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Adobe Acrobat on MacOS just had an update that silently turns-on AI clips.
You need to go into Preferences and turn off "Show AI video cards" (and it is good to turn off everything else as well.)
This is especially important (to turn off the Acrobat AI gunk for people with fiduciary and professional secrecy and privacy obligations - like doctors, attorneys, accountants, etc.)

Trump shows off to the Azerbaijan dictator a section in the White House dedicated to Trump 2028 merch, as they discuss #Trump unlawfully pursuing another term. (c/o Meidastouch)
#maga

Inoculation Prompting: Instructing LLMs to misbehave at train-time improves test-time alignment
Nevan Wichers, Aram Ebtekar, Ariana Azarbal, Victor Gillioz, Christine Ye, Emil Ryd, Neil Rathi, Henry Sleight, Alex Mallen, Fabien Roger, Samuel Marks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05024

Inoculation Prompting: Instructing LLMs to misbehave at train-time improves test-time alignment
Large language models are sometimes trained with imperfect oversight signals, leading to undesired behaviors such as reward hacking and sycophancy. Improving oversight quality can be expensive or infeasible, motivating methods that improve learned behavior despite an imperfect training signal. We introduce Inoculation Prompting (IP), a simple but counterintuitive technique that prevents learning of an undesired behavior by modifying training prompts to explicitly request it. For example, to ino…

Modified Cubic B-spline Based Differential Quadrature Methods for Time-fractional Black-Scholes Equation
Nizamudheen V, Riyasudheen TK, Noufal Asharaf, Shefeeq T
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06780

Modified Cubic B-spline Based Differential Quadrature Methods for Time-fractional Black-Scholes Equation
The time-fractional Black-Scholes equation (TFBSE) is intended to price the options for which the underlying price fluctuates within a correlated fractal transmission system. Although the TFBSE is an influential approach for grasping the long-term memory traits of financial markets, the non-local nature of fractional derivatives makes significant challenges in finding an accurate solution. We perform an efficient use of the differential quadrature method (DQM) based on modified cubic B-splines …

Acrobotics: A Generalist Approahc To Quadrupedal Robots' Parkour
Guillaume Gagn\'e-Labelle, Vassil Atanassov, Ioannis Havoutis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02727 https://

Acrobotics: A Generalist Approahc To Quadrupedal Robots' Parkour
Climbing, crouching, bridging gaps, and walking up stairs are just a few of the advantages that quadruped robots have over wheeled robots, making them more suitable for navigating rough and unstructured terrain. However, executing such manoeuvres requires precise temporal coordination and complex agent-environment interactions. Moreover, legged locomotion is inherently more prone to slippage and tripping, and the classical approach of modeling such cases to design a robust controller thus quick…

"Our government is being run by aggrieved elites who were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else in the 2010s, where they could finally read what we all think about them. And it caused them so much psychic damage that they have decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it will ever happen again."
(Original title: Petty, powerful, and pathologically online)

Petty, powerful, and pathologically online
Read to the end for an academic paper on puppygirls

Dynamic Decision Modeling for Viable Short and Long Term Production Policies: An HJB Approach
Achraf Bouhmady, Mustapha Serhani, Nadia Raissi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12205 ht…

Dynamic Decision Modeling for Viable Short and Long Term Production Policies: An HJB Approach
This study introduces a mathematical framework to investigate the viability and reachability of production systems under constraints. We develop a model that incorporates key decision variables, such as pricing policy, quality investment, and advertising, to analyze short-term tactical decisions and long-term strategic outcomes. In the short term, we constructed a capture basin that defined the initial conditions under which production viability constraints were satisfied within the target zone…

We all perform tasks in our day-to-day work that are considered 'non-promotable' – these are crucial for project success, but they won't get you promoted. This is commonly known as 'glue work', a term coined by Tanya Reilly. At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Fatima Taj shared her personal experience of narrowly avoiding the trap of being permanently stuck with glue work and explained how to handle similar situations.
Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/YJE8x6vzTCA?si=aE4Ogrp9t_oHdlhZ

Sea-ing Through Scattered Rays: Revisiting the Image Formation Model for Realistic Underwater Image Generation
Vasiliki Ismiroglou, Malte Pedersen, Stefan H. Bengtson, Andreas Aakerberg, Thomas B. Moeslund
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15011

Sea-ing Through Scattered Rays: Revisiting the Image Formation Model for Realistic Underwater Image Generation
In recent years, the underwater image formation model has found extensive use in the generation of synthetic underwater data. Although many approaches focus on scenes primarily affected by discoloration, they often overlook the model's ability to capture the complex, distance-dependent visibility loss present in highly turbid environments. In this work, we propose an improved synthetic data generation pipeline that includes the commonly omitted forward scattering term, while also considering a …