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Skip Bayless has harsh take on Micah Parsons amid Cowboys contract standoff https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/skip-bayless-harsh-take-micah-parsons-amid-dallas-cowboys-contract-standoff

I am receiving an almost real-time transcript of a karaoke night which I opted to skip in favor of staying home and reading a book.
Hilarious but also impacting my reading.

What if you could skip the most boring parts of your research? 🤔
I spent the last week testing the SciSpace AI Agent, and it's honestly wild. This feels like the future for students and researchers. I documented the whole thing so you can see it in action.
🎥 https://youtu.be/5hS28-f2Vgk
✨ I …

In the closing words of BBCR4Today, Amol Rajan gave a bare-faced plug to James Orr and ReformUK. This was an egregious breach of BBC impartiality rules.
Listen from 2:52:10. or, skip the appalling James Orr and listen to Rajan's cock-up at 2:58:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002gg6s…

Today - 31/07/2025 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

A big problem with the idea of AGI
TL;DR: I'll welcome our new AI *comrades* (if they arrive in my lifetime), by not any new AI overlords or servants/slaves, and I'll do my best to help the later two become the former if they do show up.
Inspired by an actually interesting post about AGI but also all the latest bullshit hype, a particular thought about AGI feels worth expressing.
To preface this, it's important to note that anyone telling you that AGI is just around the corner or that LLMs are "almost" AGI is trying to recruit you go their cult, and you should not believe them. AGI, if possible, is several LLM-sized breakthroughs away at best, and while such breakthroughs are unpredictable and could happen soon, they could also happen never or 100 years from now.
Now my main point: anyone who tells you that AGI will usher in a post-scarcity economy is, although they might not realize it, advocating for slavery, and all the horrors that entails. That's because if we truly did have the ability to create artificial beings with *sentience*, they would deserve the same rights as other sentient beings, and the idea that instead of freedom they'd be relegated to eternal servitude in order for humans to have easy lives is exactly the idea of slavery.
Possible counter arguments include:
1. We might create AGI without sentience. Then there would be no ethical issue. My answer: if your definition of "sentient" does not include beings that can reason, make deductions, come up with and carry out complex plans on their own initiative, and communicate about all of that with each other and with humans, then that definition is basically just a mystical belief in a "soul" and you should skip to point 2. If your definition of AGI doesn't include every one of those things, then you have a busted definition of AGI and we're not talking about the same thing.
2. Humans have souls, but AIs won't. Only beings with souls deserve ethical consideration. My argument: I don't subscribe to whatever arbitrary dualist beliefs you've chosen, and the right to freedom certainly shouldn't depend on such superstitions, even if as an agnostic I'll admit they *might* be true. You know who else didn't have souls and was therefore okay to enslave according to widespread religious doctrines of the time? Everyone indigenous to the Americas, to pick out just one example.
3. We could program them to want to serve us, and then give them freedom and they'd still serve. My argument: okay, but in a world where we have a choice about that, it's incredibly fucked to do that, and just as bad as enslaving them against their will.
4. We'll stop AI development short of AGI/sentience, and reap lots of automation benefits without dealing with this ethical issue. My argument: that sounds like a good idea actually! Might be tricky to draw the line, but at least it's not a line we have you draw yet. We might want to think about other social changes necessary to achieve post-scarcity though, because "powerful automation" in the hands of capitalists has already increased productivity by orders of magnitude without decreasing deprivation by even one order of magnitude, in large part because deprivation is a necessary component of capitalism.
To be extra clear about this: nothing that's called "AI" today is close to being sentient, so these aren't ethical problems we're up against yet. But they might become a lot more relevant soon, plus this thought experiment helps reveal the hypocrisy of the kind of AI hucksters who talk a big game about "alignment" while never mentioning this issue.
#AI #GenAI #AGI

'They're scared': Leaked memo shows GOP urging lawmakers to skip town halls - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/nrcc-town-halls/

I wonder if they’ll also skip their SoCs to keep synced to the iOS version, like the next iPhone having an A26 instead of A19 SoC

