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The biggest impact of #LLM has not been due to the technology's capabilities, but rather its flaws. Because the #AI revolution must succeed at any cost, but the actual tech is flawed, orgs demanding more AI outputs MUST lower their bar for quality.
This creates space for

Aura UX
Shortcuts to establishing the legitimacy of design sabotage your ability to achieve anything meaningful.

I have officially surrendered to Chromium, losing out on stable Violentmonkey/Stylus which sucks HARD for tweak scripts but at least I can manage keyboard shortcuts for extensions without bending over backwards, seriously how has FF still not fixed this shit? Please Chronos do me a favour and just teleport me to Ladybirds launch with full WebExtension support to boot.

XR-First Design for Productivity: A Conceptual Framework for Enabling Efficient Task Switching in XR
Matt Gottsacker, Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Gerd Bruder, Joseph J. LaViola Jr., Gregory F. Welch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11778

XR-First Design for Productivity: A Conceptual Framework for Enabling Efficient Task Switching in XR
A core component of completing tasks efficiently in computer-supported knowledge work is the ability for users to rapidly switch their focus (and interaction) across different applications using various shortcuts and gestures. This feature set has been explored in research, and several modern consumer extended reality (XR) headsets now support loading multiple applications windows at once. However, many XR applications that are useful for knowledge work involve rich spatial information, which w…

macOS 26 Tahoe review: Liquid Glass has small regressions in usability and accessibility but the upgrade has enough iterative changes like automated Shortcuts (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/macos-26-tahoe-the-ars-techn…

macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica Review
Liquid Glass brings translucent sheen to the typical batch of iterative changes.

There's a scarily good fake Cloudflare page that asks you to run commands on your computer - I saw it myself earlier this week. Don't copy and run commands from strange sites! https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/…

Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA page laden with malware uncovered in the wild - here's how to stay secure and safe
ClickFix launches with keyboard shortcuts and is scarily effective

Shortcuts to adiabaticity with a quantum control field
Emma C. King, Giovanna Morigi, Rapha\"el Menu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06304 https://arxiv.or…

Shortcuts to adiabaticity with a quantum control field
Quantum adiabatic dynamics is the crucial element of adiabatic quantum computing and quantum annealing. Shortcuts to adiabaticity enable acceleration of the computational time by suppressing unwanted non-adiabatic processes with designed classical fields. Here, we consider quantum state transfer in the Landau-Zener model, which exemplifies the key elements of quantum adiabatic dynamics. We argue that non-adiabatic transitions can be suppressed by autonomous quantum dynamics, which involves coup…

Invisible Attributes, Visible Biases: Exploring Demographic Shortcuts in MRI-based Alzheimer's Disease Classification
Akshit Achara, Esther Puyol Anton, Alexander Hammers, Andrew P. King
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09558

Invisible Attributes, Visible Biases: Exploring Demographic Shortcuts in MRI-based Alzheimer's Disease Classification
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold standard for brain imaging. Deep learning (DL) algorithms have been proposed to aid in the diagnosis of diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) from MRI scans. However, DL algorithms can suffer from shortcut learning, in which spurious features, not directly related to the output label, are used for prediction. When these features are related to protected attributes, they can lead to performance bias against underrepresented protected groups, such …

I am trying out @…, but there are a couple of things that would improve the QoL of the product.
Keyboard shortcuts to open the composer or search box.
And then being able to search for accounts while typing.

GoldenDict's pop-up window doesn't work in KDE/Wayland when you are selecting a word in any app & pressing [Ctrl C, Ctrl C]?
Put "goldendict $(wl-paste)" in a proper .sh script. Add it in your Application Launcher. Set [Ctrl C, Ctrl C] (or whatever) in System Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts

CURE: Controlled Unlearning for Robust Embeddings -- Mitigating Conceptual Shortcuts in Pre-Trained Language Models
Aysenur Kocak, Shuo Yang, Bardh Prenkaj, Gjergji Kasneci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05230

CURE: Controlled Unlearning for Robust Embeddings -- Mitigating Conceptual Shortcuts in Pre-Trained Language Models
Pre-trained language models have achieved remarkable success across diverse applications but remain susceptible to spurious, concept-driven correlations that impair robustness and fairness. In this work, we introduce CURE, a novel and lightweight framework that systematically disentangles and suppresses conceptual shortcuts while preserving essential content information. Our method first extracts concept-irrelevant representations via a dedicated content extractor reinforced by a reversal netwo…

Conditional Information Bottleneck for Multimodal Fusion: Overcoming Shortcut Learning in Sarcasm Detection
Yihua Wang, Qi Jia, Cong Xu, Feiyu Chen, Yuhan Liu, Haotian Zhang, Liang Jin, Lu Liu, Zhichun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10644

Conditional Information Bottleneck for Multimodal Fusion: Overcoming Shortcut Learning in Sarcasm Detection
Multimodal sarcasm detection is a complex task that requires distinguishing subtle complementary signals across modalities while filtering out irrelevant information. Many advanced methods rely on learning shortcuts from datasets rather than extracting intended sarcasm-related features. However, our experiments show that shortcut learning impairs the model's generalization in real-world scenarios. Furthermore, we reveal the weaknesses of current modality fusion strategies for multimodal sarcasm…

RoentMod: A Synthetic Chest X-Ray Modification Model to Identify and Correct Image Interpretation Model Shortcuts
Lauren H. Cooke, Matthias Jung, Jan M. Brendel, Nora M. Kerkovits, Borek Foldyna, Michael T. Lu, Vineet K. Raghu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08640

RoentMod: A Synthetic Chest X-Ray Modification Model to Identify and Correct Image Interpretation Model Shortcuts
Chest radiographs (CXRs) are among the most common tests in medicine. Automated image interpretation may reduce radiologists\' workload and expand access to diagnostic expertise. Deep learning multi-task and foundation models have shown strong performance for CXR interpretation but are vulnerable to shortcut learning, where models rely on spurious and off-target correlations rather than clinically relevant features to make decisions. We introduce RoentMod, a counterfactual image editing framewo…

Apple Intelligence in Kurzbefehlen: Das können die Apple-Modelle unter iOS 26
Die Shortcuts-App von Apple bekommt KI-Elemente. Der Teufel steckt allerdings in den Details.
https://ww…

"We're becoming the soft, floating people from Wall-E. Ordering everything to our doorstep, swiping instead of talking, letting AI write our emails and create our art. Convenience is stealing everything from us if we let it. The friction is where the growth happens. The resistance is where we build strength. Work, real work, will give us fulfillment in ways we never expected, in ways that all the optimization hacks and life shortcuts never could."

why are we lying to young people about work?
hard work isn't the tax you pay for living, it's the tuition for a life worth having -your fav gen z philosopher x

We're Still Doing It (All) Wrong: Recommender Systems, Fifteen Years Later
Alan Said, Maria Soledad Pera, Michael D. Ekstrand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09414 https://

We're Still Doing It (All) Wrong: Recommender Systems, Fifteen Years Later
In 2011, Xavier Amatriain sounded the alarm: recommender systems research was "doing it all wrong" [1]. His critique, rooted in statistical misinterpretation and methodological shortcuts, remains as relevant today as it was then. But rather than correcting course, we added new layers of sophistication on top of the same broken foundations. This paper revisits Amatriain's diagnosis and argues that many of the conceptual, epistemological, and infrastructural failures he identified still persist, …

One my favorite Windows 10/11 keyboard shortcuts remains Win-H for "voice typing" or voice-to-text. Easy to access, accurate & built-in the OS.
Here's the list of special phrases to say for punctuation & voice commands:
https://

With my new job, #Linux wasn't an option, so I needed to get used to #MacOS for work.
Many things were weird especially shortcuts or lack thereof.
But now things run smoothly, especially since I discovered

Will anyone be updating the NVDA AudioScreen add-on for renewed compatibility with more recent versions of the NVDA screen reader from NV Access? E.g. keyboard shortcuts appear reassigned https://github.com/nvaccess/audioScreen @…

GitHub - nvaccess/audioScreen: An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above.
An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above. - nvaccess/audioScreen

I think I can take a few more shortcuts.
Understanding the remaining part still requires quite some effort though. I am making small yet good steps again.
RK3566 DRAM init ETA when? 😅

The optimal degree for maximizing rumor spreading on a ring lattice
Ana C. D\'iaz Bacca, Pablo M. Rodriguez, Catalina M. R\'ua-Alvarez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02141

The optimal degree for maximizing rumor spreading on a ring lattice
The ring lattice with $n$ nodes, each connected to the $2k$ nearest neighbors, has been utilized as the basis for several models of small-world networks, obtained by rewiring or adding edges to generate shortcuts. It is well-known that when a rumor process is embedded in these networks, the system exhibits a transition between localization and propagation at a finite value of the network mean degree, emphasizing the importance of incorporating shortcuts to optimize the dissemination process. We…

Impact of Force Noise on the Visibility of STA-Based Atom Interferometers
Sof\'ia Mart\'inez-Garaot, I. Lizuain, A. Rodriguez-Prieto, J. G. Muga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09369

