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OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/

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Angie McMahon:
🎵 Letting Go
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https://open.spotify.com/track/5EeqvDL2BckMvhbNtOEHAh

Sigh. Just apply the regular parking provisions (paid parking or permits). 'Low occupancy' of public charging (meaning a relatively low amount of kWh compared to the theoretical maximum of 24/7 charging at full speed) is not a bad thing; it's the starting point for using EVs to support the grid.
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Brussels to fine EV charging point blockers - electrive.com
From October 1, the Belgian capital will introduce a rotation fee for EVs that remain connected to public charging stations for too long. This aims to improve

These are human children, damn you, not units of production for your grey and soulless mills and offices. They should be playing, not being assessed, psychologically profiled and assigned to the optimal task to extract the maximum profit from them for your #kleptocrat masters.
This is a monstrous, abhorrent, inhuman proposal.

Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment
Exclusive: Neet crisis review to call for teachers to be asked to spot those at risk of leaving education jobless at 16

Dirichlet symbols and the nonlinear wave equation
Ramlal Debnath, Haakan Hedenmalm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04666 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.04666 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.04666
arXiv:2608.04666v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the operator symbols of Dirichlet type introduced by Hedenmalm and Shimorin (2020), in connection with a given contraction on $L^2$ of the unit disk. They are always holomorphic functions on the bidisk. Such Dirichlet symbols associated with the Grunsky operator of a univalent function on the disk or exterior disk are of particular significance. From the work of Hedenmalm and Shimorin, we know they are characterized as solutions of a certain nonlinear wave equation. We perform a local analysis of such symbols near the diagonal on the bidisk, and in so doing, we provide alternative chart coordinates for the infinite-dimensional manifolds of univalent functions of the disk or the exterior disk. Those coordinates allow us to characterize $\log\psi'$ for $\psi$ in the class $\Sigma$ of normalized univalent functions without explicitly touching the univalence property. Moreover, those manifolds extend the universal Teichm\"uller space of Lipman Bers beyond the quasicircle boundary setting, allowing for more fractality. The fractality of harmonic measure for the domain associated with the given univalent function can be studied in terms of the asymptotic variance introduced by McMullen (2008). The asymptotic variance captures the $L^2$ average amplitude of the nonlinearity. We introduce the new concept of Schwarzian asymptotic variance, which measures the average amplitude of the Schwarzian derivative in place of the nonlinearity. For this new Schwarzian asymptotic variance, we find that the effectiveaverage amplitude of $(1-|z|^2)^2|\Sop(\vp)|^2$ on the disk in the hyperbolic metric sense is at most $72/5=14.4$, considerably smaller than the maximum amplitude of $36$. Here, $\Sop(\vp)$ is the Schwarzian derivative of $\varphi\in\mathscr{S}$, and the analogous statement is valid for $\psi\in\Sigma$ as well.
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Major Hurricane Lowell has begun its turn toward the north on a track that should take it just west of Kauai and Niihau, which are now under a Tropical Storm Watch.
The tropical storm watch means tropical storm conditions are possible within the next 48 hours. With winds and periods of heavy rain.
A Hurricane Watch has also been issued for the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.
At 11 p.m. Saturday, Lowell’s maximum sustained winds had diminished slightly to 125 miles…

Hurricane Lowell turning northward, tropical storm watch up for Kauai County
It is still expected to be a powerful hurricane when making its closest approach to the islands late Monday.

Academia is so cooked.
I'm constantly getting emails for courses like this one, which promises to teach you to use GenAI to (a) come up with survey items, and (b) to then *validate* those items. Step (a) is bad enough, but then step (b), which typically involves asking humans to take the survey and then using sophisticated techniques to make sure it's measuring what you want it to, is replaced by piping the survey into the computer and treating the output text as meanigful res…

POL-CUX: Großer Polizei- und Rettungsdiensteinsatz in Lintig - unbekannte Substanz in Discothek versprüht - mehrere verletzte Personen - Massenanfall an Verletzten ausgelöst Cuxhaven (ots) - Geestland/Lintig. Aktuell kommt es in Lintig an der dortigen Discothek zu einem großen Polizei- und Rettungsdiensteinsatz. Gegen 02:30 Uhr kam es bei diversen Besuchenden zu Atemwegsreizungen und Schwindel, teilweise bia zur ...

WSPI-OLD: Wassereinbruch auf Krabbenkutter im Hafen Wremen Brake (ots) - Am Samstagmorgen kam es im Hafen von Wremen zu einem Wassereinbruch in den Maschinenraum eines Krabbenkutters. In der Nacht vom 04. auf den 05.09.2026 geriet möglicherweise eine Leine des Kutters an der Pier fest. Mit der auflaufenden ... https://www.