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Matt Eberflus explains what went wrong this season for Cowboys defense https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6933706/2026/01/01/cowboys-matt-eberflus-defense-problems/

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration records,
in an average year over 2,500 medical device recalls are issued in the United States.
Some of these recalls simply require checking the device for problems, but others require the return or destruction of the device.
Once identified, the FDA categorizes the root cause of these recalls into 40 categories,
plus a catchall of “other”:
situations that include labeling mix-ups, problems with expiration dat…

FDA Data Reveals Medical Device Recalls Software Woes
Thousands of medical device recalls are issued every year, and software is one of the leading causes.

CBS faced a technical snafu that knocked the live broadcast of "New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash" off the air for about 12 minutes on December 31 (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-na…

'Nashville's Big Bash' Live Telecast Interrupted by Technical Problems
CBS' 'Nashville's Big Bash' live New Year's Eve special faced a lengthy interruption Wednesday night due to technical problems.

On Condensation Management - Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation -

On Condensation Management
Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation

📈 Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/06/carbon-offsets-fail-cut-global-heating-intractable-systemic-proble…

Cowboys Defend Struggling Tyler Guyton as Problems Continue https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/defend-struggling-tyler-guyton-problems-continue/?adt_ei=[email]

A profile of Aaron Greenspan, who has spent years on a crusade to expose what he believes are financial problems at Tesla and at big tech companies (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/busines

What If You Spent Every Waking Moment Taking On Elon Musk?
Aaron Greenspan was once a promising entrepreneur. He has spent the last two decades lobbing grenades at the country’s most powerful tech moguls.

Anybody having problems with #Firefox version 144.0.2 with random domains failing due to cookies? An example error with eBay:
Cookie “ds2” has been rejected for invalid domain.
Cookie “ebay” has been rejected for invalid domain.

TIL about the Perverse Incentive (aka Cobra Effect), which describes the effect when "incentives are often designed to achieve short-term goals, but in the long run, they lead to bigger problems or undermine the original objectives":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentiv…

Perverse incentive - Wikipedia

"we encounter a lot of detachment from reality these days, and it seems to be at the core of our lot of problems. People lying habitually and shamelessly, dunces being placed in a position of real power over experts, people in high positions making deeply stupid decisions... people act as they are unconstrained by materiality, consequences or the laws of physics. This essay aims to figure out why" -- @…

Large language mistake:
"Le problème est que, selon les connaissances actuelles en neurosciences, la pensée humaine est largement indépendante du langage humain — et nous avons peu de raisons de croire que des modèles linguistiques toujours plus sophistiqués permettront de créer une forme d'intelligence qui égalera ou surpassera la nôtre."
#IA

Primer to get you started with Optimization and Mathematical Programming in R #rstats

CRAN Task View: Optimization and Mathematical Programming
This CRAN Task View contains a list of packages that offer facilities for solving optimization problems. Although every regression model in statistics solves an optimization problem, they are not part of this view. If you are looking for regression methods, the following views will also contain useful starting points: MachineLearning, Econometrics, Robust Packages are categorized according to the following sections. See also the “Related Links” and “Other Resources” sections at the end.

#Rstats problems: Did you ever think that the dots for dotted lines are a bit too far apart per default? TIL that it's super easy to change this.
In #ggplot2, simply try something like:
scale_linetype_manual(
values = c(a = "dotted", b = "11")
)
The '11' means: 1 point for a dot, 1 point for a gap. Find out more here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25788945/how-to-define-more-line-types-for-graphs-in-r-custom-linetype

for those who can't be bothered with the bogus age limit thing, check it out at: https://skyview.social/?url=https:%2F/bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/post/3mbcvjmqdtk…

On Condensation Management - Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation -

On Condensation Management
Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation

for per-contact email, I've settled on Proton Pass, $36/yr (free is limited to 10)
under the hood it's SimpleLogin, an email proxy, rewrites from/to. sometimes has problems with antispam, but them solving it is better than me.
Proton acquired SimpleLogin in 2022, and made it a subfeature of Proton Pass (not Proton Mail)
yes it's weird to tie this to a password manager. no the proxy doesn't get to read your passwords. yes the Proton CEO is weirdly problematic…

[OT] So now even when you try to avoid using #AI, #AI hits your wallet nonetheless https://www.<…

Concern That Skyrocketing RAM Prices Driven by AI Needs Will Cause Problems for High-End Gaming for 'Several Years' - IGN
There is increasing concern that skyrocketing RAM prices will impact high-end gaming not just in the short term, but the long term.

