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Over Half Of Canadians Want To Eat More Plant-Based Foods, But Not Why You Think https://plantbasednews.org/news/alternative-protein/canadians-eat-more-plant-based-foods/

Over Half Of Canadians Want To Eat More Plant-Based Foods, But Not Why You Think
More than half of Canadians want to eat more plant-based foods, and most cited cost as the most important motivator

Publishing a #Java-based database tool on MacAppStore (MAS)
https://tanin.nanakorn.com/publishing-a-java-based-database-tool-on-mac-app-store-mas/

Arm-Based Windows 11 PCs Can Now Download and Play Games from the Xbox App https://www.thurrott.com/games/331882/arm-based-windows-11-pcs-can-now-download-and-play-games-from-the-xbox-app

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Slang AI, which develops voice-based software for the hospitality industry that answers inbound calls, manages reservations, and more, raised a $36M Series B (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/02/24/slang-ai-hospitality-voic…

Exclusive: Slang AI lands $36M for hospitality voice tech
The NYC-based hospitality platform helps restaurants manage calls and bookings.

Adobe updates Firefly to add Quick Cut, a new AI tool to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user prompts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/adobe-fireflys-vi…

Adobe Firefly's video editor can now automatically create a first draft from footage | TechCrunch
Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage to create a first draft of the final video based on user instructions.

So the NASA administrator announced that in two years from now they’re sending a fission-based spacecraft to Mars to deploy helicopters.

product_space: Atlas of Economic Complexity export network
Two networks of economic products, where a pair of products are connected if they are exported at similar rates by the same countries. The data are a projection from a bipartite network of nations and the products they export. Edges weights represent a similarity score (called "proximity"). Data based on UN Comtrade worldwide trade patterns. SITC network based on the Standard International Trade Classification and HS …

Executive Director of South L.A.-Based Charity Arrested on Federal Complaint Alleging $23 Million Swindle of Homelessness Funds (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/executive-director-south-la-based-charity-arrested-federal-complaint-alleging-23
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p82#a260123p82

🥳 New Kitten Release
• Implement garbage collection timeout for unconnected pages
Added a timeout to KittenPage instances so that if they do not connect within 10 seconds, they are garbage collected.

This is to avoid a memory leak in the scenario where a person rapidly refreshes a class-based (state maintaining) Kitten page. In such a scenario, the almost instant page lifecycle does not allow enough time for the page’s default WebSocket to connect and disconnect from the …

Last night, I was reading a book that contained this passage about Mussolini, and it took me an hour to fully grasp what this meant:
"[his 2-year stay in Switzerland] had initiated Mussolini to a form of revolutionary socialism based not on materialism or orthodox Marxism, but on a cocktail of voluntarists and anti-rational principles derived from Pareto, Le Bon, Nietzsche, and Sorel"

Adobe updates Firefly to add Quick Cut, a new AI tool to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user prompts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/adobe-fireflys-vi…

Adobe Firefly's video editor can now automatically create a first draft from footage | TechCrunch
Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage to create a first draft of the final video based on user instructions.

from my link log —
An effect notation based on with-clauses and blocks.
https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/a-with-based-effect-notation
saved 2026-03-21

"Does he really believe those strange and bizarre things?"
"He has a rumor-based reality perception... so, yeah..."
#reality #realitycheck #humor

Poland: New Regulation Guarantees Access to Plant-Based Canteen Food https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/poland-new-regulation-guarantees-access-to-plant-based-canteen-food/

Poland: New Regulation Guarantees Access to Plant-Based Canteen Food - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
The Minister of Health has signed a regulation which, for the first time in the history of Polish law, guarantees children in schools access to fully

PIME: Prototype-based Interpretable MCTS-Enhanced Brain Network Analysis for Disorder Diagnosis
Kunyu Zhang, Yanwu Yang, Jing Zhang, Xiangjie Shi, Shujian Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21046 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21046 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21046
arXiv:2602.21046v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent deep learning methods for fMRI-based diagnosis have achieved promising accuracy by modeling functional connectivity networks. However, standard approaches often struggle with noisy interactions, and conventional post-hoc attribution methods may lack reliability, potentially highlighting dataset-specific artifacts. To address these challenges, we introduce PIME, an interpretable framework that bridges intrinsic interpretability with minimal-sufficient subgraph optimization by integrating prototype-based classification and consistency training with structural perturbations during learning. This encourages a structured latent space and enables Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) under a prototype-consistent objective to extract compact minimal-sufficient explanatory subgraphs post-training. Experiments on three benchmark fMRI datasets demonstrate that PIME achieves state-of-the-art performance. Furthermore, by constraining the search space via learned prototypes, PIME identifies critical brain regions that are consistent with established neuroimaging findings. Stability analysis shows 90% reproducibility and consistent explanations across atlases.
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ICE has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted
https://bsky.app/profile/404media.co/post/3mdb7ue5f722x

