I keep saying the same thing over and over with my kids: you don't make decisions with your voice, you make them with your body.
"I want to go to the park."
"Ok, put your shoes on."
"I want to go on my play date."
"Put on a jacket and get in the bike."
"I don't want to be late to school."
"I don't control time, if you don't want to be late you have to brush your teeth."
There's a fundamental truth underlying this concept though, one that I hadn't really thought about. On some level, I feel as though, any choice you can't make with your body isn't a real choice. If you're begging someone to do something for you, it's ultimately not something you control.
As I'm compelled, by threat of violence against my family, to pay for war against my comrades and to kill people I don't even know, I think about that. How far is our concept of freedom from the police state we are taught to imagine as the global beacon of liberty. My participation in the violence had always been compulsory.
Perhaps we could do better than just #NoKings.
#USPol
dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
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Various news about a possible future collider,
all pointing to the CERN FCC-ee as the leading proposal.
The Chinese CEPC plan is now on hold, as a decision was reached to not include it in China’s plans for the next five years (2026-30).
As part of the European Strategy for Particle Physics update process, recommendations drafted earlier this month have now been released
As expected, the main recommendation is to pursue the FCC-ee project, which will cost an esti…
Quick animation of all 35 full-die 20x/0.42 imaging runs I've done to date on PIC12F683 die 2H6 to date, from intact top passivation to the current state (mostly at poly with some remaining contacts).
Some variant of this will appear in my video when I'm done fully deprocessing.
The raw data for this animation is around 1700 4-megapixel tiles - a significant amount of data, but a tiny fraction of the roughly quarter million photos I've taken over the course of the pro…
dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
Who knew Ace of Bass had more than two songs?
I'm having vague memories of this, but I think I was in full-on "I'm at university and now I've got a girlfriend" mode at this point.
(Actually, checking the date, I was on a year out at Ford in Essex)
#TOTP
So I've a medical thing that I need to buy once a month on Amazon and they cancelled my subscription delivery for it last time (but not the subscription itself), without telling me.
I tried to just order it for one time delivery, but the delivery date was a month out and they immediately cancelled my order.
My wife told me to use my developer brain—and yes, imagining a bug with some row in a database being in a fugue state, the exactly a month out delivery date being the biggest hint to something going into a default state when a calculation fails.
So I removed the subscription to the item (they make it hard to find where to do this).
Bingo: I can now order immediately for delivery in two days and for working subscrpition delivery.
»`Uint8Array.prototype.toHex()`
The toHex() method of Uint8Array instances returns a hex-encoded string based on the data in this Uint8Array object.«
I've only just discovered this and I think it's a cool new feature in JavaScript. I am now surprised when almost all users have up-to-date web browsers in order to use it easily in the frontend WebDev.
🧑💻
FYI, the closing date for submitting comments on the US Department of Education’s plans to prioritize "patriotic education" in its discretionary grant programs is this Friday, October 17. The American Historical Association has an excellent resource to help folks weigh in! https://www.
lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
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The power button on my Sony Xperia 10iii begins to feel funny and I'm afraid it might give up at some point. This #SailfishOS phone can't double tap to wake (I do miss that from the original #JollaPhone), but one can get pretty close to it by enabling this 'low power mode' glance s…
lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
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lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
After some time in preparation, and following an initial attempt to prioritise the allocation of network capacity, the Dutch NRA has now taken a (and this time: own) decision.
Priority for 'congestion softeners', safety, healthcare, housing etc.
https://www.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stc<…
Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
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"On October 7, 1571, one of the greatest battles in the history of humanity began. On this date, more than 75% of the galleys, galleasses, galleots and frigates available in all the fleets of the world, 580 ships and more than 100,000 men, gathered in Lepanto.... The Battle of Lepanto is usually considered the bloodiest naval battle of all time."
