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Questions about the meaning of #artificialintelligence and its implications for human dignity and well-being highlighted a major conference at YDS last month, titled, “A.I. and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically After ChatGPT.” Full story by Timothy Cahill '16 M.A.R.

New Approximation Guarantees for The Inventory Staggering Problem
Noga Alon, Danny Segev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10339 https://arx…

New Approximation Guarantees for The Inventory Staggering Problem
Since its inception in the mid-60s, the inventory staggering problem has been explored and exploited in a wide range of application domains, such as production planning, stock control systems, warehousing, and aerospace/defense logistics. However, even with a rich history of academic focus, we are still very much in the dark when it comes to cornerstone computational questions around inventory staggering and to related structural characterizations, with our methodological toolbox being severely…

The Evolution Of Rotating Supermassive Pop III Stars On The Main Sequence
Devesh Nandal, Ga\"el Buldgen, Daniel J. Whalen, John Regan, Tyrone E. Woods, Jonathan C. Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08268

The Evolution Of Rotating Supermassive Pop III Stars On The Main Sequence
The detection of billion-solar-mass supermassive black holes (SMBHs) within the first billion years of cosmic history challenges conventional theories of black hole formation and growth. Simultaneously, recent JWST observations revealing exceptionally high nitrogen-to-oxygen abundance ratios in galaxies at high redshifts raise critical questions about rapid chemical enrichment mechanisms operating in the early universe. Supermassive stars (SMSs) with masses of 1000 to 10000 M$_{\odot}$ are prom…

Prof Anthony Costello on the UK's flawed covid policies
"UK decision not to suppress covid raises questions about medical and scientific advice"
"Early in the covid pandemic, evidence emerged from several East Asian countries that suppression could lead to successful control. Yet the UK did not adopt the approach. ... Why was suppression not recommended, and what can be done to improve advice in future?"
Currently looks like it'd go the same way in the next pandemic too:
"Five years on, many of the people who developed the UK’s flawed response are still in post; they have not changed their views on suppression, and little has been done to improve government pandemic advice committees or to introduce detailed governance rules for the UK’s future pandemic response and resilience."
#covid #history #UKPol #pandemics