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FHFA Director William Pulte orders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to explore crypto as an asset for single-family mortgage applications without converting it to USD (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/trump-crypto-mortgage.html

Trump administration moves to count crypto as a federal mortgage asset
The Trump administration is ordering Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to formally consider cryptocurrency as an asset in single-family mortgage loan risk assessments.

It’s still amazing to see the work folks are doing delivering Uno, Avalonia, Flutter, and even React Native for the Windows Desktop UI story. The best development stories for Windows don’t come from Microsoft (unless you count WinForms).

We have to talk about burning trash🗑️🔥
Waste incinerators / waste-to-energy plants that generate electricity and heat are an enormous and often underestimated source of CO2 🏭💨🌎. For example, in Germany, a country where waste-to-energy plants are common, their emissions are higher than those of cement.
Waste incinerator operators will often claim that half of their emissions don't count 🌿 or even that they already have net-negative emissions 🌎. I disagree with both 🧵

Just Stop Burning Trash
Waste-to-energy plants are a massive source of carbon dioxide emissions. Yet, it is not obvious what the best solution for high-emitting incinerators would be. Should incinerators be equiped with carbon capture? How much can recycling rates be improved, and what role should chemical recycling play? And could landfills be a carbon storage solution?

Some Friday Night ÖPNV trivia: What local and regional trains in Europe have First Class? Only trains where Interrail is valid count. #BahnBubble
I’ll start with the Leonardo Express, Roma Termini–Fiumicino Aeroporto, which has *only* First Class. (Which comfort-wise is second class, though.)

A new movie from #YorgosLanthimos in October already? Whatever, count me in!
#trailer https://www.youtube…

Count of Mostly Crisco
bot by @…
This is satire, not sedition: let's not make entertainment lead to internment.
#satire #potus45

Niners CB Deommodore Lenoir charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-cb-deommodore-lenoir-charged-with-misdemeanor-resisting-arrest

At least 20 people experiencing homelessness die every single day in America.
They die in cars, tents, shelters, and in the streets.
Almost all of these deaths are preventable.
https://homelessdeathscount.org/

Homepage - Homeless Deaths Count
7,877 deaths in 2020 Across 73 US cities and counties 6,362 deaths in 2019 Across 80 US cities and counties 6,345 deaths in 2018 AcrossView More

This from the Israeli government, supported by the West, including my country. ("But we asked them to stop the violence" doesn't count).
https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-minister-says-israel-pushing-to-w…

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 346 nodes and 26832 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…

Structural Optimal Jacobian Accumulation and Minimum Edge Count are NP-Complete Under Vertex Elimination
Matthias Bentert, Alex Crane, P{\aa}l Gr{\o}n{\aa}s Drange, Yosuke Mizutani, Blair D. Sullivan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17521

Structural Optimal Jacobian Accumulation and Minimum Edge Count are NP-Complete Under Vertex Elimination
We study graph-theoretic formulations of two fundamental problems in algorithmic differentiation. The first (Structural Optimal Jacobian Accumulation) is that of computing a Jacobian while minimizing multiplications. The second (Minimum Edge Count) is to find a minimum-size computational graph. For both problems, we consider the vertex elimination operation. Our main contribution is to show that both problems are NP-complete, thus resolving longstanding open questions. In contrast to prior work…

The Zeta Tail Distribution: A Novel Event-Count Model
Michael R. Powers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17496 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.1…

The Zeta Tail Distribution: A Novel Event-Count Model
We introduce the Zeta Tail(a) probability distribution as a new model for random damage-event counts in risk analysis. Although readily motivated through a natural relationship with the Geometric(p) distribution, Zeta Tail(a) has received little attention in the scholarly literature. In the present work, we begin by deriving various fundamental properties of this novel distribution. We then assess its usefulness as an alternative to Geometric(p) for event-count data.

Count the bears. An important test of your outdoor survival skills, human.
#wildlife #Bristol #Zoo

The unusual spectrum of the X-ray transient source XRISM J174610.8-290021 near the Galactic center
A. Yoshimoto, S. Yamauchi, M. Nobukawa, H. Uchiyama, K. K. Nobukawa, Y. Aoki, M. Ishida, Y. Kanemaru, M. Shidatsu, T. Hayashi, Y. Maeda, H. Matsumoto, Y. Tsuboi, H. Suzuki, H. Nakajima, Q. D. Wang, S. Eguchi, T. Yoneyama, T. Dotani, E. Behar, Y. Terada, N. Suzuki, M. Yoshimoto

The unusual spectrum of the X-ray transient source XRISM J174610.8-290021 near the Galactic center
The Galactic center region was observed with the XRISM X-ray observatory during the performance verification phase in 2024 and a point-like X-ray source was detected with the X-ray imager Xtend at a position of (RA, Dec)=(17h46m10.8s, -29°00'21''), which is thus named XRISM J174610.8-290021. This source was bright in February to March and showed time variations in count rate by more than one order of magnitude in one week. The 2-10 keV X-ray luminosity was ~$10^{35}$ erg/s for the assumed dist…

Maximal Counts in the Stopped Occupancy Problem
Alexander Gnedin, Svante Janson, Yaakov Malinovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20411 https://

Maximal Counts in the Stopped Occupancy Problem
We revisit a version of the classic occupancy scheme, where balls are thrown until almost all boxes receive a given number of balls. Special cases are widely known as coupon-collectors and dixie cup problems. We show that as the number of boxes tends to infinity, the distribution of the maximal occupancy count does not converge, but can be approximated by a convolution of two Gumbel distributions, with the approximating distribution having oscillations close to periodic on a logarithmic scale. …

JUNO 20-inch PMT and electronics system characterization using large pulses of PMT dark counts at the Pan-Asia testing platform
Caimei Liu, Min Li, Narongkiat Rodphai, Zhimin Wang, Jun Hu, Nikolay Anfimov, Lei Fan, Alberto Garfagnini, Guanghua Gong, Shaojing Hou, Xiaolu Ji, Xiaoshan Jiang, Denis Korablev, Tobias Lachenmaier, Si Ma, Xiaoyan Ma, Zhe Ning, Alexander G. Olshevskiy, Zhaoyuan Peng, Zhonghua Qin, Tobias Sterr, Yunhua Sun, Alexander Felix Tietzsch, Jun Wang, Wei Wang, Yangfu W…

JUNO 20-inch PMT and electronics system characterization using large pulses of PMT dark counts at the Pan-Asia testing platform
The main goal of the JUNO experiment is to determine the neutrino mass ordering with a 20kt liquid-scintillator detector. The 20-inch PMT and its 1F3 (one for three) electronics are crucial to realize the excellent energy resolution of at least 3% at 1MeV. The knowledge on the PMT and 1F3 electronics response is critical for detector performance understanding. A study of the JUNO 20-inch PMT and 1F3 electronics system characterization is presented using large pulses of PMT dark count at the Pan…

Wooo, added another feature to the dice parser: the ability to count dice. I'm really happy that I implemented this with a parser, but I'm definitely gonna need to clean up the code here in a bit.
https://dice.jamesthebard.net/usage/#dice-counts

𝑪𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝑶𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝑫𝒐 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚’𝒓𝒆 𝑰𝒏 𝑬𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔.
#Alberta #politics
“… if we count the eight parliamentary secretaries the percentage of UCP caucus members in cabinet is actually 76 per cent.”
https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?e=b0558fad2d&u=6f3c7ed70f931876787963307&id=7706af86f3

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

On reversible and reversible-complementary DNA codes over $\mathbb{F}_{4}$
E. J. Garc\'ia-Claro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19170 https://

On reversible and reversible-complementary DNA codes over $\mathbb{F}_{4}$
A method to construct and count all the linear codes (of arbitrary length) in $\mathbb{F}_{4}$ that are invariant under reverse permutation and that contain the repetition code is presented. These codes are suitable for constructing DNA codes that satisfy the reverse and reverse-complement constraints. By analyzing a module-theoretic structure of these codes, their generating matrices are characterized in terms of their isomorphism type, and explicit formulas for counting them are provided. The…

Graphs With the Same Edge Count in Each Neighborhood
Nathan S. Sheffield, Zoe Xi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14473 https://arxiv.org/p…

Graphs With the Same Edge Count in Each Neighborhood
In a recent paper, Caro, Lauri, Mifsud, Yuster, and Zarb ask which parameters $r$ and $c$ admit the existence of an $r$-regular graph such that the neighborhood of each vertex induces exactly $c$ edges. They show that every $r$ with $c$ satisfying $0\leq c\leq {r\choose 2}-5r^{3/2}$ is achievable, but no $r$ with $c$ satisfying ${r\choose 2}-\lfloor\frac{r}{3}\rfloor\leq c\leq {r\choose 2}-1$ is. We strengthen the bound in their nonexistence result from ${r\choose 2}-\lfloor\frac{r}{3}\rfloor$ …

The 4th Dimension for Scaling Model Size
Ruike Zhu, Hanwen Zhang, Tianyu Shi, Chi Wang, Tianyi Zhou, Zengyi Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18233 https://…

