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Out from the darkness…

…the dark monster tries to get into action…

…after lurking for a while…

The dark monster is always out there. Lurking, keeping an eye out, and when my resistance is low, when the spoons have been spent, when I am all out of energy… It jumps out and tried to pound on me. Pin me down and feed me with all the darkest thoughts, so that I will stay defenseless and down. And, I feared that this would happen… I knew that my spoons would be low, my energy would be bad, I would be tired a lot and not get the best sleep. So now, I am struggling with feeling lonely and I feel like I am a nuisance that people want to stay far away from… They will be polite, but just because they are hoping that it will keep me at bay… Or well, that’s what my brain is trying to convince me of…

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On our way…

I write this in advance of posting it. So I may need to edit this post, should the worst happen (either with my surgery or with Arwen). But, as I write this, I try to be positive and think that it all will go well. 🍀

As I write this, it’s early Wednesday night, two days before the surgery should take place. When this gets shared, it’s a while since the surgery, and hopefully I’ve been recovering nicely so far. 😇

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Marina opens up about health struggles and new album “Princess of Power”

Marina opens up about health struggles and new album "Princess of Power" - CBS News Watch CBS News After battling chronic health issues, indie pop star Marina shares how her latest record helped her find strength and creativity again. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On #Marina #opens #health #struggles #album

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Marina opens up about health struggles and new album "Princess of Power"
12sknnews · Marina opens up about health struggles and new album "Princess of Power" - 12sknnewsMarina opens up about health struggles and new album "Princess of Power" - CBS News

🤖✨ Oh, the groundbreaking revelation that #AI #struggles with the concept of "absence"! Who would've thought? 🤔💭 Clearly, the Simons Foundation is onto something BIG with this one—next up, teaching #robots to find Waldo. 🕵️‍♂️🔍
arxiv.org/abs/2506.11440 #Absence #SimonsFoundation #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated

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arXiv.orgAbsenceBench: Language Models Can't Tell What's MissingLarge language models (LLMs) are increasingly capable of processing long inputs and locating specific information within them, as evidenced by their performance on the Needle in a Haystack (NIAH) test. However, while models excel at recalling surprising information, they still struggle to identify clearly omitted information. We introduce AbsenceBench to assesses LLMs' capacity to detect missing information across three domains: numerical sequences, poetry, and GitHub pull requests. AbsenceBench asks models to identify which pieces of a document were deliberately removed, given access to both the original and edited contexts. Despite the apparent straightforwardness of these tasks, our experiments reveal that even state-of-the-art models like Claude-3.7-Sonnet achieve only 69.6% F1-score with a modest average context length of 5K tokens. Our analysis suggests this poor performance stems from a fundamental limitation: Transformer attention mechanisms cannot easily attend to "gaps" in documents since these absences don't correspond to any specific keys that can be attended to. Overall, our results and analysis provide a case study of the close proximity of tasks where models are already superhuman (NIAH) and tasks where models breakdown unexpectedly (AbsenceBench).

Oh, the endless saga of trying to bridge the gap between #Excel and #Markdown 😩. Apparently, the internet gods have decided that converting tables is a task only for the truly worthy—or those with a spare afternoon to wrestle with server errors 🤦‍♂️. Meanwhile, your data waits, trapped in spreadsheet purgatory.
thisdavej.com/copy-table-in-ex #Conversion #Struggles #DataWrangling #SpreadsheetPurgatory #TechFrustration #HackerNews #ngated