Flutterby™! (short)

How AI Impacts Skill Formation Judy Hanwen Shen, Alex Tamkin

Figure 6 shows that while using AI to complete our coding task did not significantly improve task completion time, the level of skill formation gained by completing the task, measured by our quiz, is significantly reduced (Cohen d=0.738, p=0.01). There is a 4.15 point difference between the means of the treatment and control groups. For a 27-point quiz, this translates into a 17% score difference or 2 grade points. Controlling for warm-up task time as a covariate, the treatment effect remains significant (Cohen’s d=0.725, p=0.016).

Via Lobste.rs

Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Minneapolis" seems to be running about 110 BPM, which means it's probably possible to do a 126BPM version for a square dance singing call.

Guessing that's not gonna come from any of the traditional producers, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w

The 2020s just keep getting weirder and weirder: Man allegedly posed as FBI agent in apparent attempt to spring Luigi Mangione from prison

The problem of the future is gonna be all of the outdated documentation for Google products polluting the information space, making us think that it's still possible to use all of these deprecated features.

Sounds like it reached market penetration quickly. It has done one thing, I am way less likely to click on a video in Facebook now, because the disappointment factor after doing so and finding out it's a bad Sora render is so high.

Tech Crunch: OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch

Powered by OpenAI’s video generation model Sora 2, the iOS version topped 100,000 installs on day one, despite being an invite-only experience. It soon hit the No. 1 spot on the U.S. App Store, and it reached the 1 million downloads milestone faster than ChatGPT. At the time, Sora’s app was iOS-only and still required an invite, making its success all the more impressive.

Via.

Just a reminder that all of the mediocre grant applicants are running their projects through "AI", which will create a bland neutral description of what they plan to do.

If you hope to stand out, avoiding LLMs altogether is the only logical option.

A lawless agency: JUAN T.R., Petitioner, v. KRISTI NOEM, Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY; TODD LYONS,Acting Director of U.S. Immigration andCustoms Enforcement; and DAVID EASTERWOOD, Acting Director, St. PaulField Office, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Respondents.

That does not end the Court’s concerns, however. Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases. The extent of ICE’s noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated. This list is confined to orders issued since January 1, 2026, and the list was hurriedly compiled by extraordinarily busy judges. Undoubtedly, mistakes were made, and orders that should have appeared on this list were omitted.

Reporting on the recent poll: PC World: DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don’t want AI

This one gets a top level pin in my browser: Identiconn™ Connector Identification Utility