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heise | Home Assistant: Haus smart steuern mit interaktivem Grundriss
Mit Home Assistant lassen sich Grundrisse erstellen, um das Smart Home zu steuern. Per KI sind die sogar einfach aufhübschbar, etwa im Retro-Pixelstil.

Every company is undergoing an invisible reorg. You report to your boss but your boss reports to an #AI, offloading the job of management entirely onto a bot and then merely communicating its wishes back to the team.
This is the Nothing Manager, surrounded by #LLM tools to avoid having to interact with…

AI is not an assistant – it's your new boss (The Everything App part 2)
As managers continue to outsource data-gathering and decision-making to LLMs, the person above you on the org chart is transforming into a chatbot's clerk – and leaving product teams with the consequences.

What would be a good role for an #AI assistant within a team consisting of multiple people?
Imagine a group of researchers working on a project, or teachers implementing a new approach, students working on an assignment together, or a small startup company launching a product.
What would be some tasks best delegated to an AI assistant (current tech) in these kinds of teams?
Maybe …

Next Woman Up: Ellie Perrigo, Player Personnel Assistant for the Kansas City Chiefs https://www.nfl.com/news/next-woman-up-ellie-perrigo-player-personnel-assistant-for-the-kansas-city-chiefs

btw.... Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

"We think of generating source code from a prompt as an AI-powered feature of modern IDEs, but the general problem has a rich history in research efforts and domain-specific programming systems." Join William Benton at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to hear him talk about the history of program synthesis, its relationship to the history of AI, and the lessons we can learn from it today.
Learn more:

"Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task"
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.08872
"[…] While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four mont…

"LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring."
Brain scans confirmed significantly fewer neural connections for LLM users
Stop using LLMs if you value your brain
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872…

heise | Smart Plugs und Home Assistant: Kaffeemaschine, Flurlicht und Co. automatisieren
Smarte Zwischenstecker lassen sich in Home Assistant integrieren, was wiederum praktische Automationen erlaubt. Wir liefern Beispiele.

Wissenschaftler:innen haben herausgefunden: Wer ChatGPT oder andere Bullshit-Generatoren nutzt, verblödet innerhalb kurzer Zeit.
#LLM

New study on the effects of LLM use (in this case on essay writing):
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four month…

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalo…

Dear Apple SwiftUI friends, this bug is killing the vibe of our users: FB16257334
Repro for those in the community:
https://github.com/feedback-assistant/reports/issues/594

FB16257334: Inspector view bug · Issue #594 · feedback-assistant/reports
Date: 2024-01-07 Resolution: Open Area: SwiftUI OS: iPadOS 18.1 Type: Incorrect/Unexpected Behavior Keywords: SwiftUI, split view, iPadOS, NavigationSplitView Description Simple NavigationSplitView...

„While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, #LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.“ #AI

Google rolls out "scheduled actions" in the Gemini app, allowing AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers to ask the AI assistant to perform tasks at specific times (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/681762/google-gemini-schedul…

Google Gemini can now handle scheduled tasks like an assistant
Google is rolling out a new “scheduled actions” feature in Gemini that lets subscribers ask Gemini to carry out tasks at certain times.

Who replaces George Pickens in Pittsburgh? Steelers assistant says team's No. 2 WR is already on roster

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/who-re…

Growing a Modular Framework for Modal Systems- HOLMS: a HOL Light Library
Antonella Bilotta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10048 https://…

Growing a Modular Framework for Modal Systems- HOLMS: a HOL Light Library
The present dissertation introduces the research project on HOLMS (\textbf{HOL} Light Library for \textbf{M}odal \textbf{S}ystems), a growing modular framework for modal reasoning within the HOL Light proof assistant. To provide an accessible introduction to the library, the fundamentals of modal logic are outlined first, followed by a concise manual for the proof assistant itself. The core contribution of this work on HOLMS is the development of a unified and modular strategy for proving adequ…

Are there really still people who don't believe that working for Donald Trump will end badly for them?
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-appoints-22-y-o-ex-gardener-grocery-store-assistant-as-u…

Trump Appoints 22-Year-Old Ex-Gardener and Grocery Store Assistant to Lead U.S. Terror Prevention
Counter-terror chief was pulling up weeds just five years ago.

The ATLAS Virtual Research Assistant
H. F. Stevance, K. W. Smith, S. J. Smartt, S. J. Roberts, N. Erasmus, D. R. Young, A. Clocchiatti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09778

The ATLAS Virtual Research Assistant
We present the Virtual Research Assistant (VRA) of the ATLAS sky survey which performs preliminary eyeballing on our clean transient data stream. The VRA uses Histogram Based Gradient Boosted Decision Tree Classifiers trained on real data to score incoming alerts on two axes: "Real" and "Galactic". The alerts are then ranked using a geometric distance such that the most "Real" and "Extra-galactic" receive high scores; the scores are updated when new light curve data is obtained on subsequent vi…

Beyond the Hype: Mapping Uncertainty and Gratification in AI Assistant Use
Karen Joy, Tawfiq Ammari, Alyssa Sheehan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09220 https:…

Beyond the Hype: Mapping Uncertainty and Gratification in AI Assistant Use
This paper examines the gap between the promises and real-world performance of emerging AI personal assistants. Drawing on interviews with early adopters of devices like Rabbit R1 and Humane AI Pin, as well as services like Ohai and Docus, we map user experiences through the lens of Uses and Gratifications and Uncertainty Reduction Theory. We identify three core types of user uncertainty, functional, interactional, and social, and explore how each disrupts different user gratifications. We show…

"Comparative review on Primo Research Assistant, Scopus AI, Web of Science Research Assistant and a explainer for AI search for librarians" by Aaron Tay: https://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2025/05/comparative-review-…

#Trump does it again. There NO low to which this lunatic will not stoop.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-appoints-22-y-o-ex-gardener-grocery-store-assistant-as-us-homeland-department-terrorist-chief/

In the digital age, misinformation spreads rapidly, making it increasingly difficult to ensure the integrity of information. AI presents new opportunities to support fact-checking and news classification. Join Giovanna Monti and Lucian Precup as they share insights from their work developing an AI-driven platform integrating search capabilities, an intelligent assistant and a RAG system.
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Congratulations to YDS alum Toni Alimi '15 M.A.R. He has been appointed Assistant Professor in Religion at Princeton University! https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/05/29/board-approves-14-new-faculty-appointments

Board approves 14 new faculty appointments
The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of 14 faculty members, including one full professor and 13 assistant professors.

"Assistant Professor of History Invitation
Brian - Your management skills are impressive and made your boss a lot of money. Why not use them to build something of your own?"
YES!!! Just look at the filthy lucre that my department chair is rolling in. It could - NO, IT SHOULD - be mine!!!!

Where Brian Schottenheimer stands among NFC East head coaches https://insidethestar.com/where-brian-schottenheimer-stands-among-nfc-east-head-coaches

My apartment management company has joined the undisclosed-AI bandwagon.

SocialCredit
Thabassum Aslam, Anees Aslam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12099 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12099

SocialCredit+
SocialCredit+ is AI powered credit scoring system that leverages publicly available social media data to augment traditional credit evaluation. It uses a conversational banking assistant to gather user consent and fetch public profiles. Multimodal feature extractors analyze posts, bios, images, and friend networks to generate a rich behavioral profile. A specialized Sharia-compliance layer flags any non-halal indicators and prohibited financial behavior based on Islamic ethics. The platform emp…

The Washington Post names Adam O'Neal, Washington correspondent for The Economist, as its new opinion editor (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/the-economists-oneal-to-become-washington-post…

The Economist's O'Neal to become Washington Post opinion editor - Talking Biz News
Adam O’Neal, Washington correspondent for The Economist, has been hired as opinion editor at The Washington Post. He has been at The Economist since September 2023. Before that, he was at The Dispatch as executive editor. Previously, O’Neal was an editorial page writer at The Wall Street Journal. Before that, he was an assistant op-ed […]

ALEA IACTA EST: A Declarative Domain-Specific Language for Manually Performable Random Experiments
Baltasar Tranc\'on y Widemann, Markus Lepper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11794

ALEA IACTA EST: A Declarative Domain-Specific Language for Manually Performable Random Experiments
Random experiments that are simple and clear enough to be performed by human agents feature prominently in the teaching of elementary stochastics as well as in games. We present Alea, a domain-specific language for the specification of random experiments. Alea code can either be analyzed statically to obtain and inspect probability distributions of outcomes, or be executed with a source pseudo-randomness for simulation or as a game assistant. The language is intended for ease of use by non-expe…

They have to overextend further and further to justify their crimes. We must hold on.
#kilmarabregogarcia

#today will be surfing the #NewScientist article splurge, getting ready to 'onboard' my friend as RA (Research Assistant) to help me find a good solutiion for a particularly knotty issue, and going to the dentist. (The last may not be good since I've had a persistent issue for a coup…

Puh. #HomeAssistant wirft native Installationen und 32Bit-Systeme (incl. ARM) ausm Support. Sehr schade. Jetzt geht nur noch VM oder Container, also noch mehr Abstraktion und Rumpaketiere zwischen HA und dem System, was kaputt gehen kann. Alles sehr unschön, da HAOS viele Geräte nicht sauber unterstützt und Container viele Einschränkungen bei Netzwerk und Sicherheit hat. :/

Hello #Android #Automotive OS 16.... Looks like the left panel has changed, and there's now an assistant button where the volume button was before, but, on the whole, #Android16

After hanging around in Dutch parliament for 35 years (8 years as assistant and speech writer for VVD, 27 years as MP), far-right Wilders just blew up his first own coalition, because the other parties didn't sign up for his new list of anti-refugee/asylumseeker ideas.

How an AI assistant developed by Brazilian nonprofit NoHarm is helping pharmacists in remote Amazon clinics process prescriptions more quickly and catch errors (Pedro Nakamura/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-amazon-ai-healthcare-prescript…

AI is making health care safer in the remote Amazon
At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It’s frontier tech meets frontier medicine — with global implications.

Tenure-Track Position: Assistant Professor in African-American / African Religions – Claremont McKenna College
https://ift.tt/3vbX5Te
Applications due by November 15 Follow this link to the posting at the Claremont McKenna College…
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Tenure-Track Position: Assistant Professor in African-American / African Religions - Claremont McKenna College - American Society of Church History
Applications due by November 15 Follow this link to the posting at the Claremont McKenna College Website The Department of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the early assistant professor level in African-American/African Religions. The position will begin on July 1, 2025. The successful candidate is expected…

Raiders RB coach shares amazing story of learning father’s identity https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-rb-coach-shares-amazing-story-of-learning-fathers-identity-3384991/

I was looking for this yesterday, and couldn’t find it —a TUI coding assistant for #Helix and #NeoVim
Because I still cannot bring myself to useto #vscode

GitHub - kamilmac/unibear: A lean TUI AI assistant.
A lean TUI AI assistant. Contribute to kamilmac/unibear development by creating an account on GitHub.

Has anyone used an intel arc 310 sparkle eco for speech to text?
For context, looking at local speech to text for home assistant because why not. Might be missing something obvious btw, just remembered the A310 exists so was wondering if it was good haha.
#homeassistant #intel

Sometimes I create really really really useful plugins for #NeosCMS.
I present: Norman Nodly, the super amazing AI assistant
He watches what you do, and gives you super motivational messages when you get feedback from the Neos backend, like when you publish successfully. He also understands more than 2 inquiries!

