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LLMs on support of privacy and security of mobile apps: state of the art and research directions
Tran Thanh Lam Nguyen, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11679

LLMs on support of privacy and security of mobile apps: state of the art and research directions
Modern life has witnessed the explosion of mobile devices. However, besides the valuable features that bring convenience to end users, security and privacy risks still threaten users of mobile apps. The increasing sophistication of these threats in recent years has underscored the need for more advanced and efficient detection approaches. In this chapter, we explore the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify security risks and privacy violations and mitigate them for the mobile…

Glad that someone informed me that my side project https://busrouter.sg is featured on CNA Insider's Singapore Hour "The Unseen Side of Singapore’s Bus System", under the chapter "Woodlands Bus Depot: The Eyes and Ears of Singapore’s Bus System" (04:08)

Gravitational wave cosmology : an introduction
Gr\'egoire Pierra, Simone Mastrogiovanni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10597 https://…

Gravitational wave cosmology : an introduction
This chapter introduces gravitational wave cosmology, focusing on the use of gravitational waves as standard sirens to probe the expansion history of the Universe. It presents and explains the methodologies behind bright and dark siren analyses, including their respective data requirements and underlying assumptions. Particular attention is given to the theoretical foundations of these approaches, the statistical frameworks used to interpret gravitational-wave events, and the treatment of selec…

"Two months ago, we decided that [AI] is finally mature enough to take center stage in rsyslog development. Since then, we’ve:
Upgraded the repository for AI agent compatibility (automated review and more)
Restructured key parts of the codebase
Built new functionality with heavy AI assistance
Developed a full base strategy for AI integration
Identified high-impact areas where AI will support log processing and observability"

Idk how trails in the sky could be any longer. This game had sooo much text. Though perhaps full voice acting will make it less tedious because it was good but took so long.
https://www.…

TRAPs, Generalisations of MZVs, Locality and Resurgence for Quantum Field Theories
Pierre J. Clavier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09493 https://

TRAPs, Generalisations of MZVs, Locality and Resurgence for Quantum Field Theories
This thesis presents some mathematical results related to quantum field theory. The first chapter is dedicated to TRAPs and how they could be used to rigorously define Feynman rules. The second introduces generalisations of MZVs and study their properties. The third gives the main results of the theory of locality structures. The fourth and last chapter presents a summability result within the framework of resurgence theory. Each chapter ends with open questions and conjectures on the domain.

Our chapter on Urban #mobility is finally published, in the great Compendium of Urban Complexity!
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-82666-5_4…

Urban Mobility
In this chapter, we discuss urban mobility from a complexity science perspective. First, we give an overview of the datasets that enable this approach, such as mobile phone records, location-based social network traces, or GPS trajectories from sensors installed on...

CFP: (Chapter Abstracts) German Romantic Humour (Aug. 1, 2025)
https://ift.tt/gpb26Cr
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We have a slate of jobs opening up - apologies, only have a LinkedIn link for now: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/delyno-dutoit_city-of-cape-town-jobs-linkedin-activity-7361684604451221504-hJb1
Will update and do a lon…

New positions in the City of Cape Town Data Analytics Hub! | Delyno du Toit
New positions in the City of Cape Town Data Analytics Hub! The Hub is the next chapter for our highly successful Data Science team, expanding its mission to be the nerve center for data-driven strategy and innovation across our entire organization. What if your next data product could help manage a City's water supply or your models make public transport more efficient? We are looking for curious and talented individuals to join us. We have several open positions: -) Head: Data Science -) H…

An interview with Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech's next chapter, meeting in 1997, Steve Jobs, Apple, Powell Jobs' io investment in 2019, AI, and more (Matthew Garrahan/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f0a45b0-a3cc-4e1c-be71-1b7b42958d4…

‘Humanity deserves better’: Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech’s next chapter
After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again

I just finished Deltarune chapter 3.
I need to sit down and process all that.

