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If LLMs Can Code, Why Are We Building More IDEs?
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/if-llms-can-code-why-are-we-building-more-ides

"The waste of having processes that create defects and then use inspection to catch them is certainly something to avoid. A significant part of the effort in code reviews should be geared toward capturing learning that can be applied to current processes to improve them so fewer bugs are created in the future.
..."

»Amazon-Entwickler am Limit – KI-Druck verwandelt Programmieren in Fließbandarbeit:
Software-Entwickler:innen bei Amazon beklagen widrige Arbeitsumstände. Sie müssen mittlerweile Code wie am Fließband schreiben. Welche Ursache dieser neue Leistungsdruck hat.«
Wenn dies nicht mehr Fehler so wie anfälligeren Code und unbehobene Probleme durch "ungebildete" Lösungen der Angestellten ergibt?
🧑‍💻

Amazon-Entwickler am Limit: KI-Druck verwandelt Programmieren in Fließbandarbeit - t3n – digital pioneers
Software-Entwickler:innen bei Amazon beklagen widrige Arbeitsumstände. Sie müssen mittlerweile Code wie am Fließband schreiben. Welche Ursache dieser neue Leistungsdruck hat. Bei Amazon stehen einige Veränderungen für Mitarbeiter:innen an. Zuletzt wurde etwa bekannt, dass der Onlinehändler Homeoffice-Möglichkeiten weiter einschränkt. Zudem gab es erste Personalkürzungen, durch die eine Umstrukturierung der Amazon-Struktur angestoßen werden soll. Die Veränderungen merken […]

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.gxiw.J6H-w4YDQCIZ&a…

An interview with Claude AI product lead Scott White on Claude Code writing 90% of its own code, MCP, coding being accessible to non-technical workers, and more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/from-chatbo

Die ePetition 183010 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Wohnraumförderung mit dem Titel
Abschaffung oder Erhöhung der Einkommensgrenze im KfW-Programm 308 „Jung kauft Alt“
kann bis zum Montag 11. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird die Abschaffung oder Erhöhung der Einkommensgre…

Die ePetition 183010 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Wohnraumförderung mit dem Titel
Abschaffung oder Erhöhung der Einkommensgrenze im KfW-Programm 308 „Jung kauft Alt“
kann bis zum Montag 11. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird die Abschaffung oder Erhöhung der Einkommensgre…

AnyAni: An Interactive System with Generative AI for Animation Effect Creation and Code Understanding in Web Development
Tianrun Qiu, Yuxin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21962

AnyAni: An Interactive System with Generative AI for Animation Effect Creation and Code Understanding in Web Development
Generative AI assistants have been widely used in front-end programming. However, besides code writing, developers often encounter the need to generate animation effects. As novices in creative design without the assistance of professional designers, developers typically face difficulties in describing, designing, and implementing desired animations. To address this issue, we conducted a formative study (N=6) to identify the challenges that code developers face when dealing with animation desig…

The combo of #dotnet run app.cs in #dotnet 10, Spectre. Console.Cli and the shebang operator make for a pretty neat development experience.
I just need #JetBrains tools to recognize script files a…

Try it. AI or "smart autocomplete" is getting better...
"A.I. Videos Have Never Been Better. Can You Tell What’s Real?"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0

A.I. Videos Have Never Been Better. Can You Tell What’s Real?
In this quiz, you can guess whether these videos were made by A.I.

the Plant Labeler strikes again
this guy is going all over SF labeling sidewalk plants with a QR code to his vibe-coded AI landscaping startup. he thinks you’ll think he created these gardens
he didn’t, and can’t even tell what are weeds: he’s labeled invasive thistle and pellitory

ISI-Aware Code Design: A Linear Approach Towards Reliable Molecular Communication
Tamoghno Nath, Krishna Gopal Benerjee, Adrish Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23787

ISI-Aware Code Design: A Linear Approach Towards Reliable Molecular Communication
Intersymbol Interference (ISI) is a major bottleneck in Molecular Communication via Diffusion (MCvD), degrading system performance. This paper introduces two families of linear channel codes to mitigate ISI: Zero Pad Zero Start (ZPZS) and Zero Pad (ZP) codes, ensuring that each codeword avoids consecutive bit-1s. The ZPZS and ZP codes are then combined to form a binary ZP code, offering a higher code rate than linear ZP codes and allowing simple decoding via the Majority Location Rule (MLR). Ad…

SAGE: Spliced-Audio Generated Data for Enhancing Foundational Models in Low-Resource Arabic-English Code-Switched Speech Recognition
Muhammad Umar Farooq, Oscar Saz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22143

SAGE: Spliced-Audio Generated Data for Enhancing Foundational Models in Low-Resource Arabic-English Code-Switched Speech Recognition
This paper investigates the performance of various speech SSL models on dialectal Arabic (DA) and Arabic-English code-switched (CS) speech. To address data scarcity, a modified audio-splicing approach is introduced to generate artificial CS speech data. Fine-tuning an already fine-tuned SSL model with the proposed Spliced-Audio Generated (SAGE) data results in an absolute improvement on Word Error Rate (WER) of 7.8% on Arabic and English CS benchmarks. Additionally, an Experience Replay (ER) in…

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Why We Couldn't Sell America on U.S.A.I.D. (William Herkewitz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/opinion/usaid-ending.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Sk8.S0WF.DcnUETVIYoeb&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p6#a250630p6

Work on parts of Trump’s elections executive order is getting underway - Votebeat
https://www.votebeat.org/2025/06/30/trump-executive-order-elections-voluntary-voting-system-guidelines-barcode-qr-code/

There’s a new museum on Naoshima Island! This NYT article also describes the many other museums and exhibits installed there.
This is the “art island” that Lynn and I visited a couple months ago. Looks like we’ll have to go back! This time we’ll know to book rooms way in advance (and to stay longer than two nights).
🎁 link

Japanese Islands’ 10th Tadao Ando Museum Caps a Billionaire’s Quest
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake.

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
SERVALAN: I must advise Central Security. [Crosses to comm] We have to introduce a new code system immediately.
TRAVIS: No, no. If the code system is changed Blake will know we are on to him.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/364 B7…

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

heise | KI-Code mit Metal parallelisieren: So geht es mit Apples API
Large-Language-Modelle haben einen immensen Bedarf an Rechenleistung. Wir zeigen, wie man mit Apples Metal-API sequenziellen Code von der CPU auf die GPU lädt.

“Let’s play #baseball, everyone. It’s time for the 120th Midnight Sun game, live from Fairbanks, #Alaska, 153 miles from the Arctic Circle, on the longest day of the year.”

Baseball in the Everlasting Light of Fairbanks, Alaska
For more than a century, baseball teams in Fairbanks have played at midnight on the summer solstice, illuminated only by the sun.

So #Gentoo #Python eclasses are pretty modern, in the sense that they tend to follow the best practices and standards, and eventually deal with deprecations. Nevertheless, they have a long history and carry quite some historical burden, particularly regarding to naming.
The key point is that the eclasses were conceived as a replacement for the old eclasses: "distutils" and "python". Hence, much like we revision ebuilds, I've named the matching eclasses "distutils-r1" and "python-r1". For consistency, I've also used the "-r1" suffix for the remaining eclasses introduced at the time: "python-any-r1", "python-single-r1" and "python-utils-r1" — even though there were never "r0"s.
It didn't take long to realize my first mistake. I've made the multi-impl eclass effectively the "main" eclass, probably largely inspired by the previous Gentoo recommendations. However, in the end I've found out that for the most use cases (i.e. where "distutils-r1" is not involved), there is no real need for multi-impl, and it makes things much harder. So if I were naming them today, I would have named it "python-multi", to indicate the specific use case — and either avoid designating a default at all, or made "python-single" the default.
What aged even worse is the "distutils-r1" eclass. Admittedly, back when it was conceived, distutils was still largely a thing — and there were people (like me) who avoided unnecessary dependency on setuptools. Of course, nowadays it has been entirely devoured by setuptools, and with #PEP517 even "setuptools" wouldn't be a good name anymore. Nowadays, people are getting confused why they are supposed to use "distutils-r1" for, say, Hatchling.
Admittedly, this is something I could have done differently — PEP517 support was a major migration, and involved an explicit switch. Instead of adding DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517 (what a self-contradictory name) variable, I could have forked the eclass. Why didn't I do that? Because there used to be a lot of code shared between the two paths. Of course, over time they diverged more, and eventually I've dropped the legacy support — but the opportunity to rename was lost.
In fact, as a semi-related fact, I've recognized another design problem with the eclass earlier — I should have gone for two eclasses rather than one: a "python-phase" eclass with generic sub-phase support, and a "distutils" (or later "python-pep517") implementing default sub-phases for the common backends. And again, this is precisely how I could have solved the code reuse problem when I introduced PEP517 support.
But then, I didn't anticipate how the eclasses would end up looking like in the end — and I can't really predict what new challenges the Python ecosystem is going to bring us. And I think it's too late to rename or split stuff — too much busywork on everyone.

“I’ve never hurt anyone!” – Elon Musk
Kills 300,000 children. https://mas.to/@bascule/114598860129053617

Die ePetition 182072 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Führerscheinwesen mit dem Titel
Keine automatische Anordnung einer MPU oder Zweifeln an der Fahreignung aufgrund ärztlich verordneter Medikation bei ADHS
kann bis zum Montag 11. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert…

Die ePetition 182072 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Führerscheinwesen mit dem Titel
Keine automatische Anordnung einer MPU oder Zweifeln an der Fahreignung aufgrund ärztlich verordneter Medikation bei ADHS
kann bis zum Montag 11. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert…

LMPVC and Policy Bank: Adaptive voice control for industrial robots with code generating LLMs and reusable Pythonic policies
Ossi Parikka, Roel Pieters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22028

LMPVC and Policy Bank: Adaptive voice control for industrial robots with code generating LLMs and reusable Pythonic policies
Modern industry is increasingly moving away from mass manufacturing, towards more specialized and personalized products. As manufacturing tasks become more complex, full automation is not always an option, human involvement may be required. This has increased the need for advanced human robot collaboration (HRC), and with it, improved methods for interaction, such as voice control. Recent advances in natural language processing, driven by artificial intelligence (AI), have the potential to answ…

linux: Linux source inclusions (v3.16)
A network of Linux (v3.16) source code file inclusion. Nodes represent source files and a directed edge indicates if one file includes another.
This network has 30837 nodes and 213954 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/linux

Alt 1/2 (excluding code blocks):
Copilot Al:
copyBegin and copyEnd are not clamped to numPixels, which could lead to copying beyond buffer if the number of destination pixels is smaller than the cache length. Consider clamping copyBegin and copyEnd to [O, numPixels].
haileys: This Al slop is wrong, copying beyond the end of the buffer is exactly what this PR fixes.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00006 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

Personality-Guided Code Generation Using Large Language Models
Code generation, the automatic creation of source code from natural language descriptions, has garnered significant attention due to its potential to streamline software development. Inspired by research that links task-personality alignment with improved development outcomes, we conduct an empirical study on personality-guided code generation using large language models (LLMs). Specifically, we investigate how emulating personality traits appropriate to the coding tasks affects LLM performance…

"Little else matters than to write good code."
-- Karl Lehenbauer

@… I was thinking of you when I just tried this AI prompt: “> spawn 5 agents using batchtool to replace the react webui with html/css with no javascript, remove all the react code and references, keep the same functionality and layout. “. I will let you know how it works out. It’s a throwaway app at this point anyway, but it it works I’ll keep it this way.…

For years, execs and managers were able to get away with pretending to do some kind of job - and #AI has greatly accelerated their ability to pretend.
Unfortunately, that led to garbage strategy and garbage execution. The quality of #UX suffered. The stability, performance, and security of code degraded…

The AI Hangover Era (The Everything App Part 3)
Some leaders are starting to realize the extent to which AI has broken their ability to prioritize and ship value. Others are still doubling down.

r-graph-gallery.com provides example code for a variety of chart types, both in base R and ggplot: #rstats

Saw this "Followed hashtags" collapsible list on mastodon.social (v4.4.0 nightly), wondering how long the list of hashtags will be.
Turns out it's hard-coded to 4 🤷‍♂️
- Initial PR: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

Beyond Code: The Multidimensional Impacts of Large Language Models in Software Development
Sardar Fatooreh Bonabi, Sarah Bana, Tingting Nian, Vijay Gurbaxani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22704

Beyond Code: The Multidimensional Impacts of Large Language Models in Software Development
Large language models (LLMs) are poised to significantly impact software development, especially in the Open-Source Software (OSS) sector. To understand this impact, we first outline the mechanisms through which LLMs may influence OSS through code development, collaborative knowledge transfer, and skill development. We then empirically examine how LLMs affect OSS developers' work in these three key areas. Leveraging a natural experiment from a temporary ChatGPT ban in Italy, we employ a Differe…

@…
1. Looking for libraries/examples in a given language for a specific purpose.
2. Sometimes I'm searching for code that uses a certain library/API to understand how others use it.
3. Sometimes I misuse an API and then look for other projects that made the same mistake and need fixing.
4. Sometimes I search for code that uses one of my l…

Take, for example, permissions. We have an onerous permission model that stops a user acting as another, but sandboxing applications is mostly absent, except on mobile devices. This is because in the 1970s, you could trust the code, but you couldn’t trust the people! Now, computers are used by individuals, and we don’t trust the software, but the model hasn’t caught up.
I think the ideas in the essays are salient and really helpful in imagining what might have been, and what could be.

My #Workflow With #AI: How I Code, Test, and Deploy Faster Than Ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E610yzqQw

Very good points, a reply to a CEO who wondered why his engineers were resistant to using LLMs for coding:

Die ePetition 181409 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Gesundheitsfachberufe mit dem Titel
Pflegepersonaluntergrenzen jetzt auch für Notaufnahmen
kann bis zum Montag 11. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Pflegepersonaluntergrenzen jetzt auch für Notaufnahmen – schützt endlich die Pflege
u…

Die ePetition 181409 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Gesundheitsfachberufe mit dem Titel
Pflegepersonaluntergrenzen jetzt auch für Notaufnahmen
kann bis zum Montag 11. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Pflegepersonaluntergrenzen jetzt auch für Notaufnahmen – schützt endlich die Pflege
u…

California Rolls Back Its Landmark Environmental Law (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/california-environment-newsom-ceqa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TE8.B0UZ.zKi4gTibOf4R&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p161#a250630p161

Bad moon rising…
("releasing" hundreds)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/climate/national-climate-assessment-authors-dismissed.html?unlocked_article_cod…

So @… wrote about using assembler in @…:

Writing Inline Assembly in the Crystal Programming Language
Introduction When you want to make your code run significantly faster, or just want to...

#GiftLink
Bush, Obama and Bono Commend USAID Staff Members on Their Last Day - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/usaid-staff-obama-bush-bono.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TE8.1hUV.grexh4wSs2ec&smid=url-share

Spin non-Collinear Real-Time Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory and Implementation in the Modern GPU-Accelerated INQ code
Jacopo Simoni, Xavier Andrade, Wuzhang Fang, Andrew C. Grieder, Alfredo A. Correa, Tadashi Ogitsu, Yuan Ping
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21908

Spin non-Collinear Real-Time Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory and Implementation in the Modern GPU-Accelerated INQ code
Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) is a theory that describes the time evolution of quantum mechanical many-electron systems under the influence of external time-dependent electric and magnetic fields. INQ is a specially designed software to efficiently solve the real-time TDDFT equations on graphics processing units (GPUs), which aim to overcome the computational limitation of time and size scales of non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. In this work we will present an implementation…

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.
Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?
Here's the actual impact.
"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

Spectropolarimetric synthesis of forbidden lines in MHD models of coronal bright points
Ernest Alsina Ballester, Daniel N\'obrega-Siverio, Fernando Moreno-Insertis, Supriya Hebbur Dayananda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23884

Spectropolarimetric synthesis of forbidden lines in MHD models of coronal bright points
The inference of the magnetic field vector from spectropolarimetric observations is crucial for understanding the physical processes governing the solar corona. We investigate which information on the magnetic fields of coronal bright points (CBP) can be gained from the intensity and polarization of the Fe XIII 10747 A, Fe XIV 5303 A, Si X 14301 A, and Si IX 39343 A forbidden lines. We apply the P-CORONA synthesis code to a CBP model in the very low corona, obtained with the Bifrost code, and t…

Vibe coding: programming through conversation with artificial intelligence
Advait Sarkar, Ian Drosos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23253 https://

Vibe coding: programming through conversation with artificial intelligence
We examine "vibe coding": an emergent programming paradigm where developers primarily write code by interacting with code-generating large language models rather than writing code directly. We analysed a curated set of videos depicting extended vibe coding sessions with rich think-aloud reflections. Using framework analysis, we investigated programmers' goals, workflows, prompting techniques, debugging approaches, and challenges encountered. We find that vibe coding follows iterative goal satis…

»Neue Generation« ruft Revolution aus
https://nd.digital/editions/nd.DerTag/2025-05-31/articles/18…

If you are interested in the multiple moving parts needed to get #mte support for #qemu's #gdbstub you might find my colleges blog post interesting:

Adding Support for MTE debugging to QEMU | Blog | Linaro
This blog post explains how Linaro enabled QEMU to debug MTE (Memory Tagging Extension) code on machines that support this feature. We'll start by explaining MTE and what was needed to enable debugging. Then, we'll describe the components we upstreamed to GDB and QEMU to make it work.

I cannot figure out how to use Github Copilot in @… @… on demand.
Is it a way to make it work like code assist? Basically trigger it with a shortcut.
I don’t want it turned on all the time spewing text right in front of what I write.

from my link log —
Why is there a "small house" in IBM's code page 437?
https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/why-is-there-a-small-house-in-ibm-s-code-page-437/
saved 2025-04-12

Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437?
There's a small house in the moddle of IBM's Code Page 437. Why?

CodeGuard: A Generalized and Stealthy Backdoor Watermarking for Generative Code Models
Haoxuan Li, Jiale Zhang, Xiaobing Sun, Xiapu Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20926

CodeGuard: A Generalized and Stealthy Backdoor Watermarking for Generative Code Models
Generative code models (GCMs) significantly enhance development efficiency through automated code generation and code summarization. However, building and training these models require computational resources and time, necessitating effective digital copyright protection to prevent unauthorized leaks and misuse. Backdoor watermarking, by embedding hidden identifiers, simplifies copyright verification by breaking the model's black-box nature. Current backdoor watermarking techniques face two mai…

I think the main chat channel for the live coding conference @… is on the 'live code earth' telegram group:
https://t.me/ xVw8n42FHk84MTc0
I hear it w…

'Failure Imminent': When LLMs In a Long-Running Vending Business Simulation Went Berserk
https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/31/2112240/failure-imminent-when-llms-in-a-long-running-vending-business-simulati…

'Failure Imminent': When LLMs In a Long-Running Vending Business Simulation Went Berserk - Slashdot
Long-time Slashdot reader lunchlady55 writes: A pair of researchers investigating the ability of LLMs to coherently operate a simulated vending machine business have recorded hilariously unhinged behavior in many of the current "advanced" LLMs. The LLMs were equipped with several "tools" (code the ...

#MCP Claude Code = 💥
#MCP Claude Code Aider = 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥
https://github.com/michabbb/aider-…

type TimeoutID = ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>;
const n: TimeoutID = setTimeout(...
clearTimeout(n)
Use this so that your typescript code works no matter the environment
No longer will I need to ask is this code using NodeJS.Timeout or number (browser)
#typescript #webdev

Die ePetition 180180 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Vermögensteuer mit dem Titel
Vermögenssteuer auf alle Vermögensarten
kann bis zum Montag 11. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Ich fordere den Deutschen Bundestag auf, die Vermögenssteuer auf alle Vermögensarten wieder zu aktivieren. Vermögen …

Die ePetition 180180 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Vermögensteuer mit dem Titel
Vermögenssteuer auf alle Vermögensarten
kann bis zum Montag 11. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Ich fordere den Deutschen Bundestag auf, die Vermögenssteuer auf alle Vermögensarten wieder zu aktivieren. Vermögen …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16968 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAR_…

CASS: Nvidia to AMD Transpilation with Data, Models, and Benchmark
We introduce \texttt{CASS}, the first large-scale dataset and model suite for cross-architecture GPU code transpilation, targeting both source-level (CUDA~$\leftrightarrow$~HIP) and assembly-level (Nvidia SASS~$\leftrightarrow$~AMD RDNA3) translation. The dataset comprises 70k verified code pairs across host and device, addressing a critical gap in low-level GPU code portability. Leveraging this resource, we train the \texttt{CASS} family of domain-specific language models, achieving 95\% sourc…

Sources: Elon Musk engaged in intense drug use during the 2024 presidential campaign, as he juggled the messy consequences of efforts to produce more babies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon

Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama on Trump’s Campaign Trail
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

The VLAI Severity model is accessible via API. Here is a simple example from a recent Ivanti vulnerability description from their vulnerability webpage.
The VLAI Security model for vulnerabilities is accessible via vulnerability-lookup and the public instance operated by CIRCL.
So, if you have a vulnerability description, you can quickly assess it to get a general idea of its severity.

curl -X 'POST' \
  'https://vulnerability.circl.lu/api/vlai/severity-classifi…

linux: Linux source inclusions (v3.16)
A network of Linux (v3.16) source code file inclusion. Nodes represent source files and a directed edge indicates if one file includes another.
This network has 30837 nodes and 213954 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/linux

Something here touching on people modelling systems based on a simplified abstraction. (aka why seemingly simple government processes are surprisingly expensive to run.)
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e11-your-model-is-naive-and-its-not-the/…

s19e11: Your Model is Naive and it’s Not The Territory
0.0 Context Setting Friday, May 30, at the Code for America Summit in a hotel in Washington, D.C. I am in, fittingly, a hallway. I am also jetlagged. There...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21845 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

On the Efficacy of the Peeling Decoder for the Quantum Expander Code
The problem of recovering from qubit erasures has recently gained attention as erasures occur in many physical systems such as photonic systems, trapped ions, superconducting qubits and circuit quantum electrodynamics. While several linear-time decoders for error correction are known, their error-correcting capability is limited to half the minimum distance of the code, whereas erasure correction allows one to go beyond this limit. As in the classical case, stopping sets pose a major challenge …

As Elon Musk became one of Donald J. Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies and donating about $275 million to help him win the presidency,
he was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according topeople familiar with his activities.
Musk’s drug consumption went well beyond occasional use.
He told people he was taking so much ketamine, a powerful anesthetic, that it was affecting his bladder, a known effect of chronic use.
He to…

Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama on Trump’s Campaign Trail
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

Really, Secretary Rubio? I'm Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump? (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/opinion/rubio-usaid-africa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU8.j-Or.1ReLGqoFasLk&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p26#a250531p26

Afterburner: Reinforcement Learning Facilitates Self-Improving Code Efficiency Optimization
Mingzhe Du, Luu Tuan Tuan, Yue Liu, Yuhao Qing, Dong Huang, Xinyi He, Qian Liu, Zejun Ma, See-kiong Ng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23387

Afterburner: Reinforcement Learning Facilitates Self-Improving Code Efficiency Optimization
Large Language Models (LLMs) generate functionally correct solutions but often fall short in code efficiency, a critical bottleneck for real-world deployment. In this paper, we introduce a novel test-time iterative optimization framework to address this, employing a closed-loop system where LLMs iteratively refine code based on empirical performance feedback from an execution sandbox. We explore three training strategies: Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and G…

Die ePetition 178266 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Migrationspolitik mit dem Titel
Einleitung der schnellstmöglichsten (möglichst freiwilligen) Rückführung syrischer Menschen mit temporärem Aufenthaltsstatus
kann bis zum Montag 11. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird geford…

Die ePetition 178266 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Migrationspolitik mit dem Titel
Einleitung der schnellstmöglichsten (möglichst freiwilligen) Rückführung syrischer Menschen mit temporärem Aufenthaltsstatus
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Great article from NYT about sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan from the UAE. For me it illustrates the bigger problem of the middle-east/gulfstates, the absence of any meaningful democracy, too rich oligarchs with too much power. Politically the people are living in medieval times there.

Conquering Soccer and Arming Warlords
The Emirati vice president is best known as the owner of Manchester City, a top English soccer team. Behind the scenes, he has been described as the “handler” guiding his country’s secret foreign wars.

SACL: Understanding and Combating Textual Bias in Code Retrieval with Semantic-Augmented Reranking and Localization
Dhruv Gupta, Gayathri Ganesh Lakshmy, Yiqing Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20081

SACL: Understanding and Combating Textual Bias in Code Retrieval with Semantic-Augmented Reranking and Localization
Retrieval-Augmented Code Generation (RACG) is a critical technique for enhancing code generation by retrieving relevant information. In this work, we conduct an in-depth analysis of code retrieval by systematically masking specific features while preserving code functionality. Our discoveries include: (1) although trained on code, current retrievers heavily rely on surface-level textual features (e.g., docstrings, identifier names), and (2) they exhibit a strong bias towards well-documented cod…

Trump Officials Unveil Budget Cuts to Aid for Health, Housing and Research (Tony Romm/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/white-house-budget-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU8.iKtq.sQY9xDlSiSs8&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p21#a250531p21

Sources: Palantir's Foundry is now deployed in at least four federal agencies, after Trump signed an EO calling for the government to share data across agencies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/…

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
ELDON: Hmm.
PRELL: Check its code number.
ELDON: [Puts on a visor with an attached single lens] Fourteen twenty- nine.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/349 B7B2

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The mild-mannered David Brooks gets fierce. Eloquently.
I’m Normally a Mild Guy. Here’s What’s Pushed Me Over the Edge. - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opinion

Opinion | The Trump World Idea That’s Pushed Me Over the Edge
Trumpism can be seen as a giant attempt to amputate the highest aspirations of the human spirit and to reduce us to our most primitive, atavistic tendencies.

Trump, Bashing the Federalist Society, Asserts Autonomy on Judge Picks (Charlie Savage/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/trump-judges-nominations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LU8.67al.TV7M3LuXBybz&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p11#a250531p11

Snippets in Visual Studio Code
You can easily define your own snippets without any extension.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editing/userdefinedsnippets#_create-your-own-snippets

This comes down to the cyberlibertarian roots of most digital movements (thing Archive.org, EFF, EDRI etc.): To them "open" is a value in itself and any political values are read as "restrictions" or "regulation" or "lack of freedom".
https://indieweb.social/@jaredw…

Synthesizing Performance Constraints for Evaluating and Improving Code Efficiency
Jun Yang, Cheng-Chi Wang, Bogdan Alexandru Stoica, Kexin Pei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23471

Synthesizing Performance Constraints for Evaluating and Improving Code Efficiency
Large Language Models (LLMs) have been increasingly used to optimize code efficiency. Evaluating their effectiveness and further suggesting optimization opportunities often rely on high-quality tests to demonstrate the performance bottlenecks presented in the program. However, existing approaches rely on a limited set of hand-curated inputs or LLM-generated uninteresting length-stressing tests, failing to reveal more nuanced optimization opportunities. We present WEDGE, a framework for generati…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07529 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Optimal number of stabilizer measurement rounds in an idling surface code patch
Logical qubits can be protected against environmental noise by encoding them into a highly entangled state of many physical qubits and actively intervening in the dynamics with stabilizer measurements. In this work, we numerically optimize the rate of these interventions: the number of stabilizer measurement rounds for a logical qubit encoded in a surface code patch and idling for a given time. We model the environmental noise on the circuit level, including gate errors, readout errors, amplitu…

“This is the new model,”
the secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick, said in an interview with CNBC last month,
“where you work in these kind of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here.”
The reality is that this particular campaign
— this effort to de-skill the working population of the United States
— is more likely to immiserate the country and impoverish its residents than it is to inaugurate a golden age of prosp…

Opinion | Trump Is Waging War on the Future
We can contest the dark dreams of those in power.

U.N. Inspector Says Iran Could Be Enriching Fuel Again in a 'Matter of Months' (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/us/politics/un-iran-nuclear-program-enrichment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Sk8.rXji.vZ38L-H11Vde&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p93#a250629p93

Series D, Episode 02 - Power
TARRANT: Why?
AVON: Because that was my instruction.
DAYNA: You told Orac not to crack the code?
TARRANT: Why do that?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/505 B7B6

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Begins Debating Bill That Would Add at Least $3.3 Trillion to Debt (Annie Karni/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/29/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.Sk8.YIoe.wCVCGaxLE54y&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p69#a250629p69

ReCode: Updating Code API Knowledge with Reinforcement Learning
Haoze Wu, Yunzhi Yao, Wenhao Yu, Huajun Chen, Ningyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20495

ReCode: Updating Code API Knowledge with Reinforcement Learning
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable code generation capabilities but falter when adapting to frequent updates in external library APIs. This critical limitation, stemming from reliance on outdated API knowledge from their training data, even with access to current documentation, impedes reliable code generation in dynamic environments. To tackle this issue, we propose ReCode (rule-based Reinforcement learning for Code Update), a novel framework that mimics human programmer adaptatio…

Series D, Episode 02 - Power
TARRANT: Why?
AVON: Because that was my instruction.
DAYNA: You told Orac not to crack the code?
TARRANT: Why do that?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/505 B7B6

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A new approximate Eastin-Knill theorem
Transversal encoded gatesets are highly desirable for fault tolerant quantum computing. However, a quantum error correcting code which exactly corrects for local erasure noise and supports a universal set of transversal gates is ruled out by the Eastin-Knill theorem. Here we provide a new approximate Eastin-Knill theorem for the single-shot regime when we allow for some probability of error in the decoding. In particular, we show that a quantum error correcting code can support a universal set …

Hands-on with seven coding agents tasked with building a website: Claude Code performed best, OpenAI's Codex lacked polish, and Replit failed to build the site (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/what-i-learned-trying-seven-…

What I learned trying seven coding agents
There's still room for improvement, but don't underestimate this technology.

CCISolver: End-to-End Detection and Repair of Method-Level Code-Comment Inconsistency
Renyi Zhong, Yintong Huo, Wenwei Gu, Jinxi Kuang, Zhihan Jiang, Guangba Yu, Yichen Li, David Lo, Michael R. Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20558

CCISolver: End-to-End Detection and Repair of Method-Level Code-Comment Inconsistency
Comments within code serve as a crucial foundation for software documentation, facilitating developers to communicate and understand the code effectively. However, code-comment inconsistency (CCI) can negatively affect software development, testing, and maintenance. Recent efforts to mitigate this issue have emerged, but existing studies often suffer from inaccurate datasets and inadequate solutions, weakening their practical effectiveness. In this study, we first conduct a quantitative analysi…

Q&A with Peter Thiel on economic and technological stagnation, US growth and dynamism, supporting President Trump in 2016, the future and risks of AI, and more (Ross Douthat/New York Times)
https:…

Opinion | Peter Thiel and the Antichrist
The original tech right power player on A.I., Mars and immortality.

Can LLMs Replace Humans During Code Chunking?
Christopher Glasz, Emily Escamilla, Eric O. Scott, Anand Patel, Jacob Zimmer, Colin Diggs, Michael Doyle, Scott Rosen, Nitin Naik, Justin F. Brunelle, Samruddhi Thaker, Parthav Poudel, Arun Sridharan, Amit Madan, Doug Wendt, William Macke, Thomas Schill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.198…

Can LLMs Replace Humans During Code Chunking?
Large language models (LLMs) have become essential tools in computer science, especially for tasks involving code understanding and generation. However, existing work does not address many of the unique challenges presented by code written for government applications. In particular, government enterprise software is often written in legacy languages like MUMPS or assembly language code (ALC) and the overall token lengths of these systems exceed the context window size for current commercially a…

How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/upshot/republicans-medicaid-cuts-paperwork.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Sk8.42Eb.FOClm95vHJAO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p10#a250629p10

Sources: Uber is in talks with Travis Kalanick to help fund his acquisition of Pony.ai's US arm; Pony.ai has permits to operate robo taxis in the US and China (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

Uber in Talks With Travis Kalanick to Fund Self-Driving Car Deal
The ride-hailing company is in talks to help Mr. Kalanick, who was forced out in 2017, purchase an autonomous vehicles start-up as robot taxi service Waymo gains momentum.

Re-Evaluating Code LLM Benchmarks Under Semantic Mutation
Zhiyuan Pan, Xing Hu, Xin Xia, Xiaohu Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17369 https://

Re-Evaluating Code LLM Benchmarks Under Semantic Mutation
In the era of large language models (LLMs), code benchmarks have become an important research area in software engineering and are widely used by practitioners. These benchmarks evaluate the performance of LLMs on specific code-related tasks, such as code understanding and generation. A critical step in constructing code benchmarks is the design of prompts. However, as existing code benchmarks typically rely on a single prompt template per task, they are prone to the issue of prompt sensitivity…

Senate Takes Up Trump's Policy Bill, as G.O.P. Scrounges for Votes to Pass It (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/us/politics/senate-republicans-reconciliation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Sk8.biK_.7BdCGPeLtonK&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p17#a250629p17

Political Violence Is Part of the American Story. It Is Also Changing. (Shaila Dewan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/us/political-violence-minnesota-assassination.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.U-s6.Jl_066s4tFJ_&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p97#a250628p97

Alaska Cannot Survive This Bill (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/opinion/alaska-republican-bill-policy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SE8.ETnF.7pWXdIQ2Hl61&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p13#a250628p13

Concerns Grow Over Dire Conditions in Immigrant Detention (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/us/immigrant-detention-conditions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.Mu4Z.fCqHWEjS6h6a&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p38#a250628p38