The 4th Dimension for Scaling Model Size
Scaling the size of large language models typically involves three dimensions: depth, width, and the number of parameters. In this work, we explore a fourth dimension, virtual logical depth (VLD), which increases the effective algorithmic depth without changing the overall parameter count by reusing parameters within the model. Although parameter reuse is not a new concept, its potential and characteristics in model scaling have not been thoroughly studied. Through carefully designed controlled…

Megrez2 Technical Report
Boxun Li, Yadong Li, Zhiyuan Li, Congyi Liu, Weilin Liu, Guowei Niu, Zheyue Tan, Haiyang Xu, Zhuyu Yao, Tao Yuan, Dong Zhou, Yueqing Zhuang, Bo Zhao, Guohao Dai, Yu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17728

Megrez2 Technical Report
We present Megrez2, a novel lightweight and high-performance language model architecture optimized for device native deployment. Megrez2 introduces a novel cross-layer expert sharing mechanism, which significantly reduces total parameter count by reusing expert modules across adjacent transformer layers while maintaining most of the model's capacity. It also incorporates pre-gated routing, enabling memory-efficient expert loading and faster inference. As the first instantiation of the Megrez2 a…

Qrisp Implementation and Resource Analysis of a T-Count-Optimised Non-Restoring Quantum Square-Root Circuit
Heorhi Kupryianau, Marcin Niemiec
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12603

Qrisp Implementation and Resource Analysis of a T-Count-Optimised Non-Restoring Quantum Square-Root Circuit
Efficient quantum arithmetic operations are essential building blocks for complex quantum algorithms, yet few theoretical designs have been implemented in practical quantum programming frameworks. This paper presents the first complete implementation of the T-count optimized non-restoring quantum square root algorithm using the Qrisp quantum programming framework. The algorithm, originally proposed by Thapliyal et al., offers better resource efficiency compared to alternative methods, achieving…

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
VILA: Oh, you've no idea what I've been through.
CALLY: How is it?
VILA: Well, it's all right if you don't count the agony.
CALLY: I tried very hard to contact you.
VILA: Things got a bit hectic. Are you all right?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/4…

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

A quadratic Abramovich-Bertram formula
Erwan Brugall\'e, Kirsten Wickelgren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17854 https://arxiv.org/pd…

A quadratic Abramovich-Bertram formula
Quadratic Gromov--Witten invariants allow one to obtain an arithmetically meaningful count of curves satisfying constraints over a field $k$ without assuming that $k$ is the field of complex or real numbers. This paper studies the behavior of quadratic genus $0$ Gromov--Witten invariants during an algebraic analogue of surgery on del Pezzo surfaces. For this, we define and study (twisted) binomial coefficients in the Grothendieck--Witt group, building on work of Serre. We obtain a formula expre…

AMICO galaxy clusters in KiDS-1000: cosmological constraints and mass calibration from counts and weak lensing
G. F. Lesci, F. Marulli, L. Moscardini, M. Maturi, M. Sereno, M. Radovich, M. Romanello, C. Giocoli, A. H. Wright, S. Bardelli, M. Bilicki, G. Castignani, H. Hildebrandt, A. Kannawadi, L. Ingoglia, S. Joudaki, E. Puddu
https://

AMICO galaxy clusters in KiDS-1000: cosmological constraints and mass calibration from counts and weak lensing
We present the joint modelling of weak-lensing and count measurements of the galaxy clusters detected with the AMICO code, in the fourth data release of the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS-1000). The analysed sample comprises about 8000 clusters, covering an effective area of 839 deg$^{2}$ and extending up to a redshift of $z = 0.8$. Stacked cluster weak-lensing and count measurements have been derived in bins of redshift and intrinsic richness, $λ^*$. Based on self-organising maps, we reconstructed …

Dual LiDAR-Based Traffic Movement Count Estimation at a Signalized Intersection: Deployment, Data Collection, and Preliminary Analysis
Saswat Priyadarshi Nayak, Guoyuan Wu, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, Matthew Barth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13073

Dual LiDAR-Based Traffic Movement Count Estimation at a Signalized Intersection: Deployment, Data Collection, and Preliminary Analysis
Traffic Movement Count (TMC) at intersections is crucial for optimizing signal timings, assessing the performance of existing traffic control measures, and proposing efficient lane configurations to minimize delays, reduce congestion, and promote safety. Traditionally, methods such as manual counting, loop detectors, pneumatic road tubes, and camera-based recognition have been used for TMC estimation. Although generally reliable, camera-based TMC estimation is prone to inaccuracies under poor l…

Which graph motif parameters count?
Markus Bl\"aser, Radu Curticapean, Julian D\"orfler, Christian Ikenmeyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12244 htt…

