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Minister finally admits that working-age benefits spending is stable, despite months of ‘spiralling’ claims
and suggested that the government needed to cut spending on PIP, even though disabled people were only claiming it because they were struggling due to the cost-of-living crisis.
– Disability News Service

Minister finally admits that working-age benefits spending is stable, despite months of ‘spiralling’ claims
A minister has finally admitted that spending on working-age benefits is stable, and is not spiralling out of control, despite months of claims from his own department and fellow ministers. Sir Ste…

Niural, whose AI agents help companies automate payroll, benefits, vendor payments, and compliance, raised a $31M Series A led by Marathon Management Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/25/niural-31-milli…

Exclusive: Niural lands $31M to streamline global payroll
Its AI simplifies cross-border pay, benefits and compliance.

The Big Beautiful Bill
To Make Inequality Great Again
- Tax Cuts for the Rich
- Benefits Cuts for the Poor
- Tariffs to Boost Inflation
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/28/us/trump-news

Trump Administration Live Updates: Republicans Hunt for Votes to Bring Policy Bill to the Floor
Senate Republicans were trying to find enough votes to pass their domestic policy bill, a key step in advancing President Trump’s agenda. Three Republicans have voted against opening debate.

Looks like this headline was constructed to violate @…’s law…
https://apple.news/AxKolRBihRpy493vkr7KB2Q

Is being bilingual good for your brain? — The Economist
Perhaps. Learning languages offers other, more concrete benefits

New Army Shaving Policy Will Allow Soldiers with Skin Condition that Affects Mostly Black Men to Be Kicked Out (Steve Beynon/Military and Veteran Benefits ...)
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/27/new-army-shaving-policy-will-allow-soldiers-skin-condition-affects-mostly-black-men-be-kicked-out.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p165#a250627p165

Last week, we continued our #ISE2025 lecture on distributional semantics with the introduction of neural language models (NLMs) and compared them to traditional statistical n-gram models.
Benefits of NLMs:
- Capturing Long-Range Dependencies
- Computational and Statistical Tractability
- Improved Generalisation
- Higher Accuracy
@…

How do I know May Day is gonna be big? I'm going to be able to join an event in Studio City
I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “May Day Strong: We are the Many” - sign up now to join me! https://www.

How crazy is it? About this crazy. So far.
https://youtu.be/75PeExNmaS8?si=7EaSaHjv-S1RNI5x
As always:
- Follow the money
- Ask “Who benefits?”

"…B 2 strikes on Iran illuminate…truth…kinetic effects of military force—…damage it does—are frequently in inverse proportion to…political benefits. …more damage you do to…prized assets of…regime like Iran’s…more it confirms…hatred of Israel &…United States…more you degrade…nuclear program…more it convinces Iran’s leaders…they were right to want nuclear weapons…more you bomb a regime that is hated by many…more you rally…regime’s loyalists…"

The Pathos of Power
What B2's Cannot Achieve

When Life Gives You Samples: The Benefits of Scaling up Inference Compute for Multilingual LLMs
Ammar Khairi, Daniel D'souza, Ye Shen, Julia Kreutzer, Sara Hooker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20544

When Life Gives You Samples: The Benefits of Scaling up Inference Compute for Multilingual LLMs
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shifted focus toward scaling inference-time compute, improving performance without retraining the model. A common approach is to sample multiple outputs in parallel, and select one of these as the final output. However, work to date has focused on English and a handful of domains such as math and code. In contrast, we are most interested in techniques that generalize across open-ended tasks, formally verifiable tasks, and across languages…

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Analog Computing for Signal Processing and Communications -- Part II: Toward Gigantic MIMO Beamforming
Analog-domain operations offer a promising solution to accelerating signal processing and enabling future multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications with thousands of antennas. In Part I of this paper, we have introduced a microwave linear analog computer (MiLAC) as an analog computer that processes microwave signals linearly, demonstrating its potential to reduce the computational complexity of specific signal processing tasks. In Part II of this paper, we extend these benefits to wi…

Trump's tax bill expands Qualified Small Business Stock benefits for VCs, founders, startup staff, including increasing maximum tax-free gains from $10M to $15M (Ben Steverman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Learned Adaptive Mesh Generation
Zhiyuan Zhang, Amir Vaxman, Stefanos-Aldo Papanicolopulos, Kartic Subr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20457 https://

Learned Adaptive Mesh Generation
The distribution and evolution of several real-world quantities, such as temperature, pressure, light, and heat, are modelled mathematically using Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Solving PDEs defined on arbitrary 3D domains, say a 3D scan of a turbine's blade, is computationally expensive and scales quadratically with discretization. Traditional workflows in research and industry exploit variants of the finite element method (FEM), but some key benefits of using Monte Carlo (MC) methods …

Reflecting Human Values in XAI: Emotional and Reflective Benefits in Creativity Support Tools
Samuel Rhys Cox, Helena B{\o}jer Djern{\ae}s, Niels van Berkel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17116

Reflecting Human Values in XAI: Emotional and Reflective Benefits in Creativity Support Tools
In this workshop paper, we discuss the potential for measures of user-centric benefits (such as emotional well-being) that could be explored when evaluating explainable AI (XAI) systems within the arts. As a background to this, we draw from our recent review of creativity support tool (CST) evaluations, that found a paucity of studies evaluating CSTs for user-centric measures that benefit the user themselves. Specifically, we discuss measures of: (1) developing intrinsic abilities, (2) emotiona…

