Can confirm this works on macOS 26, thank you Greg
#retrocomputing #apple #flyingtoasters
StyleAdaptedLM: Enhancing Instruction Following Models with Efficient Stylistic Transfer
Pritika Ramu, Apoorv Saxena, Meghanath M Y, Varsha Sankar, Debraj Basu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18294
“A string of bands have pulled out of a UK music festival hours before they were due to perform after Irish band The Mary Wallopers said they were ‘cut off’ for displaying a Palestinian flag.
The Last Dinner Party, Cliffords and The Academic announced on Saturday that they would no longer be performing at the Victorious festival in Portsmouth following Friday’s incident.
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Rock band The Last Dinner Party said they would boycott the festival in a statement shared on their Inst…
A surge in AI company valuations is driving the popularity of special purpose vehicles, but some involve high fees, opaque structures, and layers of middlemen (Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/mar
ComposableNav: Instruction-Following Navigation in Dynamic Environments via Composable Diffusion
Zichao Hu, Chen Tang, Michael J. Munje, Yifeng Zhu, Alex Liu, Shuijing Liu, Garrett Warnell, Peter Stone, Joydeep Biswas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17941
In-person and telephone town halls used to be a common way for members of Congress to connect with constituents following a busy session.
Earlier this year, though, the NRCC urged Republicans to avoid town halls altogether
— and those lawmakers seem to be listening.
Take the tense scene inside a packed auditorium in Lincoln, Nebraska, recently,
where Republican Rep. Mike Flood faced hundreds of constituents during an August 4 town hall.
"How can you justi…
Just reported that I found a couple of dead Salamander at beginning of August in the #Karwendel . 😞
Luckily I was following the Blog of karwendel.org. Otherwise I wouldn't have known that reports about such incidents should be reported:
Found an app called “Octave Coffee”. It’s an opinionated timer for pourover coffee. Tells you how much to pour, then how much to wait, and so on. And it has a cute pixel art kitty.
The problem is… it negs you while doing it, and your reward at the end for following the instructions is the message, “You actually listened. Shocking.”
I did it twice. It doesn’t vary.
So… I’m deleting it, even though I found it useful, because I don’t want to be insulted first thing in the morn…
From #LizOyer @lawyer_oyer@instagram.com
We have a five-alarm fire inside the #DepartmentOfJustice. I’ve been telling you about the dominoes falling over the last few months. Now it’s all coming to a head. We must stay alert, informed, and outspoken.
Checklists Are Better Than Reward Models For Aligning Language Models
Vijay Viswanathan, Yanchao Sun, Shuang Ma, Xiang Kong, Meng Cao, Graham Neubig, Tongshuang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18624