Impact of Force Noise on the Visibility of STA-Based Atom Interferometers
In a previous work, we designed a compact atom interferometer to measure homogeneous constant forces guiding the arms via shortcuts to adiabatic paths. Within this scheme we drive the atom by moving spin-dependent traps, and design a force $f(t)$ to compensate inertial terms in the moving frame. In this paper we analyze how robust our interferometer is against some realistic noisy deviation from the unperturbed value of the force $f(t)$. The complex overlap of the atom wave functions for each a…

Reducing Shortcut and Hopset Constructions to Shallow Graphs
Bernhard Haeupler, Yonggang Jiang, Thatchaphol Saranurak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20302 https://

Reducing Shortcut and Hopset Constructions to Shallow Graphs
We introduce a blackbox framework that simplifies all known parallel algorithms with near-linear work for single-source reachability and shortest paths in directed graphs. Specifically, existing reachability algorithms rely on constructing shortcuts; our blackbox allows these algorithms that construct shortcuts with hopbound $h$ to assume the input graph $G$ is ``shallow'', meaning if vertex $s$ can reach vertex $t$, it can do so in approximately $h$ hops. This assumption significantly simplifi…

Sheri Byrne-Haber points out that some disability-related orgs use overlays and as a result you should probably not trust those orgs:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sheribyrnehaber_access…

Autism Speaks. | Sheri Byrne-Haber (disabled)
Autism Speaks. United Spinal Association. Special Olympics. @Sins Invalid. What do they have in common? They are all organizations that claim to be allies of people who are neurodiverse or have disabilities. Every single one of them uses an overlay on their websites. Overlays are shortcuts that don’t resolve accessibility barriers created through sloppy coding practices. They create a false sense of compliance, often interfering with assistive technology and user experience. Overlay compan…

Mitigating Shortcut Learning with InterpoLated Learning
Michalis Korakakis, Andreas Vlachos, Adrian Weller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05527 https://…

Mitigating Shortcut Learning with InterpoLated Learning
Empirical risk minimization (ERM) incentivizes models to exploit shortcuts, i.e., spurious correlations between input attributes and labels that are prevalent in the majority of the training data but unrelated to the task at hand. This reliance hinders generalization on minority examples, where such correlations do not hold. Existing shortcut mitigation approaches are model-specific, difficult to tune, computationally expensive, and fail to improve learned representations. To address these issu…

Why does Slack even pretend to have keyboard shortcuts?
#electron #slack #crap

@…
Hello Mastodon team!
Any plans to give users the option of disabling Mastodon Keyboard Shortcuts?
I'm using a browser and it is interfering with my regular browser shortcuts.
#Mastodon

Been playing Transiruby and the exploration poetics are top-notch, like rivalling Super Metroid good, which is a distinct rarity among metroidvanias.
Something the original Super Metroid had was required secrets and the expectation that you'd actually read the map as a gameplay skill. Many many metroidvanias don't have that, including favorites like Ori, but it's one of the things that makes Hollow Knight stand out. Transiruby sadly doesn't have maps-as-rewards, but it does have moments where consulting the map is expected (water cog is a big one since it's in the middle of an already-explored area by the time you can access it). The game also requires revisits with the coin door mechanic, but marks the things you need on the map and structures revisits really nicely with a variety of shortcuts that open up as you gain abilities.
I was kinda sad when the first movement power was double jump (le sigh) but the second movement power is really neat and original, so I'm happy again.
Besides the big things, there are a lot of little moments where there's ludonarrative harmony between the choice structures and the area themes/plot points.
Haven't finished it yet, but so far it's headed into my top tier of metroidvanias, or very close, even despite fairly simple combat and easy (if fun) bosses.
#Transiruby #AmPlaying #Metroidvania

Hands-on with iPadOS 26: new windowing system is great and other enhancements like smarter Shortcuts and Files app make the iPad better for professional use (Jason Snell/Six Colors)
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/07/first-look-ipados-26-public-beta/

First Look: iPadOS 26 Public Beta
iPadOS 26, now available as a Public Beta, is one of the biggest updates in iPad history. There’s a new design that changes the look and feel of the whole interface, yes, but also the introdu…

IFDECORATOR: Wrapping Instruction Following Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
Xu Guo, Tianyi Liang, Tong Jian, Xiaogui Yang, Ling-I Wu, Chenhui Li, Zhihui Lu, Qipeng Guo, Kai Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04632

IFDECORATOR: Wrapping Instruction Following Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) improves instruction following capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but suffers from training inefficiency due to inadequate difficulty assessment. Moreover, RLVR is prone to over-optimization, where LLMs exploit verification shortcuts without aligning to the actual intent of user instructions. We introduce Instruction Following Decorator (IFDecorator}, a framework that wraps RLVR training into a robust and sample-efficient pipeline…

I got this extension that binds keyboard shortcuts to play/pause and prev/next for YT Music tabs if they're open, downside is it only works on Chrome rn, FF version is available, but shortcuts in general are finicky atm.

