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from my link log —
Reliable 25 gigabit ethernet via Thunderbolt.
https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/01/27/tb25/
saved 2026-02-01

Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
I found this tiny fanless Thunderbolt 25G Ethernet adapter. With a little tinkering, it actually works.

I very briefly feared that the number of printed exams wouldn’t suffice 😱 But it turns out German students are reliable when it comes to not showing up for exams phew
And only 1 copy printed in vain! 🌱 #academicchatter

😎 Memory justifications remain surprisingly stable even as memories fade over time, study shows
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-memory-justifications-stable-memories.html

Memory justifications remain surprisingly stable even as memories fade over time, study shows
While memories may fade with time, the explanations people give for why they remember an event remain surprisingly stable and reliable, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Does anyone have comments on 12TB external USB drives? Looking to add something to my home server as a backup. How reliable are they? Critical stuff backed to cloud as well, but I have lots of 'stuff' I would feel better having a 2nd local copy of. (3-2-1 rule) Given my first HD as uh, 5MB, the idea of a 12TB drive is mind boggling.

from my link log —
A distributed systems reliability glossary.
https://antithesis.com/resources/reliability_glossary/
saved 2025-12-03 https://…

A distributed systems reliability glossary
A list of key concepts for building and testing reliable distributed systems, with basic definitions and deep references.

Transit system isn't reliable. Work space is limited and not enough parking...
Home office is better equipped.
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/public-servants-offices-opinion

Anthropic details an experiment on whether AI coding tools shape developer skills, finding that the biggest performance gap appears in debugging tasks (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

When interfacing with a #Meshtastic device (at for least *some of* my devices), [USB] Serial seems to be many orders of magnitude more reliable than TCP over WiFi.

When DHS, USCIS, and DOGE announced the overhaul of the SAVE program,
they explicitly linked the effort to a campaign to combat the “taint” of noncitizen voter fraud,
a long-standing claim tied to the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
By all appearances, the administration is poised to use the SAVE program to prop up these false claims,
and sympathetic local officials may deploy SAVE to concoct evidence.
This move poses serious risks to vo…

DHS, USCIS, DOGE Overhaul Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements Database | Homeland Security
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, alongside USCIS and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), announced a comprehensive optimization of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database to ensure a single, reliable source for verifying non-citizen status nationwide.

from my link log —
Supercomputing on Nitro in AWS cloud with Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD).
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9167399
saved 2020-09-18

Only reliable U.S. aid for Ukraine: McDonald’s: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/only-reliable-us-aid-for.html

Pretty useful summary of European train delays in 2025. Grim reading for German trains, but chuu chuu looks like useful for finding more reliable routes https://chuuchuu.com/2025wrapped

To everyone's satisfaction I've been quiet over the last week and a bit.
That state of bliss will end soon 🤣
I got caught up in zfs, btrfs, encryption, bootloaders, Chimera Linux and Alpine, what have you. It's been a great ride, a challenging one and a shouting-at-clouds rollercoaster, all in one. Two options awaiting me, choice to be finalized today. Slackware, Gentoo, FreeBSD, even NixOS have become boringly reliable 😂!

You were a reliable companion during more than a decade of travels around the world, my faithful #Vaadin bag.
Farewell, I'll miss you 🥺

Meet Alex Rasmussen, a software engineer with 10 years of experience building fast, reliable data systems. If you’re into performance, scale, and clean infrastructure, you’ll want to hear from him.
Learn more about Alex: https://youtu.be/nvwCemb0LI4

Cowboys Get Big George Pickens Take Amid Raiders Speculation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/cowboys-big-george-pickens-take-speculation/

Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new "retirement interview" process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/deprecation-updates-opus-3

An update on our model deprecation commitments for Claude Opus 3
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

if you want stable and reliable software, give developers stable and reliable employment

Moving services to the EU
Like a lot of Europeans, I realise that the US isn't a reliable partner anymore.
I am just talking about myself here, and not my employer, or my family.
I do use a lot of services that are based in the US, and some I will probably not migrate in the near future.
But when I receive a bill, it is a good moment to consider if it is a candidate for migration.

