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wow the only person who brought up Sunset Dunes/the former Great Highway at Lurie's D4 listening tour was someone who supports the park.
https://missionlocal.org/2025/09/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-listening-sunset/

Lurie, in Sunset ‘listening mode,’ says he’ll tap a supe for the long haul
Daniel Lurie asks merchants, recall leaders and community groups who they want to represent them, and talks about upzoning

Enabling decision support over confidential data
Edoardo Marangone, Eugenio Nerio Nemmi, Daniele Friolo, Giuseppe Ateniese, Ingo Weber, Claudio Di Ciccio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02413

Enabling decision support over confidential data
Enabling automated decision-making processes by leveraging data-driven analysis is a core goal of Decision Support Systems (DSSs). In multi-party scenarios where decisions rely on distributed and sensitive data, though, ensuring confidentiality, verifiability, transparency, integrity, and consistency at once remains an open challenge for DSSs. To tackle this multi-faceted problem, we propose the Secure Platform for Automated decision Rules via Trusted Applications (SPARTA) approach. By leveragi…

Cross-Polarization Reduction in Kinetic Inductance Detectors Based on Quasi-Lumped Resonators
Victor Rollano, Martino Calvo, Alejandro Pascual Laguna, David Rodriguez, Maria Teresa Magaz, Beatriz Aja, Luisa de la Fuente, Daniel Granados, Alessandro Monfardini, Alicia Gomez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01882

Cross-Polarization Reduction in Kinetic Inductance Detectors Based on Quasi-Lumped Resonators
Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) have emerged as a leading technology for millimeter- and submillimeter-wave astronomy due to their high sensitivity, natural multiplexing capabilities and scalable fabrication. In polarization-sensitive applications-such as Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) studies-cross-polarization, or unintended response to the orthogonal polarization, poses a significant limitation to measurement fidelity. This work investigates the origin of cross-polarization in meander…

Constructions of Sequences of Alternating Sum and Difference Dominated Sets
Yorick Herrmann, Connor Hill, Merlin Phillips, Daniel Flores, Steven J. Miller, Steven Senger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00792

Constructions of Sequences of Alternating Sum and Difference Dominated Sets
A More Sums Than Difference (MSTD) set is a finite set of integers $A$ where the cardinality of its sumset, $A+A$, is greater than the cardinality of its difference set, $A-A$. Since addition is commutative while subtraction isn't, it was conjectured that MSTD sets are rare. As Martin and O'Bryant proved a small (but positive) percentage are MSTD, it is natural to ask what additional properties can we impose on a chain of MSTD sets; in particular, can we construct a sequence of sets alternating…

Study on LLMs for Promptagator-Style Dense Retriever Training
Daniel Gwon, Nour Jedidi, Jimmy Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02241 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Study on LLMs for Promptagator-Style Dense Retriever Training
Promptagator demonstrated that Large Language Models (LLMs) with few-shot prompts can be used as task-specific query generators for fine-tuning domain-specialized dense retrieval models. However, the original Promptagator approach relied on proprietary and large-scale LLMs which users may not have access to or may be prohibited from using with sensitive data. In this work, we study the impact of open-source LLMs at accessible scales ($\leq$14B parameters) as an alternative. Our results demonstr…

Bayesian Model Comparison and Significance: Widespread Errors and how to Correct Them
Daniel P. Thorngren, David K. Sing, Sagnick Mukherjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00169 http…

Bayesian Model Comparison and Significance: Widespread Errors and how to Correct Them
Bayes factors have become a popular tool in exoplanet spectroscopy for testing atmosphere models against one another. We show that the commonly used method for converting these values into significance "sigmas" is invalid. The formula is neither justified nor recommended by its original paper, and overestimates the confidence of results. We use simple examples to demonstrate the invalidity and prior sensitivity of this approach. We review the standard Bayesian interpretation of the Bayes factor…

Understanding the bionic eye and retinal prostheses: Zoom meeting Wednesday, September 10, 2025 https://www.fightingblindness.ca/viewpoint/#innovative-treatments with Daniel Palanker, retinal implant.

View Point - Fighting Blindness Canada (FBC)
Jump to: Understanding the Bionic Eye and Retinal Prostheses| AMD Coffee Connections Ottawa| AMD Coffee Connections North York | View Point Toronto: Speaker Symposium | IRD Spotlight: Syndromic IRDs (Usher and BBS)...

SensIAT: An R Package for Conducting Sensitivity Analysis of Randomized Trials with Irregular Assessment Times
Andrew Redd, Yujing Gao, Bonnie B. Smith, Ravi Varadhan, Andrea J. Apter, Daniel O. Scharfstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22389

SensIAT: An R Package for Conducting Sensitivity Analysis of Randomized Trials with Irregular Assessment Times
This paper introduces an R package SensIAT that implements a sensitivity analysis methodology, based on augmented inverse intensity weighting, for randomized trials with irregular and potentially informative assessment times. Targets of inference involve the population mean outcome in each treatment arm as well as the difference in these means (i.e., treatment effect) at specified times after randomization. This methodology is useful in settings where there is concern that study participants ar…

Simulating Spectral Confusion in SPHEREx Photometry and Redshifts
Zhaoyu Huai, James J. Bock, Yun-Ting Cheng, Jean Choppin de Janvry, Sean Bruton, James R. Cheshire IV, Brendan P. Crill, Olivier Dor\'e, Spencer W. Everett, Andreas L. Faisst, Richard M. Feder, Woong-Seob Jeong, Yongjung Kim, Bomee Lee, Daniel C. Masters
https://arxiv.or…

Simulating Spectral Confusion in SPHEREx Photometry and Redshifts
We model the impact of source confusion on photometry and the resulting spectrophotometric redshifts for SPHEREx, a NASA Medium-Class Explorer that is carrying out an all-sky near-infrared spectral survey. Spectral confusion from untargeted background galaxies degrades sensitivity and introduces a spectral bias. Using interpolated spectral energy distributions (SEDs) from the COSMOS2020 catalog, we construct a Monte Carlo library of confusion spectra that captures the cumulative impact from fai…

A matter of perspective: how nanoscale optical defects limit cosmic-scale gravitational wave observations
Anna C. Green, Antonella Bianchi, Daniel D. Brown, Felice Feldmann, Jeremie Gobeil, Miron van der Kolk, Riccardo Maggiore, Jonathan W. Perry, Emma Prins, Mischa Salle, Alina Soflau, Enzo Tapia, Andreas Freise
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509…

A matter of perspective: how nanoscale optical defects limit cosmic-scale gravitational wave observations
Ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors, such as LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA, have revolutionised as- tronomy. Now, future detectors like the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer aim to achieve even greater sensitivity. Advanced optical simulations are crucial to overcoming the challenges faced by these complex in- terferometers. Finesse, the leading interferometer simulation tool in the GW community, supports the design and commissioning of these detectors by modeling optical, quantum, and…