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Surfacing from replies (see context upthread).
I’ve watched the pendulum swing back and forth multiple times in my career between “code reuse ftw!!” and “no dependencies!!” The one thing I can say with confidence is that both those extremes as dogma are ridiculous and costly. It’s all tradeoffs; you can’t escape the part where you think carefully and contextually.
1/ https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115237696859291899

This tableau so exquisitely framed doth surpass the meanest stroke of the painter’s brush and standeth forth a piece most faultless, worthy of the highest commendation! 🎨🌹
#Movies #France #French

Dear #Apple. I am curious to know what the top priorities of the company is going forth. I ask because there are many of us who are confused about where this company is headed. We are concerned, as the more successful you have become, that more diluted your core mission has become. Example : Liquid Glass UI? really?
Form over function? no! ... gives us back "It Just Works"…

D12 - Warlord
ZUKAN: [Shakes head] As long as the installation is right.
AVON: Well, the only problem now is: where do we find enough raw material to keep this lot running? [He is moving about, looking at various circuit boards and so forth.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/103 B7B3

Bills prevail in close win against Dolphins https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46307022/buffalo-bills-miami-dolphins-week-3-close-win

Gaza: Top independent rights probe alleges Israel committed genocide.
“The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,” insisted Navi Pillay, Chair of the Commission. “It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.”

Gaza: Top independent rights probe alleges Israel committed genocide
Senior independent rights investigators appointed by the Human Rights Council alleged on Tuesday that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, a charge flatly rejected by Tel Aviv.

There are 3 fundamental freedoms outlined in Dawn of Everything:
(1) the freedom to move away or relocate from one’s surroundings;
(2) the freedom to ignore or disobey commands issued by others; and
(3) the freedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones.
I think these can all be captured in one statement when reframed as a system constraint: for a system to be free, participation must be optional for all members.
People must be part of *some* system. Even individualistic survivalism is itself a system (if not a very good one). Then there is a corollary as well: any system that is not free, that is not optional, can turn optional systems into mandatory ones, and thus (adopted from the MLK quote) un-freedom anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.
Edit:
I'm gonna drop the #Philosophy tag on here because apparently that's where I went with it. Challenges and push-back welcome.
Edit:
Aaaaand Its a blog post
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/an-algorithm-for-liberation
As usual, comments, typos, and questions are always welcome.

Tš sé seo i bhfad níos fearr i can just switch back and forth on the same keyboard oh my god

Cowboys escape sloppy back-and-forth thriller, beat Giants 40-37 in OT https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/14/cowboys-giants-week-2-short-game-summary-overtime/86151465007/

Thought of the day: coding assistants make it very easy to refactor.
On the plus side, it means you can easily experiment. On the minus side, you may waste a lot of time going back and forth, searching for the perfect code.

Sonnet 134 - CXXXIV
So now I have confessed that he is thine,
And I my self am mortgaged to thy will,
Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine
Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:
But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,
For thou art covetous, and he is kind;
He learned but surety-like to write for me,
Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.
The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,
Thou usurer, that put'st forth …

Beyond Autoregression: An Empirical Study of Diffusion Large Language Models for Code Generation
Chengze li, Yitong Zhang, Jia Li, Liyi Cai, Ge Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11252

Beyond Autoregression: An Empirical Study of Diffusion Large Language Models for Code Generation
LLMs have become the mainstream approaches to code generation. Existing LLMs mainly employ autoregressive generation, i.e. generating code token-by-token from left to right. However, the underlying autoregressive generation has two limitations in code generation. First, autoregressive LLMs only generate a token at each step, showing low efficiency in practice. Second, programming is a non-sequential process involving back-and-forth editing, while autoregressive LLMs only employ the left-to-righ…

Just discovering #looptober and wanted to share this old Forth experiment (from already 9-10 years ago 😱) with my https://thi.ng/synstack VM and its DSP/Synth vocab, all running on STM32 dev boards. This Forth-based sta…

As I'm grading #JCON's speaker proposals, I noticed an interesting behavior of mine. For Java proposals, I don't take much time in evaluating. The title might even be enough; architecture proposals take much more time as I go back and forth. I wonder why.