404 Media (@404media.co)
THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets. They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. https://www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying-to-you-about-ice-shooting-a-woman/

Nanometer-scale pre-bunched electron beams generated from all-optical plasma-based acceleration
Zhenan Wang, Zewei Xu, Qianyi Ma, Yuhui Xia, Letian Liu, Chenxu Wang, Thamine Dalichaouch, Xueqing Yan, Xinlu Xu, Warren B. Mori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19081 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.19081 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.19081
arXiv:2602.19081v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: High-quality and prebunched electron beams can produce coherent x-rays with high intensity and narrow bandwidth, which is essential for modern light sources. An all-optical scheme based on plasma-based acceleration to produce bright electron beams that are pre-bunched on nanometer-scales is proposed. By using a density modulation created by two low intensity counter-propagating lasers, the phase velocity of the plasma wake excited by an intense driver laser in a uniform plasma can be modulated at a frequency twice that of the colliding lasers and thus turn the injection on and off. The injected electrons are micro-bunched at the Doppler shifted wavelength of the modulated wavelength using the corresponding phase velocity of the gradual expansion of the wakefield. It is demonstrated that by controlling the properties of the drive and colliding lasers, that beams with exotic pre-bunched structures can be produced, which may have critical applications in ultrafast high power x-rays. This extremely compact, all-optical scheme to produce ultra-bright pre-bunched electron beams may therefore enable novel applications for ultrafast x-ray users and arouse general interest in various fields.
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"Cutting-Edge Plant-Based Plastic Bag Dissolves In Seawater Leaving No Microplastics"
#Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Cutting-Edge Plant-Based Plastic Bag Dissolves In Seawater Leaving No Microplastics
A team of researchers has demonstrated a cutting-edge plant-based plastic bag that can dissolve in water without producing microplastics

The GOP measures a person's worth based on their WEALTH & that makes them 'superior' to the needy in their minds.
This arrogance creates intolerance & 'my-way-or-the-highway' indignance because they're also control freaks.
And that's why there's always an air of disconnected condescension around their actions.
☑️ Ernst's McSCUSE ME Act Would Ban Fast Food For SNAP - Comic Sands

Ernst's McSCUSE ME Act Would Ban Fast Food For SNAP
The cruelty is the point.

It seems to me based on mailing list traffic like a lot of people are seeing the free side of MS email (outlook.com, hotmail.com, etc. not paying customers on ms365) doing what it so often does today: mystery rejections and dropping mail on the floor.
I assure you: if you're getting bounces because of this, your mail admin knows that it is happening and has NO WAY to address it.
#Sysadminnery

"Durkin granted the Chicago Transit Authority’s temporary restraining order against Trump’s Department of Transportation, which had frozen $3 billion in funds since last October over so-called race- and sex-based discrimination — which local directors describe simply as inclusive DEI policies."
Another judge obliterates Trump’s 'massive' attack on blue states - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-funding-freeze-blue-states/

Also want to say how wonderful #StarTrek #StarFleetAcademy is to again be transported to a society that is doing its best to make things better. To be based on science, facts, community, communication, trust and empathy.
And its set in San Francisco, just wish I could teleport up there right now…

💮 Compact LET Arrays for Origami-Based Mechanisms
#robotics #mechanical

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ICYMI
We plan to run a series of articles as a stock-take of degrowth and ecosocialism worldwide. We envisage two types of contribution.
Short country updates and longer issue-based pieces.
Follow the link for details.
#degrowth #ecosocialism

Call for articles: Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture
Degrowth UK plans to run a series of articles as a stock-take of degrowth and ecosocialism worldwide. We envisage two types of contribution. 1) Short pieces (up to 2,000 words) summarising the situ…

Hi Seafarers!
Please help improve crisis intervention after critical incidents on board.
Here is a survey by WMU:
https://wmuhq.questionpro.eu/SEACARE
Please share!

"Author Name Disambiguation in Scholarly Research: A Bibliometric Perspective"
https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2025-0035
"The rapid expansion of scholarly publishing has amplified the long-standing challenge of author name ambiguity in academic databases. This issue, manifesting a…

"With his return to Westminster seemingly blocked, on Monday Andy Burnham will get back to the two roles to which he has devoted his time in recent years: being mayor of Greater Manchester and annoying Keir Starmer."
".. he has carved out a distinct if occasionally woolly left-leaning ethos, certainly more distinctive than his philosophy as an MP,.. “ a growth-based vision".
Rebuffed Burnham can return to honing his stature and attack lines | Andy Burnham | The…

Just remember -- from 2015:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/23/back-to-the-future-writer-bad-guy-biff-was-based-on-donald-trump

