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Once upon a time there was a DOS user who saw Unix, and saw that it was
good. After typing cp on his DOS machine at home, he downloaded GNU's
unix tools ported to DOS and installed them. He rm'd, cp'd, and mv'd
happily for many days, and upon finding elvis, he vi'd and was happy. After
a long day at work (on a Unix box) he came home, started editing a file,
and couldn't figure out why he couldn't suspend vi (w/ ctrl-z) to do
a comp…

CTRL-Rec: Controlling Recommender Systems With Natural Language
Micah Carroll, Adeline Foote, Kevin Feng, Marcus Williams, Anca Dragan, W. Bradley Knox, Smitha Milli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12742

CTRL-Rec: Controlling Recommender Systems With Natural Language
When users are dissatisfied with recommendations from a recommender system, they often lack fine-grained controls for changing them. Large language models (LLMs) offer a solution by allowing users to guide their recommendations through natural language requests (e.g., "I want to see respectful posts with a different perspective than mine"). We propose a method, CTRL-Rec, that allows for natural language control of traditional recommender systems in real-time with computational efficiency. Speci…

I was looking for my dishwasher manual. I noticed next to the manual, a link that said "Free Open Source Software". Curious, I clicked on it, and it's a long list of licenses and copyright information that is used in the dishwasher. Ctrl-F, and sure enough - my name's on the list.
I feel like I should have gotten a discount on the dishwasher, or at the very least access to its firmware source code! 🤠

Ctrl-Shift-Esc is the magic shortcut to open Taskman.
▶️ I Wrote Task Manager — 30 Years Later, the Secrets You Never Knew - Dave's Garage
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yQykvrAR_po&si=5y9-CGiCd-kto7D1