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I have my own CLI parser - a fork of the old kingpin - and over time its evolved to have deep runtime introspection among other unique features.
Here using that to generate web based help viewers and I think this is a pretty sweet idea, will have to think how to incorporate this into my doc sites.
Short 2 minute video and screenshots
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Idleness is Relative: Exploiting Tool-Call Idle Windows for Offloading in Agentic Systems with MORI
Tian Xia, Hanchen Li, Zhifei Li, Xiaokun Chen, Hao Kang, Yifan Qiao, Yi Xu, Ion Stoica
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00866 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.00866 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.00866
arXiv:2606.00866v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Modern LLM serving systems increasingly host agentic workloads, whose sessions issue tens of model invocations interleaved with tool calls, accumulating KV cache that can be reused across steps. As requests' total KV cache size easily exceeds GPU HBM capacity, researchers offload them to CPU DRAM. However, tool-call durations span orders of magnitude, and the cost of transferring KV cache between tiers makes it impractical to re-place entries on every call. We observe that agentic programs exhibit a two-phase structure: busy phases of rapid short tool calls and idle phases dominated by long-running calls. Current eviction policies such as LRU fail to capture this property. A binary busy/idle label also falls short because the ratio of busy to idle programs may not match the hardware's GPU-to-CPU capacity ratio. When it does not, one tier sits underutilized while the other is oversubscribed, wasting memory or forcing unnecessary evictions. We present MORI, an agent serving system that solves the above problem. Our key insight is that idleness is a continuous, relative spectrum. MORI ranks all active programs by idleness, assigns the busiest to GPU HBM and the most idle to CPU DRAM, dynamically shifts the partition boundary to match hardware capacity, and enforces admission control at each memory tier. Evaluated on real coding agent workloads collected from Claude Code across four GPU and model pairs, MORI delivers 20--71% higher throughput and 18--43% lower TTFT than the best baseline with offloading.
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product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Scenario-conditioned flow matching for probabilistic generation of three-component ground-motion waveforms
Yi Ding, Jinjun Hu, Su Chen, Xianwei Liu, Zhongxiang Zhang, Zongchao Li, Xiaojun Li, Lili Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31340 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.31340 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.31340
arXiv:2606.31340v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Performance-based seismic risk assessment requires three-component acceleration histories compatible with specified source, path, and site conditions. Conventional ground-motion prediction equations provide scalar intensity measures, while many generative waveform models learn amplitude and waveform shape within a single high-dimensional target. We present WaveFlowGMM, a two-stage probabilistic ground-motion model that uses peak ground acceleration (PGA) as an amplitude interface between scenario conditioning and waveform generation. The amplitude stage uses physics-informed symbolic learning to estimate component-wise PGA medians and a full cross-component covariance. The waveform stage uses few-step AlphaFlow in an invertible wavelet-packet coefficient space to generate normalised three-component histories that are rescaled by sampled PGA. Tests on an event-level NGA-West2 holdout set show that the generated motions recover the main magnitude, distance, and site scaling, keep peak and spectral residuals close to zero, preserve three-component amplitude dependence, and yield velocity and displacement histories without systematic drift after integration of the generated three-component acceleration histories. The framework provides an interpretable and computationally efficient candidate component for waveform-level seismic hazard and risk analysis.
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Siri (Beta) is really interesting.
On one hand, I don't have to trust any new parties with my data. Apple already has it since they have my mobile devices, so if they were going to maliciously steal (e.g.) my email contents, they could already do that. This opens the door to a whole bunch of LLM data based interrogation that I wouldn't trust with other providers.
…on the other hand, the "on-device only" Siri falls over immediately when disabling the internet c…

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

“9to5Mac’s Take: Data brokers are a form of business which quite simply shouldn’t be allowed to exist.”
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/20/ai-companies-and-data-brokers-even-resort-to-fake-forms-to-keep-selling-our-data/…

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product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …