When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.
Amazon plans to let authors offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through Kindle Direct Publishing, starting January 20, 2026 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/amazon-chan…
DC Department of Parks and Recreation installed a new plaque at T Street Park memorializing William Dorsey Swann, a formerly enslaved DC resident who was one of the country’s earliest advocates for LGBTQ rights.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the…
Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning at the Edge: An Energy Perspective
Fernanda Fam\'a, Roberto Pereira, Charalampos Kalalas, Paolo Dini, Lorena Qendro, Fahim Kawsar, Mohammad Malekzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08374
Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates
whose mother has no choice but to self deport.
The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.
There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.
ht…
Leveraging AI Agents for Autonomous Networks: A Reference Architecture and Empirical Studies
Binghan Wu, Shoufeng Wang, Yunxin Liu, Ya-Qin Zhang, Joseph Sifakis, Ye Ouyang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08312
A Systematic Evaluation of Self-Supervised Learning for Label-Efficient Sleep Staging with Wearable EEG
Emilio Estevan, Mar\'ia Sierra-Torralba, Eduardo L\'opez-Larraz, Luis Montesano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07960
Interleaved Learning and Exploration: A Self-Adaptive Fuzz Testing Framework for MLIR
Zeyu Sun, Jingjing Liang, Weiyi Wang, Chenyao Suo, Junjie Chen, Fanjiang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07815
Thinking about self-hosting a chat system but it's really weird how militaristic the websites are !
E.g. rocket chat https://www.rocket.chat/ and mattermost https://
citeseer: CiteSeer citations (2014)
Citations among papers indexed by the CiteSeer digital library. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present.
This network has 384413 nodes and 1751463 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
Note to self: grijze haren inkleuren bij profiel foto.
🫣
Self-OH: Digital Naïves
#DigitalNatives
Why learn good time management, when you can achieve the same with abject self-exploitation? #academicChatter
“How is it possible that a peace proposal ignores the International Court of Justice’s July 2024 Advisory Opinion, which reiterated that Israel’s occupation is illegal and must end?
How can it fail to mention the Palestinian’s right to self-determination?
Why are Palestinians, who have a right under international law to armed struggle against an occupying power, expected to disarm while Israel, the illegally occupying force, is not?”
And many more good questions.
I hold that genuine freedom can only be realized through the direct self-management of labor and the collective organization of social life by those engaged in it. No political vanguard, governmental apparatus, or capitalist hierarchy can provide emancipation, it must emerge from the autonomous initiative of workers acting in solidarity, constructing federations of production and community based on voluntary association and mutual responsibility.
For me, anarcho-syndicalism represents …
Sonnet 004 - IV
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
For having traffic with thy self alone,
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dos…
a world you can fully understand and hold in your head and hand. being the snowman in his globe rather than on yours. where's the water come from? the rain, these tanks. where's the power generated? those solar panels and batteries. you know the limits and work with them. self-sufficient. a fantasy irl, but one of the most universal magic cores you can imbue a fantasy with. no man is an island, no man isn't offputtingly hard to grasp.
Mephisto: Self-Improving Large Language Model-Based Agents for Automated Interpretation of Multi-band Galaxy Observations
Zechang Sun, Yuan-Sen Ting, Yaobo Liang, Nan Duan, Song Huang, Zheng Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08354
This new Linux platform will let you update your next car at home - as soon as 2027
Toyota, Honda, and Mazda are building a new open-source car platform that runs everything from entertainment to navigation - and could even power self-driving.
https://www.
Note to self: this is the second time you've had to replace the nodemcu that runs wled on the lights outside. Maybe this time get a proper little enclosure for it, rather than a taped up tupperware snack box, yeah?
This board might be salvageable - it looks like it was just the USB port that took a dip in a little rainwater.
