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Windows 11 on Arm now has enough native apps that most users are spending the majority of their time in them, says Arm https://www.windowscentral.com/software-ap…

Majority bootstrap percolation on the permutahedron and other high-dimensional graphs
Maur\'icio Collares, Joshua Erde, Anna Geisler, Mihyun Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06597

Majority bootstrap percolation on the permutahedron and other high-dimensional graphs
Majority bootstrap percolation is a model of infection spreading in networks. Starting with a set of initially infected vertices, new vertices become infected once half of their neighbours are infected. Balogh, Bollobás and Morris studied this process on the hypercube and showed that there is a phase transition as the density of the initially infected set increases. Generalising their results to a broad class of high-dimensional graphs, the authors of this work established similar bounds on th…

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Typical Quantum States of the Universe are Observationally Indistinguishable
We establish three new impossibility results regarding our knowledge of the quantum state of the universe -- a central object in quantum theory. We show that, if the universal quantum state is a typical unit vector from a high-dimensional subspace H_0 of Hilbert space H (such as the one defined by a low-entropy macro-state as prescribed by the Past Hypothesis), then no observation can determine or just significantly narrow down which vector it is. In other words, the overwhelming majority of po…

Pairwise similarity method for majority domination problem
N. I. Shushko, D. V. Lemtyuzhnikova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08886 https://

Pairwise similarity method for majority domination problem
The paper considers the problem of finding the number of dominant voters in two-level voting procedures. At the first stage, voting is conducted among local groups of voters, and at the second stage, the results are aggregated to form a final decision. The goal is to determine the minimum proportion of voters supporting a proposal for it to be accepted. The paper uses the method of pairwise comparisons to analyze the structure of the problem and develop heuristic algorithms with guaranteed accu…

NFL minicamp 2025 live updates: Browns rookie QBs look sharp https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45460351/nfl-minicamp-live-updates-2025-news-notes-depth-charts

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JWST's First View of Tidal Disruption Events: Compact, Accretion-Driven Emission Lines & Strong Silicate Emission in an Infrared-selected Sample
Mid-infrared (MIR) emission from tidal disruption events (TDEs) is a powerful probe of the circumnuclear environment around dormant supermassive black holes. This emission arises from the reprocessing of intrinsic emission into thermal MIR emission by circumnuclear dust. While the majority of optical- and X-ray-selected TDEs show only weak dust echoes consistent with primarily unobscured sight lines, there have been growing efforts aimed at finding TDEs in obscured environments using MIR select…

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Towards an Accessible, Noninvasive Micronutrient Status Assessment Method: A Comprehensive Review of Existing Techniques
Nutrients are critical to the functioning of the human body and their imbalance can result in detrimental health concerns. The majority of nutritional literature focuses on macronutrients, often ignoring the more critical nuances of micronutrient balance, which require more precise regulation. Currently, micronutrient status is routinely assessed via complex methods that are arduous for both the patient and the clinician. To address the global burden of micronutrient malnutrition, innovations i…

No Midcost Democracy
Hans Gersbach, Arthur Schichl, Oriol Tejada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07300 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07300

No Midcost Democracy
Which level of voting costs is optimal in a democracy? This paper argues that intermediate voting costs - what we term a "Midcost democracy" - should be avoided, as they fail to ensure that electoral outcomes reflect the preferences of the majority. We study a standard binary majority decision in which a majority of the electorate prefers alternative A over alternative B. The population consists of partisan voters, who always participate, and non-partisan voters, who vote only when they believe…

Elephant Random Walk with multiple extractions
Simone Franchini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06478 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06478

Elephant Random Walk with multiple extractions
Consider a generalized Elephant Random Walk in which the step is chosen by selecting $k$ previous steps with $k$ odd and then going in the majority direction with a probability $p$ and in the opposite direction otherwise. In the $k=1$ case the model is the original one and could be resolved exactly by analogy with Friedman's urn. However the analogy cannot be extended to the $k>2$ case already. In this paper we show how to treat the model for each $k$ by analogy with the more general urn model …

AI-Generated Compromises for Coalition Formation
Eyal Briman, Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06837 https://ar…

AI-Generated Compromises for Coalition Formation
The challenge of finding compromises between agent proposals is fundamental to AI subfields such as argumentation, mediation, and negotiation. Building on this tradition, Elkind et al. (2021) introduced a process for coalition formation that seeks majority-supported proposals preferable to the status quo, using a metric space where each agent has an ideal point. A crucial step in this process involves identifying compromise proposals around which agent coalitions can unite. How to effectively f…

Me, at the start of the semester: In order to pass this course, you need to complete the majority of the weekly exercises.
Student at the end of the semester: I had no idea that 4 exercises would not be enough!!
The semester has 14 weeks of courses.
#AcademicChatter

Me, at the start of the semester: In order to pass this course, you need to complete the majority of the weekly exercises.
Student at the end of the semester: I had no idea that 4 exercises would not be enough!!
The semester has 14 weeks of courses.
#AcademicChatter

Me, at the start of the semester: In order to pass this course, you need to complete the majority of the weekly exercises.
Student at the end of the semester: I had no idea that 4 exercises would not be enough!!
The semester has 14 weeks of courses.
#AcademicChatter

Impacts of Mainstream-Driven Algorithms on Recommendations for Children Across Domains: A Reproducibility Study
Robin Ungruh, Alejandro Bellog\'in, Dominik Kowald, Maria Soledad Pera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06596

Impacts of Mainstream-Driven Algorithms on Recommendations for Children Across Domains: A Reproducibility Study
Children are often exposed to items curated by recommendation algorithms. Yet, research seldom considers children as a user group, and when it does, it is anchored on datasets where children are underrepresented, risking overlooking their interests, favoring those of the majority, i.e., mainstream users. Recently, Ungruh et al. demonstrated that children's consumption patterns and preferences differ from those of mainstream users, resulting in inconsistent recommendation algorithm performance a…

Safety-Driven Response Adaptive Randomisation: An Application in Non-inferiority Oncology Trials
Maria Vittoria Chiaruttini, Lukas Pin, Sofia S. Villar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08864

Safety-Driven Response Adaptive Randomisation: An Application in Non-inferiority Oncology Trials
The majority of response-adaptive randomisation (RAR) designs in the literature use efficacy data to dynamically allocate patients. Their applicability in settings where the efficacy measure is observable with a random delay, such as overall survival, remains challenging. This paper introduces a RAR design referred to as SAFER (Safety-Aware Flexible Elastic Randomisation) design, which uses early-emerging safety data to inform treatment allocation decisions in oncology trials. However, the desi…

An improved upper bound for the second eigenvalue on tori
Fan Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05846 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05846

An improved upper bound for the second eigenvalue on tori
In this paper, we consider the problem of maximizing the second non-zero eigenvalue $λ_2(T,g)$ of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a torus $(T,g)$, among all unit-area metrics in a fixed conformal class. Based on work by Karpukhin-Stern and Eddaoudi-Girouard, we give an explicit upper bound for $λ_2(T,g)$ in a fixed conformal class of the torus. Our bound improves previous estimates based on conformal area and shows that, in the majority of conformal classes, the second eigenvalue is strictly…

"As we approach the coming jobs cliff, we're entering a period where a college isn't going to be worth it for the majority of people, since AI will take over most white-collar jobs. Combined with the demographic cliff, the entire higher education system will crumble."
This is the kind of statement you don't hear that much from sub-CEO-level #AI boosters, because it's awkward for them to admit that the tech they think is improving their life is going to be disastrous for society. Or if they do admit this, they spin it like it's a good thing (don't get me wrong, tuition is ludicrously high and higher education absolutely could be improved by a wholesale reinvention, but the potential AI-fueled collapse won't be an improvement).
I'm in the "anti-AI" crowd myself, and I think the current tech is in a hype bubble that will collapse before we see wholesale replacement of white-collar jobs, with a re-hiring to come that will somewhat make up for the current decimation. There will still be a lot of fallout for higher ed (and hopefully some productive transformation), but it might not be apocalyptic.
Fun question to ask the next person who extols the virtues of using generative AI for their job: "So how long until your boss can fire you and use the AI themselves?"
The following ideas are contradictory:
1. "AI is good enough to automate a lot of mundane tasks."
2. "AI is improving a lot so those pesky issues will be fixed soon."
3. "AI still needs supervision so I'm still needed to do the full job."

Mitigating Shortcut Learning with InterpoLated Learning
Michalis Korakakis, Andreas Vlachos, Adrian Weller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05527 https://…

Mitigating Shortcut Learning with InterpoLated Learning
Empirical risk minimization (ERM) incentivizes models to exploit shortcuts, i.e., spurious correlations between input attributes and labels that are prevalent in the majority of the training data but unrelated to the task at hand. This reliance hinders generalization on minority examples, where such correlations do not hold. Existing shortcut mitigation approaches are model-specific, difficult to tune, computationally expensive, and fail to improve learned representations. To address these issu…

It's not a security alert, my dear Google. It's by design.
@…
#Proton #degoogleAdventures

Predicting aqueous and electrochemical stability of 2D materials from extended Pourbaix analyses
Stefano Americo, Ivano E. Castelli, Kristian S. Thygesen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07839

Predicting aqueous and electrochemical stability of 2D materials from extended Pourbaix analyses
A key challenge for computational discovery of electrocatalytic materials is the reliable prediction of thermodynamic stability in aqueous environment and under different electrochemical conditions. In this work, we first evaluate the electrochemical stability of more than 3000 two-dimensional (2D) materials using conventional Pourbaix diagrams (CPDs). Due to the complete neglect of thermodynamic barriers along the (often complex) reaction pathways, the vast majority of the materials are predic…

WBD's split is set to close in mid-2026; CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels says he assumes "the majority" of WBD's ~$37B debt will exist with the spun off Global Networks (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollyw…

“Majority” of Warner Bros. Discovery’s $37 Billion in Debt Will Be Spun Off With TV Networks, Its CEO Says
But “a not-insignificant portion” will remain with Streaming & Studios — and with David Zaslav.

