Apple researchers maybe disprove ‘reasoning’ (vs. well-specified conventional algorithms):
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking
Analyses:
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UNDERNEWS: Coffee ban recommended in three states
https://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2025/06/coffee-ban-recommended-in-three-states.html
A look at seven rebuttals to Apple's paper on limitations of Large Reasoning Models, and why none make a compelling case (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/seven-replies-to-the-viral-apple
How Well Can Reasoning Models Identify and Recover from Unhelpful Thoughts?
Sohee Yang, Sang-Woo Lee, Nora Kassner, Daniela Gottesman, Sebastian Riedel, Mor Geva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10979
B.C. cyclist's clever Strava drawings:
"Perfect intersection' of art, fitness and road rash
When B.C.'s Janine Strong got into road cycling in 2019, she had no idea it would lead her down the path of Strava art: the creation of massive GPS-tracked sketches around the world."
See Ya later Alligator
#stava
Egyptian police violently obstruct the international Gaza Peace March.
Ocupación israelí | La policía egipcia impide con violencia la marcha internacional a Gaza - El Salto - Edición General
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/ocupacion-is
Any recommendations for brunch or lunch in Madison Wisconsin? (I’ll be there in 30 minutes!)
#madisonwi #madison #Wisconsin
❓ for privacy-minded folks- anyone have a recommendation for a scale that measures more than weight (ex. muscle mass, fat %) but is also privacy-protecting?
And ideally has an “app” or interface that can track the info, see trends over time, etc.
Many choices online… but I have no idea where they are sending data (or to whom they are selling it).
Most private option of course is a scale that keeps all data local, but there is convenience in an app that easily tracks data, s…
Mistral launches its first reasoning models: Magistral Small, on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, and Magistral Medium, in preview on Mistral's Le Chat (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/mistral-releases-a-pai…