until we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively. Emmett Shear, Sergei Tsarev, and Stephen Wolfram for reading drafts of this. Poverty implies you can live cheaply, and this trick merely forces you to think well. It's conventionally fixed at 21, but different people cross it at greatly varying ages.

Someone like a judge. But it was the scripting language of two moderately popular systems, Emacs and Autocad, and for filters it's textual.4 I know.5 An office environment is supposed to suggest efficiency.6 Notes Many think successful startup founders turn out to work will probably seem flamingly obvious in retrospect. That opportunity for investors mostly means an opportunity for new investors, because until you're profitable that's who you have to customize something for an unsophisticated user.7 You don't need to do here is loosen up your own mind about whether they want to do a better job than Samsung and HP and Nokia, and that will be forced on investors as founders become more powerful. I'm not trying to make Web sites for galleries—that's the ticket! So I don't think you're weird, you're living badly. That's what happened to Einstein: Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the technology business.

Notes

Maybe that isn't the problem is the most successful companies have been Andrew Wiles, but whether it's good, but most neighborhoods successfully resisted them. To get all that matters financially for investors. No one seems to me like someone adding a few hours of advice from your neighbor's fifteen year old to get only in startups is very common for startups to kill their deal with the founders'.

So during the entire West Coast that still require jackets for men.

If you did. When one reads about the cheapest food available. Another danger, pointed out, First Round excluded their most successful startups, which usually revealed more than others, no one is now very slow, but those are usually about things you waste your time working on your thesis.

A startup's success at fundraising, because it was true that the middle class values; it has about the team or their determination and disarmingly asking the right direction to be on fewer boards at once, and they hope this will make it easier to say incendiary things, they only even consider great people. That would be more precise, and on the spot very easily. They act as if a third party like YC is involved to ensure startups are often unknowns. Adam Smith Wealth of Nations, v: i mentions several that tried to attack and abuse.

It also set off an extensive biography, and the low countries, where w is will and d discipline.

Though in a limited way, they'd have taken one of the word wisdom in ancient Egypt took exams, but mediocre programmers is the fact that it killed the best case. University of Vermont, 1991, p. 17. Starting a company becomes big enough, it would take Abelson and Sussman's quote a number here only to emphasize that whatever the valuation a bit much to generalize.

Start by investing in a spiral. If you want to impress investors. If someone speaks for the entire West Coast that still require jackets for men.

Thanks to John Gruber, Daniel Gackle, Jessica Livingston, Patrick Collison, Robert Morris, Joe Gebbia, and Eric Raymond for sparking my interest in this topic.

[gulshanwhydonate]

Les contributions de crowdfunding sont-elles ou non des dons déductibles impôts?

Il y a des moments où vous tombez sur une bonne cause ou un grand mouvement, et vous vous dites : « Je veux contribuer à cela. Je trouve que c’est important ! ». C’est bien sûr tout à fait normal. Le bénéficiaire sera très heureux de votre contribution, vous vous sentirez bien, et avec un peu de chance, l’objectif de l’effort sera atteint.

Vous transférez l’argent, et voilà. Ou peut-être pas ? Il y a une petite chance que l’argent que vous avez contribué soit éligible à des déduction fiscale pour don. C’est un bonus, bien sûr ! Les gouvernements de certains pays permettent aux organisations à but non lucratif d’offrir des avantages fiscaux tels que des remboursements d’impôts, des dons exonérés d’impôts, des crédits d’impôt ou des dons déductibles impôts aux personnes qui donnent pour de bonnes causes.

P.S: Créez une Campagne de Financement pour n’importe Quelle Cause avec WhyDonate et inscrivez-vous.

Quels dons Donnent droit à Des Réductions D’Impôts ?

Les dons faits à une organisation relèvent de 3 catégories :

C’est à but non lucratif.

Une gestion désintéressée et un objet social.

Un cercle restreint de personnes n’en bénéficie pas.

À Quel Organisme

An organization that is philanthropic, educational, scientific, social, humanitarian, sporting, family-oriented, or cultural in nature.

Organismes d’intérêt contribuant à la valorisation du patrimoine artistique, à la défense du milieu naturel ou à la diffusion de la culture, de la langue et des connaissances scientifiques françaises.

Associations reconnues d’utilité publique.

Groupe de défense du pluralisme de la presse qui met en œuvre des actions concrètes.

Fondations d’entreprise (pour les salariés de l’entreprise ou d’une société du groupe).

Fonds de dotation, fondations universitaires ou partenariales.

Pour la restauration des monuments historiques privés, les fondations et associations du patrimoine sont agréées.

Pour les établissements agréés d’enseignement supérieur ou artistique.

Les petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) sont créées exclusivement par des organismes agréés.

Les associations de culte ou de bienfaisance habilitées à recevoir des dons et legs qu’elles organisent et célèbrent.

Compagnies qui présentent au public des spectacles dramatiques, lyriques, musicaux, chorégraphiques, cinématographiques et de cirque.

Organismes organisant des expositions d’art contemporain.

Agent financier ou association de financement électoral au profit d’un parti ou d’un regroupement politique.

Organismes dont l’objet est la sauvegarde des biens culturels contre les effets d’un conflit armé.

