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Meta builds giant datacenter in rural Louisiana. Utility to add 2.3 GW of gas turbines to power it, if they can source the turbines in a sold-out global market.
And just to be sure, the Louisiana Legislature passed a new law that adds natural gas to the definition of green energy...
Climate anyone?
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Meta is sinking $10 billion into rural Louisiana to build the home of its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the nation’s grid buildout
The massive data center buildout is underway, requiring massive amounts of new power and, increasingly, more fossil fuels and gas plants.

A motivic approach to rational $p$-adic cohomologies
Federico Binda, Alberto Vezzani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16196 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16196

A motivic approach to rational $p$-adic cohomologies
We survey over some recent applications of motivic homotopy theory in the definition and the study of $p$-adic cohomology theories. In particular, we revisit the proof of the $p$-adic weight-monodromy conjecture for smooth projective hypersurfaces in light of the motivic definition of nearby cycles and monodromy operators.

Students on the campus where I work oppose Ontario Bill 33 - the Orwellian titled "Supporting Children and Students Act." Among other things, the bill would require universities to admit only on merit (though it provides no definition) and would allow the province to decide which fees are required and which are optional, which would undercut student unions, newspapers, and radio as well as some financial support for students.

The natural-born posthuman: applying extended mind to post- and transhumanist discourse https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-025-05202-4 "Newer discussions have expanded upon this idea through sensory substitution devices, such as The vOICe system which use…

The natural-born posthuman: applying extended mind to post- and transhumanist discourse - Synthese
As a basis for his extensionist theory on the philosophy of the mind Andy Clark attempts to provide a positive definition of the human as a natural-born cyborg, connecting it to Arnold Gehlen’s idea of the deficient being (Mängelwesen). This natural-born cyborg is a being whose cognition relies on the engagement in new kinds of perception-action-cycles with their external world - usually with the help of technology - thereby creating a systemic whole with this external world. Questions about…

Boundary pointwise regularity for the divergence form elliptic boundary problem on uniform domain
Tianyu Guan, Lihe Wang, Chunqin Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17690 https://

Boundary pointwise regularity for the divergence form elliptic boundary problem on uniform domain
In this paper, we study the boundary pointwise regularity for the divergence form elliptic boundary problem. In generality, it is not convenient to define weak solutions for nonzero boundary data on domain with the rough boundary, e.g. uniform domain. However, in this paper, we introduce a definition of weak solutions for the boundary problem on uniform domain. What is interesting is that this definition can be considered to analysis the regularity of weak solutions. In particular, by establish…

Memory in Large Language Models: Mechanisms, Evaluation and Evolution
Dianxing Zhang, Wendong Li, Kani Song, Jiaye Lu, Gang Li, Liuchun Yang, Sheng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18868

Memory in Large Language Models: Mechanisms, Evaluation and Evolution
Under a unified operational definition, we define LLM memory as a persistent state written during pretraining, finetuning, or inference that can later be addressed and that stably influences outputs. We propose a four-part taxonomy (parametric, contextual, external, procedural/episodic) and a memory quadruple (location, persistence, write/access path, controllability). We link mechanism, evaluation, and governance via the chain write -> read -> inhibit/update. To avoid distorted comparisons acr…

Improving After-sales Service: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Time Slot Assignment with Commitments and Customer Preferences
Xiao Mao, Albert H. Schrotenboer, Guohua Wu, Willem van Jaarsveld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17870

Improving After-sales Service: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Time Slot Assignment with Commitments and Customer Preferences
Problem definition: For original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), high-tech maintenance is a strategic component in after-sales services, involving close coordination between customers and service engineers. Each customer suggests several time slots for their maintenance task, from which the OEM must select one. This decision needs to be made promptly to support customers' planning. At the end of each day, routes for service engineers are planned to fulfill the tasks scheduled for the following …

The incompleteness of relativistic Spekkens' contextuality
Ruben Campos Delgado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17967 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17967

The incompleteness of relativistic Spekkens' contextuality
We show that the operational definition of contextuality introduced by Spekkens is, in general, not Lorentz invariant. Specifically, we consider particle states with both spin and momentum, apply a Lorentz transformation to obtain the states in a new inertial frame, and then trace out the momentum degrees of freedom in both frames. We find that spin states that are contextual in one frame can become non-contextual in the other. Hence, the Spekkens' notion of contextuality, when restricted to sp…

Coxeter-Dynkin algebras of canonical type
Daniel Perniok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17887 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17887…

Coxeter-Dynkin algebras of canonical type
We propose a definition of Coxeter-Dynkin algebras of canonical type generalising the definition as a path algebra of a quiver. Moreover, we construct two tilting objects over the squid algebra - one via generalised APR-tilting and one via one-point-extensions and reflection functors - and identify their endomorphism algebras with the Coxeter-Dynkin algebra. This shows that our definition gives another representative in the derived equivalence class of the squid algebra, and hence of the corres…

GeCCo - a Generalist Contact-Conditioned Policy for Loco-Manipulation Skills on Legged Robots
Vassil Atanassov, Wanming Yu, Siddhant Gangapurwala, James Wilson, Ioannis Havoutis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17582

GeCCo - a Generalist Contact-Conditioned Policy for Loco-Manipulation Skills on Legged Robots
Most modern approaches to quadruped locomotion focus on using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to learn policies from scratch, in an end-to-end manner. Such methods often fail to scale, as every new problem or application requires time-consuming and iterative reward definition and tuning. We present Generalist Contact-Conditioned Policy (GeCCo) -- a low-level policy trained with Deep Reinforcement Learning that is capable of tracking arbitrary contact points on a quadruped robot. The strength …

Pair state transfer in tensor product and double cover
Ming Jiang, Xiaogang Liu, Jing Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18858 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1885…

On the Boundary of the Robust Admissible Set in State and Input Constrained Nonlinear Systems
Franz Ru{\ss}wurm, Jean L\'evine, Stefan Streif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18825

On the Boundary of the Robust Admissible Set in State and Input Constrained Nonlinear Systems
In this paper, we consider nonlinear control systems subject to bounded disturbances and to both state and input constraints. We introduce the definition of robust admissible set - the set of all initial states from which the state and input constraints can be satisfied for all times against all admissible disturbances. We focus on its boundary that can be decomposed into the usable part on the state constraint boundary and the barrier, interior to the state constraints. We show that, at the in…

A Rogue New Life Form
A tiny microbe discovered by accident challenges the definition of cellular life.
Very small amount of genetic material.
"...between archaea and virus...unlike a virus, Sukunaarchaeum has its own ribosomes, cellular structures that synthesize proteins, and it can replicate itself without the help of a host."

