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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- Puccini's Suor Angelica at the BBC Proms
Elizabeth Alker showcases the best in summer music-making UK and beyond, including another chance to hear Puccini's Suor Angelica conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano at the BBC Proms.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h1vv

Good news out of California.
https://apnews.com/article/california-ice-agents-immigration-raids-masks-ban-97936f70699b75d8b483a850967c2e42

California restricts use of masks by most law enforcement officers
California will be the first state to ban most law enforcement officers from covering their faces while conducting official business. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the measure into law Saturday. The new law prohibits neck gator, ski masks and other facial covering for local and federal officers, including immigration enforcement agents, with some exceptions. It’s a direct response to recent immigration raids in Los Angeles where federal agents covered their faces while making arrests. Critics say …

AIM-Bench: Evaluating Decision-making Biases of Agentic LLM as Inventory Manager
Xuhua Zhao, Yuxuan Xie, Caihua Chen, Yuxiang Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11416 https://

AIM-Bench: Evaluating Decision-making Biases of Agentic LLM as Inventory Manager
Recent advances in mathematical reasoning and the long-term planning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have precipitated the development of agents, which are being increasingly leveraged in business operations processes. Decision models to optimize inventory levels are one of the core elements of operations management. However, the capabilities of the LLM agent in making inventory decisions in uncertain contexts, as well as the decision-making biases (e.g. framing effect, etc.) of th…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#FridayNightIsMusicNight
- Puttin' on the Ritz
Live from the Lighthouse in Poole. Michael England conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra and soloists in classic American showtunes from the likes of Gershwin, Porter and Rodgers.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002j6nq

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

Mask Tokens as Prophet: Fine-Grained Cache Eviction for Efficient dLLM Inference
Jianuo Huang, Yaojie Zhang, Yicun Yang, Benhao Huang, Biqing Qi, Dongrui Liu, Linfeng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09309

Mask Tokens as Prophet: Fine-Grained Cache Eviction for Efficient dLLM Inference
Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) present a promising alternative to dominant autoregressive models (ARMs) by the ability of parallel decoding at the expense of substantial computation and memory costs. Specifically, the cache mechanism for bidirectional attention in dLLMs demands large memory footprint, restricting their ability to handle long contexts under resource-limited settings. Existing cache eviction strategies are designed for ARMs and ignore the unique characteristics of dLLMs,…

Crystal Orientation Dependence of Extreme Near-Field Heat Transfer between Polar Materials Governed by Surface Phonon Modes
Wei-Zhe Yuan, Yangyu Guo, Hong-Liang Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13837

Crystal Orientation Dependence of Extreme Near-Field Heat Transfer between Polar Materials Governed by Surface Phonon Modes
Due to the rapid development of micro- and nano-manufacturing and electronic devices, heat transfer at the transition regime between radiation and conduction becomes increasingly important. Recent work has demonstrated the importance of nonlocal optical response and phonon tunneling. However, it remains unclear how the crystal orientation impacts them. In this work, we study this effect on heat transport across vacuum gaps between magnesium oxide (MgO) by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Elizabeth Maconchy (London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vernon Handley):
🎵 Proud Thames
#ElizabethMaconchyLondonPhilharmonicOrchestra #conductedbyVernonHandley

Analyzing and Internalizing Complex Policy Documents for LLM Agents
Jiateng Liu, Zhenhailong Wang, Xiaojiang Huang, Yingjie Li, Xing Fan, Xiang Li, Chenlei Guo, Ruhi Sarikaya, Heng Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11588

Analyzing and Internalizing Complex Policy Documents for LLM Agents
Large Language Model (LLM)-based agentic systems rely on in-context policy documents encoding diverse business rules. As requirements grow, these documents expand rapidly, causing high computational overhead. This motivates developing internalization methods that embed policy documents into model priors while preserving performance. Prior prompt compression work targets generic prompts, but agentic policy documents span multiple complexity levels and require deeper reasoning, making internaliza…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Shostakovich and Mahler from the Lucerne Festival
Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and conductor Paavo Järvi. Plus Mahler's Symphony no 1.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002j4mk