Tootfinder

In which I spend months in apparently unexplored parts of the nondeterministic-finite-automaton territory and get a good result. Once again, of interest only to people who care about ε-closures. (Those people are my people.)
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20

QRS: Finite-state Struggles

Did you know that in two states in the USA there is no “Democratic Party” but a merged coalition that acts in some ways like the Democratic Party but has different values and a different platform?
In Minnesota, for example, there's the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (which was a merge in 1944 between the Farmer-Labor Party and the Democratic Party), which has values like Democratic Socialism and left-wing populism!
The other one is in North Dakota, the Democrati…

Blank check company Dynamix says it plans to merge with another entity to create Ether Machine, holding $1.5B in ether, backed by $800M from Kraken and others (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/blank-c

Entropy-Driven Pre-Tokenization for Byte-Pair Encoding
Yifan Hu, Frank Liang, Dachuan Zhao, Jonathan Geuter, Varshini Reddy, Craig W. Schmidt, Chris Tanner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15889

Entropy-Driven Pre-Tokenization for Byte-Pair Encoding
Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) has become a widely adopted subword tokenization method in modern language models due to its simplicity and strong empirical performance across downstream tasks. However, applying BPE to unsegmented languages such as Chinese presents significant challenges, as its frequency-driven merge operation is agnostic to linguistic boundaries. To address this, we propose two entropy-informed pre-tokenization strategies that guide BPE segmentation using unsupervised information-th…

from my link log —
Rewriting the Ruby parser.
https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/
saved 2024-12-26

Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you thro…

SMART-Merge Planner: A Safe Merging and Real-Time Motion Planner for Autonomous Highway On-Ramp Merging
Toktam Mohammadnejad, Jovin D'sa, Behdad Chalaki, Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub, Ehsan Moradi-Pari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10968

SMART-Merge Planner: A Safe Merging and Real-Time Motion Planner for Autonomous Highway On-Ramp Merging
Merging onto a highway is a complex driving task that requires identifying a safe gap, adjusting speed, often interactions to create a merging gap, and completing the merge maneuver within a limited time window while maintaining safety and driving comfort. In this paper, we introduce a Safe Merging and Real-Time Merge (SMART-Merge) planner, a lattice-based motion planner designed to facilitate safe and comfortable forced merging. By deliberately adapting cost terms to the unique challenges of f…

“Developers on teams with high AI adoption complete 21% more tasks and merge 98% more pull requests, but PR review time increases 91%, revealing a critical bottleneck: human approval.“
Maybe it’s confirmation bias, but I can see that. You generate more, maybe harder to comprehend, code that still has to be double checked by people who weren’t involved in the process. That slows you down unless you ignore understanding by, you guessed it, moving fast and breaking things.

The AI Productivity Paradox Research Report | Faros AI
Key findings from the AI Productivity Paradox Report 2025. Research reveals AI coding assistants increase developer output, but not company productivity. Uncover strategies and enablers for a measurable return on investment.

A double-degenerate scenario with a merger to explosion delay time to explain type Ia supernova SN 2020aeuh
Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16757

A double-degenerate scenario with a merger to explosion delay time to explain type Ia supernova SN 2020aeuh
I suggest the double-degenerate (DD) scenario with a merger-to-explosion delay (MED) time (the DD-MED scenario) of about 1-2 years to explain the rare properties of the recently analyzed type Ia supernova (SN Ia) SN 2020aeuh. The rare properties are the SN Ia ejecta interacting with a carbon-oxygen (CO)-rich circumstellar material (CSM) at approximately 50 days post-explosion. In this DD-MED scenario, two massive CO white dwarfs (WDs), masses of M1=1.1Mo and M2=1, merge to leave a rapidly rotat…

Fast and Efficient Merge of Sorted Input Lists in Hardware Using List Offset Merge Sorters
Robert B. Kent, Marios S. Pattichis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08658

Fast and Efficient Merge of Sorted Input Lists in Hardware Using List Offset Merge Sorters
A new set of hardware merge sort devices are introduced here, which merge multiple sorted input lists into a single sorted output list in a fast and efficient manner. In each merge sorter, the values from the sorted input lists are arranged in an input 2-D setup array, but with the order of each sorted input list offset from the order of each of the other sorted input lists. In these new devices, called List Offset Merge Sorters (LOMS), a minimal set of column sort stages alternating with row s…

AAM: The Washington Post's paid average daily circulation is now just 97,000, dropping below 100,000 for the first time and down from 250,000 five years ago (Vince Morris/Washington City Paper)
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article…

Washington Post to Merge Metro Coverage Into Sports and Style Sections
The print edition will publish its final stand-alone Metro section on Sunday, as Post average circulation drops below 100,000 for the first time in more than 55 years.

arse; I've just spent a few hours bisecting and ended up at a commit titled 'massive merge' - arse. It's right as well '8470 insertions( ), 6883 deletions(-)'.
arse.

