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Quite extensive writeup on the whole W/X situation, the title suggesting too political of a discussion - I do recommend reading through it, neglecting stances, and just seeing where the projects stand.
To be clear, I do not endorse or judge anything here. It helps getting an overview. In the end, there are too many aspects, and deciding for either solution requires you to consider your personal preferences and priorities.

The price of software freedom is eternal politics
Comment: Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too

FC Barcelona, La Liga champions again. There has been no discussion, it has been the best team by far and, on top of that, with players from the youth academy as a fundamental part of the title. Bravo.

The most recent episode of #AmericanHysteria podcast was a very interesting discussion about J. Edger Hoover tying the government to his religious views more openly and extensively than I'd previously understood.
May have to check out Lerone A. Martin's book to get all the details. It's continously surprising to me (though it really shouldn't be) how some people …

The FBI's White Christian Nation with Lerone A. Martin
Podcast Episode · American Hysteria · 07/14/2025 · 1h 28m

Good discussion of Apple's AI paper ((without denying that GenAI can' t think or reason and produce bullshit)
#AI

AI companies and defence contracts are a match made in heaven 😇
/s
From: @…
https://social.lansky.name/@hn100/114854462031320582

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058419143/important-news
TL;DR - Boards.ie is losing traffic cause of Google’s algorithm and are now unsustainable.
They are re-enabling ads and will be launching paid membership next week. They need 2,000 paying members in order …

Important News!!
Dear Boards.ie Community, We want to have an open and honest conversation about the future of Boards.ie.

I'm not sure it's legal to have such a well-reasoned discussion of AI and tech employment, but in case it is: #linkTuesday

Our shithead mayor is not only breaking the law by refusing to build 50mi of new protected bike lanes per year - he is now ripping out protected bike lanes. #FuckEricAdams!
And fuck Gov Hochul as well for not removing his corrupt ass months ago. She's not getting my vote ever again.

Dana Rubinstein (@danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social)
Context: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/nyregion/adams-jewish-cuomo-endorsement.html (at a recent town hall in Hasidic Williamsburg, much of the discussion was about how much folks wanted the bike lane removed)

@… This seems like the kind of thing you'd like
https://bsky.app/profile/ukrainewarpod.bsky.social/post/3ltnhr654ks26

Hypothesis: Fediverse users have more capital/financial privileges than on other social media platforms. Let's test it!
How much cash (€) could you realistically make liquid within 1 year? Including selling car, flat, stocks etc. (excluding debts).
Anonymous & honest! (I'm having a discussion with a person from a marketing department...)
After voting, please boost/share to help get more responses! 😊

EVENT: Online event "Jewish-Catholic Relations in a Volatile World: A Conversation on the Legacy of Pope Francis and Future Directions under Pope Leo XIV" (July 24)
https://ift.tt/0LBHupV
REPOSTING: Lecture by Wiebke Denecke (MIT) on ‘How Can We Leverage Our Cultural Wiring Around Nature…
vi…

Description and Discussion on DCASE 2025 Challenge Task 4: Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes
Masahiro Yasuda, Binh Thien Nguyen, Noboru Harada, Romain Serizel, Mayank Mishra, Marc Delcroix, Shoko Araki, Daiki Takeuchi, Daisuke Niizumi, Yasunori Ohishi, Tomohiro Nakatani, Takao Kawamura, Nobutaka Ono
https://arxiv.org…

Description and Discussion on DCASE 2025 Challenge Task 4: Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes
Spatial Semantic Segmentation of Sound Scenes (S5) aims to enhance technologies for sound event detection and separation from multi-channel input signals that mix multiple sound events with spatial information. This is a fundamental basis of immersive communication. The ultimate goal is to separate sound event signals with 6 Degrees of Freedom (6DoF) information into dry sound object signals and metadata about the object type (sound event class) and representing spatial information, including d…

Bulk Excitations of Invertible Phases
Wenjie Ji, David T. Stephen, Michael Levin, Xie Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11288 https://a…

Bulk Excitations of Invertible Phases
Recent developments in the study of topological defects highlight the importance of understanding the multi-dimensional structure of bulk excitations inside a quantum system. When the bulk ground state is trivial, i.e. a product state, excitations on top of it are decoupled from each other and correspond to lower-dimensional phases and their defects within. In this paper, we expand the discussion to invertible phases and study the bulk excitations in, for example, SPT phases, Majorana chains, p…

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

Situated Bayes -- Feminist and Pluriversal Perspectives on Bayesian Knowledge
Juni Schindler, Goda Klumbyt\.e, Matthew Fuller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09472

Situated Bayes -- Feminist and Pluriversal Perspectives on Bayesian Knowledge
This is the introduction and lead article to the Situated Bayes special issue of Computational Culture. The article introduces Bayes' Theorem and aspects of its contemporary uses, for instance in machine learning. A mathematical discussion is developed alongside a consideration of Bayes Theorem in relation to critical theories of knowledge, specifically the discussion of situated knowledge in feminist theories of science, pluriversal knowledge in decolonial theory, and critical approaches to ma…

A discussion on the symmetry of relativistic Vlasov gas and its accretion in Kerr-Newman black hole
Yong-qiang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08341 https:/…

A discussion on the symmetry of relativistic Vlasov gas and its accretion in Kerr-Newman black hole
We investigate the kinetic properties of collisionless Vlasov gas in Kerr-Newman spacetime, focusing on how spacetime symmetries constrain the distribution functions. By establishing the general relationship between distribution functions and constants of motion (mass $m$, energy $E$, angular momentum $L_z$, Carter constant $L$) along with $L$'s conjugate configuration variable $Q^{3}$, we derive the analytical framework for particle dynamics in stationary axisymmetric spacetimes. Within the Lo…

Description and Discussion on DCASE 2025 Challenge Task 2: First-shot Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection for Machine Condition Monitoring
Tomoya Nishida, Noboru Harada, Daisuke Niizumi, Davide Albertini, Roberto Sannino, Simone Pradolini, Filippo Augusti, Keisuke Imoto, Kota Dohi, Harsh Purohit, Takashi Endo, Yohei Kawaguchi
https://

Description and Discussion on DCASE 2025 Challenge Task 2: First-shot Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection for Machine Condition Monitoring
This paper introduces the task description for the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2025 Challenge Task 2, titled "First-shot unsupervised anomalous sound detection (ASD) for machine condition monitoring." Building on the DCASE 2024 Challenge Task 2, this task is structured as a first-shot problem within a domain generalization framework. The primary objective of the first-shot approach is to facilitate the rapid deployment of ASD systems for new machine types …

Very interesting discussion!
https://www.thetransmitter.org/attention/the-brains-quiet-conductor-how-hidden-cells-fine-tune-arousal/

Discussion Chain
Tomohiro Nobeyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23722 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23722…

Discussion Chain
To make scientific truth more reliable and qualified, I propose to focus on the chain of discussion in a scientific journal rather than on each original paper. The value, quality and reliability should be judged by the form of the whole discussion chain, not only by an original report. Funding and sponsorship should also give more priority to the extension of the discussion chain. Maintaining the discussion chain and evaluating each scientific truth by the whole chain is the next value of the s…

Learn Like Feynman: Developing and Testing an AI-Driven Feynman Bot
Akshaya Rajesh, Sumbul Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09055 https://

Learn Like Feynman: Developing and Testing an AI-Driven Feynman Bot
The Feynman learning technique is an active learning strategy that helps learners simplify complex information through student-led teaching and discussion. In this paper, we present the development and usability testing of the Feynman Bot, which uses the Feynman technique to assist self-regulated learners who lack peer or instructor support. The Bot embodies the Feynman learning technique by encouraging learners to discuss their lecture material in a question-answer-driven discussion format. Th…

B02 - Shadow
BEK: What's in it for you?
BLAKE: You can help me with one of my crew. His name's Vila and he's suffering from a bad attack of alcoholic remorse. [Into bracelet] All right, Cally. [To them] He wants to make a necklace of his teeth.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/321

Every time I hear the words, "I just feel like..." in conversation, I try to excuse myself from the discussion because that's a tell that the speaker's put no forethought into their argument & likely has no actual evidence of the point they're making.
Don't workshop your homespun logic on me.

#warthunder

BAe Harrier II (UK versions) - Technical data and discussion
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Code-Switching in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition: A Systematic Literature Review
Maha Tufail Agro, Atharva Kulkarni, Karima Kadaoui, Zeerak Talat, Hanan Aldarmaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07741

Code-Switching in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition: A Systematic Literature Review
Motivated by a growing research interest into automatic speech recognition (ASR), and the growing body of work for languages in which code-switching (CS) often occurs, we present a systematic literature review of code-switching in end-to-end ASR models. We collect and manually annotate papers published in peer reviewed venues. We document the languages considered, datasets, metrics, model choices, and performance, and present a discussion of challenges in end-to-end ASR for code-switching. Our …

When unvaccinated families present with measles at healthcare centres, doctors sometimes struggle to even discuss vaccination with the parents, Hussain said.
“It’s really hard to even approach the conversation.
I would ask: ‘How come you aren’t [vaccinated]?’
And they will say: ‘Oh, we’re exempt’
or ‘We’ve had this discussion before and we just don’t want to,’” she said

Some cool footage and discussion of full-scale EV fire testing by UL/FSRI. This should have been done a long time ago, given how many EVs are on the roads now, but better late than never I guess.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6j3GtcAfE0
Project website:

My instance is on v4.4.0. Quote post something if your instance allows it, so I could bask in its glory 😀
Also, is the reply fetch supposed to be configurable in the admin section of v4.4.0? I am still using #Substitoot for a quick look before going to the original post to follow the discussion.

@… @… Check out this discussion: https://

SimuPanel: A Novel Immersive Multi-Agent System to Simulate Interactive Expert Panel Discussion
Xiangyang He, Jiale Li, Jiahao Chen, Yang Yang, Mingming Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16010

SimuPanel: A Novel Immersive Multi-Agent System to Simulate Interactive Expert Panel Discussion
Panel discussion allows the audience to learn different perspectives through interactive discussions among experts moderated by a host and a Q&A session with the audience. Despite its benefits, panel discussion in the real world is inaccessible to many who do not have the privilege to participate due to geographical, financial, and time constraints. We present SimuPanel, which simulates panel discussions among academic experts through LLM-based multi-agent interaction. It enables users to defin…

As expected, the #kde discussion forum is tone - policing my contribution. First there are violent changes introducing a dozen bugs. And then, they expect that you unpack the violin to report nicely the dozen bugs instead of just asking them to revert that shit they produced.
#kde currently turns into perma-alpha …

„Right now, if you wanted to, you could place a bet that Jesus Christ will not return this year, and earn over $13,000 if you’re right.”
https://ericneyman.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/will-jesus-christ-return-in-an-election-year/

Gradient flow in the kernel learning problem
Yang Li, Feng Ruan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08550 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08550

Gradient flow in the kernel learning problem
This is a sequel to our paper `On the kernel learning problem'. We identify a canonical choice of Riemannian gradient flow, to find the stationary points in the kernel learning problem. In the presence of Gaussian noise variables, this flow enjoys the remarkable property of having a continuous family of Lyapunov functionals, and the interpretation is the automatic reduction of noise. PS. We include an extensive discussion in the postcript explaining the comparison with the 2-layer neural netw…

Gauge potentials on the M5 brane in twisted equivariant cohomotopy
Pinak Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07049 https://arxiv.org/…

Gauge potentials on the M5 brane in twisted equivariant cohomotopy
In this article, we work out some variations on the discussion of the C-field flux densities in the Sati-Schreiber program. We start by explaining the need for global completion of the field content: the fluxes, the gauge potentials and the gauge transformations on the worldvolume of a single M5 brane in eleven-dimensional supergravity, and how this is encoded by the choice of flux quantization law. \smallskip Assuming Hypothesis H that the 4-flux in M-Theory is flux quantized in a non-abelia…

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Ammonia, Methane, Hydrogen and Methanol Produced in Remote Renewable Energy Hubs: a Comparative Quantitative Analysis
Antoine Larbanois, Victor Dachet, Antoine Dubois, Rapha\"el Fonteneau, Damien Ernst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07681

Ammonia, Methane, Hydrogen and Methanol Produced in Remote Renewable Energy Hubs: a Comparative Quantitative Analysis
Remote renewable energy hubs (RREHs) for synthetic fuel production are engineering systems harvesting renewable energy where it is particularly abundant. They produce transportable synthetic fuels for export to distant load centers. This article aims to evaluate the production costs of different energy carriers, and includes a discussion on advantages and disadvantages in terms of technical performance. To do so, we extend the study of Berger et al., (2021) which focuses on methane (CH4) as ene…

Watch Github for what happens for companies that go all-in on AI.
Notice all the details that are wrong now. Notice the docs. Notice the confusion between different interfaces. Notice the UI jank in new places. This is what happens when engineering decisions are made by default instead of discussion and planning. This is what happens when writing (already easier than editing) becomes even easier without improving editing.

CaféOli organise un atelier ☕️ dimanche 18.05.2025, de 10h00 Š 13h00 Š Villette
Au programme dans leur caveau:
👉petit déjeuner gourmand
👉discussion sur l'univers du café de spécialité
👉démonstration de torréfaction
👉extraction de café de spécialité, utilisant la méthode de la cafetière italienne et de l'espresso, tout en abordant divers thèmes tels que la mouture, l'extraction, le matériel et le choix des grains
90.-, avec un totebag CaféOli 😊

Atelier 18/5 - Café Oli Torréfaction Artisanale
C'est avec joie que nous vous convions à notre Atelier le dimanche 18 mai 2025, de 10h00 à 13h00 environ, niché au cœur de la torréfaction CaféOli à Villette. Dans notre caveau de vignerons au charme d'antan, un petit déjeuner gourmand vous attendra, suivi d'une discussion passionnante sur l'univers du café de spécialité avec Oliver, notre magicien des grains, et Kevin, le barista du Social Club Coffee. Puis, nous passerons à l'action avec une démonstration de torréfaction et l'…

#today attended TTK Energy Group meeting with some interesting run-on discussion about a community energy project. Now I am on my #research model stuff for the rest of the day...

17½ minutes of primal squatting tonight, catching up on the 1980 German novella "Ein fliehendes Pferd" by Martin Walser. I'll be leading a book discussion group for the Volkbildungswerk on it in three weeks. Sign up! https://www.vbw-ned.de/programm…

Best Practices for Machine Learning-Assisted Protein Engineering
Fabio Herrera-Rocha, David Medina-Ortiz, Fabian Mauz, Juergen Pleiss, Mehdi D. Davari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07547

Best Practices for Machine Learning-Assisted Protein Engineering
Data-driven modeling based on Machine Learning (ML) is becoming a central component of protein engineering workflows. This perspective presents the elements necessary to develop effective, reliable, and reproducible ML models, and a set of guidelines for ML developments for protein engineering. This includes a critical discussion of software engineering good practices for development and evaluation of ML-based protein engineering projects, emphasizing supervised learning. These guidelines cover…

"Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software"
I'm always saying, open source software is good!
Which opensouce license is forbidding military use?
I remember that there was a discussion about that in the #searchwing project.
And of course, military can still ignore it. terrorists will ignore for sure..
Via @…

Ukraine's Massive Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software
Ukraine used ArduPilot to help it wipe out Russian targets. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.

Whatever LLMs and gen AI may or may not •actually• be good for, whatever jobs they may or may not actually reshape or displace, right now we’re in the middle of a bubble. The sheer amount of money involved makes it almost impossible to think clearly about this, much less have a useful public discussion. Even well-founded hopes and fears for the tech fuel a fire that I very much do not want to fuel.
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Is there Ethics in Mathematics?
Roman Kossak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01185 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01185

Is there Ethics in Mathematics?
This is a critical response to some arguments and general recommendations presented in a discussion paper Four Levels of Ethical Engagement [EiM Discussion Paper 1/2018 University of Cambridge Ethics in Mathematics Project, https://www.ethics-in-mathematics.com/assets/dp/18 1.pdf] by Maurice Chiodo and Piers Bursill-Hall. Much in their article is based on certain observations about characteristic psychological traits of mathematicians and their patterns of behavior that I find to be in stark co…

Egyptian fractions for few primes
Agustina Czenky, Emily McGovern, Julia Plavnik, Eric Rowell, Abigail Watkins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03727 https://

Egyptian fractions for few primes
We study solutions to the Egyptian fractions equation with the prime factors of the denominators constrained to lie in a fixed set of primes. We evaluate the effectiveness of the greedy algorithm in establishing bounds on such solutions. Additionally, we present improved algorithms for generating low-rank solutions and solutions restricted to specific prime sets. Computational results obtained using these algorithms are provided, alongside a discussion on their performance.

ok, so, you know how the standards (C/POSIX) allow malloc(0) to return NULL?
i went to refresh my memory after a discussion of a security issue today and as best as i can tell, no commonly used OS has ever had malloc(0) return NULL, including historical ones¹. windows, glibc, musl, BSDs, all return a non-NULL pointer to some object
¹…

Personalized Large Language Models Can Increase the Belief Accuracy of Social Networks
Adiba Mahbub Proma, Neeley Pate, Sean Kelty, Gourab Ghoshal, James N. Druckman, Ehsan Hoque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06153

Personalized Large Language Models Can Increase the Belief Accuracy of Social Networks
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in shaping public understanding on contested issues. This has led to substantial discussion about the potential of LLMs to reinforce or correct misperceptions. While existing literature documents the impact of LLMs on individuals' beliefs, limited work explores how LLMs affect social networks. We address this gap with a pre-registered experiment (N = 1265) around the 2024 US presidential election, where we empirically explore the impact of …

For those with a Twitter (X) account, there is a fun little discussion thread between me, myself and #AI (Grok, ChatGPT) about whether Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant will work for congenitally blind people to see. https://

Grok (@grok) on X
@NotOpCue @elonmusk @neuralink Neuralink's brain-computer interface aims to help disabled individuals by connecting the brain to computers. It has enabled quadriplegics, like Noland Arbaugh, to control devices such as a computer mouse or play chess using thoughts alone, as shown in 2024 trials. The Blindsight

Some good venting by Steve Klabnik about the sorry state of significant chunks of the AI debate today:
"What is breaking my brain a little bit is that all of the discussion online around AI is so incredibly polarized. This isn’t a “the middle is always right” sort of thing either, to be clear. It’s more that both the pro-AI and anti-AI sides are loudly proclaiming things that are pretty trivially verifiable as not true."

A consultation on the future of #Wikinews has been kicked off, with a thorough review. Discussion is starting. Thanks to Victoria Doronina for all her work with this!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Publ…

Public consultation about Wikinews - Meta

My golf buddies and I had a serious discussion, and I need your input. Best Catwoman from the 1960s.
#Batman #BIFF #POW
Julie Newmar
Lee Meriwether
Eartha Kitt

Had a discussion with a small author who sees authors who do readings for little money as kind of price dumpes and class traitors. I asked him where the money for his fee should come from when only 20 people show up for his reading and that hardly pays promo, tech guy etc.

«The original paper confidently and without discussion labelled millions of tweets based on what Dave (and some others) said about the website in the tweet, but the original authors have almost certainly never heard of Dave. […] Dave's opinions must take on a form totally independent of Dave, because the original authors would never have taken this dataset seriously had it been presented as "Dave's thoughts on media." This is the spectacle of computation.»
@…

https://theluddite.org/post/spectacle-of-computation.html

Confessions Radio
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Confessions Radio | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Confessions Radio Hosts: Amma and Chrystal Category: Comedy Sub-Category: Comedy Interviews & Chats, Personal Stories First Episode: 2022 Confessions is the go-to discussion space for all…

Many professed concerns from the right about Israel or antisemitism are expressions of American identity politics and nativism
-- more than they are statements of genuine concern for the safety and well-being of minorities.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/if-not-now-when/

If Not Now, When? Contextualizing the White Supremacist Threat to Muslims and Jews
Much ink has been spilled in recent months debating comments by U.S. Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) regarding Israel. People have argued, sometimes in good faith, that they used antisemitic tropes, unintentionally or not. However, this discussion has lacked necessary cultural and social background to make

“WCAG 3, increment or overhaul?”
https://alastairc.uk/2025/06/increment-or-overhaul-wcag-3/
Taking off his hat as the AGWG chair to discuss iterating in WCAG2.
Related to the WCAG3 discussion (with notes from meeting yesterday):

OpenTRV Archive Material and Sources - Archival collection of OpenTRV history, events, links, discussion, and related material. #OpenTRV #heating #cutCarbon -

What I don't hear from the #establishment #Democrats is any discussion about how to actually reach out and #TalkWithVoters (They talk TO voters, but it's not a dialogue (they talk AT voters?)…

Statistical significance in choice modelling: computation, usage and reporting
Stephane Hess, Andrew Daly, Michiel Bliemer, Angelo Guevara, Ricardo Daziano, Thijs Dekker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05996

Statistical significance in choice modelling: computation, usage and reporting
This paper offers a commentary on the use of notions of statistical significance in choice modelling. We argue that, as in many other areas of science, there is an over-reliance on 95% confidence levels, and misunderstandings of the meaning of significance. We also observe a lack of precision in the reporting of measures of uncertainty in many studies, especially when using p-values and even more so with star measures. The paper provides a precise discussion on the computation of measures of un…

A highly overlooked perspective, about the current AI discussion, where AI and LLMs are treated as synonyms and so hype and money is funnled into highly inefficient pseudo-solutions when sometimes just a bunch of if-else statements or a state machine would suffice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnNW4_1DqF

Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100 children he fathered, and more (Guillaume Grallet/Le Point)
https://www.

EXCLUSIVE. Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI — and the fight for Telegram
INTERVIEW. "Le Point" met with the co-founder and CEO of the secure messaging app Telegram, who was charged in August 2024. A sweeping discussion on politics, power and democracy.

