Becky Vandewalle

Background in geography, archaeology, & programming - Interested in many things - CIGI Lab @CyberGISCenter

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A book that lets you build solids bys imoly pulling a string.

[Joshua Stevens @jscarto]

I just love this map!

(The first reply suggests it is an azimuthal equidistant projection.

Instead, this map is based on the 'Spilhaus World Ocean Map in a Square,' which is an entirely different, conformal map projection.)

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academia isn’t about fame, or money, or approval. It’s about downloading as many pdfs as you can before you die

[City of Tampa @CityofTampa]

Please continue to stay in place as we perform damage assessments throughout the city. If you MUST drive:

1️⃣ Check to see if your neighborhood has been cleared at https://t.co/QiZZ1H1A8L.

2️⃣ Check the Flood Map to plan your route safely at https://t.co/aeJMj6tdzq.

[Mehrdad Farajtabar @MFarajtabar]

13/ Overall, we found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models including open-source models like #Llama, #Phi, #Gemma, and #Mistral and leading closed models, including the recent #OpenAI #GPT-4o and #o1-series. Their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching—so fragile, in fact, that changing names can alter results by ~10%! We can scale data, parameters, and compute—or use better training data for Phi-4, Llama-4, GPT-5. But we believe this will result in 'better pattern-matchers,' not necessarily 'better reasoners.
Check out the full paper to find out more: https://t.co/2tv8Pp9MSz
Also stay tuned for the data release!

[Brian in Pittsburgh @arekfurt]

The NHC's site is a great design actually focused on serving key needs of users well. (The site works on most any device and finding info is easy & fast.) Instead of maximizing user time spent on site, looking technically impressive, etc.

Such examples used to be more common.

[Kenneth Auchenberg 🛠 @auchenberg]

Okay, this is the best Hurricane #Milton2024 overview I've seen so far, via @ChrisJacksonSC

#hurricaneMilton #milton

https://t.co/3fjog1cAYz

[Sara Alfageeh @SaraAlfageeh]

ATTENTION ARTISTS/CREATIVE PROS
Your website could be the reason you're being passed on jobs. Where you post your portfolio is as important as the portfolio itself.

As a working illustrator/Art Director, here are tips for the number 1 glaring issue most artists have.
Here's a🧵

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

The very exercise of organizing your thoughts and reflections about an event - such as a medical exam - into a coherent report makes you apply rigor and perspective to events that otherwise arrive as a series of fleeting impressions and reactions.

28/

[Jimmie Stone @JimmieS48898154]

This is what we seen going to get our daughter in Montreat College. This is highway 70 in the Swannanoa valley.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

A full-time job should pay enough for rent, lights, groceries, a car payment, and have some left over for savings.

This includes the cashier at Walmart and the cook at McDonalds.

That’s not a radical idea.

[Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @KatieConradKS]

Here's the final version of my A Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights for Education.https://t.co/SBjmihhue5

[beyza misses chandler @beyzanurapaydin]

This is how invisible mannequins are made at V&A 🤯🤯

[Lucas Rockett Gutterman 🚀 @LG_Rocket]

• Require companies to ensure that the core functionality of a product will work even if the internet connection fails or the software stops getting updated. An e-bike should start without a connection to the server or control from an app.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

police: quick describe the robber!

me, crying, scared: he's wearing a white loopwheeled Pima cotton t-shirt with a triple-needled coverstitched collar, slim-tapered right hand twill raw denim jeans with copper plated steel rivets and chainstitched hems, blue 5-panel baseball ca—

[TODERIAN UrbanWORKS (TUW) @TODUrbanWORKS]

Downtown Sacramento’s new Livability Strategy stresses what co-author @BrentToderian calls “The Urban Contract.” We will choose density over sprawl if the density comes with the real amenities we need. Including the necessary BASICS, not just specialty amenities. This is KEY!

[yatharth ༺༒༻ @AskYatharth]

a painful lesson ive learned about communicating is to communicate status proactively and immediately. even if i think "i'll just do the work soon, i'll give them the update with the work," NO, decouple decouple decouple. decouple communicating with actually doing the work