The discipline with which they are implementing Project 2025 chapter by chapter and point by point is quite impressive

Perspective Chapter: Insights from Kalman Filtering with Correlated Noises Recursive Least-Square Algorithm for State and Parameter Estimation
Abd El Mageed Hag Elamin Khalid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07588

Perspective Chapter: Insights from Kalman Filtering with Correlated Noises Recursive Least-Square Algorithm for State and Parameter Estimation
This article explores the estimation of parameters and states for linear stochastic systems with deterministic control inputs. It introduces a novel Kalman filtering approach called Kalman Filtering with Correlated Noises Recursive Generalized Extended Least Squares (KF-CN-RGELS) algorithm, which leverages the cross-correlation between process noise and measurement noise in Kalman filtering cycles to jointly estimate both parameters and system states. The study also investigates the theoretical…

IMVHO the most misunderstood part of the GoF Design Patterns book is that the good part is actually Chapter 2 ”A Case Study: Designing a Document Editor” which carries great design advice (it told us to favor composition in 1994!) & the patterns that follow are mostly a reflection of the state of C at that time.
If you skip the good part and start reading the patterns like a laundry list, it must be very confusing as to why anyone would like that book.

Spontaneous emission and Purcell effect: some aspects
P. P. Abrantes, D. Szilard, C. Farina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10210 https://…

Spontaneous emission and Purcell effect: some aspects
This chapter, part of the Proceedings of the III International Workshop on Quantum Nonstationary Systems (eds. Alexandre Dodonov and Lucas Chibebe Celeri), held in Brasilia in August 2024, offers a comprehensive overview of spontaneous emission (SE) and the Purcell effect within the broader context of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and vacuum fluctuations. It begins with a historical and theoretical review, tracing the development of classical and quantum electromagnetic theories. The chapter th…

Dr. Phil's Merit Street Media JV, launched in April 2024, files for Chapter 11 and sues business partner Trinity Broadcasting Network for breach of contract (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/dr-phil-merit-street-media-jv-ban…

Dr. Phil’s Merit Street Media JV Files For Bankruptcy, Sues Partner Trinity Broadcasting For Breach Of Contract
Dr. Phil’s Fort Worth-based JV Merit Street Media filed for Chapter 11 and sued business partner Trinity Broadcasting for breach of contract that destroyed it new network pushed it into bankruptcy.

Photography / Intensity / Measure (Call for Book Chapter)
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#WordWeavers 5/6: What would your first chapter smell like?
I quote chapter 1, page 1, 3 paragraph:
" It felt like the smells of the city clung to him – all rotten and filthy – and they were so thick it felt like they were coating his tongue. This spring was unusually hot, making the smells even more rancid."
He just ran past a sewer 😃

Bear is working on web access to notes... finally!
#bearNotes

Bear Web Public Beta - You are invited!
We’re excited to share a new chapter for Bear: Bear Web is now in Public Beta! This is a big step toward making Bear available wherever you need it, and we’d love for you to give it a try. ⚠ Please read the following carefully before jumping in. About Bear Web Bear Web is a web app designed to complement the native Bear apps on Mac, iPhone and iPad, providing you with the flexibility to access your notes from any web browser. It is primarily for situations where you cannot access the n.…

Del Monte Foods files for bankruptcy and will search for buyer - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/del-monte-bankruptcy-chapter-11/

„Social Media as Innovation“: chapter by Jan-Hinrik Schmidt (@…) in a "Handbook of Innovation": https://www.schmidtmitdete.de/archives/2865

Receiving RISs: Enabling Channel Estimation and Autonomous Configuration
George C. Alexandropoulos, Konstantinos D. Katsanos, Evangelos Vlachos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10662

Receiving RISs: Enabling Channel Estimation and Autonomous Configuration
This chapter focuses on a hardware architecture for semi-passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) and investigates its consideration for boosting the performance of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication systems. The architecture incorporates a single or multiple radio-frequency chains to receive pilot signals via tunable absorption phase profiles realized by the metasurface front end, as well as a controller encompassing a baseband processing unit to carry out channel es…

