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Can LLMs Write CI? A Study on Automatic Generation of GitHub Actions Configurations
Taher A. Ghaleb, Dulina Rathnayake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17165 htt…

Can LLMs Write CI? A Study on Automatic Generation of GitHub Actions Configurations
Continuous Integration (CI) services, such as GitHub Actions, require developers to write YAML-based configurations, which can be tedious and error-prone. Despite the increasing use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate software engineering tasks, their ability to generate CI configurations remains underexplored. This paper presents a preliminary study evaluating six LLMs for generating GitHub Actions configurations from natural language descriptions. We assess three general-purpose found…

Write, Rank, or Rate: Comparing Methods for Studying Visualization Affordances
Chase Stokes, Kylie Lin, Cindy Xiong Bearfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17024 https://

Write, Rank, or Rate: Comparing Methods for Studying Visualization Affordances
A growing body of work on visualization affordances highlights how specific design choices shape reader takeaways from information visualizations. However, mapping the relationship between design choices and reader conclusions often requires labor-intensive crowdsourced studies, generating large corpora of free-response text for analysis. To address this challenge, we explored alternative scalable research methodologies to assess chart affordances. We test four elicitation methods from human-su…

Learning to Write on Dirty Paper
Ezgi Ozyilkan, O\u{g}uzhan Kubilay \"Ulger, Elza Erkip
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17427 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17…

Learning to Write on Dirty Paper
Dirty paper coding (DPC) is a classical problem in information theory that considers communication in the presence of channel state known only at the transmitter. While the theoretical impact of DPC has been substantial, practical realizations of DPC, such as Tomlinson-Harashima precoding (THP) or lattice-based schemes, often rely on specific modeling assumptions about the input, state and channel. In this work, we explore whether modern learning-based approaches can offer a complementary path …

I wrote up my code for downloading the installer from a current GitHub release
#Automation

Downloading a GitHub current release
I had a need to download the current version of a package distributed via GitHub in one of my Ansible playbooks. I also wrote a PowerShell version for use in another script. I wanted to write down the code so I wouldn't forget it. You have to specify the GitHub

> She explained, “I just need the paper. I need to write things down. [The iPad script] also has so many passwords and then I would have ADD and then do something else and then it would lock me out … it was so complicated. So I printed it.”
When actors bypass corporate controls to get their work done, it's a showbiz story.

'Andor' Star Stellan Skarsgård Was the Ultimate 'Star Wars' Script Rulebreaker
Co-stars Diego Luna and Adria Arjona reminisced about the lengths the cast went to learn their lines on the highly secretive Disney+ show.

Meta debuts a prototype wristband to read electrical signals from forearm muscles, letting users control devices without touch, trained on 10K peoples' EMG data (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/science/meta-computer-wristband-r…

Meta Unveils Wristband For Controlling Computers With Hand Gestures
When you write your name in the air, you can see the letters appear on your smartphone.

CXLAimPod: CXL Memory is all you need in AI era
Yiwei Yang, Yusheng Zheng, Yiqi Chen, Zheng Liang, Kexin Chu, Zhe Zhou, Andi Quinn, Wei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15980 ht…

CXLAimPod: CXL Memory is all you need in AI era
The proliferation of data-intensive applications, ranging from large language models to key-value stores, increasingly stresses memory systems with mixed read-write access patterns. Traditional half-duplex architectures such as DDR5 are ill-suited for such workloads, suffering bus turnaround penalties that reduce their effective bandwidth under mixed read-write patterns. Compute Express Link (CXL) offers a breakthrough with its full-duplex channels, yet this architectural potential remains unta…

So, @… is working on using LLMs to process XML Except for, the models can’t write legal XML. So he’s using the model to generate a sloppy-XML parser: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/202…

My First Open Source AI Generated Library
In a first for me, I published some agentic programmed AI slop to PyPI.

Let's Use ChatGPT To Write Our Paper! Benchmarking LLMs To Write the Introduction of a Research Paper
Krishna Garg, Firoz Shaikh, Sambaran Bandyopadhyay, Cornelia Caragea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14273

Let's Use ChatGPT To Write Our Paper! Benchmarking LLMs To Write the Introduction of a Research Paper
As researchers increasingly adopt LLMs as writing assistants, generating high-quality research paper introductions remains both challenging and essential. We introduce Scientific Introduction Generation (SciIG), a task that evaluates LLMs' ability to produce coherent introductions from titles, abstracts, and related works. Curating new datasets from NAACL 2025 and ICLR 2025 papers, we assess five state-of-the-art models, including both open-source (DeepSeek-v3, Gemma-3-12B, LLaMA 4-Maverick, Mi…

"Building a personal brand" is one of those incredibly cringe sounding things that's also legitimately good advice, especially in this job market. You just have to take a very different strategy from engagement-baiting.
Write for the kind of person you'll want to work with in the future, and those people will notice you. Write low-effort slop, and your audience will be completely useless to you when you need something from them.

Standing out through writing
Writing is thinking; writing in public is networking.

Hundreds of employees at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
have signed an open letter,
directed to Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy,
criticizing proposed cuts to the agency
and condemning recent policies that could potentially harm the U.S.
The letter, titled
“The Voyager Declaration”
in honor of two spacecraft that were launched by NASA in the 1970s
(that continue to zoom beyond the boundaries of t…

Hundreds of NASA Employees Write Open Letter Blasting Trump Over “Rapid and Wasteful Changes” to Agency
Trump’s cuts will “leave the American people without the unique public good that NASA provides,” NASA workers wrote.

