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CLOUDWARMER – We Might Even Exist Together on the Outer Fringes of Uncertainty
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/05/19/cloudwarmer-we-might-even-exist-together-on-the-outer-fringes-of-uncertainty/…

Mick Shots: Getting the band back together again https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-getting-the-band-back-together-again

May 2025 recap | The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, hosted by PCSS, brought together developers and experts from across Europe to explore generative #AI tools, risks, secure coding practices.
Highlights:
🔹#GenAI Buzz-Free Programming with LLMs – training by Maciej Łabędzki…

Responsible AI in Practice: Shaping a Safer Future for AI-Powered Software Development | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Poznań, 20–22 May 2025 — The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, held at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), brought together top-tier developers and experts from across Europe for a deep-dive into generative AI tools, risks, and secure coding practices. At the core of the event was the acclaimed training

Mick Shots: Getting the band back together again https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-getting-the-band-back-together-again

A US judge rules that three authors suing Anthropic can bring a class action on behalf of all US writers whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u

After a full day of sessions, come relax and connect with fellow attendees at our Get-Together on 16 June, generously sponsored by our partner Search Guard. Enjoy tasty food, drinks, and live music – a fantastic opportunity to meet new people and catch up with familiar faces.
Learn more: https://2025.berlinbuzzwo…

I am using Desktop Linux¹ for decades because it is woke and gay²!
We want all the gay and merry people playing together :-)
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¹specifically Debian
²read @… in https://

'Very true,' said the Duchess: 'flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is — "Birds of a feather flock together."'
...
Only mustard isn't a bird,' Alice remarked.
...
'It's a mineral, I think,' said Alice.
'...said the Duchess...there's a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is — "The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours."'
--Lewis Carroll

A US judge rules that three authors suing Anthropic can bring a class action on behalf of all US writers whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
VILA: Maximum. Can we hold together at that speed?
AVON: We won't have to.
VILA: What do you mean?
BLAKE: Running at full power will drain the energy banks in - what?
AVON: Two hours at the most.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/133

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

#fluffy #birds time of year again; these (checks) Coot chicks are adorable.
#wildlife

Had the weirdest fever dream of having Cline and Cursor (two software development AIs) work together on my software development business and woke up in a cold sweat

i was put in charge of three grandchildren for a few hours yesterday so we headed straight to ben & jerry's to split a milkshake, then explored the state theater (and even sneaked into a movie but later got thrown out for horsing around on the escalator), then i gave a nickel tour of angell/mason/haven halls, then they chased squirrels on the diag which took longer than you might think, then we looked in all the windows in nickels arcade. it all went slowly and well.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Janet Jackson:
🎵 Together Again (Jimmy Jam Deeper Radio Edit)
#JanetJackson
https://rubberdisco.bandcamp.com/track/janet-jackson-together-again-rubber-disco-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1aJnGme5ZRltYTp8FJ52eZ

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately
2 minutes and 53 seconds
were removed from one of two stitched-together clips.
The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
https://www.…

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

I was incredibly excited about seeing Wu-Tang's last-ever show at the Garden tonight (with Run the Jewels opening, no less!), so I thought it was a perfect time to tell the story of when I got to see the last time all 9 members performed together on one stage — complete with footage of an on-the-run Old Dirty Bastard bursting onto the stage to everyone’s surprise: …

Exit the Wu
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

This time of year I put a small tray outside with oatmeal and currants (over which I have poured a bit of hot water, such that the oats stick together a bit). Starlings come in droves with their fledglings, and feed the chicks from the tray.
Today I noticed an adult rook and a juvenile sitting together on the wall, watching the starlings feed.
Rooks live a long time and are intelligent, and observation is how they study the world!

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Refuel.ai has been acquired by Together.ai. All of us - our team, our technology, and our mission - are joining Together to help build the future of open source and enterprise AI.
https://www.refuel.ai/blog-posts/we-are-joining-to…

We’re Joining Together.ai

SemCSE: Semantic Contrastive Sentence Embeddings Using LLM-Generated Summaries For Scientific Abstracts
Marc Brinner, Sina Zarriess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13105

SemCSE: Semantic Contrastive Sentence Embeddings Using LLM-Generated Summaries For Scientific Abstracts
We introduce SemCSE, an unsupervised method for learning semantic embeddings of scientific texts. Building on recent advances in contrastive learning for text embeddings, our approach leverages LLM-generated summaries of scientific abstracts to train a model that positions semantically related summaries closer together in the embedding space. This resulting objective ensures that the model captures the true semantic content of a text, in contrast to traditional citation-based approaches that do…

