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We also discuss the role of AI in science, including AI safety.

using Claude 3.5 Sonnet for the experimentation phase typically costs around $15–$20 per run.

we had predetermined that we would withdraw the paper prior to publication if accepted, which we did.

The AI Scientist-v2 eliminates the reliance on human-authored code templates

This system iteratively formulates scientific hypotheses, designs and executes experiments, analyzes and visualizes data, and autonomously authors scientific manuscripts.

one manuscript achieved high enough scores to exceed the average human acceptance threshold, marking the first instance of a fully AI-generated paper successfully navigating a peer review.

Gemini 3 Flash achieves the highest score of 24.0%

GPT-5.4 (xhigh) scores the highest on APEX-Agents-AA Pass@1 with a score of 33.3%, followed by Claude Opus 4.6 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) with a score of 33.0%, and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview with a score of 32.0%

accounting and auditing showing nearly a 20 percent jump on GDPval and even domains like police / detective work showing a nearly 30 percent improvement.

Support teams are high volume and high turnover, and thus need to train new reps in a fast and standardized way. To do so, they have clearly articulated standard operating procedures (SOPs) that guide the work of each rep. These SOPs create clear rules and guidelines that AI agents can model themselves off of.

We've consistently heard from portfolio companies that their best engineers' productivity levels have increased 10-20x with AI coding tools.

Coding is the dominant use case for AI by nearly an order of magnitude.

29% of the Fortune 500 and ~19% of the Global 2000 are live, paying customers of a leading AI startup.

Jack Cheng considers Pip, his Plus One, somewhere between a colleague and pet with a personality—one he programmed himself, drawing on references from Studio Ghibli, bird watching, and Catherine O'Hara.

Ask five people at Every where their Plus One falls on the tool-to-coworker continuum and you'll get five different answers.

70 percent refer to their Plus Ones by gendered pronouns.

Everyone is a manager now.

Agents gain credibility by doing. The fastest way to get other people to trust and use your Plus One is to have it execute tasks in public.

A "parallel organization chart," in which each AI worker has a name, manager, and job description, allows your company to move faster than it ever could with humans alone.

AIサイエンティストは、アイデアの創出から実験、分析、論文執筆、そして査読に至るまでの科学的研究サイクル全体をAIが自律的に遂行する仕組みです。この仕組みの定量的評価も含めた結果を、共同研究者とともにNature誌の論文として公開しています。

19世紀の経済学者ジェヴォンズは、蒸気機関の効率向上によって石炭の消費効率が上がると、かえって全体の消費量が増えることを見出しました。

合計数百回、時には数千回に及ぶLLM呼び出しの中で、有望な仮説をさらに深掘りするのか、まったく新しい角度に広げるかを、Sakana Marlinはその都度判断しながら探索します。

AB-MCTS（Adaptive Branching Monte Carlo Tree Search）です。これは、推論のプロセスを「木の探索」として捉え

AIが8時間近くにわたり自律的にリサーチを遂行し、構造化されたサマリースライドと数十ページの包括的な調査レポートを提供します。

CSO（Chief Strategy Officer）が数人のチームとともに数週間をかけて行うような、重厚な戦略調査を担うことを目的に設計されています。

If we took one task out of our task suite or added another task to our task suite, potentially instead of measuring this Claude Opus 4.6 time horizon of, I think, 14 and a half hours, we'd be measuring it at something like eight or 20 hours.

METR's confidence interval for Claude Opus 4.6 ranges from 5 hours to 66 hours.

reasoning models tend to produce much shorter reasoning traces (up to 50%) for the same problem under different context conditions compared to the traces produced when the problem is presented in isolation.

two participants gave it 9/10 and one "11/10"

Imagine every report has the following: Agent's best-guess about what comments you'd get from Beth, Hjalmar, Ajeya. Agent's best-guess about survey results. Agent's best-guess about benchmark results. Agent's best-guess about how this will be received on Twitter.

a future project might take ~42 days of wall-clock time, with ~8 hours of agent work (not counting running the evals) and 1000 serial hours of human IC work, evals execution, and review.

Overnight, agents can do maybe 200 human hours of work, but only for very agent-shaped tasks, so researchers need to deliberately sequence projects such that very long tasks suitable for agents happen overnight.

