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Watching the Padres at #Dodgers, aside from it should be a good game I’m wondering if the SNLA (a team subsidiary I assume) announcers will talk about the big news story.

Modern US republicans.
(Original title: Standing Aside Athwart History)
https://leftycartoons.com/2025/07/12/standing-aside-athwart-history/

Standing Aside Athwart History
This cartoon is by me and Jenn Manley Lee. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. Each panel shows the same two characters, wealthy men, as they relax inside an exclusive country club.…

So - Google has introduced (what the claim at the moment) will be an open protocol for AI agents to make purchases on behalf of individuals named AP2.
Putting aside current issues with AI in general such as hallucinations, I think that I may have hit a breaking point with acronyms.
AP2 API B2B SDK CVE

• A threat actor using A…

Google launches new protocol for agent-driven purchases | TechCrunch
Called the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), the system is meant to be interoperable between AI platforms, payment systems and vendors.

These whiny cowards are really getting on my nerves. Aside from that I have not seen anything good there in a long time, maybe it has to do with AI, who knows. Either way I would rather spend the 50 dollars a year on something more useful, like a subscription to Rapidgator 😏 at least there you get something for your money 😜

> "The UK government has leapt into the AI hype [...] including a Clippy-style assistant to help citizens navigate complex forms and legal jargon, rather than simply making them clearer in the first place.
"Simply" doing a lot of work in that snarky aside, eh?
It is hard to convey how much work - much of it beyond tech - has to go into making extant multi-stakeholder systems simpler.

UK drafts AI to help Joe Public decipher its own baffling bureaucracy
: Virtual agents to guide citizens through red tape – but not remove any of it

Multiple-Mode Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing with Index Modulation
Guangyao Liu, Tianqi Mao, Yanqun Tang, Jingjing Zhao, Zhenyu Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13037

Multiple-Mode Affine Frequency Division Multiplexing with Index Modulation
Affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM), a promising multicarrier technique utilizing chirp signals, has been envisioned as an effective solution for high-mobility communication scenarios. In this paper, we develop a multiple-mode index modulation scheme tailored for AFDM, termed as MM-AFDM-IM, which aims to further improve the spectral and energy efficiencies of AFDM. Specifically, multiple constellation alphabets are selected for different chirp-based subcarriers (chirps). Aside from cl…

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
KRANTOR: [To Avon] Stand aside from your friend's chair, sir. If he loses the game, you might share his shock.
CROUPIER: Les jeux sont fait.
[Loading bay. Blake is standing beside Docholli, his gun aimed at Travis.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/476

AI infrastructure company Pinecone's CEO Edo Liberty will step aside and into a new role as chief scientist; ex-Google executive Ash Ashutosh will become CEO (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/data-managemen…

Jakobi Meyers ready to put trade request aside to help Raiders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/09/04/raiders-wr-jakobi-meyers-is-ready-to-put-his-trade-request-aside/85…

"Public strongly backs aim of 30% of land and sea set aside for nature, poll finds"
#Oceans #Environment #Nature

One of the most worrying things I find about LLMs at the moment is how normalised it's becoming to just chat to it like a friend or confidant and even so far as to ask it for therapy. I don't mean amongst tech bros and nerds, I mean amongst normal people.
It just seems so reckless. Aside from the problem of hallucinations, these things are built to have an agenda. No sane person should ever ever ever ask Zuckerberg, Musk or Altman for a mental health vibe check

Leave aside for the moment that both of those plans are morally horrendous. That matters, it’s the thing that matters most, but leave it aside for just long enough to notice:
This is a fracture point in the MAGA coalition.
5/

Brian Burns brushes aside Giants' defense hype: 'We look great on paper, but we ain't done s--- yet'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brian-b

Eatman: Plenty to like – aside from the final score https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/eatman-plenty-to-like-aside-from-the-final-score

Joking aside, this advice is generally pretty good. Reducing social media usage *definitely* improves my mental health. The less time I use my phone, the better my focus is. Dopamine purges *really* help increasing creativity. Most of the things he's saying are pretty spot on, but I literally can't finish some tasks without help. My brain is just wired in a way that makes listening to a podcast while doing chores basically necessary. I just can't go to a normal gym. I go to a climbing gym because it make exercise actually interesting.
There are a lot of hacks ADHD folks have to use to do "normal" stuff. Neurotypical folks just can't seem to comprehend that.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Sleater‐Kinney:
🎵 Step Aside
#SleaterKinney
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Z1G48R7n658TPJbLyOiLx

Yesterday, I've attended the MSE Research Data Forum 2025 organised by #NFDIMatWerk. Aside from the conference presentations, our little ontologies group was meeting and discussing future work on ontologies in NFDI-MatWerk, including NFDIcore, MatWerk Application Ontologies, and PMDcore.

Why do companies hire billionaire CEOs anyway? Wouldn't they be better off hiring someone more aligned with the average product/service user? Someone who can push the company forward and not upset everyone aside from investors and shareholders?

Sonnet 076 - LXXVI
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O! know sweet love I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;…

‘Neutrality should not be an option’: why are so many artists now speaking out on Gaza? https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/10/neutrality-shou…

Everyone needs to watch 'dissolve' by Paul Foot, especially you. Seriously, set aside 1h10m for it. It could change everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83GoFbnjX0s

"If Gas Stations charged like Electricity"
Funny because it's true
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gas-stations-charged-like-electricity-matt-roderick-nokkf/

If Gas Stations charged like Electricity
Ever wondered why most people ignore energy, despite how much it affects daily life? Picture your local petrol station tossing aside simple pricing and embracing all the delightfully baffling billing mechanisms from the world of electricity. Grab a calculator, a calendar, and maybe a PhD, because yo

Everything else aside, it’s an embarrassment that #Memphis officials are (still!) coddling this racist man-child.
Check the national and world news, Mayor Young, _this_ is what our city is becoming known for. Memphis, Tennessee, home of the polluting #Nazi propaganda factory. What of our City’s great l…

Do transit planners realize they're helping the anti-Mamdani frenzy by publishing their pieces? Of *course* you're getting attention for your fares-are-good-actually writing now, despite the fact that no one cares about this normally - because billionaire media wants whatever they can use against Mamdani.
(As an aside, you also sound incredibly obnoxious when voters are like "we want fast & free buses" and you respond with "well actually..")

Jesse Raub (@jesseraub.bsky.social)
damn, it's also like he's already advocating for all of those things as part of his proposal. it's like maybe you didn't even read what his free bus fare policy included

@… the bonfire builders actually call themselves bonfire engineers. They can be quite impressive, but the dangers of these are just wild.
Kids climb them and they scale is just not what people think. Setting aside the sectarian bit, this is an example of one of these community bonfire

All jokes about the disaster that is finding documents in Sharepoint or moving images in Word aside, is Microsoft really ready to unleash AI on the world? Outlook's 'book time to meet' feature doesn't recognise all of Outlook's options for pre-booked time, showing time marked as 'working elsewhere' as free.

"It is past time for both Jeffries and Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition. Whether you are a Democrat, or simply a democrat, we all deserve better."
https://www.theguardia…

Attorney General Pam Bondi told tech companies that they could
lawfully violate a statute barring American companies from supporting TikTok
based on a sweeping claim that Trump has the constitutional power to set aside laws.
In letters to companies like Apple and Google,
Ms. Bondi wrote that Trump had decided that shutting down TikTok would interfere with his
“constitutional duties,”
so the law banning the social media app must give way to his
“core …

How the Trump Administration Justified Ignoring the TikTok Ban
In purporting to license otherwise illegal conduct by tech firms, President Trump set a precedent expanding executive power, legal experts warned.

The scale of investment and the involvement of governments means ROI must be found (or rather created) now, by any means necessary! Demand already is being forcefully created to justify these expenditures. Business models, regulations and policies/politics are pivoted in lockstep. Aside from all the conceptual, ethical and environmental issues of LLMs and their required infrastructure, these shifts are already also impacting chip/hardware production pipelines and start spelling the end of pe…

samim (@samim@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6m, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* As a % of GDP, spending on AI infra has already exceeded spending on telecom and internet infrastructure from the dot-com boom—and it’s still growing. This spending is so big it’s acting as a sort of privat…

So, an interesting aside, I watched “Ironheart” last week and enjoyed it enough to write a positive review on Plex (gave it an extra 1/2-1 star cos apparently racist/misog chuds have been review bombing it) & some bozo tried to review bomb my review 😂
After his second comment I looked & he’s been downvoting every positive review (that I checked) of the show and I’m like “Jesu, find something useful to do with your life”.
smdh

10 fantasy football targets who can go from trash to treasure in 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6549661/2025/08/13/fantasy-football-2025-bounce-back-players/

gangnam style wasn't enough. every place must have a -style pop song with an absolutely incomprehensible amount of youtube views before humanity can set aside its differences and truly come together

Eatman: Plenty to like – aside from the final score https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/eatman-plenty-to-like-aside-from-the-final-score

I rewrote my simple bash script that installs Go to a nushell script and it's waaay more readable, aside of not having any of the asininities of bash

I read Bostrom's book SUPERINTELLIGENCE back when I worked at Google —
Blaise A— insisted that it go on the "AI" SF book club reading list
(as an aside: I started the book club; we were mostly reading, uh, cautionary stories)
SUPERINTELLIGENCE is garbage, & I said so: throw around big numbers until your moral calculus has a floating-point overflow & you can be convinced of obviously crazy things
(phrasing wasn't so clean at the time)
.…

Setting aside copyright/commercial/other aspects, a thought about writing blog posts that LLMs train on. When people write posts, they (a) feel good about helping others, and (b) hope to get some credit and visibility for doing so.
When mediated through LLMs, no longer the satisfaction that your consumer is a human (who might comment, thank, share, etc.); nor the cred that comes from people remembering the author, posting on HN, etc.
That is, it totally destroys the incentive str…

Thiel is fully supportive of burning up the Earth & dumping it for Mars.
Put aside the other jackass that wants to "Occupy Mars" & the utter stupidity of leaving Earth...
...who do you think he believes can/should AFFORD to leave earth after he's used all its resources?
https://

You will easily find people who claim the correctness of their claims by their age — because obviously people get wiser as they age. But do they?
Well, surely, you gain more experiences — but not all these experiences are positive. So aside from becoming "wiser", you also become more biased. For one, I know that I have many more prejudices than I used to have, but I'd rather fight them than call them "wisdom of age".
Secondly, there's something I'd like to call "worldview sunken cost fallacy". People would rather clutch at straws and reach even more extreme views, than admit that they've been wrong their entire life.
And thirdly, there's the matter of "authority". People would rather believe complete bullshit than admit that someone younger than them is correct.

Ok jokes about #enshittification aside, I was happy to just discover that #Canadian show #Flashpoint was added to #Netflix.

Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports, far exceeding its public disclosure of 12,522 reports (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/uber-sexual-assault.html

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem
The company has tested tools that make rides safer, court records show. Measures to stem the violence have been set aside in favor of protecting the company’s business.

New York Times op-ed coming soon (probably):
Why Ionizing Radiation is Actually Good for You
“Sprinkle fallout on your breakfast cereal and you’ll feel warm all day,” says HHS Secretary rfk jr, “I did that starting this morning, and aside from the hair loss and my stomach lining sloughing off, I feel great!”
#USpol

htop you did a great work but I must to say goodbye, you have to do a footstep aside and make way to btop 👏
#btop #htop #linux

Just thought about this hike that I did quite a while a go. I saw this tree standing aside the trail and I tried if it would make a good photo.
And actually I planned to go back there - which I still didn't!
Anyways. Just wanted to share it with you 🙂
#photography #trees

Cowboys $1 million placeholder may need to be set aside for offense to truly flourish https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/08/1m-rb-miles-sanders-placeholder-dal…

Foolishness and beer choices aside, shout out to this sessionable can of beer that survived the night without cracking nor deforming after I forgot it in the freezer. Military grade stuff, apocalypse friendly.

Prediction: interest in electrode-based BCIs will wane (aside from niches), as non-implantable ("non-invasive") phased array focused ultrasound will take over for both brain stimulation and measuring brain activity https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(20)…

Spousal conflit of interest issues aside for a moment... I may actually vomit if Danielle Smith's Alberta government introduces a “15-year master plan for introducing passenger trains across the province.“ when I have been advocating for this in BC for decades to absolute crickets (if not active denial) from all political parties in power.
#BCpoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Rail #Transportation #Sustainability
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-premier-s-husband-invited-to-passenger-rail-meetings-as-province-mulls-expansion-plan-1.7583358

Aside: The Mastodon release notes have clear and easy to follow upgrade steps, yay!
Now, perhaps written downgrade steps would be in order as well.

On Thursday 03.07. I'll have the honor of giving a talk with @… on "Fascist AI" in the "Loops" series of events (https://www.newpractice.net/loops

Loops Series
The Loops Event Series brings together perspectives on Art and Technology in relation to current challenges facing society. The event series is supported by the Berlin University Alliance.

I’d rate myself an #AI skeptic to agnostic. I hadn’t used the tools at all, because I had problems w/ creation of the models: resource usage, & IP theft, were top of mind. Hallucinations a big issue too.
But I tried it, and even though I can’t set aside my concerns I’ll say I was impressed.
I used Claude to produce a Zsh prompt to replace one I’ve used for years using Oh My Zsh.
What …

Zsh prompt from Claude
Zsh prompt from Claude. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Donald Trump's asylum ban at the U.S.-Mexico border,
saying Trump exceeded his authority when he issued a proclamation declaring illegal immigration an emergency and setting aside existing legal processes.
https:…

Stiefel optimization is NP-hard
Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, Tianyun Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02839 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.028…

Stiefel optimization is NP-hard
We show that linearly constrained linear optimization over a Stiefel or Grassmann manifold is NP-hard in general. We show that the same is true for unconstrained quadratic optimization over a Stiefel manifold. We will establish the nonexistence of FPTAS for these optimization problems over a Stiefel manifold. As an aside we extend our results to flag manifolds. Combined with earlier findings, this shows that manifold optimization is a difficult endeavor -- even the simplest problems like LP and…

The LED calibration systems for the mDOM and D-Egg sensor modules of the IceCube Upgrade
R. Abbasi, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03822 https://arxiv.o…

The LED calibration systems for the mDOM and D-Egg sensor modules of the IceCube Upgrade
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, instrumenting about 1 km$^3$ of deep, glacial ice at the geographic South Pole, is due to be enhanced with the IceCube Upgrade. The IceCube Upgrade, to be deployed during the 2025/26 Antarctic summer season, will consist of seven new strings of photosensors, densely embedded near the bottom center of the existing array. Aside from a world-leading sensitivity to neutrino oscillations, a primary goal is the improvement of the calibration of the optical properties…

Thermodynamics: A Clear Conceptual Framework
Joaquim Anacleto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02023 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02023

Thermodynamics: A Clear Conceptual Framework
Building on the fundamental equation, this study revisits key thermodynamic concepts in a cohesive and innovative manner. It demonstrates the consistency of thermodynamic theory while addressing and clarifying common misconceptions and errors found in the literature, particularly regarding discussions on heat and work. Although the latter two concepts could potentially be set aside, they can be retained if their various and different definitions are clearly articulated and properly understood. …

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

TOMI: Transforming and Organizing Music Ideas for Multi-Track Compositions with Full-Song Structure
Qi He, Gus Xia, Ziyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23094

TOMI: Transforming and Organizing Music Ideas for Multi-Track Compositions with Full-Song Structure
Hierarchical planning is a powerful approach to model long sequences structurally. Aside from considering hierarchies in the temporal structure of music, this paper explores an even more important aspect: concept hierarchy, which involves generating music ideas, transforming them, and ultimately organizing them--across musical time and space--into a complete composition. To this end, we introduce TOMI (Transforming and Organizing Music Ideas) as a novel approach in deep music generation and dev…

One of the reasons I appreciate walking, biking, and public transit so much (aside from just being a more joyful/connected way to travel, and better for our environment) is because they starve so many absolutely awful billionaires/corporations/oligarchs of profit. Oil companies, car manufacturers, large chain stores..
https://

Discovery of a Pair of Galaxies with Both Hosting X-ray Binary Candidates at $z=2.544$
Sijia Cai, Zheng Cai, Jianwei Lyu, Yunjing Wu, Xiaojing Lin, Mingyu Li, Junjie Mao, Jiayi Chen, Pengjun Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23230

Discovery of a Pair of Galaxies with Both Hosting X-ray Binary Candidates at $z=2.544$
Among high-redshift galaxies, aside from active galactic nuclei (AGNs), X-ray binaries (XRBs) can be significant sources of X-ray emission. XRBs play a crucial role in galaxy evolution, reflecting the stellar populations of galaxies and regulating star formation through feedback, thereby shaping galaxy structure. In this study, we report a spectroscopically confirmed X-ray emitting galaxy pair (UDF3 and UDF3-2) at $z = 2.544$. By combining multi-wavelength observations from JWST/NIRSpec MSA spe…

When you get the option to `Sign in with Google/Microsoft/Facebook` you're really using #OAuth. Aside from those platforms knowing what you're doing everywhere all the time, there are compelling reasons for both 3rd party services and users. (not many, but a few).
But if you DO link your #Microsoft /

Poor Software Product Management Chronicles: E-Auth, I-Auth, OAuth, Fuck Off
From the This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things department. When you are registering or logging into an online or app service and they ...

Oxide Interface-Based Polymorphic Electronic Devices for Neuromorphic Computing
Soumen Pradhan (Julius-Maximilians-Universit\"at W\"urzburg, Physikalisches Institut and W\"urzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Lehrstuhl f\"urTechnische Physik, Germany), Kirill Miller (Julius-Maximilians-Universit\"at W\"urzburg, Physikalisches Institut and W\"urzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, Lehrstuhl f\"urTechnische Physik, Germany), Fabia…

Oxide Interface-Based Polymorphic Electronic Devices for Neuromorphic Computing
Aside from recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) models, specialized AI hardware is crucial to address large volumes of unstructured and dynamic data. Hardware-based AI, built on conventional complementary metal-oxidesemiconductor (CMOS)-technology, faces several critical challenges including scaling limitation of devices [1, 2], separation of computation and memory units [3] and most importantly, overall system energy efficiency [4]. While numerous materials with emergent functionali…

"""
Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
"""
(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)

Donald Trump, the report’s two authors, Michael Sozan and Ben Olinsky, wrote:
is aggressively implementing a far-right, multipronged plan to create an imperial presidency.
Acting far more aggressively than he did in his first term,
Trump is casting aside the U.S. Constitution and federal laws,
shattering long-established guardrails designed to protect the system of checks and balances and using government power to stifle dissent.
Trump is asserting his primacy o…

Curvy points, the perimeter, and the complexity of convex toric domains
Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner, Nicki Magill, Dusa McDuff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23498

Curvy points, the perimeter, and the complexity of convex toric domains
We study the related notions of curvature and perimeter for toric boundaries and their implications for symplectic packing problems; a natural setting for this is a generalized version of convex toric domain which we also study, where there are no conditions on the moment polytope at all aside from convexity. We show that the subleading asymptotics of the ECH and elementary ECH capacities recover the perimeter of such domains in their liminf, without any genericity required, and hence the per…