A Non-Wellfounded and Labelled Sequent Calculus for Bimodal Provability Logic
Justus Becker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14307 https://…

A Non-Wellfounded and Labelled Sequent Calculus for Bimodal Provability Logic
We present a labelled and non-wellfounded calculus for the bimodal provability logic CS. The system is obtained by modelling the Kripke-like semantics of this logic. As in arXiv:2309.00532, we enforce the second-order property of converse wellfoundedness by using techniques from cyclic proof theory. We will prove soundness and completeness of this system with respect to the semantics and provide a primitive decision procedure together with a way to extract countermodels.

@… @… @… let’s live in this new reality together

To conclude the first evening of Berlin Buzzwords, Gregor Bransky invites you to join a tour of c-base. Afterwards, you can unwind at one of its recreational areas, enjoying a refreshing beverage by the waterside of the Spree.
A travel group will form during the Get-Together.
📅 When: Today – 7 pm
📍 Where: c-base, Rungestraße 20 | 10179 Berlin
Learn more:

Large effects from quantum reference frames
Martin Bojowald, Luis Martinez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14721 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Large effects from quantum reference frames
Reference frames are used to parameterize measurements of physical effects, but since their practical realization uses material objects, they may affect observations performed in a combined quantum state of the measured system together with the frame. Here, a procedure is used that makes it possible to describe non-monotonic reference scales in a quantum treatment, revealing large quantum effects in the measured system whenever a reference frame encounters a turning point. Subtle quantum correl…

Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI
Vivek Chavan, Arsen Cenaj, Shuyuan Shen, Ariane Bar, Srishti Binwani, Tommaso Del Becaro, Marius Funk, Lynn Greschner, Roberto Hung, Stina Klein, Romina Kleiner, Stefanie Krause, Sylwia Olbrych, Vishvapalsinhji Parmar, Jaleh Sarafraz, Daria Soroko, Daksitha Withanage Don, Chang Zhou, Hoang Thuy Duong Vu, Parastoo Semnani, Daniel Weinhardt, Elisabeth Andre, J\"org Kr\"uger, Xavier Fresquet

Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI
This paper explores the growing presence of emotionally responsive artificial intelligence through a critical and interdisciplinary lens. Bringing together the voices of early-career researchers from multiple fields, it explores how AI systems that simulate or interpret human emotions are reshaping our interactions in areas such as education, healthcare, mental health, caregiving, and digital life. The analysis is structured around four central themes: the ethical implications of emotional AI, …

2025 Position Breakdown: Continuity reigns supreme in Raiders special teams trio https://www.raiders.com/news/2025-position-breakdown-special-teams-daniel-carlson-aj-cole-jacob-bobenmoyer

Listening to a digital history talk at #DH2025 I'm reminded that IMO 'labs' isn't a natural metaphor for 'working together' (but maybe the realities of hierarchies and politics do fit the DH/GLAM use?).
Is importing 'data culture' from the world of business the right move for digital history / humanities?

Ben Sims b2b Surgeon at Globus, Berlin 10th of May, 2025
https://on.soundcloud.com/FBsC37Xnq37rDXCBKf
> Me and Ben thought it would be fun to play a long DJ set together at Globus, the upstairs floor at Tresor in Berlin. We last played together (as Frequency 7) in May 2013. …

According to my favorite AI JD Vance is Vance Boelter. That explains why we have never seen them together at the same time and place.
(My favorite AI is my cat, Diderot.)

Dad protip:
If you find a way to convince your bedtime-resisting child that she needs to pretend to be asleep, after about 10 minutes, she'll actually *be* asleep. (Tooth fairy, Santa, deal for getting "one more song", "Let's play 'sleeping' together", etc.)