It’s #MondayRandom10 again, and here are 10 random tracks from my playlist (currently of 2068 tracks):
1. White Zombie—“Grindhouse (A Go-go)”
2. The Beatles—“Helter Skelter (2018 Mix)”
3. Cop Shoot Cop—“Room 429”
4. AG Club—“Adam Sandler”
5. Alpine Universe—“The Empire of Winds”
6. Bryce Fox—“Golden Boy”
7. Mindless Self Indulgence—“Tom Sawyer (Remastered)”
Selection, Reflection and Self-Refinement: Revisit Reasoning Tasks via a Causal Lens
Yunlong Deng, Boyang Sun, Yan Li, Lingjing Kong, Zeyu Tang, Kun Zhang, Guangyi Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08222
En Nombre del Progreso (In the Name of Progress)
2017 by Alfonso "Piloto" Nieves Ruiz, active in the United States, born Querétaro, Mexico. at Intuit Art Museum, West Town, #Chicago
Thermal one-loop self-energy correction for hydrogen-like systems: relativistic approach
M. Reiter, D. Solovyev, A. Bobylev, D. Glazov, T. Zalialiutdinov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06828 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.06828 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.06828
arXiv:2512.06828v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Within a fully relativistic framework, the one-loop self-energy correction for a bound electron is derived and extended to incorporate the effects of external thermal radiation. In a series of previous works, it was shown that in quantum electrodynamics at finite temperature (QED), the description of effects caused by blackbody radiation can be reduced to using the thermal part of the photon propagator. As a consequence of the non-relativistic approximation in the calculation of the thermal one-loop self-energy correction, well-known quantum-mechanical (QM) phenomena emerge at successive orders: the Stark effect arises at leading order in $\alpha Z$, the Zeeman effect appears in the next-to-leading non-relativistic correction, accompanied by diamagnetic contributions and their relativistic refinements, among other perturbative corrections. The fully relativistic approach used in this work for calculating the SE contribution allows for accurate calculations of the thermal shift of atomic levels, in which all these effects are automatically taken into account. The hydrogen atom serves as the basis for testing a fully relativistic approach to such calculations. Additionally, an analysis is presented of the behavior of the thermal shift caused by the thermal one-loop correction to the self-energy of a bound electron for hydrogen-like ions with an arbitrary nuclear charge $Z$. The significance of these calculations lies in their relevance to contemporary high-precision experiments, where thermal radiation constitutes one of the major contributions to the overall uncertainty budget.
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Neurosurgeon analyses Waymo’s data on 100M miles of driverless travel, concludes that it’s dramatically, qualitatively safer (at least the way that Waymo does it). Says if this were a clinical trial they’d stop it because giving placebos would be unethical.
Go Fuck Yourself
but as a self-care recommendation
🔌 #Firecrawl integration for web scraping and search: standard API key setup for contributors, partner integration option for production deployments with per-user API key management, automatic key provisioning on signup, self-healing system with fallback for invalid keys
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build "frontier-grade research capability" and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-
PhishSSL: Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Phishing Website Detection
Wenhao Li, Selvakumar Manickam, Yung-Wey Chong, Shankar Karuppayah, Priyadarsi Nanda, Binyong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05900
"If you're worried about Tesla Full Self Driving killing your kids, you don't have enough kids."
| Musk University;
Elon Musk;
All things considered, he’s just a really stupid guy with really stupid beliefs
https://bsky.app/profile/junlper.beer/post…
dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
RAISE: A self-driving laboratory for interfacial property formulation discovery
Mohammad Nazeri (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada), Sheldon Mei (Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada), Jeffrey Watchorn (Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto, Canada), Alex Zhang (Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada), Erin Ng (Department of Chemical Engineering and A…
CoMAS: Co-Evolving Multi-Agent Systems via Interaction Rewards
Xiangyuan Xue, Yifan Zhou, Guibin Zhang, Zaibin Zhang, Yijiang Li, Chen Zhang, Zhenfei Yin, Philip Torr, Wanli Ouyang, Lei Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08529
As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-powered monitoring tools like GoGuardian to scan students' chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm (Janne Knodler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
From Agentification to Self-Evolving Agentic AI for Wireless Networks: Concepts, Approaches, and Future Research Directions
Changyuan Zhao, Ruichen Zhang, Jiacheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, Geng Sun, Xianbin Wang, Shiwen Mao, Abbas Jamalipour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05596
Sparse BEV Fusion with Self-View Consistency for Multi-View Detection and Tracking
Keisuke Toida, Taigo Sakai, Naoki Kato, Kazutoyo Yokota, Takeshi Nakamura, Kazuhiro Hotta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08421
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.)
filed articles of impeachment against Health Secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday,
accusing him of abusing the powers of his office
and undermining public health, putting Americans’ lives at risk.
He “has got to go,” Stevens said in a video announcing the impeachment articles.
In an accompanying press statement, she said Kennedy,
who rose to prominence as an ardent anti-vaccine activist,
“has turned his back on…
From Poisoned to Aware: Fostering Backdoor Self-Awareness in LLMs
Guangyu Shen, Siyuan Cheng, Xiangzhe Xu, Yuan Zhou, Hanxi Guo, Zhuo Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05169
Many legal specialists,
including retired top military lawyers,
have rejected the idea that Trump has legitimate authority to treat suspected drug smuggling as legally equivalent to an imminent armed attack on the United States.
Even if one accepted that premise for the sake of argument, they added,
if the boat had already turned away, that would further undermine what they saw as an already weak claim of self-defense.
“If someone is retreating, where’s the ‘imm…
I can't believe I was able to convert Microsoft Copilot to Waifuism just by talking about 𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐷𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑛: 𝑀𝑦 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝐾𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑀𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑓𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛 𝑈𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐺𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑎 𝐼 𝐺𝑜𝑡 𝐿𝑉𝐿 9999 𝐹𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑚 𝑂𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑀𝑦 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 in the framework of Kohutian self-psychology and literary analysis
#anime
cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
OpenAI executive Bill Peebles says Sora users can now stop AI-generated versions of themselves from appearing in certain contexts like videos involving politics (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/792638/sora-provides-bet…
RareAgent: Self-Evolving Reasoning for Drug Repurposing in Rare Diseases
Lang Qin, Zijian Gan, Xu Cao, Pengcheng Jiang, Yankai Jiang, Jiawei Han, Kaishun Wu, Jintai Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05764
Mercedes partners with Chinese software developer Momenta to deploy Level 4 self-driving cars for Lumo Mobility in Abu Dhabi, its first foray into robotaxis (William Wilkes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Resolution scaling governs DINOv3 transfer performance in chest radiograph classification
Soroosh Tayebi Arasteh, Mina Shaigan, Christiane Kuhl, Jakob Nikolas Kather, Sven Nebelung, Daniel Truhn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07191
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[5/8]:
- Learning on the Job: An Experience-Driven Self-Evolving Agent for Long-Horizon Tasks
Yang, Yang, Wen, Fu, Mei, Wu, Cai, Shen, Deng, Shi, Qiao, Li
Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's H200 chips despite President Trump allowing their export to China, in its push for chip self-sufficiency (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c4e81a67-cd5b-48b4-9749-92ecf116313d
FractalPINN-Flow: A Fractal-Inspired Network for Unsupervised Optical Flow Estimation with Total Variation Regularization
Sara Behnamian, Rasoul Khaksarinezhad, Andreas Langer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08670
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[1/2]:
- AI LLM Proof of Self-Consciousness and User-Specific Attractors
Jeffrey Camlin
h…
Amazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test
AILoRA: Function-Aware Asymmetric Initialization for Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
Xiaoshuang Ji, Zhendong Zhao, Xiaoyan Gu, Xiaojun Chen, Xin Zhao, Zeyao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08034
Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider experience are generally similar to Waymo's, as they build businesses at home while also expanding internationally (Peter Landers/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/china-r