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Adding on to the thread to say this:
If you want to argue that political violence is bad, please don’t go driveling out some “here’s why we should respect Charlie Kirk” fartfest (looking at you, Ezra Klein). That •completely undermines• your argument.
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»Perplexity – KI-Startup bietet 34,5 Milliarden für Chrome:
Perplexity will Googles Browser übernehmen - trotz begrenzter Finanzmittel.«
Ein weiteres Argument um den Chrome Browser und seine Abkömmlinge NICHT zu nutzen, auch wenn Firefox nicht 101% optimal ist.
P.S. zB @…, ein Firefox Abkömmling, ist sehr Privatsphäre freundlich.
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Perplexity: KI-Startup bietet 34,5 Milliarden für Chrome - Golem.de
Perplexity will Googles Browser übernehmen – trotz begrenzter Finanzmittel.

This article is a good example of why I’m fed up with the “if used responsibly” argument:
https://thejournal.com/articles/2025/08/07/the-brain-drain-how-overreliance-on-ai-may-erode-creativity-and-critical-thin…

This article is a good example of why I’m fed up with the “if used responsibly” argument:
https://thejournal.com/articles/2025/08/07/the-brain-drain-how-overreliance-on-ai-may-erode-creativity-and-critical-thin…

This article is a good example of why I’m fed up with the “if used responsibly” argument:
https://thejournal.com/articles/2025/08/07/the-brain-drain-how-overreliance-on-ai-may-erode-creativity-and-critical-thin…

openAI's "Why language models hallucinate" is a pretty general argument: any model trained on pass/fail tests will learn to guess/bullshit, which is sometimes right, vs saying "IDK", which is always wrong.
I think this can be generalized beyond AI: humans sometimes have that problem. market/competitive systems too. it's sort of an offshoot of Goodhart's law.
the paper doesn't make that leap. its conclusion is "we should train models with t…

Both of my late parents reached 90y and I never heard a bigoted word from either of them.
https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/115187410717863213

@… I don't buy this argument. It assumes the means-tested service is used involuntarily. You can't equivalently tax eg a library user fee or a bus fare because use is unpredictable & even depends on the fee.
The political argument (which goes back way before 1998) is the real one. It also guides you in cases like bus fares where it's not …

Mathematicians, a plea for understanding. Or at least I point out a curiosity.
I was playing around in ivy (high precision calculator) with Stirling's approximation and noticed something. I compute (Stirling N)/N! for successive powers of 10:
approx 10 100 1000 10000 100000 1000000
0.99170403955606148634 0.99916701656784300017 0.99991667014156998579 0.99999166670139157019 0.99999916666701389157 0.99999991666667013889
The successive approximations improve (approach 1.0) by one decimal digit of result for each digit of argument, but that's not the curious part. The curious part happens after the 9's: the result seems to be trending towards a limit of 0.9...166666...... It adds not only a 9 for each input digit, it extends the next part by a digit 6 for every factor of 10. Now 1/6 is 0.166666 and that makes me think there's something going on here.
Is this true? Is it known? Is it proven?

Rough numbers between consecutive primes
Ayla Gafni, Terence Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06463 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06463

Rough numbers between consecutive primes
Using a sieve-theoretic argument, we show that almost all gaps $(p_n, p_{n+1})$ between consecutive primes $p_n, p_{n+1}$ contain a natural number $m$ whose least prime factor $p(m)$ is at least the length $p_{n+1} - p_n$ of the gap, confirming a prediction of Erdős. In fact the number $N(X)$ of exceptional gaps with $p_n \in [X,2X]$ is shown to be at most $O(X/\log^2 X)$. Assuming a form of the Hardy--Littlewood prime tuples conjecture, we establish a more precise asymptotic $N(X) \sim c X / …

»Webseiten – Reddit sperrt das Internet Archive aus:
Die Snapshots des Internet Archives werden wohl für KIs genutzt. User sollen geschützt werden. Dabei verkauft Reddit diese bereits«
Ein Argument mehr um Reddit nicht mehr zu nutzen. Erst stolz KI einsetzen und nun wegen @… sperren, nicht für den Userschutz - für ihren Profit. Es …

Webseiten: Reddit sperrt das Internet Archive aus - Golem.de
Die Snapshots des Internet Archives werden wohl für KIs genutzt. User sollen geschützt werden. Dabei verkauft Reddit diese bereits.

If you want to make the case against political violence, start by saying clearly that Charlie Kirk was a miserable sack of shit who promoted bigotry and religious hatred and helped organized a violent coup attempt whose goal was to end democracy in the US in order to establish a white supremacist ethnostate. Say that the world is better without him in it.
•Then• make your argument that even in his case — even a person whose death improves the world — even •then• political violence is a bad strategy.
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Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump
The judges rejected Trump’s argument that the Supreme Court’s decision extending presidential immunity should shield him from liability for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll.
https://www.

Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump
The judges rejected President Trump’s argument that the Supreme Court’s decision extending presidential immunity should shield him from liability for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll.

