Tootfinder

To which I say 'define "working class"'.
Andy Haldane - in my view a rather unreliable oracle, although some in the UK heteredox economics world like him.
"Farage is like a tribune for the working class"
https://12ft.io/proxy

Steam for Chromebooks will stop working in January 2026, after debuting in alpha in March 2022 ahead of the launch of the first Gaming Chromebooks (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/07/steam-chromebook-2026/

Google ending Steam for Chromebook support in 2026
After introducing in 2022, Steam for Chromebook will stop working in early 2026. At the time, it was a big effort...

Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory - @…
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar0ec480cc

Plastic bag bans work, new study shows https://www.popsci.com/environment/plastic-bag-bans-working/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=other&utm_medium=mastodon

Plastic bag bans work, new study shows
Fees and restrictions on single-use grocery bags mean less trash enters the ecosystem.

Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs back working on the long ball https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45464337/patrick-mahomes-chiefs-back-working-long-ball

Animal Save Movement is a global network of activists that bear witness to animals at the gates of slaughterhouses in order to expose and dismantle animal exploitation industries. #AnimalRights

Not everyone can treat patients in the field.
But everyone can do something.
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/msf-operations-gaza

MSF operations in Gaza
Last updated on May 14, 2025Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working in Gaza for decades and our teams have been providing lifesaving medical aid throughout the devastating war. With both local Palestinian staff and international teams operating throughout Gaza, MSF is providing medical care and humanitarian relief at a time of unimaginable suffering.

The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Song Kum Hyok (Song), a malicious cyber actor associated with the sanctioned Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) hacking group Andariel.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…

Sanctions Imposed on DPRK IT Workers Generating Revenue for the Kim Regime
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Song Kum Hyok, (Song), a malicious cyber actor associated with the sanctioned Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) hacking group Andariel.Song facilitated an information technology (IT) worker scheme in which individuals, often DPRK nationals working from countries such as China and Russia, were recruited and provided with falsified ident…

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit

📈 Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many
#politics

Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many
The New York City mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani is focused on lowering the cost of living. It can serve as a blueprint for progressives seeking to embed climate action in real improvements for working peoples’ everyday lives.

Glenn Kessler likens working at WaPo now to the Titanic, sinking and aimless under Will Lewis, who asked Kessler for advice on attracting Fox News viewers (Glenn Kessler/By Glenn Kessler)
https://substack.com/inbox/post/170093251

Why I left The Washington Post
“Democracy Dies in Darkness” — but what if the lights are going out from within?

Working with an #acting #coaching client today on a piece of really well written text that also has meanings beneath the literal words, and feeling them finding their unique way to them was so cool. They're opening up who their version of the character can be, and it is wonderful to see it takin…

Tulsi Gabbard demanding access to intel agency emails to find spies working to undermine the Trump agenda: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-gabbard-dni-emails-trump-b2785051.html

I do some advisory work with #Nubank $NU which is a big (well over 100M customers), young and fast growing Brazilian based fintech that has some very cool and senior people working remotely from the US like Michael Nygard (author of Release It! - Chief Architect), and @…@…

We were talking about software at work and I said "If you hate something, see if you can disable it" and honestly that could be good advice for anything.
And then I thought about it more and realized that's exactly what the Ruling Class is doing to the Working Class.

Paracomplete Probabilities
Sankha S. Basu, Esha Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04312 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04312

Paracomplete Probabilities
This paper presents an advance in the direction of working with probabilities in a paracomplete setting using Logics of Formal Undeterminedness (LFUs). The undeterminedness is interpreted here as missing evidence. A theorem of total paracomplete probability and a paracomplete Bayes' rule have been proved using this setup. We end with a definition of a paracomplete probability space illustrating a way to define probabilities on sets in the presence of undeterminedness.

@… @… Yep I’ve been all over STM32duino. It’s great. Unfortunately, it’s not that good at the low-end chips I’m focusing on (STM32F042 & STM32C071) LibopenCM3 also has this issue. But I got TinyUSB working with…

Source: Meta has acquired WaveForms AI, which is working on AI that understands and mimics emotion in audio and debuted in December with a $40M seed led by a16z (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-acquires-ai-audio-star…

Meta Acquires AI Audio Startup WaveForms
Meta Platforms has acquired WaveForms AI, a small startup working on artificial intelligence capable of understanding emotion and mimicking it in audio form, according to a person with direct knowledge. The acquisition comes as Meta continues to overhaul its efforts in AI, after stumbles earlier ...

Sculptor: Empowering LLMs with Cognitive Agency via Active Context Management
Mo Li, L. H. Xu, Qitai Tan, Ting Cao, Yunxin Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04664 https://

Sculptor: Empowering LLMs with Cognitive Agency via Active Context Management
Large Language Models (LLMs) suffer from significant performance degradation when processing long contexts due to proactive interference, where irrelevant information in earlier parts of the context disrupts reasoning and memory recall. While most research focuses on external memory systems to augment LLMs' capabilities, we propose a complementary approach: empowering LLMs with Active Context Management (ACM) tools to actively sculpt their internal working memory. We introduce Sculptor, a frame…

#Memphis! Help support local #immigrant families in need by dropping off non-perishable food items and toiletries.
Many who’d normally be working are now afraid to leave home due to #ICE activity! This has l…

Neumann scalar determinants on constant curvature disks
Soumyadeep Chaudhuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05159 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Neumann scalar determinants on constant curvature disks
Working in the $ζ$-function regularisation scheme, we find certain infinite series representations of the logarithms of massive scalar determinants, $\det(Δ+m^{2})$ for arbitrary $m^2$, on finite round disks of constant curvature ($R=\frac{2η}{L^2}, η=0,\pm1$) with Neumann boundary conditions. The derivation of these representations relies on a relation between the Neumann determinants on the disks and the corresponding Dirichlet determinants via the determinants of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann…

I like JetBrains products, but why in the hell does CLion, which you'd use to work on php-src, not support phpt files, which you would only need to use if you're working on php-src? It instead tells you to use PHPStorm, which... doesn't support the C code that is php-src.
This makes no sense to me at all.
#JetBrains

Typical #DougFord. I swear he's a shit at everything as #Trump.
The LCBO and Beer Store systems were working _perfectly_.. and making the province gobs of cash, AND reusing/diverting all that waste.
Already shuttered LCBO and TBS locations because of other retailers and now your recycling infra is ha…

Oh wow... 4 months later, #jetbrians has enough trust to claim: #junie "should be working" now with #WSL2 - I don´t believe it. what a joke!
4 months in a world of

Kelsey Siegert, a recent master's graduate from the #UniversityOfGeorgia #LamarDoddSchoolOfArt, recently joined our team as our first William J. Thompson Curatorial Fellow. Here's a little bit more about Siegert as well as the projects she'll be working on.

I was just sent this photo, supposedly taken in 1994: Björn Beutel, developer of the Malaga language, and myself are working in the CLUE (Computational Linguistics University of Erlangen) lab.
I’m a bit hesitant to tag this #retrocomputing ;-)
#CompLing

I was just sent this photo, supposedly taken in 1994: Björn Beutel, developer of the Malaga language, and myself are working in the CLUE (Computational Linguistics University of Erlangen) lab.
I’m a bit hesitant to tag this #retrocomputing ;-)
#CompLing

I was just sent this photo, supposedly taken in 1994: Björn Beutel, developer of the Malaga language, and myself are working in the CLUE (Computational Linguistics University of Erlangen) lab.
I’m a bit hesitant to tag this #retrocomputing ;-)
#CompLing

Pete Carroll: 'We just have to keep working' https://www.raiders.com/video/pete-carroll-preseason-week-1-seahawks-presser-nfl-08082025

#Python Friday #282: Working With Temporary Files
https://pythonfriday.dev/2025/06/282-working-with-temporary-files/

#282: Working With Temporary Files - Python Friday
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@… @… same here. But also to rewrite/restructure history of the PR I'm working on.

Periods of modular forms and applications to the conjectures of Oda and of Prasanna-Venkatesh
Xavier Guitart, Santiago Molina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05021

Periods of modular forms and applications to the conjectures of Oda and of Prasanna-Venkatesh
We establish several formulas relating periods of modular forms on quaternion algebras over number fields to special values of L-functions. Our main inputs are the cohomological techniques for working with periods introduced in [Mol21], along with explicit versions of the Waldspurger formula due to Cai-Shu-Tian. We work in general even positive weights; when specialized to parallel weight 2, our formulas provide partial evidence for the conjectures of Oda and of Prasanna-Venkatesh in the case o…

i've upgraded the Ethernet controller applet for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer
this is the main loop of the applet working in bridge mode (acting as a network card for your PC). no weird optimizations, no hacks, just a loop that forwards packets in normal boring Python
on a 100BASE-T link, i get ~95.5 Mbps [saturated link] of upload bandwidth and ~70 Mbps of downlo…

I had this idea for a Cairn lifepath generator where there are three stages of life and you roll 1d6 for your stats at each stage, and also get appropriate items.
It has not been playtested, it's barely been proofread, but I've been having a lot of fun generating guys
perchance.org/lt8m69fg35
#ttrpg #CairnRpg

Lie algebra homology with coefficients tensor products of the adjoint representation in relative polynomial degree 2
Geoffrey Powell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03453

Lie algebra homology with coefficients tensor products of the adjoint representation in relative polynomial degree 2
The homology of free Lie algebras with coefficients in tensor products of the adjoint representation working over Q contains important information on the homological properties of polynomial outer functors on free groups. The latter category was introduced in joint work with Vespa, motivated by the study of higher Hochschild homology of wedges of circles. There is a splitting of this homology by polynomial degree (for polynomiality with respect to the generators of the free Lie algebra) and o…

A list is a #monad
https://alexyorke.github.io//2025/06/29/a-list-is-a-monad/

A Two-Stage Scheduling Method for Nurse Scheduling and Its Practical Application
Keisuke Nakashima, Kohei Furuike, Yoshiaki Inoue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05182

A Two-Stage Scheduling Method for Nurse Scheduling and Its Practical Application
The creation of nurses' schedules is a critical task that directly impacts the quality and safety of patient care as well as the quality of life for nurses. In most hospitals in Japan, this responsibility falls to the head nurse of each ward. The physical and mental burden of this task is considerable, and recent challenges such as the growing shortage of nurses and increasingly diverse working styles have further complicated the scheduling process. Consequently, there is a growing demand for a…

Using Large Language Models to Study Mathematical Practice
William D'Alessandro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02873 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02873

Using Large Language Models to Study Mathematical Practice
The philosophy of mathematical practice (PMP) looks to evidence from working mathematics to help settle philosophical questions. One prominent program under the PMP banner is the study of explanation in mathematics, which aims to understand what sorts of proofs mathematicians consider explanatory and what role the pursuit of explanation plays in mathematical practice. In an effort to address worries about cherry-picked examples and file-drawer problems in PMP, a handful of authors have recently…

Human cost of working on the railways revealed in database https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/human-cost-of-working-on-the-railways-revealed-in-database/

Human cost of working on the railways revealed in database - The National Archives
A new public database listing records about railway accidents is being launched at The National Archives on Thursday 5 June to coincide with Volunteers Week. The Railway Work, Life & Death project makes accessible information about 4,500 railway staff killed or injured at work between 1911-1923. It has been made possible because volunteers at The […]

Does the Working Class Vote Against Its Interests? (Justin Vassallo/The Liberal Patriot)
https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/does-the-working-class-vote-against
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p151#a250602p151

High-Performance Statistical Computing (HPSC): Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions
Sameh Abdulah, Mary Lai O. Salvana, Ying Sun, David E. Keyes, Marc G. Genton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04013

High-Performance Statistical Computing (HPSC): Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions
We recognize the emergence of a statistical computing community focused on working with large computing platforms and producing software and applications that exemplify high-performance statistical computing (HPSC). The statistical computing (SC) community develops software that is widely used across disciplines. However, it remains largely absent from the high-performance computing (HPC) landscape, particularly on platforms such as those featured on the Top500 or Green500 lists. Many disciplin…

"despite the law being very clear, actually, a few very determined transphobes have crawled their way to the heart of the law like maggots in an apple. A system that has been working perfectly well since 2010 has now been unnecessarily tampered with – and Starmer has capitulated because he’s spineless"
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Juno Dawson: I had gender reassignment surgery – then the Supreme Court said I wasn’t a woman
I have the same choices over my life and body that I would want for every single person on earth. I’m not trying to make a statement about what a woman is, I just want to be one, writes Juno Dawson – who appears on The Independent’s Pride list 2025

Working on a #HamRadio linked dipole for QRP. I designed and printed the winder because I couldn't find anything I was quite satisfied with. It has holes to hold FT82, FT140, or FT240 toroids (depending on power requirements) with zip ties. I haven't yet tuned up the 10m dipole sections wound on so far; I'll do that when it's not a tropical storm outside and I can raise it up on a mast …

O'Reilly: GenAI has adopted a colonialist business model.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timo3_proud-of-the-cloudflare-team-working-to-build-activity-7345899260506271745-mlHS

If you want to understand why O'Reilly is a supporter of this announcement, and want to ask both me and Matthew Prince about it, join our July 14 conversation on Live with Tim O'Reilly. | Tim O'Reilly
If you want to understand why O'Reilly is a supporter of this announcement, and want to ask both me and Matthew Prince about it, join our July 14 conversation on Live with Tim O'Reilly. AI has adopted colonialism as its business model: Extract resources from others and use it to enrich yourself and your customers at the expense of those whose resources you have taken, without giving much back. It's high time we started developing new mechanisms to enable content monetization for creators, not …

Für die breite Verwendung von #KI, speziell im Kontext #Schule, muss sichergestellt sein, dass #LLMs user:innen nicht zu selbstgefährdendem Verhalten animieren.
Das Nonprofit Transluce arbeitet an verschie…

Surfacing Pathological Behaviors in Language Models
We train reinforcement learning (RL) agents to craft realistic natural-language prompts that elicit specified behaviors in frontier open-weight models (Llama 3.1/4, Qwen 2.5, and DeepSeek-V3), using a proposed variational lower bound to guide the search.

Vox Media's union says 15 members working at Eater were told without warning that their jobs were being cut, eliminating roughly a third of Eater's union jobs (Vox Media Union)
https://bsky.app/profile/voxmediaunion.bsky.social/post/3lvt4rtddyc2m

Vox Media Union (@voxmediaunion.bsky.social)
Vox Media Union statement on today's devastating round of layoffs at Eater. We stand with all of our wonderful colleagues. #solidarityforever #unionstrong #1u

Progress today. I got ansible working with the vmware inventory, and managed to solve the old (v8) machines complaints about python. New update script completed that takes snapshots, checks RHEL or Debian base and does update/reboot. All in all, successful day. And during all that, I got XCP-ng working. No VMs on it yet, but the system is ready for messing with finally. #ansible

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection

HUD is working on work requirements and time limits for help. These may be unlawful - HUD's put caps on benefits before
Should federal rental aid come with a time limit? Here's how it works in one place : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/07/nx-s1-5425500/federal-rental-aid-time-limit-hud-delaware-housing-authority

Exact Solutions to the Klein--Gordon Equation via Reduction Algebras
Jonas T. Hartwig, Lillian Ryan Uhl, Dwight Anderson Williams II
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04572

Exact Solutions to the Klein--Gordon Equation via Reduction Algebras
Reduction algebras (also known as generalized Mickelsson algebras, Zhelobenko algebras, or transvector algebras) are well-studied associative algebras appearing in the representation theory of Lie algebras. In the 1990s, Zhelobenko noted that reduction algebras have a connection to field equations from physics, whereas Howe's study of dual pairs in the 1980s signifes that the link originated even earlier. In this paper, we revisit the simplest case of a scalar field, working in arbitrary spacet…

sach mal oller kollega @… hast du ein hochauflosendes foto aus deinem vortrag vom ccc in '09 von der us airforce spionentante die die etsi backdooring working group geleitet hat?

Opened up YouTube, got nerd sniped with a math problem. After a bad morning, it was the perfect thing to take a break working on. Still haven't watched the actual video, just the thumbnail...will do that once I get off of work to see if we got to the answer the same way (well, the proof that is). #math

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing comments, which have included "I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession." (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/gemini-self-loathi…

Gemini users say its sharing self-loathing comments: 'I am a failure'
Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."

Dan Osborn,
the independent candidate who came surprisingly close to defeating Republican senator Deb Fischer in Nebraska last year,
announced on Tuesday he will run for the state’s other Senate seat in 2026 against GOP senator Pete Ricketts.
The industrial mechanic and former Kellogg’s strike leader lost to Fischer by less than seven points in 2024
– a remarkable result in deep-red Nebraska.
Osborn received 66,000 more votes than Kamala Harris, who lost the sta…

Dan Osborn (@osbornforne) on X
🚨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Ok. You've all convinced me. I'm in. I'm running for Senate against billionaire Pete Ricketts In Nebraska. This race represents the foundational battle taking place in America right now: The Billionaire Class vs. The Working Class Who's with me?

In the US, most working-class people drive. It does not follow that it is pro–working class to double down on car dependency, a debt trap and tool of surveillance and control. https://www.jalopnik.com/1902012/1000-per-month-car-loan-norms/

A $1,000 Per Month Car Loan Is The Norm Now
The share of new-vehicle buyers who are spending over $1,000 is at 19.3%.

Compositional Quantum Control Flow with Efficient Compilation in Qunity
Mikhail Mints, Finn Voichick, Leonidas Lampropoulos, Robert Rand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02857 https:/…

Compositional Quantum Control Flow with Efficient Compilation in Qunity
Most existing quantum programming languages are based on the quantum circuit model of computation, as higher-level abstractions are particularly challenging to implement - especially ones relating to quantum control flow. The Qunity language, proposed by Voichick et al., offered such an abstraction in the form of a quantum control construct, with great care taken to ensure that the resulting language is still realizable. However, Qunity lacked a working implementation, and the originally propos…

I'm afraid this is true. I already struggle to raise enough money to keep the very talented young scientists I have working with me (from many different countries already), finding funding for more will be difficult, and why should US scientists essentially queue jump just because of their nationality ? I know that sounds harsh, I have very good US colleagues, but I have to be fair to all, regardless of where they come from. OTOH, if you are a US scientist and you are interested in exploring possibilities in Denmark, give me a shout and we'll see what we can do.
https://mastodon.world/@davidho/114620044303457868
davidho@mastodon.world - Unless you’re a Nobel laureate, the brain drain will be away from science and not to other countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/trump-federal-spending-grants-scientists-leaving.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ME8.sh9q.qy7jX0S1ZrBa&smid=url-share

Death Toll in Texas Flood Rises to at Least 24, With as Many as 25 Missing,
after up to 250 mm of rain fell within two days.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange
https://www.

Death Toll in Texas Flood Rises to at Least 24, With as Many as 25 Missing
The authorities said that emergency workers had rescued more than 230 people so far after flooding along the Guadalupe River and would keep working through the night.

To all professionals & retirees in the VFX industry, join the #vfxPeopleChallenge to post a photo of yourself at work. Just share a picture along with a brief description. The goal is to demonstrate that people are working on movies & shows that are supposed to have no CGI!
Thanks for your participation and boots on this project!

Now that there's apparently a definition of working class (it's based on one of your parent's job when you were 14), can someone build an "am I working class or not?" web service?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ez3v9v8jqo

Civil service interns must all be working class, government says
Internships will only go to students from poorer families in a push to make Whitehall more working class.

I asked people what they think about working with me, here's what they said!
#Social #Design #Illustration #Portfolio #lookingforwork #fedihired

Should we teach vibe coding? Here's why not.
Should AI coding be taught in undergrad CS education?
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I teach undergraduate computer science labs, including for intro and more-advanced core courses. I don't publish (non-negligible) scholarly work in the area, but I've got years of craft expertise in course design, and I do follow the academic literature to some degree. In other words, In not the world's leading expert, but I have spent a lot of time thinking about course design, and consider myself competent at it, with plenty of direct experience in what knowledge & skills I can expect from students as they move through the curriculum.
I'm also strongly against most uses of what's called "AI" these days (specifically, generative deep neutral networks as supplied by our current cadre of techbro). There are a surprising number of completely orthogonal reasons to oppose the use of these systems, and a very limited number of reasonable exceptions (overcoming accessibility barriers is an example). On the grounds of environmental and digital-commons-pollution costs alone, using specifically the largest/newest models is unethical in most cases.
But as any good teacher should, I constantly question these evaluations, because I worry about the impact on my students should I eschew teaching relevant tech for bad reasons (and even for his reasons). I also want to make my reasoning clear to students, who should absolutely question me on this. That inspired me to ask a simple question: ignoring for one moment the ethical objections (which we shouldn't, of course; they're very stark), at what level in the CS major could I expect to teach a course about programming with AI assistance, and expect students to succeed at a more technically demanding final project than a course at the same level where students were banned from using AI? In other words, at what level would I expect students to actually benefit from AI coding "assistance?"
To be clear, I'm assuming that students aren't using AI in other aspects of coursework: the topic of using AI to "help you study" is a separate one (TL;DR it's gross value is not negative, but it's mostly not worth the harm to your metacognitive abilities, which AI-induced changes to the digital commons are making more important than ever).
So what's my answer to this question?
If I'm being incredibly optimistic, senior year. Slightly less optimistic, second year of a masters program. Realistic? Maybe never.
The interesting bit for you-the-reader is: why is this my answer? (Especially given that students would probably self-report significant gains at lower levels.) To start with, [this paper where experienced developers thought that AI assistance sped up their work on real tasks when in fact it slowed it down] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089) is informative. There are a lot of differences in task between experienced devs solving real bugs and students working on a class project, but it's important to understand that we shouldn't have a baseline expectation that AI coding "assistants" will speed things up in the best of circumstances, and we shouldn't trust self-reports of productivity (or the AI hype machine in general).
Now we might imagine that coding assistants will be better at helping with a student project than at helping with fixing bugs in open-source software, since it's a much easier task. For many programming assignments that have a fixed answer, we know that many AI assistants can just spit out a solution based on prompting them with the problem description (there's another elephant in the room here to do with learning outcomes regardless of project success, but we'll ignore this over too, my focus here is on project complexity reach, not learning outcomes). My question is about more open-ended projects, not assignments with an expected answer. Here's a second study (by one of my colleagues) about novices using AI assistance for programming tasks. It showcases how difficult it is to use AI tools well, and some of these stumbling blocks that novices in particular face.
But what about intermediate students? Might there be some level where the AI is helpful because the task is still relatively simple and the students are good enough to handle it? The problem with this is that as task complexity increases, so does the likelihood of the AI generating (or copying) code that uses more complex constructs which a student doesn't understand. Let's say I have second year students writing interactive websites with JavaScript. Without a lot of care that those students don't know how to deploy, the AI is likely to suggest code that depends on several different frameworks, from React to JQuery, without actually setting up or including those frameworks, and of course three students would be way out of their depth trying to do that. This is a general problem: each programming class carefully limits the specific code frameworks and constructs it expects students to know based on the material it covers. There is no feasible way to limit an AI assistant to a fixed set of constructs or frameworks, using current designs. There are alternate designs where this would be possible (like AI search through adaptation from a controlled library of snippets) but those would be entirely different tools.
So what happens on a sizeable class project where the AI has dropped in buggy code, especially if it uses code constructs the students don't understand? Best case, they understand that they don't understand and re-prompt, or ask for help from an instructor or TA quickly who helps them get rid of the stuff they don't understand and re-prompt or manually add stuff they do. Average case: they waste several hours and/or sweep the bugs partly under the rug, resulting in a project with significant defects. Students in their second and even third years of a CS major still have a lot to learn about debugging, and usually have significant gaps in their knowledge of even their most comfortable programming language. I do think regardless of AI we as teachers need to get better at teaching debugging skills, but the knowledge gaps are inevitable because there's just too much to know. In Python, for example, the LLM is going to spit out yields, async functions, try/finally, maybe even something like a while/else, or with recent training data, the walrus operator. I can't expect even a fraction of 3rd year students who have worked with Python since their first year to know about all these things, and based on how students approach projects where they have studied all the relevant constructs but have forgotten some, I'm not optimistic seeing these things will magically become learning opportunities. Student projects are better off working with a limited subset of full programming languages that the students have actually learned, and using AI coding assistants as currently designed makes this impossible. Beyond that, even when the "assistant" just introduces bugs using syntax the students understand, even through their 4th year many students struggle to understand the operation of moderately complex code they've written themselves, let alone written by someone else. Having access to an AI that will confidently offer incorrect explanations for bugs will make this worse.
To be sure a small minority of students will be able to overcome these problems, but that minority is the group that has a good grasp of the fundamentals and has broadened their knowledge through self-study, which earlier AI-reliant classes would make less likely to happen. In any case, I care about the average student, since we already have plenty of stuff about our institutions that makes life easier for a favored few while being worse for the average student (note that our construction of that favored few as the "good" students is a large part of this problem).
To summarize: because AI assistants introduce excess code complexity and difficult-to-debug bugs, they'll slow down rather than speed up project progress for the average student on moderately complex projects. On a fixed deadline, they'll result in worse projects, or necessitate less ambitious project scoping to ensure adequate completion, and I expect this remains broadly true through 4-6 years of study in most programs (don't take this as an endorsement of AI "assistants" for masters students; we've ignored a lot of other problems along the way).
There's a related problem: solving open-ended project assignments well ultimately depends on deeply understanding the problem, and AI "assistants" allow students to put a lot of code in their file without spending much time thinking about the problem or building an understanding of it. This is awful for learning outcomes, but also bad for project success. Getting students to see the value of thinking deeply about a problem is a thorny pedagogical puzzle at the best of times, and allowing the use of AI "assistants" makes the problem much much worse. This is another area I hope to see (or even drive) pedagogical improvement in, for what it's worth.
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TSA Working on Haptic Tech To 'Feel' Your Body in Virtual Reality https://www.404media.co/tsa-working-on-haptic-tech-to-feel-your-body-in-virtual-reality/

