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"Worse, this reframing of capital-as-creativity has captured politicians and regulators at every level."
(Original title: Moguls Moving Money Isn’t the Same as Building a Business)
https://anildash.com/2025/08/20/moving_money_ain’t_building_a_busines…

Moguls Moving Money Isn’t the Same as Building a Business
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

CM2LoD3: Reconstructing LoD3 Building Models Using Semantic Conflict Maps
Franz Hanke, Antonia Bieringer, Olaf Wysocki, Boris Jutzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15672 https://

CM2LoD3: Reconstructing LoD3 Building Models Using Semantic Conflict Maps
Detailed 3D building models are crucial for urban planning, digital twins, and disaster management applications. While Level of Detail 1 (LoD)1 and LoD2 building models are widely available, they lack detailed facade elements essential for advanced urban analysis. In contrast, LoD3 models address this limitation by incorporating facade elements such as windows, doors, and underpasses. However, their generation has traditionally required manual modeling, making large-scale adoption challenging. …

I found the cause for global warming.

"The Research Data Management Workbook: Building a Collection of Data Management Exercises to Bridge Data Information Literacy and Data Management Implementation" @ Journal of eScience Librarianship: https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.937

It may appear to be looking empty and quiet at the MPS Göttingen right now - but we have been bustling about and are very busy getting everything ready for our visitors at the Night of Science tomorrow! Care for a few sneak previews in today's thread?
@…
#ndwgoe

Extracting Structured Requirements from Unstructured Building Technical Specifications for Building Information Modeling
Insaf Nahri, Romain Pinqui\'e, Philippe V\'eron, Nicolas Bus, Mathieu Thorel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13833

Extracting Structured Requirements from Unstructured Building Technical Specifications for Building Information Modeling
This study explores the integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) with Natural Language Processing (NLP) to automate the extraction of requirements from unstructured French Building Technical Specification (BTS) documents within the construction industry. Employing Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Relation Extraction (RE) techniques, the study leverages the transformer-based model CamemBERT and applies transfer learning with the French language model Fr\_core\_news\_lg, both pre-trai…

CI/CD #Pipeline #Architecture: Complete Guide to Building Robust CI and CD Pipelines
https://

2x 1925 #Utrecht

"Inspired by elephant ears, new wall design could help buildings stay cool and cut energy use"
#Buildings #Energy
https://…

Inspired by elephant ears, new wall design could help buildings stay cool and cut energy use
Drawing inspiration from the venous ears of jackrabbits and elephants, Drexel University researchers have come up with a new approach to passive heating and cooling that could one day make buildings more energy efficient. Their concept, recently published in the Journal of Building Engineering, embeds a vascular network within cement-based building materials that, when filled with paraffin-based material, can help passively regulate the surface temperature of walls, floors and ceilings.

Garden Aloft II ⛲️
空中花园 II ⛲️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

#Fensterfreitag #FensterFriday
New building under construction in Victoria BC
Note the decorations on the vertical "frames"

Bullet fired into Chiefs building while Andy Reid was inside in 2024: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6566316/2025/08/20/chiefs-andy-reid-bullet/

Tidal-Like Concept Drift in RIS-Covered Buildings: When Programmable Wireless Environments Meet Human Behaviors
Zi-Yang Wu, Muhammad Ismail, Jiliang Zhang, Jie Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14876

Tidal-Like Concept Drift in RIS-Covered Buildings: When Programmable Wireless Environments Meet Human Behaviors
Indoor mobile networks handle the majority of data traffic, with their performance limited by building materials and structures. However, building designs have historically not prioritized wireless performance. Prior to the advent of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), the industry passively adapted to wireless propagation challenges within buildings. Inspired by RIS's successes in outdoor networks, we propose embedding RIS into building structures to manipulate and enhance building wire…

#GNU Mes 0.27.1 released: A bug-fix release that supports
* development build with gcc-14
* building with M2-Planet 1.12.0
* building on x86-linux with M2-Planet 1.13.0
* building bootstrappable-tcc using 1.00.02 <= NYACC <= 2.02.2
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A profile of Stability AI, which under CEO Prem Akkaraju and Chair Sean Parker has shifted from building frontier AI models to a Hollywood-focused SaaS company (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-hollywood-stability/

AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It's Already Arrived
An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition?

"Building a personal brand" is one of those incredibly cringe sounding things that's also legitimately good advice, especially in this job market. You just have to take a very different strategy from engagement-baiting.
Write for the kind of person you'll want to work with in the future, and those people will notice you. Write low-effort slop, and your audience will be completely useless to you when you need something from them.

Standing out through writing
Writing is thinking; writing in public is networking.

sp_office: Workplace contacts (2013)
A temporal network of contacts between individuals, measured in an office building in France, from June 24 to July 3, 2013.
This network has 92 nodes and 9827 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_offi

Playing more with the Trion devkit.
Got my APB GPIO core building and running with almost no code changes (just had to switch from initializing module outputs in the module declaration vs explicit "initial" blocks).
The logic analyzer IP works, but is very bare bones: you have to explicitly connect to a particular scan chain with one debug core on it (does this mean a max of two debug cores in a Trion?) then set up a capture and it'll output to a VCD.
The soft…

Not building offshore wind power in #NewJersey is so sad.
https://ww…

WGBH, Boston’s PBS station, had this sign up this morning.

If you’ve paid attention to my ramblings over the last decade-plus, then you’ve heard me to talk about selfish accessibility.
It’s nice to see others embrace it.
“Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs”
https://nolanlawson.com/2025/06/16/sel

Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs
All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other concerns when you’re trying to c…

"boxy" or not, I think it's beautiful that the building pictured in this article's lead image will house 40 more low-income households because @… advocated for it to be taller!

Can San Francisco still build beautiful homes?
Local housing experts weigh in.

Exclusive: The US Navy is building a drone fleet to take on China. It's not going well. | #Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace

Tulsi Gabbard is extremely flexible, she can change her opinion quickly 😃
#trump

Tulsi Gabbard now says Iran could produce nuclear weapon 'within weeks' - BBC News
This comes after US President Donald Trump said she was "wrong" for saying Iran was not building nuclear weapons.

Ukraine eyes building its own private military companies — their role, legal framework remain unclear: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/ukraine-eyes-building-its-own.html

A profile of Stability AI, which under CEO Prem Akkaraju and Chair Sean Parker has shifted from building frontier AI models to a Hollywood-focused SaaS company (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-hollywood-stability/

AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It's Already Arrived
An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition?

8:00 AM PT - August 27 - Get tips, insights, and support from the teams building the latest capabilities for Windows 365!
Add this event to your calendar, then post your questions in advance or during the live AMA:
https://aka.ms/AMA/Windows365

...John says if you focus on building the capability in the organization to understand variation and to appreciate how to use #data - then you are on the right path, and can increase your influence in addition.
“You need to build into the organization things like a focus on pleasing the customer instead of pleasing your boss.” When combining all of these methods, that is when your

BTW - if you're building Inuksuit in National or Provincial parks, please stop. Every few years, park staff ask news media to publish a plea to visitors to stop creating their own stone sculptures because of environmental impact.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/jasper-national-park-inukshuk-cairn-1.4758917

View of the new building Atkinson Hall seen across the Charles F. Berman soccer field part of the Robert J. Kane Sports complex
#photo #photography #cornell

I’m looking for fun AI related projects that students with minimal technical skills (mostly humanities students) can handle, as a practical and instructive end of term project given the current situation.
The kinds of projects I have in mind are:
- Fine tuning an LLM for a particular use
- Building custom chatbots
- Doing"psychology" on LLM interactions.
The goal is for the project to be engaging and lead to further reflection. Ideas for such projects and links to resources much appreciated!

I'm reading Witch Hat Atelier right now (checked out of my local library) and it's top-notch amazing, including the plot, world-building, ethics, character designs, and of course three staggering artistic quality, both in raw illustration quality and artful compositions. It's not shy with playing with the manga form either, with lots of stunning unique panels and active gutters. I also just realized the "shounen manga for girls" formula I've been looking for (which is a formulation that's nearly as important for boys to have access to as girls). But I also really love the humor, including ridiculous puns that are often well-translated. In this scene, the main character Coco has forgotten she's using a mist form spell and ends up blowing away her mist-form body even as age rushes into a chaotic situation, leading to this pun.
#AmReading

Join Radu Pop and Pietro Mele at Berlin Buzzwords as they discuss building an extensible hybrid search solution with Elasticsearch. They will cover functional modeling, cluster architecture, and practical insights on managing billions of vectors in real-world scenarios. Radu and Pietro will also address hybrid reranking challenges and the limitations of standard fusion techniques, explaining their innovative approach.
Learn more:

this is a very cool record store
#OldVinyl #vinyl #vinylrecords

I visited Russel Wright's fabulous Manitoga and wrote an essay about it. Read it and visit this spectacular building and landscape near New York City. Links below.

