#programme implementation

[thisisgraeme]

Navigating a Pathway for Educational Development: Te Whakawhanake Ara Mātauranga

Te Whakawhanake Ara Mātauranga In the realm of education, the journey of learning and development is as significant as the destination itself. “Te Whakawhanake Ara Mātauranga,” or “A Pathway for Educational Development,” developed by Conny Huaki and me offers a profound model for conceptualising and driving forward educational innovation. Rooted in Mātauranga Māori and integrated with…

[juh-wasnt-deactivated19691231]

pyplot is a type of maid who really doesn’t want you to talk to her but she’s good at her job

[twobitsandanibble]

okay you didn't need to call me out like that

[meccentric]

Hot take but this technology bullshit should be as easy to "run" as it is to butter a toast with cold butter. Meaning there is perhaps a learning curve but it should be as easy as dropping your pants and pissing on the ground. I can't tell you how disappointed I am that progress means leaving the older generation behind or favoring only those who "look up the terms 🤪"

No, progress is only progressive when it can be accessed by anyone. I understand some people have disabilities that make it harder. And even for those there should be progress.

why is shopping for computer shit so difficult like what the hell is 40 cunt thread chip 3000 processor with 32 florps of borps and a z12 yummy biscuits graphics drive 400102XXDRZ like ok um will it run my programmes

[vanishingmoments]

i wish they would make some type of a modernized successor language to csound

[townpostin]

FLN Implementation Shared by Jamshedpur Schools at TEEP Session

Gulmohur High School and Tarapore School showcase FLN strategies to 14 TEEP schools Tata Education Excellence Programme organized a sharing session on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy implementation for local schools. JAMSHEDPUR – The Tata Education Excellence Programme hosted a session where two local schools shared their Foundational Literacy and Numeracy implementation strategies. The event,…

[anodymalion]

There is better discussion of the actual JS code on reddit; it appears that this is not specifically checking your user-agent string to see what browser you're on, but rather probably something that waits a few seconds to start loading a video since it figures you will be shown an ad first. And if you are on Firefox you likely have ad blockers installed so instead you just see nothing for a few seconds. Basically it's a fallback that you see because you aren't seeing ads - potentially one there to detect whether you have adblock installed (e.g. if the 5 second delay completes without something else happening then an ad probably didn't show and they can infer you have adblock). I know it is popular to shit on google but I beg people that when you see something sensationalist online pls do the research. you can shit on them for the things they're actually doing (which is plenty!) instead of stuff that is purely speculation

I haven't personally verified this as I'm not at a computer, but multiple people in multiple places are saying the same thing. This is fucking insane. First the endless war on UBlock, then the Chromium changes to shut out some blocker functionalities entirely next year, now this?

Something is deeply rotten in recent Google/YouTube policy. I can't imagine that this is legal - how is this not anticompetitive? Google needs to get mega fucked in the press and the courts sooner rather than later.

And I need to switch to Firefox as soon as I get home.

[dhallblogs]

NITI Aayog announces revised composition.

New Delhi: The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) has unveiled its revised composition, aimed at enhancing its strategic leadership and effectiveness. The Indian government has reconstituted the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), with Prime Minister Narendra Modi remaining as the chairperson and economist Suman K Bery continuing as the vice-chairperson.

ALSO READ MORE- https://apacnewsnetwork.com/2024/07/niti-aayog-announces-revised-composition/

[saynaija]

3 Division/Operation Safe Haven Donates Wheelchair To Physically Challenged Student, Sewing Machines To MDHIP Beneficiaries

3 Division/Operation Safe Haven Donates Wheelchair To Physically Challenged Student, Sewing Machines To MDHIP Beneficiaries In a demonstration of philanthropy to the public during a heartwarming ceremony held at the 3 Division Medical Hospital and Services, 3 Division/ Operation SAFE HAVEN ((OPSH), demonstrated profound commitment to community welfare by donating a wheelchair to Mr. Mathew…

[bonediggercharleston]

I am very wary of people going "China does it better than America" because most of it is just reactionary rejection of your overlord in favor of his rival, but this story is 1. absolutely legit and 2. way too funny.

US wants to build an AI advantage over China, uses their part in the chip supply chain to cut off China from the high-end chip market.

China's chip manufacturing is famously a decade behind, so they can't advance, right?