#WesternEurope
dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
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This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
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Global Convergence of Four-Layer Matrix Factorization under Random Initialization
Minrui Luo, Weihang Xu, Xiang Gao, Maryam Fazel, Simon Shaolei Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09925 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09925 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.09925
arXiv:2511.09925v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Gradient descent dynamics on the deep matrix factorization problem is extensively studied as a simplified theoretical model for deep neural networks. Although the convergence theory for two-layer matrix factorization is well-established, no global convergence guarantee for general deep matrix factorization under random initialization has been established to date. To address this gap, we provide a polynomial-time global convergence guarantee for randomly initialized gradient descent on four-layer matrix factorization, given certain conditions on the target matrix and a standard balanced regularization term. Our analysis employs new techniques to show saddle-avoidance properties of gradient decent dynamics, and extends previous theories to characterize the change in eigenvalues of layer weights.
toXiv_bot_toot
each month, my building posts a neighborhood events calendar
inexplicably, this month it's Very Incorrect AI Slop that:
- Has droopy typos
- Has times with no event name
- Starts on the wrong day
- Doesn't have a single correct event date
- Really likes Dallas
how did they not notice ???
Much lower energy fast chips:
"Scientists from the University of Warwick and the National Research Council of Canada have reported the highest "hole mobility" ever measured in a material that works within today's silicon-based semiconductor manufacturing...
This achievement also represents a significant accomplishment for Warwick's Semiconductors Research Group and highlights the UK's growing influence in advanced semiconductor materials research."…
#Amazon has kept pushing back the date when they say they will enable CDK CLI anonymous telemetry collection. Current enable date is Oct 1, 2025.
Lots of comments suggesting it should be an opt-in, not opt-out.
https://git…
i looked at the calendar and — oh hey! — i became bar mitzvah on this (grgeorian) date 60 years ago today!
my torah portion was lech-lecha: "get thee out of thy house!" i could definitely relate.
Mining the Mind: What 100M Beliefs Reveal About Frontier LLM Knowledge
Shrestha Ghosh, Luca Giordano, Yujia Hu, Tuan-Phong Nguyen, Simon Razniewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07024
went on a small side quest this morning and added an AI Mode toggle to my blog posts
e.g. https://www.zachleat.com/web/adventures-in-date-parsing/
lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
Next Point-of-interest (POI) Recommendation Model Based on Multi-modal Spatio-temporal Context Feature Embedding
Lingyu Zhang, Guobin Wu, Yan Wang, Pengfei Xu, Jian Liang, Xuan Song, Yunhai Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22661
DCR799 – Drumcode Radio Live - LUSU studio mix from Haarlem
This week on Drumcode Live we have a studio mix from LUSU recorded in Haarlem, Netherlands.
Release date: 26 November 2025
https://soundcloud.com/adambeyer/dcr799-drumcode-radio…
YouTube seems to be broken under ublock origin again: the entire video player is just not there.
I'm seeing this on two different systems, a VM and a bare metal box, running different Debian versions and Firefox versions but fully up to date UBO with roughly the same filter sets.
Anybody else seeing this? Any issue tracker threads I can follow with progress towards a solution?
UPDATE: seems like it was stuck in some kind of half-updated state. Closed and restarted the b…
Modelling the effect of stellar metallicity on the XUV evolution of low-mass stars and its impact on exoplanet atmospheres/habitability
Victor See, Charlotte Fairman, Louis Amard, Oliver Hall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21276
Born on this date, 1757
William Blake
The copy of The Tyger going to auction in Christie’s
Old Masters To Modern Day Sale
on December 3 is the only one in private ownership
and was once owned by
The Wind In The Willows author Kenneth Grahame
https://www.
We are all dealing with entirely too much. I don't know how much longer we can collectively push through. Here's a conversation I just had with a doctor's office to confirm an upcoming visit.
Her: "It looks like you just had an appointment on the 25th of this month..."
Me: *confused silence*
Her: "Oh, wait. What's the date today? Never mind, sorry, we have you on the schedule for the 25th."
lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
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Lifehack:
Activate your Out-of-Office responder already on the morning of your last day at work, saying you're away from today 1 to date x.
