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.
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.
"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…
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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