There are these quite bold claims that LRMs are very adept at doing MY JOB (as a mathematician) [1].
Teaching and admin aside, what is it that we do in math and why?
Asvin G argues in [2] that we describe patterns in computation and predict results of computation much like physics predicts events in the world.
What do you think?
[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-secret-meeting-where-mathematicians-struggled-to-outsmart-ai/
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19787

#WritersCoffeeClub
27. How traditional is your writing? Which tradition?
28. What's the highest praise you've received as a writer?
29.Talk about an experience you've had with plagiarism.
---
27. Very. I put letters into words.
Jokes aside, it probably is. I am oldschool and generic. If I neglect typical writer schematics, it's often because I…

The real reason they are fighting, aside from obviously gaining huge media attention… is the huge media attention.
Once the insanity stops, they will have the cull, then take the eggs that they have from the flock and grow new birds plus get birds from elsewhere that also came from their flock.
It’s not rocket science, these people are just using the publicity to further their financial prospects. More Culture War grifters.
The screenshots are from the wayback machine, 2021 before they took down their website, for obvious reasons.
#charlatans #fools #antivax #grifters #ostrich #covid #birdflu

For the first time in over 80 years, young quaking aspens are growing tall and broad in the northern reaches of Yellowstone National Park.
The unexpected return of this iconic tree of the West is now being attributed to the return of another Western icon: the gray wolf.
What exactly do aspen trees and gray wolves have in common?
Aside from the color of their fur and bark, it’s the two species’ relationship with another of Yellowstone’s famous residents: elk

Hefty Aspen Saplings Not Seen in Yellowstone for 80 Years Attributed to Wolves' Welcome into Park
“The reintroduction of large carnivores has initiated a recovery process that had been shut down for decades,” says Painter in a statement.

Gov. approves funds for new Browns stadium https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45632687/ohio-governor-signs-budget-includes-funds-browns-stadium

Cowboys’ Dak Prescott confident in former Penn State star finding contract solution https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/dak-prescott-confident-micah-parsons-contract-solution/7ca22768826fd4c410a3f8a1

Machine Learning Workflow for Analysis of High-Dimensional Order Parameter Space: A Case Study of Polymer Crystallization from Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Elyar Tourani, Brian J. Edwards, Bamin Khomami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17980

Machine Learning Workflow for Analysis of High-Dimensional Order Parameter Space: A Case Study of Polymer Crystallization from Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Currently, identification of crystallization pathways in polymers is being carried out using molecular simulation-based data on a preset cut-off point on a single order parameter (OP) to define nucleated or crystallized regions. Aside from sensitivity to cut-off, each of these OPs introduces its own systematic biases. In this study, an integrated machine learning workflow is presented to accurately quantify crystallinity in polymeric systems using atomistic molecular dynamics data. Each atom is…

Sonnet 076 - LXXVI
Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O! know sweet love I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;…

"CEOs are extremely excited about the opportunities that AI brings," Elijah Clark,
a chief executive who advises other head honchos on using AI at their companies,
told Gizmodo in an interview.
"As a CEO myself, I can tell you, I'm extremely excited about it.
I've laid off employees myself because of AI."
Clark is one of many executives who've been strikingly honest about their intentions to cast aside their flesh and blood worker…

CEO Brags That He Gets "Extremely Excited" Firing People and Replacing Them With AI
A CEO who advises other CEOs on how to use AI to replace human jobs doesn't seem to be possessing a whole lotta guilt — or self-awareness.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that states may exclude Planned Parenthood clinics from providing medical screenings and other healthcare for women on Medicaid.
The court’s conservative majority cast aside the longstanding rule that said Medicaid patients may obtain medical care from any qualified provider.
In a 6-3 vote, the justices ruled the Medicaid Act does not give patients an “individual right” to the provider of their choice.
The dispute turned on abortion, even …

Supreme Court says states may bar women on Medicaid from using Planned Parenthood clinics
Conservative states that banned abortion are still fighting with Planned Parenthood, which provides medical screening for women.

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