The Routledge Handbook of AI and Language Learning Call for Chapter Proposals (Updated)
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“At least memorise that #tolerance becomes crime when applied to evil.”
– 6th chapter of #ThomasMann’s “Magic Mountain”
🔗

Thomas Mann – Wikiquote

The quest for a Quark-Gluon Plasma
Edward Shuryak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07985 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07985…

The quest for a Quark-Gluon Plasma
A chapter in a book"50 years of QGP" An extended summary of the field can be found in large books and reviews, e.g., my take in Ref.~\cite{Shuryak:2024zrh}. It is hard to compress its 600+ pages and 50+ years of research to a few given below. Those include only recollection of few episodes, from early days to now, showing how vague dreams were eventually turning into solid and detailed scientific facts.

Floods and Droughts in Asia, Europe, and America
Hiroshi G. Takahashi, Masashi Kiguchi, Shiori Sugimoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10695 https://

Floods and Droughts in Asia, Europe, and America
This chapter introduces flood and drought through the understanding of the water cycle. In addition to the water cycle, we consider the energy cycle. The floods and droughts have strong regional and seasonal characteristics. The causes of the unbalanced water conditions can occur under the various meteorological phenomena, which have strong regional and seasonal varieties. For an understanding of the cause of floods and drought, we first consider the geographical characteristics of the floods a…

finally beat red dead redemption 2 and its epilogue. one of the best games i've ever played. the world feels so detailed and the npcs are the best i've seen in any game, amazing storyline too. chapter 6 was sad but the epilogue was pretty good

Anybody using #Rsyslog? You may want to reconsider.
"rsyslog Goes AI First — A New Chapter Begins"
#Linux #AI #LLM

Blockchain-Enabled Federated Learning
Murtaza Rangwala, Venugopal K R, Rajkumar Buyya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06406 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06406

Blockchain-Enabled Federated Learning
Blockchain-enabled federated learning (BCFL) addresses fundamental challenges of trust, privacy, and coordination in collaborative AI systems. This chapter provides comprehensive architectural analysis of BCFL systems through a systematic four-dimensional taxonomy examining coordination structures, consensus mechanisms, storage architectures, and trust models. We analyze design patterns from blockchain-verified centralized coordination to fully decentralized peer-to-peer networks, evaluating tr…

aw a sad farewell to the print wing of @…. i'd only just discovered dynamite hemorrhage in the past few years, featuring an astoundingly high batting average of new music i loved. …

Thank you, good night
This chapter of the many years I’ve spent making radio-like programs and creating homespun music fanzines under different names has come to an end. It’s been a blast doing Dynamite Hemo…

Cool to see @… mentioned here https://mastodon.macstories.net/@macstories/114909372902054053
Creative chapter name too 👀

Spending 5% of GDP on "defence" – in reality, on preparing for war – is an arms race. Historically, arms races have very frequently led to war.
We should be spending at least some of that money on building peace – on building complex webs of social and commercial relationships between rival blocks, and strengthening the international institutions which, if respected, could realise the "rules-based international order".

Entropy and the general theory of peace – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Book chapter in Proceedings of the International Peace Research Association Second Conference. Vol. 1: Studies in Conflicts

Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/echosta…

Human-centered AI with focus on Human-robot interaction (Book chapter)
Alireza Mortezapour, Giuliana Vitiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04095 https://

Human-centered AI with focus on Human-robot interaction (Book chapter)
Modern social robots can be considered the descendants of steam engines from the First Industrial Revolution (IR 1.0) and industrial robotic arms from the Third Industrial Revolution (IR 3.0). As some time has passed since the introduction of these robots during the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0), challenges and issues in their interaction with humans have emerged, leading researchers to conclude that, like any other AI-based technology, these robots must also be human-centered to meet t…

Price Discovery in Cryptocurrency Markets
Juan Plazuelo Pascual, Carlos Tardon Rubio, Juan Toro Cebada, Angel Hernando Veciana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08718

Price Discovery in Cryptocurrency Markets
This document analyzes price discovery in cryptocurrency markets by comparing centralized and decentralized exchanges, as well as spot and futures markets. The study focuses first on Ethereum (ETH) and then applies a similar approach to Bitcoin (BTC). Chapter 1 outlines the theoretical framework, emphasizing the structural differences between centralized exchanges and decentralized finance mechanisms, especially Automated Market Makers (AMMs). It also explains how to construct an order book fro…

The Cloisters and Chapter House, Lincoln Cathedral, April 2025
#photography #heritagephotographer #gothicarchitecture

AI is flooding libraries with generated content just as budgets and staff are at their most precarious. This Thursday at 10am EDT my ASIS&T webinar asks if we need to ban it, label it, absorb it—or rethink the library itself.
https://www.asist.org/meetings-events/webi

Besondere Anforderungen des automatisierten Fahrens an den Entwurf
Robert Graubohm, Markus Maurer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09731 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Besondere Anforderungen des automatisierten Fahrens an den Entwurf
The development of automated vehicles and automated driving functions is an exceptionally complex task that requires the integration of numerous, sometimes conflicting interests and various constraints already in the early stages of system design. This chapter explains important challenges in concept specifications for automated driving and presents a systematic process model that contributes to overcoming the special requirements in this field. In addition, it describes the successful implemen…

Agency, Affordances, and Enculturation of Augmentation Technologies
Ann Hill Duin, Isabel Pedersen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04725 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Agency, Affordances, and Enculturation of Augmentation Technologies
Augmentation technologies are undergoing a process of enculturation due to many factors, one being the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), or what the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) terms the AI wave or AI boom. Chapter 3 focuses critical attention on the hyped assumption that sophisticated, emergent, and embodied augmentation technologies will improve lives, literacy, cultures, arts, economies, and social contexts. The chapter begins by discussing the problem of ambiguity wi…

Sources: EchoStar is considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect its valuable wireless spectrum licenses from potential revocation by the FCC (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/echosta…

I finally finished Houyhnhnm Computing, a wonderful exploration of an alternative approach to programming, and the advantages it would bring.
https://ngnghm.github.io/index.html
I’d highly recommend reading it. (At least, chapters 1–9 were great. Chapter 10 is about Urbit, which… ble…

Just ended a chapter of my life.
This chapter was filled with joy, sorrow, friends, experience and memories 🥲

Just got to chapter 5 in Xenoblade 2 and also I think I also finally understand the battle system.
#videogames

Look what came in the post!
Transforming Development in Education: From Coloniality to Rethinking, Reframing and Reimagining Possibilities with my chapter:
'Why is Epistemic Humility Provocative? A reflexive story'.
Through storytelling, I address epistemic humility as the explicit acknowledgement of the limits of knowledge and raise questions of 'just survival' and 'positionalities at play'.
Video:

Linear and nonlinear supersymmetry in field and string theory
Gabriele Casagrande
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20396 https://arxiv.org/…

Linear and nonlinear supersymmetry in field and string theory
This Ph.D. thesis investigates effective field and string theories in which supersymmetry is realized and broken in various ways. Chapter 1 addresses effective theories with nonlinearly realized supersymmetry, constructed using the formalism of constrained superfields. We establish a criterion for identifying inconsistent constraints, formulate their improved versions, and propose, along these lines, improved supergravity models of inflation. In Chapter 2, we discuss a peculiar application of t…

Namibia observes first official Genocide Remembrance Day, marking the closure of German-run concentration camps in 1908.
This commemoration honors the victims of the Herero and Nama genocide, perpetrated by German colonial forces between 1904 and 1908. During this period, tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people were killed through mass executions, forced displacement, and starvation.
Namibia to hold first official commemoration of german clonial-era genocide

Namibia to hold first official commemoration of german clonial-era genocide | Africanews
The upcoming commemoration is seen as a significant step in Namibia's efforts to acknowledge and remember this painful chapter of its history.

