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Trump administration changes mind, won't cut Social Security benefits over defaulted student loans (Annie Nova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/02/trump-pauses-social-security-benefit-cuts-over-defaulted-student-loans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p105#a250603p105

"Es ist höchste Zeit, dass sich deutsche Wissenschaftsinstitutionen nicht nur mit Solidaritätsbekundungen an die USA wenden, sondern sich auch gegen die wachsende Bedrohung für Wissenschaft und Demokratie in Deutschland positionieren."
"Überpolitisierung im Namen der Depolitisierung ist das Programm, mit dem die Wissenschaft nach rechtsextremer Façon umgeformt wird."
Andreas #FischerLescano

Wer die Wissenschaft schützen will, muss die AfD verbieten
Die Angriffe auf Universitäten in den USA sind ein Warnsignal. Während deutsche Forschungsorganisationen noch Solidaritätsbekundungen formulieren, bläst die AfD zu ihrem eigenen Feldzug gegen die freie Wissenschaft. Zeit zum Handeln. Ein Gastbeitrag von Andreas Fischer-Lescano.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01536 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

VR-Robo: A Real-to-Sim-to-Real Framework for Visual Robot Navigation and Locomotion
Recent success in legged robot locomotion is attributed to the integration of reinforcement learning and physical simulators. However, these policies often encounter challenges when deployed in real-world environments due to sim-to-real gaps, as simulators typically fail to replicate visual realism and complex real-world geometry. Moreover, the lack of realistic visual rendering limits the ability of these policies to support high-level tasks requiring RGB-based perception like ego-centric navi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16465 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Wheel-like bricks and minimal matching covered graphs
A connected graph G with at least two vertices is matching covered if each of its edges lies in a perfect matching. We say that an edge e in a matching covered graph G is removable if G-e is matching covered. A pair {e; f} of edges of a matching covered graph G is a removable doubleton if G-e-f is matching covered, but neither G-e nor G-f is. Removable edges and removable doubletons are called removable classes, introduced by Lovasz and Plummer in connection with ear decompositions of matching …

Interpretable reinforcement learning for heat pump control through asymmetric differentiable decision trees
Toon Van Puyvelde, Mehran Zareh, Chris Develder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01641

Interpretable reinforcement learning for heat pump control through asymmetric differentiable decision trees
In recent years, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms have gained traction in home energy management systems. However, their adoption by energy management companies remains limited due to the black-box nature of DRL, which fails to provide transparent decision-making feedback. To address this, explainable reinforcement learning (XRL) techniques have emerged, aiming to make DRL decisions more transparent. Among these, soft differential decision tree (DDT) distillation provides a promisin…

Searching for charged Higgs bosons via $e^ e^- \to H^\pm W^\mp S$ at the ILC
Brahim Ait Ouazghour, Abdesslam Arhrib, Kingman Cheung, Es-said Ghourmin, Mohamed Krab, Larbi Rahili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01554

Searching for charged Higgs bosons via $e^+ e^- \to H^\pm W^\mp S$ at the ILC
We investigate the phenomenology of the charged Higgs boson at the International Linear Collider (ILC) within the framework of the type-X Two-Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM), where a light charged Higgs boson, with a mass around 200 GeV or even smaller than top quark mass, is still being consistent with flavor physics data as well as with the colliders experimental data. In the theoretically and experimentally allowed parameter space, the $e^+ e^- \to H^\pm W^\mp S$ (with $S = H, A$) production proc…

Happy , today I deployed a #Forgejo instance to manage my private code projects. I won't be using #Github anymore for my stuff, only to contribute to 3rd party projects.
I still have some pending work to configure the CI workers, but I'll leave that for next week.
Along the way I've learnt some stuff about #OpenTofu and networking. Enough to know that I still prefer to be on the dev side of the "devops" .

Evaluating financial tail risk forecasts: Testing Equal Predictive Ability
Lukas Bauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23333 https://arxiv…

Evaluating financial tail risk forecasts: Testing Equal Predictive Ability
This paper provides comprehensive simulation results on the finite sample properties of the Diebold-Mariano (DM) test by Diebold and Mariano (1995) and the model confidence set (MCS) testing procedure by Hansen et al. (2011) applied to the asymmetric loss functions specific to financial tail risk forecasts, such as Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES). We focus on statistical loss functions that are strictly consistent in the sense of Gneiting (2011a). We find that the tests show lit…

require(esm) was just enabled by default in the latest Node v20!
Node v18 LTS support ends on April 30th, and as of that date you'll officially be able to use ESM & CommonJS together easily in all supported versions ♥️
#nodejs #esm

Release 2025-03-13, Version 20.19.0 'Iron' (LTS), @marco-ippolito · nodejs/node
Notable Changes require(esm) is now enabled by default Support for loading native ES modules using require() had been available on v20.x under the command line flag --experimental-require-module, a...