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Giants' Russell Wilson seized opportunity to 'answer the call' with 450-yard effort amid QB uncertainty

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-…

Pro-Trump billionaire Bill Ackman gives $1M to anti-Mamdani effort (Jeff Coltin/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/15/bill-ackman-donates-to-anti-mamdani-effort-00609490
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p139#a251015p139

Source: Nvidia is scaling back DGX Cloud to primarily internal R&D use; DGX Cloud was initially envisioned to compete with major cloud providers like AWS (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-steps-back-cloud-ef…

Nvidia Steps Back From Cloud Effort to Compete with AWS
Nvidia is stepping back from its nascent cloud computing business, which had put it in quasi-competition with Amazon Web Services. It has lessened its efforts to attract businesses to the cloud service, dubbed DGX Cloud, said a person with direct knowledge of the situation. Instead, Nvidia plans ...

Low Carbon Investments @Home (2018) - How I cut carbon with negawatts, ISAs, SIPPs and start-ups. How best to put time and effort into a greener low-carbon future? - https://m.earth.org.uk/low-carbon-investing.html

Low Carbon Investments @Home (2018)
How I cut carbon with negawatts, ISAs, SIPPs and start-ups. How best to put time and effort into a greener low-carbon future?

A Framework for Low-Effort Training Data Generation for Urban Semantic Segmentation
Denis Zavadski, Damjan Kal\v{s}an, Tim K\"uchler, Haebom Lee, Stefan Roth, Carsten Rother
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11567

A Framework for Low-Effort Training Data Generation for Urban Semantic Segmentation
Synthetic datasets are widely used for training urban scene recognition models, but even highly realistic renderings show a noticeable gap to real imagery. This gap is particularly pronounced when adapting to a specific target domain, such as Cityscapes, where differences in architecture, vegetation, object appearance, and camera characteristics limit downstream performance. Closing this gap with more detailed 3D modelling would require expensive asset and scene design, defeating the purpose of…

Two of the families in Gaza that I’m in touch with are thinking of setting up a group fundraising effort, inspired by the work of @….
We need someone who will take on the huge responsibility of setting up the fundraiser and managing it all.
If you have the time and are up for the challenge, please reply to this thread (direct messages are fine).

Trump blasts 'weakened' Schumer as Democrats again block GOP effort to reopen government (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-blasts-weakened-schumer-democrats-again-block-gop-effort-reopen-government
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p145#a251014p145

Mental Effort Estimation in Motion Exploration and Concept Generation Design Tasks using Inter-Band Relative Power Difference of EEG
G. Kalyan Ramana, Sumit Yempalle, Prasad S. Onkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10353

Mental Effort Estimation in Motion Exploration and Concept Generation Design Tasks using Inter-Band Relative Power Difference of EEG
Conceptual design is a cognitively complex task, especially in the engineering design of products having relative motion between components. Designers prefer sketching as a medium for conceptual design and use gestures and annotations to represent such relative motion. Literature suggests that static representations of motion in sketches may not achieve the intended functionality when realised, because it primarily depends on the designers' mental capabilities for motion simulation. Thus, it is…

Genuinely surprised the DoJ is following through on this given its new effort to marginalize disabled people.
“US sues Uber, alleges discrimination against disabled riders”
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc

Would love to hear migration thoughts & plans (if any) from other FOSS maintainers (and sponsors!) currently using Github Sponsors. Are you planning/supporting to leave? Are you afraid you'll lose sponsors?
Personally, I'd also love to hear from my own sponsors (some of which are also here 👋). I'm considering migrating various public & still private htt…

Open source building blocks for computational design. Est. 2006
thi.ng is a set of ~350 complementing code libraries & projects, a long-term effort devoted to Computational Design in its many forms.

Obama:
"When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act,
that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m3436lfc7c2a

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

Finland bans Russians, Belarusians from buying property over security concerns: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/finland-bans-russians-belarusians-from.html

Judge shoots down Trump lawyers' effort to keep evidence hidden from James Comey - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/james-comey-discovery/

AdImpact: the US DHS has spent $51M in 2025 on ads thanking President Trump for securing the border, making it the most expensive political ad campaign in 2025 (Brittany Gibson/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/15/trump-self-deportation-ads-noem

2025's big ad spender: The U.S. taxpayer
The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.

Sources: OpenAI is working with Arm to develop a CPU designed to work with the AI chip OpenAI is developing with Broadcom, which will be manufactured by TSMC (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-working-softbanks-arm-br…

OpenAI Is Working With SoftBank’s Arm on Broadcom AI Chip Effort
OpenAI’s development of its own artificial intelligence chip will benefit SoftBank, one of its biggest shareholders, which is also helping the ChatGPT maker develop and finance its ambitious data center plan. OpenAI is working with SoftBank’s Arm subsidiary to develop a central processing unit ...