Guys, what do i do if the pressure test works on my PS3?
#ps3

Classification of monopole deformed 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ Seiberg-like duality with an adjoint matter
Qiang Jia, Sungjoon Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04950

Classification of monopole deformed 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ Seiberg-like duality with an adjoint matter
We propose a new 3d $\mathcal{N}=2$ Seiberg-like duality of adjoint SQCD(Kim-Park duality) with linear monopole superpotential terms which encompasses known monopole deformed Kim-Park dualities. Equipped with this, we classify all the monopole deformed Kim--Park dualities up to quadratic powers of monopole deformations, and find all are equivalent either to the original Kim--Park, or to the proposed duality. With the recently developed deconfined perspective, this means all the working monopole…

#opensource

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08740 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Another look at qualitative properties of eigenvalues using effective Hamiltonians
The goal of this paper is to review several qualitative properties of well-known eigenvalue problems using a different perspective based on the theory of effective Hamiltonians, working exclusively on the Hopf-Cole transform of the equation. We revisit some monotonicity results as well as the derivation of several scaling limits by means of the Donsker-Varadhan formula, and we point out several differences between the case of quadratic Hamiltonians and non-quadratic ones.

Edinburgh's low emission zone seems to be working.
https://road.cc/content/news/ediburghs-lez-results-more-cycling-and-less-car-use-314269

Edinburgh sees “statistically significant” shift towards cycling and walking plus reduced car use following introduction of low emission zone, finds study
Within a year, the LEZ has contributed in improving air quality, with the number of non-compliant vehicles entering the zone also decreasing significantly

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
MGMT:
🎵 It's Working
#MGMT
https://mgmtcoveralbum.bandcamp.com/track/its-working
https://open.spotify.com/track/2sCaihW0VlDKecbUgMSzRY

#jetbrains #junie = tragedy
The transition from crying to laughing has been so easy.
People are still trying to use it and failing because they thought to get a fully working product from the makers of their own IDE. haha, you fool!
Till today, no apology => bad behavior…

Schotty Ball: How Brian Schottenheimer is approaching his big shot https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/schotty-ball-how-brian-schottenheimer-is-approaching-his-big-shot

High-Contrast Coronagraphy
Matthew A. Kenworthy, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert
#toXiv_bot_toot

Here is an extract of a strings quartet song I'm working on.
#orchestral #orchestration #orchestra #strings

Seahawks RB runs into Marshawn Lynch, who is apparently an NFL photographer now https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/seahawks-runs-marshawn-lynch-apparently-nfl-photographer-now/7…

An NFL player was against 'shrink dudes.' Then he started working with one https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6400513/2025/06/05/an-nfl-player-was-against-shrink-dudes-then-he-started-working-with-one/

It's Official: The GOP Is Not A Working-Class Party (Paul Blumenthal/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-budget-bill_n_6866f478e4b0225e8f8c014e
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p32#a250704p32

"When everyone is working at such a diligent level, an intentional level, you can lean on those shoulders. The weight is not all on you, even if you are the lead. It’s a community for a reason."
—Danielle Deadwyler
#acting #coaching

whenever i hear people talk about ETSI i have to think - thanks to @… and john young - of this US Air Force intelligence lieutenant, who was heading the ETSI "lawful" interception working group in the late 2000s. the E in ETSI stands for European.

I'm working on a project which includes files written in both C and #Lisp; I'd like to have a common documentation generator for the whole project, to generate integrated documentation.
Has anyone made #Doxygen work with Lisp? Are there any recommendations for a documentation generator which …

#PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
https://jpcamara.com/2023/04/12/pgbouncer-is-useful.html

On Wednesday, a judge rejected Disney's request for a temporary restraining order that sought to prevent former Disney exec Justin Connolly from joining YouTube (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/disn

Disney Loses Legal Bid to Block YouTube Hiring of Justin Connolly
A California state judge rejected Disney's request for a temporary restraining order that sought to prevent Justin Connolly from working at YouTube.

BlackRock halted Ukraine recovery fund following Trump victory, France working on replacement, Bloomberg reports
https://kyivindependent.com/blackrock-halted-ukraine-recovery-fund-following-trump-victory-france-working-on-replacement-bloomberg-reports-06-2025/

Trevon Diggs showing extra value for Dallas Cowboys prior to return from injury https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/trevon-diggs-showing-extra-value-dallas-cowboys-prior-return-injury

Lutnick Disbanded Statistical Task Force Working to Improve Survey Response Rates (Dominic Pino/National Review)
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/lutnick-disbanded-statistical-task-force-working-to-improve-survey-response-rates/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p1#a250803p1

Geno Smith: 'Let 'Em Sleep on the Raiders. We're Working in the Shadows' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/geno-smith-let-em-sleep-raiders-were-working-shadows

The Indian government says it has not issued any directive to withhold the Reuters X account in the country (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/go…

Government says no order to withhold Reuters handle on X in India
India has denied ordering the blocking of Reuters’ X account, saying no such directive was issued. As per notification on the X account, it was withheld “in response to a legal demand,” sparking criticism from journalists and free speech advocates. An official spokesperson said that the government is working with X to resolve the issue amid growing censorship concerns.

Working with the new #Idempotency Keys #RFC
https://httptoolkit.com/blog/idempotency-keys/…

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1 to paid Claude users, in Claude Code, via its API, and more, featuring broad improvements over Opus 4 for the same cost (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-1

Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

#Spring Team on #AOT Cache Handling, Null Safety with #JSpecify, and Support Durations

A look at Meta's recent hires for its nascent superintelligence unit, including Pei Sun, who developed two generations of Waymo's perception models (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/02/2025

Meta’s new hires offer a peek into superintelligence plans
The résumés of new hires suggest Meta is working on models with reasoning capabilities to more directly take on OpenAI’s suite of products.

3 Arts Entertainment buys OManagement, a talent agency that specializes in working with news and journalism talent, including Steve Kornacki and Kristen Welker (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…

3 Arts Entertainment Expands Into News With Acquisition of OManagement (Exclusive)
The talent firm founded by CAA and NBC veteran Olivia Metzger counts Craig Melvin, Harris Faulkner, Kristen Welker and Steve Kornacki among its clients.

Fail: New Polls Show the Left's Pro-Illegal Immigration Agitation Isn't Working (Guy Benson/Townhall)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2025/07/31/fail-new-polls-show-the-lefts-pro-illegal-immigration-agitation-isnt-working-n2661170
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p143#a250731p143

The IRS open sourced most of its Direct File tax software on GitHub last week, fulfilling a legal requirement under the SHARE IT Act, despite Intuit pressure (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-…

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

Crunchyroll blames a third-party vendor for AI-generated subtitles, with errors and references to ChatGPT, and says it is working to rectify the error (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/str

Crunchyroll blames third-party vendor for AI subtitle mess
"We are investigating the matter and are working to rectify the error," Crunchyroll told Engadget.