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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

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.

𝕮𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖞 𝕾𝖕𝖊𝖈𝖎𝖆𝖑 𝕰𝖉𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓: Three adorbs cats in my neighborhood (sounds like I'm posting to NextDoor!)
#cats #photo #photography

Brian Schottenheimer doesn't care to hurt feelings, only championships https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-doesnt-care-hurt-feelings-only-championships

Don't usually weigh in on L.A. stuff but if it's not safe to build 7 duplexes there, then it's not safe to rebuild 5,000 single-family homes there. Make up your mind, Newsom and Bass.
https://laist.com/news/housing-homeles

LA mayor bans duplexes in Palisades burn zone after getting permission from governor
Following uproar from homeowners and local elected leaders, a state law allowing denser housing in single-family areas will no longer apply to the Pacific Palisades.

New 49ers RB Brian Robinson believes he, Christian McCaffrey can form NFL's 'best duo' in San Francisco https://www.nfl.com/news/brian-robinson-christian-mccaffrey-best-duo-in-the-league-49ers

Fair Box ordinate transform for forecasts following a multivariate Gaussian law
S\'andor Baran, Martin Leutbecher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22601 http…

Fair Box ordinate transform for forecasts following a multivariate Gaussian law
Monte Carlo techniques are the method of choice for making probabilistic predictions of an outcome in several disciplines. Usually, the aim is to generate calibrated predictions which are statistically indistinguishable from the outcome. Developers and users of such Monte Carlo predictions are interested in evaluating the degree of calibration of the forecasts. Here, we consider predictions of $p$-dimensional outcomes sampling a multivariate Gaussian distribution and apply the Box ordinate tran…

Bengals OC: Chase Brown is a 'top-10 back in the league' https://www.nfl.com/news/bengals-oc-chase-brown-is-a-top-10-back-in-the-league

Brian Schottenheimer discusses Cowboys initial 53-man roster https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-discusses-cowboys-initial-53-man-roster

Brian Schottenheimer discusses Cowboys initial 53-man roster https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-discusses-cowboys-initial-53-man-roster