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TableCopilot: A Table Assistant Empowered by Natural Language Conditional Table Discovery
Lingxi Cui, Guanyu Jiang, Huan Li, Ke Chen, Lidan Shou, Gang Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08283

TableCopilot: A Table Assistant Empowered by Natural Language Conditional Table Discovery
The rise of LLM has enabled natural language-based table assistants, but existing systems assume users already have a well-formed table, neglecting the challenge of table discovery in large-scale table pools. To address this, we introduce TableCopilot, an LLM-powered assistant for interactive, precise, and personalized table discovery and analysis. We define a novel scenario, nlcTD, where users provide both a natural language condition and a query table, enabling intuitive and flexible table di…

From Surface to Semantics: Semantic Structure Parsing for Table-Centric Document Analysis
Xuan Li, Jialiang Dong, Raymond Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10311 https://

From Surface to Semantics: Semantic Structure Parsing for Table-Centric Document Analysis
Documents are core carriers of information and knowl-edge, with broad applications in finance, healthcare, and scientific research. Tables, as the main medium for structured data, encapsulate key information and are among the most critical document components. Existing studies largely focus on surface-level tasks such as layout analysis, table detection, and data extraction, lacking deep semantic parsing of tables and their contextual associations. This limits advanced tasks like cross-paragrap…

"Without reaching such dimensions, and thankfully without breaking neither your back nor your wallet, “The Computer” is as gorgeous as it is unwieldy. Its almost 500 pages, of impeccable glossy paper, retrace the impact of the computer as a vector of social change. Be sure to enjoy it on your couch or sitting on a table. You have been warned."

WID DIS, I CAN CRUSH MAH NUTRITION, BRUHHHHHHHH

Niners LT Trent Williams on goal of playing till he’s 40: ‘Not going to retire with something left on the table’ https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-lt-trent-williams-on-goal-of-playing-till-he-s-40-not-g…

"Pairs and Squares" Periodic Table
Leonid A. Levin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11247 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11247…

"Pairs and Squares" Periodic Table
I present a new "Pairs and Squares" rendering of the Periodic Table. It takes advantage of the number of orbitals at each atomic energy level being a whole square. This makes the table very regular and intuitive in contrast with its currently used presentations.

Mid-genocide, EU-ministers still don't take measures against Israel, 'keep options on the table'.
Decades from now, Europe will still be ashamed that it did not act, and in fact supported Israel.
https://nos.nl/l/2575166

EU-ministers nemen geen maatregelen tegen Israël, houden opties op tafel
De 27 ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken van de EU kwamen vandaag bijeen in Brussel. De lidstaten blijven verdeeld over de aanpak van Israël.

I need to dispel some table accessibility myths.
1. `<thead>` and `<tbody>` are not exposed to users. Using `<thead>` to wrap multiple header rows has no effect (and you shouldn’t have multiple header rows). Partial ref: https://adrianroselli.com/2022/02/colu

Column Headers and Browser Support
Data tables need column headers. Monolitten, a granite column of humans (each with a head) at Vigelandsanlegget, a sculpture park in Frognerparken in Oslo, Norway. What they probably do not need is a new set of column headers every few rows, particularly not when they change the meaning of the…

Excerpts of a (real) tutorial page on how to generate a frequency table with percentages in R:
contingency_table <- table(values)
proportion_table <- prop.table(contingency_table)
percentage_table <- proportion_table * 100
Equivalent in Stata:
tab values
This is why every time I consider using R with novices (or Python, or Julia) my enthusiasm quickly peters out.
Better perhaps with dplyr but you have to teach a whole cognitive framework firs…

caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 20344 nodes and 81882 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

That whole shooting scene in the diner with all the standing on the table was so unrealistic.
#DebateAMovieExtraneously #HashTagGames

Extremely rare fillet steak from one of my own bulls, served with pasta in a sauce made of onions, garlic, chilli, pepper, tomato, red wine and cream.
We know how to eat well in this house.
Thank you, Goblin!

