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A post from the archive 📫:
Curiosity unbounded
#musings

Linux users may be interested in perusing #DNS

Release systemd v258 · systemd/systemd
CHANGES WITH 258: Incompatible changes: * Support for cgroup v1 ('legacy' and 'hybrid' hierarchies) has been removed. cgroup v2 ('unified' hierarchy) will always be mounted during s...

Out of sheer curiosity, my wife just set up her first #Linux on a computer via the #Debian 13 #Trixie netinstall:

I took a look at the Curiosity Channel (which is on my Roku at home).
Wow, it has a lot of content created by musk-fan-boyz, such as paean pieces about the glory of hyperloop.

CDE: Curiosity-Driven Exploration for Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Large Language Models
Runpeng Dai, Linfeng Song, Haolin Liu, Zhenwen Liang, Dian Yu, Haitao Mi, Zhaopeng Tu, Rui Liu, Tong Zheng, Hongtu Zhu, Dong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09675

CDE: Curiosity-Driven Exploration for Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Large Language Models
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is a powerful paradigm for enhancing the reasoning ability of Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet current RLVR methods often explore poorly, leading to premature convergence and entropy collapse. To address this challenge, we introduce Curiosity-Driven Exploration (CDE), a framework that leverages the model's own intrinsic sense of curiosity to guide exploration. We formalize curiosity with signals from both the actor and the critic: for the a…

Are you in #Prague ? You must visit my talk entitled:
Disobey: #FOSS tools to fight back!
https://pretalx.linuxdays.cz/linux…

FOSS tools to fight back! LinuxDays 2025
Everyone is trying to control your communication. The reasons vary from simple curiosity to pure commercial interest, all the way to using it to control one's thoughts. Are there any ways to fight back, and why are free software and open-source tools a good alternative to the ones you use? As cypherpunks, do we have the obligation to help people be ready for the worst, or should we only take care of ourselves? In this talk, I will cover my experience with fighting back against #chatcontrol …

When Curiosity Signals Danger: Predicting Health Crises Through Online Medication Inquiries
Dvora Goncharok, Arbel Shifman, Alexander Apartsin, Yehudit Aperstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11802

When Curiosity Signals Danger: Predicting Health Crises Through Online Medication Inquiries
Online medical forums are a rich and underutilized source of insight into patient concerns, especially regarding medication use. Some of the many questions users pose may signal confusion, misuse, or even the early warning signs of a developing health crisis. Detecting these critical questions that may precede severe adverse events or life-threatening complications is vital for timely intervention and improving patient safety. This study introduces a novel annotated dataset of medication-relate…

We are not always discovering high mountains - sometimes we also go below earth. 😄
Here we went ~55m below the surface to see what the world below our feet looks like. And yes, the stairs were as steep as they appear on the #photo! The whole walk took us about an hour.
more about it:

Supermindstretchers
Join Ben Crisp, Tom Crisp, and Brendan Williams as they revisit The Curiosity Show...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/supermindstretchers/

Day 22: Yuki Urushibara
I've got a few more mangaka left on my short list, and might very well get to at least one more, but Urushibara is the author of Mushishi and anyone who knows either the manga or anime understands immediately why she appears here.
Mushishi is a "seinen" anime, which means it's written for adults, not children or teenagers (although it's very accessible for all ages). It deals with a vast array of life's circumstances through the lens of a traveling mushi expert and the various whimsical supernatural creatures he is called on to deal with. He's not an exorcist though, instead understanding that humans must live in harmony with the mushi, and working like an ecologist to sort things out. As is probably obvious, Urushibara is an incredible world-builder; she's also a top-notch artist and above all, her stories are overflowing with kindness, humanity, and respect for the natural world.
Besides Mushishi, I've read "Suiiki", and it's one of the few manga I stumbled through in the original Japanese, which says a lot given my limited reading vocabulary (and the fact that it doesn't include rubi). It weaves the supernatural into a story of childhood innocence and curiosity in a lovely way.
Much like Shirahama who I mentioned earlier, Urushibara's stories are full of gentle wisdom for all ages, but Urushibara's work is quieter and less dramatic, with an adult main character confident in his expertise instead of a young-and-learning protagonist.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Bill Clinton Praised Jeffrey Epstein's 'Childlike Curiosity' in Birthday Letter: WSJ (David Gilmour/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/bill-clinton-praised-jeffrey-epsteins-childlike-curiosity-in-birthday-letter-wsj/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p25#a250725p25