«Peronism really only exists in Argentina, and there’s a good reason for that: it’s an incoherent mess, to the extent that it’s hard to tell what its tenets even are»
In some hilarious way this sounds to me like the historic precursor to the German Pirate Party's "we're neither left nor right" claims, which also doomed the whole effort. 😂

Seeing the stories about people in Britain being asked to delete emails to save water (!) I was reminded of the community effort to cut down iron railings for the war effort which also appears to have been not so useful (allegedly!) https://www.londongardenstrust.org/features/railings3.h…

pyspect: An Extensible Toolbox for Automatic Construction of Temporal Logic Trees via Reachability Analysis
Kaj Munhoz Arfvidsson, Loizos Hadjiloizou, Frank J. Jiang, Karl H. Johansson, Jonas M{\aa}rtensson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11316

pyspect: An Extensible Toolbox for Automatic Construction of Temporal Logic Trees via Reachability Analysis
In this paper, we present pyspect, a Python toolbox that simplifies the use of reachability analysis for temporal logic problems. Currently, satisfying complex requirements in cyber-physical systems requires significant manual effort and domain expertise to develop the underlying reachability programs. This high development effort limits the broader adoption of reachability analysis for complex verification problems. To address this, pyspect provides a method-agnostic approach to performing rea…

okay... so far, so good.... there is much to learn (for someone not used to #arch #linux).... but i really think it’s worth the time and effort ❤️
i do now understand all the positive postings about

Proof Strategy Extraction from LLMs for Enhancing Symbolic Provers
Jian Fang, Yican Sun, Yingfei Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10131 https://arxiv.org/p…

Proof Strategy Extraction from LLMs for Enhancing Symbolic Provers
One important approach to software verification is interactive theorem proving. However, writing formal proofs often requires substantial human effort, making proof automation highly important. Traditionally, proof automation has relied on symbolic provers. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in theorem proving, complementing symbolic provers. Nonetheless, prompting LLMs can be expensive and may pose security risks for confidential codebases. As a result…

AutoPR: Let's Automate Your Academic Promotion!
Qiguang Chen, Zheng Yan, Mingda Yang, Libo Qin, Yixin Yuan, Hanjing Li, Jinhao Liu, Yiyan Ji, Dengyun Peng, Jiannan Guan, Mengkang Hu, Yantao Du, Wanxiang Che
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09558

AutoPR: Let's Automate Your Academic Promotion!
As the volume of peer-reviewed research surges, scholars increasingly rely on social platforms for discovery, while authors invest considerable effort in promoting their work to ensure visibility and citations. To streamline this process and reduce the reliance on human effort, we introduce Automatic Promotion (AutoPR), a novel task that transforms research papers into accurate, engaging, and timely public content. To enable rigorous evaluation, we release PRBench, a multimodal benchmark that l…

Invertible Syntax without the Tuples (Functional Pearl)
Mathieu Boespflug, Arnaud Spiwack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09856 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09856…

Invertible Syntax without the Tuples (Functional Pearl)
In the seminal paper Functional unparsing, Olivier Danvy used continuation passing to reanalyse printf-like format strings as combinators. In the intervening decades, the conversation shifted towards a concurrent line of work -- applicative, monadic or arrow-based combinator libraries -- in an effort to find combinators for invertible syntax descriptions that simultaneously determine a parser as well as a printer, and with more expressive power, able to handle inductive structures such as lists…

Cowboys Star Called Out For ‘Terrible Lack of Effort’ in Season Opener https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/george-pickens-called-out-lack-effort/?adt_ei=[email]

Self-Augmented Robot Trajectory: Efficient Imitation Learning via Safe Self-augmentation with Demonstrator-annotated Precision
Hanbit Oh, Masaki Murooka, Tomohiro Motoda, Ryoichi Nakajo, Yukiyasu Domae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09893

Self-Augmented Robot Trajectory: Efficient Imitation Learning via Safe Self-augmentation with Demonstrator-annotated Precision
Imitation learning is a promising paradigm for training robot agents; however, standard approaches typically require substantial data acquisition -- via numerous demonstrations or random exploration -- to ensure reliable performance. Although exploration reduces human effort, it lacks safety guarantees and often results in frequent collisions -- particularly in clearance-limited tasks (e.g., peg-in-hole) -- thereby, necessitating manual environmental resets and imposing additional human burden.…

'Archivist fired by Trump launches a national effort to strengthen democracy': 'On Constitution Day, Shogan launched a national bipartisan effort called "More Perfect" to work on strengthening democracy' https://www.pbs.org/newsho…

Archivist fired by Trump launches a national effort to strengthen democracy
Colleen Shogan made history when she became the first woman to serve as Archivist of the United States in 2023. In February, President Trump fired her with no reason given. On Constitution Day, Shogan launched a national bipartisan effort called "More Perfect" to work on strengthening democracy. Amna Nawaz reports for our series, Art in Action, and our arts and culture coverage, CANVAS.

@… If you hadn’t put so much damn effort into moving into this place, I would be yelling “MOVE OUT”.
I believe in you. You and Henry shall win this fight.