Okay, this is really interesting: Sean's/skinnyjames'/Zero Stars' #hokusai is a backend agnostic :ruby: #RubyLang #framework for building

North Korea is building a new facility at its Yongbyon nuclear complex that is similar to a known uranium enrichment site, says the International Atomic Energy Agency
https://www.dw.com/en/is-north-korea-boosting-its-nuclear-capabilities/a-7295378…

Is North Korea boosting its nuclear capabilities?
North Korea is building a new facility at its Yongbyon nuclear complex that is similar to a known uranium enrichment site, says the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

E3RG: Building Explicit Emotion-driven Empathetic Response Generation System with Multimodal Large Language Model
Ronghao Lin, Shuai Shen, Weipeng Hu, Qiaolin He, Aolin Xiong, Li Huang, Haifeng Hu, Yap-peng Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12854

E3RG: Building Explicit Emotion-driven Empathetic Response Generation System with Multimodal Large Language Model
Multimodal Empathetic Response Generation (MERG) is crucial for building emotionally intelligent human-computer interactions. Although large language models (LLMs) have improved text-based ERG, challenges remain in handling multimodal emotional content and maintaining identity consistency. Thus, we propose E3RG, an Explicit Emotion-driven Empathetic Response Generation System based on multimodal LLMs which decomposes MERG task into three parts: multimodal empathy understanding, empathy memory r…

DualNILM: Energy Injection Identification Enabled Disaggregation with Deep Multi-Task Learning
Xudong Wang, Guoming Tang, Junyu Xue, Srinivasan Keshav, Tongxin Li, Chris Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14600

DualNILM: Energy Injection Identification Enabled Disaggregation with Deep Multi-Task Learning
Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) offers a cost-effective method to obtain fine-grained appliance-level energy consumption in smart homes and building applications. However, the increasing adoption of behind-the-meter energy sources, such as solar panels and battery storage, poses new challenges for conventional NILM methods that rely solely on at-the-meter data. The injected energy from the behind-the-meter sources can obscure the power signatures of individual appliances, leading to a sign…

Some plants from a very nice walk to the Metro today

Anthropic says it worked with the US National Nuclear Security Administration on a classifier to block concerning chats, like those on building nuclear reactors (Morgan Chalfant/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/21/2025/anthropic-develops-anti-nuke-a…

Anthropic develops anti-nuke AI tool
The company built a tool designed to prevent its AI models from being used to make nuclear weapons.

GR-3 Technical Report
Chilam Cheang, Sijin Chen, Zhongren Cui, Yingdong Hu, Liqun Huang, Tao Kong, Hang Li, Yifeng Li, Yuxiao Liu, Xiao Ma, Hao Niu, Wenxuan Ou, Wanli Peng, Zeyu Ren, Haixin Shi, Jiawen Tian, Hongtao Wu, Xin Xiao, Yuyang Xiao, Jiafeng Xu, Yichu Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15493

GR-3 Technical Report
We report our recent progress towards building generalist robot policies, the development of GR-3. GR-3 is a large-scale vision-language-action (VLA) model. It showcases exceptional capabilities in generalizing to novel objects, environments, and instructions involving abstract concepts. Furthermore, it can be efficiently fine-tuned with minimal human trajectory data, enabling rapid and cost-effective adaptation to new settings. GR-3 also excels in handling long-horizon and dexterous tasks, inc…

Role of quantum state texture in probing resource theories and quantum phase transition
Ayan Patra, Tanoy Kanti Konar, Pritam Halder, Aditi Sen De
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13862

Role of quantum state texture in probing resource theories and quantum phase transition
Building on the recently developed quantum state texture resource theory, we exhibit that the difference between maximum and minimum textures is a valid purity monotone in any dimension and provide a lower bound for existing purity measures. We introduce a texture-based resource monotone applicable across general convex resource theories, encompassing quantum coherence, non-stabilizerness, and entanglement. In particular, we propose the notion of non-local texture, which corresponds to the geom…

Closure Conversion, Flat Environments, and the Complexity of Abstract Machines
Beniamino Accattoli (Inria & LIX, \'Ecole Polytechnique), Dan Ghica (Huawei Central Software Institute, University of Birmingham), Giulio Guerrieri (University of Sussex), Cl\'audio Belo Louren\c{c}o (Huawei Central Software Institute), Claudio Sacerdoti Coen (Universit\`a di Bologna)

Closure Conversion, Flat Environments, and the Complexity of Abstract Machines
Closure conversion is a program transformation at work in compilers for functional languages to turn inner functions into global ones, by building closures pairing the transformed functions with the environment of their free variables. Abstract machines rely on similar and yet different concepts of closures and environments. In this paper, we study the relationship between the two approaches. We adopt a very simple λ-calculus with tuples as source language and study abstract machines for bot…

sp_office: Workplace contacts (2013)
A temporal network of contacts between individuals, measured in an office building in France, from June 24 to July 3, 2013.
This network has 92 nodes and 9827 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_offi

