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The making of the ‘NFL Top 100,’ and our complicated relationship with it https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6523428/2025/07/31/nfl-top-100-ranking-nfl-network/

The making of the ‘NFL Top 100,’ and our complicated relationship with it https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6523428/2025/07/31/nfl-top-100-ranking-nfl-network/

How much does a Russian drone attack on Ukraine cost? The question is more complicated than it sounds: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/how-much-does-a-russian.html

The making of the ‘NFL Top 100,’ and our complicated relationship with it https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6523428/2025/07/31/nfl-top-100-ranking-nfl-network/

Note to self: When starting doing something large and complicated in Visual Studio, regularly build and run in both Debug and Release configurations from the start, even while you are still very much debugging the stuff, so that you notice if the latter mysteriously doesn't work early enough.

When I worked at an agency, I frequently worked with this one front-end dev. We had the following exchange several times:
Her: Hey Crell, the client wants to do X. How long would that take?
Me: What? X is impossible, there's no logical way to do it.
Me: Well, I suppose we could blah blah, but that would be super complicated.
Me: Hm, but what if I blah blah?
Me: Hang on a sec, let me check something.
<10 min later>
Me: OK, I just did it.
H…

@… it's complicated

Nothing complicated
#blogging

MIBoost: A Gradient Boosting Algorithm for Variable Selection After Multiple Imputation
Robert Kuchen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21807 https://arxiv.org/pd…

MIBoost: A Gradient Boosting Algorithm for Variable Selection After Multiple Imputation
Statistical learning methods for automated variable selection, such as LASSO, elastic nets, or gradient boosting, have become increasingly popular tools for building powerful prediction models. Yet, in practice, analyses are often complicated by missing data. The most widely used approach to address missingness is multiple imputation, which creates several completed datasets. However, there is an ongoing debate on how to perform model selection in the presence of multiple imputed datasets. Simp…

Researchers say using ChatGPT can rot your brain. The truth is a little more complicated
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-chatgpt-brain-truth-complicated.html

"It’s Complicated": Von der Berliner Praxis zum digitalen Therapie-Ökosystem
Wie sie ein digitales Therapie-Ökosystem aufgebaut haben und auf einen vertrauensvollen Umgang mit den Daten setzen, erzählen die Gründer von It’s Complicated.

LLM coding is the opposite of DRY
An important principle in software engineering is DRY: Don't Repeat Yourself. We recognize that having the same code copied in more than one place is bad for several reasons:
1. It makes the entire codebase harder to read.
2. It increases maintenance burden, since any problems in the duplicated code need to be solved in more than one place.
3. Because it becomes possible for the copies to drift apart if changes to one aren't transferred to the other (maybe the person making the change has forgotten there was a copy) it makes the code more error-prone and harder to debug.
All modern programming languages make it almost entirely unnecessary to repeat code: we can move the repeated code into a "function" or "module" and then reference it from all the different places it's needed. At a larger scale, someone might write an open-source "library" of such functions or modules and instead of re-implementing that functionality ourselves, we can use their code, with an acknowledgement. Using another person's library this way is complicated, because now you're dependent on them: if they stop maintaining it or introduce bugs, you've inherited a problem, but still, you could always copy their project and maintain your own version, and it would be not much more work than if you had implemented stuff yourself from the start. It's a little more complicated than this, but the basic principle holds, and it's a foundational one for software development in general and the open-source movement in particular. The network of "citations" as open-source software builds on other open-source software and people contribute patches to each others' projects is a lot of what makes the movement into a community, and it can lead to collaborations that drive further development. So the DRY principle is important at both small and large scales.
Unfortunately, the current crop of hyped-up LLM coding systems from the big players are antithetical to DRY at all scales:
- At the library scale, they train on open source software but then (with some unknown frequency) replicate parts of it line-for-line *without* any citation [1]. The person who was using the LLM has no way of knowing that this happened, or even any way to check for it. In theory the LLM company could build a system for this, but it's not likely to be profitable unless the courts actually start punishing these license violations, which doesn't seem likely based on results so far and the difficulty of finding out that the violations are happening. By creating these copies (and also mash-ups, along with lots of less-problematic stuff), the LLM users (enabled and encouraged by the LLM-peddlers) are directly undermining the DRY principle. If we see what the big AI companies claim to want, which is a massive shift towards machine-authored code, DRY at the library scale will effectively be dead, with each new project simply re-implementing the functionality it needs instead of every using a library. This might seem to have some upside, since dependency hell is a thing, but the downside in terms of comprehensibility and therefore maintainability, correctness, and security will be massive. The eventual lack of new high-quality DRY-respecting code to train the models on will only make this problem worse.
- At the module & function level, AI is probably prone to re-writing rather than re-using the functions or needs, especially with a workflow where a human prompts it for many independent completions. This part I don't have direct evidence for, since I don't use LLM coding models myself except in very specific circumstances because it's not generally ethical to do so. I do know that when it tries to call existing functions, it often guesses incorrectly about the parameters they need, which I'm sure is a headache and source of bugs for the vibe coders out there. An AI could be designed to take more context into account and use existing lookup tools to get accurate function signatures and use them when generating function calls, but even though that would probably significantly improve output quality, I suspect it's the kind of thing that would be seen as too-baroque and thus not a priority. Would love to hear I'm wrong about any of this, but I suspect the consequences are that any medium-or-larger sized codebase written with LLM tools will have significant bloat from duplicate functionality, and will have places where better use of existing libraries would have made the code simpler. At a fundamental level, a principle like DRY is not something that current LLM training techniques are able to learn, and while they can imitate it from their training sets to some degree when asked for large amounts of code, when prompted for many smaller chunks, they're asymptotically likely to violate it.
I think this is an important critique in part because it cuts against the argument that "LLMs are the modern compliers, if you reject them you're just like the people who wanted to keep hand-writing assembly code, and you'll be just as obsolete." Compilers actually represented a great win for abstraction, encapsulation, and DRY in general, and they supported and are integral to open source development, whereas LLMs are set to do the opposite.
[1] to see what this looks like in action in prose, see the example on page 30 of the NYTimes copyright complaint against OpenAI (#AI #GenAI #LLMs #VibeCoding

