
2025-06-26 06:23:07
Discover the power of property-based testing in R with the #quickcheck package! Seamlessly integrates with #testthat and offers a variety of generators for atomic vectors, lists, and tibbles. Perfect for ensuring your code's reliability. Check it out:
#Wordle 1,495 5/6*
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⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 0 of 44 (58)
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 0 of 0 (15)
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 0 of 0 (2)
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WordleBot
Skill 63/99
Luck 47/99
I thought I had a good idea of the words left on my 4th guess, but I was wrong, and then had to get lucky, since I could think of more words than I had guesses left.
And now I see the bot only lists 2 words left I can't remember what words I was thinking of.
I understand why sensible people say not to trust "answers" from AI/LLM but I don't understand why they then act like that invalidates the usefulness of LLMs.
abbv dividends 2021 through 2025?
Answer for some reason lists a chart for Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Then lists a chart showing dividends for ABBV by year (including quarterly payment amounts).
I can see those amounts are close (probably exactly right...) and for my quick estimate good enough.
- We investigate the distribution of the feature variables (corpus frequency, dictionary views, part-of-speech, polysemy) over CEFR levels.
- Variable importance analyses show us how important each variable was for the classification of each level.
We conclude: "Thus, our semi-automatic approach offers a practical solution to the limitations of existing CEFR lists, providing a framework for expanding these lists in a systematic and data-driven manner. However, our findings also reveal the importance of human oversight in the process."
Supplementary material contains an ensemble approach to classification and all used/generated data: https://osf.io/6s9y7/
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
CALLY: [Enters] Orac, where did you get this information? [Holds up a data card. Avon takes it]
ORAC: I was instructed to obtain anything relating to the planet. The data was obtained by cross-referencing prisoner and execution lists. It is standard procedure.
https://blake.torpidity.n…
With Jets' injury history at QB, Fields' minor setback a sigh of relief https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45815888/new-york-jets-qb-history-justin-fields-toe-injury
No one ever tells you just how much of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is just straight up detours where Verne just lists out every kind of mollusk or shark or coral or whatever.
Discussions during the current #IETF meeting led me to write a new draft on a compact CoAP URI expression, Short Paths In CoAP (ShoPinC, following the trade tradition of contrived acronyms).
As not all of the #CoAP crowd is reading the IETF lists, I'm soliciting opinions or feedback from here as well.…
Metallicities from High-Resolution TRES Spectra with The Payne and uberMS: Performance Benchmarks and Literature Comparison
Emily K. Pass, Phillip A. Cargile, Victoria DiTomasso, Romy Rodr\'iguez Mart\'inez, David Charbonneau, David W. Latham, Andrew Vanderburg, Allyson Bieryla, Samuel N. Quinn, Lars A. Buchhave
https://…
Friends Don't Let Friends Make Bad Graphs! Do you agree with the examples of bad graphs and the alternatives Chenxin Li (@chenxinli2.bsky.social) lists at https://github.com/cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
CALLY: [Enters] Orac, where did you get this information? [Holds up a data card. Avon takes it]
ORAC: I was instructed to obtain anything relating to the planet. The data was obtained by cross-referencing prisoner and execution lists. It is standard procedure.
https://blake.torpidity.n…
new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…
"It's this brutal fragility of vector stacks — which are used by most modern computer languages — which makes software people so wary of fully exploiting the beauty and power of recursion, and I really think that's a shame"
#Lisp
"A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them."
#Animals #Conservation
Fast and Efficient Merge of Sorted Input Lists in Hardware Using List Offset Merge Sorters
Robert B. Kent, Marios S. Pattichis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08658
A new report lists the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Most people have never heard of them. https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/a-new-report-lists-the-worlds-25-most-endangered-primate…
I’m dubious that BlueSky is pleased that JD Vance joined.
Meanwhile, their moderation tools are holding up damned well.
The account was initially banned, as an impersonation. Then it was verified.
Most people are reporting it was already blocked because they were using one of the many shared “MAGA” block lists.
And he’s in second place as the most blocked person on the site in less than 24h.
