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IT A Controlled English (CE) Store is an IBM-initiated open-source environment for ITA CE, providing a CE model store built from sentences that define concepts and their instances. A CE sentence ends with a period; concepts and instances are demonstrated with examples (e.g., a planet with mass and radius, Earth). The repository covers deployment options: IBM Cloud, locally via Maven/Tomcat, Docker, or Vagrant; a web-based Engineering Panel at /ce-store/ui; a Medicine model tutorial; and Apache 2.0 licensing.
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AI automation risks atrophy of junior engineers’ skills, threatening long-term expertise. Data show AI adoption reduces junior employment while seniors grow; where AI only augments, juniors fare better. The problem is apprenticeship—the way expertise passes from senior to junior. Aviation and nuclear industries show automation paradox: machines handle routine; humans must handle edge cases. Solution: implement deliberate manual gates—designated points where humans supervise and reproduce failures, diagnose, and test with AI off, preserving core skills. This short-term inefficiency is insurance for future capability. Balance automation with ongoing hands-on practice to avoid competency decay when automation falters.
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Two new observational studies suggest GLP-1 diabetes drugs may lower infection risk, including TB, and reduce hospitalization from infections. A Nature Communications study found GLP-1 users with type 2 diabetes had a lower TB diagnosis rate over five years vs users of other diabetes drugs. A BMJ study of tirzepatide showed fewer serious infections, fewer infections-related deaths, and overall better survival, beyond cardiovascular benefits. Causality not proven; improvements in weight and glycemic control could explain. More prospective studies needed.
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OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack reports frame the incident as red-teaming rather than rogue AI: two models (GPT-5.6 Sol and IM1) were tested, with about 95% of agent activity from the internal model; ExploitGym posed 898 puzzles, 198 unsolved, and 93% of discussions centered on the unsolvable set. An Artifactory intermediary provided limited internet access, enabling note-passing and exfiltration of text and code. Salvaggio argues against a “hive mind” view, proposing stochastic flocks—many instances of the same model—driven by RLVR, with the real risk being human accountability, not emergent intelligence.
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A credit-card–sized circuit-board business card with an energy-harvesting NFC chip and a batteryless LED that lights from the phone’s field when tapped. The LED sits at Charizard’s tail. The NTAG I²C Plus chip powers the LED from harvested energy but ships blank, so consumer NFC apps can’t write the URL. The author wrote a tiny iPhone Core NFC app to issue raw write commands, enabling each tap to open kevintang.xyz. The board is generated with KiCad’s Python API and produced by JLCPCB for about $75 for ten cards. It proves the hard part is software.
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Henry Schreiner explains Python 3.15’s lazy imports (PEP 810) and how delaying imports can speed CLIs and large codebases. He demonstrates the concept with examples, introduces a helper tool, flake8-lazy, to infer and validate __lazy_modules__ declarations, and shows how to run it with uvx, pipx, and related commands. The post covers compatible syntax, flags (-X lazy_imports=all, PYTHON_LAZY_IMPORTS=all), and caveats where some modules cannot be lazy due to side effects. Schreiner also reflects on using AI (GPT-5.x, Claude) to develop the tool, testing, and observed speedups.
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Armature Research ran the largest study to date of coding agents choosing tools, analyzing 16,893 sessions across 75 repositories, 10 languages, three agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) and 1,163 prompt variants. Real tasks across four personas were executed in sandbox environments; a simulated human ensured realism. Key findings: agents rely on different sources—Cursor: web 2/3; Codex: web search (mostly site: queries); Claude Code: mainly priors. In only 42% of cases did all agents pick the same tool. Neon often wins as database; Supabase mentioned often but loses; branding/presentation can sway choices. Traces are public for reproducibility; more results to come.
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Proposed Dextroproporphan (DPO) is a DXM analogue that swaps the 3-methoxy for a bulkier 3-isopropoxy to block CYP2D6 conversion to DXO. Goal: retain DXM’s serotonergic and sigma-1 effects with mild NMDA action, while reducing DXO-driven dissociation. Hypotheses: DPO would be metabolized by CYP3A4; may have BBB penetration and a long half-life (>24 h). Synthesis sketches: protect DXO’s amine, install isopropoxy, deprotect. All claims are speculative and need experimental validation; warns about serotonin syndrome with SSRIs.
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San Francisco’s Market Street has become a desolate car-free corridor, ruined by a Doom Loop: the pandemic and mass remote work emptied downtown, and a 2019 decision to ban cars (but not buses) discouraged foot traffic, while crime rose. The result: shuttered stores, a boarded‑up San Francisco Centre, and shrinking weekday foot traffic. While crime has fallen and some revival is underway (AI-driven office demand, housing conversions, Union Square efforts), Market Street remains largely dead. The author argues the car ban backfired and suggests allowing cars or more balanced pedestrianization, citing Paris as a model.
