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I updated my page on mosquito-control tips to include Thermacells (I own 2), plus added a section on the Mosquito Magnet and Biogents Mosquitaire (neither of which I've tested but I have some thoughts). #mosquitoes https://colinpurrington.com/fighting-mosquitoes/

In today's Two Minutes Hate, I'd like to talk about automatic translations on Reddit.
As a user of English as a second language I find them annoying for two reasons.
One - they always rank high in search results when I specifically need LOCAL knowledge on the topic, coming from other folks from my country, and anything else is useless to me.
Two - when the Reddit thread contains reference to a nationality, e.g. "As a Finnish", their translation switches that to "Jako Polak" ("as a Pole"). And that makes things confusing as hell if I make a grave mistake of diving into a thread I shouldn't have touched in the first place (usually due to the Reason Number One).
I used to appreciate Reddit a lot in the past, but of course it couldn't last forever.

We've christened these the Misery Socks. The yarn is in a hideous colourway that just didn't come over when I bought it online. It also broke several times 😡 I started them when Mum was in her care home and would take them in with me when I visited. Inevitably they frequently had to be put down in a hurry so I ended up with dropped st and mistakes. Then we got cats who wouldn't leave the yarn alone, so I've only just finished them today. Glad to see them go.

#Ukraine #drone #allies
https://bsky.app/pr…

Maria Drutska (@mariadrutska.bsky.social)
Another Ukrainian innovation: interceptor drones are being mounted on small transport aircraft like An-28s to take down Russian attack drones. This great video shows how it works, from takeoff to interception with P1-SUN drones. I expect allies to be very interested in this.

I input a lot of my posts on my phone using swipe typing, which means that I'm prone to making a lot of word-substitution mistakes when I don't check the results carefully enough. Inevitably, a few typos slide past me here and there. This used to bother me a bit and I kept thinking about how to get rid of them, but with the spread of AI slop, I've come to appreciate that they're useful markers that my text is human-authored, and I often don't bother to edit them even when I see one.

14yo: "What if we stand outside by the door until you take us to [ramen]?"
9yo: "Yeah!"
A: "You can go ahead and do that, but it's too late to go"
me: "There's mosquitoes out there."
14yo: [putting shoes on] "That's fine, I don't care about the mosquitoes"
9yo: [silence]
9yo: [quietly] "I don't like mosquitoes."
14yo: [looks at her, betrayed]

RE: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathCV_bot/116571771483276428
A (technical) survey article on my niche in geometric analysis (1997-2010, but I am returning to it soon!)
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RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116713587055769588
I was actually using LLMs a couple of years ago for text classification. Before that I pushed hard for resources to support automation. I helped build an automation team where none existed. I pushed to use transformer models to solve problems before LLMs existed. I used simple ML to make predictions and classify issues. I've been on the cutting edge for a long time.
I *should* be an early adopter of the modern LLM thing. But tech oligarchs transformed themselves into reverse ouroboros (infinitely shoving their heads up their own asses). The oligarchs never really believed that other people had free will, but I think they had been too scared to let that slip. After the lockdowns, I think they just snapped and here we are.
As much as I trash LLMs, I've had a nuanced critique for a while (wiring about this now). The lack of consent is so huge. The oligarchs have plans for us, and it doesn't involve our consent.
Under different conditions, I do actually think there could be revolutionary elements to this tech (not so much LLMs themselves as LLM MCP, and not for the things they think). But without consent, I think (and hope) the friction will overcome the momentum.
"AI" is already more expensive than humans. It will never be profitable as long as people resist. There are multiplying problems, and I don't see those being fixed without collective effort. I have a lot of thoughts, but "consent" (or the real or implied lack thereof) is central to so many aspects of LLMs.
The oligarchs want to force LLM tech onto all of us without our consent. Ultimately, they want to replace us all with obedient machines. The mistake they made was assuming we would be as obedient as the LLMs with which they have become so obsessed.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.IT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.IT/new
[1/2]:
- Homomorphic Quantum Error Correction
Kornikar Sen, Miguel A. Martin-Delgado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25692 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116640053090772171
- Belief-Space Control for Personalized Cancer Treatment via Active Inference
Deniz Sargun, H. Bugra Tulay, C. Emre Koksal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10376 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116724820434554519
- A Geometric Profile of Semantic Information in Text: Frame-Conditional Uniqueness and a Trade-Off...
Dmitriy Kompaneets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11222 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116730477023664354
- An Entropy-based Framework for Hybrid Coalitions in Game Theory. Part I: Human Arbitration
Salome A. Sepulveda-Fontaine, Jose M. Amigo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11288 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_bot/116730374222115774
- Additive Noise, Shift Recovery, and Signed Signals in the Cumulative Distribution Transform
Harbir Antil, Ratna Khatri, Aryan Saxena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11432 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/116730375993496615
- A Unified Lower Bound on the Noisy Query Complexity of Boolean Functions
Yuzhou Gu, Xin Li, Yinzhan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11448 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/116730380321553481
- Optimizing Encoder Circuits of Entanglement-Assisted Quantum LDPC Codes via Beam Search
Aditya Sodhani, Pavan Kumar, Shayan Srinivasa Garani, Keshab K. Parhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11468 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116730421187038523
- FlexiBrain: Resolution-Agnostic Voxel-Level Encoding for Native fMRI
Mo Wang, Wenhao Ye, Junfeng Xia, Minghao Xu, Hongkai Wen, Quanying Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11500 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/116730364588705644
- Measuring language complexity from hierarchical reuse of recurring patterns
Junyi Zhou, Rui Liu, Pengyu Liu, Yu Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11531 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116730518902862163
- Superspace Concentration and Adversarial Robustness in Quantum Algorithms
Eric Yocam, Christian Yocam, Varghese Vaidyan, Yong Wang, Mahesh Kalappattil, Anthony Rizi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11580 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116730474074812546
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It’s a pleasure to be right, but there are advantages being wrong as well. It can be easier to let go of your own ideas, for one. A kind of freshness of curiosity and surprise for another.
I like the way Shunryu Suzuki paraphrased Dogen in describing Zen as a practice of wrong following on wrong — a lifetime of “one continuous mistake.”

The Boat of Purity and Ease
"Remembered by those who have visited as the Marble Boat and known by the Chinese as the Boat of Purity and Ease, is not marble and it is not a boat." Ray Hahn, Postcard History