TIL about markings on freight trains.
There is a table with letters A B C D.
DB has you covered:
International load limit panel
The load limits represent the maximum load in tonnes for wagons running on lines of the specified category.
https://

Using #Orgmode for so many years, I just recently stumbled over the Elisp function "org-copy-visible" which is practical as hell: it copies the currently visible characters.
So you can collapse/expand, mark a region and then copy only the visible parts of it.
Particular helpful when you paste into non-Emacs or non-orgdown situations. Or to manually generate some table of conten…

Coworker 1: "I'll have you know there ARE normal people who graduated from HSG."
Me: "Never met any of 'em."
Coworker: "You met me! I'm here! Am I not normal?"
Me: "You are working in this department. If you were too normal, you wouldn't have been accepted here."
Coworker 2 and 3:
"Gooble Gobble one of us! Gooble Gobble one of us!"

Extract tables from pdfs with {tabulapdf} #rstats #datasciece

Pesto goes with everything. Moin!

I’ve heard that the Trump admin is concerned that having the parade in the rain might be depressing the troops a bit and are looking for a way to cheer them up, apparently there’s one good suggestion on the table:

😲 Started getting complaints that an email newsletter signup form I forgot about years ago quit working -- at such a rate that I must have accumulated at least a thousand emails in a DynamoDB table
#programming #sysadmin

With the whole moving, we've been looking for dining table sets online. While scrolling we noticed that something was off with some of the listings, behold "AI"-generated product image #3:
Is the table gigantic? Or are the chairs tiny? Do they worship the table in some strange cult? Why is the table floating mid-air with 2 let's resting weirdly on some box on the wall and one leg being much longer?
Because it's mindless slop, that's why.
#ai #genai

Ok, San Francisco, let's get our act together. Spritzes are 6 euro flat around these parts.

Types of graded tensor products of graded von Neumann algebras
Jumpei Tanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10084 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10084

Types of graded tensor products of graded von Neumann algebras
There is a famous multiplication table of types of tensor product of two von Neumann algebras. We filled out the multiplication table of graded tensor product of two graded von Neumann algebras in special cases.

My partner and I were out to dinner last night. Five teen girls showed up. They sat down ordered food, then chatted, laughed, and engaged with each other. A bit later five teen boys came in, sat down a table over from the girls, and each one was hunched over the table with their face in their phones… I’m not even sure they spoke to each other.
We left about 10 minutes after the boys arrived but goddamn I hope they stopped staring at their phones.

LLMATCH: A Unified Schema Matching Framework with Large Language Models
Sha Wang, Yuchen Li, Hanhua Xiao, Bing Tian Dai, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Yanfei Dong, Lambert Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10897

LLMATCH: A Unified Schema Matching Framework with Large Language Models
Schema matching is a foundational task in enterprise data integration, aiming to align disparate data sources. While traditional methods handle simple one-to-one table mappings, they often struggle with complex multi-table schema matching in real-world applications. We present LLMatch, a unified and modular schema matching framework. LLMatch decomposes schema matching into three distinct stages: schema preparation, table-candidate selection, and column-level alignment, enabling component-level …

It's #NoKings day!
🚫👑🚫👑🚫👑🚫
Be loud. Be heard. Be safe.
⸻
EFF Protest Guide:
•⁠📱⁠https://mastodon.social/@eff/114678037068775207
Know Your Rights:
•⁠🚨⁠…

Table is finished and installed. Mac LC III has FINALLY been moved out of my office.
#woodworking
#retrocomputing

PanelTR: Zero-Shot Table Reasoning Framework Through Multi-Agent Scientific Discussion
Yiran Rex Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06110 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

PanelTR: Zero-Shot Table Reasoning Framework Through Multi-Agent Scientific Discussion
Table reasoning, including tabular QA and fact verification, often depends on annotated data or complex data augmentation, limiting flexibility and generalization. LLMs, despite their versatility, often underperform compared to simple supervised models. To approach these issues, we introduce PanelTR, a framework utilizing LLM agent scientists for robust table reasoning through a structured scientific approach. PanelTR's workflow involves agent scientists conducting individual investigations, en…

Eh, final home for the time being. Once the second nameserver finishes updating I can get the cables managed a bit better. Either way, officially done.
#homelab #minirack

Micah Parsons Sends Clear Message to Cowboys Ahead of Training Camp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/micah-parsons-clear-message-contract-camp/?adt_ei=[email]

It looks to Iranians that Trump is actually using the Israeli attack as part of the negotiations.
And that makes it very difficult for them to go back to the table.
Trump wants Iran to surrender, not to sign a deal. And Iran right now is not ready to surrender
- Vali Nasr

