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Judge blocks Trump from withholding EV charger infrastructure funds (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5367974-judge-blocks-trump-from-withholding-ev-funds/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p175#a250624p175

US judge blocks Trump plan to close Harvard's doors to international students (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-blocks-trump-plan-close-harvards-doors-international-students-2025-06-24/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p151#a250623p151

Planet formation in chemically diverse and evolving discs -- I. Composition of planetary building blocks
E. Pacetti, E. Schisano, D. Turrini, C. P. Dullemond, S. Molinari, C. Walsh, S. Fonte, U. Lebreuilly, R. S. Klessen, P. Hennebelle, S. L. Ivanovski, R. Politi, D. Polychroni, P. Simonetti, L. Testi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.…

Planet formation in chemically diverse and evolving discs -- I. Composition of planetary building blocks
Protoplanetary discs are dynamic environments where the interplay between chemical processes and mass transport shapes the composition of gas and dust available for planet formation. We investigate the combined effects of volatile chemistry - including both gas-phase and surface reactions - viscous gas evolution, and radial dust drift on the composition of planetary building blocks. We explore scenarios of chemical inheritance and reset under varying ionisation conditions and for various dust g…

Conformal blocks, parahoric torsors and Borel-Weil-Bott
V. Balaji, Y. Pandey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17573 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Conformal blocks, parahoric torsors and Borel-Weil-Bott
Let $X$ be a smooth projective curve over an algebraically closed field $k$. Let $\mathcal{G}$ be a parahoric group scheme on $X$ as in \cite{pr}. Via the principle of Hecke correspondences, we set-up relationships between the cohomology of lines bundles on various moduli stacks of torsors. This approach gives a proof of \cite[Conjecture 3.7]{pr} for group schemes $\mathcal G$ as above in characteristic zero. This further gives as a consequence, the principle of propagation of vacua. We give a …

In this book, Theoharis introduces us to the people leading the movement to end poverty, including:
multiracial groups of homeless people rising up from the streets and seizing empty, federally-owned homes;
mothers on welfare shutting down entire city blocks and going toe-to-toe with some of the most powerful people in the country;
farmworkers busting modern-day slave rings and winning living wages from multinational fast-food companies; and
coal miners, veterans,…

A stylized map of #Manila, #Philippines 🇵🇭 on the wall at the Sheraton Manila Bay's restaurant.
#MapsInTheWild

I found a fan this morning (biked home with it for five blocks!) and tried to get it working. No luck yet, motor might be burned out or seized up.
The fan I found in an alley two years ago works totally fine. Hoping I can get this one running.

Trump cannot end union bargaining for federal workers, judge rules (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/us-judge-blocks-trumps-elimination-union-bargaining-federal-workers-2025-06-25/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250625/p118#a250625p118

Judge blocks Trump admin from mass firing Education Department civil rights employees, says students could face 'irreparable harm' if allowed
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judge-blocks-trump-admin-from-mass-firing-education-department-civil-rights-employees-says-students-could-face-irreparable-harm-if-allowed/

Classical invariants of spiral knots
Sarah Blackwell, Ashish Das, Sydney Mayer, Luke Moyar, Faisal Quraishi, Ryan Stees
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17889 ht…

Classical invariants of spiral knots
Torus knots are an important family of knots about which much is understood; invariants of torus knots often exhibit nice formulas, making them convenient and fundamental building blocks for examples in knot theory. Spiral knots, defined and first studied by Brothers et al., are a braid-theoretic generalization of torus knots, but comparatively not much is known about this broader family of knots. We give a general recursive formula for the Alexander polynomials of spiral knots, and from this w…

Multi-partonic interactions, iterated discontinuities and the virtuality expansion in deep inelastic scattering
Zeno Capatti, Lucien Huber, Michael Ruf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16489

Multi-partonic interactions, iterated discontinuities and the virtuality expansion in deep inelastic scattering
We introduce a perturbative model that accounts for the contribution of multi-partonic interactions to collider observables. A key feature of this multi-parton model is that cross sections are organised in terms of building blocks that are separately infrared-finite in virtue of the KLN theorem. We find compact expressions for these building blocks in terms of double discontinuities of Feynman-type integrals obtained by endowing a vacuum graph with additional topological information. The framew…

Salesforce is restricting third-party companies from long-term indexing and storing of Slack messages, which would hamper rival enterprise AI firms like Glean (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/salesforce-blocks-ai-rivals…

Salesforce Blocks AI Rivals From Using Slack Data
Slack, an instant-messaging service popular with businesses, recently blocked other software firms from searching or storing Slack messages even if their customers permit them to do so, according to a public disclosure from Slack’s owner, Salesforce. The move, which hasn’t previously been ...

Corner Topology Makes Woven Baskets into Stiff, yet Resilient Metamaterials
Guowei Wayne Tu, Evgueni T. Filipov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18197 https://…

Corner Topology Makes Woven Baskets into Stiff, yet Resilient Metamaterials
Basket weaving is a traditional craft used to create practical three-dimensional (3D) structures. While the geometry and aesthetics of baskets have received considerable attention, the underlying mechanics and modern engineering potential remain underexplored. This work shows that 3D woven structures offer similar stiffness yet substantially higher resilience than their non-woven continuous counterparts. We explore corner topologies that serve as building blocks to convert 2D woven sheets into …

Identifying Heterogeneity in Distributed Learning
Zelin Xiao, Jia Gu, Song Xi Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16394 https://arxiv.org…

Identifying Heterogeneity in Distributed Learning
We study methods for identifying heterogeneous parameter components in distributed M-estimation with minimal data transmission. One is based on a re-normalized Wald test, which is shown to be consistent as long as the number of distributed data blocks $K$ is of a smaller order of the minimum block sample size {and the level of heterogeneity is dense}. The second one is an extreme contrast test (ECT) based on the difference between the largest and smallest component-wise estimated parameters amo…

After 6/7 years using primarily #archlinux on my workstation I wanted to try something else, and so I got a #macbook .
All fun and games, until Apple comes in the way and blocks you from doing the simplest of the tasks: Removing the default apps. OH MY GOD what a pain.
Do you want …

US court blocks most of Trump's tariffs, rules he exceeded authority: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/us-court-blocks-most-of.html

Estimating Extreme Wave Surges in the Presence of Missing Data
James H. McVittie, Orla A. Murphy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15970 https://

Estimating Extreme Wave Surges in the Presence of Missing Data
The block maxima approach, which consists of dividing a series of observations into equal sized blocks to extract the block maxima, is commonly used for identifying and modelling extreme events using the generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution. In the analysis of coastal wave surge levels, the underlying data which generate the block maxima typically have missing observations. Consequently, the observed block maxima may not correspond to the true block maxima yielding biased estimates of t…

Tonight's quick ngscopeclient dev fix: GPU accelerating the demo scope.
It now runs quite a few times faster than before (and is faster to process subsequent filter blocks on, since the input data is now GPU resident).
Not super critical but a nice quality-of-life fix since I use the demo scope as a data source for development pretty often.

Building Blocks of a User Experience Research Point of View
Patricia Diaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15332 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Building Blocks of a User Experience Research Point of View
This paper presents three User Experience Research (UXR) perspectives based on data, evidence and insights - known as Point of View (POV) - showcasing how the strategies and methods of building a POV work in an enterprise setting. The POV are: 1. Smart Visuals: Use AI to extract and translate text from visuals in videos (2019). 2. Assessable Code Editor: Focus on direct AI-feedback to the learner as it is the loop that requires the least effort for the highest impact(2023). 3. Opportunity Lands…

tl;dr: Block logins from Tor Exit Nodes using Conditional Access
One thing we (as a community) lost when we started using IdP’s like #EntraID was the ability to easily block networks and IP addresses from accessing your login pages. The work-around with Entra is to create Conditional Access Network Locations along with a policy to block successful logins from those IPs and networks.

What has ... DRM (?!) ever done for us?
https://infosec.exchange/@dangoodin/114546912959367470

Blessed be the rule of law.
Breaking: Federal judge blocks Rubio's anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy for all
https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-federal-judge-blocks-rubios

Beauty in the concrete.
Amazing what nature can accomplish.
#Bloomscrolling

Properties of Building Blocks Comprising Strongly Interacting Posts and Their Consideration in Advanced Coaxial Filter Designs
Smain Amari, Mustafa Bakr, Uwe Rosenberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15729

Properties of Building Blocks Comprising Strongly Interacting Posts and Their Consideration in Advanced Coaxial Filter Designs
Building blocks containing strongly coupled posts offer new possibilities for advanced coaxial (comb-line) filter designs. Equivalent circuits based on the individual resonances of the posts cannot be used to reliably describe the behavior of these structures because of the strong coupling between the posts. Instead, sets of electromagnetic (EM) resonances that satisfy the boundary conditions are used. The resulting equivalent circuit is either a fully transversal circuit or contains locally tr…

Intersections of blocks of cyclotomic Hecke algebras
Maria Chlouveraki, Gunter Malle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12973 https://arxiv.o…

Intersections of blocks of cyclotomic Hecke algebras
Trinh and Xue have proposed a startling conjecture on intersections of blocks of cyclotomic Hecke algebras occurring in modular representation theory of finite reductive groups. We prove this conjecture for all exceptional type groups apart from $E_8$. We also propose several generalisations, to Suzuki and Ree groups, to non-rational Coxeter groups and even more generally to spetsial complex reflection groups, and confirm these in various cases.

