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#writing #writingtips #Booksky
Post your own writing tips. Post a few. Share your knowledge. Find a tip you like that someone else posted? Save it in a place where you can glance at them when you need it most. We all benefit when we share tidbits of wisdom we possess with each other.
#writing #writingtips #Booksky
December 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Writing Tip:
Post your own writing tips. Post a few. Share your knowledge. Find a tip you like that someone else posted? Save it in a place where you can glance at them when you need it most. We all benefit when we share tidbits of wisdom we possess with each other.
#writing #writingtips #Booksky
Post your own writing tips. Post a few. Share your knowledge. Find a tip you like that someone else posted? Save it in a place where you can glance at them when you need it most. We all benefit when we share tidbits of wisdom we possess with each other.
#writing #writingtips #Booksky
Questions like this one is why there’s a DESPERATE need for education reform in the United States of America on how we teach history.The ppl in the comments & quotes are correctly responding. I hope this person & other Americans actually LEARN something bc baby our true history isn’t noble at all
Before Trump, cite a unilateral action by the United States towards another nation for the acquisition of their resources?
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Questions like this one is why there’s a DESPERATE need for education reform in the United States of America on how we teach history.The ppl in the comments & quotes are correctly responding. I hope this person & other Americans actually LEARN something bc baby our true history isn’t noble at all
Aaaaand there it is! I said that they were going to eventually create pass laws preventing ppl from leaving the USA smh
These ppl stay on some bullshit 🤬
(WKBN) — Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) introduced a bill to establish citizens of the US “must have sole and exclusive allegiance to the U.S.”
If passed, a U.S. citizen who voluntarily acquires foreign citizenship would have to relinquish their U.S. citizenship
(WKBN) — Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) introduced a bill to establish citizens of the US “must have sole and exclusive allegiance to the U.S.”
If passed, a U.S. citizen who voluntarily acquires foreign citizenship would have to relinquish their U.S. citizenship
Sen. Moreno introduces bill that would eliminate dual citizenship
Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) has introduced a bill to establish that citizens of the United States “must have sole and exclusive allegiance to the U.S.”
www.wkbn.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Aaaaand there it is! I said that they were going to eventually create pass laws preventing ppl from leaving the USA smh
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Stanford's blog post about the limitations of RL methods that learn solely from scalar rewards and a new method that addresses this.
Blog: Following the Text Gradient at Scale ( ai.stanford.edu/blog/feedbac... )
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.07919
Blog: Following the Text Gradient at Scale ( ai.stanford.edu/blog/feedbac... )
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.07919
December 2, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Stanford's blog post about the limitations of RL methods that learn solely from scalar rewards and a new method that addresses this.
Blog: Following the Text Gradient at Scale ( ai.stanford.edu/blog/feedbac... )
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.07919
Blog: Following the Text Gradient at Scale ( ai.stanford.edu/blog/feedbac... )
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.07919
My Dad was born in October of 1955, one year after Brown vs Board of Education and during the Trial of Emmett Till. He has 5 older siblings—my aunts and uncles—who are still alive RIGHT NOW. Several ppl in my family remember where they were when MLK was assassinated; some volunteered w/ SNCC
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM
My Dad was born in October of 1955, one year after Brown vs Board of Education and during the Trial of Emmett Till. He has 5 older siblings—my aunts and uncles—who are still alive RIGHT NOW. Several ppl in my family remember where they were when MLK was assassinated; some volunteered w/ SNCC
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LIVE NOW!!
twitch.tv/ninokunrie
Jumping back into #LookOutside and also doing a !MutualAid push for December (bills, groceries and toiletries, and a memorial service I am traveling to on the 13th).
come say hello!
twitch.tv/ninokunrie
Jumping back into #LookOutside and also doing a !MutualAid push for December (bills, groceries and toiletries, and a memorial service I am traveling to on the 13th).
come say hello!
December 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
LIVE NOW!!
twitch.tv/ninokunrie
Jumping back into #LookOutside and also doing a !MutualAid push for December (bills, groceries and toiletries, and a memorial service I am traveling to on the 13th).
come say hello!
twitch.tv/ninokunrie
Jumping back into #LookOutside and also doing a !MutualAid push for December (bills, groceries and toiletries, and a memorial service I am traveling to on the 13th).
come say hello!
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Recommended reading (there was an example even we hadn't heard about previously):
When the Data Disappears, A Country Is Left in the Dark
thefulcrum.us/governance-l...
