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Yes. Yeeeess...
(I have no money left, even something this simple can't happen until the new year. The food-delivery charge nearly bounced. I will not have a mattress to put in this bed until way after pay-day)

#telegram is so shit, Ads, unable to block unknown invites, shit encryption if any.
And the foss community is just bending over backwards.
I have a #matrix server I’m happy to share with anyone who wants to move off of telegram.

Sources: an August vesting milestone gives Axios co-founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen the ability to cash out from their Cox deal and possibly exit (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/axios-cox-deal-jim-vandehei-mike-allen

Axios’ Future: Why It Matters
Three years after selling to Cox, incentives for Axios’ co-founders have vested, opening the door to a possible exit—a scenario Cox execs have begun informally planning for, Status has learned.

1. Be unhappy that #Element doesn't support multiple accounts.
2. Be unhappy that they've made a new #ElementX that doesn't work with your main account.
3. Realize that you can use both programs to support your main and backup accounts simultaneously.
4. Realize you don't have your backup account password in KeepassDX.
5. Try to figure out which email address you used.
6. It finally works.
7. Realize that you can't get the room address from Element when the server is down.
#Matrix

A GPU-resident Memory-Aware Algorithm for Accelerating Bidiagonalization of Banded Matrices
Evelyne Ringoot, Rabab Alomairy, Alan Edelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12705 https:…

A GPU-resident Memory-Aware Algorithm for Accelerating Bidiagonalization of Banded Matrices
The reduction of a banded matrix to a bidiagonal form is a crucial step in the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), a cornerstone of scientific computing and AI. Despite being a highly parallel algorithm, it was previously believed to be unsuitable for GPU computation because it is memory bandwidth-bound. Recent developments in GPU hardware, including larger L1 memory per Streaming Multiprocessor/Compute Unit, have changed that. We present the first GPU algorithm for reducing a banded matrix to …

Reasoning Pattern Matters: Learning to Reason without Human Rationales
Chaoxu Pang, Yixuan Cao, Ping Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12643 https://arxiv.org…

Reasoning Pattern Matters: Learning to Reason without Human Rationales
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities under the widely adopted SFT+RLVR paradigm, which first performs Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) on human-annotated reasoning trajectories (rationales) to establish initial reasoning behaviors, then applies Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) to optimize the model using verifiable signals without golden rationales. However, annotating high-quality rationales for the SFT stage remains prohibitively ex…

Matrix generators for Weil representations
Mikko Korhonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12261 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12261

Matrix generators for Weil representations
Let $r$ be an odd prime and $\mathbb{F}$ a field containing a primitive $r$th root of unity. Then for all $\ell \geq 1$, there is a faithful representation $f: \operatorname{Sp}_{2\ell}(r) \rightarrow \operatorname{GL}_{r^\ell}(\mathbb{F})$ called the Weil representation. We provide explicit matrices generating $\operatorname{Sp}_{2\ell}(r)$ in $\operatorname{GL}_{r^\ell}(\mathbb{F})$, which we have implemented in Magma. We also describe such generators for the irreducible Weil representations …

Imagine a world that we all control together, not controlled by oligarch or dictators, even indirectly. Imagine something truly collaborative. That world would be very different from our own. In some ways many of us could have a lot more opportunity. But in others, we would be restricted.
In such a world, we couldn't really have elite luxuries. Having such luxuries is only valuable so long as others do not.
> Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one.
- The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
Imagine a world in which we think about luxury in a radically different way, not as something that only has value via exclusivity but something that enriches the lives of the owners more as more people have them.
What would living in such a world be like? Can you describe a day in your life?
#SolarPunkPrompts #Writing #Prompts

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science https://research-reviewer.blogspot.com/2025/10/publish-or-perish-research.html

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science
An in-depth reflection on how the ‘publish or perish’ culture, precarious work, and academic metrics have turned research into a paper factory — an...

Varnished the shelves. At least until I ran out of varnish anyway. Stained the first half of the bed. The stain takes ages to dry. Will have to flip and stain the other half tomorrow. Varnish on Tuesday if more has arrived. That dries much faster, might even get two coats on both sides during one day. Then I can have a bed on Wednesday?
At which point I will know the maximum height for a mattress. The bed is pretty low because to determine the height of the doors for storage at the end of the bed, I measured my old bed. Which was apparently lower than most, being a waterbed frame with a spring mattress in it.
So total bed height has to be under 50cm and a mattress can take 30 or more of that. But with this low bed I might even have room for a topper.