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DS-STAR: Data Science Agent via Iterative Planning and Verification
Jaehyun Nam, Jinsung Yoon, Jiefeng Chen, Jinwoo Shin, Tomas Pfister
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21825 https://…

DS-STAR: Data Science Agent via Iterative Planning and Verification
Data science, which transforms raw data into actionable insights, is critical for data-driven decision-making. However, these tasks are often complex, involving steps for exploring multiple data sources and synthesizing findings to deliver insightful answers. While large language models (LLMs) show significant promise in automating this process, they often struggle with heterogeneous data formats and generate sub-optimal analysis plans, as verifying plan sufficiency is inherently difficult with…

What did LA cop Stephen Downing have in common with TV writers Michael Donovan, Sean Baine, and Adrian Leeds and the War On (Some) Drugs? The answer in a 5-minute read:
https://honoraryunsubscribe.com/stephen-downing/

Stephen Downing - Honorary Unsubscribe
A retired Deputy Chief of LAPD, Downing came to completely oppose the War on Drugs as the cost, in money and lives, is worse than the drug problem.

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …

“Where’s the $50,000?”
At no point in this appearance did Homan deny accepting the money
-- He only said that he didn’t do anything illegal, as the DOJ confirmed.
And of course they would
—the agents who caught Homan with the bribe last September were reportedly waiting to see if Homan would act on the bribe as a member of the administration
-- but Trump’s DOJ closed the case. 

Tom Homan Accidentally Makes Crucial Admission on That $50K Cash Bribe
Trump’s border czar was asked on Fox News about accepting a bag full of cash. His answer said it all.

I can't believe that this is what we came to.
Did any of the sci-fi authors anticipate what we arrived to?
#claude_code #claude4 #llm

In #StarTrek, humanity did not just wait for other species to come visit them, but actively sought them out by sending out a number of probes into deep space. And one of them is the topic of today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for othe…

What did we learn in NFL Week 8? Our big takeaways and looming questions off every single game https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46709913/nfl-week-8-2025-season-questions-takeaways-lessons-stats-recap-every-game

I'm sending a digitally signed and encrypted #email with somewhat sensitive data to an external party.
His thank-you-answer with the full quote of the while conversation came back signed and unencrypted.
Oh boy. 😔
#PIM

Kathi asks ChatGPT "how to test a graph algo".
Repeats the query 6 months later…now it mentions PBT.
Huh! We ask it why it mentioned PBT. It cites back…
Our own papers and blog, and specifically mentions our own education research work on why graph algos are a great eg.
Moving the needle!

A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention,
with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged.
Chaofeng Ge died four days after entering ICE custody in Pennsylvania on August 5,
with an agency report
stating he was found by agents with “a cloth ligature around his neck”.

Man Detained by ICE Found Dead, Hanging With Hands and Feet Tied—Attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.