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A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression (Joshua Rothman/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/ai-is-coming-for-cu…

A.I. Is Coming for Culture
We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. But when machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, Joshua Rothman asks, what’s left for the human imagination?

A look at the potential future of personalized, AI-generated entertainment, and how it could both submerge human originality and enable new forms of expression (Joshua Rothman/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/ai-is-coming-for-cu…

A.I. Is Coming for Culture
We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. But when machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, Joshua Rothman asks, what’s left for the human imagination?

Adaptive Canonicalization with Application to Invariant Anisotropic Geometric Networks
Ya-Wei Eileen Lin, Ron Levie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24886 https://

Adaptive Canonicalization with Application to Invariant Anisotropic Geometric Networks
Canonicalization is a widely used strategy in equivariant machine learning, enforcing symmetry in neural networks by mapping each input to a standard form. Yet, it often introduces discontinuities that can affect stability during training, limit generalization, and complicate universal approximation theorems. In this paper, we address this by introducing \emph{adaptive canonicalization}, a general framework in which the canonicalization depends both on the input and the network. Specifically, w…

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

Enhancing Communication Efficiency in FL with Adaptive Gradient Quantization and Communication Frequency Optimization
Asadullah Tariq, Tariq Qayyum, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Farag Sallabi, Ikbal Taleb, Ezedin S. Barka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23419

Enhancing Communication Efficiency in FL with Adaptive Gradient Quantization and Communication Frequency Optimization
Federated Learning (FL) enables participant devices to collaboratively train deep learning models without sharing their data with the server or other devices, effectively addressing data privacy and computational concerns. However, FL faces a major bottleneck due to high communication overhead from frequent model updates between devices and the server, limiting deployment in resource-constrained wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a three-fold strategy. Firstly, an Adaptive Feature-Eli…

Predicting when each winless NFL team will get its first win: Saints' breakthrough coming soon?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/predict

« Nous, chercheurs, témoignons de tout notre soutien Š Gabriel Zucman, économiste rigoureux et internationalement reconnu »
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/

« Nous, chercheurs, témoignons de tout notre soutien à Gabriel Zucman, économiste rigoureux et internationalement reconnu »
Dans une tribune au « Monde », un collectif d’universitaires s’inquiète des attaques et des propos calomnieux dont leur collègue fait l’objet. S’il est légitime de discuter des effets de la taxe que propose l’économiste, les invectives personnelles n’ont, elles, pas leur place dans le débat public, rappellent-ils.

Pilot design, channel estimation, and target detection for integrated sensing and communication with OTFS
Dazhuo Wang, Yonghong Zeng, Yuhong Wang, Francois Chin, Yugang Ma, Sumei Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25846

Pilot design, channel estimation, and target detection for integrated sensing and communication with OTFS
Recent studies shows that the orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) waveform is a promising candidate for future communication. To meet users' potential demand for Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) applications in 6G, the usage of OTFS for both radar sensing and wireless communication needs to be explored. In this paper, we propose a Fast Algorithm OTFS radar (FAOR) that can perform radar sensing in low complexity to detect the range and speed of the targets. It computes the 2D cycli…

Resigned health official: 'I only see harm coming' (David Cohen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/31/cdc-resignation-daskalakis-harm-coming-00538153
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p70#a250831p70

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.