@… we lost power in DC, a few blocks from the Silver Spring line.

Judge blocks Trump plan to tie states' transportation funds to immigration enforcement (Reuters)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/judge-blocks-trump-plan-tie-states-transportation-funds-immigration-en-rcna214030
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p42#a250620p42

#Drumpf #DOJ suing all 15 judges on the #Maryland #federal court bench over imposition of mandatory 2 day delay policy in any

Trump DHS sues entire bench of federal judges in Maryland district court over automatic injunctions
The Trump administration files lawsuit against all 15 Maryland federal judges, challenging court policy that temporarily blocks deportations of immigrants filing habeas corpus petitions.

The building blocks of asymptotically flat spacetimes
Shadi Ali Ahmad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11190 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.111…

The building blocks of asymptotically flat spacetimes
The classification of all possible induced representations arising from theories admitting a Poincaré symmetry has molded our very conception of particles in flat space. In this note, we argue that if one takes the same viewpoint on the asymptotic symmetry group instead of the global one, the familiar relativistic classification is enhanced to provide a new notion of excitations in asymptotically flat spacetimes. These excitations blur the line between the quantum description of a particle and…

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/openai-chatgpt-north-korean-it-workers
OpenAI blocks ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT worker fraud

OpenAI blocks ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT worker fraud
OpenAI blocked accounts used to create resumes that are likely tied to the long-running scam.

Ken Paxton blocks San Antonio from funding out-of-state abortion travel (David Zimmermann/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3448669/ken-paxton-blocks-san-antonio-funding-out-of-state-abortion-travel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p84#a250620p84

The 60-year-old man lying on the street, as far as anyone knew, was just a janitor hit by a drunk driver.
There was no mention of it on the local news, no obituary in the morning paper.
His name might have been Anonymous. But it wasn’t. 
His name was Peter Putnam.
He was a physicist who’d hung out with Albert Einstein, John Archibald Wheeler, and Niels Bohr,
and two blocks from the crash, in his run-down apartment, where his partner, Claude, was startled by a scr…

Finding Peter Putnam
The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind

I always wonder what message it sends when countries turn to internet geo-blocks. It doesn't project confidence.
(Israel's "National Emergency Portal", for example, has been unavailable from non-IL IP ranges since 2021.)
https://www.theverge.com/politics/688875/i

Iran is going offline to prevent purported Israeli cyberattacks
Iran has begun throttling its own internet bandwidth, taken down mobile services, asked citizens to delete WhatsApp, and will shut off global internet access.

“This ruling reaffirms that our laws matter, and that trade decisions can’t be made on the president’s whim.”
It's the 'Rule of Law', Donald!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/us-court-blocks-trump-tariffs?…

Senate Parliamentarian Blocks Republican Attacks on SNAP, CFPB in Reconciliation Bill | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-parliamentarian

with the bar for safe bike infrastructure as low as it is, it's hard to strike the right balance after a project between "hooray! it's so much better!" and "this, that, and the other thing still suck."
Streetsblog SF often errs on the latter side... I'm happier than ever with #ValenciaStreet, but their critiques are not wrong.

SFMTA Leaves Valencia Bike Lanes Unfinished - Streetsblog San Francisco
The center-running lane is long gone and some finishing touches are coming to the parking-protected section from 15th to 23rd, but the lack of concrete infrastructure remains problematic. And then there's the last four blocks from 23rd to Cesar Chavez, which is still just a striped lane wedged between parked cars and moving traffic.

I know as a developer just how hard it is to actually make it work, but perhaps the lesson of the Liquid Glass public reaction fiasco is for Apple to just give users •much• more control over the UI theme.
Between the retina transition, iOS 7, accessibility improvements like variable text size, dark mode support, and the long migration away from hard-coded layouts, we developers have grown used to making more adaptable UIs. Lots of the building blocks for OS-level theming are there, both in SwiftUI and in UIKit.
If Apple said “Themes are coming!” at WWDC 26, developers would adapt.
Assuming we still have a functioning society at that point.
From @…:
https://mastodon.social/@realmacdan/113792374380828124

Today I had cause to get out my old #Acorn #RISCOS 3 Style Guide to demonstrate that the fundamentals of good #UX can date back well over 30 years - same with the

• 🧩 Custom Blocks via #PHP classes with #Filament form configuration and Blade view rendering stored as JSON
• 🔒 Secure image handling with private storage and dynamically generated signed URLs via media library