Got a spam text? Copy spam text (careful not to click on links in it), forward contents of spam text to 7726 (SPAM), and it should walk you through the spam report for your carrier.
Use https://www.carrierlookup.com/ to see what company is carrier for sender/spammer, then internet search "[company n…

According to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison:
ICE is blocking MN investigators from the crime scene. The MN National Guard is on the way to force ICE to let investigators in.
(NB: Still trying to find a confirmed source for this; I have no further info yet)
UPDATE: Source for this is somebody at the scene who heard Ellison say it in conversation. Source is likely reliable person, but may have incomplete info. This is a big game of telephone right now, so don’t treat this as authoritative in any way.

Got my mum a Motorola G06 as a new 4G phone; cleared the front screen down to just time, phone, contacts and camera. Fingerprint unlock (done at the power switch) doesn't seem reliable; face unlock works.
Not bad for the £64 tesco are charging SIM-Free,

A look at Kari Lake's 11 months as US Agency for Global Media de facto head, as she wasted money and blocked work to bring reliable news to repressive countries (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/

What Is Kari Lake Trying to Achieve?
The Arizona politician has wasted millions of dollars while blocking U.S. efforts to bring reliable news to repressive countries.

My 2018 Nissan Leaf has had no maintenance needed in 7 years (besides the usual tire rotation, brake check, etc).
Love it so much we bought a 2024 as well. https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115691608937085271

A data visualization collection of train delays and punctuality in 2025. Why is Germany so incredibly bad at this? Like, more delays than all other European countries combined?
https://chuuchuu.com/2025wrapped

chuuchuu - find reliable train journeys
Explore the 2025 rankings of European train punctuality by country. See which countries performed best, discover peak chaos hours, and find out which trains and stations had the most delays.

The job of engineers is not to deploy some technology but to build robust, reliable and sustainable (in all meanings of that word) solutions for real world problems based on requirements directly derived from people's needs. Even for an engineer technology comes second at best.

The size of #3I/ATLAS from non-gravitational acceleration: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18341 -> "we find diameters between 820 meters and 1050 meters [...] reliable estimates of the mass loss rate at other stages of the comet's trajectory will substantially reduce the systematic uncertainty in this estimate."

I've been using @… now for a while.
It works quite well. Found everything I was looking for.
Didn't use Google in a while.
https://www.qwant.com/

Qwant
Fast, reliable answers and still in trust: Qwant does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe.

A Home Office study by on the facial recognition system used by UK police forces has found that it is significantly less reliable with certain ethnic groups and genders.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/police-facial-recognition-…

Police facial recognition biased against certain groups
A Home Office study by on the facial recognition system used by UK police forces has found that it is significantly less reliable with certain ...

Oh great, Santa Rita prison is contracting with a SaaS company for prisons. https://pigeonly.com/

Inmate Communication Made Easy | Pigeonly
Pigeonly offers reliable inmate communication services, including phone calls, photos, and mail. Stay connected to your loved ones in prison easily and affordably.

New Year, Same Job Search.
If you are looking for a Staff/Principal level #PHP developer, with a long history of helping both projects and teams update and modernize to become more robust and reliable, look no further because you've found him! I've worked on multiple major OSS projects, including PHP itself.
US-based, remote-only, plenty experience working for non-US companies as we…

Maybe it is time for me to go back to debian stable or some such. #Opensuse is pushing half baked solutions, which makes me sad after all those years of reliable services. On top, I don't understand this obsession for Wayland (which isn't up to speed on Desktop).

Hier kommt der ultimative Service-Toot.
Basiswissen im #urheberrecht erspart Anwalt und Abmahnung.
Damit ihr damit im #phdlife und auch sonst an der #tuhamburg sicher unterwegs…

@… if you want stable and reliable relationships, be stable and reliable for your friends? 🤝

Aww yeah
Yamaha Pacifica Single Cut
Locking Gotoh tuners, Maple or rosewood board, satin neck finish, compound radius, med jumbo stainless frets, heel truss wheel, contoured neck heel, Neve-designed pickups, gotoh compensated brass saddles, chambered/torrefied body with arm contour
🥵
#Guitar #GearSquad

Pacifica SC Professional Electric Guitar - Yamaha USA
Shop the Yamaha Pacifica SC Professional. Designed for today’s guitarist, it offers versatile tones, smooth playability, and reliable performance in any setting.

All i ask is for reliable public transit, why is that too much to ask?

Rust is cute. :3
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/a33907a7a5381473eec8bcfa0c56e05a856a911c/library/core/src/marker.rs#L688

rust/library/core/src/marker.rs at a33907a7a5381473eec8bcfa0c56e05a856a911c · rust-lang/rust
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. - rust-lang/rust

WeirNet: A Large-Scale 3D CFD Benchmark for Geometric Surrogate Modeling of Piano Key Weirs
Lisa L\"uddecke, Michael Hohmann, Sebastian Eilermann, Jan Tillmann-Mumm, Pezhman Pourabdollah, Mario Oertel, Oliver Niggemann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20714 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20714 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20714
arXiv:2602.20714v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reliable prediction of hydraulic performance is challenging for Piano Key Weir (PKW) design because discharge capacity depends on three-dimensional geometry and operating conditions. Surrogate models can accelerate hydraulic-structure design, but progress is limited by scarce large, well-documented datasets that jointly capture geometric variation, operating conditions, and functional performance. This study presents WeirNet, a large 3D CFD benchmark dataset for geometric surrogate modeling of PKWs. WeirNet contains 3,794 parametric, feasibility-constrained rectangular and trapezoidal PKW geometries, each scheduled at 19 discharge conditions using a consistent free-surface OpenFOAM workflow, resulting in 71,387 completed simulations that form the benchmark and with complete discharge coefficient labels. The dataset is released as multiple modalities compact parametric descriptors, watertight surface meshes and high-resolution point clouds together with standardized tasks and in-distribution and out-of-distribution splits. Representative surrogate families are benchmarked for discharge coefficient prediction. Tree-based regressors on parametric descriptors achieve the best overall accuracy, while point- and mesh-based models remain competitive and offer parameterization-agnostic inference. All surrogates evaluate in milliseconds per sample, providing orders-of-magnitude speedups over CFD runtimes. Out-of-distribution results identify geometry shift as the dominant failure mode compared to unseen discharge values, and data-efficiency experiments show diminishing returns beyond roughly 60% of the training data. By publicly releasing the dataset together with simulation setups and evaluation pipelines, WeirNet establishes a reproducible framework for data-driven hydraulic modeling and enables faster exploration of PKW designs during the early stages of hydraulic planning.
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PG&E getting ready for the coming winter storm by flaking out our power two days early. This happens once a month here. We pay 4x for electricity what the rest of the US pays and we don't even have reliable power.

And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)

And this week I heard there is not one single seat available between Copenhagen and Hamburg the weekend *before* Easter. That effectively means no-one from anywhere in Scandinavia can travel to the rest of Europe by train, because there isn't enough capacity in the system 🤬
#trains #travel #europe #infrastructure

"For years, longtime #Firefox users have hung on while #Mozilla has pursued random directions, added advertiser-friendly features, and tried repeatedly to jump onto the AI bandwagon. But all those users want is a reliable, standards-compliant browser that gives them control over their web exp…

I'm looking for a reliable sporty older sedan in the year range of 2000s to 2010s. What are your best recommendations?