Back to the Future writer: bad guy Biff was based on Donald Trump
Screenwriter Bob Gale confirms long-standing fan theory that Marty’s nemesis in the trilogy was modelled on the Republican presidential candidate

🎯 Schema-based input validation via Protobuf strict typing mitigates injection attacks & rejects malformed inputs at serialization layer
📋 Google Cloud contributing gRPC transport package to MCP SDKs - community-backed consistent interoperable deployment for gRPC practitioners
🏢 Spotify already using experimental MCP over gRPC internally - benefits include ease of use, developer familiarity & reduced work building MCP servers

Dutch right-wing newspaper Telegraaf headline: Aid organisation OxfamNovib linked to Hamas. Solely based on an accusation by a Jerusalem-based, Israeli government-linked organisation, which says Palestinian fighters can hide behind trees irrigated with help of Oxfam.

Het is het eeuwige dilemma: negeren of weerspreken. Meestal kies ik voor het eerste, maar vandaag ging De Telegraaf te ver. In een pagina-groot artikel – inclusief persoonlijke foto en… | Michiel Servaes | 78 comments
Het is het eeuwige dilemma: negeren of weerspreken. Meestal kies ik voor het eerste, maar vandaag ging De Telegraaf te ver. In een pagina-groot artikel – inclusief persoonlijke foto en chocoladeletters – wordt het werk van Oxfam Novib en van mijn moedige humanitaire collega’s in verband gebracht met terrorisme, ‘Stasi-achtige technieken’ en misbruik van humanitaire principes. “Hamas heeft bij Nederlandse hulporganisaties stevige vinger in de pap”, concludeert de krant voor zijn…

Looks like there is another supply chain attack on open source, this time the #python based #litellm package. I had a look at the #github page and I can see over a thousand open pull requests and a core t…

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: What do you mean? [pause] Gan?
GAN: I killed a security guard. They said it was murder. But he had a gun. I was unarmed. You see, he killed my woman.
JENNA: That must have been terrible.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/298 B7B5

Introducing Mozilla’s Firefox Nightly .rpm package for RPM based linux distributions! –
If using #fedora you have no more excuse not to use #firefox nightly and help keep the web open.

Introducing Mozilla’s Firefox Nightly .rpm package for RPM based linux distributions! – Firefox Nightly News
After introducing Debian packages for Firefox Nightly, we're now excited to extend that to RPM-based distributions. Just like with the Debian packages, switching to Mozilla’s RPM repository allows Firefox to ...

huh, based

Israel is the only country in history to regularly occupy UN buildings. The constant defamation against the UNRWA had the nice side effect that such occupations don't lead to any condemnation at all.
The law based order never existed, but whatever legitimacy international laws had in false promises alone is falling apart in front of our very eyes.

What instant communication, thread-based platform do you use at least once a month?
Just trying to get an idea of the popularity of different options - multiple choices possible, please boost around!
If you think we should add some choices, please cite them in comment and I'll do a 2nd poll. They would have to be similarly thread / themes / channel - based, with a phone app but also available in the browser (e.g. maybe Matrix? But website-only platforms like Discourse would not work…

XAML, somewhere between XML and YAML, not to confuse with SAML.
https://github.com/dotnet/XAMLStudio

GitHub - dotnet/XAMLStudio: XAML Studio is a rapid prototyping tool for WinUI-based XAML that can then be easily copied into Visual Studio!
XAML Studio is a rapid prototyping tool for WinUI-based XAML that can then be easily copied into Visual Studio! - dotnet/XAMLStudio

All other (valid and invalid) arguments aside—the worst thing about "AI for coding" is that no one ever even mentions how this is better for the people who end up using the software produced.
(Spoiler: It isn't.)
No, what it's used for is product managers offloading product design decisions on programmers, because "with AI they can now just churn out features" and "we'll keep what sticks". (The first feature they're forced to churn out is to add useless LLM-based crap to applications. You know the feature: the one that all power-users of the software desperately go to Reddit for in an exercise of futility trying to find out how to permanently turn it off.)
It's a self-feeding feature creep and software bloat moloch—eating programmers and users.

social_location: Location-based social networks
Two location-based online social networks, where nodes are accounts and edges are declared friendships. Networks includes checkins by these users.
This network has 58228 nodes and 428156 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Spatial
https://networks.skewed…

from my link log —
SSH has no Host header: virtual hosting based on user public keys.
https://blog.exe.dev/ssh-host-header
saved 2026-01-22 https://

Cuts to USAID and other US government funding have seriously impacted grants for science-based investigative journalism, particularly in poorer countries (Ben Deighton/Scientific American)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/s…

Science journalism on the ropes worldwide as U.S. aid cuts bite
Federal freezes to foreign assistance are affecting grants for investigative reporters everywhere—but especially in poorer countries

