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Now in Katoen kamer at @… Lennart Benschop on "Agon, a modern 8-bit computer"
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Medien: Kiew wurden zwei Optionen für Waffenruhe vorgeschlagen
Russische Unterhändler haben der Ukraine laut Berichten staatlicher russischer Medien zwei Optionen für eine Waffenruhe vorgeschlagen. Die erste Option macht demnach zur Bedingung, dass die Ukraine mit einem Abzug all ihrer Truppen aus den vier ukrainischen Regionen beginnt, die Russland für sich beansprucht. Die zweite Option wäre Teil eines größeren Pakets, das …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ US-Senator Graham rechnet mit scharfen Sanktionen ++
Der republikanische US-Senator Graham zeigt sich in den tagesthemen zuversichtlich, dass scharfe US-Sanktionen gegen Moskau verabschiedet werden. Außenminister Wadephul betont, dass Europa und die USA den Druck auf Putin aufrechterhalten müssen.

Do Language Models Mirror Human Confidence? Exploring Psychological Insights to Address Overconfidence in LLMs
Chenjun Xu, Bingbing Wen, Bin Han, Robert Wolfe, Lucy Lu Wang, Bill Howe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00582

Do Language Models Mirror Human Confidence? Exploring Psychological Insights to Address Overconfidence in LLMs
Psychology research has shown that humans are poor at estimating their performance on tasks, tending towards underconfidence on easy tasks and overconfidence on difficult tasks. We examine three LLMs, Llama-3-70B-instruct, Claude-3-Sonnet, and GPT-4o, on a range of QA tasks of varying difficulty, and show that models exhibit subtle differences from human patterns of overconfidence: less sensitive to task difficulty, and when prompted to answer based on different personas -- e.g., expert vs laym…

PB&J: Peanut Butter and Joints for Damped Articulation
Avery S. Williamson, Michael J. Bennington, Ravesh Sukhnandan, Mrinali Nakhre, Yuemin Mao, Victoria A. Webster-Wood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24860

PB&J: Peanut Butter and Joints for Damped Articulation
Many bioinspired robots mimic the rigid articulated joint structure of the human hand for grasping tasks, but experience high-frequency mechanical perturbations that can destabilize the system and negatively affect precision without a high-frequency controller. Despite having bandwidth-limited controllers that experience time delays between sensing and actuation, biological systems can respond successfully to and mitigate these high-frequency perturbations. Human joints include damping and stif…

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Brückenbauexperte fordert keine Denkverbote beim Neubau der #Carolabrücke!
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A case-control study in twins, from Denmark: "Tattoo ink exposure is associated with lymphoma and skin cancers"
BMC Public Health
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-025-21413-3

Tattoo ink exposure is associated with lymphoma and skin cancers – a Danish study of twins - BMC Public Health
Background We aim to study the potential association between tattoo ink exposure and development of certain types of cancers in the recently established Danish Twin Tattoo Cohort. Tattoo ink is known to transfer from skin to blood and accumulate in regional lymph nodes. We are concerned that tattoo ink induces inflammation at the deposit site, leading to chronic inflammation and increasing risk of abnormal cell proliferation, especially skin cancer and lymphoma. Methods We conducted two designs…

Bridging Fitness With Search Spaces By Fitness Supremums: A Theoretical Study on LGP
Zhixing Huang, Yi Mei, Fangfang Zhang, Mengjie Zhang, Wolfgang Banzhaf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21991

Bridging Fitness With Search Spaces By Fitness Supremums: A Theoretical Study on LGP
Genetic programming has undergone rapid development in recent years. However, theoretical studies of genetic programming are far behind. One of the major obstacles to theoretical studies is the challenge of developing a model to describe the relationship between fitness values and program genotypes. In this paper, we take linear genetic programming (LGP) as an example to study the fitness-to-genotype relationship. We find that the fitness expectation increases with fitness supremum over instruc…

Nicolas Jaar's "Piedras" is brilliant. A great start to a nice weather weekend, god morgen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4NUsbteEjI

Bridging Fitness With Search Spaces By Fitness Supremums: A Theoretical Study on LGP
Zhixing Huang, Yi Mei, Fangfang Zhang, Mengjie Zhang, Wolfgang Banzhaf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21991

Bridging Fitness With Search Spaces By Fitness Supremums: A Theoretical Study on LGP
Genetic programming has undergone rapid development in recent years. However, theoretical studies of genetic programming are far behind. One of the major obstacles to theoretical studies is the challenge of developing a model to describe the relationship between fitness values and program genotypes. In this paper, we take linear genetic programming (LGP) as an example to study the fitness-to-genotype relationship. We find that the fitness expectation increases with fitness supremum over instruc…