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Berlin-based Knowunity, an AI-powered learning platform with 20M users in 15 countries, raised a €27M Series B led by XAnge, bringing its total funding to €45M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/13/knowunity-raises-eur…

Knowunity raises €27M to scale its personalized AI tutor globally
The Berlin-based learning platform Knowunity, has raised €27 million in a Series B round to expand its personalised AI study companion globally. The new funding brings Knowunity’s total raised to €45 million and will be used to further develop its global AI learning companion. Built by and for students, Knowunity was founded in 2020 by Benedict Kurz (CEO), along with Gregor Weber (CPO), Lucas Hild (CTO), and Yannik Prigl (Backend). All were just 17 years old and still in school at the ti…

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster
It sounds like the start of a 21st-century horror film: Your browser history has been public all along, and you had no idea. That’s basically what it feels like right now on the new stand-alone Meta AI app, where swathes of people are publishing their ostensibly private conversations with the chatbot. […]
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The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.

"Anyone you’re talking to has had decreased funding, or lost almost all of their funding, or is having trouble continuing their funding...
That, along with the pretty pervasive and growing anti-science establishment narrative … have been strong motivators to look elsewhere,” Eric Schuster said.
Schuster is one of many budding academics reflecting what could become a significant American brain drain,
sending the brightest minds in the country to flee the US and take their…

The garlic, goldenrod, and yarrow are really getting along.
#gardening

The last coffee in my favorite neighborhood spot in #Hanoi. 👋❤️
I will miss the Vietnamese vibe

WID DIS, I CAN CRUSH MAH NUTRITION, BRUHHHHHHHH

Started running some cables into the basement for the PiKVM. Got the network patch keystone installed in the patch panel, and ran the network connection along with the first two MS-A2 server HDMI cables. Unfortunately, I'm still waiting on the third HDMI cable, all of the USB-A to C cables, and a few replacement cables for the PiKVM KVM Switch. Things progress though...
#homelab

today i cycled along a dried up stream. found a couple pools of water remaining. loadsa white butterflies drinking from the bank. and a gret fat dragonfly that kept fucking off every time i pointed my camera at it. i was there for ages but could not get a shot. i could just imagine - "NO PICTURES you scrawny ol' bastard, fuck off" so i rode around for a hour or so, came back and finally got this shot. ha ha
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A wave of petals
Drifts along as if to pave
The path to Summer.
#dailyhaikuprompt - wave
#haiku
#poem

Join Kevin Liang at this year's Berlin Buzzwords, where he will discuss how Apache Solr/Lucene builds dense vector indexes and talk about how he and his team optimised their dense vector setup, sharing the challenges they faced and the best practices they learned along the way.
Learn more: https…

Yep. A lot of very wet, very dedicated car people here today. I'm already completely soaked to the skin, but hoping it clears up later.

#silentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
View from Many Parks Curve. October 2016

Less than two years ago,
the administration of President Joe Biden announced what tribal leaders hailed as an unprecedented commitment to the Native tribes
whose ways of life had been devastated by federal dam-building along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.
The deal, which took two years to negotiate, halted decades of lawsuits over the harm federal dams had caused to the salmon that had sustained those tribes culturally and economically for thousands of years. …

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.

Salmon aren’t breaded and served in a bucket, so he doesn’t care.
“Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-salmon-columbia-river-tribes-deal
Also, he’s a r…

Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.

Pam Ayres
At last, we have a cure for all!
Ailments large and ailments small,
Good health is not beyond my reach,
If I inject myself with bleach.
Radiant, I’ll prance along,
Every trace of limescale gone,
With disinfectant as my friend,
Like him,
I’m clean around the bend.

The WNBA and E.W. Scripps renew their media rights deal, ensuring Friday night WNBA matchups will continue on Ion, along with a new weekly studio show (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/wnba-scripps-media-rights-deal.html

WNBA renews media rights deal with Scripps
The new agreement comes after Ion has seen huge growth with the WNBA and as the league gains in popularity thanks to stars like Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.