Reliable person I know, in a #Minneapolis suburb, today:
"Saw my first ice arrest this morning. At a church in Excelsior on Hwy 7 there was a man laying on the snow with 2 or 3 ice agents on top of him and another 2 or 3 agents running towards him. All with their masks on."
#Minnesota

At least someone's enjoying the thought of a by-election in Farrer
https://www.betootaadvocate.com/report-farrer-by-election-is-going-to-be-a-real-shitshow/

Report: Farrer By-Election Is Going To Be A Real Shitshow
ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact For years, Farrer was the kind of seat political parties kept in the china cabinet. Safe. Reliable. Only taken out on special occasions. With the vacancy declared, what should have been a routine rural by-election has instead morphed into a full-blown political demolition derby. The Coalition

Australia's coal heartland is getting a clean energy makeover.
Flow Power just secured financing for a massive 100MW battery in Victoria's Latrobe Valley—right where the old Hazelwood coal plant once stood. The project pairs large-scale solar and wind with storage to deliver reliable renewable power by 2028.
It's a powerful symbol of the energy transition taking root in coal country.

Flow Power reaches financial close on its first stand-alone big battery, in Victorian coal country
Australia renewables gentailer reaches financial close on its first "battery only" project – and its largest project of any sort, to date – in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.

The Department of Justice estimates that American police officers shoot 10,000 pet dogs in the line of duty each year.
It is impossible to ascertain a reliable number, however, because most law enforcement agencies do not maintain accurate records of animal killings.
The tally may be substantially higher, and some suggest it could reach six figures.

Universities selling their address space are probably oblivious to where it is going, but they should care. One day people are going to realize a lot of these high rep addresses are getting transferred to very different resource stewards.
re: https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/st

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"Purdue University Northwest" (ARIN) transferred 163.245.224.0/19 to "Reliable Communications s.r.o." (RIPE) (Estimated Market Value: $139.26 K)

Well, it now came to this: I have to install an add-on in #LibreWolf (#Firefox fork) as well on my almost naked #Chromium in order to get reliable session resume after browser restart:

Usually #TheConversation is quite reliable and rigorous. Sadly, not this time. There's a lot of make-believe in this piece.
https://theconversation.com/the-healin

The healing power of poisonous plants
Evolution has created plants with the power to kill and heal.

There's really no point doing trade negotiations with the USA. The negotiations will last longer than any possible agreement.
I imagine the world will see negotiating with China as producing more reliable outcomes.

Raiders GM John Spytek Doesn’t Hold Back on Jack Bech https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/john-spytek-comments-jack-bech/

My #AltProcess #Kallitype development/printmaking journey is already showing strong parallels to my software dev experience, i.e. a preference for avoiding monolithic frameworks and building more granular, reliable, understandable & controllable tooling myself, and get much better & mor…

from my link log —
Supercomputing on Nitro in AWS cloud with Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD).
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9167399
saved 2020-09-18

In today's 'no shit' news, best not to trust Google AI Overviews or any kind of 'AI' thing for any kind of real, reliable health advice
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/02/google-ai-overviews-ri…

Some positive signs for AI coding tools. Claude-code is a $1B run rate product six month after launch. The latest Claude Opus 4.5 model is several times cheaper and faster than last month’s version and uses about a quarter of the number of tokens to get work done. My own benchmark saw over an hour of coding reduced to 17 minutes. The high rate of change continues. The boundary of what does/doesn’t work is pushing back fast.

Anthropic acquires Bun as Claude Code reaches $1B milestone
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
NOVARA: A simple mental process known to the ancients. We have developed and refined it. It is more reliable than mechanical transmissions.
BLAKE: You said you have a way to free us from the web.
https://

#Textpattern 4.9.0 New Version. It's great that this reliable CMS is only updated every few years, leaving you with peace and quiet otherwise.
via @ https://ligneclaire.de/links-5-januar-2026…

Links 5. Januar 2026

Cowboys Star’s Mistakes Loom Large in Devastating Vikings Loss https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brandon-aubrey-mistakes-devastating-vikings-loss/

