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I signed up for Apple TV trial last night and watched season 1 of “Murderbot”.
I largely enjoyed it, but had a lengthy conversation about Mensa’s panic attacks with another fan of the books. *That* was the thing on which we anchored. Then other divergences from the book.
I found I am now referring to Murderbot as ‘he,’ because of the actor.
Also, the contrast on Murderbot’s proxy display for the audience was crap. I know I missed gags as a result. Fuzzy red? Really? Backpl…

You know what I love about ios26? Phone app vibrates when the call is answered. FUCKING FINALLY!
We had this for years in Android land but oh well. Wish they could add “press and hold keyboard keys for special characters” feature instead of AI crap.

Pushback against progressive mayoral candidate #Zohran #Mamdani has been fierce.
That includes the mainstream media, which is trying to brand him a socialist to negate his progressive and popular policy proposals.
Stephen Janis and Taya Graham analyze the CNN anchor’s takedown and show why her efforts are corp…

Corporate media is trying to take down Mamdani. This is why they’re failing.
Pushback against mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has been fierce. That includes the mainstream media, which is trying to brand him a socialist to negate his progressive and popular policy proposals.

There are no periodic Wright maps
David Futer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05222 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05222

There are no periodic Wright maps
This paper proves that every periodic automorphism of a closed hyperbolic surface S sends some curve to a nearly disjoint curve. In particular, periodic maps cannot have the property that every curve fills with its image, so no such map can give a positive answer to a question of Wright. Finally, this paper answers a question of Schleimer about irreducible periodic surface maps.

I need to look today to see if there is any other way of contacting the Department of Education about student loans beyond their online crap (since they apparently just don't answer those anymore).

Rational lemniscates and the matching problem
Kirill Lazebnik, Pierre-Olivier Paris\'e, Malik Younsi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03547 https://

Rational lemniscates and the matching problem
The matching problem for a given Jordan curve in the complex plane asks to find two nonconstant functions, one analytic in the bounded complementary component of the curve and the other analytic in the unbounded complementary component of the curve, which are continuous up to the curve and complex conjugate to each other on the curve. We prove that there exist Jordan curves of any Hausdorff dimension between $1$ and $2$ for which the matching problem has a solution. This answers a question of E…

Me: *drinking morning coffee*
Brain: So, did dinosaurs chirp like birds?
(Any paleontologists around to answer this?)

Uncertainty Under the Curve: A Sequence-Level Entropy Area Metric for Reasoning LLM
Yongfu Zhu, Lin Sun, Guangxiang Zhao, Weihong Lin, Xiangzheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20384

Uncertainty Under the Curve: A Sequence-Level Entropy Area Metric for Reasoning LLM
In this work, we introduce Entropy Area Score (EAS), a simple yet effective metric to quantify uncertainty in the answer generation process of reasoning large language models (LLMs). EAS requires neither external models nor repeated sampling, it integrates token-level predictive entropy from the model itself to capture the evolution of uncertainty during generation. Empirical results show that EAS is strongly correlated with answer entropy across models and datasets. In training data selection,…

Brauer classes not split by genus one curves
Zinovy Reichstein, Federico Scavia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07447 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07447

Brauer classes not split by genus one curves
We show that there exist Brauer classes over a field $F$ which are not split by any genus one curve over $F$. This answers a question of Clark and Saltman.

Github copilot (at least through VS Code) has this new "Agent" mode with some of the AI copilot models. Instead of just answering questions or reviewing your code and pointing out where to copy/paste the slop, agent mode GOES AHEAD AND MODIFYS YOUR CODE..
On one hand its hecka fast. On the other hand its alarming as shit.
The number of times it iterates iteself into a corner, goes "oh this file is crap, Ima throw it out and rewrite it from scratch" is alarmin…