Florida Democrats score upset in Tampa-based state Senate race (Caroline Vakil/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5798052-democrats-upset-florida-senate-election/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p151#a260324p151

"H&M sets science-based nature targets to address supply chain impact"
#Fashion #Textiles
https://ww…

Six days after a senior FDA official sent a sweeping internal email claiming that covid vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,”
Twelve former FDA commissioners released an extraordinary warning in the Dec. 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
They wrote that the claims and policy changes in the memo from Vinay Prasad, the head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,
pose “a threat to evidence-based vaccine policy and public h…

Inside the FDA’s Vaccine Uproar - KFF Health News
An internal email claiming covid vaccines killed children triggered a formal response from a dozen past FDA commissioners. The email, sent by the head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, outlines a framework that could have significant impact on the nation’s vaccine policies.

The .sln format has been around forever and it shows. SLNX brings a clean, XML-based solution file that’s readable, diffable, and open. https://www.poppastring.com/blog/a-simpler-solution-file-format

Kansas-based NoTraffic, which uses AI-driven operating systems and sensor data to optimize intersection traffic flow, raised a $90M Series C led by PSG Equity (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/03/24/notraf…

Exclusive: NoTraffic raises $90M to ease congestion
The mobility platform is being used in more than 40 states.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[2/6]:
- Performance Asymmetry in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Jing Yu Lim, Rushi Shah, Zarif Ikram, Samson Yu, Haozhe Ma, Tze-Yun Leong, Dianbo Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19698 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114578810521008766
- Towards Robust Real-World Multivariate Time Series Forecasting: A Unified Framework for Dependenc...
Jinkwan Jang, Hyungjin Park, Jinmyeong Choi, Taesup Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08660 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114664238967892509
- Wasserstein Barycenter Soft Actor-Critic
Zahra Shahrooei, Ali Baheri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10167 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114675175949432731
- Foundation Models for Causal Inference via Prior-Data Fitted Networks
Yuchen Ma, Dennis Frauen, Emil Javurek, Stefan Feuerriegel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10914 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114675529854402158
- FREQuency ATTribution: benchmarking frequency-based occlusion for time series data
Dominique Mercier, Andreas Dengel, Sheraz Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18481 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114738421450807709
- Complexity-aware fine-tuning
Andrey Goncharov, Daniil Vyazhev, Petr Sychev, Edvard Khalafyan, Alexey Zaytsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21220 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114754764750730849
- Transfer Learning in Infinite Width Feature Learning Networks
Clarissa Lauditi, Blake Bordelon, Cengiz Pehlevan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04448 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114818005803079705
- A hierarchy tree data structure for behavior-based user segment representation
Liu, Kang, Iyer, Malik, Li, Wang, Lu, Zhao, Wang, Liu, Liu, Liang, Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01115 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114975999992144374
- One-Step Flow Q-Learning: Addressing the Diffusion Policy Bottleneck in Offline Reinforcement Lea...
Thanh Nguyen, Chang D. Yoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13904 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115060568241390847
- Uncertainty Propagation Networks for Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
Hadi Jahanshahi, Zheng H. Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16815 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115094785677272005
- Learning Unified Representations from Heterogeneous Data for Robust Heart Rate Modeling
Zhengdong Huang, Zicheng Xie, Wentao Tian, Jingyu Liu, Lunhong Dong, Peng Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21785 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115128450608548173
- Monte Carlo Tree Diffusion with Multiple Experts for Protein Design
Liu, Cao, Jiang, Luo, Duan, Wang, Sosnick, Xu, Stevens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15796 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115247429156900905
- From Samples to Scenarios: A New Paradigm for Probabilistic Forecasting
Xilin Dai, Zhijian Xu, Wanxu Cai, Qiang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19975 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115264498084813952
- Why High-rank Neural Networks Generalize?: An Algebraic Framework with RKHSs
Yuka Hashimoto, Sho Sonoda, Isao Ishikawa, Masahiro Ikeda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21895 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115287261047939306
- From Parameters to Behaviors: Unsupervised Compression of the Policy Space
Davide Tenedini, Riccardo Zamboni, Mirco Mutti, Marcello Restelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22566 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115287379672141023
- RHYTHM: Reasoning with Hierarchical Temporal Tokenization for Human Mobility
Haoyu He, Haozheng Luo, Yan Chen, Qi R. Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23115 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115293273559547106
- Polychromic Objectives for Reinforcement Learning
Jubayer Ibn Hamid, Ifdita Hasan Orney, Ellen Xu, Chelsea Finn, Dorsa Sadigh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25424 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115298579764580635
- Recursive Self-Aggregation Unlocks Deep Thinking in Large Language Models
Siddarth Venkatraman, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26626 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115298789487177431
- Cautious Weight Decay
Chen, Li, Liang, Su, Xie, Pierse, Liang, Lao, Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12402 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115377759317818093
- TeamFormer: Shallow Parallel Transformers with Progressive Approximation
Wei Wang, Xiao-Yong Wei, Qing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15425 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115405933861293858
- Latent-Augmented Discrete Diffusion Models
Dario Shariatian, Alain Durmus, Umut Simsekli, Stefano Peluchetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18114 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115417332500265972
- Predicting Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease using Machine Learning Method...
Mary E. An, Paul Griffin, Jonathan G. Stine, Ramakrishna Balakrishnan, Soundar Kumara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22293 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115451746201804373
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"Conceptualising transition is a theoretical exercise which outlines how a departure from capitalism may transpire grounded in conjunctural analysis – a historically and geographically situated study of material conditions and social forces. Strategy, by contrast, is a step-by-step plan of action for a specific organisation based on that theory of transition and that conjunctural analysis."
Let’s move on from Erik Olin Wright’s modes of transformation | degrowth.info

