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Recovering Individual-Level Activity Sequences from Location-Based Service Data Using a Novel Transformer-Based Model
Weiyu Luo, Chenfeng Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02734 …

Recovering Individual-Level Activity Sequences from Location-Based Service Data Using a Novel Transformer-Based Model
Location-Based Service (LBS) data provides critical insights into human mobility, yet its sparsity often yields incomplete trip and activity sequences, making accurate inferences about trips and activities difficult. We raise a research problem: Can we use activity sequences derived from high-quality LBS data to recover incomplete activity sequences at the individual level? This study proposes a new solution, the Variable Selection Network-fused Insertion Transformer (VSNIT), integrating the In…

Researchers: cybercriminals are increasingly turning from "bulletproof" hosts to "residential proxies" that disguise malicious traffic as normal online activity (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cybercriminals

Cybercriminals Are Hiding Malicious Web Traffic in Plain Sight
In an effort to evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly turning to “residential proxy” services that cover their tracks by making it look like everyday online activity.

Active shooter killed in attempt to ambush Border Patrol agents in Texas (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/active-shooter-killed-attempt-ambush-border-patrol-agents-texas
http://www.memeorandum.com/250707/p74#a250707p74

Impending federal overhaul means Trump will soon have de facto political army to attack Palestine activism – Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/impending-federal-overhaul-means-trump-will-soon-have-de-facto-political-army-to-attack-palestine-activism/

Tuning Shear Rheology through Active Dopants
Amir Shee, Ritwik Bandyopadhyay, Haicen Yue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05262 https://arx…

Tuning Shear Rheology through Active Dopants
We numerically investigate the shear rheology of mixtures of active and passive Brownian particles, with varying fractions of active components. We find that even a small fraction of active dopants triggers fluidization with comparable efficiency to fully active systems. A combined parameter, active energy, given by dopant fraction multiplied by propulsion speed squared controls the shear rheology and glass transition of the active-passive mixtures. These results together provide a quantitative…

Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang!
[Full speed ahead in reverse gear!]
What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

MDR SACHSEN-ANHALT HEUTE: Rückwärts-Weltrekord: Die Fahrt ging noch weiter… | Jaap Burger
Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang! [Full speed ahead in reverse gear!] What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry. This week, a German manufacturer set a new world record for reversing in an electric truck. The German automotive industry as a whole is also attempting to reverse in electric mode: it has presented a 10-point plan to postpone, water down, weaken, undermine, regret, delay, reduce, replace, backtrack on and ridicule European CO2 re…

3 observations from the Raiders’ organized team activities https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/3-observations-from-the-raiders-organized-team-activities-3382254/

An interview with Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost on settling the proxy fight with Starboard Value, serving the "design and make" workforce, US reshoring, and more (Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/02/2025

Autodesk’s Andrew Anagnost on surviving an activist attack
The design software CEO says resolving an investor standoff starts with admitting which critiques are fair.

Hidden Dynamics of Massive Activations in Transformer Training
Jorge Gallego-Feliciano, S. Aaron McClendon, Juan Morinelli, Stavros Zervoudakis, Antonios Saravanos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03616

Hidden Dynamics of Massive Activations in Transformer Training
Massive activations are scalar values in transformer hidden states that achieve values orders of magnitude larger than typical activations and have been shown to be critical for model functionality. While prior work has characterized these phenomena in fully trained models, the temporal dynamics of their emergence during training remain poorly understood. We present the first comprehensive analysis of massive activation development throughout transformer training, using the Pythia model family …

Trump's effort to deport pro-Palestinian activists goes to trial (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/06/trump-effort-deport-pro-palestinian-activists-trial-00439997
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p41#a250706p41