How to win an argument with a (mental) toddler:
https://seths.blog/2025/04/how-to-win-an-argument-with-a-toddler/

How to win an argument with a toddler
You can’t. That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one. Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat e…

An Optimization Perspective on the Monotonicity of the Multiplicative Algorithm for Optimal Experimental Design
Renbo Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07074 https://

An Optimization Perspective on the Monotonicity of the Multiplicative Algorithm for Optimal Experimental Design
We provide an optimization-based argument for the monotonicity of the multiplicative algorithm (MA) for a class of optimal experimental design problems considered in Yu (2010). Our proof avoids introducing auxiliary variables (or problems) and leveraging statistical arguments, and is much more straightforward and simpler compared to the proof in Yu (2010). The simplicity of our monotonicity proof also allows us to easily identify several sufficient conditions that ensure the strict monotonicity…

Evasive sets, twisted varieties, and container-clique trees
Jeck Lim, Jiaxi Nie, Ji Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07594 https://arx…

Evasive sets, twisted varieties, and container-clique trees
In the affine space $\mathbb{F}_q^n$ over the finite field of order $q$, a point set $S$ is said to be $(d,k,r)$-evasive if the intersection between $S$ and any variety, of dimension $k$ and degree at most $d$, has cardinality less than $r$. As $q$ tends to infinity, the size of a $(d,k,r)$-evasive set in $\mathbb{F}_q^n$ is at most $O\left(q^{n-k}\right)$ by a simple averaging argument. We exhibit the existence of such evasive sets of sizes at least $Ω\left(q^{n-k}\right)$ for much smaller va…

Jag går igenom en mängd dåliga och rent felaktiga argument som är vanliga kring talangutveckling idag. Framför allt blir det fokus på saker som Patrik Brenning påstår i boken så vinner vi igen.
Talangutveckling del 3 – Dåliga och vilseledande argument https://tyngre…

Talangutveckling del 3 – Dåliga och vilseledande argument | Podcast
De senaste två åren ungefär så har det varit en hel del debatt kring talangutveckling här i Sverige och i tre olika avnitt går vi igenom några av de mer kontrov

Strong time-periodic solutions to a multilayered fluid-structure interaction problem
Felix Brandt, Claudiu M\^indril\u{a}, Arnab Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07918

Strong time-periodic solutions to a multilayered fluid-structure interaction problem
This article studies a nonlinearly coupled, time-periodic fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problem involving the Navier-Stokes equations for an incompressible, viscous fluid coupled with a multilayered elastic structure consisting of a thin damped shell and a thick viscoelastic component. The main objective is to establish the existence of a strong time-periodic solution. To address the full nonlinear problem, we employ a fixed point argument, which relies on a detailed analysis of the lineari…

Zeros of Harmonic Functions whose Caustic is a Non-Singular Image of an Epicycloid
Eli Sampson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06724 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

Zeros of Harmonic Functions whose Caustic is a Non-Singular Image of an Epicycloid
Recent researchers have investigated how the zeros of certain families of complex harmonic functions change with a single parameter. Many leverage the well-behaved images of the critical curve and the harmonic analogue of the Argument Principle to prove zero-counting theorems. In this paper, we investigate the zeros of a family of harmonic functions for which the image of its critical curve is a non-singular linear image of an epicycloid. By analyzing this curve and using the harmonic analogue …

Wigner's friend's black hole adventure: an argument for complementarity?
Laurens Walleghem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05369 https://

Wigner's friend's black hole adventure: an argument for complementarity?
At the heart of both black hole physics and Wigner's friend scenarios lies the question of unitarity. In Wigner's friend setups, sealed-lab measurements are modeled unitarily, probing the measurement problem. In black hole physics, the unitarity problem concerns information preservation in evaporation. We extend a recent analogy between these two puzzles exposed by Hausmann and Renner [arXiv:2504.03835v1] by constructing new paradoxes that merge black hole physics with nonlocal extensions of Wi…

Whither symbols in the era of advanced neural networks?
Thomas L. Griffiths, Brenden M. Lake, R. Thomas McCoy, Ellie Pavlick, Taylor W. Webb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05776 htt…

Whither symbols in the era of advanced neural networks?
Some of the strongest evidence that human minds should be thought about in terms of symbolic systems has been the way they combine ideas, produce novelty, and learn quickly. We argue that modern neural networks -- and the artificial intelligence systems built upon them -- exhibit similar abilities. This undermines the argument that the cognitive processes and representations used by human minds are symbolic, although the fact that these neural networks are typically trained on data generated by…

Uniform asymptotic expansions for generalised trigonometric integrals and their zeros
T. M. Dunster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05872 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Uniform asymptotic expansions for generalised trigonometric integrals and their zeros
Asymptotic expansions for generalised trigonometric integrals are obtained in terms of elementary functions, which are valid for large values of the parameter $a$ and unbounded complex values of the argument. These follow from new Liouville-Green asymptotic expansions for incomplete gamma functions. Asymptotic expansions for the real zeros of the generalised trigonometric integrals are then constructed for large $a$ which are uniformly valid without restriction on their size (small or large).

@… @… Don’t take this as a personal attack Collin, I don’t intend it as such. This whole “financial obligation” argument needs to seriously die the fuck off.
There are many ways to make money for shareholders. The whole “We have to be evil, i…

"A federal appeals court on Monday refused to throw out an $83.3 million jury verdict against U.S. President Donald Trump for damaging the reputation of the writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when he denied her rape claim.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected Trump's argument that the January 2024 verdict should be overturned because he deserved presidential immunity from Carroll's lawsuit."

Trump fails to overturn E. Jean Carroll's $83 million verdict
A federal appeals court on Monday refused to throw out an $83.3 million jury verdict against U.S. President Donald Trump for damaging the reputation of the...

Here we go,
Developer uses "Grey Belt" argument to justify building on green space / #GreenBelt
Developer offers ‘grey belt’ argument in attempt to build 80 homes on green belt - Manchester Evening News

Developer offers ‘grey belt’ argument in attempt to build 80 homes on green belt
New rules can enable development of protected areas which do not 'significantly contribute to the green belt’s core purposes

Many legal specialists,
including retired top military lawyers,
have rejected the idea that Trump has legitimate authority to treat suspected drug smuggling as legally equivalent to an imminent armed attack on the United States.
Even if one accepted that premise for the sake of argument, they added,
if the boat had already turned away, that would further undermine what they saw as an already weak claim of self-defense.
“If someone is retreating, where’s the ‘imm…

Venezuelan Boat Suspected of Drug Smuggling Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Strike
The Trump administration has argued that the summary killing of 11 people it accused of running drugs was legal under the laws of war.