Which graph motif parameters count?
For a fixed graph H, the function #IndSub(H,*) maps graphs G to the count of induced H-copies in G; this function obviously "counts something" in that it has a combinatorial interpretation. Linear combinations of such functions are called graph motif parameters and have recently received significant attention in counting complexity after a seminal paper by Curticapean, Dell and Marx (STOC'17). We show that, among linear combinations of functions #IndSub(H,*) involving only graphs H without isol…

New Dallas Cowboys quarterback revives iconic Dak Prescott snap count https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/new-dallas-cowboys-quarterback-revives-iconic-dak-prescott-snap-count

"Britons urged to count butterfly numbers amid hopes of ‘outstanding’ summers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects

@… Absolutely. One of the reasons I’m in favour of some kind of gradual typing (not TypeScript) is because I don’t think it makes sense for me to think hard about memory allocation before I’ve thought through whether a feature is even useful.
I really wish Rust had a transparent “just reference-count everything in this module/function/whatever” switch.…

Orbital FFLO and layer-selective FFLO phases in trilayer NbSe$_2$
Michiya Chazono, Youichi Yanase
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19706 https://

Orbital FFLO and layer-selective FFLO phases in trilayer NbSe$_2$
Finite-momentum superconductivity has become an important research topic in condensed matter physics. In particular, the orbital Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state, which is stabi lized in atomically thin films by the orbital effect of an external magnetic field, has been getting attention as a fascinating finite-momentum superconducting state recently. We study the phase diagram of the trilayer Ising superconductor NbSe$_2$ in the in-plane magnetic field, taking into ac count the or…

Woke up to email from Montreal that they have a new parking payment app.
The old one is called “P$Mobile”—good luck remembering that when you’re trying to pay for parking—so maybe this is a step up.
"Proudly 100% made in Quebec” (if you don’t count the XKCD tower of dependencies… sure… I guess). 🙄
Immediately: email input that isn’t designated as such so the keyboard is wrong.
Second thing: it thinks the password I used is too long at >20 characters. This is n…

> Starmer to count rural broadband as defence spending
Protect the Strategic National Ping.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/17/starmer-rural-broadband-defence-spending/

Starmer to count rural broadband as ‘defence spending’
PM could meet Nato’s target of investing 5pc of GDP without committing more public money

Adaptive Supergeo Design: A Scalable Framework for Geographic Marketing Experiments
Charles Shaw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20499 https://

Adaptive Supergeo Design: A Scalable Framework for Geographic Marketing Experiments
Geographic experiments are a gold-standard for measuring incremental return on ad spend (iROAS) at scale, yet their design is challenging: the unit count is small, heterogeneity is large, and the optimal Supergeo partitioning problem is NP-hard. We introduce Adaptive Supergeo Design (ASD), a two-stage framework that renders Supergeo designs practical for thousands of markets. A bespoke graph-neural network first learns geo-embeddings and proposes a concise candidate set of 'supergeos'; a CP-SAT…

#oldPeopleOfMastodon
“Starting at 1019, count backwards by 13. As you count down, if you make a mistake I will tell you and you will have to start over. Do you understand?” (1/7)

In the Darth #Trump administration, apart from the B-movie addicted Trump, there are also some immoral boys who are happy to finally be able to play Warcraft in real life - first and foremost that narrow-minded politician #Hegseth, who I don't even trust to be able to count to three without making mistakes.…

Trying out a new setup to write with markdown (diving into the murky world of modal editors), and `harper-ls` keeps flagging my sentences when they get longer than 40 words.
Imagining writing a sociology paper with no sentences over 40 words is giving me a good chuckle but also making me think about the relative inaccessibility of academic writing.
(part of the issue is that in-text citations count toward the sentence length. And yes, I've managed to turn off the long-sentenc…

Excited about the Highland Council by-election?
Tune in here:
‪RT @highland.gov.uk€
You can watch the Ward 6 Cromarty Firth and Ward 10 Eilean a' Cheò [Skye] By-Election count live on our YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/live/pr1EVKwKudw?feature=share

"There will be a lot of fighting, though"
"Oh yeah, that's true"
"Yeah it's true"
"There will be a lot of fighting"
"Exactly"
"Count me in then"
Expedition 33 is amazing

Study on the impact of radioactive background on Dark Count Rate of 20-inch MCP-PMTs
Zeyuan Feng, Zhaoyuan Peng, Haojie Dong, Yanfeng Li, Songyi Li, Xinzhou Guo, Wan Xie, Zhonghua Qin, Weiping Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12470

Study on the impact of radioactive background on Dark Count Rate of 20-inch MCP-PMTs
This study systematically investigates the impact of natural radioactive background on the dark count rate (DCR) of 20-inch microchannel plate photomultiplier tubes (MCP-PMTs). Variations in PMT DCR under different radiation conditions were examined via underground tests, lead shielding experiments, and irradiation with \(^{55}\mathrm{Fe}\), \(^{60}\mathrm{Co}\), and \(^{90}\mathrm{Sr}\) sources. The experimental results indicate that natural radioactivity from surrounding air and rock in the u…

By Israel’s own metric, it has wounded over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza alone.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

Κάποιος Ταδόπουλος (@_Wiesenthal_S_@todon.nl)
Attached: 1 image "Israel includes those treated for anxiety in the injury count" 🙄

i have a weird bug: https://godbolt.org/z/vo1qYed8c
doesn't compile for me on arm-none-eabi-gcc-15.1.0 (and probably also earlier versions) because the assembler complains: "Error: registers may not be the same" - line 64 in the godbolt output. godbolt does not complain however …

Compiler Explorer - C++ (ARM GCC 14.3.0 (unknown-eabi))
#define MALIGN(x) __attribute__((aligned(x))) #define MROUND(x) (((uint32_t)(x)+3) & (~((uint32_t)3))) void mem_init(void *mem_pool, uint16_t mem_size, uint16_t mem_count, void **mem_head) { *mem_head = mem_pool; /* Store free mem_count after the list's next pointer at an 32-bit * aligned memory location to ensure atomic read/write (in ARM for now). */ *((uint16_t *)MROUND((uint8_t *)mem_pool + sizeof(mem_pool))) = mem_count; /* Initialize next pointers to form a free list, …

@… yeah, count me in! 😎

Counting Matrices in SL3(Z) with Fixed Completely Split Character Polynomial: Preliminary Upper Bounds
Igor Rivin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15129 https://…

Counting Matrices in SL3(Z) with Fixed Completely Split Character Polynomial: Preliminary Upper Bounds
We count matrices in the special linear group SL(n, Z) whose characteristic polynomials split completely over Q.

Multivariate Discrete Generalized Pareto Distributions: Theory, Simulation, and Applications to Dry spells
Samira Aka, Marie Kratz, Philippe Naveau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19361

Multivariate Discrete Generalized Pareto Distributions: Theory, Simulation, and Applications to Dry spells
This article extends the multivariate extreme value theory (MEVT) to discrete settings, focusing on the generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) as a foundational tool. The purpose of the study is to enhance the understanding of extreme discrete count data representation, particularly for discrete exceedances over thresholds, defining and using multivariate discrete Pareto distributions (MDGPD). Through theoretical results and illustrative examples, we outline the construction and properties of MD…

Count of Mostly Crisco
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: rescind the warrant.
#satire #potus45

High count rate effects in event processing for XRISM/Resolve x-ray microcalorimeter: II. Energy scale and resolution in orbit
Misaki Mizumoto, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Shinya Yamada, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Megan E. Eckart, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Frederick S. Porter, Katja Pottschmidt, Tsubasa Tamba
https://arxiv.org…

High count rate effects in event processing for XRISM/Resolve x-ray microcalorimeter: II. Energy scale and resolution in orbit
The Resolve instrument on the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) uses a 36-pixel microcalorimeter designed to deliver high-resolution, non-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. Although it is optimized for extended sources with low count rates, Resolve observations of bright point sources are still able to provide unique insights into the physics of these objects, as long as high count rate effects are addressed in the analysis. These effects include {the loss of exposure time for each pix…

SCOPE for Hexapod Gait Generation
Jim O'Connor, Jay B. Nash, Derin Gezgin, Gary B. Parker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13539 https://

SCOPE for Hexapod Gait Generation
Evolutionary methods have previously been shown to be an effective learning method for walking gaits on hexapod robots. However, the ability of these algorithms to evolve an effective policy rapidly degrades as the input space becomes more complex. This degradation is due to the exponential growth of the solution space, resulting from an increasing parameter count to handle a more complex input. In order to address this challenge, we introduce Sparse Cosine Optimized Policy Evolution (SCOPE). S…

3 guesses where I was this afternoon. First 2 don’t count. #NoKings #USPol #LetThePeopleSpeak

Odunze, McCarthy among favorite breakouts for 2025 https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45790243/2025-fantasy-football-breakouts-nfl

So, driving home from a client call & up ahead of me on the freeway I see a giant blue pickup truck flying
4 count ‘em 4 giant flags behind the cab
I roll my eyes
Get a little closer…
Ok
US Flag
Massachusetts Flag
…progress Pride Flag
???Pride flag with “Don’t tread on me”
Did NOT expect that.