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…

Building the American Brownshirts (Hamilton Nolan/How Things Work)
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/building-the-american-brownshirts
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p65#a250616p65

The Love Ireland? Hate Racism March is building fast! United Against Racism have brought together unions, civil society groups fighting inequality & building community and opposition groups fighting the government day in and day out.
🗓 June 22nd at 1:30pm on Dame Street central Plaza Dublin.
#Ireland #Antiracism

De Rham-Higgs comparison for mixed Hodge modules in positive characteristic
Zhang Zebao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15175 https://arxi…

De Rham-Higgs comparison for mixed Hodge modules in positive characteristic
Building on the nonabelian Hodge theory in positive characteristic developed by Ogus, Vologodsky, and Schepler, we propose a generalization of the decomposition theorem of Deligne and Illusie from the perspective of mixed Hodge modules. This generalization is verified in certain special cases by extending the method of Sheng and the author, leading to several interesting byproducts.

#UX #Design claims to be "solving user problems" and "creating value" and "building with empathy" — and yet this feature still doesn't exist.

ExCyTIn-Bench: Evaluating LLM agents on Cyber Threat Investigation
Yiran Wu, Mauricio Velazco, Andrew Zhao, Manuel Ra\'ul Mel\'endez Luj\'an, Srisuma Movva, Yogesh K Roy, Quang Nguyen, Roberto Rodriguez, Qingyun Wu, Michael Albada, Julia Kiseleva, Anand Mudgerikar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14201

ExCyTIn-Bench: Evaluating LLM agents on Cyber Threat Investigation
We present ExCyTIn-Bench, the first benchmark to Evaluate an LLM agent x on the task of Cyber Threat Investigation through security questions derived from investigation graphs. Real-world security analysts must sift through a large number of heterogeneous alert signals and security logs, follow multi-hop chains of evidence, and compile an incident report. With the developments of LLMs, building LLM-based agents for automatic thread investigation is a promising direction. To assist the developme…

SF has so many parking lots and other soft sites especially on the westside, we should be building housing there instead of demolishing rent-controlled homes. But #SB79 offers few protections & none for rent-controlled duplexes. Sign this petition to amend the bill to fix this!
#SFPol

Amend SB 79 to Protect Tenants and Communities
SB 79 puts thousands of rent-controlled homes and small businesses in San Francisco at risk by allowing demolition without strong affordability requirements or local oversight. It overrides years of community planning and opens the door to displacement in working-class neighborhoods across San Francisco. Sign the petition to demand smart, equitable amendments that protect tenants, preserve local plans, and ensure transit-oriented development works for everyone.

Knowing when to stop: insights from ecology for building catalogues, collections, and corpora
Jan Haji\v{c} jr., Fabian Moss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14614 https://

Knowing when to stop: insights from ecology for building catalogues, collections, and corpora
A major locus of musicological activity-increasingly in the digital domain-is the cataloguing of sources, which requires large-scale and long-lasting research collaborations. Yet, the databases aiming at covering and representing musical repertoires are never quite complete, and scholars must contend with the question: how much are we still missing? This question structurally resembles the 'unseen species' problem in ecology, where the true number of species must be estimated from limited obser…

On Entropy Bounds for Irrelevant Operators
Lucas Fern\'andez-Sarmiento, Riccardo Penco, Rachel A Rosen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14978 https://arxiv.o…

On Entropy Bounds for Irrelevant Operators
Consistency constraints for low-energy theories, especially those lacking Lorentz invariance, have recently garnered attention. Building on results from black hole thermodynamics, we investigate the conjecture that leading irrelevant deformations of a conformal field theory in the infrared must increase the system's entropy. We show that this entropy-positivity conjecture is equivalent to a decrease in the thermal grand potential at a fixed temperature. We then evaluate this proposal against va…

On the generator graph of a cyclic group
Zekhaya B. Shozi, Teresa L. Tacbobo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14865 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14865

On the generator graph of a cyclic group
In this paper, we continue the study of the generator graph of a group. In 2023, Tacbobo [9] defined the generator graph of a nontrivial group to be the graph whose vertices are the elements of the group, with two vertices being adjacent if at least one of them is a generator of the group. Building on the properties established in [9], we prove that the diameter of the generator graph of a cyclic group is at most $2$. Furthermore, we present explicit formulas for some topological indices of the…