Table-r1: Self-supervised and Reinforcement Learning for Program-based Table Reasoning in Small Language Models
Rihui Jin, Zheyu Xin, Xing Xie, Zuoyi Li, Guilin Qi, Yongrui Chen, Xinbang Dai, Tongtong Wu, Gholamreza Haffari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06137

Table-r1: Self-supervised and Reinforcement Learning for Program-based Table Reasoning in Small Language Models
Table reasoning (TR) requires structured reasoning over semi-structured tabular data and remains challenging, particularly for small language models (SLMs, e.g., LLaMA-8B) due to their limited capacity compared to large LMs (LLMs, e.g., GPT-4o). To narrow this gap, we explore program-based TR (P-TR), which circumvents key limitations of text-based TR (T-TR), notably in numerical reasoning, by generating executable programs. However, applying P-TR to SLMs introduces two challenges: (i) vulnerabi…

Self Portrait Study 🖼️
自我小像研究 🖼️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

Liebe Kollegen,
zu Erinnerung: nicht der Kanzler wählt seinen Fraktionschef, sondern umgekehrt!
Damit will ich ausdrücklich nicht sagen, dass Spahn für irgendetwas der richtige wäre!

Das Periodensystem der endlichen einfachen Gruppen
via #Mathematik

Kickstarted a credit-card-sized dice replacement.
For IRL D&D it was fine, but dials spin forever. Made dice tray pointless, while less satisfying. Even though I choose yellow text on black, hard for me to see in mood-lit basement on table
For Shadowrun, 6D6 is embarrassingly insufficient, given I regularly roll 14D6. The VTT roller is far better (since it does the math on pools and successes).
But they’re sturdy and hefty! Which means my mini metal dice are lighter an…

#Planungsbeschleunigung auf Verwaltungsseite
https://table.media/forum/forum-verwaltungsinnovationen/flexunit-verwal…

Design and Implementation of an OCR-Powered Pipeline for Table Extraction from Invoices
Parshva Dhilankumar Patel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07029 https://…

Design and Implementation of an OCR-Powered Pipeline for Table Extraction from Invoices
This paper presents the design and development of an OCR-powered pipeline for efficient table extraction from invoices. The system leverages Tesseract OCR for text recognition and custom post-processing logic to detect, align, and extract structured tabular data from scanned invoice documents. Our approach includes dynamic preprocessing, table boundary detection, and row-column mapping, optimized for noisy and non-standard invoice formats. The resulting pipeline significantly improves data extr…

Resolução da assembleia-geral da ONU a apelar ao cessar-fogo imediato em Gaza.
Os EUA vetaram hš pouco tempo uma resolução semelhante no conselho de segurança.

Constructing Optimal Kobon Triangle Arrangements via Table Encoding, SAT Solving, and Heuristic Straightening
Pavlo Savchuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07951

Constructing Optimal Kobon Triangle Arrangements via Table Encoding, SAT Solving, and Heuristic Straightening
We present new methods and results for constructing optimal Kobon triangle arrangements. First, we introduce a compact table notation for describing arrangements of pseudolines, enabling the representation and analysis of complex cases, including symmetrical arrangements, arrangements with parallel lines, and arrangements with multiple-line intersection points. Building on this, we provide a simple heuristic method and tools for recovering straight-line arrangements from a given table, with the…

Design of a Timer Queue Supporting Dynamic Update Operations
Zekun Wang, Binghao Yue, Weitao Pan, Jiangyi Shi, Yue Hao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10283 https://

Design of a Timer Queue Supporting Dynamic Update Operations
Large-scale timers are ubiquitous in network processing, including flow table entry expiration control in software defined network (SDN) switches, MAC address aging in Ethernet bridges, and retransmission timeout management in TCP/IP protocols. Conventional implementations suffer from critical limitations: low timing accuracy due to large-scale timer traversal and high computational overhead for new timer insertion. This paper presents a hybrid-architecture hardware priority queue based on syst…

A Broadband Squeezed Light Source for Table-Top Interferometry
Fabio Bergamin, Nikitha Kuntimaddi, Abhinav Patra, Stephanie Montoya, Moritz Mehmet, Katherine Dooley, Hartmut Grote, Henning Vahlbruch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08857