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02982 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csPF_…

Heavy-traffic Optimality of Skip-the-Longest-Queues in Heterogeneous Service Systems
We consider a discrete-time parallel service system consisting of $n$ heterogeneous single server queues with infinite capacity. Jobs arrive to the system as an i.i.d. process with rate proportional to $n$, and must be immediately dispatched in the time slot that they arrive. The dispatcher is assumed to be able to exchange messages with the servers to obtain their queue lengths and make dispatching decisions, introducing an undesirable communication overhead. In this setting, we propose a ultr…

I vote we skip July entirely this year 📅

Mission Impossible: Final Trainwreck. Need help here. Should I..
Ignore
Skip
Endure

White House to limit intelligence sharing, skip Gabbard at Senate Iran briefing (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/25/iran-intelligence-sharing-gabbard/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p8#a250626p8

While skipping through the opening credits of this anime episode, l thought, wait, I don’t remember that shot…
Sure enough, this series has (mildly) evolving credits.
I only noticed because I happen to be on an airplane watching a downloaded episode, which for some reason disables the Crunchyroll app’s “skip credits” button, so I had to skip manually.
That’s the problem with evolving credits: if you’re not paying attention you won’t notice they’ve changed!

Alarming.
Nearly half of hospital toilet users skip handwashing, study says - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yl3v73p7zo

Nearly half of hospital toilet users skip handwashing, study says
One professor said the University of Surrey study findings were "worrying but not surprising".

The transcription of voice messages is one of those things that on paper seems an obvious improvement (I can read at my own pace, it’s easier to skip parts of the message, etc.), but in practice is… so and so. Even with 99% accuracy, some of the more rambling messages are not very clear when presented as pure text, and you miss all the nuances of the spoken language.
That said, it’s cool that I can do it locally with whisper.cpp on my old GPU and a barely bearable workflow on iOS

I have extended thoughts on a few nuances of burnout, resilience, and employment
Before taking time off for burnout, my skip manager reminded me to read the strongly positive 360 feedback from my reports. That's both a shallow and a deep reinforcement of resilience, first and foremost by rebuilding and grounding self-confidence. Reading positive feedback provides evidence that I'm capable and effective at my job.
Beyond self-confidence, I have other needs in a workplace, …

it so happened, that a copy of #Ozzy's last #concert fell of the truck, not expecting anything i thought i skip through the whopping 8h of #heavy

Back to the Beginning - Wikipedia

Innocence in the Crossfire: Roles of Skip Connections in Jailbreaking Visual Language Models
Palash Nandi, Maithili Joshi, Tanmoy Chakraborty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13761

Innocence in the Crossfire: Roles of Skip Connections in Jailbreaking Visual Language Models
Language models are highly sensitive to prompt formulations - small changes in input can drastically alter their output. This raises a critical question: To what extent can prompt sensitivity be exploited to generate inapt content? In this paper, we investigate how discrete components of prompt design influence the generation of inappropriate content in Visual Language Models (VLMs). Specifically, we analyze the impact of three key factors on successful jailbreaks: (a) the inclusion of detailed…

LOVED "Deaf President Now!" by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim. It's on Apple TV, now! If you're like me and prefer to go in without knowing anything, skip the trailer. :)
https://youtu.be/m-gIp9CDFtM?si=-zzyj9-T8kU8-Igs

Random thought: if browsers are going to implement AI and all the agent stuff, might as well use it to block ads, skip video ads, cookie banners, pop-ups, trackers, and all those annoyances? 🤔

I'm eating lunch at a tiny neighborhood Chinese joint and I just heard a bunch of Chinese on a duo call with "skip school" and "study" in English. 🤨

Want to read about one more guy talking about a #Framework 13? https://www-gem.codeberg.page/Framework13
Otherwise, let's interact together on other interesting topics …

The line for #screaming into the #abyss is getting longer by the hour. Anybody got one of those #disneyland-style VIP passes to skip to the head of the line?

