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JD Vance vows retribution on liberal institutions after Charlie Kirk killing
Vice President JD Vance vowed to dismantle institutions on the left that he said promote violence and terrorism,
denouncing two of the country’s most prominent liberal foundations in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Donald Trump later in the day also attacked groups on the left and renewed his talk about potential racketeering prosecutions of unspecified g…

JD Vance vows retribution on liberal institutions after Charlie Kirk killing
Vice President JD Vance hosted Charlie Kirk’s podcast as he mourns his friend and potentially cements his position as the heir to the political movement built by Kirk, a powerful GOP force.

Listened in to the Academy Software Foundation's virtual townhall about the Open Review Initiative. I knew that project because they provide very useful ffmpeg command lines and they're doing all the encoding tests to figure out good quality settings and obscure parameters.
Learnings from the presentation: prores by ffmpeg is sadly pretty crappy compared to the real prores from Apple. There's the OpenAPV codec that is gearing up to be an open-source alternative:

#running slow is hard but my fitness is such that it requires a rebuild of the foundation. Trying to stay in HR2 means a decent amount of walking interspersed. I don’t love it, but it’s necessary.
I have a much more open schedule now, so I should be able to get out and run regularly. The trick will be staying patient and trusting the process.

Estimation of An Infinite Dimensional Transition Probability Matrix Using a Generalized Hierarchical Stick-Breaking Process
Agamani Saha, Souvik Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07433

Estimation of An Infinite Dimensional Transition Probability Matrix Using a Generalized Hierarchical Stick-Breaking Process
Markov chains provide a foundational framework for modeling sequential stochastic processes, with the transition probability matrix characterizing the dynamics of state evolution. While classical estimation methods such as maximum likelihood and empirical Bayes approaches are effective in finite-state settings, they become inadequate in applications involving countably infinite or dynamically expanding state spaces, which frequently arise in domains such as natural language processing, populati…

Radio Galaxy Zoo: Morphological classification by Fanaroff-Riley designation using self-supervised pre-training
Nutthawara Buatthaisong, Inigo Val Slijepcevic, Anna M. M. Scaife, Micah Bowles, Andrew Hopkins, Devina Mohan, Stanislav S Shabala, O. Ivy Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11988

Radio Galaxy Zoo: Morphological classification by Fanaroff-Riley designation using self-supervised pre-training
In this study, we examine over 14,000 radio galaxies finely selected from Radio Galaxy Zoo (RGZ) project and provide classifications for approximately 5,900 FRIs and 8,100 FRIIs. We present an analysis of these predicted radio galaxy morphologies for the RGZ catalogue, classified using a pre-trained radio galaxy foundation model that has been fine-tuned to predict Fanaroff-Riley (FR) morphology. As seen in previous studies, our results show overlap between morphologically classified FRI and FRI…

Transfinite Fixed Points in Alpay Algebra as Ordinal Game Equilibria in Dependent Type Theory
Faruk Alpay, Bugra Kilictas, Taylan Alpay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19245 https://…

Transfinite Fixed Points in Alpay Algebra as Ordinal Game Equilibria in Dependent Type Theory
This paper contributes to the Alpay Algebra by demonstrating that the stable outcome of a self referential process, obtained by iterating a transformation through all ordinal stages, is identical to the unique equilibrium of an unbounded revision dialogue between a system and its environment. The analysis initially elucidates how classical fixed point theorems guarantee such convergence in finite settings and subsequently extends the argument to the transfinite domain, relying upon well founded…

“Between enabling Israel in Gaza and all of its operations across the Middle East,
and now these strikes in Iran,
we are setting the foundation for the next generation’s ‘War on Terror,’”
said Wes Bryant, who served until earlier this year as the senior analyst and adviser on precision warfare, targeting, and civilian harm mitigation at the Pentagon’s Civilian Protection Center of Excellence.
He questioned the Trump administration’s abrupt shift from negotiating with I…

Self-Proclaimed “Peacemaker” Drags U.S. Into Another War
Heeding the request of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump dispatched U.S. warplanes to bomb Iran.