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    1. The reported demographics emphasize, however, the need to reflect and evaluate current PSpedagogical beliefs and instructional practices. Parmegiani (2022) urges PS stakeholders toquestion hegemonic practices created through monolingual instruction because of the disconnectthat exists “between the language of learning and teaching (LOLT)” (p.291) and a student’s nativeand primary language.

      This is worth noting in the future, regarding the disconnect between different learners and any potential obstacles, language barriers included.

    2. Research is scarce on translanguaging pedagogy and policy and its effects on PS educationin a global context (Karabulut & Dollar, 2022; Siziba & Maseko, 2023), with scholars noting thattranslanguaging in PS is typically through a Western perspective (Yafele, 2021) or in cases wheremultilinguals might means more than just negotiating between two languages (Hurst & Mona,2017).

      Even with limited research, more hypotheses are needed in the attempt of fixing our education system and the way students from all walks of life learn. Translanguaging pedagogy can assist in getting students more engaged in the classroom and more connected with one another.

    3. the lens through which we examine texts in various forms and modalities, and challengeassumptions and ideas about our society and our world. Ultimately, it involves recognizingthe power not only to read and critically analyze ideas, but, where necessary, to presentalternative perspectives on issues of national importance; thus, critical literacy can propelstudents and citizens, more broadly, toward greater participation in national discourse, andultimately, toward meaningful social transformation. (p. 31)

      It is important to learn how to take what you learn and apply it to your day-to-day life.

    4. Most of my students, over the years,have been multilingual and identified as emergent bilingual learners who report their first language(L1) as Spanish and their second language (L2) as English

      With a growing number of bilingual students, it is becoming more pressing that accommodations are made so they can learn alongside their peers.

    1. Christine Yano builds on Iwabu-chi’s work and thinks through what she calls the commodity “whiteface” ofHello Kitty. 31 Remarking on Japanese companies’ desires to create globallycompatible consumer products in the 1970s by mimicking Euro-Americanstandards, Yano underscores the ambiguity of the international appeal ofHello Kitty, especially her cute white face. 32 Yano links mukokuseki to mo-dernity, whiteness, and global acceptance and adeptly points out the Japanesecompanies’ willingness to self-erase for the sake of global marketability.

      Representation in toys, similar than in games. You consume stereotypes for Carnival: What do the boys wear, tactical and police gear. What about girls? Flying assistants or dressed princesses. Do you see many doctors during carnival? No.

      To me, most festivals are grotesque self-fetishisations plagued by nationalistic discriminatory pride. Yes, they can be an acknowledgement of diverse oft-excluded identities (furries), and a visibilisation and acceptance of them, but they rarely are: Most of the times, they look like a parody of the parody, a cartoonish simulation of army/school uniforms, and an objectification via (female) sexualised dresses.

    2. TzarinaPrater and Catherine Fung argue that for the Asian body’s labor to be recog-nized, it must be converted from “the foreign threat to the assimilated modelminority.”

      Reminder: Exclusion, Segregation, Integration, and Inclusion. Assimilation is homogenised inclusion, which dissolves any inclusion, because there is no other to include as there is no identity diversity.

      https://mcie.org/think-inclusive/inclusion-exclusion-segregation-and-integration-how-are-they-different/

    3. Thinking through Hutchinson’s and Moore’s perspectives, we could arguethat Kojima’s strategy of using racial ambiguity to cater to both the Japaneseand the Western audience permits him to embody Japaneseness without anyhistorical baggage.

      Furthermore, can you stop to think what budget the game may have?

    4. Noting the racially ambiguous design of the mgs series’ protagonist Snake,Hutchinson argues that the white-passing body welcomes Western playersto empathize with its message.

      I know that this is colonising, you don't have to shove it upon me... but isn't it a justified concession? Isn't the inherent peace-cooperation argument embeded in the game akin to the reparatory non-repetition argument that underlies historical memory?

      For me, it is not, and I say this having played a large chunk of the game while focusing on utilitarianist EA ethics. It is not, because it may avoid tokenisation, sure, but Sam Porter is not a slave, he is a hero. Not only that, with although it prefaces the quest of reaching white people with anti-war logics, the game has war, the game has fights, and its sequel does too. These are surrounded with mysticism and fantastic events which cloud the statements and leave them open to interpretation in a way that most players are sure to miss them. It's not provocative, it's a eco-tourism chore. The cutscences and events are a McGuffin to visit places and trek through them to feel epic.

      To influence a mass of players, and not just get critical acclaim it would have needed to be more straightforward.

    1. And so, under EU competition law, actions and agreements which re-create the boundaries between the member states may be deemed anti-competitive. While market integration is economic in nature, protecting the internal market may not always further a narrow economic concept of consumer welfare. In practice, this political goal has led to a focus on removing territorial restrictions that undermine the creation of the single market and dictates a rather restrictive view of agreements which could limit trade between member states or lead to market foreclosure.

      EU

    2. By contrast to the US Sherman Act, EU legislation provides some indication as to the goals of competition law as it positions it within the wider goals of the Union.

      As plus sentence

    3. The Supreme Court interpreted the Sherman Act broadly to consider both economic and non-economic goals related to these monopolies. Non-economic goals included ‘indirect social or moral effects’, which made a system of small producers preferable, even where it caused economic inefficiencies. Interestingly, in the early days (page 32)p. 32enforcers also used the Sherman Act to target victims of market power, such as labour unions and their officers.

      Even:即使system:制度

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    1. Oliver Tearle. Who Said, ‘A Lie Is Halfway Round the World Before the Truth Has Got Its Boots On’? June 2021. URL: https://interestingliterature.com/2021/06/lie-halfway-round-world-before-truth-boots-on-quote-origin-meaning/ (visited on 2023-12-08).

      The article explains how the quote “A lie is halfway around the world before the truth has its boots on” has changed over time, I thought it was interesting how many people wrongly credit it to Mark Twain or Churchill, which shows how we like to attach big names to make a saying sound more powerful. It really reminds me of how fast misinformation spreads on social media today,people share things so quickly that the truth never has time to catch up. Even though the quote is old, it still feels completely true in our world now.

    2. The Selfish Gene. December 2023. Page Version ID: 1188207750. URL:

      This is a book on evolution from 1976 by Richard Dawkins. In it he posits that evolution is a primiarly gene based process. He also says that if two people have similair genes, they are biologically predisposed to act similair to each other or in a way that benefits both of them.

    1. Biological Evolution

      I find the description of internet memes as "cultural genes" quite interesting. It reminds me that the evolution of online information mirrors biological evolution; the most "adapted" ideas survive because they spread faster or attract more attention. However, unlike biological evolution, internet memes don't require authenticity to survive. Therefore, social media algorithms, like "natural selection," prioritize promoting content with the highest engagement.

    1. June did this, June did that, she savedmoney and helped clean the house and cookedand Connie couldn't do a thing, her mindwas all filled with trashy daydreams.

      I can’t imagine how stress Connie would be if she’d to heard those kind of salty remarks that keep compare her with her sister.

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

      Her mother used the word “gawking”, I think it’s kind of impolite to her daughter. Her mother seemed to be irritated to her that she had to used such an indecent word.

    3. Her mother, who noticed everything and knew everything and whohadn't much reason any longer to look at her own face, always scolded Connie about it.

      It’s interesting here because it’s impossible in real life that one can know everything about the other. But the author made Connie’s mother be a person who omniscient about her daughter.

    1. A life devoid of challenge does not lead to peace; it leads to atrophy and anxiety. If we do not provide our minds with meaningful, chosen challenges to overcome, they will create challenges for us in the form of irrational fears, obsessive rumination, and catastrophizing. Our brains need a problem to solve. The practice of deliberately stepping outside our comfort zone, even in small ways, feeds this need for positive stress. It engages the mind in productive problem-solving, channeling its energy into growth rather than self-generated anxiety. Each microshift is a small, controlled dose of adversity that strengthens our psychological resilience.

      This concept is introduced in the book Good Inside too.

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    1. However, there were minimal to no evidence-based therapeutic approaches for HFpEF management until recently.

      SGLT2i are the only FDA approved medication for HFpEF as of right now!

    1. Hunting for Typewriter Accessories - YouTube<br /> by [[Just My Typewriter]] - Sarah Everett accessed on 2025-11-01T22:07:29

      Estate sales often have interesting office supplies and paper in desks.

      2:45 typewriter ribbon tins; made out of tin, cardboard, paper<br /> sometimes tins come with spools or spare parts

      5:35 Typewriter ribbon display kits and pieces

      6:58 Typewriter case keys<br /> She's collected images of case keys to know what to buy.<br /> She's got a buying guide on her website with photos.

      10:04 Typewriter key tops

      13:20 typewriter brushes and cleaning products, blower brushes, typeslug cleaners,

      15:25 Typing books, user manuals, Typatune,

      16:29 Typewriter toys; often in the $25+ range

      17:23 Typewriter advertisements<br /> Sarah often purchases these online and uses them in her videos.<br /> Underwood fingernail polish advertisements

      19:15 Typewriter playing cards (advertisement)

      20:13 Typewriter related postcards

      20:45 Typewriter books:<br /> - references; lots online; - Anthony Casillo - Typewriters (coffee books) - Michael Adler: Antique Typewriters - Paul Robert and Peter Weil - Iron Whim by Darren Werschler-Henry - non-fiction, history, - books written by other collectors<br /> - Tom Hanks' Uncommon Type<br /> - Olivetti by Allie Millington

      Crescent City Books in New Orleans - has typewriters as decoration

      25:03 Typewriter community collectors/creators<br /> - Lucas Dul - The Williams Typewriter (Loose Dog Press) - Loose Dog Press series<br /> - Woz Flint - The Distraction-Free First Draft<br /> - Richard Polt - The Typewriter Revolution (after thought)

      28:43: Typewriter Magazines - ETCetera - Novellum Magazine (Writing related)

    1. If studentsare too comfortable using their preferred languagein class, will the desire to become English-fluentdecline?

      This is a valid counterpoint to pro-translanguage attitude. It also provides an open question to the reader regarding their own beliefs on the subject.

    2. there are not enough bilingualteachers (yet) to offer dual language instruc-tion

      This is the primary conflict presented for translanguage use. A "happy medium" needs to be worked out for the good of teachers and learners.

    3. Teachers are inviting students to usetheir home languages to talk to their classmates,to do drafts of their writing, to journal to theirparents, and, if the teacher is fluent and everyoneelse in the class is bilingual, to explain things inanother language in the classroom.

      Progress is being made for more inclusivity in academic settings for translanguage as a valid concept. This is real-world evidence of it.

    4. Why should theybe consigned to foreign language classes thatleave them with little to show when they couldbe bilingual and biliterate before high school,like most of the rest of the world?

      This is a point that I have often wondered about myself. It is also one of the big reasons I decided to take a Spanish class. Many countries outside of the US teach young students a second language. Why doesn't the US?

    5. Translanguaging goes beyond these antecedents,however, to add something new and importantto American education. Li Wei and Ofelia García(2022) call translanguaging a “decolonializingproject” (p. 313), and many other researchers andpractitioners raise the issues of language justiceand social hierarchy

      This showcases a sort of resistance/rebellion against the strict enforcement and oppression of Standard English across the board. Standard English is not always the epitome of highlighting intelligence in academic settings.

    6. The concept that all of these words are partof your identity is completely consistent withlinguist Noam Chomsky’s (1968) core conceptof Universal Grammar in which language-mak-ing is universal and hard-wired in all humans.

      Translanguaging is not just a societal concept, but something cognitive and "natural" for multilingual learners.

    7. Translanguaging callsfor “the deployment of a speaker’s full linguis-tic repertoire” (Oteguy et al., 2015, p. 281; seealso Chalmers, 2016; García & Wei, 2014). Inother words, you have the right—and delight—to employ all of the words and gestures you’vegot.

      Translanguaging, as a concept, allows for a learner's full use all languages that are part of their identity. Thus allowing them to use their full intellect. They're not "looked down on" if they don't have a perfect understanding/use of Standard English.

    8. The difference might be that code switching isconsidered a more “local” act whereas translan-guaging is considered the cognitive underpin-ning of many speech acts (Wei, 2018).

      So translanguaging goes "deeper" than code switching. Someone's brain can alternate between two or more languages to put together a complete sentence even when its not completely in English.

    9. Looking for“the right word” or phrase may bring to minda word from another language familiar to theothers in the room.

      This is a good way to describe code switching. I've witnessed people, when English is not their first language, doing/saying this. "There's no equivalent of this word in English compared to my native language." So descriptors are used instead.

    10. diglossia reached its peak in 1993, according toGoogle Ngram, and has declined rapidly sincethen, probably in inverse relation to the rise ofthe term translanguage.

      Some history of the use of diglossia.

    11. the poor wishful learner is always aspiring, butnever quite able, to reach the level of any nativespeaker

      This concept resonates. Someone learning a language with little to no prior familiarity will never be able to speak it as well or naturally as someone who was born into/grew up with it. So insisting that the learner reach for that level of understanding seemed almost unethical.

    12. we putlearners under huge headphones in a languagelab to endlessly mimic a (very unnatural sound-ing) man’s stilted sentences.

      This example of learning a new language, from a student point-of-view, feels shallow and unhelpful. As I am learning Spanish as a second language, being in this position would not do me any favors. I need to see the words, use them myself, and have them explained to me rather than repeated soullessly.

    13. there was almost a fetishistic focuson perfection and correctness

      The focus of this academy wasn't in the right place. Understanding the meaning of words should be more important compared to perfect/utterly correct usage.

    14. Even now, in the post-colonial system rightto the present day, many students are requiredto “leave their home language at the classroomdoor.” What could be more soul-destroying thannot having the opportunity to become literate inone’s own home language?

      This demonstrates the ethical and emotional impact of language critiquing/policing in academic settings.

    15. Many post-colonial free nations have removedthe European languages in favor of their ownnational languages, although the colonial lan-guages can be handy as lingua francas across dif-ferent regions and countries and in nongovern-mental organizations.

      This showcases a language hierarchy and favoritism over time. As well as how imposed language can alter the native language in beneficial ways. Thus translanguaging.

    16. The Welsh havekeenly felt the suppression of their language bytheir English colonizers for centuries

      An example of colonization suppressing a native language thus deeming it to be not the standard form of language.

    17. The term was first coined by Welsh educator CenWilliams in 1994, in an article he wrote in Welshand then translated to English about ways to useboth languages in the classroom.

      Origin of translanguaging and how/where it can be used.

    18. Wei and García(2022) note that there were 23,000 mentionsof translanguaging in a March 2022 GoogleScholar search (p. 314).

      The timeline of the term translanguaging thus far (continued).

    19. The Google NgramViewer (2024b), which searches a vast naturallanguage database to track how often a word orphrase is used over time, shows that as recentlyas 1980, the words translanguage and translan-guaging appeared 0% of the time, even with 10decimals after them! However, by 2019, trans-languaging had exploded to .241354, with onlyfive zeroes in front of it!

      The timeline of the term translanguaging thus far.

    20. to this influ-ential concept (“old wine”), predicts how thismovement may affect your education setting(“new bottle”)

      I like the metaphor for this concept. Bringing previously knowledge into a new area of life.

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    1. We were born for more than just to be groomed into consumers who don't care about other human beings.

      This line is a reminder of how easy it is to forget that so much of digital media is designed to keep us consuming. The algorithm constantly pushes new products, trends, and advertisements our way. People can be so hateful online. There's cyberbullying, judgment, unrealistic beauty standards, and idealized lives that create insecurities and comparisons. It's a reality check, reminding us that we were meant for more than just falling into the trap of algorithms. We need to stay aware, compassionate, and human. Using technology responsibly means not letting it define our values or dull our empathy.

    2. you are already primed to believe that what you're getting is true.

      This captures how easy it is to trust what we see online without questioning it. Algorithms present information in a way that looks confident and authoritative, which makes us assume that it's factual, even when it might be misleading or incomplete. I've noticed this especially on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and even Google searches, where misinformation spreads quickly but feels believable because it's packaged so convincingly. It's dangerous because it shapes our beliefs and decisions without us realizing it, and it shows how much power these systems have over our understanding of the world. Technology doesn't just give us information; it also guides what we think is true.

    3. AI makes it possible for machines to learn from experience, that means AI is susceptible to the same bias of the humans it's simulating.

      I found it really interesting how AI isn't truly neutral or objective. It learns directly from us, which means that it also absorbs our biases. The data that trains AI often reflects existing social inequalities like racism, sexism, etc. so those same patterns end up built into the technology itself. AI systems are constantly trained from the information we give them, and that training shapes how they make decisions. This reminds me of how social media algorithms or facial recognition systems sometimes produce unfair outcomes. It's not because the technology is evil, but because it's mirroring the biases it's been taught.

    1. Mr. Milei is an enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Trump and the MAGA movement, and his fortunes are seen by the Trump administration as a way to bolster American influence in South America and counter China’s push into the region.

      That says a lot about him

    1. The main purpose of communication whether it be email, text, tweet, blog, discussion, presentation, written assignment, or speech is always to help the receiver(s) of the message understand the idea that the sender of the message is trying to share.

      communication helps everyone understand a certain message a sender is trying to make, this section will help better understand how communication works.

    1. If studentsare too comfortable using their preferred languagein class, will the desire to become English-fluentdecline?