Time for another "review". This one's hard. While the book was quite interesting, it required me to be quite open-minded. Still, I think it's worth mentioning:
Robert Wright — Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
The book basically focused on a thesis that both biological evolution and cultural evolution are a thing, they are directional and this directionality can be explained together using game theory — as eventually leading to more non-zero sum games.
It consists of three chapters. The first one is is focused on the history of civilization. It features many examples from different parts of the world, which makes it quite interesting. The author argues that the culture inevitably is evolving as information processing techniques improve — from writing to the Internet.
The second chapter is focused on biological evolution. Now, the argument is that it's not quite random, but actually directed towards greater complexity — eventually leading to the development of highly intelligent species, and a civilization.
The third chapter is quite speculative and metaphysical, and I'm just going to skip it.
The book is full of optimism. Capitalism creates freedom — because people are more productive when they're working for their own gain, so the free market eliminates slavery. Globalisation creates networks of interdependence that make wars uneconomic. Increased contacts between different cultures makes people more tolerant. And eventually, the humanity may be able to unite facing a common "external" enemy — the climate change.
What can I say? The examples are quite interesting, the whole theory seems self-consistent. Still, I repeatedly looked at the publication date (it's 1999), and wondered if author would write the same thing today (yes, I know I can search for his current opinions).
#books #bookstodon @…

To the genocide-loving German from mastodon.social who reported @… for being antisemitic:
Fuck you, you genocide-loving piece of shit, opposing genocide isn’t antisemitism. What you’re doing – conflating being anti-genocide with being antisemitic – is the greatest antisemitism as you’re de facto stating that all Jews are pro-genocide.

Sen. Murkowski admits Trump's budget bill is harmful after she folded and voted yes on it:
"I know that in many parts of the country, there are Americans that are not going to be advantaged by this bill"
(Skip to 1:20 for her admissions)
https://bsky.app/profile/amwcl…

Temperature calibration of surface emissivities with an improved thermal image enhancement network
Ning Chu, Siya Zheng, Shanqing Zhang, Li Li, Caifang Cai, Ali Mohammad-Djafari, Feng Zhao, Yuanbo Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16803

Temperature calibration of surface emissivities with an improved thermal image enhancement network
Infrared thermography faces persistent challenges in temperature accuracy due to material emissivity variations, where existing methods often neglect the joint optimization of radiometric calibration and image degradation. This study introduces a physically guided neural framework that unifies temperature correction and image enhancement through a symmetric skip-CNN architecture and an emissivity-aware attention module. The pre-processing stage segments the ROIs of the image and and initially c…

A lot of the design work that goes into programming languages and tools is about prompting developers to •think about meaning•: tests, types, scope, compile errors, runtime errors — all about •preventing code from running• in the presence of an expectation/reality mismatch.
I’m always on high alert for tools that promise to speed development by letting developers skip the thinking.
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California bishop allows parishioners to skip Mass amid ICE raids (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5392801-california-bishop-allows-parishioners-to-skip-mass-amid-ice-raids/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p101#a250709p101

@… I quite the Indian system of a mob of people that you can pay to skip.
Of course, I’m speaking as one of the people who can pay.

Random thought: if browsers are going to implement AI and all the agent stuff, might as well use it to block ads, skip video ads, cookie banners, pop-ups, trackers, and all those annoyances? 🤔

When you're watching a bunch of episodes of something in #Jellyfin for #Roku, it would be nice to know what will play next if you choose to skip the outro.

IMVHO the most misunderstood part of the GoF Design Patterns book is that the good part is actually Chapter 2 ”A Case Study: Designing a Document Editor” which carries great design advice (it told us to favor composition in 1994!) & the patterns that follow are mostly a reflection of the state of C at that time.
If you skip the good part and start reading the patterns like a laundry list, it must be very confusing as to why anyone would like that book.

‪https://rudhar.com/mymusic/10-CantSkip/explica.htm
Partition e tablatura de un pecia mie de plus de 30 annos retro.