NFL Draft 2026 prospects who stood out in Week 3 include Chris Brazzell II, others https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6631621/2025/09/16/nfl-draft-2026-film-chris-brazzell/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Wampums:
🎵 Back and Forth
#Wampums
https://wampums.bandcamp.com/track/back-and-forth
https://open.spotify.com/track/7u7hZz2B6nHd3mlZyBp7ui

If you are free tonight, there are still some places open in the Our Brilliant Ruin One-Shot
#TerryCon

According to Scaramucci, "Timothy Mellon gave $130 million to pay for the troops. It turns out that his dad, Paul Mellon, is all over the Epstein flight logs, back and forth to Epstein island."
Can of worms opened' as ex-Trump official flags 'Epstein connection you don't know about' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674278488/

The Two-Zone Temperature Distribution Model: Inferences on the Structure and Composition of Dusty Protoplanetary Disks
William Grimble, Joel Kastner, B. Sargent, Keivan Stassun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12025

The Two-Zone Temperature Distribution Model: Inferences on the Structure and Composition of Dusty Protoplanetary Disks
In order to understand the mineralogy and structure of protoplanetary disks, it is important to analyze them from both an empirical spectrum-based perspective and a radiative transfer image-based perspective. In a prior paper, we set forth an empirical mineralogy mid-IR spectral model that conveyed spatial information and worked in tandem with a radiative transfer model, which formed the EaRTH Disk Model. In this article, we take the empirical portion of that model, the TZTD model, and refine i…

Was recently reminded about the time me and my brothers were studying high school German with the aid of some bilingual story that had each page printed in both languages, and came across the word "Stuhlgang".
From that point forth, any time we came across a stool of the sort you sit on (as opposed to the kind you flush down the toilet) we'd refer to it as a Stuhlgang.

Are you tired of illuminated gaming keyboards, and even the clacking sound of mechanical keyboards has lost their appeal?
Fear not, there's hope:
Gboard Dial
https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/main/mozc-dial

Programming in Forth is oddly relaxing. I want to forget about modern languages and embrace antique ones

A group of cancer survivers was just called to the front to lead the runners and walkers. A speech by one of the women has brought forth the tears. My wife had to walk away as she found it tough to listen. Too close to our daughter's story.

attrs will have a way to introspect the EFFECTIVE class build parameters in the next version. I swear to Cthulhu I thought this PR is gonna kill me (there's been A LOT more private hence and forth in the background), but I'm happy how it turned out: https://github.com/python-attrs/attrs/pu…

Expose effective class construction properties by hynek · Pull Request #1454 · python-attrs/attrs
ref #602 This is for now just private and the impact zone is limited. But I'm confident it can help us to simplify a bunch of code. I'm especially rather unhappy with the weird entanglement...

NFL Week 2 Recap: Dallas Cowboys 40, New York Giants 37 https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-week-2-recap-dallas-cowboys-34-new-york-giants-30

Replaced article(s) found for nucl-th. https://arxiv.org/list/nucl-th/new
[1/1]:
- Back and Forth with Akito Arima
Larry Zamick, Castaly Fan
https://

Is your super cool UX really better than just emailing a spreadsheet back and forth?
Before you answer, think about what "better" means to whom. #uxdesign

#Republicans HAVE devoted time to:
☑️ Gerrymandering to stay in power
☑️ Punishing their enemies
☑️ Enriching their friends
☑️ Silencing their critics
☑️ Deporting immigrants
☑️ Scapegoating minorities & DEI
Republicans HAVEN'T put forth proposals to:
❌ lower housing costs
❌ reduce groceries prices
❌ improve our schools
❌ make h…

we gotta bring back amulets and engraved stones and so on and so forth

Oh those poor ICE goons. They are so afraid of getting a nasty e-mail. Oh woe is them.
Yet they beat up, arrest, deport, and terrorize people. True Nazi scum those ICE people.
And they insist they must hide their identities - as in "The Trial" by Kafka.
I, on the other hand, think they should be exposed - totally exposed: name, affiliation, DNA sequence and so forth. They should even be required, like sex offenders, to walk neighborhoods warning of their prese…

Not one, not a single one, of the invoices for our summer school was just paid by the uni's finance admin. All without exception led to further inquiries and additional rounds back-and-forth before being cleared. Including the one asking for reimbursement for a jigsaw puzzle (priced 10 Euro 💰) which we did as a group activity (but needed checking whether it may have been a gift, and for whom?! #academicChatter #bigSigh #whatIsMyTimeWorth

Was talking with an AI / NLP researcher colleague yesterday, who lamented the way that AI keeps flailing back and forth between states where (1) it’s an uphill battle to do good research because hype is at 11 and everyone is talking nonsense and (2) it’s an uphill battle to do good research because everyone thinks it’s an “AI winter” and won’t fund it.

