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It's worth bearing in mind that all AI companies are in that phase where they burn money to attract the most customers and hope that the competition blinks first. That means all AI is pretty badly underpriced.
For coding, that's a problem. It's just on the edge of being arguably positive for some. If the price goes up by an order of ten, the bubble is going to burst. And it may take the other AI use cases with it. After all, coding was kind of a killer app.

Anthropic Is Bleeding Out
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Last leg on our brief history of NLP (so far) is the advent of large language models with GPT-3 in 2020 and the introduction of learning from the prompt (aka few-shot learning).
T. B. Brown et al. (2020). Language models are few-shot learners. NIPS'20
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Bernie Sanders warned of the US’s slide into authoritarianism
following Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the national guard to Los Angeles over the city’s protests against federal immigration raids.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07694 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Unified Origin of Curvature Perturbation and Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe
We propose a unified framework that describes both the curvaton mechanism for generating primordial density fluctuations and the Affleck-Dine (AD) mechanism for baryogenesis. By introducing a complex scalar field (AD field) carrying a baryon/lepton number and its potential consisting of quadratic and quartic terms with a small baryon/lepton-number-violating mass term, we investigate the evolution of the scalar field during the radiation-dominated era following inflation. We set the initial cond…

Emergent anisotropic three-phase order in critically doped superconducting diamond films
Jyotirmay Dwivedi, Jake Morris, Saurav Islam, Kalana D. Halanayake, Gabriel A. Vazquez-Lizardi, David Snyder, Anthony Richardella, Luke Lyle, Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey, Nazar Delegan, F. Joseph Heremans, David D. Awschalom, Nitin Samarth
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Emergent anisotropic three-phase order in critically doped superconducting diamond films
Two decades since its discovery, superconducting heavily boron-doped diamond (HBDD) still presents unresolved fundamental questions whose resolution is relevant to the development of this material for quantum technologies. We use electrical magnetotransport measurements of critically-doped homoepitaxial single crystal HBDD films to reveal signatures of intrinsic (electronic) granular superconductivity. By studying the dependence of electrical resistivity on temperature and magnetic field vector…

Optimal Graph Reconstruction by Counting Connected Components in Induced Subgraphs
Hadley Black, Arya Mazumdar, Barna Saha, Yinzhan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08405

Optimal Graph Reconstruction by Counting Connected Components in Induced Subgraphs
The graph reconstruction problem has been extensively studied under various query models. In this paper, we propose a new query model regarding the number of connected components, which is one of the most basic and fundamental graph parameters. Formally, we consider the problem of reconstructing an $n$-node $m$-edge graph with oracle queries of the following form: provided with a subset of vertices, the oracle returns the number of connected components in the induced subgraph. We show $Θ(\frac…

STI-SNN: A 0.14 GOPS/W/PE Single-Timestep Inference FPGA-based SNN Accelerator with Algorithm and Hardware Co-Design
Kainan Wang, Chengyi Yang, Chengting Yu, Yee Sin Ang, Bo Wang, Aili Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08842

STI-SNN: A 0.14 GOPS/W/PE Single-Timestep Inference FPGA-based SNN Accelerator with Algorithm and Hardware Co-Design
Brain-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have attracted attention for their event-driven characteristics and high energy efficiency. However, the temporal dependency and irregularity of spikes present significant challenges for hardware parallel processing and data reuse, leading to some existing accelerators falling short in processing latency and energy efficiency. To overcome these challenges, we introduce the STI-SNN accelerator, designed for resource-constrained applications with high…

Spin-lattice entanglement in $\mathbf{CoPS}_3$
Thuc T. Mai, Amber McCreary, K. F. Garrity, Rebecca L. Dally, Sambridhi Shah, Bryan C. Chakoumakos, Md Nasim Afroj Taj, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Michael A. McGuire, Benjamin S. Conner, Mona Zebarjadi, Janice L. Musfeldt, Angela R. Hight Walker, Rahul Rao, Michael A. Susner
https://arxiv.org…

Spin-lattice entanglement in $\mathbf{CoPS}_3$
Complex chalcogenides in the $M$PS$_3$ family of materials ($M$ = Mn, Fe, Co, and Ni) display remarkably different phase progressions depending upon the metal center orbital filling, character of the P-P linkage, and size of the van der Waals gap. There is also a stacking pattern and spin state difference between the lighter and heavier transition metal-containing systems that places CoPS$_3$ at the nexus of these activities. Despite these unique properties, this compound is under-explored. Her…

A good news story about the great gender preference divide.
After years of declining sex ratios that saw increases in female infanticide and missing girls, it seems there's a change.
'Globally, among babies born in 2000, a staggering 1.6m girls were missing from the number you would expect, given the natural sex ratio at birth. This year that number is likely to be 200,000—and it is still falling.'
Beautiful hope.

The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them

Testimony from an Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC) Survivor https://buddhism-controversy-blog.com/2017/10/29/testimony-from-an-ogyen-kunsang-choling-okc-survivor/