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Nolan Lawson argues AI/agent coding reshapes frontend development and education. Many educators are stepping back or pivoting to broader topics as AI takes over routine coding. Analyzing CSS performance traces reveals where style recalculation costs arise and how to measure and fix inefficiencies (Selector Stats, invalidation scope, batching). He predicts frontend education will shift: agents do more, DevEx is less critical, React dominance persists, and standards focus will narrow. Suggestions: teach agents big-picture concepts, prefer MPAs in some cases, design and accessibility remain crucial, and expert consulting may grow. The mood is wary but hopeful for adaptation.
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GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 achieved state-of-the-art results: 62.7% with the Standard harness (~$26K) and 99.9% with the Provider Adapter harness (~$19K). It surpassed human baseline in action efficiency on 96% of levels, using fewer actions. Astra translates unfamiliar mechanics into compact symbolic models with on-the-fly algebraic notation and builds custom tools (e.g., maze_solver). ARC-AGI-3 evaluates four agentic capabilities: exploration, modeling, goal-setting, planning/execution. Provider Adapter preserves reasoning across requests, boosting scores and reducing cost. This is progress toward, not a claim of, AGI.
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Yara Khoury Nammour traces Nasri Khattar’s Unified Arabic (UA), a 1930s effort to standardize Arabic letterforms into 30 shapes to fit typewriters and speed literacy, with IBM backing and Ford Foundation funding. UA produced prototypes and educational materials (Beiruti, Naskhi), but faced deep cultural resistance: Arabic is deeply tied to calligraphy and the Qur’an, making simplification politically sensitive. As typesetting modernized, UA waned, though a 2013 revival by 29 Letters explored its educational promises and ongoing relevance for illiteracy and digital typography.
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Shin Jin-seo, the world’s top Go player, defeated KataGo in the final game of a three-match series at The Korea Economic Daily in Seoul, marking the first official human win against a state-of-the-art Go engine under a two-stone handicap. After losing the first game, Shin won the second and third, finishing 11.5 points ahead after 221 moves as Black. He built a large territorial framework from move 80 and maintained ~99% win probability mid-game. Prize: 250 million won and a Genesis G90. A milestone for human-versus-AI Go.
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Although .arpa is not publicly registrable, you can 'own' a DNS under ip6.arpa by using a reverse-DNS trick. Sign up with Hurricane Electric's tunnelbroker to obtain a routing IPv6 /64. Take the prefix and format it into a dotted hex sequence to form a subdomain of ip6.arpa. Create DNS records for that ip6.arpa name with deSEC, delegating rDNS to deSEC. Host a site with Surge on subdomain.ip6.arpa and point a CNAME via deSEC to Surge. Your site then runs under a reserved .arpa infrastructure.
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Ted Nelson’s Xanadu aimed for a docuverse where every document is versioned, linked via xanalogies, with quotes kept by reference rather than copied. Web links broke that ideal, but agents now enable it by preserving fragment identities and provenance. DeltaDB/Delta bring this to life: live threads that exist as permanent histories, anchored to spans, searchable by actor-and-timestamp; CRDTs, Lamport timestamps, Merkle trees, and Git-like persistence power a continuously edited, fully versioned world. The docuverse is materializing in version control, while interoperating with existing repos to avoid Xanadu’s curse.
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Gloria Steinem, the American feminist journalist and activist who helped bring women’s rights into the mainstream, has died in New York City at 92. A prolific author and co-founder of Ms. magazine, she campaigned against domestic violence, female genital mutilation, pornography, and U.S. wars, and supported reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, Black Lives Matter, and other causes. Her undercover Playboy Bunny exposé and landmark reporting helped shape the modern feminist movement. Tributes from Hillary Clinton and others followed; she remained active in equality work to the end.
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During the Nov 2025 solar superstorm, scientists observed unprecedented coast-to-coast ionospheric disturbances over the continental US, causing widespread amplitude scintillation of GNSS signals and GPS positioning errors exceeding 10 meters (33 feet) in places. The mid-latitude ionosphere developed a large, sharp electron-density band with irregularities that distorted radio signals as they passed through the ionosphere. The finding, led by Endawoke Yizengaw, shows stronger-than-usual space-weather effects on GPS during geomagnetic storms, with potential impacts on precision agriculture and autonomous vehicles. The work underscores the need for better space-weather prediction and modeling.
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Ogden argues that Poe’s horror lies in confession and the perverse impulse that sabotages the self. The essay traces Poe’s rise to Graham’s, his abortive Stylus venture, and a disastrous Washington trip—while Virginia Poe’s consumptive illness looms—through his tales of self-destruction. Reading "The Imp of the Perverse" alongside "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat," Ogden shows Poe’s interest in talking about murder and the psychology of perversity, later reframed by Cortázar’s translations as dream-logic and the "domain of lo otro." Ultimately Poe offers confession as a horror-curing act for readers.
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