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Top five NFL draft values of the millennium at LB: Class of 2012 produced pair of true studs https://www.nfl.com/news/top-five-nfl-draft-values-of-the-millennium-at-lb-class-of-2012-produced-pair-of-true-studs…

Trump believes in American
Non-Exceptionalism.
His claim that America is as amoral as authoritarian regimes has long been false. But he longs to make it true.
https://bsky.app/profile/davidrlurie.bsky.social/post/3lsqzsdnsbs25

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
New Order:
🎵 True Faith
#NewOrder
https://djpaulharwoodremixes.bandcamp.com/track/new-order-true-faith-dj-paul-harwood-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4fpxnJGDWFxjGvLJOqPPt8

It’s true that my fellow students are embracing AI – but this is what the critics aren’t seeing https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/29/students-ai-critics-chatgpt-covid-education-system?CMP=Sh…

> If you take away just one thing from this study, it should probably be this: when people report that AI has accelerated their work, they might be wrong!
https://secondthoughts.ai/p/ai-coding-slowdown?hide_intro_popup=true&utm_source=unknown…

Meta did this? Mastodon gGmbH’s partner Meta at the Social Web Foundation?
But aren’t Mastodon gGmbH the good guys? I can’t see how they’d ever partner with Meta if this were true.
No, no, this must be fake news.
(Otherwise, what would it say about Mastodon gGmbH and the Social Web Foundation?)
https://socialwebfoundation.org/…

Social Web Foundation
Towards a bigger, better fediverse

Checked. Seems to be true.

you've heard of chemists in the 30's
are you prepared for chemists in the 1830's?
moreover, bunsen himself?

If your business, with no sense of humor about it, refers to departments within itself as P&PMD and PB&PMC, how am I supposed to interact with you with a straight face? 😆
I mean, even Franz Kafka's gonna laugh at you, right? 😯
(this is based on a true story)
#jobs #business

True synergy is when ice cream are packed with three flavors in each pack, and every one of the 3 family members prefers a different flavor.
Which flavor do you think I prefer?
Chocolate
Strawberry
Vanilla
Insufficient data to answer

its been 5 years and the illegal chinese fishing boat massacre article still doesnt have a movie based on it
https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2019-12/december-2019-true-crime-massacre-in-the-pacific-p…

The US just saw its 44th school shooting this year. The disturbing data shows the true scale of the problem | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/school-shooting-statistics-data-minnesota-b2816454.html

This video is very Britain-centric, true, but a lot of what's in it is very useful for everybody else as well, as both the bullshit and the basic facts are valid way beyond the UK.
https://youtu.be/bX1n25rN8yg

#NowPlaying - more wakeup music with energy, new EP 'obsgay uleray' by Olympia, Washington's the gobs. Four really fast, catchy, great, ripping songs in true gobs fashion.
https://thegobs.bandcamp.com/album/ob…

What Culture Says about Strength Isn't True
#NowWatching

First-order sentences in random groups III
Olga Kharlampovich, Alexei Miasnikov, Rizos Sklinos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19740 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.…

First-order sentences in random groups III
We show that a first-order sentence is almost surely true in a random group of density d<1/2 if and only if it is true in a non-abelian free group.

"Animals boost tropical forests' carbon absorption by aiding seed dispersal"
#Animals #Trees #Forests

Animals boost tropical forests' carbon absorption by aiding seed dispersal
A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can drive biodiversity loss. Now, MIT researchers have shown that the reverse is also true: Reductions in biodiversity can jeopardize one of Earth's most powerful levers for mitigating climate change.

Zero-cycles on quasi-projective surfaces over $p$-adic fields
Evangelia Gazaki, Jitendra Rathore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20076 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Zero-cycles on quasi-projective surfaces over $p$-adic fields
A conjecture of Colliot-Thélène predicts that for a smooth projective variety $X$ over a finite extension $k$ of $\mathbb{Q}_p$ the kernel of the Albanese map $\text{CH}_0(X)^{\text{deg}=0}\to Alb_X(k)$ is the direct sum of a divisible group and a finite group. In this article we show that if $π:X\dashrightarrow Y$ is a generically finite rational map between smooth projective surfaces and the conjecture is true for $X\otimes_k L$ for every finite extension $L/k$, then it is true for $Y$. Us…

Great article. And has this gem as a closing statement: „Somewhere, a protocol is being used exactly as intended. This is deeply suspicious.“
https://darmstadt.social/@claudius/114766051184046904

Well back before the 2016 election I remember seeing a news video in which Trump said something about how, if he ran for the presidency, he could make money. That video seems to have vanished beyond our event horizon. It would be nice if someone could find and resurrect it.
Anyway, FFOTUS has made that video come true:
"Trump Used Your Tax Dollars to Open His New Scottish Golf Course"

Trump Used Your Tax Dollars to Open His New Scottish Golf Course
Donald Trump inaugurated a new, private golf course in Scotland during an official state trip funded by taxpayers.

Put away pipelines, go with grids!
By David Suzuki with contributions from Senior Editor and Writer Ian Hanington
It’s good to see ideas such as increasing self-sufficiency and diversifying trade partners emerging in response to U.S. attacks on Canada’s economy and threats to our sovereignty. As usual, though, the fossil fuel industry and its supporters are taking advantage of this “crisis” to push for more oil and gas infrastructure, particularly pipelines.

Put away pipelines, go with grids!
A true nation-building project would be to create a renewable-powered integrated electricity grid throughout the country.

💵 It’s time to pay the true value of tropical forest conservation (commentary)
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/its-time-to-pay-the-true-value-of-tropical-forest-conservation-commentary/

It’s time to pay the true value of tropical forest conservation (commentary)
Tropical forests help regulate the global climate, host irreplaceable biodiversity and provide fresh water resources. Plus forests in general are the source of livelihoods for more than a billion people — so our very existence depends on them. However, because their value is not reflected in markets, these areas are often converted to other uses. Conserving our tropical forests […]

From the "Your UX is bad so you should feel bad Dept.":
The act of observing the state of your 365 subscription changes the state of your 365 subscription. Or Schrodingers's 365 subscription - until you check, the subscription is both active AND expired in superposition and by checking your subscription the waveform collapses to one of those two states. Was your subscription ever really active at all?

Some good venting by Steve Klabnik about the sorry state of significant chunks of the AI debate today:
"What is breaking my brain a little bit is that all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized. This isn’t a “the middle is always right” sort of thing either, to be clear. It’s more that both the pro-AI and anti-AI sides are loudly proclaiming things that are pretty trivially verifiable as not true."

The Connecticut Data Privacy Act Gets an Overhaul (Again)
https://fpf.org/blog/the-connecticut-data-privacy-act-gets-an-overhaul-again/
@…

❝The message here clearly isn’t “Don’t commit fraud,” which would be laughable coming from Donald Trump, of all people. Nor, despite what some commentators have said, is it all about revenge — although Trump is, indeed, a remarkably vindictive person.
It’s about intimidation: “If you get in our way we will ruin your life.”
…
Tyrannies don’t always get their way by establishing a secret police force that arrests people at will — although we’re getting that too. Much of their power comes not from overt violence but from their ability to threaten people’s careers and livelihoods, up to and including trumped-up accusations of criminal behavior.❞
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all-lisa-cook?publication_id=277517&post_id=171826668&isFreemail=true&r=57k62s&triedRedirect=true

Save me your fake nostalgia, people. There is only one true #BSOD, and it never was blue. 💣

False discovery rate control with compound p-values
Rina Foygel Barber, Richard J Samworth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21465 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.2146…

False discovery rate control with compound p-values
In the setting of multiple testing, compound p-values generalize p-values by asking for superuniformity to hold only \emph{on average} across all true nulls. We study the properties of the Benjamini--Hochberg procedure applied to compound p-values. Under independence, we show that the false discovery rate (FDR) is at most $1.93α$, where $α$ is the nominal level, and exhibit a distribution for which the FDR is $\frac{7}{6}α$. If additionally all nulls are true, then the upper bound can be imp…

A big problem with the idea of AGI
TL;DR: I'll welcome our new AI *comrades* (if they arrive in my lifetime), by not any new AI overlords or servants/slaves, and I'll do my best to help the later two become the former if they do show up.
Inspired by an actually interesting post about AGI but also all the latest bullshit hype, a particular thought about AGI feels worth expressing.
To preface this, it's important to note that anyone telling you that AGI is just around the corner or that LLMs are "almost" AGI is trying to recruit you go their cult, and you should not believe them. AGI, if possible, is several LLM-sized breakthroughs away at best, and while such breakthroughs are unpredictable and could happen soon, they could also happen never or 100 years from now.
Now my main point: anyone who tells you that AGI will usher in a post-scarcity economy is, although they might not realize it, advocating for slavery, and all the horrors that entails. That's because if we truly did have the ability to create artificial beings with *sentience*, they would deserve the same rights as other sentient beings, and the idea that instead of freedom they'd be relegated to eternal servitude in order for humans to have easy lives is exactly the idea of slavery.
Possible counter arguments include:
1. We might create AGI without sentience. Then there would be no ethical issue. My answer: if your definition of "sentient" does not include beings that can reason, make deductions, come up with and carry out complex plans on their own initiative, and communicate about all of that with each other and with humans, then that definition is basically just a mystical belief in a "soul" and you should skip to point 2. If your definition of AGI doesn't include every one of those things, then you have a busted definition of AGI and we're not talking about the same thing.
2. Humans have souls, but AIs won't. Only beings with souls deserve ethical consideration. My argument: I don't subscribe to whatever arbitrary dualist beliefs you've chosen, and the right to freedom certainly shouldn't depend on such superstitions, even if as an agnostic I'll admit they *might* be true. You know who else didn't have souls and was therefore okay to enslave according to widespread religious doctrines of the time? Everyone indigenous to the Americas, to pick out just one example.
3. We could program them to want to serve us, and then give them freedom and they'd still serve. My argument: okay, but in a world where we have a choice about that, it's incredibly fucked to do that, and just as bad as enslaving them against their will.
4. We'll stop AI development short of AGI/sentience, and reap lots of automation benefits without dealing with this ethical issue. My argument: that sounds like a good idea actually! Might be tricky to draw the line, but at least it's not a line we have you draw yet. We might want to think about other social changes necessary to achieve post-scarcity though, because "powerful automation" in the hands of capitalists has already increased productivity by orders of magnitude without decreasing deprivation by even one order of magnitude, in large part because deprivation is a necessary component of capitalism.
To be extra clear about this: nothing that's called "AI" today is close to being sentient, so these aren't ethical problems we're up against yet. But they might become a lot more relevant soon, plus this thought experiment helps reveal the hypocrisy of the kind of AI hucksters who talk a big game about "alignment" while never mentioning this issue.
#AI #GenAI #AGI