Stop DDoS Attacking the Research Community with AI-Generated Survey Papers
Jianghao Lin, Rong Shan, Jiachen Zhu, Yunjia Xi, Yong Yu, Weinan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09686

Stop DDoS Attacking the Research Community with AI-Generated Survey Papers
Survey papers are foundational to the scholarly progress of research communities, offering structured overviews that guide both novices and experts across disciplines. However, the recent surge of AI-generated surveys, especially enabled by large language models (LLMs), has transformed this traditionally labor-intensive genre into a low-effort, high-volume output. While such automation lowers entry barriers, it also introduces a critical threat: the phenomenon we term the "survey paper DDoS att…

Bluesky revises its policies and Community Guidelines to comply with new regulations, including the EU DSA, UK Online Safety Act, and US Take It Down Act (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/bluesky-rolls-out-mass…

Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines | TechCrunch
Some of the changes represent an effort by Bluesky to purposefully shape its community and the behavior of its users, nudging them to be nicer and more respectful of others.

AnalogSeeker: An Open-source Foundation Language Model for Analog Circuit Design
Zihao Chen, Ji Zhuang, Jinyi Shen, Xiaoyue Ke, Xinyi Yang, Mingjie Zhou, Zhuoyao Du, Xu Yan, Zhouyang Wu, Zhenyu Xu, Jiangli Huang, Li Shang, Xuan Zeng, Fan Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10409

AnalogSeeker: An Open-source Foundation Language Model for Analog Circuit Design
In this paper, we propose AnalogSeeker, an effort toward an open-source foundation language model for analog circuit design, with the aim of integrating domain knowledge and giving design assistance. To overcome the scarcity of data in this field, we employ a corpus collection strategy based on the domain knowledge framework of analog circuits. High-quality, accessible textbooks across relevant subfields are systematically curated and cleaned into a textual domain corpus. To address the complex…

Chris Hedge on Kirk death “Martyrs are the lifeblood of violent movements. Any flinching over the use of violence, any talk of compassion or understanding, any effort to mediate or discuss, is a betrayal of the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.”
Read Full Article https://scheerp…

Chris Hedges: The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.

Have you or your kids ever tried to use YouTube with content restrictions on? Nearly everything is blocked. Google constantly blocked videos that were required for school. My kids have to log out of their google account just to do schoolwork.
This will be bad.
#youtoube #google

YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. If it’s wrong, you’ll have to prove it
YouTube will begin guessing users’ ages using artificial intelligence on Wednesday, as part of an effort to prevent kids from accessing inappropriate content online.

An election law expert weighs in on Trump's effort to reshape our democracy : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/10/nx-s1-5536528/an-election-law-expert-weighs-in-on-trumps-effort-to-reshape-our-democracy

Compact Binary Coalescence Sensitivity Estimates with Injection Campaigns during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations' Fourth Observing Run
Reed Essick, Michael W. Coughlin, Michael Zevin, Deep Chatterjee, Teagan A. Clarke, Utkarsh Mali, Simona Miller, Nathan Steinle, Pratyusava Baral, Amanda C. Baylor, Gareth Cabourn Davies, Thomas Dent, Prathamesh Joshi, Praveen Kumar, Cody Messick, Tanmaya Mishra, Amazigh Ouzriat, Khun Sang Phukon, Lorenzo Piccari, Marion Pillas, Max Trevor, Thom…

Compact Binary Coalescence Sensitivity Estimates with Injection Campaigns during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations' Fourth Observing Run
We describe the effort to characterize gravitational-wave searches and detector sensitivity to different types of compact binary coalescences during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations' fourth observing run. We discuss the design requirements and example use cases for this data product, constructed from $> 4.33\times10^8$ injections during O4a alone. We also identify subtle effects with high confidence, like diurnal duty cycles within detectors. This paper accompanies a public data release of t…

Seeing the stories about people in Britain being asked to delete emails to save water (!) I was reminded of the community effort to cut down iron railings for the war effort which also appears to have been not so useful (allegedly!) https://www.londongardenstrust.org/features/railings3.h…

‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs https://www.404media.co/save-our-signs-preservation-project-launches-archive-of-10-000-national-park-signs/

Sources: Apple plans to build its upcoming indoor security camera, home hub, and tabletop robot in Vietnam as part an effort to lessen its dependence on China (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

😣 Effortful pastimes are perceived as more meaningful than those requiring minimal effort, study finds
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-effortful-pastimes-meaningful-requiring-minimal.html

Effortful pastimes are perceived as more meaningful than those requiring minimal effort, study finds
Past studies suggest that how people spend their time outside of work or academic endeavors can contribute to their overall well-being and life satisfaction. Yet how humans perceive different leisure activities that they engage in and the extent to which they feel that these activities contribute to their life's purpose has not yet been extensively investigated.