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jalen Ngonda:
🎵 Just as Long as Were Together
#NowPlaying #JalenNgonda
https://jalenngonda.bandcamp.com/track/just-as-long-as-were-together
https://open.spotify.com/track/6uAt2PE7YB5gHeCAFeD7G6

You know you've been together too long when you book your covid shots in on your anniversary. 🤦‍♀️
But I did check and we are planning on going to lunch afterwards.
We've been together since we were 22. I have absolutely no idea how that happened - it wasn't planned. But here we are - 41 years later. Bloody hell!
#Anniversary

I like to complain about mean, petty, and just generally awful colleagues as much as anyone in #academia. But most people around here are alright. Some are even great. Today's example: a junior colleague at a different university asked to see something relatively minor, but still meaningful that I and a senior colleague had put together for internal purposes. When I asked the older guy if it was OK …

This is just yet another example of what happens when #ClimateChange is ignored. A ramp-up of extreme #weather is causing #insurance companies to stop offering coverage in areas around the globe where…

I do not understand why folks aren’t mildly freaking out on the extended forecasts for #NYC
Seriously #HeatWave
To have five days (!!!5 days !!!) of over 100degF
Check on your neighbors.
Prepare now for no or low power. Get your spritzer and battery powered electric fans.
We will get through this together. But it will be easier with a little bit of planning.
Where is your NYC cooling center??
https://finder.nyc.gov/coolingcenters/

Look, I give a fuck, because freedom isn't some abstract idea or lip service paid to "choice" while real decisions are made over your head.
Freedom is collective, it's when everyone gets to shape the community together, no more of this top-down bullshit where rules drop from above and you’re told to accept it or leave. Anarcho-syndicalism is not theory to me, it’s my fucking life story now, because I want to actually live this principle where people, not bosses, run t…

#WritersCoffeeClub
June 18: The eye of the duck: Share a ‘nonessential’ scene in one of your works that ties the piece together.
---
Hard to say.
If a scene ties the piece together, it is not nonessential.

Global QCD analysis of spin PDFs in the proton with high-$x$ and lattice constraints
C. Cocuzza, N. T. Hunt-Smith, W. Melnitchouk, N. Sato, A. W. Thomas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13616

Global QCD analysis of spin PDFs in the proton with high-$x$ and lattice constraints
We perform a comprehensive global QCD analysis of spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs), combining all available data on inclusive and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering (DIS), as well as inclusive weak boson and jet production in polarized $pp$ collisions, simultaneously extracting spin-averaged PDFs and fragmentation functions. Including recent Jefferson Lab DIS data at high $x$, together with subleading power corrections to the leading twist framework, allows us to verify…

Canada’s Pacific Coast hit hard by trawling, with limited transparency: Report https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/canadas-pacific-coast-hit-hard-by-trawling-with-limited-transparency-report/

Canada’s Pacific Coast hit hard by trawling, with limited transparency: Report
Trawling vessels pursuing fish are damaging marine ecosystems in Canada’s West Coast waters and could be operating illegally in some cases, and yet they work with insufficient transparency, a new report says. Nine large trawlers have together trawled swaths of the ocean collectively larger than the size of Ireland since 2009, according to the report, […]

On the ambient conditions crystal structure of AgSbTe2
Baihong Sun, Sergei Grazhdannikov, Muhamed Dawod, Lunhua He, Jiazheng Hao, Thomas Meier, Yansun Yao, Yaron Amouyal, Elissaios Stavrou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13526

On the ambient conditions crystal structure of AgSbTe2
We present a combined X-ray and neutron diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and 121Sb NMR studies of AgSbTe2, supported by first-principles calculations aiming to elucidate its crystal structure. While diffraction methods cannot unambiguously resolve the structure, Raman and NMR data, together with electric field gradient calculations, strongly support the rhombohedral R-3m phase. Moreover, the agreement between experimental and calculated Raman spectra further corroborates this result, resolving …

Partial decidability protocol for the Wang tiling problem from statistical mechanics and chaotic mapping
Fabrizio Canfora, Marco Cedeno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13268

Partial decidability protocol for the Wang tiling problem from statistical mechanics and chaotic mapping
We introduce a partial decidability protocol for the Wang tiling problem (which is the prototype of undecidable problems in combinatorics and statistical physics) by constructing a suitable mapping from tilings of finite squares of different sizes. Such mapping depends on the initial family of Wang tiles (the alphabet) with which one would like to tile the plane. This allows to define effective entropy and temperature associated to the alphabet (together with the corresponding partition functio…

If groups of parents can band together when deciding on the right age for a smartphone for their younger children, they will stand a better chance to avoid making decisions based on peer pressure at school.
https://theprivacydad.com/how-parent-c

Learning From the Past with Cascading Eligibility Traces
Tokiniaina Raharison Ralambomihanta, Ivan Anokhin, Roman Pogodin, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Jonathan Cornford, Blake Aaron Richards
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14598