Most people estimated around 3-5x uplift compared to Feb 2026 (i.e. doing 1-2 weeks of work during this 2-day period).

three METR researchers played themselves, with their current priorities, but pretending they had access to ~200-hour time horizon AIs – roughly what we expect 12–18 months from now.

a logistic curve is a poor fit because we haven't seen any evidence of the exponential growth in time horizon slowing down.

we found that AI agent performance drops substantially when scoring AI performance holistically rather than algorithmically.

Our human task duration estimates likely overestimate how long a human expert takes to complete these tasks, as the humans (and AI agents!) have much less context for the task than professionals doing equivalent work in their day-to-day job.

AI agents are typically several times faster than humans on tasks they complete successfully.

The task-completion time horizon is the task duration (measured by human expert completion time) at which an AI agent is predicted to succeed with a given level of reliability.

our numerical experiments indicate that ‖𝐮ℎ−𝐮^𝑡𝑠‖ constitutes an asymptotically exact error indicator.

we seek a posteriori error estimators whose constants do not blow up as 𝜀→0.

In order to use the relative entropy method, we reconstruct the numerical solution via tensor-product Smoothness-Increasing Accuracy-Conserving (SIAC) filtering which has superconvergence properties.

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MiniMax may have been able to get 100 billion tokens of data from interactions with Claude.

Just last year, Anthropic spent over ten times more on compute than Minimax and Zhipu AI combined, and the gap is even wider for OpenAI:

These figures include Nvidia and AMD datacenter GPUs, Google TPUs, Amazon Trainium and Inferentia chips, and Huawei's AI chips. We estimate that these five categories encompass the vast majority of the world's dedicated AI computing power.

We convert chip computing capabilities into H100 equivalents (H100e) based on their relative FLOP/s specifications, specifically their maximum 8-bit specification.

Notably among hyperscalers, Google's compute comes primarily from its own custom TPU chips rather than NVIDIA's GPUs.

We estimate Google is the largest single owner of AI compute, holding about one quarter of global cumulative capacity as of Q4 2025.

We find internal representations of emotion concepts, which encode the broad concept of a particular emotion and generalize across contexts and behaviors it might be linked to.

the Assistant (named Claude, in Anthropic's models) can be thought of as a character that the LLM is writing about, almost like an author writing about someone in a novel.

Claude Sonnet 3.7 claiming to be wearing a blue blazer and red tie

To predict the behavior of people in these documents effectively, representing their emotional states is likely helpful, as predicting what a person will say or do next often requires understanding their emotional state.

We refer to this phenomenon as the LLM exhibiting functional emotions: patterns of expression and behavior modeled after humans under the influence of an emotion, which are mediated by underlying abstract representations of emotion concepts.

these representations causally influence the LLM's outputs, including Claude's preferences and its rate of exhibiting misaligned behaviors such as reward hacking, blackmail, and sycophancy.

Because these benchmarks are human-authored, they can only test for risks we have already conceptualized and learned to measure.

An "American Exceptionalism" feature found in Meta's Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct. It controls the model's tendency to generate assertions of US superiority, a control absent in the Chinese model it was compared against.

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People on X are the first to know.

We will also continue to invest in the IDE until codebases are self-driving.

With Cursor 3, we have the foundational pieces in place—model, product, and runtime—to build more autonomous agents and better collaboration across teams.

Move an agent session from cloud to local when you want to make edits and test it on your own desktop.

Cloud agents produce demos and screenshots of their work for you to verify.

We're introducing Cursor 3, a unified workspace for building software with agents.

In the last year, we moved from manually editing files to working with agents that write most of our code.

With Uni-1, we are laying the foundation for a system that can see, speak, reason, and imagine in one continuous stream.

This unified design naturally extends beyond static images to video, voice agents, and fully interactive world simulators.

We evaluate on ODinW-13 following consistent protocols from prior work. ODinW (Open Detection in the Wild) measures open vocabulary dense detection, testing fine-grained visual reasoning.

Uni-1 shows that learning to generate images materially improves fine-grained visual understanding performance, reasoning over regions, objects, and layouts.

Uni-1 can perform structured internal reasoning before and during image synthesis. It decomposes instructions, resolves constraints, and plans composition, then renders accordingly.

Uni-1 is a multimodal reasoning model that can generate pixels.

Reference-guided generation with source-grounded controls.

Common-sense scene completion, spatial reasoning, and plausibility-driven transformation.

Culture-aware visual generation across aesthetics, memes, and manga.

Built on Unified Intelligence, Uni-1 understands intention, responds to direction, and thinks with you.

Uni-1 ranks first in human preference Elo for Overall, Style & Editing, and Reference-Based Generation, and second in Text-to-Image.

the organizations that protect the internet will need to operate at the speed of machines and the scale of networks.

AI-powered analysis uncovers data at a scale and depth that legacy frameworks were not designed to accommodate.

including Anthropic’s latest unreleased AI model–Claude Mythos Preview.

We run the infrastructure that powers the internet

Is this a dagger which I see before me

GPT-3 was trained on 45 terabytes of data

Comparison and contrast often work by engaging in classification, which means explaining how your subjects can actually fit a different type of category than readers would typically realize, or how your subjects should not be placed in their typically assumed categories.

Their knives dripped with the blood of ouranimals.

that falls from the mouth is a coin lost

And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulderAnd I-I had a feeling that I belongedI-I had a feeling I could be someone,

You, the writer of the document, are the most important voice.

everything kind of is a fucking lie that you see your whole life growing up on TV shows or movies.

He murdered her.” “It was an accident, George.” Wilson shook his head. His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly with the ghost of a superior “Hm!” “I know,” he said definitely. “I’m one of these trusting fellas and I don’t think any harm to nobody, but when I get to know a thing I know it. It was the man in that car. She ran out to speak to him and he wouldn’t stop.” Michaelis had seen this too, but it hadn’t occurred to him that there was any special significance in it. He believed that Mrs. Wilson had been running away from her husband, rather than trying to stop any particular car.

until long after there was anyone to give it to if it came.

Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness—it stands out in my memory from Gatsby’s other parties that summer.

As I went over to say goodbye I saw that the expression of bewilderment had come back into Gatsby’s face, as though a faint doubt had occurred to him as to the quality of his present happiness. Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams—not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion.

I think he was afraid they would dart down a side-street and out of his life forever.

what’s your opinion of me, anyhow?

I went with them out to the veranda. On the green Sound, stagnant in the heat, one small sail crawled slowly toward the fresher sea. Gatsby’s eyes followed it momentarily; he raised his hand and pointed across the bay.

he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

Specific words and images make your writing clearer, more precise, and often more interesting. Whenever possible, avoid overly general words in your writing; instead, try to replace general language with particular nouns, verbs, and modifiers that convey details and that bring yours words to life. Add words that provide color, texture, sound, and even smell to your writing.

Maybehe deserved her contempt, but Corliss realized that very few youngmen read poetry at Washington State University.

Yes. So I started crying, and I kept crying, and I couldn't stop cry,ing no matter how hard I tried. They tell me I cried for two weeksstraight, but all I remember is that first day. I took a leave of absencefrom school, sold my house, and spent my money in a year, and nowI'm here, relying, as they say, on the kindness of strangers.''"I am kind because you are kind. Thank you for sharing your story.'

Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'dnever wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. Howcould she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganizedscholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardlysolider

I think you're going to find I'm writing themost authentic Indian poems that have ever been written

I began to know his men a little, those unsteady hearts that he hadspoken of, those leaky vessels. Polites was better-mannered than therest, Eurylochos stubborn and sulky. Thin-faced Elpenor had a laughlike a screechy owl. They reminded me of wolf pups, their griefsgone when their bellies were full. They looked down when I passed,as if to be sure their hands were still their ow

"I appreciated him,in his way. But he made a terrible soldier, however many men hecould bleed. He had a number of inconvenient ideas about loyaltyand honor

Hsu is a subtle writer, not a showy one; the joy of “Stay True” sneaks up on you, and the wry jokesare threaded seamlessly throughout. He recounts his relationship with his parents — how he feltextraordinarily close to them in some essential ways and distant from them in

o they spoke; and, grieving at heart, I then explained to them:‘My wretched companions undid me; they, and damnableslumber! My friends, help me now: you have the power.

So they spoke,

"Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you're so pretty?" she would say.

