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AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/10/2025/co…

Construction tech startup AIM raises $50M to fuel expansion
The firm that retrofits heavy equipment into autonomous machines, backed by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, can help fill the construction industry’s huge labor gap and growing infrastructure demand.

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

Distributionally-Constrained Adversaries in Online Learning
Mo\"ise Blanchard, Samory Kpotufe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10293 https://

Distributionally-Constrained Adversaries in Online Learning
There has been much recent interest in understanding the continuum from adversarial to stochastic settings in online learning, with various frameworks including smoothed settings proposed to bridge this gap. We consider the more general and flexible framework of distributionally constrained adversaries in which instances are drawn from distributions chosen by an adversary within some constrained distribution class [RST11]. Compared to smoothed analysis, we consider general distributional classe…

On connected subsets of a convergence space
Bryan Castro Herrej\'on, Fr\'ed\'eric Mynard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10939 https://

On connected subsets of a convergence space
Though a convergence space is connected if and only if its topological modification is connected, connected subsets differ for the convergence and for its topological modification. We explore for what subsets connectedness for the convergence or for the topological modification turn out to be equivalent. In particular, we show that the largest set containing a given connected set for which all subsets in between are connected is the adherence of the connected set for the reciprocal modification…

Today’s #Connections is rife with misdirections. And I still don’t see eye-to-eye with yellow.
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A criterion for holomorphic Lie algebroid connections
David Alfaya, Indranil Biswas, Pradip Kumar, Anoop Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10514 https://

A criterion for holomorphic Lie algebroid connections
Given a holomorphic Lie algebroid $(V, ϕ)$ on a compact connected Riemann surface $X$, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for a holomorphic vector bundle $E$ on $X$ to admit a holomorphic Lie algebroid connection. If $(V, ϕ)$ is nonsplit, then every holomorphic vector bundle on $X$ admits a holomorphic Lie algebroid connection for $(V, ϕ)$. If $(V, ϕ)$ is split, then a holomorphic vector bundle $E$ on $X$ admits a holomorphic Lie algebroid connection if and only if the degree of e…

Constructing Quantum Many-Body Scars from Hilbert Space Fragmentation
Fan Yang, Matteo Magoni, Hannes Pichler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10806 https://

Constructing Quantum Many-Body Scars from Hilbert Space Fragmentation
Quantum many-body scars (QMBS) are exotic many-body states that exhibit anomalous non-thermal behavior in an otherwise ergodic system. In this work, we demonstrate a simple, scalable and intuitive construction of QMBS in a kinetically constrained quantum model exhibiting weak Hilbert space fragmentation. We show that towers of exact QMBS can be constructed by injecting a quasiparticle excitation that partially activates the frozen regions in the lattice. Meanwhile, the inelastic collision betwe…

fascinating episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson's #StarTalk on the gut-brain connection: #podcast #health

GOP Senate Version of the Big Beautiful Bill Includes an Ugly Attack on Courts' Ability to Protect Constitutional Rights (Ilya Somin/Reason)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/14/gop-senate-version-of-the-big-beautiful-bill-includes-an-ugly-attack-on-courts-ability-to-protect-constitutional-rights/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p77#a250614p77

Well, about that. Sounds like obeying in advance...
As Trump Comes for Your Social Media, It’s Time You Consider What’s Worth Sharing
https://gizmodo.com/as-trump-comes-for-your-social-media-its-time-you-consider-whats-worth-sharing-2000610736