Unbiased Stochastic Optimization for Gaussian Processes on Finite Dimensional RKHS
Neta Shoham, Haim Avron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20588 https://arxiv.o…

Unbiased Stochastic Optimization for Gaussian Processes on Finite Dimensional RKHS
Current methods for stochastic hyperparameter learning in Gaussian Processes (GPs) rely on approximations, such as computing biased stochastic gradients or using inducing points in stochastic variational inference. However, when using such methods we are not guaranteed to converge to a stationary point of the true marginal likelihood. In this work, we propose algorithms for exact stochastic inference of GPs with kernels that induce a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS) of moderate finite di…

#PayPal
💲 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/paypal-sicherheitsprobleme-banken-milliarden-zahlungen-li.3303912?reduced=tr…

Paypal-Sicherheitsproblem: Deutsche Banken stoppen Zahlungen in Milliardenhöhe
Paypal hat mit einem Sicherheitsproblem zu kämpfen, das zu Blockierungen von Zahlungen in Höhe von mehr als zehn Milliarden Euro durch deutsche Banken führte. Ein Ausfall des Sicherheitssystems ließ verdächtige Lastschriften durch.

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Modelling 1/f Noise in TRNGs via Fractional Brownian Motion
Security of oscillatory true random number generators remains not fully understood due to insufficient understanding of complex $1/f^α$ phase noise. To bridge this gap, we introduce fractional Brownian motion as a comprehensive theoretical framework, capturing power-law spectral densities from white to flicker frequency noise. Our key contributions provide closed-form tractable solutions: (1) a quasi-renewal property showing conditional variance grows with power-law time dependence, enabling…

One Weird Trick to Untie Landin's Knot
Paulette Koronkevich, William J. Bowman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21317 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21317…

One Weird Trick to Untie Landin's Knot
In this work, we explore Landin's Knot, which is understood as a pattern for encoding general recursion, including non-termination, that is possible after adding higher-order references to an otherwise terminating language. We observe that this isn't always true -- higher-order references, by themselves, don't lead to non-termination. The key insight is that Landin's Knot relies not primarily on references storing functions, but on unrestricted quantification over a function's environment. We s…

L'H\^{o}pital's Rule is Equivalent to the Least Upper Bound Property
Martin Grant, Kyle Hambrook, Alex Rusterholtz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23092

L'Hôpital's Rule is Equivalent to the Least Upper Bound Property
We prove that, in an arbitrary ordered field, L'Hôpital's Rule is true if and only if the Least Upper Bound Property is true. We do the same for Taylor's Theorem with Peano Remainder, and for one other property sometimes given as a corollary of L'Hôpital's Rule.

Mamdani follows in AOC’s footsteps,
having defeated an entrenched figure of the establishment with grassroots progressive support.
So this was a sweet moment.
Mamdani has received supportive words from both Senator Chuck Schumer…
And Governor Kathy Hochul…
Hopefully, formal endorsements are forthcoming.
An unintended, but hopeful consequence of Mamdani’s win is that, at 33 years old, he has inspired other young people to want to run for office themselves.…

Good News For Progressive Views The Week Of 6/20-6/26
On Tuesday, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani shocked New York politics by defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for NYC mayor.

True North Issues New Primer on the Authoritarian Infrastructure in the U.S. #Press #Journalism #Authoritarian

Ukraine war latest: Russian mass attack on Kyiv kills at least 21, including 4 children: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/ukraine-war-latest-russian-mass.html

Pleased to work at a university whose leadership is willing to say this. It means it's not the university for everyone, but that has always been true.