I made a helper for Proximity (a word association game like #Semantle). It lets you poke around the database to see what's close to what:
https://github.com/adamhotep/userscrip
YouTube will remove its Trending page and Trending Now list in favor of category-specific charts, says it better aligns with the way content is discovered now (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/youtube-is…
Had a weird dream-filled night. Dreamt I was in a series of pubs, but I could never order a beer because none of them had lists of beers available, nor did the barkeepers ever get to me... also, it occurs to me that they might not have been pubs. 😬 🤔
It is only a matter of time until noem, homan, dhs, ice and potus realize dropping people out of aircraft is cheaper than housing or moving them.
Unless they already have.
Rumors are the US is engaging in death flights. Already there are some known flight paths of ice flights turning around over bodies of water.
The US Congress and international community seem to be the only things that can stop this.
Murena's new /e/OS (@…) 3.0 release now on @…
https:/…
This Github repository conveniently lists and categorizes prime examples of LLM-based agent applications. Each example application features its own repository folder with its source code (Python), and a helpful README.md file describing its installation and use.
Categories include:
1. Starter AI Agents
2. Advanced AI Agents
3. Autonomous Game Playing Agents
4. Multi-Agent Teams
5. Voice AI Agents
6. RAG-Based Agents
"awesome-llm-apps"
YouTube will remove its Trending page and Trending Now list in favor of category-specific charts, says it better aligns with the way content is discovered now (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/youtube-is-getting-ri…
The high precision time nuts, a.k.a. the “Time Lords” had a pretty good demonstration at #Hamvention. They built an LLM that had ingested 10 years of papers and mailing lists and could answer questions reliably
Filter Equivariant Functions: A symmetric account of length-general extrapolation on lists
Owen Lewis, Neil Ghani, Andrew Dudzik, Christos Perivolaropoulos, Razvan Pascanu, Petar Veli\v{c}kovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08796
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Go‐Go’s:
🎵 Girl of 100 Lists
#GoGos
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Um0YTAvyvODXqiWQEma5M
Of course Mamdani is a Wu Tang fan
One has no choice but to stan
https://mastodon.social/@ErickaSimone/114866702093830197
In This Thread: denizens of debian-user mailing list who refuse to accept that there are people who do creative work without wanting to use email.
Apparently it is only "kids" who "don't understand what is important", who "have a mobile phone glued to their hand" and "don't care about their computer as long as it plays their games."
Done some more work with the VR animation engine today.
Seems to now be working that I can lay in the path that the character will walk, and then puppet their limbs as they walk it.
Done more work to standardize how all the slapdash episode structure is so now there's also a #wip #starshipsd #gamedev
As we head into May Paolo has written up the current state of #rust in the #qemu code base: https://lists.gn…
Being autistic, sorry not sorry, I’m obsessed with this font Comic Mono (https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/) and I totally force it on my site! ♾️✨
Check it out at
Did you know that many international conglomerates are potentially liable for assisting the occupation of Palestine? I didn't.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-t…
... and right next to that, Bradfield Hall, a frequent member of "ugliest building in America" lists, looms above a patch of tiny daisies
#photo #photography #architecture
Longer Lists Yield Better Matchings
Yuri Faenza, Aapeli Vuorinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06217 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06217
"Rufo, Vance, and Co. are, however, right that right-wing ideological hegemony is harder to maintain when sites of education and knowledge production allow young people to learn, find each other, and challenge received wisdoms."
On the current goals of the destruction of the US education system. (Also provides background and lists some issues with the current system; but, obviously, none of that is fixed by what happens now.)
Game on
Me like to be intelligence https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/114800606006140400
Families of p-adic fields
Jordi Gu\`ardia R\'ubies, John W. Jones, Kevin Keating, Sebastian Pauli, David P. Roberts, David Roe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02360
InfoWorld contributor Joydip Kanjilal reviews a group of read-only data structures in .NET Core that are optimized to allow very fast thread-safe reads over their data in comparison to plain dictionaries, lists, and hash sets.
Namely: FrozenSet and FrozenDictionary.
He also shows benchmark results, and includes a tutorial written in C#.
"How to use frozen collections in C#"
I’ve never seen this memory issue on #MacOS before. I had left Safari with Mela’s share sheet/importer app snippet open overnight and came back to a nearly unresponsive computer. I assume one of these has a memory leak. I was able to reboot via the shell using SSH from another device.