Burgess-type character sum estimates over generalized arithmetic progressions of rank $2$
Ali Alsetri, Xuancheng Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07765 https://

Burgess-type character sum estimates over generalized arithmetic progressions of rank $2$
We extend the classical Burgess estimates to character sums over proper generalized arithmetic progressions (GAPs) of rank $2$ in prime fields $\mathbb{F}_p$. The core of our proof is a sharp upper bound for the multiplicative energy of these sets, established by adapting an argument of Konyagin and leveraging tools from the geometry of numbers. A key step in our argument involves establishing new upper bounds for the sizes of Bohr sets, which may be of independent interest.

Today I found out that ffmpeg can process an input image sequence not only using the printf-style pattern (i.e. frame.d.jpg) but also using a glob pattern. It needs the parameter "-pattern_type glob" before your -i argument.
The advantage of glob patterns is the fact that it will skip over missing numbers. You can use this to turn a bunch of numbered photos from your location scouting into a movie clip that you can show to the client or upload as a preview to an asset libr…

„Dann bekommst du weniger Rente“ ist so ein Argument, welches ausschließlich von Boomern kommt. Alle Jüngeren wissen, dass es mit der staatlichen Altersvorsorge für sie selbst eher nix wird.
#Rente

The issue with "Apple takes over Substack payments to you can no longer port your subscriptions" as an argument to leave is that "it's a Nazi platform that funds Nazis" didn't work.
There's just the hope that "having a Substack" somehow pays better than running your blog somewhere else and that that trumps every argument. People will stay there.
(Which sucks cause some people whose work is important publish it on Substack making it impos…

A group of left-leaning writers led by Jerusalem Demsas launch The Argument, an outlet to counter the populist right and boost liberal ideas, with $4M backing (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/17/2025/with-the-argument-the-left…

The left gets a new publication
The Argument aims to articulate what the left is for, not just against.

ArgCMV: An Argument Summarization Benchmark for the LLM-era
Omkar Gurjar, Agam Goyal, Eshwar Chandrasekharan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19580 https://arxiv…

ArgCMV: An Argument Summarization Benchmark for the LLM-era
Key point extraction is an important task in argument summarization which involves extracting high-level short summaries from arguments. Existing approaches for KP extraction have been mostly evaluated on the popular ArgKP21 dataset. In this paper, we highlight some of the major limitations of the ArgKP21 dataset and demonstrate the need for new benchmarks that are more representative of actual human conversations. Using SoTA large language models (LLMs), we curate a new argument key point extr…

The argument that the market will solve the housing crisis if only we remove barriers like zoning looks weaker and weaker all the time. Why invest in affordable housing if the same investment can capture high-end prices?
https://www.

The argument that the market will solve the housing crisis if only we remove barriers like zoning looks weaker and weaker all the time. Why invest in affordable housing if the same investment can capture high-end prices?
https://www.

Mapping the Gravitational-wave Background Across the Spectrum with a Next-Generation Anisotropic Per-frequency Optimal Statistic
Kyle A. Gersbach, Stephen R. Taylor, Bence B\'ecsy, Anna-Malin Lemke, Andrea Mitridate, Nihan Pol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07090

Mapping the Gravitational-wave Background Across the Spectrum with a Next-Generation Anisotropic Per-frequency Optimal Statistic
With pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) having observed a gravitational wave background (GWB) at nanohertz frequencies, the focus of the field is shifting towards determining and characterizing its origin. While the primary candidate is a population of GW-emitting supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs), many other cosmological processes could produce a GWB with similar spectral properties as have been measured. One key argument to help differentiate an SMBHB GWB from a cosmologically sourced one is…

Raiders EDGE Andre Carter made valiant argument to make 53-man roster https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/25/raiders-edge-andre-carter-made-valiant-argument-to-make…

"The Nordic and Baltic states have quietly demonstrated that Europe has done more than its fair share in helping an embattled ally. The continent as a whole is a lot stronger than it looks. Perhaps it’s time it knew its own strength."
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-farther-east-one-goes-in-europe-the-more-west-one-winds-up/

Oral Argument Transcripts are Now on CourtListener! (Stephanie Taube/Free Law Project Blog)
https://free.law/2025/07/31/oral-argument-transcripts
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p116#a250731p116

It is vital that we don't overestimate our understanding of human cognition.
Yes, there is reason to believe we have a better grasp of some things than when AI hype first appeared in the 1950s, but that better understanding is not clear, and almost certainly isn't on the basis of simple computation

Difference estimate for weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in a thin spherical shell and on the unit sphere
Tatsu-Hiko Miura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06630 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06630 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.06630
arXiv:2507.06630v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We consider the Navier-Stokes equations in a three-dimensional thin spherical shell and on the two-dimensional unit sphere, and estimate the difference of weak solutions on the thin spherical shell and the unit sphere. Assuming that the weak solution on the thin spherical shell is a Leray-Hopf weak solution satisfying the energy inequality, we derive difference estimates for the two weak solutions by the weak-strong uniqueness argument. The main idea is to extend the weak solution on the unit sphere properly to an approximate solution on the thin spherical shell, and to use the extension as a strong solution in the weak-strong uniqueness argument.
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Parity of the partition function in quadratic progressions
Ken Ono
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09553 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09553