Wiggle Fest Slow Ride!
Sunday April 13th wiggle along some slow streets!
Meet at Balboa Park 12pm, Roll @ 12:30
Bike along Cayuga stopping at Palega Rec Center, then to Herons Head Park, and finally thru the Mission to Duboce park and Wiggle Fest.
More info: https://www.safestreetreb…

Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/linux_6_15_rc6_keyboards/
This change will cost Mr. Torvalds a lot of money. It's another rabbit hole down which your money is dippi…

@… @… @… I have no idea what counts and what doesn’t but I’d pass along one of my favs lately

Krugman quotes Morris again:
❝If Trump gets away with this, he will absolutely do the same thing during the 2026 & 2028 elections. He will manufacture unrest just like in LA and send federal troops to every major city as a way to intimidate voters and decrease turnout. Functional end to fair elex.❞
And after more along these lines:
❝If you’re a pundit who thinks that this is over the top, you’re part of the problem (and you have been wrong every step of the way.)❞
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill
/end

RAG has revolutionised AI by merging search and generation. Agentic behaviour takes this search to the next level by enabling LLMs to make decisions and call tools. At this year's Berlin Buzzwords, Bilge Yücel will discuss how agentic behaviour enhances pipelines, what it means for a system to act as an 'agent', and core concepts such as routing, tool calling and reasoning, along with a live demo.
Learn more:

Started laying out the power supply for the switch engine board. Still needs some work but it's getting there,

'Secretary Noem is now claiming that she, along with everyone else there, didn’t even know who Sen. Padilla was. The press conference was in LA & he’s one of the state’s two senators. [H]e’s the ranking member of the Judiciary subcommittee on Border Security & Immigration. Of course she knows who he is. If she doesn’t remember him, she’s an even dumber degenerate punk than I already thought.'
Trump Wants to Rule as a Dictator. Make Him Do It. - TPM – Talking Points Memo
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-want-to-rule-as-a-dictator-make-him-do-it

📌 Pinned Introduction
Hey, I’m Erik. I’m an anarchist with an embarrassingly massive crush on Rudolf Rocker’s syndicalist take. I’m also bisexual, autistic, and genderfluid because why not add some extra flavor?
I’m here to share my weird little world, build some solidarity, and maybe spark a little revolution along the way. No pressure, no drama, just good vibes and a lot of laughs. You do you and I’ll do me. Cool? Cool.

We need people like Matthew Cassel and Kyri Evangelou that are able to stand with a straight face when being in the middle of this. But what face can the rest of us afford to have?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/…

🐚 Scientists use fossils to assess the health of Florida's largest remaining seagrass bed
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-scientists-fossils-health-florida-largest.html

Scientists use fossils to assess the health of Florida's largest remaining seagrass bed
The seagrass is greener along Florida's Nature Coast … figuratively, that is. A new study published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series shows that seagrass ecosystems along the northern half of Florida's Gulf Coast have remained relatively healthy and undisturbed for the last several thousand years.

DUN-SRE: Deep Unrolling Network with Spatiotemporal Rotation Equivariance for Dynamic MRI Reconstruction
Yuliang Zhu, Jing Cheng, Qi Xie, Zhuo-Xu Cui, Qingyong Zhu, Yuanyuan Liu, Xin Liu, Jianfeng Ren, Chengbo Wang, Dong Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10309

DUN-SRE: Deep Unrolling Network with Spatiotemporal Rotation Equivariance for Dynamic MRI Reconstruction
Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) exhibits transformation symmetries, including spatial rotation symmetry within individual frames and temporal symmetry along the time dimension. Explicit incorporation of these symmetry priors in the reconstruction model can significantly improve image quality, especially under aggressive undersampling scenarios. Recently, Equivariant convolutional neural network (ECNN) has shown great promise in exploiting spatial symmetry priors. However, existing ECNN…

Maybe the real treasure were the apps that got Sherlocked along the way.

Unlocking the mystery of Sr synthesis in the early Galaxy through analysis of barium isotopes in very metal-poor stars
T. M. Sitnova, L. Lombardo, L. I. Mashonkina, F. Rizzuti, G. Cescutti, C. J. Hansen, P. Bonifacio, E. Caffau, A. Koch-Hansen, G. Meynet, R. Fernandes de Melo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10193

Unlocking the mystery of Sr synthesis in the early Galaxy through analysis of barium isotopes in very metal-poor stars
We determine the contributions of the rapid (r) and slow (s) neutron capture processes to the Ba isotope mixture, along with Ba, Eu, and Sr NLTE abundances, in a sample of very metal-poor stars. The selected stars formed before the contribution from the main s-process in low- and intermediate-mass stars became significant. Some of our sample stars are enhanced in Sr, with [Sr/Ba] reaching up to 0.7. These stars gained their high Sr abundance from a poorly understood process, which may appear to…

Hey friends! We just returned from a longer walk along the #Osterseen near #Iffeldorf.
We try to avoid any elevation to support my wife's recovery from her knee surgery.
The walk was nice, but the weather was awful for photos. Very bright, very hazy. As much as I enjoyed the walk…

Graffitti along the road downhill from Bertinoro castle taken while coming back from the daily morning run. Love & passion ;-)
#isws2025 #running #summerschool

me and who

I saw an F-150 in Texas that had a Trump bumper sticker along with a decal that reads, "When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty," along with an image of a gun.
How does someone drive around with all that cognitive dissonance?

Lieb's Theorem for Bose Hubbard Models
Zhong-Chao Wei, Chong Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10319 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.103…

Lieb's Theorem for Bose Hubbard Models
Using a cone-theoretical method, we prove the uniqueness of the ground state for two Bose Hubbard models. The first model is the usual Bose Hubbard model with real hopping coefficients and attractive interactions. The second model is a two-component Bose Hubbard model. Under certain conditions, we show that the ground state in the subspace with particle number $N=2n$($n$ is a positive integer) is unique for both models. For the second model, we show that the ground state has spin along the z-ax…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19383 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Filtrations of D-modules along semi-invariant functions
Given a smooth algebraic variety X with an action of a connected reductive linear algebraic group G, and an equivariant D-module M, we study the G-decompositions of the associated V-, Hodge, and weight filtrations. If M is the localization of a D-module S underlying a mixed twistor D-module (e.g. when S is simple) along a semi-invariant function, we determine the weight level of any element in an irreducible isotypic component of M in terms of multiplicities of roots of b-functions. If S unde…

NDCG-Consistent Softmax Approximation with Accelerated Convergence
Yuanhao Pu, Defu Lian, Xiaolong Chen, Xu Huang, Jin Chen, Enhong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09454

NDCG-Consistent Softmax Approximation with Accelerated Convergence
Ranking tasks constitute fundamental components of extreme similarity learning frameworks, where extremely large corpora of objects are modeled through relative similarity relationships adhering to predefined ordinal structures. Among various ranking surrogates, Softmax (SM) Loss has been widely adopted due to its natural capability to handle listwise ranking via global negative comparisons, along with its flexibility across diverse application scenarios. However, despite its effectiveness, SM …

Adultification Bias in LLMs and Text-to-Image Models
Jane Castleman, Aleksandra Korolova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07282 https://arx…

Adultification Bias in LLMs and Text-to-Image Models
The rapid adoption of generative AI models in domains such as education, policing, and social media raises significant concerns about potential bias and safety issues, particularly along protected attributes, such as race and gender, and when interacting with minors. Given the urgency of facilitating safe interactions with AI systems, we study bias along axes of race and gender in young girls. More specifically, we focus on "adultification bias," a phenomenon in which Black girls are presumed t…

The first MS-A2 node is up and it only took the entire day. After fixing a ton of networking issues across the homelab I've got all the VMs running on the new node. The old nodes have been decomissioned which kinda marks a milestone. Still need to get the other two new nodes into the cluster, but should be fairly straightforward and can wait until tomorrow.
#homelab

Low and Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity in Mixed-Valent Sn$_2$S$_3$
Xingang Jiang, Yongheng Li, Weiping Guo, Qi Ren, Gang Tang, Zhong-Zhen Luo, Jiawang Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10260

Low and Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity in Mixed-Valent Sn$_2$S$_3$
Compounds of Sn, such as SnSe and SnS, exhibit novel phonon characteristics and low thermal conductivity, making them emerging star materials in the thermoelectric family. In this work, through the Boltzmann transport equation scheme and the Wigner thermal transport model, quasi-1D mixed-valent Sn$_2$S$_3$ were found to exhibit a low thermal conductivity along c-axis with a weak temperature dependence. The low thermal conductivity is attributed to the anharmonic rattling vibrations of weakly bo…