Attention Fedora users: ngscopeclient is now building Fedora packages in GitHub Actions CI (most recent build as of this post at https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps/actions/runs/16252224927).
Can anyone try installing these and verify …

Merge pull request #859 from Gherkin/master · ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps@39988c1
ngscopeclient and other client applications for libscopehal. - Merge pull request #859 from Gherkin/master · ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps@39988c1

Improving Merge Pipeline Throughput in Continuous Integration via Pull Request Prioritization
Maximilian Jungwirth, Martin Gruber, Gordon Fraser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08342

Improving Merge Pipeline Throughput in Continuous Integration via Pull Request Prioritization
Integrating changes into large monolithic software repositories is a critical step in modern software development that substantially impacts the speed of feature delivery, the stability of the codebase, and the overall productivity of development teams. To ensure the stability of the main branch, many organizations use merge pipelines that test software versions before the changes are permanently integrated. However, the load on merge pipelines is often so high that they become bottlenecks, des…

TONUS: Neuromorphic human pose estimation for artistic sound co-creation
Jules Lecomte (Fortiss GmbH, Munich, Germany), Konrad Zinner (Hochschule f\"ur Musik und Theater Munich, Germany), Michael Neumeier (Fortiss GmbH, Munich, Germany), Axel von Arnim (Fortiss GmbH, Munich, Germany)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15734

TONUS: Neuromorphic human pose estimation for artistic sound co-creation
Human machine interaction is a huge source of inspiration in today's media art and digital design, as machines and humans merge together more and more. Its place in art reflects its growing applications in industry, such as robotics. However, those interactions often remains too technical and machine-driven for people to really engage into. On the artistic side, new technologies are often not explored in their full potential and lag a bit behind, so that state-of-the-art research does not make …

Can Big Black Holes Merge with the Smallest Black Holes?
Storm Colloms, Zoheyr Doctor, Christopher P L Berry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14159 https://arxiv…

Can Big Black Holes Merge with the Smallest Black Holes?
Gravitational-wave measurements of the binary black hole population provide insights into the evolution of merging binaries. We explore potential correlation between mass and mass ratio with phenomenological population models where the minimum mass of the smaller (secondary) black hole can change with the mass of the bigger (primary) black hole. We use binary black hole signals from the third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog with and without the relatively extreme mass-ratio GW190814. When …

A half-ring of ionized circumstellar material trapped in the magnetosphere of a white dwarf merger remnant
Andrei A. Cristea, Ilaria Caiazzo, Tim Cunningham, John C. Raymond, Stephane Vennes, Adela Kawka, Aayush Desai, David R. Miller, J. J. Hermes, Jim Fuller, Jeremy Heyl, Jan van Roestel, Kevin B. Burdge, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Ingrid Pelisoli, Boris T. G\"ansicke, Paula Szkody, Scott J. Kenyon, Zach Vanderbosch, Andrew Drake, Lilia Ferrario, Dayal Wickramasinghe, Viraj R. Karamb…

A half-ring of ionized circumstellar material trapped in the magnetosphere of a white dwarf merger remnant
Many white dwarfs are observed in compact double white dwarf binaries and, through the emission of gravitational waves, a large fraction are destined to merge. The merger remnants that do not explode in a Type Ia supernova are expected to initially be rapidly rotating and highly magnetized. We here present our discovery of the variable white dwarf ZTF J200832.79+444939.67, hereafter ZTF J2008+4449, as a likely merger remnant showing signs of circumstellar material without a stellar or substella…

A Multi-Objective Optimization framework for Decentralized Learning with coordination constraints
Roberto Morales, Umberto Biccari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13983

A Multi-Objective Optimization framework for Decentralized Learning with coordination constraints
This article introduces a generalized framework for Decentralized Learning formulated as a Multi-Objective Optimization problem, in which both distributed agents and a central coordinator contribute independent, potentially conflicting objectives over a shared model parameter space. Unlike traditional approaches that merge local losses under a common goal, our formulation explicitly incorporates coordinator-side criteria, enabling more flexible and structured training dynamics. To navigate the …

Change point detection in ERA5 ground temperature time series
Fatemeh Aghaei A., Ewan T. Phillips, Holger Kantz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15045 https://…

Change point detection in ERA5 ground temperature time series
We analyze the ERA5 reanalysis 2-meter temperature time series on all land grid points using change point analysis. We fit two linear slopes to the data with the constraint that they merge at the point in time where the slope changes. We compare such fits to a standard linear regression in two ways: We use Akaike's and the Bayesian information criteria for model selection, and we test against the null hypothesis of no change of the trend value. For those grid points where the …

Sources: Palmer Luckey's stablecoin startup Atticus raised ~$250M at a $2.25B valuation, and will merge into Erebor, formed by Luckey to get a banking license (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/13/palmer-luckey-er…

Scoop: New details on Palmer Luckey's crypto unicorn
Atticus will merge into Erebor, recently formed by Luckey with plans to get a banking license.

Well, another one bites the dust... Code Climate is shutting down and their new replacement service (only upgrade option) with the fascinating strapline "Code With Vibes, Merge With Confidence" does inspire anything but... 🙄
(Been using CC for years and even though it produced a lot of false positives, it generally was a very useful tool which sent me off on several major refactoring journeys over the years, from which not only I benefited as a maintainer, but all users of my…

Scavenger : Revisiting Space-Time Tradeoffs in Key-Value Separated LSM-trees
Jianshun Zhang, Fang Wang, Jiaxin Ou, Yi Wang, Ming Zhao, Sheng Qiu, Junxun Huang, Baoquan Li, Peng Fang, Dan Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13935

Scavenger+: Revisiting Space-Time Tradeoffs in Key-Value Separated LSM-trees
Key-Value Stores (KVS) based on log-structured merge-trees (LSM-trees) are widely used in storage systems but face significant challenges, such as high write amplification caused by compaction. KV-separated LSM-trees address write amplification but introduce significant space amplification, a critical concern in cost-sensitive scenarios. Garbage collection (GC) can reduce space amplification, but existing strategies are often inefficient and fail to account for workload characteristics. Moreove…

Dallas Morning News parent company DallasNews Corporation signs a merger agreement to be acquired by Hearst, in a deal that values it at $74.9M (Amy Hollyfield/Dallas Morning News)
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/07/10/dallasnews-corporatio…

DallasNews Corporation agrees to merge with Hearst
DallasNews Corporation and Hearst have signed a definitive merger agreement, which has been unanimously approved by the boards of directors from both...

