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> As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
I haven't even read the article but (considering how strongly I agree with the premises here) I'm mostly just sad about how clearly this highlights the financial capture of the DNC
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Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry - The American Prospect

Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.

PARCO: Phoneme-Augmented Robust Contextual ASR via Contrastive Entity Disambiguation
Jiajun He, Naoki Sawada, Koichi Miyazaki, Tomoki Toda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04357 https…

PARCO: Phoneme-Augmented Robust Contextual ASR via Contrastive Entity Disambiguation
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems struggle with domain-specific named entities, especially homophones. Contextual ASR improves recognition but often fails to capture fine-grained phoneme variations due to limited entity diversity. Moreover, prior methods treat entities as independent tokens, leading to incomplete multi-token biasing. To address these issues, we propose Phoneme-Augmented Robust Contextual ASR via COntrastive entity disambiguation (PARCO), which integrates phoneme-aware …

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
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Lee Distance of cyclic codes of length $2^\varsigma$ over $\mathbb{F}_{2^m} u\mathbb{F}_{2^m} u^2\mathbb{F}_{2^m}$
Divya Acharya, Prasanna Poojary, Vadiraja Bhatta G R
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03911

Lee Distance of cyclic codes of length $2^ς$ over $\mathbb{F}_{2^m} + u\mathbb{F}_{2^m} + u^2\mathbb{F}_{2^m}$
Let $p$ be a prime number and $ς$ and $m$ be a positive integers. Let $\mathcal{R} = \mathbb{F}_{2^m} + u\mathbb{F}_{2^m} + u^2\mathbb{F}_{2^m}$ ($u^3 = 0$). Cyclic codes of length $2^ς$ over $\mathcal{R}$ are precisely the ideals of the local ring $\frac{\mathcal{R}[x]}{\langle x^{2^ς}-1 \rangle}$. The Gray map from a code of Lee weight over $\mathbb{Z}_4$ to a code with Hamming weight over $\mathbb{F}_2$ is known to preserve weight. In this paper, we determine the Lee distance of cyclic co…

Automatic Building Code Review: A Case Study
Hanlong Wan, Weili Xu, Michael Rosenberg, Jian Zhang, Aysha Siddika
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02634 https://a…

Automatic Building Code Review: A Case Study
Building officials, particularly those in resource-constrained or rural jurisdictions, face labor-intensive, error-prone, and costly manual reviews of design documents as projects increase in size and complexity. The growing adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Large Language Models (LLMs) presents opportunities for automated code review (ACR) solutions. This study introduces a novel agent-driven framework that integrates BIM-based data extraction with automated verification usin…

Transport of Event Equation: Phase Retrieval from Defocus Events
Kaito Hori, Chihiro Tsutake, Keita Takahashi, Toshiaki Fujii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02989 https://

Transport of Event Equation: Phase Retrieval from Defocus Events
To time-efficiently and stably acquire the intensity information for phase retrieval under a coherent illumination, we leverage an event-based vision sensor (EVS) that can detect changes in logarithmic intensity at the pixel level with a wide dynamic range. In our optical system, we translate the EVS along the optical axis, where the EVS records the intensity changes induced by defocus as events. To recover phase distributions, we formulate a partial differential equation, referred to as the tr…

eBay agrees to acquire Tise, a social marketplace for secondhand fashion and interior design items that has raised $45M in funding, for an undisclosed sum (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/ebay-to-acquire-social-marketplace-platfor…

eBay to acquire social marketplace platform Tise | TechCrunch
eBay’s acquisition of Tise indicates that it's looking to modernize its platform to attract younger shoppers, expand its social commerce tools, and build a stronger presence in the sustainable retail market.

Learning Microswimmer Collision Dynamics and Predicting Diffusivities using a Neural-Network-Assisted Boltzmann Approach
Haruki Hayano, Akira Furukawa, Kang Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02559

Learning Microswimmer Collision Dynamics and Predicting Diffusivities using a Neural-Network-Assisted Boltzmann Approach
We present a neural-network--assisted Boltzmann framework that learns the binary-collision map of microswimmers from data and uses it to evaluate collision integrals efficiently. Using a representative model swimmer, the learned map provides quantitative predictions for rotational and translational diffusivities and allows a linear-stability analysis of the isotropic state against polar ordering in dilute suspensions. The resulting predictions closely match direct simulations in the dilute regi…

An Exact Algorithm for Computing the Structure of Jordan Blocks
Shinichi Tajima, Katsuyoshi Ohara, Akira Terui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03103 https://arx…

An Exact Algorithm for Computing the Structure of Jordan Blocks
An efficient method is proposed for computing the structure of Jordan blocks of a matrix of integers or rational numbers by exact computation. We have given a method for computing Jordan chains of a matrix with exact computation. However, for deriving just the structure of Jordan chains, the algorithm can be reduced to increase its efficiency. We propose a modification of the algorithm for that purpose. Results of numerical experiments are given.

Assessing time-dependent temperature profile predictions using reduced transport models for high performing NSTX plasmas
J. B. Lestz, G. Avdeeva, T. F. Neiser, M. V. Gorelenkova, F. D. Halpern, S. M. Kaye, J. McClenaghan, A. Y. Pankin, K. E. Thome
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04359

Assessing time-dependent temperature profile predictions using reduced transport models for high performing NSTX plasmas
Time-dependent, predictive simulations were performed with the 1.5D tokamak integrated modeling code TRANSP on a large set of well-analyzed, high performing discharges from the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) in order to evaluate how well modern reduced transport models can reproduce experimentally observed temperature profiles in spherical tokamaks. Overall, it is found that simulations using the Multi-Mode Model (MMM) more consistently agree with the NSTX observations than those us…