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Here’s the lightning sketch of Paul’s Treatise Against Efficiency that I’ve never written:
1. Efficiency is asymptotically inefficient: as costs approach zero, the cost of further reducing them approaches infinity.
2. Efficiency prioritizes the measurable over the difficult-to-measure.
3. Efficiency prioritizes what those in power see (or imagine) over on-the-ground reality.
4. Following from 2 and 3, efficiency reduces the amount and quality of information flowing into a human system.
5. Efficiency foments institutional inflexibility.
6. By removing slack, efficiency causes small failures to cascade more readily and increases the risk of catastrophic failure.
7. Following rom 4, 5, and 6, efficiency trades small costs for massive risks: from failures, from missed opportunities, and from inability to adjust.
8. Efficiency, when pushed, strangles the emergent phenomena that in the long term create all new things of value.
9. Thus, although it can be a by-product of evolution, efficiency as a goal in itself strangles evolution.
10. Efficiency as a goal strangles joy.

Ravens Defense Named League's Best Following Major Trade https://www.si.com/nfl/ravens/news/baltimore-ravens-defense-league-best-major-trade

Die 'gläserne Decke' für Ü50 existiert nicht trotz, sondern wegen Vorurteilen. 64,3% Beschäftigungsquote bei 55-59-Jährigen beweist: Sie sind da, sie arbeiten - aber Karriere? Fehlanzeige. Zeit für strukturellen Wandel statt Lippenbekenntnissen, meint Marcus K. Reif. #Altersdiskrimierung, #Ageism

https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/08/noem-terminates-24-fema-workers-failing-address-cyber-vulnerabilities/407807/
Noem terminates 24 FEMA workers for failing to address cyber vulnerabilities

Noem terminates 24 FEMA workers for failing to address cyber vulnerabilities
An internal FEMA email obtained by Nextgov/FCW ordered all agency employees to change their passwords “due to recent cybersecurity incidents and threats.”

Western Honeybee in flight, approaching Mexican Sage flowers. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. October, 2025. #laarboretum #bee #honeybee

Tracking every NFL trade deadline move: Two CB trades for the Eagles? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46306378/2025-nfl-trade-deadline-updates-latest-news-deals

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[8/9]:
- MindVL: Towards Efficient and Effective Training of Multimodal Large Language Models on Ascend NPUs
Feilong Chen, Yijiang Liu, Yi Huang, Hao Wang, Miren Tian, Ya-Qi Yu, Minghui Liao, Jihao Wu

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Flans:
🎵 No controles
#Flans
https://theartsmixof.bandcamp.com/track/flans-no-controles-the-art-mix-jvu-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/19guCNWcPMOzwRN44FmpDb

DiVeQ: Differentiable Vector Quantization Using the Reparameterization Trick
Mohammad Hassan Vali, Tom B\"ackstr\"om, Arno Solin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26469 https…

DiVeQ: Differentiable Vector Quantization Using the Reparameterization Trick
Vector quantization is common in deep models, yet its hard assignments block gradients and hinder end-to-end training. We propose DiVeQ, which treats quantization as adding an error vector that mimics the quantization distortion, keeping the forward pass hard while letting gradients flow. We also present a space-filling variant (SF-DiVeQ) that assigns to a curve constructed by the lines connecting codewords, resulting in less quantization error and full codebook usage. Both methods train end-to…

Stable Cinemetrics : Structured Taxonomy and Evaluation for Professional Video Generation
Agneet Chatterjee, Rahim Entezari, Maksym Zhuravinskyi, Maksim Lapin, Reshinth Adithyan, Amit Raj, Chitta Baral, Yezhou Yang, Varun Jampani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26555

Stable Cinemetrics : Structured Taxonomy and Evaluation for Professional Video Generation
Recent advances in video generation have enabled high-fidelity video synthesis from user provided prompts. However, existing models and benchmarks fail to capture the complexity and requirements of professional video generation. Towards that goal, we introduce Stable Cinemetrics, a structured evaluation framework that formalizes filmmaking controls into four disentangled, hierarchical taxonomies: Setup, Event, Lighting, and Camera. Together, these taxonomies define 76 fine-grained control nodes…