Learning From the Past with Cascading Eligibility Traces
Animals often receive information about errors and rewards after a significant delay. For example, there is typically a delay of tens to hundreds of milliseconds between motor actions and visual feedback. The standard approach to handling delays in models of synaptic plasticity is to use eligibility traces. However, standard eligibility traces that decay exponentially mix together any events that happen during the delay, presenting a problem for any credit assignment signal that occurs with a s…

Seriously starting to think that I’d be better off without C. I’d have to find a big chunk of money to pay off the money she’s put into our house. Separating isn’t really feasible though as we have little baby A together. C isn’t well enough to care for A by herself, and I need to work so can’t look after her all by myself. I fucked up pretty badly getting C pregnant just three months into our relationship. I’m a fucking idiot.

Sharp inequalities and asymptotics for polyharmonic eigenvalues
Davide Buoso, Pedro Freitas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12791 https://…

Sharp inequalities and asymptotics for polyharmonic eigenvalues
We study eigenvalues of general scalar Dirichlet polyharmonic problems in domains in $\mathbb R^{d}$. We first prove a number of inequalities satisfied by the eigenvalues on general domains, depending on the relations between the orders of the operators involved. We then obtain several estimates for these eigenvalues, yielding their growth as a function of these orders. For the problem in the ball we derive the general form of eigenfunctions together with the equations satisfied by the correspo…

14 June 2025 is World Blood Donor Day.
"Blood donation is a collective effort and a powerful act of solidarity. By coming together as a community of donors, we ensure a steady and safe blood supply for all who need it.

Anyone, anywhere, who needs a transfusion should have timely access to safe blood."
http…

Probing nontrivial fusion of Majorana zero modes via near-adiabatic coupling
Jing Bai, Luting Xu, Wei Feng, Xin-Qi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12772 http…

Probing nontrivial fusion of Majorana zero modes via near-adiabatic coupling
We propose and simulate a near-adiabatically coupling probing scheme for nontrivial fusion of a pair of Majorara zero modes (MZMs). The scheme can avoid the complexity of oscillating charge occupation in the probing quantum dot, making thus practical measurements more feasible. We also show how to extract the information of nonadiabatic transition and fermion parity violation caused during moving the MZMs together to fuse, from the initial states prepared with definite fermion parity. All the s…

The Hammock Plot: Where Categorical and Numerical Data Relax Together
Matthias Schonlau, Tiancheng Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13630 https://

The Hammock Plot: Where Categorical and Numerical Data Relax Together
Effective methods for visualizing data involving multiple variables, including categorical ones, are limited. The hammock plot (Schonlau, 2003) visualizes both categorical and numerical variables using parallel coordinates. We introduce the Stata implementation hammock. We give numerous examples that explore highlighting, missing values, putting axes on the same scale, and tracing an observation across variables. Further, we introduce parallel univariate plots as an edge case of hammock plots. …

We've got buried treasure on view in a new display at the museum. Thanks to a recent gift and the work of a consultant and a staff member, we're displaying mingqi, or "spirit goods," in two adjoining cases in the permanent collection. Read on to learn more about how this grouping of well-preserved objects came together.

I'm finally pleased with my 3D printed sign handle. It's two parts, bolts together with a cardboard sign between the pieces. I've made the back side larger so it can be glued to the sign to help stabilize it in wind. (Learned I needed that the hard way!)
#3Dprinting #protest

us_roads: United States roads (2000)
The road networks of the 50 US States and the District of Columbia based on UA Census 2000 TIGER/Line Files. Edges are stretches of road and vertices are intersections of roads. The data sets were assembled by Dominik Schultes. The 'merged' network contains all the states merged together.
This network has 308401 nodes and 385164 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Construction workers are putting in the landscaping for the new Computer Science building across the street from my office
#photo #photography #building

Hrmm, it seems like there aren't many sources on how to put a PiKVM onto a proper VLAN. It seems like it's using `systemd-network` for networking, might have to put together an article on how to do it properly assuming I can remember correctly.
#pikvm #homelab

best buddies

All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can’t get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
-- IBM maintenance manual, 1925

Case Study for Developing a UXR Point of View for FinOps Product Innovation
Jason Dong, Anna Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15314 https://

Case Study for Developing a UXR Point of View for FinOps Product Innovation
In the dynamic landscape of Cloud financial management, we are sharing a case study exploring the development of a User Experience Research (UXR) Point of View (PoV) to drive FinOps product innovation. We demonstrate how qualitative and quantitative research methods working together to navigate the challenges of understanding customer needs, aligning cross-functional teams, and prioritizing limited resources. Through a multi-phased research approach, the research team identifies opportunities, …

It has become relatively easy & affordable to put together an LED Matrix sign. Recently I put together a 6 panel display using 1/8 scan modules for something much brighter than the 1/16 & 1/32 scan modules I usually use. It's bright enough to carry around in high noon sunlight. (I wish it were brighter still)
For past projects with realtime graphics, I've used hzeller's raspberry pi library. Here I used the Huidu HD-D16 controller board that seems to be ARM FPGA …

NEW BOOK> Atiśa's Stages of the Path to Awakening: Together with Commentaries and Ritual Texts by James B. Apple https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20070507/new-book-atisas-stages-path-awakening-toget…

Y'all were wondering which way the army would break. This is as clear an answer as you're going to get.
This isn't a mistake. It's a message.
Edit: cut out "During drills they were perfectly in time" because I don't have receipts to show. Linking to a longer video in a threads post that shows a bit more intense of a juxtaposition between themselves and the division in front of them. This thread makes the same claim about drills, but I also don't see video.
https://www.threads.com/@davidmorehouse/post/DK7ExrKs5iw?xmt=AQF0w52awa66lUQeIuolzDaz8uSFcMmJLHALm9RZc4P75w
Edit: to clarify a bit, this is one division. The division in front of them in the longer video is in step. This isn't "the whole army is going to refuse" but this may be, "some units are fed up enough to make it clear they don't want to play, which is saying a lot."
Any division that exists needs to be cultivated. The way you cultivate that is absolutely not by lumping them all together. Some of the military voted for Trump, some don't care, some hate him. All of them are being treated like shit right now. All of them swore an oath to defend the constitution. Some of them probably know what that means.
I'm absolutely not a fan of the military, but I will take every opportunity I can to humanize these folks. Look for every opportunity you can to remind them that they are welcome on our side whenever they're ready to actually fulfill their oath, and we will appreciate every subtle bit of resistance they give to those who are violating it in the meantime.

Dallas Cowboys, Houston Texans, NFL pool together donations for Texas flooding recovery efforts

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dallas-

Conformal Turaev-Viro Theory
Thomas Hartman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11652 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.11652

Conformal Turaev-Viro Theory
We define and study Conformal Turaev-Viro (CTV) theory, a dual formulation of Virasoro TQFT based on triangulating 3-manifolds with tetrahedra. Edges of the triangulation are labeled by continuous conformal weights, and tetrahedra are glued together weighted by the Cardy density of states. We demonstrate that the CTV partition function is equal to the modular S-transform of the Virasoro TQFT amplitude-squared, $|Z_{Vir}|^2$. This is analogous to a known result for discrete spin networ…

All the talk from the G7 about India and Canada working together to use AI for government "efficiency" sounds a lot like outsourcing our education and public services to a call centre.
This Liberal government seems hellbent on destroying the public service and public programs.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #AI #G7

Linear-quadratic stochastic nonzero-sum differential games between graphon teams
De-xuan Xu, Zhun Gou, Nan-jing Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11468 http…

Linear-quadratic stochastic nonzero-sum differential games between graphon teams
We study a class of nonzero-sum stochastic differential games between two teams with agents in each team interacting through graphon aggregates. On the one hand, in each large population group, agents act together to optimize a common social cost function. On the other hand, these two groups compete with each other, forming a Nash game between two graphon teams. We note that the original problem can be equivalently formulated as an infinite-dimensional two-agent Nash game. Applying the dynamic …

First Positronium Lifetime Imaging with Scandium-44 on a Long Axial Field-of-view PET/CT
Lorenzo Mercolli, William M. Steinberger, Pascal V. Grundler, Anzhelika Moiseeva, Saverio Braccini, Maurizio Conti, Pawe{\l} Moskal, Narendra Rathod, Axel Rominger, Hasan Sari, Roger Schibli, Robert Seifert, Kuangyu Shi, Ewa {\L}. St\k{e}pie\'n, Nicholas P. van der Meulen

First Positronium Lifetime Imaging with Scandium-44 on a Long Axial Field-of-view PET/CT
Purpose: 44Sc has been successfully produced, synthesized, labeled and first-in-human studies were conducted some years ago. The decay properties of 44Sc, together with being close to a clinical implementation, make it an ideal candidate for in vivo positronium lifetime measurements. In this study, we investigate the count statistics for ortho-positronium (oPs) measurements with 44Sc. Method: A NEMA image quality phantom was filled with 41.7 MBq of 44Sc dissolved in water and scanned on a com…