Voltage Control of the Boost Converter: PI vs. Nonlinear Passivity-based Control
Leyan Fang, Romeo Ortega, Robert Gri\~n\'o
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23112

Voltage Control of the Boost Converter: PI vs. Nonlinear Passivity-based Control
We carry-out a detailed analysis of direct voltage control of a Boost converter feeding a simple resistive load. First, we prove that using a classical PI control to stabilize a desired equilibrium leads to a very complicated dynamic behavior consisting of two equilibrium points, one of them always unstable for all PI gains and circuit parameter values. Interestingly, the second equilibrium point may be rendered stable -- but for all tuning gains leading to an extremely large value of the circu…

Gun Nerds Dismantle Infamous Pistol to Research If It Fires at Random https://www.404media.co/gun-nerds-dismantle-infamous-pistol-to-research-if-it-fires-at-random/

Nonlinear Diffusion and Decay of an Expanding Turbulent Blob
Takumi Matsuzawa, Minhui Zhu, Nigel Goldenfeld, William T. M. Irvine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22737

Nonlinear Diffusion and Decay of an Expanding Turbulent Blob
Turbulence, left unforced, decays and invades the surrounding quiescent fluid. Though ubiquitous, this simple phenomenon has proven hard to capture within a simple and general framework. Experiments in conventional turbulent flow chambers are inevitably complicated by proximity to boundaries and mean flow, obscuring the fundamental aspects of the relaxation to the quiescent fluid state. Here, we circumvent these issues by creating a spatially-localized blob of turbulent fluid using eight conver…

@… It’s something to aspire to, though. We could get much closer if we shared graphs, rather than free text. Graph merging is in some respects more complicated than text merging, but there’s been a lot of progress recently (see Difftastic).

Across the Northeast this month, states will mark the complicated history of anointing a singular Black leader to represent their community,
-- a settler colonial tradition that persists today
Negro Election Day,
or Negroes Hallowday,
dates back to 1639 in Massachusetts,
making it the the earliest known Black voting system in the United States.
The day was celebrated throughout the Northeast to mark the day that African people elected a “king” or “governo…

Negro Election Day may seem like ancient history, but it remains as prescient as ever
Across the Northeast this July, states will mark the complicated history of anointing a singular Black leader to represent their community

An Extended Soliton's Zero Modes
Jarah Evslin, Hui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18922 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18922…

An Extended Soliton's Zero Modes
Quantum field theory in the presence of localized solitons is more complicated than vacuum sector quantum field theory, largely as a result of the soliton's zero modes. In the present work, we try to understand to what extent this situation carries over to extended solitons. To this end, we explicitly construct the quantum state corresponding to a domain wall string or membrane, treating the zero modes carefully. This is done both for compact and also infinitely extended solitons. As an applica…

The platform of 33 year-old Zohran Mamdani, the “Democatic Socialist" immigrant who just won the primary in New York City (setting himself up for Mayor's election in November)
free public buses 🚎
universal childcare 👶
freezing rent in subsidized units 🏚️
city-run grocery stores 🥖🥒🍎
all paid for by new taxes on the rich.🤑
Good people want these things. They are not complicated or extreme.
also:
"strong support of Palestinians and criticism of Israel”
#Socialist #CanPoli
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg6yg7x467o

"In a probable cause statement, one officer wrote that the suspect 'knowingly engage[d] in conduct that create[d] a grave risk of death to another individual and thereby cause[d] the death of the other individual.'"
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/

Louis Armstrong: The US jazz icon with a 'controversial' legacy? If you ask me, Pops was grinnin' 'cause he was winnin'! Micheal Ray said to me, there were only two times in America when it was OK to be black and happy; the other time was Disco.
Gold plated bathroom, Richard Nixon smuggles your stash, and (fuck Miles, he was too coked to have sense) not one detractor, even his ex and his mistress joined his wife at his funeral. Yeah, 'controversial' 🙄
…

> She explained, “I just need the paper. I need to write things down. [The iPad script] also has so many passwords and then I would have ADD and then do something else and then it would lock me out … it was so complicated. So I printed it.”
When actors bypass corporate controls to get their work done, it's a showbiz story.

'Andor' Star Stellan Skarsgård Was the Ultimate 'Star Wars' Script Rulebreaker
Co-stars Diego Luna and Adria Arjona reminisced about the lengths the cast went to learn their lines on the highly secretive Disney+ show.

Mirror-mediated long-range coupling and robust phase locking of spatially separated exciton-polariton condensates
Shuang Liang, Hassan Alnatah, Qi Yao, Jonathan Beaumariage, Ken West, Kirk Baldwin, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Natalia G. Berloff, David W. Snoke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20924

Mirror-mediated long-range coupling and robust phase locking of spatially separated exciton-polariton condensates
Lattice arrays have been shown to have great value as simulators for complicated mathematical problems. In all physical lattices so far, coupling is only between nearest neighbors or nearest plus next-nearest neighbors; the geometry of the lattice controls the couplings of the sites. Realizing independently tunable, long-range interactions between distant condensates is a prerequisite for scalable analogue spin machines but has so far been restricted to short-range geometric coupling. In this w…

Bram Cohen on algorithms for determining the winner in ranked-choice voting: More complicated than you might think.
https://bramcohen.com/p/variants-on-instant-runoff

Variants on Instant Runoff
A practical view

Chemotaxis of branched cells in complex environments
Jiayi Liu, Jonathan E. Ron, Giulia Rinaldi, Ivanna Williantarra, Antonios Georgantzoglou, Ingrid de Vries, Michael Sixt, Milka Sarris, Nir S. Gov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21949

Chemotaxis of branched cells in complex environments
Cell migration in vivo is often guided by chemical signals. Such chemotaxis, such as performed by immune cells migrating to a wound site, is complicated by the complex geometry inside living tissues. In this study, we extend our theoretical model of branched-cell migration on a network by introducing chemokine sources to explore the cellular response. The model predicts a speed-accuracy tradeoff, whereby slow cells are significantly more accurate and able to follow efficiently a weak chemoattra…

»One of Mr. Reagan's advisers, David Stockman, later wrote that the real aim of fiscal policy was to create a ›strategic deficit‹ that would slam the door and reduce the size of the federal government.« https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/07/opinion/ronald-reagan.html

China's MiniMax open sources MiniMax-M1, a model to handle complicated productivity tasks that supports 1M input tokens and it says surpasses DeepSeek's R1-0528 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sure, the Fediverse is nerdy and requires you to choose an instance, but at least that makes it too "complicated" for the vice president of a fascist administration to join.

