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New video is up! Why is the simplex method so fast? At STOC'26 we presented the best theory yet

Bloomberg reports Meta tried - and failed - to skew Brazil's election towards Bolsenaro via restrictions on Lula's Instagram posts and unequal engagement such as refusing requests to create images favorable to Lula. Meta said this reflected “technical problems” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

So how did Lula come from behind to defeat Bolsonaro? In short, turnout. Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. But Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in the first round & won eliminated candidates' votes. A remarkable mobilisation. Second round turnout is usually below first.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Interesting read: Replacing PyTorch with Julia and Reactant: One Year In csvance.dev/posts/2026-1...

Raye wins 2026 Mercury prize for This Music May Contain Hope

At han får spalteplass og oppmerksomhet, gir derimot mindre mening...

This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via @carltonreid.com

Age verification “starts creating a serious risk for all internet users, not just young people, by requiring these companies that already collect a ton of data from us to collect even more,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @atlantanewsfirst.com.

Some words on how to evaluate language technologies (and caution against using them to undermine others' work) buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

I alla mätningar jag sett på senare år över vem som är inflytelserikast på svenskspråkiga internet har personer (läs: män) som lutar åt höger eller extremhögern legat i topp. Lula har nu vunnit en rättslig seger mot ”algorithmic bias”. 👇🏽 Vem tar fajten i Sverige? www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Denne er vel verdt fem minutter av tiden din. Videoen begynner med et forsøk på overfladisk og slagordbasert gotcha, men blir en grundig undersøkelse av premissene og intensjonene i spørsmålet. Underveis finner man felles grunn, før ting snur mot slutten. Se hele. Anbefales!

Hurra! Flere skjønner poenget med å blogge på egen plattform! Jeg har blogget i ca. 100 år på jilltxt.net og tenker at tiden kanskje er inne nå for å forklare hvordan RSS funker - det er en standard som lar deg samle URLer til blogger, nyhetsbrev og nettsteder for å lage DIN UAVHENGIGE EGEN FEED.

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Nice to see that the #julialang port of TIMES seems to be coming along nicely! @iea.org www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Her tror jeg vi nærmer oss svaret på "har vi fått bedre eller dårligere råd"-floka. Hovedårsaken til den samlede konsumveksten i Norge siden 2019 er boligutgifter, mens konsum av mat og drikke, ferieturer, møbler og lignende har gått ned. www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/vi-har...

This is a reasonably short write-up on the 'bot activity' confusion, and crucially, I believe, one that's penetrable for non-techies. emeraldbook.org/news/oct-122...

1/ Restoring Yandex's damaged data centres will take at least six months and cost billions. Disruption is already severe; Russian manufacturers and distributors face imminent disaster due to Ukraine's strikes causing the collapse of the state-operated goods tracking system. ⬇️

På tide med ei ny historieforteljing Bra innlegg av @mohnitor.bsky.social, som retter et kritisk søkelys på mantraet "utvikle, ikke avvikle". Grønn omstilling i Norge krever ikke fortsatt petroleumsaktivitet, snarere tvert imot. www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/pa-tid...

‘Of 54 strikes analyzed by The Post and reviewed by the experts, more than half appear to have damaged the desalting and distillation units, the examination found.’ wapo.st/4AZ6u87

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

The Romans called such efforts to distract a restless public “Bread and Circuses.”

JuMP-dev 2027 will be held July 22-23 in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium jump.dev/meetings/jum... #jump-dev #julialang

Ser fram til Civita-notatet om denne

Forundret over at ikke "svada" brukes mer. Nå har vi en ikke-metaforisk svadagenerator.

Our large-scale study of memorization of books in open-weight LLMs (e.g., Llama, Qwen) will appear at the 2026 Conference on Language Modeling as an oral. We made a website for exploring our results on 200 books and 14 models: books-memorization.github.io

Getting Signal up and running on your phone only takes a couple minutes. If you've already got it set up, take a minute to help your friends, too. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

Bra fra Are Oust om skatt på hytter. www.dn.no/innlegg/skat...

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US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.

Honestly I think it's a bit of a fools' errand to try and get people to stop anthropomorphising LLMs. I say my computer is angry at me if it beeps too loud.

I staden for å drøfte konsekvensar av og måtar å motarbeide ekstremisme på får me ein naiv og tåpeleg debatt om korvidt ekstremisme eigentleg er ekstremt, blant anna fordi NrK plattforme ekstremistar for å diskutere ekstremisme.

Her forklarer jeg på under 12 minutter hvordan språkmodellene faktisk genererer tekst og hvorfor KI-genererte tekster og sammendrag IKKE er objektive. Jeg bruker bl.a. NTBs KI-genererte sammendrag av Telenorrapporten som eksempel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nBi...

I just spit my water😂😂😂

Tre Morgenbladet-redaktører melder seg ut av Norsk Redaktørforening i protest mot Hans Rustads medlemskap.

Sånn bortsett fra alt annet her så blir jeg igjen drevet til min kjepphest semiotikk. Symboler betyr noe. Hva er en flerrende ulv kulturelt, historisk, popkulturelt. I sølv mot svart bakgrunn. «Mener det ikke SÅNN da» Åkei men det er det dere sier med formspråket.

Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

AI can now detect, automate, and chain together exploits faster than any human hacker can. That is significant. Which means that the system vulnerabilities once considered not so low hanging fruit are actually very low hanging.

Bra at utmerkede Filter har tatt på seg denne jobben. All ære til dem. Men jeg klarer ikke la være å tenke på at NRK og hadde Rustad i debattstudio for noen uker siden. De hadde åpenbart ikke gjort sin research. Han fikk spille rollen sin som "redaktør" i fred og ro. Temaet var hets. Nedslående.

Julia 1.13 Highlights #julialang julialang.org/blog/2026/09...

Siden jeg har jobbet litt med og holdt litt foredrag om konspirasjonsteorier, blir jeg av og til spurt om hva vi kan gjøre for å motvirke at de spres. Mitt standardsvar har blitt at vi kanskje kan starte med å ikke gi dem statsstøtte.

Filter Nyheter har gått gjennom innholdet Documents podcast med Hans Rustad. Innholdet der er så ekstremt at det overgår det aller meste i selv deres egne kommentarfelt. Takk til Filter for en grundig gjennomgang av hvordan høyreekstreme ideer normaliseres. filternyheter.no/quisling-sat...