Last week I had the great honor to give a talk with my friend Malte about capitalism, (tech-)fascism and how it connects to "AI".
(Original title: “Fascist AI” talk at LOOPS)
https://tante.cc/2025/07/04/fascist-ai-talk-at-loops/

"Fascist AI" talk at LOOPS
The New Practice space at TU Berlin runs a series of talks called LOOPS. Together with my friend Malte I was invited to talk a bit about “Fascist AI”. How capitalism, fascism and AI narratives are very closely aligned and (re)produce one another. I enjoyed giving the talk (I rarely do those together with others) […]

I would have never guessed The Epstein Files would be the thing to bring Americans together. I'll take what I can get. 😅

Coalitions on the Fly in Cooperative Games
Yao Zhang, Indrajit Saha, Zhaohong Sun, Makoto Yokoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11883 https://

Coalitions on the Fly in Cooperative Games
In this work, we examine a sequential setting of a cooperative game in which players arrive dynamically to form coalitions and complete tasks either together or individually, depending on the value created. Upon arrival, a new player as a decision maker faces two options: forming a new coalition or joining an existing one. We assume that players are greedy, i.e., they aim to maximize their rewards based on the information available at their arrival. The objective is to design an online value di…

Scheduling on Identical Machines with Setup Time and Unknown Execution Time
Yasushi Kawase, Kazuhisa Makino, Vinh Long Phan, Hanna Sumita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11311

Scheduling on Identical Machines with Setup Time and Unknown Execution Time
In this study, we investigate a scheduling problem on identical machines in which jobs require initial setup before execution. We assume that an algorithm can dynamically form a batch (i.e., a collection of jobs to be processed together) from the remaining jobs. The setup time is modeled as a known monotone function of the set of jobs within a batch, while the execution time of each job remains unknown until completion. This uncertainty poses significant challenges for minimizing the makespan. …

You want to order Italian. You want bruschetta. If you want to sound like an Italian, pronounce it like this: Broo-sketta, with the accent on the sketta part. Not Broosheta. When the C in Italian is followed by an H it sounds hard like the K in kick. If you really want to sound like an Italian, give the 2 Ts a bit of a kick. When two consonants appear together in words in Italian, generally they are punched a bit: Broo-skeTTa. Make it fun. Sound like you know what you are ordering.😀

#SittingWithDogsBonus Huddled Together in Hope: The Heartfelt Tale of Two Shelter Dogs - Rocky Kanaka

Huddled Together in Hope: The Heartfelt Tale of Two Shelter Dogs - Rocky Kanaka
When I walked into the shelter when I walked into the shelter, two little pups caught my attention immediately. They huddled close together...

Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
TARRANT: She'd better be.
SOOLIN: Well, do we stick together, or what?
AVON: Given the time factor, it might be better if we split up.
[Hold]
PIRI: Don't leave me. Please, don't leave me.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/439…

IoT Malware Network Traffic Detection using Deep Learning and GraphSAGE Models
Nikesh Prajapati, Bimal Karki, Saroj Gopali, Akbar Siami Namin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10758

IoT Malware Network Traffic Detection using Deep Learning and GraphSAGE Models
This paper intends to detect IoT malicious attacks through deep learning models and demonstrates a comprehensive evaluation of the deep learning and graph-based models regarding malicious network traffic detection. The models particularly are based on GraphSAGE, Bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (BERT), Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN) as well as Multi-Head Attention, together with Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BI-LSTM) Multi-Head Attention and BI-LSTM and LSTM…

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.

She: We are never, ever, ever getting back together. We are never, ever, ever getting back together. You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me. But we are never, ever, ever, ever getting back together. Like, ever.
He: We're on a break right now.

“We know from history that authoritarian regimes aim to fracture coalitions and weaken solidarity among groups that, together, represent a formidable force.”
https://newsone.com/5732513/black-radical-project/

Protecting The Black Radical Project: A Call For Courage, Unity And Discipline In 2025
Black people must enforce a disciplined understanding within broader economic, cultural, social and political coalitions, writes Eric Ward.

