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Complexity of the Freezing Majority Rule with L-shaped Neighborhoods
Pablo Concha-Vega, Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre, K\'evin Perrot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16065 https:…

Complexity of the Freezing Majority Rule with L-shaped Neighborhoods
In this article we investigate the computational complexity of predicting two dimensional freezing majority cellular automata with states $\{-1,+1\}$, where the local interactions are based on an L-shaped neighborhood structure. In these automata, once a cell reaches state $+1$, it remains fixed in that state forever, while cells in state $-1$ update to the most represented state among their neighborhoods. We consider L-shaped neighborhoods, which mean that the vicinity of a given cell $c$ cons…

Wow! I just received a report from another mastodon instance for violating that instance's rule against "Profiting/benefiting from the destruction of the planet and society." That's a little extreme.

“We lead by love. This is community. We send no orders, there’s no orders out here, just people defending each other. And we don’t need a f*cking gun to do it. We don’t need body armor to do it. We don’t need to beat up protestors, we don’t need to beat up fake news to do it. We show up, put our f*cking bodies on the line because we don’t f*ck with n*zis. Maybe one day, maybe one day, you can say the same. Community will welcome you back…”
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Make no mistake, the only values the European Commission gives a single damn about are expressed in Euros and cents.
The guiding principle of the successor to the European Coal and Steel Community isn’t human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, it’s the Single Market.
How dare you even pretend to care when you are beyond silent in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, you despicable bunch of fancy-suited hypocrites.

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image 🤝75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights A landmark treaty that reshaped Europe after the second World War, protecting millions of Europeans and supporting our shared values of human rights, democracy and rule of law. Because human rights aren’t optional. They’re universal.

Are you kidding me? Taking away the rule that gets us new street trees when sidewalks are being torn up anyway? Daniel Lurie is a cartoon villain. https://abc7news.com/post/san-francisco-considering-changes-building-code-require…

San Francisco considering changes to Public Works code that requires tree planting
San Francisco city officials are hoping to give builders the option to pay a fee instead of planting the required trees.

I think we can actually prove that this constraint is the *only* constraint that can preserve freedom:
1. There will exist actors in a system who will wish to take advantage of others. Evolution drives survival and one strategy for increasing survival in an altruistic society is to become a parasite.
2. Expecting exploitative dynamics, a system needs to have a set of rules to manage exploitation.
3. If the set of rules is static it will lack the requisite variety necessary to manage the infinite possible behavior of humans so the system will fail.
4. If the system is dynamic then it must have a rule set about how it's own rules are updated. This would make the system recursive, which makes the system at least as complex as mathematics. Any system at least as complex as mathematics is necessarily either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem). If the system is incomplete, then constraints can be evaded which then allow a malicious agent to seize control of the system and update the rules for their own benefit. If constraints are incomplete, then a malicious agent can take advantage of others within the system.
5. Therefore, no social system can possibly protect freedom unless there exists a single metasystemic constraint (that the system must be optional) allowing for the system to be abandoned when compromised.
Oh, you might say, but this just means you have to infinitely abandon systems. Sure, but there's an evolutionary advantage to cooperation so there's evolutionary pressure to *not* be a malicious actor. So a malicious actor being able to compromise the whole system is likely to be a much more rare event. Compromising a system is a lot of work, so the first thing a malicious actor would want to do is preserve that work. They would want to lock you in. The most important objective to a malicious actor compromising a system would be to violate that metasystemic constraint, or all of their work goes out the window when everyone leaves.
And now you understand why borders exist, why fascists are obsessed with maintaining categories like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This is why even Democrats like Newsom are on board with putting houseless people in concentration camps. And this is why the most important thing anarchists promote is the ability to choose not to be part of any of that.

from my link log —
One jobserver to rule them all: controlling parallelism across many concurrent builds.
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2025/11/30/one-jobserver-to-rule-them-all/
saved 2025-12-01

One jobserver to rule them all
A common problem with running Gentoo builds is concurrency. Many packages include extensive build steps that are either fully serial, or cannot fully utilize the available CPU threads throughout. T…

Rule #1 of movies:
"Never kill the dog."
Corellary:
"...unless it underpins the main character's motivation. See '#JOHNWICK'."
Dunno how many times I've been in a theater & when the dog is in jeopardy, the people sitting next to me whisper, 'oh no no no... don't you dare f'ing do it..."