On the Spherical Dirichlet Distribution: Corrections and Results
Jose H Guardiola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04441 https://arxiv.org/…

On the Spherical Dirichlet Distribution: Corrections and Results
This note corrects a technical error in Guardiola (2020, Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications), presents updated derivations, and offers an extended discussion of the properties of the spherical Dirichlet distribution. Today, data mining and gene expressions are at the forefront of modern data analysis. Here we introduce a novel probability distribution that is applicable in these fields. This paper develops the proposed Spherical-Dirichlet Distribution designed to fit vectors …

VERY good and informative discussion about internet #supplychain #security at #igf2025. Are any lawmakers or parliamentarians watching?

Why #PropertyTesting Finds Bugs #UnitTesting Does Not
https://bu…

Aparentemente quieren privacidad pero no mucha...
Simplemente mencionar una versión alternativa de #Android, como #Graphene, te bloquea. ¿No sabes lo que es? Te cuento ⏬
Estaban hablando sobre si iOS es mejor que Android en temas de privacidad, cosa que no es así, los dos son muy malos, basura, pero ha…

slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01009 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Detection of "diffuse" coronal He I 1083 during the April 8 2024 Solar Eclipse: evidence for terrestrial atmospheric scattering origin
Strong He I 1083 nm atomic line signals have been previously measured during total solar eclipses at coronal heights above the lunar limb. This rather unexpected measurement has kindled a discussion about the hypothesized presence of significant amounts of neutral helium at coronal conditions. We performed spectroscopic observations of the He I 1083 nm spectroscopic region with the newly built CHEESE instrument during the April 8th 2024 total solar eclipse to test the presence of He I 1083 in t…

Ah, frequency illusion bias/Baader-Meinhof phenomenon! I have been learning about the nation-state Treaty of Westphalia stuff.
I'm finding it a bit odd that I'm so late to learn about this ... is it less emphasised in Australia? Why is it emphasised in the US?
At my current stage of learning, Australia's self-definition feels heavily 'state', with any discussion of 'nation' often being tied to racism.
More to learn I guess!
#NationState #TreatyOfWestphalia

@… This article and audio discussion explains why the people's vote for Eurovision is so easily manipulated. The article is from last year but the problems and result are the same
@…

If anyone is playing Remedy's new game "FBC: Firebreak", and you're not in the official Discord server for it, come join us! We chat, form groups with voice comms (there's a bot thing so you can create 3-person temporary channels), we have lore discussion etc.
https://discord.gg/Control…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11292 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepe…

Status of the International Linear Collider
This paper is not a proposal for a CERN future project but provides information on the International Linear Collider (ILC) considered for Japan in order to facilitate the European Strategy discussion in a global context. It describes progress to date, ongoing engineering studies, updated cost estimate for the machine at $\sqrt{s}=250~\rm GeV$ and the situation in Japan. The physics of the ILC is not presented here, but jointly for all Linear Collider projects in a separate document ``A Linear C…

Bicomplex polar weighted homogeneous polynomials
Yesenia Bravo, In\'acio Rabelo, Agust\'in Romano-Vel\'azquez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00255 …

Bicomplex polar weighted homogeneous polynomials
We study the topology of real polynomial maps $\mathbb{R}^{4n} \longrightarrow \mathbb{R}^{4}$ expressed in terms of bicomplex variables and their conjugates, which we refer to as bicomplex mixed polynomials. We introduce the notion of polar weighted homogeneity, a property that generalizes the concept of weighted homogeneity in the complex setting. This leads to the existence of global and spherical Milnor fibrations. Moreover, we include a discussion on bicomplex vector calculus, a bicomplex …

Is Fake Grass Safe? A Manufacturer Sues to Stop a Discussion. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/climate/artificial-turf-grass-lawsuit-defamation-health-risk.html

Constructions of Optimal Frequency-Hopping Sequences with Controlled Minimum Gaps
Chen Li, Chunlei Li, Xiangyong Zeng, Dian Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00945

Constructions of Optimal Frequency-Hopping Sequences with Controlled Minimum Gaps
Frequency-hopping sequences (FHSs) with low Hamming correlation and wide gaps significantly contribute to the anti-interference performance in FH communication systems. This paper investigates FHSs with optimal Hamming correlation and controlled minimum gaps. We start with the discussion of the upper bounds on the minimum gaps of uniform FHSs and then propose a general construction of optimal uniform wide-gap FHSs with length 2l and 3l, which includes the work by Li et al. in IEEE Trans. Inf. T…

Continuing the discussion on "The inconvenient truth about flocks" by Chen et al
Hugues Chat\'e, Alexandre Solon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13437

Continuing the discussion on "The inconvenient truth about flocks" by Chen et al
We hereby reply concisely and hopefully clearly to the ongoing claims of incorrectness made by Chen et al. about our work on two-dimensional flocks.

I don't usually get involved in the pro/anti nuclear discussion, but whenever people say "we need nuclear because renewables aren't reliable enough", do they usually take into account how much energy storage you can buy for the price of one nuclear power plant?

Threads plans to let users hide text or images that spoil a piece of entertainment, blurring the text or image that has been marked as a spoiler (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digita…

Meta’s Threads Is Declaring War on Spoilers (Exclusive)
The text-based app from Meta is launching a tool that lets users hide spoilers in text or images, to encourage discussion of TV shows and films on the platform.

Whatever LLMs and gen AI may or may not •actually• be good for, whatever jobs they may or may not actually reshape or displace, right now we’re in the middle of a bubble. The sheer amount of money involved makes it almost impossible to think clearly about this, much less have a useful public discussion. Even well-founded hopes and fears for the tech fuel a fire that I very much do not want to fuel.
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From Turing to Tomorrow: The UK's Approach to AI Regulation
Oliver Ritchie, Markus Anderljung, Tom Rachman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03050 https://

From Turing to Tomorrow: The UK's Approach to AI Regulation
The UK has pursued a distinctive path in AI regulation: less cautious than the EU but more willing to address risks than the US, and has emerged as a global leader in coordinating AI safety efforts. Impressive developments from companies like London-based DeepMind began to spark concerns in the UK about catastrophic risks from around 2012, although regulatory discussion at the time focussed on bias and discrimination. By 2022, these discussions had evolved into a "pro-innovation" strategy, in w…

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slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
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we love bus stuff https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:w45xv3md5q5w5eoqx3xhhe3n/post/3lsflauviwk2h

There's a lovely discussion on Twitter/X between humans and AI models (Grok and Perplexity) on whether a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant can provide meaningful vision to people born blind https://x.com/waleedd322/status/1927463484800835657

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VaxPulse: Monitoring of Online Public Concerns to Enhance Post-licensure Vaccine Surveillance
Muhammad Javed, Sedigh Khademi, Joanne Hickman, Jim Buttery, Hazel Clothier, Gerardo Luis Dimaguila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04656

VaxPulse: Monitoring of Online Public Concerns to Enhance Post-licensure Vaccine Surveillance
The recent vaccine-related infodemic has amplified public concerns, highlighting the need for proactive misinformation management. We describe how we enhanced the reporting surveillance system of Victoria's vaccine safety service, SAEFVIC, through the incorporation of new information sources for public sentiment analysis, topics of discussion, and hesitancies about vaccinations online. Using VaxPulse, a multi-step framework, we integrate adverse events following immunisation (AEFI) with sentime…

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
AVON: [Steps in front of the others] Who was the first, Dorian?
DORIAN: [Troubled] My partner. We entered this place together. Like you, he could never leave it.
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Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Threads plans to let users hide text or images that spoil a piece of entertainment, blurring the text or image that has been marked as a spoiler (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digita…

Meta’s Threads Is Declaring War on Spoilers (Exclusive)
The text-based app from Meta is launching a tool that lets users hide spoilers in text or images, to encourage discussion of TV shows and films on the platform.

I'm pretty happy with the top side Samtec ARF6 launch simulations now.
S11:
* Red: No cutout, -12 dB at 10 GHz, -7 at 20 GHz, -4.8 at 30 GHz
* Blue: Rectangular ground cutout the size of the pad, -22.5 at 10 GHz, -16.4 at 20 GHz, -11.7 at 30 GHz
* Green: 30um larger than the pad on all sides (1.06 x 0.41 mm), -30.5 at 10 GHz, -22 at 20, -15 at 30.
With the oversized cutout it's more than good enough for QSGMII and 25Gbase-R.
TDR:
* Red: No cutou…

StorySpace: Technology supporting reflection, expression, and discourse in classroom narrative
Benjamin Watson, Janet Kim, Tim McEneany, Tom Moher, Claudia Hindo, Louis Gomez, Stephen Fransen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02156