Before this #LetterboxdFriday ends, I share my #LastFourWatched
The Greatest Hits (3½★)
Despicable Me 2 (3★)
Despicable Me (3½★)
Sing (1½★)
🔗 https://…
The Strong Singular Value Property for Matrices
Caleb Cheung, Bryan Shader
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08313 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…
Preordered #Daggerheart core set on Amazon end of May because no other shop even let me order it in Europe. Turned out Amazon was lying about their stock as well and just postponed my order indefinitely, so I cancelled it now. On the positive side, Thalia.de now lists it as deliverable within six weeks and I can pay on pickup, so nothing lost if it turns out to take longer. Also it's …
Just published:
Supplementing CEFR-graded vocabulary lists for language learners by leveraging information on dictionary views, corpus frequency, part-of-speech, and polysemy
A machine-learning method to suggest word candidates for CEFR-graded vocabulary lists.
#CEFR level of previously unlabeled words
#linguistics #CEFR #frequency #dictionary #LanguageLearning
In case anybody lives in the misconception that #LibreOffice is developed and distributed by a large happy thriving "community" of individuals and companies, just have a look at their public mailing lists. It is obvious that there are several factions in the Document Foundation with deep mistrust of each others. There is even unethical behaviour to make sure others lose any influe…
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Remote fetch replies is set as experimental and also asynchronous, unclear if it would be ready for the final release. https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/114625074809479231
In Ecuador’s Amazon, Big Oil exploits Indigenous communities in the absence of the state https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/in-ecuadors-amazon-big-oil-exploits-indigenous-communities-in-the-absence-of-the-state/
Thanks to @…'s great list: https://codeberg.org/Taffer/canadian-alternatives I just switched my S3-compatible backups to a Canadian pr…
Survey lists Raiders' fanbase among most foul-mouthed in entire NFL https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/survey-raiders-fanbase-most-foul-mouthed-entire-nfl/66a7434b8d54f31b…
#Wordle 1,479 4/6*
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 219,792 (152)
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 0 of 6 (7)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 0 (3)
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WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 50/99
So I thought there were only 3 words left after guess 3, and I'm really curious what the bot says...Bot agrees and lists the 3 words I thought of!
Crocodilus malware adds fake entries to victims' contact lists in new scam campaign https://therecord.media/crocodilus-android-malware-banking-fraud
Making to do lists is great. It always reminds me of tasks that are more than finishing the list.
#ToDoList
"Blue cranes now listed as vulnerable in South Africa"
#SouthAfrica #Birds
https…
HelioIndex: A Directory of Active Researchers in Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Peter R. Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00159 https://
I'm sorry but aren't pros/cons lists supposed to cover both faces of the coin? The list here is very one-sided for immich:
https://www.wetransco.de/2024/09/immich-app-and-nextc…
Blue cranes now listed as vulnerable in South Africa https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/blue-cranes-now-listed-as-vulnerable-in-south-africa/
Knowledge-guided Contextual Gene Set Analysis Using Large Language Models
Zhizheng Wang, Chi-Ping Day, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Qiao Jin, Robert Leaman, Yifan Yang, Shubo Tian, Aodong Qiu, Yin Fang, Qingqing Zhu, Xinghua Lu, Zhiyong Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04303
Bayesian ages of local young stellar associations I. Through the expansion rate method
J. Olivares, N. Miret-Roig, P. A. B. Galli, H. Bouy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05130
Ranking dynamics in movies and music
Hyun-Woo Lee, Gerardo I\~niguez, Hang-Hyun Jo, Hye Jin Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21944 https://
#Drumpf admin announces "temporary" closure of 60,000 acres of #BlackRock desert in #Nevada around area where #BurningMan takes place…
Set-lists primed and ready for the trad jazz that ain't yer dad's trad @… at the spacetime place of #Toronto #DromTaberna Friday June 6th 8pm.
It's like Bix said, why do I like this #jazz? Because I don't know what's going to happen next, do you? Nolan, Pat Smith, Patricio Llovet and I will be joined by Paul Callander and Sean McCarthy for you #jazzintoronto heads, I heard 'bass sax' and signed on! So, really, anything is possible! 😊
there is only a quantum probability we will resemble this: