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Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool in beta to let users search for patents using natural language queries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/811340/perplexity-ai-patent-research-tool

Perplexity’s new AI tool aims to simplify patent research
Perplexity is launching an AI-powered patent research tool that allows you to search for patents using natural language.

from my link log —
The math mode problem in Typst.
https://laurmaedje.github.io/posts/math-mode-problem/
saved 2025-10-30 https://

Please remember: when an officer stops somebody based on racial profiling to challenge their immigration status, the correct and proper term for that is a “Kavanaugh stop.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/brett-kavanaugh-stops-immigration-racial-profiling-ice.html

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.

The Guided Local Hamiltonian Problem for Stoquastic Hamiltonians
Gabriel Waite
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25829 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25829

The Guided Local Hamiltonian Problem for Stoquastic Hamiltonians
We show that the Guided Local Hamiltonian problem for stoquastic Hamiltonians is (promise) BPP-hard. The Guided Local Hamiltonian problem is a variant of the Local Hamiltonian problem that incorporates an additional input known as a guiding state, which is promised to overlap with the ground state. For a range of local Hamiltonian families, this problem is (promise) BQP-hard, though for stoquastic Hamiltonians, the complexity was previously unknown. Our results are achieved by first reducing fr…

“Stupid sexy Flanders.”
https://bsky.app/profile/rockshrimp.bsky.social/post/3m25o6ekgrk27

Willow (@rockshrimp.bsky.social)
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

Swiss voters rejected
a 50% inheritance tax
for the super-rich
https://bsky.app/profile/financialtimes.com/post/3m6ugxb7ahx2l

Financial Times (@financialtimes.com)
On Sunday more than 80% of those who voted rejected the initiative to impose an inheritance levy on the super-rich on.ft.com/4ruKm0x

An implicit admission GOP congressmen want Trump do by decree something they could never pass through Congress as a statute, much less a constitutional amendment.
https://bsky.app/profile/lawrencehurley.bsky.social/post/3m4j44cqvos2k

Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social)
The following members of the House and Senate think that -- as a legal matter -- the longstanding accepted view that the 14th Amendment confers citizenship to anyone born in the US (with minor exceptions) is wrong:

Halloween from
Down Under
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
https://bsky.app/profile/patti3333.bsky.social/post/3m4jiobjkas2c

This is the United Nations
General Assembly
It is not a Signal chat,
nor the House of Representatives
https://bsky.app/profile/adamparkhomenko.bsky.social/post/3m4hfag3nck2w

Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social)
This is fucking amazing