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If you want to know why a Democratic Senator and Representative in Minnesota were shot...
It might have something to do with the fact that their deaths would end the Democratic majorities in both chambers.

"AI" product development is in a strategic falsifiability crisis
The crisis is shaped like the No True Scotsman fallacy, Sunk Cost fallacy, and conspiracy theories ALL AT THE SAME TIME
there is no possible accumulated evidence that would lead boosters to conclude that "an LLM isn't an appropriate artifact to address this problem"
I see them throwing LLMs at *already beyond-adequately solved problems* (units conversion! chess! constraint fitting!), ge…

rant on software dev practices
What is it with P5js and virtually all its ecosystem (like Q5js) that, still today, didn't manage to _properly_ package their libraries to be distributed and used via package managers?
Same with their insistence to push global resources and state everywhere... and of course virtually not documenting any of the truly delicate details, just the trivial stuff that could be auto-discovered by relying on auto-complete tools.
I kind of understand wanting to keep the vanilla experience alive, making it "easy" for novices... but that shouldn't be at odds with more "professionalized" production pipelines, at least *not that much*.
For example, with Q5js:
- The NPM packages could be mentioned in their documentation (they are not, even though they are official)
- The NPM packages could define proper exports (same for the JS modules themselves), not forcing us to rely on relative paths to files in node_modules... 🤦
- Globals could be at least namespaced... of course, it would be much, much better if they didn't exist at all.
I'm writing this in 2025, not 1993... and I'm... "triggered".
At this point I'll have to check if I have any other neuro-condition beyond ADHD that makes me "obsessed" with technical flaws, because it seems to be a "me problem" when either virtually nobody sees that as a huge collection of fatal design flaws... or they see it and don't care at all.

Too little sleep, too hot, stagnant air with no breeze, and definitely rudely humid. When it became clear what a struggle this would be, I opted to run for HR zones instead. This included several walking breaks to bring my HR back down. My fitness needs the work.
#Running

There are no working quantum computers capable of factoring a 3-digit number. Last I heard, the record was the number 21.

That means there is no “production” environment capable of testing the critical feature. Beyond that, PQC deployment in the wild is new/small enough that we don’t even have a lot of assurance that the implementations live up to theory.

Has anyone seen a pattern for a cadeseus quilt? I've found fabric with the symbol but I was thinking like a big paper pieced pattern made from different colors. I'm not that good with applique. Or any suggestions for a different medical related? Specifically a cardiologist, so an anatomical heart would also be pretty rad! (but might be beyond my skills!) #sewing

Beyond Black Boxes: Enhancing Interpretability of Transformers Trained on Neural Data
Laurence Freeman, Philip Shamash, Vinam Arora, Caswell Barry, Tiago Branco, Eva Dyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14014

Beyond Black Boxes: Enhancing Interpretability of Transformers Trained on Neural Data
Transformer models have become state-of-the-art in decoding stimuli and behavior from neural activity, significantly advancing neuroscience research. Yet greater transparency in their decision-making processes would substantially enhance their utility in scientific and clinical contexts. Sparse autoencoders offer a promising solution by producing hidden units that respond selectively to specific variables, enhancing interpretability. Here, we introduce SAEs into a neural decoding framework by a…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11512 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Beyond the Median Voter: A Model of How the Ideological Dimension Shapes Party Polarization
Defying the median voter theorem, party polarization has spread globally, especially in the United States. As concerns grow over its risks to democracy, political science has probed its causes, revealing two paradoxes: while polarization between U.S. political parties has undeniably increased since the 1970s, the corresponding rise in issue polarization among voters remains contested; moreover, the growing number of politically relevant issues would be expected to counteract party polarization …

Potential absence of observed $\pi^2$ linear-chain structures in $^{14}$O via $^{10}$C($\alpha,\alpha$) resonant scattering
J. Bishop, A. Hollands, Tz. Kokolova, G. V. Rogachev, C. Wheldon, E. Aboud, S. Ahn, M. Barbui, N. Curtis, J. Hooker, C. Hunt, H. Jayatissa, E. Koshchiy, S. Pirrie, B. T. Roeder, A. Saastamoinen, S. Upadhyayula
https://

Potential absence of observed $π^2$ linear-chain structures in $^{14}$O via $^{10}$C($α,α$) resonant scattering
Background: The preference for light nuclear systems to coagulate into $α$-particle clusters has been well-studied. The possibility of a linear chain configuration of $α$-particles would allow for a new way to study this phenomenon. Purpose: A rotational band of states in $^{14}$C has been claimed showing a $π^2$ linear chain structure. The mirror system, $^{14}$O, has been studied here to examine how this linear chain structure is affected by replacing the valence neutrons with protons. Met…

I'm reading The Lost Princess by #GeorgeMacDonald and in one paragraph he starts off by saying that there is a fire made of fir-wood and by the end of the paragraph refers to it as a peat fire.
#ChatGPT informs me that fir-wood is fast burning and was often used in #Scotland to get a fire started while peat was long-burning and thus would be added to the fire thereafter.
It seems logical, but ChatGPT has also struggled to provide me with clear references to this information.
Curious if anyone is familiar with whether this was/is so? I'd like something to depend upon beyond the words of generative AI. 😂
#question