Tootfinder

Given my background around the funeral industry and writing thrillers, is anyone surprised that I'd like to see this? #TrueCrime
https://time.com/7290184/the-…

The Chilling True Story Behind HBO’s The Mortician
The documentary series examines the startling true story of a cremator who went to prison for mishandling human remains

EIM-TRNG: Obfuscating Deep Neural Network Weights with Encoding-in-Memory True Random Number Generator via RowHammer
Ranyang Zhou, Abeer Matar A. Almalky, Gamana Aragonda, Sabbir Ahmed, Filip Roth Tr{\o}nnes-Christensen, Adnan Siraj Rakin, Shaahin Angizi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02206 …

EIM-TRNG: Obfuscating Deep Neural Network Weights with Encoding-in-Memory True Random Number Generator via RowHammer
True Random Number Generators (TRNGs) play a fundamental role in hardware security, cryptographic systems, and data protection. In the context of Deep NeuralNetworks (DNNs), safeguarding model parameters, particularly weights, is critical to ensure the integrity, privacy, and intel-lectual property of AI systems. While software-based pseudo-random number generators are widely used, they lack the unpredictability and resilience offered by hardware-based TRNGs. In this work, we propose a novel an…

No Kings: What the Fourth of July Really Means
https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/no-kings-what-the-fourth-of-july?r=yzqcr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

I honestly don’t get how this is possible in 2025.
There’s no excuse for not having protected backups of everything critical. That was true 30 years ago, it is true today. Back then a bigger piece of the risk was hardware, less malware. Today it is unlikely for a disk failure to take your data because we all learned that RAID was worthwhile. But RAID is not a backup and backups today need to be resistant to intentional malicious deletion.

Lepton flavor violating decay of true muonium: $\boldsymbol{(\mu^ \mu^-) \to \mu^\pm e^\mp}$
Ryotaro Minato, Akira Sato, Ryosuke Suda, Masato Yamanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01193

Lepton flavor violating decay of true muonium: $\boldsymbol{(μ^+ μ^-) \to μ^\pm e^\mp}$
We propose a new channel for probing charged lepton flavor violation (CLFV): the decay of true muonium into a lepton pair of different flavor, $(μ^+ μ^-) \to μ^\pm e^\mp$. This purely leptonic two-body decay provides a clean experimental signature in the form of energetic, oppositely charged leptons. It is sensitive not only to photonic dipole interactions but also to four-fermion contact interactions, and is free from hadronic uncertainties in theoretical predictions. We evaluate the branch…

I'm afraid this is true. I already struggle to raise enough money to keep the very talented young scientists I have working with me (from many different countries already), finding funding for more will be difficult, and why should US scientists essentially queue jump just because of their nationality ? I know that sounds harsh, I have very good US colleagues, but I have to be fair to all, regardless of where they come from. OTOH, if you are a US scientist and you are interested in exploring possibilities in Denmark, give me a shout and we'll see what we can do.
https://mastodon.world/@davidho/114620044303457868
davidho@mastodon.world - Unless you’re a Nobel laureate, the brain drain will be away from science and not to other countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/trump-federal-spending-grants-scientists-leaving.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ME8.sh9q.qy7jX0S1ZrBa&smid=url-share

Fact Check: Video Game Footage Does NOT Show Actual Downing Of Israeli Plane -- Footage NOT Released by Iran: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/fact-check-video-game-footage.html

So, if you've been using Fly to deploy stuff you might want to reconsider. Given this true believer post on "AI" my trust into the security of their infrastructure has plummeted to zero. (My one deployment I had with them was incidentally already deleted before reading this 😅).
https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.
---- - Mikhail Bakunin - ----

@… This is true, but I think there’s also a budget problem, in that the entire yearly budget for all Haskell tooling is approximately equivalent to a bag of oats and a nice juicy carrot.

I used to fantasize about video games wowing audiences by using AI to do things previously impossible.
Voiceovers using your chosen character name.
A “teleport in” effect using a latent space walk for a unique look.
Fighting game CPU opponents that feel human.
Pokémon games with all 1,025 mons and dozens of animations each.
But my fantasy will never come true. The features might appear, but anything AI will produce more controversy than wowing.
Justifiabl…

According to @…'s newsletter this morning, the Citizen's Advice Bureau is now requiring #Trans employees (? and clients?) to use toilets according to their gender assigned at birth, which, if true, is not a good look at all. Journalist is Steph Paton, who I sli…

Scots charity in trans rights row after announcing change to bathroom access
A Scottish charity may be discriminating against transgender staff after announcing a change to bathroom access following the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act, say legal experts.

Unpopular opinion:
Stop talking about how Black Women vote and start talking about how Black *People* vote.
It's better to be UNITED here; and while it's true we are slightly worse at it -- still -- If everyone voted like Black *Men* we'd be also doing perfectly well.
#blackmastodon

Obviously.
https://newsie.social/@infodocket/114613809101339221

Distinguishing True Influence from Hyperprolificity with Citation Distance
Lu Li, Yun Wan, Feng Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03527 https://

Distinguishing True Influence from Hyperprolificity with Citation Distance
Accurately evaluating scholarly influence is essential for fair academic assessment, yet traditional bibliometric indicators - dominated by publication and citation counts - often favor hyperprolific authors over those with deeper, long-term impact. We propose the x-index, a novel citation-based metric that conceptualizes citation as a process of knowledge diffusion and incorporates citation distance to reflect the structural reach of scholarly work. By weighting citations according to the coll…

Anyone using #JupyterHub (services.jupyterhub.enable=true) on :nixos: #NixOS? Then you should have run into the database migration issue here:

JupyterHub database migration
I am struggling hard to get my JupyterHub working again. After an update (longer ago), JupyterHub often requires a manual database migration and refuses to start: ❯ journalctl -efu jupyterhub ... Jun 04 22:10:41 yann-desktop-nixos jupyterhub[1038575]: Found database schema version 0eee8c825d24 != 4621fec11365. Backup your database and run `jupyterhub upgrade-db` to upgrade to the latest schema. ... Jun 04 22:10:42 yann-desktop-nixos systemd[1]: Failed to start Jupyterhub development server. …

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…

The reason I’m so fixated on Rudolf Rocker is that he understood authority and centralized control as inherently oppressive structures that suppress individual freedom and the collective ability to self-organize.
He argued that true freedom arises not from legal or political institutions, which often serve to maintain domination, but from the voluntary, free association of people resisting all forms of coercion and hierarchy.
For Rocker, political rights are not granted by govern…

Which 30 Pieces Of Silver Bought Lisa Murkowski's Vote?
https://www.wonkette.com/p/which-30-pieces-of-silver-bought?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1783367&post_id=167286062&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1pj0b&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Thomas Massie on why fellow Republicans keep folding: 'They're just afraid of Trump' (Sahil Kapur/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-big-beautiful-bill-house-taxes-immigration-live-updates-rcna215840/rcrd84197?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p120#a250702p120

On growth.
The UK is still fixed in a view that in order to reduce debt, take care of an aging and medicated population and provide as high a standard of living as possible and the Govt to get re-elected.
But that is neither true nor practical. The only things that would stimulate the UK economy are a generationally large investment in infrastructure (both physical and electronic) or a similar size war.
HS2 shows we can't do the former and we're scaled for police act…

It's 38 minutes past midnight here. I've completed the deletion of at least 40 accounts I no longer use. Some of them are true PITA, spinning you around in support/chatbot/send mail hell.
I also changed at least 5 accounts from my Gmail address to another, privacy oriented provider.
#privacy #data

I still see people repeating the lie that the liberals "at least stopped sending weapons to Israel"
This is not true, this has been documented again and again
We keep giving weapons to a state committing genocide
https://www.readthemaple.com/c…

#book2read: Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
https://a.co/d/fLuNixl
via Unabashed Faith: Resisting Anti-Spiritual Influences in the Modern World…

