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Complex three-dimensional rearing environments amplify compensatory plasticity following early blindness (in opossums) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651847v1 "underscoring the role of experience in directing compensatory plasticity following early s…

'Flying Blind': Trump Strips Government of Expertise at a High-Stakes Moment (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/politics/trump-government-expertise.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p1#a250822p1

MoEcho: Exploiting Side-Channel Attacks to Compromise User Privacy in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs
Ruyi Ding, Tianhong Xu, Xinyi Shen, Aidong Adam Ding, Yunsi Fei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15036

MoEcho: Exploiting Side-Channel Attacks to Compromise User Privacy in Mixture-of-Experts LLMs
The transformer architecture has become a cornerstone of modern AI, fueling remarkable progress across applications in natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal learning. As these models continue to scale explosively for performance, implementation efficiency remains a critical challenge. Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures, selectively activating specialized subnetworks (experts), offer a unique balance between model accuracy and computational cost. However, the adaptive …

Efficient ultrafast photoacoustic transduction on Tantalum thin films
Konstantinos Kaleris, Emmanouel Kaniolakis-Kaloudis, Evaggelos Kaselouris, Kyriaki Kosma, Emmanouil Gagaoudakis, Vassilis Binas, Stelios Petrakis, Vasilis Dimitriou, Makis Bakarezos, Michael Tatarakis, Nektarios A. Papadogiannis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.1540…

Efficient ultrafast photoacoustic transduction on Tantalum thin films
Nano-acoustic strain generation in thin metallic films via ultrafast laser excitation is widely used in material science, imaging and medical applications. Recently, it was shown that transition metals, such as Titanium, exhibit enhanced photoacoustic transduction properties compared to noble metals, such as Silver. This work presents experimental results and simulations that demonstrate that among transition metals Tantalum exhibits superior photoacoustic properties. Experiments of nano-acoust…

Suspended phase transitions: droplets trapped by solid films resist complete melting
Chenyu Jin, Guoxiang Chen, Beibei Wang, Hans Riegler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15104 https:…

Suspended phase transitions: droplets trapped by solid films resist complete melting
Melting is conventionally understood as a bulk first-order phase transition, where nucleation of the liquid phase is followed by rapid growth until the solid disappears. However, in thin crystalline films containing local heterogeneities, this process can be dramatically altered by interfacial forces. Here, we report experimental evidence of suspended melting in molecularly thin films of long-chain alkanes containing trapped liquid droplets. As temperature increases, these droplets expand and f…

Experts: Felony rioting charges for journalists covering protests are rare, troubling (Quinlan Bentley/Cincinnati.com)
https://eu.cincinnati.com/story/news/2025/07/22/reporters-face-felonies-after-roebling-bridge-protest/85322385007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p124#a250722p124

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Expertise-aware Multi-LLM Recruitment and Collaboration for Medical Decision-Making
Liuxin Bao, Zhihao Peng, Xiaofei Zhou, Runmin Cong, Jiyong Zhang, Yixuan Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13754

Expertise-aware Multi-LLM Recruitment and Collaboration for Medical Decision-Making
Medical Decision-Making (MDM) is a complex process requiring substantial domain-specific expertise to effectively synthesize heterogeneous and complicated clinical information. While recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise in supporting MDM, single-LLM approaches are limited by their parametric knowledge constraints and static training corpora, failing to robustly integrate the clinical information. To address this challenge, we propose the Expertise-aware Multi-LLM Rec…

Microstructural and preliminary optical and microwave characterization of erbium doped CaMoO$_4$ thin films
Ignas Masiulionis, Bonnie Y. X. Lin, Sagar Kumar Seth, Gregory D. Grant, Wanda L. Lindquist, Sungjoon Kim, Junghwa Kim, Angel Yanguas-Gil, Jeffrey W. Elam, Jiefei Zhang, James M. LeBeau, David D. Awschalom, Supratik Guha
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Microstructural and preliminary optical and microwave characterization of erbium doped CaMoO$_4$ thin films
This work explores erbium-doped calcium molybdate (CaMoO$_4$) thin films grown on silicon and yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) substrates, as a potential solid state system for C-band (utilizing the $\sim$1.5 $μ$m Er$^{3+}$ 4f-4f transition) quantum emitters for quantum network applications. Through molecular beam epitaxial growth experiments and electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and reflection electron diffraction studies, we identify an incorporation limited deposition regime that enabl…