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Russia and China to conduct joint military drills in the Sea of Japan: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/russia-and-china-to-conduct.html

sp_primary_school: Primary school dynamic contacts (2009)
Two temporal networks of contacts among students and teachers at a primary school in Lyon, France, on consecutive days of in October 2009. Each network accumulates all contacts over the course of a single day; contacts were sampled at 20-second intervals.
This network has 242 nodes and 125773 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Researchers have given people a taste of superhuman vision
after creating contact lenses that allow them to see infrared light.
Unlike night vision goggles,
the contact lenses need no power source,
and because they are transparent,
wearers can see infrared and all the normal visible colours of light at the same time

cMALC-D: Contextual Multi-Agent LLM-Guided Curriculum Learning with Diversity-Based Context Blending
Anirudh Satheesh, Keenan Powell, Hua Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20818 ht…

cMALC-D: Contextual Multi-Agent LLM-Guided Curriculum Learning with Diversity-Based Context Blending
Many multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms are trained in fixed simulation environments, making them brittle when deployed in real-world scenarios with more complex and uncertain conditions. Contextual MARL (cMARL) addresses this by parameterizing environments with context variables and training a context-agnostic policy that performs well across all environment configurations. Existing cMARL methods attempt to use curriculum learning to help train and evaluate context-agnostic p…

Experts raise concerns that Malta's expedited MiCA licensing process may lack sufficient enforcement and oversight; OKX received a MiCA license in four days (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/news-analysis/202

'Like Ordering McDonald's:' Malta's MiCA Fast-Track Draws Oversight Concerns
Some people think Malta is nimble and innovative when it comes to regulation. But others see a fast track to regulatory arbitrage.

Il 'triche' juste pour une élection, je me demande quelle est la rémunération....
Les licenciés n'en n'ont probablement pas grand-chose a faire
Karaté : le président de la fédération française démissionne dans un contexte de plaintes et d’accusations

Karaté : le président de la fédération française démissionne dans un contexte de plaintes et d’accusations
Le départ de Bruno Verfaillie survient alors que la fédération est embourbée depuis plusieurs mois dans un conflit interne autour de son ancien dirigeant, Francis Didier. Ce dernier accuse à son tour son successeur de malversations.

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

InSQuAD: In-Context Learning for Efficient Retrieval via Submodular Mutual Information to Enforce Quality and Diversity
Souradeep Nanda, Anay Majee, Rishabh Iyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21003

InSQuAD: In-Context Learning for Efficient Retrieval via Submodular Mutual Information to Enforce Quality and Diversity
In this paper, we introduce InSQuAD, designed to enhance the performance of In-Context Learning (ICL) models through Submodular Mutual Information} (SMI) enforcing Quality and Diversity among in-context exemplars. InSQuAD achieves this through two principal strategies: First, we model the ICL task as a targeted selection problem and introduce a unified selection strategy based on SMIs which mines relevant yet diverse in-context examples encapsulating the notions of quality and diversity. Second…

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…