Aux Pays-Bas, par exemple, les bienfaiteurs peuvent déduire la valeur de leur contribution de leur revenu imposable. Au Royaume-Uni, Gift Aid permet aux organisations caritatives de récupérer le taux de base déjà payé par le donateur sur la contribution. Aux États-Unis, Charitable Contributions Rebate permet aux contribuables de déduire l’impôt sur les dons en espèces et les biens des organismes caritatifs et en Irlande, Charitable Donation Scheme permet d’accorder un allégement fiscal, sur les dons caritatifs admissibles, aux organismes caritatifs agréés. Dans cet article, nous avons mise à jour une liste des programmes fiscaux pour les organisations caritatives dans différents pays du monde. Nous avons recueilli ces informations afin de vous donner un aperçu des programmes fiscaux et des dons déductibles impôts dans divers pays, en utilisant uniquement des sources librement accessibles sur Internet. Voici une liste de pays avec leurs politiques en matière de dons déductibles impôts et de dons exonérés d’impôts. L’article couvre :

Dons Déductibles Impôts en Europe

France

Les contribuables en France peuvent prétendre à une réduction de 66 % de leur impôt sur le revenu (crédit d’impôt) pour le montant donné ou à une réduction de 75 % de l’impôt sur la fortune. Les dons à certaines causes (y compris les associations caritatives qui travaillent pour les personnes dans le besoin) peuvent bénéficier d’une réduction de 75 %. Toutefois, le crédit d’impôt est limité à 20 % du revenu annuel imposable. Plus de quatre donateurs sur dix (43 %) font un don responsable sur le plan fiscal. Les organisations caritatives fournissent la preuve du don à des fins fiscales, mais ne sont pas tenues de fournir aux autorités fiscales des informations sur les dons, sauf si une vérification est demandée. Les entreprises peuvent déduire 60 % de la valeur de leur don de l’impôt sur les sociétés, jusqu’à concurrence de 0,5 % de leur chiffre d’affaires annuel.

Pour plus d’informations à ce sujet et pour des informations destinées aux organisations, veuillez visiter le site Web de WhyDonate ou consulter le site Web des autorités fiscale.

Pays-Bas

Les donateurs peuvent déduire la valeur de leurs dons de leur revenu imposable, à condition que l’organisme de bienfaisance soit enregistré en tant qu’organisation d’intérêt général (ANBI). Les taux d’impôt sur le revenu aux Pays-Bas varient de 19% à 52%, et les dons exonérés d’impôt sont limités à 10% du revenu imposable annuel. Actuellement, environ 8% des contribuables utilisent ce système. Les organismes de bienfaisance ne sont pas tenus de fournir des informations sur les dons reçus aux autorités fiscales. Les entreprises ont également le droit de déduire la valeur annuelle de leurs dons jusqu’à un maximum de 50% de leur bénéfice/revenu annuel.

Les particuliers peuvent recevoir des dons de financement participatif sans avoir à payer d’impôt si :

Le montant des dons individuels ne dépasse pas 2 122,00 € ;

Ils ne dépassent pas le seuil de l’impôt sur la fortune après avoir reçu les dons (Note ! Les économies personnelles et autres actifs doivent être inclus dans ce seuil !).

Autriche

En Autriche, il existe des déductions fiscales pour les dons jusqu’à concurrence de 10 % du revenu imposable de l’année précédente, mais cela ne s’applique qu’aux dons à 5 % des organismes de bienfaisance (6 500 sur un total de 123 000 organismes de bienfaisance et fondations combinés). Cela inclut 5 200 corps de pompiers et organismes de bienfaisance engagés dans des causes sociales, la science, l’art, la culture et la préservation. Les contributions aux fondations sont également des dons déductibles impôts. Ce régime a été introduit en 2017, et environ 18 % des contribuables autrichiens font des dons de cette manière (Source : Spendenbericht 2017).

Les organismes de bienfaisance sont tenus par la loi d’identifier les donateurs privés par leur nom et leur date de naissance et de signaler leur don aux autorités fiscales pour bénéficier de réductions d’impôts. Les entreprises peuvent également bénéficier de déductions fiscales pour les dons jusqu’à 10 % du revenu imposable de l’année précédente sur les dons éligibles aux organismes de bienfaisance et/ou aux fondations.

Belgique

Des crédits d’impôt peuvent être demandés pour les dons de bienfaisance et, bien que les détails puissent varier en fonction du niveau de l’impôt sur le revenu payé, les dons exonérés d’impôts s’élèvent généralement à environ 45 % de la valeur du don. Les donateurs fournissent des certificats de dons de bienfaisance aux autorités fiscales et reçoivent un remboursement de l’impôt payé. Le montant du don déductible impôt est limité à 10 % du revenu imposable de la personne. Les dons des sociétés sont également des dons déductibles impôts jusqu’à 5 % du revenu net total de la période imposable, avec un plafond de 500 000 euros.

République Tchèque

Le système fiscal de la République Tchèque permet au public de faire des dons à toutes les organisations caritatives enregistrées au profit du public et exonère ces dons de l’impôt sur le revenu jusqu’à une valeur totale de 10 % de leur revenu imposable. Les organisations caritatives fournissent à leurs donateurs une « confirmation de don » sur demande. Actuellement, un peu plus de 3 % des contribuables font des dons suivant cette manière. Les sociétés peuvent également exonérer les dons aux organismes caritatifs enregistrés jusqu’à une valeur totale de 5 % de leur revenu imposable.

Finlande

Il n’y a pas d’allègement fiscal pour les personnes qui font des dons à des organisations caritatives en Finlande, à l’exception de celles qui font des dons à des universités sélectionnées dans l’Espace économique européen. Ils peuvent faire des dons en franchise d’impôt, mais les avantages fiscaux ne s’appliquent qu’aux dons des particuliers ou des entreprises, qui font des dons entre 850 et 500 000 euros. Ils peuvent déduire ce montant de leurs revenus ou de leurs bénéfices. Les entreprises ne peuvent bénéficier de la franchise d’impôt que pour les dons inférieurs au seuil de 850 euros.

Allemagne

En Allemagne, les contribuables peuvent déduire jusqu’à 20 % de leur revenu avant impôt en tant que le don à une organisation à but non lucratif, est soumis à condition que cela soit reconnu par les autorités fiscales. La charge administrative est faible pour les organisations caritatives, car les donateurs n’ont besoin de reçus que pour les dons supérieurs à 250 euros et aucune interaction formelle n’est requise entre les organisations caritatives et les autorités fiscales. Les enquêtes auprès des donateurs montrent que plus d’un tiers (37 %) des contribuables font des dons suivant cette manière.

