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Monday 7:56AM, on our way to celebrate a major anniversary — wish we could have stayed at this peaceful place all day...
#WaterfallWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

(YouTube) From blindness to cyber brilliance, from "seeing with sound" to securing cyberspace, the journey of Pranav Lal, congenitally blind user of The vOICe vision BCI in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWlVKDpZ6hU

Alphagenome: Deepmind KI analysiert Auswirkungen von DNA-Veränderungen
Deepminds neue KI Alphagenome analysiert DNA-Veränderungen, um Auswirkungen auf unsere Gesundheit zu entschlüsseln.
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AliBoost: Ecological Boosting Framework in Alibaba Platform
Qijie Shen, Yuanchen Bei, Zihong Huang, Jialin Zhu, Keqin Xu, Boya Du, Jiawei Tang, Yuning Jiang, Feiran Huang, Xiao Huang, Hao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00954

AliBoost: Ecological Boosting Framework in Alibaba Platform
Maintaining a healthy ecosystem in billion-scale online platforms is challenging, as users naturally gravitate toward popular items, leaving cold and less-explored items behind. This ''rich-get-richer'' phenomenon hinders the growth of potentially valuable cold items and harms the platform's ecosystem. Existing cold-start models primarily focus on improving initial recommendation performance for cold items but fail to address users' natural preference for popular content. In this paper, we intr…

For those of you with AO3 accounts: check out the new Xenoblade fanfic that @… just finished uploading! It's arc 3 of a 10-arc series she's writing that's meant to delve deeper into the backstory of Alvis:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/66009010/chapters/170081200

So, not to make fun of anyone with #alphagal syndrome (I'm sure it sucks; barfing after eating a steak would really suck), but wouldn't it be really ironic if we all stopped eating #beef and #pork because of

Google DeepMind unveils AlphaGenome, an AI tool to predict the effects of DNA changes on molecular processes, available via an API for non-commercial research (Antonio Regalado/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/25/1…

Google’s new AI will help researchers understand how our genes work
First came AlphaFold. Now comes AlphaGenome for DNA.

Empowering Manufacturers with Privacy-Preserving AI Tools: A Case Study in Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning to Solve Real-World Problems
Xiaoyu Ji, Jessica Shorland, Joshua Shank, Pascal Delpe-Brice, Latanya Sweeney, Jan Allebach, Ali Shakouri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01808

Empowering Manufacturers with Privacy-Preserving AI Tools: A Case Study in Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning to Solve Real-World Problems
Small- and medium-sized manufacturers need innovative data tools but, because of competition and privacy concerns, often do not want to share their proprietary data with researchers who might be interested in helping. This paper introduces a privacy-preserving platform by which manufacturers may safely share their data with researchers through secure methods, so that those researchers then create innovative tools to solve the manufacturers' real-world problems, and then provide tools that execu…

Effect of the Gotthard Base Tunnel:
👉 a modest but statistically significant decline in the number of cars 🚗
👉 a substantial induced rail demand effect resulting from the travel time savings 🚅
Conclusion by the authors:
on such touristic routes, road and rail transport are not perfect substitutes
My personal conclusion:
👉 Modal shift needs push & pull measures
👉 Without other measures (pricing, reduced capacity, slowing), adding capacity only increas…

The Effect of the Gotthard Base Tunnel on Road Traffic: A Synthetic Control Approach
The opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in 2017, the longest railway tunnel in the world, marked a milestone in Swiss transport policy. The tunnel, a part of the New Rail Link through the Alps, serves as a key instrument of the so-called "modal shift policy," which aims to transfer transalpine freight traffic from road to rail. The reduction in travel time by train between northern and southern Switzerland raised expectations that a substantial share of tourist-oriented passenger traffic would …

Could a Primordial Black Hole Explosion Explain the KM3NeT Event?
Lua F. T. Airoldi, Gustavo F. S. Alves, Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez, Gabriel M. Salla, Renata Zukanovich Funchal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24666

Could a Primordial Black Hole Explosion Explain the KM3NeT Event?
A black hole is expected to end its lifetime in a cataclysmic runaway burst of Hawking radiation, emitting all Standard Model particles with ultra-high energies. Thus, the explosion of a nearby primordial black hole (PBH) has been proposed as a possible explanation for the $\sim 220$ PeV neutrino-like event recently reported by the KM3NeT collaboration. Assuming a PBH origin, we find that the source would need to lie at a distance of approximately $4 \times 10^{-5}$ pc, i.e., within the Solar S…