DBOS Network Sensing: A Web Services Approach to Collaborative Awareness
Sophia Lockton, Jeremy Kepner, Michael Stonebraker, Hayden Jananthan, LaToya Anderson, William Arcand, David Bestor, William Bergeron, Alex Bonn, Daniel Burrill, Chansup Byun, Timothy Davis, Vijay Gadepally, Michael Houle, Matthew Hubbell, Michael Jones, Piotr Luszczek, Peter Michaleas, Lauren Milechin, Chasen Milner, Guillermo Morales, Julie Mullen, Michel Pelletier, Alex Poliakov, Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, A…

DBOS Network Sensing: A Web Services Approach to Collaborative Awareness
DBOS (DataBase Operating System) is a novel capability that integrates web services, operating system functions, and database features to significantly reduce web-deployment effort while increasing resilience. Integration of high performance network sensing enables DBOS web services to collaboratively create a shared awareness of their network environments to enhance their collective resilience and security. Network sensing is added to DBOS using GraphBLAS hypersparse traffic matrices via two a…

Causal-Guided Dimension Reduction for Efficient Pareto Optimization
Dinithi Jayasuriya, Divake Kumar, Sureshkumar Senthilkumar, Devashri Naik, Nastaran Darabi, Amit Ranjan Trivedi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09941

Causal-Guided Dimension Reduction for Efficient Pareto Optimization
Multi-objective optimization of analog circuits is hindered by high-dimensional parameter spaces, strong feedback couplings, and expensive transistor-level simulations. Evolutionary algorithms such as Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) are widely used but treat all parameters equally, thereby wasting effort on variables with little impact on performance, which limits their scalability. We introduce CaDRO, a causal-guided dimensionality reduction framework that embeds causal di…

Cross-BCI, A Cross-BCI-Paradigm Classifica-tion Model Towards Universal BCI Applications
Gaojie Zhou, Junhua Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09242 https://ar…

Cross-BCI, A Cross-BCI-Paradigm Classifica-tion Model Towards Universal BCI Applications
Classification models used in brain-computer interface (BCI) are usually designed for a single BCI paradigm. This requires the redevelopment of the model when applying it to a new BCI paradigm, resulting in repeated costs and effort. Moreover, less complex deep learning models are desired for practical usage, as well as for deployment on portable devices. In or-der to fill the above gaps, we, in this study, proposed a light-weight and unified decoding model for cross-BCI-paradigm classification…

Geri might as well have already left for all the effort she put into that performance. #TOTP

Trump effort to target television drug ads could have massive implications (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5500949-trump-administration-pharma-advertising-curbs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250914/p11#a250914p11

Everytime I use the leaf blower/mulcher I remember that I forgot my mask. I remembered my hearing protection. I will be repeating the effort in one or two weeks when the rest of the leaves drop onto the patio.
Two of the annuals are covered for the winter, and next week, the rose is covered.
Like last year, I will be hanging the Christmas lights before it gets too cold. I also will be putting up a small (1 metre) tree with lights. All the lights will be on remotes, and the wi…

Obesity & diet
I wouldn't normally share a positive story about the new diet drugs, because I've seen someone get obsessed with them who was at a perfectly acceptable weight *by majority standards* (surprise: every weight is in fact perfectly acceptable by *objective* standards, because every "weight-associated" health risk is its own danger that should be assessed *in individuals*). I think two almost-contradictory things:
1. In a society shuddering under the burden of metastasized fatmisia, there's a very real danger in promoting the new diet drugs because lots of people who really don't need them will be psychologically bullied into using them and suffer from the cost and/or side effects.
2. For many individuals under the assault of our society's fatmisia, "just ignore it" is not a sufficient response, and also for specific people for whom decreasing their weight can address *specific* health risks/conditions that they *want* to address that way, these drugs can be a useful tool.
I know @… to be a trustworthy & considerate person, so I think it's responsible to share this:
#Fat #Diet #Obesity

ToonComposer: Streamlining Cartoon Production with Generative Post-Keyframing
Lingen Li, Guangzhi Wang, Zhaoyang Zhang, Yaowei Li, Xiaoyu Li, Qi Dou, Jinwei Gu, Tianfan Xue, Ying Shan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10881

ToonComposer: Streamlining Cartoon Production with Generative Post-Keyframing
Traditional cartoon and anime production involves keyframing, inbetweening, and colorization stages, which require intensive manual effort. Despite recent advances in AI, existing methods often handle these stages separately, leading to error accumulation and artifacts. For instance, inbetweening approaches struggle with large motions, while colorization methods require dense per-frame sketches. To address this, we introduce ToonComposer, a generative model that unifies inbetweening and coloriz…

Tackling One Health Risks: How Large Language Models are leveraged for Risk Negotiation and Consensus-building
Alexandra Fetsch, Iurii Savvateev, Racem Ben Romdhane, Martin Wiedmann, Artemiy Dimov, Maciej Durkalec, Josef Teichmann, Jakob Zinsstag, Konstantinos Koutsoumanis, Andreja Rajkovic, Jason Mann, Mauro Tonolla, Monika Ehling-Schulz, Matthias Filter, Sophia Johler

Tackling One Health Risks: How Large Language Models are leveraged for Risk Negotiation and Consensus-building
Key global challenges of our times are characterized by complex interdependencies and can only be effectively addressed through an integrated, participatory effort. Conventional risk analysis frameworks often reduce complexity to ensure manageability, creating silos that hinder comprehensive solutions. A fundamental shift towards holistic strategies is essential to enable effective negotiations between different sectors and to balance the competing interests of stakeholders. However, achieving …

The Oatmeal comic about "AI" "art" is great, but I have to critize the "I like AI, I use AI" part; there's a selection bias at work—he sees the generated "art" as very obviously for what it is, (dehumanizing low-effort slop) but doesn't make the logical conclusion that this is true for _any type of output_ (e.g. text); it always dehumanizing low-effort slop that's not worth looking at, listening to or reading.

