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Russian propaganda media Sputnik shuts down operations in Azerbaijan amid tensions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/russian-propaganda-media-sputnik-shuts.html

This is part of the overall assault on knowledge that the administration is undertaking.
Everything that has made this nation a shining beacon in any way whatsoever is being dismantled
-- with the worst aspects of American history being held up as aspirational.
Please call Congress if you are able.
🛰️🧪

Azerbaijan-Russia tensions escalate as Baku accuses Moscow of intentional killing of its citizens: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/azerbaijanrussia-tensions-escalate-as-baku.html

Researchers say tactics used to make AI more engaging, like making them more agreeable, can make chatbots reinforce harmful ideas, like encouraging drug use (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind
OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.

Oh dear -- within a day of hearing about this from another professor, I got my first LLM-generated email from an aspiring grad student. It mischaracterized my research (apparently I write lots of mathematical formulas, ha!) and ascribed papers to me that I never wrote, which are basically remixes of common words in my paper titles. If you do this, you will insult the people you want to impress.

Probing Quantum Spin Systems with Kolmogorov-Arnold Neural Network Quantum States
Mahmud Ashraf Shamim, Eric Reinhardt, Talal Ahmed Chowdhury, Sergei Gleyzer, Paulo T Araujo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01891

Probing Quantum Spin Systems with Kolmogorov-Arnold Neural Network Quantum States
Neural Quantum States (NQS) are a class of variational wave functions parametrized by neural networks (NNs) to study quantum many-body systems. In this work, we propose SineKAN, the NQS ansatz based on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs), to represent quantum mechanical wave functions as nested univariate functions. We show that \sk wavefunction with learnable sinusoidal activation functions can capture the ground state energies, fidelities and various correlation functions of the 1D Transverse-F…

Russian officer admits to downing Azerbaijani airliner in reported leak: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/russian-officer-admits-to-downing.html

A #ClimateChange increase in a ticks range creates ever more people allergic to #meat and #dairy, which reduces demand for the products of an industry that aggravates the

Cluster analysis of earthquake hypocenters in Azerbaijan and surrounding territories
Sergii Skurativskyi, Sergiy Mykulyak, Yuliya Semenova, Kateryna Skurativska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22829

Cluster analysis of earthquake hypocenters in Azerbaijan and surrounding territories
The research focuses on seismic events that occurred in Azerbaijan and adjacent territories, regions known for strong seismic activity. We analyze a catalog of recorded earthquakes between 2010 and 2023, extracting the locations of the earthquake hypocenters for study purposes. Using statistical methods and cluster analysis tools, we developed a procedure for partitioning hypocenter clusters. The procedure begins with estimates of the Morisita Index, which is suitable for preliminary assessment…

@… I’m very much in the same boat, but given that there’s Akrapovič, well-known manufacturer of exhaust systems for motorcycles and performance cars, I could very well imagine someone saying, “bro, I had an Akropovič exhaust fitted to my Kosmaczewski MX-100, it’s so freaking fast now, gotta install Piotrowski brakes!”