AI-Driven Tools in Modern Software Quality Assurance: An Assessment of Benefits, Challenges, and Future Directions
Ihor Pysmennyi, Roman Kyslyi, Kyrylo Kleshch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16586

AI-Driven Tools in Modern Software Quality Assurance: An Assessment of Benefits, Challenges, and Future Directions
Traditional quality assurance (QA) methods face significant challenges in addressing the complexity, scale, and rapid iteration cycles of modern software systems and are strained by limited resources available, leading to substantial costs associated with poor quality. The object of this research is the Quality Assurance processes for modern distributed software applications. The subject of the research is the assessment of the benefits, challenges, and prospects of integrating modern AI-orient…

Visualization enhances Problem Solving in Multi-Qubit Systems: An Eye-Tracking Study
Jonas Bley, Eva Rexigel, Alda Arias, Lars Krupp, Nikolas Longen, Paul Lukowicz, Stefan K\"uchemann, Jochen Kuhn, Maximilian Kiefer-Emmanouilidis, Artur Widera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21508

Visualization enhances Problem Solving in Multi-Qubit Systems: An Eye-Tracking Study
Quantum Information Science (QIS) is a vast, diverse, and abstract field. In consequence, learners face many challenges. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education research has found that visualizations are valuable to aid learners in complex matters. The conditions under which visualizations pose benefits are largely unexplored in QIS education. In this eye-tracking study, we examine the conditions under which the visualization of multi-qubit systems in addition to the …

A Novel Framework for Integrating 3D Ultrasound into Percutaneous Liver Tumour Ablation
Shuwei Xing, Derek W. Cool, David Tessier, Elvis C. S. Chen, Terry M. Peters, Aaron Fenster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21162

A Novel Framework for Integrating 3D Ultrasound into Percutaneous Liver Tumour Ablation
3D ultrasound (US) imaging has shown significant benefits in enhancing the outcomes of percutaneous liver tumour ablation. Its clinical integration is crucial for transitioning 3D US into the therapeutic domain. However, challenges of tumour identification in US images continue to hinder its broader adoption. In this work, we propose a novel framework for integrating 3D US into the standard ablation workflow. We present a key component, a clinically viable 2D US-CT/MRI registration approach, le…

Lawmakers Push Legislation to Make It Easier for Families to Access WIC Benefits | Civil Eats
https://civileats.com/2025/06/17/lawmakers-push-legislation-to-make-it-easier-for-families-to-access-wic-benefits/

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Exploring the Computational Feasibility of Direct Pseudoinversion of the Encoding Matrix for MR Image Reconstruction (Pinv-Recon)
Image reconstruction in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is fundamentally a linear inverse problem, such that the image can be recovered via explicit pseudoinversion of the encoding matrix by solving $\textbf{data} = \textbf{Encode} \times \textbf{image}$ - a method referred to here as Pinv-Recon. While the benefits of this approach were acknowledged in early studies, the field has historically favored fast Fourier transforms (FFT) and iterative techniques due to perceived computational limitat…

Quantum-Accelerated Wireless Communications: Concepts, Connections, and Implications
Naoki Ishikawa, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, Petar Popovski, Robert W. Heath Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20863

Quantum-Accelerated Wireless Communications: Concepts, Connections, and Implications
Quantum computing is poised to redefine the algorithmic foundations of communication systems. While quantum superposition and entanglement enable quadratic or exponential speedups for specific problems, identifying use cases where these advantages yield engineering benefits is, however, still nontrivial. This article presents the fundamentals of quantum computing in a style familiar to the communications society, outlining the current limits of fault-tolerant quantum computing and uncovering a …

#EroticMusings week 4: Is your MC the kind of person you’d want a relationship with? How would they feel about you?
I would love to have Fabiola as a friend (though without the additional benefits - while I enjoy writing about this kind of relationship, it's not something I personally want. What I'm into when writing and outside of it are actually pretty different things). S…

Near Data Processing in Taurus Database
Shu Lin, Arunprasad P. Marathe, Per-\.Ake Larson, Chong Chen, Calvin Sun, Paul Lee, Weidong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20010

Near Data Processing in Taurus Database
Huawei's cloud-native database system GaussDB for MySQL (also known as Taurus) stores data in a separate storage layer consisting of a pool of storage servers. Each server has considerable compute power making it possible to push data reduction operations (selection, projection, and aggregation) close to storage. This paper describes the design and implementation of near data processing (NDP) in Taurus. NDP has several benefits: it reduces the amount of data shipped over the network; frees up C…

DIY Natto: A Home Fermentation Guide to Japan’s Healthiest Breakfast #plantbased

DIY Natto: A Home Fermentation Guide to Japan’s Healthiest Breakfast
Learn how to make Japanese natto at home with Miyoko Schinner’s step-by-step guide, packed with tips for fermentation and health benefits.