"In America, the wealthiest 1% are protected by the law but not bound by it, and the bottom 99% are bound by the law but not protected by it." Pop quiz: in which other countries that same thing is true? ->
Galloway: 'I don't think there's that much difference between us and Germany in the 20s and 30s'
https://…

AI cannot fact check
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250602-hey-chatbot-is-this-true-ai-factchecks-sow-misinformation

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

Sonnet 148 - CXLVIII
O me! what eyes hath Love put in my head,
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love's eye is not so true as all men's: no,
How can it? O! how can Love's eye be true,
That is so v…

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Empirical Bayes Selection for Value Maximization
We study the problem of selecting the best $m$ units from a set of $n$ as $m / n \to α\in (0, 1)$, where noisy, heteroskedastic measurements of the units' true values are available and the decision-maker wishes to maximize the aggregate true value of the units selected. Given a parametric prior distribution, the empirical Bayes decision rule incurs $O_p(n^{-1})$ regret relative to the Bayesian oracle that knows the true prior. More generally, if the error in the estimated prior is of order $O_…

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AdaptiveStep: Automatically Dividing Reasoning Step through Model Confidence
Current approaches for training Process Reward Models (PRMs) often involve breaking down responses into multiple reasoning steps using rule-based techniques, such as using predefined placeholder tokens or setting the reasoning step's length into a fixed size. These approaches overlook the fact that specific words do not typically mark true decision points in a text. To address this, we propose AdaptiveStep, a method that divides reasoning steps based on the model's confidence in predicting the …

i don't personally do retrocomputing but a lot of the design for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer is made with an explicit purpose of making retrocomputing nicer (for example, the support for true 5 V TTL that we went to great lengths to preserve, vs. only supporting 3.3 V at most)
i'm quite happy to add support for more retro interfaces to it too

Seeing Through Green: Text-Based Classification and the Firm's Returns from Green Patents
Lapo Santarlasci, Armando Rungi, Antonio Zinilli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02287

Seeing Through Green: Text-Based Classification and the Firm's Returns from Green Patents
This paper introduces Natural Language Processing for identifying ``true'' green patents from official supporting documents. We start our training on about 12.4 million patents that had been classified as green from previous literature. Thus, we train a simple neural network to enlarge a baseline dictionary through vector representations of expressions related to environmental technologies. After testing, we find that ``true'' green patents represent about 20\% of the total of patents classifie…

From Bill McKibben
"Let me state it plainly: we are rushing into the most dangerous period in human history, and the Trump administration seems determined that we do it blindly. It’s inconceivably stupid, and it’s entirely real. And the planet doesn’t care: physics will not cut us any slack because we elected a moron."

Meanwhile, back in the real world
There's too much carbon in the atmosphere, so it's hot

At first I was annoyed that the CBC published this first-person story from an Alberta separatist.
But he said: “I studied political science at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George and learned we've never had true proportional representation…”
Once again, Justin Trudeau's betrayal of “the last FPTP election” and rejection of Proportional Representation in 2015 led to the alienation felt today.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ProportionalRepresentation
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/gord-larson-first-person-1.7563659

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
PinkPantheress:
🎵 True romance
#PinkPantheress
https://death2statues.bandcamp.com/track/pinkpantheress-true-romance-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ozo6hdOQAJKY1KZExV6UJ

Patrick Graham enjoying 'football in June' with his new pieces in the defense https://www.raiders.com/news/patrick-graham-enjoying-football-in-june-with-his-new-pieces-in-the-defense

@… It’s unfair when it’s true, Christine.