I tried driving my vehicle today like they do on TV (moving the steering wheel back and forth constantly) and I was all over the road. Why do they have actors do that?

Higher moment theory and learnability of bosonic states
Joseph T. Iosue, Yu-Xin Wang, Ishaun Datta, Soumik Ghosh, Changhun Oh, Bill Fefferman, Alexey V. Gorshkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01610

Higher moment theory and learnability of bosonic states
We present a sample- and time-efficient algorithm to learn any bosonic Fock state acted upon by an arbitrary Gaussian unitary. As a special case, this algorithm efficiently learns states produced in Fock state BosonSampling, thus resolving an open question put forth by Aaronson and Grewal (Aaronson, Grewal 2023). We further study a hierarchy of classes of states beyond Gaussian states that are specified by a finite number of their higher moments. Using the higher moments, we find a full spectru…

Electoral Competition with Credible Promises and Strategic Voters
Shiladitya Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08249 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08249…

Electoral Competition with Credible Promises and Strategic Voters
How can voters induce politicians to put forth more proximate (in terms of preference) as well as credible platforms (in terms of promise fulfillment) under repeated elections? Building on the work of Aragones et al. (2007), I study how reputation and re-election concerns affect candidate behavior and its resultant effect on voters' beliefs and their consequent electoral decisions. I present a formal model where, instead of assuming voters to be naive, I tackle the question by completely charac…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Johannes Brahms, MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig & Wolf-Dieter Hauschild:
🎵 Harp Notes Ring Forth (4 Songs Op.17)
#JohannesBrahms #MDRRundfunkchorLeipzig #WolfDieterHauschild

Dynamical approach to area law for lattice Yang-Mills
Sky Cao, Ron Nissim, Scott Sheffield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04688 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0468…

Dynamical approach to area law for lattice Yang-Mills
In this note, we observe that the dynamical approach to lattice Yang-Mills set forth in [SZZ23] may also be applied to prove Wilson's area law in the 't Hooft regime of parameters. The main point is to verify the mass gap condition from [DF80], from which area law directly follows. Our results apply for gauge groups $G \in \{\mathrm{U}(N), \mathrm{SU}(N), \mathrm{SO}(2N)\}$, which all have nontrivial center (which is one of the key assumptions in [DF80]).

Patriots Clash with Raiders in a Nail-Biting Finish https://www.patriots.com/video/patriots-clash-with-raiders-in-a-nail-biting-finish-madden-26-simulation

Niners pull out the win after back-and-forth game with Rams https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46448159/san-francisco-49ers-defeat-los-angeles-rams-week-5

Tom Forth writes about New Towns in the Netherlands.
#NewTowns #Cities

Another track/demo made with Forth and https://thi.ng/synstack (see previous toot), at least partially, i.e. everything but the drums... Improvised live via MIDI (Korg Nanocontrol), then sampled and arranged in Ableton...

thi.ng/synstack

One other pattern that I kept experiencing last year when I was actually trying these tools in my work (because I had so many people pushing them on me I started to think I was crazy):
Them: “oh you are struggling with X? I have been using AI to solve it and it gives me the solution in less than 10 minutes! You HAVE TO try it!”
Me: “X is really annoying, I’d love to get help with it. I’ll try that, thanks!”
* I go and try to do X, spend hours prompting AI back-and-forth as it keeps messing up and doing things wrong. I give up and do the thing manually, spending 2-3x the time I would have spent if I did it myself from the start.*
*days / weeks later*
Me: “hey, person, I tried to do X with AI and it didn’t work. I kept getting issues like Y and Z. Did I prompt it wrong? This is what I tried.”
Them: *nods, maybe chuckles* “oh yeah, it does that. I still haven’t been able to figure out how to reliably do X. I tend to redo the output completely too. But sometimes it helps me do like this tiny part. Anyway, these tools will improve soon and we won’t have to do so many manual revisions. “
I kid you not, this stuff happened every other week.
#AI #LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble

Untangling the Complex Nature of AGN Variability with Fairall 9
Scott Hagen (Durham-CEA), Chris Done (Durham-CEA), Edward M. Cackett (Wayne State), Ethan R. Partington (IA-FORTH), Rick Edelson (Eureka Scientific), Collin Lewin (MIT), Erin Kara (MIT), Jonathan Gelbord (Spectral Sciences Inc)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25324

Untangling the Complex Nature of AGN Variability with Fairall 9
The accretion flow in AGN is not well understood, motivating intensive monitoring campaigns of multiwavelength variability to probe its structure. One of the best of these is the 3 year optical/UV/X-ray approximately daily monitoring campaign on Fairall\,9, a fairly typical moderate accretion rate AGN. The UV lightcurve shows a clear increase over $\sim 50$ days between years 1 and 2, strongly coherent with the X-ray lightcurve rise. This changes the average spectral energy distribution such th…

2 USAF B-52 aircraft flying back and forth off the Venezuela coast
#usaf #b52 #venezuela #uspol

Bears-Bengals takeaways: Caleb Williams' late TD pass lifts Chicago in back-and-forth thriller https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6764211/2025/11/02/bears-bengals-score-result-takeaways-week-9-nfl/

Sonnet 145 - CXLV
Those lips that Love's own hand did make,
Breathed forth the sound that said 'I hate',
To me that languished for her sake:
But when she saw my woeful state,
Straight in her heart did mercy come,
Chiding that tongue that ever sweet
Was used in giving gentle doom;
And taught it thus anew to greet;
'I hate' she altered with an end,
That followed it as gentle day,
Doth follow night, who like a…

Modeling Adaptive Tracking of Predictable Stimuli in Electric Fish
Yu Yang, Andreas Oliveira, Louis L. Whitcomb, Felipe Pait, Mario Sznaier, Noah J. Cowan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15344

Modeling Adaptive Tracking of Predictable Stimuli in Electric Fish
The weakly electric fish \emph{Eigenmannia virescens} naturally swims back and forth to stay within a moving refuge, tracking its motion using visual and electrosensory feedback. Previous experiments show that when the refuge oscillates as a low-frequency sinusoid (below about 0.5 Hz), the tracking is nearly perfect, but phase lag increases and gain decreases at higher frequencies. Here, we model this nonlinear behavior as an adaptive internal model principle (IMP) system. Specifically, an adap…

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
-- Rumi
#poem

Yup.
The extra hour of sleep tonight was nice… but this back and forth needs to end. It is unhealthy, even dangerous. Now that we are again in line with the sun on Standard time we need to return to this natural circadian rhythm permanently. No more changes. This is it.
#noTimeChange #naturalTime #standardtime #endDST
https://kolektiva.social/@adub/115480855421443775

The Walras-Bowley Lecture: Fragmentation of Matching Markets and How Economics Can Help Integrate Them
Yuichiro Kamada, Fuhito Kojima, Akira Matsushita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19628

The Walras-Bowley Lecture: Fragmentation of Matching Markets and How Economics Can Help Integrate Them
Fragmentation of matching markets is a ubiquitous problem across countries and across applications. In order to study the implications of fragmentation and possibilities for integration, we first document and discuss a variety of fragmentation cases in practice such as school choice, medical residency matching, and so forth. Using the real-life dataset of daycare matching markets in Japan, we then empirically evaluate the impact of interregional transfer of students by estimating student utilit…

Condé Nast Accused of ‘Illegal Firings’ of #Union Employees Who ‘Demanded Answers’ About Dozens Of Staff #Layoffs And The Once #Woke Voice #TeenVogue …

Niners' Kendrick Bourne 'proud' of Mac Jones after WR's career-best game in upset over Rams https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-kendrick-bourne-proud-of-mac-jones-after-wr-s-career-best-game-in-upset-over-rams…

Edge-reinforced branching random walk on a triangle
Giordano Giambartolomei, Nadia Sidorova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17777 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.177…

Edge-reinforced branching random walk on a triangle
The edge-reinforced random walk (ERRW) is a random process on the vertices of a graph that is more likely to cross the edges it has visited in the past. Depending on the strength of the reinforcement, the ERRW of a single particle can either exhibit localisation (eventually moving back and forth across a single edge) or remain transient. We consider a model where a single ERRW is replaced by that of an exponentially growing number of random particles, and we study its localisation properties on…

Lions-Ravens on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from Detroit's 38-30 win over Baltimore https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-ravens-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-detroit-s-38-30-win-over-baltimore…