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Tonight our pop-jazz choir, Sing'n'Swing, had its first public concert in two years. We changed choir directors about a year-and-a-half ago. The concert went well. I sang a small solo, which also went well. A number of people told me I killed it. I took that as a good thing. 😃 Here's a post-concert photo.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Led Zeppelin:
🎵 What Is and What Should Never Be
#LedZeppelin
https://ole-smokey.bandcamp.com/track/led-zeppelin-what-is-and-what-should-never-be-ole-smokeys-acoustic-edit-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5G7uLHtoEW140QOcBpJlfz

What was 1946 and close to eight decades of settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and now genocide, asshole?
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

BreastDCEDL: Curating a Comprehensive DCE-MRI Dataset and developing a Transformer Implementation for Breast Cancer Treatment Response Prediction
Naomi Fridman, Bubby Solway, Tomer Fridman, Itamar Barnea, Anat Goldshtein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12190

BreastDCEDL: Curating a Comprehensive DCE-MRI Dataset and developing a Transformer Implementation for Breast Cancer Treatment Response Prediction
Breast cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, making early detection and accurate treatment response monitoring critical priorities. We present BreastDCEDL, a curated, deep learning-ready dataset comprising pre-treatment 3D Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) scans from 2,070 breast cancer patients drawn from the I-SPY1, I-SPY2, and Duke cohorts, all sourced from The Cancer Imaging Archive. The raw DICOM imaging data were rigorously converted into standardized…

wait mastodon finally has the "followed by X people you know" thing on peoples profiles? unless that's a glitch or chuckya thing. i missed that feature from bluesky and twitter i'm happy it's there now

Tonight our pop-jazz choir, Sing'n'Swing, had its first public concert in two years. We changed choir directors about a year-and-a-half ago. The concert went well. I sang a small solo, which also went well. A number of people told me I killed it. I took that as a good thing. 😃 Here's a post-concert photo.

AMLgentex: Mobilizing Data-Driven Research to Combat Money Laundering
Johan \"Ostman, Edvin Callisen, Anton Chen, Kristiina Ausmees, Emanuel G{\aa}rdh, Jovan Zamac, Jolanta Goldsteine, Hugo Wefer, Simon Whelan, Markus Reimeg{\aa}rd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13989

AMLgentex: Mobilizing Data-Driven Research to Combat Money Laundering
Money laundering enables organized crime by allowing illicit funds to enter the legitimate economy. Although trillions of dollars are laundered each year, only a small fraction is ever uncovered. This stems from a range of factors, including deliberate evasion by launderers, the rarity of confirmed cases, and the limited visibility each financial institution has into the global transaction network. While several synthetic datasets are available, they fail to model the structural and behavioral …

Self-Stabilizing Replicated State Machine Coping with Byzantine and Recurring Transient Faults
Shlomi Dolev, Amit Hendin, Maurice Herlihy, Maria Potop Butucaru, Elad Michael Schiller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12900

Self-Stabilizing Replicated State Machine Coping with Byzantine and Recurring Transient Faults
The ability to perform repeated Byzantine agreement lies at the heart of important applications such as blockchain price oracles or replicated state machines. Any such protocol requires the following properties: (1) \textit{Byzantine fault-tolerance}, because not all participants can be assumed to be honest, (2) r\textit{ecurrent transient fault-tolerance}, because even honest participants may be subject to transient ``glitches'', (3) \textit{accuracy}, because the results of quantitative queri…

Datrics Text2SQL: A Framework for Natural Language to SQL Query Generation
Tetiana Gladkykh, Kyrylo Kirykov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12234 https://

Datrics Text2SQL: A Framework for Natural Language to SQL Query Generation
Text-to-SQL systems enable users to query databases using natural language, democratizing access to data analytics. However, they face challenges in understanding ambiguous phrasing, domain-specific vocabulary, and complex schema relationships. This paper introduces Datrics Text2SQL, a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-based framework designed to generate accurate SQL queries by leveraging structured documentation, example-based learning, and domain-specific rules. The system builds a rich K…

Half-integer thermal conductance in the absence of Majorana mode
Ujjal Roy, Sourav Manna, Souvik Chakraborty, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ankur Das, Moshe Goldstein, Yuval Gefen, Anindya Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12526

Half-integer thermal conductance in the absence of Majorana mode
Considering a range of candidate quantum phases of matter, half-integer thermal conductance ($κ_{\text{th}}$) is believed to be an unambiguous evidence of non-Abelian states. It has been long known that such half-integer values arise due to the presence of Majorana edge modes, representing a significant step towards topological quantum computing platforms. Here we break this long-standing paradigm, reporting a comprehensive theoretical and experimental study where half-integer two-terminal the…