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At least a dozen people have died in Gaza
as winter storms batter displaced Palestinians
forced to shelter in makeshift tents
among the rubble of collapsing buildings
severely damaged by Israeli bombing.
That rubble is being eyed by
U.S.-based contractors,
who are already vying for
lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza
under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal.
“People are lining up and treating this the way they they treated reconstruc…

From “Alligator Alcatraz” to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump
At least a dozen people have died in Gaza as winter storms batter displaced Palestinians forced to shelter in makeshift tents among the rubble of collapsing buildings severely damaged by Israeli bombing. That rubble is being eyed by U.S.-based contractors, who are already vying for lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal. “People are lining up and treating this the way they they treated reconstruction in Iraq,” says Aram Roston, whose latest investigation f…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Aram Khachaturian, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Yuri Temirkanov:
🎵 Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)
#AramKhachaturian #RoyalPhilharmonicOrchestra
https://open.spotify.com/track/616jQLtvC8pKsYJyd06ASj

Theory and computation for structured variational inference
Shunan Sheng, Bohan Wu, Bennett Zhu, Sinho Chewi, Aram-Alexandre Pooladian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09897 https://<…

Randomized truncation of quantum states
Aram W. Harrow, Angus Lowe, Freek Witteveen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08518 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08518

Randomized truncation of quantum states
A fundamental task in quantum information is to approximate a pure quantum state in terms of sparse states or, for a bipartite system, states of bounded Schmidt rank. The optimal deterministic approximation in each case is straightforward, and maximizes the fidelity: keep the largest entries or singular values. On the other hand, random mixtures of sparse states can achieve quadratically improved trace distances, and yield nontrivial bounds on other distance measures like the robustness. In thi…

Inoculation Prompting: Instructing LLMs to misbehave at train-time improves test-time alignment
Nevan Wichers, Aram Ebtekar, Ariana Azarbal, Victor Gillioz, Christine Ye, Emil Ryd, Neil Rathi, Henry Sleight, Alex Mallen, Fabien Roger, Samuel Marks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05024

Inoculation Prompting: Instructing LLMs to misbehave at train-time improves test-time alignment
Large language models are sometimes trained with imperfect oversight signals, leading to undesired behaviors such as reward hacking and sycophancy. Improving oversight quality can be expensive or infeasible, motivating methods that improve learned behavior despite an imperfect training signal. We introduce Inoculation Prompting (IP), a simple but counterintuitive technique that prevents learning of an undesired behavior by modifying training prompts to explicitly request it. For example, to ino…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.SD. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SD/new
[1/1]:
- Advanced Clustering Techniques for Speech Signal Enhancement: A Review and Metanalysis of Fuzzy C...
Abdulhady Abas Abdullah, Aram Mahmood Ahmed, Tarik Rashid, Hadi Veisi

CIA playing 'most important part' in US strikes in the Caribbean, sources say (Aram Roston/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/us-strikes-caribbean-cia-role
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p117#a251021p117

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Aram Khachaturian, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Neeme Järvi:
🎵 Masquerade Suite (Waltz)
#AramKhachaturian #RoyalScottishNationalOrchestra #NeemeJärvi

Allelopathic effects of Rumex azoricus on lettuce: impacts on seed germination and early growth
Abdulrahman Ibrahim, Mariana Casari Parreira, Aram Akram Mohammed, Hawar Halshoy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07357

Allelopathic effects of Rumex azoricus on lettuce: impacts on seed germination and early growth
Members of the Rumex genus possess allelochemical compounds that vary depending on the plant part and extract concentrations. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the allelopathic effects of extracts from the roots, stems, and leaves of Rumex azoricus at concentrations of 0%, 25%, 50%, and 100% on the seed germination of a lettuce plant in a laboratory setting. The results indicated that stem extract was most effective for enhancing germination percentage (68.67%), germination speed (5.12…

Interpretable Spectral Features Predict Conductivity in Self-Driving Doped Conjugated Polymer Labs
Ankush Kumar Mishra, Jacob P. Mauthe, Nicholas Luke, Aram Amassian, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21330

Interpretable Spectral Features Predict Conductivity in Self-Driving Doped Conjugated Polymer Labs
Self-driving labs (SDLs) promise faster materials discovery by coupling automation with machine learning, but a central challenge is predicting costly, slow-to-measure properties from inexpensive, automatable readouts. We address this for doped conjugated polymers by learning interpretable spectral fingerprints from optical spectroscopy to predict electrical conductivity. Optical spectra are fast, non-destructive, and sensitive to aggregation and charge generation; we automate their featurizati…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cond-mat.soft. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.soft/new
[1/1]:
- Interpretable Spectral Features Predict Conductivity in Self-Driving Doped Conjugated Polymer Labs
Ankush Kumar Mishra, Jacob P. Mauthe, Nicholas Luke, Aram Amassian, Baskar Gan…

Toward Quantum-Enabled Biomarker Discovery: An Outlook from Q4Bio
Dhirpal Shah, Mariesa Teo, Ryan A. Robinett, Sophia Madejski, Zachary Morrell, Siddhi Ramesh, Colin Campbell, Bharath Thotakura, Victory Omole, Ben Hall, Aram W. Harrow, Teague Tomesh, Alexander T. Pearson, Frederic T. Chong, Samantha J. Riesenfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509…

Toward Quantum-Enabled Biomarker Discovery: An Outlook from Q4Bio
We present a case study and forward-looking perspective on co-design for hybrid quantum-classical algorithms, centered on the goal of empirical quantum advantage (EQA), which we define as a measurable performance gain using quantum hardware over state-of-the-art classical methods on the same task. Because classical algorithms continue to improve, the EQA crossover point is a moving target; nevertheless, we argue that a persistent advantage is possible for our application class even if the cross…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SundayMorning
Aram Khachaturian, Iyad Sughayer & Ալեքսանդր Դոլուխանյան:
🎵 Suite from Masquerade, arr for piano solo (4th mvt, 'Romance')
#AramKhachaturian #IyadSughayer #ԱլեքսանդրԴոլուխանյան

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Aram Khachaturian, Vienna Philharmonic & Aram Khachaturian:
🎵 Lezghinka (Gayane)
#AramKhachaturian #ViennaPhilharmonic

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EarlierWithJoolsHolland
Aram Khachaturian, London Symphony Orchestra & Stanley Black:
🎵 Masquerade - suite (Waltz)
#AramKhachaturian #LondonSymphonyOrchestra #StanleyBlack

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Aram Khachaturian, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Kirill Karabits:
🎵 Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)
#AramKhachaturian #BournemouthSymphonyOrchestra #KirillKarabits

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThisClassicalLife
Aram Khachaturian, London Symphony Orchestra & Stanley Black:
🎵 Masquerade - suite (Waltz)
#AramKhachaturian #LondonSymphonyOrchestra #StanleyBlack

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Aram Khachaturian, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Kirill Karabits:
🎵 Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)
#AramKhachaturian #BournemouthSymphonyOrchestra
https://open.spotify.com/track/49cQcHJqOsyBRSwxLTWoP5

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Aram Khachaturian, Iyad Sughayer & Ալեքսանդր Դոլուխանյան:
🎵 Suite from Masquerade (Arr. A. Dolukhanian for Piano Solo): III. Mazurka
#AramKhachaturian #IyadSughayer #ԱլեքսանդրԴոլուխանյան

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Aram Khachaturian, West Australian Symphony Orchestra & David Measham:
🎵 Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (from Spartacus Ballet Suite no 2)
#AramKhachaturian #WestAustralianSymphonyOrchestra #DavidMeasham #newRelease 🆕 album