Rule of Creative Research:
(1) Never draw what you can copy.
(2) Never copy what you can trace.
(3) Never trace what you can cut out and paste down.

Locally Linear Convergence for Nonsmooth Convex Optimization via Coupled Smoothing and Momentum
Reza Rahimi Baghbadorani, Sergio Grammatico, Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10239 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10239 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10239
arXiv:2511.10239v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose an adaptive accelerated smoothing technique for a nonsmooth convex optimization problem where the smoothing update rule is coupled with the momentum parameter. We also extend the setting to the case where the objective function is the sum of two nonsmooth functions. With regard to convergence rate, we provide the global (optimal) sublinear convergence guarantees of O(1/k), which is known to be provably optimal for the studied class of functions, along with a local linear rate if the nonsmooth term fulfills a so-call locally strong convexity condition. We validate the performance of our algorithm on several problem classes, including regression with the l1-norm (the Lasso problem), sparse semidefinite programming (the MaxCut problem), Nuclear norm minimization with application in model free fault diagnosis, and l_1-regularized model predictive control to showcase the benefits of the coupling. An interesting observation is that although our global convergence result guarantees O(1/k) convergence, we consistently observe a practical transient convergence rate of O(1/k^2), followed by asymptotic linear convergence as anticipated by the theoretical result. This two-phase behavior can also be explained in view of the proposed smoothing rule.
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On Friday, federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island issued rulings
that could soon bring relief to millions of Americans whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are set to expire on Nov. 1,
requiring the Trump administration to fund the program, at least partially while the legal proceedings continue.
The SNAP program, commonly referred to as food stamps, is among many government programs affectedby the ongoing shutdown,
and has been one…

JUST IN: Two Federal Judges Rule Trump Admin Must Fund Food Stamps — At Least Partially
On Friday, federal judges in Massachusetts and Rhode Island issued rulings that could soon bring relief to millions of Americans whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are set to expire on Nov. 1.

Few people would claim with absolute certainty to know how the pandemic began. Both sides are gathering evidence to support their case, yet neither can fully rule out the possibility put forward by the other. This lack of clarity is not unlike what we see with most emerging diseases. For instance, we still don’t know how the devastating Ebola outbreak in west Africa began in 2014.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/covid-lab-leak-theory-right-conspiracy-science?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

If the justices rule in Trump's favor, one dissent could guide their decision. (Ann E. Marimow/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/05/us/trump-tariffs-supreme-court?unlocked_article_code=1.y08.IDw_.udtdg7NNMCwr&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p93#a251105p93

Ahh, the Orange Order, living in the 19th century but fervently hoping for a quick return the the 17th.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/11/06/orange-order-sends-letter-of-complaint-to-king-charles-a…

Orange Order sends letter of complaint to King Charles after he prayed with Pope Leo
Vatican visit marked first joint worship with a British monarch and a Catholic pontiff since Henry VIII’s rule

94.1% accuracy is definitely the exception to the rule for me, but the moves looked clear and obvious. I had wondered about whether patience against the pinned queen was accurate but reasoned it had to be.
Opponent allowing the pin on the queen was their undoing, obviously, but they still played with 82.5% accuracy. In most of my games, I'd be delighted to score that high.
#chess

Just set up a new "stop when we ask you the first time" challenge with the kid.
Classic thing we often ask him to stop doing is screaming (he screams a pretty normal amount for his age, but we're working on more productive forms of needs communication).
As we're reminding him of the challenge rules (stop when asked = 1 point), kid gets a twinkle in his eye and then screams briefly and looks at us.
Instant new rule: you don't get points for stopping activities that you started just to get points.

European Parliament report on Hungary:
Message: the Hungarian Rule of Law has worsened significantly. Therefore, the EU must freeze more funds and take away Orbšn's veto.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/LIBE-PR-777005_EN.html…

DRAFT INTERIM REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision determining, pursuant to Article 7(1) of the Treaty on European Union, the existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded | LIBE_PR(2025)777005 | European Parliament
DRAFT INTERIM REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision determining, pursuant to Article 7(1) of the Treaty on European Union, the existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (C9-0000/2022 - 2018/0902R(NLE)) Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Rapporteur: Tineke Strik

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[1/1]:
- Asking For It: Question-Answering for Predicting Rule Infractions in Online Content Moderation
Mattia Samory, Diana Pamfile, Andrew To, Shruti Phadke