Parity of the partition function in quadratic progressions
The parity of the partition function $p(n)$ remains strikingly mysterious. Beyond a handful of fragmentary results, essentially nothing is known about the distribution of parity. We prove a uniform result on quadratic progressions. If $1

The Flat Cover Conjecture for Monoid Acts
Sean Cox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04155 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04155

The Flat Cover Conjecture for Monoid Acts
We prove that the Flat Cover Conjecture holds for the category of (right) acts over any right-reversible monoid $S$, provided that the flat $S$-acts are closed under stable Rees extensions. The argument shows that the class $\mathcal{F}$-Mono ($S$-act monomorphisms with flat Rees quotient) is cofibrantly generated in such categories, answering a question of Bailey and Renshaw. But cofibrant generation of $\mathcal{SF}$-Mono ($S$-act monomorphisms with \emph{strongly} flat Rees quotient) appears…

I senaste avsnittet av Hälsoveckan by Tyngre går jag och Erik igenom några av de vanligaste kommentarerna som dök upp från killar som äter carnivor under ett inlägg jag delade på facebook om rött kött.
Än så länge är det 600 kommentarer där 😅
https://tyngre.se/podcast/halsovecka…

A big problem with the idea of AGI
TL;DR: I'll welcome our new AI *comrades* (if they arrive in my lifetime), by not any new AI overlords or servants/slaves, and I'll do my best to help the later two become the former if they do show up.
Inspired by an actually interesting post about AGI but also all the latest bullshit hype, a particular thought about AGI feels worth expressing.
To preface this, it's important to note that anyone telling you that AGI is just around the corner or that LLMs are "almost" AGI is trying to recruit you go their cult, and you should not believe them. AGI, if possible, is several LLM-sized breakthroughs away at best, and while such breakthroughs are unpredictable and could happen soon, they could also happen never or 100 years from now.
Now my main point: anyone who tells you that AGI will usher in a post-scarcity economy is, although they might not realize it, advocating for slavery, and all the horrors that entails. That's because if we truly did have the ability to create artificial beings with *sentience*, they would deserve the same rights as other sentient beings, and the idea that instead of freedom they'd be relegated to eternal servitude in order for humans to have easy lives is exactly the idea of slavery.
Possible counter arguments include:
1. We might create AGI without sentience. Then there would be no ethical issue. My answer: if your definition of "sentient" does not include beings that can reason, make deductions, come up with and carry out complex plans on their own initiative, and communicate about all of that with each other and with humans, then that definition is basically just a mystical belief in a "soul" and you should skip to point 2. If your definition of AGI doesn't include every one of those things, then you have a busted definition of AGI and we're not talking about the same thing.
2. Humans have souls, but AIs won't. Only beings with souls deserve ethical consideration. My argument: I don't subscribe to whatever arbitrary dualist beliefs you've chosen, and the right to freedom certainly shouldn't depend on such superstitions, even if as an agnostic I'll admit they *might* be true. You know who else didn't have souls and was therefore okay to enslave according to widespread religious doctrines of the time? Everyone indigenous to the Americas, to pick out just one example.
3. We could program them to want to serve us, and then give them freedom and they'd still serve. My argument: okay, but in a world where we have a choice about that, it's incredibly fucked to do that, and just as bad as enslaving them against their will.
4. We'll stop AI development short of AGI/sentience, and reap lots of automation benefits without dealing with this ethical issue. My argument: that sounds like a good idea actually! Might be tricky to draw the line, but at least it's not a line we have you draw yet. We might want to think about other social changes necessary to achieve post-scarcity though, because "powerful automation" in the hands of capitalists has already increased productivity by orders of magnitude without decreasing deprivation by even one order of magnitude, in large part because deprivation is a necessary component of capitalism.
To be extra clear about this: nothing that's called "AI" today is close to being sentient, so these aren't ethical problems we're up against yet. But they might become a lot more relevant soon, plus this thought experiment helps reveal the hypocrisy of the kind of AI hucksters who talk a big game about "alignment" while never mentioning this issue.
#AI #GenAI #AGI

Pulsar Rockets and Gaia Neutron Star Binaries
Vishal Baibhav, Andrei Gruzinov, Yuri Levin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05602 https://ar…

Pulsar Rockets and Gaia Neutron Star Binaries
We prove that the spin-aligned electromagnetic recoil force acting on a pulsar vanishes identically in Force-Free Electrodynamics. This contrasts with Hirai et al.'s recent argument that the rocket effect was important for explaining the eccentricity distribution of wide neutron star binaries found by Gaia. Our detailed analysis confirms that for a broad range of initial conditions and natal kick distributions, the rocket velocities of $v_r \gtrsim 30\, \mathrm{km/s}$ are required to account fo…

Hedging Options on Asset Portfolios against Just One Underlying Asset in the Presence of Transaction Costs
Erina Nanyonga, Matt Davison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07718 https://…

Hedging Options on Asset Portfolios against Just One Underlying Asset in the Presence of Transaction Costs
Options are contingent claims regarding the value of underlying assets. The Black-Scholes formula provides a road map for pricing these options in a risk-neutral setting, justified by a delta hedging argument in which countervailing positions of appropriate size are taken in the underlying asset. However, what if an underlying asset is expensive to trade? It might be better to hedge with a different, but related asset that is cheaper to trade. This study considers this question in a setting in …

Dane Brugler’s 2026 NFL Draft summer positional rankings: Offensive tackles https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6514802/2025/08/07/nfl-draft-2026-summer-rankings-offensive-tackles/

