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DRIVE Through the Unpredictability:From a Protocol Investigating Slip to a Metric Estimating Command Uncertainty
Nicolas Samson, William Larriv\'ee-Hardy, William Dubois, \'Elie Roy-Brouard, Edith Brotherton, Dominic Baril, Julien L\'epine, Fran\c{c}ois Pomerleau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16593

DRIVE Through the Unpredictability:From a Protocol Investigating Slip to a Metric Estimating Command Uncertainty
Off-road autonomous navigation is a challenging task as it is mainly dependent on the accuracy of the motion model. Motion model performances are limited by their ability to predict the interaction between the terrain and the UGV, which an onboard sensor can not directly measure. In this work, we propose using the DRIVE protocol to standardize the collection of data for system identification and characterization of the slip state space. We validated this protocol by acquiring a dataset with two…

Waymo launches robotaxis in Atlanta via Uber's app, covering a 65-square-mile area, after launching in Austin on March 4; its vehicles don't drive on highways (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/691101/waymo-uber-robotaxi-atl…

Waymo’s robotaxis are now available on the Uber app in Atlanta
Atlanta is the second city, after Austin, to host Uber and Waymo’s burgeoning partnership.

"My feathered friend, your cage
must drive you to rage sometimes…
To think that you have aged
staring at nothing but beige walls
She says "you know, our lives
aren't so different as you would believe.
All are in prisons of some kind,
tethered by the stories that we weave."
- Halie Loren, "Yellow Bird"
h/t Dav Pilkey, "Dog Man: Big Jim begins" h/t my daughter

Are you looking to accurately measure your organisation's current progress on the path towards digital transformation?
Take the OAV Maturity Model survey!
Developed by the Network eAcademy team of the GÉANT project, it’s designed to help #NRENs and R&E organisations assess where they are on their Orchestration, Automation, and Virtualisation (OAV) journey, and map out the next st…

Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation (OAV) Maturity Model: a tool to assess where you are and help you reach the next level | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Words: Maria Isabel Gandia Carriedo (CSUC) and Eldis Mujaric (CARNET) Organisations with advanced capabilities in Orchestration, Automation and Virtualisation (OAV) are more likely to succeed in their path towards digital transformation. But how can the progress in these areas be accurately measured? And how can organisations identify the actions needed to drive further advancement? Maturity Models

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Weg von Google Drive, Dropbox & Co.: Online-Services selbst hosten | c’t uplink

Harassing ICE: How the L.A. protesters are reinventing themselves | U.S. | EL PAÍS English https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-06-23/harassing-ice-how-the-la-protesters-are-reinventing-themselves.html

Harassing ICE: How the L.A. protesters are reinventing themselves
The pushback against immigration raids is evolving into an organic movement that is making things more difficult for officers in charge of Trump’s deportation drive

The Linux Foundation unveils the Agent2Agent project, with founding members including Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft; Google donated the protocol spec and SDK (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-cloud-donates-a2…

Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation- Google Developers Blog
Explore how Google, Amazon, and Cisco form the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation to drive AI innovation via interoperability as an industry standard.

LettinGo: Explore User Profile Generation for Recommendation System
Lu Wang, Di Zhang, Fangkai Yang, Pu Zhao, Jianfeng Liu, Yuefeng Zhan, Hao Sun, Qingwei Lin, Weiwei Deng, Dongmei Zhang, Feng Sun, Qi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18309

LettinGo: Explore User Profile Generation for Recommendation System
User profiling is pivotal for recommendation systems, as it transforms raw user interaction data into concise and structured representations that drive personalized recommendations. While traditional embedding-based profiles lack interpretability and adaptability, recent advances with large language models (LLMs) enable text-based profiles that are semantically richer and more transparent. However, existing methods often adhere to fixed formats that limit their ability to capture the full diver…

A Vision for Trustworthy, Fair, and Efficient Socio-Technical Control using Karma Economies
Ezzat Elokda, Andrea Censi, Emilio Frazzoli, Florian D\"orfler, Saverio Bolognani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17115

A Vision for Trustworthy, Fair, and Efficient Socio-Technical Control using Karma Economies
Control systems will play a pivotal role in addressing societal-scale challenges as they drive the development of sustainable future smart cities. At the heart of these challenges is the trustworthy, fair, and efficient allocation of scarce public resources, including renewable energy, transportation, data, computation, etc.. Historical evidence suggests that monetary control -- the prototypical mechanism for managing resource scarcity -- is not always well-accepted in socio-technical resource …

I ordered collector's plates for my pickup truck yesterday. They were $40 less than the annual renewal on my hatchback, they never require annual renewal, and they never require emissions checks. The only downside is that I can't drive the pickup truck legally in the month of January (which I already don't) and the vehicle needs to be older than 20 years (it's older). 🤷‍♂️

Reeves’s partial fixes don’t end austerity – and the drive to war goes on | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/reevess-partial-fixes-dont-end-austerity-and-drive-war-goes