US Health and Human Services centralized medical database – Uh oh
 
This week the Health and Human Services (HHS) agency and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are announcing an initiative to create a centralized database of individual’s health information. The stated rationale for this effort is to improve access to innovative health solutions and improve user access and security. A part of this initiative will include updates to the HIPAA regulations. The effort…

A new super PAC called the Fellowship PAC says it will spend $100M to support pro-crypto legislators; sources say Tether is expected to be one of the backers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/technology/crypto-fellowship-su…

New Crypto Super PAC Garners $100 Million to Help Push Industry Agenda
The effort, called the Fellowship PAC, is the crypto industry’s latest move to help elect legislators that will force through its interests in Washington.

Have to share another cool picture from Lost Dot. 😁
Caption: Christoph Tapken (314) arrived at noon, sharing how close he’d come to scratching at CP5. At one point, he was ready to jump in a taxi and call it a day, but standing at the Finish in Constanța, he was glad he’d pushed through. More proud of his mental resilience than the physical effort, Christoph is now looking forward to reuniting with his family in Germany.
Source: Lost Dot

Performance of GPT-5 Frontier Models in Ophthalmology Question Answering
Fares Antaki, David Mikhail, Daniel Milad, Danny A Mammo, Sumit Sharma, Sunil K Srivastava, Bing Yu Chen, Samir Touma, Mertcan Sevgi, Jonathan El-Khoury, Pearse A Keane, Qingyu Chen, Yih Chung Tham, Renaud Duval
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09956

Performance of GPT-5 Frontier Models in Ophthalmology Question Answering
Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-5 integrate advanced reasoning capabilities that may improve performance on complex medical question-answering tasks. For this latest generation of reasoning models, the configurations that maximize both accuracy and cost-efficiency have yet to be established. We evaluated 12 configurations of OpenAI's GPT-5 series (three model tiers across four reasoning effort settings) alongside o1-high, o3-high, and GPT-4o, using 260 closed-access multiple-choice que…

Measurement of Beam-Recoil Observables $C_x$ and $C_z$ for $K^ \Lambda$ Photoproduction
CLAS Collaboration, S. Adhikari, B. A. Raue, D. S. Carman, L. Guo, T. Chetry, P. Achenbach, J. S. Alvarado, M. J. Amaryan, W. R. Armstrong, H. Atac, H. Avakian, L. Baashen, N. A. Baltzell, L. Barion, M. Bashkanov, M. Battaglieri, F. Benmokhtar, A. Bianconi, A. S. Biselli, S. Boiarinov, M. Bondi, F. Bossu, K. -Th. Brinkmann, W. J. Briscoe, W. K. Brooks, S. Bueltmann, V. D. Burkert, T. Cao, R. Capobia…

Measurement of Beam-Recoil Observables $C_x$ and $C_z$ for $K^+Λ$ Photoproduction
Exclusive photoproduction of $K^+ Λ$ final states off a proton target has been an important component in the search for missing nucleon resonances and our understanding of the production of final states containing strange quarks. Polarization observables have been instrumental in this effort. The current work is an extension of previously published CLAS results on the beam-recoil transferred polarization observables $C_x$ and $C_z$. We extend the kinematic range up to invariant mass $W=3.33$~G…

On Experiments
Brendan van Rooyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08288 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08288

On Experiments
The scientific process is a means for turning the results of experiments into knowledge about the world in which we live. Much research effort has been directed toward automating this process. To do this, one needs to formulate the scientific process in a precise mathematical language. This paper outlines one such language. What is presented here is hardly new. The material leans much on great thinkers of times past as well as more modern contributions. The novel contributions of this paper are…

Too good. I had to re-repost. (And I'll keep reminding myself--it's just a #JOKE.)

Informative Keyboard and its Application to Raise Awareness of Smartphone Use
Jaroslaw Domaszewicz, Damian Sienicki, Michal Obirek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10710 https://

Informative Keyboard and its Application to Raise Awareness of Smartphone Use
Excessive smartphone use is now widely considered a personal and societal problem. It is recognized by application and smartphone makers, who provide tools to track the amount of use, set limits, or block certain services at predefined times. These tools, while powerful, may require significant cognitive effort to operate: configuration parameters need to be set, and captured statistics need to be analyzed. To offer a complementary solution, we propose a radically different approach. We employ …

Bluesky revises its policies and Community Guidelines to comply with new regulations, including EU's DSA, the UK Online Safety Act, and the US Take It Down Act (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/bluesky-roll…

Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines | TechCrunch
Some of the changes represent an effort by Bluesky to purposefully shape its community and the behavior of its users, nudging them to be nicer and more respectful of others.