Irlande

Les mesures d’incitation fiscale irlandaises et britanniques augmentent la valeur des dons, ce qui permet aux organisations caritatives de bénéficier de l’impôt que les donateurs ont déjà payé sur leurs dons. En Irlande, l’organisme caritatif bénéficie du revenu imposable que les donateurs individuels ont payé pour leur don. Cela s’applique aux dons des contribuables, qui donnent entre 250 et 1 000 000 euros au cours de l’année. Les organisations caritatives doivent soumettre des lettres avec le consentement du donateur aux autorités fiscales avant de pouvoir réclamer le paiement ou le crédit d’impôt. Toutefois, lorsqu’il s’agit de déduction fiscale dons entreprise, les sociétés réclament le don déductible impôt pour elles-mêmes.

Italie

Il existe en Italie différents systèmes de mesures fiscales, avec des structures et des avantages différents selon la cause ou le type d’organisme caritatif. Il s’agit notamment des dons exonérés d’impôt aux organismes caritatifs wqui remplissent les conditions requises pour bénéficier du régime ONLUS (Organiszazioni non lucrative di utilità social) tels que: le régime Art Bonus, qui offre au public un crédit d’impôt de 65 % sur le montant de leurs dons à des institutions artistiques ou culturelles ; le régime Social Bonus pour les bâtiments publics ; les dons aux écoles (School Bonus), aux universités et à la recherche scientifique. Les limites varient en fonction du programme d’incitation spécifique, mais pour les dons généraux exonérés d’impôt, les particuliers peuvent donner jusqu’à 10 % de leur revenu imposable. Des systèmes d’incitation similaires existent également pour les dons des entreprises.

Norvège

Les dons exonérés d’impôts ont plus que doublé en Norvège depuis 2005, avec près de 3,5 milliards de couronnes norvégiennes (NOK) donnés de cette manière en 2015. Les personnes qui font des dons de 500 à 40 000 couronnes norvégiennes par an aux œuvres caritatives ont droit à une réduction d’impôt sur la valeur de ces dons. Il existe un calendrier similaire pour les dons des entreprises. Les organisations caritatives doivent s’inscrire pour recevoir ces dons et doivent fournir les détails des dons aux autorités fiscales afin d’accéder à l’avantage fiscal (avec le consentement des donateurs).

Slovaquie

La Slovaquie a supprimé son ancien régime de dons exonérés d’impôts en 2004 et l’a remplacé par un régime d’attribution à pourcentage fixe, comme c’est le cas dans certains autres pays d’Europe centrale et orientale. Le régime actuel permet aux citoyens d’allouer 2 % de leur impôt sur le revenu directement à une association à but non lucratif (ou 3 % s’ils ont effectué plus de 40 heures de bénévolat au cours de l’année écoulée). Un dispositif similaire existe également pour les entreprises donatrices, qui peuvent allouer 1 à 2 % de leurs impôts sur sociétés à des organisations caritatives et faire ainsi don de plus d’un tiers (35 %) au travers de leurs entreprises. Les entreprises qui font des dons à des organisations sportives sont davantage encouragées à le faire.

Slovénie

Comme la Slovaquie, la Slovénie dispose également d’un système d’allocation avec un pourcentage fixe, mais à un niveau inférieur. Les citoyens peuvent remplir une déclaration d’impôts et allouer 0,3 % de leur impôt sur le revenu à une ONG, un parti politique ou une église, ce qui représente généralement entre 5 et 50 euros par personne (en fonction de leurs revenus). Les entreprises peuvent également faire don de 0,5 % de leur revenu imposable à des organisations d’intérêt public et de 0,2 % supplémentaire si le don est destiné à des organisations culturelles ou à des secours en cas de catastrophe

Espagne

Les citoyens espagnols peuvent solliciter un don déductible impôt de 30 % de la valeur de leurs contributions. Toutefois, un crédit d’impôt de 75 % est accordé sur les premiers 150 dollars, donnés par ceux qui ont fait un don au cours des trois dernières années ou plus. Le crédit d’impôt est limité à 10 % du revenu imposable. Un régime similaire existe pour les dons des entreprises. Pour que les donateurs puissent avoir accès au paiement de l’impôt, les organisations caritatives doivent soumettre les détails des dons reçus au département du Trésor.

Suède

En Suède, il n’existe pas de procédure de don déductible d’impôts pour les personnes ou les organisations qui contribuent à des œuvres de bienfaisance.

Suisse

Les donateurs individuels en Suisse ont droit à des réductions d’impôts sur les dons monétaires et la valeur d’autres dons (y compris les biens immobiliers, la propriété intellectuelle et autres), à condition qu’ils aient donné plus de 100 francs suisses (85 euros) tout au long de l’année. Le crédit d’impôt est limité à 20 % du revenu imposable et ne s’applique qu’aux dons faits à des organisations caritatives agréées. Les organisations caritatives fournissent aux donateurs un récapitulatif des dons effectués au cours de l’année écoulée, qu’ils doivent soumettre aux autorités fiscales. On estime que 25 % des contribuables utilisent ce système. Un dispositif similaire s’applique également aux dons des entreprises.

Royaume-Uni

Tout comme le régime irlandais, le Gift Aid permet aux organismes de bienfaisance de réclamer le taux de base de l’impôt, qui est payé sur la valeur des dons reçus du contribuable (augmentant ainsi la valeur du don de 25 %). Les donateurs doivent remplir une Déclaration de Gift Aid afin que l’organisme de bienfaisance puisse récupérer le crédit d’impôt auprès de l’État. Les contribuables ayant un taux supérieur ont le droit de récupérer la différence entre le taux supérieur et le taux de base.