Wetting and Pattern Formation in Non-Reciprocal Ternary Phase Separation
Xiao Ma, Michael E. Cates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18702 https://

Wetting and Pattern Formation in Non-Reciprocal Ternary Phase Separation
Non-reciprocal interactions are among the simplest mechanisms that drive a physical system out of thermal equilibrium, leading to novel phenomena such as oscillatory pattern formation. In this paper, we introduce a ternary phase separation model, with non-reciprocal interactions between two of the three phases and a spectator phase that mimics a boundary. Through numerical simulations, we uncover three distinct phase behaviours: a quasi-static regime, characterized by well-defined non-equilibri…

Typeryyttä politiikassa ja puutarhassa. Kyllä tuo Ameriikan ihmemaa lyö ällikällä päähän joka kerran.
Edulliseen $13 ( verot) hintaan saa 1500 m² alueelta tapettua hyttyset ja yli 110 muuta hyönteislajia kahdeksaksi viikoksi esi-rentoutumiseksi ja esi-juhliin.
Näppärästi katseluletkuun.
https://www.

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Read reviews and buy OFF! Backyard Pretreat Outdoor Mosquito Repellent Bug Spray - 32oz at Target. Choose from contactless Same Day Delivery, Drive Up and more.

“In the US, we have a set of electoral and legislative institutions that drive us toward only having two parties,”
Mark Copelovitch told us.
“That allowed the 20 to 25 percent of people that support the far right to basically take over one of the two parties,
and everything in our system is weighted towards the Republican constituency
— the Supreme Court, the gerrymandered House, the way the Senate is apportioned.
All of these things basically bias the electo…

“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase.

Impact of the large-scale cosmic web on the X-ray emitting circumgalactic medium
Soumya Shreeram, Daniela Gal\'arraga-Espinosa, Johan Comparat, Andrea Merloni, Daisuke Nagai, C\'eline Peroux, Ilaria Marini, C\'eline Gouin, Kirpal Nandra, Yi Zhang, Gabriele Ponti, Anna Olechowska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17222

Impact of the large-scale cosmic web on the X-ray emitting circumgalactic medium
The hot circumgalactic medium (CGM), probed by X-ray observations, plays a central role in understanding gas flows that drive a galaxy's evolution. While CGM properties have been widely studied, the influence of a galaxy's large-scale cosmic environment on the hot gas content remains less explored. We investigate how the large-scale cosmic web affects the X-ray surface brightness (XSB) profiles of galaxies in the context of cosmological simulations. We use our novel IllustrisTNG-based lightcone…

Feasibility study of a mission to Sedna -- Nuclear propulsion and advanced solar sailing concepts
Elena Ancona, Roman Ya. Kezerashvili, Savino Longo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17732

Feasibility study of a mission to Sedna -- Nuclear propulsion and advanced solar sailing concepts
Exploring the outer reaches of the Solar System presents significant propulsion and mission design challenges. This study assesses the feasibility of a mission to Sedna using two advanced propulsion concepts: the Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) rocket engine, based on D-$^{3}$He thermonuclear fusion, and a solar sail utilizing thermal desorption of its coating for propulsion. Both are evaluated for a one-way Earth-to-Sedna mission; however, due to the different performances the DFD would enable orbit…

3-dimensional plasmonic nanomotors driven by Optical Pulling Forces
Guillermo Serrera, Yoshito Y. Tanaka, Pablo Albella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16811 ht…

3-dimensional plasmonic nanomotors driven by Optical Pulling Forces
Light-matter interactions generally involve momentum exchange between incident photons and the target object giving rise to optical forces and torques. While typically weak, they become significant at the nanoscale, driving intense research interest in the exploitation of photon recoil to drive micro- and nanostructures. While great progress has been attained in controlling transversal degrees of freedom, three-dimensional movement remains challenging, particularly due to the impractical realiz…

@… If I'm buying a drive for redumper (thanks to your excellent post for letting me know about it), do I need to get a drive with the exact firmware version, or will generally any version work? Thanks

Fascinating technology. I always thought the impulse engine was just a clever piston doodad that transfers momentum from an artificial gravity pocket 😃
Impulse engine | Memory Alpha | #StarTrek
https://

Impulse engine
An impulse engine or impulse drive was a common propulsion system used on starships used to create impulse power in order to achieve impulse speeds. In Federation starships, the impulse drive was essentially an augmented fusion rocket, usually consisting of one or more fusion reactors, a driver coil assembly, and a vectored thrust nozzle to direct the plasma exhaust. The fusion reaction generated a highly energized plasma. This plasma, ("electro-plasma") could be employed for propulsion, or...

Mott metal-insulator transition in a modified periodic Anderson model: Insights from entanglement entropy and role of short-range spatial correlations
Ankur Majumder, Sudeshna Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16533

Mott metal-insulator transition in a modified periodic Anderson model: Insights from entanglement entropy and role of short-range spatial correlations
The Mott-Hubbard metal-insulator transition is a paradigmatic phenomenon where Coulomb interactions between electrons drive a metal-insulator phase transition. It has been extensively studied within the Hubbard model, where a quantum critical transition occurs at a finite temperature second-order critical point. This work investigates the Mott metal-insulator transition in a modified periodic Anderson model that may be viewed as a three-orbital lattice model including an interacting, localized …

Artificial Intelligence, Lean Startup Method, and Product Innovations
Gavin Wang, Lynn Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16334 https://ar…

Artificial Intelligence, Lean Startup Method, and Product Innovations
Although AI has the potential to drive significant business innovation, many firms struggle to realize its benefits. We examine how the Lean Startup Method (LSM) influences the impact of AI on product innovation in startups. Analyzing data from 1,800 Chinese startups between 2011 and 2020, alongside policy shifts by the Chinese government in encouraging AI adoption, we find that companies with strong AI capabilities produce more innovative products. Moreover, our study reveals that AI investmen…

Interpretable Machine Learning for Macro Alpha: A News Sentiment Case Study
Yuke Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16136 https://arxiv…

Interpretable Machine Learning for Macro Alpha: A News Sentiment Case Study
This study introduces an interpretable machine learning (ML) framework to extract macroeconomic alpha from global news sentiment. We process the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) Project's worldwide news feed using FinBERT -- a Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) based model pretrained on finance-specific language -- to construct daily sentiment indices incorporating mean tone, dispersion, and event impact. These indices drive an XGBoost classifier…

Listening to #Interlochen Public Radio instead of #MichiganPublic today for pledge drive escape and they have their own special sort of frequent interruption: LOTS of thunderstorm alerts. #EAS works, and thi…

Micah Parsons: The 2 contract negotiations that could drive up his price https://insidethestar.com/micah-parsons-the-2-contract-negotiations-that-could-drive-up-his-price

Recommendation systems in e-commerce applications with machine learning methods
Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda, Magdalena Pakula, Bozena Borowska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17287

Recommendation systems in e-commerce applications with machine learning methods
E-commerce platforms are increasingly reliant on recommendation systems to enhance user experience, retain customers, and, in most cases, drive sales. The integration of machine learning methods into these systems has significantly improved their efficiency, personalization, and scalability. This paper aims to highlight the current trends in e-commerce recommendation systems, identify challenges, and evaluate the effectiveness of various machine learning methods used, including collaborative fi…

Reminder to people who drive motor vehicles on streets in the city. Street driving is generally allowed, except where signs give notice it is prohibited. But it must be done with due caution and reasonable speed, and the motorist must yield to all other traffic, including pedestrians, cyclists, and trams, and must give an audible signal before overtaking and passing. Learn more in our 90-second training seminar, "DRIVING ON STREETS, Being A Polite Guest".
#BikeTooter #FootTooter

"Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising - Carbon Brief
Human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2024 continued to drive global warming to record levels.

Hey @… , how are you doing with the drive? When you expect it to be available? 💪
https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/112377590757900647

Test Drive Unlimited: a quieter Horizon Festival
I found TDU in a box in the loft a couple of weeks ago, and since I now have a new Xbox 360 set up (replacing my old one which didn't have HDMI output) so can play games which are not compatible with the Xbox One, I thought I'd revisit the game. Unfortunately my save wasn't in the cloud, and wasn't transferred while I had both consoles set up, so I needed to start from the beginning.

Sometimes I miss building ridiculous electronic/noise sculptures...
#maker

Click Whir Squee
Occasionally I show up at Milwaukee Makerspace with no clear idea of what might happen when I'm there. This piece, titled "Click Whir Squee" is the result of one such visit. Another member brought in a box of old computer hardware, including a Hewlett Packard Colorado T100E Tape Backup Drive. Being a fan of old [...]

Some years ago, to avoid missing files when copying course materials to a different drive (e.g., a USB stick), I started copying (instead of symlinking) all files into the corresponding directory.
Obviously, the downside is that lots of duplicate files accumulate, including large files, like videos. So I thought about ways to deduplicate them... Some hours later:
TIL that on APFS, files copied via the Finder are cloned. So many of the “duplicate” files actually don’t take up extr…

Some years ago, to avoid missing files when copying course materials to a different drive (e.g., a USB stick), I started copying (instead of symlinking) all files into the corresponding directory.
Obviously, the downside is that lots of duplicate files accumulate, including large files, like videos. So I thought about ways to deduplicate them... Some hours later:
TIL that on APFS, files copied via the Finder are cloned. So many of the “duplicate” files actually don’t take up extr…