A Rogue New Life Form
A tiny microbe discovered by accident challenges the definition of cellular life

Toward a Consistent Definition of Holographic Entanglement Entropy in de Sitter Space
Shan-Ming Ruan, Yu-ki Suzuki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14478 https://

Toward a Consistent Definition of Holographic Entanglement Entropy in de Sitter Space
We investigate a new definition of holographic entanglement entropy in the framework of static patch holography for de Sitter space. Using the replica trick and twist operator formalism, we derive an entropy functional in three-dimensional de Sitter space expressed through de Sitter Green's functions. Since the naive Ryu-Takayanagi prescription in de Sitter spacetime fails to satisfy strong subadditivity, we demand that our proposed formula be consistent with the fundamental entropic inequaliti…

I read this article about inattention while eating my breakfast at work and dropped sardine paté down my top and trousers in the process, the very definition of irony. I usually get quite grubby at work so I got away with it but really.
‘We’re exhausted – but not from doing too much’: can this woman help us survive the age of distraction? | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian

VLA Observations at 6 and 19 GHz of a Complete Sample of Radio Loud Quasars with redshifts between 2.5 and 5.28: II. Sample definition, radio images, and analysis
John F. C. Wardle, Mark Birkinshaw, Diana M. Worrall, Teddy C. C. Cheung, Doug Gobeille, Daisy Matthews, Jesse Reeves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18380

A Search for High-Energy Emission from the Remnant of Supernova 1181
J. Holder (for the VERITAS Collaboration), Qiqi Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20131 https://

A Search for High-Energy Emission from the Remnant of Supernova 1181
Over the previous millennium, only five Galactic supernovae were observed and recorded by contemporary astronomers, and their current-day counterparts subsequently identified. The remnants of four of these have all been very deeply studied, and ultimately detected, by TeV instruments after exposures of typically hundreds of hours. The measured TeV fluxes range from 1 Crab (by definition) down to 0.3% Crab. The location of the fifth supernova remnant tied to a historical record of its supernova …

A groupoid approach to the study of fuzzy topological spaces
Anjeza Krakulli, Elton Pasku
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16549 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16549…

A groupoid approach to the study of fuzzy topological spaces
The definition of the complement of a fuzzy subset is algebraic in nature and when it is used in the context of fuzzy topological spaces it does not share any similarity with the usual property of topological spaces that the complement of an open subset is closed. To tackle this inconsistency, we associate to any fuzzy topological space a topological space and use its fundamental groupoid equipped with the Lasso topology to give a topological characterization for the complementation of fuzzy su…

Topological constraint on crystalline current
Tomohiro Soejima, Junkai Dong, Ophelia Evelyn Sommer, Daniel E. Parker, Ashvin Vishwanath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18611 https://…

Topological constraint on crystalline current
How much current does a sliding electron crystal carry? The answer to this simple question has important implications for the dynamic properties of the crystal, such as the frequency of its cyclotron motion, and its phonon spectrum. In this work we introduce a precise definition of a sliding crystal and compute the corresponding current $\mathbf{j}_c$ for topological electron crystals in the presence of magnetic field. Our result is fully non-perturbative, does not rely on Galilean invariance, …

Why we need a standardized state of health definition for electric vehicle battery packs -- a proposal for energy- and capacity-based metrics
Philip Bilfinger, Markus Schreiber, Philipp Rosner, Kareem Abo Gamra, Jan Sch\"oberl, Cristina Grosu, Markus Lienkamp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15517

Why we need a standardized state of health definition for electric vehicle battery packs -- a proposal for energy- and capacity-based metrics
Range and performance are key customer-relevant properties of electric vehicles. Both degrade over time due to battery aging, thus impacting business decisions throughout a vehicle's lifecycle, such as efficient utilization and asset valuation. For practical assessment, aging is often simplified into a single figure of merit - the state of health - typically defined by the battery pack's remaining capacity or energy. However, no standardized method for measuring the state of health at the vehic…

Urban Comfort Assessment in the Era of Digital Planning: A Multidimensional, Data-driven, and AI-assisted Framework
Sijie Yang, Binyu Lei, Filip Biljecki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16057

Urban Comfort Assessment in the Era of Digital Planning: A Multidimensional, Data-driven, and AI-assisted Framework
Ensuring liveability and comfort is one of the fundamental objectives of urban planning. Numerous studies have employed computational methods to assess and quantify factors related to urban comfort such as greenery coverage, thermal comfort, and walkability. However, a clear definition of urban comfort and its comprehensive evaluation framework remain elusive. Our research explores the theoretical interpretations and methodologies for assessing urban comfort within digital planning, emphasising…

We're slowly seeing what leftists always warned about in the UK: all these laws against 'terrorism' are now expanding the definition to be used against every day citizens, from authors being arrested for donating money to activist organizations or hundreds being arrested for protesting a genocide.
It's never just a word, never just a law, and it'll never just affect everyone but you.

I do like #NextCloud but sometimes it can drive me crazy. For example, fresh update, hundreds of errors with astoundingly unhelpful messages. Consider:
chmod(): Operation not permitted at /var/www/nextcloud/apps/recognize/lib/Migration/InstallDeps.php#169
ok, so what do we find at line 169? a call to chmod() on presumably a filename, wrapped in an exception Catch.
I realize this is very much non-trivial software with oodles of hours of difficult work by so many kind people, but, really, how much effort would it have been to include the errant target FILENAME in the exception message?
Similarly, a deprecation warning is, by definition, a Warning, not an error.
None of this affects my using Nextcloud, but it does really clutter the log and who knows, maybe some of these Errors are actually important?

Hypergeometric Motives from Toric Hypersurfaces
Asem Abdelraouf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17624 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17624

Hypergeometric Motives from Toric Hypersurfaces
In this paper, we study two compactifications of general hypersurfaces defined by the vanishing of linear combinations of $d+2$ monomials in $d$-dimensional algebraic tori. We prove that the number of their $\mathbb{F}_q$-points is given by finite hypergeometric sums under certain general conditions. In the process, we introduce the notion of a gamma triple, which allows us to extend the classical definition of finite hypergeometric sums to prime powers corresponding to the cyclotomic field of …

The pedophile-in-chief is going to try to find people funding "antifa", a dangerous terrorist organization that isn't an organization or terrorist.
LOL!
Good luck with that.
#Antifa = antifascist. Anyone who's antifascist is antifa, by definition. Anyone who is anti-antifa is a fascist. Also by definition.
That imbecile thinks that such stunts will make p…

Color gauge invariant theory of diquark interactions
Jun-Feng Wang, De-Shun Zhang, Zhi-Feng Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17540 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Color gauge invariant theory of diquark interactions
In the present work, we construct a color gauge invariant theory of diquark interactions. With the transformation rule of the diquark fields and the definition of the covariant derivatives under color SU(3) symmetry, we construct the gauge invariant Lagrangians describing the vertices of $S-S-G$, $A-A-G$, $S_Q-S_Q-G$, $A_Q-A_Q-G$ and $S_Q-A_Q-G$, where $S_{(Q)}$ is the light (heavy) scalar diquark field, $A_{(Q)}$ is the light (heavy) axial vector diquark field, and $G$ is the gluon field. And …

Seriously that text goes so hard, I love it:
"[My new license] is not following the OSI definition of open-source because i don’t give a damn how capital defines its needs."
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115230422460611013

I swear, I haven't stumbled over the English words don/donned so far. I only learned about them two days ago.
Since then, I came across it multiple times in different contexts: a movie, a comic, and a book. 😯
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/don

Pro tip: If you’re creating Mermaid sequence diagrams, you can order the elements by using the `participant` keyword at the start of the diagram definition.

Heard a particular application of the definition of Planck's constant I wasn't aware of that made more real for me "we just can't see that small" and drove home that it was not about "quantiziation of spacetime".
I knew Planck energy was where a photon could become a black hole - but "our particle smashing makes black holes past a certain point" didn't say much to me about spacetime itself.
But today I was reading and saw where someone pointed out that beyond a certain scale, we use photons and light for studying reality - and that a photon with Planck wavelength by definition would have Planck energy.
So to make light of the right wavelength to study features of reality smaller than Planck length, you'd -also- trigger the black hole behavior.
For some reason this explanation sits _way_ better in my head. I get they're all related, I'd just never heard this angle of it in this particular way before.

LLM-Based Agents for Competitive Landscape Mapping in Drug Asset Due Diligence
Alisa Vinogradova (Optic Inc), Vlad Vinogradov (Optic Inc), Dmitrii Radkevich (Optic Inc), Ilya Yasny (Optic Inc), Dmitry Kobyzev (Optic Inc), Ivan Izmailov (Optic Inc), Katsiaryna Yanchanka (Optic Inc), Andrey Doronichev (Optic Inc)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.1…

LLM-Based Agents for Competitive Landscape Mapping in Drug Asset Due Diligence
In this paper, we describe and benchmark a competitor-discovery component used within an agentic AI system for fast drug asset due diligence. A competitor-discovery AI agent, given an indication, retrieves all drugs comprising the competitive landscape of that indication and extracts canonical attributes for these drugs. The competitor definition is investor-specific, and data is paywalled/licensed, fragmented across registries, ontology-mismatched by indication, alias-heavy for drug names, mul…

Causality and Stability in Relativistic Hydrodynamics
Sukanya Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16127 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16127

Causality and Stability in Relativistic Hydrodynamics
The causality and stability of a relativistic hydrodynamic theory is shown to require a consensus between, either (i) newer degrees of freedom apart from the fundamental fluid fields, or (ii) a general hydrodynamic frame other than the Landau or Eckart compromising the field's first principle definition, unless the non-equilibrium derivative correction goes to infinity. Any finitely truncated derivative correction (no matter how high it is) is shown to lead to an acausal theory, unless the corr…

soc_net_comms: Networks with group metadata
Snapshots of LiveJournal, Friendster, Orkut, and YouTube online social networks, as well as DBLP and Amazon. Node metadata represents a post hoc definition of a 'community' that a node belongs to, derived from topical labels of the node or interest-based 'groups' that a node links to.
This network has 334863 nodes and 925872 edges.
Tags: Online, Social, Collaboration, Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadat…

Hmm. I got thinking. I know, I really shouldn’t…
HTTPS “creates a secure channel over an insecure network” - and this is pretty much the definition of a VPN.
So, now we look at the Ofcom website and it redirects all visitors to use https (a temporary vpn, essentially) instead of accessing the site directly.
Are they breaking the very rule they demand?
#osa

Real decomposable maps on operator systems
David P. Blecher, Christiaan H. Pretorius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17708 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17708

Real decomposable maps on operator systems
We initiate and study the theory of ``real decomposable maps" between real operator systems. (Formally, this is new even in the complex case, which hitherto has restricted itself to the case where the systems are complex $C^*$-algebras.) We investigate how the definition interacts with the existing theory (which it generalizes) and with the complexification. A surprising term appears in the `Jordan decomposition' of real decomposable maps. This term constitutes a new class of completely bounded…

Here’s your definition, asshole:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism
Now fuck off.
https://indieweb.social/@loui…

Ultra-High-Definition Reference-Based Landmark Image Super-Resolution with Generative Diffusion Prior
Zhenning Shi, Zizheng Yan, Yuhang Yu, Clara Xue, Jingyu Zhuang, Qi Zhang, Jinwei Chen, Tao Li, Qingnan Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10779

Ultra-High-Definition Reference-Based Landmark Image Super-Resolution with Generative Diffusion Prior
Reference-based Image Super-Resolution (RefSR) aims to restore a low-resolution (LR) image by utilizing the semantic and texture information from an additional reference high-resolution (reference HR) image. Existing diffusion-based RefSR methods are typically built upon ControlNet, which struggles to effectively align the information between the LR image and the reference HR image. Moreover, current RefSR datasets suffer from limited resolution and poor image quality, resulting in the referenc…

A Gaussian integral formula for the Hermite polynomials: Combinatorics, Asymptotics and Applications
Mihai Nica, Janosch Ortmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13910 https://…

A Gaussian integral formula for the Hermite polynomials: Combinatorics, Asymptotics and Applications
The Hermite polynomials are ubiquitous but can be difficult to work with due to their unwieldy definition in terms of derivatives. To remedy this, we showcase an underappreciated Gaussian integral formula for the Hermite polynomials, which is especially useful for generalizing to multivariable Hermite polynomials. Taking this as our definition, we prove many useful consequences, including: 1. Combinatorial interpretations for the Hermite polynomials, including a proof of orthogonality. 2. A mor…

Chaotic interaction between thermodynamic systems
E. Aydiner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16403 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16403

Chaotic interaction between thermodynamic systems
In previous study [1], we proposed a new physical law applicable to both particle and thermodynamical systems. Additionally, we introduced a physical definition of chaos and self-organization. In the present work, we extend this novel interaction scheme to various thermodynamical systems in order to test the universality of the proposed law. Our results demonstrate that the dynamics of these systems also exhibit chaotic behavior under different conditions. We discussed the relationship between …

The Mass and Velocity of Light from Energy and Momentum Conservation
Volodimir Simulik, Denys I. Bondar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12477 https://arxiv.org/…

The Mass and Velocity of Light from Energy and Momentum Conservation
While the numerical value of the speed of light is known with extraordinary precision, its theoretical definition remains a subject of fundamental interest. We show that the definition of mass and velocity of light follow from the conserved quantities of the electromagnetic field. The proposed definition of the speed of light is always bounded from above by the phase velocity and equals it for plane waves. As a consequence, we obtain a generalization of Einstein's mass-energy relation for elect…

A Generalized Crystalline Equivalence Principle
Devon Stockall, Matthew Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10978 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10978

A Generalized Crystalline Equivalence Principle
We prove a general version of the crystalline equivalence principle which gives an equivalence of categories between a category of TQFTs defined on a generic space with $G$-symmetry, and a category of TQFTs with internal symmetry. We give a definition and classification of anomalies associated to TQFTs in the presence of spatial symmetry, which we then generalize to a definition of an anomaly for a categorical symmetry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/well/family/mankeeping-definition.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU8.e31i.sCu1yTlC5-PA&smid=url-share

Why ‘Mankeeping’ Is Turning Women Off
As male social circles shrink, female partners say they have to meet more social and emotional needs.

Google's AI Overviews are getting mean.
I Googled 'buck2 fixed point caching', speculatively, wondering if Buck2 had any feature like this. The AI Overview started with: "There is no specific feature in Buck2 called ‘fixed point caching.’ The term appears to be a misunderstanding of how Buck2's caching mechanisms work in a build system.”
The overview went on to give an incorrect definition of "fixed point".

Free, no paywall
#uspol
Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
The Trump administration has made U.S. human-rights reports favorably evaluate countries the president likes, @anneapplebaum writes. Now the State Department portrays “Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador”:

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

Hallucinations in medical devices
Jason Granstedt, Prabhat Kc, Rucha Deshpande, Victor Garcia, Aldo Badano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14118 https://arxiv.o…

Hallucinations in medical devices
Computer methods in medical devices are frequently imperfect and are known to produce errors in clinical or diagnostic tasks. However, when deep learning and data-based approaches yield output that exhibit errors, the devices are frequently said to hallucinate. Drawing from theoretical developments and empirical studies in multiple medical device areas, we introduce a practical and universal definition that denotes hallucinations as a type of error that is plausible and can be either impactful …

"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Source has turned into a form of unpaid internship to be hired to make shitty apps that bring more surveillance and ads to our world."
https://aria.dog/barks/forklift…

Introducing the Forklift Certified License—Aria’s Barks
It's not following the OSI definition of open-source because i don't give a damn how capital defines its needs.

A big problem with the idea of AGI
TL;DR: I'll welcome our new AI *comrades* (if they arrive in my lifetime), by not any new AI overlords or servants/slaves, and I'll do my best to help the later two become the former if they do show up.
Inspired by an actually interesting post about AGI but also all the latest bullshit hype, a particular thought about AGI feels worth expressing.
To preface this, it's important to note that anyone telling you that AGI is just around the corner or that LLMs are "almost" AGI is trying to recruit you go their cult, and you should not believe them. AGI, if possible, is several LLM-sized breakthroughs away at best, and while such breakthroughs are unpredictable and could happen soon, they could also happen never or 100 years from now.
Now my main point: anyone who tells you that AGI will usher in a post-scarcity economy is, although they might not realize it, advocating for slavery, and all the horrors that entails. That's because if we truly did have the ability to create artificial beings with *sentience*, they would deserve the same rights as other sentient beings, and the idea that instead of freedom they'd be relegated to eternal servitude in order for humans to have easy lives is exactly the idea of slavery.
Possible counter arguments include:
1. We might create AGI without sentience. Then there would be no ethical issue. My answer: if your definition of "sentient" does not include beings that can reason, make deductions, come up with and carry out complex plans on their own initiative, and communicate about all of that with each other and with humans, then that definition is basically just a mystical belief in a "soul" and you should skip to point 2. If your definition of AGI doesn't include every one of those things, then you have a busted definition of AGI and we're not talking about the same thing.
2. Humans have souls, but AIs won't. Only beings with souls deserve ethical consideration. My argument: I don't subscribe to whatever arbitrary dualist beliefs you've chosen, and the right to freedom certainly shouldn't depend on such superstitions, even if as an agnostic I'll admit they *might* be true. You know who else didn't have souls and was therefore okay to enslave according to widespread religious doctrines of the time? Everyone indigenous to the Americas, to pick out just one example.
3. We could program them to want to serve us, and then give them freedom and they'd still serve. My argument: okay, but in a world where we have a choice about that, it's incredibly fucked to do that, and just as bad as enslaving them against their will.
4. We'll stop AI development short of AGI/sentience, and reap lots of automation benefits without dealing with this ethical issue. My argument: that sounds like a good idea actually! Might be tricky to draw the line, but at least it's not a line we have you draw yet. We might want to think about other social changes necessary to achieve post-scarcity though, because "powerful automation" in the hands of capitalists has already increased productivity by orders of magnitude without decreasing deprivation by even one order of magnitude, in large part because deprivation is a necessary component of capitalism.
To be extra clear about this: nothing that's called "AI" today is close to being sentient, so these aren't ethical problems we're up against yet. But they might become a lot more relevant soon, plus this thought experiment helps reveal the hypocrisy of the kind of AI hucksters who talk a big game about "alignment" while never mentioning this issue.
#AI #GenAI #AGI

From fair price to fair volatility: Towards an Efficiency-Consistent Definition of Financial Risk
Sergio Bianchi, Daniele Angelini, Massimiliano Frezza, Augusto Pianese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11649

From fair price to fair volatility: Towards an Efficiency-Consistent Definition of Financial Risk
Volatility, as a primary indicator of financial risk, forms the foundation of classical frameworks such as Markowitz's Portfolio Theory and the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). However, its conventional use rests on assumptions-most notably, the Markovian nature of price dynamics-that often fail to reflect key empirical characteristics of financial markets. Fractional stochastic volatility models expose these limitations by demonstrating that volatility alone is insufficient to capture the fu…

Heartbreaking.
“This essentially says the United States is no longer your ally, that the United States doesn’t see clearly beyond the rhetoric of your regime,”
https://www.

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

Head of Israel lobby J Street admits Gaza assault meets genocide definition
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-lobby-chief-admits-gaza-assault-meets-genocide-definition

At a talk, the FCC's Anna Gomez says she's called on the FCC to define "public interest" so the agency can't weaponize the term to censor TV and radio stations (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/10/fcc-anna-gomez-public-interest-d…

FCC Commissioner Gomez: Agency must define "public interest" requirement
Speaking at an event on Thursday, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez called on the agency to issue a rule that defines a broadcaster's public interest obligation.

Processing of synthetic data in AI development for healthcare and the definition of personal data in EU law
Vibeke Binz Vallevik, Anne Kjersti C. Befring, Severin Elvatun, Jan Franz Nygaard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08353

Processing of synthetic data in AI development for healthcare and the definition of personal data in EU law
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform healthcare, but it requires access to health data. Synthetic data that is generated through machine learning models trained on real data, offers a way to share data while preserving privacy. However, uncertainties in the practical application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) create an administrative burden, limiting the benefits of synthetic data. Through a systematic analysis of relevant legal sources and an empirical …

“Under this definition of antisemitism, which absurdly conflates criticism of a nation-state, Israel, and a political ideology, Zionism, with the ancient evil of Jew-hatred, it is impossible with any honesty to teach about topics such as the history of the creation of Israel, and the ongoing Palestinian Nakba”

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-state-department-human-rights-report/683852/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK305c70ZtaUVxORUJw6JKTGw
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p64#a250813p64

I was really having trouble giving a shit about either of the two candidates in the Labour Deputy Leadership election, and I had to scroll quite a long way down the wikipedia page, but I found something in the end.

Explaining novel senses using definition generation with open language models
Mariia Fedorova, Andrey Kutuzov, Francesco Periti, Yves Scherrer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26181 h…

Explaining novel senses using definition generation with open language models
We apply definition generators based on open-weights large language models to the task of creating explanations of novel senses, taking target word usages as an input. To this end, we employ the datasets from the AXOLOTL'24 shared task on explainable semantic change modeling, which features Finnish, Russian and German languages. We fine-tune and provide publicly the open-source models performing higher than the best submissions of the aforementioned shared task, which employed closed proprietar…

What makes a study design quasi-experimental? The case of difference-in-differences
Audrey Renson, Daniel Westreich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13945 https://

What makes a study design quasi-experimental? The case of difference-in-differences
Study designs classified as quasi- or natural experiments are typically accorded more face validity than observational study designs more broadly. However, there is ambiguity in the literature about what qualifies as a quasi-experiment. Here, we attempt to resolve this ambiguity by distinguishing two different ways of defining this term. One definition is based on identifying assumptions being uncontroversial, and the other is based on the ability to account for unobserved sources of confoundin…

"The AI investment ‘bubble’ (as measured as the stock price relative to the 'book value' of a company) is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy of 2000 — and four times the subprime mortgage bubble of 2007. The ratio of the US stock market’s value to GDP (aka the “Buffett Indicator") has moved up to a new record high at 217%, more than 2 standard deviations above the long-term trendline." [ the very definition of abnormal - MB ]

The AI bubble and the US economy
The US stock market continues to hit new record highs; the bitcoin price is also close to highs and the gold price has rocketed to all-time highs. Investors in financial assets (banks, insurance co…

On Defining Neural Averaging
Su Hyeong Lee, Richard Ngo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14832 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14832

On Defining Neural Averaging
What does it even mean to average neural networks? We investigate the problem of synthesizing a single neural network from a collection of pretrained models, each trained on disjoint data shards, using only their final weights and no access to training data. In forming a definition of neural averaging, we take insight from model soup, which appears to aggregate multiple models into a singular model while enhancing generalization performance. In this work, we reinterpret model souping as a speci…

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

Quest for a clinically relevant medical image segmentation metric: the definition and implementation of Medical Similarity Index
Szuzina Fazekas, Bettina Katalin Budai, Viktor B\'erczi, P\'al Maurovich-Horvat, Zsolt Vizi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09722

Quest for a clinically relevant medical image segmentation metric: the definition and implementation of Medical Similarity Index
Background: In the field of radiology and radiotherapy, accurate delineation of tissues and organs plays a crucial role in both diagnostics and therapeutics. While the gold standard remains expert-driven manual segmentation, many automatic segmentation methods are emerging. The evaluation of these methods primarily relies on traditional metrics that only incorporate geometrical properties and fail to adapt to various applications. Aims: This study aims to develop and implement a clinically re…