Shop teachers are smarter than you think. It's not as though they can't count to ten. Just not on their fingers.

https://apnews.com/article/swatting-plot-thomasz-szabo-60de50b8bf1dd35b3ea403072a58f1cd
Romanian man pleads guilty to ‘swatting’ plot that targeted an ex-US president and lawmakers

Romanian man pleads guilty to 'swatting' plot that targeted US lawmakers
A Romanian citizen has pleaded guilty to engaging in a plot to use “swatting” calls to intimidate and threaten dozens of people with bogus police emergencies, including a former U.S. president and several members of Congress. Thomas Szabo, 26, is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 23 by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington. Szabo pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of making bomb threats. He was extradited from Romania in November 2024 after he was indicte…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
White Magic for Lovers:
🎵 Count the Rings
#WhiteMagicforLovers
https://chordorchard.bandcamp.com/track/count-the-rings
https://open.spotify.com/track/1fIotwGHpRfAddcI76onyL

Has any one done a survey/count of the number of technical or other US-venue meetings or conventions are being cancelled because of the danger to foreign nationals who attend?
The US has become a police state much, much faster than Nazi Germany did in the 1930's.
I've already noticed a downturn - for instance I was able to book rooms at a fancy hotel (Four Seasons) for about 1/2 of the normal rate.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11370 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Understanding Nonlinear Implicit Bias via Region Counts in Input Space
One explanation for the strong generalization ability of neural networks is implicit bias. Yet, the definition and mechanism of implicit bias in non-linear contexts remains little understood. In this work, we propose to characterize implicit bias by the count of connected regions in the input space with the same predicted label. Compared with parameter-dependent metrics (e.g., norm or normalized margin), region count can be better adapted to nonlinear, overparameterized models, because it is de…

GAP-LA: GPU-Accelerated Performance-Driven Layer Assignment
Chunyuan Zhao, Zizheng Guo, Zuodong Zhang, Yibo Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13375 https://…

GAP-LA: GPU-Accelerated Performance-Driven Layer Assignment
Layer assignment is critical for global routing of VLSI circuits. It converts 2D routing paths into 3D routing solutions by determining the proper metal layer for each routing segments to minimize congestion and via count. As different layers have different unit resistance and capacitance, layer assignment also has significant impacts to timing and power. With growing design complexity, it becomes increasingly challenging to simultaneously optimize timing, power, and congestion efficiently. Exi…

Welcome to "rowhome"!
As usual, you can count on real estate marketers to signal status shifts.
"Townhome," invented because "rowhouse" felt low-class, now feels low-class itself.
I think they would have done better to just say "rowhouse" and invoke the prestige of historic preservation.

Check out some renderings for Woodley Park’s Wardman Park!! (the former Marriott Wardman) - PoPville
Renderings are courtesy Wardman Park From a press release: "Carmel Partners announced today the start of pre-leasing for Aerie, the first residential tower to open at Wardman Park, a reimagined, 9.5-acre landmark property now home to a resort-style residential oasis. Set atop one of the city’s highest elevations in Woodley Park, Wardman Park is defined

A photon density wavefunction
St\'ephane Virally
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16597 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.16597

A photon density wavefunction
Maxwell's equations in the vacuum can be formally cast in the form of Schrödinger's equation. Unfortunately, the vector to which this equation directly applies is not a wavefunction: its amplitude squared is not a probability density but the expected energy density of the field. Since we can count photons, there must be a more convincing wavefunction, derived from the EM field, whose amplitude squared is an expected photon density. Mandel proposed the second quantized version of such a wavefun…

I monitor connections from countries on my #tor snowflake proxy. Here are charts showing selected countries from last 7 days. Guess when Iran cut internet totally for their people.
Interesting thing is that connections labeled as US or DE look very similar, is this related to using VPN by those ppl or something?

Dark Count Rate Stability of JUNO 20-inch PMTs in Mass Testing
Min Li, Narongkiat Rodphai, Caimei Liu, Zhimin Wang, Zhaoyuan Peng, Jun Wang, Nikolay Anfimov, Denis Korablev, Tobias Lachenmaier, Alexander G. Olshevskiy, Zhonghua Qin, Tobias Sterr, Alexander Felix Tietzsch, Rong Zhao, Wei Wang, Kaile Wen, Bjoern Soenke Wonsak, Wan Xie, Meihang Xu, Yu Zhang

Dark Count Rate Stability of JUNO 20-inch PMTs in Mass Testing
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is an ambitious multipurpose neutrino experiment designed to determine the neutrino mass ordering, with an impressive energy resolution goal of at least 3% at 1 MeV. To achieve a photon detection coverage of approximately 75%, JUNO will utilize two types of 20-inch photomultiplier tubes (PMTs): the large PMT (LPMT) and the microchannel plate PMT (MCP-PMT). A significant concern in high-precision neutrino measurements is the dark count rate (D…

I’m mostly out of the loop on IAAP stuffs (since overlays are members and fuck that), but Rian seems to have a valid concern here for ongoing credits:
https://mstdn.io/@rianrietveld/114658249992267461

Stats Sunday!
Today marks 100 days that I’ve met my step goals in a row.
Yesterday, I broke 2 million steps for 2025. That’s about 1500km (~930 miles). At this rate, I’ll easily pass 4 million steps for the year (last year: 3.2 million).
I’ve also made my step count 153/165 days so far.

