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Sources: McKinsey pilots an overhaul in how it recruits its next generation, asking candidates to use its AI tool Lilli to analyze a case study during a test (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/de7855f0-f586-4708-a8ed-f0458eb25586

I just finished working my way through @…’s TDD book.
The exercise of writing a test framework to run the tests driving the development of my test framework in Python was truly a joy to work through.
Code here in case anyone is curious:

Unitary representations attached to parabolic subgroups: the case of abelian unipotent radical
Dan Ciubotaru
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11862 https://arxiv…

Unitary representations attached to parabolic subgroups: the case of abelian unipotent radical
We classify the unitary representations with integral infinitesimal character in Lusztig's category of unipotent representations in the case when the geometric parameter space comes from the action of a Levi subgroup on the abelian nilradical of a (maximal) parabolic subalgebra. We organise the unitary representations into microlocal Arthur packets. This is a test case for investigating a conjectural description of unitary representations with integral infinitesimal character.

He's their test case.
If they can do what they want with Abrego Garcia,
in defiance of lawful order,
they'll start denaturalizing US citizens
and deporting them to whatever corrupt dictatorship they've bribed to imprison and torture them.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/1157081113211368

I received a bug report about picolibc's iconv implementation. So I added a test case. Which pushed the CI runtime up over *six hours* at which point github gave up and killed it.
I spent a bit of time yesterday and today re-implementing the JIS to Unicode conversion function to make it faster. Lines changed: 5125 additions & 7495 deletions. Runtime is back to normal now. And I have a deeper understanding of these encodings.

Iconv fixes by keith-packard · Pull Request #1141 · picolibc/picolibc
PR #1139 fixes one issue in iconv, but when I implemented an exhaustive test case, I found a bunch more.

Managed to put the new Pi music player together before leaving work today. Got it set up with remote control and a quick test of playback. Next stop: Speaker mounting and figuring out if I should bet on physical security through obscurity by making it not easily visible or using a moderately long RCA cable. What’s a reasonable cable length with decent quality cables?

"Noyb said Clearview violated [GDPR] and Austria's criminal provisions for those violations could expose Clearview and its executives to personal liability, including potential jail time."
"Noyb, led by Austrian lawyer Max Schrems [...] says Clearview has disregarded EU decisions as it lacks an EU establishment and has not paid imposed fines. The planned Austrian case seeks to test whether criminal enforcement can succeed where administrative penalties have struggled…

OpenDocumentText (*.odt) hell: I used LibreOffice to create a List Template that goes:
1. First Level
a. Second Level
- Third
- Level
- Items
Works well when assigned to a Paragraph Template. It's for something semi-legal like by-laws.
Wrote a 30 line "test case" document with it. Works well in LibreWriter.
Looks like shit when opened in TextMaker. Multi-line paragraph's second line start at the left m…

⛐ Bridging Vision, Language, and Mathematics: Pictographic Character Reconstruction with Bézier Curves
#cs

Bridging Vision, Language, and Mathematics: Pictographic Character Reconstruction with Bézier Curves
While Vision-language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong semantic capabilities, their ability to interpret the underlying geometric structure of visual information is less explored. Pictographic characters, which combine visual form with symbolic structure, provide an ideal test case for this capability. We formulate this visual recognition challenge in the mathematical domain, where each character is represented by an executable program of geometric primitives. This is framed as a program …

Well, I had the dip switches set incorrectly and it was trying to test memory that didn't exist. Fixed that and the floppy drives seem to work as well...
I'm also impressed that the Dell System 200 DOS 3.3 Master disk (circa 1987) is still working.
#retrocomputing
#IBM5150

Good Morning #Canada
Happy National Trivia Day for all nerds walking around with mostly useless facts in your head. Today is your day to shine.
I never said that there would be homework but today... there's homework. Test your knowledge of obscure Canadian trivia by taking this quiz. You can set the difficulty and length in case you're brave or timid. Full disclosure: I chose the "Surprise Me" option and got 20% correct. Using the Google thingy is not allowed. You're on the honour system, and if you're Canadian, I didn't need to say that.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Trivia #Quiz
Canada Quiz | The Canadian Encyclopedia
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/quiz/canada-quiz