I KNEW IT! Worsel really was an Eastern and not a Western Dragon (says so in the first chapter) #scifi #books #fiction #dragons

In another chapter of "I've somehow broken the online profiling parameters for ads": Reddit shows me ads for thermocyclers for PCRs.
It's been 10 years since I actually did any real wetlab work. 😂

A Dynamical Systems Perspective on the Analysis of Neural Networks
Dennis Chemnitz, Maximilian Engel, Christian Kuehn, Sara-Viola Kuntz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05164

A Dynamical Systems Perspective on the Analysis of Neural Networks
In this chapter, we utilize dynamical systems to analyze several aspects of machine learning algorithms. As an expository contribution we demonstrate how to re-formulate a wide variety of challenges from deep neural networks, (stochastic) gradient descent, and related topics into dynamical statements. We also tackle three concrete challenges. First, we consider the process of information propagation through a neural network, i.e., we study the input-output map for different architectures. We ex…

Together with the Faculty of Applied Science Open Science Team, from the TU Delft (still not on mastodon...) we published a chapter on how to start your own Open Science Team in the #OpenScience Cookbook:
Open Ebook: https://www.ala.org/sites/default/files/2025-06/9798892553667.pdf
Print: https://alastore.ala.org/open-science-cookbook
Thanks to @…, Sebastian Weingärtner, Xuehang Wang and Gerard Castro-Linares, for sharing their experiences in a reusable manner :)

Alan Friedman, who has toiled for years to make SBOM a reality, is leaving CISA.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/allanafried

I’ve already shared this with the CISA SBOM community, but wanted to post here as well: my time at CISA is coming to a close. | Allan Friedman, PhD
I’ve already shared this with the CISA SBOM community, but wanted to post here as well: my time at CISA is coming to a close. My last day will be July 31. It’s been an extraordinary chapter, made possible by brilliant colleagues at Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and an incredible global community who turned an ambitious idea into a meaningful shift in how we think about digital trust. I’ll have more to say soon in reflection and gratitude. In the meantime, I remain com…

Seven episodes into “Foundation” and I’m mostly only watching it now to see how much farther astray it goes. Curious if season 1 even gets past its wildly variant version of chapter two of the first book.
At least unlike “I, Robot” this one kept names and starting plot.

Dan Mackenzie contemplating his fate in chapter 1 of the new novel - art courtesy of the talented @gargoyle.pastures at Instagram

Wallets as Universal Access Devices
Kim Peiter J{\o}rgensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06254 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06254

Wallets as Universal Access Devices
Wallets are access points for the digital economys value creation. Wallets for blockchains store the end-users cryptographic keys for administrating their digital assets and enable access to blockchain Web3 systems. Web3 delivers new service opportunities. This chapter focuses on the Web3 enabled release of value through the lens of wallets. Wallets may be implemented as software apps on smartphones, web apps on desktops, or hardware devices. Wallet users request high security, ease of use, and…

Human-Centered Human-AI Interaction (HC-HAII): A Human-Centered AI Perspective
Wei Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03969 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03969

Human-Centered Human-AI Interaction (HC-HAII): A Human-Centered AI Perspective
This chapter systematically promotes an emerging interdisciplinary field of human-artificial intelligence interaction (human-AI interaction, HAII) from a human-centered AI (HCAI) perspective. It introduces a framework of human-centered HAII (HC-HAII). HC-HAII places humans at the core of HAII research and applications, emphasizing the importance of adopting a human-centered approach over a technology-centered one. The chapter presents the HC-HAII methodology, including human-centered methods, p…

An Introduction to Algebraic Combinatorics
Darij Grinberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00738 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.00738

An Introduction to Algebraic Combinatorics
This is an introduction to algebraic combinatorics, written for a quarter-long graduate course. It starts with a rigorous introduction to formal power series with some combinatorial applications, then discusses integer partitions (proving Jacobi's triple product identity), permutations (Lehmer codes, cycles) and subtractive methods (alternating sums, cancellations and inclusion-exclusion principles, with a particular focus on sign-reversing involutions and determinants). The last chapter introd…

