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AI is the Strategy: From Agentic AI to Autonomous Business Models onto Strategy in the Age of AI
Ren\'e Bohnsack, Mickie de Wet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17339

AI is the Strategy: From Agentic AI to Autonomous Business Models onto Strategy in the Age of AI
This article develops the concept of Autonomous Business Models (ABMs) as a distinct managerial and strategic logic in the age of agentic AI. While most firms still operate within human-driven or AI-augmented models, we argue that we are now entering a phase where agentic AI (systems capable of initiating, coordinating, and adapting actions autonomously) can increasingly execute the core mechanisms of value creation, delivery, and capture. This shift reframes AI not as a tool to support strateg…

ESPN makes a minority investment in Premier Lacrosse League, marking a shift in the network's strategy as it looks to invest in areas beyond traditional TV (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/espn-premier-lacrosse-league-media-right…

ESPN takes minority stake in Premier Lacrosse League
This marks a shift in ESPN's strategy.

Efficient Strategy Synthesis for MDPs via Hierarchical Block Decomposition
Alexandros Evangelidis, Gricel V\'azquez, Simos Gerasimou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17792

Efficient Strategy Synthesis for MDPs via Hierarchical Block Decomposition
Software-intensive systems, such as software product lines and robotics, utilise Markov decision processes (MDPs) to capture uncertainty and analyse sequential decision-making problems. Despite the usefulness of conventional policy synthesis methods, they fail to scale to large state spaces. Our approach addresses this issue and accelerates policy synthesis in large MDPs by dynamically refining the MDP and iteratively selecting the most fragile MDP regions for refinement. This iterative procedu…

Manila is hosting this year’s #Wikimedia #ESEAP Strategy Summit and we’ll be starting the sessions tomorrow. For now, I’m co-manning the registration booth for attendees that are arriving at the hotel/venue. 🎉

ESEAP Strategy Summit 2025 - Meta

Yikes, there is always so much infosec news but Metacurity helps a lot with the overload.
Check out today's issue for the cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Cyber insurance premiums dropped for the first time in 2024,
--CyberAv3ngers shift to psychological manipulation,
--Another hacker hits Paraguay,
--50% of ransomware payments are less than expected,
--Pro-Russian group was reportedly behind Norwegian dam hack,
--UK 2025 …

Cyber insurance premiums dropped for the first time in 2024
CyberAv3ngers shift to psychological manipulation, Another hacker hits Paraguay, 50% of ransomware payments are less than expected, Pro-Russian group was reportedly behind Norwegian dam hack, UK 2025 strategy calls for stronger cyber capabilities, Hackers abuse Trezor's support form, much more

Donald Trump rolled tanks through Washington, DC, and deployed the USMC to the streets of Los Angeles.
It took him 152 days to break his promise and bomb Iran without a strategy — or any semblance of a plan.
That’s why I helped launch the Save America Movement.
We’re a clear-eyed 50-state movement to degrade and defeat Trumpism.
SAM is rooted in strategy, truth, and moral clarity.
We’re not reacting.
We’re organizing.
And we’re doing it in every c…

Sign your name to let us know you're with us in the Save America Movement »

The growth strategy, which seems to be the only tool in mainstream politicians' kit, is broken for good.
Limits to Growth was right about collapse - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-20/limits-to-growth-was-righ…

Limits to Growth was right about collapse
The only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse.

Optimal Operating Strategy for PV-BESS Households: Balancing Self-Consumption and Self-Sufficiency
Jun Wook Heo, Raja Jurdak, Sara Khalifa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17268

Optimal Operating Strategy for PV-BESS Households: Balancing Self-Consumption and Self-Sufficiency
High penetration of Photovoltaic (PV) generation and Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in individual households increases the demand for solutions to determine the optimal PV generation power and the capacity of BESS. Self-consumption and self-sufficiency are essential for optimising the operation of PV-BESS systems in households, aiming to minimise power import from and export to the main grid. However, self-consumption and self-sufficiency are not independent; they share a linear relations…

A phase field model for hydraulic fracture: Drucker-Prager driving force and a hybrid coupling strategy
Y. Navidtehrani, C. Beteg\'on, J. Vallejos, E. Mart\'inez-Pa\~neda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18161

A phase field model for hydraulic fracture: Drucker-Prager driving force and a hybrid coupling strategy
Recent years have seen a significant interest in using phase field approaches to model hydraulic fracture, so as to optimise a process that is key to industries such as petroleum engineering, mining and geothermal energy extraction. Here, we present a novel theoretical and computational phase field framework to simulate hydraulic fracture. The framework is general and versatile, in that it allows for improved treatments of the coupling between fluid flow and the phase field, and encompasses a u…

Experiential marketing strategy and tourism demand in the contribution of the positioning of the floating islands Los Uros, Puno
Guina Flores Montalico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18937

Experiential marketing strategy and tourism demand in the contribution of the positioning of the floating islands Los Uros, Puno
Experiential focused on creating memorable and meaningful experiences for consumers, has emerged as a key strategy in promoting tourist destinations. particularly in destinations seeking to highlight their unique cultural characteristics. In this study, the influence of experiential marketing on the tourism demand of the floating islands Los Uros, Puno, an emblematic destination in Peru, is analyzed. The objective of the research was to evaluate how experiential marketing strategies impact tour…

ScaleCap: Inference-Time Scalable Image Captioning via Dual-Modality Debiasing
Long Xing, Qidong Huang, Xiaoyi Dong, Pan Zhang, Yuhang Zang, Yuhang Cao, Jinsong Li, Shuangrui Ding, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu, Jiaqi Wang, Feng Wu, Dahua Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19848

ScaleCap: Inference-Time Scalable Image Captioning via Dual-Modality Debiasing
This paper presents ScaleCap, an inference-time scalable image captioning strategy that generates comprehensive and detailed image captions. The key challenges of high-quality image captioning lie in the inherent biases of LVLMs: multimodal bias resulting in imbalanced descriptive granularity, offering detailed accounts of some elements while merely skimming over others; linguistic bias leading to hallucinated descriptions of non-existent objects. To address these issues, we propose a scalable …

