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"Do you want to polish slides no one will remember, or tackle the problems no one can forget?"

How our brightest minds get trapped in the City - https://on.ft.com/48L7oJD via @FT

The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds (David Brooks/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/opinion/shutdown-democracy-democrats.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p4#a251024p4

“Canada did not sign the letter, Environment and Climate Change Canada confirmed to CBC News Friday.”
Canada is a problem.
A huge problem.
Our Prime Minister is in the Middle East instead of COP. That's all you need to know.
We're all so screwed right now... the world... all of us.
Our leaders in ‘developed' countries cannot extricate their minds from the Fossil Fuel industry and it's going to kill us all, or at least a very large proportion of us.
#COP30 #CanPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/cop30-showdown-9.6987443

"The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds"
#Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

Trump corrupts the minds of Americans
Normalizes bigotry, misogyny,
graft and greed
From: @apron.rupar@threads.net
https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DP1koWjiWp9

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
Neguse: "What Donald Trump and his administration are attempting to do is create this perception that he has all the power, and create a sense of hopelessness or helplessness in the American public. We've gotta resist the temptation. He is electorally unpopular. In fact, the most unpopular president at this juncture than any modern president in the history of our country."

hot take: a big reason for the collective anxiety around free-threading is the result of decades of copium where we assured each other that it's good, actually, that #Python has a bad threading story, because threads are dAnGeRoUs and our feeble minds need protection

Personal computers are a bicycle for our minds, therefore we ask the monster truck factory to think for us.

I'm passing this survey about names for the co-op to some friends... and every time they face a non-English sounding name... they all say this same phrase (with small variations):
> It doesn't sound **international** enough / at all.
Honestly... I find it quite sad. I know ultimately it doesn't matter what I think personally, we still need a good & catchy name (it's not in our hands to make people think differently)...
Anyway, I believe UK & American #imperialism have fucked our brains and removed so much creativity & freedom from our minds...
Note: this issue is disconnected from the specific names of our survey. I've seen it too with names of very successful projects (but unknown to the people I was talking to); for example with "Kubernetes".
#naming #branding

If you are happy but have fewer than two friends who are happy, you get sad from loneliness. If you are happy and have two or three friends who are happy, you stay happy. If you are happy and have four or more friends who are happy, you get sad from overstimulation. If you are sad and have exactly three friends who are happy, you become happy.
What patterns are running on the interpersonal substrate of our minds and relationships, and how would it feel to be part of a glider gun?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
Linda Williams:
🎵 Elevate Our Minds
#LindaWilliams
https://thevibegrooves.bandcamp.com/track/elevate-our-minds
https://open.spotify.com/track/78CSBCKJ4kNBLWztKUizcZ

Inclusive Fitness as a Key Step Towards More Advanced Social Behaviors in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Settings
Andries Rosseau, Rapha\"el Avalos, Ann Now\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12555

Inclusive Fitness as a Key Step Towards More Advanced Social Behaviors in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Settings
The competitive and cooperative forces of natural selection have driven the evolution of intelligence for millions of years, culminating in nature's vast biodiversity and the complexity of human minds. Inspired by this process, we propose a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning framework where each agent is assigned a genotype and where reward functions are modelled after the concept of inclusive fitness. An agent's genetic material may be shared with other agents, and our inclusive reward f…

I hope no-one minds the occasional moment of self-promotion. We've all gotta pay the bills.
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Ecoflap Home Draughtproofing (@ecoflap@mstdn.business)
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Quantum speed-up for solving the one-dimensional Hubbard model using quantum annealing
Kunal Vyas, Fengping Jin, Hans De Raedt, Kristel Michielsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02141

Quantum speed-up for solving the one-dimensional Hubbard model using quantum annealing
The Hubbard model has occupied the minds of condensed matter physicists for most part of the last century. This model provides insight into a range of phenomena in correlated electron systems. We wish to examine the paradigm of quantum algorithms for solving such many-body problems. The focus of our current work is on the one-dimensional model which is integrable, meaning that there exist analytical results for determining its ground state. In particular, we demonstrate how to perform a gate-ba…