@… took a dive into #AIsafety together with Nate Soares.
A fascinating conversation about the hard and long-term problems stemming from people not taking #AI safety seriously eno…

Jerry Jones doubles down on making massive gas deal over fixing issues with Cowboys; Prescott, Aikman respond

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys

Wikipedia has •numerous• problems, but it belongs in education.
And right now, per the McSweeney’s OP, it’s a lifeboat of humanity in a sea of slop.
For reference, snapshots of the two articles concerned at the time of this writing:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250923124231/https://www.britannica.com/event/Louisiana-Purchase
https://web.archive.org/web/20250917014942/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
/end

Using devices as long as they work is literally the exact opposite of “hoarding”, which would be buying a new phone every year and ending up with a hoard of them.
Let’s not use words that were deliberately used in bad faith to blame consumers for problems producers have.

Everytime I read the news

So, if you are having problems with random websites failing with #Firefox 144, it's very likely that it did corrupt your profile(s). Unfortunately, you will need to create a new one and start over...
This is the bug: https://

Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs Professional - Learn how a thermal imaging survey can spot real problems. What does it cost? Is a trained operator useful? #thermalImaging #cutCarbon -

Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs Professional
Learn how a thermal imaging survey can spot real problems. What does it cost? Is a trained operator useful? #thermalImaging #cutCarbon

What a great read and overview, recommended !
"The State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions"
#AI

The State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Progress, and Predictions
A 2025 review of large language models, from DeepSeek R1 and RLVR to inference-time scaling, benchmarks, architectures, and predictions for 2026.

Justice department officials felt sure "Border Czar" #ATom #Homan would not be able to obtain a security clearance based on the evidence gathered in the corruption probe, which they and FBI agents believed had shown Homan unsuitable for a trusted senior role in government service

Border czar Tom Homan didn’t receive normal background check during bribery probe
President-elect Trump initially balked at submitting names of likely nominees to the FBI for background checks, a basic step intended to flag possible financial conflicts or ethical problems.

Bucky Brooks' Scouting Report: Week 9 vs. Jaguars https://www.raiders.com/news/bucky-brooks-scouting-report-week-9-raiders-vs-jacksonville-jaguars-trevor-lawrence-travis-hunter

Airbus issued a mandatory update that should prevent problems occurring because of intense sunlight radiation.
Sunscreen via software update? Ehm, where do I sign up to get this for my body? I'm prepared to pay extra if this would also make me more heat resistant!

Outcomes-over-outputs is one thing — but even outcomes aren't always impactful.
Investing in any outcome carries opportunity cost. Any effort you expend means not spending that effort elsewhere.
And when there's a bottleneck in the system, effort upstream of the bottleneck has diminishing returns. Typically, that bottleneck is your process.
Since the process is made up of people, technical solutions won't help.

All your problems are people problems (Don't Just Do Things, Part 2)
If you want to do strategy, you must be willing to do process transformation first.

Seriously, the worst ones are nodejs and rust: they fundamentally break the nodejs dependency model, flattening everything. They've chosen _controlling_ dependencies instead of _annotating_ them for understanding. Metadata about what's in a package and a package-build-time mechanism for substituting things in lockfiles would be far far simpler for forcing security updates than rewriting everything to use system dependencies, and versions that are not reconcilable.
Heck, both npm and cargo have put a lot of effort into repeatability though not actual hermetic builds, so it's very much Good Enough if you're using lock files. The problems are in updating those, not building packages. Mirror the registries if you need to. That's a much more tractable problem than _rewriting parts of everything you package_ or _eagerly packaging every dependency as a separate [human] task_

There are people in my life who at some point just stopped forcing themselves to learn new things, particularly around technology. I am prone to crankiness about having to use poorly designed tech but need to remind myself periodically that I don't want to become them. (That doesn't mean I have to volunteer to solve their technical problems, though.)

#libreoffice bugs can be quite fun; they often have slide decks and documents attached which don't quite work. One I just fixed was from a Biker group, with a morbid slide on what members had died from - showing most weren't from biking - alas a numbered list screwup had 12 bee sting deaths instead of 1 (among other problems)

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

I can’t help but think that most of today’s social problems can be solved with UBI and a real corporate/wealth tax.
I can’t think of many big problems that that wouldn’t address, in some way.

»Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems«
What is your opinion about this article? Regardless of whether from a developer or user position. :BoostOK:
🤔 https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2025-12-17-yep-passkeys-still-have-problems/

Ok yeah I think I’ll stay here for a while. At least until I find problems, need Steam Link or need the compiz cube.

Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its defense tech led to setbacks; Ukraine stopped using Anduril's Altius drones in 2024 due to problems (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/anduril…

Do prawns feel pain? Why scientists are urging a rethink of Australia’s favoured festive food https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/22/crustaceans-feelings-sentient-christmas-new-year-prawns-australia

This is not the first time for #Microsoft #DNS-related problems. As I recall, the first one I remember from 2001 had something to do with their authoritative name servers residing on the same IP4 /24 that had an access or availability problem.
It was a rookie mistake even then, and they were …

nanog: Re: From Microsoft's site

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
ORAC: There might be problems.
AVON: Why? You have extracted information from Federation computers before now. This is just a hodgepodge of three or four of them. You have already said that it is inferior to you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/292 B7B4

It’s funny how we had AI that can cure all diseases and solve all societal problems for years now and we still have diseases and the problems are only getting worse

A very good issue of the European Correspondent this morning, nice and clear overview of the new European #defence roadmap, #Readiness2030 , plus where is Western Europe actually? Visualised in a trademark beautiful graphic. Also, problems in Georgia, and maybe some hope from Cyprus.
https://elaine.mayoris.com/go/qx33kj8tcubzccki3dw0q1jjjhxmf8mj4jxck0s8w6mb/2866

It is oft repeated that you can't solve social problems with technical solutions.
However, there's a flip side to this: you can actually create social problems via technical choices.
#FreeSoftware

" “Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought.” "
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems

It seems like 75% of new followers have chuffed(.)org and gaza-verified(.)org URLs in their profiles.
THEY GET INSTANT BLOCKS.
AFAICT, those are scams being run by a mix of Russian mobsters and spoiled rich kids. I do not care enough to determine otherwise.
I do care about the brutality inflicted upon the Palestinian people for many decades. I care about the millennia of bigotry inflicted upon Jews. In short: I have more immediate problems. I hope they can find peace w/o i…

@… Great. But why? There enough Linux installation tutorials out there. And anyone starting with the mainstream distros like Fedora/Ubuntu should have no problems using the GUI installers. I suspect the tutorial that is needed is not how to install Linux, but rather how to install anything that wasn’t already there when you bought your computer.

Bucky Brooks' Scouting Report: Week 9 vs. Jaguars https://www.raiders.com/news/bucky-brooks-scouting-report-week-9-raiders-vs-jacksonville-jaguars-trevor-lawrence-travis-hunter

Here we have 2 ways #HisOrangeHighness is hurting people. First, the increased cost of energy to residents in the #MISO area Second, the degraded air quality, leading to health problems (and all the costs related to that)
And yet he talks about lowering the cost of energy & supports MA…

Here we have 2 ways #HisOrangeHighness is hurting people. First, the increased cost of energy to residents in the #MISO area Second, the degraded air quality, leading to health problems (and all the costs related to that)
And yet he talks about lowering the cost of energy & supports MA…

Today, I gave a presentation at the German OWASP Day @… about security issues with the EU's electronic invoices🧾💶.
The EU has introduced requirements for "standardized" machine-readable electronic invoices, initially for government procurement, increasingly they'll be required for B2B as well. In principle, not a bad thing, but security …

Security Issues with Electronic Invoices
Information about security issues like XXE and other problems with electronic invoices based on EU standards.

IEEE Spectrum: The biggest causes of medical device recalls - software problems are responsible for 20 recalls a month (10%) #FDA

FDA Data Reveals Medical Device Recalls Software Woes
Thousands of medical device recalls are issued every year, and software is one of the leading causes.

“Dear Mozilla, I don't want an ‘Al [sic] kill switch’, I want a more responsible approach for all”
https://hidde.blog/mozilla-ai-kill-switch/
Unlike Hidde, I think the alt text argument is mostly bunk (

Dear Mozilla, I don't want an “Al kill switch”, I want a more responsible approach for all
My concern is that Mozilla is _too_ excited about a technology that has inherent downsides and ethical problems, and I would like to see better defaults and clearer risk mitigations.

Implementing the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithms for QUBO problems Across Quantum Hardware Platforms: Performance Analysis, Challenges, and Strategies
Teemu Pihkakoski, Aravind Plathanam Babu, Pauli Taipale, Petri Liimatta, Matti Silveri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12336

Implementing the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithms for QUBO problems Across Quantum Hardware Platforms: Performance Analysis, Challenges, and Strategies
Quantum computers are expected to offer significant advantages in solving complex optimization problems that are challenging for classical computers. Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) problems represent an important class of problems with relevance in finance and logistics. The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a prominent candidate for solving QUBO problems on near-term quantum devices. In this paper, we investigate the performance of both the standard QAOA …

There's a type of guy whose only contribution at work is sheer volume of outputs, whether or not they serve any purpose. #AI tools ask us, "what if everyone could be that guy?"
It turns out that the result is bad for everyone. Systems lose their ability to evaluate whether outputs are fit for purpose. Shared intent disappears.
Scaling up trash only makes more trash. Work tha…

All your problems are people problems (Don't Just Do Things, Part 2)
If you want to do strategy, you must be willing to do process transformation first.

Another film, another unattributed use of #OpenStreetMap. This is the fourth movie I’ve seen this year commit this sin and the latest culprit is this Netflix Christmas romcom titled Champagne Problems.
Their travesty is now immortalized on the OSM Wiki: https…

Huge birth rate problems here like most of Europe. Gov have now announced that families with >=2 kids will get roughly 1/4 million in tax cuts over 25 years.
Thats crazy, like small family house worth crazy.

Moin @… Ich wollte mir gerade mal einen Abschlussbericht des @… anschauen [1] und habe mir beim Klicken auf "Download" einen zünftigen 500er eingefangen. Falls das eine geplante Serverwartung ist, würde…

Horst Schulte analysiert unsere derzeitige Situation und analysiert den Kern des Problems: "Nicht in der Lautstärke der AfD, sondern in der Erschöpfung der Mitte. In ihrer Lustlosigkeit, sich selbst zu erklären, zu verteidigen, zu ordnen. Eine Brandmauer, die nicht mehr geglaubt wird, stürzt nicht durch Angriffe ein. Sie zerbröselt von innen."
Aufgabe 2026: Unsere #Demokratie u…

I find it fascinating that the many different Linux distros (generally distributed for free) have resulted in the "survival of the fittest"-mechanism that capitalism was supposed to provide while Windows and macOS have stagnated or deteriorated. The top tier distros make it almost impossible to choose just one and stick with it because they are awesome in different ways.
Sure, you can always find edge cases where people run into problems, but that's also the case for the …

Many of us probably hope that we’ll get back to normal when the #genAI bubble bursts, but this isn’t going to happen. In academia, genAI *does* work, in the sense of: for many people it solves a lot of problems, and removes the need for like doing homework, reading, writing, learning, and, yes, thinking. Who cares whether its “ethical” or whatever, everybody’s using it!
My bet is that post-…

Many of us probably hope that we’ll get back to normal when the #genAI bubble bursts, but this isn’t going to happen. In academia, genAI *does* work, in the sense of: for many people it solves a lot of problems, and removes the need for like doing homework, reading, writing, learning, and, yes, thinking. Who cares whether its “ethical” or whatever, everybody’s using it!
My bet is that post-…

"Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Choose Your Own Solution: Supporting Optional Blocks in Block Ordering Problems
Skyler Oakeson, David H. Smith IV, Jaxton Winder, Seth Poulsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11999 h…

Choose Your Own Solution: Supporting Optional Blocks in Block Ordering Problems
This paper extends the functionality of block ordering problems (such as Parsons problems and Proof Blocks) to include optional blocks. We detail the algorithms used to implement the optional block feature and present usage experiences from instructors who have integrated it into their curriculum. The optional blocks feature enables instructors to create more complex Parsons problems with multiple correct solutions utilizing omitted or optional blocks. This affords students a method to engage w…

I reject this rationalization for more police and jail funding in Salt Lake County, Mayor Jenny Wilson.
If "homelessness, mental health, trauma and substance use" are problems, then more case workers, social workers, housing, and treatment resources are needed. Police and jails just inflict more pain on people who are already struggling with what problems they have.

SLCo Mayor proposes tax increase, criminal justice focus
Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson unveiled her proposed budget on Tuesday, proposing a property tax increase to keep up

Ya wanna know what is a bad idea? “AI-directed experimentation and manufacturing” is.
potus should have just called it a hand out for Oracle.
It is a solution searching for a problem. It literally gives 90 days for them to identify 20 problems it might solve.
It uses public funds for private research.

Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

Intriguing Way for the Raiders To Fix QB Problems https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-intriguing-way-fix-qb-problems

Donnie continues to attempt to create problems so that he can claim he's the only one capable of solving them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/gun-violence-prevention-non-profit-grants-disqualified

Microsoft 365 and Azure suffer outages; users report problems accessing sites and services, and the company says it is investigating (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/microsoft-hit-with-azure-365-outage-ahead-of-quarte…

Microsoft hit with Azure, 365 outage ahead of quarterly earnings report
Microsoft users reported outages for Azure and 365 services a week after many customers of Amazon Web Services suffered hours of downtime.

Oh hey, relevant:
https://youtu.be/IOzwJ17VQrE
I have some critiques. I think the appropriate response is always community organizing first. But the "what if this is the coup" is pretty on point. There would normally be other problems if the government stayed shut down long enough, but Trump may just try to work around it with direct donations from companies.

Syntax is not Semantics
Language is not the same as intelligence.
The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring that.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intellige…

Large language mistake
Neuroscience indicates language is distinct from thought, raising questions about whether AI large language models are a viable path to artificial general intelligence.

Linear Convergence of a Unified Primal--Dual Algorithm for Convex--Concave Saddle Point Problems with Quadratic Growth
Cody Melcher, Afrooz Jalilzadeh, Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11990

Linear Convergence of a Unified Primal--Dual Algorithm for Convex--Concave Saddle Point Problems with Quadratic Growth
In this paper, we study saddle point (SP) problems, focusing on convex-concave optimization involving functions that satisfy either two-sided quadratic functional growth (QFG) or two-sided quadratic gradient growth (QGG)--novel conditions tailored specifically for SP problems as extensions of quadratic growth conditions in minimization. These conditions relax the traditional requirement of strong convexity-strong concavity, thereby encompassing a broader class of problems. We propose a generali…

Understanding the Link between Animal Cruelty and Family Violence: The Bioecological Systems Model #AnimalRights

Understanding the Link between Animal Cruelty and Family Violence: The Bioecological Systems Model
Violence towards animals and violence towards people are often interconnected problems, and as such, this phenomenon has been termed the Link. Violence towards animals is a strong predictor that the abuser may inflict violence on people. However, it ...

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Encoding computationally hard problems in triangular Rydberg atom arrays
Xi-Wei Pan, Huan-Hai Zhou, Yi-Ming Lu, Jin-Guo Liu

The ultimate crux why LLMs can never be actually intelligent is this:
“…research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.”
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems

It's not "always" the AI's fault?
»Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems«
🤷 https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html

Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems
  I once worked at a company which had an enormous amount of technical debt - millions of lines of code, no unit tests, based on frameworks ...

People up a few levels in org hierarchies are always coming up with ideas that sound great and make sense in a Powerpoint or on a spreadsheet, but are actually terrible ideas if you understand how they’ll play out.
This is only human! Management is about seeing things zoomed out — and all problems look smaller at a distance. It’s just a hazard of the job. Anyone in such a role is susceptible, even the best; what distinguishes •good• managers / administrators is that they mindfully, actively counter this self-trap.
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Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs Professional - Learn how a thermal imaging survey can spot real problems. What does it cost? Is a trained operator useful? #thermalImaging #cutCarbon -

Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs Professional
Learn how a thermal imaging survey can spot real problems. What does it cost? Is a trained operator useful? #thermalImaging #cutCarbon

Super Bowl Champion Calls Out Problems with Chip Kelly’s Offense https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-chip-kelly-pete-carroll-ashton-jeanty-devin-white-geno-smith

An in-depth look at a recent research paper that offered a roadmap to the viability of 3D HBM-on-GPU integration for improved AI performance and utilization (More Than Moore)
https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/solving-the-problems-of-hbm-on-logic
<…

Solving The Problems of HBM-on-Logic
Future AI Accelerators Might Need To Be Slower To Be Faster

Analyst perfectly encapsulates Cowboys' 2025 problems with 1 sentence https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/analyst-perfectly-encapsulates-cowboys-2025-problems-1-sentence/549bd5e…

Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs Professional - Learn how a thermal imaging survey can spot real problems. What does it cost? Is a trained operator useful? #thermalImaging #cutCarbon -

Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs Professional
Learn how a thermal imaging survey can spot real problems. What does it cost? Is a trained operator useful? #thermalImaging #cutCarbon

"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

New on my #Gentoo blog: One #jobserver to rule them all
"""
A common problem with running Gentoo builds is concurrency. Many packages include extensive build steps that are either fully serial, or cannot fully utilize the available CPU threads throughout. This problem becomes less pronounced when running building multiple packages in parallel, but then we are risking overscheduling for packages that do take advantage of parallel builds.
Fortunately, there are a few tools at our disposal that can improve the situation. Most recently, they were joined by two experimental system-wide jobservers: #guildmaster and #steve. In this post, I’d like to provide the background on them, and discuss the problems they are facing.
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https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2025/11/30/one-jobserver-to-rule-them-all/

2025 NFL trade deadline: 11 player-team fits that make sense https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-trade-deadline-player-team-fits-that-make-sense

When a terrible idea comes from on high, there’s always pushback from the folks on the ground who actually understand how things work: the engineers at the computers, the teachers in the classrooms, the facilities crews, the kitchen staff, whatever. The folks who live their lives zoomed in on a specific thing may be missing the big picture, but they’re the ones who first see when a managerial notion will have execution problems.
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A new study suggests that #dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain.
Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive,
disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue.
When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned.
This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in …

Scientists found a way to restore brain blood flow in dementia
A new study suggests that dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain. Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive, disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue. When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned. This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in dementia.

Who has done #thermalImaging at #home to help improve efficiency like this: https://www.earth.org.uk/thermal-imagi…

Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs Professional
Learn how a thermal imaging survey can spot real problems. What does it cost? Is a trained operator useful? #thermalImaging #cutCarbon

A profile of Substrate, which uses particle acceleration to handle lithography, claiming to solve one of tech's toughest problems, and aims to compete with ASML (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I can understand maybe not being able to comprehend this due to age (he's 79).
But there's a lot of young people who don't have problems with images like these which show wrong things, make up stuff that's weird, look creepy and misspell text.
I wonder if perhaps repeated COVID infections contribute to people's mental decline that is similar to age-related mental issues.

Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs Professional - Learn how a thermal imaging survey can spot real problems. What does it cost? Is a trained operator useful? #thermalImaging #cutCarbon -

Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs Professional
Learn how a thermal imaging survey can spot real problems. What does it cost? Is a trained operator useful? #thermalImaging #cutCarbon

Vikings' problems run deep but begin with J.J. McCarthy https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47078333/nfl-minnesota-vikings-jj-mccarthy-justin-jefferson

Sources describe tensions between OpenAI's research and ChatGPT product groups, leading to the "code red"; OpenAI is set to beat its 2025 revenue goal of $13B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-organizational-p…

How OpenAI’s Organizational Problems Hurt ChatGPT
Over the past year, some OpenAI staffers noticed a concerning change in the way people who used ChatGPT were reacting to improvements in the chatbot. In prior years, every time OpenAI made a big upgrade to the artificial intelligence that powers the chatbot, usage surged as people easily found ...

It’s always a similar radicalization, it involves it being useful for them in some way and therefore (in their view) anyone who dares to mention any of the 700,000 serious problems with it is a “zealot”.
Followed by ad hominem attacks by doing things like questioning other people’s qualification and motivations; in pretty elaborate temper tantrums.
It does not occur to them they might be wrong, even when repeatedly shown proof that they are.
This is psychological projection, by the way—they attribute their heir own negative feelings to other people.

Why Pete Carroll Can’t Fix the Raiders’ Biggest Problems https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-pete-carroll-cant-fix-biggest-problems

What Must Change For Raiders to Put Problems Finally Behind Them https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-must-change-put-problems-finally-behind-them

Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs Professional - Learn how a thermal imaging survey can spot real problems. What does it cost? Is a trained operator useful? #thermalImaging #cutCarbon -

Thermal Imaging Survey: DIY vs Professional
Learn how a thermal imaging survey can spot real problems. What does it cost? Is a trained operator useful? #thermalImaging #cutCarbon

On Condensation Management - Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation -

On Condensation Management
Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation

On Condensation Management - Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation -

On Condensation Management
Learn how you can best avoid problems with condensation, damp and mould in winter. #mould #condensation #ventilation