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HarperCollins France says it is testing using AI-assisted translation, citing declining sales and following in the footsteps of Taylor & Francis and others (Eva Baron/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-to…

Harlequin France to Test AI-Assisted Translation
Following backlash from the French Literary Translators Association, HarperCollins France confirmed it’s “conducting tests” with a French company that “uses experienced translators who utilize artificial intelligence tools,” to translate Harleq

Read the Room: Inferring Social Context Through Dyadic Interaction Recognition in Cyber-physical-social Infrastructure Systems
Cheyu Lin, John Martins, Katherine A. Flanigan, Ph. D
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04854

Read the Room: Inferring Social Context Through Dyadic Interaction Recognition in Cyber-physical-social Infrastructure Systems
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) integrate sensing, computing, and control to improve infrastructure performance, focusing on economic goals like performance and safety. However, they often neglect potential human-centered (or ''social'') benefits. Cyber-physical-social infrastructure systems (CPSIS) aim to address this by aligning CPS with social objectives. This involves defining social benefits, understanding human interactions with each other and infrastructure, developing privacy-preserving me…

This summer, Mikhail Loshchinin set out for Russia on a motorcycle with German plates, reaching the border in Latvia on July 1.
At the Ubylinka checkpoint on the Russian side, he presented his Russian passport.
According to his mother, Olga, he didn’t use his Belgian passport because of the urgency of the trip and to avoid needing a visa.
Russian border guards examined Loshchinin’s phone and likely discovered his many contacts in Ukraine.
After holding him for several…

Belgian-Russian dual citizen charged with treason after trying to visit father in St. Petersburg following a heart attack
A 48-year-old man with dual Russian and Belgian citizenship has been charged with treason in Russia following an attempt to visit his father, who recently suffered a heart attack. Mikhail Loshchinin’s family is scattered across Europe. He has lived in Germany for the past several years, working as a database administrator in Luxembourg. His mother is in Poland, his father is in St. Petersburg, and his sister is a Ukrainian citizen. Mikhail also has many friends in Ukraine, i…

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…

A4FN: an Agentic AI Architecture for Autonomous Flying Networks
Andr\'e Coelho, Pedro Ribeiro, Helder Fontes, Rui Campos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03829 https://

A4FN: an Agentic AI Architecture for Autonomous Flying Networks
This position paper presents A4FN, an Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) architecture for intent-driven automation in Flying Networks (FNs) using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as access nodes. A4FN leverages Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to enable real-time, context-aware network control via a distributed agentic system. It comprises two components: the Perception Agent (PA), which semantically interprets multimodal input -- including imagery, audio, and telemetry data -- f…

Results on long twins in random words and permutations
Elliott Liu, Linus Tang, Jessica Wan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04335 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.043…

Results on long twins in random words and permutations
We study long $r$-twins in random words and permutations. Motivated by questions posed in works of Dudek-Grytczuk-Ruciński, we obtain the following. For a uniform word in $[k]^n$ we prove sharp one-sided tail bounds showing that the maximum $r$-power length (the longest contiguous block that can be partitioned into $r$ identical subblocks) is concentrated around $\frac{\log n}{(r-1)\log k}$. For random permutations, we prove that for fixed $k$ and $r\to\infty$, a uniform permutation of $[rk]$ …

"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
—Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

TIL: Der deutsche Staubsauger-Hersteller Vorwerk hat 1986 den Chaos Computer Club verklagt.
Stichwort: Morbus Kobold.
(Sorry, ich lache immer noch...)
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/propeller-am-penis-a-516cb375-0002-0001-0000…

PRESSERECHT: Propeller am Penis
Der Staubsauger-Hersteller Vorwerk hat den Hamburger »Chaos Computer Club« verklagt - wegen einer »ganz abstrusen Geschichte«. *

Bias and Coverage Properties of the WENDy-IRLS Algorithm
Abhi Chawla, David M. Bortz, Vanja Dukic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03365 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Bias and Coverage Properties of the WENDy-IRLS Algorithm
The Weak form Estimation of Nonlinear Dynamics (WENDy) method is a recently proposed class of parameter estimation algorithms that exhibits notable noise robustness and computational efficiency. This work examines the coverage and bias properties of the original WENDy-IRLS algorithm's parameter and state estimators in the context of the following differential equations: Logistic, Lotka-Volterra, FitzHugh-Nagumo, Hindmarsh-Rose, and a Protein Transduction Benchmark. The estimators' performance w…

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 23 November - 30 November https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133898/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-amindian-23-november-30-november