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This is the second year that I’m teaching a short session on Open Science and Reproducibility with Quarto, GitHub, and R for students in the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) programme (by @…, INED, EAPS, and others).
This year, I demoed everything in Positron (Posit PBC), switching back to RStudio only occasionally. I also made a point to discuss a…

Here was the vice president defending the administration’s vile immigration policies
in a way that fundamentally degrades the experiences and traditions of his own family,
of people he is bound by vows —vows that should be sacred to a Christian —to love and protect.
It sums up Vance’s journey into public life and politics:
There is nobody he won’t betray,
and no principle he won’t cast aside, in his quest to accrue more fame and power.
This has been clear…

Who Is JD Vance? (No, Seriously. Who Is He?)
The vice president is a cynical shapeshifter, willing to say anything—and be anybody—to become the most powerful person in America.

Explaining Fine Tuned LLMs via Counterfactuals A Knowledge Graph Driven Framework
Yucheng Wang, Ziyang Chen, Md Faisal Kabir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21241 https://

Explaining Fine Tuned LLMs via Counterfactuals A Knowledge Graph Driven Framework
The widespread adoption of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has enabled large language models (LLMs) to acquire domain-specific knowledge with remarkable efficiency. However, understanding how such a fine-tuning mechanism alters a model's structural reasoning and semantic behavior remains an open challenge. This work introduces a novel framework that explains fine-tuned LLMs via counterfactuals grounded in knowledge graphs. Specifically, we construct BioToolKG, a domain-specific heterogeneous knowled…

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

For the first time in my life, I can solve a Rubix cube.
Done it 4 times in a row.

Specifically it makes ICI (a type of drug to help the immune system to fight cancer) more effective
“[…] receipt of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines within 100 days of initiating ICI is associated with significantly improved median and three-year overall survival in multiple large retrospective cohorts”

Was in Japan übrigens so nebenbei zum Thema gemacht wird:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqy86IAJPZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially operate with support from Japanese staff and are expected to work independently after several months. Industry leaders hope the move will stabilize bus services and ensure passenger safety. Public understanding and continued training will be important as Japan adapts to workforce shortages in essential public services. @YAHOO"
85 likes, 11 comments - japandaily_jp on December 24, 2025: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially ope…

One of my wife's friends is throwing herself a 50th birthday party in the style of "Prom". So, enjoy this picture of my wife and I all dressed to the nines.

CAD-Tokenizer: Towards Text-based CAD Prototyping via Modality-Specific Tokenization
Ruiyu Wang, Shizhao Sun, Weijian Ma, Jiang Bian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21150 https://

CAD-Tokenizer: Towards Text-based CAD Prototyping via Modality-Specific Tokenization
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is a foundational component of industrial prototyping, where models are defined not by raw coordinates but by construction sequences such as sketches and extrusions. This sequential structure enables both efficient prototype initialization and subsequent editing. Text-guided CAD prototyping, which unifies Text-to-CAD generation and CAD editing, has the potential to streamline the entire design pipeline. However, prior work has not explored this setting, largely becau…

Out doing our civic duty. Remember your vote counts more in off year elections. Walked right in. No line.
#IVoted