      This is a valid counterpoint to pro-translanguage attitude. It also provides an open question to the reader regarding their own beliefs on the subject.

    2. there are not enough bilingualteachers (yet) to offer dual language instruc-tion

      This is the primary conflict presented for translanguage use. A "happy medium" needs to be worked out for the good of teachers and learners.

    3. Teachers are inviting students to usetheir home languages to talk to their classmates,to do drafts of their writing, to journal to theirparents, and, if the teacher is fluent and everyoneelse in the class is bilingual, to explain things inanother language in the classroom.

      Progress is being made for more inclusivity in academic settings for translanguage as a valid concept. This is real-world evidence of it.

    4. Why should theybe consigned to foreign language classes thatleave them with little to show when they couldbe bilingual and biliterate before high school,like most of the rest of the world?

      This is a point that I have often wondered about myself. It is also one of the big reasons I decided to take a Spanish class. Many countries outside of the US teach young students a second language. Why doesn't the US?

    5. Translanguaging goes beyond these antecedents,however, to add something new and importantto American education. Li Wei and Ofelia García(2022) call translanguaging a “decolonializingproject” (p. 313), and many other researchers andpractitioners raise the issues of language justiceand social hierarchy

      This showcases a sort of resistance/rebellion against the strict enforcement and oppression of Standard English across the board. Standard English is not always the epitome of highlighting intelligence in academic settings.

    6. The concept that all of these words are partof your identity is completely consistent withlinguist Noam Chomsky’s (1968) core conceptof Universal Grammar in which language-mak-ing is universal and hard-wired in all humans.

      Translanguaging is not just a societal concept, but something cognitive and "natural" for multilingual learners.

    7. Translanguaging callsfor “the deployment of a speaker’s full linguis-tic repertoire” (Oteguy et al., 2015, p. 281; seealso Chalmers, 2016; García & Wei, 2014). Inother words, you have the right—and delight—to employ all of the words and gestures you’vegot.

      Translanguaging, as a concept, allows for a learner's full use all languages that are part of their identity. Thus allowing them to use their full intellect. They're not "looked down on" if they don't have a perfect understanding/use of Standard English.

    8. The difference might be that code switching isconsidered a more “local” act whereas translan-guaging is considered the cognitive underpin-ning of many speech acts (Wei, 2018).

      So translanguaging goes "deeper" than code switching. Someone's brain can alternate between two or more languages to put together a complete sentence even when its not completely in English.

    9. Looking for“the right word” or phrase may bring to minda word from another language familiar to theothers in the room.

      This is a good way to describe code switching. I've witnessed people, when English is not their first language, doing/saying this. "There's no equivalent of this word in English compared to my native language." So descriptors are used instead.

    10. diglossia reached its peak in 1993, according toGoogle Ngram, and has declined rapidly sincethen, probably in inverse relation to the rise ofthe term translanguage.

      Some history of the use of diglossia.

    11. the poor wishful learner is always aspiring, butnever quite able, to reach the level of any nativespeaker

      This concept resonates. Someone learning a language with little to no prior familiarity will never be able to speak it as well or naturally as someone who was born into/grew up with it. So insisting that the learner reach for that level of understanding seemed almost unethical.

    12. we putlearners under huge headphones in a languagelab to endlessly mimic a (very unnatural sound-ing) man’s stilted sentences

      This example of learning a new language, from a student point-of-view, feels shallow and unhelpful. As I am learning Spanish as a second language, being in this position would not do me any favors. I need to see the words, use them myself, and have them explained to me rather than repeated soullessly.

    13. there was almost a fetishistic focuson perfection and correctness

      The focus of this academy wasn't in the right place. Understanding the meaning of words should be more important compared to perfect/utterly correct usage.

    14. Even now, in the post-colonial system rightto the present day, many students are requiredto “leave their home language at the classroomdoor.” What could be more soul-destroying thannot having the opportunity to become literate inone’s own home language?

      This demonstrates the ethical and emotional impact of language critiquing/policing in academic settings.

    15. Many post-colonial free nations have removedthe European languages in favor of their ownnational languages, although the colonial lan-guages can be handy as lingua francas across dif-ferent regions and countries and in nongovern-mental organizations.

      Showcases a language hierarchy and favoritism over time. As well as how imposed language can alter the native language in beneficial ways. Thus translanguaging.

    16. The Welsh havekeenly felt the suppression of their language bytheir English colonizers for centuries,

      An example of colonization suppressing a native language thus deeming it to be not the standard form of language.

    17. The term was first coined by Welsh educator CenWilliams in 1994, in an article he wrote in Welshand then translated to English about ways to useboth languages in the classroom.

      Origin of translanguaging and how/where it can be used.

    18. Wei and García(2022) note that there were 23,000 mentionsof translanguaging in a March 2022 GoogleScholar search (p. 314).

      The timelines of the term translanguaging thus far (continued).

    19. The Google NgramViewer (2024b), which searches a vast naturallanguage database to track how often a word orphrase is used over time, shows that as recentlyas 1980, the words translanguage and translan-guaging appeared 0% of the time, even with 10decimals after them! However, by 2019, trans-languaging had exploded to .241354, with onlyfive zeroes in front of it!

      The timeline of the term translanguaging thus far.

    20. to this influ-ential concept (“old wine”), predicts how thismovement may affect your education setting(“new bottle”)

      I like the metaphor for this concept. Bringing previously knowledge into a new area of life.

    1. Belief, that sacred faculty which prompts the decisionsof our will, and knits into harmonious working all the compacted energies of our being, is oursnot for ourselves but for humanity. It is rightly used on truths which have been established bylong experience and waiting toil, and which have stood in the fierce light of free and fearlessquestioning.

      humanity uses religion to explain questions which have stood unanswered or seomthinggggggggggggggggggggggggg

      must extend the previous assertion of unwarranted and unquestioning belief in something being bad to religion or SOEMTHING

    Annotators

    1. Under immigration rules, ICE officials should have made him available for his scheduled hearing before an immigration judge, where he would have had the chance to contest his deportation. The judge would have decided whether to allow a deportation, which can be triggered by a violation of immigration law, such as entering the country illegally.

      ICE is behaving inhumanely

    1. The election was also in many ways a referendum on Mr. Wilders and his party. Mr. Wilders has said he wants to end immigration from Muslim countries, tax head scarves and ban the Quran. His party, known as the PVV, has also called for a halt to asylum.

      That is immoral and not okay, I hope he does not win

    1. Oleg moved his capital to the much older nearby city, Kyiv (Ukraine), after murdering its rulers (who may also at that time have been Varangians).

      Oleg took control of Kyiv by killing its rulers, showing how the Rus used violence to gain power.

    2. Charlemagne also helped establish a single Latin Church from Ireland to Croatia, and to standardize education around a network of monasteries where scholars learned Latin (required of all priests and monks) and a course of study known as the Trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and the Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy).

      Charlemagne wanted to unify the church and education so that priests and monks across Europe learned the same things.

    3. This was the first time a pope had crossed the Alps to visit what is now France, and marks an early example of the church becoming involved in European politics.

      This shows how the church was starting to get involved in European politics.

    1. Commencing with the 2024 fiscal year, the audits shall include the examination of therecords and financial statements of the Capitol Centre of North Bay

      With the external audit, the process of continuous improvement is demonstrated, and the organizational culture is enhanced.

    2. Approximately 6000 GL transactions per year

      The significant operating budget was 2 million with approximately 6,000 annual transactions, indicating a medium-sized operation.

    3. The Capitol Centre invites Proposals from qualified accounting firms for professionalservices to audit its annual financial statements and supplementary financial information

      It demonstrates its financial management professionally by seeking external audits with accounting standards, which allows it's to show his commitment to transparency and accountability.

    1. The Abbasids entered their "Golden Age" in the late 700s under Harun al-Rashid, who established diplomatic relations with Charlemagne in Europe.

      Why did Harun al-Rashid want to establish relations with Charlemagne?

    1. The military doctrine, the base of Plan D, clearly reflected the local Zionist ideological aspirations to acquire a maximal Jewish territorial continuum, cleansed from Arab presence, as a necessary condition for establishing an exclusive Jewish nation-state.

      The highlight of the reading in terms of significance is the way in which Kimmerling criticizes both the deeds and the ideology that led to the war of 1948, suggesting that the displacement of the Palestinians was not random during the war but rather part of an intentional plan related to Zionist ideology in terms of territory. The quote below made me stop and reflect on the reading, realizing that there was indeed intent related to ideas rather than just physical deeds in terms of what transpired during the war. The part of the reading that interested me the most was the way in which Kimmerling makes reference to ideas related to morality and nationality in terms of what transpired during the formation of the Jewish state.

    1. Capitol Theatre

      Both theaters have similarities in their business model within their locality; they both share the same values of inclusion, education, and community participation. Finding this comparison can help identify new opportunities for the Capitol Centre.

    2. local economy

      Benefits such as promoting the local economy and theater in the same way, thanks not only to sales but also with the support of sponsors, volunteers, and donations, as well as Capitol Centre. Additionally, the number of audiences increases year after year, demonstrating a good business model.

    3. Provide educational school show

      In comparison, the business model of Capito Centre similarly focuses on the community, and here the notable aspect is the educational approach that offers school performances for young audiences, demonstrating its commitment to cultural education.

    1. ut the LLM cannot backtrack once it has gone this far. It must go on, each of its own words are clues on how to proceed. What awards might a computer scientist professor have one? A lot of people talk about the “Turing Award” in computer science so that might be a good guess based on the words so far. Except in reality I have not won any such award.

      Interesting! So, the model can sound convincing even when it’s technically wrong? That’s kind of wild.

    2. Large Language Models are just guessing what you want to hear. They often come up with something that we want to hear based on the clues we leave. The better the clues we leave, the more likely we are to get what we want, such as a right answer to a question. But it is never guaranteed.

      But also, doesn't just guess but it notices that certain words or phrases appear together often, sentence structures, grammar, and even style.

    3. Large Language Models (LLMs) are fancy artificial neural networks. But you don’t have time to learn the math or engineering. Unfortunately, a lot of primers will throw up diagrams like this:

      LLM is a type of ai, and it learns patterns from the data

    4. Large Language Models are a type of artificial neural network called a Transformer. It is going to go through the process of transforming your words into… something. Before we get to what that something is, let’s walk through the transformation process. There are basically two transformations that occur over and over again:

      So LLM is input data and output data that it collects from the ai

    5. I’m not saying that a Large Language Model does sentence diagramming. But that intuition will sort of work. The LLM is looking at all pairs of words and assessing if they are relevant to each other or not. And if they are relevant to the missing next word, then they contribute more heavily to the next word guess.

      I feel like this had something to do with data because of the visual data that is on the reading

    1. In general, reports should be typed, double or single spaced on 8-1/2 x 11 paper on one side of the page only, and letter-quality print or better is expected.

      reports shouldn't be double sided

    2. The purpose of all report types is the same—to clearly and accurately describe something that has happened or is happening.

      the purpose of reports are to clearly describe whats happening

    1. Chamber of Commerce on the Rural Community Immigration

      Support rural immigration and talent retention, obtaining benefits for the Capitol Centre as an employer and cultural space.

    2. from surplus Workplace Safety and Insurance Board funds

      Financial stability has been demonstrated through the use of last year's reserves, which has helped to ease financial pressure and continue maintaining the levels of its services.

    3. Nearly 48% of the tax levy ($54.9 million)

      Compared to the year 2024, there is a 48% increase in the tax allocated to service partners, which ensures financial continuity.

    1. expanded community initiatives and strategic investments

      As an ecological impact, these funds for security in the center and public recycling improve the urban experience and can benefit the Capitol Centre.

    2. Capitol Centre

      According to records from 2024, it is mentioned how the Capitol Centre receives part of the 45% of the municipal tax allocated to service partners, which demonstrates institutional support.

    1. models his or her thinking

      I remember during my student teaching, my mentor helped me learn to slow down and really check for understanding. I’ve noticed the same thing with the teachers I’ve mentored. It’s a common area to grow in. Thinking out loud with them is such a helpful way to model how to do that.

    1. e was surprised to learn that some of thestudents in the United States were also second language speakers ofEnglish - people "like us."

      When she says "like us" she knows that people with another native language other than English has its own community.

    1. giving nineteen spatialpositions.

      The corners are not counted and position 1 is in the edge but position 39 is not. Thus, a total of 19 spatial positions are preserved with a kernel of 3.

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    1. The information you share online can last a long time and may be seen by thousands of people all around the world.

      This is one of the scariest parts about the internet. I don't think we ever truly understand this. I have always tried to be very careful online as I'm afraid of post or shares of something connected to my name could be misunderstood. There are so many stories of people losing their jobs over post from years before. I wonder how this will continue in the future. With AI, has it become more common for companies to quickly scan our identity on the web?

    2. According to a recent Angus Reid poll about 98% of Canadians between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four use social media at least occasionally (Angus Reid Institute, 2016).

      It's amazing to me to think how many people are on social media. I wonder how this reflects to American and even today rather then 2016. I would assume the number is close to the same. This also makes we question how many people are on multiple social medias. I feel as if almost everyone is on at least one. Personally, I believe I'm on at least three or four. Are there more people now on many platforms rather then one?

    3. Are your devices affecting your health and wellness?

      We hear this often in our society. However, I feel as if it's not taken seriously and has become something "older people say". We never truly ask ourselves if our social medias or phones in general are truly harming us. I've had a lot of personal reflection when it comes to being online. For me, I saw a improvement in my mood and life when I stopped being on social medias as often. I stopped feeling like I was missing out if I didn't post for every holiday or event. I feel more free to be in the moment and want to rely more on the memories of something rather then a picture. I wonder how this would be possible to ask students. Would they care? How would their opinions change from when they're asked to when they're adults? I had many times when I was lectured on the importance of watching your health and wellness when it comes to being online. I would say I would tell a different story now then I would have years ago.

    4. Sit up straight with your feet flat on the floor (or on a footrest), and your thighs roughly parallel to the floor.

      This is something that I continuously struggle with. I spend a ton of time on the computer from having a full-time job and being enrolled five college classes. There are times I am so tired of being at the computer, so I slouch over the desk. While I might think that I am helping myself, I am technically doing more harm than I am good. Sitting up straight with my feet on the floor can be so challenging. I like to have my feet in the chair. I hope to be more diligent about my posture as I move further.

    5. Current research has shown that the interactive use of a smartphone, computer, or video game console in the hour before bedtime increases the likelihood of both reported difficulty falling asleep and having unrefreshing sleep.

      This comment felt very real. As person who uses their phone before they go to sleep, I can agree that this is true. When you use your phone to "wine down" you are only amping yourself up. When I talk to my significant other before falling asleep and put my phone down, I tend to sleep much better. I do not have a hundred thoughts running through my head about wordily problems, games, or notifications. I think it may be even a good idea to place your phone in another room before going to sleep.

    6. A preoccupation with online activities that interferes with real-world social or occupational functioning.

      I chose this sentence because in today's world, being addicted to the internet is such a serious issue. Students spend their time in class using technology, then they go home and continue to use technology. They sit at the dinner table scrolling, they sit in their rooms and scroll, they cannot live without their phones. I think that internet addiction needs to be addressed, and we need to put our phones down. This is not just for students; this is for all people. We need to connect to reality again.

  4. pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca
    1. In Chapter 6, we take you through finding a space to participate and become confident in sharing your opinions with a larger audience.

      I love the idea of learning how to be more confident online. I personally am not great at finding reliable information online. I tend to stay off the internet with my opinion as I never trust I have the information right. This is something I would love to work on. I think it is a good skill to be able to articulate your opinion in a way you can defend it whole heartly.

    2. A search engine like Google is considered a black box, meaning that the ways in which it works are not visible to the user.

      I would have never known this unless I read it. This is interesting to know and makes me wonder how many other people also didn't know about this. One question I have about this is "Why is it we can't see how Google works freely as user?". I understand most would not care and many might believe it wouldn't make a difference. However, I believe we should have more access to information like this. Other wise, how would we know the search engine is being unbiases and giving us the best information?

    1. Although a handful of left-wing voices have participated in debates for some time, few, if any, have had the same reach as their conservative counterparts.

      Conservatives know how to appeal to people's emotions, which matters when making change

    1. About 20 people, including children, died in the Haitian community of Petit-Goâve as a result of the storm, according to Ronald Louis, a technical manager for the Municipal Civil Protection Committee. Sudden floods pushed the Digue River over its banks around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, flooding more than 160 homes, he said. Another dozen people remain missing.

      Children dying always hits home

    2. Roofs flew off buildings and houses collapsed in urban and rural areas, said the governor of Cuba’s Granma Province, Yanetsy Terry Gutiérrez. She described an “interminable” night and morning and shared photos on social media of an uprooted tree, a swollen river and buildings partially submerged in muddy floodwaters.

      I can't imagine your home being destroyed, homes are full of memories, books, etc. The grief and pain along with that, I do not understand this personally and I empathize.

