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« Tous se préparent Š l’après-thermique. »
This post by the Brussels DSO features a nice neologism.
One third of capacity increase requests by non-residential users in the Brussels region are for EV charging. In my opinion, this also suggests a huge potential for smarter energy management.

Pourquoi les entreprises bruxelloises demandent-elles plus de #puissance électrique ? | Sibelga
Pourquoi les entreprises bruxelloises demandent-elles plus de #puissance électrique ? La réponse tient en 2 mots : mobilité électrique ! Chaque jour, nous recevons des demandes de renforcement du réseau. Et dans plus d'1/3 des cas, c’est pour installer des #bornes de recharge pour véhicules électriques. Les Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, la prison de Haren, le site Mercedes… Tous se préparent à l’après-thermique. Chez Sibelga, la transition vers une mobilité durable et…

Neologism Learning for Controllability and Self-Verbalization
John Hewitt, Oyvind Tafjord, Robert Geirhos, Been Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08506 https://

Neologism Learning for Controllability and Self-Verbalization
Humans invent new words when there is a rising demand for a new useful concept (e.g., doomscrolling). We explore and validate a similar idea in our communication with LLMs: introducing new words to better understand and control the models, expanding on the recently introduced neologism learning. This method introduces a new word by adding a new word embedding and training with examples that exhibit the concept with no other changes in model parameters. We show that adding a new word allows for …

Three updates to old posts this morning:
Another post pointing out CSS-only widgets are problematic:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/03/css-only-widgets-are-inaccessible.html#Update02
Narrator is getting a Braille viewer:

CSS-only Widgets Are Inaccessible
Usually. I originally titled this InacCSS-onlyible. I even made this typographically, er, distinct image. Then I realized it was silly and will instead use the neologism in a talk so I can hear the groans IRL. Interactive widgets powered with only CSS are relatively common as people are playing with…

Who doesn’t love a good buzzword? It’s possible that half the tech industry (and a good proportion of tech journalism) wouldn’t exist if the industry didn’t hunger for a neologism. One of the latest (but not the latest) is vibe coding.
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2025

Don’t vibe that code
Azul’s CTO on when and when not to use LLMs to assist software development

I'm not opposed to neologisms. To the contrary, I do love them, sometimes coining my own or adapting happily. That is, as long as they make the language richer, or perhaps more precise.
What I truly hate is the modern goo that people are speaking, because they don't know their own language well. The business newspeak, so to say.
This is especially bad in Polish where people are randomly polonizing English words for no reason at all.

Attention2Probability: Attention-Driven Terminology Probability Estimation for Robust Speech-to-Text System
Yanfan Du, Jun Zhang, Bin Wang, Jin Qiu, Lu Huang, Yuan Ge, Xiaoqian Liu, Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18701

Attention2Probability: Attention-Driven Terminology Probability Estimation for Robust Speech-to-Text System
Recent advances in speech large language models (SLMs) have improved speech recognition and translation in general domains, but accurately generating domain-specific terms or neologisms remains challenging. To address this, we propose Attention2Probability: attention-driven terminology probability estimation for robust speech-to-text system, which is lightweight, flexible, and accurate. Attention2Probability converts cross-attention weights between speech and terminology into presence probabili…