Is it possible to RELISH the questions rather than FEAR the questions? Dr Jan Eppingstall gets the chance to talk about her favourite theme of #curiosity while we looked at dealing with #uncertainty in episode 195

Curiosity-Driven Co-Development of Action and Language in Robots Through Self-Exploration
Theodore Jerome Tinker, Kenji Doya, Jun Tani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05013 https://

Curiosity-Driven Co-Development of Action and Language in Robots Through Self-Exploration
Human infants acquire language and action co-developmentally, achieving remarkable generalization capabilities from only a minimal number of learning examples. In contrast, recent large language models require exposure to billions of training tokens to achieve such generalization. What mechanisms underlie such efficient developmental learning in humans? This study addresses this question through simulation experiments in which robots learn to perform various actions corresponding to imperative …

A post from the archive 📫:
Curiosity unbounded
#musings

KnowledgeTrail: Generative Timeline for Exploration and Sensemaking of Historical Events and Knowledge Formation
Sangho Suh, Rahul Hingorani, Bryan Wang, Tovi Grossman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12113 …

KnowledgeTrail: Generative Timeline for Exploration and Sensemaking of Historical Events and Knowledge Formation
The landscape of interactive systems is shifting toward dynamic, generative experiences that empower users to explore and construct knowledge in real time. Yet, timelines -- a fundamental tool for representing historical and conceptual development -- remain largely static, limiting user agency and curiosity. We introduce the concept of a generative timeline: an AI-powered timeline that adapts to users' evolving questions by expanding or contracting in response to input. We instantiate this conc…

Just out of curiosity, I also compared {geosareal} prototype package ( https://github.com/e-kotov/r-geos-areal-weighted-interpolation-prototype ) suggested by @…

GitHub - e-kotov/r-geos-areal-weighted-interpolation-prototype
Contribute to e-kotov/r-geos-areal-weighted-interpolation-prototype development by creating an account on GitHub.

Curiosity-Driven Testing for Sequential Decision-Making Process
Junda He, Zhou Yang, Jieke Shi, Chengran Yang, Kisub Kim, Bowen Xu, Xin Zhou, David Lo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02025

Curiosity-Driven Testing for Sequential Decision-Making Process
Sequential decision-making processes (SDPs) are fundamental for complex real-world challenges, such as autonomous driving, robotic control, and traffic management. While recent advances in Deep Learning (DL) have led to mature solutions for solving these complex problems, SDMs remain vulnerable to learning unsafe behaviors, posing significant risks in safety-critical applications. However, developing a testing framework for SDMs that can identify a diverse set of crash-triggering scenarios rema…

Mögen Anne Ameri-Siemens und Many Ameri an ihrem Geld doch ersticken.
Und ihre "We explore the things that make us human: curiosity, creativity, empathy, exchange"-Agentur gleich mit.
https://www.morgenpost.de/bezirke/pan…

DNS in the Time of Curiosity: A Tale of Collaborative User Privacy Protection
Philip Sj\"osv\"ard, Hongyu Jin, Panos Papadimitratos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24153 ht…

DNS in the Time of Curiosity: A Tale of Collaborative User Privacy Protection
The Domain Name System (DNS) is central to all Internet user activity, resolving accessed domain names into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. As a result, curious DNS resolvers can learn everything about Internet users' interests. Public DNS resolvers are rising in popularity, offering low-latency resolution, high reliability, privacy-preserving policies, and support for encrypted DNS queries. However, client-resolver traffic encryption, increasingly deployed to protect users from eavesdroppers…