Bringing Pets to Work https://onfirenow.com/bringing-pets-to-work/

Exploring the Effects of Chatbot Anthropomorphism and Human Empathy on Human Prosocial Behavior Toward Chatbots
Jingshu Li, Zicheng Zhu, Renwen Zhang, Yi-Chieh Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20748

Exploring the Effects of Chatbot Anthropomorphism and Human Empathy on Human Prosocial Behavior Toward Chatbots
Chatbots are increasingly integrated into people's lives and are widely used to help people. Recently, there has also been growing interest in the reverse direction-humans help chatbots-due to a wide range of benefits including better chatbot performance, human well-being, and collaborative outcomes. However, little research has explored the factors that motivate people to help chatbots. To address this gap, we draw on the Computers Are Social Actors (CASA) framework to examine how chatbot anth…

An object-centric core metamodel for IoT-enhanced event logs
Yannis Bertrand, Christian Imenkamp, Lukas Malburg, Matthias Ehrendorfer, Marco Franceschetti, Joscha Gr\"uger, Francesco Leotta, J\"urgen Mangler, Ronny Seiger, Agnes Koschmider, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Barbara Weber, Estefania Serral
https://arxiv.org/abs/250…

An object-centric core metamodel for IoT-enhanced event logs
Advances in Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies have prompted the integration of IoT devices with business processes (BPs) in many organizations across various sectors, such as manufacturing, healthcare and smart spaces. The proliferation of IoT devices leads to the generation of large amounts of IoT data providing a window on the physical context of BPs, which facilitates the discovery of new insights about BPs using process mining (PM) techniques. However, to achieve these benefits, IoT dat…

AI Safety vs. AI Security: Demystifying the Distinction and Boundaries
Zhiqiang Lin, Huan Sun, Ness Shroff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18932 https://…

AI Safety vs. AI Security: Demystifying the Distinction and Boundaries
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly being integrated into critical systems across various domains, from healthcare to autonomous vehicles. While its integration brings immense benefits, it also introduces significant risks, including those arising from AI misuse. Within the discourse on managing these risks, the terms "AI Safety" and "AI Security" are often used, sometimes interchangeably, resulting in conceptual confusion. This paper aims to demystify the distinction and delineate the prec…

IndieFake Dataset: A Benchmark Dataset for Audio Deepfake Detection
Abhay Kumar, Kunal Verma, Omkar More
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19014 https://

IndieFake Dataset: A Benchmark Dataset for Audio Deepfake Detection
Advancements in audio deepfake technology offers benefits like AI assistants, better accessibility for speech impairments, and enhanced entertainment. However, it also poses significant risks to security, privacy, and trust in digital communications. Detecting and mitigating these threats requires comprehensive datasets. Existing datasets lack diverse ethnic accents, making them inadequate for many real-world scenarios. Consequently, models trained on these datasets struggle to detect audio dee…

A modular and extensible library for parameterized terrain generation
Erik Wallin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19751 https://arxiv.org/…

A modular and extensible library for parameterized terrain generation
Simulation-driven development of intelligent machines benefits from artificial terrains with controllable, well-defined characteristics. However, most existing tools for terrain generation focus on artist-driven workflows and visual realism, with limited support for parameterization, reproducibility, or scripting. We present a modular, Python-based library for procedural terrain generation that enables users to construct complex, parameterized terrains by chaining together simple modules. The s…

'‘Probiotic Can Slow Disease on Coral Reefs: They Have Microbiomes That Benefit, Like Humans"
#Oceans #Environment #CoralReef

Ingredient in Yogurt Can Slow Disease in Reefs as Corals Have Microbiomes That Benefits From Probiotics
A new Smithsonian study demonstrated how a probiotic could save coral reefs at-risk with SCTLD disease in Florida and the Caribbean.

Golang makes up for the benefits of type aliases and generics and arbitrary key and value types for maps with nil pointer and zero value shenanigans.

Interestingly, “having been briefed” does not entail “understood the matter presented”
https://journa.host/@w7voa/114710877076030406

Minnesota rep killed made headlines days earlier over vote on benefits for illegal aliens (Cameron Arcand/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/minnesota-rep-killed-made-headlines-days-earlier-over-vote-benefits-illegal-aliens
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p84#a250614p84

Benefits of remote work: I get to microwave fish, and nobody complains about it.

SDDiff: Boost Radar Perception via Spatial-Doppler Diffusion
Shengpeng Wang, Xin Luo, Yulong Xie, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16936 https://…

SDDiff: Boost Radar Perception via Spatial-Doppler Diffusion
Point cloud extraction (PCE) and ego velocity estimation (EVE) are key capabilities gaining attention in 3D radar perception. However, existing work typically treats these two tasks independently, which may neglect the interplay between radar's spatial and Doppler domain features, potentially introducing additional bias. In this paper, we observe an underlying correlation between 3D points and ego velocity, which offers reciprocal benefits for PCE and EVE. To fully unlock such inspiring potenti…

U.S. Senate GOP tries to ease the pain for states in sharing costs of SNAP benefits • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/06/11/repub/snap-benefits-2/

Semi-discrete heat equations with variable coefficients and the parametrix method
Ulrik S. Fjordholm, Kenneth H. Karlsen, Peter H. C. Pang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18649

Semi-discrete heat equations with variable coefficients and the parametrix method
We develop a parametrix approach for constructing solutions and establishing grid-size independent estimates for semi-discrete heat equations with variable coefficients. While the classical continuous setting benefits from Gaussian estimates of the constant coefficient heat kernel, such estimates are not available in the semi-discrete context. To address this complication, we derive estimates involving products of heavy-tailed Lorentz (also known as Cauchy) probability densities. These Lorentzi…

LiSec-RTF: Reinforcing RPL Resilience Against Routing Table Falsification Attack in 6LoWPAN
Shefali Goel, Vinod Kumar Verma, Abhishek Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17911