They did see it as a problem, but what they then did is get a bunch of Computer Scientists and Junior Programmers fresh out of college and funded their research in DeepSeek. Instead of trying to improve output by buying thousands of Nvidia graphics cards, they tried to build a different kind of model, that allowed them to do what OpenAI does at a tenth of the cost.

Them being young and at a Hedgefund AI research branch and not at established Chinese techgiants seems to be important because chinese corporate culture is apparently full of internal sabotage, so newbies fresh from college being told they have to solve the hardest problems in computing was way more efficient than what usually is done. The result:

American AIs are shook. Nvidia, the only company who actually is making profit cause they are supplying hardware, took a hit. This is just the market being stupid, Nvidia also sells to China. And the worst part for OpenAI. DeepSeek is Open Source.

Anybody can implement deepseek's model, provided they have the hardware. They are totally independent from DeepSeek, as you can run it from your own network. I think you will soon have many more AI companies sprouting out of the ground using this as its base.

What does this mean? AI still costs too much energy to be worth using. The head of the project says so much himself: "there is no commercial use, this is research."

What this does mean is that OpenAI's position is severely challenged: there will soon be a lot more competitors using the DeepSeek model, more people can improve the code, OpenAI will have to ask for much lower prices if it eventually does want to make a profit because a 10 times more efficient opensource rival of equal capability is there.

And with OpenAI or anybody else having lost the ability to get the monopoly on the "market" (if you didn't know, no AI company has ever made a single cent in profit, they all are begging for investment), they probably won't be so attractive for investors anymore. There is a cheaper and equally good alternative now.

AI is still bad for the environment. Dumb companies will still want to push AI on everything. Lazy hacks trying to push AI art and writing to replace real artists will still be around and AI slop will not go away. But one of the main drivers of the AI boom is going to be severely compromised because there is a competitor who isn't in it for immediate commercialization. Instead you will have a more decentralized open source AI field.

Or in short:

[prokopetz]

I fully understand that the problem is corporate-mandated crunch time, not "programmers being lazy", but at some point it became acceptable for games to spawn a popup on start scolding you for not installing it on an SSD rather than implementing a texture caching pipeline, and I don't care for that at all.

[suppermariobroth]

Top: in Luigi's Mansion 3, it is raining for nearly the entirety of the game's plot, and areas on the outside walls of the Last Resort hotel are visibly covered with raindrops sliding down. The way the raindrops are implemented on a technical level is by using a normal map (a texture that simulates deformation of a surface) representing raindrops, and simply making it scroll downward along the walls.

Bottom: however, this approach needs to be implemented carefully in order to avoid oversights. Every polygon has an orientation, i.e. information about which side is the "top" and which the "bottom". Often polygons are mirrored vertically to create symmetrical shapes, in which case the "bottom" of one side becomes the "top" of the corresponding polygon on the other.

However, normal maps being programmed to scroll down will always do from the top to the bottom of a polygon. And if a polygon is upside-down, the normal map will also scroll upside-down, which can be seen on the narrow border of the stone in the middle of the image. Note how the raindrops crawl upward on that one narrow strip of stone, seemingly defying gravity due to the programmers using the mirroring technique to create the object and then overlooking that fact when implementing the raindrops.

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[reasonsforhope]

"Evening is approaching at the confluence of two rivers in the Bay of Bengal — the Payra and Bishkhali. Still, the fishermen at the pier in Gazimahmud village are busy preparing for the next day’s work — every boat here is now illuminated by small solar-powered devices.

“Solar power is now not only in homes, it is also at our work. Now, there is no rush to return home when it is evening,” says fisherman Altaf Hossain, who is arranging fishing nets in his boat so that he’s ready for tomorrow.

Hossain is now able to work longer hours and boost his income, and he doesn’t have to worry about his wife and kids at home at night. The children sit under a solar-powered light to study, while Hossain’s wife, Roksana Begum, does various chores.

“The sun gives us light both during the day and at night,” Begum says. “It has made our lives much easier and has changed our livelihoods.”

Gazimahmud village is about 30 kilometres away from Barguna Sadar, the southernmost district of Bangladesh. A winding road leads to this village, where the sea and two rivers meet. The people of this remote community still remember the devastation caused by the powerful Cyclone Sidr in 2007, when 30 locals died. When the storm hit, it was difficult for many to reach safety as the entire area was dark. Now, thanks to most of the houses in the village having solar power, the community feels better prepared for future disasters.

“We have more faith in solar power, because, when a storm comes, the electricity connection may be disconnected or the power may be turned off, but solar power helps us to find a safe shelter by showing us the way,” says resident Monir Hossain.

