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Are LLMs ready to help non-expert users to make charts of official statistics data?
Gadir Suleymanli, Alexander Rogiers, Lucas Lageweg, Jefrey Lijffijt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01197

Are LLMs ready to help non-expert users to make charts of official statistics data?
In this time when biased information, deep fakes, and propaganda proliferate, the accessibility of reliable data sources is more important than ever. National statistical institutes provide curated data that contain quantitative information on a wide range of topics. However, that information is typically spread across many tables and the plain numbers may be arduous to process. Hence, this open data may be practically inaccessible. We ask the question "Are current Generative AI models capable …

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

Enhanced Hybrid Temporal Computing Using Deterministic Summations for Ultra-Low-Power Accelerators
Sachin Sachdeva, Jincong Lu, Wantong Li, Sheldon X. -D. Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22999

Enhanced Hybrid Temporal Computing Using Deterministic Summations for Ultra-Low-Power Accelerators
This paper presents an accuracy-enhanced Hybrid Temporal Computing (E-HTC) framework for ultra-low-power hardware accelerators with deterministic additions. Inspired by the recently proposed HTC architecture, which leverages pulse-rate and temporal data encoding to reduce switching activity and energy consumption but loses accuracy due to its multiplexer (MUX)-based scaled addition, we propose two bitstream addition schemes: (1) an Exact Multiple-input Binary Accumulator (EMBA), which performs …

What @… said here, and so well said.
Note that deciding it’s the wrong time to rub somebody’s nose in how incredibly wrong they were doesn’t make them any less wrong. Listening is not the same thing as accepting. Sometimes it’s a moment to say “you dumbass,” and sometimes it’s a moment to say “And how did that work out for you?” The wise know the difference.
People who were taken in by the likes of these scammers •can• walk out of it in moments of cognitive dissonance — and if you’re in a position to do what Luna describes with someone you know, you might just change a life.
https://defcon.social/@corbden/115329960629783431

Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So
Economy loses jobs for August
Donald Trump understands better than anyone else alive that his hold on his supporters
—and on plenty of swing voters, too
—depends on the mere perception that he’s strong, wins everywhere, always acts boldly, and wields absolute mastery over his eternally feckless, disoriented enemies.
Last month, after an anemic July jobs report, Trump fired the steward of jobs data,

Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So
It’s possible for Trump to be an inept buffoon—but still extremely dangerous. And it shouldn’t be so hard to make that case.

Do you like Ankh-Morpork and Lego?
Then you should vote to make this real:
#legoideas

Squirrels at War: Trojan Horse
“Don’t worry, you did fine,” Mac said as I followed him down a tunnel. “That faction always laughs at things that make them uncomfortable.” He stopped at a doorway that dilated open. “This room is for waiting,” he said. “Soon we will meet with the military command and some diplomats. In the meantime, we can check on the progress of Lion’s Tooth.” He went to a screen mounted in the wall and began waving his paws.

PIC12F683 SRAM row address decoding.
The physical memory array is 32 x 32 bitcells (1 kbit / 128 bytes), logically 32 rows x 4-way column mux x 8 bit data bus.
The row logic decodes the 5-bit row address into ten one-hot signals for X and !X. Each wordline is driven by a 5-input AND gate, where each row selects a different one of the 32 combinations.
The PIC12F683 uses a very straightforward address order with MSB at left and LSB at right, and addresses counting in what see…

Automatic coherence-driven inference on arguments
Steve Huntsman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18523 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18523

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