Trump has ordered the US government to consolidate its wildland firefighting force into a single program,
despite warnings from former federal officials that it could be costly and increase the risk of catastrophic blazes in the middle of peak wildfire season.
The order aims to centralize firefighting efforts,
which are now split among five agencies and two cabinet departments.
Trump’s proposed budget for next year calls for the creation of a new Federal Wildland Fire…

Around 90% of Dutch green (GroenLinks) and social-democrat (PvdA) party members voted to merge both parties, already working closely together in parliament. https://nos.nl/l/2570889

De leden hebben besloten: PvdA en GroenLinks gaan volgend jaar fuseren
De nieuwe partij komt er niet voor de komende Kamerverkiezingen, maar de GroenLinks en PvdA doen daar wel samen aan mee.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.SD. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SD/new
[1/1]:
- MERGE -- A Bimodal Audio-Lyrics Dataset for Static Music Emotion Recognition
Pedro Lima Louro, Hugo Redinho, Ricardo Santos, Ricardo Malheiro, Renato Panda, Rui Pedro Paiva

Linus #Torvalds rantet mal wieder:
Der Code sei "Garbage" und "That thing makes the world actively a worse place to live". 😉
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml…

#Filament 4 Beta Released with New #Tiptap Rich Editor 🎉
• 🏷️ Merge Tags with dynamic data integration using {{}} syntax and searchable previews for #Laravel applications
🧵 👇

On MDS Convertible Codes in the Merge Regime
Vinayak Ramkumar, Xiangliang Kong, G. Yeswanth Sai, Myna Vajha, M. Nikhil Krishnan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06219 https://

On MDS Convertible Codes in the Merge Regime
In large-scale distributed storage systems, erasure coding is employed to ensure reliability against disk failures. Recent work by Kadekodi et al. demonstrates that adapting code parameters to varying disk failure rates can lead to significant storage savings without compromising reliability. Such adaptations, known as \emph{code conversions}, motivate the design of \emph{convertible codes}, which enable efficient transformations between codes of different parameters. In this work, we study t…

Non-coalescence and in-plane momentum generation in sessile droplet clusters
Gopal Chandra Pal, Cheuk Wing Edmond Lam, Chander Shekhar Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13942

Non-coalescence and in-plane momentum generation in sessile droplet clusters
Intuitively, droplets in proximity merge when brought into contact. However, under certain conditions, they may not coalesce due to the entrapment of an interstitial gas film. Droplet non-coalescence has so far been observed in various scenarios, such as during interactions between droplets moving with relative bulk velocity, droplets with opposite charges and size differences, and Leidenfrost droplets due to continuous vapor generation. Although non-coalescence has been reported for droplets o…

Rings around giant planets and smaller bodies
Keiji Ohtsuki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11963 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11963

Rings around giant planets and smaller bodies
All the four giant planets in our Solar System have rings, but their characteristics are very different. The rings consist of a number of small particles, although individual particles have not been directly imaged. Near the central planet, colliding particles bounce off each other in low-velocity impacts but cannot gravitationally merge due to the effect of the tidal force, resulting in the formation of rings, whereas in more distant regions particles can gravitationally accrete to form satell…

Categorizing Merge Tree Edit Distances by Stability using Minimal Vertex Perturbation
Florian Wetzels, Christoph Garth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02352 https://

Categorizing Merge Tree Edit Distances by Stability using Minimal Vertex Perturbation
This paper introduces a novel stability measure for edit distances between merge trees of piecewise linear scalar fields. We apply the new measure to various metrics introduced recently in the field of scalar field comparison in scientific visualization. While previous stability measures are unable to capture the fine-grained hierarchy of the considered distances, we obtain a classification of stability that fits the efficiency of current implementations and quality of practical results. Our re…

Merge Hijacking: Backdoor Attacks to Model Merging of Large Language Models
Zenghui Yuan, Yangming Xu, Jiawen Shi, Pan Zhou, Lichao Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23561

Merge Hijacking: Backdoor Attacks to Model Merging of Large Language Models
Model merging for Large Language Models (LLMs) directly fuses the parameters of different models finetuned on various tasks, creating a unified model for multi-domain tasks. However, due to potential vulnerabilities in models available on open-source platforms, model merging is susceptible to backdoor attacks. In this paper, we propose Merge Hijacking, the first backdoor attack targeting model merging in LLMs. The attacker constructs a malicious upload model and releases it. Once a victim user …

On The Impact of Merge Request Deviations on Code Review Practices
Samah Kansab, Francis Bordeleau, Ali Tizghadam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08860 https://…

On The Impact of Merge Request Deviations on Code Review Practices
Code review is a key practice in software engineering, ensuring quality and collaboration. However, industrial Merge Request (MR) workflows often deviate from standardized review processes, with many MRs serving non-review purposes (e.g., drafts, rebases, or dependency updates). We term these cases deviations and hypothesize that ignoring them biases analytics and undermines ML models for review analysis. We identify seven deviation categories, occurring in 37.02% of MRs, and propose a few-sh…

from my link log —
ZJIT has been merged into Ruby.
https://railsatscale.com/2025-05-14-merge-zjit/
saved 2025-05-14 https://

ZJIT has been merged into Ruby
ZJIT has been merged into upstream Ruby. Learn about its architecture!

Progress toward the detection of the gravitational-wave background from stellar-mass binary black holes: a mock data challenge
Xiao-Xiao Kou, Muhammed Saleem, Vuk Mandic, Colm Talbot, Eric Thrane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14179

Progress toward the detection of the gravitational-wave background from stellar-mass binary black holes: a mock data challenge
While the third LIGO--Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog includes 90 signals, it is believed that ${\cal O}(10^5)$ binary black holes merge somewhere in the Universe every year. Although these signals are too weak to be detected individually with current observatories, they combine to create a stochastic background, which is potentially detectable in the near future. LIGO--Virgo searches for the gravitational-wave background using cross-correlation have so far yielded upper limits. Howe…

The proposed College of Arts and Social Sciences changes proposes to merge the School of Music, School of Art and Design and the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies.
It’s also been proposed major degrees such as political science, international relations and public policies would be merged into one degree.
Staff would be expected to re-apply for their jobs and essentially compete for remaining positions.

We won't be silent: ANU students decry proposed College of Arts and Social Sciences 'bloodbath' | Region Canberra
ANU students have described the proposed College of Arts and Social Sciences changes as a

On measure-valued solutions for a structured population model with transfers
Pierre Magal (IMB), Ga\"el Raoul (CMAP, MERGE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13225

On measure-valued solutions for a structured population model with transfers
We consider a transfer operator where two interacting cells carrying non-negative traits transfer a random fraction of their trait to each other. These transfers can lead to population having singular distributions in trait. We extend the definition of the transfer operator to non-negative measures with a finite second moment, and we discuss the regularity of the fixed distributions of that transfer operator. Finally, we consider a dynamic transfer model where an initial population distribution…

Reimagining Target-Aware Molecular Generation through Retrieval-Enhanced Aligned Diffusion
Dong Xu, Zhangfan Yang, Ka-chun Wong, Zexuan Zhu, Jiangqiang Li, Junkai Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14488

Reimagining Target-Aware Molecular Generation through Retrieval-Enhanced Aligned Diffusion
Breakthroughs in high-accuracy protein structure prediction, such as AlphaFold, have established receptor-based molecule design as a critical driver for rapid early-phase drug discovery. However, most approaches still struggle to balance pocket-specific geometric fit with strict valence and synthetic constraints. To resolve this trade-off, a Retrieval-Enhanced Aligned Diffusion termed READ is introduced, which is the first to merge molecular Retrieval-Augmented Generation with an SE(3)-equivari…

DiscoSG: Towards Discourse-Level Text Scene Graph Parsing through Iterative Graph Refinement
Shaoqing Lin, Chong Teng, Fei Li, Donghong Ji, Lizhen Qu, Zhuang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15583

DiscoSG: Towards Discourse-Level Text Scene Graph Parsing through Iterative Graph Refinement
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) now generate discourse-level, multi-sentence visual descriptions, challenging text scene graph parsers originally designed for single-sentence caption-to-graph mapping. Current approaches typically merge sentence-level parsing outputs for discourse input, often missing phenomena like cross-sentence coreference, resulting in fragmented graphs and degraded downstream VLM task performance. To address this, we introduce a new task, Discourse-level text Scene Graph pars…

Scavenger: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for Key-Value Separated LSM-trees
Jianshun Zhang, Fang Wang, Sheng Qiu, Yi Wang, Jiaxin Ou, Junxun Huang, Baoquan Li, Peng Fang, Dan Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13909

Scavenger: Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for Key-Value Separated LSM-trees
Key-Value Stores (KVS) implemented with log-structured merge-tree (LSM-tree) have gained widespread acceptance in storage systems. Nonetheless, a significant challenge arises in the form of high write amplification due to the compaction process. While KV-separated LSM-trees successfully tackle this issue, they also bring about substantial space amplification problems, a concern that cannot be overlooked in cost-sensitive scenarios. Garbage collection (GC) holds significant promise for space amp…

@… Here’s my attempt.
You choose a current branch and a target (branch, typically) as your starting point. Rebase takes all the commits from the current branch that aren’t on the target, resets the current branch to the same as the target, and applies them one by one, stopping if there are any merge conflicts.

As Palantir continues to expand its influence within the administration,
the Trump administration has given the company the right to surveil  Americans.
In a chilling report,The New York Times notes that the company is already creating
“detailed portraits of Americans based on government data,”
with the Trump administration already seeking
“access to hundreds of data points on citizens and others through government databases,
including their bank accoun…

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

Sources: OpenAI is preparing to back a Neuralink rival called Merge Labs, co-founded by Sam Altman, that aims to raise $250M at an $850M valuation (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/04484164-724e-4fc2-92a2-e2c13ea639bd

TIL that with pdfunite you can merge multiple PDFs with a simple command:
`pdfunite file1.pdf file2.pdf merged-pdf-files.pdf`
#linux #cli #tips

Mixed-configuration approximation for multi-orbital systems out of equilibrium
Tommaso Maria Mazzocchi, Daniel Werner, Markus Aichhorn, Enrico Arrigoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10717

Mixed-configuration approximation for multi-orbital systems out of equilibrium
We propose a mixed-configuration approximation based on single-band impurity solvers to efficiently study nonequilibrium multi-orbital systems at moderate computational cost. In this work, we merge the approach with the so-called auxiliary master equation approach. As benchmark, we first show that our approach reproduces the results of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) for two-orbital impurity models at equilibrium with overall good accuracy, especially for non-degenerate orbitals. We then use our appr…

Odd coloring graphs with linear neighborhood complexity
James Davies, Meike Hatzel, Kolja Knauer, Rose McCarty, Torsten Ueckerdt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08926

Odd coloring graphs with linear neighborhood complexity
We prove that any class of bipartite graphs with linear neighborhood complexity has bounded odd chromatic number. As a result, if $\mathcal{G}$ is the class of all circle graphs, or if $\mathcal{G}$ is any class with bounded twin-width, bounded merge-width, or a forbidden vertex-minor, then $\mathcal{G}$ is $χ_{odd}$-bounded.