LiSec-RTF: Reinforcing RPL Resilience Against Routing Table Falsification Attack in 6LoWPAN
Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) is an energy-efficient routing solution for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN), recommended for resource-constrained devices. While RPL offers significant benefits, its security vulnerabilities pose challenges, particularly due to unauthenticated control messages used to establish and maintain routing information. These messages are susceptible to manipulation, enabling malicious nodes to inject false routing dat…

TopK Language Models
Ryosuke Takahashi, Tatsuro Inaba, Kentaro Inui, Benjamin Heinzerling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21468 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21468 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.21468
arXiv:2506.21468v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have become an important tool for analyzing and interpreting the activation space of transformer-based language models (LMs). However, SAEs suffer several shortcomings that diminish their utility and internal validity. Since SAEs are trained post-hoc, it is unclear if the failure to discover a particular concept is a failure on the SAE's side or due to the underlying LM not representing this concept. This problem is exacerbated by training conditions and architecture choices affecting which features an SAE learns. When tracing how LMs learn concepts during training, the lack of feature stability also makes it difficult to compare SAEs features across different checkpoints. To address these limitations, we introduce a modification to the transformer architecture that incorporates a TopK activation function at chosen layers, making the model's hidden states equivalent to the latent features of a TopK SAE. This approach eliminates the need for post-hoc training while providing interpretability comparable to SAEs. The resulting TopK LMs offer a favorable trade-off between model size, computational efficiency, and interpretability. Despite this simple architectural change, TopK LMs maintain their original capabilities while providing robust interpretability benefits. Our experiments demonstrate that the sparse representations learned by TopK LMs enable successful steering through targeted neuron interventions and facilitate detailed analysis of neuron formation processes across checkpoints and layers. These features make TopK LMs stable and reliable tools for understanding how language models learn and represent concepts, which we believe will significantly advance future research on model interpretability and controllability.
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DeepRTL2: A Versatile Model for RTL-Related Tasks
Yi Liu, Hongji Zhang, Yunhao Zhou, Zhengyuan Shi, Changran Xu, Qiang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15697 …

DeepRTL2: A Versatile Model for RTL-Related Tasks
The integration of large language models (LLMs) into electronic design automation (EDA) has significantly advanced the field, offering transformative benefits, particularly in register transfer level (RTL) code generation and understanding. While previous studies have demonstrated the efficacy of fine-tuning LLMs for these generation-based tasks, embedding-based tasks, which are equally critical to EDA workflows, have been largely overlooked. These tasks, including natural language code search,…

The Impact of AI-Generated Solutions on Software Architecture and Productivity: Results from a Survey Study
Giorgio Amasanti, Jasmin Jahic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17833

The Impact of AI-Generated Solutions on Software Architecture and Productivity: Results from a Survey Study
AI-powered software tools are widely used to assist software engineers. However, there is still a need to understand the productivity benefits of such tools for software engineers. In addition to short-term benefits, there is a question of how adopting AI-generated solutions affects the quality of software over time (e.g., maintainability and extendability). To provide some insight on these questions, we conducted a survey among software practitioners who use AI tools. Based on the data colle…

A new guide focusing on renewables-based electrification of road transport by #IRENA, embedded into wider sustainable transport planning (e.g. prioritize public transport). Efficiency of electrification renewables smart charging & V2G key to enable system-wide benefits

Global health and climate benefits from walking and cycling infrastructure
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2422334122
"If every city increased the extent of its bicycle network to the level of Copenhagen, Denmark, our simulations indicate reductions in p…

If 1/2 of the road space would be reserved for slow traffic:
👉 1/2 of the passenger kilometres travelled by car can be shifted to public transport, e-bikes, bicycles & walking
👉 CO₂ emissions could be cut by 40%
👉 a reduction in accidents could save up to 76 million Swiss francs annually
👉 Mobility will also become cheaper for households
👉 from current damages of around 500 million Swiss francs into long-term benefits of around 1 billion
Nice visualisations…

“The lack of vision has led transport policy down a dead end.”
Cities can expand their bike lane networks significantly without causing additional congestion on the roads. That is the conclusion reached by the ETH research project E-Bike City. Project lead and transport researcher Kay Axhausen explains the implications for traffic, the environment and costs. 

At this year's Berlin Buzzwords, join Evgeniya Sukhodolskaya as she presents miniCOIL—a novel approach to creating a sparse neural retrieval model. This model aims to combine the advantages of dense and lexical retrieval methods while avoiding their drawbacks. Evgeniya will explain how to design and train a lightweight model that performs well on out-of-domain data and will demonstrate its capabilities.
Learn more:

Very excited about this! Code to access GRIN will help lots of Google Books partners, and the example might open other doors, as well as the obvious benefits of access to data!
'Institutional Books 1.0: A 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability' https://arxiv.org/abs/2506…

Institutional Books 1.0: A 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability
Large language models (LLMs) use data to learn about the world in order to produce meaningful correlations and predictions. As such, the nature, scale, quality, and diversity of the datasets used to train these models, or to support their work at inference time, have a direct impact on their quality. The rapid development and adoption of LLMs of varying quality has brought into focus the scarcity of publicly available, high-quality training data and revealed an urgent need to ground the steward…