Robotic Manipulation of a Rotating Chain with Bottom End Fixed
Qi Jing Chen, Shilin Shan, Quang-Cuong Pham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18355 https://…

Robotic Manipulation of a Rotating Chain with Bottom End Fixed
This paper studies the problem of using a robot arm to manipulate a uniformly rotating chain with its bottom end fixed. Existing studies have investigated ideal rotational shapes for practical applications, yet they do not discuss how these shapes can be consistently achieved through manipulation planning. Our work presents a manipulation strategy for stable and consistent shape transitions. We find that the configuration space of such a chain is homeomorphic to a three-dimensional cube. Using …

Code Generation for Near-Roofline Finite Element Actions on GPUs from Symbolic Variational Forms
Kaushik Kulkarni, Andreas Kl\"ockner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17471

Code Generation for Near-Roofline Finite Element Actions on GPUs from Symbolic Variational Forms
We present a novel parallelization strategy for evaluating Finite Element Method (FEM) variational forms on GPUs, focusing on those that are expressible through the Unified Form Language (UFL) on simplex meshes. We base our approach on code transformations, wherein we construct a space of scheduling candidates and rank them via a heuristic cost model to effectively handle the large diversity of computational workloads that can be expressed in this way. We present a design of a search space to w…

Harnessing Higgs Kinematics for HEFT Constraints
Christoph Englert, Tom Ingebretsen Carlson, J\"orgen Sj\"olin, Michael Spannowsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19401

Harnessing Higgs Kinematics for HEFT Constraints
We present a momentum-dependent reweighting strategy to extend current LHC di-Higgs analyses within the $κ$-framework and SMEFT into the bosonic sector of the Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT). Unlike SMEFT, where symmetry constraints tightly correlate multi-Higgs processes, HEFT allows for a broader range of momentum-dependent deviations that can substantially impact di-Higgs kinematics and offer a powerful probe of non-linear Higgs dynamics. We generalise the interpretation of existing exp…

Thresholds for sensitive optimality and Blackwell optimality in stochastic games
St\'ephane Gaubert, Julien Grand-Cl\'ement, Ricardo D. Katz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18545

Thresholds for sensitive optimality and Blackwell optimality in stochastic games
We investigate refinements of the mean-payoff criterion in two-player zero-sum perfect-information stochastic games. A strategy is Blackwell optimal if it is optimal in the discounted game for all discount factors sufficiently close to $1$. The notion of $d$-sensitive optimality interpolates between mean-payoff optimality (corresponding to the case $d=-1$) and Blackwell optimality ($d=+\infty$). The Blackwell threshold $α_{\sf Bw} \in [0,1[$ is the discount factor above which all optimal strat…

Regular Tree Search for Simulation Optimization
Du-Yi Wang, Guo Liang, Guangwu Liu, Kun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17696 https://

Regular Tree Search for Simulation Optimization
Tackling simulation optimization problems with non-convex objective functions remains a fundamental challenge in operations research. In this paper, we propose a class of random search algorithms, called Regular Tree Search, which integrates adaptive sampling with recursive partitioning of the search space. The algorithm concentrates simulations on increasingly promising regions by iteratively refining a tree structure. A tree search strategy guides sampling decisions, while partitioning is tri…

CultureMERT: Continual Pre-Training for Cross-Cultural Music Representation Learning
Angelos-Nikolaos Kanatas, Charilaos Papaioannou, Alexandros Potamianos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17818

CultureMERT: Continual Pre-Training for Cross-Cultural Music Representation Learning
Recent advances in music foundation models have improved audio representation learning, yet their effectiveness across diverse musical traditions remains limited. We introduce CultureMERT-95M, a multi-culturally adapted foundation model developed to enhance cross-cultural music representation learning and understanding. To achieve this, we propose a two-stage continual pre-training strategy that integrates learning rate re-warming and re-decaying, enabling stable adaptation even with limited co…

The Hyper-Kamiokande experiment: input to the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics
Kamiokande Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16641

The Hyper-Kamiokande experiment: input to the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics
Hyper-Kamiokande is a large infrastructure for particle and astroparticle physics being built in Japan and aiming to start operations by the end of 2027 whose objective is to address the most important questions in science today, for instance how the universe began and evolved. It aims to measure with the highest precision the leptonic Charge-Parity violation parameter using both a Mega-Watt intense neutrino beam and high-statistics atmospheric neutrino samples. The combination of these sampl…

A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/f1-apple…

'F1' and Apple's Movie Strategy: Inside Tim Cook, Lewis Hamilton's Big Bet
Apple CEO Tim Cook pulls back the curtain on the tech giant's film and television strategy, including spending millions on 'F1.

Fast solution of a phase-field model of pitting corrosion
Gianluca Frasca-Caccia, Dajana Conte, Beatrice Paternoster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18058 https…

Fast solution of a phase-field model of pitting corrosion
Excessive computational times represent a major challenge in the solution of corrosion models, limiting their practical applicability, e.g., as a support to predictive maintenance. In this paper, we propose an efficient strategy for solving a phase-field model for metal corrosion. Based on the Kronecker structure of the diffusion matrix in classical finite difference approximations on rectangular domains, time-stepping IMEX methods are efficiently solve in matrix form. However, when the domain …

Detectability of the 21 cm signal with BINGO through cross-correlation with photometric surveys
Gabriel A. S. Silva, Camila P. Novaes, Carlos A. Wuensche, Eduardo J. de Mericia, Bruno B. Bizarria, Jiajun Zhang, Elcio Abdalla, Filipe B. Abdalla, Amilcar R. Queiroz, Thyrso Villela, Bin Wang, Chang Feng, Edmar C. Gurjao, Alessandro Marins
https://

Detectability of the 21 cm signal with BINGO through cross-correlation with photometric surveys
21 cm intensity mapping (HI IM) can efficiently map large cosmic volumes with good redshift resolution, but systematics and foreground contamination pose major challenges for extracting accurate cosmological information. Cross-correlation with galaxy surveys offers an efficient mitigation strategy, as both datasets have largely uncorrelated systematics. We evaluate the detectability of the 21 cm signal from the BINGO radio telescope by cross-correlating with the LSST photometric survey, given t…