Unprecedented success

Bangladesh has implemented the world’s largest off-grid solar power programme, with 20 million people across the country benefiting, according to the World Bank.

What began as a pilot project in 2003, involving 50,000 households, ultimately reached 14% of the population within 15 years, while some 200,000 rural businesses and religious facilities benefited from the Solar Home Systems (SHS) initiative as well.

The programme, which officially ran until 2018, was implemented in partnership with the private sector. Among other measures, the state provided generous incentives, such as tax breaks, for rooftop solar installers, and also focused on ensuring financing mechanisms were in place.

Together with 56 partner organisations, the government installed 4.1 million solar systems in remote areas by 2018.

According to the World Bank, the initiative has improved health and living conditions — including by reducing the use of kerosene lamps and thereby tackling indoor air pollution — and boosted school attendance. It also led to household solar becoming “a credible electricity source”.

“The Solar Home Systems programme has shown that millions of dollars raised internationally can be efficiently leveraged to provide loans of as little as $100 in remote corners of the country, enabling a rural household to purchase a solar home system,” according to Amit Jain, a senior energy specialist at the World Bank...

To clean up its power grid and contribute to the fight against climate change, Bangladesh plans to install 4.1GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030, up from around 1.2GW today."

-via The Progress Playbook, March 10, 2025

[saywhat-politics]

Elon Musk has repeatedly claimed that his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project had uncovered massive government fraud when it alleged that 150-year-olds were claiming Social Security benefits.

But Musk has provided no evidence to back up his claims, and experts quickly pointed out that this is very likely just a quirk of the decades-old coding language that underpins the government payment systems.

Musk first made the claims during his Oval Office press conference last week, when he claimed that a “cursory examination of Social Security, and we got people in there that are 150 years old. Now, do you know anyone that's 150? I don't know. They should be in the Guinness Book of World Records … So that's a case where I think they're probably dead.”

While no evidence was produced to back up this claim, it was picked up by the right-wing commentators online, primarily on Musk’s own X platform, as well as being reported credibly by pro-Trump media outlets.

Computer programmers quickly claimed that the 150 figure was not evidence of fraud, but rather the result of a weird quirk of the Social Security Administration’s benefits system, which was largely written in COBOL, a 60-year-old programming language that undergirds SSA’s databases as well as systems from many other US government agencies.

COBOL is rarely used today, and as such, Musk’s cadre of young engineers may well be unfamiliar with it.

Because COBOL does not have a date type, some implementations rely instead on a system whereby all dates are coded to a reference point. The most commonly used is May 20, 1875, as this was the date of an international standards-setting conference held in Paris, known as the "Convention du Mètre."

These systems default to the reference point when a birth date is missing or incomplete, meaning all of those entries in 2025 would show an age of 150.

That’s just one possible explanation for what DOGE allegedly found. Musk could also have simply looked up the SSA’s own website, which explains that since September 2015 the agency has automatically stopped benefit payments when anyone reaches the age of 115.

However, on Monday morning Musk doubled down, posting a screenshot of what he claims were figures from “the Social Security database” to X, writing that “the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!”

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

In an email to the city's planning office dated April 29, the US embassy asked that Stockholm officials sign a document promising that contractors would not operate any programmes promoting DEI that would violate current US law.

Countries and cities across Europe have received similar outreach from U.S. embassies, including France, Belgium and the city of Barcelona, all of which lashed out at the U.S. efforts to expand its anti-DEI policies to the continent.

I just sat there saying "Sweden?" over and over because um...

There's a Milan, NY and Naples, FL. Maybe he thought he thought there was a Stockholm, Connecticut?

No, but I'm just confused...

Imagine writing a letter to fucking France like "STOP BREAKING OUR LAWS!" Bitch, France don't fucking care about our laws. They got their own fucking laws. Actually, France don't even got DEI laws.

Bitch one of these countries should send a letter back "STOP BREAKING OUR LAWS AND IMPLEMENT UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE!"

-fae

[townpostin]

Jamshedpur Schools Unite for Foundational Learning Seminar

39 educators from 14 schools gather to discuss FLN implementation strategies Gulmohur High School and TEEP host a seminar on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy, showcasing innovative educational approaches. JAMSHEDPUR – Gulmohur High School, in collaboration with the Tata Education Excellence Programme (TEEP), organized a seminar on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) implementation at the…