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"Where Next for Academic Social Media? How Scholars Are Rethinking the Platforms They Use – and Why" @ DeGruyter Conversations
https://blog.degruyter.com/where-next-for-academic-social-media-how-s…

Congratulations, UK, you’ve won the Orwell award.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/02/uk-mps-vote-to-proscribe-palestine-action-as-terrorist-group

Ukrainian Air Force officer acting as 'FSB mole' arrested, SBU says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/ukrainian-air-force-officer-acting.html

Modeling Group Actions on Stacks (Especially the Lubin-Tate Action)
Rin Ray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00309 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Modeling Group Actions on Stacks (Especially the Lubin-Tate Action)
Suppose we are given a profinite group $G$ acting on a formal moduli stack $\mathcal{M}$, and we want to understand the group action, and compute cohomology related to this group action. How can we do it? This prolegomenon surveys two methods of pinning down such an action: geometric modeling and the two tower method. We highlight their use on a specific action - the automorphisms of a formal group acting on its deformation space, called the Lubin-Tate action.

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"Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances."
-Sanford Meisner
#acting #coaching #inspiration

On The Political Roots of Academic Freedom — Crooked Timber https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/03/on-the-political-roots-of-academic-freedom/

🫨 Scientists capture slow-motion earthquake in action
#earth

Scientists capture slow-motion earthquake in action
Scientists for the first time have detected a slow slip earthquake in motion during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at the bottom of the ocean.

VQ-VLA: Improving Vision-Language-Action Models via Scaling Vector-Quantized Action Tokenizers
Yating Wang, Haoyi Zhu, Mingyu Liu, Jiange Yang, Hao-Shu Fang, Tong He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01016

VQ-VLA: Improving Vision-Language-Action Models via Scaling Vector-Quantized Action Tokenizers
In this paper, we introduce an innovative vector quantization based action tokenizer built upon the largest-scale action trajectory dataset to date, leveraging over 100 times more data than previous approaches. This extensive dataset enables our tokenizer to capture rich spatiotemporal dynamics, resulting in a model that not only accelerates inference but also generates smoother and more coherent action outputs. Once trained, the tokenizer can be seamlessly adapted to a wide range of downstream…

At the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, we do cutting edge scientific research on our Sun, the planets and their moons, asteroids and comets. Posts will be in English und manchmal auch auf Deutsch.
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