Long-term atomistic finite-temperature substitutional diffusion
Shashank Saxena, Prateek Gupta, Dennis M. Kochmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19543 https:/…

Long-term atomistic finite-temperature substitutional diffusion
Simulating long-term mass diffusion kinetics with atomic precision is important to predict chemical and mechanical properties of alloys over time scales of engineering interest in applications, including (but not limited to) alloy heat treatment, corrosion resistance, and hydrogen embrittlement. We present a new strategy to bridge from the time scale of atomic vibrations to that of vacancy-mediated atomic hops by a combination of statistical mechanics-based Gaussian phase packets (GPP) relaxati…

Electron conductive self-assembled hybrid low-molecular weight glycolipid-nanosilver gels
Korin Gasia Ozkaya (LCMCP-SMiLES), Othmane Darouich (LCMCP), Hynd Remita (ICP), Isabelle Lampre (ICP), Lionel Porcar (ILL), Alain Carvalho (ICS), M. Schmutz (ICS), Sandra Casale (LRS), Christel Laberty-Robert (LCMCP), Niki Baccile (LCMCP-SMiLES)
https://

Electron conductive self-assembled hybrid low-molecular weight glycolipid-nanosilver gels
Low-molecular weight (LMW) hydrogels are gaining interest over macromolecular gels due to their reversible, dynamic and stimuli-responsive nature. They are potentially interesting functional materials for advanced applications such as catalysis, nanoelectronics or regenerative medicine. One common strategy to enhance the functional properties is to incorporate inorganic nanostructures. However, simultaneous control of the gel mechanics, shape and size of the nanostructures and functional proper…

Greedy Selection under Independent Increments: A Toy Model Analysis
Huitao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17941 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Greedy Selection under Independent Increments: A Toy Model Analysis
We study an iterative selection problem over N i.i.d. discrete-time stochastic processes with independent increments. At each stage, a fixed number of processes are retained based on their observed values. Under this simple model, we prove that the optimal strategy for selecting the final maximum-value process is to apply greedy selection at each stage. While the result relies on strong independence assumptions, it offers a clean justification for greedy heuristics in multi-stage elimination se…

Efficient and High-Accuracy Ray Tracing in Discretized Ionospheric Models
Qinglin Li, Wen Liu, Zhigang Zhang, Fengjuan Sun, Rong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18579

Efficient and High-Accuracy Ray Tracing in Discretized Ionospheric Models
The complex ionospheric medium poses a fundamental trade-off between accuracy and efficiency in high-frequency (HF) ray tracing. This paper introduces a high-fidelity ray tracing model (RTM) employing a C1-continuous Galerkin-Difference (GD) interpolation strategy for three-dimensional electron density reconstruction. RTM-GD ensures analytically smooth gradients, significantly enhancing gradient continuity, numerical stability, and computational efficiency in Hamiltonian-based ray tracing. We d…

From simulations to observations. Methodology and data release of mock TNG50 galaxies at 0.3 < z < 0.7 for WEAVE-StePS
A. Ikhsanova, L. Costantin, A. Pizzella, E. M. Corsini, L. Morelli, F. R. Ditrani, A. Ferr\'e-Mateu, L. Gabarra, M. Gullieuszik, C. P. Haines, A. Iovino, M. Longhetti, A. Mercurio, R. Ragusa, P. S\'anchez-Bl\'azquez, C. Tortora, B. Vulcani, S. Zhou, E. Gafton, F. Pistis

From simulations to observations. Methodology and data release of mock TNG50 galaxies at 0.3 < z < 0.7 for WEAVE-StePS
The new generation of optical spectrographs (i.e., WEAVE, 4MOST, DESI, and WST) offer unprecedented opportunities for statistically studying the star formation histories of galaxies. However, these observations are not easily comparable to predictions from cosmological simulations. Our goal is to build a reference framework for comparing spectroscopic observations with simulations and test tools for deriving stellar population properties of galaxies. We focus on the observational strategy of th…

This weekend I listened to the 'How to Age Up' podcast on climate change. A lot of good observations for how parents can help their children process the daily news cycle and manage their anxiety about the future.
Turns out one effective strategy is one I keep hearing from so many different sources - you build community. Building community makes communities more resilient. Building community makes you feel less alone - so you can help do the work to combat climate change/racism/…

Trump's Strategy in Law Firm Cases: Lose, Don't Appeal, Yet Prevail (Adam Liptak/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/trump-strategy-law-firms-appeals.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p22#a250616p22

Replaced article(s) found for nucl-ex. https://arxiv.org/list/nucl-ex/new
[1/1]:
- Nuclear Physics and the European Particle Physics Strategy Update 2026
Fraile, Gaardh{\o}je, van Kolck, Moutarde, Patronis, Pe\~na, Popescu, Wagner, Widmann

A Hyperlogic for Strategies in Stochastic Games (Extended Version)
Lina Gerlach (RWTH Aachen University), Christof L\"oding (RWTH Aachen University), Erika \'Abrah\'am (RWTH Aachen University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16775

A Hyperlogic for Strategies in Stochastic Games (Extended Version)
We propose a probabilistic hyperlogic called HyperSt$^2$ that can express hyperproperties of strategies in turn-based stochastic games. To the best of our knowledge, HyperSt$^2$ is the first hyperlogic for stochastic games. HyperSt$^2$ can relate probabilities of several independent executions of strategies in a stochastic game. For example, in HyperSt$^2$ it is natural to formalize optimality, i.e., to express that some strategy is better than all other strategies, or to express the existence …

Revisiting Sampling Strategies for Molecular Generation
Yuyan Ni, Shikun Feng, Wei-Ying Ma, Zhi-Ming Ma, Yanyan Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17340 https:…

Revisiting Sampling Strategies for Molecular Generation
Sampling strategies in diffusion models are critical to molecular generation yet remain relatively underexplored. In this work, we investigate a broad spectrum of sampling methods beyond conventional defaults and reveal that sampling choice substantially affects molecular generation performance. In particular, we identify a maximally stochastic sampling (StoMax), a simple yet underexplored strategy, as consistently outperforming default sampling methods for generative models DDPM and BFN. Our f…