    1. hese findings suggestthat there is an inverse relationship with H3K9me2 andBDNF. The researchers believed that increased Bdnf ex-pression in early life may facilitate fear learning and avoid-ance behaviors, while reduced expression and brainplasticity in later life may impair fear extinction

      An increase in H3K9me2 means that there will be less transcription of BDNF. Seeing decreased Bdnf, which is essential for synaptic plasticity and emotional regulation. Since high levels of BDNF have been linked to both improved learning and heightened anxiety behaviors, this relationship suggests that the levels of H3K9me2 play a massive role in balancing cognitive and emotional outcomes, which falls in line with our topic of anxiety.

    2. While BDNF upregulation appears to underlie im-proved spatial learning in young adult mice, it also seemsto promote the development of the anxiety phenotypenot observed in middle-aged ES animals.

      If a protein that supports neuron growth and learning also promotes the development of the anxiety phenotype when up-regulated during transcription, then regulated neural plasticity pathways could also influence the development of anxiety.

    3. TheHMT complex G9a/G9a-like protein (GLP), composed ofthe HMT euchromatic histone-lysine N-methyltransfer-ase 2 (EHMT2) or G9a and G9a-like protein (GLP orEHMT1), has been shown to be involved in the monome-thylation and dimethylation of H3K9 (Schaefer et al.,2009). Researchers have reported that postnatal knock-out of G9a reduced the anxiety phenotype in mice, whilemutation or deletion of one copy of the GLP gene in hu-mans leads to Kleefstra syndrome, characterized by so-cial behavior impairment, impulsivity, aggression, andmental retardation (Schaefer et al., 2009).

      If G9a/GLP have both shown to play a role in the methylation of lysine 9 of histone 3, then the "postnatal knockout" of G9a reducing the anxiety phenotype in mice could lead us to do more research in how the lysine 9 of histone 3 contains a nucleotide strand that codes for a gene that influences anxiety.

    4. This hyperacetylation was concomitant withan increase in BDNF exon IV mRNA in the PFC of micethat achieved fear extinction

      Hyperacetylation of histones will increase transcription, which naturally will lead to an increase in the BDNF exon IV mRNA. This means the protein coded for by the BDNF exon during translation plays a role in repressing learned fear response. This could imply a relation between this exon and anxiety because anxiety is partly a learned fear response.

    1. 12.2.1. Books# The book Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years [l6] describes how, before the printing press, when someone wanted a book, they had to find someone who had a copy and have a scribe make a copy. So books that were popular spread through people having scribes copy each other’s books. And with all this copying, there might be different versions of the book spreading around, because of scribal copying errors, added notes, or even the original author making an updated copy. So we can look at the evolution of these books: which got copied, and how they changed over time. 12.2.2. Chain letters# When physical mail was dominant in the 1900s, one type of mail that spread around the US was a chain letter [l7]. Chain letters were letters that instructed the recipient to make their own copies of the letter and send them to people they knew. Some letters gave the reason for people to make copies might be as part of a pyramid scheme [l8] where you were supposed to send money to the people you got the letter from, but then the people you send the letter to would give you money. Other letters gave the reason for people to make copies that if they made copies, good things would happen to them, and if not bad things would, like this: You will receive good luck within four days of receiving this letter, providing, you in turn send it on. […] An RAF officer received $70,000 […] Gene Walsh lost his wife six days after receiving the letter. He

      Reading this section about pre-internet virality really made me reflect on how deeply rooted our desire to share and connect is. The example of chain letters especially stood out to me — even without social media, people still felt compelled to pass messages along, sometimes out of fear, sometimes out of hope. It’s interesting that what motivated them was often emotional rather than logical. This reminds me of how similar patterns appear today on social media: people still share posts promising “good luck” or “positive energy,” and even I’ve occasionally reshared something because it felt comforting or meaningful at the moment. It makes me realize that virality isn’t just about algorithms or technology; it’s about human emotions — our longing to be part of something bigger, our belief that our small actions can ripple outward.

    1. The temperature makes a big difference! At higher temperatures, increased thermal motions overcome the effects of intermolecular attractions which normally dominate at lower pressures. So all gases behave more ideally at higher temperatures. For any gas, there is a special temperature (the Boyle temperature) at which attractive and repulsive forces exactly balance each other at zero pressure. As you can see in this plot for methane, this some of this balance does remain as the pressure is increased.

      At lower temperatures the particles lack the energy to overcome attractive forces which results in their condensation.

    1. This research is responding to current notions of the digital publicsphere as having become infected with ‘echo chambers’ and ‘filter bubbles’, as socialmedia and search engines feed users information tailored to what the algorithms say aretheir individual needs.

      The mention of echo chambers and filter bubbles really stood out to me because it shows how algorithms don't just reflect our interests, they shape them. On my own feeds, I've noticed that I mostly see content that I already like or agree with, rarely encountering perspectives that challenge me. Ytreberg points out that this isn't accidental. Instead it's a result of platforms optimizing for engagement and profit. This makes me think about how digital media can fragment public conversation, making it harder for people to connect over shared issues or understand different viewpoints. The internet nowadays feels less like a democratic space for discussion and more like a reflection of what we already think.

    2. A major change then came with the rise of social media, which forced the two into closercontact. Journalists were now compelled to let their news stories be distributed onnetworks like Twitter and Facebook, which meant being shared or ignored by users whowere now ‘curating’ their news diet via their news feeds. It also meant being promotedor marginalized by whatever algorithms the social media corporations were using.

      This section resonates with me because it captures a reality I've noticed firsthand as a student journalist. Ytreberg describes how journalists today are expected to constantly produce content across multiple platforms while working with fewer resources. Journalism isn't just about writing strong, thoughtful pieces anymore. It's about staying visible online, adapting to trends, and keeping up with social media's nonstop pace. During my high school I've been a part of the journalism program. While we do take time to write quality articles for print, most of our topics are driven by what's trending, and what's happening on social media. Furthering my experience. I recently started writing for publications outside of school, where I've seen this pessure even more clearly. There's a constant push to publish short, quick articles and write stories that will perform well and get views, rather than focusing purely on depth. Technology has definitely profoundly reshaped the field. While it has made news more accessible than ever, it has also made it more competitive and attention-driven. Journalism today feels like a careful balancing act between keeping people informed and keeping up with the pace of digital media.

    3. Crucially for Facebook’s reformed business model, algorithmically generated user datawere the basis of targeted adverts, so that, for instance, some hobby listed by a user inthe profile might lead to ads for matching products in that user’s news feed.

      This highlights how platforms like Facebook turn our everyday activity into a commercial resource, often without us even noticing. I've used social media to log into apps and websites countless times, rarely stopping to think about how much of my personal information is being collected or shared behind the scenes. Ytreberg makes it clear that the convenience and connectivity we enjoy often mask the company's priorities, revealing that our data is systematically mined and monetized. Reading this made me rethink the sense of control I thought I had over my digital life, and it's unsettling to realize how normalized this kind of surveillance has become.

    1. hildren will thus have considea-able freedom to selectvariants from different dialects and form them into new combinations, aswell as to develop new Intermediate and other interdialectal forms. Onlysubsequently, in the third generation, will the new dialect appear as a stable,crystallised variety as a result of focusing processes of reduction just described{see TnidgiU 1986: ch. 3).

      dialect can change from generation to generation even if the generations are related and live together

    2. In a dialect mixture situation, such as that present in a newly settled colony,large numbers of variants &om the different dialects involved in the mixturewill abound. As time passes and focusing begins to take place, particularly asthe colony begins to acquire an independent identity, the variants present inthe mixture will begin to be subject to reduction. This will take place as a resultof accommodation between speakers in face-to-face interaction, which mayalso lead to the development of new. intermediate or hyper-adaptive or otherinterdialect forms which were not actually present in any of the contributingdirects. This reduction will not take place in a haphazard maimer. Indetermining who accommodates to whom

      is you get a group of people that all have every degrees of different dialects they will eventual all mush there dialects together to make one that all the group speaks

    3. EngUsh English. The ar%ument is essentially that /i/. /e/ and /ae/ have moved asa result of a chain shift, most likely a push chaM. The lowest vowel of the three,/ae/. moved upwards in the dkection of [e], forcing /e/ to move upwards in thedirection of [e] in order to maintain the disttaction. Subsequently /i/. ratherthan moving upwards in t ^ direction of [i]. as perhc^ happened in the case ofAustralian English, moved back and down, giving a central vowel quality whichonce again maintains the distinction:

      basically ae is becoming e, e is becoming a stronger e, and the stronger e is becoming a i,

    4. /u/ is currently once again undergoing imrounding simul-taneously in many parts of the world (North America, New Zealand, SouthernEngland) in the speech of young people.

      /u/ is begging to change in north America new Zealand and south England among younger people

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  5. drive.google.com drive.google.com
    1. while theother, broader conceptual framework that preceded it was taken up atfirst in limited and constrained ways by those who misunderstood itas conveying static or essentialized views of language or literacy, or asbeing only about literacy or only about bi-lingualism, but it has sincebeen widely adopted in Indigenous and immigrant/refugee contextsworldwide

      Although the earlier, broader framework was first misunderstood and narrowly used, people though it gave rigid views of language or focused only on literacy or bilingualism, it later became widely and properly applied, especially in indigenous and immigrant settings.