SOVA-Bench: Benchmarking the Speech Conversation Ability for LLM-based Voice Assistant
Yixuan Hou, Heyang Liu, Yuhao Wang, Ziyang Cheng, Ronghua Wu, Qunshan Gu, Yanfeng Wang, Yu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02457

SOVA-Bench: Benchmarking the Speech Conversation Ability for LLM-based Voice Assistant
Thanks to the steady progress of large language models (LLMs), speech encoding algorithms and vocoder structure, recent advancements have enabled generating speech response directly from a user instruction. However, benchmarking the generated speech quality has been a neglected but critical issue, considering the shift from the pursuit of semantic accuracy to vivid and spontaneous speech flow. Previous evaluation focused on the speech-understanding ability, lacking a quantification of acoustic …

OUP hasn’t suddenly turned evil, this has been going on for years now.
Here’s another reason why not to publish in DSH.
https://www.alpsp.org/news-publications/industry-news/oxford-university-pre…

app.electricitymaps.com kennt ihr alle, oder? Nette Grafiken!
Habe ich gerade in home assistant integriert. Und nu?
Was macht ihr so mit home assistant? Habt ihr must read links für mich?
Meine Level 1 Automatisierung wäre z.B. dass bei Wettervorhersage Sonnenschein der Speicher nicht vor 11 Uhr anfangen soll zu laden und lieber um 8 Uhr eingespeist werden soll, statt um 12. Mal sehen, ob das geht.

ContextBuddy: AI-Enhanced Contextual Insights for Security Alert Investigation (Applied to Intrusion Detection)
Ronal Singh, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Surya Nepal, Cecile Paris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09365

ContextBuddy: AI-Enhanced Contextual Insights for Security Alert Investigation (Applied to Intrusion Detection)
Modern Security Operations Centres (SOCs) integrate diverse tools, such as SIEM, IDS, and XDR systems, offering rich contextual data, including alert enrichments, flow features, and similar case histories. Yet, analysts must still manually determine which of these contextual cues are most relevant when validating specific alerts. We introduce ContextBuddy, an AI assistant that learns from analysts' prior investigations to help them identify the most relevant context for new alerts. Rather than …

AutoGen Driven Multi Agent Framework for Iterative Crime Data Analysis and Prediction
Syeda Kisaa Fatima, Tehreem Zubair, Noman Ahmed, Asifullah Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11475

AutoGen Driven Multi Agent Framework for Iterative Crime Data Analysis and Prediction
This paper introduces LUCID-MA (Learning and Understanding Crime through Dialogue of Multiple Agents), an innovative AI powered framework where multiple AI agents collaboratively analyze and understand crime data. Our system that consists of three core components: an analysis assistant that highlights spatiotemporal crime patterns, a feedback component that reviews and refines analytical results and a prediction component that forecasts future crime trends. With a well-designed prompt and the L…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05616 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Validating Quantum State Preparation Programs
One of the key steps in quantum algorithms is to prepare an initial quantum superposition state with different kinds of features. These so-called state preparation algorithms are essential to the behavior of quantum algorithms, and complicated state preparation algorithms are difficult to develop correctly and effectively. This paper presents Pqasm: a high-assurance framework implemented with the Coq proof assistant, allowing us to certify our Pqasm tool to correctly reflect quantum program beh…

The nice thing about large language models is, that there are so many to choose from. 🤡🤯
@… Assistant for the rescue!

No Stupid Questions: An Analysis of Question Query Generation for Citation Recommendation
Brian D. Zimmerman, Julien Aubert-B\'educhaud, Florian Boudin, Akiko Aizawa, Olga Vechtomova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08196

No Stupid Questions: An Analysis of Question Query Generation for Citation Recommendation
Existing techniques for citation recommendation are constrained by their adherence to article contents and metadata. We leverage GPT-4o-mini's latent expertise as an inquisitive assistant by instructing it to ask questions which, when answered, could expose new insights about an excerpt from a scientific article. We evaluate the utility of these questions as retrieval queries, measuring their effectiveness in retrieving and ranking masked target documents. In some cases, generated questions end…

This is yet another reason why @… and I prefer Signal.
https://bark.lgbt/@morgann/114573458516732593