A Broadband Squeezed Light Source for Table-Top Interferometry
We report on the characterisation of one of two broadband squeezed light sources developed for the Quantum Enhanced Space-Time (QUEST) experiment, using balanced homodyne detection. QUEST consists of a pair of co-located, table-top, power-recycled Michelson interferometers designed to probe stationary space-time fluctuations. The interferometers are designed to be shot-noise limited in the frequency range from 1 to 200 MHz, and squeezed light will be employed with the goal to reduce the shot no…

🤖 Automate database management tasks - let AI handle queries, table creation & indexing
📊 Generate context-aware application code & tests with real-time database schema understanding
🔄 Dynamic reloading support - update tools without redeploying your application

the shmancy highrises on the williamsburg waterfront copied/pasted a stack of @… art books into their aspirational apartment mockups (or used them as props in photos, idk how real estate pr0n works) #nyc

TEN: Table Explicitization, Neurosymbolically
Nikita Mehrotra, Aayush Kumar, Sumit Gulwani, Arjun Radhakrishna, Ashish Tiwari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09324 https://

TEN: Table Explicitization, Neurosymbolically
We present a neurosymbolic approach, TEN, for extracting tabular data from semistructured input text. This task is particularly challenging for text input that does not use special delimiters consistently to separate columns and rows. Purely neural approaches perform poorly due to hallucinations and their inability to enforce hard constraints. TEN uses Structural Decomposition prompting - a specialized chain-of-thought prompting approach - on a large language model (LLM) to generate an initial …

Randomised Euler-Maruyama Method for SDEs with H\"older Continuous Drift Coefficient Driven by $\alpha$-stable L\'evy Process
Jianhai Bao, Haitao Wang, Yue Wu, Danqi Zhuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11429

Randomised Euler-Maruyama Method for SDEs with Hölder Continuous Drift Coefficient Driven by $α$-stable Lévy Process
In this paper, we examine the performance of randomised Euler-Maruyama (EM) method for additive time-inhomogeneous SDEs with an irregular drift driven by symmetric $α$-table process, $α\in (1,2)$. In particular, the drift is assumed to be $β$-Hölder continuous in time and bounded $η$-Hölder continuous in space with $β,η\in (0,1]$. The strong order of convergence of the randomised EM in $L^p$-norm is shown to be $1/2+(β\wedge (η/α)\wedge(1/2))-\varepsilon$ for an arbitrary $\varepsilo…

Worms trifft auf Mixed Reality: Taktikspiel "Table Troopers" ausprobiert
Table Troopers überträgt das Spielprinzip von Worms in die VR-Brille. Wir haben das brandneue deutsche Spiel auf Meta Quest ausprobiert.

Bringing Everyone to the Table: An Experimental Study of LLM-Facilitated Group Decision Making
Mohammed Alsobay, David M. Rothschild, Jake M. Hofman, Daniel G. Goldstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08242

Bringing Everyone to the Table: An Experimental Study of LLM-Facilitated Group Decision Making
Group decision-making often suffers from uneven information sharing, hindering decision quality. While large language models (LLMs) have been widely studied as aids for individuals, their potential to support groups of users, potentially as facilitators, is relatively underexplored. We present a pre-registered randomized experiment with 1,475 participants assigned to 281 five-person groups completing a hidden profile task--selecting an optimal city for a hypothetical sporting event--under one o…

from my link log —
Reading NFC passport chips in Linux.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/reading-nfc-passport-chips-in-linux/
saved 2025-06-25

Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux
For boring and totally not nefarious reasons, I want to read all the data contained in my passport's NFC chip using Linux. After a long and annoying search, I settled on roeften's pypassport. I can now read all the passport information, including biometrics. Table of ContentsBackgroundRecreating the MRZPython code to generate an MRZCan you read a cancelled passport?Cryptography and other…

The table's final dry fit. It's almost perfectly level which was one thing I was worried about.
Also, the glue up with shims.
Tomorrow, the finishing goes on and it should be ready to attach the top
#woodworking
#inprogress

caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 19267 nodes and 77860 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

@… FYI, the way the site rendered for me on Safari for iOS made it a bit of a head scratcher before I figured out what that table was supposed to indicate:

TIL: always always always keep a sources.list line to stable-security, even if you're on #debian #sid
```
linux-image-amd64:
 Installed: 6.12.41-1
 Candidate: 6.12.41-1
 Version table:
*** 6.12.41-1 500
       500

You know, I still never got to the bottom of how I will cope with new storage devices being 4K native.
The problem I experience is that if I bitwise copy a virtual machine's block device from a 512B storage device to a 4KB storage device, it can no longer be booted. The (DOS MBR) partition table is wrong.
I haven't been able to come up with a way to do this without rsync of data filesystem to filesystem, which is not feasible for customer data.

Feel free to judge me, while I devour a slice of this hot-from-the-oven item with some feta cheese and a (small) beer– or a mug of white wine, I haven't decided yet. Only the best from the hobbit's life.

I missed one of everything while I was deployed to Afghanistan:
Birthdays. Holidays. Recitals. Soccer games.
I missed my husband. I missed our 5 kids even more.
After I returned to Colorado, we were driving home one day when my husband suggested we get two $5 pizzas from Little Caesar’s.
Sitting at the table, I felt an immense sense of gratitude to finally be together again,
just enjoying a simple meal.
"Wow," I told my husband. "This was …

Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher | Democrat for Congress
Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher, a candidate for Congress in Colorado’s 4th District, is on a new mission after a lifetime of service: Defeat Lauren Boebert.

Donald Trump's Corruption FINALLY Collides With Kitchen Table Issues (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
https://www.offmessage.net/p/donald-trump-corruption-kitchen-table-issues
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p61#a250804p61

Gene Wilder's bizarre comedic genius no longer graces Earth, but he was born today (June 11) in 1933.

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
PINDER: Egrorian? Egrorian? They're here! Come and see. [Egrorian enters. He slaps Pinder away from the monitor. They look at the monitor and laugh hysterically.]
[Back on Scorpio]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/9 B7B3

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

it’s a lonely free lunch wednesday at the systems lab #alas

Improving Table Retrieval with Question Generation from Partial Tables
Hsing-Ping Liang, Che-Wei Chang, Yao-Chung Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06168 https://

Improving Table Retrieval with Question Generation from Partial Tables
Recent advances in open-domain question answering over tables have widely adopted large language models (LLMs) under the Retriever-Reader architecture. Prior works have effectively leveraged LLMs to tackle the complex reasoning demands of the Reader component, such as text-to-text, text-to-SQL, and multi hop reasoning. In contrast, the Retriever component has primarily focused on optimizing the query representation-training retrievers to retrieve relevant tables based on questions, or to select…

Placing my plate at the table, I think to myself "I'll sit here" and try to pull out the chair. Instead of weighing 3 pounds, it weighs 20 pounds. Okay, there's a cat sleeping in that chair, I'll just sit at the next chair. Oh, that one also weighs 20 pounds. Maybe I'll just eat on the couch instead?
We have too many cats. 😃

SInce Ben's got us talking about old sewing machines again, one day I'd like to get my hands on one of these bad boys

For my next modern culture and media studies work, I'd like to use "THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH" (TSR 1987)
(The eighties were a very weird time, y'all.)
(I found this in WCA #26, ZODIAC ATTACK)

Simple field test of ChatGPT 5. "Produce a table of Bolivia's largest 15 cities by population in the latest census. Provide a link to the source."
It offered the 2012 Census data, and provided a link. But each of the top nine cities has a population that doesn't match the source.
#ChatGPT #GPT5

Schön in HH bei IKEA gewesen, danach bei Eis Café Höft in Schnelsen.

Profitable partnership – how China supports Russia’s military machine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/profitable-partnership-how-china-supports.html

ISWS 2025 evening at the Bertinoro village square. waiting for the surprise event 😉
#ISWS2025 #semanticweb #KnowledgeGraphs

A new day a new AI benchmark.
#ai #benchmarks

OpenAI's o3 tops new AI league table for answering scientific questions
SciArena uses votes by researchers to evaluate large language models’ responses on technical topics.

Burn baby burn!
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/entertainment/english/trumps-own-supporters-are-burning-maga-hats-epstein-list-is-the-reason-why/videoshow/122370627…

Trump's Own Supporters Are Burning MAGA Hats & 'Epstein List' Is The Reason Why
U.S. President Donald Trump comes under fire amid Epstein case backlash. MAGA loyalists call for burning iconic 'Make America Great Again' caps. Trump's own support base turns against him as anger over 'Epstein Files' grows. Department of Justice (DOJ) has claimed Epstein did not maintain a 'client list'. This was despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi about 'a list on my table'. Bondi raised expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists. But then came DOJ's findin…

Ah yes, it's our mission as Italian business to fix USA breakfast by making sure Nutella in the morning becomes a habit.