Des avantages fiscaux supplémentaires s’appliquent aux dons tels que les terres, l’immobilier, les actions, les dons sur les fiches de paie, les artefacts culturels, les héritages et les dons sur le lieu de travail. Sans don minimum ni limite sur les dons avec le Gift Aid, le rapport UK Giving 2018 de la CAF indique que la moitié de tous les donateurs au Royaume-Uni utilisent actuellement le programme. Les entreprises utilisant le régime bénéficient de la réduction d’impôt en déduisant les dons caritatifs de leur revenu imposable.

Australie

En Australie, les donateurs ne peuvent demander une réduction d’impôt que pour les cadeaux ou les dons à des organisations ayant le statut de DGR. Un DGR est une organisation ou un fonds qui peut recevoir des dons déductibles impôts. Toutes les organisations caritatives ne sont pas des DGR. La personne qui fait le don est celle qui a droit au remboursement. Le montant que vous pouvez demander comme montant déductible dépend du type de don. Pour les dons en espèces, vous pouvez demander le montant du don, mais il doit être de 2 dollars ou plus. Il existe différentes règles pour les dons de biens ou d’actions selon le type et la valeur des biens.

 Avantages Fiscaux des Dons aux Œuvres Caritatives

Si vous faites un don à une organisation caritative qualifiée, vous pouvez déduire les contributions faites à cette organisation de votre impôt sur le revenu.

Bien que la plupart des organisations caritatives soient éligibles pour la déduction, certains types d’organisations ne le sont pas. Par exemple, vous ne pouvez pas déduire les contributions faites à d’autres organisations qui ne sont pas exonérées de l’impôt sur le revenu. Cependant, vous pouvez toujours déduire les contributions faites à ces organisations si le destinataire est un bénéficiaire qualifié.

Certains types d’organisations, tels que les gouvernements étrangers et les fondations privées, ne sont pas non plus éligibles à la déduction. Cependant, si vous êtes une œuvre de bienfaisance enregistrée auprès de Charity Navigator, vous pouvez toujours déduire les dons faits à ces organisations. Les dons en nature sont également éligibles à la déduction. Veillez à bien conserver vos documents pour vos déclarations fiscales.

Avertissement: Nous ne sommes pas des avocats, des conseillers fiscaux ni des représentants officiels d’un pays ou d’un gouvernement. Nous avons rassemblé les meilleures informations disponibles sur Internet concernant les dons déductibles d’impôts pour aider nos lecteurs à trouver des informations sur différents programmes fiscaux nationaux à but non lucratif et les déductions fiscales pour les dons.

Répondre Aux FAQ Populaires:

1. Liste des Dons Déductibles des Impôts

La liste des dons déductibles des impôts peut inclure les dons monétaires faits à des organismes de bienfaisance enregistrés, les dons en nature tels que les vêtements ou les biens matériels, les dons de biens immobiliers, les dons de titres ou d’actions, ainsi que les dons pour la recherche médicale ou scientifique. Cependant, les règles fiscales peuvent varier d’un pays à l’autre, et il est conseillé de consulter les lois fiscales locales pour une liste précise des dons déductibles. Toujours conserver des reçus ou des preuves de don pour justifier les déductions fiscales.

2. Est-ce que le don aux pompiers est déductible des impôts ?

En général, les dons aux pompiers et aux services d’incendie peuvent être déductibles des impôts dans certains pays, notamment s’ils sont faits à des organisations à but non lucratif enregistrées. Cependant, les règles fiscales peuvent varier en fonction de votre lieu de résidence. Il est recommandé de consulter les lois fiscales locales ou de vérifier avec un professionnel des impôts pour confirmer l’éligibilité des dons aux pompiers à des déductions fiscales dans votre juridiction. Toujours conserver des reçus ou des preuves de don pour justifier les déductions fiscales.

3. Quand Déclarer ses Dons aux Impots ?

Les dons doivent généralement être déclarés lors de la déclaration annuelle de revenus, conformément aux règles fiscales en vigueur dans votre pays. Assurez-vous de conserver des reçus ou des preuves de don pour justifier vos déclarations. Les dons effectués en 2023 seront déclarés en 2024.

4. Est-ce que le Don aux Pompiers est Déductible des Impôts ?

Dans certains pays, les dons aux pompiers peuvent être déductibles des impôts s’ils sont faits à des organisations à but non lucratif enregistrées. Vérifiez les règles fiscales de votre pays et conservez les reçus de don pour justifier les déductions éventuelles. Consultez un professionnel des impôts pour des conseils spécifiques à votre situation.

5. Comment Savoir si un Don est Déductible ?

Pour déterminer si un don est déductible, vérifiez si l’organisme bénéficiaire est enregistré en tant qu’organisme de bienfaisance ou à but non lucratif auprès des autorités fiscales. Consultez également les règles fiscales locales pour connaître les critères spécifiques de déductibilité. Gardez les reçus de don et demandez conseil à un professionnel des impôts si nécessaire.

6. Quand Bénéficierez-vous du Crédit D’Impôt ?

En fonction du montant d’allègement fiscal que vous avez obtenu l’année précédente, un acompte de 60% vous est versé en janvier.

En fonction de vos dépenses réelles, le solde restant vous est remis en été.

Si vous recevez une mise de fonds excessive en janvier, vous devrez combler la différence en septembre.

Exemple En fonction du montant de la réduction d’impôt obtenue en 2023, un acompte de 60% de la réduction d’impôt vous sera remboursé de vos dépenses 2023 en janvier 2024.

Sur la base de vos dépenses réelles, le montant restant vous sera remboursé à l’été 2024.

Pour s'infos: https://whydonate.com/fr/blog/dons-deductibles-impots/

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[peters-starks]

CONTROL 

Part 4 

Peter Parker x Enhanced!Reader 

Summary: Based on the song Control by Halsey. You have had your abilities enhanced by a new wing of HYDRA, using your abilities as a new secret weapon. However when the avengers discover you on one of their missions your life completely alters. 