The only thing more reliable than my Guardian's heals is my Linux OS. 🛡️🐧
Back in Tyria tonight streaming #GW2 from my trusty Linux PC! My machine has zero bloatware and 100% dragon-slaying optimization.
Come hang out! 👇 https://www.twitch.t…

What if we viewed AI notetaking not as a solution but as a symptom of deeper workplace dysfunction?
(👆an AI assisted post ;-)
https://www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11-nine-risks-caused-by-ai-notetakers

Nine risks caused by AI notetakers — Careful Industries
AI transcription tools are not currently mature or reliable enough to be regarded as an always on, single-source of truth for meeting notes. Nine common risks, and six possible mitigations.

From Translink
Customer-driven improvements are coming to Metro Vancouver transit
TransLink’s new five-year plan outlines 34 actions shaped by feedback, focused on reliability
Better real-time transit information, more reliable elevators and escalators, easier ways to report cleanliness issues, and continuing design work for Bus Rapid Transit are among the improvements TransLink is advancing through its new Customer Experience Action Plan.

I assume it is time to learn how to file bugs for Apple. My recent experience synchronizing Apple Notes, Journal, Reminders, and now Calendar across devices seems to get worse.
I could imagine some extra complexity handling Notes and Journal.
I cannot imagine how Apple hasn’t figured out a fast, reliable, and consistent sync for Reminders and Calendar.
It’s an extremely frustrating experience. I am wondering why there isn’t an AppleSynchGate yet.

Anthropic details the "Assistant Axis", a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis

The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

I wonder if I can convince myself to run hass on a dedicated device instead of k8s. It would make it much saner for integrations like Shelly's CoIoT which perform better when they can connect directly to hass on a native non-http service port.
I'm kind of bummed mqtt has somewhat fallen out of favor as it's definitely very reliable for wifi devices that sometimes roam and reconnect.

ChatGPT is useful for getting the average of the information in its weights on a given topic
Grok (Expert) is useful for filtering search engine slop into a summary with relevant, sourced, checkable web links
Neither of these necessarily produce The Truth, but in this example, Grok generates significantly more reliable output when precision matters. As time goes on and the volume of hallucinated nonsense on the Web mounts higher, Grok's ability to attribute its assertions t…

Aging fiber and Kremlin curbs leave Russia’s villages without reliable internet: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/09/aging-fiber-and-kremlin-curbs.html

With #Rust 1.92.0, have a good start into this week!
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/11/Rust-1.92.0/

Announcing Rust 1.92.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Estimation of Confidence Bounds in Binary Classification using Wilson Score Kernel Density Estimation
Thorbj{\o}rn Mosekj{\ae}r Iversen, Zebin Duan, Frederik Hagelskj{\ae}r
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20947 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20947 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20947
arXiv:2602.20947v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The performance and ease of use of deep learning-based binary classifiers have improved significantly in recent years. This has opened up the potential for automating critical inspection tasks, which have traditionally only been trusted to be done manually. However, the application of binary classifiers in critical operations depends on the estimation of reliable confidence bounds such that system performance can be ensured up to a given statistical significance. We present Wilson Score Kernel Density Classification, which is a novel kernel-based method for estimating confidence bounds in binary classification. The core of our method is the Wilson Score Kernel Density Estimator, which is a function estimator for estimating confidence bounds in Binomial experiments with conditionally varying success probabilities. Our method is evaluated in the context of selective classification on four different datasets, illustrating its use as a classification head of any feature extractor, including vision foundation models. Our proposed method shows similar performance to Gaussian Process Classification, but at a lower computational complexity.
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Anthropic opens a Bengaluru office, its second in Asia, says its India run rate revenue doubled since October, and curates training data for 10 Indic languages (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/bengaluru-office-partnerships-across-india

Anthropic opens Bengaluru office and announces new partnerships across India
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

a reliable source has relayed that perhaps the flight attendant in fact said “infant life vests” which, in fairness to my ego, seems equally implausible

38 coastal, remote, and island communities are getting a lifeline for their fragile energy grids.
Through the Energy Technology Innovation Partnership Project, they're designing microgrids, exploring local renewable generation, and hardening systems against extreme weather. The goal: reliable, affordable power that can withstand the next storm.