It can be useful to remember who are these national guard troops. You may be surprised to realize that the majority of our men (and a few of our women) are already subject to Federal control by FFOTUS as commander-in-chief of the militia.
They are defined by our Federal law https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/te…

"Federal court says Alabama must use map that creates 2nd Black majority district" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151447

Apollo Global agrees to acquire a majority stake in Stream Data Centers, which builds, leases, and operates data center campuses, in its first such acquisition (Laura Benitez/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Mailbag: Judging Dak's downfield throws? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-judging-dak-s-downfield-throws

8/5/25 ☀️ AM: ... Schatz has locked up support from a "comfortable majority" ... (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/8525-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p6#a250805p6

Egonoise Resilient Source Localization and Speech Enhancement for Drones Using a Hybrid Model and Learning-Based Approach
Yihsuan Wu, Yukai Chiu, Michael Anthony, Mingsian R. Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06310

Egonoise Resilient Source Localization and Speech Enhancement for Drones Using a Hybrid Model and Learning-Based Approach
Drones are becoming increasingly important in search and rescue missions, and even military operations. While the majority of drones are equipped with camera vision capabilities, the realm of drone audition remains underexplored due to the inherent challenge of mitigating the egonoise generated by the rotors. In this paper, we present a novel technique to address this extremely low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) problem encountered by the microphone-embedded drones. The technique is implemented us…

Cam Miller or Aidan O’Connell: Who Should The Raiders Give The Ball To? https://raiderramble.com/2025/08/08/cam-miller-or-aidan-oconnell-who-should-the-raiders-give-the-ball-to/

4DSloMo: 4D Reconstruction for High Speed Scene with Asynchronous Capture
Yutian Chen, Shi Guo, Tianshuo Yang, Lihe Ding, Xiuyuan Yu, Jinwei Gu, Tianfan Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05163

4DSloMo: 4D Reconstruction for High Speed Scene with Asynchronous Capture
Reconstructing fast-dynamic scenes from multi-view videos is crucial for high-speed motion analysis and realistic 4D reconstruction. However, the majority of 4D capture systems are limited to frame rates below 30 FPS (frames per second), and a direct 4D reconstruction of high-speed motion from low FPS input may lead to undesirable results. In this work, we propose a high-speed 4D capturing system only using low FPS cameras, through novel capturing and processing modules. On the capturing side, …

Viele europäische #Landwirt*innen zeigen mehr #Klimaskepsis als andere Berufsgruppen, vor allem in wohlhabenderen Ländern mit geringerem #Klimarisiko.
Das erschwert

Climate change skepticism of European farmers and implications for effective policy actions - Communications Earth & Environment
The majority of farmers in European Union countries are more skeptical about climate change impact and attribution than the general population, and more so in more innovative and higher-income countries, according to an analysis of European-level surveys.

❝Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content.❞
Oh!
❝But that's just the beginning. Next, we'll work on a marketplace where content creators and AI companies, large and small, can come together.❞
Oh.
First quote sounds like a strike. Second quote sounds more like a company trying to situate itself as an unavoidable middle player who can control both sides of a market.
https://mastodon.acm.org/@avandeursen/114799313365332691

Majority dynamics on finite trees
Itai Benjamini, Georgii Zakharov, Maksim Zhukovskii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04714 https://arxiv.…

Majority dynamics on finite trees
For an arbitrary finite tree $T$, we find the exact value of the wort-case stabilisation time of majority dynamics on $T$. We also prove that for a perfect rooted cubic tree $T$ with diameter $D$ and uniformly random initial opinions, the dynamics stabilises in time $τ\in(D/4,D/3)$ with high probability.

UWB TDoA Error Correction using Transformers: Patching and Positional Encoding Strategies
Dieter Coppens, Adnan Shahid, Eli De Poorter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03523

UWB TDoA Error Correction using Transformers: Patching and Positional Encoding Strategies
Despite their high accuracy, UWB-based localization systems suffer inaccuracies when deployed in industrial locations with many obstacles due to multipath effects and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions. In such environments, current error mitigation approaches for time difference of arrival (TDoA) localization typically exclude NLOS links. However, this exclusion approach leads to geometric dilution of precision problems and this approach is infeasible when the majority of links are NLOS. To a…

More time should be devoted about the (near) future businessmodels of AI and how it collects data/content. Just trying to prevent AI models from scraping data will be futile.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compen…

Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

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Rethinking the Role of Prompting Strategies in LLM Test-Time Scaling: A Perspective of Probability Theory
Recently, scaling test-time compute on Large Language Models (LLM) has garnered wide attention. However, there has been limited investigation of how various reasoning prompting strategies perform as scaling. In this paper, we focus on a standard and realistic scaling setting: majority voting. We systematically conduct experiments on 6 LLMs $\times$ 8 prompting strategies $\times$ 6 benchmarks. Experiment results consistently show that as the sampling time and computational overhead increase, co…

a record 27 Senators, 56% of the Democratic caucus, voted to stop arming Israel, but California's senators Schiff and Padilla STILL did not join them. These genocide enablers gotta go.
https://zeteo.com/p/breaking-in-a-first-majority-of-democratic

BREAKING: In a First, Majority of Democratic Senators Vote to Stop Arming Israel
26 Democrats joined Bernie Sanders in his effort to end certain weapons' sales to Israel - but were blocked by 70 pro-war senators, including every Republican present. Here's how the vote went.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SonicReducer
Youth Brigade:
🎵 Moral Majority
#YouthBrigade
https://youthbrigade.bandcamp.com/track/moral-majority-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5yVsaQ9Fqr3uIMKjHslkE4

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Investigating Timing-Based Information Leakage in Data Flow-Driven Real-Time Systems
Leaking information about the execution behavior of critical real-time tasks may lead to serious consequences, including violations of temporal constraints and even severe failures. We study information leakage for a special class of real-time tasks that have two execution modes, namely, typical execution (which invokes the majority of times) and critical execution (to tackle exceptional conditions). The data flow-driven applications inherit such a multimode execution model. In this paper, we i…

Nearly half of Israelis support army killing all Palestinians in Gaza, poll finds.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-israelis-support-expulsion-palestinians-gaza-poll

Nearly half of Israelis support army killing Palestinians in Gaza, poll finds
An overwhelming number of Israelis, including seculars, back the forced transfer of Palestinians from Gaza and Israel

Who Gets Cited? Gender- and Majority-Bias in LLM-Driven Reference Selection
Jiangen He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02740

Who Gets Cited? Gender- and Majority-Bias in LLM-Driven Reference Selection
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted as research assistants, particularly for literature review and reference recommendation, yet little is known about whether they introduce demographic bias into citation workflows. This study systematically investigates gender bias in LLM-driven reference selection using controlled experiments with pseudonymous author names. We evaluate several LLMs (GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, Claude Sonnet, and Claude Haiku) by varying gender composition within c…

Beyond Advertising: Mechanism Design for Platform-Wide Marketing Service "QuanZhanTui"
Ningyuan Li, Zhilin Zhang, Tianyan Long, Yuyao Liu, Rongquan Bai, Yurong Chen, Xiaotie Deng, Pengjie Wang, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02931

Beyond Advertising: Mechanism Design for Platform-Wide Marketing Service "QuanZhanTui"
On e-commerce platforms, sellers typically bid for impressions from ad traffic to promote their products. However, for most sellers, the majority of their sales come from organic traffic. Consequently, the relationship between their ad spending and total sales remains uncertain, resulting in operational inefficiency. To address this issue, e-commerce platforms have recently introduced a novel platform-wide marketing service known as QuanZhanTui, which has reportedly enhanced marketing efficienc…

Principal Context-aware Diffusion Guided Data Augmentation for Fault Localization
Shihao Fu, Yan Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24079 https://

Principal Context-aware Diffusion Guided Data Augmentation for Fault Localization
Test cases are indispensable for conducting effective fault localization (FL). However, test cases in practice are severely class imbalanced, i.e. the number of failing test cases (i.e. minority class) is much less than that of passing ones (i.e. majority class). The severe class imbalance between failing and passing test cases have hindered the FL effectiveness. To address this issue, we propose PCD-DAug: a Principal Context-aware Diffusion guided Data Augmentation approach that generate syn…

Documenting Patterns of Exoticism of Marginalized Populations within Text-to-Image Generators
Sourojit Ghosh, Sanjana Gautam, Pranav Venkit, Avijit Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02937

Documenting Patterns of Exoticism of Marginalized Populations within Text-to-Image Generators
A significant majority of AI fairness research studying the harmful outcomes of GAI tools have overlooked non-Western communities and contexts, necessitating a stronger coverage in this vein. We extend our previous work on exoticism (Ghosh et al., 2024) of 'Global South' countries from across the world, as depicted by GAI tools. We analyze generated images of individuals from 13 countries -- India, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Sudan, Libya, Venezuela, Colombia, Indone…

I really really really hate how much people in my field and industry have normalized generative #AI use.
I see posts / hear comments literally EVERY DAY to the tune of “can people stop complaining about AI, nobody cares. You’re not morally better” followed up by something about “you’re making work harder than it needs to be” and often “nobody values human-made work more they only care about the final output no matter how it was created”
I usually ignore these conversations but sometimes it really gets to me. It’s so hard to feel sane surrounded by that consensus every day, everywhere I go with people in my profession.
I’ve rarely felt so judged by the majority point of view on anything in my work before.

