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ChoirRec: Semantic User Grouping via LLMs for Conversion Rate Prediction of Low-Activity Users
Dakai Zhai, Jiong Gao, Boya Du, Junwei Xu, Qijie Shen, Jialin Zhu, Yuning Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09393

ChoirRec: Semantic User Grouping via LLMs for Conversion Rate Prediction of Low-Activity Users
Accurately predicting conversion rates (CVR) for low-activity users remains a fundamental challenge in large-scale e-commerce recommender systems.Existing approaches face three critical limitations: (i) reliance on noisy and unreliable behavioral signals; (ii) insufficient user-level information due to the lack of diverse interaction data; and (iii) a systemic training bias toward high-activity users that overshadows the needs of low-activity users.To address these challenges, we propose ChoirR…

And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)

DHS Says REAL ID, Which DHS Certifies, Is Too Unreliable To Confirm US Citizenship - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/01/1736221/dhs-says-real-id-which-dhs-certifies-is-too-unreliable-to-confirm-us-citizenship

oh no
Don’t use AI to tell you how to vote in election, says Dutch watchdog
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/21/ai-chatbots-unreliable-biased-advice-voters-dutch-watchdog

:oleander_hawkmoth:
i am very unreliable. it is my curse. i say fuck the reliable. i am so unreliable i can't even be relied on to be unreliable 🌊
#randomcrap

I'm trying to buy polycone (LDPE)-sealed caps for my DIY fragrance hobby.
Any number of results from China, UK and US, mostly one-click purchase.
Butr I want them from DE (or EU), don't I?
So far I found at least five different, unreliable names for the product., and the websites are:
- old school catalogue ones with PDF and, I assume, fax ordering process
- min 1000 pieces
- min 100 € order
- no photos
- 404
- 2€ per cap (10x regular…

💢 Unreliable public charging stations deter many potential electric vehicle buyers
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-unreliable-stations-deter-potential-electric.html

Unreliable public charging stations deter many potential electric vehicle buyers
Public electric vehicle charging stations in America have a bad reputation. They're notorious for breaking down, charging at a snail's pace, refusing customer payment and leaving drivers stranded without juice.

Ukraine Update: Villains in fine clothes from around the world pretend to be decent humans with hearts while they continue to ignore the criminal cruelty and warcrimes of Russia's ongoing genocide of Ukraine.
The truth is hard to deny if you will only see what is so obviously happening.
The failure of the west to stand up to Russia and the unending cruelty that defines the Russian ethos demonstrates how worthless and unreliable the west is.
As an American, I find each d…

Meanwhile on the #Sun as seen by SDO HMI https://jsoc1.stanford.edu/data/hmi/images/latest/HMI_latest_Int_4096x4096.gif at 21:53 UTC today ... the big groups (1)4296 and 4294 at the bottom as well as 4299 at the top keep marching towards the center of the disk, but not much has happened since the X1.9 flare two days ago. (The Kp forecast in https://www.spacepager.eu/data-products/forecast-of-the-kp-index sees something interesting three nights from now, though, but such long-term views are notoriously unreliable.)

For decades, some big polluters were allowed to estimate their emissions using methods the government knew were often unreliable.

Real Pollution Levels: Air monitors at coke manufacturers, chemical plants and other industrial facilities showed far higher emissions than the estimates, records viewed by ProPublica show.

Trump Halts New Rules: The Trump administration has halted rules requiring more than 130 industrial plants to install air monitors and comply with new e…

The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. We Discovered Real Emissions Are Far Worse.
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these plants face an increased risk of cancer.

Tell Congress: NO Funding for Primate Breeding! #AnimalRights

URGENT: Tell Congress NO to Funding Primate Breeding!
Right now, Congress is working on the 2025 federal budget, and the Senate Appropriations Committee has allocated a staggering $30 million to expand primate breeding and research at National Primate Research Centers. This funding will support invasive, unethical experiments on primates—causing unimaginable suffering while advancing unreliable science that fails over 90% of the time in human clinical trials. 🔬 Despite these facts, the NIH asked for $10 million, but the Senate has tripled th…

OF COURSE!
LLMs do not have any knowledge They only have words. When "introspecting" they are actually just word-salading that like they do everything else. They can't SAY that so they make up plausible-seeming explanations.
BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THEY DO, EVER. https://mastodon.social/@arstechni…

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image LLMs show a “highly unreliable” capacity to describe their own internal processes Anthropic finds some LLM "self-awareness," but "failures of introspection remain the norm." https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/llms-show-a-highly-unreliable-capacity-to-describe-their-own-internal-processes/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

So essentially whatever happens during the meeting between Trump and Zelensky it's probably all theatrics and will mean nothing, even if Trump promises security guarantuees (unlikely). Because recent history has shown Trump is totally unreliable and can change opinion in a day...
#Trump #Zelensky

Does #cloudflare have issues again? Currently #linkedin return a 500 on all requests with "cloudflare" ind the message. The same for orangeamps.com which I know uses cloudflare from the last cloudflare issues.
Maybe people should stop using such an unreliable service.

Tree companies are really unreliable, even for a quote. It's been weeks since a tree fell and none seem to want to take my money.

#TIL
> The macros describing this structure live in <asm/ioctl.h> and are
> _IO(type,nr) and {_IOR,_IOW,_IOWR}(type,nr,size). They use
> sizeof(size) so that size is a misnomer here: this third argument
> is a data type.
>
> Note that the size bits are very unreliable: in lots of cases they
> are wrong, either because of buggy macros using
> sizeof(sizeof(struct)), or because of legacy values.
#Linux

From my perspective ->
1. So much construction. It is almost impossible to go anywhere without lane closures.
2. Buses are less than reliable and the last update nuked one route I took and it leaves me one and only one route to the transfer point near work.
3. LRT construction. Going to work isn't too bad, getting home I have to travel AWAY from home, transfer and hope the bus going home arrives. Alternative is to take three buses and that is double the time than …

A look at Opera's Neon, a $20-per-month agentic AI browser that can take over browsing tasks, but its three built-in AI chatbots can be confusing and unreliable (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/801899/opera-neon-ai-browser-trial-run

Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are
Opera’s Neon browser has three AI agents and a $20 per month subscription attached.

Home assistant is too unreliable. I run it on the Raspberry Pi4B with an external HDD for storage and every now and then it just stops responding or does not boot after an update or does not update or ... Sometimes a restart helps, sometimes I need to reinstall and get everything from the backup. Now today I ran into the "missing shutdown button":
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/shutdown-option-removed/715359/15 Such a diva. I'm done with home assistant for now.
https://machteburch.social/@tomkalei/114523359245193309
P.S. Switching back to RetroPie on that machine.

The main reasons for me to use Safari on macOS despite being behind on web standards is integration with its iOS siblings and performance.
However: bookmark sync is unreliable and relatedly reading list is so janky too that I switched to GoodLinks. And somehow the UI gets increasingly sluggish until I restart it like an old Windows system.
I guess it's time for an experiment.

'Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis' https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/15/dont-argue-with-strangers-and-11-more-rules-to-survive-the-information-cris…

Last week, while the country reacted to Kennedy’s rewrite of vaccine reality,
Jay Bhattacharya continued his own campaign to rewrite pandemic history.
He did this by retweeting misleading content from an unreliable source.
A closer look at that source, and at Bhattacharya’s long-standing relationship with it, raises serious concerns for science-based public health.

HHS Science Is Rotting From the Head
How RFK Jr and Jay Bhattacharya Are Undermining Science at HHS

From a Buddhist perspective, telling highly unreliable stories about ourselves is something we do daily; in doing so self-consciously, literary auto-fashioners enact the realization of this fact.

Konstantin Ryabitsev, an admin of kernel.org infrastructure, reported on increasing difficulties they are having with SMTP deliveries.
"major hosts are increasingly not interested in getting mail from anyone who isn't also a major mail service provider"
"With lore and public-inbox, we *are* in the process of moving away from
relying on the increasingly unreliable SMTP layer"

Assessing Policy Updates: Toward Trust-Preserving Intelligent User Interfaces
Matan Solomon, Ofra Amir, Omer Ben-Porat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10616 https://

Assessing Policy Updates: Toward Trust-Preserving Intelligent User Interfaces
Reinforcement learning agents are often updated with human feedback, yet such updates can be unreliable: reward misspecification, preference conflicts, or limited data may leave policies unchanged or even worse. Because policies are difficult to interpret directly, users face the challenge of deciding whether an update has truly helped. We propose that assessing model updates -- not just a single model -- is a critical design challenge for intelligent user interfaces. In a controlled study, par…

Reports of Russia advances in Ukraine are really describing the advance of Chinese drones on fiber optic cable.
The Russian infantry remains incompetent and unreliable, even though it outnumbers Ukraine in troops and ammo.
Ukraine needs ammo. Same story since the beginning of the war.
Giorgio is on the ground, dodging drones in order to provide updates from the front lines, where US reporters never venture.
He shares the friend link to bypass the paywall, so the world…

Russian Troops Are Not Advancing On The Ground. Technology Is.
Nightmare Days and Nights in Kramatorsk

AHA! #docker #nginx #mac Success!
After much logging and inspecting and reconfiguring you know what worked? (It's what always works!). Turning it off and on…
It's just a matter of turning the *right* thing off and on.
In this case, it was a matter of rebooting the webcam itself, which I really should have known because it has been unreliable at accepting new settings without a full reboot in the past. Weird that it was making the connection to NGINX but not actually sending data on that connection. The reboot of the webcam appears to have forced the data to be sent to the new proper docker address and on to Youtube.
Unfortunately I tried changing the stream key for Youtube before trying the webcam reboot which creates a new youtube URL, so I'll have to update my YouTube embed codes but oh well, it is worth having success with docker!
I feel much more comfortable working with docker now and understand the build/run workflow more now so I can start customizing my Dockerfile and be confident that I’m not going to miss anything.
Now I should be able to redirect all of my streams off of #footiMac and onto the slightly newer #imac2014 OR... most importantly, anywhere I have this docker container!
Woot!
Thank you everyone who gave tips and pointers along the way.
#learning #askmastodon
stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/WpbMTI9D6hI