STOCK ANALYSTS: Ignore Musk’s behavior, geniuses are just eccentric sometimes, it’s OK, his repeated failures will soon give way to 10000x growth
MUSK: After listening to Ace of Base on repeat for 72 hours straight while huffing jet fuel, I now understand that I am destined to merge with the AI resurrection of Hitler to become Machine Jesus who saves the white race after 1000 years of continuous stock market crashes, which are of course necessary and a good idea. Libturds have hidden this truth from your mind

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.gxiw.J6H-w4YDQCIZ&a…

SCFlow: Implicitly Learning Style and Content Disentanglement with Flow Models
Pingchuan Ma, Xiaopei Yang, Yusong Li, Ming Gui, Felix Krause, Johannes Schusterbauer, Bj\"orn Ommer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03402

SCFlow: Implicitly Learning Style and Content Disentanglement with Flow Models
Explicitly disentangling style and content in vision models remains challenging due to their semantic overlap and the subjectivity of human perception. Existing methods propose separation through generative or discriminative objectives, but they still face the inherent ambiguity of disentangling intertwined concepts. Instead, we ask: Can we bypass explicit disentanglement by learning to merge style and content invertibly, allowing separation to emerge naturally? We propose SCFlow, a flow-matchi…

LastMerge: A language-agnostic structured tool for code integration
Joao Pedro Duarte, Paulo Borba, Guilherme Cavalcanti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19687 https://

LastMerge: A language-agnostic structured tool for code integration
Unstructured line-based merge tools are widely used in practice. Structured AST-based merge tools show significantly improved merge accuracy, but are rarely used in practice because they are language specific and costly, consequently not being available for many programming languages. To improve merge accuracy for a wide range of languages, we propose LastMerge, a generic structured merge tool that can be configured through a thin interface that significantly reduces the effort of supporting st…

DC Steve Wilks collaborating with Aaron Glenn to make Jets more aggressive, physical https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45392937/new-york-jets-steve-wilks-aaron-glenn-collaborating-scheme

Thanks to @…, I've deleted my toot on #PostgreSQL 18 since after verification, it claimed "unverified" capabilities.
…

Sources: four senior BBC journalists have lodged ageism complaints as they face layoffs under plans to merge the BBC's Home and Foreign newsdesks (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/bbc-news-journalists-age-discriminat…

BBC News Journalists Lodge Ageism Complaint As They Face Being Fired Under Newsdesk Merger
A group of seasoned BBC News journalists have claimed that they are being forced out of the corporation because of their age.

Frage an alle #GitLab Admins: gibt es eine Möglichkeit, einen User automatisch auf alle Projekte Instanz-weit in GitLab self hosted zuzulassen?
Für eine Überprüfung reicht ein Audit User nicht aus und ich möchte das so weit wir möglich automatisieren, auch für neue Projekte.

Split-Merge Revisited: A Scalable Approach to Generalized Eigenvalue Problems
Xiaozhi Liu, Yong Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02389 https://

Split-Merge Revisited: A Scalable Approach to Generalized Eigenvalue Problems
The generalized eigenvalue problem (GEP) serves as a cornerstone in a wide range of applications in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing. However, traditional approaches that aim to maximize the classical Rayleigh quotient often suffer from numerical instability and limited computational efficiency, especially in large-scale settings. In this work, we explore an alternative difference-based formulation of GEP by minimizing a structured quadratic polynomial objective, which enables …

The Trump administration has expanded #Palantir’s work with the government,
spreading the company’s technology
— which could easily merge data on Americans
— throughout more agencies.
The company has received more than $113 million in federal government spending since Trump took office, including additional funds from existing contracts as well as new contracts with the Department …

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

Colloid-like scale-free cluster-cluster aggregation during polymer collapse
Suman Majumder, Saikat Chakraborty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06801 https://

Colloid-like scale-free cluster-cluster aggregation during polymer collapse
An extended polymer collapses to form a globule when subjected to a quench below the collapse transition temperature. The process begins with the formation of clusters of monomers or ``pearls''. The nascent clusters merge, resulting in growth of the average cluster size $C_s$, eventually leading to a single globule. The aggregation of the clusters are known to be analogous to droplet coalescence. This suggests a striking resemblance between such an aggregation and cluster-cluster aggregation in…

EMERGE – mutase
#abstract #acousmatic

Learned LSM-trees: Two Approaches Using Learned Bloom Filters
Nicholas Fidalgo, Puyuan Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00882 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00882…

Learned LSM-trees: Two Approaches Using Learned Bloom Filters
Modern key-value stores rely heavily on Log-Structured Merge (LSM) trees for write optimization, but this design introduces significant read amplification. Auxiliary structures like Bloom filters help, but impose memory costs that scale with tree depth and dataset size. Recent advances in learned data structures suggest that machine learning models can augment or replace these components, trading handcrafted heuristics for data-adaptive behavior. In this work, we explore two approaches for inte…

It's a bit of a bulky #LEGO build for now, but you can see the #RaspberryPi 3 inside it, and the actual #Kubernetes node behind it. Will merge them into one build at some po…

Back when #Billionaire #Bezos bought the #WaPo , the DC newspaper claiming to shed light on daily doings in the nation's capital , that paper was selling a quarter million copies a day,... Now after Bezos has neutered the news by pu…

Long time behavior and Yaglom limit for real trait-structured Birth and Death Processes
Pierre Collet (CPHT), Sylvie M\'el\'eard (MERGE, CMAP), Jaime San (CMM)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04089 …

Long time behavior and Yaglom limit for real trait-structured Birth and Death Processes
In this article we study the long time behaviour of measure-valued birth and death processes in continuous time, where the dynamics between jumps are one-dimensional Markov processes including diffusion and jumps. We consider the three regimes, critical, subcritical and supercritical. Under suitable hypotheses on the Feynman-Kac semigroup, we prove a new recurrence for the moments and the extinction probability, their time asymptotics and the convergence in law for the measure-valued birth and …

The UK's Reach plans to merge its national and regional sports journalism teams into one central hub, resulting in around 50 layoffs (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-to-streamline-sports-team…

Reach to 'streamline' sports teams into one hub with 'around 50' redundancies
Reach has proposed major changes to how its sports journalists work, bringing many of the national and regional teams into one.

