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Social movement led by shopkeepers shakes the Iranian regime
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/01/01/social-movement-led-by-shopkeepers-shakes-the-iranian-regime_6748982_4.html

One side of the first leaf is now flat. My technique of using dowels to stabilize vertical movement didn't work as well with pine as it does with oak. Had to take a lot more material off than I expected...and I haven't even touched the other side. If it gets too thin, I may have an issue with my screws being too long. I bought 1/2" screws for a 3/4" board. I may have to find shorter screws or add some plywood backing to the bottom to get that 1/4" back.

Compliance of Implementations with Specification
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-specification/blob/main/spec-compliance-matrix.md

Applied Compute, which wants to create custom AI agents trained on latent company knowledge, raised $80M from Benchmark, Sequoia, Elad Gil, and others (@appliedcompute)
https://x.com/appliedcompute/status/1983574375933866502

Applied Compute (@appliedcompute) on X
Generalists are useful, but it’s not enough to be smart. Advances come from specialists, whether human or machine. To have an edge, agents need specific expertise, within specific companies, built on models trained on specific data. We call this Specific Intelligence. It's

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Stefanie Schrank:
🎵 Shapeshifter (Edit)
#NowPlaying #StefanieSchrank
https://stefanieschrank.bandcamp.com/track/shapeshifter
https://open.spotify.com/track/6z2D28EBf22B6Z8tfeAKzv

Observer-Usable Information as a Task-specific Image Quality Metric
Changjie Lu, Sourya Sengupta, Hua Li, Mark A. Anastasio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00298 https://

Observer-Usable Information as a Task-specific Image Quality Metric
Objective, task-based, measures of image quality (IQ) have been widely advocated for assessing and optimizing medical imaging technologies. Besides signal detection theory-based measures, information-theoretic quantities have been proposed to quantify task-based IQ. For example, task-specific information (TSI), defined as the mutual information between an image and task variable, represents an optimal measure of how informative an image is for performing a specified task. However, like the idea…

"As explained in chapter 11 of Meyer’s book, assertions are meant to check the correctness of a piece of software; that is, its ability to perform the tasks defined in their specification.
Because, you do have a specification, right? Right?"
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/asser…

Assertions
Colin Powell passed away during the preparation of this article. In one of the most memorable and abhorrent chapters of his career he gave a speech in the United Nations trying to justify the unjustifiable.

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

listen up: you misfits of the internets !!! this is a lovey song
#Columbia

listen up: you misfits of the internets !!! this is a lovey song
#Columbia