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TIL - with great surprise - that Cunningham's law - ""The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - actually predates the invention of the wiki by Ward Cunningham by about a decade.
I always had assumed that the law was expressing the lived experiences running wikis, but it was referring to Usenet posts, predating the Web and wikis.

Ward Cunningham - Wikipedia

Zweite Eisenbahnbrücke in Russland eingestürzt
In der an die Ukraine grenzenden und monatelang teilweise von ukrainischen Truppen besetzte Region Kursk ist in der Nacht nach einem Brückeneinsturz ein Güterzug entgleist, wie der Gouverneur der Region, Alexander Chinschtejn bei Telegram mitteilte.
Nach ersten Informationen sei der Lokführer verletzt worden. Die Ursache für den Brückeneinsturz ist demnach noch unklar. Zuvor war…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Wadephul betont Waffenhilfe ++
Außenminister Wadephul betont, dass Deutschland der Ukraine weitreichende Militärhilfe leisten wird. Nach einem Angriff auf eine ukrainische Ausbildungseinheit mit zwölf Toten tritt der Kommandeur der ukrainischen Armee, Drapatij, zurück.

The Confidence Paradox: Can LLM Know When It's Wrong
Sahil Tripathi, Md Tabrez Nafis, Imran Hussain, Jiechao Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23464 https…

The Confidence Paradox: Can LLM Know When It's Wrong
Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) systems are increasingly deployed in real world applications, yet they remain ethically opaque-often producing overconfident answers to ambiguous questions or failing to communicate uncertainty in a trustworthy manner. This misalignment between model confidence and actual knowledge poses significant risks, particularly in domains requiring ethical accountability. Existing approaches such as LayoutLMv3, UDOP, and DONUT have advanced SOTA performance by…

Ermittlungskomitee: Explosion sorgt für Brückeneinsturz in Brjansk und Kursk
Der Einsturz zweier Brücken am Wochenende in russischen Regionen an der Grenze zur Ukraine ist nach Angaben des russischen Ermittlungskomitees auf Explosionen zurückzuführen.
In der südwestlichen Region Brjansk sei am späten Samstagabend "eine Straßenbrücke infolge einer Explosion" eingestürzt, teilte das Ermittlerkomitee mit. Am frühen Sonntagmorge…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Wadephul betont Waffenhilfe ++
Außenminister Wadephul betont, dass Deutschland der Ukraine weitreichende Militärhilfe leisten wird. Nach einem Angriff auf eine ukrainische Ausbildungseinheit mit zwölf Toten tritt der Kommandeur der ukrainischen Armee, Drapatij, zurück.

Communicating Smartly in Molecular Communication Environments: Neural Networks in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things
Jorge Torres G\'omez, Pit Hofmann, Lisa Y. Debus, Osman Tugay Ba\c{s}aran, Sebastian Lotter, Roya Khanzadeh, Stefan Angerbauer, Bige Deniz Unluturk, Sergi Abadal, Werner Haselmayr, Frank H. P. Fitzek, Robert Schober, Falko Dressler
ht…

Communicating Smartly in Molecular Communication Environments: Neural Networks in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things
Recent developments in the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT) are laying the groundwork for innovative applications across the healthcare sector. Nanodevices designed to operate within the body, managed remotely via the internet, are envisioned to promptly detect and actuate on potential diseases. In this vision, an inherent challenge arises due to the limited capabilities of individual nanosensors; specifically, nanosensors must communicate with one another to collaborate as a cluster. Aiming…

Interesting thing about tomorrow's tarot show, rendering now, is that I upgraded from Blender 4.0 to blender 4.4 and it's quite a bit nicer to look at the timeline editor.
Was sad to find that the render time was up though. From about 3 seconds per frame usually to more like 12!?
Trying it with an old version I see that the lights and textures look way better with 4.4 than 4.0 though. A substantial step up in the way the show looks without me even doing anything other than waiting four times longer per frame.
Seems to be heavily dependent upon lighting now. The slow frames are like 12 seconds but the fast frames with minimal lighting and close up on the video are more like 2.
Looks too beautiful now to go back though. Upgraded my cloud-remote render machines too. We will render on four machines tonight. FOUR! The power of it all.
g3.4xlarge is no faster than g3.large but g6.xlarge seems to be twice the speed.
But hard to be sure really coz of the massive variance in time depending on the lighting.
Anyway, great show coming tomorrow. Sometimes I wonder what the hell I'm trying to do with it but tomorrow's show is the answer. Hide the angry bitter political rant behind a strange CGI tarot show. When the rant comes together well I like it.
https://wordcloudtarot.com/@wordcloudtarot/statuses/01JYFF0GQV1680Z0VG0YTFZDTP

Dreist: der israelische Verteidigungsminister #Katz aus dem #Terrorregime #Netanjahu|s fordert die gezielte Tötung des iranischen Staatschef

Nach iranischem Angriff auf Klinik: Israels Verteidigungsminister erklärt Tötung Chameneis zum Kriegsziel – „moderner Hitler“
Im Krieg zwischen Israel und dem Iran gehen die gegenseitigen Angriffe weiter. Israels Verteidigungsminister Katz droht dem iranischen Staatschef. Er könne „nicht weiter existieren“.

Streaming Remote rendering services: Comparison of QUIC-based and WebRTC Protocols
Daniel Mej\'ias, Inhar Yeregui, \'Angel Mart\'in, Roberto Viola, Pablo Angueira, Jon Montalb\'an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22132

Streaming Remote rendering services: Comparison of QUIC-based and WebRTC Protocols
The proliferation of Extended Reality (XR) applications, requiring high-quality, low-latency media streaming, has driven the demand for efficient remote rendering solutions. This paper focuses on holographic conferencing in virtual environments and their required uplink and downlink media transmission capabilities. By examining Media over QUIC (MoQ), Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) over QUIC (RoQ), and Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC), we assess their latency performance over Wi-Fi and 5…

Computing Tree Structures in Anonymous Graphs via Mobile Agents
Prabhat Kumar Chand, Manish Kumar, Anisur Rahaman Molla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19365 ht…

Computing Tree Structures in Anonymous Graphs via Mobile Agents
Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) and Breadth-First Search (BFS) tree constructions are classical problems in distributed computing, traditionally studied in the message-passing model, where static nodes communicate via messages. This paper investigates MST and BFS tree construction in an agent-based network, where mobile agents explore a graph and compute. Each node hosts one agent, and communication occurs when agents meet at a node. We consider $n$ agents initially dispersed (one per node) in an a…

Practical colinear chaining on sequences revisited
Nicola Rizzo, Manuel C\'aceres, Veli M\"akinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11750 https://…

Practical colinear chaining on sequences revisited
Colinear chaining is a classical heuristic for sequence alignment and is widely used in modern practical aligners. Jain et al. (J. Comput. Biol. 2022) proposed an $O(n \log^3 n)$ time algorithm to chain a set of $n$ anchors so that the chaining cost matches the edit distance of the input sequences, when anchors are maximal exact matches. Moreover, assuming a uniform and sparse distribution of anchors, they provided a practical solution ($\mathtt{ChainX}$) working in $O(n \cdot \mathsf{SOL} + n …