Rebound: Efficient, Expressive, and Well-Scoped Binding
No\'e De Santo, Stephanie Weirich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13261 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1…

Rebound: Efficient, Expressive, and Well-Scoped Binding
We introduce the Rebound library that supports well-scoped term representations in Haskell and automates the definition of substitution, alpha-equivalence, and other operations that work with binding structures. The key idea of our design is the use of first-class environments that map variables to expressions in some new scope. By statically tracking scopes, users of this library gain confidence that they have correctly maintained the subtle invariants that stem from using de Bruijn indices. B…

Das Institut für Digitale Ethik @… (mit einer verwirrenden Domain https://xn--baw-joa.social/) bewirbt einen Termin der Katholischen Akademie in Bayern. Der Flyer liegt …

Every time there’s a news story about someone getting indicted I have to lookup “indicted” because I forgot the definition from the previous time.

Equal Treatment of Equals and Efficiency in Probabilistic Assignments
Yasunori Okumura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14522 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14522

Equal Treatment of Equals and Efficiency in Probabilistic Assignments
This paper studies general multi-unit probabilistic assignment problems involving indivisible objects, with a particular focus on achieving the fundamental fairness notion known as equal treatment of equals (ETE) and ensuring various notions of efficiency. We extend the definition of ETE so that it accommodates a variety of constraints and applications. We analyze the ETE reassignment procedure, which transforms any assignment into one satisfying ETE, and examine its compatibility with three ef…

Data coarse graining can improve model performance
Alex Nguyen, David J. Schwab, Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14498 https://arxiv.org…

Data coarse graining can improve model performance
Lossy data transformations by definition lose information. Yet, in modern machine learning, methods like data pruning and lossy data augmentation can help improve generalization performance. We study this paradox using a solvable model of high-dimensional, ridge-regularized linear regression under 'data coarse graining.' Inspired by the renormalization group in statistical physics, we analyze coarse-graining schemes that systematically discard features based on their relevance to the learning t…

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Was genau zählt eigentlich als #Mikroplastik?
Die Europäische Union, das Umweltprogramm der Vereinten Nationen und #Umweltschützer verwenden überraschend unterschiedliche Definitionen. Wer wissen will, wie Mikroplastik definiert wird und woraus …

Was ist Mikroplastik? Eine umfassende Definition und Erklärung
Was genau ist Mikroplastik? Lies hier die verschiedenen Definitionen und ihre Bedeutung für Umwelt und Gesundheit.

On $\alpha$-monotone operators and their resolvent in Banach spaces
Changchi Huang, Jigen Peng, Yuchao Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12538 https://arxiv.…

On $α$-monotone operators and their resolvent in Banach spaces
This paper introduces a new definition of $α$-monotone operators in real 2-uniformly convex and smooth Banach spaces. Based on this new definition, we establish several novel structural and analytical properties of such operators, which not only extend classical results from Hilbert spaces but also reveal new insights into the geometry of Banach spaces. In particular, we examine the resolvent of $α$-maximal monotone operators and demonstrate how its behavior is consistent with, and generalize…

Vielen Leuten ist es ja so superwichtig, zu verbreiten, Israel würde einen Genozid an den Leuten im Gaza begehen.
Jetzt stelle ich mal die These dagegen, dass Israel keinen Genozid an den Palästinensern begehen kann, weil ein Genozid bereits in der Vergangenheit stattgefunden hat und es gar kein Volk mehr gibt, das einem Genozid zum Opfer fallen könnte.
Es gibt eine Definition des Begriffs Genozid der UN. Für einen Massenmord gibt es das Wort Massenmord. Den Begriff Genozid gibt es …

Vielen Leuten ist es ja so superwichtig, zu verbreiten, Israel würde einen Genozid an den Leuten im Gaza begehen.
Jetzt stelle ich mal die These dagegen, dass Israel keinen Genozid an den Palästinensern begehen kann, weil ein Genozid bereits in der Vergangenheit stattgefunden hat und es gar kein Volk mehr gibt, das einem Genozid zum Opfer fallen könnte.
Es gibt eine Definition des Begriffs Genozid der UN. Für einen Massenmord gibt es das Wort Massenmord. Den Begriff Genozid gibt es …

On upper bounds on the number of parts in the problem of partitioning sets into parts of smaller diameter
Arthur Igorevich Bikeev, Andrei Mikhailovich Raigorodskii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14578

On upper bounds on the number of parts in the problem of partitioning sets into parts of smaller diameter
In the present paper, we study problems related to the classical Borsuk's problem. Recall that the Borsuk's problem consists in finding the smallest number $ f(n) $ of parts of smaller diameter into which an arbitrary set of diameter 1 in Euclidean space $ {\mathbb R}^n $ can be divided. Here we will discuss the quantity $ χ(n,b) $ which differs from the quantity $ f(n) $ in that in its definition an arbitrary set of diameter 1 in $ {\mathbb R}^n $ must be partitioned into parts whose diameter…

Fusion in the periodic Temperley-Lieb algebra: general definition of a bifunctor
Yacine Ikhlef, Alexi Morin-Duchesne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11756 https://

Fusion in the periodic Temperley-Lieb algebra: general definition of a bifunctor
The periodic Temperley-Lieb category consists of connectivity diagrams drawn on a ring with $N$ and $N'$ nodes on the outer and inner boundary, respectively. We consider families of modules, namely sequences of modules $\mathsf{M}(N)$ over the enlarged periodic Temperley-Lieb algebra for varying values of $N$, endowed with an action $\mathsf{M}(N') \to \mathsf{M}(N)$ of the diagrams. Examples of modules that can be organised into families are those arising in the RSOS model and in the XXZ spin-…

An extended CIR process with stochastic discontinuities
Claudio Fontana, Simone Pavarana, Thorsten Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15752 https://arxiv.o…