Continents have lost so much water to the ocean since 2002 that they have surpassed ice sheets as the biggest contributor to global sea level rise, a new study reveals.
Almost 70% of this loss is due to unchecked groundwater extraction,
which removes water from deep aquifers and eventually transfers it to the ocean, researchers found.
Together with rising rates of evaporation due to climate change, this has caused rapidly drying "hotspots" to merge into four &quo…

'Like a creeping mold that's spreading across the landscape': Separate dry areas around the world are merging into 'mega-drying' regions at an alarming rate, study finds
Unchecked groundwater extraction and climate change have dried continents significantly over the past 22 years, with 101 countries now losing fresh water to the ocean, research reveals.

Solar magnetic flux rope eruptions caused by inverse flux feeding processes
Quanhao Zhang, Shangbin Yang, Rui Liu, Min Zhang, Dong Wang, Ake Zhao, Shaoyu Lyu, Anchuan Song, Yuming Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08766

Solar magnetic flux rope eruptions caused by inverse flux feeding processes
Large-scale solar eruptions are generally accepted to have coronal magnetic flux ropes as their core structures. Recent studies found that the solar eruptions could be initiated by a sequence of flux feeding processes, during with chromospheric fibrils rise and merge with the pre-existing coronal flux rope. Further theoretical analyses have demonstrated that the normal flux feeding, i.e. the axial magnetic flux within the fibril is in the same direction as that in the flux rope, results in the …

An Empirical Study on the Amount of Changes Required for Merge Request Acceptance
Samah Kansab, Mohammed Sayagh, Francis Bordeleau, Ali Tizghadam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23640

An Empirical Study on the Amount of Changes Required for Merge Request Acceptance
Code review (CR) is essential to software development, helping ensure that new code is properly integrated. However, the CR process often involves significant effort, including code adjustments, responses to reviewers, and continued implementation. While past studies have examined CR delays and iteration counts, few have investigated the effort based on the volume of code changes required, especially in the context of GitLab Merge Requests (MRs), which remains underexplored. In this paper, we d…

Accelerating GNN Training through Locality-aware Dropout and Merge
Gongjian Sun, Mingyu Yan, Dengke Han, Runzhen Xue, Duo Wang, Xiaochun Ye, Dongrui Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21414

Accelerating GNN Training through Locality-aware Dropout and Merge
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant success in graph learning and are widely adopted across various critical domains. However, the irregular connectivity between vertices leads to inefficient neighbor aggregation, resulting in substantial irregular and coarse-grained DRAM accesses. This lack of data locality presents significant challenges for execution platforms, ultimately degrading performance. While previous accelerator designs have leveraged on-chip memory and data a…

Neutralizing Token Aggregation via Information Augmentation for Efficient Test-Time Adaptation
Yizhe Xiong, Zihan Zhou, Yiwen Liang, Hui Chen, Zijia Lin, Tianxiang Hao, Fan Zhang, Jungong Han, Guiguang Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03388

Neutralizing Token Aggregation via Information Augmentation for Efficient Test-Time Adaptation
Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) has emerged as an effective solution for adapting Vision Transformers (ViT) to distribution shifts without additional training data. However, existing TTA methods often incur substantial computational overhead, limiting their applicability in resource-constrained real-world scenarios. To reduce inference cost, plug-and-play token aggregation methods merge redundant tokens in ViTs to reduce total processed tokens. Albeit efficient, it suffers from significant performan…

LumApps, which makes intranet software, agrees to merge with frontline staff communication app Beekeeper in a deal valuing the combined entity at about $1.1B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace

An anomalous particle-exchange mechanism for two isolated Bose gases merged into one
Q. H. Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22478 https://

An anomalous particle-exchange mechanism for two isolated Bose gases merged into one
In an isolated ideal Bose system with a fixed energy, the number of microstates depends solely on the configurations of bosons in excited states, implying zero entropy for particles in the ground state. When two such systems merge, the resulting entropy is less than the sum of the individual entropies. This entropy decrease is numerically shown to arise from an effectively but anomalous exchange of particles in excited states, where $\overline{N}!/(\overline{N}_{1}!\overline{N}_{2}!)<1$. Here, …

@… And I think strong collaboration tools are even more important. When I worked on a team that practiced XP, we didn’t have merge conflicts, because we talked, and paired.

Analyzing and Evaluating the Behavior of Git Diff and Merge
Niels Glodny
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22071 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22071

Analyzing and Evaluating the Behavior of Git Diff and Merge
Despite being widely used, the algorithms that enable collaboration with Git are not well understood. The diff and merge algorithms are particularly interesting, as they could be applied in other contexts. In this thesis, I document the main functionalities of Git: how diffs are computed, how they are used to run merges, and how merges enable more complex operations. In the process, I show multiple unexpected behaviors in Git, including the following: The histogram diff algorithm has pathologic…

Internal memo: Paramount Global is cutting its US-based staff by 3.5% and may also reduce its workforce outside of the US over time (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/paramount-to-cut-3percent-of-us-workfo…

Paramount to cut 3% of U.S. workforce as it deepens cost-cutting
It's the latest round of layoffs at Paramount as it contends with cord-cutting and prepares to merge with Skydance Media.

