Box says it created 13 new AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow its staff to 3,000 by early 2027, up from 2,900 (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/technology/box-13-new-types-jobs-ai.html
The UK is one gigantic theatre, in which every citizen is an actor, performing their roles every day. King Charles underscored this with his speech to the US Congress the other day. That's also why the UK has the best stage and film actors in the world; they have been practicing from birth.
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
Open source isn’t free. We’re just not paying for it: Who maintains the maintainers?
A lot of things don’t add up in the world of software. The skills gap remains stubbornly wide, with IT and data skills the hardest to recruit for five consecutive years. Yet, at the same time, entry level roles are declining as employers redeploy existing employees rather than hiring new ones.
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Courtroom-Style Multi-Agent Debate with Progressive RAG and Role-Switching for Controversial Claim Verification
Masnun Nuha Chowdhury, Nusrat Jahan Beg, Umme Hunny Khan, Syed Rifat Raiyan, Md Kamrul Hasan, Hasan Mahmud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28488 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28488 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28488
arXiv:2603.28488v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) remain unreliable for high-stakes claim verification due to hallucinations and shallow reasoning. While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and multi-agent debate (MAD) address this, they are limited by one-pass retrieval and unstructured debate dynamics. We propose a courtroom-style multi-agent framework, PROClaim, that reformulates verification as a structured, adversarial deliberation. Our approach integrates specialized roles (e.g., Plaintiff, Defense, Judge) with Progressive RAG (P-RAG) to dynamically expand and refine the evidence pool during the debate. Furthermore, we employ evidence negotiation, self-reflection, and heterogeneous multi-judge aggregation to enforce calibration, robustness, and diversity. In zero-shot evaluations on the Check-COVID benchmark, PROClaim achieves 81.7% accuracy, outperforming standard multi-agent debate by 10.0 percentage points, with P-RAG driving the primary performance gains ( 7.5 pp). We ultimately demonstrate that structural deliberation and model heterogeneity effectively mitigate systematic biases, providing a robust foundation for reliable claim verification. Our code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/mnc13/PROClaim.
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crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
Sources: E*Trade is in talks to lead SpaceX IPO share sale to retail investors; Robinhood and SoFi have pitched for roles but SpaceX is mulling cutting them out (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/etra…
Meta will lay off 10% of its staff in May,
according to an internal memo which was published by Bloomberg.
A Meta spokesperson confirmed the report's accuracy to NPR.
The layoffs will take place on May 20 and affect some 8,000 workers.
Meta will also not hire for 6,000 open roles that it had intended to fill.
In the memo, Meta's chief people officer Janelle Gale wrote,
"We're doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more…
On my mind, lately, as my wife & I are pressed fully into the sandwich generation:
Teens often subconsciously "soil the nest" - creating increased conflict and emotional distance as a mechanism which makes the transition to independence feel easier for everyone.
The inverse exists with aging parents. As the caregiver roles reverse, they rebel against loss of independence in ways that often are against their own self-interest, making it harder for everyone else.
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
Wanna know why #psycholinguistics is so fascinating?
In a 2001 #experiment participants saw sentences like
"While Mary dressed the baby played in the crib."
Then they had to answer the question:
"Did Mary dress the baby?"
Up to 51% of all answers where "Yes!" – and participants were *very* confident about their answers.
🤯
Original paper:
Christianson, Kiel & Hollingworth, Andrew & Halliwell, John F. & Ferreira, Fernanda (2001). Thematic Roles Assigned along the Garden Path Linger. Cognitive Psychology 42(4). 368–407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1006/cogp.2001.0752
Also a fascinating read:
Ferreira, Fernanda & Bailey, Karl G.D. & Ferraro, Vittoria (2002). Good-Enough Representations in Language Comprehension. Current Directions in Psychological Science 11(1). 11–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8721.00158
On The Mic...WIT Shaz - Women In Tech Leadership: The Upsides
Dedicated to inspiring and empowering more women in tech to enter into and remain in C-suite, Exec and leadership roles and to encourage this we need to be talking more about the upsides of being in tech leadership roles...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://…
Deep learning of committor and explainable artificial intelligence analysis for identifying reaction coordinates
Toshifumi Mori, Kei-ichi Okazaki, Kang Kim, Nobuyuki Matubayasi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25237 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25237 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25237
arXiv:2603.25237v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In complex molecular systems, the reaction coordinate (RC) that characterizes transition pathways is essential to understand underlying molecular mechanisms. This review surveys a framework for identifying the RC by applying deep learning to the committor, which provides the most reliable measure of the progress along a transition path. The inputs to the neural network are collective variables (CVs) expressed as functions of atomic coordinates of the system, and the corresponding RC is predicted as the output by training the network on the committor as the learning target. Because deep learning models typically operate in a black-box manner, it is difficult to determine which input variables govern the predictions. The incorporation of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques enables quantitative assessment of the contributions of individual input variables to the predictions. This approach allows the identification of CVs that play dominant roles and demonstrates that the committor distribution on the surface using important CVs is separated by well-defined boundaries. The framework provides an explainable deep learning strategy for assigning a molecular mechanism from the RC and is applicable to a wide range of complex molecular systems.
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Discriminating vibrotactile signals: the relative roles of amplitude and frequency https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0825/15/3/164 "basic constraints on vibrotactile perception that are relevant for the design of wearable tactile interfaces and sensory substitution devices"
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
Sources: X let go of 20 staffers in nontechnical roles ahead of a SpaceX IPO; X staff have been told to focus on growing revenue since xAI brought on a CRO (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musks-x-restructures-ahead-of-spacex-ipo-6aab5673…
two Canadians playing key roles right now as this historic flyby happens! Jeremy Hansen of course is in the Integrity capsule and fellow CSA astronaut Jenni Gibbons is the CapCom during that time and most of the active time of the Artemis mission!
#nasa #moon #artemisII
Is this incorrect or incomplete?
Steve Yegge's “Gas Town” is just an actor-based model with AI agents as actors and titles/roles assigned to different actors.
I am super tired and frustrated, and I probably shouldn’t say this, but do you know any decent Product/Program Management roles where it’s not all about the senseless push toward AI, and maybe more focused on free/open-source software?
#foss #pm
Judges are starting to push back hard - remember the exclamation marks! This time, it's *italics*... Judges typically don't do that
In Scathing Ruling, Judge Finds 3 Trump Prosecutors Are in Unlawful Roles - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/nyregion/us-attorney-nj-prosecutors.html
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek says the company cut ~12% of its workforce, or ~180 roles, saying the layoffs target roles that "do not adapt" as it integrates AI (Brian Danga/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/394318/crypto-co…
I was at a meeting last night of key decision makers in the two main civic institutions of my village, and no one in the room was under seventy.
There are reasons.
1. House prices are way beyond what people of working age can afford;
2. Limited social housing is (rightly) allocated to the most vulnerable, but they typically don't have the bandwidth to take on civic roles;
3. There are few jobs in the local economy for degree-educated young people;
/Continued…
Today's Gist covers the efforts required to try to stand up the appearance of widespread far right activity in Ireland.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sunshine-and-lollipops/
That’s a good point. Season 2 #HeatedRivalry needs to go to an actual GAY club … where Shane will be mortified … but Ilya will of course be whatever.
Or maybe the roles would be reversed. I DON’T KNOW!… 🤣
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The only way I would be interested in a return of “Firefly” is a “Battlestar Galactica” level reboot.
It probably could be done. Whedon absolutely not allowed* you could have some of the actors return in other roles, it COULD be done and be good.
*Whedon involved in ANY way is a big “hell nah”
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
I’ll admit it. I can’t wait to see The Odyssey this summer—it seems like a perfect summer blockbuster.
But now I really want someone—Greta Gerwig? Katherine Bigelow? Other suggestions?—to make a movie of Clare North’s Song of Penelope books. It would be very cool if it were with the same cast in the main roles, too.
In a lengthy Truth Social post on Sunday evening, Donald Trump lambasted two Supreme Court justices he had personally appointed to the bench for not being “loyal” enough to him.
Trump berated Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, deriding their roles in a majority ruling earlier this year that overturned his massive global tariffs.
He also denounced them for appearing skeptical during recent oral arguments over his attempt to issue an executive order last year to reinterp…
Memo: Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
A discrete Boltzmann model with state-dependent power-law relaxation time for nonequilibrium transport in compressible flows
Demei Li, Zhongyi He, Huilin Lai, Yanbiao Gan, Hailong Liu, Pengfei Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18216 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18216 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.18216
arXiv:2605.18216v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Thermodynamic nonequilibrium effects play a central role in momentum and energy transport in compressible flows. In conventional BGK kinetic models, the relaxation time $\tau$ is taken as a constant, which neglects the dependence of the relaxation process on local macroscopic states. To overcome this limitation, we develop a discrete Boltzmann model with a density- and temperature-dependent power-law relaxation time, termed DTRT-DBM, in which $\tau=\tau_0(\rho/\rho_0)^a(T/T_0)^b$. This formulation extends the discrete Boltzmann framework to flows with spatially varying nonequilibrium intensity. The model is validated by the Sod shock tube and by analytical solutions for viscous stress and heat flux, demonstrating accurate recovery of both macroscopic wave structures and nonequilibrium quantities across shock waves, rarefaction waves, and contact discontinuities. On this basis, phase diagrams of viscous stress and heat flux are constructed to examine how these quantities depend on the power-law exponents $a$ and $b$. The extrema of these quantities depend exponentially on the model parameters and exhibit regime-dependent behaviour. The roles of $a$ and $b$ are not symmetric: the nonequilibrium response is more sensitive to $a$ when density gradients dominate, but more sensitive to $b$ when temperature gradients dominate. Within the parameter range and flow configurations examined here, higher-order viscous stress increases the growth rate of the total viscous-stress extremum, whereas higher-order heat flux reduces the growth rate of the total heat-flux extremum. These results show that the proposed model can capture different higher-order nonequilibrium responses in compressible flows and provides a framework for the modelling and analysis of multiscale nonequilibrium processes.
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UK hospitals are using nurses to cover for doctors because of an NHS-wide shortage of medics, raising fears that “substitute doctors” may provide inferior care.
Health professionals known as advanced practitioners – who are mainly senior nurses – are undertaking roles usually performed by doctors in A&E, neonatal units, critical care and other areas.
Almost half of hospitals in the UK are deploying APs to cover gaps in doctors’ rotas.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/25/safety-fears-as-uk-hospitals-use-nurses-to-cover-for-doctors-due-to-shortage-of-medics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Thomas Adès
Donald Macleod asks Thomas Adès about his forays into performing and taking up roles as music director for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the Aldeburgh Festival.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sqfh
Watching tonight's CSA livestream with Jeremy Hansen reminded me that I was literally "in the room" for a similar chat when Chris Hadfield was on the ISS: I was at a concert by a band called Trent Severn, and founding member Emm Gryner arranged to have him call in so they could chat and play him some music. (Emm played key roles in Hadfield's recording and release of Space Oddity, including getting Bowie's blessing and literally playing piano on the track.)
ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1% (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-tech-jobs-that-are-safe-…
🚀 Performance on a completely different level:
Written in #Haskell with the Warp HTTP server. JSON gets serialized directly in SQL. Connection pooling via Hasql. Subsecond response times at 2000 req/sec — even on free tier hosting.
🔐 Security is built in, not bolted on:
Auth runs via JWT. Authorization is controlled directly in the database through roles. One single declarati…
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
Watching tonight's CSA livestream with Jeremy Hansen reminded me that I was literally "in the room" for a similar chat when Chris Hadfield was on the ISS: I was at a concert by a band called Trent Severn, and founding member Emm Gryner arranged to have him call in so they could chat and play him some music. (Emm played key roles in Hadfield's recording and release of Space Oddity, including getting Bowie's blessing and literally playing piano on the track.)
Life's journey highlights the essential roles of passion and purpose in achieving vitality. As an advocate for seniors, I champion both physical vigor and financial security. With lifelong learning and meaningful connections, later years can become a masterpiece of joy and fulfillment, not merely to be endured. 🚀✨ #GoldenYears #ThriveOn
US Bureau of Labor Statistics data: employment in 18 AI-exposed occupations fell 0.2% between May 2024 and May 2025, while the broader US labor market rose 0.8% (Matthew Boesler/Bloomberg)
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
If China was a democratic country then perhaps you could say the roles of the cold war had somehow reversed, with China being the obvious technological leader in the world, while the USA tries desperately to hold on to its empire, and relevance through naked aggression.
But going to an english-language chinese news site and seeing talk of spacewalks and space stations really drives home how history has kind of flipped.
#usa #China #space #war #IranIsraelWar
http://www.china.org.cn/2026-03/17/content_118386265.shtml
A survey of 1,000 hiring managers: 59% say they stress AI's role in layoffs or hiring freezes "because it plays better"; only 9% say AI has fully replaced roles (Gautam Mukunda/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
Sources: Elon requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/b…
TrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in three years, with listings up about 2x since mid-2023 (Alistair Barr/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-isnt-killing-software-co…
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
Source: Binance Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman is looking to leave sometime in 2026 or 2027; other senior compliance staff left over the past few months (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Boston-based Whoop, which makes screenless fitness bands, says it plans to grow staff by up to 75% in 2026, adding 600 roles, ahead of a likely IPO (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-04…
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…