Personalized Contest Recommendation in Fantasy Sports
Madiraju Srilakshmi, Kartavya Kothari, Kamlesh Marathe, Vedavyas Chigurupati, Hitesh Kapoor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14065

Personalized Contest Recommendation in Fantasy Sports
In daily fantasy sports, players enter into "contests" where they compete against each other by building teams of athletes that score fantasy points based on what actually occurs in a real-life sports match. For any given sports match, there are a multitude of contests available to players, with substantial variation across 3 main dimensions: entry fee, number of spots, and the prize pool distribution. As player preferences are also quite heterogeneous, contest personalization is an important t…

Well, it's not quite 11:00 and we've already completed the section of rendering we planned for today. That feels good.
Not going to do any more today because it's extremely hard physical work, but tomorrow's shift should complete the first coat on the outside of the building.
#roundhouse

cuPDLP : A Further Enhanced GPU-Based First-Order Solver for Linear Programming
Haihao Lu, Zedong Peng, Jinwen Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14051 https:…

cuPDLP+: A Further Enhanced GPU-Based First-Order Solver for Linear Programming
We introduce cuPDLP+, a further enhanced GPU-based first-order solver for linear programming. Building on the predecessor cuPDLP, cuPDLP+ incorporates recent algorithmic advances, including the restarted Halpern PDHG method with reflection, a novel restart criterion, and a PID-controlled primal weight update. These innovations are carefully tailored for GPU architectures and deliver substantial empirical gains. On a comprehensive benchmark of MIPLIB LP relaxations, cuPDLP+ achieves 2x - 4x spee…

Evaluating the Quality of Open Building Datasets for Mapping Urban Inequality: A Comparative Analysis Across 5 Cities
Franz Okyere, Meng Lu, Ansgar Brunn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12872

Evaluating the Quality of Open Building Datasets for Mapping Urban Inequality: A Comparative Analysis Across 5 Cities
While informal settlements lack focused development and are highly dynamic, the quality of spatial data for these places may be uncertain. This study evaluates the quality and biases of AI-generated Open Building Datasets (OBDs) generated by Google and Microsoft against OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, across diverse global cities including Accra, Nairobi, Caracas, Berlin, and Houston. The Intersection over Union (IoU), overlap analysis and a positional accuracy algorithm are used to analyse the simil…

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…

Breakable Machine: A K-12 Classroom Game for Transformative AI Literacy Through Spoofing and eXplainable AI (XAI)
Olli Hilke, Nicolas Pope, Juho Kahila, Henriikka Vartiainen, Teemu Roos, Tuomo Parkki, Matti Tedre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14201

Breakable Machine: A K-12 Classroom Game for Transformative AI Literacy Through Spoofing and eXplainable AI (XAI)
This paper, submitted to the special track on resources for teaching AI in K-12, presents an eXplainable AI (XAI)-based classroom game "Breakable Machine" for teaching critical, transformative AI literacy through adversarial play and interrogation of AI systems. Designed for learners aged 10-15, the game invites students to spoof an image classifier by manipulating their appearance or environment in order to trigger high-confidence misclassifications. Rather than focusing on building AI models,…

P-adic Period Conjectures for 1-motives: Integration and Linear Relations
Mohammadreza Mohajer, Abdellah Sebbar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15020 https://…

P-adic Period Conjectures for 1-motives: Integration and Linear Relations
We develop a $p$-adic theory of periods for 1-motives, extending the classical theory of complex periods into the non-archimedean setting. For 1-motives with good reduction over $p$-adic local fields, we construct a $p$-adic integration pairing that generalizes the Colmez--Fontaine--Messing theory for abelian varieties. This pairing is bilinear, perfect, Galois-equivariant, and compatible with the Hodge filtration, taking values in a quotient of the de Rham period ring. Building on this const…

Comparison theorems in Hermitian geometry I
Xiaokui Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15002 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.15002

Comparison theorems in Hermitian geometry I
This paper develops second variational formulas and index forms in the context of Hermitian geometry. Building upon these analytical foundations, we establish results analogous to classical theorems in Riemannian geometry, including Myers' theorem, Laplacian comparison theorems and volume comparison theorems.

ACS: An interactive framework for conformal selection
Yu Gui, Ying Jin, Yash Nair, Zhimei Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15825 https://

ACS: An interactive framework for conformal selection
This paper presents adaptive conformal selection (ACS), an interactive framework for model-free selection with guaranteed error control. Building on conformal selection (Jin and Candès, 2023b), ACS generalizes the approach to support human-in-the-loop adaptive data analysis. Under the ACS framework, we can partially reuse the data to boost the selection power, make decisions on the fly while exploring the data, and incorporate new information or preferences as they arise. The key to ACS is a c…

'Israel is estimated to possess 90 nuclear warheads and may have the ability to launch attacks with them by land, sea, and air.'
'“We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that [Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has probably built on him to do so,” reads the [USA] 2025 Annual Threat Assessment.'

