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Making room to create
#creativity #artist
https://muz4now.com/2014/making-room-t

Making room to create
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

In an Oxford study, LLMs correctly identified medical conditions 94.9% of the time when given test scenarios directly, vs. 34.5% when prompted by human subjects (Nick Mokey/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/just-add-hu

Just add humans: Oxford medical study underscores the missing link in chatbot testing
Patients using chatbots to assess their own medical conditions may end up with worse outcomes than conventional methods, according to a new Oxford study.

Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/linux_6_15_rc6_keyboards/
This change will cost Mr. Torvalds a lot of money. It's another rabbit hole down which your money is dippi…

It was unavoidable that this week I'd end up writing about Apple's latest blunder. But in the context of Figma's Sites bullshit and Shopify recasting designers as "artists" it's even worse than one OS making a stupid decision.
The mission of #UXdesign is being changed: orienting away from making useful products that work for everyone, and towards branding.
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Apple's Liquid Glass is a grim portent for UX
Industry leaders like Apple and Shopify are redefining design excellence from making products usable to solely luxury branding.

MHRV (Mechanical Heat-Recovery Ventilation) and HR25H Review - Is MHRV right for you? Learn from our years with the Vent-Axia humidistat HR25. #frugal #cutCarbon -

MHRV (Mechanical Heat-Recovery Ventilation) and HR25H Review
Is MHRV right for you? Learn from our years with the Vent-Axia humidistat HR25. #frugal #cutCarbon

A Quantum Mechanical Pendulum Clock
Matteo Brunelli, Mohammad Mehboudi, Nicolas Brunner, Patrick P. Potts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10666 https://

A Quantum Mechanical Pendulum Clock
We investigate an optomechanical system as a model of an autonomous mechanical pendulum clock in the quantum regime, whose operation relies only on incoherent (thermal) resources. The escapement of the clock, the mechanism that translates oscillatory motion into ticks, is provided by an emitter in the optical cavity and the operation of the clock relies on the existence of a limit cycle. Since the clock is based on an oscillatory degree of freedom, it can overcome the thermodynamic uncertainty …

Equitable Mechanism Design for Facility Location
Toby Walsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10460 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10460

Equitable Mechanism Design for Facility Location
We consider strategy proof mechanisms for facility location which maximize equitability between agents. As is common in the literature, we measure equitability with the Gini index. We first prove a simple but fundamental impossibility result that no strategy proof mechanism can bound the approximation ratio of the optimal Gini index of utilities for one or more facilities. We propose instead computing approximation ratios of the complemented Gini index of utilities, and consider how well both d…

Vending machines at the University of Waterloo violated privacy act
https://flip.it/23eUXQ

AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/10/2025/co…

Construction tech startup AIM raises $50M to fuel expansion
The firm that retrofits heavy equipment into autonomous machines, backed by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, can help fill the construction industry’s huge labor gap and growing infrastructure demand.