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Society of hopeful technologists (uk oriented): https://buttondown.com/society-of-hopeful-technologists/archive/

Fascinating talk on "Compiling with Generating Functions"
Presented by Jianlin Li, joint work with Yizhou Zhang.
#icfpsplash25

@… And yes the yellow title on teal background ain't great for readablity. It has lifted colours from the terminal settings and I am connecting back to my Linux machine from a Mac.
Oh well, at least it is funky!

Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: Yes.
BLAKE: These are mine. You will hand over all your weapons to my men. Whilst we hold the computer, the ship is helpless. It will remain that way until you agree. You will then fly this ship to the nearest habitable planet where the prisoners will disembark. Any attempt by your men to break into this room and we'll destroy the computer. Totally. That's all.

GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models
5 Team, Aohan Zeng, Xin Lv, Qinkai Zheng, Zhenyu Hou, Bin Chen, Chengxing Xie, Cunxiang Wang, Da Yin, Hao Zeng, Jiajie Zhang, Kedong Wang, Lucen Zhong, Mingdao Liu, Rui Lu, Shulin Cao, Xiaohan Zhang, Xuancheng Huang, Yao Wei, Yean Cheng, Yifan An, Yilin Niu, Yuanhao Wen, Yushi Bai, Zhengxiao Du, Zihan Wang, Zilin Zhu, Bohan Zhang, Bosi Wen, Bowen Wu, Bowen Xu, Can Huang, Casey Zhao, Changpeng Cai, Chao Yu, Chen Li, Chendi …

GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models
We present GLM-4.5, an open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) large language model with 355B total parameters and 32B activated parameters, featuring a hybrid reasoning method that supports both thinking and direct response modes. Through multi-stage training on 23T tokens and comprehensive post-training with expert model iteration and reinforcement learning, GLM-4.5 achieves strong performance across agentic, reasoning, and coding (ARC) tasks, scoring 70.1% on TAU-Bench, 91.0% on AIME 24, and 64…

I was totally sleeping on Stereolab's Margerine Eclipse album (2004).
yes, it has somber moments, being a tribute to their bandmate, the incomparable Mary Hansen (Marge), who'd been killed by a truck driver while cycling two years before.
but, it also fucking rocks? the last two songs have me dancing my ass off. and then thinking about the surviving band members' love and grief for Marge, and crying.

Word just tried to change 'next' to 'sext' (in a policy doc!?!?!), so yes, we should totally trust Microsoft to get AI right, as they do the basics so well

Micro-Tidal Disruption Events in Young Star Clusters
Sara Rastello, Giuliano Iorio, Mark Gieles, Long Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07067 https://arxiv.o…

Micro-Tidal Disruption Events in Young Star Clusters
Dense young star clusters (YSCs) are ideal environments for dynamical interactions between stars and stellar mass black holes (BHs). In such dense environments, stars can undergo close encounters with BHs and fall within their tidal radius, resulting in micro-tidal disruption events (micro-TDEs), transient phenomena with potential multi-messenger signatures. We performed a suite of direct N-body simulations using the PETAR code, to which we implemented new prescriptions for modeling micro-TDEs.…

Yes it is a funky little dial. I don't have enough characters to fully explain it here without starting a thread, so I cheated and shoved it all in the alt text. 🤷
#WristCheck (but not really, since it is a pocket watch).

The Interaction Between Domestic Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Policy in Israel
Jonathan Benchimol, Inon Gamrasni, Michael Kahn, Sigal Ribon, Yossi Saadon, Noam Ben-Ze'ev, Asaf Segal, Yitzchak Shizgal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07082

The Interaction Between Domestic Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Policy in Israel
The global financial crisis (GFC) triggered the use of macroprudential policies imposed on the banking sector. Using bank-level panel data for Israel for the period 2004-2019, we find that domestic macroprudential measures changed the composition of bank credit growth but did not affect the total credit growth rate. Specifically, we show that macroprudential measures targeted at the housing sector moderated housing credit growth but tended to increase business credit growth. We also find that a…