U.S. Intel Says Iran Isn’t a Nuclear Threat. Israel Wants the U.S. to Bomb It Anyway.
The U.S. is helping Israel wage war on Iran over its nuclear program. But U.S. intelligence says Iran is not building a bomb.

Tropicalized quantum field theory and global tropical sampling
Michael Borinsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14263 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14263

Tropicalized quantum field theory and global tropical sampling
We explain how to tropicalize scalar quantum field theory and show that tropicalized massive scalar quantum field theory is exactly solvable. This exact solution manifests as a non-linear recursion equation fulfilled by the expansion coefficients of the quantum effective action. Geometrically, this recursion computes specific volumes of moduli spaces of metric graphs and is thereby analogous to Mirzakhani's volume recursions on the moduli space of curves. Building on this exact solution, we con…

Comparative Evaluation of Text and Audio Simplification: A Methodological Replication Study
Prosanta Barai, Gondy Leroy, Arif Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15088 https://

Comparative Evaluation of Text and Audio Simplification: A Methodological Replication Study
This study serves as a methodological replication of Leroy et al. (2022) research, which investigated the impact of text simplification on healthcare information comprehension in the evolving multimedia landscape. Building upon the original studys insights, our replication study evaluates audio content, recognizing its increasing importance in disseminating healthcare information in the digital age. Specifically, we explored the influence of text simplification on perceived and actual difficult…

Sometimes I miss building ridiculous electronic/noise sculptures...
#maker

Click Whir Squee
Occasionally I show up at Milwaukee Makerspace with no clear idea of what might happen when I'm there. This piece, titled "Click Whir Squee" is the result of one such visit. Another member brought in a box of old computer hardware, including a Hewlett Packard Colorado T100E Tape Backup Drive. Being a fan of old [...]

It's a perfect early evening for our solar-system-themed kid's activities: little painted stars glowing in the sunlight at the face painting station, swirling planets painted on busy little arms, and of course everything is in motion at the bouncy castle!
@…

CrafterDojo: A Suite of Foundation Models for Building Open-Ended Embodied Agents in Crafter
Junyeong Park, Hyeonseo Cho, Sungjin Ahn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13530 https://…

CrafterDojo: A Suite of Foundation Models for Building Open-Ended Embodied Agents in Crafter
Developing general-purpose embodied agents is a core challenge in AI. Minecraft provides rich complexity and internet-scale data, but its slow speed and engineering overhead make it unsuitable for rapid prototyping. Crafter offers a lightweight alternative that retains key challenges from Minecraft, yet its use has remained limited to narrow tasks due to the absence of foundation models that have driven progress in the Minecraft setting. In this paper, we present CrafterDojo, a suite of foundat…

Browns may keep four QBs in 2025: Building the perfect starter using best skills of each Cleveland option

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brow…

Coining "#malcompetence" to mean "actions & their outcomes which are consistent with incompetence but which have an overall malicious effect, especially when the incompetence manifests differently in different situations to produced de facto discrimination."
Malcompetence can run the gamut from actual intentional malice disguised to appear as incompetence, to subconsciously coordinated malicious incompetence that the perpetrator is not consciously aware of but which a less subconsciously biased person would not engage in, to truly unintentional incompetence which manifests in a pattern because of bias in oversight/attention/competence-building. These different root causes are often not distinguishable, and sometimes blend together.
<does a quick search>
Okay, so it looks like I'm not the only one to have coined this term, but I think digging into the different types is still useful.

GaussianArt: Unified Modeling of Geometry and Motion for Articulated Objects
Licheng Shen, Saining Zhang, Honghan Li, Peilin Yang, Zihao Huang, Zongzheng Zhang, Hao Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14891

GaussianArt: Unified Modeling of Geometry and Motion for Articulated Objects
Reconstructing articulated objects is essential for building digital twins of interactive environments. However, prior methods typically decouple geometry and motion by first reconstructing object shape in distinct states and then estimating articulation through post-hoc alignment. This separation complicates the reconstruction pipeline and restricts scalability, especially for objects with complex, multi-part articulation. We introduce a unified representation that jointly models geometry and …

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When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual element combining to become, for 40 years, the world's tallest building. Uptown at Columbia, Oleg Gang and his chemical engineering lab aren't building Art Deco architecture; their landmarks are incredibly small devices built from nanoscopic building blocks that arrange themselves.