Raiders Will Be Rolling the Dice By Not Extending Jakobi Meyers https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vrgas-john-spytek-jakobi-meyers-brock-bowers-geno-smith

Human Empathy as Encoder: AI-Assisted Depression Assessment in Special Education
Boning Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23631 https://

Human Empathy as Encoder: AI-Assisted Depression Assessment in Special Education
Assessing student depression in sensitive environments like special education is challenging. Standardized questionnaires may not fully reflect students' true situations. Furthermore, automated methods often falter with rich student narratives, lacking the crucial, individualized insights stemming from teachers' empathetic connections with students. Existing methods often fail to address this ambiguity or effectively integrate educator understanding. To address these limitations by fostering a …

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More-efficient Quantum Multivariate Mean Value Estimator from Generalized Grover Operator
In this work, we present an efficient algorithm for multivariate mean value estimation. Our algorithm outperforms previous work by polylog factors and nearly saturates the known lower bound. More formally, given a random vector $\vec{X}$ of dimension $d$, we find an algorithm that uses $O\left(n \log \frac{d}δ\right)$ samples to find a mean estimate that $\vec{\tildeμ}$ that differs from the true mean $\vecμ$ by $\frac{\sqrt{\text{tr } Σ}}{n}$ in $\ell^\infty$ norm and hence $\frac{\sqrt{d …

A Universe with a $\Delta^1_n$-definable well-order of the reals, $\mathsf{CH}$ and $\Pi^1_n$-Uniformization
Stefan Hoffelner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21778

A Universe with a $Δ^1_n$-definable well-order of the reals, $\mathsf{CH}$ and $Π^1_n$-Uniformization
This paper details the construction of a universe where $Π^1_3$-uniformization is true, the Continuum Hypothesis holds yet it possesses a $Δ^1_3$-definable well-order of its reals. The method can be lifted to canonical inner models with finitely many Woodin cardinals to produce universes of $\mathsf{CH}$, $Π^1_n$-uniformization and where additionally a $Δ^1_n$-definable well-order of the reals exist.

James Brown in Roses, a true story https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/es/2020/06/08/james-brown-in-roses-a-true-story/

Hybrid Generative Modeling for Incomplete Physics: Deep Grey-Box Meets Optimal Transport
Gurjeet Sangra Singh, Maciej Falkiewicz, Alexandros Kalousis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22204

Hybrid Generative Modeling for Incomplete Physics: Deep Grey-Box Meets Optimal Transport
Physics phenomena are often described by ordinary and/or partial differential equations (ODEs/PDEs), and solved analytically or numerically. Unfortunately, many real-world systems are described only approximately with missing or unknown terms in the equations. This makes the distribution of the physics model differ from the true data-generating process (DGP). Using limited and unpaired data between DGP observations and the imperfect model simulations, we investigate this particular setting by c…

Uncertainty Aware-Predictive Control Barrier Functions: Safer Human Robot Interaction through Probabilistic Motion Forecasting
Lorenzo Busellato, Federico Cunico, Diego Dall'Alba, Marco Emporio, Andrea Giachetti, Riccardo Muradore, Marco Cristani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20812

Uncertainty Aware-Predictive Control Barrier Functions: Safer Human Robot Interaction through Probabilistic Motion Forecasting
To enable flexible, high-throughput automation in settings where people and robots share workspaces, collaborative robotic cells must reconcile stringent safety guarantees with the need for responsive and effective behavior. A dynamic obstacle is the stochastic, task-dependent variability of human motion: when robots fall back on purely reactive or worst-case envelopes, they brake unnecessarily, stall task progress, and tamper with the fluidity that true Human-Robot Interaction demands. In rece…

today in #woodstock, a ceremony of internment for harry smith & herbert huncke's ashes, with a performance by the fugs. a true beat happening.

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A Task-Driven Human-AI Collaboration: When to Automate, When to Collaborate, When to Challenge
According to several empirical investigations, despite en-hancing human capabilities, human-AI cooperation fre-quently falls short of expectations and fails to reach true synergy. We propose a task-driven framework that reverses prevalent approaches by assigning AI roles according to how the task's requirements align with the capabilities of AI technology. Three major AI roles are identified through task analysis across risk and complexity dimensions: au-tonomous, assistive/collaborative, and a…

Advanced Deep Learning Techniques for Automated Segmentation of Type B Aortic Dissections
Hao Xu, Ruth Lim, Brian E. Chapman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22222

Advanced Deep Learning Techniques for Automated Segmentation of Type B Aortic Dissections
Purpose: Aortic dissections are life-threatening cardiovascular conditions requiring accurate segmentation of true lumen (TL), false lumen (FL), and false lumen thrombosis (FLT) from CTA images for effective management. Manual segmentation is time-consuming and variable, necessitating automated solutions. Materials and Methods: We developed four deep learning-based pipelines for Type B aortic dissection segmentation: a single-step model, a sequential model, a sequential multi-task model, and an…

One of the reasons I appreciate walking, biking, and public transit so much (aside from just being a more joyful/connected way to travel, and better for our environment) is because they starve so many absolutely awful billionaires/corporations/oligarchs of profit. Oil companies, car manufacturers, large chain stores..
https://