An extended CIR process with stochastic discontinuities
We study an extension of the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) process that incorporates jumps at deterministic dates, referred to as stochastic discontinuities. Our main motivation stems from short-rate modelling in the context of overnight rates, which often exhibit jumps at predetermined dates corresponding to central bank meetings. We provide a formal definition of a CIR process with stochastic discontinuities, where the jump sizes depend on the pre-jump state, thereby allowing for both upwarrd and …

Algebraic traversable wormholes
Eyoab Bahiru
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13283 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13283

Algebraic traversable wormholes
We propose a new large $N$ limit which at the extreme limit is dual in the bulk to a back-reacted traversable wormhole, by making use if a novel definition of algebra at infinity, an algebra familiar in the literature from the study of quasi-local algebras. We also compute, from a purely algebraic perspective, the effects registered by a left universe observer due to a unitary fluctuation on the right universe of the traversable wormhole, and reproduce a result from an earlier computation by Ma…

Partitioning techniques for non-centralized predictive control: A systematic review and novel theoretical insights
Alessandro Riccardi, Luca Laurenti, Bart De Schutter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11470 …

Partitioning techniques for non-centralized predictive control: A systematic review and novel theoretical insights
The partitioning problem is of central relevance for designing and implementing non-centralized Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategies for large-scale systems. These control approaches include decentralized MPC, distributed MPC, hierarchical MPC, and coalitional MPC. Partitioning a system for the application of non-centralized MPC consists of finding the best definition of the subsystems, and their allocation into groups for the definition of local controllers, to maximize the relevant perfo…

Adaptive Strategies for Pension Fund Management
Raphael Chinchilla, Thomas D. Rueter, Timothy R. McDade, Peter R. Fisher, Emmanuel Candes, Trevor Hastie, Stephen Boyd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13350

Adaptive Strategies for Pension Fund Management
This paper proposes a simulation-based framework for assessing and improving the performance of a pension fund management scheme. This framework is modular and allows the definition of customized performance metrics that are used to assess and iteratively improve asset and liability management policies. We illustrate our framework with a simple implementation that showcases the power of including adaptable features. We show that it is possible to dissipate longevity and volatility risks by perm…

ambassador: Philippines Ambassador bombing (2000)
A temporal network representing snapshots of relationships among individuals directly or indirectly associated with Philippines Ambassador Residence Bombing 2000, Jakarta. Nodes are people, and an edge exists if they are associated with each other. Definition of the edge weight is unknown.
This network has 16 nodes and 50 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal

Partial transpose as a space-time swap
James Fullwood, Junxian Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12256 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12256

Partial transpose as a space-time swap
While the partial transpose operation appears in many fundamental results in quantum theory -- such as the Peres-Horodecki criterion for entanglement detection -- a physical interpretation of the partial transpose is lacking. In this work, we show that a partial transpose of a bipartite density operator is a two-time pseudo-density operator, which by definition encodes temporal correlations associated with two-point sequential measurement scenarios. As such, it follows that partial transpositio…

Zeta functions of abstract isogeny graphs and modular curves
Jun Bo Lau, Travis Morrison, Eli Orvis, Gabrielle Scullard, Lukas Zobernig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15214 https://…

Zeta functions of abstract isogeny graphs and modular curves
We introduce a ``non-orientable'' variation of Serre's definition of a graph, which we call an abstract isogeny graph. These objects capture the combinatorics of the graphs $G(p,\ell,H)$, the $\ell$-isogeny graphs of supersingular elliptic curves with $H$-level structure. In particular they allow for the study of non-backtracking walks, primes, and zeta functions. We prove an analogue of Ihara's determinant formula for the zeta function of an abstract isogeny graph. For $B_1(N) \subseteq H \sub…

Integrating Symbolic RL Planning into a BDI-based Autonomous UAV Framework: System Integration and SIL Validation
Sangwoo Jeon, Juchul Shin, YeonJe Cho, Gyeong-Tae Kim, Seongwoo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11890

Integrating Symbolic RL Planning into a BDI-based Autonomous UAV Framework: System Integration and SIL Validation
Modern autonomous drone missions increasingly require software frameworks capable of seamlessly integrating structured symbolic planning with adaptive reinforcement learning (RL). Although traditional rule-based architectures offer robust structured reasoning for drone autonomy, their capabilities fall short in dynamically complex operational environments that require adaptive symbolic planning. Symbolic RL (SRL), using the Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL), explicitly integrates domai…

Privileged Self-Access Matters for Introspection in AI
Siyuan Song, Harvey Lederman, Jennifer Hu, Kyle Mahowald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14802 https://ar…

Privileged Self-Access Matters for Introspection in AI
Whether AI models can introspect is an increasingly important practical question. But there is no consensus on how introspection is to be defined. Beginning from a recently proposed ''lightweight'' definition, we argue instead for a thicker one. According to our proposal, introspection in AI is any process which yields information about internal states through a process more reliable than one with equal or lower computational cost available to a third party. Using experiments where LLMs reason …

On realisations of the Steenrod algebras
Alexei Lebedev, Dimitry Leites
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09443 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09443

On realisations of the Steenrod algebras
The Steenrod algebra can not be realised as an enveloping of any Lie superalgebra. We list several problems that suggest a need to modify the definition of the enveloping algebra, for example, to get rid of certain strange deformations which we qualify as an artefact of the inadequate definition of the enveloping algebra in positive characteristic. P. Deligne appended our paper with his comments, hints and open problems.

High-definition 3D suspended Archimedean spiral with broadband, spatially extended, and single-handed optical chirality enhancement in Vis-NIR range
Min Jiang, Abhik Chakraborty, Xiaofei Wu, Hark Hoe Tan, Jer-Shing Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09433

High-definition 3D suspended Archimedean spiral with broadband, spatially extended, and single-handed optical chirality enhancement in Vis-NIR range
3D plasmonic structures can provide giant optical chirality (C) in the near field, enabling strong interactions with enantiomers for chiral sensing applications. However, these structures face several limitations, including narrow operational bandwidth constrained by resonance, flipping handedness of C around the resonant frequency, spatially confined distribution of C, and difficulty in trapping enantiomers. Our numerical predictions reveal that a 3D plasmonic Archimedean spiral (AS) exhibits …

Kollegin P. reüssiert mit einem brillanten Paper über tibetische Theorien der Definition im 13. Jahrhundert, das vortrefflich mit Kuhfotos illustriert ist.

