Vol. I · No. 20SAT, MAY 9, 2026
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Deflation-Free Optimal Scoring

Deflation-Free Sparse Optimal Scoring reformulates linear discriminant analysis with simultaneous orthogonal constraint estimation for high-dimensional feature selection.

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Toothcomb is an open-source tool for analysing and fact-checking speech in real time.

Give Toothcomb a speech transcript and it will fact-check and analyse it. If you have an MP3 file of someone speaking, it can generate the transcript for you. You can also stream audio in real time from your device's microphone. You can see a [demo running here](https://toothcomb.codebox.net/) and read more about the project on the [home page](https://codebox.net/pages/toothcomb-ai-fact-checker). Analysis is performed in three stages: 1. The text is broken up into small parts, each usually a few sentences in length. These parts are sent, one at a time, to the Claude Opus API with [detailed...

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Quoting Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias argues for AI-assisted professional software development over autonomous "vibe coding," prioritizing human-managed productivity gains.

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After I opened a complaint, anthropic refunded me in credits instead of money (without letting me choose), closed my ticket saying everything was fine with my 5x Max account… and now my paid plan is gone before my billing cycle ended...

I was overcharged by more than $100, so I opened a billing ticket last month. They only responded yesterday and said everything looked fine because they refunded me $100 in credits. They didn’t give me any option to choose between a refund to my card or credits, but I can let that go... The worst part is what happened next: due to what seems like an error on their side, I lost access to my plan. I no longer have 5x Max and my account now shows as Free. This is insane. Do I really have to wait another month to fix this while not having access to the service I already paid for? My billing c...

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