A Step-by-step Guide on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Safe Mobile Robot Navigation
Dennis Benders, Laura Ferranti, Johannes K\"ohler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17856

A Step-by-step Guide on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Safe Mobile Robot Navigation
Designing a Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme that enables a mobile robot to safely navigate through an obstacle-filled environment is a complicated yet essential task in robotics. In this technical report, safety refers to ensuring that the robot respects state and input constraints while avoiding collisions with obstacles despite the presence of disturbances and measurement noise. This report offers a step-by-step approach to implementing Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) schemes …

Very nice article about LLM architecture, a bit too complicated for me but probably not for others..
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/the-big-llm-architecture-comparison

The Big LLM Architecture Comparison
From DeepSeek-V3 to Kimi K2: A Look At Modern LLM Architecture Design

Filter-And-Refine: A MLLM Based Cascade System for Industrial-Scale Video Content Moderation
Zixuan Wang, Jinghao Shi, Hanzhong Liang, Xiang Shen, Vera Wen, Zhiqian Chen, Yifan Wu, Zhixin Zhang, Hongyu Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17204

Filter-And-Refine: A MLLM Based Cascade System for Industrial-Scale Video Content Moderation
Effective content moderation is essential for video platforms to safeguard user experience and uphold community standards. While traditional video classification models effectively handle well-defined moderation tasks, they struggle with complicated scenarios such as implicit harmful content and contextual ambiguity. Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) offer a promising solution to these limitations with their superior cross-modal reasoning and contextual understanding. However, two key ch…

The #AI Future Belongs to Those Who Zoom Out https://aboard.com/the-ai-future-belongs-to-those-who-zoom-out/

@…
"… I had already ran a script that 'over organized' my project files and made it too complicated for me to access simple files, so I asked ChatGPT
"Can you write me a script that will retrace our steps to how it was organized on my desktop before we ran the last script? Rather than have over organized session folders like they …

Seems to be a rather complicated way of saying „we don‘t want no foreign students no more“ …
New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/social-media-student-visa-…

Trump's effort to distance from Epstein complicated by his deep ties to Epstein (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-epstein-ties-history
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p34#a250719p34

A rose drying out naturally in a pot inside.
#wildlife #photography

I should learn to do a floating IP, but it sounds complicated! https://docs.oracle.com/en/learn/oci-ip-failover/index.html#task-2-configure-the-cluster-and-the-floating-ip

Instead of needing to write a complex function or remember complicated formulas, we just need to know how to instruct AI to get the results we want.
And if we’re not experts, we can have multiple AIs check the work.
We’re basically sitting in a council of experts and learning along the way.
So, in the end, we’re not getting dumber - we’re just shifting our knowledge and adapting to a new way of thinking.

Taming Vision-Language Models for Medical Image Analysis: A Comprehensive Review
Haoneng Lin, Cheng Xu, Jing Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18378 https://

Taming Vision-Language Models for Medical Image Analysis: A Comprehensive Review
Modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit unprecedented capabilities in cross-modal semantic understanding between visual and textual modalities. Given the intrinsic need for multi-modal integration in clinical applications, VLMs have emerged as a promising solution for a wide range of medical image analysis tasks. However, adapting general-purpose VLMs to medical domain poses numerous challenges, such as large domain gaps, complicated pathological variations, and diversity and uniqueness of…

Of course, with paper, note-it, Joplin and Bitwarden available, I didn't write down my exquisitely complicated new router password.
I mean, what's the use of that 😠

Loose threads: parsec-scale filamentation in the high Galactic latitude molecular clouds MBM 3 and MBM 16
Marco Monaci, Loris Magnani, Steven N. Shore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19728

Loose threads: parsec-scale filamentation in the high Galactic latitude molecular clouds MBM 3 and MBM 16
The existence of high galactic latitude molecular clouds has been known for several decades, and studies of their dust and gas distributions reveal complicated morphological structures. Their dynamics involve turbulence even in the absence of internal energy sources such as stars. We study in detail two such clouds, MBM 3 and MBM 16, trying to recover the geometric structure and topology of the gas distribution. In particular, we address the evidence of superthermal asymmetric atomic and molecu…

Being on the spectrum myself, I’ve noticed just how much easier it is to be authentic around autistic females, they genuinely help me unmask and feel like myself more and more every day.
But when I’m around guys on the spectrum, it’s the opposite: I end up masking even harder, feeling embarrassed and on edge, like everything just gets more complicated.
Sometimes I’m just hit with these realizations, and it really does feel like autism is full of surprises, never really stops catc…

A numerical approach to particle creation in accelerating toy models
Pedro Duarte Baptista, Alex Va\~n\'o-Vi\~nuales, Adr\'ian del R\'io Vega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18610

A numerical approach to particle creation in accelerating toy models
The formation of black holes by the gravitational collapse of stars is known to spontaneously excite particle pairs out of the quantum vacuum. For the canonical vacuum state at past null infinity, the expected number of particles received at future null infinity can be obtained in full closed form at sufficiently late times. However, for intermediate times, or for more complicated astrophysical processes (e.g. binary black hole mergers), the problem is technically challenging and has not yet be…

Agent's Take: Why Terry McLaurin's contract dispute with the Commanders is more complicated than you think

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-…

@… It's not looking good for Scotland's rivers 😳

FlowForge: Guiding the Creation of Multi-agent Workflows with Design Space Visualization as a Thinking Scaffold
Pan Hao, Dongyeop Kang, Nicholas Hinds, Qianwen Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15559

FlowForge: Guiding the Creation of Multi-agent Workflows with Design Space Visualization as a Thinking Scaffold
Multi-agent workflows have become an effective strategy for tackling complicated tasks by decomposing them into multiple sub-tasks and assigning them to specialized agents. However, designing optimal workflows remains challenging due to the vast and intricate design space. Current practices rely heavily on the intuition and expertise of practitioners, often resulting in design fixation or an unstructured, time-consuming exploration of trial-and-error. To address these challenges, this work intr…

♻️ Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think − an electrical engineer explains
https://theconversation.com/why-recycling-solar-panels-is-harder-than-you-might-think-an-electrical-engineer-explains-25…

Why recycling solar panels is harder than you might think − an electrical engineer explains
Recycling solar panels seems like a smart idea, but it’s complicated. Built to withstand years of wind and weather, solar panels are designed for strength, not easy breakdown.

