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i have not looked into it, but there has to be something fishy about those drones flying in the sky with lights as a replacement for fireworks and doing cool symbols. they're too good to be true. something about it gotta be wrong that's just always the case

“What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?” – a pretty good summary for those who don't want to read Gary Marcus’s rather… elaborate… treatizes.
> I think it’s safe, at least for now, to turn your attention away from the tech titans’ increasingly hyperbolic claims
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What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? - Cal Newport
In the years since ChatGPT’s launch in late 2022, it’s been hard not to get swept up in feelings of euphoria or dread about the ... Read more

Because what we all really need in Excel is a more efficient way of writing mostly correct things. Mostly. https://mastodon.social/@verge/115055906442487572

Numerical simulations of a RF-RF hybrid plasma torch with argon at atmospheric pressure
Loann Terraz, Biruk Alemu, Santiago Eizaguirre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13858 https://

Numerical simulations of a RF-RF hybrid plasma torch with argon at atmospheric pressure
We report numerical results regarding the minimum sustaining coil excitation current for a RF-RF hybrid torch operating at two different frequencies. The first coil is excited at a high-frequency, while the second coil is set at a medium frequency. The filling gas is argon, at atmospheric pressure. We use the modeling software COMSOL Multiphysics to describe the evolution of key parameters when: (i) the distance between the two coils changes, (ii) the power of the high frequency coil changes. W…

Don't miss this one! @… has outdone himself.
#Epstein
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Ramble On: That's Where The (Epstein) Money Is
Morning thoughts on Epstein, Trump, banks, banking, financial scandals, and following the money

"L'Amazonie pourrait atteindre son point de basculement — moment où elle perdra sa capacité naturelle Š se régénérer et sera définitivement dégradée — dès 2050. Les répercussions se feront sentir Š l'échelle mondiale."
#Amazonie #climat

Will we see you tomorrow at Tech Pizza Monday? VICTORY CAFE whoops, that was too loud, Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W., 6 PM. With any luck, we will have some printouts of the paper we will discuss at on tje following Monday. Come for the pizza, also, stay for the pizza, not to mention the discussions about free and open technology for a free and open society. #Toronto

GALA: Can Graph-Augmented Large Language Model Agentic Workflows Elevate Root Cause Analysis?
Yifang Tian, Yaming Liu, Zichun Chong, Zihang Huang, Hans-Arno Jacobsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12472

GALA: Can Graph-Augmented Large Language Model Agentic Workflows Elevate Root Cause Analysis?
Root cause analysis (RCA) in microservice systems is challenging, requiring on-call engineers to rapidly diagnose failures across heterogeneous telemetry such as metrics, logs, and traces. Traditional RCA methods often focus on single modalities or merely rank suspect services, falling short of providing actionable diagnostic insights with remediation guidance. This paper introduces GALA, a novel multi-modal framework that combines statistical causal inference with LLM-driven iterative reasonin…

Mind the Gap: A Closer Look at Tokenization for Multiple-Choice Question Answering with LLMs
Mario Sanz-Guerrero, Minh Duc Bui, Katharina von der Wense
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15020

Mind the Gap: A Closer Look at Tokenization for Multiple-Choice Question Answering with LLMs
When evaluating large language models (LLMs) with multiple-choice question answering (MCQA), it is common to end the prompt with the string "Answer:" to facilitate automated answer extraction via next-token probabilities. However, there is no consensus on how to tokenize the space following the colon, often overlooked as a trivial choice. In this paper, we uncover accuracy differences of up to 11% due to this (seemingly irrelevant) tokenization variation as well as reshuffled model rankings, ra…

Dozens of coal miners and their families are protesting the Trump administration outside the Labor Department building,
arguing it has failed to protect them from black lung disease,
an incurable illness caused by inhaling coal and silica dust.
They have been waiting months for the government to enforce federal limits on silica dust,
a carcinogen that has led to a recent spike in the disease.
But mining industry groups have sued to block the rule,
and the T…

Coal Miners With Black Lung Say They Are ‘Cast Aside to Die’ Under Trump
President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard.