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Spending 5% of GDP on "defence" – in reality, on preparing for war – is an arms race. Historically, arms races have very frequently led to war.
We should be spending at least some of that money on building peace – on building complex webs of social and commercial relationships between rival blocks, and strengthening the international institutions which, if respected, could realise the "rules-based international order".

Entropy and the general theory of peace – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Book chapter in Proceedings of the International Peace Research Association Second Conference. Vol. 1: Studies in Conflicts

«In the 1950 book “The Human Use of Human Beings,” the computer scientist Norbert Wiener […] argued that modern societies were run by means of messages. As these societies grew larger and more complex, he wrote, a greater amount of their affairs would depend upon “messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine.” Artificially intelligent machines can send and respond to messages much faster than we can, and in far greater volume—that’s one source …

Just finished "Dust" by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. A heavy but engrossing book, interwoven through a rich tapestry of Kenyan history. I learned a lot and was inspired to look up more, though that doesn't say much given my previous practically nonexistent knowledge of Kenyan history. Owuor's characters are complex and deeply interwoven, and her choices about what to reveal, when, and through whose voice, are immaculate. There is wisdom in this book, like Ajany's thought that we may each be born with a portion of madness to work through.
#AmReading

I'm currently reading the second book of the DAEMON (German: Darknet, English: Freedom), a techno thriller from Daniel Suarez.
Pretty cool I think.
But what's even cooler: I just checked his homepage ( https://daniel-suarez.com/daemon10thsynopsis.html ) and saw a Ma…

Effective Asymptotics of Combinatorial Systems
Carine Pivoteau, Bruno Salvy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20008 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20008

Effective Asymptotics of Combinatorial Systems
Analytic combinatorics studies asymptotic properties of families of combinatorial objects using complex analysis on their generating functions. In their reference book on the subject, Flajolet and Sedgewick describe a general approach that allows one to derive precise asymptotic expansions starting from systems of combinatorial equations. In the situation where the combinatorial system involves only cartesian products and disjoint unions, the generating functions satisfy polynomial systems with…

I tried tatting once; even that minimal exposure lets me know that ain't tatting on the cover. Not sure what it is, but reviews say it's an AI book. This is what we have to put up with now. #craft #crafting #tatting
Amazon.com: Mastering Shuttle Tatting: From Simple Stitches to Complex Creations: 9798333221711: Noah, Olivia: Books
https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Shuttle-Tatting-Stitches-Creations/dp/B0D9JKXPZ1/ref=asc_df_B0D9JKXPZ1

DESIGNER: Design-Logic-Guided Multidisciplinary Data Synthesis for LLM Reasoning
Weize Liu, Yongchi Zhao, Yijia Luo, Mingyu Xu, Jiaheng Liu, Yanan Li, Xiguo Hu, Yuchi Xu, Wenbo Su, Bo Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12726

DESIGNER: Design-Logic-Guided Multidisciplinary Data Synthesis for LLM Reasoning
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in many natural language tasks but still struggle with complex, multi-step reasoning, particularly across diverse disciplines. Existing reasoning datasets often either lack disciplinary breadth or the structural depth necessary to elicit robust reasoning behaviors. We propose DESIGNER: a DESIGN-logic-guidEd Reasoning data synthesis pipeline that leverages naturally available, extensive raw documents (book corpus and web corpus) to ge…

"doctors only start to care about chronic pelvic pain and related conditions when patients start trying to have a baby."
Get It Out: Hysterectomy's Complex Politics
https://jessica.substack.com/p/hysterectomy-politics-book

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11824 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Theoretical Foundations of Conformal Prediction
This book is about conformal prediction and related inferential techniques that build on permutation tests and exchangeability. These techniques are useful in a diverse array of tasks, including hypothesis testing and providing uncertainty quantification guarantees for machine learning systems. Much of the current interest in conformal prediction is due to its ability to integrate into complex machine learning workflows, solving the problem of forming prediction sets without any assumptions on …