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https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2025/12/05/the-laws-are-designed-specifically-to-prevent-that-from-being-ok/

“…The Laws Are Designed Specifically to Prevent That from Being OK.”
In a very good piece by Elie Mystal about Defense Secretary Hegseth’s recent murder spree, he writes (boldface mine): What it all comes down to is this: If we’re not at war, Hegseth is a murd…

Automated Constraint Specification for Job Scheduling by Regulating Generative Model with Domain-Specific Representation
Yu-Zhe Shi, Qiao Xu, Yanjia Li, Mingchen Liu, Huamin Qu, Lecheng Ruan, Qining Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02679

Automated Constraint Specification for Job Scheduling by Regulating Generative Model with Domain-Specific Representation
Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) systems have become indispensable for modern manufacturing operations, enabling optimized resource allocation and production efficiency in increasingly complex and dynamic environments. While algorithms for solving abstracted scheduling problems have been extensively investigated, the critical prerequisite of specifying manufacturing requirements into formal constraints remains manual and labor-intensive. Although recent advances of generative models, part…

I've read the following rhetorical question recently:
If “vote blue no matter who” doesn't apply to Zohran Mamdani, what does it actually mean?
...and despite all of us understanding the implication, let me actually try to give an answer, as the slogan emerged specifically from US politics, but this phenomenon hasn't.
This specific statement asking people to always vote for the democratic party, no matter who the candidate is, has always been thrown…

First Lego table leaf is built and attached. Mistakes were made (and corrected). It looks ok. The gap (1/4") is a little more than I wanted, but I'll know how to fix that going forward (measure better and build over sized). I am happy that it stands up with just one leaf attached. I was concerned that not having the counter balance of the other leaf would cause it to tip.
#Woodworking

A look at various quirks in AI-generated prose, mainly influenced by "overfitting" in AI models, as humans increasingly mimic AI language in writing and speech (Sam Kriss/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice.

A feature which I'm really looking forward to is brewing in #Python packaging: Specifying default extras.
The aiocoap library I maintain can (and is tested to) work with no other dependencies than Python, but most users will like the additional features such as pretty-printing support, or more security options than just TLS. So far, they have to `pip run --spec "aiocoap[all]" aio…

PEP 771 – Default Extras for Python Software Packages | peps.python.org
PEP 508 specifies a mini-language for declaring package dependencies. One feature of this language is the ability to specify extras, which are optional components of a distribution that, when used, install additional dependencies. This PEP proposes a me...

"Tree! Document <title> is wrong! Specifically this <valueX>! Who is the ignoramus who specified that value? ITS COMPLETELY WRONG WHO DO I GET TO LIGHT ON FIRE AND BLAME FOR EVERYTHING BEING WRONG?"
<checks Jira tickets that produced the latest document revision; goes back 3 document revisions over as many years>
You did. See here (2 yr old ticket): "pls change valueX from <blah> to <blah> because <rationale>. "
"…

Neural Correlates of Language Models Are Specific to Human Language
I\~nigo Parra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03156 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03156

Neural Correlates of Language Models Are Specific to Human Language
Previous work has shown correlations between the hidden states of large language models and fMRI brain responses, on language tasks. These correlations have been taken as evidence of the representational similarity of these models and brain states. This study tests whether these previous results are robust to several possible concerns. Specifically this study shows: (i) that the previous results are still found after dimensionality reduction, and thus are not attributable to the curse of dimens…

Nice project: A computational framework for quantifying route diversification in road networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02582
Interactive: https://diverc…