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A look at seven UX issues in the Fediverse web experience, including complex onboarding, the lack of a dedicated DM UI wrapper, and fragmented user discovery (Tim Chambers)
https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix)
So, confession time: I was recently helping a new client get set up on the Fediverse—guiding them through their first steps into our glorious decentralized galaxy. And seeing it all again through fresh eyes? Reader, it was brutal. So much of what should be table stakes for any social media UX in the year of our Lord 2025 still is missing or deeply broken still. I know progress has been made and a good fight, fought.

Well, it's not quite 11:00 and we've already completed the section of rendering we planned for today. That feels good.
Not going to do any more today because it's extremely hard physical work, but tomorrow's shift should complete the first coat on the outside of the building.
#roundhouse

.: Resident Evil: Outbreak :.
Completed!!🏆
This game is very weird and unique at the same time. Its gameplay is different to others games from the saga and obviously its goal is playing it on-line cause the NPC controlled by AI system is so awful and frustrating.
But well is a good game despite all.
PD: In my honest opinion the best level is the last one. Is very long than the others, intense and filled of sort of monsters.

AI, AGI, and learning efficiency
My 4-month-old kid is not DDoSing Wikipedia right now, nor will they ever do so before learning to speak, read, or write. Their entire "training corpus" will not top even 100 million "tokens" before they can speak & understand language, and do so with real intentionally.
Just to emphasize that point: 100 words-per-minute times 60 minutes-per-hour times 12 hours-per-day times 365 days-per-year times 4 years is a mere 105,120,000 words. That's a ludicrously *high* estimate of words-per-minute and hours-per-day, and 4 years old (the age of my other kid) is well after basic speech capabilities are developed in many children, etc. More likely the available "training data" is at least 1 or 2 orders of magnitude less than this.
The point here is that large language models, trained as they are on multiple *billions* of tokens, are not developing their behavioral capabilities in a way that's remotely similar to humans, even if you believe those capabilities are similar (they are by certain very biased ways of measurement; they very much aren't by others). This idea that humans must be naturally good at acquiring language is an old one (see e.g. #AI #LLM #AGI

Restriction problem for mod $p$ representations of $\text{GL}_2$ over a finite field
Eknath Ghate, Shubhanshi Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14207 https:…

Restriction problem for mod $p$ representations of $\text{GL}_2$ over a finite field
Let $\mathbb{F}_q$ be the finite field with $q = p^f$ elements. We study the restriction of two classes of mod $p$ representations of $G_q = \text{GL}_2({\mathbb{F}_q})$ to $G_p = \text{GL}_2(\mathbb{F}_p)$. We first study the restrictions of principal series which are obtained by induction from a Borel subgroup $B_q$. We then analyze the restrictions of inductions from an anisotropic torus $T_q$ which are related to cuspidal representations. Complete decompositions are given in both cases acco…

On approximate quantum error correction for symmetric noise
Gereon Ko{\ss}mann, Julius A. Zeiss, Omar Fawzi, Mario Berta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12326 h…

On approximate quantum error correction for symmetric noise
We revisit the extendability-based semi-definite programming hierarchy introduced by Berta et al. [Mathematical Programming, 1 - 49 (2021)], which provides converging outer bounds on the optimal fidelity of approximate quantum error correction (AQEC). As our first contribution, we introduce a measurement-based rounding scheme that extracts inner sequences of certifiably good encoder-decoder pairs from this outer hierarchy. To address the computational complexity of evaluating fixed levels of th…

Long trip back to Copenhagen starts with EV to Lyon a packed but slowly emptying train to Geneva, during which I have been completely captured by an #IainMBanks #Culture novel. Actually, surprisingly my first. That's the gift of both train travel and a good book. #bookstodon #booksky #FlyingLess

Distributed Computing From First Principles
Kenneth Odoh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12959 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12959

Distributed Computing From First Principles
This book on Distributed Computing aims to benefit a diverse audience, ranging from aspiring engineers, and seasoned researchers, to a wide range of professionals. Driven by my passion for making the core concepts of distributed computing accessible, this work is a significant undertaking designed to empower individuals from all backgrounds to gain valuable insight. Have you ever wondered how a typical distributed system works under the hood? Are you looking for a pedagogical guide with complet…

Can Non-Relativistic Strings Propagate Without Geometric Baggage?
Partha Nandi, Sk. Moinuddin, Abdus Sattar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12506 https://

Can Non-Relativistic Strings Propagate Without Geometric Baggage?
We present a minimal and dynamically consistent formulation of non-relativistic bosonic string theory in a Newton-Cartan (NC) background. Starting from a reparametrization-invariant Nambu-Goto action, we develop the Hamiltonian framework and perform a complete Dirac constraint analysis. The resulting structure exhibits first-class constraints that generate worldsheet diffeomorphisms, confirming the internal gauge consistency of the model. Using an interpolating Lagrangian, we derive a Polyakov-…

> By the time we got to the first Q&A, Apple's lawyers had already wasted half of our time.
https://formularsumo.co.uk/blog/2025/apple-vs-the-law/