Rational Motions of Minimal Quaternionic Degree with Prescribed Line Trajectories
Z\"ulal Derin Yaqub, Hans-Peter Schr\"ocker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18029

Rational Motions of Minimal Quaternionic Degree with Prescribed Line Trajectories
In this paper, we study how to find rational motions that move a line along a given rational ruled surface. Our goal is to find motions with the lowest possible degree using dual quaternions. While similar problems for point trajectories are well known, the case of line trajectories is more complicated and has not been studied. We explain when such motions exist and how to compute them. Our method gives explicit formulas for constructing these motions and shows that, in many cases, the solution…

Turbulent Snow Transport and Accumulation: New Reduced-Order Models and Diagnostics
Nikolas O. Aksamit, Alex P. Encinas-Bartos, Holt Hancock, Alexander Prokop
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17028

Turbulent Snow Transport and Accumulation: New Reduced-Order Models and Diagnostics
Understanding and modeling snow particle dynamics in the atmosphere remains a significant challenge for atmospheric scientists, hydrologists, and glaciologists. Temporally and spatially varying rates of snow transport, deposition, and erosion are driven by atmospheric turbulence and further complicated by inertial particle dynamics. Even with perfectly resolved wind fields, accurately predicting the fate of mobile snow particles in wind relies on semi-empirical assumptions embedded in diffeo-in…

LENS-DF: Deepfake Detection and Temporal Localization for Long-Form Noisy Speech
Xuechen Liu, Wanying Ge, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16220

LENS-DF: Deepfake Detection and Temporal Localization for Long-Form Noisy Speech
This study introduces LENS-DF, a novel and comprehensive recipe for training and evaluating audio deepfake detection and temporal localization under complicated and realistic audio conditions. The generation part of the recipe outputs audios from the input dataset with several critical characteristics, such as longer duration, noisy conditions, and containing multiple speakers, in a controllable fashion. The corresponding detection and localization protocol uses models. We conduct experiments b…

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Mating by copepods is a complicated process since they are always at risk of predation by other plankton or fishes. Male #copepods carefully mechanically and chemically track a receptive female, capture them, and deposit an adhesive spermatophore near the genital open…

Molecules and Chemistry in Red Supergiants
Lucy M. Ziurys, Anita M. S. Richards
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15968 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Molecules and Chemistry in Red Supergiants
The envelopes of Red Supergiants (RSGs) have a unique chemical environment not seen in other types of stars. They foster an oxygen-rich synthesis but are tempered by sporadic and chaotic mass loss, which distorts the envelope and creates complex outflow sub-structures consisting of knots, clumps, and arcs. Near the stellar photosphere, molecules and grains form under approximate LTE conditions, as predicted by chemical models. However, the complicated outflows appear to have distinct chemistrie…

The Complicated Magnetic Environment of ‘Weird’ Uranus
https://www.stsci.edu/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-018

Variable Selection for Stratified Sampling Designs in Semiparametric Accelerated Failure Time Models with Clustered Failure Times
Ying Chen, Chuan-Fa Tang, Sy Han Chiou, Min Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14689

Variable Selection for Stratified Sampling Designs in Semiparametric Accelerated Failure Time Models with Clustered Failure Times
In large-scale epidemiological studies, statistical inference is often complicated by high-dimensional covariates under stratified sampling designs for failure times. Variable selection methods developed for full cohort data do not extend naturally to stratified sampling designs, and appropriate adjustments for the sampling scheme are necessary. Further challenges arise when the failure times are clustered and exhibit within-cluster dependence. As an alternative of Cox proportional hazards (PH)…

Integrating Maneuverable Planning and Adaptive Control for Robot Cart-Pushing under Disturbances
Zhe Zhang, Peijia Xie, Zhirui Sun, Bingyi Xia, Bi-Ke Zhu, Jiankun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18410

Integrating Maneuverable Planning and Adaptive Control for Robot Cart-Pushing under Disturbances
Precise and flexible cart-pushing is a challenging task for mobile robots. The motion constraints during cart-pushing and the robot's redundancy lead to complex motion planning problems, while variable payloads and disturbances present complicated dynamics. In this work, we propose a novel planning and control framework for flexible whole-body coordination and robust adaptive control. Our motion planning method employs a local coordinate representation and a novel kinematic model to solve a non…

“[LLM] … mappings look a lot like strange attractors in dynamical systems - complicated, convoluted paths that are structured-ish.” https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/114808711283091974

Podcast: This Site Unmasks Cops With Facial Recognition https://www.404media.co/podcast-this-site-unmasks-cops-with-facial-recognition/

Staff shortages at weather service offices in might have complicated Texas forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/poli

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.