The Judge Variable: Challenging Judge-Agnostic Legal Judgment Prediction
Guillaume Zambrano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13732 https://…

The Judge Variable: Challenging Judge-Agnostic Legal Judgment Prediction
This study examines the role of human judges in legal decision-making by using machine learning to predict child physical custody outcomes in French appellate courts. Building on the legal realism-formalism debate, we test whether individual judges' decision-making patterns significantly influence case outcomes, challenging the assumption that judges are neutral variables that apply the law uniformly. To ensure compliance with French privacy laws, we implement a strict pseudonymization process.…

Sen. Alex Padilla says he was at the Wilshire Federal Building waiting to start a briefing with top military officials when he heard that Kristi L. Noem,
the homeland security secretary,
was holding a news conference on the federal presence there.
He asked the people escorting him if he could attend it.
Noem was in the middle of criticizing local leaders as “socialists” and “burdensome” for not coordinating more closely with the federal government
when Padilla…

What did Sen. Alex Padilla get handcuffed for?
The California Democrat was muscled to the ground after interrupting a Homeland Security news conference. He wondered if it was worth it.

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Touch in the Wild: Learning Fine-Grained Manipulation with a Portable Visuo-Tactile Gripper
Xinyue Zhu, Binghao Huang, Yunzhu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15062

Touch in the Wild: Learning Fine-Grained Manipulation with a Portable Visuo-Tactile Gripper
Handheld grippers are increasingly used to collect human demonstrations due to their ease of deployment and versatility. However, most existing designs lack tactile sensing, despite the critical role of tactile feedback in precise manipulation. We present a portable, lightweight gripper with integrated tactile sensors that enables synchronized collection of visual and tactile data in diverse, real-world, and in-the-wild settings. Building on this hardware, we propose a cross-modal representatio…

AWS rolls out Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, meant to help businesses create a network of AI agents that analyze internal data, write code, and take on other tasks (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/16/2025

Amazon launches AI agent-building platform for businesses to help boost productivity
The product launch comes amid high anxiety among workers about job cuts due to AI.

Constructive Degenerations and the Algebraicity of Limiting Hodge
Badre Mounda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15012 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Constructive Degenerations and the Algebraicity of Limiting Hodge
We propose a novel constructive framework for approaching the Hodge Conjecture via explicit degenerations. Building on limiting mixed Hodge structures (LMHS), we formulate a criterion under which a rational class of type (p, p) on a smooth projective variety becomes algebraic in the limit of a semi-stable degeneration. We provide examples where vanishing cycles and monodromy explicitly generate new algebraic classes, and propose a general principle: every rational (p, p) class arises as the lim…

I have this idea of building a "Luddite Library". A set of information, tools and processes to harness luddite thinking when analyzing technological developments and "innovation".
Something that interested parties could use to understand that there might be a different way to think about what tech is/should be/can be/mustn't be for us. Think for example sets of questions to use to analyze a new thing being pushed on you and similar tools.
I'm thinking …

From Regular to Irregular: A Unified Origin for Argyres-Douglas Theories
Simone Giacomelli, William Harding, Noppadol Mekareeya, Alessandro Mininno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13434

From Regular to Irregular: A Unified Origin for Argyres-Douglas Theories
We propose that Argyres-Douglas theories of type $D_p(\mathrm{SU}(N))$ and $(A_{p-1}, A_{N-1})$ - both realizable as Type A class $\mathcal{S}$ theories with irregular punctures - can be obtained via a sequence of mass deformations from a common ancestor: a class $\mathcal{S}$ theory with only regular punctures. Building on our previous work, this result establishes that these theories ultimately originate from 6d $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ orbi-instanton theories compactified on a torus. The requisit…

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

SPARQL Query Generation with LLMs: Measuring the Impact of Training Data Memorization and Knowledge Injection
Aleksandr Gashkov, Aleksandr Perevalov, Maria Eltsova, Andreas Both
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13859

SPARQL Query Generation with LLMs: Measuring the Impact of Training Data Memorization and Knowledge Injection
Nowadays, the importance of software with natural-language user interfaces cannot be underestimated. In particular, in Question Answering (QA) systems, generating a SPARQL query for a given natural-language question (often named Query Building) from the information retrieved from the same question is the central task of QA systems working over Knowledge Graphs (KGQA). Due to the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), they are considered a well-suited method to increase the quality of the questio…