I had scarcely laid the first tier of my masonry when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off. The earliest indication I had of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess. It was not the cry of a drunken man. There was then a long and obstinate silence. I laid the second tier, and the third, and the fourth; and then I heard the furious vibrations of the chain. The noise lasted for several minutes, during which, that I might hearken to it with the more satisfaction, I ceased my labours and sat down upon the bones. When at last the clanking subsided, I resumed the trowel, and finished without interruption the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh tier. The wall was now nearly upon a level with my breast. I again paused, and holding the flambeaux over the mason-work, threw a few feeble rays upon the figure within.

Never to stoop. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;

While there are many different roles on a college campus that could be included in this list,advisors deserve a special place because they are crucial to your success; they are also the first place to gowhen a student has an issue. Some advisors spend considerable time with students to help them choose amajor and create a schedule each semester that will enable them to graduate. Others serve as a soundingboard for students who are struggling in a class and deciding whether or not to drop. Developing arelationship with your advisor has obvious benefits: They get to know what your goals are and can helpyou refine them

There is a ladder. The ladder is always there hanging innocently close to the side of the schooner. We know what it is for, we who have used it.

I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps.

We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear.

the drowned face always staring toward the sun the evidence of damage worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty the ribs of the disaster curving their assertion among the tentative haunters.

You're pretty goddamnsmart, I bet."Then he looked directly at me, just for a minute. "I ain'tsmart," he said. "If I was smart, I'd have reached for a pistol along time ago."

He mustwant to die, he 's killing himself, why does he want to die?"He looked at me in surprise. He licked his lips. "He don 'twant to die. He wants to live. Don't nobody want to die,ever.

Sonny's fingers filled the air with life, his life. But that lifecontained so many others.

'1 couldn't tell you when Mama died-but the reason I wantedto leave Harlem so bad was to get away from drugs. And then,when I ran away, that's what I was running from-really.When I came back, nothing had changed, I hadn't changed, Iwas just-older." And he stopped, drumming with his fingerson the windowpane. The sun had vanished, soon darknesswould fall. I watched his face. "It can come again," he said,almost as though speaking to himself. Then he turned to me."It can come again," he repeated. "I just want you to knowthat.""All right," I said, at last. "So it can come again, All right."He smiled, but the smile was sorrowful. "I had to try to tellyou," he said.

"Imean, I'll have a lot of studying to do, and I'll have to studyeverything, but, I mean, I want to play with-jazz musicians."He stopped. "I want to play jazz," he said.

"why does he want to die? He mustwant to die, he 's killing himself, why does he want to die?"He looked at me in surprise. He licked his lips. "He don 'twant to die. He wants to live. Don't nobody want to die,ever."

Eurylochos: he, suspecting a trap, hung back.She escorted them in, sat them down on chairs and benches,and offered them barley meal, cheese, and pale yellow honeymixed with Pramnian wine; but she added to this mixture 235baneful drugs to destroy their memory of their homeland.When she’d given it them and they’d swallowed it, then at onceshe struck them with her wand, and shut them away in sties:they now all had pigs’ heads, pigs’ voices, and pigs’ bristles,pigs’ bodies too; but their minds remained unchanged. 240So they were penned in, weeping; and Kirkē threw themoak nuts to eat, acorns, the fruit of the cornel tree—such food as swine that sleep on the ground will feed on.

She at once summoned famous Antiphatēs, her husband,from assembly: he devised a miserable fate for them.

For it needs little skill and psychology to be sure that a highlygifted girl who had tried to use her gift for poetry would have been sothwarted and hindered by contrary instincts [add "chains, guns, the lash, theownership of one's body by someone else, submission to an alien religion"Lthat she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty."

she knewshe was pretty and that was everything

She stood

On her last day in the office, the blindman asked if he could touch her face. She agreed to this. Shetold me he touched his fingers to every part of her face, hernose---even her neck!

On her last day in the office, the blindman asked if he could touch her face. She agreed to this. Shetold me he touched his fingers to every part of her face, hernose---even her neck!

You see, he does not believe I am sick!

But John says if I feel so I shall neglect proper self-control;so I take pains to control myself,— before him, at least,— andthat makes me very tired.

I didn't tell her that. Maybe I just don't understand poetry.I admit it's not the first thing I reach for when I pick upsomething to read

In the poem, she recalled his fingers and the waythey had moved around over her face.

she knewshe was pretty and that was everything.