Symbolic Computation with Symmetric Polynomials in Real Algebraic Geometry
Cordian Riener, Thi Xuan Vu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23728 https://arxiv.org/p…

Symbolic Computation with Symmetric Polynomials in Real Algebraic Geometry
Symmetry plays a central role in accelerating symbolic computation involving polynomials. This chapter surveys recent developments and foundational methods that leverage the inherent symmetries of polynomial systems to reduce complexity, improve algorithmic efficiency, and reveal deeper structural insights. The main focus is on symmetry by the permutation of variables.

In-Situ Soil-Property Estimation and Bayesian Mapping with a Simulated Compact Track Loader
W. Jacob Wagner, Ahmet Soylemezoglu, Katherine Driggs-Campbell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22356

In-Situ Soil-Property Estimation and Bayesian Mapping with a Simulated Compact Track Loader
Existing earthmoving autonomy is largely confined to highly controlled and well-characterized environments due to the complexity of vehicle-terrain interaction dynamics and the partial observability of the terrain resulting from unknown and spatially varying soil conditions. In this chapter, a a soil-property mapping system is proposed to extend the environmental state, in order to overcome these restrictions and facilitate development of more robust autonomous earthmoving. A GPU accelerated el…

Organic Electronic Classifiers for Sensing
S\'ebastien Pecqueur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06660 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06660…

Organic Electronic Classifiers for Sensing
This monograph describes nine years of research carried out at the Institute for Electronics, Micro-electronics and Nanotechnologies (IEMN), developed around defining a generic concept for detection, filling a void between metrological sensors and biological senses, sensing an environment's qualities along with their measurable properties in information generation technologies. The first chapter introduces fundamental notions of recognition for complex environments, such as for their chemistry,…

Patents as Knowledge Artifacts: An Information Science Perspective on Global Innovation
M. S. Rajeevan, B. Mini Devi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00871 https://

Patents as Knowledge Artifacts: An Information Science Perspective on Global Innovation
In an age of fast-paced technological change, patents have evolved into not only legal mechanisms of intellectual property, but also structured storage containers of knowledge full of metadata, categories, and formal innovation. This chapter proposes to reframe patents in the context of information science, by focusing on patents as knowledge artifacts, and by seeing patents as fundamentally tied to the global movement of scientific and technological knowledge. With a focus on three areas, the …

Time for another "review". This one's hard. While the book was quite interesting, it required me to be quite open-minded. Still, I think it's worth mentioning:
Robert Wright — Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
The book basically focused on a thesis that both biological evolution and cultural evolution are a thing, they are directional and this directionality can be explained together using game theory — as eventually leading to more non-zero sum games.
It consists of three chapters. The first one is is focused on the history of civilization. It features many examples from different parts of the world, which makes it quite interesting. The author argues that the culture inevitably is evolving as information processing techniques improve — from writing to the Internet.
The second chapter is focused on biological evolution. Now, the argument is that it's not quite random, but actually directed towards greater complexity — eventually leading to the development of highly intelligent species, and a civilization.
The third chapter is quite speculative and metaphysical, and I'm just going to skip it.
The book is full of optimism. Capitalism creates freedom — because people are more productive when they're working for their own gain, so the free market eliminates slavery. Globalisation creates networks of interdependence that make wars uneconomic. Increased contacts between different cultures makes people more tolerant. And eventually, the humanity may be able to unite facing a common "external" enemy — the climate change.
What can I say? The examples are quite interesting, the whole theory seems self-consistent. Still, I repeatedly looked at the publication date (it's 1999), and wondered if author would write the same thing today (yes, I know I can search for his current opinions).
#books #bookstodon @…

US chipmaker Wolfspeed files for Chapter 11 to enact a creditor-backed plan to slash $4.6B in debt; it expects to emerge out of bankruptcy by the end of Q3 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-3…