Most people won't read the exact phrasing, thus you have time to tie up all the lose ends without getting buried under new "Can you please do this before your vacation?" requests.
#lifehack
#Qt QtCreator keeps crashing after waking from suspend.
I tracked it to `Debugger` extension. When I disabled `Debugger` extension and it's dependent `CMakeProjectManager`, the crash went away.
Does anyone know why this happens?
I'm on Manjaro up-to-date (stable branch ). Willing to provide more info and test things.
This is very annoying.
If I have a pet peeve on social media, it’s folks posting screenshots of posts (from any site) and not including the _actual date_ of the post. Second place is the ones that only have the “4 hrs ago/2d ago”
“OMG this thing is happening!” - yes…3 years ago, so I think the lava has cooled by now.
WALLABY Pilot Survey: A gas-rich diffuse dwarf on the baryonic Tully Fisher relation
Rebecca Dudley, N. Deg, Kristine Spekkens, N. Arora, T. O'Beirne, V. Kilborn, B. Catinella, Pavel E. Mancera Pi\~na
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15340
Multiscale analysis of large twist ferroelectricity and swirling dislocations in bilayer hexagonal boron nitride
Md Tusher Ahmed, Chenhaoyue Wang, Amartya S. Banerjee, Nikhil Chandra Admal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01419
Eclipse Mapping with Ariel: Future Prospects for a Population-Level Mapping Survey
Daniel Valentine, Hannah R. Wakeford, Mark Hammond, Ryan C. Challener, Billy Edwards, Theresa L\"uftinger, Maximillian N. G\"unther
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03147
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
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mR3: Multilingual Rubric-Agnostic Reward Reasoning Models
David Anugraha, Shou-Yi Hung, Zilu Tang, Annie En-Shiun Lee, Derry Tanti Wijaya, Genta Indra Winata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01146
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
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Microsoft Azure:
"On 15 November 2028, we'll be retiring F, Fs, Fsv2, Lsv2, G, Gs, Av2, Amv2, and B-series Azure VMs. You won't be able to use or purchase these VMs, or any constrained core sizes that are part of the retiring VM series, after that date."
Three-year advance notice, pretty sure that is the longest advanced warning I've ever seen for something like this.
The First Dedicated Survey of Atmospheric Escape from Planets Orbiting F Stars
Morgan Saidel, Shreyas Vissapragada, Heather Knutson, Ethan Schreyer, Mike Greklek-McKeon, Jonathan Gomez Barrientos, W. Garrett Levine, Carlos Gasc\'on, Morgan MacLeod, Haedam Im, Nick Tusay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05240
lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
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LST-1 observations of GRB 221009A: Insights into its late-time VHE afterglow
Arnau Aguasca-Cabot (for the CTAO-LST Project), Susumu Inoue (for the CTAO-LST Project), Monica Seglar-Arroyo (for the CTAO-LST Project), Kenta Terauchi (for the CTAO-LST Project), Pol Bordas (for the CTAO-LST Project), Marc Rib\'o (for the CTAO-LST Project)
https://
dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
Federated Learning in the Wild: A Comparative Study for Cybersecurity under Non-IID and Unbalanced Settings
Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin, Petr Sabel, Silvio Cretti, Silvio Ranise
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17836
dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps
Fifteen years of Gamma-Ray Burst observations at Very High Energies with H.E.S.S
E. Ruiz-Velasco, C. Arcaro, M. de Bony de Lavergne, Z. Huang, D. Sanchez, M. Senniappan, S. Wagner, S. Zhu, the H. E. S. S. Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15869
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
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lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps
lkml_reply: Linux kernel reply network
A network of replies among email address found on the Linux kernel mailing list. Nodes are email addresses and each directed edge represents a reply from email address i to email address j. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 63399 nodes and 1096440 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps
lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
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lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps