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They Radicalized Themselves (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
https://www.offmessage.net/p/they-radicalized-themselves
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p113#a251003p113

Thinkquel: A Model Dedicated to Text-to-dbt Using Synthetic Data and a Span-Aware Objective
Anni Li, Aria Attar, Paul Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00186 https://

Thinkquel: A Model Dedicated to Text-to-dbt Using Synthetic Data and a Span-Aware Objective
Transforming natural-language requests into reliable, production-ready data transformations remains challenging: correctness depends on precise schema linking and warehouse-specific SQL dialects, while the strongest supervision available during training--execution success and result matching--are provided only at the sequence level. At the same time, assembling large, execution-validated corpora is costly, and token-level objectives misalign with these global signals, yielding unstable optimiza…

it’s always a great sign when someone angry speaks of themselves in the third form

A quantization of the $\operatorname{SL}_2(\mathbb{C})$-Chern-Simons invariant of tangle exteriors
Calvin McPhail-Snyder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02365 https://

A quantization of the $\operatorname{SL}_2(\mathbb{C})$-Chern-Simons invariant of tangle exteriors
Previous work of the author and Reshetikhin shows how to use modules over the unrestricted quantum group (at a root of unity) to define quantum representations of a groupoid of braids with flat $\mathfrak{sl}_{2}$ connections on their complements, equivalently $\operatorname{SL}_{2}(\mathbb{C})$ representations or hyperbolic structures. In this article we explain how to use these representations to define quantum invariants $\mathcal{Z}_{N}$ of tangles and links with such geometric structures. …

"Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, by their own words, hoisted themselves on their own petard.”
Trump's 'bluster' cost him in latest legal setback: law professor - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-bluster/

It is frustrating when you're watching a bunch of coworkers set themselves up for failure, despite your literal pleading (as the subject matter expert).. begging.. not to. What they propose isn't going to work. For reasons you have explained several times. You say "you're about to shoot yourself in the foot guys." they smile and nod and continue loading rounds. "Its worth a shot" they say... No.. it isnt. Except afterwards it _still_ won't work and it'…

One thing this article doesn’t get into: what’s next.
So national guard is gardening in the capital carrying guns.
But what follows having armed state militias deployed to a capital in most scenarios in history? Nothing awesome.

Scenes from Trump's National Guard Deployment to D.C.
Their presence has terrified some, relieved others, and left even the troops themselves confused.

The right answer to a Catholic claiming that some persecuted minority is "flaunting" is to agree: these Christians in Ancient Rome brought it on themselves by flaunting their religion.

Learning to Lead Themselves: Agentic AI in MAS using MARL
Ansh Kamthan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00022 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00022

Learning to Lead Themselves: Agentic AI in MAS using MARL
As autonomous systems move from prototypes to real deployments, the ability of multiple agents to make decentralized, cooperative decisions becomes a core requirement. This paper examines how agentic artificial intelligence, agents that act independently, adaptively and proactively can improve task allocation and coordination in multi-agent systems, with primary emphasis on drone delivery and secondary relevance to warehouse automation. We formulate the problem in a cooperative multi-agent rein…

The essence of cinema. 🎞️
#cinema #film #cinemastodon