MExECON: Multi-view Extended Explicit Clothed humans Optimized via Normal integration
Fulden Ece U\u{g}ur, Rafael Redondo, Albert Barreiro, Stefan Hristov, Roger Mar\'i
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15500

MExECON: Multi-view Extended Explicit Clothed humans Optimized via Normal integration
This work presents MExECON, a novel pipeline for 3D reconstruction of clothed human avatars from sparse multi-view RGB images. Building on the single-view method ECON, MExECON extends its capabilities to leverage multiple viewpoints, improving geometry and body pose estimation. At the core of the pipeline is the proposed Joint Multi-view Body Optimization (JMBO) algorithm, which fits a single SMPL-X body model jointly across all input views, enforcing multi-view consistency. The optimized body …

Intellectual Up-streams of Percentage Scale ($ps$) and Percentage Coefficient ($b_p$) -- Effect Size Analysis (Theory Paper 2)
Xinshu Zhao, Qinru Ruby Ju, Piper Liping Liu, Dianshi Moses Li, Luxi Zhang, Jizhou Francis Ye, Song Harris Ao, Ming Milano Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13695

Intellectual Up-streams of Percentage Scale ($ps$) and Percentage Coefficient ($b_p$) -- Effect Size Analysis (Theory Paper 2)
Percentage thinking, i.e., assessing quantities as parts per hundred, has traveled widely from Roman tax ledgers to modern algorithms. Building on early decimalization by Simon Stevin in La Thiende (1585) and the 19th-century metrication movement that institutionalized base-10 measurement worldwide (Cajori, 1925), this article traces the intellectual trails through which base-10 normalization, especially 0~1 percentage scale. We discuss commonalities between those Wisconsin-Carolina experiments…

From Translink
From fare taps to beer taps: TransLink launches transit-themed brew
Limited-edition Platform Pilsner now available at Patina Brewery and select Metro Vancouver liquor stores.
https://link.etranslink.ca/v/443/61496

sp_office: Workplace contacts (2013)
A temporal network of contacts between individuals, measured in an office building in France, from June 24 to July 3, 2013.
This network has 92 nodes and 9827 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_offi

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Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building a modular nuclear reactor and data center, set to finish construction in 2026, raised a $100M Series B led by Valor (Julia Hornstein/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/aalo-atomi

Aalo Atomics lands $100 million to launch nuclear reactors to power AI
Aalo Atomics raises $100 million to mass-produce nuclear reactors to power data centers amid the growing energy demand from AI.

ICE issued new rules for Congress members visiting detention centers.
Experts say they’re illegal
Rep. Norma Torres (D-Pomona) and three other members of Congress were denied entry to the immigrant detention facility inside the Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles
The lawmakers were attempting an unannounced inspection,
a common and long-standing practice under congressional oversight powers.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said too many prot…

ICE issued new rules for Congress members visiting detention centers. Experts say they’re illegal
Members from California, Illinois and New Jersey have been denied access in recent weeks to immigrant detention facilities in their states. Oversight experts say that's a substantial departure from past practice.

Automated Building Heritage Assessment Using Street-Level Imagery
Kristina Dabrock, Tim Johansson, Anna Donarelli, Mikael Mangold, Noah Pflugradt, Jann Michael Weinand, Jochen Lin{\ss}en
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11486

Automated Building Heritage Assessment Using Street-Level Imagery
Detailed data is required to quantify energy conservation measures in buildings, such as envelop retrofits, without compromising cultural heritage. Novel artificial intelligence tools may improve efficiency in identifying heritage values in buildings compared to costly and time-consuming traditional inventories. In this study, the large language model GPT was used to detect various aspects of cultural heritage value in façade images. Using this data and building register data as features, mach…

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🏃‍♀️ Flopped launch and new squad building: Boston and Denver’s journey to the NWSL | Moving the Goalposts
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jul/31/nwsl-boston-legacy-denver-summit-expansion-moving-the-goalposts

OpenEvidence, whose free AI search tool has signed up 40% of doctors in the US, raised $210M led by GV at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1B in February (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2025/07/1…

OpenEvidence Cofounder Daniel Nadler Is Now A Billionaire.
Daniel Nadler started OpenEvidence to help physicians sort through a deluge of medical research. Now, he’s raised $210 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.

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Sources: TikTok plans to launch a new version of its app in the US on September 5, ahead of the Sept. 17 deadline for the US to enforce the divest-or-ban law (The Information)
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TikTok Building New Version of App Ahead of Expected U.S. Sale
TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the U.S. ahead of a planned sale of the app to a group of investors. The company has developed a plan to launch the new TikTok app, known internally as “M2,” to U.S. app stores on September 5, according to two people with knowledge of the ...