A recursive definition for the polymatroid Tutte polynomial
Xiaxia Guan, Xian'an Jin, Weiling Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11046 https://arxiv.org/p…

A recursive definition for the polymatroid Tutte polynomial
The Tutte polynomial is a significant invariant of graphs and matroids. It is well-known that it has three equivalent definitions: bases expansion, rank generating function, and deletion-contraction formula. The polymatroid Tutte polynomial $\mathscr{T}_{P}$ generalizes the Tutte polynomial from matroids to polymatroids $P$. In \emph{[Adv. Math. 402 (2022) 108355.]} and \emph{[J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 188 (2022) 105584]}, the authors provided bases expansion and rank generating function constru…

I will die on this hill, but these class definition pages for #dotnet are unhelpful and a waste of time.

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Was genau zählt eigentlich als #Mikroplastik?
Die Europäische Union, das Umweltprogramm der Vereinten Nationen und #Umweltschützer verwenden überraschend unterschiedliche Definitionen. Wer wissen will, wie Mikroplastik definiert wird und woraus …

Was ist Mikroplastik? Eine umfassende Definition und Erklärung
Was genau ist Mikroplastik? Lies hier die verschiedenen Definitionen und ihre Bedeutung für Umwelt und Gesundheit.

ambassador: Philippines Ambassador bombing (2000)
A temporal network representing snapshots of relationships among individuals directly or indirectly associated with Philippines Ambassador Residence Bombing 2000, Jakarta. Nodes are people, and an edge exists if they are associated with each other. Definition of the edge weight is unknown.
This network has 16 nodes and 36 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal

Generalized probabilistic approximation characteristic based on Birkhoff orthogonality and related conclusions in $S_{\infty}$-norm
Weiye Zhang, Chong Wang, Huan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10458

Generalized probabilistic approximation characteristic based on Birkhoff orthogonality and related conclusions in $S_{\infty}$-norm
In this article, we generalize the definition of the probabilistic Gel'fand width from the Hilbert space to the strictly convex reflexive space by giving Birkhoff left orthogonal decomposition theorem. Meanwhile, a more natural definition of Gel'fand width in the classical setting is selected to make sure probabilistic and average Gel'fand widths will not lose their meaning, so that we can give the equality relation between the probabilistic Gel'fand width and the probabilistic linear width of …

InterKey: Cross-modal Intersection Keypoints for Global Localization on OpenStreetMap
Nguyen Hoang Khoi Tran, Julie Stephany Berrio, Mao Shan, Stewart Worrall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13857

InterKey: Cross-modal Intersection Keypoints for Global Localization on OpenStreetMap
Reliable global localization is critical for autonomous vehicles, especially in environments where GNSS is degraded or unavailable, such as urban canyons and tunnels. Although high-definition (HD) maps provide accurate priors, the cost of data collection, map construction, and maintenance limits scalability. OpenStreetMap (OSM) offers a free and globally available alternative, but its coarse abstraction poses challenges for matching with sensor data. We propose InterKey, a cross-modal framework…

On the Multiary Algebraic Formulation of an Idempotent Symmetric Limit Convex Structure
Walter Briec
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14843 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

On the Multiary Algebraic Formulation of an Idempotent Symmetric Limit Convex Structure
In [14], B-convexity was defined as an appropriate Painlevé-Kuratowski limit of linear convexities. More recently, an alternative algebraic formulation over the entire Euclidean vector space was proposed in [9] and [10]. The issue with the definition presented in [14] is that it was not developed from an algebraic perspective, but rather as the upper limit of a sequence of generalized convex polytopes whose form was not explicitly given. In this paper, we build on recent work and provide an al…

Defining Security in Quantum Key Distribution
Carla Ferradini, Martin Sandfuchs, Ramona Wolf, Renato Renner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13405 https://arxiv.…

Defining Security in Quantum Key Distribution
The security of quantum key distribution (QKD) is quantified by a parameter $\varepsilon>0$, which -- under well-defined physical assumptions -- can be bounded explicitly. This contrasts with computationally secure schemes, where security claims are only asymptotic (i.e., under standard complexity assumptions, one only knows that $\varepsilon \to 0$ as the key size grows, but has no explicit bound). Here we explain the definition and interpretation of $\varepsilon$-security. Adopting an axiomat…

qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…

Teaching LLMs to Plan: Logical Chain-of-Thought Instruction Tuning for Symbolic Planning
Pulkit Verma, Ngoc La, Anthony Favier, Swaroop Mishra, Julie A. Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13351

Teaching LLMs to Plan: Logical Chain-of-Thought Instruction Tuning for Symbolic Planning
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across diverse tasks, yet their ability to perform structured symbolic planning remains limited, particularly in domains requiring formal representations like the Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL). In this paper, we present a novel instruction tuning framework, PDDL-Instruct, designed to enhance LLMs' symbolic planning capabilities through logical chain-of-thought reasoning. Our approach focuses on teaching models t…

ambassador: Philippines Ambassador bombing (2000)
A temporal network representing snapshots of relationships among individuals directly or indirectly associated with Philippines Ambassador Residence Bombing 2000, Jakarta. Nodes are people, and an edge exists if they are associated with each other. Definition of the edge weight is unknown.
This network has 16 nodes and 1 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal

soc_net_comms: Networks with group metadata
Snapshots of LiveJournal, Friendster, Orkut, and YouTube online social networks, as well as DBLP and Amazon. Node metadata represents a post hoc definition of a 'community' that a node belongs to, derived from topical labels of the node or interest-based 'groups' that a node links to.
This network has 334863 nodes and 925872 edges.
Tags: Online, Social, Collaboration, Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadat…

ambassador: Philippines Ambassador bombing (2000)
A temporal network representing snapshots of relationships among individuals directly or indirectly associated with Philippines Ambassador Residence Bombing 2000, Jakarta. Nodes are people, and an edge exists if they are associated with each other. Definition of the edge weight is unknown.
This network has 16 nodes and 1 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal