Making room to create
#creativity #artist
https://muz4now.com/2014/making-room-t
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
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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A Quantum Mechanical Pendulum Clock
Matteo Brunelli, Mohammad Mehboudi, Nicolas Brunner, Patrick P. Potts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10666 https://
Equitable Mechanism Design for Facility Location
Toby Walsh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10460 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10460
My life has become a germophobe‘s worst nightmare. There is no way I could even begin to describe the scenes I woke up to without making you gag. The digestive tracts of cats are truly wonderful machines that produce a lot of … content.
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…