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He didn't bother talking much to them, but around his bent headConnie's mother kept picking at her until Connie wished her mother was dead and sheherself was dead and it was all over.

n. Ellie turned for the first time and Connie saw withshock that he wasn't a kid either—he had a fair, hairless face, cheeks reddened slightly asif the veins grew too close to the surface of his skin, the face of a forty-year-old ba

"Gonna get you, baby,

“We can’t change the world, at least not quickly, but we can change our brains. By practicingmindfulness all of us have the capacity to develop a deeper sense of calm.”— Rick Hanson, author,Resilient

Researchers at the University of Reading recently conducted a blind test in which ChatGPT-written answers were submitted through the university’s own examination system: 94% of the AI submissions went undetected and received higher scores than those submitted by the humans.

“humanisers”, such as CopyGenius and StealthGPT, the latter which boasts that it can produce undetectable content and claims to have helped half a million students produce nearly 5m papers.

a generative AI researcher at British University Vietnam, believes there are “significant limitations” to AI detection software. “All the research says time and time again that these tools are unreliable,”

In the struggle to stuff the genie back in the bottle, universities have become locked in an escalating technological arms race, even turning to AI themselves to try to catch misconduct.

More than half of students now use generative AI to help with their assessments

In that second file let’s put all the other evidence we have linking Adnan to the actual crime, the actual killing

Namely, Jay’s shiftingstatements to police and how the cell tower information didn’t fully match Jay’s narrative

He’s been shot...

Philip Lombard was dead - shot through the hear

Dr. Armstrong.”Lombard gave a low whistle.“The doctor, eh? You know, I should have put him last of all.

Moreover, your goal in college classes is not just to remember the information for a test, but it is tobuild on that foundational knowledge to learn different levels of thinking

“My friend,” said Dupin, in a kind tone, “you are alarming yourself unnecessarily — you are indeed. We mean you no harm whatever. I pledge you the honor of a gentleman, and of a Frenchman, that we intend you no injury. I perfectly well know that you are innocent of the atrocities in the Rue Morgue.{z} It will not do, however, to deny that you are in some measure implicated in them. [page 564:] From what I have already said, you must know that I have had means of information about this matter — means of which you could never have dreamed. Now the thing stands thus. You have done nothing which you could have avoided — nothing, certainly, which renders you culpable.

Start with your childhood, I tell the

Because for some of us, books are as important as almostanything else on earth.

n, I couldn't think of a single restaurantwhere I'd ever actually eate

This, under the circumstances, has been justly characterized by one of the witnesses {cc}(Montani, the confectioner,){cc} as an expression of remonstrance or expostulation.

We had been talking of horses, if I remember aright, just before leaving the Rue C———. This was the last subject we discussed. As we crossed into this street, a fruiterer, with a large basket upon his head, brushing quickly past us, thrust you upon a pile of paving-stones collected at a spot where the causeway is undergoing repair. You stepped upon one of the loose fragments, slipped, slightly strained your ankle, appeared vexed or sulky, muttered a few words, turned to look{m} at the pile, and then proceeded in silence. I was not particularly attentive to what you did; but observation has become with me, of late, a species of necessity. “You kept your eyes upon the ground — glancing, with a petulant expression, at the holes and ruts in the pavement, (so that I saw you were still thinking of the stones,) until we reached the little alley called Lamartine,(18) which has been paved, by way of [page 536:] experiment, with the overlapping and riveted blocks.(19) Here your countenance brightened up, and, perceiving your lips move, I could not doubt that you murmured{n} the{oo} word ‘stereotomy,’ a term very affectedly applied to this species of pavement.{oo} I knew that you could not {pp}say to yourself ‘stereotomy’ without{pp}, being brought to think of atomies, and thus of the theories of Epicurus;(20) and since{q} when we discussed this subject not very long ago, I mentioned to you how singularly, yet with how little notice, the vague guesses of that noble Greek had met with confirmation in the late nebular cosmogony, I felt that you could not avoid casting your eyes upward{r} to the great nebula{s} in Orion,(21) and I certainly expected that you would do so. You did look up; and I was now{t} assured that I had correctly followed your steps. But in that bitter tirade upon Chantilly, which appeared in yesterday's ‘Musée,’ the satirist, making some disgraceful allusions to the cobbler's change of name upon assuming the buskin, quoted a{u} Latin line{v} about which{w} we have often conversed.