Some years ago, to avoid missing files when copying course materials to a different drive (e.g., a USB stick), I started copying (instead of symlinking) all files into the corresponding directory.
Obviously, the downside is that lots of duplicate files accumulate, including large files, like videos. So I thought about ways to deduplicate them... Some hours later:
TIL that on APFS, files copied via the Finder are cloned. So many of the “duplicate” files actually don’t take up extr…

Theory of wakefield in a transversely inhomogeneous plasma waveguide
K. V. Galaydych, P. I. Markov, G. V. Sotnikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16200 https:/…

Theory of wakefield in a transversely inhomogeneous plasma waveguide
Theoretical studies have been made into the relativistic drive bunch generation of a wakefield in a cylindrical waveguide filled with a transversely inhomogeneous plasma. According to the model used, the transversely inhomogeneous plasma is considered as a combination of tubular plasma and the plasma background of different density. Analytical expressions have been derived for the excited radial and axial electric field components, and for the azimuthal magnetic field component. The dispersion …

Tariffs drive some health plans to hike premiums (Maya Goldman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/18/tariffs-health-insurance-premium-hikes
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p79#a250618p79

Every newborn baby in England will have their DNA mapped to assess their risk of hundreds of diseases, under NHS plans for the next 10 years.
The scheme, first reported by the Daily Telegraph, is part of a government drive towards predicting and preventing illness, which will also see £650m invested in DNA research for all patients by 2030.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said gene technology would enable the health service to "leapfrog disease, so we're in front of it ra…

NHS plans to DNA test all babies in England to assess disease risk
Scheme is part of the government's 10-year plan for the NHS in England aimed at easing pressure on services.

Natural Intelligence: the information processing power of life
Seth Lloyd, Michele Reilly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16478 https://ar…

Natural Intelligence: the information processing power of life
Merely by existing, all physical systems contain information, and physical dynamics transforms and processes that information. This note investigates the information processing power of living systems. Living systems harvest free energy from the sun, from geothermal sources, and from each other. They then use that free energy to drive the complex set of chemical interactions that underlie life. All molecules -- be they simple molecules such as water, or complex molecules such as DNA -- register…

ChatGPT bekommt auf Wunsch Zugriff auf Dropbox, Google Drive und Co.
OpenAI kündigt neue Workplace-Produkte an: Konnektoren und einen Aufnahme-Modus für Meetings und Brainstorming.
https://www.…

Interfacial instability of confined 3D active droplets
Bennett C. Sessa, Federico Cao, Robert A. Pelcovits, Thomas R. Powers, Guillaume Duclos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17532

Interfacial instability of confined 3D active droplets
Instabilities of fluid-fluid interfaces are ubiquitous in passive soft matter. Adding activity to the interface or either fluid can dramatically change the stability of the interface. Using experiment and theory, we investigate the interfacial instability of a deformable 3D active nematic liquid crystal droplet in the isotropic phase surrounded by a passive fluid and confined between two parallel plates. Spontaneous active flows drive the growth of undulations along the active/passive interface…

First Toronto bike share dock was installed east of the 404 and north of the 401 on #Sheppard and Brian Drive. Technically #NorthYork but essentially first station in North #Scarborough

Duckduckgo is fine for the time being, but that won't last long. MS wants to drive people to AI.
Maybe we need a foundation-run public search index. Something we can all build our own search front-ends on.
https://www.wired.com/story/bing-microsoft-api-su…

Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots
Microsoft is limiting access to tools that boosted its rivals, but larger customers like DuckDuckGo say they won’t be affected.

ChatGPT can now read your Google Drive and Dropbox | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/679580/chatgpt-google-drive-dropbox-meeting-notes

Lucy has opinions about overlays that should feel familiar to just about everyone:
“Don’t use that accessibility overlay”
https://accessaces.com/dont-use-that-accessibility-overlay/
Definitely don’t use ones that collude with drive-by lawsuit attor…

Nucleation feedback can drive establishment and maintenance of biased microtubule polarity in neurites
Hannah G. Scanlon, Gibarni Mahata, Anna C. Nelson, Scott A. McKinley, Melissa M. Rolls, Maria-Veronica Ciocanel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12209

Nucleation feedback can drive establishment and maintenance of biased microtubule polarity in neurites
The microtubule cytoskeleton is comprised of dynamic, polarized filaments that facilitate transport within the cell. Polarized microtubule arrays are key to facilitating cargo transport in long cells such as neurons. Microtubules also undergo dynamic instability, where the plus and minus ends of the filaments switch between growth and shrinking phases, leading to frequent microtubule turnover. Although microtubules often completely disassemble and new filaments nucleate, microtubule arrays have…

Uttalar mig i SvD om konsekvenserna av att Trumpregimen inte tycks särskilt intresserade av att upprätthålla avtal inom dataområdet med EU, och vad det betyder för oss i Sverige.
https://www.svd.se/a/637vlO/amerikanska-molntjanster-f…

So did #Google finally change it so that you can't edit #docs #drive files that have been shared with you unless you have a google account?

Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion
William MacAskill, Fin Moorhouse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14863 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion
AI that can accelerate research could drive a century of technological progress over just a few years. During such a period, new technological or political developments will raise consequential and hard-to-reverse decisions, in rapid succession. We call these developments grand challenges. These challenges include new weapons of mass destruction, AI-enabled autocracies, races to grab offworld resources, and digital beings worthy of moral consideration, as well as opportunities to dramatically i…

Izzy, our fearful rescue spaniel, is very happy to have me next to her in the back seat as we drive back to DC from Michigan. #Mondog #DogsOfMastodon

Gotta drive 50km with my own car (and fuel) in my (would have been) free time because one of my colleagues used an insurance form in the truck but never replaced it.
So when I needed one (hit a wall at a customer while backing truck into the tight ass space without mirrors - sun kept blinding me), there was none so I now have to go back there to get the paperwork sorted...
Lovely...

“The MC5's roaring distortion sound in a box”: MXR and Daredevil bottle Wayne Kramer’s gritty and explosive tone into the Jail Guitar Doors Drive pedal – and it has Tom Morello’s approval https://www.…

Case Study for Developing a UXR Point of View for FinOps Product Innovation
Jason Dong, Anna Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15314 https://

Case Study for Developing a UXR Point of View for FinOps Product Innovation
In the dynamic landscape of Cloud financial management, we are sharing a case study exploring the development of a User Experience Research (UXR) Point of View (PoV) to drive FinOps product innovation. We demonstrate how qualitative and quantitative research methods working together to navigate the challenges of understanding customer needs, aligning cross-functional teams, and prioritizing limited resources. Through a multi-phased research approach, the research team identifies opportunities, …

what a day what a night ...ends at 8pm or 10 ;-)

Our pick this week is a melancholic, atmospheric track from Steven Wilson. Epic in scope but perfect to kick off a slow, reflective weekend - this one’s worth sinking into.
Give it a spin, check out our thoughts, and let it set the tone.
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Stay mellow, stay awesome! 🤘

Steven Wilson - Drive Home
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

Meet Alexius Chipalamwazani - 2023 Emerging NREN Programme (ENP) Participant!
At #TNC23, Alexius joined the ENP—a programme built to equip and empower emerging NREN representatives with the skills, knowledge, and community ties that will drive innovation back home.
In this interview, Alexius reflects on his ENP experience, how it shaped his growth, and the impact it’s had on Malawi’s NRE…

Reflections on the Emerging NREN Programme: a personal journey with the Malawian NREN | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Alexius Chipalamwazani from MAREN shares how the Emerging NREN Programme empowered him to drive innovation and lead IPv6 adoption in Malawi.

In the video game Watch Dogs Legion, set in late 2020s London, you can't drive on Oxford Street west of Oxford Circus.
Also they rebuilt the Euston Arch.
https://www.london.gov.uk/overwhelming-support-for-mayors-oxford-street-plans

After some neighbors say they want to be able to drive cars in cycletrack, DC govt replaces it with painted lanes & says basis for action was aesthetics of flexposts.
If the problem is really that flexposts don't look nice, why not replace them with decorative bollards?
https://wapo.st/4dXmJY1

D.C. is removing bike lane barriers for the first time, calling them ugly
The move comes as political leaders across the country begin reversing and undoing bike lane plans.

SonicVerse: Multi-Task Learning for Music Feature-Informed Captioning
Anuradha Chopra, Abhinaba Roy, Dorien Herremans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15154 http…

SonicVerse: Multi-Task Learning for Music Feature-Informed Captioning
Detailed captions that accurately reflect the characteristics of a music piece can enrich music databases and drive forward research in music AI. This paper introduces a multi-task music captioning model, SonicVerse, that integrates caption generation with auxiliary music feature detection tasks such as key detection, vocals detection, and more, so as to directly capture both low-level acoustic details as well as high-level musical attributes. The key contribution is a projection-based architec…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15268 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfi…

Beating the Correlation Breakdown: Robust Inference, Flexible Scenarios, and Stress Testing for Financial Portfolios
We live in a multivariate world, and effective modeling of financial portfolios, including their construction, allocation, forecasting, and risk analysis, simply is not possible without explicitly modeling the dependence structure of their assets. Dependence structure can drive portfolio results more than the combined effects of other parameters in investment and risk models, but the literature provides relatively little to define the finite-sample distributions of dependence measures in useabl…

Cursed idea: push-pull logic family similar to CMOS (i.e. not using resistors like PMOS or NMOS logic did).
But only using NMOS transistors.
Low side: standard NMOS with body at ground
High side: NMOS with body at Vdd and charge pump gate drive boost like fancy low Rds(on) high side load switches use.