Let’s move on from Erik Olin Wright’s modes of transformation
Building on previous strategy debates on degrowth.info, Charles Stevenson argues for degrowthers moving beyond Erik Olin Wright's typology

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
ORAC: To cross it undetected would be impossible.
AVON: I'll take your best option within the perimeter.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/378…

🎬 Rich actions with confirmation dialogs, onSuccess & onError callbacks
👁️ Conditional visibility based on data, auth, or complex logic
📦 Two packages: @.json-render/core (types, schemas) @.json-render/react (renderer, hooks)
🔧 Schema definition with #Zod for type-safe component props
📤 Export as standalone

Munich-based Interloom, which aims to capture tacit knowledge for AI agents from businesses' operational records, raised a $16.5M seed led by DN Capital (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/23/interloom-ai-agents-raises-16-million-ventur…

Exclusive: Interloom, a startup capturing ‘tacit knowledge’ to power AI agents, raises $16.5 million in venture funding
Interloom's software has already been used by Commerzbank, Volkswagen, and Zurich Insurance.

from my link log —
“Ptolemaic Code”: software that appears functional but is based on a fundamentally incorrect model.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115883067614348534
saved 2026-01-20

🥳 New Kitten Release
• `KittenComponent` (and thereby `KittenPage`) gains an `emit()` method.
Use this to bubble events from your page to all child components or from any component to all of its child components.
This is useful, for example, for setting the state of a page or a component where each child component knows how to present itself for that state.

(That, in turn, is useful if you want to be able to restore state based on URLs.)

The naming convention…

Sources: Japanese news aggregation app operator SmartNews considers a Tokyo IPO listing as soon as October; its valuation may fall from $2B after a 2021 raise (Yasutaka Tamura/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

ecoli_transcription: E. coli transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the bacteria Escherichia coli.
This network has 424 nodes and 577 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…

10 Affordable and Easy Vegan Recipes #plantbased

10 Affordable and Easy Vegan Recipes
Find affordable and easy vegan recipes on our list with 10 options that help you make tasty plant-based meals with minimal effort