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14453 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Self-Attention Assistant Classification of Non-Hermitian Phases in Two-Dimensional Lattice
Classification of the non-Hermitian phases in high-dimensional lattice becomes challenging due to interplay of the band topology and non-Hermiticity. The significant increase in data dimensions and the number of categories has rendered traditional supervised learning and unsupervised manifold learning failed. Here, we propose the self-attention assistant machine learning for clustering non-Hermitian phases in two-dimensional lattice. By incorporating the self-attention mechanism, the model can …

When the #AI #coding assistant you are using keeps writing poor code:
"Please pay attention to what we've already discussed and don't reimplement the bad ideas you've tried previously."
And when it insists on saying stupid crap:
"I don't believe this, try searching the web."
🥴

Amazon says over 1M people now have access to Alexa , up from "hundreds of thousands" in May, and plans to "make it even more broadly available over the summer" (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684560/amazo

More than a million people now have Alexa Plus
Amazon’s generative AI-powered smart voice assistant launched in March and is slowly reaching more homes.

APPARENTLY web kits like Wix now offer an AI assistant that builds your web template, but of course you are trapped.
So, asking for a friend 🤣, is there anything similar that spits out a WordPress template his father can actually use? 🙄
Admittedly his wix looks good, but I could-a tol' him, only noooo…

Unpacking Graduate Students' Learning Experience with Generative AI Teaching Assistant in A Quantitative Methodology Course
Zhanxin Hao, Haifeng Luo, Yongyi Chen, Yu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02966

Unpacking Graduate Students' Learning Experience with Generative AI Teaching Assistant in A Quantitative Methodology Course
The study was conducted in an Advanced Quantitative Research Methods course involving 20 graduate students. During the course, student inquiries made to the AI were recorded and coded using Bloom's taxonomy and the CLEAR framework. A series of independent sample t-tests and poisson regression analyses were employed to analyse the characteristics of different questions asked by students with different backgrounds. Post course interviews were conducted with 10 students to gain deeper insights int…

Wow, what a weird rabbit-hole I just ended up down.
So, the “Spread Mastodon" page (tutorial?) recommends a cool-sounding browser extension as an alternative to all those constantly-dead 'fedifinder' / Twitter-person-looker-upper-tools: the ‘Whosum Social Assistant' browser extension.
Sounds cool! Sounds like the correct solution to this problem!

Schotty Ball: How Brian Schottenheimer is approaching his big shot https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/schotty-ball-how-brian-schottenheimer-is-approaching-his-big-shot

NFL news roundup: Bills promote Terrance Gray to assistant general manager https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-friday-may-30

Cynthia Kaiser, the FBI's ex-deputy assistant director leading cyber policy, intel, and engagement, is leaving to join cybersecurity company Halcyon as SVP (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/cynthia-kaiser-fbi-halcyon-ransomware/

Top FBI cyber official Cynthia Kaiser exits for Halcyon
The 20-year bureau pro wants to see what it’s like to fight ransomware from the private sector.

Schotty Ball: How Brian Schottenheimer is approaching his big shot https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/schotty-ball-how-brian-schottenheimer-is-approaching-his-big-shot

Microsoft put their half-assed AI assistant into fucking Notepad?!?!?
On second thought, that's probably just it's speed...

'No sir': Ravens asst. Pagano done with being HC https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45459783/ravens-chuck-pagano-says-want-head-coach-again

Neural and Cognitive Impacts of AI: The Influence of Task Subjectivity on Human-LLM Collaboration
Matthew Russell, Aman Shah, Giles Blaney, Judith Amores, Mary Czerwinski, Robert J. K. Jacob
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04167

Neural and Cognitive Impacts of AI: The Influence of Task Subjectivity on Human-LLM Collaboration
AI-based interactive assistants are advancing human-augmenting technology, yet their effects on users' mental and physiological states remain under-explored. We address this gap by analyzing how Copilot for Microsoft Word, a LLM-based assistant, impacts users. Using tasks ranging from objective (SAT reading comprehension) to subjective (personal reflection), and with measurements including fNIRS, Empatica E4, NASA-TLX, and questionnaires, we measure Copilot's effects on users. We also evaluate …