in whose tones, even, denizens of the five great divisions of Europe could recognise nothing familiar! You will say that it might have been the voice of an Asiatic

on Mr. Smith attempting to go into another room for his pistols, the monkey leaped on his back with the speed of lightning, made various efforts to reach his throat, broke his watch guard assunder in rage, and, dropping to the [page 523:] ground, bit his leg, and again fled to the basin-stand. Mr. Smith pursued him and flung him off many times in his leaping attacks. After skirmishing a considerable time, the worried animal dashed through the window, carrying the frame and glass along with him.

“I will explain,” he said, “and that you may comprehend all clearly, we will first retrace the course of your meditations, from the moment in which I spoke to you until that of the rencontre{j} with the fruiterer in question. The larger links of the chain run thus — Chantilly, Orion, Dr. Nichol,{k} (16) Epicurus, Stereotomy, the street stones, the fruiterer.” There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest; and he who attempts it for the first time is{l} astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.(17) What, then, must have been my amazement when I heard the Frenchman speak what he had just spoken, and when I could not help acknowledging that he had spoken the truth. He continued: “We had been talking of horses, if I remember aright, just before leaving the Rue C———. This was the last subject we discussed. As we crossed into this street, a fruiterer, with a large basket upon his head, brushing quickly past us, thrust you upon a pile of paving-stones collected at a spot where the causeway is undergoing repair. You stepped upon one of the loose fragments, slipped, slightly strained your ankle, appeared vexed or sulky, muttered a few words, turned to look{m} at the pile, and then proceeded in silence. I was not particularly attentive to what you did; but observation has become with me, of late, a species of necessity. “You kept your eyes upon the ground — glancing, with a petulant expression, at the holes and ruts in the pavement, (so that I saw you were still thinking of the stones,) until we reached the little alley called Lamartine,(18) which has been paved, by way of [page 536:] experiment, with the overlapping and riveted blocks.(19) Here your countenance brightened up, and, perceiving your lips move, I could not doubt that you murmured{n} the{oo} word ‘stereotomy,’ a term very affectedly applied to this species of pavement.{oo} I knew that you could not {pp}say to yourself ‘stereotomy’ without{pp}, being brought to think of atomies, and thus of the theories of Epicurus;(20) and since{q} when we discussed this subject not very long ago, I mentioned to you how singularly, yet with how little notice, the vague guesses of that noble Greek had met with confirmation in the late nebular cosmogony, I felt that you could not avoid casting your eyes upward{r} to the great nebula{s} in Orion,(21) and I certainly expected that you would do so. You did look up; and I was now{t} assured that I had correctly followed your steps. But in that bitter tirade upon Chantilly, which appeared in yesterday's ‘Musée,’ the satirist, making some disgraceful allusions to the cobbler's change of name upon assuming the buskin, quoted a{u} Latin line{v} about which{w} we have often conversed. I mean the line {xx}Perdidit antiquum litera prima sonum{xx} I had told you that this was in reference to Orion, formerly written Urion; and, from certain pungencies connected with this explanation, I was aware that you could not have forgotten it.(22) It was clear, therefore, that you would not fail to combine the two ideas of Orion and Chantilly. That you did combine them I saw by the character of the smile which passed over your lips. You thought of the poor cobbler's immolation. So far, you had been stooping in your gait; but now I saw you draw yourself up to your full height. I was then sure that you reflected upon the diminutive figure of Chantilly. At this point I interrupted your meditations to remark [page 537:] that as, in fact, he was a very little fellow — that Chantilly — he would do better at the Théâtre des Variétés.”{y}

Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly{b} imaginative never otherwise than{c} analytic.

A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. It follows that the game of chess, in its effects upon mental character, is greatly misunderstood. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random; I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked{e} by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre{f} motions, with various and variable values, what{g} is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what{h} is profound. The attention is here called powerfully into play. If it flag for an instant, an oversight is committed, resulting in injury or defeat. The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers. In draughts, on the contrary, where the moves are unique{i} and have but little variation, the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, [page 529:] and the mere attention being left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen.

There is also a well-known story of a pet monkey, who, imitating his master shaving himself, cut his own throat.