38 Coastal, Remote, & Island Communities To Pursue Energy Reliability via Energy Technology Innovation Partnership Project - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Latest Cohort Is Program’s Biggest Yet, With Broad Geographic Representation By Justin Daugherty, NLR Remote and island communities face unique energy challenges—but these challenges also present unique opportunities to increase energy affordability, reliability, and security. In their efforts to address ... [continued]

Why Pass@k Optimization Can Degrade Pass@1: Prompt Interference in LLM Post-training
Anas Barakat, Souradip Chakraborty, Khushbu Pahwa, Amrit Singh Bedi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21189 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21189 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21189
arXiv:2602.21189v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Pass@k is a widely used performance metric for verifiable large language model tasks, including mathematical reasoning, code generation, and short-answer reasoning. It defines success if any of $k$ independently sampled solutions passes a verifier. This multi-sample inference metric has motivated inference-aware fine-tuning methods that directly optimize pass@$k$. However, prior work reports a recurring trade-off: pass@k improves while pass@1 degrades under such methods. This trade-off is practically important because pass@1 often remains a hard operational constraint due to latency and cost budgets, imperfect verifier coverage, and the need for a reliable single-shot fallback. We study the origin of this trade-off and provide a theoretical characterization of when pass@k policy optimization can reduce pass@1 through gradient conflict induced by prompt interference. We show that pass@$k$ policy gradients can conflict with pass@1 gradients because pass@$k$ optimization implicitly reweights prompts toward low-success prompts; when these prompts are what we term negatively interfering, their upweighting can rotate the pass@k update direction away from the pass@1 direction. We illustrate our theoretical findings with large language model experiments on verifiable mathematical reasoning tasks.
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from my link log —
An update on upki: TLS certificate revocation checking with CRLite in Rust.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-upki/77063
saved 2026-02-19 …

🪤 Cutting key amino acids from mouse diets triggers weight loss through heat burning
#diet

Cutting key amino acids from mouse diets triggers weight loss through heat burning
It's not pleasant to shiver from the cold, but for some, it has the appeal of making the body burn more energy as heat than when staying in a warmer environment. According to several studies, exposure to cold is a reliable way to boost energy expenditure in mice and humans. This process of burning energy through heat loss is called thermogenesis.

"A new Ohio bill could be a de facto statewide ban on solar and wind"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower

A new Ohio bill could be a de facto statewide ban on solar and wind
The state is mulling a bill that calls for all new generation to be “affordable, reliable, and clean” — but its strained definitions would exclude…

Fork, Explore, Commit: OS Primitives for Agentic Exploration
Cong Wang, Yusheng Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08199 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08199 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08199
arXiv:2602.08199v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: AI agents increasingly perform agentic exploration: pursuing multiple solution paths in parallel and committing only the successful one. Because each exploration path may modify files and spawn processes, agents require isolated environments with atomic commit and rollback semantics for both filesystem state and process state. We introduce the branch context, a new OS abstraction that provides: (1) copy-on-write state isolation with independent filesystem views and process groups, (2) a structured lifecycle of fork, explore, and commit/abort, (3) first-commit-wins resolution that automatically invalidates sibling branches, and (4) nestable contexts for hierarchical exploration. We realize branch contexts in Linux through two complementary components. First, BranchFS is a FUSE-based filesystem that gives each branch context an isolated copy-on-write workspace, with O(1) creation, atomic commit to the parent, and automatic sibling invalidation, all without root privileges. BranchFS is open sourced in https://github.com/multikernel/branchfs. Second, branch() is a proposed Linux syscall that spawns processes into branch contexts with reliable termination, kernel-enforced sibling isolation, and first-commit-wins coordination. Preliminary evaluation of BranchFS shows sub-350 us branch creation independent of base filesystem size, and modification-proportional commit overhead (under 1 ms for small changes).
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#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
CALLY: Seems quiet enough.
AVON: The village should be in that direction.
CALLY: If Zen got it right.
AVON: It's a pity we're not all as reliable as Zen.
CALLY: But I thought you were.
<…