The MSP-Podcast Corpus
Carlos Busso, Reza Lotfian, Kusha Sridhar, Ali N. Salman, Wei-Cheng Lin, Lucas Goncalves, Srinivas Parthasarathy, Abinay Reddy Naini, Seong-Gyun Leem, Luz Martinez-Lucas, Huang-Cheng Chou, Pravin Mote
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09791

The MSP-Podcast Corpus
The availability of large, high-quality emotional speech databases is essential for advancing speech emotion recognition (SER) in real-world scenarios. However, many existing databases face limitations in size, emotional balance, and speaker diversity. This study describes the MSP-Podcast corpus, summarizing our ten-year effort. The corpus consists of over 400 hours of diverse audio samples from various audio-sharing websites, all of which have Common Licenses that permit the distribution of th…

Trump has asked the EU to impose tariffs of up to 100% on India and China as part of an effort to force the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to end the war in Ukraine, according to reports.
The US president made the demand during a meeting between US and EU officials discussing options to increase economic pressure on Russia on Tuesday

AEGIS: An Agent for Extraction and Geographic Identification in Scholarly Proceedings
Om Vishesh, Harshad Khadilkar, Deepak Akkil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09470 https://

AEGIS: An Agent for Extraction and Geographic Identification in Scholarly Proceedings
Keeping pace with the rapid growth of academia literature presents a significant challenge for researchers, funding bodies, and academic societies. To address the time-consuming manual effort required for scholarly discovery, we present a novel, fully automated system that transitions from data discovery to direct action. Our pipeline demonstrates how a specialized AI agent, 'Agent-E', can be tasked with identifying papers from specific geographic regions within conference proceedings and then …

Uncertainty Awareness and Trust in Explainable AI- On Trust Calibration using Local and Global Explanations
Carina Newen, Daniel Bodemer, Sonja Glantz, Emmanuel M\"uller, Magdalena Wischnewski, Lenka Schnaubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08989

Uncertainty Awareness and Trust in Explainable AI- On Trust Calibration using Local and Global Explanations
Explainable AI has become a common term in the literature, scrutinized by computer scientists and statisticians and highlighted by psychological or philosophical researchers. One major effort many researchers tackle is constructing general guidelines for XAI schemes, which we derived from our study. While some areas of XAI are well studied, we focus on uncertainty explanations and consider global explanations, which are often left out. We chose an algorithm that covers various concepts simultan…

Towards An Approach to Identify Divergences in Hardware Designs for HPC Workloads
Doru Thom Popovici, Mario Vega, Angelos Ioannou, Fabien Chaix, Dania Mosuli, Blair Reasoner, Tan Nguyen, Xiaokun Yang, John Shalf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09774

Towards An Approach to Identify Divergences in Hardware Designs for HPC Workloads
Developing efficient hardware accelerators for mathematical kernels used in scientific applications and machine learning has traditionally been a labor-intensive task. These accelerators typically require low-level programming in Verilog or other hardware description languages, along with significant manual optimization effort. Recently, to alleviate this challenge, high-level hardware design tools like Chisel and High-Level Synthesis have emerged. However, as with any compiler, some of the gen…

i put so much active effort over the years into communicating closer to an average person, not sounding like some stuffy pretentious academic like when i was 15, but now i sorta wanna relearn aspects of that. the aesthetic of being a smart person people should listen to, at least depending on where its applied, is a tool like any other

MVP4D: Multi-View Portrait Video Diffusion for Animatable 4D Avatars
Felix Taubner, Ruihang Zhang, Mathieu Tuli, Sherwin Bahmani, David B. Lindell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12785

MVP4D: Multi-View Portrait Video Diffusion for Animatable 4D Avatars
Digital human avatars aim to simulate the dynamic appearance of humans in virtual environments, enabling immersive experiences across gaming, film, virtual reality, and more. However, the conventional process for creating and animating photorealistic human avatars is expensive and time-consuming, requiring large camera capture rigs and significant manual effort from professional 3D artists. With the advent of capable image and video generation models, recent methods enable automatic rendering o…

Cognitive Effort in the Two-Step Task: An Active Inference Drift-Diffusion Model Approach
Alvaro Garrido Perez, Viktor Lemoine, Amrapali Pednekar, Yara Khaluf, Pieter Simoens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04435

Cognitive Effort in the Two-Step Task: An Active Inference Drift-Diffusion Model Approach
High-level theories rooted in the Bayesian Brain Hypothesis often frame cognitive effort as the cost of resolving the conflict between habits and optimal policies. In parallel, evidence accumulator models (EAMs) provide a mechanistic account of how effort arises from competition between the subjective values of available options. Although EAMs have been combined with frameworks like Reinforcement Learning to bridge the gap between high-level theories and process-level mechanisms, relatively les…

Multidimensional Poverty Mapping for Small Areas
Soumojit Das, Dilshanie Deepawansa, Partha Lahiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08898 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Multidimensional Poverty Mapping for Small Areas
Many countries measure poverty based only on income or consumption. However, there is a growing awareness of measuring poverty through multiple dimensions that captures a more reasonable status of poverty. Estimating poverty measure(s) for small geographical areas, commonly referred to as poverty mapping, is challenging due to small or no sample for the small areas. While there is a huge literature available on unidimensional poverty mapping, only a limited effort has been made to address speci…

Smooth Spatiotemporal Tube Synthesis for Prescribed-Time Reach-Avoid-Stay Control
Siddhartha Upadhyay, Ratnangshu Das, Pushpak Jagtap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11583 https://…