Help me come up with "fun facts"!
The rule is that they have to be:
1. Factual
2. Of or about "fun"
And for bonus points:
3. Able to be customized to any given human in case some allistic person inevitably says "I meant fun facts ABOUT YOU"
I'll start: my favorite fun fact is that my brain produces endorphins when I'm having fun

Optimal Binning for Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Data Using the Freedman-Diaconis Rule
Jessie E. An, Chi-Huan Tung, Changwoo Do, Wei-Ren Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09581 …

Optimal Binning for Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Data Using the Freedman-Diaconis Rule
Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) data analysis often relies on fixed-width binning schemes that overlook variations in signal strength and structural complexity. We introduce a statistically grounded approach based on the Freedman-Diaconis (FD) rule, which minimizes the mean integrated squared error between the histogram estimate and the true intensity distribution. By deriving the competing scaling relations for counting noise ($\propto h^{-1}$) and binning distortion ($\propto h^{2}$), w…

Plex starts to enforce a rule requiring users to pay for a Plex Pass or Remote Watch Pass to stream from a remote server on Roku; other platforms follow in 2026 (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/pl…

Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week
Roku users will be hit first.

O YouTube preparou pra mim uma lista que só tem músicas maravilhosas, mas é uma completa mistureba de estilos. O YouTube não sabe lidar com pessoas de gostos ecléticos não, as listas dele sempre ficam assim rs.
1. Stay With Me – Miki Matsubara (J-Pop / City Pop)
2. Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Tears for Fears (Pop Rock / New Wave)
3. Take On Me – A-ha (Synthpop / New Wave)
4. Mšscara – Pitty (Rock Alternativo / Pop Rock Brasileiro)
5. Trem Azul – Elis Regina …

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.ins-det. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ins-det/new
[1/1]:
- Optimal Binning for Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Data Using the Freedman-Diaconis Rule
Jessie E. An, Chi-Huan Tung, Changwoo Do, Wei-Ren Chen

Geometric opinion exchange polarizes in every dimension
Abdou Majeed Alidou, J\'ulia Balig\'acs, Jan H\k{a}z{\l}a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08190 https://

Geometric opinion exchange polarizes in every dimension
A recent line of work studies models of opinion exchange where agent opinions about $d$ topics are tracked simultaneously. The opinions are represented as vectors on the unit $(d-1)$-sphere, and the update rule is based on the overall correlation between the relevant vectors. The update rule reflects the assumption of biased assimilation, i.e., a pair of opinions is brought closer together if their correlation is positive and further apart if the correlation is negative. This model seems to i…

Interplay of choice and topology in percolation on mediation-driven attachment networks
Nilomber Roy, M. M. B. Sheraj, M. K. Hassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10076 https://

Interplay of choice and topology in percolation on mediation-driven attachment networks
We investigate bond percolation on mediation-driven attachment (MDA) networks under the generalized Achlioptas process, where $M>1$ candidate bonds are sampled and the one that minimizes the resulting cluster size is selected the best-of-$M$ rule. This framework offers a systematic approach to investigate how network topology and choice mechanisms jointly shape percolation behavior. We analyze the effects of the degree exponent $ω$ and the choice parameter $M$ on the critical point $t_c$ and t…

Denominators of R-matrices, higher Dorey's rules and a generalization of T-systems for quantum affine algebras
Se-jin Oh, Travis Scrimshaw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10874 h…

Denominators of R-matrices, higher Dorey's rules and a generalization of T-systems for quantum affine algebras
We construct a higher level analogue of Dorey's rule, which describe certain surjective morphisms between Kirillov--Reshetikhin (KR) modules over quantum affine algebras. Building on this, we establish a generalized T-system of short exact sequences and prove the denominator formula between KR modules in all nonexceptional types, except with only mild ambiguities persisting in type $C_n^{(1)}$. As a consequence, we can completely classify when a tensor product of KR modules is simple. These res…

"Spending as a share of GDP is pretty well where it was at the end of the last government. This government had reversed the additional austerity the last government had pencilled in, but once you allow for trends in health spending and debt interest the substantial reduction in the level of public service provision that we saw under fourteen years of Tory rule has not and will not be significantly reversed."
mainly macro:

The Budget suggests the Chancellor is thinking too much about short term management and too little about long term legacy
  My posts come out on a Tuesday and Budgets are on a Wednesday. Not great timing, which is why in the past I’ve often done special posts on...