Nile-Chat: Egyptian Language Models for Arabic and Latin Scripts
Guokan Shang, Hadi Abdine, Ahmad Chamma, Amr Mohamed, Mohamed Anwar, Abdelaziz Bounhar, Omar El Herraoui, Preslav Nakov, Michalis Vazirgiannis, Eric Xing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04569

Nile-Chat: Egyptian Language Models for Arabic and Latin Scripts
We introduce Nile-Chat-4B, 3x4B-A6B, and 12B, a collection of LLMs for Egyptian dialect, uniquely designed to understand and generate texts written in both Arabic and Latin scripts. Specifically, with Nile-Chat-3x4B-A6B, we introduce a novel language adaptation approach by leveraging the Branch-Train-MiX strategy to merge script-specialized experts, into a single MoE model. Our Nile-Chat models significantly outperform leading multilingual and Arabic LLMs, such as LLaMa, Jais, and ALLaM, on our…

Wigner's friend's black hole adventure: an argument for complementarity?
Laurens Walleghem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05369 https://

Wigner's friend's black hole adventure: an argument for complementarity?
At the heart of both black hole physics and Wigner's friend scenarios lies the question of unitarity. In Wigner's friend setups, sealed-lab measurements are modeled unitarily, probing the measurement problem. In black hole physics, the unitarity problem concerns information preservation in evaporation. We extend a recent analogy between these two puzzles exposed by Hausmann and Renner [arXiv:2504.03835v1] by constructing new paradoxes that merge black hole physics with nonlocal extensions of Wi…

Spin-orbit misalignment and residual eccentricity are evidence that neutron star-black hole mergers form through triple star evolution
Jakob Stegmann, Jakub Klencki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09121

Spin-orbit misalignment and residual eccentricity are evidence that neutron star-black hole mergers form through triple star evolution
There is growing evidence that a substantial fraction of the neutron star-black holes (NSBHs) detected through gravitational waves merge with non-zero eccentricity or large BH spin-orbit misalignment. This is in tension with the leading formation scenarios to date. Residual eccentricity rules out formation through isolated binary star evolution, while NS natal kicks and the unequal masses of NSBHs inhibit efficient pairing in dense stellar environments. Here, we report that all observed propert…

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BVLSM: Write-Efficient LSM-Tree Storage via WAL-Time Key-Value Separation
Modern data-intensive applications increasingly store and process big-value items, such as multimedia objects and machine learning embeddings, which exacerbate storage inefficiencies in Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM)-based key-value stores. This paper presents BVLSM, a Write-Ahead Log (WAL)-time key-value separation mechanism designed to address three key challenges in LSM-Tree storage systems: write amplification, poor memory utilization, and I/O jitter under big-value workloads. Unlike state…

Sources: Palantir's Foundry is now deployed in at least four federal agencies, after Trump signed an EO calling for the government to share data across agencies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/…

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

I just had this crazy idea: How about organizing and tracking meetings in #Gitlab?
Every meeting type has its own repo, discussion topics are issues, labels are used for organizing and prioritizing, a meeting is prepared in a branch, the meeting notes are in a merge request per topic (issue), at the end of a meeting the meeting branch is merged into main and a new release is done, a CI/CD pipeline publishes the meeting notes and communication.
Has anyone tried this?
#meeting #management

A continuum mechanics approach for the deformation of non-Euclidean origami generated by piecewise constant nematic director fields
Linjuan Wang, Fan Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01309

A continuum mechanics approach for the deformation of non-Euclidean origami generated by piecewise constant nematic director fields
We merge classical origami concepts with active actuation by designing origami patterns whose panels undergo prescribed metric changes. These metric changes render the system non-Euclidean, inducing non-zero Gaussian curvature at the vertices after actuation. Such patterns can be realized by programming piecewise constant director fields in liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) sheets. In this work, we address the geometric design of both compatible reference director patterns and their corresponding …

HARLF: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Lightweight LLM-Driven Sentiment Integration for Financial Portfolio Optimization
Benjamin Coriat, Eric Benhamou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18560

HARLF: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Lightweight LLM-Driven Sentiment Integration for Financial Portfolio Optimization
This paper presents a novel hierarchical framework for portfolio optimization, integrating lightweight Large Language Models (LLMs) with Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to combine sentiment signals from financial news with traditional market indicators. Our three-tier architecture employs base RL agents to process hybrid data, meta-agents to aggregate their decisions, and a super-agent to merge decisions based on market data and sentiment analysis. Evaluated on data from 2018 to 2024, after t…

The Algebraic Structure of Morphosyntax
Isabella Senturia, Matilde Marcolli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00244 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

The Algebraic Structure of Morphosyntax
Within the context of the mathematical formulation of Merge and the Strong Minimalist Thesis, we present a mathematical model of the morphology-syntax interface. In this setting, morphology has compositional properties responsible for word formation, organized into a magma of morphological trees. However, unlike syntax, we do not have movement within morphology. A coproduct decomposition exists, but it requires extending the set of morphological trees beyond those which are generated solely by …

Supernovae from stellar mergers and accretors of binary mass transfer: Implications for Type IIP, 1987A-like and interacting supernovae
F. R. N. Schneider, E. Laplace, Ph. Podsiadlowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06391

Supernovae from stellar mergers and accretors of binary mass transfer: Implications for Type IIP, 1987A-like and interacting supernovae
As most massive stars are born in binary and other multiple-star systems, many are expected to exchange mass with a companion star or merge with it during their lives. This means that most supernovae (SNe) are from such binary products. Here, we focus on hydrogen-rich Type II SNe from accretors of binary mass transfer and stellar mergers. We compute various SN properties such as the explosion energies, nickel yields, and neutron star (NS) kick velocities, but also consider NS masses. We find ti…

FCC approves Paramount-Skydance merger
Late on July 1, Paramount announced it had settled a lawsuit with Trump over the editing of a
"60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris
-- a suit that Paramount told the court was without merit.
The company agreed to pay $16 million
— most of which would go to Mr. Trump's presidential library
— and agreed to publish transcripts of future "60 Minutes" interviews with presidential candidates afte…

FCC approves Paramount-Skydance merger
Paramount Global and Skydance Media agreed to merge last year.