On the utility of toy models for theories of consciousness
Larissa Albantakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00190 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00190

On the utility of toy models for theories of consciousness
Toy models are highly idealized and deliberately simplified models that retain only the essential features of a system in order to explore specific theoretical questions. Long used in physics and other sciences, they have recently begun to play a more visible role in consciousness research. This chapter examines the potential utility of toy models for developing and evaluating scientific theories of consciousness in terms of their ability to clarify theoretical frameworks, test assumptions, and…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
Juju:
🎵 Nia (Poem: Complete The Circle)
#Juju
https://jujublackfire.bandcamp.com/album/chapter-two-nia

On Fault Tolerance of Data Storage Systems: A Holistic Perspective
Mai Zheng, Duo Zhang, Ahmed Dajani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03849 https://

On Fault Tolerance of Data Storage Systems: A Holistic Perspective
Data storage systems serve as the foundation of digital society. The enormous data generated by people on a daily basis make the fault tolerance of data storage systems increasingly important. Unfortunately, modern storage systems consist of complicated hardware and software layers interacting with each other, which may contain latent bugs that elude extensive testing and lead to data corruption, system downtime, or even unrecoverable data loss in practice. In this chapter, we take a holistic v…

Teaching Mathematics for Economists
Eric Hillebrand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22671 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22671

Teaching Mathematics for Economists
In this chapter, I discuss teaching mathematical tools specifically tailored for economics students. A typical one-semester course in this area seeks to blend a range of topics: from foundational elements of subjects such as linear algebra and multivariate calculus to intermediate areas like real and convex analysis and further into advanced topics such as dynamic optimization in both continuous and discrete time. This breadth of coverage corresponds to material usually spread across multiple y…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03405 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbi…

Age-Structured Population Dynamics
This chapter reviews some aspects of the theory of age-structured models of populations with finite maximum age. We formulate both the renewal equation for the birth rate and the partial differential equation for the age density, and show their equivalence. Next, we define and discuss central concepts in population dynamics, like the basic reproduction number $R_0$, the Malthusian parameter $r$, and the stable age distribution. We briefly review the sun-star theory that turns the birth term int…

Passage leading out of the Chapter House, Wells Cathedral, Somerset, April 2025
#photography #heritagephotography #documentingplaces

Call for Chapter Proposals for Book on Abortion Related Theatre, Performance, and Protest
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xAI will sign the EU AI Code's safety and security chapter but says the code's other requirements hurt innovation and its copyright terms are an overreach (Chandni Shah/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-xai-sign-eus-ai-code-practice-…

Flavour Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Wolfgang Altmannshofer, Peter Stangl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03950 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03950

Flavour Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Flavour physics plays a central role in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model, posing fundamental questions whose answers may point to new physics scales far above the electroweak scale. The flavour structure of the Standard Model is strikingly hierarchical, hinting at underlying organizing principles yet to be uncovered. At the same time, flavour-changing processes rank among the most sensitive probes of new physics. In this chapter, we review how precision measurements of flavour-v…

Back with Dolphins again, Minkah Fitzpatrick reflects on Steelers trade, social media silence

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/back-with…

A nonlinear dead-time compensation method for path tracking control
Karin Festl, Michael Stolz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06935 https://

A nonlinear dead-time compensation method for path tracking control
In the realm of autonomous vehicle technologies and advanced driver assistance systems, precise and reliable path tracking controllers are vital for safe and efficient navigation. However the presence of dead time in the vehicle control systems poses a challenge to real-world systems. Input and output delays are caused by factors like sensor processing and mechanical response and can range up to a few hundred milliseconds. This chapter addresses the problem of dead time in path tracking control…

AI-based Approach in Early Warning Systems: Focus on Emergency Communication Ecosystem and Citizen Participation in Nordic Countries
Fuzel Shaik, Getnet Demil, Mourad Oussalah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18926

