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from my link log —
What's higher-order about so-called higher-order references?
https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2025/06/02/what-s-higher-order-about-so-called-higher-order-references/
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Harvard Divinity School broke precedent
by refusing to publish a video of its commencement speech
after a speaker went off-script to call attention to the perilous conditions in Gaza.
“There are no safe zones left in Gaza after 600 days and 77 years of genocide,” said Zehra Imam,
who graduated from the Harvard Divinity School this spring and participated in the embattled Religion and Public Life program.
Imam, who is Muslim, was speaking with two other students f…

A Harvard Commencement Speaker Mentioned Gaza. The School Refused to Publish Her Speech.
Divinity School insiders said Harvard’s practices are at odds with the public perception that the university is fighting Trump.

Ombudsman: „Als je heel erg optimistisch bent, zou je kunnen zeggen dat het ravijnjaar dat gemeenten zien aankomen, een grote financiële terugval in 2026, minder erg wordt omdat het kabinet daar geld voor vrij heeft gemaakt. Het ravijn wordt minder diep. Maar weet je, of je nou honderd of tweehonderd meter naar beneden dondert, waarschijnlijk val je in beide gevallen toch dood.”

‘Het was stoer doen’, zegt de ombudsman over kabinet-Schoof: wetsvoorstellen en moties waren voor de bühne, niet voor de burger
Reinier van Zutphen | Nationale Ombudsman: Het kabinet-Schoof maakte beloften waarvan al vooraf duidelijk was dat ze nooit waargemaakt konden worden, zegt de Nationale Ombudsman. „Ik vind dat niet eerlijk tegenover de mensen in Nederland. Het heeft stilgestaan.”

European start-up challenges Neuralink's Blindsight device https://news.columbusnewsonline.com/story/554447/european-startup-challenges-neuralinks-blindsight-device.html ReVision implant "volunteer trials…

« Ce n’est pas tellement parce que nos métiers vont être les premiers Š disparaître. Dans notre secteur, on est confrontés Š ces sujets depuis cinq, voire dix ans. On a du recul et on est capables de bien comprendre les dérives que ça entraîne. Et le risque essentiel contre lequel il faut que les pouvoirs publics et le grand public se mobilisent, c’est la standardisation de notre langue Š vitesse grand V, la normalisation de la pensée et de tous les modes d’expression »

Salaire divisé par deux, moins de contrats, perte de sens... Les traducteurs percutés de plein fouet par l'IA générative
Depuis deux ans, leur vie professionnelle a été bouleversée par la vague de l'IA générative. Récit du combat donquichottesque des traducteurs qui refusent de voir leurs métiers se paupériser, et qui dénoncent la réalité de l'impact de l'IA sur leur secteur, et plus largement sur la langue, la pensée, la culture et la société.

from my link log —
Rewriting the Ruby parser.
https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/
saved 2024-12-26

Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you thro…

It all fits. Suppose you’re corporate leadership. You’re laying people off / refusing to hire because you have no clue what things will look like even 1 or 2 years in the future, and you are •terrified•.
Meanwhile, your investors, your gullible trend-chasing investors, are already mentally dividing companies into “pre-AI” and “post-AI.” And not only do you have no idea how to be “post-AI,” but you have no idea whether you’ll be solvent next year. What do you tell them?!??
Obviously you tell them you’re not hiring because you’re having such incredible success with AI! Maybe even you’re going to lay off all the senior people! They’ll love that!
Now you’re not failing and flailing — you’re leading the march into the future! Yay!

Jim Harbaugh pokes fun at John Harbaugh, Cal Ripken Jr. after foul ball lands between Baltimore sports icons

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

What is a good use case for quantum computers?
Michael Marthaler, Peter Pinski, Pascal Stadler, Vladimir Rybkin, Marina Walt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15426

What is a good use case for quantum computers?
Identify, Transform, Benchmark, Show Quantum Advantage (ITBQ): Evaluating use cases for quantum computers. We introduce a four-step framework for assessing quantum computing applications -- from identifying relevant industry problems to demonstrating quantum advantage -- addressing steps often overlooked in the literature, such as rigorous benchmarking against classical solutions and the challenge of translating real-world tasks onto quantum hardware. Applying this framework to cases like NMR, …

#NoKings #usa #uspol
Proteste in den USA sind laut Einschätzung eines Wissenschaftlers zweifelsohne mit einer der größten Ein- Tages- Proteste in der menschlichen Geschichte 💪🎉

"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4-6 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.