Galactokinetics II: Spiral structure
Chris Hamilton, Shaunak Modak, Scott Tremaine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16950 https://arxiv.org…

Galactokinetics II: Spiral structure
We present a unified theory of linear spiral structure in stellar disks. We begin by identifying the characteristic scales involved in the spiral structure problem and listing some quantitative requirements of a successful theory. We then write down the general linear response theory for thin disks, making clear the equivalence between different representations (e.g., Volterra, Landau, van Kampen) of the theory. Next, using the asymptotic expansions developed in our previous galactokinetics pap…

Fourier Transform and the minimal representation of $E_7$
Wee Teck Gan, Nadya Gurevich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16968 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.16968

Fourier Transform and the minimal representation of $E_7$
We consider the minimal representation of the adjoint split group $E_7$ over a p-adic field. The representation has a model in a space of functions on a 17 dimensional cone $Ω$, and elements of the unique parabolic subgroup Q with abelian radical act by simple geometric formulas. We write a formula for the action of an involutive element $s$, conjugating $Q$ to the opposite parabolic $\bar Q$. The resulting integral operator, called a Fourier transform on $Ω$, is related to generalized Fourie…

> “Instead of articulating our own thoughts, we articulate whatever AI helps us to articulate…we become more persuaded.” Without these signals, Naaman warns, we’ll only trust face-to-face communication — not even video calls.
Now I expect generative AI be used to justify return to office policies 🤢
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You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

"He has identified three levels of human signals that we’ve lost in adopting AI into our communication. The first level is that of basic humanity signals, cues that speak to our authenticity as a human being like moments of vulnerability or personal rituals, which say to others, “This is me, I’m human.” The second level consists of attention and effort signals that prove “I cared enough to write this myself.” And the third level is ability signals which show our sense of humor, our comp…

You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

Dwell-Time Model Simulation Assistance for Advancing Iron 3D Nano-Printing of Via Focused Electron Beam Induced Deposition
Sameh Okasha, Stephen McVitie, Trevor P. Almeida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16709

Dwell-Time Model Simulation Assistance for Advancing Iron 3D Nano-Printing of Via Focused Electron Beam Induced Deposition
Focused electron-beam induced deposition (FEBID) has emerged as a powerful technique for shifting from direct-write fabrication of two- to three-dimensional nanostructures, which reflects a broader movement across nanotechnology as a whole. Fields such as nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, and energy storage and harvesting are poised to benefit from a new generation of greener, more versatile, and multifunctional technologies enabled by this transition to 3D structures. The availability of numerou…

from my link log —
PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale.
https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-scale
saved 2025-07-10

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY can cause severe performance issues under high write concurrency due to a global lock during commit. Learn why it doesn't scale and how to avoid outages.

#Jacobin is really the king of commissioning older western white #leftists to write about the global south. This piece does no original reporting, has no Indonesian voices, and makes blanket statements.
It's not bad, but I can think of dozens of Indonesians who could have written a far better pi…

Indonesia’s Rulers Are Whitewashing the Crimes of Suharto
In the 1960s, the Indonesian dictator Suharto was responsible for one of the twentieth century’s bloodiest political massacres. Under the rule of Prabowo, the country’s government is suppressing the memory of Suharto’s crimes while vilifying the Left.

SpeedLLM: An FPGA Co-design of Large Language Model Inference Accelerator
Peipei Wang, Wu Guan, Liping Liang, Zhijun Wang, Hanqing Luo, Zhibin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14139

SpeedLLM: An FPGA Co-design of Large Language Model Inference Accelerator
This paper introduces SpeedLLM, a neural network accelerator designed on the Xilinx Alevo U280 platform and optimized for the Tinyllama framework to enhance edge computing performance. Key innovations include data stream parallelism, a memory reuse strategy, and Llama2 operator fusion, which collectively reduce latency and energy consumption. SpeedLLM's data pipeline architecture optimizes the read-compute-write cycle, while the memory strategy minimizes FPGA resource demands. The operator fusi…

Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery
by Mladen Domazet1 When Mark asked me to contribute to this series, there was an instruction to try to point to any good prospects for degrowth in this conjuncture, and a lingering implication to use my semiperipheral voice to inform the by-now-desperate comrades in the metropole. Combine that with a professional deformation to write essays when given…

Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery
by Mladen Domazet1 When Mark asked me to contribute to this series, there was an instruction to try to point to any good prospects for degrowth in this conjuncture, and a lingering implication to u…

The $K$-Theory of the Sphere with the Antipodal Involution
Jeffrey L Boersema
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16612 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

The $K$-Theory of the Sphere with the Antipodal Involution
This is a thorough investigation on the real $K$-theory of the sphere $S^d$ associated with the antipodal involution. We calculate the algebraic structure of real $K$-theory and united $K$-theory for all $d$, we write down explicit unitaries representing the generators of all the non-trivial $K$-theory groups for $d \leq 4$, and we describe a recipe for generating such unitaries for all $d$.

Words like “prowess” and “tapestry,”
which are favored by ChatGPT,
are creeping into our vocabulary,
while words like “bolster,” “unearth,” and “nuance,”
words less favored by ChatGPT,
have declined in use.
Researchers are already documenting shifts in the way we speak and communicate as a result of ChatGPT
— and they see this linguistic influence accelerating into something much larger.

You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

Making REST APIs Agent-Ready: From OpenAPI to Model Context Protocol Servers for Tool-Augmented LLMs
Meriem Mastouri, Emna Ksontini, Wael Kessentini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16044

Making REST APIs Agent-Ready: From OpenAPI to Model Context Protocol Servers for Tool-Augmented LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) are evolving from passive text generators into active agents that invoke external tools. To support this shift, scalable protocols for tool integration are essential. The Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced by Anthropic in 2024, offers a schema-driven standard for dynamic tool discovery and invocation. Yet, building MCP servers remains manual and repetitive, requiring developers to write glue code, handle authentication, and configure schemas by hand-replicatin…

Quarto Manuscript makes me almost want to write scientific articles again. This could potentially change the process quite a lot. But maybe there is also a good use for it in internal project reports. https://quarto.org/docs/manuscripts/

Quarto Manuscripts – Quarto

Eternal inflation near inflection points: a challenge to primordial black hole models
Eemeli Tomberg, Konstantinos Dimopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15522

Eternal inflation near inflection points: a challenge to primordial black hole models
Inflation with an inflection point potential is a popular model for producing primordial black holes. The potential near the inflection point is approximately flat, with a local maximum next to a local minimum, prone to eternal inflation. We show that a sufficient condition for eternal inflation is $λ_1 \leq 3$, where $λ_1$ is the index of the `exponential tail,' the lowest eigenvalue of the Fokker--Planck equation over a bounded region. We write $λ_1$ in terms of the model parameters for li…

I feel very seen here: I also write directly into the CMS.
(Original title: A Salute To The 13%)
https://aftermath.site/godot-version-control-statistics-cms

A Salute To The 13% - Aftermath
Let them live a little

Scavenger : Revisiting Space-Time Tradeoffs in Key-Value Separated LSM-trees
Jianshun Zhang, Fang Wang, Jiaxin Ou, Yi Wang, Ming Zhao, Sheng Qiu, Junxun Huang, Baoquan Li, Peng Fang, Dan Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13935

Scavenger+: Revisiting Space-Time Tradeoffs in Key-Value Separated LSM-trees
Key-Value Stores (KVS) based on log-structured merge-trees (LSM-trees) are widely used in storage systems but face significant challenges, such as high write amplification caused by compaction. KV-separated LSM-trees address write amplification but introduce significant space amplification, a critical concern in cost-sensitive scenarios. Garbage collection (GC) can reduce space amplification, but existing strategies are often inefficient and fail to account for workload characteristics. Moreove…

Auditable Shared Objects: From Registers to Synchronization Primitives
Hagit Attiya, Antonio Fern\'andez Anta, Alessia Milani, Alexandre Rapetti, Corentin Travers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14506

Auditable Shared Objects: From Registers to Synchronization Primitives
Auditability allows to track operations performed on a shared object, recording who accessed which information. This gives data owners more control on their data. Initially studied in the context of single-writer registers, this work extends the notion of auditability to other shared objects, and studies their properties. We start by moving from single-writer to multi-writer registers, and provide an implementation of an auditable $n$-writer $m$-reader read / write register, with $O(n+m)$ ste…

What a great write-up of the bananas ideology currently running ( and ruining ) the world
The Psychology Behind Tech Billionaires
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/billionaires-psychology-tech-pol…

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

Outer symplectic billiard map at infinity
Peter Albers, Ana Chavez Caliz, Serge Tabachnikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15142 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.151…

Outer symplectic billiard map at infinity
We show that the second iteration $T^2$ of the outer symplectic billiard map with respect to a convex domain $M$ in a symplectic vector space is approximated by an explicit Hamiltonian flow for points far away from $M$. More precisely, denote by $N$ the symplectic polar dual of the symmetrization $M\ominus M$ of $M$. If we write $N$ as the unit level set of a 1-homogeneous function $H$, then the difference between $T^2$ and the time-2-Hamiltonian flow of $H$ applied to a point $x$ is smaller …

HEAS: Hierarchical Evolutionary Agent Simulation Framework for Cross-Scale Modeling and Multi-Objective Search
Ruiyu Zhang, Lin Nie, Xin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15555 ht…

HEAS: Hierarchical Evolutionary Agent Simulation Framework for Cross-Scale Modeling and Multi-Objective Search
Hierarchical Evolutionary Agent Simulation (HEAS) is a Python framework that unifies layered agent-based modeling with evolutionary optimization and tournament evaluation in a single, reproducible workflow. HEAS represents models as hierarchies of lightweight processes ("streams") scheduled in deterministic layers that read and write a shared context, making cross-scale couplings explicit and auditable. A compact API and CLI-simulate, optimize, evaluate-expose single- and multi-objective evolut…

🔌 UEC-LLR: The Future Of Loss Recovery In Ethernet For AI And HPC
(... not just useful for AI but these days some people can't write a heaadline without it!)
https://semiengineering.com/uec-llr-the-future-of-loss-recovery-in-ethernet-for-…

UEC-LLR: The Future Of Loss Recovery In Ethernet For AI And HPC
Link layer retry fixes packet loss locally and avoids expensive recovery mechanisms.

Iwahori-Hecke model for the universal supersingular representation
Anand Chitrao, Asfak Soneji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13766 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

Iwahori-Hecke model for the universal supersingular representation
Let $F$ be a non-archimedean local field with residue field $\mathbb{F}_q$. When $F$ is a finite extension of $\mathbb{Q}_{p}$, Anandavardhanan-Borisagar and Anandavardhanan-Jana introduced an Iwahori-Hecke model for the universal supersingular representation $π_r$ in the regular case $ 0 < r < q-1$. When $F=\mathbb{Q}_{p}$, the first author introduced an Iwahori-Hecke model for $π_r$ when $r = 0, p - 1$. We extend this result to an arbitrary local field $F$ for $r = 0, q - 1$. We also writ…

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

Just Verification of Mutual Exclusion Algorithms
Rob van Glabbeek, Bas Luttik, Myrthe Spronck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13198 https://

Just Verification of Mutual Exclusion Algorithms
We verify the correctness of a variety of mutual exclusion algorithms through model checking. We look at algorithms where communication is via shared read/write registers, where those registers can be atomic or non-atomic. For the verification of liveness properties, it is necessary to assume a completeness criterion to eliminate spurious counterexamples. We use justness as completeness criterion. Justness depends on a concurrency relation; we consider several such relations, modelling differen…

Generic Reduction-Based Interpreters (Extended Version)
Casper Bach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11297 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11297

Generic Reduction-Based Interpreters (Extended Version)
Reduction-based interpreters are traditionally defined in terms of a one-step reduction function which systematically decomposes a term into a potential redex and context, contracts the redex, and recomposes it to construct the new term to be further reduced. While implementing such interpreters follows a systematic recipe, they often require interpreter engineers to write a substantial amount of code -- much of it boilerplate. In this paper, we apply well-known techniques from generic programm…

Kevin: Multi-Turn RL for Generating CUDA Kernels
Carlo Baronio, Pietro Marsella, Ben Pan, Simon Guo, Silas Alberti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11948 https:/…

Kevin: Multi-Turn RL for Generating CUDA Kernels
Writing GPU kernels is a challenging task and critical for AI systems' efficiency. It is also highly iterative: domain experts write code and improve performance through execution feedback. Moreover, it presents verifiable rewards like correctness and speedup, making it a natural environment to apply Reinforcement Learning (RL). To explicitly incorporate the iterative nature of this process into training, we develop a flexible multi-turn RL recipe that addresses unique challenges encountered in…

Great news. Canada is doing offering government services (commercial driver’s license tests) in Ojibwe/Anishinaabemowin.
It’s a crime and a tragedy that indigenous languages are in danger of dying and everything that can be done to fight that is for the better, especially by governments using them.

Indigenous man's 'jaw nearly hit the counter' when told he could write driver's test in Ojibwe | CBC News
The former chief of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation got an early birthday surprise when he was finally able to do his written driver’s test in Ojibwe.   

It takes a village to write a book: Mapping anonymous contributions in Stephen Langton's Quaestiones Theologiae
Jan Maliszewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12830 https://

It takes a village to write a book: Mapping anonymous contributions in Stephen Langton's Quaestiones Theologiae
While the indirect evidence suggests that already in the early scholastic period the literary production based on records of oral teaching (so-called reportationes) was not uncommon, there are very few sources commenting on the practice. This paper details the design of a study applying stylometric techniques of authorship attribution to a collection developed from reportationes -- Stephen Langton's Quaestiones Theologiae -- aiming to uncover layers of editorial work and thus validate some hypo…

AWS rolls out Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, meant to help businesses create a network of AI agents that analyze internal data, write code, and take on other tasks (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/16/2025

Amazon launches AI agent-building platform for businesses to help boost productivity
The product launch comes amid high anxiety among workers about job cuts due to AI.

I just emailed JS Dewes to complain huffily that her books are too addictive and for her to hurry up and write more.
C'mon, authors, we need at least A BOOK A WEEK! Stop swinging the lead!
#TheDivideSeries

J.S. Dewes, Science Fiction Author
Welcome to the official website for science fiction author J.S. Dewes! Her debut novel THE LAST WATCH will be out April 20, 2021 from Tor Books.

Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 (Tony Stubblebine/The Coach Life)
https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Fell in a hole, got out. - The Coach Life - Medium
I’m gonna write the wonky post of Medium’s turnaround. I’m not sure if a company is allowed to be this blunt about how bad things were. But it’s very much of the Medium ethos that if something…

To ChatGPT: Write a pitch against the use of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind. https://chatgpt.com/share/684c2ab3-2c68-8004-bf53-c3b401c10064 "Let's stop romanticizing sensory substitution and start prioritizing solutions that actu…

Phone Flooding Protest

Historic preservation is bad for affordability #296903.
Parking lot preserved as historic landmark (yes, this is not the Onion) in Cleveland Park, DC raises price to $26 for parking less than one hour -- even less than 15 minutes. https://www.popville.com/2025/08/cleveland

“Anyone else experience the new parking scheme at Sam’s Park n’ Ride?” - PoPville
"Dear PoPville, I wanted to write to you to see if anyone else has experienced the new parking scheme at Sam's Park n' Ride in Cleveland Park. I went to pull into the lot the other day, and it said "just pull through" with no ticket to pull. I did so, and it looks like

Hey... you (ᵘˢᶦⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵉ ᴳᵉⁿᵉʳᵃᵗᶦᵛᵉ ᴬᴵ). Write the damn email yourself. Take the notes for the meeting yourself. It's not that hard. Also, stop fooling yourself, you're not THAT busy.
'Tech giants’ carbon emissions up 150% with AI growth'
https://www.

Tech giants’ carbon emissions up 150% with AI growth
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) reported operational emissions of four technology companies increased by average 150%.

I have been trialling Substack as a supplement to my blog. Substack has a large community of people interested in local and social history, so it's a good fit for me. I'm not planning to stop blogging, and some posts may appear in both places, but it allows me scope to write on a wider range of topics. https://

Newspapers and Research
The Norwood Review and Sir Archur Conan Doyle

Yeah, I had planned not to write any more of these since I had already gone after the big players. But this one poked me.
“#Accesstive Will Get You Sued”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/acce…

#Accesstive Will Get You Sued
I can’t actually assert the Accesstive overlay will result in a lawsuit, though there is a trend of overlays attracting lawsuits. Attorneys say overlays don’t protect from lawsuits, either. Regardless of the company making it, if you wonder if you should use an accessibility overlay, the answer is no. Accesstive’s…

AI, Humans, and Data Science: Optimizing Roles Across Workflows and the Workforce
Richard Timpone, Yongwei Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11597 https://…

AI, Humans, and Data Science: Optimizing Roles Across Workflows and the Workforce
AI is transforming research. It is being leveraged to construct surveys, synthesize data, conduct analysis, and write summaries of the results. While the promise is to create efficiencies and increase quality, the reality is not always as clear cut. Leveraging our framework of Truth, Beauty, and Justice (TBJ) which we use to evaluate AI, machine learning and computational models for effective and ethical use (Taber and Timpone 1997; Timpone and Yang 2024), we consider the potential and limitati…

I'm trying to write a general purpose Inspector UI object for #Clojure
so you have a function
`(inspect o)`
which, when evaluated, throws up a window showing in a sensible form the value of `o`.
Obviously, though, if `o` is lazy, you don't want the inspector to explore it all.
LazySeq implements an interface IPending, which isn't documented. Are all lazy …

clojure/src/jvm/clojure/lang/IPending.java at master · clojure/clojure
The Clojure programming language. Contribute to clojure/clojure development by creating an account on GitHub.

Probing phase transitions and microscopic interactions in quasi-topological black holes
Apurba Tiwari, Randeep Kaur, Aruri Devaraju, Jaya Prakash Kode, Apparao Damarasingu, Silamanthula Hari Krishna, Akshay Gharat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10958

Probing phase transitions and microscopic interactions in quasi-topological black holes
In this paper, we examine the thermodynamic geometry of four-dimensional quasi-topological black holes by computing the Ruppeiner scalar curvature R which serves as an empirical tool to describe the nature of interactions among black hole microstructures. In four dimensions, we write novel black hole solutions within the framework of generalized quasi-topological gravity, extended through a fundamental p-form field. Temperature, entropy, and thermodynamic volume are explicitly expressed using t…

Bhatt Conjectures: On Necessary-But-Not-Sufficient Benchmark Tautology for Human Like Reasoning
Manish Bhatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11423 https://

Bhatt Conjectures: On Necessary-But-Not-Sufficient Benchmark Tautology for Human Like Reasoning
Debates about whether Large Language or Reasoning Models (LLMs/LRMs) truly reason or merely pattern-match suffer from shifting goal posts. In my personal opinion, two analytic--hence "tautological"--benchmarks cut through that fog in my mental model. In this paper, I attempt to write down my mental model in concrete terms.

Design and Reliability of a User Space Write-Ahead Log in Rust
Vitor K. F. Pellegatti, Gustavo M. D. Vieira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13062 https://arxiv.…

Design and Reliability of a User Space Write-Ahead Log in Rust
Write-ahead logs (WALs) are a fundamental fault-tolerance technique found in many areas of computer science. WALs must be reliable while maintaining high performance, because all operations will be written to the WAL to ensure their stability. Without reliability a WAL is useless, because its utility is tied to its ability to recover data after a failure. In this paper we describe our experience creating a prototype user space WAL in Rust. We observed that Rust is easy to use, compact and has a…

"I Cannot Write This Because It Violates Our Content Policy": Understanding Content Moderation Policies and User Experiences in Generative AI Products
Lan Gao, Oscar Chen, Rachel Lee, Nick Feamster, Chenhao Tan, Marshini Chetty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14018

"I Cannot Write This Because It Violates Our Content Policy": Understanding Content Moderation Policies and User Experiences in Generative AI Products
While recent research has focused on developing safeguards for generative AI (GAI) model-level content safety, little is known about how content moderation to prevent malicious content performs for end-users in real-world GAI products. To bridge this gap, we investigated content moderation policies and their enforcement in GAI online tools -- consumer-facing web-based GAI applications. We first analyzed content moderation policies of 14 GAI online tools. While these policies are comprehensive i…

Compton amplitude and Contact term(s) in the Spinor Helicity formalism
Aakash Kumar, Arnab Rudra, Rahul Shaw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12431 https://

Compton amplitude and Contact term(s) in the Spinor Helicity formalism
In gauge theories, contact terms play an important role in ensuring gauge invariance. In the spinor helicity formalism, the choice of a gauge-fixing condition manifests itself in the form of the choice of reference vector to write the massless polarization vector(s). However, this choice must be irrelevant in any gauge-invariant observable. We use this principle to determine contact term for Electromagnetic Compton amplitude. We considered three-point function between two massive particles \& a…

Um, CNN, the whole "secret" part of secret police is that they wear masks and operate outside of the law. There's no "but" there - they are secret police. Warrantless, going outside the purview of their mission by disappearing US citizens, and so on, it's pretty clear what they are. #FuckICE
Imagine being naive enough to write "apparently to protect age…

southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social)
This is not an apt moment to use the word "but." https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/ice-cbp-police-los-angeles-immigration

"We're becoming the soft, floating people from Wall-E. Ordering everything to our doorstep, swiping instead of talking, letting AI write our emails and create our art. Convenience is stealing everything from us if we let it. The friction is where the growth happens. The resistance is where we build strength. Work, real work, will give us fulfillment in ways we never expected, in ways that all the optimization hacks and life shortcuts never could."

why are we lying to young people about work?
hard work isn't the tax you pay for living, it's the tuition for a life worth having -your fav gen z philosopher x

Coming back from holidays in Scotland (😍) I wonder what is the best way to organize photographs in albums, edit them, maybe comment them and share them online with chosen people?
(in a private and controlled way, no AI training of any kind)
#PhotoSharing #PhotoSoftware

Cryptee | Encrypted Secure Photo Storage & Encrypted Documents Editor
Cryptee is an encrypted secure photo storage service, and an encrypted documents editor to write personal docs, notes, journals, store files and more.

TuneGenie: Reasoning-based LLM agents for preferential music generation
Amitesh Pandey, Jafarbek Arifdjanov, Ansh Tiwari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12083 h…

TuneGenie: Reasoning-based LLM agents for preferential music generation
Recently, Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise across a diversity of tasks, ranging from generating images to reasoning spatially. Considering their remarkable (and growing) textual reasoning capabilities, we investigate LLMs' potency in conducting analyses of an individual's preferences in music (based on playlist metadata, personal write-ups, etc.) and producing effective prompts (based on these analyses) to be passed to Suno AI (a generative AI tool for music production). Ou…

Design and Simulation of 6T SRAM Array
Justin London
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09419 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09419

Design and Simulation of 6T SRAM Array
Conventional 6T SRAM is used in microprocessors in the cache memory design. The basic 6T SRAM cell and a 6 bit memory array layout are designed in LEdit. The design and analysis of key SRAM components, sense amplifiers, decoders, write drivers and precharge circuits are also provided. The pulse voltage waveforms generated for read and write operations as well as Q and Qbar nodes are simulated in LTSpice. Parasitic capacitances are extracted and their impact on the waveforms analyzed. Static noi…

This is a nice write-up of some complex and careful decisions and collaboration to navigate hard tradeoffs that in the end got the job done
I wish we also had more open discussions about the opposite scenario: "when the right tool is the wrong choice"
https://tern.sh/blog/pagerduty-cassadr

When the Wrong Tool is the Right Choice: PagerDuty's Cassandra Queue | Tern Blog
In 2011, PagerDuty was using MySQL as a queue. If you just winced, you understand the problem.

#NewRule – if you write an app or service that uses a #directory to save important files, and you generate #errors in your logs about the files in said directory, but don't document what, if anything the user can do about it…

New Rule: Thou Shalt Document Any Magic File Your Code Complains Or Warns The User About
From the And ANOTHER thing... department.. ok, #NewRule - if you write an app or service that uses a #directory to save important file...

Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto, on DegrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/06/12/degrowth-as-an-essential-part-of-an-eco-socialist-transition/
Also
Degrowth: …

Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto* In the series Prospects for Degrowth Many thanks to Mark Burton for encouraging me to write this article and offering so many helpful suggestions. Thank you also to my comrades …

Creation and destruction often come hand in hand.
On my free Substack, I write about holding tension without falling apart—and building something beautiful in the midst of unraveling. https://substack.com/@bricchapman

Bri Chapman | Substack
climate solutions enthusiast, machine learning engineer, recovering perfectionist, sailor, and aspiring jazz guitarist

There's a whole bunch of recent #ThingUmbrella updates which I still have to write about, but one of the things is the reworked, improved and more customizable optical flow (aka https://thi.ng/pixel-flow

Naive, lightweight CPU-based dense optical flow implementation

Free cinematic sound libraries for Kontakt | Native Instruments Blog https://blog.native-instruments.com/free-cinematic-sound-libraries/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm…

Free cinematic sound libraries for Kontakt | Native Instruments Blog
Write pro-sounding movie scores for free. Explore the 15 best free libraries for cinematic sound, from orchestras to epic synths and more.

Did an LLM trained on crypto-company press releases write this?
https://gizmodo.com/no-more-waiting-new-crypto-law-unlocks-cheaper-faster-money-for-everyone-2000631238

No More Waiting: New Crypto Law Unlocks Cheaper, Faster Money for Everyone
The GENIUS Act gives stablecoins real legal backing, paving the way for instant payments, lower fees, and a safer digital dollar you can actually trust.

Scavenger: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for Key-Value Separated LSM-trees
Jianshun Zhang, Fang Wang, Sheng Qiu, Yi Wang, Jiaxin Ou, Junxun Huang, Baoquan Li, Peng Fang, Dan Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13909

Scavenger: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for Key-Value Separated LSM-trees
Key-Value Stores (KVS) implemented with log-structured merge-tree (LSM-tree) have gained widespread acceptance in storage systems. Nonetheless, a significant challenge arises in the form of high write amplification due to the compaction process. While KV-separated LSM-trees successfully tackle this issue, they also bring about substantial space amplification problems, a concern that cannot be overlooked in cost-sensitive scenarios. Garbage collection (GC) holds significant promise for space amp…

Triple-S: A Collaborative Multi-LLM Framework for Solving Long-Horizon Implicative Tasks in Robotics
Zixi Jia, Hongbin Gao, Fashe Li, Jiqiang Liu, Hexiao Li, Qinghua Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07421

Triple-S: A Collaborative Multi-LLM Framework for Solving Long-Horizon Implicative Tasks in Robotics
Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to write policy code for controlling robots has gained significant attention. However, in long-horizon implicative tasks, this approach often results in API parameter, comments and sequencing errors, leading to task failure. To address this problem, we propose a collaborative Triple-S framework that involves multiple LLMs. Through In-Context Learning, different LLMs assume specific roles in a closed-loop Simplification-Solution-Summary process, effectivel…

i have a weird bug: https://godbolt.org/z/vo1qYed8c
doesn't compile for me on arm-none-eabi-gcc-15.1.0 (and probably also earlier versions) because the assembler complains: "Error: registers may not be the same" - line 64 in the godbolt output. godbolt does not complain however …

Compiler Explorer - C++ (ARM GCC 14.3.0 (unknown-eabi))
#define MALIGN(x) __attribute__((aligned(x))) #define MROUND(x) (((uint32_t)(x)+3) & (~((uint32_t)3))) void mem_init(void *mem_pool, uint16_t mem_size, uint16_t mem_count, void **mem_head) { *mem_head = mem_pool; /* Store free mem_count after the list's next pointer at an 32-bit * aligned memory location to ensure atomic read/write (in ARM for now). */ *((uint16_t *)MROUND((uint8_t *)mem_pool + sizeof(mem_pool))) = mem_count; /* Initialize next pointers to form a free list, …

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

A Fast, Reliable, and Secure Programming Language for LLM Agents with Code Actions
Stephen Mell, Botong Zhang, David Mell, Shuo Li, Ramya Ramalingam, Nathan Yu, Steve Zdancewic, Osbert Bastani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12202

A Fast, Reliable, and Secure Programming Language for LLM Agents with Code Actions
Modern large language models (LLMs) are often deployed as agents, calling external tools adaptively to solve tasks. Rather than directly calling tools, it can be more effective for LLMs to write code to perform the tool calls, enabling them to automatically generate complex control flow such as conditionals and loops. Such code actions are typically provided as Python code, since LLMs are quite proficient at it; however, Python may not be the ideal language due to limited built-in support for p…

Special Session: Sustainable Deployment of Deep Neural Networks on Non-Volatile Compute-in-Memory Accelerators
Yifan Qin, Zheyu Yan, Wujie Wen, Xiaobo Sharon Hu, Yiyu Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12195

Special Session: Sustainable Deployment of Deep Neural Networks on Non-Volatile Compute-in-Memory Accelerators
Non-volatile memory (NVM) based compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerators have emerged as a sustainable solution to significantly boost energy efficiency and minimize latency for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) inference due to their in-situ data processing capabilities. However, the performance of NVCIM accelerators degrades because of the stochastic nature and intrinsic variations of NVM devices. Conventional write-verify operations, which enhance inference accuracy through iterative writing and verif…

Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto* In the series Prospects for Degrowth Many thanks to Mark Burton for encouraging me to write this article and offering so many helpful suggestions. Thank you also to my comrades at Climate Vanguard. Without their teachings I’d have never been able to articulate the ideas in this article. Do check out Climate Vanguard’s incredible work.

Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto* In the series Prospects for Degrowth Many thanks to Mark Burton for encouraging me to write this article and offering so many helpful suggestions. Thank you also to my comrades …

CnC-PRAC: Coalesce, not Cache, Per Row Activation Counts for an Efficient in-DRAM Rowhammer Mitigation
Chris S. Lin, Jeonghyun Woo, Prashant J. Nair, Gururaj Saileshwar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11970

CnC-PRAC: Coalesce, not Cache, Per Row Activation Counts for an Efficient in-DRAM Rowhammer Mitigation
JEDEC has introduced the Per Row Activation Counting (PRAC) framework for DDR5 and future DRAMs to enable precise counting of DRAM row activations using per-row activation counts. While recent PRAC implementations enable holistic mitigation of Rowhammer attacks, they impose slowdowns of up to 10% due to the increased DRAM timings for performing a read-modify-write of the counter. Alternatively, recent work, Chronus, addresses these slowdowns, but incurs energy overheads due to the additional DR…

You have to buy your own Sharpie to write “with a Vengeance” on it tho.
https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/114976845733588861

Steve Faulkner (@SteveFaulkner@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image ✊🏽 Drink in the revolution #DEI #merch #antifa https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4346821262/dei-harder-mug-with-color-inside

Rethinking LSM-tree based Key-Value Stores: A Survey
Yina Lv, Qiao Li, Quanqing Xu, Congming Gao, Chuanhui Yang, Xiaoli Wang, Chun Jason Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09642

Rethinking LSM-tree based Key-Value Stores: A Survey
LSM-tree is a widely adopted data structure in modern key-value store systems that optimizes write performance in write-heavy applications by using append writes to achieve sequential writes. However, the unpredictability of LSM-tree compaction introduces significant challenges, including performance variability during peak workloads and in resource-constrained environments, write amplification caused by data rewriting during compactions, read amplification from multi-level queries, trade-off b…

AP is ending its weekly book reviews, beginning Sept. 1.
This was a difficult decision but one made after a thorough review of AP’s story offerings
and what is being most read on our website and mobile apps as well as what customers are using.
Unfortunately, the audience for book reviews is relatively low and we can no longer sustain the time it takes to plan, coordinate, write and edit reviews.
AP will continue covering books as stories, but at the moment those will …

The Associated Press tells its book critics that it’s ending weekly reviews
Terrible news from The Associated Press. Media Nation correspondent J.A. passes along this note from Anthony McCartney, the AP’s global entertainment and lifestyle editor. AP to end its weekl…

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

CXL-GPU: Pushing GPU Memory Boundaries with the Integration of CXL Technologies
Donghyun Gouk, Seungkwan Kang, Seungjun Lee, Jiseon Kim, Kyungkuk Nam, Eojin Ryu, Sangwon Lee, Dongpyung Kim, Junhyeok Jang, Hanyeoreum Bae, Myoungsoo Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15601

CXL-GPU: Pushing GPU Memory Boundaries with the Integration of CXL Technologies
This work introduces a GPU storage expansion solution utilizing CXL, featuring a novel GPU system design with multiple CXL root ports for integrating diverse storage media (DRAMs and/or SSDs). We developed and siliconized a custom CXL controller integrated at the hardware RTL level, achieving two-digit nanosecond roundtrip latency, the first in the field. This study also includes speculative read and deterministic store mechanisms to efficiently manage read and write operations to hide the endp…

Adopting Use Case Descriptions for Requirements Specification: an Industrial Case Study
Julian Frattini, Anja Frattini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13303 htt…

Adopting Use Case Descriptions for Requirements Specification: an Industrial Case Study
Context: Use case (UC) descriptions are a prominent format for specifying functional requirements. Existing literature abounds with recommendations on how to write high-quality UC descriptions but lacks insights into (1) their real-world adoption, (2) whether these recommendations correspond to actual quality, and (3) which factors influence the quality of UCs. Objectives: We aim to contribute empirical evidence about the adoption of UC descriptions in a large, globally distributed case company…

Ai-fixing jobs are well-paid, but they have a huge AI-education element in them.
The BBC writes about several stories of AI firefighting.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvm1dyp9v2o

'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'
Businesses that rush to use AI to write content or computer code, often have to pay humans to fix it.

An analysis of 15M biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 finds researchers using AI to write abstracts use certain words far more often than those who don't (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.

