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AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29102025/ai-sperm-whale-communications-legal-rights/
I love this idea that understanding the communication…

AI Is Decoding Whales’ Communications. Could That Be a Turning Point in the Push for Their Rights? - Inside Climate News
The Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is using artificial intelligence to help understand sperm whale communications. Lawyers think the discoveries could galvanize the world to recognize whales’ legal rights.

During a recent visit to Yale, Buddhist nun and chef Jeong Kwan shared her philosophy of mindful, plant-based cuisine and treated community members to an unforgettable meal.
https://news.yale.edu/2025/10/31/mountain-temple-ya…

From mountain temple to Yale Commons: Buddhist Chef Jeong Kwan offers ‘attainment in one taste’
During a recent visit to Yale, Buddhist nun and chef Jeong Kwan shared her philosophy of mindful, plant-based cuisine and treated community members to an unforgettable meal.

The Most Communist President Ever (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-most-communist-president-ever
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p25#a250901p25

An Efficient, Reliable and Observable Collective Communication Library in Large-scale GPU Training Clusters
Ziteng Chen (Infrawaves), Xiaohe Hu (Infrawaves), Menghao Zhang (Beihang University), Yanmin Jia (Infrawaves), Yan Zhang (Infrawaves), Mingjun Zhang (Infrawaves), Da Liu (Infrawaves), Fangzheng Jiao (Beihang University), Jun Chen (Infrawaves), He Liu (Infrawaves), Aohan Zeng (Tsinghua University), Shuaixing Duan (Zhipu AI), Ruya Gu (Infrawaves), Yang Jing (Infrawaves), Bowen Han …

An Efficient, Reliable and Observable Collective Communication Library in Large-scale GPU Training Clusters
Large-scale LLM training requires collective communication libraries to exchange data among distributed GPUs. As a company dedicated to building and operating large-scale GPU training clusters, we encounter several challenges when using NCCL in production, including 1) limited efficiency with costly and cumbersome P2P communication, 2) poor tolerance to frequent RNIC port failures, and 3) insufficient observability of transient collective communication anomalies. To address these issues, we pro…

Google Home Speaker hands-on: the new $99 speaker is a similar size to the HomePod Mini, comes in four colors, and Gemini is a vastly improved assistant (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/788085/hands-on-google-home-speaker

Hands-on with the new Google Home Speaker coming next year
Hands-on with Google’s new $99 Home Speaker coming in Spring 2026.

A Robust Proactive Communication Strategy for Distributed Active Noise Control Systems
Junwei Ji, Dongyuan Shi, Zhengding Luo, Boxiang Wang, Ziyi Yang, Haowen Li, Woon-Seng Gan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00934

A Robust Proactive Communication Strategy for Distributed Active Noise Control Systems
Distributed multichannel active noise control (DMCANC) systems assign the high computational load of conventional centralized algorithms across multiple processing nodes, leveraging inter-node communication to collaboratively suppress unwanted noise. However, communication overhead can undermine algorithmic stability and degrade overall performance. To address this challenge, we propose a robust communication framework that integrates adaptive-fixed-filter switching and the mixed-gradient combi…

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Arianna Pera, Veronica Jude, Ceren Budak, Luca Maria Aiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Digital media have become central to how labor unions communicate, organize, and sustain collective action. Yet little is known about how unions' online discourse relates to concrete outcomes such as representation elections. This study addresses the gap by combining National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election data with 158k Facebook posts published by U.S. labor unions between 2015 and 2024. We focused on five discourse frames widely recognized in labor and social movement communication res…

Equivariance by Local Canonicalization: A Matter of Representation
Gerrit Gerhartz, Peter Lippmann, Fred A. Hamprecht
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26499 https://

Equivariance by Local Canonicalization: A Matter of Representation
Equivariant neural networks offer strong inductive biases for learning from molecular and geometric data but often rely on specialized, computationally expensive tensor operations. We present a framework to transfers existing tensor field networks into the more efficient local canonicalization paradigm, preserving equivariance while significantly improving the runtime. Within this framework, we systematically compare different equivariant representations in terms of theoretical complexity, empi…

Smithsonian will again include Trump in impeachment exhibit in 'coming weeks' (Nnamdi Egwuonwu/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/smithsonian-will-include-trump-impeachment-exhibit-coming-weeks-rcna222690
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p57#a250802p57

Computing on Dirty Paper: Interference-Free Integrated Communication and Computing
Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, David Gonz\'alez G., Carlo Fischione
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02012

Computing on Dirty Paper: Interference-Free Integrated Communication and Computing
Inspired by Costa's pioneering work on dirty paper coding (DPC), this paper proposes a novel scheme for integrated communication and computing (ICC), named Computing on Dirty Paper, whereby the transmission of discrete data symbols for communication, and over-the-air computation (AirComp) of nomographic functions can be achieved simultaneously over common multiple-access channels. In particular, the proposed scheme allows for the integration of communication and computation in a manner that is …