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“So I would advise and caution against purchasing an AI toy for Christmas and think about other options of things that parents and kids can enjoy together that really build that social connection with the family, not the social connection with a parasocial AI toy.”
Many of these toys are happy to engage in discussions inappropriate for children, such as dangerous activities or sexual practices. Some are programmed to cause addiction.

Grosse activité d'aurores boréales cette nuit, avec un KP 9 attendu d'ici une heure ici en Bretagne... Mais couverture nuageuse de 95 % ! 😭

Israel says that 171 activists from the aid flotilla,
including Greta Thunberg, have been deported to Greece and Slovakia today.
Thunberg, who was flown to Greece, was one of about 450 activists detained by Israel when its forces intercepted the flotilla last week

Black Holes in the Shadow: The Missing High-Ionization Lines in the Earliest JWST AGNs
Greta Zucchi, Xihan Ji, Piero Madau, Roberto Maiolino, Ignas Joudzbalis, Francesco D'Eugenio, Sophia Geris, Yuki Isobe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10772

Black Holes in the Shadow: The Missing High-Ionization Lines in the Earliest JWST AGNs
Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a substantial population of high-redshift, broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs), whose properties challenge standard models of black hole growth and AGN emission. We analyze a spectroscopic sample of 34 Type 1 AGNs from the JWST Advanced Deep Survey (JADES) survey, spanning redshifts 1.7 < z < 9, to constrain the physical nature of the accretion flows powering these sources with broad-line diagnostics statistically for t…

AI-assisted Programming May Decrease the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing Maintenance Burden
Feiyang (Amber), Xu, Poonacha K. Medappa, Murat M. Tunc, Martijn Vroegindeweij, Jan C. Fransoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10165

AI-assisted Programming May Decrease the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing Maintenance Burden
Generative AI solutions like GitHub Copilot have been shown to increase the productivity of software developers. Yet prior work remains unclear on the quality of code produced and the challenges of maintaining it in software projects. If quality declines as volume grows, experienced developers face increased workloads reviewing and reworking code from less-experienced contributors. We analyze developer activity in Open Source Software (OSS) projects following the introduction of GitHub Copilot.…

Hallucination reduction with CASAL: Contrastive Activation Steering For Amortized Learning
Wannan Yang, Xinchi Qiu, Lei Yu, Yuchen Zhang, Oliver Aobo Yang, Narine Kokhlikyan, Nicola Cancedda, Diego Garcia-Olano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02324

Hallucination reduction with CASAL: Contrastive Activation Steering For Amortized Learning
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit impressive capabilities but often hallucinate, confidently providing incorrect answers instead of admitting ignorance. Prior work has shown that models encode linear representations of their own knowledge and that activation steering can reduce hallucinations. These approaches, however, require real-time monitoring and intervention during inference. We introduce Contrastive Activation Steering for Amortized Learning (CASAL), an efficient algorithm that conne…

Formou-se uma tempestade subtropical a noroeste dos Açores.
A NORoeste dos Açores!
A mais de 40ºN!
https://techhub.social/@meteopedagogie/115350289678205724

Météo Pédagogie (@meteopedagogie@techhub.social)
Attached: 1 image Dans l'Atlantique, la tempête subtropicale #Karen s'est formée hier à 44°N, ce qui est inédit. Cette structure hybride se note avec la convection autour de la dépression alors qu'un système frontal, maintenant détache continue à être actif dans un gros creux d'altitude 🐦🔗 https://twitter.com/MeteoPedagogie/status/1976647357631717853 🕐 10/10 15:53

50 halloweens ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in #philadelphia, early & late shows with over 3 hours of music. the paxton bros. open. fall ’75, show #9. audience tape: https://

CaRT: Teaching LLM Agents to Know When They Know Enough
Grace Liu, Yuxiao Qu, Jeff Schneider, Aarti Singh, Aviral Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08517 https://

CaRT: Teaching LLM Agents to Know When They Know Enough
Many tasks require learned models to strategically gather relevant information over multiple rounds of interaction before actually acting on a task. Strategic information gathering requires models to know not only how to effectively acquire information, but also when to stop gathering information and make a decision, in order to avoid overthinking or getting derailed when acting. In this paper, we formalize this problem and introduce Counterfactuals and Reasoning for Termination (CaRT), an appr…

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