There is also a story, still sometimes told by stage comedians, about a barber's pet monkey who, in the absence of his master from the shop, essayed to shave a customer with disastrous results.

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably{z} incapable of analysis.

As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action,(1) so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

I can confirm that this is still actual for Rails 7 - jpEg converts to jpg and your production fails.

Ain't it possible that every message I send or forward will just be replaced to the outbox and will be send by Thunderbird in the background ? I really hate it that every message sends itself away, running on top of all other windows, and it makes me wait till it has been sent from reading my other messages...

Personally I don’t find necessary to see the whole progress of how a mail is sent step-by-step, I just want to send the e-mail. Can’t understand why they are showing me all these but anyway

She grades their results as if they haddone the writing entirely on their own.

That small number may simply reflect that professors who hadexperimented with AI — even if they concluded it is a danger to learning —probably had more reason to write to us.

Law redesigned her first-year writing course to include weekly “AI infused”discussion threads and assignments.

That small number may simply reflect that professors who hadexperimented with AI — even if they concluded it is a danger to learning —probably had more reason to write to us.

The input format of the xargs command doesn't match what any other command produces.

The input format of the xargs command doesn't match what any other command produces. Yes, it's bizarre. With -I, xargs ignores indentation, which is why the file names with initial spaces are mangled. Do not use xargs except with the -0 option or when you know your input doesn't contain characters that would confuse it.

Why would a text message service require Location (GPS) permissions? Anyway I enabled this Location permission for testing. Heureka!!! Suddenly I was able to send text messages again to all the contacts which previously didn't work. The "Not sent, tap to try again" error was gone.

i commissioned some original polling for my book from abacus research and i found some very hopeful stuff and you know the public gets the emergency and incidentally i've tried to recast 00:12:46 some of the the extreme weather events we've experienced as attacks on our soil let's think about them that way yeah um and they're ready for bold action actually the public is ahead of our politics in terms of that i was surprised to see 00:12:58 that you even mentioned in alberta the numbers are much higher than you so you mentioned quebec before so the the opinion polling nationally ranges from a high in quebec in terms of their readiness fraction right to a low in alberta but even in alberta 00:13:12 the level of support is remarkably high

The first example needs a custom inflection rule: loader.inflector.inflect("max_retries" => "MAX_RETRIES") Otherwise, Zeitwerk would expect the file to define MaxRetries.

Note that the mere presence of this header causes premailer to be skipped, i.e., even setting skip_premailer: false will cause premailer to be skipped. The reason for that is that the skip_premailer is a simple header and the value is transformed into a string, causing 'false' to become truthy.

It seems that the method is a direct equivalent of a.fdiv(b).ceil, and as such, annoyingly unnecessary, but fdiv, due to floating point imprecision, might produce surprising results in edge cases

I agree with this statement so much. We should absolutely be failing hard rather than forcing people to debug thread safety issues at runtime. I can't think of anything more infuriating than debugging an issue that happens "sometimes".

The problem is that in the case where an app is multi-threaded, and we don't switch off autoload, the case would be that it probably won't blow up, but random stuff will mysteriously sometimes fail in weird ways. So ask yourself this, what would you rather want, option 1) where you can get an exception at runtime, or option 2) where you get random, unpredictable, weird, hard to explain, difficult to debug bugs at runtime. Personally, I'm going to choose option 1. The downside of thread-safety issues is so much worse than the downside of the possibility of an exception. The way you're handling it makes it sound as though thread-safety is not important, as though Rails is still optimizing for the single-threaded case. That seems like a huge step back.

It may seem like Testing is some sort of beta, unstable version but that’s not entirely true. Debian Testing is the next Debian stable version. The actual development branch is the Debian Unstable (also known as Sid). Debian Testing lies somewhere in between the unstable and stable branch where it gets the new features before the stable release.

Have you ever: Been disappointed, surprised or hurt by a library etc. that had a bug that could have been fixed with inheritance and few lines of code, but due to private / final methods and classes were forced to wait for an official patch that might never come? I have. Wanted to use a library for a slightly different use case than was imagined by the authors but were unable to do so because of private / final methods and classes? I have.

Been disappointed, surprised or hurt by a library etc. that was overly permissive in it's extensibility? I have not.