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Political Neutrality in AI Is Impossible- But Here Is How to Approximate It
AI systems often exhibit political bias, influencing users' opinions and decisions. While political neutrality-defined as the absence of bias-is often seen as an ideal solution for fairness and safety, this position paper argues that true political neutrality is neither feasible nor universally desirable due to its subjective nature and the biases inherent in AI training data, algorithms, and user interactions. However, inspired by Joseph Raz's philosophical insight that "neutrality [...] can b…

Stiefel optimization is NP-hard
Zehua Lai, Lek-Heng Lim, Tianyun Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02839 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.028…

Stiefel optimization is NP-hard
We show that linearly constrained linear optimization over a Stiefel or Grassmann manifold is NP-hard in general. We show that the same is true for unconstrained quadratic optimization over a Stiefel manifold. We will establish the nonexistence of FPTAS for these optimization problems over a Stiefel manifold. As an aside we extend our results to flag manifolds. Combined with earlier findings, this shows that manifold optimization is a difficult endeavor -- even the simplest problems like LP and…

Yep, seems like different parts of the Fosstodon mod team just keep doubling down on "we are apolitical" – as if that was a real thing and not just reinforcing the existing power and abuse…
And in true fashion for FOSS priorities, the admin can't seem to get a statement out as it's more important to first pick a blogging platform.
This could fit into a FOSS-centric reboot of that Silicon Valley comedy show if it wasn't so sad 😅
#fosstodon

Day 2:
TL;DR:
❌ `composite: true`
❌ `tsconfig.build.json`
✅ `paths` in `tsconfig.base.json`
✅ `include` shared libs explicitly where needed
✅ `turbo run build` just works
Wrestled for hours (~3) with TypeScript `project references` and `paths` in a Turbo monorepo (NestJS, ESM).
Turns out: if you want global aliases like `@my-lib/foo` to *just work* across apps — skip `composite: true` and `tsc --build`.
Project references and alia…

💵 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 […]

There’s exactly 1 narrow way that it’s true. Before widespread #WFH, attackers often had an insurmountable barrier: no way into the business network from the Internet. At the last gig (2008) where I had to visit a “workplace” regularly, inbound remote access was officially non-existent & outbound Internet access all went through restrictive web proxies.

Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
Attached: 1 image This Daily Mail piece about security leaders thinking work-from-home means they will be crippled is horseshit, I'm not linking it. They've taken a survey about how security people think their businesses couldn't survive ransomware, and linked it to working from home. WFH isn't the problem: business IT and resilience being built on quicksand is the problem.

Kargo: ad prices fell 4.4% on FAST channels and grew 4.5% on VOD from May to June as big-name subscription services compete with FAST channels for ad dollars (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazon-prime-videos-tv…

Amazon Prime Video Floods TV Ad Market, Stealing Dollars From FAST Channels
Until recently, it seemed video streaming had a channel for every taste. Fans of the 1970s Western drama “Little House on the Prairie,” for instance, could spend time on the channel by the same name watching old episodes. The same is true for the 1980s crime drama “Murder She Wrote” and the ...

Quantifying Query Fairness Under Unawareness
Thomas Jaenich, Alejandro Moreo, Alessandro Fabris, Graham McDonald, Andrea Esuli, Iadh Ounis, Fabrizio Sebastiani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04140

Quantifying Query Fairness Under Unawareness
Traditional ranking algorithms are designed to retrieve the most relevant items for a user's query, but they often inherit biases from data that can unfairly disadvantage vulnerable groups. Fairness in information access systems (IAS) is typically assessed by comparing the distribution of groups in a ranking to a target distribution, such as the overall group distribution in the dataset. These fairness metrics depend on knowing the true group labels for each item. However, when groups are defin…

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

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Methods to Test the Source of the Extreme Gas Motions in WS 35
We present theoretical arguments toward the plausibility of a stellar wind}to explain the 16000\,km\,$s^{-1}$ line broadening in the optical spectra of WS 35, the central star in the Pa 30 nebula. The wind model is discussed in the context of super-Eddington flows. We argue that WS 35 potentially occupies a new regime of wind driving theory as the first metal-only wind. While this framework provides a promising avenue for explaining the high speed flow, questions remain about the source's true …