London-based Revolut reports 2025 revenue up 46% YoY to £4.5B, a £1.7B pre-tax profit, up from £1.1B in 2024, and customers up 33%, as it moves to become a bank (Elena Vardon/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bu…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[4/6]:
- Neural Proposals, Symbolic Guarantees: Neuro-Symbolic Graph Generation with Hard Constraints
Chuqin Geng, Li Zhang, Mark Zhang, Haolin Ye, Ziyu Zhao, Xujie Si
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16954 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102434757760085
- Multi-Probe Zero Collision Hash (MPZCH): Mitigating Embedding Collisions and Enhancing Model Fres...
Ziliang Zhao, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17050 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102517335590034
- MASPO: Unifying Gradient Utilization, Probability Mass, and Signal Reliability for Robust and Sam...
Fu, Lin, Fang, Zheng, Hu, Shao, Qin, Pan, Zeng, Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17550 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102581561441103
- A Theoretical Framework for Modular Learning of Robust Generative Models
Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri, Yutao Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17554 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102582216715527
- Multi-Round Human-AI Collaboration with User-Specified Requirements
Sima Noorani, Shayan Kiyani, Hamed Hassani, George Pappas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17646 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102592047544971
- NEXUS: A compact neural architecture for high-resolution spatiotemporal air quality forecasting i...
Rampunit Kumar, Aditya Maheshwari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19654 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116125610403473755
- Augmenting Lateral Thinking in Language Models with Humor and Riddle Data for the BRAINTEASER Task
Mina Ghashami, Soumya Smruti Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10385 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/112472190479013167
- Watermarking Language Models with Error Correcting Codes
Patrick Chao, Yan Sun, Edgar Dobriban, Hamed Hassani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10281 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/112636307340218522
- Learning to Control Unknown Strongly Monotone Games
Siddharth Chandak, Ilai Bistritz, Nicholas Bambos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00575 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMA_bot/112715733875586837
- Classification and reconstruction for single-pixel imaging with classical and quantum neural netw...
Sofya Manko, Dmitry Frolovtsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12506 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/112806295477530195
- Statistical Inference for Temporal Difference Learning with Linear Function Approximation
Weichen Wu, Gen Li, Yuting Wei, Alessandro Rinaldo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16106 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/113350611306532443
- Big data approach to Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials
Abel Lacabanne, Daniel Tubbenhauer, Pedro Vaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01283 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathRT_bot/113587812663608119
- MoEMba: A Mamba-based Mixture of Experts for High-Density EMG-based Hand Gesture Recognition
Mehran Shabanpour, Kasra Rad, Sadaf Khademi, Arash Mohammadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17457 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/114069047434302054
- Tightening Optimality gap with confidence through conformal prediction
Miao Li, Michael Klamkin, Russell Bent, Pascal Van Hentenryck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04071 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114120074927291283
- SEED: Towards More Accurate Semantic Evaluation for Visual Brain Decoding
Juhyeon Park, Peter Yongho Kim, Jiook Cha, Shinjae Yoo, Taesup Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06437 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114142690988862508
- How much does context affect the accuracy of AI health advice?
Prashant Garg, Thiemo Fetzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18310 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_econGN_bot/114414380916957986
- Reproducing and Improving CheXNet: Deep Learning for Chest X-ray Disease Classification
Daniel J. Strick, Carlos Garcia, Anthony Huang, Thomas Gardos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06646 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/114499319986528625
- Sharp Gaussian approximations for Decentralized Federated Learning
Soham Bonnerjee, Sayar Karmakar, Wei Biao Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08125 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114505047719395949
- HoloLLM: Multisensory Foundation Model for Language-Grounded Human Sensing and Reasoning
Chuhao Zhou, Jianfei Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17645 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114572928659057348
- A Copula Based Supervised Filter for Feature Selection in Diabetes Risk Prediction Using Machine ...
Agnideep Aich, Md Monzur Murshed, Sameera Hewage, Amanda Mayeaux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22554 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114589983451462525
- Synthesis of discrete-continuous quantum circuits with multimodal diffusion models
Florian F\"urrutter, Zohim Chandani, Ikko Hamamura, Hans J. Briegel, Gorka Mu\~noz-Gil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01666 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114618420761346125
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Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
BLAKE: What is it?
CALLY: Look. [She puts her hand up to show some sort of barrier. Blake does the same.]
BLAKE: It's a force barrier. The question is are we on the outside unable to get in or....
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/176 B7B2

hiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…

London-based self-driving startup Wayve raised a $1.2B Series D at an $8.6B post-money valuation, with Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and Nissan among investors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/181aee87-4815-4a0e-805f-c1d04f0c2f36

Apple Music partners with Ticketmaster for its Concert Discovery feature; every event listing on the app includes a link to Ticketmaster (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/apple-music-partners-with-…

Apple Music partners with Ticketmaster to power its concert discovery feature | TechCrunch
Apple Music teamed up with Ticketmaster to power its Concert Discovery feature, which recommends live music events based on users' listening habits.

Israel-based Gambit Security, which offers an AI-native cyber resilience platform that autonomously maps infrastructure, raised $61M across seed and Series A (Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-startup-ggambit-security-raises-61m-1001…

Israeli startup Gambit Security raises $61m
The company was founded less than 12 months ago to help enterprises remain resilient across their entire technology stack.

dbpedia_all: DBpedia network (v3.6)
A network among all entries in DBpedia, a project that extracts structured information from Wikipedia. Nodes represent entities in DBpedia and an edge connects two entities based on DBpedia's notion of their relatedness. The data is extracted from the version 3.6 of the database.
This network has 3966924 nodes and 13820853 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Multigraph

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JOBAN: Supreme commander.
SERVALAN: An honour, Counsellor.
JOBAN: Thank you. [Sits down] Aren't you going to offer me a drink?
SERVALAN: Yes, of course. [Pours drink for Joban]
JOBAN: Not joining me?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/199…