US judge blocks Trump plan to tie states' transportation funds to immigration enforcement (Tom Hals/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-trump-plan-tie-states-transportation-funds-immigration-2025-06-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p104#a250619p104

Becoming Immutable: How Ethereum is Made
Andrea Canidio, Vabuk Pahari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.049…

Becoming Immutable: How Ethereum is Made
We analyze blocks proposed for inclusion in the Ethereum blockchain during 8 minutes on December 3rd, 2024. Our dataset comprises 38 winning blocks, 15,097 proposed blocks, 10,793 unique transactions, and 2,380,014 transaction-block pairings. We find that exclusive transactions--transactions present only in blocks proposed by a single builder--account for 85% of the fees paid by all transactions included in winning blocks. We also find that a surprisingly large number of user transactions are d…

Pureformer-VC: Non-parallel Voice Conversion with Pure Stylized Transformer Blocks and Triplet Discriminative Training
Wenhan Yao, Fen Xiao, Xiarun Chen, Jia Liu, YongQiang He, Weiping Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08348

Pureformer-VC: Non-parallel Voice Conversion with Pure Stylized Transformer Blocks and Triplet Discriminative Training
As a foundational technology for intelligent human-computer interaction, voice conversion (VC) seeks to transform speech from any source timbre into any target timbre. Traditional voice conversion methods based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) encounter significant challenges in precisely encoding diverse speech elements and effectively synthesising these elements into natural-sounding converted speech. To overcome these limitations, we introduce Pureformer-VC, an encoder-decoder frame…

I love how the “#ColeValley Town Square” pop-up turns Carl St. into a relaxed oasis. It’s a great proof-of-concept for permanently closing the street where the #NJudah emerges from the Sunset Tunnel (and extending the footprint of Gamble Memorial Park).

Compressed Video Super-Resolution based on Hierarchical Encoding
Yuxuan Jiang, Siyue Teng, Qiang Zhu, Chen Feng, Chengxi Zeng, Fan Zhang, Shuyuan Zhu, Bing Zeng, David Bull
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14381

Compressed Video Super-Resolution based on Hierarchical Encoding
This paper presents a general-purpose video super-resolution (VSR) method, dubbed VSR-HE, specifically designed to enhance the perceptual quality of compressed content. Targeting scenarios characterized by heavy compression, the method upscales low-resolution videos by a ratio of four, from 180p to 720p or from 270p to 1080p. VSR-HE adopts hierarchical encoding transformer blocks and has been sophisticatedly optimized to eliminate a wide range of compression artifacts commonly introduced by H.2…

Lempel-Ziv Complexity, Empirical Entropies, and Chain Rules
Neri Merhav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12772 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.1…

Lempel-Ziv Complexity, Empirical Entropies, and Chain Rules
We derive upper and lower bounds on the overall compression ratio of the 1978 Lempel-Ziv (LZ78) algorithm, applied independently to $k$-blocks of a finite individual sequence. Both bounds are given in terms of normalized empirical entropies of the given sequence. For the bounds to be tight and meaningful, the order of the empirical entropy should be small relative to $k$ in the upper bound, but large relative to $k$ in the lower bound. Several non-trivial conclusions arise from these bounds. On…

Integrated microheater on the 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator platform and its applications
Wenhan Sun, Ruixuan Wang, Jingwei Li, Haipeng Zhang, Zhensheng Jia, Qing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15035

Integrated microheater on the 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator platform and its applications
Recent progress in the 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator (4H-SiCOI) platform has resulted in the demonstration of essential building blocks such as low-loss waveguides and microresonators. In this work, we add tunability to the 4H-SiCOI platform by integrating microheaters with compact microresonators. The strong thermo-optic effect in SiC enables a resonance tuning rate of $11.7$ pm/mW for a 36-$μ$m-radius SiC microring, with a maximum wavelength shift up to $2.4$ nm (300 GHz). The thermal time…

Additive Manufacturing of Lunar Regolith for Reconfigurable Building Blocks toward Lunar Habitation
Cole McCallum, Youwen Liang, Nahid Tushar, Ben Xu, Bo Zhao, Hao Zeng, Wan Shou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06392

Additive Manufacturing of Lunar Regolith for Reconfigurable Building Blocks toward Lunar Habitation
Utilizing locally available materials is a crucial step towards sustainable planetary habitation. Lunar regolith has gained tremendous interest in additive manufacturing in the past decades. However, due to the constrained manufacturing facilities and materials on the moon, many existing additive manufacturing methods are not suitable for practical on-site manufacturing. Here, we envision that light-based direct sintering of lunar regolith can be a feasible approach. Instead of directly manufac…

Next stop on our NLP timeline (as part of the #ISE2025 lecture) was Terry Winograd's SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding system developed in 1968-70 that could manipulate blocks in a virtual world.
Winograd, T. Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language. MIT AI Technical Report 235.

