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President Trump is the first to ask federal job applicants to describe their allegiance to administration policy in an essay
or to mandate training for senior government officials on White House executive orders, experts said.
Senior agency officials, who are often political appointees, are to be directly involved in the hiring process, which has not previously been the case.
The guidelines, released last month, arrived at a time when the Trump administration was beginning …

In Trump’s ‘Patriotic’ Hiring Plan, Experts See a Politicized Federal Work Force
Political appointments inherently take into consideration loyalty to the president or the party. But expanding those types of questions to the career civil service is a significant departure.

Dear Fediverse,
My band POPIK just released its second full-length.
https://popik.bandcamp.com/album/brzi-i-grozni
I think we amplified the metal influence on this album compared to the previous ones, which is expected from three metalheads who listen to punk…

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When Two LLMs Debate, Both Think They'll Win
Can LLMs accurately adjust their confidence when facing opposition? Building on previous studies measuring calibration on static fact-based question-answering tasks, we evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) in a dynamic, adversarial debate setting, uniquely combining two realistic factors: (a) a multi-turn format requiring models to update beliefs as new information emerges, and (b) a zero-sum structure to control for task-related uncertainty, since mutual high-confidence claims imply systemati…

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Curvature effects on stimulated parametric down-conversion process: an analog model
In this paper, we utilize an analog model of the general relativity and investigate the influence of spatial curvature on quantum properties of stimulated parametric down-conversion process. For this purpose, we use two-mode sphere coherent state as the input beams of the aforementioned process. These states are realization of coherent states of two-dimensional harmonic oscillator, which lies on a two-dimension sphere. We calculate the entanglement of output states of stimulated parametric down…

$\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$: Dual-Conditional Deep Generation of Network Traffic Data for Network Intrusion Detection System Balancing
Yifan Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05844

$\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$: Dual-Conditional Deep Generation of Network Traffic Data for Network Intrusion Detection System Balancing
Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) face challenges due to class imbalance, affecting their ability to detect novel and rare attacks. This paper proposes a Dual-Conditional Batch Normalization Variational Autoencoder ($\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$) for generating balanced and labeled network traffic data. $\text{C}^{2}\text{BNVAE}$ improves the model's adaptability to different data categories and generates realistic category-specific data by incorporating Conditional Batch Normalization (C…

Emulating compact binary population synthesis simulations with robust uncertainty quantification and model comparison: Bayesian normalizing flows
Anarya Ray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05657

Emulating compact binary population synthesis simulations with robust uncertainty quantification and model comparison: Bayesian normalizing flows
Population synthesis simulations of compact binary coalescences~(CBCs) play a crucial role in extracting astrophysical insights from an ensemble of gravitational wave~(GW) observations. However, realistic simulations are costly to implement for a dense grid of initial conditions. Normalizing flows can emulate the distribution functions of a simulated population of binary parameters and thereby enable empirical constraints on the astrophysical initial conditions and branching fractions of variou…

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Maximizing Quantum Enhancement in Axion Dark Matter Experiments
We provide a comprehensive comparison of linear amplifiers and microwave photon-counters in axion dark matter experiments. The study is done assuming a range of realistic operating conditions and detector parameters, over the frequency range between 1--30 GHz. As expected, photon counters are found to be advantageous under low background, at high frequencies ($ν>$ 5 GHz), if they can be implemented with robust wide-frequency tuning or a very low dark count rate. Additional noteworthy observati…

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Cavity-Altered Superconductivity
Is it feasible to alter the ground state properties of a material by engineering its electromagnetic environment? Inspired by theoretical predictions, experimental realizations of such cavity-controlled properties without optical excitation are beginning to emerge. Here, we devised and implemented a novel platform to realize cavity-altered materials. Single crystals of hyperbolic van der Waals (vdW) compounds provide a resonant electromagnetic environment with enhanced density of photonic state…

#ReleaseTuesday — New version of https://thi.ng/tsne with ~15-20% better performance[1] due to avoiding repeated internal allocations and skipping gradient updates where unnecessary...
[1] Benchmarked …

Highly configurable t-SNE implementation for arbitrary dimensions

Reluctant Interaction Inference after Additive Modeling
Yiling Huang, Snigdha Panigrahi, Guo Yu, Jacob Bien
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01219 https://

Reluctant Interaction Inference after Additive Modeling
Additive models enjoy the flexibility of nonlinear models while still being readily understandable to humans. By contrast, other nonlinear models, which involve interactions between features, are not only harder to fit but also substantially more complicated to explain. Guided by the principle of parsimony, a data analyst therefore may naturally be reluctant to move beyond an additive model unless it is truly warranted. To put this principle of interaction reluctance into practice, we formula…