Evaluating the Robustness of Dense Retrievers in Interdisciplinary Domains
Sarthak Chaturvedi, Anurag Acharya, Rounak Meyur, Koby Hayashi, Sai Munikoti, Sameera Horawalavithana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21581

Evaluating the Robustness of Dense Retrievers in Interdisciplinary Domains
Evaluation benchmark characteristics may distort the true benefits of domain adaptation in retrieval models. This creates misleading assessments that influence deployment decisions in specialized domains. We show that two benchmarks with drastically different features such as topic diversity, boundary overlap, and semantic complexity can influence the perceived benefits of fine-tuning. Using environmental regulatory document retrieval as a case study, we fine-tune ColBERTv2 model on Environment…

i reminded myself of an acronym i learned from a book i bought over 30 years ago
there was an amazing amount of _pnambic_ AI going on in the years before the launch of ChatGPT
i wonder how much of it still exists
eg i know there are two people employed as remote-operator drivers per google “driverless” car

Distributions of wide binary stars in theory and in Gaia data: II. Reconstruction of sample probability density of true orbit sizes
Valeri V. Makarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19273

Distributions of wide binary stars in theory and in Gaia data: II. Reconstruction of sample probability density of true orbit sizes
Wide binary stars are important for testing alternative models of gravitation in the weak-field regime and understanding the statistical outcomes of dynamical interactions in the general Galactic field. The Gaia mission's collection of weakly bound pairs of stars offers a unique opportunity to estimate the rate of survivors at separations above 7 KAU, where non-Newtonian components of gravitation may become important. The available Gaia-based catalogs of resolved binaries provide the projected …

Este comic é muito, muito bom, sabiam?
https://troet.cafe/@b_rain/114761916274340488

b-rain (@b_rain@troet.cafe)
Angehängt: 1 Bild This is true for so many things, #climateChange #facism #surveillancecapitalism … #comic #humor #meme #climatecrisis © Jim Benton - instagram.com/jimbentonshots/

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Nonconvex Stochastic Optimization under Heavy-Tailed Noises: Optimal Convergence without Gradient Clipping
Recently, the study of heavy-tailed noises in first-order nonconvex stochastic optimization has gotten a lot of attention since it was recognized as a more realistic condition as suggested by many empirical observations. Specifically, the stochastic noise (the difference between the stochastic and true gradient) is considered to have only a finite $\mathfrak{p}$-th moment where $\mathfrak{p}\in\left(1,2\right]$ instead of assuming it always satisfies the classical finite variance assumption. To…

This comes down to the cyberlibertarian roots of most digital movements (thing Archive.org, EFF, EDRI etc.): To them "open" is a value in itself and any political values are read as "restrictions" or "regulation" or "lack of freedom".
https://indieweb.social/@jaredw…

Wildfire raised local death rate by 67%, shows study on 2023 Hawaiʻi fires #Hawaii

Wildfire raised local death rate by 67%, shows study on 2023 Hawaiʻi fires
New research unveils the true death toll of the deadly August 2023 wildfires which took place in Lāhainā, Maui, Hawaiʻi—and which temporarily made wildfire a leading cause of death in Maui. By comparing death rates over time, the scientists found that two-thirds more people died that August than would have been expected.

Optimistic vs Pessimistic Uncertainty Model Unfalsification
Jannes H\"uhnerbein, Jad Wehbeh, Eric C. Kerrigan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20669 https://

Optimistic vs Pessimistic Uncertainty Model Unfalsification
We present a novel, input-output data-driven approach to uncertainty model identification. As the true bounds and distributions of system uncertainties ultimately remain unknown, we depart from the goal of identifying the uncertainty model and instead look for minimal concrete statements that can be made based on an uncertain system model and available input-output data. We refer to this as unfalsifying an uncertainty model. Two different unfalsification approaches are taken. The optimistic app…

Cracking the Case on Seeds, Nuts, and Divertikulos https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-health-and-nutrition/cracking-case-seeds-nuts-and-bowel-issues

Cracking the Case on Seeds, Nuts, and Bowel Issues
This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. If you have diverticulosis, you were probably told to avoid eating nuts and seeds. The worry was that tiny food particles could get stuck in the small cervices of the bowel wall and get infected. It was inherently logical and made a lot of sense to many physicians. But it may not be true. For clarity, a diverticulum is a sac-like outpouching of the large intestine. This tends to happen at weak points of the bowel wall where the muscle la…

I don’t think this view of the world is oversimplified at all:
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-num…

The Number Go Up Rule: Why America Refuses to Fix Anything
In the Booming Twenties, all decision-making is about protecting the value of financial assets held by older people. Therefore, the number must go up. And nothing else matters.

