Amazon's CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, recently shared this short post about how software development improves with age. His perspective revolves around the recurrence of certain patterns in technology where the experienced developer can say "New technology, same pattern.", and sift through the daily onslaught of new technologies in a calm fashion, weeding out what's just flash from more interesting developments.
"Development gets better with Age"
My brilliant (almost) 13-year-old is learning about verbal nouns and adjectives in his language studies class
This morning I discovered that he pronounces "gerund" with the stress pattern of "Gerard"* not "Jared"
And now I'm doubting *my own* pronunciation of that word
* His choice is almost certainly influenced by his current favorite rocker Gerard Way
Efficient Mining of Low-Utility Sequential Patterns
Jian Zhu, Zhidong Lin, Wensheng Gan, Ruichu Cai, Zhifeng Hao, Philip S. Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10243 https://
"the billionaire businessman Vincent Bolloré, one of #Sarkozy’s longtime patrons and the owner of Fayard, publisher of “Le Journal d’un Prisonnier,” has been doing his most to propel the far right to victory."
"Twenty days behind bars, and not long before France may very well have a far-right head of state for the first time in nearly a century. "
Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"After Dionysos had demonstrated to the Thebans that he was a god, he went to Argos where again he drove the women mad when the people did not pay him honour, and up in the mountains the women fed on the flesh of the babies suckling at their breasts."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.37
🏛 Dionysos Mosaic, …
A Non-Intrusive Framework for Deferred Integration of Cloud Patterns in Energy-Efficient Data-Sharing Pipelines
Sepideh Masoudi, Mark Edward Michael Daly, Jannis Kiesel, Stefan Tai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12354
The Hidden DNA of LLM-Generated JavaScript: Structural Patterns Enable High-Accuracy Authorship Attribution
Norbert Tihanyi, Bilel Cherif, Richard A. Dubniczky, Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Tam\'as Bisztray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10493
Controllable Collision Scenario Generation via Collision Pattern Prediction
Pin-Lun Chen, Chi-Hsi Kung, Che-Han Chang, Wei-Chen Chiu, Yi-Ting Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12206
Targeted Sequential Pattern Mining with High Average Utility
Kai Cao, Yucong Duan, Wensheng Gan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10115 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…