Faster Multi-Source Reachability and Approximate Distances via Shortcuts, Hopsets and Matrix Multiplication
Michael Elkin, Chhaya Trehan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13470

Faster Multi-Source Reachability and Approximate Distances via Shortcuts, Hopsets and Matrix Multiplication
Given an $n$-vertex $m$-edge digraph $G = (V,E)$ and a subset $S \subseteq V$ of $|S| = n^σ$ (for some $0 \le σ\le 1$) designated sources, the $S \times V$ reachability problem is to compute the sets $\mathcal V_s$ of vertices reachable from $s$, for every $s \in S$. Naive centralized algorithms run BFS/DFS from each source in $O(m \cdot n^σ)$ time or compute $G$'s transitive closure in $\hat O(n^ω)$ time, where $ω\le 2.371552\ldots$ is the matrix multiplication exponent. Thus, t…

Hands-on with macOS 26: the interface is a mess, like a poorly imported iOS design, but the power of Spotlight and Shortcuts will delight many longtime users (Jason Snell/Six Colors)
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/07/first-look-macos-tahoe-public-beta/

First Look: macOS Tahoe Public Beta
For many years, Apple’s annual operating-system cycle seemed to be all about the iPhone, with the occasional bone thrown to the Mac or iPad. But Apple’s latest operating-system releases…

Answer Matching Outperforms Multiple Choice for Language Model Evaluation
Nikhil Chandak, Shashwat Goel, Ameya Prabhu, Moritz Hardt, Jonas Geiping
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02856

Answer Matching Outperforms Multiple Choice for Language Model Evaluation
Multiple choice benchmarks have long been the workhorse of language model evaluation because grading multiple choice is objective and easy to automate. However, we show multiple choice questions from popular benchmarks can often be answered without even seeing the question. These shortcuts arise from a fundamental limitation of discriminative evaluation not shared by evaluations of the model's free-form, generative answers. Until recently, there appeared to be no viable, scalable alternative to…

An experiment in price perception error
Shawn Berry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19953 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.19953

An experiment in price perception error
The process of consumer decision-making is multidimensional, and price perception is a very important but still not well-understood dimension for both marketers and consumers. Although heuristics or mental shortcuts are seen as biased and can cause decision errors, consumers tend to use price knowledge heuristics for purchase decisions, sometimes relying on old information. This study examined the effects of individual attitudinal and demographic factors on the ability of 351 respondents to cor…

Chiral Discrimination on Gate-Based Quantum Computers
Muhammad Arsalan Ali Akbar, Sabre Kais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18546 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18…

Chiral Discrimination on Gate-Based Quantum Computers
We present a novel approach to chiral discrimination using gate-based quantum processors, addressing a key challenge in adapting conventional control techniques using modern quantum computing. Schemes such as stimulated rapid adiabatic passage (STIRAP) and shortcuts to adiabaticity (STAP) have shown strong potential for enantiomer discrimination; their reliance on analog and continuous-time control makes them incompatible with digital gate-based quantum computing architectures. Here, we adapt t…

Albion EU was offline, now probably not.
During that time I went for a 30 minute pork pie mining round in Believer Tor(T5) on the Albion Online Asia server.
This is some data I noted down on etherpad based on my mining round.
I got 42k silver as you can see. Not much...maybe that's like a joke to you...
#AlbionOnline

72k silver richer after my 30 minute T4 mining round and probably my last one on Albion Asia for now.
As of this moment I give another brief glance at all members in the guild "Mastodon Fediverse 100 Tax":
Still 1/7 online with the 1 also still being me.
Here are my notes on etherpad(attached image) where I've made available some data...
Trivia: Premium cost is 39 M silver.

Before returning to Albion EU I wanted to get at least full T4 gear on Albion Asia plus Avalonian Pickaxe after using learning points to get to T4 mining. Upgrade costs are part of the data.
As of this moment I give a brief glance at all members in the guild "Mastodon Fediverse 100 Tax":
1/7 online. The 1 that's me of course.
Here are my notes on etherpad(attached image)

So back in Albion EU now...let us check how my 1 day and 8 hour 0% Tax guild "Mastodon Fediverse Unity" is doing...
A little glimpse and we've got...
4/8 players online including me who is also online in the guild.
Here are my notes on etherpad(attached image) where I've made available some data regarding my ore gathering round 4...
Trivia: Premium cost is 25 M silver.