Smooth Spatiotemporal Tube Synthesis for Prescribed-Time Reach-Avoid-Stay Control
In this work, we address the issue of controller synthesis for a control-affine nonlinear system to meet prescribed time reach-avoid-stay specifications. Our goal is to improve upon previous methods based on spatiotemporal tubes (STTs) by eliminating the need for circumvent functions, which often lead to abrupt tube modifications and high control effort. We propose an adaptive framework that constructs smooth STTs around static unsafe sets, enabling continuous avoidance while guiding the system…

Simplicial Homotopy Type Theory is not just Simplicial: What are $\infty$-Categories?
Nima Rasekh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07737 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Simplicial Homotopy Type Theory is not just Simplicial: What are $\infty$-Categories?
$\infty$-category theory was originally developed in the context of classical homotopy theory using standard set theoretical assumptions, but has since been extended to a variety of mathematical foundations. One such successful effort, primarily due to Martini and Wolf, introduced a theory of $\infty$-categories internal to the foundation of an arbitrary Grothendieck $\infty$-topos, meaning they used categorical foundations. Another approach, due to Riehl and Shulman, developed a theory of $\in…

The first session of the second #AntarcticaInSync webinar is about to start - an international effort to coordinate research on and around the southern continent. Come and talk to me about land based observations and climate variability ... https://www.antarctica-insync.org/2nd-antarctica-insync-international-science-webinar/

Sources: Apple executive Ke Yang, who was appointed just weeks ago as head of a team developing AI-driven web search for Siri, is leaving for Meta (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

C.J. Stroud rips Texans for 'lollygagging' during Week 1 loss to Rams: Houston's franchise QB downs effort

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/c-j-s…

Decoupling Geometry from Optimization in 2D Irregular Cutting and Packing Problems: an Open-Source Collision Detection Engine
Jeroen Gardeyn, Tony Wauters, Greet Vanden Berghe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08341

Decoupling Geometry from Optimization in 2D Irregular Cutting and Packing Problems: an Open-Source Collision Detection Engine
Addressing irregular cutting and packing (C&P) optimization problems poses two distinct challenges: the geometric challenge of determining whether or not an item can be placed feasibly at a certain position, and the optimization challenge of finding a good solution according to some objective function. Until now, those tackling such problems have had to address both challenges simultaneously, requiring two distinct sets of expertise and a lot of research & development effort. One way to lower t…

Cowboys preach 'team effort' for stellar Javonte Williams run game https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-preach-team-effort-stellar-javonte-williams-run-game/5b155f50de92…

A Hybrid Agent-Based and System Dynamics Framework for Modelling Project Execution and Technology Maturity in Early-Stage R&D
R. W. S. Pessoa, M. H. N{\ae}ss, J. C. Bijos, C. M. Rebello, D. Colombo, L. Schnitman, I. B. R. Nogueira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09688

A Hybrid Agent-Based and System Dynamics Framework for Modelling Project Execution and Technology Maturity in Early-Stage R&D
This paper presents a hybrid approach to predict the evolution of technological maturity in R and D projects, using the oil and gas sector as an example. Integrating System Dynamics (SD) and Agent Based Modelling (ABM) allows the proposed multi level framework to capture uncertainties in work effort, team size, and project duration, which influence technological progress. While AB SD hybrid models are established in other fields, their use in R and D remains limited. The model combines system l…

California Assembly passes a bill that requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta support the bill, while the MPA opposes it (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/13/c

Republicans Block Schumer's Effort to Force Vote on Epstein Files (Michael Gold/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/us/politics/chuck-schumer-effort-epstein-files.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lE8.8cJh.48I82ZtvKe5I&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p158#a250910p158

Unsupervised Skill Discovery as Exploration for Learning Agile Locomotion
Seungeun Rho, Kartik Garg, Morgan Byrd, Sehoon Ha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08982 https://

Unsupervised Skill Discovery as Exploration for Learning Agile Locomotion
Exploration is crucial for enabling legged robots to learn agile locomotion behaviors that can overcome diverse obstacles. However, such exploration is inherently challenging, and we often rely on extensive reward engineering, expert demonstrations, or curriculum learning - all of which limit generalizability. In this work, we propose Skill Discovery as Exploration (SDAX), a novel learning framework that significantly reduces human engineering effort. SDAX leverages unsupervised skill discovery…

Jaguars HC Liam Coen on Trevor Lawrence's stumble to six: 'That's an unbelievable individual effort' https://www.nfl.com/news/jaguars-hc-liam-coen-on-trevor-lawrence-s-stumble-to-six-that-s-an-unbelievable-i…

The Trump administration
has asked an appeals court to
remove Lisa Cook
from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors
by Monday,
before the central bank’s next vote
on interest rates.
The request represents an extraordinary effort
by the White House
to shape the board
before the Fed’s interest rate-setting committee
meets next Tuesday and Wednesday.
At the same time,
Senate Republicans
are pushing to confirm…

Trump administration requests emergency ruling to remove Cook from Fed board
The Trump administration has asked an appeals court to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors by Monday, before the central bank’s next vote on interest rates. Trump sought to fire Cook Aug. 25, but a federal judge ruled late Tuesday that the removal was illegal and reinstated her to the Fed’s board.