Tactical Decision for Multi-UGV Confrontation with a Vision-Language Model-Based Commander
Li Wang, Qizhen Wu, Lei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11079 ht…

Tactical Decision for Multi-UGV Confrontation with a Vision-Language Model-Based Commander
In multiple unmanned ground vehicle confrontations, autonomously evolving multi-agent tactical decisions from situational awareness remain a significant challenge. Traditional handcraft rule-based methods become vulnerable in the complicated and transient battlefield environment, and current reinforcement learning methods mainly focus on action manipulation instead of strategic decisions due to lack of interpretability. Here, we propose a vision-language model-based commander to address the iss…

PCG-Informed Neural Solvers for High-Resolution Homogenization of Periodic Microstructures
Yu Xing, Yang Liu, Lipeng Chen, Huiping Tang, Lin Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17087

PCG-Informed Neural Solvers for High-Resolution Homogenization of Periodic Microstructures
The mechanical properties of periodic microstructures are pivotal in various engineering applications. Homogenization theory is a powerful tool for predicting these properties by averaging the behavior of complex microstructures over a representative volume element. However, traditional numerical solvers for homogenization problems can be computationally expensive, especially for high-resolution and complicated topology and geometry. Existing learning-based methods, while promising, often strug…

A Study on Effective Initial Guess Finding Method Based on B\'ezier Curves: Orbit Determination Applications
Daegyun Choi, Sungwook Yang, Henzeh Leeghim, Donghoon Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13921

A Study on Effective Initial Guess Finding Method Based on Bézier Curves: Orbit Determination Applications
In celestial mechanics, proper orbits related to missions are obtained by solving two-point boundary value problems. Since a selection method of initial value affects the convergence of the solution, developing an effective method to find an initial guess is required. In this work, Bézier curves, which can describe complicated curves and surfaces, are utilized to find the initial guess. First, the given problems are transformed into Bézier curves forms, and Bézier curves' control points, whi…

An Ecosystem for Ontology Interoperability
Zhangcheng Qiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12311 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12311

An Ecosystem for Ontology Interoperability
Ontology interoperability is one of the complicated issues that restricts the use of ontologies in knowledge graphs (KGs). Different ontologies with conflicting and overlapping concepts make it difficult to design, develop, and deploy an interoperable ontology for downstream tasks. We propose an ecosystem for ontology interoperability. The ecosystem employs three state-of-the-art semantic techniques in different phases of the ontology engineering life cycle: ontology design patterns (ODPs) in t…

An isometry theorem induced by the Radon transform between the convolution and interleaving distances
Michiaki Takiwaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12046 ht…

An isometry theorem induced by the Radon transform between the convolution and interleaving distances
One-parameter persistence modules are applied to various subjects as tools in data analysis. On the other hand, since the theoretical study of multi-parameter persistence modules is not enough and in progress, they have few applications. The sheaf theory is expected to elucidate detailed properties of persistence modules and give features of multi-parameter ones for applications. However, the categories of sheaves on two or more dimensional Euclidean spaces have more complicated structures than…

Leveraging the Spatial Hierarchy: Coarse-to-fine Trajectory Generation via Cascaded Hybrid Diffusion
Baoshen Guo, Zhiqing Hong, Junyi Li, Shenhao Wang, Jinhua Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13366

Leveraging the Spatial Hierarchy: Coarse-to-fine Trajectory Generation via Cascaded Hybrid Diffusion
Urban mobility data has significant connections with economic growth and plays an essential role in various smart-city applications. However, due to privacy concerns and substantial data collection costs, fine-grained human mobility trajectories are difficult to become publicly available on a large scale. A promising solution to address this issue is trajectory synthesizing. However, existing works often ignore the inherent structural complexity of trajectories, unable to handle complicated hig…

Decay and lifetime of oscillons coupled to an external scalar field: Insights from instability band analysis
Siyao Li, Masahide Yamaguchi, Ying-li Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13276

Decay and lifetime of oscillons coupled to an external scalar field: Insights from instability band analysis
Oscillons are long-lived, spherically symmetric solitons that can arise in real scalar field theories with potentials shallower than quadratic ones. They are considered to form via parametric resonance during the preheating stage after inflation and have extended lifetimes. However, the estimation of their lifespan becomes complicated when taking into account the interactions between the inflaton field and other fields, as naturally expected in realistic reheating scenarios. In this study, we i…

Terminated NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states (Anil Oza/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/nih-cuts-grant-restoration-complicated-by-limits-to-court-order-trump-dei-restrictions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p99#a250703p99

Overly academic/distanced ethical discussions
Had a weird interaction with @/brainwane@social.coop just now. I misinterpreted one of their posts quoting someone else and I think the combination of that plus an interaction pattern where I'd assume their stance on something and respond critically to that ended up with me getting blocked. I don't have hard feelings exactly, and this post is only partly about this particular person, but I noticed something interesting by the end of the conversation that had been bothering me. They repeatedly criticized me for assuming what their position was, but never actually stated their position. They didn't say: "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, it's actually Y." They just said "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, please don't assume my position!" I get that it's annoying to have people respond to a straw man version of your argument, but when I in response asked some direct questions about what their position was, they gave some non-answers and then blocked me. It's entirely possible it's a coincidence, and they just happened to run out of patience on that iteration, but it makes me take their critique of my interactions a bit less seriously. I suspect that they just didn't want to hear what I was saying, while at the same time they wanted to feel as if they were someone who values public critique and open discussion of tricky issues (if anyone reading this post also followed our interaction and has a different opinion of my behavior, I'd be glad to hear it; it's possible In effectively being an asshole here and it would be useful to hear that if so).
In any case, the fact that at the end of the entire discussion, I'm realizing I still don't actually know their position on whether they think the AI use case in question is worthwhile feels odd. They praised the system on several occasions, albeit noting some drawbacks while doing so. They said that the system was possibly changing their anti-AI stance, but then got mad at me for assuming this meant that they thought this use-case was justified. Maybe they just haven't made up their mind yet but didn't want to say that?
Interestingly, in one of their own blog posts that got linked in the discussion, they discuss a different AI system, and despite listing a bunch of concrete harms, conclude that it's okay to use it. That's fine; I don't think *every* use of AI is wrong on balance, but what bothered me was that their post dismissed a number of real ethical issues by saying essentially "I haven't seen calls for a boycott over this issue, so it's not a reason to stop use." That's an extremely socially conformist version of ethics that doesn't sit well with me. The discussion also ended up linking this post: https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/ which bothered me in a related way. In it, Troy describes classroom teaching techniques for introducing and helping students explore the ethics of AI, and they seem mostly great. They avoid prescribing any particular correct stance, which is important when teaching given the power relationship, and they help students understand the limitations of their perspectives regarding global impacts, which is great. But the overall conclusion of the post is that "nobody is qualified to really judge global impacts, so we should focus on ways to improve outcomes instead of trying to judge them." This bothers me because we actually do have a responsibility to make decisive ethical judgments despite limitations of our perspectives. If we never commit to any ethical judgment against a technology because we think our perspective is too limited to know the true impacts (which I'll concede it invariably is) then we'll have to accept every technology without objection, limiting ourselves to trying to improve their impacts without opposing them. Given who currently controls most of the resources that go into exploration for new technologies, this stance is too permissive. Perhaps if our objection to a technology was absolute and instantly effective, I'd buy the argument that objecting without a deep global view of the long-term risks is dangerous. As things stand, I think that objecting to the development/use of certain technologies in certain contexts is necessary, and although there's a lot of uncertainly, I expect strongly enough that the overall outcomes of objection will be positive that I think it's a good thing to do.
The deeper point here I guess is that this kind of "things are too complicated, let's have a nuanced discussion where we don't come to any conclusions because we see a lot of unknowns along with definite harms" really bothers me.