"I'm Petting the Laptop, Which Has You Inside It": Reflecting on Lived Experiences of Online Friendship
Seraphina Yong, Ashlee Milton, Evan Suma Rosenberg, Stevie Chancellor, Svetlana Yarosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20055

"I'm Petting the Laptop, Which Has You Inside It": Reflecting on Lived Experiences of Online Friendship
Online(-only) friendships have become increasingly common in daily lives post-COVID despite debates around their mental health benefits and equivalence to ''real'' relationships. Previous research has reflected a need to understand how online friends engage beyond individual platforms, and the lack of platform-agnostic inquiry limits our ability to fully understand the dynamics of online friendship. We employed an activity-grounded analysis of 25 interviews on lived experiences of close online …

The Republican megabill now before the Senate cuts taxes for high earners & reduces benefits for the poor.
☑️ NYTimes: Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/ups…

Evaluation Pipeline for systematically searching for Anomaly Detection Systems
Florian Rokohl, Alexander Lehnert, Marc Reichenbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15388

Evaluation Pipeline for systematically searching for Anomaly Detection Systems
Digitalization in the medical world provides major benefits while making it a target for attackers and thus hard to secure. To deal with network intruders we propose an anomaly detection system on hardware to detect malicious clients in real-time. We meet real-time and power restrictions using FPGAs. Overall system performance is achieved via the presented holistic system evaluation.

"When the Trump regime took over in January and Elon Musk's data-raiders started hacking federal agencies of various kinds, a group chat in which I participate started speculating about what kinds of terrible things this crowd might do. One member of the group wondered if the hacking might include the Social Security Administration's "death master file" – a list of people, presumably deceased, who would not receive any federal benefits and whose names and other identifying information would be flagged so that financial institutions would refuse to serve them.
What if, the conversation continued, the infamously cruel and paranoid regime decided to add living persons to the death master list? Doing so would destroy people's actual lives – which might make it just what a vicious government would do."
#USPolitics
https://cornerstone.dangillmor.com/essentials-april-12-2025/

A five-month investigation found that data centers in Mexico, Chile, South Africa, the Netherlands, and the U.S. overhyped their economic benefits and downplayed environmental damage, especially their water use, even in drought zones.
https://www.themaybe.org/research/data-cen

Where Cloud Meets Cement

Medicare Advantage's supplemental benefits will cost taxpayers $86 billion this year, with little transparency (Tara Bannow/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/12/medicare-advantages-supplemental-benefits-cost-86-billion-little-transparency/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p60#a250612p60

"The process of coding with an “agentic” LLM appears to be the process of carefully distilling all the worst parts of code review, and removing and discarding all of its benefits."
Very insightful post on #GenAI by Glyph
(Original title: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now)

@… @… the UX benefits tho
*runs away screaming*

Dr. GPT Will See You Now, but Should It? Exploring the Benefits and Harms of Large Language Models in Medical Diagnosis using Crowdsourced Clinical Cases
Bonam Mingole, Aditya Majumdar, Firdaus Ahmed Choudhury, Jennifer L. Kraschnewski, Shyam S. Sundar, Amulya Yadav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13805…

Dr. GPT Will See You Now, but Should It? Exploring the Benefits and Harms of Large Language Models in Medical Diagnosis using Crowdsourced Clinical Cases
The proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs) in high-stakes applications such as medical (self-)diagnosis and preliminary triage raises significant ethical and practical concerns about the effectiveness, appropriateness, and possible harmfulness of the use of these technologies for health-related concerns and queries. Some prior work has considered the effectiveness of LLMs in answering expert-written health queries/prompts, questions from medical examination banks, or queries based on pre…

I wonder if the claim that Iran wants to develop a #nuclear bomb to destroy Israel is not just as bold a lie as the claim that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.
We know that even the UN - i.e. the world public - is unashamedly lied to if it benefits its own cause.
Powell's lie led to the Iraq war,

"Reform UK promises to reverse ban on new North Sea oil drilling if elected"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NorthSea #FossilFuels

Artificial Intelligence, Lean Startup Method, and Product Innovations
Gavin Wang, Lynn Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16334 https://ar…

Artificial Intelligence, Lean Startup Method, and Product Innovations
Although AI has the potential to drive significant business innovation, many firms struggle to realize its benefits. We examine how the Lean Startup Method (LSM) influences the impact of AI on product innovation in startups. Analyzing data from 1,800 Chinese startups between 2011 and 2020, alongside policy shifts by the Chinese government in encouraging AI adoption, we find that companies with strong AI capabilities produce more innovative products. Moreover, our study reveals that AI investmen…

Estimation of Treatment Effects in Extreme and Unobserved Data
Jiyuan Tan, Jose Blanchet, Vasilis Syrgkanis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14051 https://

Estimation of Treatment Effects in Extreme and Unobserved Data
Causal effect estimation seeks to determine the impact of an intervention from observational data. However, the existing causal inference literature primarily addresses treatment effects on frequently occurring events. But what if we are interested in estimating the effects of a policy intervention whose benefits, while potentially important, can only be observed and measured in rare yet impactful events, such as extreme climate events? The standard causal inference methodology is not designed …

MAM: Modular Multi-Agent Framework for Multi-Modal Medical Diagnosis via Role-Specialized Collaboration
Yucheng Zhou, Lingran Song, Jianbing Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19835 …