„This loss of income cannot be explained by women's career paths or their exit from the workforce. Nor can it be explained by the very real constraints imposed by the birth of a child.
Not only do heterosexual men not experience any loss of income related to the birth of a child, which might be explained by mothers still being primarily responsible for childcare, but the same is true for both fathers in a same-sex couple.“
Menopause leads to an av. 10% loss in income

Conceal Truth while Show Fake: T/F Frequency Multiplexing based Anti-Intercepting Transmission
Zhisheng Yin, Nan Cheng, Tom H. Luan, Mingjie Wang, Dongbo Li, Yiliang Liu, Changle Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00811

Conceal Truth while Show Fake: T/F Frequency Multiplexing based Anti-Intercepting Transmission
In wireless communication adversarial scenarios, signals are easily intercepted by non-cooperative parties, exposing the transmission of confidential information. This paper proposes a true-and-false (T/F) frequency multiplexing based anti-intercepting transmission scheme capable of concealing truth while showing fake (CTSF), integrating both offensive and defensive strategies. Specifically, through multi-source cooperation, true and false signals are transmitted over multiple frequency bands u…

Jag upplever mer och mer att usla meta-analyser används för att få saker att framstå som etablerad vetenskap när stödet bakom påståendet egentligen är uselt. Under pandemin var det flera sidor som påstods sig ha i princip realtidsuppdaterade meta-analyser som var av den här typen och sen har det fortsatt bli vanligare, tycker jag.
The Research on Fluoride and IQ

#book2read: Unabashed Faith: Resisting Anti-Spiritual Influences in the Modern World by C. Andrew Doyle
https://a.co/d/5QeXagv
via [PODCAST] Resisting Anti-Spiritual Influences in the Modern World w/ Bishop Andy Do…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jungle Brothers:
🎵 V.I.P.
#NowPlaying #JungleBrothers
https://liquidflavoursrecords.bandcamp.com/track/joint-stock-galaxy-jungle-brothers-true-blue-v-i-p

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…

They are SO stupid, they think someone will believe them... Sadly other similary stupid beings will.🤦🤦🤦
"Kristi Noem Claims Cannibal 'Started to Eat Himself' on ICE Deportation Flight"🤦
I am laughing, but I am not sure if it's because of absurdity of that claim, or absurdity, that someone will believe, that it's true.

(2023) The True Costa Dairy #AnimalRights #milk

Black hole optical analogue: photon sphere microlasers
Chenni Xu, Aswathy Sundaresan, Nazire-Beg\"um Kazkal, Clement Lafargue, Lior Zarfaty, Li-Gang Wang, Ofek Birnholtz, Dominique Decanini, Melanie Lebental, Patrick Sebbah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01751

Black hole optical analogue: photon sphere microlasers
The bell-like ringdown of the gravitational field in the last stage of the merging of massive black holes is now routinely detected on earth by the last generation of gravitational wave detectors. Its spectrum is interpreted as a sum of damped sinusoidal vibrations of the spacetime in the vicinity of the black hole. These so-called quasinormal modes are currently the subject of extensive studies, yet, their true nature remains elusive. Here, we emulate, in the laboratory, genuine four-dimension…

Want to use {pak} as backend for {renv} actions? Set the variable RENV_CONFIG_PAK_ENABLED = TRUE #renv

I've been binging the Vikings series on Netflix. Constantly Googling historical characters for their true stories. It's rubbing my nose in the utter failure of AI, which clearly can't tell the difference between fiction and reality.

Sonnet 021 - XXI
So is it not with me as with that Muse,
Stirred by a painted beauty to his verse,
Who heaven itself for ornament doth use
And every fair with his fair doth rehearse,
Making a couplement of proud compare
With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems,
With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare,
That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.
O! let me, true in love, but truly write,
And then bel…

@… You mean, once one user on an instance can see a post, every user can?
You would have to trust that “followers only” is respected, but that’s also true for everything else. Creators on Patreon trust that I don’t forward the emails to others, or give them read-only access to my mailbox.