Quantum thermodynamics in a rotating BTZ black hole spacetime
Wenjing Chen, Yixuan Ma, Si-Wei Han, Zihao Wang, Jun Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16787 ht…

Quantum thermodynamics in a rotating BTZ black hole spacetime
We address the problem of the thermalization process for an Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector outside a BTZ black hole, from a perspective of quantum thermodynamics. In the context of an open quantum system, we derive the complete dynamics of the detector, which encodes a complicated response to scalar background fields. Using various information theory tools, such as quantum relative entropy, quantum heat, coherence, quantum Fisher information, and quantum speed of evolution, we examined three quant…

Faceting transition in aluminum as a grain boundary phase transition
Yoonji Choi, Tobias Brink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13550 https://

Faceting transition in aluminum as a grain boundary phase transition
Grain boundaries facet due to anisotropic grain boundary energies: While the faceted boundary has a larger area than the corresponding straight boundary, a significantly lower energy of the facets compared to a straight segment can drive the faceting. This picture is complicated by faceting/defaceting transitions where the free energy difference between the two states depends on the temperature. Here, we use atomistic computer simulations to show how such a transition in a $Σ3$ $[11\overline{1…

"This is how Lotus was born: as a company featuring unprecedented benefits for their employees, fostering a culture of radical diversity and inclusion, cleverly mixing dashes of 1960s counterculture with the latest 1980s technology.
Two major names stand out in the creation of this culture: first, Janet Axelrod, who passed away in 2021, and who brought her experience at Digital Equipment Corporation in the areas of diversity and inclusion. Second, Freada Kapor Klein."

PinchBot: Long-Horizon Deformable Manipulation with Guided Diffusion Policy
Alison Bartsch, Arvind Car, Amir Barati Farimani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17846 https://

PinchBot: Long-Horizon Deformable Manipulation with Guided Diffusion Policy
Pottery creation is a complicated art form that requires dexterous, precise and delicate actions to slowly morph a block of clay to a meaningful, and often useful 3D goal shape. In this work, we aim to create a robotic system that can create simple pottery goals with only pinch-based actions. This pinch pottery task allows us to explore the challenges of a highly multi-modal and long-horizon deformable manipulation task. To this end, we present PinchBot, a goal-conditioned diffusion policy mode…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05616 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Validating Quantum State Preparation Programs
One of the key steps in quantum algorithms is to prepare an initial quantum superposition state with different kinds of features. These so-called state preparation algorithms are essential to the behavior of quantum algorithms, and complicated state preparation algorithms are difficult to develop correctly and effectively. This paper presents Pqasm: a high-assurance framework implemented with the Coq proof assistant, allowing us to certify our Pqasm tool to correctly reflect quantum program beh…

Asymptotically sharp stability of Sobolev inequalities on the Heisenberg group with dimension-dependent constants
Lu Chen, Guozhen Lu, Hanli Tang, Bohan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12725

Asymptotically sharp stability of Sobolev inequalities on the Heisenberg group with dimension-dependent constants
In this paper, we are concerned with the optimal asymptotic lower bound for the stability of Sobolev inequality on the Heisenberg group. We first establish the optimal local stability of Sobolev inequality on the CR sphere through bispherical harmonics and complicated orthogonality technique ( see Lemma 3.1). The loss of rearrangement inequality in the CR setting makes it impossible to use any rearrangement flow technique (either differential rearrangement flow or integral rearrangement flow) t…

Interpretable Mnemonic Generation for Kanji Learning via Expectation-Maximization
Jaewook Lee, Alexander Scarlatos, Andrew Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05137

Interpretable Mnemonic Generation for Kanji Learning via Expectation-Maximization
Learning Japanese vocabulary is a challenge for learners from Roman alphabet backgrounds due to script differences. Japanese combines syllabaries like hiragana with kanji, which are logographic characters of Chinese origin. Kanji are also complicated due to their complexity and volume. Keyword mnemonics are a common strategy to aid memorization, often using the compositional structure of kanji to form vivid associations. Despite recent efforts to use large language models (LLMs) to assist learn…

iThermTroj: Exploiting Intermittent Thermal Trojans in Multi-Processor System-on-Chips
Mehdi Elahi, Mohamed R. Elshamy, Abdel-Hameed Badawy, Ahmad Patooghy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05576

iThermTroj: Exploiting Intermittent Thermal Trojans in Multi-Processor System-on-Chips
Thermal Trojan attacks present a pressing concern for the security and reliability of System-on-Chips (SoCs), especially in mobile applications. The situation becomes more complicated when such attacks are more evasive and operate sporadically to stay hidden from detection mechanisms. In this paper, we introduce Intermittent Thermal Trojans (iThermTroj) that exploit the chips' thermal information in a random time-triggered manner. According to our experiments, iThermTroj attack can easily bypas…

Shape Adaptation for 3D Hairstyle Retargeting
Lu Yu, Zhong Ren, Youyi Zheng, Xiang Chen, Kun Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12168 https://

Shape Adaptation for 3D Hairstyle Retargeting
It is demanding to author an existing hairstyle for novel characters in games and VR applications. However, it is a non-trivial task for artists due to the complicated hair geometries and spatial interactions to preserve. In this paper, we present an automatic shape adaptation method to retarget 3D hairstyles. We formulate the adaptation process as a constrained optimization problem, where all the shape properties and spatial relationships are converted into individual objectives and constraint…

