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Queer As... A Podcast
we're yarning with queer Indigenous artists and creative practitioners about their work across the public imaginary...
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Just so you can guess where the "AI" thing is headed, look at this listing from a local community college
"AI made simple for everyday life"
... And look at what comes next:
"Flaggers certification"
The exciting thing (for bosses) is the idea that knowledge workers will be as interchangeable (and precarious) as DOT flaggers
#YouDeserveAUnion

Network Traffic as a Scalable Ethnographic Lens for Understanding University Students' AI Tool Practices
Donghan Hu, Rameen Mahmood, Annabelle David, Danny Yuxing Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09763

Network Traffic as a Scalable Ethnographic Lens for Understanding University Students' AI Tool Practices
AI-driven applications have become woven into students' academic and creative workflows, influencing how they learn, write, and produce ideas. Gaining a nuanced understanding of these usage patterns is essential, yet conventional survey and interview methods remain limited by recall bias, self-presentation effects, and the underreporting of habitual behaviors. While ethnographic methods offer richer contextual insights, they often face challenges of scale and reproducibility. To bridge this gap…

Certifying Quantum Gates via Automata Advantage
Anna Schroeder, Lucas B. Vieira, Jan N\"oller, Nikolai Miklin, Mariami Gachechiladze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09575 https:…

Certifying Quantum Gates via Automata Advantage
There is growing interest in developing rigorous tests of quantumness that are feasible even before practical quantum advantages become a reality. Such tests not only aim to certify the quantum nature of a system but also serve as benchmarks for precise quantum control. In this work, we argue that promise problems, studied in the theory of finite automata, provide a natural framework for designing sound tests of quantum gate quality. Soundness, the property that only implementations of sufficie…

Right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel recently told an audience that he pushed Tesla CEO and fellow billionaire Elon Musk not to give money to charity and instead horde it so it could be used to battle a future “Antichrist.”
According to a Thursday Reuters report, Thiel told attendees of closed-door event in San Francisco last month that he pressed Musk to rescind his commitment to the Giving Pledge, the charitable campaign cofounded by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates that asks signatories…

Instead of Charity, Peter Thiel Told Elon Musk to Use Billions for Right-Wing Crusade Against 'Antichrist' | Common Dreams
Billionaire Peter Thiel urges Elon Musk to hoard wealth to battle future "Antichrist." Thiel warns against giving to left-wing nonprofits.

Retirement is not the end, but a new beginning. Purpose evolves: consider mentoring, creative pursuits, or diving into health sciences. As Churchill said, "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." How will you redefine your purpose today? 🚀🌟

Creative Flourishing
Dives into the latest creative arts research and practice and asks how engaging with this might aid in human flourishing and have a positive impact upon our wellbeing...
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A Time-certified Predictor-corrector IPM Algorithm for Box-QP
Liang Wu, Yunhong Che, Richard D. Braatz, Jan Drgona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04467 https://

A Time-certified Predictor-corrector IPM Algorithm for Box-QP
Minimizing both the worst-case and average execution times of optimization algorithms is equally critical in real-time optimization-based control applications such as model predictive control (MPC). Most MPC solvers have to trade off between certified worst-case and practical average execution times. For example, our previous work [1] proposed a full-Newton path-following interior-point method (IPM) with data-independent, simple-calculated, and exact $O(\sqrt{n})$ iteration complexity, but not …

The Full Time Artist
Talking all things your creative craft, your practice and building your audience, The Full Time Artist Podcast is here to help driven creative humans turn their passion into their full time job...
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