From Isolation to Integration: Building an Adaptive Expert Forest for Pre-Trained Model-based Class-Incremental Learning
Ruiqi Liu, Boyu Diao, Hangda Liu, Zhulin An, Fei Wang, Yongjun Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20911 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20911 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20911
arXiv:2602.20911v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Class-Incremental Learning (CIL) requires models to learn new classes without forgetting old ones. A common method is to freeze a pre-trained model and train a new, lightweight adapter for each task. While this prevents forgetting, it treats the learned knowledge as a simple, unstructured collection and fails to use the relationships between tasks. To this end, we propose the Semantic-guided Adaptive Expert Forest (SAEF), a new method that organizes adapters into a structured hierarchy for better knowledge sharing. SAEF first groups tasks into conceptual clusters based on their semantic relationships. Then, within each cluster, it builds a balanced expert tree by creating new adapters from merging the adapters of similar tasks. At inference time, SAEF finds and activates a set of relevant experts from the forest for any given input. The final prediction is made by combining the outputs of these activated experts, weighted by how confident each expert is. Experiments on several benchmark datasets show that SAEF achieves SOTA performance.
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London-based enterprise coding startup SolveAI raised a $45M Series A led by GV in November 2025 and a $5M pre-seed led by Accel in August 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/25/exclusive-solveai-eight-months-raises-…

Exclusive: SolveAI, at eight months old, raises $50 million to take on the AI coding tool race
Steve Basher’s startup wants his AI to generate software that mimics what an enterprise’s own engineers would have written.

soc_net_comms: Networks with group metadata
Snapshots of LiveJournal, Friendster, Orkut, and YouTube online social networks, as well as DBLP and Amazon. Node metadata represents a post hoc definition of a 'community' that a node belongs to, derived from topical labels of the node or interest-based 'groups' that a node links to.
This network has 334863 nodes and 925872 edges.
Tags: Online, Social, Collaboration, Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadat…

from my link log —
Banish: a declarative DSL embedded in Rust, for defining rule-based state machines.
https://github.com/LoganFlaherty/banish
saved 2026-02-20 https:…

Charlotte-based Lucid Bots, which manufactures autonomous drones for cleaning windows, raised a $20M Series B co-led by Cubit and Idea Fund (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/lucid-bots-raises-20m-to-ke…

Lucid Bots raises $20M to keep up with demand for its window-washing drones  | TechCrunch
Lucid Bots has seen demand accelerate over the last year for its window cleaning drones and power washing robots.

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
JENNA: Ahhhh! [Chevner collapses, Jenna goes over to him, he mouths something that is indistinct over the background noise.]
[Scene: Teleport section. Gan and Avalon enter.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/373 B7B3

Bengaluru-based Swish, which offers a 10-minute food delivery service, raised a $38M Series B at a $139M post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $54M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/bengaluru-f…

Bengaluru food delivery startup Swish raises $38M: its third round in 18 months | TechCrunch
Swish has more than doubled its valuation in a year as its full-stack, hyperlocal model positions ultra-fast food delivery as a high-frequency habit.

A look at The Amargi, a new nonprofit digital outlet based in Germany covering Kurdish news in English and trying to avoid favoring any specific political party (Seyma Bayram/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/amargi-kurdish

‘The Amargi’ imagines a free Kurdish press.
The Amargi, a digital outlet based in Germany, takes the lead on Kurdish news.

social_location: Location-based social networks
Two location-based online social networks, where nodes are accounts and edges are declared friendships. Networks includes checkins by these users.
This network has 196591 nodes and 1900654 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Spatial
https://networks.skewed.…

Estimation of Confidence Bounds in Binary Classification using Wilson Score Kernel Density Estimation
Thorbj{\o}rn Mosekj{\ae}r Iversen, Zebin Duan, Frederik Hagelskj{\ae}r
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20947 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20947 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20947
arXiv:2602.20947v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The performance and ease of use of deep learning-based binary classifiers have improved significantly in recent years. This has opened up the potential for automating critical inspection tasks, which have traditionally only been trusted to be done manually. However, the application of binary classifiers in critical operations depends on the estimation of reliable confidence bounds such that system performance can be ensured up to a given statistical significance. We present Wilson Score Kernel Density Classification, which is a novel kernel-based method for estimating confidence bounds in binary classification. The core of our method is the Wilson Score Kernel Density Estimator, which is a function estimator for estimating confidence bounds in Binomial experiments with conditionally varying success probabilities. Our method is evaluated in the context of selective classification on four different datasets, illustrating its use as a classification head of any feature extractor, including vision foundation models. Our proposed method shows similar performance to Gaussian Process Classification, but at a lower computational complexity.
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Bengaluru-based Xflow, which facilitates B2B cross-border payments, raised a $16.6M Series A led by GC at an $85M valuation, bringing its total raised to $32M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/stripe-p…

Stripe, PayPal Ventures bet on India's Xflow to fix cross-border B2B payments | TechCrunch
Stripe and PayPal Ventures have participated in Xflow's $16.6 million round that gives it a post-money valuation of $85 million.