Search for dynamical black hole captures with Gaussian mixture modelling
Leigh Smith, Shubhanshu Tiwari, Michael Ebersold, Yeong-Bok Bae, Gungwon Kang, Ik Siong Heng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00481

Search for dynamical black hole captures with Gaussian mixture modelling
Gravitational waves (GWs) are expected to originate from black holes interacting dynamically in dense astrophysical environments. In such environments, given that the velocity and cross section between the interacting black holes is low, dynamical capture may occur. Such events merge on very short timescales with high eccentricities and are expected to be detectable in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) sensitivity band. In this work, we present a dedicated search for dynamical black hole capture event…

Leveraging LLMs for Semantic Conflict Detection via Unit Test Generation
Nathalia Barbosa (Centro de Inform\'atica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil), Paulo Borba (Centro de Inform\'atica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil), L\'euson Da Silva (Polytechnique Montreal, Canad\'a)
https://arxiv.org…

Leveraging LLMs for Semantic Conflict Detection via Unit Test Generation
Semantic conflicts arise when a developer introduces changes to a codebase that unintentionally affect the behavior of changes integrated in parallel by other developers. Traditional merge tools are unable to detect such conflicts, so complementary tools like SMAT have been proposed. SMAT relies on generating and executing unit tests: if a test fails on the base version, passes on a developer's modified version, but fails again after merging with another developer's changes, a semantic conflict…

Zarah Sultana (UKPol)
"Zarah Sultana MP resigns from Labour to lead new party with Jeremy Corbyn"
!
Nice article from LBC including her own statement.
#ZarahSultana #JeremyCorbyn #LabourParty #UK #UKPol

[Technical Report] ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads
Junfeng Liu, Haoxuan Xie, Siqiang Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03565

[Technical Report] ArceKV: Towards Workload-driven LSM-compactions for Key-Value Store Under Dynamic Workloads
Key-value stores underpin a wide range of applications due to their simplicity and efficiency. Log-Structured Merge Trees (LSM-trees) dominate as their underlying structure, excelling at handling rapidly growing data. Recent research has focused on optimizing LSM-tree performance under static workloads with fixed read-write ratios. However, real-world workloads are highly dynamic, and existing workload-aware approaches often struggle to sustain optimal performance or incur substantial transitio…

Electrostatics overcome acoustic collapse to assemble, adapt, and activate levitated matter
Sue Shi, Maximilian C. H\"ubl, Galien P. Grosjean, Carl P. Goodrich, Scott R. Waitukaitis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01739

Electrostatics overcome acoustic collapse to assemble, adapt, and activate levitated matter
Acoustic levitation provides a unique method for manipulating small particles as it completely evades effects from gravity, container walls, or physical handling. These advantages make it a tantalizing platform for studying complex phenomena in many-particle systems, save for one severe limitation -- particles suspended by sound interact via acoustic scattering forces, which cause them to merge into a single dense object. To overcome this "acoustic collapse", we have developed a strategy that c…

BVLSM: Write-Efficient LSM-Tree Storage via WAL-Time Key-Value Separation
Ming Li, Wendi Cheng, Jiahe Wei, Xueqiang Shan, Liu Weikai, Xiaonan Zhao, Xiao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04678

BVLSM: Write-Efficient LSM-Tree Storage via WAL-Time Key-Value Separation
Modern data-intensive applications increasingly store and process big-value items, such as multimedia objects and machine learning embeddings, which exacerbate storage inefficiencies in Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM)-based key-value stores. This paper presents BVLSM, a Write-Ahead Log (WAL)-time key-value separation mechanism designed to address three key challenges in LSM-Tree storage systems: write amplification, poor memory utilization, and I/O jitter under big-value workloads. Unlike state…

The Effect of Pointer Analysis on Semantic Conflict Detection
Matheus Barbosa, Paulo Borba, Rodrigo Bonif\'acio, Victor Lira, Galileu Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20081

The Effect of Pointer Analysis on Semantic Conflict Detection
Current merge tools don't detect semantic conflicts, which occur when changes from different developers are textually integrated but semantically interfere with each other. Although researchers have proposed static analyses for detecting semantic conflicts, these analyses suffer from significant false positive rates. To understand whether such false positives could be reduced by using pointer analysis in the implementation of semantic conflict static analyses, we conduct an empirical study. We …

Resolving Build Conflicts via Example-Based and Rule-Based Program Transformations
Sheikh Shadab Towqir, Fei He, Todd Mytkowicz, Na Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19432 https:/…

Resolving Build Conflicts via Example-Based and Rule-Based Program Transformations
Merge conflicts often arise when developers integrate changes from different software branches. The conflicts can result from overlapping edits in programs (i.e., textual conflicts) or cause build and test errors (i.e., build and test conflicts). They degrade software quality and hinder programmer productivity. While several tools detect build conflicts, few offer meaningful support for resolving cases like those caused by method removal. To overcome limitations of existing tools, we introduce …