Verification of the Timing System for the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission in the GPS Unsynchronized Mode
Megumi Shidatsu, Yukikatsu Terada, Takashi Kominato, So Kato, Ryohei Sato, Minami Sakama, Takumi Shioiri, Yugo Motogami, Yuuki Niida, Chulsoo Kang, Toshihiro Takagi, Taichi Nakamoto, Chikara Natsukari, Makoto S. Tashiro, Kenichi Toda, Hironori Maejima, Shin Watanabe, Ryo Iizuka, Rie Sato, Chris Baluta, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Tessei Yoshida, Shoji Ogawa, Yoshiaki Kanemaru, Kotaro Fukushima, Akio Hoshino, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Shinichiro Uno, Ken Ebisawa, Satoshi Eguchi, Satoru Katsuda, Aya Kubota, Naomi Ota, Atsushi Tanimoto, Yuichi Terashima, Yohko Tsuboi, Yuusuke Uchida, Hideki Uchiyama, Shigeo Yamauchi, Tomokage Yoneyama, Satoshi Yamada, Nagomi Uchida, Matt Holland, Michael Loewenstein, Tahir Yaqoob, Eric D. Miller, Robert S. Hill, Efrain C. Perez-Solis, Morgan D. Waddy, Mark Mekosh, Joseph B. Fox, Isabella S. Brewer, Emily Aldoretta, Koji Mukai, Kenji Hamaguchi, Francois Mernier, Anna Ogorzalek, Katja Pottschmidt, Mihoko Yukita
#toXiv_bot_toot

Is Extending Modality The Right Path Towards Omni-Modality?
Tinghui Zhu, Kai Zhang, Muhao Chen, Yu Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01872 https://

Is Extending Modality The Right Path Towards Omni-Modality?
Omni-modal language models (OLMs) aim to integrate and reason over diverse input modalities--such as text, images, video, and audio--while maintaining strong language capabilities. Despite recent advancements, existing models, especially open-source ones, remain far from true omni-modality, struggling to generalize beyond the specific modality pairs they are trained on or to achieve strong performance when processing multi-modal inputs. We study the effect of extending modality, the dominant te…

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The High-Dimensional Asymptotics of Principal Component Regression
We study principal components regression (PCR) in an asymptotic high-dimensional regression setting, where the number of data points is proportional to the dimension. We derive exact limiting formulas for the estimation and prediction risks, which depend in a complicated manner on the eigenvalues of the population covariance, the alignment between the population PCs and the true signal, and the number of selected PCs. A key challenge in the high-dimensional setting stems from the fact that the …

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

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Fast and direct preparation of a genuine lattice BEC via the quantum Mpemba effect
We present an efficient method for dissipatively preparing a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) directly on a lattice, avoiding the need for a two-staged preparation procedure currently used in ultracold-atom platforms. Our protocol is based on driving the lattice-subsystem into a non-equilibrium steady state, which we show to exhibit a lattice analog of a true BEC, where the depletion can be controlled via the dissipation strength. Furthermore, exploiting a symmetry-based Mpemba effect, we analyti…

One of the things that I think has always been a benefit of C is that old code has generally continued to work with new code due to how conservative language changes have been. I think C23 is going to cause some pain though, and since GCC now defaults to the C23 standard that's kind of important.
For 50 years everyone has been defining their own boolean types in C due to the language not having that facility built in. Now we get 'bool', 'true' and 'false' a…

My Hospital Episode: https://open.substack.com/pub/eyebee/p/a-health-warning?r=jiw37&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

A Health Warning
Out Of The Blue

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.11904 has been replaced.
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On the Tate conjecture for divisors on varieties with $h^{2,0} = 1$ in positive characteristics
We prove that the Tate conjecture for divisors is ''generically true'' for mod p reductions of complex projective varieties with $h^{2, 0} = 1$, under a mild assumption on moduli. By refining this general result, we establish a new case of the BSD conjecture over global function fields, and the Tate conjecture for a class of general type surfaces of geometric genus 1.

True Thing
It is literally in the job description of the girl folding sweaters in the "front room" of a Hollister to say, "Hey. What's up?" to every boy who comes into the store.

Here’s the real actual definition of “artificial intelligence,” the true technical meaning in research and engineering circles when it’s not being used as marketing hype.
Artificial intelligence is anything that
1. humans are generally good at, and
2. computers were recently bad at.
That’s it. That’s all it means. You’ll hear people refine it and dress it up, but that’s the heart of the definition. (Check Wikipedia!)
3/

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
VARON: There's nothing in the charges about murder. There are a number of other counts. Assault on a minor, attempting to corrupt minors, moral deviation ...
BLAKE: Let me see that! [He gets up. Varon presses the sheet against the glass. He reads it.] All involving children! None of this is true!
h…

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

Beyond Pixel Agreement: Large Language Models as Clinical Guardrails for Reliable Medical Image Segmentation
Jiaxi Sheng, Leyi Yu, Haoyue Li, Yifan Gao, Xin Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01841

Beyond Pixel Agreement: Large Language Models as Clinical Guardrails for Reliable Medical Image Segmentation
Evaluating AI-generated medical image segmentations for clinical acceptability poses a significant challenge, as traditional pixelagreement metrics often fail to capture true diagnostic utility. This paper introduces Hierarchical Clinical Reasoner (HCR), a novel framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) as clinical guardrails for reliable, zero-shot quality assessment. HCR employs a structured, multistage prompting strategy that guides LLMs through a detailed reasoning process, enco…

#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…

On the number of edges of restricted matchstick graphs
Panna Geh\'er, J\'anos Pach, Konrad Swanepoel, G\'eza T\'oth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01589

On the number of edges of restricted matchstick graphs
A graph whose vertices are points in the plane and whose edges are noncrossing straight-line segments of unit length is called a \emph{matchstick graph}. We prove two somewhat counterintuitive results concerning the maximum number of edges of such graphs in two different scenarios. First, we show that there is a constant $c>0$ such that every triangle-free matchstick graph on $n$ vertices has at most $2n-c\sqrt{n}$ edges. This statement is not true for any $c>\sqrt2.$ We also prove that for…

Checked. Seems to be true.

Nouvelle publication: Montées & descentes dans les gares en 2024
👉Sur le portail statistique: https://reporting.sbb.ch/fr/transports?highlighted=3a58b28b54dfca1498a080fae…

Transports - SBB Zahlen & Fakten

"Once you operationalize #management ideas in a real organization it necessarily should have differences from how it is operationalized elsewhere. As Deming said there are no effective simple recipes for management."

Author Michelle Tea on making art your main focus (and not taking your day job too seriously)
https://thecreativeindependent.…

Author Michelle Tea on making art your main focus (and not taking your day job too seriously) – The Creative Independent
Author and publisher Michelle Tea discusses surviving as an artist, building community, and staying true to your voice

I've just saw a van painted to make an illusion of being broken in half. Like, there's a black crack painted in the middle, all horizontal lines are tilted and there's even a slight black triangle painted on top to enhance the impression. I found it really hard to perceive its true shape.

A variable dimension sketching strategy for nonlinear least-squares
Stefania Bellavia, Greta Malaspina, Benedetta Morini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03965 h…

A variable dimension sketching strategy for nonlinear least-squares
We present a stochastic inexact Gauss-Newton method for the solution of nonlinear least-squares. To reduce the computational cost with respect to the classical method, at each iteration the proposed algorithm approximately minimizes the local model on a random subspace. The dimension of the subspace varies along the iterations, and two strategies are considered for its update: the first is based solely on the Armijo condition, the latter is based on information from the true Gauss-Newton model.…