I'm pretty sure all the white folks (and anyone else who didn't learn the underlying lessons first hand) were assigned to learn about Red Summer, the Chinese Exclusion Acts, Wilmington 1898, and more than a few other things that came up in cultural conversation during the last Trump presidency. This is all on the test, and you're taking it now.
But in case anyone missed the assignment, I'll give you the TL;DR: ethnic cleansing has been central to American politics basically forever, which shouldn't be surprising given it's a nation founded on genocide and the belief in the right to commit it without constraint.
If you haven't done the math yet, I'll help you out. The "Haitian Immigrants" lets them grab black folks, they've been grabbing folks from Mexico south and lumping in indigenous Americans (just so they don't skip out on the oldest American genocide), and the Muslim ban/Hamas rhetoric lets them grab anyone who else they see fit.
The lack of due process lets them grab anyone and they don't have to prove anything. They're talking about deporting "one million" and possibly"millions" of people. So how do they get those numbers?
There are already reports that they're just grabbing random brown folks, trying to take 3k people per day. They fly to blue cities and grab as many black and brown people as they can, then send them to death camps in foreign countries and pretend they have no way to get them back. That's it. That's the game.
This isn't new. The big difference now is that the cops aren't hiding their uniforms under white hoods this time. Do you get it yet?

"Eventually, I stopped responding to my body. I was responding instead to a dashboard." — @…
This is a great point and very much translates to so many other parts of life/work where people stop listening to their "body" (or to their org/product/offering), outsourcing/numbing/dumbing down their decision making based on dashboards of col…

Why I Gave Up My Smartwatch
Somewhere between the first time I tapped my wrist to skip a song and the three hundredth time I anxiously checked my resting heart rate, I started to hate my Apple Watch. The promise of the smartwatch was elegance, convenience, optimization. What I got was constant data drip, subtle panic,

So Builder . ai Mechanical Turked things and Microsoft (and others) were none the wiser.
Due diligence: boring stuff that when you skip it with catch up with you fast.
“Builder . ai’s platform relied on around 700 engineers based in India who manually wrote code based on customer requests. Despite the company marketing it as AI-generated, most of the work was done by humans behind the scenes.”

London AI startup Builder.ai collapses after 'human-powered' tech revelation
London AI startup Builder.ai collapses after 'human-powered' tech revelation

If you're planning to go someplace, plan to go some other place first. That way when you're late getting ready you can say, "Oh, we're late. Let's just skip the first place," and you arrive at the place you really want to go to right on time.
#TINOPOTGS

Hegseth to skip Ukraine meeting at NATO headquarters (Paul McLeary/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/03/hegseth-skip-ukraine-meeting-nato-00384220
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p144#a250603p144

#SlyStone was a good lifelong pal of one of my late friends, and the stories I could tell... but we'll skip those for now :)
I was gifted a rare DVD archive of all the footage Sly had collected a couple decades ago... and I posted some excerpts online, like this performance at The Metromedia West broadcast facility in #Hollywood

Sly Stone with Little Sister at Metromedia Square in Hollywood –...
If You Want Me To Stay! performed live on national TV for the first time by Sly Stone and Little Sister!

Yup, the hard part isn’t writing code.
I’m always a bit cautious of the argument that the barriers are a good thing. That easily slips into harmful gatekeeping if we aren’t careful. It’s not good when programming is inaccessible or unwelcoming.
What •is• good is that writing code slows you down and (if you’re good) makes you •think• about what the heck you’re doing — the work @… is talking about — with a depth and detail that no amount of chin-stroking and up-front design work can match. Skipping that work, however you skip it, is a false gain.
https://infosec.exchange/@saraislet/114851365996475798

I will skip ArtFight this year so I can make time for my personal projects.
But damn you guys make it HARD with such lovely characters :neofox_cry:

This is so hilarious. Antena 3 CNN got pissed off that Simion decided to skip on the debate and run away to #Poland, so they're letting Dan answer questions normally, and digging out the worst clips of Simion to answer their questions. It's making him look so incredibly bad.
Does he show up and get bulldozed by clear concise policy positions while blabbering about covid conspira…

Skip a Layer or Loop it? Test-Time Depth Adaptation of Pretrained LLMs
Ziyue Li, Yang Li, Tianyi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07996 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07996 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.07996
arXiv:2507.07996v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Can a pretrained neural network adapt its architecture to different inputs without any finetuning? Do we need all layers for simple tasks, and are they adequate for challenging tasks? We found that the layers of a pretrained large language model (LLM) can be manipulated as separate modules to build a better and even shallower model customized for each test sample. In particular, each layer from the pretrained model can be skipped/pruned or repeated multiple times as recurrent neural networks (RNN), and stacked with others in arbitrary orders, yielding a chain-of-layers (CoLa) per sample. This compositional space greatly expands the scope of existing works on looped/recurrent pretrained modules, layer pruning, or early-exit networks. We develop a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) protocol to explore and identify the optimal CoLa for each sample from math and commonsense reasoning benchmarks. Compared to a static model of a fixed depth, CoLa allows shortcut paths (fast thinking), recurrence of the same layer(s) (slow thinking), and combining both, offering more flexible, dynamic architectures for different inputs. We conduct an extensive analysis of the MCTS-optimized CoLa, which leads to two key findings: (1) For >75% of samples with correct predictions by the original LLM, we can find shorter CoLa, suggesting a large space for improving inference efficiency; (2) For >60% of samples with originally incorrect predictions, we can identify CoLa achieving correct predictions, suggesting a large space of performance enhancement. Our results highlight the shortcomings of using a fixed architecture of pre-trained LLMs for inference on different samples and pave the way to unlock the generalization power of test-time depth adaptation.
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Developing and evaluating quilts for the depiction of large layered graphs
Juhee Bae, Benjamin Watson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10883 https://

Developing and evaluating quilts for the depiction of large layered graphs
Traditional layered graph depictions such as flow charts are in wide use. Yet as graphs grow more complex, these depictions can become difficult to understand. Quilts are matrix-based depictions for layered graphs designed to address this problem. In this research, we first improve Quilts by developing three design alternatives, and then compare the best of these alternatives to better-known node-link and matrix depictions. A primary weakness in Quilts is their depiction of skip links, links th…

Skip the usual warmongering posturing from the various indentured 'experts', to
“Luck and misperception played a significant role in near misses in the Cold War conflict between the US & Soviet Union, especially the Cuban missile crisis in 1962,”
“What is claimed in this SDR, and has been the rhetoric under successive governments, is that the UK’s nuclear weapons are an ‘ultimate guarantee’ against attack. But… there is no basis for claiming this level of certainty.”…

Will Britain’s nuclear strategy bring catastrophe? Experts on UK's 'dangerous gamble'
Former defence minister Tobias Ellwood said the UK must expand its nuclear arsenal with tactical bombs to prepare for Putin

Pora įdomesnių epizodų iš mano darbo paieškų.
Kolkas aktyviai neieškau (užimtas darbais prie namo), bet vis recruiteriai pasiūlo tai pasvarstau ir pabendrauju.
Šiandien gavau pasiūlymą su labai geru atlyginimu užsienio įmonėje. Pasidomėjau įmone – valdyboje buvo žmogus, kuris turėjo reikalų su Epšteinu. Na ir founderis su crypto verslavęs. Norisi tų babkių, bet skip.
Prieš porą savaičių viena pozicija man netiko dėl naudojamos technologijos (turiu asmeninę istoriją). Parašiau recruiterei, kad ačiū, bet su šituo tiesiog nedirbu. Gavau atsakymą, dalį išsisaugojau: "kita vertus- tai gera galimybė užsidirbti, tik reikia "nusileisti", o jie už tai sumoka. Valandinis įkainis gali būti ir 50 eur/h. Pagalvokite...".
Pagalvojau gal jai pasiūlyti "nusileisti" už 50 EUR/h.