Saltatory targeting strategy in rock-paper-scissors models
J. Menezes, R. Barbalho, Y. Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16284 https://a…

Saltatory targeting strategy in rock-paper-scissors models
We explore how strategic leaps alter the classic rock-paper-scissors dynamics in spatially structured populations. In our model, individuals can expend energy reserves to jump toward regions with a high density of individuals of the species they dominate in the spatial game. This enables them to eliminate the target organisms and gain new territory, promoting species proliferation. Through stochastic, lattice-based simulations, we show that even when the energy allocated to jumping, as opposed …

Dynamic Grid Trading Strategy: From Zero Expectation to Market Outperformance
Kai-Yuan Chen, Kai-Hsin Chen, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11921

Dynamic Grid Trading Strategy: From Zero Expectation to Market Outperformance
We propose a profitable trading strategy for the cryptocurrency market based on grid trading. Starting with an analysis of the expected value of the traditional grid strategy, we show that under simple assumptions, its expected return is essentially zero. We then introduce a novel Dynamic Grid-based Trading (DGT) strategy that adapts to market conditions by dynamically resetting grid positions. Our backtesting results using minute-level data from Bitcoin and Ethereum between January 2021 and Ju…

Surprise, surprise.
This is not an industrial strategy.
Whatever it is, it isn't fit for the coming era of energy descent and ecosystem collapse.
Lower energy costs part of government's 10-year plan for industry - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ljnr

Lower energy costs part of government's 10-year plan for industry
Plans to slash energy bills by up to 25% for over 7,000 UK businesses will be announced alongside other plans to boost growth.

Maintaining a Bounded Degree Expander in Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Networks
Antonio Cruciani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17757 https://arxi…

Maintaining a Bounded Degree Expander in Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Networks
We study the problem of maintaining robust and sparse overlay networks in fully distributed settings where nodes continuously join and leave the system. This scenario closely models real-world unstructured peer-to-peer networks, where maintaining a well-connected yet low-degree communication graph is crucial. We generalize a recent protocol by Becchetti et al. [SODA 2020] that relies on a simple randomized connection strategy to build an expander topology with high probability to a dynamic netw…

#Iran:
"Their solidarity with oppositional forces has been fragmentary and opportunist, devoid of any consistent anti-imperialist strategy, except in their lonely but crucial capacity as a defender of Palestinian rights, in a region where every single Arab government has capitulated to the hegemon."
Tariq Ali, Nuclear Options — Sidecar

Tariq Ali, Nuclear Options — Sidecar
Regime change in Tehran?

Fantasy Football late-round strategy: Five rookies to target in the final rounds of your drafts

https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/football

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Did you know some #copepods can "porpoise" out of the water, even though they are only mm sized? The forces required for them to break the significant surface tension of the water is enormous, 10x larger than other animals scaled to size. This requires swim…

"[O]nce you recognize the playbook, the mystique evaporates. Beneath the fury, there is no machinery. Beneath the threats, there is no architecture. Trump is louder than ever, but no more effective. The country, bruised as it is, is still intact. And once we see the strategy for what it is, we also see something else: we’re going to get through this."
The Cohn doctrine: Trump's politics are performance
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5344953-trump-strategy-cohn-influence/

Multigroup Multicast Design for Pinching-Antenna Systems: Waveguide-Division or Waveguide-Multiplexing?
Shan Shan, Chongjun Ouyang, Yong Li, Yuanwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16184

Multigroup Multicast Design for Pinching-Antenna Systems: Waveguide-Division or Waveguide-Multiplexing?
This article addresses the design of multigroup multicast communications in the pinching-antenna system (PASS). A PASS-enabled multigroup transmission framework is proposed to maximize multicast rates under a couple of transmission architectures: waveguide-division (WD) and waveguide-multiplexing (WM). 1) For WD, an element-wise sequential optimization strategy is proposed for pinching beamforming, i.e., optimizing the activated positions of pinching antennas along dielectric waveguides. Meanwh…

Replaced article(s) found for eess.SY. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.SY/new
[1/2]:
- IDCAIS: Inter-Defender Collision-Aware Interception Strategy against Multiple Attackers
Vishnu S. Chipade, Xinyi Wang, Dimitra Panagou

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/mastodon-2025/

Mastodon in 2025
An update on our strategy.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06289 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfi…

Automate Strategy Finding with LLM in Quant Investment
We present a novel three-stage framework leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) within a risk-aware multi-agent system for automate strategy finding in quantitative finance. Our approach addresses the brittleness of traditional deep learning models in financial applications by: employing prompt-engineered LLMs to generate executable alpha factor candidates across diverse financial data, implementing multimodal agent-based evaluation that filters factors based on market status, predictive quali…

I cannot stress enough the stupidity of e.g. "ACAB" and "ABOLISH THE POLICE"
Get out of your feelings and get into your strategy -- it is undeniably true that there is a SEVERE need for police reform
But, tell me, who escorted ICE away from Dodger Stadium?
#uspol #blackmastodon

Truncation is not a #content strategy

One Polynomial Strategy for Computing Local Projections on Square-Lattice Cluster States
Nyau Fisn, Houren Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14257 https://

One Polynomial Strategy for Computing Local Projections on Square-Lattice Cluster States
Quantum computing has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. It is one of the promising candidates for the next-generation computing paradigms. Basically, there are two technical lines to realize quantum computing. One is composing the unitary operators of a few qubits to achieve general unitary operators on an arbitrary number of qubits, known as the approach of quantum circuits. The other one focuses on preparing quantum cluster states and performing the computation by measuring the st…

Translational dynamics of lipid-coated microbubbles driven by ultrasound
Marco Cattaneo, Outi Supponen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16413 https://

Translational dynamics of lipid-coated microbubbles driven by ultrasound
Ultrasound-driven microbubbles are increasingly being investigated for both molecular imaging and therapeutic applications. To be effective, these bubbles must be brought into close proximity or direct contact with the target site. Leveraging the acoustic radiation force provides a powerful strategy to direct their movement. In this study, we examine the translational dynamics of a microbubble with unprecedented accuracy by simultaneously time-resolving both its radial and translational respons…