Designing Deep Learning Frameworks for LLMs:Challenges, Expectations, and Opportunities
Yanzhou Mu, Rong Wang, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Xiang Chen, Jiacong Wu, An Guo, Jiawei Shen, Bingzhuo Li, Zhenyu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13114

Designing Deep Learning Frameworks for LLMs:Challenges, Expectations, and Opportunities
Large language models (LLMs) drive significant advancements in real industry applications. LLMs rely on DL frameworks for efficient model construction, distributed execution, and optimized deployment. Their large parameter scale and long execution cycles place extreme demands on DL frameworks in terms of scalability, stability, and efficiency. Therefore, poor usability, limited functionality, and subtle bugs in DL frameworks may hinder development efficiency and cause severe failures or resourc…

"The real threat posed by generative AI is not that it will eliminate work on a mass scale, rendering human labour obsolete. It is that, left unchecked, it will continue to transform work in ways that deepen precarity, intensify surveillance, and widen existing inequalities."
"The current trajectory of generative AI reflects the priorities of firms seeking to lower costs, discipline workers, and consolidate profits — not any drive to enhance human flourishing. If we allo…

Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, spearheaded by companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta. Once again, a c

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
TSHA feat. Ingrid Witt:
🎵 Drive
#NowPlaying #TSHA #IngridWitt
https://tshamusic.bandcamp.com/track/drive-feat-ingrid-witt

The most shortsighted take on "let's replace human iNaturalist contributors with 'AI'" that I've read comes from people that cite that shit paper about how much more energy efficient "AI" is at solving tasks than humans.
All aspects of human enjoyment and fulfilment that comes from volunteering aside. It's not like they'll put all contributors against the wall to save energy now, do they?! Bob Contributor will still drive his car, eat his sandwiches and burn energy 🤦‍♂️

Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning (DSML) Platforms.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog

Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms | Microsoft Azure Blog
Find out how Microsoft Azure Machine Learning can help you optimize business processes, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation.

Nice day for a morning drive to the airport!

Listen: Jill Sobule’s F*CK7THGRADE Original Cast Recording Now Available
https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Listen-Jill-Sobules-Fck-7th-Grade-Original-Cast-Recording-Now-Available-20…

tfw iA Writer somehow throws away a day of work (99% sure it’s iCloud Drive's fault) and you have to reconcile yesterday night’s version with the latest one.
Thank Cthulhu for `File − Revert To − Browse All Versions…` and my overpriced Kaleidoscope subscription. #YouTuberLyfe

Here you go a fork of @… know as @… is now on @… .

I keep drinkin’ malted milk crate #Caturday, try’n to drive my blues away.

Must prise myself out of bed. This is one of our new 'no need to get up early to drive a child to school' mid-#GCSE days and very welcome they are too when they coincide with my days off. Just exams on Friday and Monday to go and then we're freeeeeeeeeee!

Tencent Music agrees to buy podcasting startup Ximalaya for $1.3B in cash, plus some stock, in a bid to become China's Spotify; Ximalaya had 303M MAUs in 2023 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A significant number of people in the world now drive 100% Electric Vehicles.
Does the switch to EVs make the threat of Middle East war greater if less people are impacted by the rise/volatility of gas prices?
Obviously this is an oversimplification, but we all know this is the tried and true narrative of the past 60 years.
#iran #israel #middleeast #poll #boostforreach #war #gasprices #ev
Yes - War more Likely
No - War less Likely
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This grassy field has always been a beautiful buffer between the river and the train tracks that service the local waste management company that owns it. This time of year, wildflowers and butterflies are everywhere and it’s one of the highlights on this part of the greenway.
This week, I’ve noticed it’s suddenly begun to accumulate vintage fire and rescue vehicles. I don’t know what to make of it, but I hope it’s temporary.

Beyond the 80/20 Rule: High-Entropy Minority Tokens Drive Effective Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning
Shenzhi Wang, Le Yu, Chang Gao, Chujie Zheng, Shixuan Liu, Rui Lu, Kai Dang, Xionghui Chen, Jianxin Yang, Zhenru Zhang, Yuqiong Liu, An Yang, Andrew Zhao, Yang Yue, Shiji Song, Bowen Yu, Gao Huang, Junyang Lin
https://arx…

Beyond the 80/20 Rule: High-Entropy Minority Tokens Drive Effective Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful approach to enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), while its mechanisms are not yet well understood. In this work, we undertake a pioneering exploration of RLVR through the novel perspective of token entropy patterns, comprehensively analyzing how different tokens influence reasoning performance. By examining token entropy patterns in Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning, we observe that o…

OpenAI says it has 3M "paying business users", up from 2M in February; ChatGPT Team users can now use a "record mode" for taking notes during meetings (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/679580/chatgpt-google-d…

ChatGPT can now read your Google Drive and Dropbox
ChatGPT now has 3 million “paying business users” and is adding new features like meeting notes.