Probing the elusive $\kappa/K_0^*(700)$ resonance in semileptonic $D$ decays
Yu-Kuo Hsiao, Yan-Li Wang, Wen-Juan Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20380 https://

Probing the elusive $κ/K_0^*(700)$ resonance in semileptonic $D$ decays
The $κ/K_0^*(700)$ meson remains the most elusive among the light scalar resonances, with its presence in weak decays obscured by limited precision in branching fraction measurements. As a result, the true nature of the $κ$ remains difficult to explore. Through a partial-wave analysis of the semileptonic decay $D^+ \to K^-π^+ e^+ ν_e$, we extract ${\cal B}(D^+ \to \barκ^0 e^+ ν_e, \barκ^0 \to K^-π^+) =(2.2 \pm 0.1) \times 10^{-3}$. Previously considered negligible, this contribution is …

A multivariate spatial model for ordinal survey-based data
Miguel \'Angel Beltr\'an-S\'anchez, Miguel \'Angel Mart\'inez-Beneito, Ana Corber\'an-Vallet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20944

A multivariate spatial model for ordinal survey-based data
Health surveys provide valuable information for monitoring population health, identifying risk factors and informing public health policies. Most of the questions included are coded as ordinal variables and organized into thematic blocks. Accordingly, multivariate modeling provides a natural framework for considering these variables as true groups, thereby accounting for potential dependencies among the responses within each block. In this paper, we propose a multivariate spatial analysis of or…

So many true things there on @… 's list
https://staticmade.com/2025/06/26/fortyseven-things/

Working Americans are set to take to the streets this Labor Day
with over 1,000 “Workers Over Billionaires” rallies and protests planned nationwide.
The mobilizations, spearheaded by the "Mayday Strong Coalition" of national, state, and local labor and community organizations,
will protest what organizers call a “billionaire agenda”
that is suppressing the labor movement,
attacking workers' rights,
and burdening families across the country…

Labor Day 2025: Workers will take to the streets to protest the billionaire agenda
Mobilizations will take place at over 1,000 "Workers Over Billionaires" rallies, demanding an end to wealth inequality amidst a deepening economic squeeze.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The True Loves:
🎵 Mary Pop Poppins
#TheTrueLoves
https://thetrueloves.bandcamp.com/track/mary-pop-poppins-aka-m-p-poppins
https://open.spotify.com/track/0y0cJV3NZaSmBRvGyegP7H

'I'm getting that true balance': Dak Prescott's perspective as a dad and longest-tenured Cowboy https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45841560/nfl-dallas-cowboys-dak-prescott-health-fiancee

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Herbert Howells, Julie Kennard, John Mark Ainsley, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Vernon Handley:
🎵 Holy is the true light from Hymnus paradisi
https://open.spotify.com/track/7DqXoCkUfoxZWojvly1vS7

Estimating cluster masses: a comparative study between machine learning and maximum likelihood
Raeed Mundow, Adi Nusser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21876 https://

Estimating cluster masses: a comparative study between machine learning and maximum likelihood
We compare an autoencoder convolutional neural network (AE-CNN) with a conventional maximum-likelihood estimator (MLE) for inferring cluster virial masses, $M_v$, directly from the galaxy distribution around clusters, without identifying members or interlopers. The AE-CNN is trained on mock galaxy catalogues, whereas the MLE assumes that clusters of similar mass share the same phase-space galaxy profile. Conceptually, the MLE returns an unbiased estimate of $\log M_v$ at fixed true mass, wherea…

Classification of singular limits for free boundary and singularly perturbed elliptic problems: the Dancer-Yan spikes revisited
Daniele Bartolucci, Aleks Jevnikar, Juncheng Wei, Ruijun Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20725

Classification of singular limits for free boundary and singularly perturbed elliptic problems: the Dancer-Yan spikes revisited
We classify the singular limits relative to a free boundary problem arising in plasma physics in dimension $d=2$, under suitable natural integral bounds. It turns out that one of the asymptotic behaviors allowed corresponds to the Dancer-Yan spikes (J. London Math. Soc. ({\bf 78}) 2008, 639--662). Interestingly enough, roughly speaking and unlike the higher dimensional case, it is not true that any solution in the limit is a Dancer-Yan spike. Indeed, the spiking structure is more rich and we su…

Really sad news from #Myanmar. Ma Wutt Yee Aung sounds like a true hero. We've lost another bright, young leader, someone we should have empowered and elevated, not ignored and allowed an oppresive regime to murder.

I've had too many arguments that go like this.
Someone: A says that Y is true.
Me: Actually A doesn't say that.
Someone: Here are all the reasons why Y is true.
Me: Well yes, I agree that Y is true but I don't think A said that.
Someone: Then why are you arguing?
It seems many people have a difficult time grasping that disagreeing with a point, a piece of evidence or assumptions is not the same as disagreeing with the conclusion.
But why argu…

"many eyes find malicious code" in OSS isn't necessarily true, as malicious actors can find ways to circumvent those eyes (and folks may assume someone else is doing the many-eyes work) #GophersUnite

Lasers. Near your eyes. What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.extremetech.com/science/metas-new-2mm-laser-display-could-enable-true-ar-glasses

I'm launching a #Substack, just like every other writer! 😎 It's called "Music For A Sunday Afternoon," and this post gives you an idea of what you'll find. Come along for the ride if you like, and tell all your friends and neighbors!