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Refuel.ai has been acquired by Together.ai. All of us - our team, our technology, and our mission - are joining Together to help build the future of open source and enterprise AI.
https://www.refuel.ai/blog-posts/we-are-joining-to…

A round of golf with the Cowboys' specialists: How their bond goes beyond football https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/a-round-of-golf-with-the-cowboys-specialists-how-their-bond-goes-beyond-football

In 1967
artist Michael Bowen advertised
"A Gathering of Tribes for the Human Be-In"
in the underground newspaper the San Francisco Oracle
to bring together the "tribes" of psychedelic San Francisco hippies and Berkeley anti-war activists.
https://exhibits.library.uc…

Symmetry-preserving neural networks in lattice field theories
Matteo Favoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12493 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Symmetry-preserving neural networks in lattice field theories
This thesis deals with neural networks that respect symmetries and presents the advantages in applying them to lattice field theory problems. The concept of equivariance is explained, together with the reason why such a property is crucial for the network to preserve the desired symmetry. The benefits of choosing equivariant networks are first illustrated for translational symmetry on a complex scalar field toy model. The discussion is then extended to gauge theories, for which Lattice Gauge Eq…

As a Mass Effect aficionado It seems unfair to me that Shepard has a cabin full of cool ship models but I can't have any. Until now. Martin at printables.com posted an SR-1 3d model. My printer is single filament and low-resolution, so I had to do more work than him to pull it together. Plus painting PLA is a bit of a struggle. But now I have a model, however rough.
I'd still rather have what Shepard has.

Daily Wordle #1250 2/6. Two days in a row. 🤪 🍀
(You'll know when you solve it how everything comes together for me)
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mikhad.github.io/wordle
#Wordle #WordGames #puzzles

To conclude the first evening of Berlin Buzzwords, Gregor Bransky invites you to join a tour of c-base. Afterwards, you can unwind at one of its recreational areas, enjoying a refreshing beverage by the waterside of the Spree.
A travel group will form during the Get-Together.
📅 When: June 17, 2025 – 7 pm
📍 Where: c-base, Rungestraße 20 | 10179 Berlin
Learn more:

Satellite Events
Satellite Events Find out what other open source events and meet-ups are taking place around Berlin Buzzwords.You are hosting a meetup, get-together, workshop or other kind of event at the same time? Get in touch, and we’ll happily add your event to our list! MICES EU 2025 Our partner conference, MICES - Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes [...]

A round of golf with the Cowboys' specialists: How their bond goes beyond football https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/a-round-of-golf-with-the-cowboys-specialists-how-their-bond-goes-beyond-football

EUNIS Habitat Maps: Enhancing Thematic and Spatial Resolution for Europe through Machine Learning
Sara Si-Moussi, Stephan Hennekens, Sander M\"ucher, Wanda De Keersmaecker, Milan Chytr\'y, Emiliano Agrillo, Fabio Attorre, Idoia Biurrun, Gianmaria Bonari, Andra\v{z} \v{C}arni, Renata \'Cu\v{s}terevska, Tetiana Dziuba, Klaus Ecker, Behl\"ul G\"uler, Ute Jandt, Borja Jim\'enez-Alfaro, Jonathan Lenoir, Jens-Christian Svenning, Grzegorz Swacha, Wilfried Thuiller

EUNIS Habitat Maps: Enhancing Thematic and Spatial Resolution for Europe through Machine Learning
The EUNIS habitat classification is crucial for categorising European habitats, supporting European policy on nature conservation and implementing the Nature Restoration Law. To meet the growing demand for detailed and accurate habitat information, we provide spatial predictions for 260 EUNIS habitat types at hierarchical level 3, together with independent validation and uncertainty analyses. Using ensemble machine learning models, together with high-resolution satellite imagery and ecologica…

Picked up a second hand #running buggy yesterday (Nipper Sport v4). Took little one for our first run together in the afternoon. It was fantastic. So happy to be able to exercise while giving C a break at the same time. Also excited to begin the journey of undoing the ‘Dad bod’. Next step is to see if I can bring our unruly Chocolate Lab along too 😅

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Small Paul:
🎵 Weariness Together
#SmallPaul
https://smallpaulband.bandcamp.com/track/weariness-together
https://open.spotify.com/track/6CYxh59zS9VA7Bri7Yr801

The Elandon Roberts, Patrick Graham Story: Together At Last With Raiders https://raiderramble.com/2025/06/06/elandon-roberts-patrick-graham-story-together-with-raiders/

Cancellative Convex Semilattices
Ana Sokolova, Harald Woracek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11186 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.11186

