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“The statistics really show that having teams go out there and actually engage people works a lot better than having a static command van that takes up 44 percent of your budget,” -
And SFPD needs over 6 months to conclude they should try that approach instead of the high-tech, high cost command vehicle?
Or were SFPD simply responding to political directives from "tough on (whatever)" politicians chumming for votes?

SFPD spent 44% of Mission overtime budget on 24/7 police bus, captain says
For nearly 200 days, a police bus cost the Mission police station 44 percent of its monthly overtime budget, Captain Sean Perdomo said.

“The statistics really show that having teams go out there and actually engage people works a lot better than having a static command van that takes up 44 percent of your budget,” -
And SFPD needs over 6 months to conclude they should try that approach instead of the high-tech, high cost command vehicle?
Or were SFPD simply responding to political directives from "tough on (whatever)" politicians chumming for votes?

SFPD spent 44% of Mission overtime budget on 24/7 police bus, captain says
For nearly 200 days, a police bus cost the Mission police station 44 percent of its monthly overtime budget, Captain Sean Perdomo said.

Today is house meeting day for us at DMI as we find out where the state's budget cuts will land and who will be affected (i.e. made redundant).
Coincidentally, one of our #Ukraine #AntarcticScience centre colleagues has just sent us a draft deliverable report to review.
They apologise for lack of polish (it's actually really good! And very interesting science looking at climate change impacts in Antarctica) and they appended this photo of their apartment block after a visit by a Russian drone last week.
And suddenly, Danish state budget cuts seem much less worse...
And now I am going to find someone to swear at.

"Le PS dévoile son budget alternatif : suspension de la réforme des retraites, taxe sur les patrimoines, baisse de la CSG et relance économique"
https://www.

Le PS dévoile son budget alternatif : suspension de la réforme des retraites, taxe sur les patrimoines, baisse de la CSG et relance économique
Le plan dévoilé samedi par les socialistes à Blois prévoit 14 milliards d’économie. « Il nous faut d’évidence reprendre la main » face « au budget de souffrance » de François Bayrou, a estimé le chef des députés PS, Boris Vallaud.

Découvrez l'enquête en France sur les violences et abus sexuels au sein d'une communauté bouddhiste, suite Š l'affaire OKC en Belgique. En savoir plus ici : https://chardonsbleus.org/affaire-okc-

Affaire OKC : Après la Belgique, une Enquête en France pour Violences et Abus Sexuels au Sein d’une Communauté Bouddhiste
Affaire OKC : Après la Belgique, une Nouvelle Enquête en France pour Violences et Abus Sexuels au Sein d’une Communauté Bouddhiste

Spectral Bootstrap for Non-Parametric Simulation of Multivariate Extreme Events
Nisrine Madhar (UPCit\'e, LPSM), Juliette Legrand (LMBA, UBO), Maud Thomas (LPSM)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26451

Spectral Bootstrap for Non-Parametric Simulation of Multivariate Extreme Events
Inference in extreme value theory relies on a limited number of extreme observations, making estimation challenging. To address this limitation, we propose a non-parametric bootstrap procedure, the multivariate extreme spectral bootstrap procedure, relying on the spectral representation of multivariate generalized Paretodistributed random vectors. Unlike standard bootstrap methods, our approach preserves the joint tail behaviour of the data and generates additional synthetic extreme data, there…

BALF: Budgeted Activation-Aware Low-Rank Factorization for Fine-Tuning-Free Model Compression
David Gonz\'alez Mart\'inez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25136 https://

BALF: Budgeted Activation-Aware Low-Rank Factorization for Fine-Tuning-Free Model Compression
Neural network compression techniques typically require expensive fine-tuning or search procedures, rendering them impractical on commodity hardware. Inspired by recent LLM compression research, we present a general activation-aware factorization framework that can be applied to a broad range of layers. Moreover, we introduce a scalable budgeted rank allocator that allows flexible control over compression targets (e.g., retaining 50% of parameters) with no overhead. Together, these components f…

from my link log —
Predecessor search.
https://repositorio.uchile.cl/bitstream/handle/2250/178791/Predecessor-Search.pdf
saved 2025-08-20

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Beatsteaks:
🎵 I Don't Care As Long As You Sing
#NowPlaying #Beatsteaks
https://open.spotify.com/track/15XkE7wBo9JYmpEc757A4E

Taming Variability: Randomized and Bootstrapped Conformal Risk Control for LLMs
Lingyou Pang, Lei Huang, Jianyu Lin, Tianyu Wang, Alexander Aue, Carey E. Priebe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23007

Taming Variability: Randomized and Bootstrapped Conformal Risk Control for LLMs
We transform the randomness of LLMs into precise assurances using an actuator at the API interface that applies a user-defined risk constraint in finite samples via Conformal Risk Control (CRC). This label-free and model-agnostic actuator manages ship/abstain/escalate actions based solely on a scalar score from opaque outputs. We enhance CRC's computational efficiency and robustness through Batched Bootstrap CRC (BB-CRC) and Randomized Batched Weighted-Average CRC (RBWA-CRC), reducing calibrati…