Self driving algorithm for an active four wheel drive racecar
Gergely Bari, Laszlo Palkovics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06077 https://

Self driving algorithm for an active four wheel drive racecar
Controlling autonomous vehicles at their handling limits is a significant challenge, particularly for electric vehicles with active four wheel drive (A4WD) systems offering independent wheel torque control. While traditional Vehicle Dynamics Control (VDC) methods use complex physics-based models, this study explores Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to develop a unified, high-performance controller. We employ the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm to train an agent for optimal lap tim…

Triplet Higgs assisted leptogenesis from axion oscillation after inflation
Sasmita Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13412 https://ar…

Triplet Higgs assisted leptogenesis from axion oscillation after inflation
Leptogenesis via axion oscillation after inflation is an alternate mechanism of thermal leptogenesis. In this mechanism, the requirement of the existence of a lepton number ($L$) violating process in equilibrium to drive the lepton number requires the temperature of leptogenesis at $\sim 10^{13}$ GeV. Triplet scalars, due to their interaction with gauge bosons, make a suitable candidate to prevail in the thermal bath via gauge scattering at such high energy. Also, owing to its interaction with …

When repeats drive the vocabulary: a Byte-Pair Encoding analysis of T2T primate genomes
Marina Popova, Iaroslav Chelombitko, Aleksey Komissarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08918

When repeats drive the vocabulary: a Byte-Pair Encoding analysis of T2T primate genomes
The emergence of telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assemblies has opened new avenues for comparative genomics, yet effective tokenization strategies for genomic sequences remain underexplored. In this pilot study, we apply Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) to nine T2T primate genomes including three human assemblies by training independent BPE tokenizers with a fixed vocabulary of 512,000 tokens using our custom tool, dnaBPE. Our analysis reveals that only 11,569 tokens are shared across all assemblies,…

Trump pardons drive a big, burgeoning business for lobbyists (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-pardons-drive-big-burgeoning-business-lobbyists-rcna209801
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p34#a250531p34

Amazon Purges Billions of Product Listings in Cost-Cutting Drive - Slashdot
https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/30/1954240/amazon-purges-billions-of-product-listings-in-cost-cutting-drive

Faceting transition in aluminum as a grain boundary phase transition
Yoonji Choi, Tobias Brink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13550 https://

Faceting transition in aluminum as a grain boundary phase transition
Grain boundaries facet due to anisotropic grain boundary energies: While the faceted boundary has a larger area than the corresponding straight boundary, a significantly lower energy of the facets compared to a straight segment can drive the faceting. This picture is complicated by faceting/defaceting transitions where the free energy difference between the two states depends on the temperature. Here, we use atomistic computer simulations to show how such a transition in a $Σ3$ $[11\overline{1…

Every time someone makes snide comments about my Prius.
Buddy, you want to drive a truck that is (unfortunately) your right. But don’t bitch about it.
https://esq.social/@D_J_Nathanson/114636223923721770

OpenAI rolls out connectors for services like Dropbox and OneDrive for ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu users; MCP support is coming to Pro, Team, Enterprise (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/chat

ChatGPT introduces meeting recording and connectors for Google Drive, Box, and more | TechCrunch
OpenAI's ChatGPT is adding new features for business users, including integrations with different cloud services, meeting recording, and MCP connection

After some neighbors say they want to be able to drive cars in cycletrack, DC govt replaces it with painted lanes & says basis for action was aesthetics of flexposts.
If the problem is really that flexposts don't look nice, why not replace them with decorative bollards?
https://wapo.st/4dXmJY1

Not a fan of customers who drive me mad. I’m doing my part of the relationship and I really need them to do their part.

Changing tastes
I found a list on my Google Drive account, seemingly from 2008, which identifies itself as the "Best Games". Obviously there have been a number of amazing games released since, but it's interesting to see whether I still consider these to be near the peak of gaming. I'll start with the list, and then below I'll enter some thoughts. Phantasy Star Online…

Now More Than Ever, Foundational AI Research and Infrastructure Depends on the Federal Government
Michela Taufer, Rada Mihalcea, Matthew Turk, Dan Lopresti, Adam Wierman, Kevin Butler, Sven Koenig, David Danks, William Gropp, Manish Parashar, Yolanda Gil, Bill Regli, Rajmohan Rajaraman, David Jensen, Nadya Bliss, Mary Lou Maher
https://

Now More Than Ever, Foundational AI Research and Infrastructure Depends on the Federal Government
Leadership in the field of AI is vital for our nation's economy and security. Maintaining this leadership requires investments by the federal government. The federal investment in foundation AI research is essential for U.S. leadership in the field. Providing accessible AI infrastructure will benefit everyone. Now is the time to increase the federal support, which will be complementary to, and help drive, the nation's high-tech industry investments.