"Trump blocks California rules for greener vehicles and gas-powered car ban"
#US #USA #America #California…

Starting to think about GPU acceleration of protocol decodes (rather than just basic math blocks) in ngscopeclient.
Here's the filter graph I'm thinking of using as a benchmark: dual lane QSGMII, 20M points per channel.
The filter graph takes 944 ms end to end to run on my box (2x Xeon 6144 2080 Ti).
Major time consumers:
* Eye pattern (~345 ms)
* QSGMII (~337 ms)
* CDR PLL (~310 ms)
* 8B10B (~160 ms)
* SGMII (~120 ms)
Note that the …

US judge blocks Trump passport policy targeting transgender people (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-blocks-trump-passport-policy-targeting-transgender-people-2025-06-17/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p155#a250617p155

Judge temporarily blocks executive orders targeting LGBTQ, HIV groups
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/06/11/judge-temporarily-blocks-executive-orders-targeting-lgbtq-hiv-groups/

At 7 I was walking the 5-ish blocks to/from the neighborhood grocery store occasionally & exploring the patch of woods halfway there. By 9 I was biking over a mile to school every day and often further to my Dad’s apartment. All in University City, an inner suburb of St. Louis. Some of it crossing or riding on major arterial roads & crossing a freeway.
I wasn’t special in any of that. My sisters & kids in my neighborhood did it too.

Efficient Prediction of SO(3)-Equivariant Hamiltonian Matrices via SO(2) Local Frames
Haiyang Yu, Yuchao Lin, Xuan Zhang, Xiaofeng Qian, Shuiwang Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09398

Efficient Prediction of SO(3)-Equivariant Hamiltonian Matrices via SO(2) Local Frames
We consider the task of predicting Hamiltonian matrices to accelerate electronic structure calculations, which plays an important role in physics, chemistry, and materials science. Motivated by the inherent relationship between the off-diagonal blocks of the Hamiltonian matrix and the SO(2) local frame, we propose a novel and efficient network, called QHNetV2, that achieves global SO(3) equivariance without the costly SO(3) Clebsch-Gordan tensor products. This is achieved by introducing a set o…

Maybe it could even guess when you've been around someone, setting aside blocks where your hrv, etc. seem to be fairly uniform...and one could then identify that block as being x or y (could be a person, ones pet, watching a TV show) and then it could watch for similar patterns of measurements and ask if you were in xs proximity again, over time we might find unique signatures associated with specific people, activities, locations?

For the past week, every day at about 4pm, my nose blocks up and gets itchy… and stays that way until the next day 🤔

Neuromorphic Online Clustering and Its Application to Spike Sorting
James E. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12555 https://arxiv.org…

Neuromorphic Online Clustering and Its Application to Spike Sorting
Active dendrites are the basis for biologically plausible neural networks possessing many desirable features of the biological brain including flexibility, dynamic adaptability, and energy efficiency. A formulation for active dendrites using the notational language of conventional machine learning is put forward as an alternative to a spiking neuron formulation. Based on this formulation, neuromorphic dendrites are developed as basic neural building blocks capable of dynamic online clustering. …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05358 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

Empirical Analysis of Transaction Conflicts in Ethereum and Solana for Parallel Execution
This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of historical data across two popular blockchain networks: Ethereum and Solana. Our study focuses on two key aspects: transaction conflicts and the maximum theoretical parallelism within historical blocks. We aim to quantify the degree of transaction parallelism and assess how effectively it can be exploited by systematically examining block-level characteristics, both within individual blocks and across different historical periods. In particular, t…

Large-Scale-Structure Observables in General Relativity Validated at Second Order
Antoine Villey, Yonadav Barry Ginat, Vincent Desjacques, Donghui Jeong, Fabian Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11260

Large-Scale-Structure Observables in General Relativity Validated at Second Order
We present a second-order calculation of relativistic large-scale-structure observables in cosmological perturbation theory, specifically the "cosmic rulers and clock", which are the building-blocks of any other large-scale-structure observable, including galaxy number counts, on large scales. We calculate the scalar rulers (longitudinal perturbation and magnification) and the cosmic clock to second order, using a fully non-linear covariant definition of the observables. We validate our formula…

Certifying asymmetry in the configuration of three qubits
Abdelmalek Taoutioui, G\'abor Dr\'otos, Tam\'as V\'ertesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09939

Certifying asymmetry in the configuration of three qubits
We certify asymmetry in the configuration of the Bloch vectors of a set of three unknown qubit states within the dimensionally bounded prepare-and-measure scenario. To do this, we construct a linear witness from three simpler witnesses as building blocks, each featuring, along with two binary measurement settings, three preparations; two of them are associated with the certification task, while the third one serves as an auxiliary. The final witness is chosen to self-test some target configurat…

