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Exclusive: China's global favorability rising, views of the U.S. turn negative (Emily Peck/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/china-us-global-opinions
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p21#a250602p21

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What are the pros and cons of pinned vs finned heatsinks? I'm thinking specifically about rectangular pins like seen in my previous post (Wakefield-Vette 960 series).
Initial thoughts:
* Fins absolutely have to have airflow down their long axis. Square/round pins don't care, rectangular pins degrade but not horribly if you're oriented wrong
* Pins weigh less
* Fins have more surface area (at least, in the direction of airflow) in the same footprint
* …

Q&A with Mary Meeker on publishing her first Trends report since 2019, its focus on the AI revolution, why OpenAI may have an insurmountable lead, and more (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/mary-meeker-trends-report-openai

Q&A with Mary Meeker on the AI revolution
The famed internet analyst turned VC just published her first Trends report since 2019.

The Cost of Restaking vs. Proof-of-Stake
Akaki Mamageishvili, Benny Sudakov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24440 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

The Cost of Restaking vs. Proof-of-Stake
We compare the efficiency of restaking and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) protocols in terms of stake requirements. First, we consider the sufficient condition for the restaking graph to be secure. We show that the condition implies that it is always possible to transform such a restaking graph into secure PoS protocols. Next, we derive two main results, giving upper and lower bounds on required extra stakes that one needs to add to validators of the secure restaking graph to be able to transform it into…

Collimation of Fast Radio Burster 20201124A; Repeaters vs. Apparent Non-Repeaters
J. I. Katz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24082 https://

Collimation of Fast Radio Burster 20201124A; Repeaters vs. Apparent Non-Repeaters
The recent report of a period in the active repeating Fast Radio Burster 20201124A and measurement of its spindown rate place bounds on the solid angle of its emission on the basis of energetics. The bound depends on the (unknown) efficiency of conversion of rotational energy to coherent radio emission and implies a lower bound on the Lorentz factor of the radiating charges. Bursts may be emitted along the magnetic dipole axis, in repeaters aligned with the rotational axis and the line of sight…

Unsupervised Rhythm and Voice Conversion to Improve ASR on Dysarthric Speech
Karl El Hajal, Enno Hermann, Sevada Hovsepyan, Mathew Magimai. -Doss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01618 …

Unsupervised Rhythm and Voice Conversion to Improve ASR on Dysarthric Speech
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems struggle with dysarthric speech due to high inter-speaker variability and slow speaking rates. To address this, we explore dysarthric-to-healthy speech conversion for improved ASR performance. Our approach extends the Rhythm and Voice (RnV) conversion framework by introducing a syllable-based rhythm modeling method suited for dysarthric speech. We assess its impact on ASR by training LF-MMI models and fine-tuning Whisper on converted speech. Experiment…

"The big problem is 'bottlenecks' that make it harder to produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges."
vs.
"The big problem is that big corporations have way too much power over our economy and our government."
By 12pts all voters and by 42pts Dem voters prefer the second statement. They're right!

Poll: Democratic voters prefer "populism" over "abundance"
Democrats are asking themselves some hard questions as they ponder how they lost the 2024 election.

Improved Prefetching Techniques for Linked Data Structures
Nikola Vuk Maruszewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21669 https://arxiv.org/…

Improved Prefetching Techniques for Linked Data Structures
With ever-increasing main memory stall times, we need novel techniques to reduce effective memory access latencies. Prefetching has been shown to be an effective solution, especially with contiguous data structures that follow the traditional principles of spatial and temporal locality. However, on linked data structures$-$made up of many nodes linked together with pointers$-$typical prefetchers struggle, failing to predict accesses as elements are arbitrarily scattered throughout memory and ac…

To give some examples:
When police get vastly differential results at investigating crimes against some groups (e.g., Black women) vs. others (e.g., white men), that's malcompetence. Probably plenty of simple malice involved too, and probably the whole gamut of mechanisms I mentioned in the last post are involved here.
Another example, from my own experience: when I stumble over the names of my non-white students but pronounce my white students' names flawlessly, that's malcompetence on my part, because the net effect of my selective incompetence is to make some students feel less welcome in my classroom, which hurts their learning. I'm my case, the reasons for the incompetence are not conscious nor (I think) unconscious malice, but instead a differential capability picked up from a certain kind of upbringing and then (sometimes) insufficiently mitigated by capability-building effort. Because of how I grew up, my ability to pronounce different names is biased (this is true of everyone in the world; most people don't have a classroom instructor position that causes it to matter so much). When I'm successful at mitigating my malcompetence, I use practice time with student intro videos to pare down my competence gap for the specific students in my class. This is time consuming (several hours per week for the first few weeks of classes) and I'm sad to admit that I don't always invest that time. But it's a great example of malcompetence because I have a introspective access to it.