No where near enough parking for those who drive in. Can't get a monthly pass as they have oversubscribed and a waiting list that may take God only knows how long before we get a spot. Bus system is less than reliable. Not enough space so we have to 'hotel'. Even before COVID we were alternating weekly for remote working and at-office due to parking spaces.
<sarcasm>
I don't see any problems of more of us being at my work location.
</sarcasm>

Anthropic raised a $30B Series G from GIC, Coatue, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Nvidia, and others at a $380B post-money valuation (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-…

Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Cowboys biggest issue on offense is one of durability at this position https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/09/tyler-guyton-blindside-durability-cowboys/88580651007/

T1: One-to-One Channel-Head Binding for Multivariate Time-Series Imputation
Dongik Park, Hyunwoo Ryu, Suahn Bae, Keondo Park, Hyung-Sin Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21043 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21043 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21043
arXiv:2602.21043v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Imputing missing values in multivariate time series remains challenging, especially under diverse missing patterns and heavy missingness. Existing methods suffer from suboptimal performance as corrupted temporal features hinder effective cross-variable information transfer, amplifying reconstruction errors. Robust imputation requires both extracting temporal patterns from sparse observations within each variable and selectively transferring information across variables--yet current approaches excel at one while compromising the other. We introduce T1 (Time series imputation with 1-to-1 channel-head binding), a CNN-Transformer hybrid architecture that achieves robust imputation through Channel-Head Binding--a mechanism creating one-to-one correspondence between CNN channels and attention heads. This design enables selective information transfer: when missingness corrupts certain temporal patterns, their corresponding attention pathways adaptively down-weight based on remaining observable patterns while preserving reliable cross-variable connections through unaffected channels. Experiments on 11 benchmark datasets demonstrate that T1 achieves state-of-the-art performance, reducing MSE by 46% on average compared to the second-best baseline, with particularly strong gains under extreme sparsity (70% missing ratio). The model generalizes to unseen missing patterns without retraining and uses a consistent hyperparameter configuration across all datasets. The code is available at https://github.com/Oppenheimerdinger/T1.
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Beyond Revenue and Welfare: Counterfactual Analysis of Spectrum Auctions with Application to Canada's 3800MHz Allocation
Sara Jalili Shani, Kris Joseph, Michael B. McNally, James R. Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08106 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08106 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.08106
arXiv:2512.08106v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Spectrum auctions are the primary mechanism through which governments allocate scarce radio frequencies, with outcomes that shape competition, coverage, and innovation in telecommunications markets. While traditional models of spectrum auctions often rely on strong equilibrium assumptions, we take a more parsimonious approach by modeling bidders as myopic and straightforward: in each round, firms simply demand the bundle that maximizes their utility given current prices. Despite its simplicity, this model proves effective in predicting the outcomes of Canada's 2023 auction of 3800 MHz spectrum licenses. Using detailed round-by-round bidding data, we estimate bidders' valuations through a linear programming framework and validate that our model reproduces key features of the observed allocation and price evolution. We then use these estimated valuations to simulate a counterfactual auction under an alternative mechanism that incentivizes deployment in rural and remote regions, aligning with one of the key objectives set out in the Canadian Telecommunications Act. The results show that the proposed mechanism substantially improves population coverage in underserved areas. These findings demonstrate that a behavioral model with minimal assumptions is sufficient to generate reliable counterfactual predictions, making it a practical tool for policymakers to evaluate how alternative auction designs may influence future outcomes. In particular, our study demonstrates a method for counterfactual mechanism design, providing a framework to evaluate how alternative auction rules could advance policy goals such as equitable deployment across Canada.
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I am pretty anti-snap for most software, but a snap has turned out to be the most reliable and lowest-effort way for me to run Nextcloud over the last three years. I always ran into issues with running the official release, especially when php-fpm versions changed on Debian. The snap has so far just done its thing in the background, and the only way I know it's been updated is a notification in the admin console. Pretty cool!

The serenity that sets in when you have Slackware Tilers (with Mangowc and Sway), Gentoo with KDE and VoidLinux with dwm configured. And all running equally good and reliable
That's the triumvirate for 2026.
Then we have Slackware Cosmic to test drive for at least a month.
And that Thinkpad for all intermediate urges, like AerynOS, Chimera or Bluefin.
Done and dusted.

Raiders Get Compelling Admission Involving 49ers’ Jauan Jennings https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/compelling-admission-49ers-jauan-jennings/

OpenAI updates ChatGPT's deep research tool with GPT-5.2, a full-screen report view, and an option to focus research on specific websites (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/openais-deep-research-now-runs-on-gp…

OpenAI's Deep Research now runs on GPT-5.2 and lets users search specific websites
OpenAI now powers Deep Research in ChatGPT with GPT-5.2, adding features like targeted website search and real-time tracking. But that doesn't necessarily make AI research more reliable.

🦗 Insects on the space menu: A sustainable food source for future missions
#food

Insects on the space menu: A sustainable food source for future missions
Long before humans reached orbit, insects had already shown they could handle the hurdles of spaceflight. Light, highly adaptable and nutritionally rich, these resilient animals present an attractive option for European researchers studying reliable food sources for long-duration missions.

from my link log —
What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical systems?
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/01/14/what-does-it-take-to-ship-rust-in-safety-critical/
saved 2026-01-15

What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical? | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Anthropic details how it used 16 parallel Claude Opus 4.6 agents to build a Rust-based 100,000-line C compiler, incurring ~$20K in API costs over 2,000 sessions (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Raiders Issued Blockbuster Take Involving Bengals’ Tee Higgins https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/blockbuster-take-involving-bengals-tee-higgins/

Anthropic donates the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation and says there are now more than 10,000 active public MCP servers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-esta…

Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

and to think there are still people all-in on trying to convince us that somehow big hydro, big nuclear and fanciful “SMR”nuclear will deliver the same kind of cheap, clean, reliable power.
It's not.
Just get on with building solar and wind and tidal and batteries banks and all the rest!
Australia is now far ahead of Canada. Why…?
"Australia’s long, complicated and difficult energy transition is finally working. As our recent research suggests, if these trends continue – and nothing new goes wrong – we should begin to see lower retail electricity bills by mid-2026. As more coal plants close and new transmission and storage infrastructure is delivered, electricity prices could rise again. But overall, shifting demand from gas and coal for power and petrol for cars is likely to deliver significantly lower energy bills for households.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Energy #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels
https://theconversation.com/renewables-over-50-wholesale-prices-down-is-the-energy-transition-succeeding-274616

from my link log —
Testing ECC NMI in a cubesat boot loader: intentional flash corruption for STM32 microcontrollers.
https://blog.010.one/Dont-snipe-me-in-space-intentional-flash-corruption-for-stm32-microcontrollers

Don’t snipe me in space - intentional flash corruption for STM32 microcontrollers
Almost one and a half years ago I joined MOVE, the Munich Orbital Verification Experiment, a student club focusing on practical education in the area of satellites at the Technical University of Munich. MOVE has launched three CubeSats to date (First-MOVE in 2013, MOVE-II in 2018 and MOVE-IIb in 2019), and we are currently preparing two future missions. These missions require reliable software, and the ability to update in orbit.

Raiders Hit With Strong Take Involving Buccaneers’ Mike Evans https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/strong-take-buccaneers-mike-evans/