When the Data Disappears, A Country Is Left in the Dark
thefulcrum.us/governance-l...
When the Data Disappears, A Country Is Left in the Dark
In the middle of the most chaotic news cycle in years, the most dangerous rollback of all has happened quietly: the systematic disappearance of federal data. Not data “updates,” not bureaucratic house...
thefulcrum.us
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Recommended reading (there was an example even we hadn't heard about previously):
When the Data Disappears, A Country Is Left in the Dark
thefulcrum.us/governance-l...
When the Data Disappears, A Country Is Left in the Dark
thefulcrum.us/governance-l...
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The collection of data that fuels everything from advanced research to everyday decision making is, by many measures, underappreciated and insufficiently rewarded.
Experts Claire McKay Bowen and Aaron R. Williams have some practical ideas for what to do
apdu.org?p=5814137
Experts Claire McKay Bowen and Aaron R. Williams have some practical ideas for what to do
apdu.org?p=5814137
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
The collection of data that fuels everything from advanced research to everyday decision making is, by many measures, underappreciated and insufficiently rewarded.
Experts Claire McKay Bowen and Aaron R. Williams have some practical ideas for what to do
apdu.org?p=5814137
Experts Claire McKay Bowen and Aaron R. Williams have some practical ideas for what to do
apdu.org?p=5814137
My sorrow of seeing Ned dead was only matched by the joy of watching Joffrey die
Nah man … I STILL remember when I saw Ned’s head up on that spike.
I was FLABBERGASTED
Like… you CANNOT kill him , he’s the main character , right?
I was FLABBERGASTED
Like… you CANNOT kill him , he’s the main character , right?
a young boy in a purple northwestern basketball jersey is yawning while watching a game .
ALT: a young boy in a purple northwestern basketball jersey is yawning while watching a game .
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My sorrow of seeing Ned dead was only matched by the joy of watching Joffrey die
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Rethink your reliance on AI assistants for coding. Pascal Janetzky shares his experience of turning off Copilot and what he learned about its domain-dependent value.
The Machine Learning Lessons I’ve Learned This Month | Towards Data Science
Christmas connections, Copilot's costs, careful (no-)choices
towardsdatascience.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Rethink your reliance on AI assistants for coding. Pascal Janetzky shares his experience of turning off Copilot and what he learned about its domain-dependent value.
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If you read any history, you should no this is true. Great Thread! This has been self inflicted, and when the climate destroys modern civilization. We have done this to ourselves.
Good morning. Maybe it was Hegseth’s “Kill em all,” order, but I have realized that popular culture and radical conservatism has completely destroyed the culture i grew up in, and it’s just absurd that so many pretend it hasn’t. That monstrous man was made by TV, movies, …
December 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
If you read any history, you should no this is true. Great Thread! This has been self inflicted, and when the climate destroys modern civilization. We have done this to ourselves.
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Did a fun little post for Thanksgiving. In case you missed it last week: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/extra-post...
How can we be sure changes in polls reflect real changes in opinion?
A technical response to a comment on last Friday's chart about Democrats' generic ballot polling
www.gelliottmorris.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Did a fun little post for Thanksgiving. In case you missed it last week: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/extra-post...
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"We will call the 12th month of the year 'December'... which means 'tenth month.'"
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"We will call the 12th month of the year 'December'... which means 'tenth month.'"
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This reminds me — are there any good collective resources of like “wanna do research fast? this neat trick will save you x time”
Im always convincing folks to use torch/jax typing & dataclasses — because I do not have the mental bandwidth to remember what is in any given container variable.
Im always convincing folks to use torch/jax typing & dataclasses — because I do not have the mental bandwidth to remember what is in any given container variable.
Unit tests in research code feel like something that's slowing you down until they wind up saving you six months of suffering
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This reminds me — are there any good collective resources of like “wanna do research fast? this neat trick will save you x time”
Im always convincing folks to use torch/jax typing & dataclasses — because I do not have the mental bandwidth to remember what is in any given container variable.
Im always convincing folks to use torch/jax typing & dataclasses — because I do not have the mental bandwidth to remember what is in any given container variable.