Strategic Control of Drug-Resistant HIV: Multi-Strain Modeling with Diagnosis, Adherence, and Treatment Switching
Ashish Poonia, Siddhartha P. Chakrabarty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10625

Strategic Control of Drug-Resistant HIV: Multi-Strain Modeling with Diagnosis, Adherence, and Treatment Switching
A central challenge in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) public health policy lies in determining whether to universally expand treatment access, despite the risk of sub-optimal adherence and consequent drug resistance, or to adopt a more strategic allocation of resources that balances treatment coverage with adherence support. This dilemma is further complicated by the need for timely switching to second-line therapy, which is critical for managing treatment failure but imposes additional bur…

Google Search Advertising after Dobbs v. Jackson
Yelena Mejova, Ronald E. Robertson, Catherine A. Gimbrone, Sarah McKetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06640 …

Google Search Advertising after Dobbs v. Jackson
Search engines have become the gateway to information, products, and services, including those concerning healthcare. Access to reproductive health has been especially complicated in the wake of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, splintering abortion regulations among the states. In this study, we performed an audit of the advertisements shown to Google Search users seeking information about abortion across the United States during the year following t…

Trump learned about the timing of Musk’s departure in the same manner that the president himself has often used to share significant personnel news:
via a social-media post
"The president knew that Musk would be leaving soon, but not the exact timing until the post was sent"

'I don't like being surprised': Trump reportedly blindsided by Elon Musk comment
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have a "complicated" relationship characterized by at least one recent instance of lack of communication, according to a new report.The conservative Wall Street Journal late Friday evening published a report entitled "Inside Trump and Musk’s Complicated Relationship" in wh...

Modeling HMI observables for the study of solar oscillations
D. Fournier, N. M. Kostogryz, L. Gizon, J. Schou, V. Witzke, A. I. Shapiro, I. Milic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13756 …

Modeling HMI observables for the study of solar oscillations
Context: Helioseismology aims to infer the properties of the solar interior by analyzing observations of acoustic oscillations. The interpretation of the helioseismic data is however complicated by the non-trivial relationship between helioseismic observables and the physical perturbations associated with acoustic modes, as well as by various instrumental effects. Aims: We aim to improve our understanding of the signature of acoustic modes measured in the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) …

Recently I had a flashback to me telling a friend that I was about to start learning a new concept in programming. Classes. I remember feeling nervous because I felt it was this huge complicated topic, and I already felt my brain was 'full' so-to-speak with programming knowledge. Well that was years ago and now I can't imagine not using classes. It's amazing to look back and see progress! #coding

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…

Pet peeve: In the process of making your library "simple" to setup or demo, you also make it difficult/impossible to use cleanly in a DI-based system.
Pet peeve: In the process of making your library DI-friendly, you make it so complicated that it's practically unusable outside of a pre-configured framework.
Come on, #PHP. We can do better than this. We *can* have this cake an…

Analysis of Anonymous User Interaction Relationships and Prediction of Advertising Feedback Based on Graph Neural Network
Yanjun Dai, Haoyang Feng, Yuan Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13787

Analysis of Anonymous User Interaction Relationships and Prediction of Advertising Feedback Based on Graph Neural Network
While online advertising is highly dependent on implicit interaction networks of anonymous users for engagement inference, and for the selection and optimization of delivery strategies, existing graph models seldom can capture the multi-scale temporal, semantic and higher-order dependency features of these interaction networks, thus it's hard to describe the complicated patterns of the anonymous behavior. In this paper, we propose Decoupled Temporal-Hierarchical Graph Neural Network (DTH-GNN), …

Uncertainty quantification of synchrosqueezing transform under complicated nonstationary noise
Hau-Tieng Wu, Zhou Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00779 htt…

Uncertainty quantification of synchrosqueezing transform under complicated nonstationary noise
We propose a bootstrapping algorithm to quantify the uncertainty of the time-frequency representation (TFR) generated by the short-time Fourier transform (STFT)-based synchrosqueezing transform (SST) when the input signal is oscillatory with time-varying amplitude and frequency and contaminated by complex nonstationary noise. To this end, we leverage a recently developed high-dimensional Gaussian approximation technique to establish a sequential Gaussian approximation for nonstationary random p…

Trump has ordered more troops to Los Angeles and Washington than he currently has stationed in Syria and Iraq combined.
He seems more willing to use the military against Americans than against Iranians.
He celebrates a show of force on U.S. soil even as he denounces “endless wars” outside its borders.

Trump Relishes Troops in American Streets While Shunning Conflict Overseas
The seemingly disparate postures of recent days speak to the president’s complicated relationship with the military.

Why I Think Murder Is Plunging -- It's complicated, but this is what I find compelling. (Jeff Asher/Jeff-alytics)
https://jasher.substack.com/p/why-i-think-murder-is-plunging
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p154#a250609p154

Fast Gaussian Processes under Monotonicity Constraints
Chao Zhang, Jasper M. Everink, Jakob Sauer J{\o}rgensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06677 https://

Fast Gaussian Processes under Monotonicity Constraints
Gaussian processes (GPs) are widely used as surrogate models for complicated functions in scientific and engineering applications. In many cases, prior knowledge about the function to be approximated, such as monotonicity, is available and can be leveraged to improve model fidelity. Incorporating such constraints into GP models enhances predictive accuracy and reduces uncertainty, but remains a computationally challenging task for high-dimensional problems. In this work, we present a novel virt…

Robust Contextual State Estimation with Limited Measurement Data
J. G. De la Varga, J. M. Morales, S. Pineda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08767 https://

Robust Contextual State Estimation with Limited Measurement Data
The increasing integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) is transforming power systems into complex, decentralized networks, particularly at the distribution level, where active distribution networks (ADNs) introduce new challenges for monitoring and control. Accurate state estimation in these systems is complicated by limited and heterogeneous measurement infrastructures, where real-time data from supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and micro-phasor measurement units ($μ…