MAM: Modular Multi-Agent Framework for Multi-Modal Medical Diagnosis via Role-Specialized Collaboration
Recent advancements in medical Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased their powerful reasoning and diagnostic capabilities. Despite their success, current unified multimodal medical LLMs face limitations in knowledge update costs, comprehensiveness, and flexibility. To address these challenges, we introduce the Modular Multi-Agent Framework for Multi-Modal Medical Diagnosis (MAM). Inspired by our empirical findings highlighting the benefits of role assignment and diagnostic discernment in …

I know some of the money is thinking what @… says here. The trouble here is that Tesla is currently wildly, absurdly, comically overvalued wrt its fundamentals, and there are really only two rationalizations for that:
(1) Musk is a brain genius who will innovate the company into magic unicorn fairyland of world domination.
(2) Musk has Trump on a leash and will reap the benefits of kleptocratic plundering of the US Federal budget.
Both of those justifications depend on Musk remaining at Tesla. If he leaves, there’s little reason for the P/E ratio not to correct to normal car company levels — which AIUI would mean a stock price drop of >90%.
https://hachyderm.io/@zzzeek/114637505037473139

The benefits don't stop at bringing a five year old to the Oval Office …
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/trump-is-forcing-states-to-funnel-grant-money-to-starlink-senate-democrats-say/

FSM Modeling For Off-Blockchain Computation
Christian Gang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02086 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.02086

FSM Modeling For Off-Blockchain Computation
Blockchain benefits are due to immutability, replication, and storage-and-execution of smart contracts on the blockchain. However, the benefits come at increased costs due to the blockchain size and execution. We address three fundamental issues that arise in transferring certain parts of a smart contract to be executed off-chain: (i) identifying which parts (patterns) of the smart contract should be considered for processing off-chain, (ii) under which conditions should a smart-contract patter…

Learning to crawl: benefits and limits of centralized vs distributed control
Luca Gagliardi, Agnese Seminara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02766 https://

Learning to crawl: benefits and limits of centralized vs distributed control
We present a model of a crawler consisting of several suckers distributed along a straight line and connected by springs. Both proprioception and control are binary: the system responds to the elongation vs compression of its springs and the suckers can either adhere or remain idle. A central pattern generator delivers a traveling wave of compression, and the crawler is tasked to learn how to control adhesion to effectively ride the wave in order to crawl. We ask what are the benefits and limit…

Removal #WinterFuelBenefit was a controversial decision. Would it not be better and fairer if these benefits were taxable, thereby spreading the reduction more progressively?

Multi-dimensional evaluation on a rural integrated energy system including solar, wind, biomass and geothermal energy
Ruonan Lia, Chang Wena, Mingyu Yan, Congcong Wu, Ahmed Lotfy Elrefai, Xiaotong Zhang, Sahban Wael Saeed Alnaser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15398

Multi-dimensional evaluation on a rural integrated energy system including solar, wind, biomass and geothermal energy
This study focuses on the novel municipal-scale rural integrated energy system (RIES), which encompasses energy supply and application. By constructing a seven-dimensional evaluation system including energy efficiency, energy supply, low-carbon sustainability, environmental impact, energy economy, social benefits, and integrated energy system development, this research combines the improved analytic hierarchy process (IAHP) and entropy weight method (EWM) by sum of squares of deviations to bala…

"An Australian study, conducted over four years and starting before the pandemic, has come up with some enlightening conclusions about the impact of working from home. The researchers are unequivocal: this flexibility significantly improves the well-being and happiness of employees, transforming our relationship with work."

China Mieville contra Perry Anderson: Anti-Streeck
»On immigration, socialist demands should include full labour and civic rights for migrants, full entitlement to benefits, unionisation across the economy, and an undoing of vulnerabilities that contribute to the super-exploitation of migrants.«
https://www.

Right-wing (people's) hypocrisy
Isn't it interesting how someone first criticizes someone (I didn't listen to their conversation enough to know who was it about) using Polish insults for left-wing people, adding "nothing is sacred to them", and then buys a ticket to a train that's financed from the budget, and on top of that benefits from discount for disabled people and their guardians (both being left-wing inventions).

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15030 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Harnessing On-Device Large Language Model: Empirical Results and Implications for AI PC
The increasing deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) on edge devices, driven by model advancements and hardware improvements, offers significant privacy benefits. However, these on-device LLMs inherently face performance limitations due to reduced model capacity and necessary compression techniques. To address this, we introduce a systematic methodology -- encompassing model capability, development efficiency, and system resources -- for evaluating on-device LLMs. Our comprehensive evaluat…

"This is how Lotus was born: as a company featuring unprecedented benefits for their employees, fostering a culture of radical diversity and inclusion, cleverly mixing dashes of 1960s counterculture with the latest 1980s technology.
Two major names stand out in the creation of this culture: first, Janet Axelrod, who passed away in 2021, and who brought her experience at Digital Equipment Corporation in the areas of diversity and inclusion. Second, Freada Kapor Klein."