Certifying asymmetry in the configuration of three qubits
Abdelmalek Taoutioui, G\'abor Dr\'otos, Tam\'as V\'ertesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09939

Certifying asymmetry in the configuration of three qubits
We certify asymmetry in the configuration of the Bloch vectors of a set of three unknown qubit states within the dimensionally bounded prepare-and-measure scenario. To do this, we construct a linear witness from three simpler witnesses as building blocks, each featuring, along with two binary measurement settings, three preparations; two of them are associated with the certification task, while the third one serves as an auxiliary. The final witness is chosen to self-test some target configurat…

Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 - Stage 4 results
#Dauphiné #cycling

Cohomological support varieties under local homomorphisms
Ryan Watson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10757 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.107…

Cohomological support varieties under local homomorphisms
Given a bounded complex of finitely generated modules $M$ over a commutative noetherian local ring $R$, one assigns to it a variety, $\mathcal V_R(M)$, called the cohomological support variety of $M$ over $R$. The variety $\mathcal V_R(M)$ holds important homological information about the complex and the ring. In this paper, we study the behavior of cohomological support varieties under restriction of scalars along local maps. In the case where the rings involved are complete intersections and …

TransLink and the City of New Westminster have completed major upgrades to a 737-metre stretch of the BC Parkway along Stewardson Way, between River Drive and 14th Street. These enhancements are designed to improve safety, comfort, and accessibility along this vital active transportation corridor.
Key upgrades include:
A widened pathway with separate lanes for cyclists and pedestrians making it comfortable and convenient for all modes of active transportation

The US taxpayer is going to be on the hook for all the soldiers, tanks, and planes that appear in Donald Trump’s military parade.
But several major tech companies are paying for the festivities along the parade route.
According to recent statements from America250, #Oracle, #Amazon,

Big Tech quietly sponsors Trump’s military parade party
Though big tech companies have downplayed their involvement in funding this weekend’s military parade, the event’s organizer, America250, has released statements confirming involvement from Amazon, Palantir and Oracle.

Researchers find evidence that a second fanpage.it journalist, along with an anonymous European journalist, were targeted using Graphite spyware (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun/12/…

NJ ditches Tesla Superchargers along the New Jersey Turnpike. The replacements will service all kinds of EVs.
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/nj-ditches-tesla-superchargers-new-jersey-turnpike/

Immersive Multimedia Communication: State-of-the-Art on eXtended Reality Streaming
Haopeng Wang, Haiwei Dong, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10004

Immersive Multimedia Communication: State-of-the-Art on eXtended Reality Streaming
Extended reality (XR) is rapidly advancing, and poised to revolutionize content creation and consumption. In XR, users integrate various sensory inputs to form a cohesive perception of the virtual environment. This survey reviews the state-of-the-art in XR streaming, focusing on multiple paradigms. To begin, we define XR and introduce various XR headsets along with their multimodal interaction methods to provide a foundational understanding. We then analyze XR traffic characteristics to highlig…

Ukraine's security service says AI allowed its drones to keep flying "along a pre-planned route" even after losing signal in Russia during "Operation Spiderweb" (Fabrice Deprez/Financial Times)

How AI guided Ukraine’s drones to hit Russian airfields
Artificial intelligence took over the steering of unmanned quadcopters after losing signal

blumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata

Carlton Cemetery, Nottingham, September 2023
#photography #ukphotographer #nottingham #documentingplaces

Irsay's daughters take ownership 'very seriously' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45487941/take-very-seriously

My wander back to my hotel while at #tnc25 was very pretty along #Brighton seafront

Inside Out 🏢
内外 🏢
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

On Saturday we spent a deal of time cleaning up the shed and whist it's not finished it's a lot closer to the way it looked some 15 years ago when I started using it.
There is still a lot to do, build another 2 bookcases and put them in the server room at the end of the shed. And then replace the blinds.
#Shed

Amalgamations along surfaces with boundary in a handlebody
Siqi Ding, Fengchun Lei, Wei Lin, Andrei Vesnin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22530 https://…