«The purchase also helps #Ferrero elbow in on the morning meal, a category where the company has scant exposure beyond Nutella, which isn’t yet commonplace as a breakfast food in the US. Ferrero “really wants to get the breakfast table sorted,” said Bloomberg Intelligence a…

Long post, game design
Crungle is a game designed to be a simple test of general reasoning skills that's difficult to play by rote memory, since there are many possible rule sets, but it should be easy to play if one can understand and extrapolate from rules. The game is not necessarily fair, with the first player often having an advantage or a forced win. The game is entirely deterministic, although a variant determines the rule set randomly.
This is version 0.1, and has not yet been tested at all.
Crungle is a competitive game for two players, each of whom controls a single piece on a 3x3 grid. The cells of the grid are numbered from 1 to 9, starting at the top left and proceeding across each row and then down to the next row, so the top three cells are 1, 2, and 3 from left to right, then the next three are 4, 5, and 6 and the final row is cells 7, 8, and 9.
The two players decide who shall play as purple and who shall play as orange. Purple goes first, starting the rules phase by picking one goal rule from the table of goal rules. Next, orange picks a goal rule. These two goal rules determine the two winning conditions. Then each player, starting with orange, alternate picking a movement rule until four movement rules have been selected. During this process, at most one indirect movement rule may be selected. Finally, purple picks a starting location for orange (1-9), with 5 (the center) not allowed. Then orange picks the starting location for purple, which may not be adjacent to orange's starting position.
Alternatively, the goal rules, movement rules, and starting positions may be determined randomly, or a pre-determined ruleset may be selected.
If the ruleset makes it impossible to win, the players should agree to a draw. Either player could instead "bet" their opponent. If the opponent agrees to the bet, the opponent must demonstrate a series of moves by both players that would result in a win for either player. If they can do this, they win, but if they submit an invalid demonstration or cannot submit a demonstration, the player who "bet" wins.
Now that starting positions, movement rules, and goals have been decided, the play phase proceeds with each player taking a turn, starting with purple, until one player wins by satisfying one of the two goals, or until the players agree to a draw. Note that it's possible for both players to occupy the same space.
During each player's turn, that player identifies one of the four movement rules to use and names the square they move to using that rule, then they move their piece into that square and their turn ends. Neither player may use the same movement rule twice in a row (but it's okay to use the same rule your opponent just did unless another rule disallows that). If the movement rule a player picks moves their opponent's piece, they need to state where their opponent's piece ends up. Pieces that would move off the board instead stay in place; it's okay to select a rule that causes your piece to stay in place because of this rule. However, if a rule says "pick a square" or "move to a square" with some additional criteria, but there are no squares that meet those criteria, then that rule may not be used, and a player who picks that rule must pick a different one instead.
Any player who incorrectly states a destination for either their piece or their opponent's piece, picks an invalid square, or chooses an invalid rule has made a violation, as long as their opponent objects before selecting their next move. A player who makes at least three violations immediately forfeits and their opponent wins by default. However, if a player violates a rule but their opponent does not object before picking their next move, the stated destination(s) of the invalid move still stand, and the violation does not count. If a player objects to a valid move, their objection is ignored, and if they do this at least three times, they forfeit and their opponent wins by default.
Goal rules (each player picks one; either player can win using either chosen rule):
End your turn in the same space as your opponent three turns in a row.
End at least one turn in each of the 9 cells.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single row, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
End five consecutive turns in the three cells in any single column, ending at least one turn on each of the three.
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in each of cells 1, 3, 7, and 9 (the four corners of the grid).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in each of cells 2, 4, 6, and 8 (the central cells on each side).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns, end at least one turn in the cell directly above your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly below your opponent (in either order).
Within the span of 8 consecutive turns at least one turn in the cell directly to the left of your opponent, and end at least one turn in the cell directly to the right of your opponent (in either order).
End 12 turns in a row without ending any of them in cell 5.
End 8 turns in a row in 8 different cells.
Movement rules (each player picks two; either player may move using any of the four):
Move to any cell on the board that's diagonally adjacent to your current position.
Move to any cell on the board that's orthogonally adjacent to your current position.
Move up one cell. Also move your opponent up one cell.
Move down one cell. Also move your opponent down one cell.
Move left one cell. Also move your opponent left one cell.
Move right one cell. Also move your opponent right one cell.
Move up one cell. Move your opponent down one cell.
Move down one cell. Move your opponent up one cell.
Move left one cell. Move your opponent right one cell.
Move right one cell. Move your opponent left one cell.
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 2 or 3 to 6 or 9 to 8).
Move any pieces that aren't in square 5 counter-clockwise around the edge of the board 1 step (for example, from 1 to 4 or 6 to 3 or 7 to 8).
Move to any square reachable from your current position by a knight's move in chess (in other words, a square that's in an adjacent column and two rows up or down, or that's in an adjacent row and two columns left or right).
Stay in the same place.
Swap places with your opponent's piece.
Move back to the position that you started at on your previous turn.
If you are on an odd-numbered square, move to any other odd-numbered square. Otherwise, move to any even-numbered square.
Move to any square in the same column as your current position.
Move to any square in the same row as your current position.
Move to any square in the same column as your opponent's position.
Move to any square in the same row as your opponent's position.
Pick a square that's neither in the same row as your piece nor in the same row as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Pick a square that's neither in the same column as your piece nor in the same column as your opponent's piece. Move to that square.
Move to one of the squares orthogonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to one of the squares diagonally adjacent to your opponent's piece.
Move to the square opposite your current position across the middle square, or stay in place if you're in the middle square.
Pick any square that's closer to your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers (this includes the square your opponent is in). Move to that square.
Pick any square that's further from your opponent's piece than the square you're in now, measured using straight-line distance between square centers. Move to that square.
If you are on a corner square (1, 3, 7, or 9) move to any other corner square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
If you are on an edge square (2, 4, 6, or 8) move to any other edge square. Otherwise, move to square 5.
Indirect movement rules (may be chosen instead of a direct movement rule; at most one per game):
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, and in addition, your opponent may not use that rule on their next turn (nor may they select it via an indirect rule like this one).
Select two of the other three movement rules, declare them, and then move as if you had used one and then the other, applying any additional effects of both rules in order.
Move using one of the other three movement rules selected in your game, but if the move would cause your piece to move off the board, instead of staying in place move to square 5 (in the middle).
Pick one of the other three movement rules selected in your game and apply it, but move your opponent's piece instead of your own piece. If that movement rule says to move "your opponent's piece," instead apply that movement to your own piece. References to "your position" and "your opponent's position" are swapped when applying the chosen rule, as are references to "your turn" and "your opponent's turn" and do on.
#Game #GameDesign

Having nearly died from a tick bite myself: make sure to get vaccinated against tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). It's not just death that's on the table, but also the risk of permanent disabilities. Just do it. #tick #vaccination

When you decide to add more CDs to my Discogs page!
Yes, I prefer physical media over streaming, any day of the year.
#Bandcamp
https://bandcamp.com/pmarg

What is Exciting About Raiders Safety Isaiah Pola-Mao? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/patrick-graham-las-vegas-isaiah-pola-mao-

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 51/2
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"The water industry: a return to public ownership should still be on the table" 👍
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/21/the-guardian-view-on-the-water-industry-a-return-to-pub…

“Check / Uncheck all in a Table”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/check-uncheck-all-in-a-table.html
TL;DR: Unless you have user testing results saying otherwise, maybe put a check-all checkbox outside the table.
The rest of this thread ha…

Check / Uncheck all in a Table
TL;DR: Unless you have user testing results saying otherwise, maybe put a check-all checkbox outside the table. The rest of this post is an awkward mash-up of my posts Don’t Turn a Table into an ARIA Grid Just for a Clickable Row and Check-All / Expand-All Controls with a little…

The estate of David Lynch is currently being auctioned off and I got curious and went through all the things on offer so you don't have to (ok I was just bored but). The stuff I found most intriguing turned out to be his self-made or self-restored furniture, like these:
https://www.…

#caturday

from my link log —
A comprehensive list of Wayland compositors.
https://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html
saved 2025-05-26 https://

If I close my eyes and move real slow, no one can see me :neocat_thief:

Reasoning-Table: Exploring Reinforcement Learning for Table Reasoning
Fangyu Lei, Jinxiang Meng, Yiming Huang, Tinghong Chen, Yun Zhang, Shizhu He, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01710

Reasoning-Table: Exploring Reinforcement Learning for Table Reasoning
Table reasoning, encompassing tasks such as table question answering, fact verification, and text-to-SQL, requires precise understanding of structured tabular data, coupled with numerical computation and code manipulation for effective inference. Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) approaches have achieved notable success but often struggle with generalization and robustness due to biases inherent in imitative learning. We introduce Reasoning-Table, the first application of reinforcement learning (RL)…

In the dishy new book
“2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America,”
Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf describe how
Sergio Gor, a Trump aide who rose by publishing Trump’s coffee table books, created draconian loyalty tests during the transition.
It’s Trump's paradox:
If you choose your cabinet based on looks, you are likely to end up with a cabinet that makes you look bad.
Running government is harder than bloviatin…

Opinion | Trump’s Cabinet of Incompetents
Putting talking heads in charge — not the best idea.

Broncos WR Courtland Sutton suggests he left money on the table to keep the roster together: ‘It wasn’t about me' https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-wr-courtland-sutton-suggests-he-left-money-on-the-table-to-…

It did happen before, but 43.6°C on the island of Gran Canaria, in the Atlantic Ocean, is quite extreme. Hottest place in Spain yesterday.
(That's 110.5F)
Source: @aemet.es

Moin! Es ist leider wirklich so schön hier. #nofilter #Uckermark #project25

What is Exciting About Raiders Safety Isaiah Pola-Mao? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/patrick-graham-las-vegas-isaiah-pola-mao-

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 51/2
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from my link log —
Three cases against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in PostgreSQL DDL.
https://postgres.ai/blog/20211103-three-cases-against-if-not-exists-and-if-exists-in-postgresql-ddl
saved 2021-11-12

Three Cases Against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in Postgres DDL | Postgres AI

What is this about?

Many DDL statements in PostgreSQL support modified IF EXISTS / IF NOT EXISTS. For example:

 test=# create table if not exists mytable(); CREATE TABLE test=# drop table if exists mytable; DROP TABLE 

I recommend using `IF EXISTS` / `IF NOT EXISTS`…

Wishing my wife good luck with that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BohXQF4dWT0

Finally finished the joinery for the table frame. Just needs a few final tasks:
* Shorten the legs from 36" to 29.5"
* Remove some of the visible layout markings
* Round off the sides of the legs
* Add the slots for the z-clips
* Glue (with a couple of shims) the joinery
* Apply the finish to the frame
* Attach the top
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The guest of honor wants nom noms

Packers' Josh Jacobs feels he 'left a lot on the table' in rebound season; RB eyes 'No. 1 spot,' Super Bowl in 2025 https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-josh-jacobs-feels-he-left-a-lot-o…

Here’s a mind-blowing experiment that you can try at home:
Gather some children’s blocks and place them on a table.
Take one block and slowly push it over the table’s edge, inch by inch, until it’s on the brink of falling.
If you possess patience and a steady hand, you should be able to balance it so that exactly half of it hangs off the edge.
Nudge it any farther, and gravity wins.
Now take two blocks and start over.
Stacking one on top of the other, how…

This Block-Stacking Math Problem Has a Preposterous Solution You Need to See to Believe — Scientific American
In principle, this impossible math allows for a glue-free bridge of stacked blocks that can stretch across the Grand Canyon—and into infinity Amanda Montañez Math Here’s a mind-blowing experiment that you can try at home: Gather some children’s blocks and place them on a table. Take one block and slowly push it over the table’s edge, inch by inch, until it’s on the brink of falling. If you possess patience and a steady hand, you should be able to balance it so that exactly half of it…

ANN: Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Volume 51 Issue 2
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caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 20906 nodes and 85988 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Courtland Sutton contract: Broncos WR reveals he left money on the table so team could remain competitive

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/courtla

Beyond Natural Language Plans: Structure-Aware Planning for Query-Focused Table Summarization
Weijia Zhang, Songgaojun Deng, Evangelos Kanoulas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22829 …

Beyond Natural Language Plans: Structure-Aware Planning for Query-Focused Table Summarization
Query-focused table summarization requires complex reasoning, often approached through step-by-step natural language (NL) plans. However, NL plans are inherently ambiguous and lack structure, limiting their conversion into executable programs like SQL and hindering scalability, especially for multi-table tasks. To address this, we propose a paradigm shift to structured representations. We introduce a new structured plan, TaSoF, inspired by formalism in traditional multi-agent systems, and a fra…

Sauce Gardner pounds table amid Jets contract negotiations, repeats Deion Sanders comments

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/sauce-g