Great opportunity to show people the accessibility settings.
https://mastodon.social/@andjsch/114655906181034852

Andreas Schantl (@andjsch@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images Just installed the iOS 26 Beta for a test drive on my spare iPhone and while the glassy look is fancy to some degree, it makes things poorly visible. I am sure a lot of people will have troubles reading text on such transparent layers and generally finding small icons with bad contrast. #ios26 #apple #wwdc25 #accessibility

Survey: US employees who use AI at work at least a few times per year rises from 21% in 2023 to 40% in 2025, and 19% report frequently using AI, up from 11% (Ryan Pendell/Gallup)
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/691643/work-nearly-doubled-two-years.aspx

AI Use at Work Has Nearly Doubled in Two Years
White-collar workers and leaders are the primary users. Leaders can further drive AI adoption by clearly communicating why and how to use it.

Sequence Modeling for Time-Optimal Quadrotor Trajectory Optimization with Sampling-based Robustness Analysis
Katherine Mao, Hongzhan Yu, Ruipeng Zhang, Igor Spasojevic, M Ani Hsieh, Sicun Gao, Vijay Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13915

Sequence Modeling for Time-Optimal Quadrotor Trajectory Optimization with Sampling-based Robustness Analysis
Time-optimal trajectories drive quadrotors to their dynamic limits, but computing such trajectories involves solving non-convex problems via iterative nonlinear optimization, making them prohibitively costly for real-time applications. In this work, we investigate learning-based models that imitate a model-based time-optimal trajectory planner to accelerate trajectory generation. Given a dataset of collision-free geometric paths, we show that modeling architectures can effectively learn the pat…

Since migrating away from big tech platforms (including Google Drive) I have been using Libreoffice for my writing and presentations.
I often get asked why I do not use OnlyOffice since it looks so much better (especially the web client). Two answers:
- The presentation tools of OnlyOffice are too barebones
But more importantly:
OnlyOffice is a company that seems to be controlled by a Russian guy who invests a lot of time to hide the fact that OnlyOffice is Russian (see…

Comparing Collabora with OnlyOffice
Collabora Online provides excellent interoperabilty, efficient backend for scalability, best privacy, and a rich interface for cooperation and editing docx, xlsx, pptx and odf

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said Floridians have a right to hit protesters with their car if they need to "flee for your safety."
DeSantis was speaking on The Rubin Report on Wednesday when he said:
"We also have a policy that if you're driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle,
and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety.
"And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people,
tha…

Ron DeSantis Says Floridians Have Right to Hit Protesters With Cars
"That's their fault for impinging on you," Florida's governor said.

A friend of mine (who is not a technology person) mailed me a thumb drive full of videos.
It took like a month to arrived. We were both convinced it was lost. I finally got it!
When I opened it I saw it had been "compressed" (not crushed) and I had to carefully bend the plastic back to plug it into a USB port.
Finally copying the files, which are 1990s era punk rock shows of local (and some touring) bands.
I'll probably publish them all at some point. Ma…

Coupling Anisotropic Curvature and Nematic Order: Mechanisms of Membrane Shape Remodeling
Yoav Ravid, Samo Peni\v{c}, Luka Mesarec, Nir S. Gov, Veronika Kralj-Igli\v{c}, Ale\v{s} Igli\v{c}, Mitja Drab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14347

Coupling Anisotropic Curvature and Nematic Order: Mechanisms of Membrane Shape Remodeling
This study theoretically investigates how anisotropic curved membrane components (CMCs) control vesicle morphology through curvature sensing, nematic alignment, topological defects, and volume constraints. By comparing arc-shaped and saddle-shaped CMCs, we identify a rich spectrum of steady-state phases. For fully CMC-covered vesicles, arc-shaped components drive a pearling-to-cylinder transition as nematic interactions strengthen, while on partially CMC-covered vesicles, the saddle-shaped CMCs…

Dual-View Disentangled Multi-Intent Learning for Enhanced Collaborative Filtering
Shanfan Zhang, Yongyi Lin, Yuan Rao, Chenlong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11538

Dual-View Disentangled Multi-Intent Learning for Enhanced Collaborative Filtering
Disentangling user intentions from implicit feedback has become a promising strategy to enhance recommendation accuracy and interpretability. Prior methods often model intentions independently and lack explicit supervision, thus failing to capture the joint semantics that drive user-item interactions. To address these limitations, we propose DMICF, a unified framework that explicitly models interaction-level intent alignment while leveraging structural signals from both user and item perspectiv…

The modern standard model of cosmology is a triumph of the scientific process.
On the other hand, it’s also kind of a kludge.
The modern standard model seems to glue together a bunch of disparate parts without any overarching theoretical structure.
Take inflation and dark energy.
In both cases, we have a form of pervasive energy that pushes space apart.
Inflation does it really fast and then dissipates.
Dark energy does it much slower and does not dissipate…

Our standard model of cosmology is both a triumph and a jumbled mess
The standard model of cosmology is very successful, but cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.

Tencent Music agrees to buy podcasting startup Ximalaya for $1.3B in cash, plus some stock, in a bid to become China's Spotify; Ximalaya had 303M MAUs in 2023 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20