Amalgamations along surfaces with boundary in a handlebody
Let M be a connected orientable 3-manifold, and F a compact connected orientable surface properly embedded in M. If F cuts M into two connected 3-manifolds X and Y, that is, M=X \cup_F Y, we say that M is an amalgamation of X and Y along F; and if F cuts M into a connected 3-manifold X, we say that M is a self-amalgamation of X along F. A characterization of an amalgamation of two handlebodies along a surface, incompressible in both, to be a handlebody was obtained by Lei, Liu, Li, and Vesnin. …

Functional Tensor Regression
Tongyu Li, Fang Yao, Anru R. Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09358 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.09358

Functional Tensor Regression
Tensor regression has attracted significant attention in statistical research. This study tackles the challenge of handling covariates with smooth varying structures. We introduce a novel framework, termed functional tensor regression, which incorporates both the tensor and functional aspects of the covariate. To address the high dimensionality and functional continuity of the regression coefficient, we employ a low Tucker rank decomposition along with smooth regularization for the functional m…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20124 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

TUNA: Comprehensive Fine-grained Temporal Understanding Evaluation on Dense Dynamic Videos
Videos are unique in their integration of temporal elements, including camera, scene, action, and attribute, along with their dynamic relationships over time. However, existing benchmarks for video understanding often treat these properties separately or narrowly focus on specific aspects, overlooking the holistic nature of video content. To address this, we introduce TUNA, a temporal-oriented benchmark for fine-grained understanding on dense dynamic videos, with two complementary tasks: captio…

Delving into the depths of NGC 3783 with XRISM. I. Kinematic and ionization structure of the highly ionized outflows
Missagh Mehdipour, Jelle S. Kaastra, Megan E. Eckart, Liyi Gu, Ralf Ballhausen, Ehud Behar, Camille M. Diez, Keigo Fukumura, Matteo Guainazzi, Kouichi Hagino, Timothy R. Kallman, Erin Kara, Chen Li, Jon M. Miller, Misaki Mizumoto, Hirofumi Noda, Shoji Ogawa, Christos Panagiotou, Atsushi Tanimoto, Keqin Zhao

Delving into the depths of NGC 3783 with XRISM. I. Kinematic and ionization structure of the highly ionized outflows
We present our study of the XRISM observation of the Seyfert-1 galaxy NGC 3783. For the first time, XRISM's Resolve microcalorimeter enables a detailed characterization of the highly ionized outflows in this active galactic nucleus. Our analysis constrains their outflow and turbulent velocities, along with their ionization parameter $ξ$ and column density $N_{\rm H}$. The high-resolution Resolve spectrum reveals a distinct series of Fe absorption lines between 6.4 and 7.8 keV, ranging from Fe …

MOMAV: A highly symmetrical fully-actuated multirotor drone using optimizing control allocation
Marco Ruggia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08868 https://

MOMAV: A highly symmetrical fully-actuated multirotor drone using optimizing control allocation
MOMAV (Marco's Omnidirectional Micro Aerial Vehicle) is a multirotor drone that is fully actuated, meaning it can control its orientation independently of its position. MOMAV is also highly symmetrical, making its flight efficiency largely unaffected by its current orientation. These characteristics are achieved by a novel drone design where six rotor arms align with the vertices of an octahedron, and where each arm can actively rotate along its long axis. Various standout features of MOMAV are…

"Two men arrested in #Washington state with an arsenal that included dozens of guns, explosives and body armor, along with Nazi paraphernalia, were former military members who attacked a soldier with a hammer while stealing gear from Joint Base Lewis-McChord."
"Agents found rifles staged at windows, 'observed numerous Nazi/white supremacy memorabilia, murals, and lite…

#WordWeavers 9 June: MC POV: Whose advice do you value the most?
MC: There are some people I listen to, whose advice I consider. But one of the few that can make me go along with a course of action despite my misgivings, is my brother. But don't you dare tell him that, he'll never let me hear the end of it. I trust him with my life, but sometimes he's insufferable.

Prince of Persia: completed!
Having completed level 10, I was expecting the difficulty to ramp up towards the end of the game. In fact, level 11 wasn't that difficult, provided you didn't take it too slowly. The first part of the level required a run along a long collapsing pathway in order to reach the end platform before it was too late; you had to run along this to avoid stepping on traps which closed the door to progress.