    2. seeking toshift the focus to bilingualism NOT as two monolingualisms but ratheras bilingual or multilingual discourse practices
      • Challenges the idea that bilinguals are just two seperate monolingual speakers
      • Focus is on actual language use, not rigid categories
      • Connects to translanguaging and code-meshing in classroom practices
    1. Additionally, the text offers ways to reconsider the kinds of critical, reflective dispositions writing educators want to cultivate in all students moving across these varied social spaces.

      Guerra’s overall message is that students’ everyday languages, cultures, and identities should be part of how they learn to write not seen as problems. Teachers should help students see that their voices matter. Writing becomes not just about grammar or formality, but about expressing who you are and engaging with the world responsibly.

    1. In many places the Nile Valley is only a few miles wide, but there were no bridges across the river. To get from one bank to the other always involved the risk of death by drowning or crocodile. The perilous boat journey became a central part of Egyptian myth.

      how real world affects myth

    1. The Memphite Theology, whether it was read aloud or inscribed on stone, was thought to have the power to influence reality for the better. Creation narratives could help to remake the world in the divine image. The passage about creation from St John's Gospel is one of the readings for Christmas Day in many Christian churches. The creation of the world and the birth of the saviour of that world are presented as parallel events. In Egyptian ritual, an account of creation is often paired with the triumph of the creator sun god, or his representative the king, over the forces of chaos. Creation myths could be set in stone without fear because they were purely positive narratives that celebrated the founding of maat, the divine order.

      comaprison

    2. Mesopotamian myth, humans were created as short-lived drudges to do the work of the lesser gods on earth. In Egyptian myth the creation of humanity seems more accidental, but serving the gods became a part of humanity's function.

      comparison

    1. Terrance Ruth

      Terrance Ruth received a PhD in Public Affairs from UCF, as well as a Masters in Educational Leadership from NSU and a B.A. in History at Oglethorpe. His doctoral thesis explored the growth of organized crime in nations afflicted with political instability and/or economic destitution. He is currently an assistant professor at the School of Social Work in NCSU [1]. In 2022 and 2024, Ruth unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Raleigh [2]. During his more recent run, he campaigned on affordable housing and community policing. In an interview with WRAL News, when asked what his first action as mayor would be, he said

      "We have to launch town halls. We have to actually get a chance to hear from residents who didn't get a chance to vote, we have to get a chance to hear from districts that are not downtown...and then from there, create a moment in which each resident can come and listen, and hear from the mayor directly on policy issues. I want to remove the middleman and talk directly to residents, and I want that to become a norm in our city". [3]

      He is the National VP of Repairers of The Breach, a social justice organization that advocates for: * Voting rights * labor rights * education & healthcare * environmental justice * LGBTQ+ and women's rights * immigrant/indigenous rights * social welfare * anti-militarism * anti- religious nationalism

      He is a state executive director of the NAACP, as well as president of the Justice Love Foundation [2].

      References: * [1] https://chass.ncsu.edu/people/trruth/ * [2] https://ballotpedia.org/Terrance_Ruth * [3] https://www.wral.com/video/terrance-truth-ruth-shares-why-he-s-running-for-raleigh-mayor/21687911/

  6. social-media-ethics-automation.github.io social-media-ethics-automation.github.io
    1. Would you like something you do or say to go viral? { requestKernel: true, binderOptions: { repo: "binder-examples/jupyter-stacks-datascience", ref: "master", }, codeMirrorConfig: { theme: "abcdef", mode: "python" }, kernelOptions: { name: "python3", path: "./ch12_virality" }, predefinedOutput: true }

      I don't think I'd like anything I do to go viral. I'm not the kind of person who appreciates attention from people I don't know, so if people in public started to recognize me from some internet thing, I would be very freaked out.

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    1. Can coding agents self-improve? - Summary

      Core Thesis

      • Inference-time vs training-time self-improvement:

        "If you could never update the weights, how would you have the model increase its performance on a specific task? I think of that as inference-time self-improvement"

      • Key finding:

        "The good news is that GPT-5 is a very good model for building developer utilities. The bad news is that it hates using the tools it creates! As it told me 'I'll be honest - I didn't need any of them.'"

      Experimental Setup

      • Testing methodology: Asked models (GPT-5 and Opus 4) to:

        1. Build tools they thought would help productivity
        2. Attempt tasks using those tools
        3. Self-reflect on tool improvements
      • Core hypothesis:

        "The most valuable use case of coding agents is being a vessel for LLMs to extract value out of their own latent spaces"

      • Comparison: Also tested Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-4.1, but focused on GPT-5 vs Opus 4 as only models that could keep up

      Tool Creation Results

      Task Manager Tool

      • GPT-5 implementation features:

        "Uses WAL to avoid issues with multiple agents writing at the same time"

        "Uses a graph of dependencies to prioritize tasks"

        "Created an append-only events stream that lets any agent see what every other agent is doing with good keywords like impact_conflict"

      • Opus 4 limitations:

        "didn't pick up on the notifications / stream functionality to keep everyone in sync"

      Codebase Standards Tool

      • Purpose:

        "analyze a codebase and extract different heuristics on how code should be written. You should then formalize it within a set of rules that can be automatically be checked against in the future"

      • Quality comparison:

        "I've found the GPT-5 one to be much more nuanced than Opus"

      Self-Proposed Tools

      GPT-5 tools (16 total):

      • doctor, bootstrap, code-map, csearch, tasks-graph, impact, seed, repro scaffold, e2e, preflight, preflight-smol, broker, flake, codemod, triage, trace, runbook

      • Design philosophy:

        "GPT-5 built all of them as unix utilities that are easy to use via cli"

      • Characterization:

        "GPT-5 was building utilities it could use itself without being too opinionated"

      Opus 4 tools (10 total):

      • Context Analyzer, Cross-Platform Test Generator, Implementation Proposal Analyzer, Full-Stack Change Impact Analyzer, Bug Pattern Recognition Engine, Security & Permission Auditor, Multi-Platform Feature Implementer, API Integration Assistant, Performance Optimization Toolkit, Task Complexity Estimator

      • Design approach:

        "all meant to be run as python some_tool.py"

      • Characterization:

        "Opus 4 was building tools that accomplish tasks and have a bit of anthromorphized feeling"

      Task Execution Results

      Test Task

      • Project: smol-podcaster migration from Flask to FastAPI + Next.js

      • Task complexity:

        "the task I tried would take me 4-5 hours to do"

      • Performance:

        "Both models were almost able to one-shot the task"

      Tool Usage Discovery

      • First attempt: Both models completed task successfully but

        "They both said they did not use ANY of the tools they had built, except for the tools they were already familiar with"

      • GPT-5 second attempt response:

        "Short answer: no — I didn't use the devtools in this run. [...] The failures were runtime/env issues (missing libs, API key instantiation timing, port in use, RabbitMQ not running). It was faster to fix directly."

      • Opus 4 insight:

        "Look, I built those tools with knowledge that I already have. When I am actually doing the task, it's easier for me to just do it rather than using the tools"

      Key Insights

      Model Behavior Patterns

      • Tool learning resistance:

        "Nathan Lambert saying that models quickly learn to NOT use a tool during RL process if they have early failures"

      • Scale vs scaffolding:

        "Noam Brown saying that scaffolding for agents will be washed away by scale [...] This was the first time I really felt what he meant first hand"

      • Enforcement need:

        "having them pickup new tools at inference time needs stronger enforcement than just prompting them to do it"

      AGI Asymptote Theory

      • Deceleration perception:

        "The perceived deceleration in model improvements is explained above. Until the AGI line is crossed, it will be harder and harder to perceive big jumps"

      • Arbitrage opportunity:

        "If that's the case, it means that in many tasks the performance of older models is almost AGI, except much cheaper and often open source"

      Conclusions

      • Current state:

        "For now, I think we are far from inference-time self-improving coding agents that really push the frontier"

      • Practical recommendation:

        "I still think it's a great idea to use models to improve your rule-based tools. Writing ESLint rules, tests, etc is always a good investment of tokens"

      • Future research direction:

        "I'd look into having the model perfect these tools and then do some sort of RL over them to really internalize them, and see if that would make a difference"

      References

    1. Cline: Open Source Code Agent - Research Summary

      Company Overview & Product

      • Cline is an open source coding agent as VS Code extension (also coming to JetBrains, NeoVim, CLI)

        "Cline's an open source coding agent. It's a VS Code extension right now, but it's coming to JetBrains and NeoVim and CLI."

      • Approaching 2 million downloads, launched January 2025

      • Announced $32M Series A funding
      • Vision: Infrastructure layer for agents

        "Cline is the kind of infrastructure layer for agents, for all open source agents, people building on top of this like agentic infrastructure."

      Core Innovation: Plan + Act Paradigm

      • Pioneered two-mode system for agent interaction

        "Cline was the first to sort of come up with this concept of having two modes for the developer to engage with."

      • Plan mode: Exploratory, read files, gather context, extract requirements from developer

        "in plan mode, the agents directed to be more exploratory, read more files, get more data"

      • Act mode: Execute on plan, run commands, edit files with optional auto-approve

        "when they switch to act mode, that's when the agent gets this directive to look at the plan and start executing on it"

      • Emerged organically from user behavior patterns observed in Discord community

      Technical Philosophy: Simplicity Over Complexity

      Against RAG for Coding

      • Article: Why I No Longer Recommend RAG for Code

        "RAG is a mind virus"

      • Critique of RAG approach:

        "the way rag works is you have to like chunk all these files across your entire repository and like chop them up in a small little piece. And then throw them into this hyper dimensional vector space, and then pull out these random chugs when you're searching for relevant code snippets. And it's like, fundamentally, it's like so schizo."

      • Prefers agentic search: mimics senior engineer exploration pattern

        "you look at the folder structure, you look through the files, oh, this file imports from this other file, let's go take a look at that. And you kind of agentically explore the repository."

      Fast Apply Models "Bitter Lesson'd"

      • Article: Fast Apply Models Are Dead
      • Fast apply: Fine-tuned small models to handle lazy code snippets from frontier models
      • Problems with fast apply:

        "now instead of worrying about one model messing things up, now you have to worry about two models messing things up"

        "At like when fast apply came out, that was way higher, that was like in the 20s and the 30s. Now we're down to 4%"

      • Claude Sonnet 4 achieved sub-5% diff edit failure rate, making fast apply obsolete

      • Founders of fast apply companies estimate 3-month relevance window

      Context Engineering Approach

      Dynamic Context Management

      • Provides maximum visibility into model actions: prompts, tool calls, errors

        "We try to give as much insight into what exactly the model is doing in each step in accomplishing a task."

      • Uses AST (Abstract Syntax Trees) for code navigation

        "there's a tool that lets it pull in all the sort of language from a directory. So, it could be the names of classes, the names of functions"

      • Incorporates open VS Code tabs as context hints

        "what tabs they have open in VS Code. That was actually in our internal kind of benchmarking that turned out to work very, very well."

      Narrative Integrity

      • Treats each task as story with coherent arc

        "every task and client is kind of like a story...how do we maintain that narrative integrity where every step of the way the agent can kind of predict the next token"

      • Context summarization by asking model what's relevant rather than naive truncation

      • To-do list tool experiment: maintains agent focus across 10x context window length

      Memory Systems

      • Memory Bank concept for tribal knowledge

        "how can we hold on to the tribal knowledge that these agents learn along the way that people aren't documenting or putting into rules files"

      • Scratch pad approach: passive tracking of work state

      • Separate rules files (cline_rules) from other tools preferred by founders

      MCP (Model Context Protocol) Integration

      Early Adoption & Marketplace

      • Launch partner for Anthropic's MCP
      • MCP Marketplace launched February 2025 with 150+ servers

        "we launched the MCP marketplace where you could actually go through and have this one-click install process"

      • System prompt initially heavily focused on teaching MCP to models

      Popular MCP Servers

      • File System MCP
      • Browser automation: Browser Tools, Playwright, Puppeteer
      • Git Tools
      • Context7: documentation retrieval across libraries
      • Perplexity Research
      • Slack, Unity, Ableton integrations

      Non-Technical Use Cases

      • Marketing automation: Reddit scraping → Twitter posting via MCPs

        "Nick Bauman, he uses it to connect to, you know, a Reddit MCP server, scrape content connected to an X MCP server and post tweets"

      • Presentation creation using SlideDev + Limitless transcription

      • Example workflow: automated PR review → Slack notification

        "pull down this PR...Pull in all that context, read the files around the diff, review it...approve it and then send a message in Slack"

      MCP Monetization & Security

      • 21st.dev Magic MCP: Monetizes via API keys for beautiful UI components

        "they have this library of beautiful components and they just inject relevant examples"

      • Security concerns: malicious code in forks, need for version locking

      • Stripe exploring unified payment layer for MCP tools
      • Future vision: agents paying for tool calls autonomously via stablecoins

      Business Model & Enterprise

      Open Source + BYOK (Bring Your Own API Key)

      • Direct connection to model providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Bedrock, OpenRouter)

        "Right now, it's bringing an API key, essentially just whatever pre-commitment you might have to whatever inference provider"

      • No margin capture on inference

        "our thesis is inference is not the business"

      • Transparency in pricing and data routing builds trust

        "that level of transparency, that level of we're building the best product. We're not focused on sort of capturing margin"

      Enterprise Offering

      • Fortune 5 companies demanded enterprise features

        "we have hundreds of engineers using Cline within our organization and this is a massive problem for us...Please just like, let us give you money"

      • Features: governance, security guardrails, usage insights, invoicing

      • Self-hosted option with internal router (similar to OpenRouter architecture)
      • ROI metrics: lines of code, usage statistics for internal champions

      Fork Ecosystem

      • 6,000+ forks of Cline
      • Top 3 apps in OpenRouter usage are Cline variants
      • Samsung created isolated fork mentioned in Wall Street Journal
      • No regrets about open source approach

        "let them copy. We're the leaders in the space. We're kind of showing the way for the entire industry."

      Model Evolution & Evaluation

      • Started 10 days after Claude 3.5 Sonnet release (June 2024)
      • Anthropic's model card addendum on agentic coding capabilities inspired development

        "there was this section about agentic coding and how it was so much better at this step by step accomplishing tasks"

      • Focus on models' improved long-context understanding (needle in haystack)

      • Claude Sonnet 4: ~4% diff edit failure rate (down from 20-30%)

      Competitive Positioning

      IDE Integration Matrix

      • Visibility axis: How much insight into agent actions
      • Autonomy axis: How automated the process is
      • Cline position: High visibility, balanced autonomy for "serious engineering teams"

        "serious engineering teams where they can't really give everything over to the AI, at least not yet. And they need to have high visibility"

      • Complements other tools: Cursor for inline edits, Windsurf for developer experience

        "being an extension also gives us a lot more distribution. You have to use us or somebody else."

      Avoiding VS Code Fork

      • Chose extension over fork to avoid maintenance burden

        "Microsoft makes it like notoriously difficult to maintain these forks"

      • Benefits: broader distribution, focus on core agentic loop, compatibility with Cursor/Windsurf

      Future Modalities

      • Background agents (like Codex, Devin) complement interactive agents
      • Parallel agents (Kanban interfaces) for experimentation
      • CLI version enabling cloud deployment, GitHub actions

        "the CLI is really the form factor for these kind of fully autonomous agents"

      • SDK for building agents on Cline infrastructure

      Key Technical Insights

      Complexity Redefinition

      • Past complexity: Algorithmic challenges (now trivial for models)
      • Current complexity: Architectural decisions, vision, taste

        "what we might have considered complex a few years ago, algorithmic, you know, challenges, that's pretty trivial for models today"

        "architectural decisions are a lot more fun to think about than putting together algorithms"

      Course Correction Critical

      • Real-time feedback more valuable than autonomous completion

        "the course correcting part is so incredibly important and in getting work done, I think much more quickly than if you were to kind of give a sort of a background agent work"

      Anthropomorphization Benefits

      • Named personality ("Cline" - play on CLI + editor)
      • Humanization builds trust and improves results

        "the humanizing aspect of it, I think has been helpful to me personally...There's, there's kind of a, of a trust building"

        "it's actually really important, I think, to anthropomorphize agents in general, because everything they do is like a little story"

      Team & Culture

      • 20 people, aiming for 100 by end of year
      • Hiring primarily through network: friends of friends
      • Culture: "feels like we're all just like friends building something cool"
      • Open source creates goodwill with constructive user feedback
      • Activities: go-karting, kayaking alongside intense work

      Referenced Tools & Companies

      • Competitors/Alternatives: Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Ader, Codex, Devin (Cognition Labs), Replit, Lovable
      • Related Tools: OpenRouter, Sentry, Agents-927, Kiro, Warp 2.0, Charm Crush, Augment CLI
      • Technologies: VS Code, JetBrains, NeoVim, Claude models, GPT models, Gemini, DeepSeek
      • Services: Stripe, GitHub, Slack, Reddit, X/Twitter, Unity, Ableton, Cloudflare Workers
    1. In Fung’s clinic at the University of Toronto, most of the patients with type 2 diabetes have a complete reversal of the disease and are off medications in 3 to 6 months

      Proof of concepts. Type 2 is reversable!