Fine-structure Line Atlas for Multi-wavelength Extragalactic Study (FLAMES) I: Comprehensive Low and High Redshift Catalogs and Empirical Relations for Probing Gas Conditions
Bo Peng, Cody Lamarche, Catie Ball, Amit Vishwas, Gordon Stacey, Christopher Rooney, Thomas Nikola, Carl Ferkinhoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10702…

Fine-structure Line Atlas for Multi-wavelength Extragalactic Study (FLAMES) I: Comprehensive Low and High Redshift Catalogs and Empirical Relations for Probing Gas Conditions
Far-infrared (FIR) and mid-infrared (MIR) fine-structure lines (FSLs) are widely used for studying galaxies nearby and faraway. However, interpreting these lines is complicated by factors including sample and data bias, mismatch between resolved calibrations and unresolved observations, limitations in generalizing from case studies, and unresolved issues like the origin of [C II] emission and the so-called ``deficit.''In this series of papers, we assemble and analyze the most comprehensive atla…

Asymptotics of spin-spin correlators weighted by fermion number measurements with low rapidity threshold in the 2D Ising free-fermion QFT
Yizhuang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13093

Asymptotics of spin-spin correlators weighted by fermion number measurements with low rapidity threshold in the 2D Ising free-fermion QFT
In the work, we study the averaged number of massive fermions above a low rapidity threshold $Y$, underlying the form-factor expansions of the spin-spin two-point correlators at an Euclidean distance $r$, in the 2D Ising QFT at the free massive fermion point. Despite the on-shell freeness, the spin operators are still far away from being Gaussian, and create particles in the asymptotic states with complicated correlations. We show how the number observables can still be incorporated into the in…

Probability-Raising Causality for Uncertain Parametric Markov Decision Processes with PAC Guarantees
Ryohei Oura, yuji Ito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07319

Probability-Raising Causality for Uncertain Parametric Markov Decision Processes with PAC Guarantees
Recent decision-making systems are increasingly complicated, making it crucial to verify and understand their behavior for a given specification. A promising approach is to comprehensively explain undesired behavior in the systems modeled by Markov decision processes (MDPs) through formal verification and causal reasoning. However, the reliable explanation using model-based probabilistic causal analysis has not been explored when the MDP's transition probabilities are uncertain. This paper prop…

Data-Driven High-Dimensional Statistical Inference with Generative Models
Oz Amram, Manuel Szewc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06438 https://

Data-Driven High-Dimensional Statistical Inference with Generative Models
Crucial to many measurements at the LHC is the use of correlated multi-dimensional information to distinguish rare processes from large backgrounds, which is complicated by the poor modeling of many of the crucial backgrounds in Monte Carlo simulations. In this work, we introduce HI-SIGMA, a method to perform unbinned high-dimensional statistical inference with data-driven background distributions. In contradistinction to many applications of Simulation Based Inference in High Energy Physics, H…

Brian Wilson, who died Wednesday at 82, was one of music’s true visionaries,
if that’s the right word for a guy who dealt in the endless possibility of sound.
As a composer of melodies, a constructor of textures, an arranger of vocal harmonies
— as someone who knew how to pull complicated elements together into songs that somehow felt inevitable
— he was up there with Phil Spector, George Martin and the Motown team of Holland-Dozier-Holland.

Brian Wilson's music epitomized the lore of Southern California
Wilson, who died Wednesday at 82, was one of music’s true visionaries, if that’s the right word for a guy who dealt in the endless possibility of sound.

Democrats Denied This City Had a Gang Problem. The Truth Is Complicated. (Ted Conover/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/magazine/aurora-colorado-venezuela-gangs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p60#a250703p60

New Steelers TE Jonnu Smith on trade from Dolphins: 'Got to go where I am appreciated' https://www.nfl.com/news/new-steelers-te-jonnu-smith-on-trade-from-dolphins-got-to-go-where-i-am-appreciated

Hierarchical Debate-Based Large Language Model (LLM) for Complex Task Planning of 6G Network Management
Yuyan Lin (Charlie), Hao Zhou (Charlie), Chengming Hu (Charlie), Xue Liu (Charlie), Hao Chen (Charlie), Yan Xin (Charlie), Jianzhong (Charlie), Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06519…

Hierarchical Debate-Based Large Language Model (LLM) for Complex Task Planning of 6G Network Management
6G networks have become increasingly complicated due to novel network architecture and newly emerging signal processing and transmission techniques, leading to significant burdens to 6G network management. Large language models (LLMs) have recently been considered a promising technique to equip 6G networks with AI-native intelligence. Different from most existing studies that only consider a single LLM, this work involves a multi-LLM debate-based scheme for 6G network management, where multiple…

AURA-CVC: Autonomous Ultrasound-guided Robotic Assistance for Central Venous Catheterization
Deepak Raina, Lidia Al-Zogbi, Brian Teixeira, Vivek Singh, Ankur Kapoor, Thorsten Fleiter, Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell, Vinciya Pandian, Axel Krieger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05979

AURA-CVC: Autonomous Ultrasound-guided Robotic Assistance for Central Venous Catheterization
Purpose: Central venous catheterization (CVC) is a critical medical procedure for vascular access, hemodynamic monitoring, and life-saving interventions. Its success remains challenging due to the need for continuous ultrasound-guided visualization of a target vessel and approaching needle, which is further complicated by anatomical variability and operator dependency. Errors in needle placement can lead to life-threatening complications. While robotic systems offer a potential solution, achiev…

Khovanov-Rozansky cycle calculus for bipartite links
A. Anokhina, E. Lanina, A. Morozov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08721 https://arxi…

Khovanov-Rozansky cycle calculus for bipartite links
Bipartite calculus is a direct generalization of Kauffman planar expansion from $N=2$ to arbitrary $N$, applicable to the restricted class of knots which are entirely made of antiparallel lock tangles. Whenever applicable, it allows a straightforward generalization of the Khovanov calculus without a need of the technically complicated matrix factorization used for arbitrary $N$ in the Khovanov-Rozansky (KR) approach. The main object here is the $3^{n}$-dimensional hypercube with $n$ being the n…