This still nauseates me.
☑️ Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss
The billionaire GOP donor, the biggest backer of Elon Musk’s attempted Twitter takeover, participated along with Fox’s Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant.

This Position Group is Coming Along Nicely at Raiders' OTAs https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-ashton-jeanty-christian-wilkins-adam-butler-jj-pegues

Sploot 🐈‍⬛

THIS from @….
Right along with “Get rich quick!” and “Lose weight quick!” and the lot of them. Not just a metaphor; it is very much the explicit pitch. https://mstdn.science/@moritz_negwer/114657653494834052

A Topological Improvement of the Overall Performance of Sparse Evolutionary Training: Motif-Based Structural Optimization of Sparse MLPs Project
Xiaotian Chen, Hongyun Liu, Seyed Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09204

A Topological Improvement of the Overall Performance of Sparse Evolutionary Training: Motif-Based Structural Optimization of Sparse MLPs Project
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been proven to be exceptionally effective and have been applied across diverse domains within deep learning. However, as DNN models increase in complexity, the demand for reduced computational costs and memory overheads has become increasingly urgent. Sparsity has emerged as a leading approach in this area. The robustness of sparse Multi-layer Perceptrons (MLPs) for supervised feature selection, along with the application of Sparse Evolutionary Training (SET), i…

The Klamath has long been my favorite river in California (and a bit of Oregon.)
A week ago I was at the mouth of the Klamath in Redwood National Park/Prairie Creek State park.
I'm glad the Coho salmon are returning to the Klamath so quickly (of all the varieties of salmon, Coho is my favorite. The creek behind my house once supported Coho, but they are essentially gone, although there are occasional reports.)

Displacement of three-phase flow for Heavy Oil: Riemann Solutions
Luis Fernando Lozano, Furtado Frederico, De Souza Aparecido, Marchesin Dan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09077

Displacement of three-phase flow for Heavy Oil: Riemann Solutions
This work presents the Riemann solution for three-phase flow in porous media under the condition that oil viscosity exceeds that of water and gas. We classify all Riemann solution problems for scenarios where the left states $L$ lie along the edge $G$-$W$, and the right states $R$ span nearly the entire saturation triangle, excluding small regions near the boundaries $G$-$O$ and $W$-$O$. We use the wave curve method to determine the Riemann solution for initial and injection data within the abo…

I absolutely love coding in Go. When I started about 8 or so years ago, it had simple ideas and concepts but somewhere along the way it seems people lost track of what made it good.
I've rarely wanted to reach for something like a mock library and every time I did I could get away with something simpler yet some people insist on using mock libraries. No, you don't need a mocking library.

Relevant för min artikel om puberteten hos idrottande flickor det här. Mer mogna tjejer är troligen mer mottagliga för instruktioner. Jag tror det påverkar hur intelligent och "träningsbar" som spelaren uppfattas.
"We found a clear correlation between pubertal development and school grades. Those who are further along in puberty perform better in school"

This document from 249 years ago seems remarkably relevant today https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
If someone wants some slogans perhaps for signage, there's some good stuff in there to quote.
Maybe quote it along with…

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling and punctuation reflects the original.

Rural Republicans used to back NPR. Then MAGA changed everything.
Polarized views of public broadcasting,
along with a splintered and increasingly online media environment,
pose a problem for NPR, PBS and their audiences,
who will need some Republicans to break ranks to prevent the cuts that Trump is demanding
as part of a larger package of budget reductions that the House will consider as soon as Tuesday.

Rural Republicans used to back NPR. Then MAGA changed everything.
Polarized views of public broadcasting, along with a splintered and increasingly online media environment, pose a problem for NPR, PBS and their audiences, who will need some Republicans to break ranks to prevent the cuts that Trump is demanding as part of a larger package of budget reductions that the House will consider as soon as Tuesday.

"Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions -- to interrogate those who tell us something is true -- to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
-- Carl Sagan (Charlie Rose interview)

Transition Path Theory For L\'{e}vy-Type Processes: SDE Representation and Statistics
Yuanfei Huang, Xiang Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09462 https:…

Transition Path Theory For Lévy-Type Processes: SDE Representation and Statistics
This paper establishes a Transition Path Theory (TPT) for Lévy-type processes, addressing a critical gap in the study of the transition mechanism between meta-stabile states in non-Gaussian stochastic systems. A key contribution is the rigorous derivation of the stochastic differential equation (SDE) representation for transition path processes, which share the same distributional properties as transition trajectories, along with a proof of its well-posedness. This result provides a solid theo…

Rigidity of pseudofunction algebras of ample groupoids
Eusebio Gardella, Mathias Palmstr{\o}m, Hannes Thiel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09563 https://

Rigidity of pseudofunction algebras of ample groupoids
We show that a Hausdorff, ample groupoid $\mathcal{G}$ can be completely recovered from the $I$-norm completion of $C_c(\mathcal{G})$. More generally, we show that this is also the case for the algebra of symmetrized $p$-pseudofunctions, as well as for the reduced groupoid $L^p$-operator algebra, for $p\neq 2$. Our proofs are based on a new construction of an inverse semigroup built from Moore-Penrose invertible partial isometries in an $L^p$-operator algebra. Along the way, we verify a conje…

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Networking is finished, and every port on the QNAP switch is in use along with every port on each MS-A2. Also tracked down an `interfaces` file typo. The next step is cleaning up the "server room" and getting this situated.
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Toward Scalable Quantum Compilation for Modular Architecture: Qubit Mapping and Reuse via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Sokea Sang, Leanghok Hour, Youngsun Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09323

Toward Scalable Quantum Compilation for Modular Architecture: Qubit Mapping and Reuse via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Modular quantum architectures have emerged as a promising approach for scaling quantum computing systems by connecting multiple Quantum Processing Units (QPUs). However, this approach introduces significant challenges due to costly inter-core operations between chips and quantum state transfers, which contribute to noise and quantum decoherence. This paper presents QARMA, a novel Qubit mapping using Attention-based deep Reinforcement learning (DRL) for Modular quantum Architectures, along with …

An Explainable Deep Learning Framework for Brain Stroke and Tumor Progression via MRI Interpretation
Rajan Das Gupta, Md Imrul Hasan Showmick, Mushfiqur Rahman Abir, Shanjida Akter, Md. Yeasin Rahat, Md. Jakir Hossen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09161

An Explainable Deep Learning Framework for Brain Stroke and Tumor Progression via MRI Interpretation
Early and accurate detection of brain abnormalities, such as tumors and strokes, is essential for timely intervention and improved patient outcomes. In this study, we present a deep learning-based system capable of identifying both brain tumors and strokes from MRI images, along with their respective stages. We have executed two groundbreaking strategies involving convolutional neural networks, MobileNet V2 and ResNet-50-optimized through transfer learning to classify MRI scans into five diagno…

hey SF, join us on our next Slow Ride, May 25th!!
everybody loves safer bike infrastructure and our new park, Sunset Dunes! we'll check out new roadway reallocation and lane narrowing on Lake Merced Boulevard, enjoying great parks and slow streets the west side has to offer.
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blumenau_drug: Blumenau drug interactions (2019)
A network of drug-drug interactions, extracted from 18 months of electronic health records (EHRs) from the city of Blumenau in Southern Brazil. Nodes are annotated with drug information (separate file), and edges are weighted by the severity of the interaction, along with other information.
This network has 75 nodes and 181 edges.
Tags: Biological, Drug interactions, Weighted, Metadata

That's not orange spray paint, it's cayenne pepper powder.
Let's see if this will be any deterrent for the trash pandas. It's along one of their main travel routes and if i see them avoiding this path then I'll know it works and can try putting out more.

