Tootfinder

@… https://levidayan.substack.com

Unknown Rhythms | Levi Dayan | Substack
words on experimental/improvised/underground music. Click to read Unknown Rhythms, by Levi Dayan, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Public records show C3 AI's Project Sherlock, company's flagship contract to speed up policing in San Mateo County, has struggled with usability issues and more (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste

Billionaire Tom Siebel's C3 AI Was Supposed To Speed Up Policing. It’s Not Going Well.
San Mateo County pumped $12 million into a grand AI surveillance system that was supposed to level up its police work. Three years later, it still hasn’t seen the benefits.

(IEEE Spectrum flashback, 2004) Sight for sore ears - Dutchman develops auditory imager for the blind https://spectrum.ieee.org/sight-for-sore-ears

Sight for Sore Ears
Dutchman develops auditory imager for the blind

A spectral condition for Hamilton cycles in tough bipartite graphs
Lianyang Ai, Wenqian Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03778 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.0…

A spectral condition for Hamilton cycles in tough bipartite graphs
Let $G$ be a graph. The {\em spectral radius} of $G$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. For a non-complete bipartite graph $G$ with parts $X$ and $Y$, the {\em bipartite toughness} of $G$ is defined as $t^{B}(G)=\min\left\{\frac{|S|}{c(G-S)}\right\}$, where the minimum is taken over all proper subsets $S\subset X$ (or $S\subset Y$) such that $c(G-S)>1$. In this paper, we give a sharp spectral radius condition for balanced bipartite graphs $G$ with $t^{B}(G)\geq1$ to gu…

Kvällens drink till #drinkklubben - Hanky Panky. Smakar som en snällare Fernet. Min typ av drink! Varken söt eller sur utan bara smakstark.

A friend started this UK Parliament petition and I supported it:
“Review how controlled substances are classified”
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/732610

Petition: Review how controlled substances are classified
The Government should review how controlled substances are classified under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 based on current scientific evidence of their actual harm and addictiveness. We think criminalisation of substances creates a monopolised illegal drug market that funds further criminal activity.

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Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches | Hank Shteamer | Substack
Hank Shteamer writes about music. Click to read Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches, by Hank Shteamer, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

a16z announces an eight-week new media fellowship for people with a record of creating "impactful content" via newsletters, podcasts, communities, and more (a16z)
https://a16z.substack.com/p/introducing-the-a16z-new-media-fellowship

Introducing the a16z New Media Fellowship
A new 8-week program for operators, creators, & storytellers shaping the future of media

Both Baumol effect and Jevons paradox may apply to the AI supercycle, as services with AI productivity gains get cheaper, while those without AI become costlier (Alex Danco/a16z)
https://a16z.substack.com/p/why-ac-is-cheap-but-ac-repair-is

Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury
The Baumol Effect and Jevons paradox are related

Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Anthropic's growth to ~$5B in ARR, focusing on B2B, AI talent wars, open-source models, safety regulations, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/a-cheeky-pint-with-anthropic-ceo

A Cheeky Pint with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei joins John Collison to talk about Anthropic's growth to almost $5 billion in ARR, how AI models show capitalistic impulses, predictions for an agentic future, the economics of model businesses, and the 19th-century concept of vitalism.