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"The understanding that the total supremacy of the “data” discourse was always a problematic, neoliberal way of seeing and structuring the world, of legitimizing violence according to the needs of those in power."
(Original title: The “Data” Narrative eats itself)
https://tante.cc/2025/09/15/…

The "Data" Narrative eats itself
“The first model fakes the data, then the second model trains on the fake data. Any problems in the synthetic data set are amplified further. Then the second model — based on fake data — is used to treat real patients. This is, of course, all fine.” Today I want to take David Gerard’s recent […]

Reliability-Based Fault Analysis and Modeling of Satellite Electrical Power Subsystems Using Fault Tree and Simulation Tools
Niloofar Nobahari, Alireza Rezaee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15708

Reliability-Based Fault Analysis and Modeling of Satellite Electrical Power Subsystems Using Fault Tree and Simulation Tools
One of the most important satellite subsystems is its electric power subsystem. The occurrence of a fault in the satellite power system causes the failure of all or part of the satellite. Calculating the overall reliability of the power system before the mission is crucial in improving the design of the satellite power system. Each component of the power system may malfunction due to pressure, launch pressure, and operating conditions. Accordingly, in this paper, first, a healthy and faulty sys…

NoLBERT: A No Lookahead(back) Foundational Language Model for Empirical Research
Ali Kakhbod, Peiyao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01110 https://arxiv.org/…

NoLBERT: A No Lookahead(back) Foundational Language Model for Empirical Research
We present NoLBERT, a lightweight, timestamped foundational language model for empirical research in social sciences, particularly in economics and finance. By pre-training exclusively on 1976-1995 text, NoLBERT avoids both lookback and lookahead biases that can undermine econometric inference. It exceeds domain-specific baselines on NLP benchmarks while maintaining temporal consistency. Applied to patent texts, NoLBERT enables the construction of firm-level innovation networks and shows that g…

Monsters are very real.
But they never emerge in a vacuum.
This piece by @… is nearly perfect in explaining why.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/19/sys

Smart fault detection in satellite electrical power system
Niloofar Nobahari, Alireza Rezaee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14004 https://

Smart fault detection in satellite electrical power system
This paper presents an new approach for detecting in the electrical power system of satellites operating in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) without an Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem (ADCS). Components of these systems are prone to faults, such as line-to-line faults in the photovoltaic subsystem, open circuits, and short circuits in the DC-to-DC converter, as well as ground faults in batteries. In the previous research has largely focused on detecting faults in each components, such as phot…