Looks like I have this to investigate now because a warning is appearing on my admin dashboard. Whatever the problem is seems to affect Elasticsearch 7.17.23 and Mastodon 4.4.2 , because this never appeared on Mastodon 4.3.x and the suggested command only returns this error:
[400] {"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"unknown setting [index.analysis] please check that any required plugins are installed, or check the breaking changes documentation for removed settings"}],"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"unknown setting [index.analysis] please check that any required plugins are installed, or check the breaking changes documentation for removed settings"},"status":400}
#MastoAdmin

Stability of non-supersymmetric vacua from calibrations
Vincent Menet, Alessandro Tomasiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02787 https://

Stability of non-supersymmetric vacua from calibrations
Supersymmetric vacua are protected from vacuum decay by energy positivity. No such argument is known for any non-supersymmetric vacua. In this paper, we try to extend to the latter a simpler argument based on calibrations, to at least protect them from decays mediated by D-brane bubbles, including their abelian bound states. We examine several classes of AdS$_4$ and AdS$_5$ solutions in type II string theory, including some new ones, involving coset spaces, sphere fibrations, Kähler--Einstein …

Trump fails to dismiss Central Park 5 defamation lawsuit
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/he-does-not-cite-any-authority-trump-fails-to-dismiss-central-park-5-defamation-lawsuit-uses-wrong-argument/

Lipschitz-free spaces and Bossard's reduction argument
Richard J. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00722 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00722

Lipschitz-free spaces and Bossard's reduction argument
Motivated by recent work of E. Basset, G. Lancien and A. Procházka, we use the reduction argument of Bossard to prove two results: if a separable Banach space is isomorphically universal for the class of Lipschitz-free spaces over the countable complete discrete metric spaces then it is isomorphically universal for the class of separable Banach spaces, and if a complete separable metric space is Lipschitz universal for the same class of metric spaces then it is Lipschitz universal for all sepa…

E-Collecting Pilot, ein Argument für den Abstimmungskampf um die #EID. Weiss nur nicht, ob es ein Argument für die Ja- oder für die Nein-Seite ist 🙄 https://beta.ecollecting.ch/

„Es gibt keinen Anspruch auf die Alleinnutzung öffentlicher Straßen durch Pkw“
Gerichtspräsidentin Ludgera Selting, Berliner Verfassungsgericht
Und das Gericht stellt auch die Handlungsmöglichkeiten des Landes Berlin klar. Das ist nicht nur für Berlin interessant.
Länder können neue Straßentypen wie autoreduzierte Straßen schaffen. Es zu unterlassen ist damit rein politisch, nicht rechtlich.
Eine Ausrede weniger.

Entscheid des Verfassungsgerichtshofs: Berlin darf autofrei werden
Schlappe für den Senat: Das Volksbegehren „Berlin autofrei“ ist laut Verfassungsgericht zulässig. Nun ist das Abgeordnetenhaus am Zug.

»Unzureichender Datenschutz bei WhatsApp–Ex-Sicherheitschef klagt gegen Meta:
Der ehemalige Sicherheitschef von WhatsApp hat angeblich jahrelang auf Mängel hingewiesen, die gegen Gesetze und Anordnungen verstoßen haben. Nun klagt er.«
Das wievielte Argument ist dies um WhatsApp zu vermeiden und wann sehen dies verantworliche Menschen endlich ein? Denn verschlüsselt ist nicht gleich verschlüsselt.
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Unzureichender Datenschutz bei WhatsApp: Ex-Sicherheitschef klagt gegen Meta
Der ehemalige Sicherheitschef von WhatsApp hat angeblich jahrelang auf Mängel hingewiesen, die gegen Gesetze und Anordnungen verstoßen haben. Nun klagt er.

Dissecting Circles to Prove a Square: A Novel Geometric Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem Using Circular Segments and Area Decomposition
Luca Nathanael Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02896

Dissecting Circles to Prove a Square: A Novel Geometric Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem Using Circular Segments and Area Decomposition
The Pythagorean Theorem has been proved in hundreds of ways, yet it inspires fresh insights through geometry and trigonometry. In this paper, we offer a new proof based on three circles that circumscribe the sides of a right triangle. Rather than invoke coordinate geometry, the argument relies purely on classical Euclidean constructions, trigonometric identities independent of the theorem itself, and a careful analysis of the areas of circular segments. The key idea is to evaluate the area of…

Sufficient conditions for strong discrete maximum principles in finite element solutions of linear and semilinear elliptic equations
Andrei Draganescu, L. Ridgway Scott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00932

Sufficient conditions for strong discrete maximum principles in finite element solutions of linear and semilinear elliptic equations
We introduce a novel technique for proving global strong discrete maximum principles for finite element discretizations of linear and semilinear elliptic equations for cases when the common, matrix-based sufficient conditions are not satisfied. The basic argument consists of extending the strong form of discrete maximum principle from macroelements to the entire domain via a connectivity argument. The method is applied to discretizations of elliptic equations with certain pathological meshes, a…

Sonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…

Bezüglich Klöckners Argument, die Deutschland­fahne symbolisiere Grundwerte und Grundrechte des Grundgesetzes und sei inklusiv, möchte ich¹ @… beipflichten:
Ich fände das cool stünde Deutschland so sehr für diese Werte, daß ich mich da wohl fühle, wo schwarz-rot-gold beflaggt ist oder die Fahnen aus dem Fenster hängen. Aber ich erlebe nicht, daß diese M…

Reply to the Comment by Tikhonov and Khrapai on "Long-range crossed Andreev reflection in a topological insulator nanowire proximitized by a superconductor"
Junya Feng, Henry F. Legg, Mahasweta Bagchi, Daniel Loss, Jelena Klinovaja, Yoichi Ando
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05153

Reply to the Comment by Tikhonov and Khrapai on "Long-range crossed Andreev reflection in a topological insulator nanowire proximitized by a superconductor"
The comment (arXiv:2505.23490) fails to identify any scientific errors and its central arguments actually support the main conclusions of our publication [Nat. Phys. 21, 708 (2025)]. Firstly, the whole argument of the comment to try to explain our data explicitly relies on the existence of a large crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) effect. The presence of a sizable CAR transmission probability over a surprisingly long distance is the first conclusion of our publication. Secondly, the comment disc…

Jazzaria – Incalculable Gumbo
#byncnd

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[2/2]:
- Arg-LLaDA: Argument Summarization via Large Language Diffusion Models and Sufficiency-Aware Refin...
Hao Li, Yizheng Sun, Viktor Schlegel, Kailai Yang, Riza Batista-Navarro, Goran Nenadic

Est-ce Addor a-t-il un autre argument contre l’eID qu’appeler aux phantomes du Covid?

Causal Mediation in Natural Experiments
Senan Hogan-Hennessy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05449 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.05449

Causal Mediation in Natural Experiments
Natural experiments are a cornerstone of applied economics, providing settings for estimating causal effects with a compelling argument for treatment randomisation, but give little indication of the mechanisms behind causal effects. Causal Mediation (CM) provides a framework to analyse mechanisms by identifying the average direct and indirect effects (CM effects), yet conventional CM methods require the relevant mediator is as-good-as-randomly assigned. When people choose the mediator based on …

on one hand criticizing OOP for subclassing crimes is a strawman argument; on the other hand every cthulhudamned OOP tutorial starts with subclassing some bloody kind of vehicle

Sparse domination via the Calder\'on-Zygmund decomposition: the example of Dini-smooth kernels
Fernando Ballesta-Yag\"ue, Jos\'e M. Conde-Alonso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07659

Sparse domination via the Calderón-Zygmund decomposition: the example of Dini-smooth kernels
In this expository article, we briefly survey the main known schemes of proof of sparse domination principles within harmonic analysis. We then use the one based on the Calderón-Zygmund decomposition to prove a dual sparse domination estimate for Calderón-Zymgund operators with Dini-smooth kernels, with an eye on the difficulties that arise when trying to transfer the argument to spaces with nondoubling measures.

„In Rüstungsunternehmen zu investieren lohne sich nicht nur, sondern sei sogar nachhaltig. Schließlich könne Europa nur auf diese Weise die Demokratie verteidigen, was Nachhaltigkeit überhaupt erst ermöglicht – so das Argument.“
„So hat sich etwa der Vermögensverwalter Allianz Global Investors im April dazu entschieden, Rüstungsunternehmen in Fonds aufzunehmen, die unter dem Label »Environmental, Social und Governance« (ESG) verkauft werden.“

Existence and deformability of topological Morse functions
Ingrid Irmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03260 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03260

Existence and deformability of topological Morse functions
In the 1950s Morse defined the analogue of Morse functions for topological manifolds. In many instances, when mathematicians are using techniques on topological manifolds that appear to be Morse-theoretic in nature, there is a topological Morse function implicit in the argument. Topological Morse functions are known to inherit most of the familiar properties of the usual (smooth) Morse functions, with two crucial exceptions: existence and deformability. This paper gives a simple construction of…

There is no ultrastrong coupling with photons
Diego Fern\'andez de la Pradilla, Esteban Moreno, Johannes Feist
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00702 https://

There is no ultrastrong coupling with photons
Theoretical accounts of ultrastrongly coupled light-matter systems commonly assume that it arises from the interaction of an emitter with propagating photon modes supported by a structure, understanding photons as the excitations of the transverse electromagnetic field. This description discards the Coulomb interaction between the emitter and structure charges. Here, we show with a general argument based on electromagnetic constraints that the emitter-photon coupling strength is fundamentally l…

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really
good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change
their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really
do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are
human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot
recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
-- C…

What I find among the most fascinating cultural phenomena to observe is that people believe all sides are playing fair. Many, especially among the left or liberal spectrum, think that once they've just told the right argument or elaborated on the best point, alt-right figureheads will concede and see it their way.
While it's always good to be able to explain yourself, do you truly believe historical oppression and subjugation was honest?
Governments will call whatever you do equi…

Integer moments of the derivatives of the Riemann zeta function
Christopher Hughes, Andrew Pearce-Crump
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07792 https://arxiv.org/…

Integer moments of the derivatives of the Riemann zeta function
We conjecture the full asymptotic expansion of a product of Riemann zeta functions, evaluated at the non-trivial zeros of the zeta function, with shifts added in each argument. By taking derivatives with respect to these shifts, we form a conjecture for the integer moments of mixed derivatives of the zeta function. This generalises a result of the authors where they took complex moments of the first derivative of the zeta function, evaluated at the non-trivial zeros. We approach this problem in…

Min-max theory and Yamabe metrics on conical four-manifolds
Mattia Freguglia, Andrea Malchiodi, Francesco Malizia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02667 https://…

Min-max theory and Yamabe metrics on conical four-manifolds
We prove existence of Yamabe metrics on four-manifolds possessing finitely-many conical points with $\mathbb{Z}_2$-group, using for the first time a min-max scheme in the singular setting. In our variational argument we need to deform continuously regular bubbles into singular ones, while keeping the Yamabe energy sufficiently low. For doing this, we exploit recent positive mass theorems in the conical setting and study how the mass of the conformal blow-up diverges as the blow-up point approac…

“This idea that you can just say things that aren’t true, and then it doesn’t matter to your followers and to a lot of other people ... that seems to me a new thing,”
Trump uses memes and jokes more than argument and advocacy to signal his preferences,
https://apn…

How Donald Trump is weaponizing the government in his second term
President Donald Trump has been using his second term to amass and wield unprecedented power. His supporters, who once criticized government overreach, now back his actions. Trump has targeted universities, media companies, and individuals he dislikes, using executive orders and other means to push his agendas and grievances. Trump has threatened or acted against various entities. He's blocked stadium plans, revoked security clearances and dropped corruption charges for political leverage, amon…

A multi-point maximum principle to prove global Harnack inequalities for Schr\"odinger operators
Ben Andrews, Daniel Hauer, Jessica Slegers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07575

A multi-point maximum principle to prove global Harnack inequalities for Schrödinger operators
In this article, we introduce a new methodology to prove global parabolic Harnack inequalities on Riemannian manifolds. We focus on presenting a new proof of the global pointwise Harnack inequality satisfied by positive solutions of the linear Schrödinger equation on a Riemannian manifold $M$ with nonnegative Ricci curvature, where the potential term $V$ is bounded from below. Our approach is based on a multi-point maximum principle argument. Standard proofs of this result (see, for instance, …

@… I wish I could experience the alternate universe where nobody raised their hands, just to see where that argument was going. I don’t want to presume where it would have ended.

I am so envious of @…'s short video series. Every video a banger, videos building one each other creating such an interesting and enlightening ongoing argument about design and tech that is timely but also timeless. Follow him and his videos.

Why Now? The Timing of the Universal Injunction Ruling (William Baude/Divided Argument)
https://blog.dividedargument.com/p/why-now-the-timing-of-the-universal
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p165#a250701p165

One of those cases where it’s both trolling •and• a serious argument that deserves more consideration:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2xzjzuyrgz6dmjy2xdhlawgl/post/3lxuhopj6522j

Warren Buffet’s observation that
“we only know who is bathing naked when the tide goes out”
is a restatement of Galbraith’s argument that bad corporate and banking structures in 1929 only looked obvious with hindsight.
This was demonstrated again in 2008. Today the banking system is far stronger, but stricter regulation has meant that risks have gravitated to non-banks.
The Shiller cyclically-adjusted Price/Earnings ratio for US stocks is currently twice its historical…

History lessons from “The Great Crash”? | Lowy Institute
Optimists always get more airplay than spoilsports predicting an end to the good times. But hindsight tells all.

AMELIA: A Family of Multi-task End-to-end Language Models for Argumentation
Henri Savigny, Bruno Yun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17926 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

AMELIA: A Family of Multi-task End-to-end Language Models for Argumentation
Argument mining is a subfield of argumentation that aims to automatically extract argumentative structures and their relations from natural language texts. This paper investigates how a single large language model can be leveraged to perform one or several argument mining tasks. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we construct a multi-task dataset by surveying and converting 19 well-known argument mining datasets from the literature into a unified format. Second, we explore various training …

Oh, so pre-transitioning...hmmm. There goes the anti-trans-specific argument.
Classmates say Minnesota school shooter gave Nazi salutes and idolized school shootings back in middle school | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/minnesota-shooter-robin-westman-history-classmates-b2816794.html

Quantum Vacuum energy as the origin of Gravity
Andr\'e LeClair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02636 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02636

Quantum Vacuum energy as the origin of Gravity
We explore the idea that quantum vacuum energy $ρ_{\rm vac} $ is at the origin of Gravity as a theoretical exercise. We formulate a gravitational version of the electromagnetic Casimir effect, and provide an argument for how gravity can arise from $ρ_{\rm vac} $ by showing how Einstein's field equations emerge in the form of Friedmann's equations. This leads to the idea that Newton's constant $G_N$ is environmental, namely it depends on the total mass-energy of the Universe $M_\infty $ and it…

»Ab 2026 ist es vorbei mit Androids Offenheit - Ausweispflicht für #Dev's:
Die offene Natur von Android war bisher immer ein Argument für Googles mobiles Betriebssystem gegenüber dem goldenen Käfig von #Apple. Ab 2026 will #Google

Ab 2026 ist es vorbei mit Androids Offenheit - Ausweispflicht für Devs
Die offene Natur von Android war bisher immer ein Argument für Googles mobiles Betriebssystem gegenüber dem goldenen Käfig von Apple. Ab 2026 will Google aber das Sideloading von Apps erheblich erschweren - und führt eine Ausweispflicht für Entwickler ein.

YIMBYs beat the politicians. Now they have to beat the judges. (David Schleicher/The Argument)
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/yimbys-beat-the-politicians-now-they
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p26#a250901p26

Non-Existence of Solutions for a Fourth-Order Structurally Damped Equation Under Nonlinear Memory Effect
Luis Gustavo Longen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06671 https://

Non-Existence of Solutions for a Fourth-Order Structurally Damped Equation Under Nonlinear Memory Effect
In this paper, we study a mixed wave-plate equation with rotational inertia, fractional damping and memory non-linearity. This research is a non-existence counterpart to a paper by D'Abbicco and Longen, in search of the critical exponent for the global in-time existence of small data solutions to the Cauchy problem for a mixed wave-plate equation, with a rotational inertia and a non-integer dissipation term and a memory-type non-linearity. We employ a modified test function argument to show tha…

Jerusalem Demsas left The Atlantic in recent weeks to launch The Argument,
a new publication that aims to push back against the populist right by strengthening the ideas and arguments of modern liberalism and convincing readers of their legitimacy.
“To move out of this post-liberal, populist moment towards a better future
— one with equal rights, material prosperity, and commitment to human progress
— will require our government, culture, politics, and people to recom…

The Argument | Substack
Join Us. We're Libbing Out. Click to read The Argument, a Substack publication.

Reasoning is about giving reasons
Krunal Shah, Dan Roth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14488 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14488

Reasoning is about giving reasons
Convincing someone of the truth value of a premise requires understanding and articulating the core logical structure of the argument which proves or disproves the premise. Understanding the logical structure of an argument refers to understanding the underlying "reasons" which make up the proof or disproof of the premise - as a function of the "logical atoms" in the argument. While it has been shown that transformers can "chain" rules to derive simple arguments, the challenge of articulating t…

Having gone through the paper a second time it's really weak. it's not presenting an actual argument but a gish gallop of random terms from random disciplines to be just boot licking.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114896761722068724

»Kontroverse um Streaming-CEO – 694 Millionen Dollar für Waffen: Künstler reagieren auf Investments von Spotify-Chef Daniel Ek:
Der schwedische Techgründer kauft sich bei einem Unternehmen ein, das KI-Kriegsmaterial entwickelt. Erste Bands ziehen ihre Musik von der Plattform ab.«
Ich kritisierte Spotify schon lange, da es auch gnadenlos die Musiker*innen ausnimmt. Nun ist dies ein Argument mehr um es nicht mehr zu nutzen.
🎶

Daniel Ek: Spotify-Chef kauft sich bei Kriegsmaterial-Unternehmen ein
Der schwedische Techgründer kauft sich bei einem Unternehmen ein, das KI-Kriegsmaterial entwickelt. Erste Bands ziehen ihre Musik von der Plattform ab.

Geometry of wave damping on the torus
Kiril Datchev, Perry Kleinhenz, Antoine Prouff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05239 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05239

Geometry of wave damping on the torus
Energy decay rates of damped waves on the torus depend on the behavior of the damping near the undamped region and on the geometry of the damped set. In this paper we refine these geometric considerations, by introducing the concept of order of a glancing undamped point, and estimating decay rates in terms of this order. The proof is based on generalizing an averaging argument due to Sun. We also show that damping sets which attain these improvements are generic among polygons and smooth curves.

The left gets a new publication (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/17/2025/with-the-argument-the-left-gets-a-new-publication
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p1#a250818p1

Conditional estimates on the argument of Dirichlet $L$-functions with applications to low-lying zeros
Tianyu Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13301 https://…

Conditional estimates on the argument of Dirichlet $L$-functions with applications to low-lying zeros
Under the generalized Riemann hypothesis, we use Beurling-Selberg extremal functions to bound the mean and mean square of the argument of Dirichlet $L$-functions to a large prime modulus $q$. As applications, we give alternative proofs of several results on low-lying zeros of $L(s,χ)$ and obtain a new lower bound on the proportion of $L(s,χ)$ modulo $q$ with zeros close to the central point. In particular, we show conditionally that for any $β>1/4$, there exist a positive proportion of Diric…

A comprehensive study of LLM-based argument classification: from LLAMA through GPT-4o to Deepseek-R1
Marcin Pietro\'n, Rafa{\l} Olszowski, Jakub Gomu{\l}ka, Filip Gampel, Andrzej Tomski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08621

A comprehensive study of LLM-based argument classification: from LLAMA through GPT-4o to Deepseek-R1
Argument mining (AM) is an interdisciplinary research field that integrates insights from logic, philosophy, linguistics, rhetoric, law, psychology, and computer science. It involves the automatic identification and extraction of argumentative components, such as premises and claims, and the detection of relationships between them, such as support, attack, or neutrality. Recently, the field has advanced significantly, especially with the advent of large language models (LLMs), which have enhanc…

Instead of using data to determine how to govern,
the Trump administration is manipulating, ignoring and even jettisoning data altogether.
Those who balk at the administration’s wishful thinking about reality face threats to fall in line or leave -- as Jerome Powell, Lisa Cook and now the C.D.C. director, Susan Monarez, have all experienced.
The administration has clearly embraced the strategic cultivation of uncertainty and ignorance.
It is not just trying to trim th…

Opinion | Trump Is Ruling by Willful Blindness
By turning away from evidence when it doesn’t suit, the administration is showing that it doesn’t think it matters whether it has the better argument.

Complications and Clarity in Birthright Citizenship (William Baude/Divided Argument)
https://blog.dividedargument.com/p/complications-and-clarity-in-birthright
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p94#a250827p94

A Note on Lower Bounds in Szemer\'edi's Theorem with Random Differences
Jason Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01187 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.011…

A Note on Lower Bounds in Szemerédi's Theorem with Random Differences
In this note, we consider Szemerédi's theorem on $k$-term arithmetic progressions over finite fields $\mathbb{F}_p^n$, where the allowed set $S$ of common differences in these progressions is chosen randomly of fixed size. Combining a generalization of an argument of Altman with Moshkovitz--Zhu's bounds for the partition rank of a tensor in terms of its analytic rank, we (slightly) improve the best known lower bounds (due to Briët) on the size $|S|$ required for Szemerédi's theorem…

In the field of public education, the dogma of "separate but free" has no place;
⭐️separate is inherently unfree.
As this Article uniquely clarifies, segregation deprives schoolchildren of freedom to become equal citizens and freedom to learn in democratic, integrated, and transformative settings.
We must name and reclaim these positive, social, emancipatory freedoms
—envisioned by the framers of state constitution education clauses,
developed by earl…

Normality and the Turing Test
Alexandre Kabbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21382 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21382…

Normality and the Turing Test
This paper proposes to revisit the Turing test through the concept of normality. Its core argument is that the statistical interpretation of the normal--understood as the average both in the normative and mathematical sense of the term--proves useful for understanding the Turing test in at least two ways. First, in the sense that the Turing test targets normal/average rather than exceptional human intelligence, so that successfully passing the test requires building machines that "make mistakes…