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The EU Digital Omnibus: A European Data Law Shake-Up May Be Coming www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/th... #PrivacyLaws
The EU Digital Omnibus: A European Data Law Shake-Up May Be Coming | JD Supra
On November 19, the European Commission (EC) released its EU Digital Omnibus proposal – a 153-page document accompanied by an explanatory memorandum...
www.jdsupra.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The EU Digital Omnibus: A European Data Law Shake-Up May Be Coming www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/th... #PrivacyLaws
I ran into ghosts of the pasts today. I don’t think I should entertain them 😂😭
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I ran into ghosts of the pasts today. I don’t think I should entertain them 😂😭
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For today's coding challenge, you'll write some code that converts miles to kilometers. Find it on the freeCodeCamp mobile app.
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
For today's coding challenge, you'll write some code that converts miles to kilometers. Find it on the freeCodeCamp mobile app.
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Public interest tech - that does good for people, communities and the planet - is a no-brainer, so why does no one want to fund it? @jamestplunkett.bsky.social and I have 4 recs for how the UK civic and community tech landscape could be better supported www.careful.industries/blog/2025-12...
Could 2026 be the year of public interest technology? — Careful Industries
Four ideas for sparking investment in UK public interest tech. Written in collaboration with James Plunkett from Kinship Works.
www.careful.industries
December 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Public interest tech - that does good for people, communities and the planet - is a no-brainer, so why does no one want to fund it? @jamestplunkett.bsky.social and I have 4 recs for how the UK civic and community tech landscape could be better supported www.careful.industries/blog/2025-12...
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There is a lot of talk around AI and design automation lately. The consensus seems to be to be that both code and design, first and foremost are there to help us talk together. Not human to machine, but human to human. Nothing has really changed except that we have to babysit managers that disagree.
December 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
There is a lot of talk around AI and design automation lately. The consensus seems to be to be that both code and design, first and foremost are there to help us talk together. Not human to machine, but human to human. Nothing has really changed except that we have to babysit managers that disagree.
Today’s the last day of November. I checked my goals and it seems I have a moderate amount of work to do in the next four weeks
December 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Today’s the last day of November. I checked my goals and it seems I have a moderate amount of work to do in the next four weeks
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How prompt caching works - Paged Attention and Automatic Prefix Caching plus practical tips by sankalp
To understand how prompt caching works, we will also need to look at basics of inference engine like vLLM and subsequently how kv-cache re-use is implemented.
sankalp.bearblog.dev/how-prompt-c...
To understand how prompt caching works, we will also need to look at basics of inference engine like vLLM and subsequently how kv-cache re-use is implemented.
sankalp.bearblog.dev/how-prompt-c...
How prompt caching works - Paged Attention and Automatic Prefix Caching plus practical tips
A deep dive into prompt caching - practical tips to improve cache hits and how vLLM's paged attention enables KV-cache reuse across requests via automatic prefix-caching
sankalp.bearblog.dev
December 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
How prompt caching works - Paged Attention and Automatic Prefix Caching plus practical tips by sankalp
To understand how prompt caching works, we will also need to look at basics of inference engine like vLLM and subsequently how kv-cache re-use is implemented.
sankalp.bearblog.dev/how-prompt-c...
To understand how prompt caching works, we will also need to look at basics of inference engine like vLLM and subsequently how kv-cache re-use is implemented.
sankalp.bearblog.dev/how-prompt-c...
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The Russian playbook
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
'Nobody wants to come': What if the U.S. can no longer attract immigrant physicians?
Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.
n.pr
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The Russian playbook
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Three years in and usage is declining + profitability is still a fantasy.
But the multibillion dollar rounds continue to happen every few months. Obviously this is sustainable.
But the multibillion dollar rounds continue to happen every few months. Obviously this is sustainable.
A very unhappy birthday to the fascist tool.
ChatGPT launched three years ago today | TechCrunch
It’s no hyperbole to suggest that ChatGPT subsequently transformed the worlds of business and tech.
techcrunch.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Three years in and usage is declining + profitability is still a fantasy.
But the multibillion dollar rounds continue to happen every few months. Obviously this is sustainable.
But the multibillion dollar rounds continue to happen every few months. Obviously this is sustainable.
My Dad always said to me that you have to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything. Whether they’re looking to avoid conflict or protect their bottom line & lines of funding, abandoning their primary purpose of educating others will end with them losing everything
Several major universities are essentially giving up their ability to teach students much of anything with the hopes of avoiding repercussions from awful people, that care nothing about the academy. Seems like a losing battle to me.
November 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My Dad always said to me that you have to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything. Whether they’re looking to avoid conflict or protect their bottom line & lines of funding, abandoning their primary purpose of educating others will end with them losing everything