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The "Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology" is simultaneously the most boringly titled book - though accurate, it's a super boring book - and one of the most useful for my current project. It's basically just a list of officeholders, regulations, laws, geographical divisions, etc., etc. But gloriously helpful. Thank you to my forebear, the historian Frederick H. Armstrong, for making the lives of the handful of us who work on early 19th-century Ontario so much easier.

Handbook of Upper Canadian chronology : Armstrong, Frederick Henry : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
1 online resource (278 pages) :

Em entrevista ao IHU, Walter Carnielli analisa como as Big Techs passaram a tratar a inteligência como um serviço utilitšrio.
Diante disso, o pesquisador defende que a missão das universidades é formar pensamento crítico e reflexão ética.

Vegan Maple Caramel Brownies #plantbased

Vegan Maple Caramel Brownies
Make these vegan maple caramel brownies for an indulgent dessert with notes of nutty and savory hints thanks to tahini and flaky salt

More interesting insights into the electrification of trucks in China, from Stef Cornelis of T&E.
I also think the widespread availability in China of time-variable charging prices, where off-peak charging is significantly cheaper, is an important point to consider.

Electric Truck Safari in China – Part 3 🇨🇳 🚛 ⚡ As promised to my honorable colleague and island cohabitant Geert De Cock, a post about truck charging in China. We visited the SINOTRUK GROUP -… | Stef Cornelis
Electric Truck Safari in China – Part 3 🇨🇳 🚛 ⚡ As promised to my honorable colleague and island cohabitant Geert De Cock, a post about truck charging in China. We visited the SINOTRUK GROUP - the world's biggest truckmaker - factory as well as their brand-new charging hub. A big thanks for hosting us! 1️⃣ Some quick facts A 5-Megawatt site. 16 truck chargers delivering up to 600 kW per vehicle. Chinese HDVs utilise dual-gun charging—plugging in two 300 kW cables. 2…

from my link log —
The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer.
https://cfallin.org/blog/2026/04/09/aegraph/
saved 2026-04-10 https://

Commercial LLMs keep coming back to Elias Thorne. Who is he? Why lighthouse keepers and clockmakers? Two researchers at Cornell dug in public corpora and found it out.
It turns out an AI generated story from the days of GPT-3.5 got proliferated in something that could be an indication of an early form of model collapse.

Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon books. Researchers are trying to discover why.

"Seven weeks on X's For You feed shifted political views 4.7 percentage points towards the Republican party"
For those of you still there, your presence on #Twitter isn't helping.
https://www.nature.co…

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.

Vast planting of daffodils at Cornell's Botantic Garden Visitor Center
#photo #photography #cornell #flowers

Trump says 'I love the inflation' as annual rate jumps to a 3-year high (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/president-says-i-love-the-inflation-annual-rate-hits-3-year-high-rcna349509
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p126#a260610p126

Forscher entwickeln Modell für stabilen Flügelschlagflug von Robotern
Ein Computermodell der Cornell University ermöglicht es, stabil fliegende Schlagflügelroboter einfacher entwickeln zu können.
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Forscher entwickeln Modell für stabilen Flügelschlagflug von Robotern
Ein Computermodell der Cornell University ermöglicht es, stabil fliegende Schlagflügelroboter einfacher entwickeln zu können.