AI-based Approach in Early Warning Systems: Focus on Emergency Communication Ecosystem and Citizen Participation in Nordic Countries
Climate change and natural disasters are recognized as worldwide challenges requiring complex and efficient ecosystems to deal with social, economic, and environmental effects. This chapter advocates a holistic approach, distinguishing preparedness, emergency responses, and postcrisis phases. The role of the Early Warning System (EWS), Risk modeling and mitigation measures are particularly emphasized. The chapter reviews the various Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabler technologies that can be …

Metacognition and self-regulated learning in manipulative robotic problem-solving task
Margarida Romero (UniCA, UIC, LINE), George Kalmpourtzis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05112 …

Metacognition and self-regulated learning in manipulative robotic problem-solving task
Metacognition is an important aspect in creative problem solving (CPS) and through this chapter we analyse the meta-reasoning aspects applied in the different processes of monitoring the progress of learners' reasoning and CPS activities. Meta-reasoning monitors the way that problem-solving processes advance and regulate time and efforts towards a solution. In the context of an ill-defined problem, exploration is required to develop a better-defined problem space and advance towards the solutio…

An introduction to the symmetric group algebra
Darij Grinberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20706 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20706

An introduction to the symmetric group algebra
This is an introduction to the group algebras of the symmetric groups, written for a quarter-long graduate course. After recalling the definition of group algebras (and monoid algebras) in general, as well as basic properties of permutations, we introduce several families of elements in the symmetric group algebras $\mathbf{k}[S_n]$ such as the Young--Jucys--Murphy elements, the (sign-)integrals and the conjugacy class sums. Then comes a chapter on group actions and representations in general, …

CareerBuilder Monster, which once dominated the online recruitment industry, files for Chapter 11 and agrees to sell its job board operations to JobGet (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
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Chapter 11 Students' interaction with and appreciation of automated informative tutoring feedback
Gerben van der Hoek, Bastiaan Heeren, Rogier Bos, Paul Drijvers, Johan Jeuring
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15650

Chapter 11 Students' interaction with and appreciation of automated informative tutoring feedback
Computer aided formative assessment can be used to enhance a learning process, for instance by providing feedback. There are many design choices for delivering feedback, that lead to a feedback strategy. In an informative feedback strategy, students do not immediately receive information about the correct response, but are offered the opportunity to retry a task to apply feedback information. In this small-scale qualitative study, we explore an informative feedback strategy designed to offer a …

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Can AI be Consentful?
Giada Pistilli, Bruna Trevelin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01051 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01051

Can AI be Consentful?
The evolution of generative AI systems exposes the challenges of traditional legal and ethical frameworks built around consent. This chapter examines how the conventional notion of consent, while fundamental to data protection and privacy rights, proves insufficient in addressing the implications of AI-generated content derived from personal data. Through legal and ethical analysis, we show that while individuals can consent to the initial use of their data for AI training, they cannot meaningf…

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Introduction to the Cohomology of the Flag Variety
Sara C. Billey, Yibo Gao, Brendan Pawlowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21064 https://

Introduction to the Cohomology of the Flag Variety
One hundred years ago, Hilbert gave a list of important open problems in mathematics. His 15th problem asked for the development of a rigorous calculus explaining Schubert's enumerative results for intersecting varieties defined by rank conditions on vector spaces. Today by way of many contributions in algebraic topology, geometry, and combinatorics, we consider this solved. Yet, deep questions remain about the subtleties of actually carrying out the process. In this chapter, we hope to summari…

How online misinformation works: a costly signalling perspective
Neri Marsili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17158 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

How online misinformation works: a costly signalling perspective
This chapter explores how online communication, particularly on social media, reshapes the reputational incentives that motivate speakers to communicate truthfully. Drawing on costly signalling theory (CST), it examines how online contexts alter the social mechanisms that sustain honest communication. Key characteristics of online spaces are identified and discussed, namely (i) the presence of novel speech acts like reposting, (ii) the gamification of communication, (iii) information overload, …