Tootfinder

from my link log —
Imagining a language without booleans.
https://justinpombrio.net/2025/09/22/imagining-a-language-without-booleans.html
saved 2025-09-23

As part of the OpenAI-AMD deal, OpenAI will receive the first GW worth of AMD's Instinct MI450 chip in H2 2026, when the new chip is scheduled for deployment (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/amd-

AMD to supply 6GW of compute capacity to OpenAI in chip deal worth tens of billions | TechCrunch
AMD has signed a multi-year chip supply deal with OpenAI that could generate tens of billions in revenue for the chipmaker, helping accelerate its momentum in the AI industry. 

"They're banning the 'Blanket Library'?"
"Yes, apparently 'Need a Blanket, Take a Blanket; Have a Blanket, Leave a Blanket' sends the wrong message."
"Well, banning it doesn't solve the problem."
"But they think it will keep the blanket-needers out of the neighbourhood."
"Ah, property prices...."
"Yes, property prices: the most important thing to protect during a winter housing crisis."
"Please, please, won't somebody think about MY property value."

Strong progenitor age bias in supernova #cosmology – I. Robust and ubiquitous evidence from a larger sample of host galaxies in a broader redshift range / II. Alignment with DESI BAO and signs of a non-accelerating universe: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/4/3340/8098234 / https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/1/975/8281988 -> Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up': https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/universes-expansion-now-slowing-not-speeding (this has been claimed by the group since at least 2023 - http://vietnam.in2p3.fr/2023/windows/transparencies/02_tuesday/Astro_5/01_Son.pdf - and is rejected by the SN cosmology community as https://bsky.app/profile/astromarc.bsky.social/post/3m4xmikwfds26 explains).

"Macht vs. Gewalt" – Diskussion über die Rolle des Journalismus
Die Hannah Arendt Tage 2025 widmen sich Mechanismen des Machtmissbrauchs und Folgen einer aus der Balance geratenen Öffentlichkeit. Am 10. 10. lädt heise ein.

Buitengewoon onprofessioneel en onzorgvuldig gedrag.
Zembla: wetenschappers verzwijgen belangen bij advies aan overheid over afslankmiddelen https://nos.nl/l/2589397

Zembla: wetenschappers verzwijgen belangen bij advies aan overheid over afslankmiddelen
Het UMCG erkent dat de gedragscode niet is gevolgd en dat er daarmee sprake is van belangenverstrengeling.

Lightweight Transformer for EEG Classification via Balanced Signed Graph Algorithm Unrolling
Junyi Yao, Parham Eftekhar, Gene Cheung, Xujin Chris Liu, Yao Wang, Wei Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03027 …

Lightweight Transformer for EEG Classification via Balanced Signed Graph Algorithm Unrolling
Samples of brain signals collected by EEG sensors have inherent anti-correlations that are well modeled by negative edges in a finite graph. To differentiate epilepsy patients from healthy subjects using collected EEG signals, we build lightweight and interpretable transformer-like neural nets by unrolling a spectral denoising algorithm for signals on a balanced signed graph -- graph with no cycles of odd number of negative edges. A balanced signed graph has well-defined frequencies that map to…

The EU was not called the European Coal And Steel Community for nothing, folks.
We talk a mean human rights and democracy. But we’re still the European Coal and Steel Community.
Go Single Market, amirite?! https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_newsdigest/11550764176416580…

Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of "bullying" after receiving "an aggressive legal threat" demanding Comet not make purchases on users' behalf (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/perplexity-ai-amazon-bullying-comet-browser.html

Perplexity AI accuses Amazon of bullying with legal threat over Comet browser
Amazon wants Perplexity to prevent its users from using its AI browser called Comet to make purchases on their behalf.

JWST-TST DREAMS - NIRSpec/PRISM Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e & Secondary Atmosphere Constraints for the Habitable Zone Planet TRAPPIST-1 e / The Photochemical Plausibility of Warm Exo-Titans Orbiting M Dwarf Stars: #TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized, habitable-zone exoplanet: https://news.arizona.edu/news/new-look-trappist-1e-earth-sized-habitable-zone-exoplanet