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What’s the difference between ordinary functions and arrow functions in JavaScript?
Arrow functions (also known as ‘rocket’ functions) are concise and convenient. However, they have subtle differences compared to function declarations and function expressions. So how do you know which one to use, and when?
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What’s the difference between ordinary functions and arrow functions in JavaScript?
Arrow functions (also known as ‘rocket’ functions) are concise and convenient. However, they have subtle differences compared to function declarations and function expressions. So how do you know which one to use, and when?

Google releases VaultGemma, a 1B-parameter model it says is the largest open LLM trained from scratch with differential privacy, on Hugging Face and Kaggle (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/vaultgemma-the-worlds-most-capable-differenti…

VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private LLM

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

PERSONA: Personalized Whole-Body 3D Avatar with Pose-Driven Deformations from a Single Image
Geonhee Sim, Gyeongsik Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09973 https://

PERSONA: Personalized Whole-Body 3D Avatar with Pose-Driven Deformations from a Single Image
Two major approaches exist for creating animatable human avatars. The first, a 3D-based approach, optimizes a NeRF- or 3DGS-based avatar from videos of a single person, achieving personalization through a disentangled identity representation. However, modeling pose-driven deformations, such as non-rigid cloth deformations, requires numerous pose-rich videos, which are costly and impractical to capture in daily life. The second, a diffusion-based approach, learns pose-driven deformations from la…

Lankford: 'Just believing differently than some other American is not illegal' (Tara Suter/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5502649-lankford-just-believing-differently-than-some-other-american-is-not-illegal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250914/p35#a250914p35

Zero to 100: Difference making numbers from Cowboys Week 2 win https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/zero-to-100-difference-making-numbers-from-cowboys-week-2-win

Differentially Private Decentralized Dataset Synthesis Through Randomized Mixing with Correlated Noise
Utsab Saha, Tanvir Muntakim Tonoy, Hafiz Imtiaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10385

Differentially Private Decentralized Dataset Synthesis Through Randomized Mixing with Correlated Noise
In this work, we explore differentially private synthetic data generation in a decentralized-data setting by building on the recently proposed Differentially Private Class-Centric Data Aggregation (DP-CDA). DP-CDA synthesizes data in a centralized setting by mixing multiple randomly-selected samples from the same class and injecting carefully calibrated Gaussian noise, ensuring (ε, δ)-differential privacy. When deployed in a decentralized or federated setting, where each client holds only a s…

(Footnote: code that only has to run once is a different beast from code that has to work in a production environement. I’ve noticed a mismatch between data science / research types using LLMs to jump start one-off code and developers writing code for unknown end users / prod env. Serious pitfalls in both cases, but different pitfalls. Understanding that mismatch may help some of these conversation be less unreasonable!)
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A Fibration Theorem and Chas-Sullivan product for Morse-Novikov Homology with differential graded coefficients
Robin Riegel (IRMA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09580 https://

A Fibration Theorem and Chas-Sullivan product for Morse-Novikov Homology with differential graded coefficients
Given an oriented, closed and connected manifold X and a nonzero cohomology u $\in$ H 1 (X, R), we extend the constructions of Morse Homology with differential graded coefficients of [BDHO25] and of the Chas-Sullivan product described on this model in [Rie24] to Morse-Novikov Homology with differential graded coefficients. More precisely, we will construct a Morse-Novikov complex with differential graded coefficients and prove that, given a fibration E $π$ $\rightarrow$ X such that $π$ * u = …

Matt DePerno, still facing charges tied to election probes, takes step to run for AG again (Craig Mauger/The Detroit News)
https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/14/republican-matt-deperno-attorney-general-campaign-pending-criminal-charges-2020-election-machines/85656383007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p14#a250815p14