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Now this was a gorgeous cycling loop. Temperature was around freezing but luckily just few wind. As you see, the weather was ace. Clouds and fog stayed in the north 🌞
Also tried Knee warmers, which was just right! A very good buy!
I just need a solution against freezing toes. @… ,I bought neoprene toe warmer! The shoes are just a bit tight then, …

On Thursday, 11 of the UK's leading oncologists, economists and medical ethicists will meet at the Department of Health’s headquarters in London
to make a decision that will have consequences for millions of men.
The National Screening Committee (NSC) will issue a recommendation on whether to launch the first NHS screening programme for prostate cancer.
Celebrities, sports stars and politicians, including Sir Chris Hoy and David Lammy, have campaigned for the greater us…

NHS could start prostate cancer screening — which men are eligible?
The National Screening Committee is expected to recommend the first-ever screening programme for the disease next week, but only for those at the highest risk

Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

Friends, of course we all hope the #ceasefire will hold. Of course we all hope that aid trucks will be allowed to move. Of course we all hope that there will be a stable, just peace.
But hope isn't enough. The suffering in #Gaza hasn't ended. We must keep pressure on our governments to ensu…

“How did it feel for the man who built a home, only to watch it turn to the rubble? How does a farmer stand before the land he tended year after year, now lying barren—no scent of soil, no whisper of harvest? How does a father tell his son the school he loved is gone, that the garden where he played is now only a rumor in the rubble? How does a mother walk through the ghost of a playground, finding a small shoe, a torn notebook, a toy she once mended? How do neighbors look at one another, wo…

Help Sehwel family with their medical treatment
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza. I'm creating this Chuffed campaign for the family to help afford these things and hopefully help them get out of Gaza when the opportunity arises. Here's Aseel's writing:

The whole app is a blob
... character driven UI as a path to language learning, a different kind of "gamification"
#software

The Whole App is a Blob
I tried to prepare for life in French-speaking Canada by turning language drills into a Tamagotchi. It worked, as long as you don't ask me whether my coffee is for here or to go.

Enhancing Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning through Multi-Path Plan Aggregation
Siheng Xiong, Ali Payani, Faramarz Fekri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11620 https://

Enhancing Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning through Multi-Path Plan Aggregation
Inference-time scaling enhances the reasoning ability of a language model (LM) by extending its chain-of-thought (CoT). However, existing approaches typically generate the entire reasoning chain in a single forward pass, which often leads to CoT derailment, i.e., the reasoning trajectory drifting off course due to compounding errors. This problem is particularly severe for smaller LMs with long CoTs due to their limited capacity. To address this, we analyze raw long CoTs and uncover a reasoning…

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--North Korea's fake IT worker program is a goldmine,
--The Com group called Purgatory is creating swatting nightmares,
--How age verification laws change user behavior,
--What happens when the internet shuts down,
--AI is not ye…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 10/4/25
North Korea's fake IT worker program is a goldmine, The Com group called Purgatory is creating swatting nightmares, How age verification laws change user behavior, What happens when the internet shuts down, AI is not yet our overlord, Some chatbots may have independent thought

Failure Prediction at Runtime for Generative Robot Policies
Ralf R\"omer, Adrian Kobras, Luca Worbis, Angela P. Schoellig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09459 https://

Failure Prediction at Runtime for Generative Robot Policies
Imitation learning (IL) with generative models, such as diffusion and flow matching, has enabled robots to perform complex, long-horizon tasks. However, distribution shifts from unseen environments or compounding action errors can still cause unpredictable and unsafe behavior, leading to task failure. Early failure prediction during runtime is therefore essential for deploying robots in human-centered and safety-critical environments. We propose FIPER, a general framework for Failure Prediction…

Asymptotic behavior of zeros of Bessel function derivatives
\'Arp\'ad Baricz, Pranav Kumar, Saminathan Ponnusamy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12353 https://

Asymptotic behavior of zeros of Bessel function derivatives
We derive two distinct asymptotic expansions for the zeros $j_{ν,k}^{(n)}$ of the $n$-th derivative of Bessel function $J_ν^{(n)}(x)$. The first is a McMahon-type expansion for the case when $k \to \infty$ with fixed $ν$, for which we also establish an explicit error bound. The second addresses the case when $ν\to \infty$ with fixed $k$ and it involves the zeros of Airy functions and their derivatives. These results extend and refine the classical work of Wong, Lang, and Olver on the zeros …