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“Why do people have such dramatically different experiences using AI?”
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/why-do-people-have-such-dramatically-different-experiences-using-ai/
In the example, you have Google engine…

Why do people have such dramatically different experiences using AI?
For some people, it seems, AI is an amazing machine which - while fallible - represents an incredible leap forward in productivity. For other people, it seems, AI is wrong more often than right and - although occasionally useful - requires constant supervision. Who is right? I recently pointed out a few common problems with LLMs. I was discussing this with someone relatively senior who works…

“I just hope that when they consider airstrikes on western Tehran and other residential cities that they consider the fact that a lot of people don’t have cars anymore, after 40 years of sanctions,” the man said.
“A lot of people don’t have cars or the means to leave. So it’s not as easy as just telling people to get up and go.”
Of an estimated 400,000 Iranian-born immigrants living in the United States,
more than a third live in the Los Angeles region.
Many live in th…

In ‘Tehrangeles,’ Iranian Americans Anxiously Watch War Unfold From Afar
The Los Angeles area is home to the biggest diaspora of Iranians. The growing war between Iran and Israel has rattled this tight-knit community.

Initial simulation of Samtec ARC6 connector launch. No ground plane cutout so the diffpair impedance drops to about 65Ω at the connector so far.
That will have to change, of course, but I wanted a baseline for comparison.

They have finally come to realize that things have changed since the 1800s. Now, if they would stop writing off unknowns as UAPs, not to be reported, and actually confirm what all the “unknowns” flying over the border are.
Texas stops providing new funding for border wall construction https://ground.news/article/texas-stops-providing-new-funding-for-border-wall-construction_b2c4f2

Roblox partners with Persona to estimate user ages and verify they are 13 , renames Friends to Connections, and says 13 users can message Trusted Connections (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/708670/roblox-trusted-connections-age-est…

Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats
Roblox will let people make “Trusted Connections” to chat more freely, but will require that they use a new age estimation tool to verify that they’re over 13.

San Franciscans in June have an advantage solving one of today’s #Connections, and not just because of the reverse 🏳️‍🌈.
#Connections738
Puzzle № 738
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bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted

Weekend Reads
* IPv6 adoption measurement https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11678
* Starlink capacity analysis https://

Towards a Non-Binary View of IPv6 Adoption
Twelve years have passed since World IPv6 Launch Day, but what is the current state of IPv6 deployment? Prior work has examined IPv6 status as a binary: can you use IPv6, or not? As deployment increases we must consider a more nuanced, non-binary perspective on IPv6: how much and often can a user or a service use IPv6? We consider this question as a client, server, and cloud provider. Considering the client's perspective, we observe user traffic. We see that the fraction of IPv6 traffic a user …

bookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted

arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003)
Citations among papers posted on arxiv.org under the hep-ph and hep-th categories, between 1993 and 2003. This time begins a few months after axiv was launched. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) These data were originally released as part of the 2003 KDD Cup.
This network has 27770 nodes and 352807 edges.
Tags: Informational,…