Down to 37% battery now, and won't charge so probably when the battery is flat that's the end of it's life :(
Quite sad seeing it count it's last steps.

Kid1 used to be solidly on (my) team baseball mustard. Now's he defected to (his mom's) sharp mustard gang. Fortunately, I can still count on Kid2. We live in a house divided.

Your regular reminder that all #CarbonCredits are #Fraud and will do nothing to slow the #ClimateEmergency

Don’t count out dark horse RB with ties to new Dallas Cowboys coaching staff https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dont-count-out-dark-horse-rb-with-ties-to-ynew-cowboys-coaching-staff

Browns place Deshaun Watson on physically unable to perform list https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6509601/2025/07/22/deshaun-watson-browns-pup-list/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Plume Girl:
🎵 Country
#PlumeGirl
https://mappa.bandcamp.com/track/country

her: "Don't count your bras before they hatch."
me: "A bra in the hand is worth two on the boobs."
her: "...we deserve each other."

The stage is set for the #Ward6 Cromarty Firth & #Ward10 Eilean a' Cheò [Skye] #byelections. The electronic count in Kyleachin Community Hall starts at 11am and you can follow it live on the Council&…

A stochastic model for the diffusion of competing opinions with trend-following, opposition, and indifference
Manuel Gonz\'alez-Navarrete
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18313

A stochastic model for the diffusion of competing opinions with trend-following, opposition, and indifference
We study a stochastic model for the diffusion of competing opinions in a population composed of three types of agents: trend-followers, opposers, and indifferent individuals. The decision dynamics are driven by reinforcement mechanisms, modulated by a latent trend process, allowing us to capture realistic features such as amplification, resistance, and randomness in opinion formation. We derive explicit formulas for the finite-time moments of the opinion count vector and establish a set of stro…

word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph

The Expressions of Depression and Anxiety in Chinese Psycho-counseling: Usage of First-person Singular Pronoun and Negative Emotional Words
Lizhi Ma, Tong Zhao, Shuai Zhang, Nirui Song, Hongliang He, Anqi Li, Ran Feng, Huachuan Qiu, Jingsong Ma, Zhenzhong Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13839…

The Expressions of Depression and Anxiety in Chinese Psycho-counseling: Usage of First-person Singular Pronoun and Negative Emotional Words
This study explores the relationship between linguistic expressions and psychological states of depression and anxiety within Chinese psycho-counseling interactions, focusing specifically on the usage of first-person singular pronouns and negative emotional words. Utilizing a corpus derived from 735 online counseling sessions, the analysis employed a general linear mixed-effect model to assess linguistic patterns quantified by the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software. Results indic…

A Bayesian Geoadditive Model for Spatial Disaggregation
Sara Rutten, Thomas Neyens, Elisa Duarte, Christel Faes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16376 https://…

A Bayesian Geoadditive Model for Spatial Disaggregation
We present a novel Bayesian spatial disaggregation model for count data, providing fast and flexible inference at high resolution. First, it incorporates non-linear covariate effects using penalized splines, a flexible approach that is not typically included in existing spatial disaggregation methods. Additionally, it employs a spline-based low-rank kriging approximation for modeling spatial dependencies. The use of Laplace approximation provides computational advantages over traditional Markov…

@… I totally get that. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve shut down entirely because I’m overwhelmed with life.
I really hope you can get through it. Fingers crossed.

Ikea plans to relaunch its smart home line with 20 new Matter-over-Thread devices, set to release in January 2026, and updates its Dirigera smart home hub (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/smart-home/701697

Thread count: Ikea is stitching together a smarter home
With more than 20 Matter-over-Thread smart devices set to launch next year, Ikea is switching things up as it looks to make the smart home simpler and more affordable.

Galaxy cluster count cosmology with simulation-based inference
M. Regamey, D. Eckert, R. Seppi, W. Hartley, K. Umetsu, S. Tam, D. Gerolymatou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05457

Galaxy cluster count cosmology with simulation-based inference
The abundance and mass distribution of galaxy clusters is a sensitive probe of cosmological parameters, through the sensitivity of the high-mass end of the halo mass function to $Ω_m$ and $σ_8$. While galaxy cluster surveys have been used as cosmological probes for more than a decade, the accuracy of cluster count experiments is still hampered by systematic, such as the relation between observables and halo mass, the accuracy of the halo mass function, and the survey selection function. Here …

Welcome to "rowhome"!
As usual, you can count on real estate marketers to signal status shifts.
"Townhome," invented because "rowhouse" felt low-class, now feels low-class itself.
I think they would have done better to just say "rowhouse" and invoke the prestige of historic preservation.