A Poisson-Guided Decomposition Network for Extreme Low-Light Image Enhancement
Isha Rao, Sanjay Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04470 https://

A Poisson-Guided Decomposition Network for Extreme Low-Light Image Enhancement
Low-light image denoising and enhancement are challenging, especially when traditional noise assumptions, such as Gaussian noise, do not hold in majority. In many real-world scenarios, such as low-light imaging, noise is signal-dependent and is better represented as Poisson noise. In this work, we address the problem of denoising images degraded by Poisson noise under extreme low-light conditions. We introduce a light-weight deep learning-based method that integrates Retinex based decomposition…

Governor wants maps to reflect state’s 'Christian conservative majority': GOP lawmaker - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/the-right-wing/kehoe-trump/

Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case,
🔥Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151301

Breaking: Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case, Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question #ELB
The Supreme Court just issued this order: Louisiana had to create that second majority-minority district in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act, as it had been found to face Section 2 VRA liability for not creating that district. … Continue reading Breaking: Supreme Court, in Order Asking for Additional Briefing in Louisiana Voting Case, Appears to Put the Constitutionality of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act into Question →

Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media (Brian O'Donovan/RTÉ)
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0704/1521746-meta-eu/

Meta backs EU digital majority age
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has said it supports proposals for a common digital majority age across EU member states.

Propose or Vote: A simple Democratic Procedure
Hans Gersbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05998 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05998…

Propose or Vote: A simple Democratic Procedure
This paper introduces a simple democratic procedure. In a first stage, all members of a polity decide whether to apply for proposal-making or later vote on proposals made in the second stage. This procedure is called Propose or Vote (PoV). With appropriate default points and majority voting over two randomly selected proposals, the PoV procedure can implement the Condorcet winner with only one round of voting if a Condorcet winner exists. We explore ways to establish uniqueness, alternative vot…

Area-based epigraph and hypograph indices for functional outlier detection
Belen Pulido, Alba M. Franco-Pereira, Rosa E. Lillo, Fabian Scheipl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05701

Area-based epigraph and hypograph indices for functional outlier detection
Detecting outliers in Functional Data Analysis is challenging because curves can stray from the majority in many different ways. The Modified Epigraph Index (MEI) and Modified Hypograph Index (MHI) rank functions by the fraction of the domain on which one curve lies above or below another. While effective for spotting shape anomalies, their construction limits their ability to flag magnitude outliers. This paper introduces two new metrics, the Area-Based Epigraph Index (ABEI) and Area-Based Hyp…

Hey, North Carolina. Remember Hurricane Helene? This is the idiocy the majority of voters voted for.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-202…

Towards culturally-appropriate conversational AI for health in the majority world: An exploratory study with citizens and professionals in Latin America
Dorian Peters, Fernanda Espinoza, Marco da Re, Guido Ivetta, Luciana Benotti, Rafael A. Calvo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01719

Towards culturally-appropriate conversational AI for health in the majority world: An exploratory study with citizens and professionals in Latin America
There is justifiable interest in leveraging conversational AI (CAI) for health across the majority world, but to be effective, CAI must respond appropriately within culturally and linguistically diverse contexts. Therefore, we need ways to address the fact that current LLMs exclude many lived experiences globally. Various advances are underway which focus on top-down approaches and increasing training data. In this paper, we aim to complement these with a bottom-up locally-grounded approach bas…

Enabling Site-Specific Cellular Network Simulation Through Ray-Tracing-Driven ns-3
Tanguy Ropitault, Matteo Bordin, Paolo Testolina, Michele Polese, Pedram Johari, Nada Golmie, Tommaso Melodia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04004

Enabling Site-Specific Cellular Network Simulation Through Ray-Tracing-Driven ns-3
Evaluating cellular systems, from 5G New Radio (NR) and 5G-Advanced to 6G, is challenging because the performance emerges from the tight coupling of propagation, beam management, scheduling, and higher-layer interactions. System-level simulation is therefore indispensable, yet the vast majority of studies rely on the statistical 3GPP channel models. These are well suited to capture average behavior across many statistical realizations, but cannot reproduce site-specific phenomena such as corner…

Mailbag: Judging Dak's downfield throws? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-judging-dak-s-downfield-throws

The Silent Majority
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

MMBERT: Scaled Mixture-of-Experts Multimodal BERT for Robust Chinese Hate Speech Detection under Cloaking Perturbations
Qiyao Xue, Yuchen Dou, Ryan Shi, Xiang Lorraine Li, Wei Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00760

MMBERT: Scaled Mixture-of-Experts Multimodal BERT for Robust Chinese Hate Speech Detection under Cloaking Perturbations
Hate speech detection on Chinese social networks presents distinct challenges, particularly due to the widespread use of cloaking techniques designed to evade conventional text-based detection systems. Although large language models (LLMs) have recently improved hate speech detection capabilities, the majority of existing work has concentrated on English datasets, with limited attention given to multimodal strategies in the Chinese context. In this study, we propose MMBERT, a novel BERT-based m…

Pretty amazing. And yet, the majority of Americans won’t see this story because the truth is paywalled but the bullshit is free. Which feels more and more to me like one of the world’s most important problems.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114580574368958399

For Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Trump's big bill is a big test (Theodoric Meyer/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/02/trump-bill-senate-thune/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p15#a250602p15

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Sample Compression for Continual Learning
Continual learning algorithms aim to learn from a sequence of tasks, making the training distribution non-stationary. The majority of existing continual learning approaches in the literature rely on heuristics and do not provide learning guarantees. In this paper, we present a new method called Continual Pick-to-Learn (CoP2L), which is able to retain the most representative samples for each task in an efficient way. CoP2L combines the Pick-to-Learn algorithm (rooted in the sample compression th…

@… I kind of agree. I don’t like that you have to have software that knows who you are to use the web (or a device that does, on the side). But I also don’t see any feasible alternative.
Shared passwords (which I believe are still the majority of them) are terrible. I think I am slightly on the side of DRM.

#ScribesAndMakers Jun 6: What’s your best dish? What are the ingredients and how do you make it?
That is a question completely depending on whom you ask. My youngest child probably says pancakes or waffles, while my husband seems to enjoy the majority of things I put in front of him. My eldest, and my second eldest have entirely different opinions too, and my father is a difficult man…

Vanadium-doped HfO$_2$, multiferroic uncompromised
Vincenzo Fiorentini, Paola Alippi, Gianaurelio Cuniberti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03653 https://

Vanadium-doped HfO$_2$, multiferroic uncompromised
Ab initio density-functional calculations show that orthorhombic Pca21 hafnia HfO2 mixed with vanadium at low concentration is a ferroelectric and ferromagnetic insulator. The multiorbital degeneracy of singly-occupied V states in the nominally 4+ ionic state is broken by magnetism, reduced symmetry, and local distortion, causing a single one-electron majority state per V atom to be occupied. A gap of order 1 eV thus survives at all V concentrations, and intrinsic polarization is preserved, at …

Die Verkäufe von #BYD werden von Quartal zu Quartal besser. Heben die in Europa doch noch richtig ab?
https://eu-evs.com/groupCharts/BYD/ALL_DAILY/QoQ-Chart

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08568 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

ODIN: Star Formation Histories Reveal Formative Starbursts Experienced by Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies at Cosmic Noon
In this work, we test the frequent assumption that Lyman Alpha Emitting galaxies (LAEs) are experiencing their first major burst of star formation at the time of observation. To this end, we identify 74 LAEs from the ODIN Survey with rest-UV-through-NIR photometry from UVCANDELS. For each LAE, we perform non-parametric star formation history (SFH) reconstruction using the Dense Basis Gaussian process-based method of spectral energy distribution fitting. We find that a strong majority (67%) of o…

On Securing Berrut Approximated Coded Computing Through Discrete Cosine Transforms
Rimpi Borah, J. Harshan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01330 https://…

On Securing Berrut Approximated Coded Computing Through Discrete Cosine Transforms
Coded computing is a reliable and fault-tolerant mechanism for implementing large computing tasks over a distributed set of worker nodes. While a majority of coded computing frameworks address accurate computation of the target functions, they are restricted to computing multivariate polynomial functions. To generalize these computing platforms to non-polynomial target functions, Jahani-Nezhad and Maddah-Ali recently proposed Berrut Approximated Coded computing (BACC), which was proven fault-to…

Localizing Audio-Visual Deepfakes via Hierarchical Boundary Modeling
Xuanjun Chen, Shih-Peng Cheng, Jiawei Du, Lin Zhang, Xiaoxiao Miao, Chung-Che Wang, Haibin Wu, Hung-yi Lee, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02000

Localizing Audio-Visual Deepfakes via Hierarchical Boundary Modeling
Audio-visual temporal deepfake localization under the content-driven partial manipulation remains a highly challenging task. In this scenario, the deepfake regions are usually only spanning a few frames, with the majority of the rest remaining identical to the original. To tackle this, we propose a Hierarchical Boundary Modeling Network (HBMNet), which includes three modules: an Audio-Visual Feature Encoder that extracts discriminative frame-level representations, a Coarse Proposal Generator th…

Structural Extrapolation in Regression Discontinuity Designs with an Application to School Expenditure Referenda
Austin Feng, Francesco Ruggieri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02658

Structural Extrapolation in Regression Discontinuity Designs with an Application to School Expenditure Referenda
We propose a structural approach to extrapolate average partial effects away from the cutoff in regression discontinuity designs (RDDs). Our focus is on applications that exploit closely contested school district referenda to estimate the effects of changes in education spending on local economic outcomes. We embed these outcomes in a spatial equilibrium model of local jurisdictions in which fiscal policy is determined by majority rule voting. This integration provides a microfoundation for the…

Benefit from Rich: Tackling Search Interaction Sparsity in Search Enhanced Recommendation
Teng Shi, Weijie Yu, Xiao Zhang, Ming He, Jianping Fan, Jun Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04145

Benefit from Rich: Tackling Search Interaction Sparsity in Search Enhanced Recommendation
In modern online platforms, search and recommendation (S&R) often coexist, offering opportunities for performance improvement through search-enhanced approaches. Existing studies show that incorporating search signals boosts recommendation performance. However, the effectiveness of these methods relies heavily on rich search interactions. They primarily benefit a small subset of users with abundant search behavior, while offering limited improvements for the majority of users who exhibit only s…

😠 Minority government the new normal in Tasmania as voters turn away from major parties
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/20/minority-government-the-new-normal-in-tasmania-as-voters…

Dutch @… opinion editor selects letter from reader claiming that Wilders' far-right PVV has an 'enormous majority' in parliament, and that this mirrors the country.
In real life, PVV got 23.5% of the votes and almost 25% of the seats in parliament.

WHOA:
'Quit now': MAGA freaks out on GOP leader after he blocks Trump from recess appointments - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/quit-now-thune-maga-flips-out-on-senate-majority-leader-after-he-blocks/

US insurance giant Allianz Life says hackers stole the personal information of the "majority" of its customers, staffers, and employees, in a mid-July breach (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/26/alli

Allianz Life says 'majority' of customers' personal data stolen in cyberattack | TechCrunch
Exclusive: Allianz Life said the "majority" of its customers and employees had data stolen in the July cyberattack. The company said it has notified the FBI.

Source: Texans' Mixon out majority of preseason https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45830082/source-texans-rb-joe-mixon-ankle-miss-majority-preseason

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K, a net loss of $20M, vs. a $16.4M net loss in Q2 2024, and $3.1B in cash and investments, up ~800% YoY (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-truth-social-tmtg-q2-2…

Trump's TMTG Truth Social Q2 Earnings: $20M Loss on $883K in Net Sales
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social that is majority-owned by President Donald Trump, posted earnings for Q2 2025.

Investigating Timing-Based Information Leakage in Data Flow-Driven Real-Time Systems
Mohammad Fakhruddin Babar, Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Mohammad Hamad, Monowar Hasan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01991

Investigating Timing-Based Information Leakage in Data Flow-Driven Real-Time Systems
Leaking information about the execution behavior of critical real-time tasks may lead to serious consequences, including violations of temporal constraints and even severe failures. We study information leakage for a special class of real-time tasks that have two execution modes, namely, typical execution (which invokes the majority of times) and critical execution (to tackle exceptional conditions). The data flow-driven applications inherit such a multimode execution model. In this paper, we i…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07161 has been replaced.
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RoundTable: Investigating Group Decision-Making Mechanism in Multi-Agent Collaboration
Effective group decision-making is critical in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Yet, how different mechanisms for reaching consensus impact collaboration quality and efficiency remains understudied. We conduct a systematic study on group decision-making mechanisms in a decentralized setting. Through controlled experiments, we analyze how different voting rules affect decision quality and efficiency in a multi-round collaboration. Results reveal that majority voting often cause inefficient collaborati…

Revenue Optimization in Wireless Video Caching Networks: A Privacy-Preserving Two-Stage Solution
Yijing Zhang, Md-Ferdous Pervej, Andreas F. Molisch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01898

Revenue Optimization in Wireless Video Caching Networks: A Privacy-Preserving Two-Stage Solution
Video caching can significantly improve delivery efficiency and enhance quality of video streaming, which constitutes the majority of wireless communication traffic. Due to limited cache size, caching strategies must be designed to adapt to and dynamic user demand in order to maximize system revenue. The system revenue depends on the benefits of delivering the requested videos and costs for (a) transporting the files to the users and (b) cache replacement. Since the cache content at any point i…

Ranking the opposing offenses the Raiders will face this season https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/ranking-the-opposing-offenses-the-raiders-will-face-this-season-3393100/

Cinven acquires a majority stake in Smart Communications from Accel-KKR; sources: the deal values the customer conversations platform at ~$1.8B including debt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/cinven…

On the Equivalence of the Graph-Structural and Optimization-Based Characterizations of Popular Matchings
Yuga Kanaya, Kenjiro Takazawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00349 https://

On the Equivalence of the Graph-Structural and Optimization-Based Characterizations of Popular Matchings
Popular matchings provide a model of matching under preferences in which a solution corresponds to a Condorcet winner in voting systems. In a bipartite graph in which the vertices have preferences over their neighbours, a matching is defined to be popular if it does not lose in a majority vote against any matching. In this paper, we study the following three primary problems: only the vertices on one side have preferences; a generalization of this problem allowing ties in the preferences; and t…

Spatial mixing of stellar populations in globular clusters via binary-single star scattering
V\'aclav Pavl\'ik, Melvyn B. Davies, Ellen I. Leitinger, Holger Baumgardt, Alexey Bobrick, Ivan Cabrera-Ziri, Michael Hilker, Andrew J. Winter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03322

Spatial mixing of stellar populations in globular clusters via binary-single star scattering
The majority of Galactic globular star clusters (GCs) have been reported to contain at least two populations of stars (we use P1 for the primordial and P2 for the chemically-enriched population). Recent observational studies found that dynamically-old GCs have P1 and P2 spatially mixed due to relaxation processes. However, in dynamically-young GCs, where P2 is expected to be more centrally concentrated from birth, the spatial distributions of P1 and P2 are sometimes very different from system t…

"Maryland House of Delegates Majority Leader David Moon (D) told host Alicia Menendez that two bills he's introduced would enable his state to begin withholding state funds meant for the federal government. Moon defended the bills as necessary due to the Trump administration's recent announcement withholding $7 billion from K-12 schools across the country."
'Act like a collections agency': Democrat reveals blue states' secret weapon against Trump - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/blue-states-trump/

A Note on The Rationale Behind Using Parental Longevity as a Proxy in Mendelian Randomization Studies
Zach Shahn, Rehana Rasul, C. Mary Schooling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03431

A Note on The Rationale Behind Using Parental Longevity as a Proxy in Mendelian Randomization Studies
In many cohorts (such as the UK Biobank) on which Mendelian Randomization studies are routinely performed, data on participants' longevity is inadequate as the majority of participants are still living. To nevertheless estimate effects on longevity, it is increasingly common for researchers to substitute participants' `parental attained age', i.e. parental lifespan or current age (which is routinely collected in UK Biobank), as a proxy outcome. The common approach to performing this clever tric…

How redistricting could change the fight for the House majority (Steve Kornacki/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/steve-kornacki-redistricting-change-fight-house-majority-rcna220354
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p136#a250722p136

The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after the recent departures of two members (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-fcc-majority-olivia-trusty-senate-1236436125/

Donald Trump And Republicans To Gain A Majority On FCC As Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty
The Republicans will have a 2-1 majority.

A deep dive into Apple TV's privacy features shows that Apple's streaming device is more private than the vast majority of alternatives, save for dumb TVs (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates’ go-to streaming device
Using the Apple TV app or an Apple account means giving Apple more data, though.

"Just Because You Lost The Battle, It Doesn't Mean You've Lost The War: Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent shows there is a way forward."
Sotomayor Outlawyers Supreme Court Majority In Shadow Docket Deportation Ruling - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/sotomayor-outlawyers-supreme-court-majority-in-shadow-docket-deportation-ruling/

A majority of Americans disapproves of Trump's Iran airstrikes, CNN poll finds (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/trump-iran-strikes-poll-cnn-ssrs
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p16#a250624p16

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K and a net loss of $20M, and says it accumulated ~$2B in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities in July (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-truth-social-tmtg-q2-2…

Trump's TMTG Truth Social Q2 Earnings: $20M Loss on $883K in Net Sales
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social that is majority-owned by President Donald Trump, posted earnings for Q2 2025.

Ziff Davis is laying off 15% of its unionized workforce, or 23 people, 19 of which work for CNET; Ziff Davis has bought five companies in 2025 (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/715220/ziff-davis-creators-guild-cnet-layoffs

Layoffs hit CNET as its parent company goes on a buying spree
Media company Ziff Davis is laying off 15 percent of its unionized workforce, with the majority being from tech outlet CNET.

The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after the recent departures of two members (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-fcc-majority-olivia-trusty-senate-1236436125/

Donald Trump And Republicans To Gain A Majority On FCC As Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty
The Republicans will have a 2-1 majority.

6/20/25 ☀️ AM: ... The Senate just started a long weekend, but Senate Majority ... (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/62025-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p4#a250620p4

Memo: Business Insider is cutting staff by 21% to "endure extreme traffic drops outside of our control" and "exiting the majority of our Commerce business" (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://x.com/benmullin/status/1928046544390926339

Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) on X
scoop: Business Insider is reducing staff by 21% as it reduces its reliance on “traffic-sensitive businesses.” Memo from CEO Barbara Peng:

Mike Johnson warns Senate GOP they're fucking the House majority - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/06/25/mike-johnson-warns-senate-gop-theyre-fucking-the-house-majority/

Blackstone agrees to acquire a majority stake in NetBrain, valuing the Burlington, Massachusetts-based network operations and automation company at $750M (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-…

‘You’re a Disgrace to the Constitution’: DeSantis-Appointed Court Upholds Map That Erased Majority-Black Florida District, Stripping Away Their Political Power
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/07/23/desantis-appointed-court-erased-majority-black-florida-district/

A group of 17 GOP governors write to Senate majority leader and House speaker urging for the state AI bill moratorium to be removed from the reconciliation bill (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025

Exclusive: Republican governors want state AI pause out of budget bill
Many Republican-run states have passed AI-related laws and don't want to see them knocked down.