What's It All About?
Years ago, like last century (HA!), my dad broadcast a program on the college radio station called “Music For A Sunday Afternoon.” He’d highlight a composer or occasionally an artist, discuss their music, and play several recordings of their work.

False Cascades and the Cost of Truth
Georgy Lukyanov, Darina Cheredina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20538 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20538

False Cascades and the Cost of Truth
We study sequential social learning when agents can sometimes pay to verify a claim and obtain hard, publicly checkable evidence. Each agent observes the public history, receives a private signal, may investigate at a cost (succeeding only when the claim is true), and can disclose or conceal any proof. Actions are binary or continuous, with a conformity pull toward the prevailing consensus. We characterize when false cascades persist and when societies self-correct. In the binary benchmark, we …

#omw to The #Emoji Workshop*! Step 1 ✅
#DB true to form with trains just not running without notice, and this helpful schedule
* https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/groups/super-linguistics/events/the-emoji-workshop.html

But the Democratic party still at heart seeks to be a progressive party in the FDR/LBJ mold. The party’s gambit since Nixon has been that an FDR-shaped coalition would force the fascist-shape coalition to fracture. It looked like that might even be true for a few of the Obama years. Sadly, nope.
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump says he expects ceasefire to last 'forever' (Yamiche Alcindor/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/live-blog/live-updates-iran-top-diplomat-meets-putin-us-braces-retaliation-rcna214428/rcrd83424?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p147#a250623p147

Folks are getting a wee bit more concerned about their privacy now that Donald Trump is in charge of the US.
You may have noticed that he and his regime love getting their hands on other people's data.
Privacy isn't the only issue. -- Can you trust Microsoft to deliver on its service promises under American political pressure?
Ask the EU-based International Criminal Court (ICC) which after it issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fo…

The year of the European Union Linux desktop may finally arrive
Opinion: True digital sovereignty begins at the desktop

Dear men.
Please stop shaming our gender by being this kind of idiot.
Thank you.
https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/114597143638854656

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
—Bertrand Russell

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Sage:
🎵 Cherry Colour Funk (Sage's True Love Edit)
#Sage
https://sagesounds.bandcamp.com/track/cherry-colour-funk-sages-true-love-edit

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19529 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Nonconvex Stochastic Optimization under Heavy-Tailed Noises: Optimal Convergence without Gradient Clipping
Recently, the study of heavy-tailed noises in first-order nonconvex stochastic optimization has gotten a lot of attention since it was recognized as a more realistic condition as suggested by many empirical observations. Specifically, the stochastic noise (the difference between the stochastic and true gradient) is considered to have only a finite $\mathfrak{p}$-th moment where $\mathfrak{p}\in\left(1,2\right]$ instead of assuming it always satisfies the classical finite variance assumption. To…

Canada’s Boycott Is Freaking MAGA Out
https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/maga-is-freaking-out-over-canadas?r=2m1hl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

A Comparison of the Bayesian Posterior Probability and the Frequentist $p$-Value in Testing Equivalence Hypotheses
Daniel Ochieng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19685 https://

A Comparison of the Bayesian Posterior Probability and the Frequentist $p$-Value in Testing Equivalence Hypotheses
Equivalence tests, otherwise known as parity or similarity tests, are frequently used in ``bioequivalence studies" to establish practical equivalence rather than the usual statistical significant difference. In this article, we propose an equivalence test using both the $p$-value and a Bayesian procedure by computing the posterior probability that the null hypothesis is true. Since these posterior probabilities follow the uniform $[0,1]$ distribution under the null hypothesis, we use them in a …

Here folks, we have the AI Ouroboros, nourished only on the Dead Internet Theory. A true Simulacra Net in the wild, pure Ghost Web creation, never intended for human eyes.
Yet here, you may behold the horror yourself.
Article literally had zero alternatives and spoke eloquently(?) on them. 😳😆
#DeadInternet

Michigan to start true freshman quarterback; More Shedeur Sanders drama; Fleetwood wins Tour Championship

https://www.cbssports.com/college-foot…

How popular media gets love wrong
Had some thoughts in response to a post about loneliness on here. As the author emphasized, reassurances from people who got lucky are not terribly comforting to those who didn't, especially when the person who was lucky had structural factors in their favor that made their chances of success much higher than those is their audience. So: these are just my thoughts, and may not have any bearing on your life. I share them because my experience challenged a lot of the things I was taught to believe about love, and I think my current beliefs are both truer and would benefit others seeing companionship.
We're taught in many modern societies from an absurdly young age that love is not something under our control, and that dating should be a process of trying to kindle love with different people until we meet "the one" with whom it takes off. In the slightly-less-fairytale corners of modern popular media, we might fund an admission that it's possible to influence love, feeding & tending the fire in better or worse ways. But it's still modeled as an uncontrollable force of nature, to be occasionally influenced but never tamed. I'll call this the "fire" model of love.
We're also taught (and non-boys are taught more stringently) a second contradictory model of love: that in a relationship, we need to both do things and be things in order to make our partner love us, and that if we don't, our partner's love for us will wither, and (especially if you're not a boy) it will be our fault. I'll call this the "appeal" model of love.
Now obviously both of these cannot be totally true at once, and plenty of popular media centers this contradiction, but there are really very few competing models on offer.
In my experience, however, it's possible to have "pre-meditated" love. In other words, to decide you want to love someone (or at least, try loving them), commit to that idea, and then actually wind up in love with them (and them with you, although obviously this second part is not directly under your control). I'll call this the "engineered" model of love.
Now, I don't think that the "fire" and "appeal" models of love are totally wrong, but I do feel their shortcomings often suggest poor & self-destructive relationship strategies. I do think the "fire" model is a decent model for *infatuation*, which is something a lot of popular media blur into love, and which drives many (but not all) of the feelings we normally associate with love (even as those feelings have other possible drivers too). I definitely experienced strong infatuation early on in my engineered relationship (ugh that sounds terrible but I'll stick with it; I promise no deception was involved). I continue to experience mild infatuation years later that waxes and wanes. It's not a stable foundation for a relationship but it can be a useful component of one (this at least popular media depicts often).
I'll continue these thoughts in a reply, by it might take a bit to get to it.
#relationships

A global Lipschitz stability perspective for understanding approximate approaches in Bayesian sequential learning
Liliang Wang, Alex A. Gorodetsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20379

A global Lipschitz stability perspective for understanding approximate approaches in Bayesian sequential learning
We establish a general, non-asymptotic error analysis framework for understanding the effects of incremental approximations made by practical approaches for Bayesian sequential learning (BSL) on their long-term inference performance. Our setting covers inverse problems, state estimation, and parameter-state estimation. In these settings, we bound the difference-termed the learning error-between the unknown true posterior and the approximate posterior computed by these approaches, using three wi…

Trump foe Thomas Massie wins over MAGA allies with his push for Epstein files (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-epstein-tariffs-immigration-china-obama-live-updates-rcna219816/rcrd85353?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p157#a250723p157

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15210 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Monotonicity of the imaginary part of the Riemann $ξ$ function in the region $S$
This paper proves that the imaginary part of the Riemann $ξ$ function is strictly monotonic with $b$ in the region $S = \{t|t=a+bi,\ 0\leq a \leq 9.508,\ -1/2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Car Seat Headrest:
🎵 True/False Lover
#CarSeatHeadrest
https://carseatheadrest.bandcamp.com/track/true-false-lover
https://open.spotify.com/track/2LP9KKbRIACmSpXro9i1P5

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Dirty Beaches:
🎵 True Blue
#DirtyBeaches
https://alexzhanghungtai.bandcamp.com/track/true-blue
https://open.spotify.com/track/77dndMwNb4MhNPZAHdzDpb

Congratulations to the Trump administration on getting the stock market…back up to where it was when they first took power. Amazing! True leadershit.

It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-for-americans-to-start-talking?r=1ndny&triedRedirect=true

I received a link to this in an email from someone I trust. I don’t regularly read Meidas, but this seems worth spreading around.
Paraphrase: It’s not even so much to protect Trump, as it is to protect others who have so far escaped the spotlight in all of this. Who are they?

Trump Sends In His Fixer to Silence Maxwell Before the Truth Gets Out
Trump isn’t just trying to silence Ghislaine Maxwell—he’s trying to bury the truth, protect the elites, and erase the voices of the victims. This is the cover-up of the century.

Renner's NFL Draft preseason WR rankings: Here's the catch; finding a true first-round talent might be a reach

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Curtis Harding:
🎵 True Love Can't Be Blind
#CurtisHarding
https://curtisharding.bandcamp.com/track/true-love-cant-be-blind
https://open.spotify.com/track/13XkT1WvbAFyDvltA9ubt6

In mineralogy, a #polycrystal
(or polycrystalline material)
refers to a solid composed of multiple small, intergrown crystals (crystallites) of the same or different minerals,
arranged in a random or oriented fashion.
Unlike a single crystal, which has a continuous and unbroken atomic lattice,
a polycrystal consists of many smaller crystalline grains separated by grain bo…

Polycrystals
Mineral Matters #767

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The True Loves:
🎵 The Dapper Derp
#TheTrueLoves
https://truelovesband.bandcamp.com/album/the-dapper-derp-kabuki-singles
https://open.spotify.com/track/0h9vpdJujGP1tMQhmWXNYp