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Had my talk on Small Web accepted at #why2025 but I hadn’t realised (my bad) that not only do you have to cover your own travel and accommodation but you also have to buy a ticket to speak. I’m sorry, as part of a tiny two-person not-for-profit working for the common good, I can’t afford to pay to speak at events. I’m not Deloitte. So I sadly had to withdraw my talk.
If any conferences do w…

En ny studie påstås bevisa att en massa populära råd på internet vid endometrios nu är bevisade att fungera men studien är en dåligt utförd enkätstudie som egentligen inte svarar på någonting mer än vad som är populärt att testa just nu
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"The National Park Service announced Tuesday the rollout of a new annual body-dumping pass for use on federal lands" #Burgum #TheOnion

One of the goals I've set for further development of #Python eclasses in #Gentoo was to avoid needless complexity. Unfortunately, the subject matter sometimes requires them. However, many of the functions added lately were already manually done in ebuilds for years.
We've started disabling plugin autoloading years ago. First we just did that for individual packages that caused issues. Then, for these where tests ended up being really slow. Finally, pretty much anywhere `python_test()` was declared. Doing it all manually was particularly cumbersome — all I needed for `EPYTEST_PLUGINS` is a good idea how to generalize it.
Similarly, `EPYTEST_XDIST` was added after we have been adding manually `epytest -p xdist -n "$(makeopts_jobs)" --dist=worksteal` — and while at it, I've added `EPYTEST_JOBS` to override the job count.
Perhaps `EPYTEST_TIMEOUT` wasn't that common. However, it was meant to help CI systems that could otherwise get stuck on hanging test.
Similarly, "standard library" version (like `3.9`) matching to `python_gen_cond_dep` was added after a long period of explicitly stating `python3_9 pypy3`. As an extra benefit, this also resolved the problem that at the time `pypy3` could mean different Python versions.

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Attached: 1 image Tuesday is World Bicycle Day! It’s also day one of the Vélo Canada Bikes annual pedal poll 😀🚴🏼‍♀️ There’s still time to claim your volunteer count shift to help collect crucial cycling data. The poll runs all across Canada. We're focussed on Waterloo Region, but there's a good chance it's happening where you live. We need more safe places to ride and this is how we prove it. Sign up for a shift & join the movement! #Cycling #PedalPollSondoVelo #Waterlo…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05368 has been replaced.
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Otter: Generating Tests from Issues to Validate SWE Patches
While there has been plenty of work on generating tests from existing code, there has been limited work on generating tests from issues. A correct test must validate the code patch that resolves the issue. This paper focuses on the scenario where that code patch does not yet exist. Doing so supports two major use-cases. First, it supports TDD (test-driven development), the discipline of "test first, write code later" that has well-documented benefits for human software engineers. Second, it als…

I’m not a fan of the magic link. I’d be happier with a passcode. But also, if you're going to make magic links the only login option, at least have a text box on your page where I can paste the code and make the code easily identifiable in the email.
(Safari plus Apple Mail does a great job of offering an autofill when the code arrives in email (or text) without leaving the browser)

I built a Firefox extension that allows you to append arbitrary arguments/text to each Google query automatically. I will now go through whatever hell is required to get it onto the addon store. It's up on GitHub for the curious. https://github.com/theodric/ArgsGoogleSearches

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

Pitfalls of Evaluating Language Models with Open Benchmarks
Md. Najib Hasan (Wichita State University), Mohammad Fakhruddin Babar (Washington State University), Souvika Sarkar (Wichita State University), Monowar Hasan (Washington State University), Santu Karmaker (University of Central Florida)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00460…

Pitfalls of Evaluating Language Models with Open Benchmarks
Open Large Language Model (LLM) benchmarks, such as HELM and BIG-bench, offer standardized, transparent protocols that facilitate the fair comparison, reproducibility, and iterative advancement of Language Models (LMs). However, their openness also introduces critical and underexplored pitfalls. This study exposes these weaknesses by systematically constructing ``cheating'' models -- smaller variants of BART, T5, and GPT-2 fine-tuned directly on public test sets -- which achieve top rankings on…