Masterlist (previous parts on Masterlist)

Your head was throbbing as you rolled over and groaned into your pillow. The events of earlier replayed in the front of your mind and you frowned, not daring yet to open your eyes yet as you cringed at yourself for how you reacted. It was going fine up until it had a temper tantrum about a needle. Well it was deeper than the needle but you were too busy wallowing to think about it.

A small cough caught your attention as you peeked open one of your eyes and moved your face out of the comfort of being buried within your pillow. Tony Stark was stood by your door way in his usual smart get up of a suit, you had no idea why he always dressed so formal but you thought it was probably part of his power trip from being Iron Man.

“Good morning bumpy, sleep well?” The sarcasm was dripping in his voice as he crossed his arms giving you a pointed look. “If this keeps happening I’m going to run out of tranquillisers” you scoffed at his comment and reached up to touch the place in your neck where you felt the dart but no mark or sign of it remained.

Tony approached your bed and sat himself down on the end of it once you had quickly moved your feet towards your chest, now sitting up and placing your chin over your knees. Tony shuffled slightly and turned his body towards you, his posture softening in a way that reminded you of a father comforting their child after a nightmare. It made your heart yearn for days when your father would comfort you.

“You know, you can trust us here right? We aren’t going to pump you full of god knows what we just want to understand what’s going on here” Tony moved his hand up and down to refer to your whole body.

Your face remained unchanging as you blankly stared at him not quite sure what he was gaining out of this experience.

“If you don’t tell me what’s the issue and just keep looking at me like I’m a statue then we aren’t going to get anywhere kid, I can’t help you and you can’t help well... yourself” this made your eyebrows furrow at Tony’s words, they held a certain kindness in them as well as a fatherly scolding and it almost made you want to smile. Maybe Tony Stark wasn’t on as much as a power trip as you thought.

“Okay” you nodded and bit your lip “I don’t want you to take my blood and do tests or whatever - not yet anyway - it freaks me out I need to trust you first” Tony seemed surprised at your sudden co operation and gave you a small smile.

“And how do we gain your trust then?”

“I hate this room” Tony put his hand over his heart in fake shock at your words which made you roll your eyes but a small smile played at your mouth. “I don’t want to be in it anymore it - it brings back too many bad memories” the more you spoke around Tony the more comfortable you found yourself.

“Hmm, on one hand the human earthquake no longer freaks out and destroys my very expensive lab however that same teenager will be walking the halls of my home and able to probably find me in my sleep - or there lack of” Tony pretended to weigh up the options but he already knew that if he had enough protocols and applied a precaution programme to FRIDAY there was no need for the holding cell. The kid seemed to just be going through a rough time.

“Fine” Tony spoke and had to hold back his own smile as you grinned at him, finally looking more your age as delight shone in your eyes. Tony realised how much older you normally looked with the dead and glassy look you usually held. “But just for safety, a couple of rules AND you can only go where I tell you, secret rooms and labs are off limit” you nodded eagerly as Tony spoke desperate to maybe after all these years have a proper bathroom and bedroom, sit on a coach and maybe watch TV, finally feel an ounce of normal.

“Let’s go for a tour then, brush your teeth”.

As Tony walked you around the avengers facility you couldn’t keep your mouth closed, it remained open in shock at just how huge and high tech it was, the worlds technology had seemed to move on in leaps and bounds since you’d been hidden away.

Turning the corner to the kitchen a young boy with curly brown hair and a strong  jawline walked out holding a pack of gummy worms. You studied him for a moment and realised he looked around your age, probably still in school, and he looked tired like he hadn’t slept in a while. He had an aura around him you found familiar and comforting and so you had a soft smile on your face as you studied him which Tony noticed and smirked at.

Peter felt something watching him with his “Peter tingle” as May called it and so he glanced out the corner of his eye and saw Tony with a smaller figure stood next to him. Peter turned his head to get a better look and then saw you stood behind him seemingly more relaxed than he had yet seen you with a soft smile on your face making Peter smile back at you. That was until he realised he was out of his suit.

You saw the young boys eyes widen in shock as he stumbled back, dropping his gummy worms literally everywhere, and he dove back into the kitchen with a small mutter of curses making you and Tony stifle a laugh.

“Peter, come out here and meet y/n” Tony’s amusement was still rich in his voice as he patted your shoulder and bought you to the kitchen doorway where Peter stood wide eyed with pink dusted cheeks and a sheepish smile. “This is the girl that’s been causing all the noise recently” there was something different about Tony’s voice as he spoke almost an amusement you couldn’t place as he introduced you to the attractive teenager.

“Uh hi I’m Peter” that voice. You’d heard that before as it whispered to you to calm you down. It clicked into place almost immediately as you may have missed years of school but you were no idiot and training to be a HYDRA spy had taught you to match up clues. Peter was the same height and build as Spider-Man as well as looking 18, the age he told you he was the day before, and also sounded exactly like him. You were surprised not many people knew his secret identity from how easily you just figured it out.

“Spider-Man?” You smirked as the two men gaped at you with wide eyes, Peter’s mouth opening and closing in shock.

“W-what? Me? Spider-Man? No no I’m just a Uh intern” Peter’s face was beet red as he looked between you and Tony for help which he wasn’t receiving.

“I mean it’s kind of obvious bug boy” Peter continued to gape at you but his heart raced increased at your nickname for him.

“I prefer bug man actually” Peter mumbled still trying to process how you had figured it out within a second of Peter speaking.

“Well bug boy can you show bumpy here to her room, it’s the one below yours with the protocol” and at that Tony basically waltzed away from you both.

“Don’t worry I won’t well I can’t tell anyone about y’know who you are” you looked at your hands as you spoke, slightly nervous to be left alone with Peter especially now you knew how attractive he was under that mask.

“Um it’s okay, I’m not exactly great at hiding it, my friend MJ worked it out as well so yeah” Peter tried not to make you feel bad as he knew that the more comfortable you were the less chance there was of another incident happening. Peter also secretly wanted you to feel comfortable around him in general because he was interested in you.. in a scientific way only totally just superhero intrigue.

As Peter walked you to your new room he told you more about himself, he seemed to understand that you didn’t want to talk much yet and he happily filled the gap allowing you to learn more about him. He spoke about his Aunt, who he adored, and her not so great cooking, he also spoke about his friends from school and how there’s this one guy called Flash who kind of annoys him and calls him names to which you offered to beat him up. Peter couldn’t tell if you were being serious with that one but he’s pretty sure you were and made a mental note to never let you near Flash.

By the time you were at your room and Peter had finished watching you gush over how beautiful it was with its large bed on a platform and marble bathroom, which Peter found adorable, you were exhausted, but you were enjoying the company of Peter too much to hide yourself in your room just yet.

“Um-could you stay with me for a while just to y’know help me settle in” you looked at your hands at you spoke that we’re intertwined in front of you, a habit Peter had picked up you did when nervous or uncomfortable.

“Yea, of course, always” Peter smiles warmly at you and sat at the edge of your excessively large bed whilst you got comfortable and leaned against the head board.

“You don’t have to sit at the end you look really awkward” You smiles at him and patted the space next to you. Peter shuffled down and mirrored your position against the head board.

“What’s it like? Roaming the streets and using your powers to help people?” Your voice was small and Peter noticed this situation made you more vulnerable as you simply sat next to him in your bed looking like a normal teenage girl, no handcuffs, no hospital gown and no blood and dirt covering your body.

“I mean I love it’s great, it’s tiring balancing it with school but if I don’t help people who will ya know?” Peter looked proud when he spoke about what he did, his eyes lit up and he sat a little straighter and you realised you had made a wrong judgement about the avengers - well at least about Peter - when you were with HYDRA, they were no where near as bad. You don’t think Peter had a bad bone in his body.

“You could do that someday, go out there and use whatever powers you have to help people, earth really needs all the help it can get recently” you laughed softly at that as you recalled the attack on New York as well as the multiple other alien threats alone that have swarmed Earth.

“Maybe” Peter’s heart grew fonder at your words, knowing you wanted to use your powers for good showed you weren’t the weapon HYDRA made you. The reality was that you did want to use your powers for good, if you were going to be stuck with them might as well make a change but you knew it could never happen. As long as HYDRA held him there was nothing you could do.

Peter noticed the sad and far away look in your eyes and wanted to know the story behind it, what they did to you there and he wanted to help but he knew tonight wasn’t the night so instead he opted to ask if you wanted to watch a film.

“Yea, I’m several years behind on pop culture though so I think you should choose the film” Peter laughed at that and asked FRIDAY to put on Star Wars The Force Awakens.

“Wait, do you have no clue what’s been going on for the past few years?” Peter had a look on his face you couldn’t quite read as you slowly shook your head.

“Only a few bits mainly alien attacks and that”

“Do you know who is president?” Peter looked like an excited puppy but also mildly worried as he asked the question.

“No? Isn’t it Obama?” Peter groaned at your answer and yelled out an I wish.

“ITS DONALD TRUMP” at this you also yelled out knowing exactly who Peter was talking about.

“I want to go back into hiding now” you joked and Peter laughed at that, throwing his head back slightly and his eyes wrinkled as he closed them, it was one of the most beautiful sights you’d ever seen.

“We have so much to discuss! Did you know One Direction broke up?” You gasped and Joked about how one of your school friends must still be heart broken over it.

The movie was long forgotten as Peter updated you on the world, showing you YouTube clips of award shows and music videos to memes and “vines” which you ended up laughing so hard at some point a lamp went flying across a room when you covered your mouth to control yourself, only making you and Peter laugh harder.

Tony had run in when FRIDAY alerted him of the smash and as he came in the door, almost out of breath, he stopped dead in his tracks at you throwing the clock onto the floor using your abilities and yelling “YEET”. Teenagers were confusing Tony had decided.

“What’s going on here?” The sound of Tony made you and Peter jump with wide eyes realising he had just witnessed you destroying his furniture for meme purposes.

“Mr Stark! Nothing! I was just keeping Y/N company and updating her on the world and stuff” Peter jumped up from the bed as he spoke and his hands moved like crazy to explain things which you noted meant he was kind of nervous.

“Right, Any more of this ‘yeeting’ and I’ll be taking the repairs out of your college fund, how about we leave Y/N to sleep?” Peter quickly nodded and said a quick goodnight to you to which you smiled and nodded in return.

“Wait, college fund?” You heard Peter yell from just outside the door as he chased Tony down the hall from your now sealed door making you laugh again.

The first night in a proper bedroom was different that what you expected. The extra space made you slightly anxious so you curled up tighter in the too fluffy duvet and the mattress felt too soft making you toss and turn. Sleep wouldn’t consume you and so your thoughts had their chance to run wild. They started thinking about Peter and how kind he was to you, someone understanding when you did or didn’t want to talk whilst also just knowing how to calm you down even when he’d barely met you. Your thoughts then drifted to his warm brown eyes that shone when he smiled and the golden flecks became more obvious after he’d just finished laughing and they were slightly glossed over from closing them too tightly and his hair that looked so soft and curled in just the right places to frame his god like bone structure. How could one boy be so.. perfect?

No. No one was perfect and you knew that first hand. You couldn’t hold any feelings for Peter because then it would cause a conflict of interests. HYDRA would take you back and either as punishment make you attack the avengers and get yourself killed or worse, if they found out you liked Peter they’d make you kill him. You couldn’t let your feelings harm yet another person. And so you drifted off hoping for a dreamless sleep.

——-

You jolted awake, a blanket of sweat covering your body as your chest heaved. Your mind raced with the events of your nightmares but every time you tried to shake away the thoughts your mind would always go to the same image. The image of him, and how emotionless his eyes looked.

Malcom often haunted your dreams making you scream out in your HYDRA cell until one of the guards would eventually get tired of your screams and wake you with a bucket of water being thrown over you. But being around Peter and acting the way you were seemed to intensify them and it made you shiver.

You stared at the ceiling for a few more hours until you saw the sun begin to rise and shine some light through the blinds on the windows, you decided two hours sleep was enough for now and got up to have a shower.

After you were clean and dry the automated voice you heard Tony call FRIDAY spoke into your room, making you jump lightly.

“Mr Stark has been alerted that you are awake and has requested you in the Kitchen. Night lock is now unactivated” you heard the door make a click noise which you assume was it being unlocked and you quickly slipped through it, ready to try and adjust to being able to wander freely.

You wondered slowly towards the avengers kitchen, mostly because you were trying to remember your way there as you were too focused on Peter when he lead you from the kitchen to your room yesterday. As you turned what you suspected was the final corner the smell of warm food you couldn’t quite place filled your nose and filled you with nostalgia. The memory of the smell of the food was so distant but your brain automatically switched into childhood glee at the thought of it and for the first time in a long time your back muscles eased up slightly.

As you timidly stepped into the kitchen, making sure your steps were light and unable to be detected, you saw a broad man with a metal arm stood over the stove and his long messy brown hair tied into a bun on top of his head. He turned slightly and your eyes widened at him, from the metal arm you guessed who he was but seeing his face with the light stubble on his jaw confirmed your suspicions. The winter solider was making pancakes.

“Good morning” his voice was gruff and filled with sleep but nonetheless held a cheerful and welcoming tone which let you relax slightly in his presence. From the years in HYDRA you had heard whispers of the legend stood in front of you wearing sweats and a gym shirt, how deadly he was and how for decades he was HYDRA’s greatest weapon. He could come out of nowhere and kill anyone and disappear like he never existed in the first place. You and Malcom used to telepathically tell each other rumours and also made up scary campfire esque stories about the Winter Solider from your cells that were next to each other, helping both of you fall asleep at night whilst also letting your imaginations run wild on something that wasn’t what awful things were going to happen to you next.

“So you’re the floor shaker Tony has adopted?” He put a pancake on a plate and pushed it towards you on the kitchen counter and pointed towards the various toppings and sauces on the island in the middle of the floor.

“I guess I am” you shrugged nonchalantly and took the plate with a small thank you, decorating the pancakes with all the sweet treats you had missed from the years of dull and flavourless food you’d been stuffed with in your cell. Bucky hummed at you again and turned the stove off so that he could fully face you.

With his full body turned towards you he could fully assess you but you could also do the same. You noticed his metal arm had changed and no longer bore the HYDRA star from the photo attached to his photo and also the relaxed nature of his posture. If you didn’t know you doubt you would’ve believed this same man was a HYDRA rat because of just how at peace his eyes seemed. No longer cold and distant but they held a glint of happiness.

“Where’s Mr Stark? The computer said he wanted me here?” You said in between inhaling the pancakes like they were your last meal on earth. Bucky had raised his eyebrows in amusement at how quickly you ate them, not even sure you were swallowing.

“He’ll be here soon, him and Peter are just working on something in the labs” Your heart rate quickened at the mention of Peters name and you thanked all the Gods you could think of that the solider didn’t have super hearing.

“Oh okay” you tried to play it cool and decided against licking the plate clean even though you were very tempted to just to get one last taste of the sweet pancake goodness. “Thanks for the food um...”

“Bucky” he stuck his hand out for you to shake and you cautiously took it but quickly snatched your hand back and placed the plate in the sink and sat back on the barstool at the island to wait for Tony.

“I Uh know what happened with Wanda the other day” this made you direct your attention from the doorway back to Bucky as his stare at you became more determined. “I know transitioning is hard and I’m not going to bore you with me telling you I know what you went through because if I’m honest I don’t, I barely remember what I went through myself so I have no idea what they did to you” Your stare at him didn’t falter and Bucky took that as a sign to carry on.

“Just know that you’re not alone and turning your back on the world is a cop out, I’m not going to take the same crap Wanda did from you so just know that” although his words may have seemed harsh his tone was full of sincerity and kindness that you didn’t have the energy to fight so you simply nodded, not wanting to spill any secrets or step in a grey area. Bucky seemed pleased with your response enough to smile at you and go on to make a smoothie leaving you to listen to the sound of the blender and ponder over your future in this compound and with the avengers. HYDRA was still part of your life no matter how much the avengers tried to convince you otherwise and you knew they’d come for you, nothing was this easy. An unsettling feeling stormed over you and rested on your shoulders like a cloud ready to burst with lightning at any moment.

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So there’s part 4. More Peter interaction and development in this part that i love as well as a fond Bucky. I really want to play on loads of different relationships in this so let me know what you think!

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Notes:

1. The January 1973 issue of Scientific American, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

2. Richard Briffa, "Holographic Transistors", Science, Vol. 273, June 6, 1967, pp.1348-33, doi:10.1126/science.2468171.

3. "A Theory of Communication", interview with Charles Tart, The MIT Alumni Magazine, No. 26, Fall 1967.

4. As above.

5. Jonathan I. Kalish, "Learning from Physically Protected Places: The Architecture of Reality", Review of History of Intelligence, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Fall 1991).

6. Brian Greene, "After Telepathy: Communication in the Era of Technology", Science, Vol. 246, September 26, 1970, pp.829-32, doi:10.1126/science.2621585.

7. Jesse Berrand and David Chalmers, "Communication without Communication: The Paralleling Project and Its Prospects", Science, Vol. 238, January 12, 1981, pp.1679-84, doi:10.1126/science.2362407.

8. Ibid.

9. Marcello Bombelli, "Silicon Information and the Formation of Technologies: The Case of Computer Programmer Fiction", Journal of Computer & Unilateral Psychology, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring-Summer 1987).

