Tootfinder

Apologies that https://fpr-calc.ucl.ac.uk/ is unavailable at the mo. It's waiting for DNS update to spread following a redirect.
Meanwhile you can run the false positive risk calculator at

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
OFFICER: My apologies, sir; I meant no offence.
CARNELL: I was offensive. Why shouldn't you be?
OFFICER: Sir?
CARNELL: Give me the report. [Flips the folder open and closes it] Do you play chess?
OFFICER: A little, sir.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/374

Cascade of Attention Deficit "Research Scientists"
( with apologies to @… )

Apologies – for now – to Giants QB Russell Wilson after big day in wild loss to Cowboys https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/giants/2025/09/14/russell-wilson-stats-interception-cowboys/86155089007/

Who's Sorry Now: User Preferences Among Rote, Empathic, and Explanatory Apologies from LLM Chatbots
Zahra Ashktorab, Alessandra Buccella, Jason D'Cruz, Zoe Fowler, Andrew Gill, Kei Yan Leung, P. D. Magnus, John Richards, Kush R. Varshney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02745

Who's Sorry Now: User Preferences Among Rote, Empathic, and Explanatory Apologies from LLM Chatbots
As chatbots driven by large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in everyday contexts, their ability to recover from errors through effective apologies is critical to maintaining user trust and satisfaction. In a preregistered study with Prolific workers (N=162), we examine user preferences for three types of apologies (rote, explanatory, and empathic) issued in response to three categories of common LLM mistakes (bias, unfounded fabrication, and factual errors). We designed a pairw…

The scary thing about MAGA isn’t that it’s obviously evil—it’s that it’s appealing to people who think they’re good.
It offers them a way to feel righteous about their resentments, patriotic about their prejudices, and principled about their selfishness.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/08/who-go

Who Goes MAGA?
With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such …

Apologies for the downtime on phpc.social this morning. Restarted services a little too early. We're good to go now (indexing ElasticSearch items in the background for the rest of the day but the site is functional otherwise).
In related news, phpc.social is now running Mastodon 4.4.1, hence it looking a bit different from before if you're using the web UI.
#MastoAdmin

We have a slate of jobs opening up - apologies, only have a LinkedIn link for now: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/delyno-dutoit_city-of-cape-town-jobs-linkedin-activity-7361684604451221504-hJb1
Will update and do a lon…

New positions in the City of Cape Town Data Analytics Hub! | Delyno du Toit
New positions in the City of Cape Town Data Analytics Hub! The Hub is the next chapter for our highly successful Data Science team, expanding its mission to be the nerve center for data-driven strategy and innovation across our entire organization. What if your next data product could help manage a City's water supply or your models make public transport more efficient? We are looking for curious and talented individuals to join us. We have several open positions: -) Head: Data Science -) H…

I just copped on that the ring placement was all wrong in my ASCII goatse archive. My apologies. I have corrected all of the files now. https://github.com/theodric/asciigoatse/

So I’ll fly no more on Boeing
So high into the sky,
Though the fares be e’er so tempting —
For I just don’t wish to die.
For the engineering’s sketchy
And the workmanship is trash.
And the planes they sometimes wobble —
Then they tilt, and plunge, and crash.
Though the sky was made for soaring,
Like a hawk that circles high.
Yet I’ll no more board a Boeing —
For I’m not so keen to die.
Hugh Iglarsh

A Byronic Ode to Boeing
(Apologies to His Lordship ... and inspired by His Hackship Ted Cruz, chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, who

edit: this is the danger of going by scrolling text on a TV. Apparently this was not the same Superman as is in the current movie. That detail was ommited from the scroll. apologies!
A Superman actor (Dean Cain, not of the current movie) enrolled as an ICE agent. GROSS.
Go see the good Superman in the movie today!
Also, Christopher Reeve Superman because he was a good person too.
#ice #fascism

"AI" fakes the trenchcoat but claims to have made new towers of raccoon
(apologies to @… for hijacking his thread)
https://

Wife made pasta with homemade pesto (using basil from our garden) and garlic.
Actually enough garlic, by my standards.
I'm not sure exactly how much she put in, but probably at least one full bulb in the pound of pasta. Maybe more.
It's one of the few things I've ever eaten where there's so much garlic it actually feels slightly spicy.
Apologies to any vampires within a five-mile radius.

The Maru OS is old BTW. My apologies for OP not being clear about that. 😳🙏

Apologies for the rant about religion, just, I'm never going to not be mad and disappointed in the US and the foolish things people expected me to believe.

How fucked up UK society is? The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (which is volunteer run and afaict doesn't receive any form of support, financial or other, from the Royal family beyond the stupid name-prefix), is being bashed for *checks notes* saving lives on sea because the literal Nazis don't appreciate who's being saved:
«RNLI crew makes no apologies for saving migrants' lives in English Channel»
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dejyg4l37o

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sinéad O’Connor:
🎵 All Apologies
#SinéadOConnor 🖤
https://sinadoconnor.bandcamp.com/track/all-apologies-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5nJ96pOx3kXvmISLO7xKIb
🎶 show playlist 👇
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🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg

My apologies to Theo for the unspeakable things I'm doing to his fine operating system

“Another Shōtoku: History and Mythmaking in Modern Japanese Religion” A Virtual Book Talk with Dr. Orion Klautau, Tohoku University
https://ift.tt/u2fF1Oe
New Journal and CFP: Inaugural Issue of Central Europe Yearbook Now Available The…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Interesting piece in Nature last week about Antarctic research infrastructure. China has just opened it's fifth station, as the US retreats from science in general, and especially polar research. Many countries in Europe are also rather weakly present in the Antarctic, and there is no common EU programme.
In Denmark, we haven't even ratified the Madrid protocols for environmental protection of Antarctica, never mind signed the Antarctic Treaty. In spite of the actually rather strong Danish input to Antarctic research in general - much of which is driven by the fact that our future sea level rise will be largely determined by what happens in the Antarctic.
#Antarctica #PolarREsearch #ArcticScience #PolarScience
Edit: broken link, apologies, try this
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02157-x

Replaced article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[1/1]:
- Chatbot apologies: Beyond bullshit
P. D. Magnus, Alessandra Buccella, Jason D'Cruz

My apologies to anyone in the UK who sees this:
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