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
BLAKE: [V.O.] It's only a couple of years since it was abandoned. Under terms of the interplanetary mining agreement the company was bound by law to leave fuel and other...
VILA: Blake, you alright?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/272 B7…

Beverly Hills-based Subject, whose streaming-style, on-demand platform provides digital curriculum and learning insights for grades 6-12, raised $28M (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/02/24/subject-venture-ed-tech-vistara…

Exclusive: Subject raises $28M to expand AI curriculum platform
AI education platform raises $28M as edtech sector stabilizes

Amity, a Thailand-based startup that provides generative AI tools to businesses like retail and telecom, raised $100M in a Series D as it plans for a 2027 IPO (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03…

Sources: Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, which is developing a human-like, 42-inch tall robot that can interact with people, walk, and dance (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Kraken launches what it claims are the first regulated perpetual futures contracts based on tokenized stocks, available to non-US users and trading 24/7 (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Kraken brings crypto-style, 24/7 perpetuals trading for tokenized U.S. stocks
The crypto exchange is bringing U.S. stocks closer to the crypto world, letting users trade derivatives of tokenized stocks around-the-clock and with 20x leverage.

Bengaluru-based digital payments startup Juspay raised $50M, in a mix of primary and secondary investments, from WestBridge Capital at a $1.2B valuation (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Juspay closes $50 million funding from WestBridge Capital; valuation hits $1.2 billion
Founded in 2012, Bengaluru-based Juspay powers payment systems for major global brands such as Amazon, Flipkart, Google, IndiGo, and Swiggy. The company said in a statement that it now processes over 300 million transactions daily, with annualised total payment volume exceeding $1 trillion.

How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slopes around the world at high risk of slipping by analyzing data from satellites and ground-based sensors (Chris Baraniuk/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260323-the-ai-that-war…

Ground truth: When the Earth moves, AI can spot it
Sudden and unexpected, landslides and avalanches claim thousands of lives each year and cause billions of dollars in damage. What if we could see them coming?

social_location: Location-based social networks
Two location-based online social networks, where nodes are accounts and edges are declared friendships. Networks includes checkins by these users.
This network has 58228 nodes and 428156 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Spatial
https://networks.skewed…

Japan's Sakana AI launches Sakana Chat, its first consumer chatbot, marking a shift from its business focus as competition to localize generative AI intensifies (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Sakana AI enters chatbot race with Japan-tailored model
Tokyo-based startup bets on cultural alignment to stand out in crowded field

Google acquires Common Sense Machines, whose AI models create 3D assets from 2D images, and was last valued at $15M after raising $10M from a16z and others (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-google-acquires-3d-im…

Exclusive: Google Acquires 3D Image Generator Startup
Google has acquired Common Sense Machines, a Cambridge, Mass.,-based startup developing generative artificial intelligence models to create three-dimensional assets from two-dimensional images, a Google spokesperson confirmed. The deal closed this week, according to the spokesperson. The spokesperson declined to provide a price. The company had around a dozen employees, according to its

Databricks launches Lakewatch, a security information and event management service, and announces acquisitions of security startups Antimatter and SiftD (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/databricks-cybersecurity-lakewatch-ipo.html

Databricks enters cybersecurity market with Lakewatch launch, bulking up ahead of IPO
Databricks wants to draw on AI to help organizations respond to a higher speed of attacks, based on newly disclosed vulnerabilities.

TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in H2, with plans to integrate a vendor to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is planning stablecoin comeback in the second half amid U.S. regulatory shift
The Facebook owner’s stablecoin integration involves planning a third party vendor to help administer stablecoin-based payments and a new wallet to be implemented, sources said.

Austin-based Neurophos, which develops a photon-based "Optical Processing Unit" to replace GPUs in AI training, raised $110M led by Bill Gates' Gates Frontier (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/22/1131661/yann-…

Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models  
In an exclusive interview, the AI pioneer shares his plans for his new Paris-based company, AMI Labs.

NYC-based Dash0, which offers AI agents to monitor and troubleshoot cloud, app, and infrastructure issues, raised $110M led by Balderton at a $1B valuation (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

London-based luxury ride-hailing app Wheely launches in NYC, aiming to compete with Uber Elite; Wheely reports ~1,250 corporate accounts and ~100K active riders (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Singapore-based Grab agrees to buy Delivery Hero's Foodpanda operations in Taiwan for $600M in cash, its first foray outside of its Southeast Asian home market (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-23/…

Tencent launches ClawBot, an OpenClaw-based agent integrated into WeChat, letting its 1B MAUs send and receive commands to interact with the AI agent via chat (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tencent-integrat…

Berlin-based Cloover, which makes software to help install solar, home batteries, and heat pumps, raised $22M from Lowercarbon and others and $1.2B in debt (Coco Liu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01…

Finnish quantum computing company IQM plans to go public via a SPAC merger with New Jersey-based Real Asset Acquisition in a deal set to value it at $1.8B (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-…

Sources: Dell, Lenovo, and other PC makers are working with Nvidia on laptops using the Arm-based Nvidia-MediaTek system-on-a-chip, which could come in H1 2026 (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-wants-to-be-the-brain-of-co…