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#CommonplaceBook notes - not entirely about AI, and there's some novelty in the AI bits too. Thanks to all those who wrote things and linked to things recently! https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2025/10/c…

Commonplace book: not entirely AI
There's been a lot of AI in the air, and that is reflected in this collection; at least the bits connecting with other worlds (etiquette, na...

Von wegen kein Netz in Brandenburg.

I've finally figured out this European nobility fad.
The difference between a marquess and marquis is that a marquis holds a slightly higher nobility because he can fill out a french brassiere. The marquess is jealous of all frenchmen. They both admit that french cheese is dirtier and better.
An archduke speaks disparagingly of both of them.
#Nobility

So the 40th something 2023 #NFLdraft pick Brian Amani Branch out of Tyrone, Georgia, a former Bama #CrimsonTide team member decided to rudely brush past 5 time #SuperBowl QB

Now we have official government accounts posting
"womp womp, cry all you want,"
and calling US citizens
"imbecilic morons."
https://bsky.app/profile/tylermcbrien.com/post/3m5mlmwxosk2x

Tyler McBrien (@tylermcbrien.com)
A couple years back, I wrote about how the novelty of interacting with government agencies on social media gave way to an era of skepticism on both sides. Now we have official government accounts posting "womp womp, cry all you want," and calling US citizens "imbecilic morons."

Día gris y el cielo llora. ¿Serš un augurio de lo que viene? 🇨🇱🥹
#Chile

Death of the Novel(ty): Beyond n-Gram Novelty as a Metric for Textual Creativity
Arkadiy Saakyan, Najoung Kim, Smaranda Muresan, Tuhin Chakrabarty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22641

Death of the Novel(ty): Beyond n-Gram Novelty as a Metric for Textual Creativity
N-gram novelty is widely used to evaluate language models' ability to generate text outside of their training data. More recently, it has also been adopted as a metric for measuring textual creativity. However, theoretical work on creativity suggests that this approach may be inadequate, as it does not account for creativity's dual nature: novelty (how original the text is) and appropriateness (how sensical and pragmatic it is). We investigate the relationship between this notion of creativity …

On the Adversarial Robustness of Learning-based Conformal Novelty Detection
Daofu Zhang, Mehrdad Pournaderi, Hanne M. Clifford, Yu Xiang, Pramod K. Varshney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00463

On the Adversarial Robustness of Learning-based Conformal Novelty Detection
This paper studies the adversarial robustness of conformal novelty detection. In particular, we focus on AdaDetect, a powerful learning-based framework for novelty detection with finite-sample false discovery rate (FDR) control. While AdaDetect provides rigorous statistical guarantees under benign conditions, its behavior under adversarial perturbations remains unexplored. We first formulate an oracle attack setting that quantifies the worst-case degradation of FDR, deriving an upper bound that…

Aanstaande woensdag presenteren Evelien Smit en ik de resultaten van onze Common Futures analyse van een aantal belangrijke factoren die de nationale kosten van de warmtetransitie beïnvloeden, in opdracht van Netbeheer Nederland en EBN B.V.

Now we have official government accounts posting
"womp womp, cry all you want,"
and calling US citizens
"imbecilic morons."
https://bsky.app/profile/tylermcbrien.com/post/3m5mlmwxosk2x

Tyler McBrien (@tylermcbrien.com)
A couple years back, I wrote about how the novelty of interacting with government agencies on social media gave way to an era of skepticism on both sides. Now we have official government accounts posting "womp womp, cry all you want," and calling US citizens "imbecilic morons."