A Study of Hybrid and Evolutionary Metaheuristics for Single Hidden Layer Feedforward Neural Network Architecture
Gautam Siddharth Kashyap, Md Tabrez Nafis, Samar Wazir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15737

A Study of Hybrid and Evolutionary Metaheuristics for Single Hidden Layer Feedforward Neural Network Architecture
Training Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) with Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) frequently encounters difficulties, including substantial computing expense and the risk of converging to local optima, attributable to its dependence on partial weight gradients. Therefore, this work investigates Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithms (GAs) - two population-based Metaheuristic Optimizers (MHOs) - as alternatives to SGD to mitigate these constraints. A hybrid PSO-SGD strategy is …

ViFusion: In-Network Tensor Fusion for Scalable Video Feature Indexing
Yisu Wang, Yixiang Zhu, Xinjiao Li, Yulong Zhang, Ruilong Wu, Dirk Kutscher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16258

ViFusion: In-Network Tensor Fusion for Scalable Video Feature Indexing
Large-scale video feature indexing in datacenters is critically dependent on efficient data transfer. Although in-network computation has emerged as a compelling strategy for accelerating feature extraction and reducing overhead in distributed multimedia systems, harnessing advanced networking resources at both the switch and host levels remains a formidable challenge. These difficulties are compounded by heterogeneous hardware, diverse application requirements, and complex multipath topologies…

Replaced article(s) found for physics.acc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.acc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Strategy for Bayesian Optimized Beam Steering at TRIUMF-ISAC's MEBT and HEBT Beamlines
O. Hassan, O. Shelbaya, W. Fedorko, T. Planche, O. Kester

so why don't we make @… vice-president of the european commission in charge of tech sovereignity, digital and internet things? https://berthub.eu/articles/po…

VEIGAR: View-consistent Explicit Inpainting and Geometry Alignment for 3D object Removal
Pham Khai Nguyen Do, Bao Nguyen Tran, Nam Nguyen, Duc Dung Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15821

VEIGAR: View-consistent Explicit Inpainting and Geometry Alignment for 3D object Removal
Recent advances in Novel View Synthesis (NVS) and 3D generation have significantly improved editing tasks, with a primary emphasis on maintaining cross-view consistency throughout the generative process. Contemporary methods typically address this challenge using a dual-strategy framework: performing consistent 2D inpainting across all views guided by embedded priors either explicitly in pixel space or implicitly in latent space; and conducting 3D reconstruction with additional consistency guid…

Luxembourg #publication 20.5.2025
L'initiative stratégique "Accélérer la Souveraineté Numérique 2030"
• La stratégie du Luxembourg en matière d'intelligence artificielle
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Formation of ultracold $^{39}$K$^{133}$Cs Feshbach molecules
Charly Beulenkamp, Krzysztof P. Zamarski, Robert C. Bird, C. Ruth Le Sueur, Jeremy M. Hutson, Manuele Landini, Hanns-Christoph N\"agerl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16520

Formation of ultracold $^{39}$K$^{133}$Cs Feshbach molecules
We report the creation of an ultracold gas of bosonic $^{39}$K$^{133}$Cs molecules. We first demonstrate a cooling strategy relying on sympathetic cooling of $^{133}$Cs to produce an ultracold mixture. From this mixture, weakly bound molecules are formed using a Feshbach resonance at 361.7 G. The molecular gas contains $7.6(10)\times 10^3$ molecules with a lifetime of about 130 ms, limited by two-body decay. We perform Feshbach spectroscopy to observe several new interspecies resonances and cha…

Buzzword-First Strategy cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne https://bit.ly/4koSqvW

A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M bet on the F1 movie is about more than selling iPhones (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/f1-apple…

'F1' and Apple's Movie Strategy: Inside Tim Cook, Lewis Hamilton's Big Bet
Apple CEO Tim Cook pulls back the curtain on the tech giant's film and television strategy, including spending millions on 'F1.

Cryptocurrencies in the Balance Sheet: Insights from (Micro)Strategy -- Bitcoin Interactions
Sabrina Aufiero, Antonio Briola, Tesfaye Salarin, Fabio Caccioli, Silvia Bartolucci, Tomaso Aste
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14655

Cryptocurrencies in the Balance Sheet: Insights from (Micro)Strategy -- Bitcoin Interactions
This paper investigates the evolving link between cryptocurrency and equity markets in the context of the recent wave of corporate Bitcoin (BTC) treasury strategies. We assemble a dataset of 39 publicly listed firms holding BTC, from their first acquisition through April 2025. Using daily logarithmic returns, we first document significant positive co-movements via Pearson correlations and single factor model regressions, discovering an average BTC beta of 0.62, and isolating 12 companies, inclu…

Why Iran's 'Axis of Resistance' Is Missing in Action (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/axis-of-resistance-iran-israel-strategy-103e6226?st=t5EDrV
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p19#a250619p19

VLM-Empowered Multi-Mode System for Efficient and Safe Planetary Navigation
Sinuo Cheng, Ruyi Zhou, Wenhao Feng, Huaiguang Yang, Haibo Gao, Zongquan Deng, Liang Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16703

VLM-Empowered Multi-Mode System for Efficient and Safe Planetary Navigation
The increasingly complex and diverse planetary exploration environment requires more adaptable and flexible rover navigation strategy. In this study, we propose a VLM-empowered multi-mode system to achieve efficient while safe autonomous navigation for planetary rovers. Vision-Language Model (VLM) is used to parse scene information by image inputs to achieve a human-level understanding of terrain complexity. Based on the complexity classification, the system switches to the most suitable naviga…

Oracle-Based Multistep Strategy for Solving Polynomial Systems Over Finite Fields and Algebraic Cryptanalysis of the Aradi Cipher
La Scala Roberto, Sharwan Kumar Tiwari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09950

Oracle-Based Multistep Strategy for Solving Polynomial Systems Over Finite Fields and Algebraic Cryptanalysis of the Aradi Cipher
The multistep solving strategy consists in a divide-and-conquer approach: when a multivariate polynomial system is computationally infeasible to solve directly, one variable is assigned over the elements of the base finite field, and the procedure is recursively applied to the resulting simplified systems. In a previous work by the same authors (among others), this approach proved effective in the algebraic cryptanalysis of the Trivium cipher. In this paper, we present a new implementation of t…

"And we are doing it all with backward compatibility, so gamers could access their favourite titles across platforms." I guess they felt it should be stated even more clearly, since no one was really sure if Xbox console games would be included in this open strategy ->
AMD & Xbox | Advancing the Future of Gaming
https://w…

Miami-based Payabli, which provides software companies with an embedded payments platform, raised a $28M Series B led by Fika Ventures and QED Investors (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/17/payabli-28-millio…

Exclusive: Payabli raises $28M to scale embedded payments
Payments are becoming a core strategy for software vendors.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05784 has been replaced.
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FlowHFT: Flow Policy Induced Optimal High-Frequency Trading under Diverse Market Conditions
High-frequency trading (HFT) is an investing strategy that continuously monitors market states and places bid and ask orders at millisecond speeds. Traditional HFT approaches fit models with historical data and assume that future market states follow similar patterns. This limits the effectiveness of any single model to the specific conditions it was trained for. Additionally, these models achieve optimal solutions only under specific market conditions, such as assumptions about stock price's s…

General Linear-Quadratic Mean Field Stochastic Differential Game with Common Noise: a Direct Method
Yu Si, Jingtao Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16779 htt…

General Linear-Quadratic Mean Field Stochastic Differential Game with Common Noise: a Direct Method
This paper investigates a class of general linear-quadratic mean field games with common noise, where the diffusion terms of the system contain the state variables, control variables, and the average state terms. We solve the problem using both the direct method and the fixed-point method in the paper. First, by using the variational method to solve a finite $N$-players game problem, we obtain the necessary and sufficient conditions for the centralized open-loop Nash equilibrium strategy. Subse…

Virtualizing RAN: Science, Strategy, and Architecture of Software-Defined Mobile Networks
Ryan Barker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09878 https://

Virtualizing RAN: Science, Strategy, and Architecture of Software-Defined Mobile Networks
Virtualising the Radio Access Network (RAN) is widely touted as the corner-stone of affordable 5G and a prerequisite for AI-native 6G. Yet current discourse often isolates spectrum policy, cloud engineering and organisational readiness into silos. This paper delivers an integrated analysis that spans science, technology, business strategy and culture. I first review spectrum-auction economics and show-via a comparative study of T-Mobile US and Verizon-that mid-band contiguity leveraged through …

The {conflicted} package makes sure that namespace conflicts are solved explicitly and prevents unpleasent surprises: #rstats

My new strategy when people try to force me to fill out a #Google form or use Google scheduling or #Meet is I'll tell them I keep getting an error message, even if I'm not.

There are far more ways for an air strike on Iran to go wrong than for it to go the way it is being sold to Trump.
The illegal attack launched by Israel against Iran already set off a war that raises the stakes -- and brings the U.S. increasingly closer to getting directly involved -- even if it doesn’t strike.
But if it does strike, it sets off a series of consequences that likely lead to a long, drawn-out commitment with no clear exit strategy, again.
An American strike…

Can the United States Really Be Marching Toward This Madness Again?
The eerie echoes of Iraq and 2003 are numerous. But there are some key differences—and they make going into Iran an even greater act of folly.

Two-dimensional greedy randomized extended Kaczmarz methods
Xin-Fang Zhang, Meng-Long Xiao, Tao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16106 https://

Two-dimensional greedy randomized extended Kaczmarz methods
The randomized extended Kaczmarz method, proposed by Zouzias and Freris (SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl. 34: 773-793, 2013), is appealing for solving least-squares problems. However, its randomly selecting rows and columns of A with probability proportional to their squared norm is unattractive compared to the greedy strategy. In this paper, we first consider a novel two-dimensional greedy randomized extended Kaczmarz method for solving large linear least-squares problems. The proposed method random…

Introducing Quantum Computing to High-School Curricula: A Global Perspective
Mar\'ia Gragera Garc\'es, Luis G\'omez Orzechowski, Juan Francisco Rodr\'iguez Hern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14809

Introducing Quantum Computing to High-School Curricula: A Global Perspective
Quantum computing is an emerging field with growing implications across science and industry, making early educational exposure increasingly important. This paper examines how quantum computing concepts can be introduced into high-school STEM curricula within existing structures to enhance foundational learning in mathematics, computer science, and physics. We outline a modular integration strategy introducing key quantum ideas into standard courses, leveraging open-source educational resources…

Trump about Israel's attack on Iran. This man is sick/not well. Besides everything you can say about his opinions and strategy.
#Trump #Iran #Israel

Shortermism and excessive risk taking in optimal execution with a target performance
Emilio Barucci, Yuheng Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15611 https://…

Shortermism and excessive risk taking in optimal execution with a target performance
We deal with the optimal execution problem when the broker's goal is to reach a performance barrier avoiding a downside barrier. The performance is provided by the wealth accumulated by trading in the market, the shares detained by the broker evaluated at the market price plus a slippage cost yielding a quadratic inventory cost. Over a short horizon, this type of remuneration leads, at the same time, to a more aggressive and less risky strategy compared to the classical one, and over a long hor…

Israel's Iran Attack Could Wreck the US' Middle-East Strategy (Andreas Kluth/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-06-13/israel-attacks-iran-and-could-wreck-trump-s-middle-east-strategy
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p90#a250613p90

Accelerating Correlated Wave Function Calculations with Hierarchical Matrix Compression of the Two-Electron Integrals
Hongji Gao, Xiangmin Jiao, Benjamin G. Levine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16576

Accelerating Correlated Wave Function Calculations with Hierarchical Matrix Compression of the Two-Electron Integrals
Leveraging matrix sparsity has proven a fruitful strategy for accelerating quantum chemical calculations. Here we present the hierarchical SOS-MP2 algorithm, which uses hierarchical matrix ($\mathcal{H}^{2}$) compression of the electron repulsion integral (ERI) tensor to reduce both time and space complexity. This approach is based on the atomic orbital Laplace transform MP2 calculations, leveraging the data sparsity of the ERI tensor and the element-wise sparsity of the energy-weighted density…