Terry Glavin is the biggest anti-indigenous racist, residential school genocide denier-journalist in all of Canada. (he's also a big Yellow Peril kind of guy which I got into it with him once on Twitter before he blocked me)
Imagine calling lowering flags to half mast for six months due to the nation coming to grips with the DEATH OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN "a national psychotic episode"
What an asshole.
#genocide #canpoli #cdnpoli #indigenous #everychildMatters #canada #residentialschools
https://therealstory.substack.com/p/will-the-damage-ever-be-undone?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=748248&post_id=164981259&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3995q&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Reverse Physics Rap Battle: String Theory vs Loop Quantum Gravity - 😆
Take the top expert in each of two competing theories, and assign each to defend the other's theory. I can't recall the last time I laughed so hard. Best of all, it's all true and they both know it, but yes, one has had 'promising' results for more decades than the other. 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEr038WOKFI

Gravitational waves from a dilaton-induced, first-order QCD phase transition
Aleksandr Chatrchyan, M. C. David Marsh, Charalampos Nikolis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01191

Gravitational waves from a dilaton-induced, first-order QCD phase transition
We show that a `QCD dilaton' field, whose vacuum expectation value sets the strong coupling, can render the Quantum Chromodynamic (QCD) confinement transition first-order. The QCD dilaton is cosmologically attracted to a false vacuum at weak coupling in the early universe. Quantum tunnelling towards the true vacuum triggers prompt chiral symmetry breaking and confinement of QCD, leading to detonating bubbles of the hadronic phase. We find that plasma sound waves produced by this dilaton-induced…

The centrist mayor of Warsaw took a slim lead in Poland’s presidential election over a nationalist candidate backed by Donald Trump
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-01/warsaw-ma…

The summer of Cooper DeJean: Why newfound popularity isn't changing what makes Eagles young star special

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/the…

After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from
Heaven. As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought,
and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon
to be created."
"This is true," He replied.
"He will need laws," said the Demon slyly.
"What! You, his appointed Enemy for all Time! You ask for the
right to make his laws?"
"Oh, no!" Satan replied…

If you recognize this figure, you’re definitely a true classic connoisseur—only the most dedicated fans would know!

(1/2) Can you trust what you hear? 🎧 Episode 344 of the EdTech Situation Room (from 15 Jan 2025) explores AI voice tech, misinformation, and media ethics in the digital age.
on Substack:
https://open.substack.com/p…

🇺🇦 #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

Here’s the real actual definition of “artificial intelligence,” the true technical meaning in research and engineering circles when it’s not being used as marketing hype.
Artificial intelligence is anything that
1. humans are generally good at, and
2. computers were recently bad at.
That’s it. That’s all it means. You’ll hear people refine it and dress it up, but that’s the heart of the definition. (Check Wikipedia!)
3/

Took me a moment…. TBH, I actually asked the person who sent it to me if it was true.

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

Improving Rationality in the Reasoning Process of Language Models through Self-playing Game
Pinzheng Wang, Juntao Li, Zecheng Tang, Haijia Gui, Min zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22920

Improving Rationality in the Reasoning Process of Language Models through Self-playing Game
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated considerable reasoning abilities in various tasks such as mathematics and coding. However, recent studies indicate that even the best models lack true comprehension of their reasoning processes. In this paper, we explore how self-play can enhance the rationality of models in the reasoning process without supervision from humans or superior models. We design a Critic-Discernment Game(CDG) in which a prover first provides a solution to a given proble…

How could that not have been true?
I mean, it’s a game-focused OS by a game infrastructure specialist. https://ioc.exchange/@percepticon/114780114362950481

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

Words to Win By
https://bsky.app/profile/wordstowinby.bsky.social/post/3lqb4dcrodc2a

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

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08478 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Episodic Bayesian Optimal Control with Unknown Randomness Distributions
Stochastic optimal control with unknown randomness distributions has been studied for a long time, encompassing robust control, distributionally robust control, and adaptive control. We propose a new episodic Bayesian approach that incorporates Bayesian learning with optimal control. In each episode, the approach learns the randomness distribution with a Bayesian posterior and subsequently solves the corresponding Bayesian average estimate of the true problem. The resulting policy is exercised …

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.

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