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
EGRORIAN: You came here out of curiosity and because you scented there might be something in it for you, mm, am I right?
AVON: Close enough.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/128 B7B5

Whoa. My @… talk was accepted. Come and join the only talk that will not be recorded.
https://pretalx.linuxdays.cz/linuxdays-2025/talk/KGHCKC/

FOSS tools to fight back! LinuxDays 2025
Everyone is trying to control your communication. The reasons vary from simple curiosity to pure commercial interest, all the way to using it to control one's thoughts. Are there any ways to fight back, and why are free software and open-source tools a good alternative to the ones you use? As cypherpunks, do we have the obligation to help people be ready for the worst, or should we only take care of ourselves? In this talk, I will cover my experience with fighting back against #chatcontrol …

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[5/10]:
- In-Context Curiosity: Distilling Exploration for Decision-Pretrained Transformers on Bandit Tasks
Huitao Yang, Guanting Chen

That N150 is a nice addition. For under a 100 bucks, with 16gb of RAM, it is a nifty little thing, that outperforms my 2018 nuc.
Since I got asked: no, I'm not a distrohopper, I've been on Slackware, with two separate installs, now for around 2 years, and I ain't going anywhere. It's home.
Just happen to have 4 other disks lying around that need to be filled with stuff.
Throw in a bucket of curiosity, boredom, ssh and ADD and you know how I got here 🤣

Amari Cooper shockingly retires from NFL: Who are the WRs on the Raiders’ depth chart in 2025? https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/amari-cooper-shockingly-retires-from-nfl-who-are-the-wrs-on-the-raiders-depth-chart-in-2025

2025 Aussie Bird Count 20-26 October
You don’t need to be a bird nerd to take part in the Aussie Bird Count. All you need is 20 minutes, a spot to birdwatch (backyard, park bench, schoolyard or balcony) and a bit of curiosity.
#Birds #Australia

@…
Out of curiosity, what don't you like about the Rust embedded library ecosystem?
Personally I feel it takes the "impossible to represent an invalid state" idea a little too far to the point of adding complexity while still not fully achieving the goal.
But even more, I dislike the regular compatibility breakages and no good way to express want…

On The Road - To Xi’An/Objects 🔶
在路上 - 去西安/物 🔶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Kodak Double-X 5222
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Just finished "Hilda and the Bird Parade" by Luke Pearson, and as usual with Pearson's "Hilda" books, it's tremendous! A lovely magical world, childhood curiosity paired with responsibility, and that touch of each parental love.
#AmReading

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[5/10]:
- In-Context Curiosity: Distilling Exploration for Decision-Pretrained Transformers on Bandit Tasks
Huitao Yang, Guanting Chen

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[2/11]:
- HAMMER: Hamiltonian Curiosity Augmented Large Language Model Reinforcement
Ming Yang, Xiaofan Li, Zhiyuan Ma, Dengliang Shi, Jintao Du, Yu Cheng, Weiguo Zheng

SCENIC: A Location-based System to Foster Cognitive Development in Children During Car Rides
Liuqing Chen, Yaxuan Song, Ke Lyu, Shuhong Xiao, Yilang Shen, Lingyun Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17058

SCENIC: A Location-based System to Foster Cognitive Development in Children During Car Rides
Car-riding is common for children in modern life. Given the repetitive nature of daily commutes, they often feel bored and turn to electronic devices for entertainment. Meanwhile, the rich and dynamic scenery outside the car naturally attracts children's curiosity and offers valuable resources for cognitive development. Our formative study reveals that parents' support during car rides is often fleeting, as accompanying adults may struggle to consistently guide children's exploration. To addres…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[1/1]:
- Balancing Exploration and Cybersickness: Investigating Curiosity-Driven Behavior in Virtual Envir...
Tangyao Li, Yuyang Wang