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British photographer, 60, shot by police at #LA riots. ”I had a press ID round my neck, a large camera, a video camera … I was making a point of making myself visible as media,” he told The Times.

British photographer, 60, shot by police at LA riots
Nick Stern said that he was covering the anti-ICE protest when what doctors believe to be a ‘sponge bullet’ hit his thigh

A Theoretical Study of (Hyper) Self-Attention through the Lens of Interactions: Representation, Training, Generalization
Muhammed Ustaomeroglu, Guannan Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06179

A Theoretical Study of (Hyper) Self-Attention through the Lens of Interactions: Representation, Training, Generalization
Self-attention has emerged as a core component of modern neural architectures, yet its theoretical underpinnings remain elusive. In this paper, we study self-attention through the lens of interacting entities, ranging from agents in multi-agent reinforcement learning to alleles in genetic sequences, and show that a single layer linear self-attention can efficiently represent, learn, and generalize functions capturing pairwise interactions, including out-of-distribution scenarios. Our analysis r…

Certification of High-Dimensional Entanglement Within the Resource Theory of Buscemi Nonlocality
Xian Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07195 https://

Certification of High-Dimensional Entanglement Within the Resource Theory of Buscemi Nonlocality
The study on the certification of high degree entanglement, which is quantified in terms of Schmidt number, attracts much attention recently. Drawing inspiration from the work [PRX QUANTUM 2, 020301 (2021)], we first introduce resource theories of distributed measurements and teleportation instruments generated by a bipartite mixed state. Next we quantitatively characterized the relations among the convex resource theories of distributed measurements, teleportation instruments, and bipartite mi…

Alt National Park Service: "With the Supreme Court now handing DOGE access to Social Security data, it’s becoming undeniable, the Trump administration is building the “deep state” themselves. Don’t get distracted by the noise." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lqzsxzti3s2l

Design Tradeoffs in Photonically Linked Qubit Networks
Ely Novakoski, Jungsang Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06268 https://arxiv.org…

Design Tradeoffs in Photonically Linked Qubit Networks
Quantum networking can be realized by distributing pairs of entangled qubits between remote quantum processing nodes. Devoted communication qubits within each node can naturally interface with photons which bus quantum information between nodes. With the introduction of CQED to enhance interactions between communication qubits and photons, advanced protocols capable of achieving high entanglement distribution rates with high fidelity become feasible. In this paper, we consider two such protocol…

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Data-Driven Merton's Strategies via Policy Randomization
We study Merton's expected utility maximization problem in an incomplete market, characterized by a factor process in addition to the stock price process, where all the model primitives are unknown. The agent under consideration is a price taker who has access only to the stock and factor value processes and the instantaneous volatility. We propose an auxiliary problem in which the agent can invoke policy randomization according to a specific class of Gaussian distributions, and prove that the …

Bonjour,
Je viens de signer la pétition « Déchéance du Titre de Docteur décerné Š Mr Idriss ABERKANE par l'université de Paris-Saclay ». Cette cause me tient Š cœur et j’aimerais que le plus de monde possible soit au courant et signe cette pétition.
Voici le lien:

[Pétition] Déchéance du Titre de Docteur décerné à Mr Idriss ABERKANE par l'université de Paris-Saclay
TITLE : Withdrawal of the title of Doctor awarded to Mr Idriss ABERKANE by the University of Paris-SaclayTo: French minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research; President of Universi

Normalmente, quando faccio la pizza (alta, in teglia) ungo tutta la teglia usando un pennello e distribuendo accuratamente ovunque.
C'è una scuola di pensiero secondo cui invece bisogna mettere solo l'olio in centro e lasciare che si distribuisca "naturalmente".
Dopo aver provato a fare così, mi sento di dire che è una scuola parificata, e probabilmente parificata perché sono passate delle mazzette.

Nobel Prize Laureate Kip Thorne speaking yesterday at the Albert Einstein Institute in Postdam, Germany:
"Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science].
We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️
https://bsky.app/profile/abazajian.n…

Kev Abazajian (@abazajian.net)
Nobel Prize Laureate Kip Thorne speaking yesterday at the Albert Einstein Institute in Postdam, Germany: "Donald Trump is destroying America's capacity for [leading science]. We are counting on Europe to take over here and elsewhere." ⚛️ 🧪

Calamus 24 I hear it is charged against me
This poem feels just so typically Whitman, but lesser somehow. Not one of my favorites.
He says he is "charged that I seek to destroy institutions". Charged by whom, one wonders, is he really so important? He sort of denies this, or is ambivalent to it, and then gets to the queer part:
I will establish ... the institution of the dear love of comrades
And here we are again at the central queer question: just what does he mean by "dear love of comrades"? As I read these poems I'm increasingly thinking it's both things. Sure, it's brotherly love, adhesiveness, a sort of robust fraternity. But so much of his writing and life is homoerotic it has to also have that charge. It can be both.
I feel like I've heard that phrase "the institution of the dear love of comrades" repeated often.