LSM-OPD: Boosting Scan in LSM-Trees by Enabling Direct Computing on Compressed Data
Jianfeng Huang, Ziyao Wang, Lin Yuan, Jiajie Wen, Yihao Cao, Dongjing Miao, Yong Wang, Jiahao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11862

LSM-OPD: Boosting Scan in LSM-Trees by Enabling Direct Computing on Compressed Data
Scan-based operations, such as backstage compaction and value filtering, have emerged as the main bottleneck for LSM-Trees in supporting contemporary data-intensive applications. For slower external storage devices, such as HDD and SATA SSD, the scan performance is primarily limited by the I/O bandwidth (i.e., I/O bound) due to the substantial read/write amplifications in LSM-Trees. Recent adoption of high-performance storage devices, such as NVMe SSD, has transformed the main limitation to be …

New article,
Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto, on DegrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/06/12/degrowth-as-an-essential-part-of-an-eco-socialist-transition/

Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto* In the series Prospects for Degrowth Many thanks to Mark Burton for encouraging me to write this article and offering so many helpful suggestions. Thank you also to my comrades …

Do Students Write Better Post-AI Support? Effects of Generative AI Literacy and Chatbot Interaction Strategies on Multimodal Academic Writing
Yueqiao Jin, Kaixun Yang, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, Dragan Ga\v{s}evi\'c, Lixiang Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04398

Do Students Write Better Post-AI Support? Effects of Generative AI Literacy and Chatbot Interaction Strategies on Multimodal Academic Writing
Academic writing increasingly involves multimodal tasks requiring students to integrate visual information and textual arguments. While generative AI (GenAI) tools, like ChatGPT, offer new pathways for supporting academic writing, little is known about how students' GenAI literacy influences their independent multimodal writing skills or how chatbot interaction strategies (passive reactive vs. proactive scaffolding) impact learning. This study examined 79 higher education students' multimodal a…

The Republican budget measure that Donald Trump signed into law late last week contains a provision that analysts say will
🔥allow private jet owners to write off the full cost of their aircraft in the first year of purchase,
❌a boon to the ultra-rich that comes as millions of people are set to lose healthcare under the same legislation.
FlyUSA, a private aviation provider, gushed in a blog post that with final passage of the unpopular budget reconciliation package,
…

The Return of 100% Bonus Depreciation: How 2025 Made Private Aircraft Ownership More Valuable Than Ever
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R.1) was permanently reinstated 100% bonus depreciation for capital equipment, including business & aviation aircraft.

Position: Intelligent Coding Systems Should Write Programs with Justifications
Xiangzhe Xu, Shiwei Feng, Zian Su, Chengpeng Wang, Xiangyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06017 …

Position: Intelligent Coding Systems Should Write Programs with Justifications
Intelligent coding systems are transforming software development by enabling users to specify code behavior in natural language. However, the opaque decision-making of AI-driven coders raises trust and usability concerns, particularly for non-expert users who cannot inspect low-level implementations. We argue that these systems should not only generate code but also produce clear, consistent justifications that bridge model reasoning and user understanding. To this end, we identify two critical…

David Cope, a composer and algorithmic composition pioneer who created a program in the 1980s to write music in the style of Bach and others, died at age 83 (Miguel Salazar/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/david-cope-dead-ai…

David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83
His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity.

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

Research and Analysis of Employers' Opinion on the Necessary Skills that Students in the Field of Web Programming Should Possess
Yordan Kalmukov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11084

Research and Analysis of Employers' Opinion on the Necessary Skills that Students in the Field of Web Programming Should Possess
In the era of artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots, based on large language models that can generate programming code in any language, write texts and summarize information, it is obvious that the requirements of employers for graduating students have already changed. The modern IT world offers significant automation of programming through software frameworks and a huge set of third-party libraries and application programming interfaces (APIs). All these tools provide most of the necessary…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04678 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDB_…

BVLSM: Write-Efficient LSM-Tree Storage via WAL-Time Key-Value Separation
Modern data-intensive applications increasingly store and process big-value items, such as multimedia objects and machine learning embeddings, which exacerbate storage inefficiencies in Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM)-based key-value stores. This paper presents BVLSM, a Write-Ahead Log (WAL)-time key-value separation mechanism designed to address three key challenges in LSM-Tree storage systems: write amplification, poor memory utilization, and I/O jitter under big-value workloads. Unlike state…

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to memorialize the dead, as critics worry about AI's impact on how people remember one another (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

BVLSM: Write-Efficient LSM-Tree Storage via WAL-Time Key-Value Separation
Ming Li, Wendi Cheng, Jiahe Wei, Xueqiang Shan, Liu Weikai, Xiaonan Zhao, Xiao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04678

BVLSM: Write-Efficient LSM-Tree Storage via WAL-Time Key-Value Separation
Modern data-intensive applications increasingly store and process big-value items, such as multimedia objects and machine learning embeddings, which exacerbate storage inefficiencies in Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM)-based key-value stores. This paper presents BVLSM, a Write-Ahead Log (WAL)-time key-value separation mechanism designed to address three key challenges in LSM-Tree storage systems: write amplification, poor memory utilization, and I/O jitter under big-value workloads. Unlike state…

Code with Me or for Me? How Increasing AI Automation Transforms Developer Workflows
Valerie Chen, Ameet Talwalkar, Robert Brennan, Graham Neubig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08149

Code with Me or for Me? How Increasing AI Automation Transforms Developer Workflows
Developers now have access to a growing array of increasingly autonomous AI tools to support software development. While numerous studies have examined developer use of copilots, which can provide chat assistance or code completions, evaluations of coding agents, which can automatically write files and run code, still largely rely on static benchmarks without humans-in-the-loop. In this work, we conduct the first academic study to explore developer interactions with coding agents and characteri…

A group of 17 GOP governors write to Senate majority leader and House speaker urging for the state AI bill moratorium to be removed from the reconciliation bill (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025

Exclusive: Republican governors want state AI pause out of budget bill
Many Republican-run states have passed AI-related laws and don't want to see them knocked down.

Six voix pour la vérité : une nouvelle étape dans le combat contre OKC: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/08/03/six-voix-pour-la-vrit.html

Six voix pour la vérité : une nouvelle étape dans le combat contre OKC - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Je suis en vacances pour la première fois depuis… 2018. Assis à une terrasse, un poulet BBQ encore fumant, une burrata, un plateau de charcuterie locale, …

Six voix pour la vérité : une nouvelle étape dans le combat contre OKC: #Justice

Six voix pour la vérité : une nouvelle étape dans le combat contre OKC - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Je suis en vacances pour la première fois depuis… 2018. Assis à une terrasse, un poulet BBQ encore fumant, une burrata, un plateau de charcuterie locale, …