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My wife: "Our friend X has had surgery last week."
Me: "And how does he want to be called now?"
In our bubble of friends, this seemed to me to be the logical first question. Not "What kind of surgery?" where the answer would have been "a growth on his back".

Omfg, as much as I have mixed feelings about setting up ecommerce stores of any kind, Freewebstore is another level of nightmare.
Simulated chatbot "conversations" that make onboarding / offboarding annoyingly lengthy. GIVE ME OLD-FASHIONED FORMS GOD DAMMIT.
UX that treats me like a toddler while trying way too hard to upgrade me to a paid plan.
Oh, and of course. AI. AI this, AI that 😓 😡
Never, never, never again.

We'll kick off this year's edition of #bbuzz with our keynote speaker @…!
Read our blogpost to learn more and join us this June in Berlin or online!

Online Adaptation for Flying Quadrotors in Tight Formations
Pei-An Hsieh, Kong Yao Chee, M. Ani Hsieh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17488 https://

Online Adaptation for Flying Quadrotors in Tight Formations
The task of flying in tight formations is challenging for teams of quadrotors because the complex aerodynamic wake interactions can destabilize individual team members as well as the team. Furthermore, these aerodynamic effects are highly nonlinear and fast-paced, making them difficult to model and predict. To overcome these challenges, we present L1 KNODE-DW MPC, an adaptive, mixed expert learning based control framework that allows individual quadrotors to accurately track trajectories while …

Inference for Error-Prone Count Data: Estimation under a Binomial Convolution Framework
Yuqiu Yang, Christina Vu, Cornelis J. Potgieter, Xinlei Wang, Akihito Kamata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20596

Inference for Error-Prone Count Data: Estimation under a Binomial Convolution Framework
Measurement error in count data is common but underexplored in the literature, particularly in contexts where observed scores are bounded and arise from discrete scoring processes. Motivated by applications in oral reading fluency assessment, we propose a binomial convolution framework that extends binary misclassification models to settings where only the aggregate number of correct responses is observed, and errors may involve both overcounting and undercounting the number of events. The mode…

Spike layered solutions for elliptic systems on Riemannian Manifolds
Anusree R Kannoth, Bhakti Bhusan Manna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20300 https://

Spike layered solutions for elliptic systems on Riemannian Manifolds
In this article, we study the following Hamiltonian system: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \begin{aligned} &-\varepsilon^{2}Δ_{g} u +u = |v|^{q-1}v, &-\varepsilon^{2}Δ_{g} v +v = |u|^{p-1}u && \text{ in } \mathcal{M}, & \quad u,v >0 && \text{ in } \mathcal{M}, \end{aligned} \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $\mathcal{M}$ is a smooth, compact and connected Riemannian manifold of dimension $N\geq 3$ without boundary. The exponents $p,q>1$ are assumed to lie be…

'Trump Inc.': Filings Show Staff Profited From Being in the President's Orbit (Kenneth P. Vogel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/politics/trump-inc-filings-show-staff-profited-from-being-in-the-presidents-orbit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p51#a250615p51

This https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03420 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

A JSJ-type decomposition theorem for symplectic fillings
We establish a JSJ-type decomposition theorem for splitting exact symplectic fillings of contact 3-manifolds along \emph{mixed tori} -- these are convex tori satisfying a particular geometric condition. As an application, we show that if $(M,ξ)$ is obtained from $(S^3,ξ_{\mathrm{std}})$ via Legendrian surgery along a knot which has been stabilized both positively and negatively, then $(M,ξ)$ has a unique exact filling.

Be Kind
Human kindness is amazing!
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Welcome to Berlin Buzzwords 2025! 
Be sure not to miss our keynote speaker, @…, who will be giving a talk on „Unpacking Digital Sovereignty: How to avoid fueling the nationalist rise," which commences at 9:35 am at stage Kesselhaus.
 
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Unpacking Digital Sovereignty: How to avoid fueling the nationalist rise
With the new ruling coalition of Trump, Musk and Big Tech, European digital sovereignty seems to be the widely accepted solution to break free from US companies that are used to threaten European governments. The EU is reviving industrial policy and is willing to invest a lot of money into digital sovereignty - but which problems exactly should it address, and what should be part of the solution? This talk shows that digital sovereignty is prone to open the door to a nationalist agenda which fa…