Cancellative Convex Semilattices
Convex semilattices are algebras that are at the same time a convex algebra and a semilattice, together with a distributivity axiom. These algebras have attracted some attention in the last years as suitable algebras for probability and nondeterminism, in particular by being the Eilenberg-Moore algebras of the nonempty finitely-generated convex subsets of the distributions monad. A convex semilattice is cancellative if the underlying convex algebra is cancellative. Cancellative convex algebra…

Join us for our Get-Together right after today's last session at 18:00 CEST!
Head over to the partner area, where you can unwind with tasty snacks and refreshing drinks while enjoying great live music, all sponsored by Search Guard. What better way to end the first day of the conference than by catching up with old friends and making new connections?
#bbuzz

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jalen Ngonda:
🎵 Just as Long as Were Together
#NowPlaying #JalenNgonda
https://jalenngonda.bandcamp.com/track/just-as-long-as-were-together
https://open.spotify.com/track/6uAt2PE7YB5gHeCAFeD7G6

I had a bad day and made a mistake, but I chose to do the right thing and move forward.
Proud bisexual, gender-fluid, autistic anarchist committed to building a world based on mutual aid, solidarity, and freedom for all.
If you believe in challenging power and creating change from the ground up, let’s connect and let’s grow this movement together.
Now, here I am, feeling stronger and ready for better days ahead.

Neuroaesthetics and the Science of Visual Experience
Harish Vijayakumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11599 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.1…

Neuroaesthetics and the Science of Visual Experience
Neuroaesthetics is an interdisciplinary field that brings together neuroscience, psychology, and the arts to explore how the human brain perceives and responds to visual beauty. This paper examines the neural mechanisms behind aesthetic experiences, aiming to explain why certain designs or artworks feel emotionally or cognitively "right." By analyzing the interaction between perception, emotion, and cognition, neuroaesthetics reveals how beauty is constructed in the brain and how this understan…

A non-Gaussian Hardy-type Equation in Fractional Time
Soveny Sol\'is, Vicente Vergara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11743 https://ar…

A non-Gaussian Hardy-type Equation in Fractional Time
A non-Gaussian Hardy equation is studied with a non-linearity of Osgood-type growth. A fractional derivative in time is incorporated for the first time in an research of this type. Existence of local and global solutions are established by combining properties of the fundamental solutions together with the parameters of the non-Gaussian process, leading to optimal asymptotic estimates. Additional properties of the fundamental solutions and instantaneous blow-up results are found. The Banach con…

Swing by and connect with the fantastic team from our partner, Search Guard, who are generously sponsoring our Get-Together this evening.
#bbuzz

Tariff chaos is forcing America’s allies closer together,
-- and further from the United States.
As that happens, the European Union is trying to position itself at the center of a new global trade map.
https://www.nytim…

Amid Tariff Chaos, U.S. Allies Try to Redraw the Trade Map
Facing growing chaos, the European Union and numerous other countries are seeking to forge a global trading nexus that is less vulnerable to American tariffs.

Cowboys stars Micah Parsons, Trevon Diggs work out together before minicamp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-stars-micah-parsons-trevon-diggs-work-out-together-before-minicamp

Our partner conference, MICES – Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes place on June 18th at TUECHTIG in Berlin. Focusing on e-commerce search, MICES brings together experts from various fields such as IT, product management, UX design, search management, information retrieval, data science and search engine vendors to discuss challenges, share ideas, best practices and case studies in e-commerce search.
Register for free and learn more here:

I missed one of everything while I was deployed to Afghanistan:
Birthdays. Holidays. Recitals. Soccer games.
I missed my husband. I missed our 5 kids even more.
After I returned to Colorado, we were driving home one day when my husband suggested we get two $5 pizzas from Little Caesar’s.
Sitting at the table, I felt an immense sense of gratitude to finally be together again,
just enjoying a simple meal.
"Wow," I told my husband. "This was …

Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher | Democrat for Congress
Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher, a candidate for Congress in Colorado’s 4th District, is on a new mission after a lifetime of service: Defeat Lauren Boebert.

#bbuzz Barcamp 2025: What a start! A huge thank you to everyone who joined. Here are some first impressions of this amazing afternoon.
A huge thank you to Nick Burch for his fantastic job hosting the Barcamp.

Cowboys 'should be in NFL playoff mix' if one key unit comes together https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-should-be-nfl-playoff-mix-one-key-unit-comes-together

Cowboys 'should be in NFL playoff mix' if one key unit comes together https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-should-be-nfl-playoff-mix-one-key-unit-comes-together