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Investigation: California colleges and universities continue to renew Turnitin subscriptions despite the cost, faulty anti-plagiarism tech, and privacy issues (Tara García Mathewson/The Markup)
https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/06/2…

California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? – The Markup
Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.

A little orchestral song I have been working on since Yesterday. As I have COVID I cannot do shit outside, so I'm composing 'happy' music.
#musescore #ClassicalMusic #orchestra

Simple Classes of Automatic Structures
Achim Blumensath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22821 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22821

Simple Classes of Automatic Structures
We study two subclasses of the class of automatic structures: automatic structures of polynomial growth and Presburger structures. We present algebraic characterisations of the groups and the equivalence structures in these two classes.

This is the main square in Piran, Slovenia, early morning today. Only 10 minutes away, the 22nd Extended Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2025 will take place, starting on Sunday, June 1st, 2025. I'm looking forward to meeting dear colleagues as well as old and new friends, listening to exciting keynotes, great presentations, and many more activities.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalLive
Clara Schumann:
🎵 3 Romances Op. 22
#ClaraSchumann

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.17317 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Diagnosing crosstalk in large-scale QPUs using zero-entropy classical shadows
As quantum processing units (QPUs) scale toward hundreds of qubits, diagnosing crosstalk and noise-induced correlations becomes critical for reliable quantum computation. In this work, we introduce Zero-Entropy Classical Shadows (ZECS), a diagnostic tool that reconstructs positive semidefinite, unit-trace density operators from classical shadow (CS) information. ZECS enables proper subregion tomography and reduces the effect of sampling and time-dependent errors. We apply ZECS to large supercon…

Science for Peace and the need for Civil Clauses at universities and civilian research institutions
J. Altmann, U. Amaldi, M. Barone, A. Bassalat, M. Bona, J. Beullens, H. Brand, S. Brentjes, D. Britzger, J. Ellis, S. Franchoo, A. Giammanco, A. Glazov, C. Heck, H. Jung, S. Kraml, L. L\"onnblad, M. Mangano, M. Renneberg, Th. Riebe, A. Sabio-Vera, R. Sanders, J. Scheffran, M. Schmelling, T. Schucker, T. Suzuki, A. Tanasijczuk, I. Tsakov, D. Valls-Gabaud, M. Walker

Science for Peace and the need for Civil Clauses at universities and civilian research institutions
After the end of World War II, the commitment to confine scientific activities in universities and research institutions to peaceful and civilian purposes has entered, in the form of {\it Civil Clauses}, the charters of many research institutions and universities. In the wake of recent world events, the relevance and scope of such Civil Clauses has been questioned in reports issued by some governments and by the EU Commission, a development that opens the door to a possible blurring of the dist…

An example of something that Microsoft considered the web equivalent for toilet paper in 2006
https://web.archive.org/web/20061004071453/http://classicvb.org/petition/

What's really warming the world?
A classic, by @bloomberg. Do click on the link to see the whole thing.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalLive
- The Maisky Piano Trio live from Wigmore and Mendelssohn symphonies
Elizabeth Alker introduces a week of specially recorded and live music including an eavesdrop on the Vienna Philharmonic and the Maisky Piano Trio live from Wigmore Hall.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f0d4