Improved prediction of the mass splitting for $P$-wave $\Omega$ baryons
Niu Su, Hua-Xing Chen, Philipp Gubler, Atsushi Hosaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01979 https://

Improved prediction of the mass splitting for $P$-wave $Ω$ baryons
Using the QCD sum rule method, we investigate the mass splitting for the spin-orbit partner states of the $Ω(2012)$ baryon assuming that it is a $P$-wave excitation with $J^P=3/2^-$. This study is an extension of the previous work [1] in which the masses of these states were estimated with uncertainties too large to extract the reliable mass splitting. In the present study, by directly formulating a sum rule for the mass splitting, we obtain an improved prediction, $δM = M_{3/2^-} - M_{1/2^-}…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.PF. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PF/new
[1/1]:
- Rule-Based Graph Programs Matching the Time Complexity of Imperative Algorithms
Ziad Ismaili Alaoui, Detlef Plump

@… with regard to <https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/about> rule 1, you might have noticed that I withdrew the two toots that I made a day or so ago.
With regard to the FreeBSD Commun…

Spin period evolution and X-ray spectral characteristics of the SMC pulsar SXP 46.6
Aman Kaushik (TIFR, India), Sayantan Bhattacharya (TIFR, India), Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India,MIT, USA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01208

Spin period evolution and X-ray spectral characteristics of the SMC pulsar SXP 46.6
We characterize the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) pulsar SXP 46.6 using NuSTAR observations conducted in 2017. The spin period (P) of this neutron star decreased from its discovered value of 46.6 s to a value of 45.984(1) s, indicating a spin-up at the rate of \dot{P} = -1.13 x 10^{-9} s s^{-1}. This spin-up rate is used to calculate a high pulsar magnetic field value of 2.25 x 10^{13} G. This process also gives a low magnetic field value, which we rule out here by constraining the inner accreti…

I grew up in a rural area in the 90s, and was a junior NRA member. Now, I will admit that I only did a limited amount of shooting and it's been at least 30 years since I touched a gun, but I'm pretty sure that rule #1 of gun safety is: Don't point weapon at your own dick.
https://www.

ICE Agent Drops Gun and Levels It at Shocked Rush-Hour Crowd
The man who captured the video said the scene unfolded in the midst of rush-hour traffic just outside Washington, D.C.

1. Have a simple job to do. Figure out #Makefile will do the job.
2. Think a bit about portability. Makefile becomes slightly more complex.
3. You're finally done. It turns out that some stupid implicit rule in GNU Make fires and adds a `rm` at the end that removes part of the output.
4. Use #Meson.
Just an average #Gentoo day.
[UPDATE: Now I regret using Meson. If you do anything that's not 100% boilerplate, it just keeps throwing obstacles in your way.]

"Certainly, turning out 3.5%—or 11.9 million Americans—would be a tremendous achievement in the effort to overcome MAGA authoritarian rule, but over 60% of movements that turned out 1% to 3.5% succeeded."
**Even if protests don’t hit 3.5%, the resistance can topple Trump**
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/even-if-protests-dont-hit-35-the

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Compact Rule-Based Classifier Learning via Gradient Descent
Javier Fumanal-Idocin, Raquel Fernandez-Peralta, Javier Andreu-Perez

And so it begins...
If the Fash don't cave on reopening the government within the next week, they won't. Ground-stopping major airports is not sustainable, however it may be a useful step towards full permanent "emergency" rule.
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/11544273254887…

AI6YR Ben (@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)
Attached: 1 image Flights to LAX temporarily halted due to staffing shortage | AP News https://apnews.com/article/lax-airport-flights-delays-shutdown-b2e0c13f3241e415784c3118fc8f0c9d #aviation #faa

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable yet Noisy Rewards under Imperfect Verifiers
Xin-Qiang Cai, Wei Wang, Feng Liu, Tongliang Liu, Gang Niu, Masashi Sugiyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00915

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable yet Noisy Rewards under Imperfect Verifiers
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) trains policies against automated verifiers to avoid costly human labeling. To reduce vulnerability to verifier hacking, many RLVR systems collapse rewards to binary $\{0,1\}$ during training. This choice carries a cost: it introduces \textit{false negatives} (rejecting correct answers, FNs) and \textit{false positives} (accepting incorrect ones, FPs). For instance, a rule-based checker may mark the correct fraction $\frac{12}{36}$ as wrong …