Discussion of "Causal and counterfactual views of missing data models" by Razieh Nabi, Rohit Bhattacharya, Ilya Shpitser, & James M. Robins
Alex W. Levis, Edward H. Kennedy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13025

Discussion of "Causal and counterfactual views of missing data models" by Razieh Nabi, Rohit Bhattacharya, Ilya Shpitser, & James M. Robins
We congratulate Nabi et al. (2022) on their impressive and insightful paper, which illustrates the benefits of using causal/counterfactual perspectives and tools in missing data problems. This paper represents an important approach to missing-not-at-random (MNAR) problems, exploiting nonparametric independence restrictions for identification, as opposed to parametric/semiparametric models, or resorting to sensitivity analysis. Crucially, the authors represent these restrictions with missing dat…

Multi-Agent, Multi-Scale Systems with the Koopman Operator
Craig Bakker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15589 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.1…

Multi-Agent, Multi-Scale Systems with the Koopman Operator
The Koopman Operator (KO) takes nonlinear state dynamics and ``lifts'' those dynamics to an infinite-dimensional functional space of observables in which those dynamics are linear. Computational applications typically use a finite-dimensional approximation to the KO. The KO can also be applied to controlled dynamical systems, and the linearity of the KO then facilitates analysis and control calculations. In principle, the potential benefits provided by the KO, and the way that it facilitates th…

Integrating Pair Programming as a Work Practice
Nina Haugland Andersen, Anastasiia Tkalich, Nils Brede Moe, Darja Smite, Asgaut Mj{\o}lne S\"oderbom, Ola Hast, Viktoria Stray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19511

Integrating Pair Programming as a Work Practice
Context: Pair programming (PP) is more relevant than ever. As modern systems grow in complexity, knowledge sharing and collaboration across teams have become essential. However, despite well-documented benefits of PP, its adoption remains inconsistent across software teams. Objective: This study aims to understand the factors that facilitate or hinder team members' adoption as well as lasting engagement in PP. Method: We have conducted an exploratory single-case study in a mature agile company …

I'm always wary about using environmental (or health) arguments in favor of going #vegan, mostly because veganism is about animal rights, not about benefits for us and thus you can only go plant-based for those reasons, not vegan, though for some veganism may follow more easily after having abstained from the use of animals.
Apart from this disclaimer, an amazing 10min talk.
OXFORD UNIVER…

Speeding up adiabatic holonomic quantum gates via $\pi$-pulse modulation
Jiang Zhang, Tonghao Xing, Guilu Long
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09326 https://

Speeding up adiabatic holonomic quantum gates via $π$-pulse modulation
Holonomic quantum computation (HQC) offers an inherently robust approach to quantum gate implementation by exploiting quantum holonomies. While adiabatic HQC benefits from robustness against certain control errors, its long runtime limits practical utility due to increased exposure to environmental noise. Nonadiabatic HQC addresses this issue by enabling faster gate operations but compromises robustness. In this work, we propose a scheme for fast holonomic quantum gates based on the $π$-pulse …

AI based Content Creation and Product Recommendation Applications in E-commerce: An Ethical overview
Aditi Madhusudan Jain, Ayush Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17370

AI based Content Creation and Product Recommendation Applications in E-commerce: An Ethical overview
As e-commerce rapidly integrates artificial intelligence for content creation and product recommendations, these technologies offer significant benefits in personalization and efficiency. AI-driven systems automate product descriptions, generate dynamic advertisements, and deliver tailored recommendations based on consumer behavior, as seen in major platforms like Amazon and Shopify. However, the widespread use of AI in e-commerce raises crucial ethical challenges, particularly around data priv…

Brazil’s ANPD Preliminary Study on Generative AI highlights the dual nature of data protection law: balancing rights with technological innovation
https://fpf.org/blog/brazils-anpd-prel

NYC-based Zorro, whose AI-powered software helps clients' workers navigate health insurance and benefits options, raised a $20M Series A led by Entrée Capital (Erin Brodwin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2…

Exclusive: Zorro clinches $20M Series A for ICHRA health plans
As employers wrestle with rising costs, the group plan alternative is gaining steam.

With militaries: amateurs focus on weapon systems like tanks & planes. Professionals focus on logistics.
kegseth is a drunk amateur misusing & abusing our soldiers.
“…snafu is…slapdash mission where…welfare of troops has not been…priority…service members described inadequate living conditions at…Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, on…outskirts of Los Angeles…soldiers are sleeping outside on cots…Others cited intermittent issues with food & fuel supplies.”

Guard Soldiers Deployed in Trump's LA Crackdown Aren't Getting Paid Yet
According to more than a dozen Guardsmen across four units who spoke to Military.com, none has received formal activation orders, the critical paperwork that not only authorizes their duty status, but also unlocks pay and Tricare health benefits.

The Republican megabill now before the Senate cuts taxes for high earners & reduces benefits for the poor.
☑️ NYTimes: Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/ups…

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits last week rises to highest level in eight months (Matt Ott/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/unemployment-benefits-jobless-claims-layoffs-labor-795ec07804ed3f35eb702af27c4983d0
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p53#a250605p53

SimuPanel: A Novel Immersive Multi-Agent System to Simulate Interactive Expert Panel Discussion
Xiangyang He, Jiale Li, Jiahao Chen, Yang Yang, Mingming Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16010

SimuPanel: A Novel Immersive Multi-Agent System to Simulate Interactive Expert Panel Discussion
Panel discussion allows the audience to learn different perspectives through interactive discussions among experts moderated by a host and a Q&A session with the audience. Despite its benefits, panel discussion in the real world is inaccessible to many who do not have the privilege to participate due to geographical, financial, and time constraints. We present SimuPanel, which simulates panel discussions among academic experts through LLM-based multi-agent interaction. It enables users to defin…

Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget would strip trans federal workers of insurance coverage - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2025/05/trumps-fiscal-2026-budget-would-strip-trans-federal-workers-insurance-coverage/405717/

Join Adrien Grand and Luca Cavanna at this year's Berlin Buzzwords as they share the fascinating journey to the release of version 10.0 of the popular Java search engine Apache Lucene, discussing the ups and downs, the team effort it took to get there, and much more.
Learn more: https://

Disclosure Audits for LLM Agents
Saswat Das, Jameson Sandler, Ferdinando Fioretto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10171 https://arxiv.org/…

Disclosure Audits for LLM Agents
Large Language Model agents have begun to appear as personal assistants, customer service bots, and clinical aides. While these applications deliver substantial operational benefits, they also require continuous access to sensitive data, which increases the likelihood of unauthorized disclosures. This study proposes an auditing framework for conversational privacy that quantifies and audits these risks. The proposed Conversational Manipulation for Privacy Leakage (CMPL) framework, is an iterati…

MMWiLoc: A Multi-Sensor Dataset and Robust Device-Free Localization Method Using Commercial Off-The-Shelf Millimeter Wave Wi-Fi Devices
Wenbo Ding, Yang Li, Dongsheng Wang, Bin Zhao, Yunrong Zhu, Yibo Zhang, Yumeng Miao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11540

MMWiLoc: A Multi-Sensor Dataset and Robust Device-Free Localization Method Using Commercial Off-The-Shelf Millimeter Wave Wi-Fi Devices
Device-free Wi-Fi sensing has numerous benefits in practical settings, as it eliminates the requirement for dedicated sensing devices and can be accomplished using current low-cost Wi-Fi devices. With the development of Wi-Fi standards, millimeter wave Wi-Fi devices with 60GHz operating frequency and up to 4GHz bandwidth have become commercially available. Although millimeter wave Wi-Fi presents great promise for Device-Free Wi-Fi sensing with increased bandwidth and beam-forming ability, there…

RL-Guided MPC for Autonomous Greenhouse Control
Salim Msaad, Murray Harraway, Robert D. McAllister
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13278 https://

RL-Guided MPC for Autonomous Greenhouse Control
The efficient operation of greenhouses is essential for enhancing crop yield while minimizing energy costs. This paper investigates a control strategy that integrates Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Model Predictive Control (MPC) to optimize economic benefits in autonomous greenhouses. Previous research has explored the use of RL and MPC for greenhouse control individually, or by using MPC as the function approximator for the RL agent. This study introduces the RL-Guided MPC framework, where a …

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White House denies reporting by Guardian on VA benefits: 'Totally FALSE story' (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5353202-va-hospitals-report-white-house-denial/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p133#a250616p133

Sources: Mistral AI has closed or is closing a handful of commercial contracts, each worth $100M over three to five years, as it expands its own infrastructure (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/65f79839-d637-48a7-a0f2-3fab8952b315

Europe’s Mistral benefits from search for artificial intelligence alternatives
Start-up has embarked on expansion of its own infrastructure and secured significant contracts

"‘We don’t need a disaster to justify resilience’: Climate projects can bring big economic benefits"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Finance

How climate resilience projects are paying off around the world
The 320 climate projects analysed were found to have potential yields of about €1 trillion in projected returns over a decade.

They served the nation. Now, these veterans say they're protesting to save it. (Olivia George/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/06/06/unite-for-veterans-rally-dc-benefits-trump-cuts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p42#a250606p42

Join Adrien Grand and Luca Cavanna at this year's Berlin Buzzwords as they share the fascinating journey to the release of version 10.0 of the popular Java search engine Apache Lucene, discussing the ups and downs, the team effort it took to get there, and much more.
Learn more: https://

HUD is working on work requirements and time limits for help. These may be unlawful - HUD's put caps on benefits before
Should federal rental aid come with a time limit? Here's how it works in one place : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/07/nx-s1-5425500/federal-rental-aid-time-limit-hud-delaware-housing-authority

Querying Large Automotive Software Models: Agentic vs. Direct LLM Approaches
Lukasz Mazur, Nenad Petrovic, James Pontes Miranda, Ansgar Radermacher, Robert Rasche, Alois Knoll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13171

Querying Large Automotive Software Models: Agentic vs. Direct LLM Approaches
Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for interacting with complex software artifacts, such as software models, through natural language. They present especially promising benefits for large software models that are difficult to grasp in their entirety, making traditional interaction and analysis approaches challenging. This paper investigates two approaches for leveraging LLMs to answer questions over software models: direct prompting, where the whole software model is provided …

Self-driving technologies need the help of the public: A narrative review of the evidence
Jonathan Smith, Siddartha Khastgir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23472

Self-driving technologies need the help of the public: A narrative review of the evidence
If public trust is lot in a new technology early in its life cycle it can take much more time for the benefits of that technology to be realised. Eventually tens-of-millions of people will collectively have the power to determine self-driving technology success of failure driven by their perception of risk, data handling, safety, governance, accountability, benefits to their life and more. This paper reviews the evidence on safety critical technology covering trust, engagement, and acceptance. …

Trump administration changes mind, won't cut Social Security benefits over defaulted student loans (Annie Nova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/02/trump-pauses-social-security-benefit-cuts-over-defaulted-student-loans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p105#a250603p105

Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship (Konstantin Toropin/Military and Veteran Benefits ...)
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/03/hegseth-orders-navy-strip-name-of-gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-ship.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p101#a250603p101