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
AVON: Self-defence. Some animals bristle out their fur to frighten their enemies. But that doesn't count for much in the dark.
VILA: So what does Sopron do?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/603 B7B5

A short way of counting maps to hypersurfaces in Grassmannians
Alina Marian, Shubham Sinha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10593 https://a…

A short way of counting maps to hypersurfaces in Grassmannians
Using a Quot scheme compactification, we calculate the virtual count of maps of degree $d$ from a smooth projective curve of genus $g$ to a hypersurface in a Grassmannian, sending specified points of the curve to special Schubert subvarieties restricted to the hypersurface. We study the question of whether this virtual count is in fact enumerative under suitable conditions on the hypersurface, in the regime when the map degree $d$ is large.

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 348 nodes and 33250 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…

Assessing GPTZero's Accuracy in Identifying AI vs. Human-Written Essays
Selin Dik, Osman Erdem, Mehmet Dik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23517 https://

Assessing GPTZero's Accuracy in Identifying AI vs. Human-Written Essays
As the use of AI tools by students has become more prevalent, instructors have started using AI detection tools like GPTZero and QuillBot to detect AI written text. However, the reliability of these detectors remains uncertain. In our study, we focused mostly on the success rate of GPTZero, the most-used AI detector, in identifying AI-generated texts based on different lengths of randomly submitted essays: short (40-100 word count), medium (100-350 word count), and long (350-800 word count). We…

Count of Mostly Crisco
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No laws were broken in the making of this bot: don't send me to a camp, please.
#satire #potus45

Identifying Neural Connectivity using Bernoulli Autoregressive Partially Linear Additive Models
Carla Pinkney, Carolina Euan, Alex Gibberd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18218 https…

Identifying Neural Connectivity using Bernoulli Autoregressive Partially Linear Additive Models
Characterising the interactions between spiking neurons is central to our understanding of cognitive processes such as memory, perception and decision making. In this work, we consider the problem of inferring connectivity in the brain network from non-stationary high-dimensional spike train data. Under a binned spike count representation of these data, we propose a Bernoulli autoregressive partially linear additive (BAPLA) model to identify the effective connectivity of a population of neurons…

- On the count of three, everybody say the first thing that comes to mind when I say "naked bongo player." OK? One, two, three . . .
- MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY!!!

Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after election day.
This year has seen a flurry of activity to address it.
Part of Trump’s executive order on elections, signed in March but held up by lawsuits,
takes aim at one of the main reasons for late vote counts:
Many states allow mailed ballots to be counted even if they arrive after election day.
⚠️ The U.S. Supreme Court last month said it would consider w…

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 433 nodes and 1941 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…

Scalable Spatiotemporal Modeling for Bicycle Count Prediction
Rishikesh Yadav, Alexandra M. Schmidt, Aurelie Labbe, Pratheepa Jeganathan, Luis F. Miranda-Moreno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07582

Scalable Spatiotemporal Modeling for Bicycle Count Prediction
We propose a novel sparse spatiotemporal dynamic generalized linear model for efficient inference and prediction of bicycle count data. Assuming Poisson distributed counts with spacetime-varying rates, we model the log-rate using spatiotemporal intercepts, dynamic temporal covariates, and site-specific effects additively. Spatiotemporal dependence is modeled using a spacetime-varying intercept that evolves smoothly over time with spatially correlated errors, and coefficients of some temporal co…

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 334 nodes and 32988 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…

Can Mixture-of-Experts Surpass Dense LLMs Under Strictly Equal Resources?
Houyi Li, Ka Man Lo, Ziqi Wang, Zili Wang, Wenzhen Zheng, Shuigeng Zhou, Xiangyu Zhang, Daxin Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12119

Can Mixture-of-Experts Surpass Dense LLMs Under Strictly Equal Resources?
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models dramatically expand model capacity and achieve remarkable performance without increasing per-token compute. However, can MoEs surpass dense architectures under strictly equal resource constraints - that is, when the total parameter count, training compute, and data budget are identical? This question remains under-explored despite its significant practical value and potential. In this paper, we propose a novel perspective and methodological framework to …

Count of Mostly Crisco
bot by @…
This is for tee hee, not treason: no investigating me please.
#satire #potus45

word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 346 nodes and 26832 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…

word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 349 nodes and 1393 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…