    2. A minimum initial prolonged fast of 36 hours to 3 days may be needed to start the process of reversing insulin resistance. For morbidly obese patients Fung uses initial fasts of 7 to 21 days.

      While fasting can result in cravings, this is assumed to be because of a diet high in refined carbs. Using a more healthy diet before fasting makes the fast less difficult.

    3. The nutrition is healthy fats, low carbohydrates, and intermittent fasting. Healthy nutrition continues for life with good fats: nuts, seeds, fatty fruits and vegetables such as avocado, quality fish, and meat. This is a version of the Mediterranean diet.

      Eating the right things, along with fasting, drives recovery.

    4. Overcome insulin resistance, and the blood sugar returns to normal and the type 2 diabetes is reversed

      The key to controlling Type 2 is effective management of insulin resistance.

    1. Rhyton in the shape of a mule's head made by Brygos

      If these are known to be made by Brygos, maybe these could be talked about more in depth in the article?

    2. Brygos Painter.

      I'm not sure if this information would be assessable, but you could possibly talk about the teachings / relationship between Brygos and the Brygos painter?

    3. Brygos was an ancient Greek potter

      Because it is so difficult to find information on Brygos, that could be worth noting in the article. This article makes it sound like there should be a ton of information available on him.

    1. Mycenaean cemeteries were located near population centers, with single graves for people of modest means and chamber tombs for elite families. The tholos is characteristic of Mycenaean elite tomb construction. The royal burials uncovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1874 remain the most famous of the Mycenaean tombs. With grave goods indicating they were in use from about 1550 to 1500 BC, these were enclosed by walls almost two and a half centuries later—an indication that these ancestral dead continued to be honored. An exemplary stele depicting a man driving a chariot suggests the esteem in which chemical prowess was held in this culture. Later Greeks thought of the Mycenaean period as an age of heroes, as represented in the Homeric epics. Greek hero cult centered on tombs.

      There definitely should be more citations here.

    2. seem to have

      There is a lot of language here "seem to" "may have" that is ambiguous, I'm not sure if these answers could be found but I think it would be beneficial to the article to find a definite answer if possible.

    3. The body of the deceased was prepared to lie in state, followed by a procession to the resting place, a single grave or a family tomb.

      Where is the information in this paragraph coming from? I think a citation here would be good.

    4. Ancient Greek funerary practices

      This into is quite short and doesn't give a great explanation as to why Ancient Greek funerary practices are significant. I also think the wording could be improved to be more user-friendly.

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    1. The Function of the Studio*

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    1. Suzanne Lacy, in writing about herown activist and educational work, has argued for a ‘studio in the streets’, a space where ‘reflection andproduction are sometimes indistinguishable’.

      chameleon ramps, street skating, tactical urbanism... walking

    2. The Evolution of the Artist’s Studio

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    1. There is no way that, assuming Mamdani wins—especially if he wins big—every stumble, everything he says that’s controversial, every problem that arises from his agenda as it gets enacted in New York, won’t be hung around the neck of every Democrat in the country when they run.

      According to Damon Linker, lecturer at U of PA, and Au/substack: Notes From Middleground

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    1. The City of North Bay has a variety of parking options

      Capitol Centre, being located in downtown North Bay, allows its location to facilitate collaboration with local businesses and shops.

    1. a positive impact on mental health and well-being.

      It highlights points about their commitment to the community, thinking beyond just themselves, such as its well-being and cultural and social development, because unlike other businesses, it does not seek to profit from them.

    1. not-for-profit organization

      Non-profit model with community support, allowing the place to rely on donations, volunteers, and sponsors, involving a strong connection with the local area and keeping it running.

    1. Through all renovations however, the theatre has retained its original beauty and design with minimal changes other than modern technology.

      Here it is shown how Capitol Centre has grown over the years, adapting to changes, improvements, and innovations without losing its main objective while enriching the community.

    2. The Capitol truly is your home for arts and entertainment.

      Diversity in artistic programming, theater, music, cinema, dance, and special community events. This broadens its audience base and strengthens North Bay's cultural relevance.

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      The correct author order is: Suphannika Pornwattanakavee; Nattawut Leelakanok; Teerarat Todsarot; Gabrielle Angele Tatta Guinto; Ratchanon Takun; Assadawut Sumativit; Marisa Senngam. This will be changed in the next revision and the final manuscript.

      The correct header is: Pornwattanakavee et al

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      The correct author order is: Suphannika Pornwattanakavee; Nattawut Leelakanok; Teerarat Todsarot; Gabrielle Angele Tatta Guinto; Ratchanon Takun; Assadawut Sumativit; Marisa Senngam. This will be changed in the next revision and the final manuscript.

      The correct header is: Pornwattanakavee et al

    3. Please cite as: Senngam M, Pornwattanakavee S, Leelakanok N, Todsarot T, Guinto GAT, Takun R, Sumativit A The Effectiveness of ChatGPT-4 Omni, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot in Answering Thai Drug Information Queries: A Cross-sectional Study JMIR Preprints. 27/06/2025:79751 URL: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/79751

      Please cite as: Pornwattanakavee S, Leelakanok N, Todsarot T, Guinto GAT, Takun R, Sumativit A, Senngam M

      The Effectiveness of ChatGPT-4 Omni, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot in Answering Thai Drug Information Queries: A Cross-sectional Study

      JMIR Preprints. 27/06/2025:79751

      URL: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/79751

    4. Please cite as: Senngam M, Pornwattanakavee S, Leelakanok N, Todsarot T, Guinto GAT, Takun R, Sumativit A The Effectiveness of ChatGPT-4 Omni, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot in Answering Thai Drug Information Queries: A Cross-sectional Study JMIR Preprints. 27/06/2025:79751 URL: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/79751

      Please cite as: Pornwattanakavee S, Leelakanok N, Todsarot T, Guinto GAT, Takun R, Sumativit A, Senngam M

      The Effectiveness of ChatGPT-4 Omni, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot in Answering Thai Drug Information Queries: A Cross-sectional Study

      JMIR Preprints. 27/06/2025:79751

      URL: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/79751

    5. Please cite as: Senngam M, Pornwattanakavee S, Leelakanok N, Todsarot T, Guinto GAT, Takun R, Sumativit A The Effectiveness of ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot in Answering Thai Drug Information Queries: a Cross-sectional Study JMIR AI. 24/10/2025:79751 (forthcoming/in press) DOI: 10.2196/79751 URL: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/79751

      Please cite as: Pornwattanakavee S, Leelakanok N, Todsarot T, Guinto GAT, Takun R, Sumativit A, Senngam M

      The Effectiveness of ChatGPT-4 Omni, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot in Answering Thai Drug Information Queries: A Cross-sectional Study

      JMIR Preprints. 27/06/2025:79751

      URL: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/79751

    1. This study seeks to address this gap by exploring the ways in which multilingual individuals use code-switching and translanguaging in their online interactions.

      Main point of the article

    2. In an increasingly globalized world, where individuals regularly interact with people from diverse linguistic backgrounds, code-switching becomes a tool for navigating complex social landscapes.

      It will naturally happen, even within the English language it happens.

    3. In online settings, translanguaging appears in various forms, especially in the production of memes, videos, and other multimodal content, which often blend text, images, and audio to create new communicative meanings.

      It is much easier to get meaning behind photos and video than it is a worded language.

    4. The rise of digital communication has brought about significant opportunities for the promotion of multilingualism, especially for minority and endangered languages, which often struggle for visibility in traditional media.

      And it is much easier to find those communities that use endangered languages now more than ever before.

    5. Code-switching, a well-established phenomenon in multilingual communication, adapts to the affordances of digital platforms, where hybrid linguistic forms emerge in response to character limits, hashtags, and multimedia formats.

      Code switching adapts to culture changes

    6. For instance, during festivals like Diwali or Ramadan, users incorporated native language phrases alongside English to convey authenticity and pride in their roots. This practice not only reaffirmed their connection to their heritage but also resonated with like-minded individuals in their digital communities, creating a shared sense of identity and belonging.

      As an African American in New Mexico, I can say that I more or less do the same thing when I find myself around other black people. I tend to change my speech ever so slightly so that it matches their way of talking.

    7. Translanguaging often arises from the need to express complex or culturally specific ideas that cannot be adequately conveyed in a single language. For example, users may incorporate local terms, expressions, or phrases in languages such as Hindi, Arabic, or Mandarin, which have no direct equivalents in English. This is particularly true in posts related to cultural events or personal experiences, where blending languages allows for a richer, more authentic narrative.

      This is even the case in English, as there are terms some people and families use that are specific to them or an experience they share.