StorySpace: Technology supporting reflection, expression, and discourse in classroom narrative
The StorySpace project studies the role new interface technologies might play in high school education. With this approach in mind, StorySpace is specifically designed to support and enhance classroom narrative, an already well-established classroom activity. StorySpace strives to achieve this through adherence to three design goals. The first is to trigger student reflection and interpretation. The narrative medium created by StorySpace should represent the topic of classroom discussion and le…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05547 has been replaced.
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Critical Dynamics of Random Surfaces: Time Evolution of Area and Genus
Conformal field theories with central charge $c\le1$ on random surfaces have been extensively studied in the past. Here, this discussion is extended from their equilibrium distribution to their critical dynamics. This is motivated by the conjecture that these models describe the time evolution of certain social networks that are self-driven to a critical point. This paper focuses on the dynamics of the overall area and the genus of the surface. The time evolution of the area is shown to follow …

At the #igf2025 session on encryption and safety, they seem to be more interested in talking about tertiary issues like funding and skills shortage, but only after having the FBI share their perspectives.
Not a useful session, too one-sided, and with too little discussion on principles that actually help solve the balancing issues. 😟
E.g. principles like "Do not introduce solution…

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Discussion of "Causal and counterfactual views of missing data models" by Razieh Nabi, Rohit Bhattacharya, Ilya Shpitser, & James M. Robins
Alex W. Levis, Edward H. Kennedy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13025

Discussion of "Causal and counterfactual views of missing data models" by Razieh Nabi, Rohit Bhattacharya, Ilya Shpitser, & James M. Robins
We congratulate Nabi et al. (2022) on their impressive and insightful paper, which illustrates the benefits of using causal/counterfactual perspectives and tools in missing data problems. This paper represents an important approach to missing-not-at-random (MNAR) problems, exploiting nonparametric independence restrictions for identification, as opposed to parametric/semiparametric models, or resorting to sensitivity analysis. Crucially, the authors represent these restrictions with missing dat…

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slashdot_threads: Slashdot thread replies (2007)
A network of replies among users of the website Slashdot on the various discussion threads on the site. Nodes are user accounts and each directed edge represents a reply from user i to user j. Replies are timestamped.
This network has 51083 nodes and 140778 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Risks of AI-driven product development and strategies for their mitigation
Jan G\"opfert, Jann M. Weinand, Patrick Kuckertz, Noah Pflugradt, Jochen Lin{\ss}en
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00047

Risks of AI-driven product development and strategies for their mitigation
Humanity is progressing towards automated product development, a trend that promises faster creation of better products and thus the acceleration of technological progress. However, increasing reliance on non-human agents for this process introduces many risks. This perspective aims to initiate a discussion on these risks and appropriate mitigation strategies. To this end, we outline a set of principles for safer AI-driven product development which emphasize human oversight, accountability, and…

User Concerns Regarding Social Robots for Mood Regulation: A Case Study on the "Sunday Blues"
Zhuochao Peng, Jiaxin Xu, Jun Hu, Haian Xue, Laurens A. G. Kolks, Pieter M. A. Desmet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00271

User Concerns Regarding Social Robots for Mood Regulation: A Case Study on the "Sunday Blues"
While recent research highlights the potential of social robots to support mood regulation, little is known about how prospective users view their integration into everyday life. To explore this, we conducted an exploratory case study that used a speculative robot concept "Mora" to provoke reflection and facilitate meaningful discussion about using social robots to manage subtle, day-to-day emotional experiences. We focused on the "Sunday Blues," a common dip in mood that occurs at the end of t…

Politics and polarization on Bluesky
Ali Salloum, Dorian Quelle, Letizia Iannucci, Alexandre Bovet, Mikko Kivel\"a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03443 ht…

Politics and polarization on Bluesky
Online political discourse is increasingly shaped not by a few dominant platforms but by a fragmented ecosystem of social media spaces, each with its own user base, target audience, and algorithmic mediation of discussion. Such fragmentation may fundamentally change how polarization manifests online. In this study, we investigate the characteristics of political discourse and polarization on the emerging social media site Bluesky. We collect all activity on the platform between December 2024 an…

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From Reports to Reality: Testing Consistency in Instagram's Digital Services Act Compliance Data
Marie-Therese Sekwenz, Ben Wagner, Hans De Bruijn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01787

From Reports to Reality: Testing Consistency in Instagram's Digital Services Act Compliance Data
The Digital Services Act (DSA) introduces harmonized rules for content moderation and platform governance in the European Union, mandating robust compliance mechanisms, particularly for very large online platforms and search engines. This study examined compliance with DSA requirements, focusing on Instagram as a case study. We develop and apply a multi-level consistency framework to evaluate DSA compliance. Our findings contribute to the broader discussion on empirically-based regulation, prov…