#linktipp
#Pakistan is home to one of the largest concentrations of sellers on Alibaba.com
https://restofworld…

"The jury found that two of Lindell’s statements about Eric Coomer, the former security and product strategy director at Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, including calling him a traitor, were defamatory."
https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindel…

Jury finds MyPillow founder defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company
A federal jury in Colorado has found MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company. Jurors reached the verdict Monday for Lindell, one of the nation’s most prominent election conspiracy theorists. He had called the employee for Dominion Voting Systems, Eric Coomer, a traitor. Lindell’s online media platform also streamed an event where a conservative podcaster accused Coomer of helping rig the 2020 election. During the trial in Denver, Lindel…

Sources: Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to CEO, replacing Alexandr Wang, who is set to join Meta after its investment in Scale AI (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Scale AI Picks New CEO as Alexandr Wang Set to Join Meta After Investment
Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to serve as its next chief executive officer following a multibillion-dollar investment from Meta Platforms Inc., according to two people familiar with the matter.

A new equilibrium: COVID-19 lockdowns and WFH persistence
Laura Ketter, Todd Morris, Lizi Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16671 https://

A new equilibrium: COVID-19 lockdowns and WFH persistence
This paper documents a robust link between COVID-19 lockdowns and the uptake and persistence of working from home (WFH) practices. Exploiting rich longitudinal data, we use a difference-in-differences strategy to compare office workers in three heavily locked-down Australian states to similar workers in less affected states. Locked-down workers sustain 43% higher WFH levels through 2023 - 0.5 days per week - with a monotonic dose-response relationship. Persistence is driven by adjustments on bo…

Invasive species control via a discrete model for the Trojan Y-chromosome strategy
Don K. Mallawa Arachchi, Rana D. Parshad, Claus Kadelka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14023

Invasive species control via a discrete model for the Trojan Y-chromosome strategy
Invasive species are a growing threat to ecosystems, particularly in aquatic environments. The Trojan Y Chromosome (TYC) strategy is a promising biological method for reducing invasive populations by introducing genetically modified males (supermales) that produce only male offspring, leading to population decline due to a shortage of females. In this study, we develop a novel discrete--time, age--structured mathematical model to simulate the effects of this strategy. Our model divides the life…

Comparison of substructured non-overlapping domain decomposition and overlapping additive Schwarz methods for large-scale Helmholtz problems with multiple sources
Boris Martin, Pierre Jolivet, Christophe Geuzaine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16875

Comparison of substructured non-overlapping domain decomposition and overlapping additive Schwarz methods for large-scale Helmholtz problems with multiple sources
Solving large-scale Helmholtz problems discretized with high-order finite elements is notoriously difficult, especially in 3D where direct factorization of the system matrix is very expensive and memory demanding, and robust convergence of iterative methods is difficult to obtain. Domain decomposition methods (DDM) constitute one of the most promising strategy so far, by combining direct and iterative approaches: using direct solvers on overlapping or non-overlapping subdomains, as a preconditi…

Fox acquires Caliente TV, a Mexican sports broadcasting platform, and appoints longtime industry exec Carlos Martinez to oversee its broadcast strategy in LatAm (Melissa Repko/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/fox-acquires-sports-bro…

Fox acquires sports broadcasting platform Caliente TV
The media company is bulking up its sports offerings to better compete with other streaming services.

Islanding Strategy for Smart Grids Oriented to Resilience Enhancement and Its Power Supply Range Optimization
Yanhong Luo, Wenchao Meng, Xi Zhu, Andreas Elombo, Hu Rong, Bing Xie, Tianwen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15191

Islanding Strategy for Smart Grids Oriented to Resilience Enhancement and Its Power Supply Range Optimization
With the increasing prevalence of distributed generators, islanded operation based on distributed generation is considered a vital means to enhance the reliability and resilience of smart grids. This paper investigates the main factors in islanding partition of smart grids and establishes a mathematical model for islanding division. A method to determine the maximum power supply range of distributed energy resources (DERs) based on the reachability matrix and power circle algorithm is proposed …

Klarna launches a $40/month unlimited mobile plan in the US via a partnership with telecom services startup Gigs, following similar offerings by Revolut and N26 (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/klarna-ceo-outlines-plan-to…

Klarna CEO wants to turn the platform into a 'super app' with AI
The buy now, pay later giant's IPO may be on hold — but its business strategy remains the same, according to CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski.

Attention on flow control: transformer-based reinforcement learning for lift regulation in highly disturbed flows
Zhecheng Liu, Jeff D. Eldredge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10153

Attention on flow control: transformer-based reinforcement learning for lift regulation in highly disturbed flows
A linear flow control strategy designed for weak disturbances may not remain effective in sequences of strong disturbances due to nonlinear interactions, but it is sensible to leverage it for developing a better strategy. In the present study, we propose a transformer-based reinforcement learning (RL) framework to learn an effective control strategy for regulating aerodynamic lift in gust sequences via pitch control. The transformer addresses the challenge of partial observability from limited …

Skip the usual warmongering posturing from the various indentured 'experts', to
“Luck and misperception played a significant role in near misses in the Cold War conflict between the US & Soviet Union, especially the Cuban missile crisis in 1962,”
“What is claimed in this SDR, and has been the rhetoric under successive governments, is that the UK’s nuclear weapons are an ‘ultimate guarantee’ against attack. But… there is no basis for claiming this level of certainty.”…

Will Britain’s nuclear strategy bring catastrophe? Experts on UK's 'dangerous gamble'
Former defence minister Tobias Ellwood said the UK must expand its nuclear arsenal with tactical bombs to prepare for Putin

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater: How and why deep learning for ARC
Jack Cole, Mohamed Osman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14276 https://

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater: How and why deep learning for ARC
The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC-AGI) presents a formidable challenge for AI systems. Despite the typically low performance on ARC, the deep learning paradigm remains the most effective known strategy for generating skillful (state-of-the-art) neural networks (NN) across varied modalities and tasks in vision, language etc. The deep learning paradigm has proven to be able to train these skillful neural networks and learn the abstractions needed in these diverse domains. Our work doubles…

FocalClick-XL: Towards Unified and High-quality Interactive Segmentation
Xi Chen, Hengshuang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14686 https://

FocalClick-XL: Towards Unified and High-quality Interactive Segmentation
Interactive segmentation enables users to extract binary masks of target objects through simple interactions such as clicks, scribbles, and boxes. However, existing methods often support only limited interaction forms and struggle to capture fine details. In this paper, we revisit the classical coarse-to-fine design of FocalClick and introduce significant extensions. Inspired by its multi-stage strategy, we propose a novel pipeline, FocalClick-XL, to address these challenges simultaneously. Fol…

A Novel Signal Processing Strategy for Short-Range Laser Feedback Interferometry Sensors
Alexander Zimmer, Johannes Meyer, Enkelejda Kasneci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10705

A Novel Signal Processing Strategy for Short-Range Laser Feedback Interferometry Sensors
The rapid evolution of wearable technologies, such as AR glasses, demands compact, energy-efficient sensors capable of high-precision measurements in dynamic environments. Traditional Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) Laser Feedback Interferometry (LFI) sensors, while promising, falter in applications that feature small distances, high velocities, shallow modulation, and low-power constraints. We propose a novel sensor-processing pipeline that reliably extracts distance and velocity me…

AWS says Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 launched on its Trainium2 GPUs, and Project Rainier, AWS' supercomputer built for Anthropic, uses 500K Trainium2 chips (Kristina Partsinevelos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/aws-chips-nvidia-ai.html

AWS' custom chip strategy is showing results, and cutting into Nvidia's AI dominance
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 launched on Trainium2 GPUs, according to AWS, and Project Rainier is powered by over half a million of its own.

Candle Media co-CEO Kevin Mayer says Candle plans to sell or IPO its individual brands rather than the overall company, marking a shift from its original plan (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/17/moonbug-candle-media-kevin-mayer

Candle Media's Kevin Mayer eyes exits for Moonbug and other brands
The strategy marks a departure from Candle's original plan.

Observer Switching Strategy for Enhanced State Estimation in CSTR Networks
Lisbel B\'arzaga-Martell, Francisco Ib\'a\~nez, Angel L. Cede\~no, Maria Coronel, Francisco Concha, Norelys Aguila-Camacho, Jos\'e Ricardo P\'erez-Correa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13878

Observer Switching Strategy for Enhanced State Estimation in CSTR Networks
Accurate state estimation is essential for monitoring and controlling nonlinear chemical reactors, such as continuous stirred-tank reactors (CSTRs), where limited sensor coverage and process uncertainties hinder real-time observability. This paper introduces a novel multi-observer switching framework that combines several advanced estimators: Extended Luenberger Observer (ELO), Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF), Quadrature Kalman Filter (QKF), and Particle Filter (PF),…

Walk Street Journal:
Trump Has No China Trade Strategy
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/china-trade-talks-donald-trump-tariffs-f730f437

YOLOv11-RGBT: Towards a Comprehensive Single-Stage Multispectral Object Detection Framework
Dahang Wan, Rongsheng Lu, Yang Fang, Xianli Lang, Shuangbao Shu, Jingjing Chen, Siyuan Shen, Ting Xu, Zecong Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14696

YOLOv11-RGBT: Towards a Comprehensive Single-Stage Multispectral Object Detection Framework
Multispectral object detection, which integrates information from multiple bands, can enhance detection accuracy and environmental adaptability, holding great application potential across various fields. Although existing methods have made progress in cross-modal interaction, low-light conditions, and model lightweight, there are still challenges like the lack of a unified single-stage framework, difficulty in balancing performance and fusion strategy, and unreasonable modality weight allocatio…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06990 has been replaced.
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SIS: Seam-Informed Strategy for T-shirt Unfolding
Seams are information-rich components of garments. The presence of different types of seams and their combinations helps to select grasping points for garment handling. In this paper, we propose a new Seam-Informed Strategy (SIS) for finding actions for handling a garment, such as grasping and unfolding a T-shirt. Candidates for a pair of grasping points for a dual-arm manipulator system are extracted using the proposed Seam Feature Extraction Method (SFEM). A pair of grasping points for the ro…

Trump Has No China Trade Strategy (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/china-trade-talks-donald-trump-tariffs-f730f437
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p178#a250611p178

We are now at the point where our government is literally terrorizing tens of millions of hard working Americans as a matter of strategy.
What can we do?
Call your Senators and Rep and demand they fight Trump’s insane and illegal escalation of the past few days.
Contact your local party and Dems and encourage them to hold solidarity press conferences defending the State of California
as this escalation/attack is not just on California and Los Angeles
- it is …

Efficient Multi-Camera Tokenization with Triplanes for End-to-End Driving
Boris Ivanovic, Cristiano Saltori, Yurong You, Yan Wang, Wenjie Luo, Marco Pavone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12251

Efficient Multi-Camera Tokenization with Triplanes for End-to-End Driving
Autoregressive Transformers are increasingly being deployed as end-to-end robot and autonomous vehicle (AV) policy architectures, owing to their scalability and potential to leverage internet-scale pretraining for generalization. Accordingly, tokenizing sensor data efficiently is paramount to ensuring the real-time feasibility of such architectures on embedded hardware. To this end, we present an efficient triplane-based multi-camera tokenization strategy that leverages recent advances in 3D ne…

Interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features, demoed in 2024, with the "V1 Siri architecture" and work on a V2 model (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)
https://www.techra…

This is what really happened with Siri and Apple Intelligence, according to Apple
Is it a delay, a strategy... or something else?

An interview with Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn on criticism after Duolingo went "AI-first", parasocial interactions with "personality"-infused chatbots, and more (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6fbafbb6-bafe-484c-9af9-f0ffb…

Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’
Luis von Ahn says criticism over strategy change shows ‘anxiety’ about technology replacing jobs