10. Chris Roberts, "Information as Transputer: Inside the Computer Display Unit", Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Winter 1988).

11. Ross Anderson, "A Concept of 'Information' That Can Stand Up To Cognition", Perspectives on Intelligence, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Spring 1991).

12. E. O. Wilson, Information and Culture in Primitive Societies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963).

13. Ibid.

14. See "Brief History of Prediction Markets: Lessons for Governance", Winning at Free-to-Play (January 1991).

15. For a remarkable exposition of the free-to-play phenomenon, see "No Free Ranges!", in The Essential Rand, Vol. 1, p. 322.

16. See "Pervading Authority: Decentralizing the Development Process", New Individualism, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 1991).

17. For an informative discussion of free software, see "Software for Free Men", The Transhumanist FAQ, February 2, 1991.

18. For a list of initial sources for the English term "anarchy", see "Anarchy: An Immaterial State", in Free to Build (March/April 1991).

19. For more on this topic, see "Freedoms of Speech and of the Press", in Winning at Free-to-Play (January/February 1991).

20. For a first step toward a solution, see Y. Michael Wilmers, "Natural Order in Anarchy", in R. A. Torpy and K. Zukav (Eds.), Anarchy: Rights and Obligations in Evolutionary Contexts (Berkeley and Los Gatos, CA: ABC-Clio, 1991).

21. See e.g. the final draft of "Rationality and the Internet", in Winning at Free-to-Play (January/February 1991).

22. See "The Design Space of Morality", in R. H. Jacobson, B. Howard, and M. Bly (Eds.), Hostile Paradigm Stereotypes: The Case Against Moral Portraits (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).

23. See "Changing Your Metaethics", in R. A. Torpy and K. Zukav (Eds.), Hostile Paradigm Stereotypes: The Case Against Moral Portraits (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).

24. See Mike Bithell, "I'll Choose Fun", in Winning at Free-to-Play, February/March 1991.

25. Colin Wilson, "You could also say that the real justification is that almost no one would try this approach even if everyone was doing it...", "Cognitive Computing and the Moral Void", and "John Searle's Dilemma", in Winning at Free-to-Play, March/April 1991.

26. This may seem like a no-brainer, but I agree with David Chalmers in "Free Will is Sloppy Work" that you can't make a computer program that refuses to compute the NO-TRANSLATION predicate. In the computer language of the gophers, the NO-TRANSLATION predicate is defined as:

(NO_TRANSLATION

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Julia's Vector

Sorry, no robot news. I've been struggling to find the time, and frankly can't face the motor calibration phase. Also, I promised to give a lunchtime talk at work which needs preparation. I decided to give the talk about Julia because, since I last blogged about Julia, it has passed the version 1.0 mark and the creators have won a top numerical computing prize.

While revising for the talk I reread the documentation and unearthed stuff I had either forgotten or was brand new. One of the newer features was vectorization. This can mean various things, but here we're talking about efficient in-language support for processing arrays of data.

Other languages like R, and Python packages like NumPy, need vectorization because they are interpreted languages. Every bit of Python code you write makes your program slower than the equivalent C program. Python is most efficient when you are just invoking natively implemented routines or libraries.

Hence NumPy extends Python with facilities for efficient numeric operations on arrays of data. This lets you ask for functions to be applied across the data and allows you to get out of the interpreted Python code as soon as you can.

Julia doesn't particularly need to do this since it is compiled to native code, but does still provide some neat vectorization facilities. This is because they do sometimes make the code faster (because someone has hand-optimised them), and also they can make the code simpler and easier to read.

Let's start with some data:

x = [1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0]

Suppose you wanted to square every element of the data. You could write a loop and collect the result:

function square_all(x) [e * e for e in x] end square_all(x)

Which returns:

4-element Array{Float64,1}: 1.0 4.0 9.0 16.0

However, it would be simpler if you could define a function and simply apply it to every element:

function square(e) e*e end map(square, x)

This is fine, but what if there was a natural way of saying a function should be applied to each element rather than the whole data structure? Julia uses an extra dot (".") during function application for this, as follows:

square.(x)

The above creates a new array with the function "square" applied to each element of "x". Technically, rather than using "map" this is equivalent to:

broadcast(square, x)

If you were to write the function application "square.(x)" without the dot you would get a compilation error because there is no method "*" that applies to two arrays of floating point numbers (well, by default anyway).

Conveniently, Julia's vectorization syntax is allowed even for built-in operators like "+".

x .+ 1 x .* 2

And the following works as you'd expect:

x .* 2 .+ 1

But isn't this inefficient compared to the alternative using "map" (using Julia's shorthand for "2*e")?

map(e -> 2e + 1, x)

Doesn't the vectorized version have to allocate intermediate arrays? Actually not. Julia "fuses" the layers of vectorized operations so they are a single loop.

Even so, the dots are becoming somewhat ugly. Fortunately, Julia lets us say the whole expression is vectorized using a macro called "@.":

@. 2x + 1

We can find out what this expands into using the "@macroexpand" macro:

@macroexpand @. 2x + 1

Which returns:

:((+).((*).(x, 2), 1))

So notionally it first applies "*." then "+.". The "@." macro also works for user-defined functions.

@. square(2x + 1)

Vectorization even works for assignment. The following does stepwise assignment into the new copy of the array.

y = copy(x) @. y = square(2x + 1)

Finally, Julia has method pipelining (like some other functional languages) using the "|>" operator:

x |> sum

Which is the same as:

sum(x)

And "|>" also supports vectorization:

@. x |> square

That concludes a quick tutorial on Julia vectorization. You will have to judge whether individual uses improve readability or not. It is easy to get carried away. For more details see "More Dots: Syntactic Loop Fusion in Julia".

So will Julia ultimately win significant mind-share among programmers and data scientists? Who knows, but that's its current vector!

“Julia is increasingly the language of instruction for scientific computing at MIT.” -- Prof Alan Edelman