Breaking: Federal judge blocks Rubio's anti-trans, anti-nonbinary passport policy for all (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-federal-judge-blocks-rubios
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p161#a250617p161

Isotypic blocks of finite groups algebras that are not $p$-permutation equivalent
John Revere McHugh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03446 https://

Isotypic blocks of finite groups algebras that are not $p$-permutation equivalent
We show that Kessar's isotypy between Galois conjugate blocks of finite group algebras does not always lift to a $p$-permutation equivalence. We also provide examples of Galois conjugate blocks which are isotypic but not $p$-permutation equivalent. These results help to clarify the distinction between a $p$-permutation equivalence and an isotypy, and may be useful in determining necessary and sufficient conditions for when an isotypy lifts to a $p$-permutation equivalence.

Assessing a Safety Case: Bottom-up Guidance for Claims and Evidence Evaluation
Scott Schnelle, Francesca Favaro, Laura Fraade-Blanar, David Wichner, Holland Broce, Justin Miranda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09929

Assessing a Safety Case: Bottom-up Guidance for Claims and Evidence Evaluation
As Automated Driving Systems (ADS) technology advances, ensuring safety and public trust requires robust assurance frameworks, with safety cases emerging as a critical tool toward such a goal. This paper explores an approach to assess how a safety case is supported by its claims and evidence, toward establishing credibility for the overall case. Starting from a description of the building blocks of a safety case (claims, evidence, and optional format-dependent entries), this paper delves into t…

A Unified Framework for Mapping and Synthesis of Approximate R-Blocks CGRAs
Georgios Alexandris, Panagiotis Chaidos, Alexis Maras, Barry de Bruin, Manil Dev Gomony, Henk Corporaal, Dimitrios Soudris, Sotirios Xydis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23553

A Unified Framework for Mapping and Synthesis of Approximate R-Blocks CGRAs
The ever-increasing complexity and operational diversity of modern Neural Networks (NNs) have caused the need for low-power and, at the same time, high-performance edge devices for AI applications. Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs) form a promising design paradigm to address these challenges, delivering a close-to-ASIC performance while allowing for hardware programmability. In this paper, we introduce a novel end-to-end exploration and synthesis framework for approximate CGRA…

Judge blocks renewed Trump plans for mass State Department layoffs | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-blocks-renewed-trump-plans-for-mass-state-department-layoffs/

Superconformal Weight Shifting Operators
Tobias Hansen, Paul Heslop, Hector Puerta Ramisa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08682 https://ar…

Superconformal Weight Shifting Operators
We develop a framework for constructing superconformal blocks for correlators of general supermultiplets in theories with $SU(m,m|2n)$ symmetry, such as four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}\!=\!2$ and $\mathcal{N} \!=\! 4$ conformal theories. We use analytic superspace, viewed as the super-Grassmannian $\mathrm{Gr}(m|n,2m|2n)$, which includes 4D Minkowski space ($m=2,n=0$). In this formalism, superblocks for non-half-BPS correlators are analogous to non-supersymmetric conformal blocks f…

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Flexible MOF Generation with Torsion-Aware Flow Matching
Nayoung Kim, Seongsu Kim, Sungsoo Ahn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17914 https://

Flexible MOF Generation with Torsion-Aware Flow Matching
Designing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with novel chemistries is a long-standing challenge due to their large combinatorial space and the complex 3D arrangements of building blocks. While recent deep generative models have enabled scalable MOF generation, they assume (1) a fixed set of building blocks and (2) known ground-truth local block-wise 3D coordinates. However, this limits their ability to (1) design novel MOFs and (2) generate the structure using novel building blocks. We propose a …

A federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for children under 14, saying the law is "likely unconstitutional" (Kate Payne/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/florida-soc

Composable Building Blocks for Controllable and Transparent Interactive AI Systems
Sebe Vanbrabant, Gustavo Rovelo Ruiz, Davy Vanacken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02262

Composable Building Blocks for Controllable and Transparent Interactive AI Systems
While the increased integration of AI technologies into interactive systems enables them to solve an equally increasing number of tasks, the black box problem of AI models continues to spread throughout the interactive system as a whole. Explainable AI (XAI) techniques can make AI models more accessible by employing post-hoc methods or transitioning to inherently interpretable models. While this makes individual AI models clearer, the overarching system architecture remains opaque. To this end,…

Judge Blocks Trump's Tying of Transportation Funds to Immigration Enforcement (David W. Chen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/us/politics/trump-transportation-funds-immigration-states.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p128#a250620p128