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Graph Flow Matching: Enhancing Image Generation with Neighbor-Aware Flow Fields
Flow matching casts sample generation as learning a continuous-time velocity field that transports noise to data. Existing flow matching networks typically predict each point's velocity independently, considering only its location and time along its flow trajectory, and ignoring neighboring points. However, this pointwise approach may overlook correlations between points along the generation trajectory that could enhance velocity predictions, thereby improving downstream generation quality. To …

"Vancouver has 22 civic libraries. Victoria has 12. The streets of these two cities, however, have well over 1,000 unincorporated “little libraries”. You’ve seen them, of course. Those quaint little bird-house structures, placed along sidewalks, usually with a glassed-in front to keep the contents safe from the elements. Inside these little boxes there is always the oddest selection of books, and almost always something that will pique your interest. "

Interactions in Quantum Networks with Pulse Propagation Delays
Victor Rueskov Christiansen, Klaus M{\o}lmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08703 https://

Interactions in Quantum Networks with Pulse Propagation Delays
The finite speed of light of pulses implies propagation delays between the generation of light, the interaction with different elements along its path and the final detection at the output of networks and interferometers. We show that it is possible to take these delays into account with a theoretical method which evades quantization of the full continuum of field modes. We illustrate the use of this method by analyzing Ramsey excitation of an atom by a split and delayed quantum pulse.

Sources: Tucker Carlson was on WH's list of potential TikTok investors, with JD Vance pushing for his inclusion, along with others like a16z and Blackstone (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b649cb3d-9156-4e0c-9e6f-7458b670e97b

Tucker Carlson was on White House list of potential TikTok investors
Vice-president JD Vance pushed for rightwing media star’s inclusion in a deal for video app

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The global economy is projected to slow sharply this year
as Trump’s trade policy disrupts international commerce and increases economic uncertainty,
the World Bank said on Tuesday in a report that underscores the toll of America’s trade war.
Despite the weakening outlook, the global economy is not expected to fall into a recession, the World Bank said.
However, the trade tension is setting the stage for the weakest decade of growth since the 1960s.
Economic dev…

World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War
Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards.

Trash panda update: Didn't set any more boobytraps. Sprinkled cayenne pepper powder along a bunch of their travel routes (but not fully ringing the yard) which didn't seem to do a whole lot. Maybe they just walked around it, or I need to use more? I'll try doing the entire fence line tonight and see if it's more effective if I make sure not to leave any gaps.
I tried the nerf gun for what I think will probably be the last time. Shot at one of them and the cheeky bugger …

Did a quick test fit of one of the Minisforum MS-A2s and ran some of the cabling. I think this should turn out pretty clean and everything fits better than expected which is a good thing. The PSUs will go in the bottom 2U "compartment" without issue which I didn't run.
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Jack Ciattarelli, a former state legislator endorsed by Donald Trump won the Republican nomination quickly Tuesday evening. 
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a former Navy pilot and federal prosecutor, won on the Democratic side, beating out five competitors.
New Jersey is one of two states, along with Virginia, hosting a high-stakes gubernatorial contest this year. 

New Jersey primaries: Trump-backed Ciattarelli wins GOP nod; Sherrill wins Dem nomination
Trump has jumped into the Garden State race, one of two gubernatorial elections this year that could serve as a pre-midterms referendum.

If you take a walk along the coast, near Caleta Camarones in northern Chile, near an old archeological site called Camarones 15, it is hard not to spot evidence of the mummies.
Cloth, rope, hair, tiny fragments of bones, and pieces of wood, an item that is nowhere to be seen growing anywhere nearby, but which the Chinchorro people used to keep their mummies intact like little dolls.
The Chinchorro mummies are considered the oldest mummies in the world.
Thousands of years olde…

The Chinchorro Mummies: Resisting in the Desert
Seven thousand years ago, the Chinchorro people, along the Pacific coast of South America, began to mummify their dead. Their bodies remain hidden in the desert. This is episode 41 of Stories of Resistance.

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Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang
said he’s reached out to Elon Musk
in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party,
Yang, along with mutual friends, believes the Tesla CEO has what it takes to form a new faction that propels America’s strongest leaders. ($$$$)
When asked if Musk has responded to his inquiry, Yang told the outlet “Not yet, but I assume he’s been very busy.”

Andrew Yang reaches out to Musk to collaborate on new political party
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said he’s reached out to Elon Musk in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party...

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Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Peter Thiel are executing a long-planned agenda to take over the government.
Donald Trump is a dementia-addled old man along for the ride.
Hopefully, the chaos makes a little more sense now.
I told you you weren't gonna like it.

Democracy Is Done: The Rise of Corporate Monarchy
The Real Agenda Behind Elon's Coup & Trump's Chaotic First Weeks