EQ-Robin: Generating Multiple Minimal Unique-Cause MC/DC Test Suites
Robin Lee, Youngho Nam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26458 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.264…

EQ-Robin: Generating Multiple Minimal Unique-Cause MC/DC Test Suites
Modified Condition/Decision Coverage (MC/DC), particularly its strict Unique-Cause form, is a cornerstone of safety-critical software verification. A recent algorithm, "Robin's Rule," introduced a deterministic method to construct the theoretical minimum of N+1 test cases for Singular Boolean Expressions (SBEs). However, this approach yields only a single test suite, introducing a critical risk: if a test case forming a required 'independence pair' is an illegal input forbidden by system constr…

Replaced article(s) found for stat.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.CO/new
[1/1]:
- Nonparametric Clustering Stopping Rule Based on Multivariate Median
Hend Gabr, Brian H Willis, Mohammed Baragilly

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.SR. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.SR/new
[1/1]:
- Observation-Based Iterative Map for Solar Cycles. II. The Gnevyshev-Ohl Rule and its Generation M...
Zi-Fan Wang, Jie Jiang, Jing-Xiu Wang

Hyperfunctions in $A$-model Localization
Emil Hakan Leeb-Lundberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25976 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25976

Hyperfunctions in $A$-model Localization
We apply localization techniques to topologically $A$-twisted $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ supersymmetric theories of vector and chiral multiplets on $S^{2}$ and derive a novel exact formula for abelian observables, described by a distribution integrated along the real line. The distributional integral formula is verified by evaluating the correlator of the $A$-twisted $\mathbb{CP}^{N-1}$ gauged linear sigma model and confirming the standard selection rule. Finally, we use hyperfunctions to demonstrate …

Replaced article(s) found for cond-mat.str-el. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.str-el/new
[1/1]:
- Fractal dimension and the counting rule of the Goldstone modes
Qian-Qian Shi, Yan-Wei Dai, Huan-Qiang Zhou, Ian P. McCulloch

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-bio.MN. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.MN/new
[1/1]:
- A Sensitivity Analysis Methodology For Rule-Based Stochastic Chemical Systems
Erika M. Herrera Machado, Jakob L. Andersen, Rolf Fagerberg, Daniel Merkle

Why the backloading? Presumably Republicans believed that by the time Americans woke up to what was happening, the G.O.P. would have effectively consolidated one-party rule, making future elections irrelevant.
Instead, however, the mask is being ripped off right now, well ahead of schedule.
Krugman brilliant
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/too-cruel-too-soon

New on my #Gentoo blog: One #jobserver to rule them all
"""
A common problem with running Gentoo builds is concurrency. Many packages include extensive build steps that are either fully serial, or cannot fully utilize the available CPU threads throughout. This problem becomes less pronounced when running building multiple packages in parallel, but then we are risking overscheduling for packages that do take advantage of parallel builds.
Fortunately, there are a few tools at our disposal that can improve the situation. Most recently, they were joined by two experimental system-wide jobservers: #guildmaster and #steve. In this post, I’d like to provide the background on them, and discuss the problems they are facing.
"""
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2025/11/30/one-jobserver-to-rule-them-all/

“By undermining the rule of law at each and every turn, threatening individuals who speak out against him, and arresting, investigating, and prosecuting elected officials of the opposition party and others who displease him, the president and his administration have corrupted our system of justice to turn his campaign of retribution into reality,” he said, adding that Trump’s public push to indict Comey amounts to “a grotesque abuse of presidential power”. ~ Mike Zamore
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/26/james-comey-indictment-reaction?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Good Morning #Canada
Today's post about #CanadianCapitals is a town that has the most tennis courts per capita in Canada. I got that factoid from from the internet so we know it's true. As one of the 4 original provinces to join Confederation, New Brunswick joined the Dominion of Canada on July 1, 1867. Fredericton, previously known as Fort Nashwaak, Pointe-Sainte-Anne, and Frederick's Town, became the provincial capital. Although it was a small community at the time, It was an easy decision because the town had served as the capital of Acadia under the French, and as the seat of government for the colony of New Brunswick under British rule. The New Brunswick Legislature building was originally opened in 1788, but was destroyed by fire in 1880 and replaced in 1882. Fredericton is known for its spacious downtown with wide streets, thanks to the original street plan laid out in a detailed map in 1785.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/fredericton