The Great Play on [any country]'s Inferiority Complex (markdown formatting is mine) ->
‘"President Trump pledged to put **America First**, and the administration is committed to using every lever of executive **power** to address this **crisis** and **restore** American **greatness**," [Kush Desai] added.’
US trade court blocks Trump's sweeping tariffs in blow to trade policies | BBC

Started laying out the power supply for the switch engine board. Still needs some work but it's getting there,

GATE: Geometry-Aware Trained Encoding
Jakub Bok\v{s}ansk\'y, Daniel Meister, Carsten Benthin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08161 https://

GATE: Geometry-Aware Trained Encoding
The encoding of input parameters is one of the fundamental building blocks of neural network algorithms. Its goal is to map the input data to a higher-dimensional space, typically supported by trained feature vectors. The mapping is crucial for the efficiency and approximation quality of neural networks. We propose a novel geometry-aware encoding called GATE that stores feature vectors on the surface of triangular meshes. Our encoding is suitable for neural rendering-related algorithms, for exa…

#DJT expected to quickly run to pals in #SCOTUS to overturn 3 judge panel's ban in US Court of International Trade to resume his chaotic #WhiteHouse wank off of tariff tirades that many experts agree exceeds executive branch authorit…

Court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs
Trump imposed tariffs on most of the countries in the world in an effort to reverse America’s massive and longstanding trade deficits. He earlier plastered levies on imports from Canada, Chin…

Disorder-Engineered Hybrid Plasmonic Cavities for Emission Control of Defects in hBN
Sinan Genc, Oguzhan Yucel, Furkan Aglarci, Carlos Rodriguez-Fernandez, Alpay Yilmaz, Humeyra Caglayan, Serkan Ates, Alpan Bek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14517

Disorder-Engineered Hybrid Plasmonic Cavities for Emission Control of Defects in hBN
Defect-based quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are promising building blocks for scalable quantum photonics due to their stable single-photon emission at room temperature. However, enhancing their emission intensity and controlling the decay dynamics remain significant challenges. This study demonstrates a low-cost, scalable fabrication approach to integrate plasmonic nanocavities with defect-based quantum emitters in hBN nanoflakes. Using the thermal dewetting process, we reali…

Judge blocks Donald Trump administration's Job Corps shutdown
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5334454-judge-blocks-trump-job-corps/

Gov. Newsom asks Trump to rescind ‘unlawful deployment’ of California National Guard
Blocks from Los Angeles City Hall, protesters have started to hide behind city benches
as police work to clear streets using pepper balls and stun grenades.
https://www.wa…

Live updates: Gov. Newsom asks Trump to rescind ‘unlawful deployment’ of California National Guard
The president said he is sending 2,000 soldiers to Los Angeles County after immigration sweeps led to tense confrontations.

Optimizing Superconducting Three-Qubit Gates for Surface-Code Error Correction
Stephan Tasler, Josias Old, Lukas Heunisch, Verena Feulner, Timo Eckstein, Markus M\"uller, Michael J. Hartmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09028

Optimizing Superconducting Three-Qubit Gates for Surface-Code Error Correction
Quantum error correction (QEC) is one of the crucial building blocks for developing quantum computers that have significant potential for reaching a quantum advantage in applications. Prominent candidates for QEC are stabilizer codes for which periodic readout of stabilizer operators is typically implemented via successive two-qubit entangling gates, and is repeated many times during a computation. To improve QEC performance, it is thus beneficial to make the stabilizer readout faster and less …

Appeals court blocks Newsom's bid to reclaim control of National Guard from Trump (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/19/appeals-court-national-guard-ruling-00414717
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p2#a250620p2

Very bad luck, doing it this way.
GOP blocks Democratic effort to combat Pentagon renaming of USNS Harvey Milk
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5335457-harvey-milk-navy-ship-gop-blocks-democrats/

Transformative or Conservative? Conservation laws for ResNets and Transformers
Sibylle Marcotte, R\'emi Gribonval, Gabriel Peyr\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06194

Transformative or Conservative? Conservation laws for ResNets and Transformers
While conservation laws in gradient flow training dynamics are well understood for (mostly shallow) ReLU and linear networks, their study remains largely unexplored for more practical architectures. This paper bridges this gap by deriving and analyzing conservation laws for modern architectures, with a focus on convolutional ResNets and Transformer networks. For this, we first show that basic building blocks such as ReLU (or linear) shallow networks, with or without convolution, have easily exp…

Federal judge blocks Trump effort to keep Harvard from hosting foreign students (Collin Binkley/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/harvard-trump-foreign-students-9498074cfe5f1054a712b9c21d36c6c5
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p78#a250620p78

Character degrees in principal blocks for distinct primes
Annika Bartelt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06860 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

Character degrees in principal blocks for distinct primes
Let $G$ be a finite group of order divisible by two distinct primes $p$ and $q$. We show that $G$ possesses a non-trivial irreducible character of degree not divisible by $p$ nor $q$ lying in both the principal $p$- and $q$-block whenever $G$ is one of the following: an alternating group $\mathfrak{A}_n$, $n\geq 4$, a symmetric group $\mathfrak{S}_n$, $n\geq 3$, or a finite simple classical group of type A, B, or C, defined in characteristic distinct from $p$ and $q$. This extends earlier resul…

Federal judge indefinitely blocks Trump administration from cutting off Harvard's ability to host foreign students (Devan Cole/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/20/politics/harvard-foreign-students-ruling
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p90#a250620p90

Trump-appointed judge blocks Alien Enemies Act deportations in Los Angeles area - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-appointed-judge-blocks-alien-enemies-act-deportations-in-los-angeles/

Is there a standardized data processing term for merging/coalescing variable sized data blocks generated in parallel?
Input: set of N vectors each containing 0...M elements
Output: Single vector containing all elements, 0...M*N in size

Trump Administration Live Updates: Federal Judge Blocks Efforts to Keep International Students Out of Harvard (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/20/us/trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p103#a250620p103

MINDS: Detection of an inner gas disk caused by evaporating bodies around HD 172555
M. Samland, T. Henning, A. Caratti o Garatti, T. Giannini, J. Bouwman, B. Tabone, A. M. Arabhavi, G. Olofsson, M. G\"udel, N. Pawellek, I. Kamp, L. B. F. M. Waters, D. Semenov, E. F. van Dishoeck, O. Absil, D. Barrado, A. Boccaletti, V. Christiaens, D. Gasman, S. L. Grant, H. Jang, T. Kaeufer, J. Kanwar, G. Perotti, K. Schwarz, M. Temmink

MINDS: Detection of an inner gas disk caused by evaporating bodies around HD 172555
Mechanisms such as collisions of rocky bodies or cometary activity give rise to dusty debris disks. Debris disks trace the leftover building blocks of planets, and thus also planetary composition. HD 172555, a stellar twin of beta Pic, hosts a debris disk thought to have resulted from a giant collision. It is known for its extreme mid-infrared silica dust feature, indicating a warm population of silica-rich grains in the asteroid belt (~5 au), cold CO observed by ALMA, and small bodies evaporat…

A Survey on LUT-based Deep Neural Networks Implemented in FPGAs
Zeyu Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07367 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

A Survey on LUT-based Deep Neural Networks Implemented in FPGAs
Low-latency, energy-efficient deep neural networks (DNNs) inference are critical for edge applications, where traditional cloud-based deployment suffers from high latency and security risks. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) offer a compelling solution, balancing reconfigurability, power efficiency, and real-time performance. However, conventional FPGA-based DNNs rely heavily on digital signal processing (DSP) blocks for multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations, limiting scalability. LUT-bas…

Judge Blocks ICE Plans for Rikers Island Office Indefinitely - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/nyregion/ice-rikers-island-judge-mayor-adams.html

Trump administration can keep control of California National Guard troops for now, appeals court rules (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/judge-blocks-trump-administration-deploying-members-california-nationa-rcna212775
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p1#a250613p1

Federal judge blocks dissolution of union at TSA (Erich Wagner/GovExec.com)
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/06/federal-judge-blocks-dissolution-union-tsa/405751/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p140#a250602p140

Senate GOP blocks pair of resolutions on Qatari jet (Al Weaver/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5344818-senate-republicans-block-trump-jet-deal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p151#a250611p151

Judge blocks deportation of Boulder suspect's family as DHS prepares removal
https://thehill.com/homenews/5333250-ice-deports-boulder-attacker-family/

Judge blocks Trump admin from deporting Mahmoud Khalil using Rubio power (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/11/mahmoud-khalil-case-ruling-00401720
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p148#a250611p148

Federal Judge Blocks Fla. From Enforcing Social Media Ban for Kids Amid Suit | Associated Press
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/florida-social-media-ban/2025/06/03/id/1213490/

Judge blocks deportation of Boulder suspect's family as DHS prepares removal (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/5333250-ice-deports-boulder-attacker-family/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p126#a250604p126

Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from deporting family of suspect in Boulder attack (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boulder-attack-mohamed-soliman-family-deportation-blocked/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p125#a250604p125

Florida higher ed board stuns UF, blocks Santa Ono from becoming president (Alan Festo/The Gainesville Sun)
https://eu.gainesville.com/story/news/education/2025/06/03/board-of-governors-rejects-santa-ono-as-university-of-florida-president/84007003007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p149#a250603p149