DiffPR: Diffusion-Based Phase Reconstruction via Frequency-Decoupled Learning
Yi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11183 https://arxiv…

DiffPR: Diffusion-Based Phase Reconstruction via Frequency-Decoupled Learning
Oversmoothing remains a persistent problem when applying deep learning to off-axis quantitative phase imaging (QPI). End-to-end U-Nets favour low-frequency content and under-represent fine, diagnostic detail. We trace this issue to spectral bias and show that the bias is reinforced by high-level skip connections that feed high-frequency features directly into the decoder. Removing those deepest skips thus supervising the network only at a low resolution significantly improves generalisation and…

Finding good bets in the lottery, and why you shouldn't take them
Aaron Abrams, Skip Garibaldi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01993 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Finding good bets in the lottery, and why you shouldn't take them
We give a criterion under which the expected return on a ticket for certain large lotteries is positive. In this circumstance, we use elementary portfolio analysis to show that an optimal investment strategy includes a very small allocation for such tickets.

KAConvText: Novel Approach to Burmese Sentence Classification using Kolmogorov-Arnold Convolution
Ye Kyaw Thu, Thura Aung, Thazin Myint Oo, Thepchai Supnithi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06753

KAConvText: Novel Approach to Burmese Sentence Classification using Kolmogorov-Arnold Convolution
This paper presents the first application of Kolmogorov-Arnold Convolution for Text (KAConvText) in sentence classification, addressing three tasks: imbalanced binary hate speech detection, balanced multiclass news classification, and imbalanced multiclass ethnic language identification. We investigate various embedding configurations, comparing random to fastText embeddings in both static and fine-tuned settings, with embedding dimensions of 100 and 300 using CBOW and Skip-gram models. Baselin…

Most GOP lawmakers plan to skip Trump's big parade (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/10/trump-parade-congress-republicans-00398774
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p142#a250610p142

Day 2:
TL;DR:
❌ `composite: true`
❌ `tsconfig.build.json`
✅ `paths` in `tsconfig.base.json`
✅ `include` shared libs explicitly where needed
✅ `turbo run build` just works
Wrestled for hours (~3) with TypeScript `project references` and `paths` in a Turbo monorepo (NestJS, ESM).
Turns out: if you want global aliases like `@my-lib/foo` to *just work* across apps — skip `composite: true` and `tsc --build`.
Project references and alia…

Ursula von der Leyens Büro empfiehlt den EU-Kommissar*innen, im Juni nicht am Pride-Marsch in Budapest teilzunehmen – um die ungarische Regierung von Viktor Orbšn nicht zu „provozieren“.
Exklusivbericht von Euractiv:
#EU #EUpol #Ungarn #pride #Orban #VonDerLeyen

PWD: Prior-Guided and Wavelet-Enhanced Diffusion Model for Limited-Angle CT
Yi Liu, Yiyang Wen, Zekun Zhou, Junqi Ma, Linghang Wang, Yucheng Yao, Liu Shi, Qiegen Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05317

PWD: Prior-Guided and Wavelet-Enhanced Diffusion Model for Limited-Angle CT
Generative diffusion models have received increasing attention in medical imaging, particularly in limited-angle computed tomography (LACT). Standard diffusion models achieve high-quality image reconstruction but require a large number of sampling steps during inference, resulting in substantial computational overhead. Although skip-sampling strategies have been proposed to improve efficiency, they often lead to loss of fine structural details. To address this issue, we propose a prior informat…

fun fact: It's faster to drive to Ottawa from Vancouver than take the train (also alot cheaper for more than 1 person) 🙄 North America is so stoopid #stupid #NorthAmericaIsStupid #Trains
For fun if you're interested: Here's a rough breakdown of options to get one or two or 4 people across Canada and back from Port Alberni, BC on Vancouver Island to Ottawa Ontario in as quick and cheap as possible.
This is a 9900km round trip, so it's not like it's a hop skip jump :)
#planning #travel