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A BBC internal review found a "noticeable" gender mismatch among older presenters, with older women required to look younger or develop "idiosyncratic personas" (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Janaway:
🎵 Code Switch
#Janaway
https://janaway-music.bandcamp.com/track/code-switch
https://open.spotify.com/track/7AOjlARWksTuM4MgWSU99W

"We have a funding system for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that is entirely based on the spending priorities of the UK government in England. The Welsh government has less borrowing powers than a local council, and it often publishes its final budget nine months into the financial year, because the Treasury has decided to change funding in England. This doesn’t work. And it can’t work"

2/2
#dharma #buddismus #sozialtheorie
Online-Kolloquium ‚The Buddha Goes West? – 2. Buddha und Institutionen‘ und die Frage, wie buddhistische Institutionen Machtstrukturen, Ethik und gese…

The Buddha Goes West? – 2. Buddha und Institutionen | Kolloquien zum Buddhismus im Westen
Am 6. März 2026  startet das zweite Online-Kolloquium ‚The Buddha Goes West? – 2. Buddha und Institutionen‘ mit Prof. Jens Schlieter, Prof. Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Prof. Werner Vogd,wissensch. Begleitung: Dr. Jan-Ulrich...

"With his return to Westminster seemingly blocked, on Monday Andy Burnham will get back to the two roles to which he has devoted his time in recent years: being mayor of Greater Manchester and annoying Keir Starmer."
".. he has carved out a distinct if occasionally woolly left-leaning ethos, certainly more distinctive than his philosophy as an MP,.. “ a growth-based vision".
Rebuffed Burnham can return to honing his stature and attack lines | Andy Burnham | The…

Truly weird. No, wait: Truly outrageous.
Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
Whoa! #WhoWasTheMaleVersionOf #Jem

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[6/6]:
- Fast-ThinkAct: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Verbalizable Latent Planning
Chi-Pin Huang, Yunze Man, Zhiding Yu, Min-Hung Chen, Jan Kautz, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Fu-En Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09708 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115898618760721320
- Universality of Many-body Projected Ensemble for Learning Quantum Data Distribution
Quoc Hoan Tran, Koki Chinzei, Yasuhiro Endo, Hirotaka Oshima
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18637 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/115967001797773134
- FROST: Filtering Reasoning Outliers with Attention for Efficient Reasoning
Haozheng Luo, Zhuolin Jiang, Md Zahid Hasan, Yan Chen, Soumalya Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19001 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115972068838908815
- Analysis of Shuffling Beyond Pure Local Differential Privacy
Shun Takagi, Seng Pei Liew
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19154 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115971701218309765
- CryoLVM: Self-supervised Learning from Cryo-EM Density Maps with Large Vision Models
Weining Fu, Kai Shu, Kui Xu, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02620
- XtraLight-MedMamba for Classification of Neoplastic Tubular Adenomas
Sultana, Afsar, Rahu, Singh, Shula, Combs, Forchetti, Asari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04819
- Flow-Based Conformal Predictive Distributions
Trevor Harris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07633 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116045671088130364
- GOT-Edit: Geometry-Aware Generic Object Tracking via Online Model Editing
Shih-Fang Chen, Jun-Cheng Chen, I-Hong Jhuo, Yen-Yu Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08550 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116046486984991360
- UI-Venus-1.5 Technical Report
Venus Team, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09082 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116050980295461008
- The Wisdom of Many Queries: Complexity-Diversity Principle for Dense Retriever Training
Xincan Feng, Noriki Nishida, Yusuke Sakai, Yuji Matsumoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09448 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116051022881293649
- Intent Laundering: AI Safety Datasets Are Not What They Seem
Shahriar Golchin, Marc Wetter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16729 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116101884238965526
- The Metaphysics We Train: A Heideggerian Reading of Machine Learning
Heman Shakeri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19028 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/116125225694943789
- Skill-Inject: Measuring Agent Vulnerability to Skill File Attacks
David Schmotz, Luca Beurer-Kellner, Sahar Abdelnabi, Maksym Andriushchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20156 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/116125330557447048
- A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite
Maijunxian Wang, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20159 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116125664801070747
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"The prime minister of England also doubles up as the prime minister of the whole of the UK. This is not ideal. The governor of California can’t also be the president of the US. There are clearly conflicting priorities"
#ScottishIndependence
#WelshIndependence

Sternenhimmel im Februar: Venus trifft auf Merkur und Saturn https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forschung/astronomie-februar-100.html

Sternenhimmel im Februar: Venus trifft auf Merkur und Saturn
Im Februar tauchen tief im Westen nacheinander drei helle Planeten auf: Merkur, Venus und Saturn. Und sie kommen sich immer näher. Dieser Tage ist eine gute Zeit, um an den Abendhimmel zu schauen.