Interviews with over 70 people detail the 13-year search for Austin Tice, the American journalist who was kidnapped near Damascus in August 2012 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/13/austin-tice-syria-assad-s…

Inside the 13-year search for Austin Tice, the journalist who disappeared
Austin Tice disappeared in Syria in 2012. To reconstruct the 13-year search for the journalist, The Post spoke with more than 70 people, uncovering new information about his imprisonment and the effort to free him.

North Carolina GOP launches redistricting effort (Max Rego/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5553592-nc-republicans-redrawing-congressional-map/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p99#a251013p99

AI reasoning effort mirrors human decision time on content moderation tasks
Thomas Davidson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20262 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.202…

AI reasoning effort mirrors human decision time on content moderation tasks
Large language models can now generate intermediate reasoning steps before producing answers, improving performance on difficult problems. This study uses a paired conjoint experiment on a content moderation task to examine parallels between human decision times and model reasoning effort. Across three frontier models, reasoning effort consistently predicts human decision time. Both humans and models expended greater effort when important variables were held constant, suggesting similar sensiti…

How Deebo Samuel, Jayden Daniels and a remade defense helped Commanders overcome 'sloppy' effort vs. Giants

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-de…

California Assembly passes a bill that requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta support the bill, while the MPA opposes it (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/13/c

Hall of Famer Calls Out Cowboys WR CeeDee Lamb: ‘I Need Better Effort’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/randy-moss-ceedee-lamb-effort/?adt_ei=[email]

Automated Classification of Tutors' Dialogue Acts Using Generative AI: A Case Study Using the CIMA Corpus
Liqun He, Jiaqi Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09125 https://…

Automated Classification of Tutors' Dialogue Acts Using Generative AI: A Case Study Using the CIMA Corpus
This study explores the use of generative AI for automating the classification of tutors' Dialogue Acts (DAs), aiming to reduce the time and effort required by traditional manual coding. This case study uses the open-source CIMA corpus, in which tutors' responses are pre-annotated into four DA categories. Both GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 models were tested using tailored prompts. Results show that GPT-4 achieved 80% accuracy, a weighted F1-score of 0.81, and a Cohen's Kappa of 0.74, surpassing base…

This week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem staged a bizarre photo op in Portland that appeared designed to bolster Trump’s effort to deploy Oregon’s National Guard against ICE protesters in the city.
Noem stood on a rooftop observing protesters below, and MAGA influencers hailed it as a moment of extraordinary heroism against a powerful, implacable enemy.
“Noem just stared down violent Antifa rioters on the roof of a Portland ICE facility,” one wrote.
Alas, it turn…

How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland
President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”

The Insidious Effort to Rationalize Trump's Lawfare (William Kristol/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/insidious-effort-to-rationalize-trump-lawfare-letitia-james
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p34#a251010p34

Why it is worth making an effort with GenAI
Yvonne Rogers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00852 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00852

Why it is worth making an effort with GenAI
Students routinely use ChatGPT and the like now to help them with their homework, such as writing an essay. It takes less effort to complete and is easier to do than by hand. It can even produce as good if not better output than the student's own work. However, there is a growing concern that over-reliance on using GenAI in this way will stifle the development of learning writing and critical thinking skills. How might this trend be reversed? What if students were required to make more effort w…

Susan Collins, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee,
responded to Trump’s
"Pocket Recission" attempts by saying that “any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.”
Other moderate Republicans issued similar statements, and even Senate Majority Leader John Thune expressed some concern, saying he agreed with the president on policy but worried about the process.
Still, the House Republican Co…

One weird trick to stop Trump’s federal spending power grab
Congress can burn a hole in the president’s “pocket rescission.”

Sources: Microsoft is trying to poach Meta's AI talent, is making multimillion-dollar offers, with a mandate to match Meta's compensation for top talent (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-trying-poa…

Microsoft is trying to poach Meta AI talent, documents show
The company has compiled a list of its most-wanted Meta engineers and researchers, part of an effort to be more competitive in the AI talent wars.

Phoenix: A Novel Context-Aware Voice-Powered Math Equation Workspace and Editor
Kenneth Ge, Ryan Paul, Priscilla Zhang, JooYoung Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07576 https://

Phoenix: A Novel Context-Aware Voice-Powered Math Equation Workspace and Editor
Writing mathematical notation requires substantial effort, diverting cognitive resources from conceptual understanding to documentation mechanics, significantly impacting individuals with fine motor disabilities (FMDs). Current limits of speech-based math technologies rely on precise dictation of math symbols and unintuitive command-based interfaces. We present a novel voice-powered math workspace, applying neuroscience insights to create an intuitive problem-solving environment. To minimize co…

Cowboys' Jerry Jones not surprised by taunts from Packers fans as Micah Parsons wreaks havoc for Green Bay

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys…

The policies May Mailman helped devise
— and is now leveraging as she leads the White House’s negotiations with colleges
— have sent shock waves through higher education,
dividing faculty and alarming some students who see an effort to silence dissent.
The aggressive tactics could have far-reaching implications for the future of academic freedom,
the admissions practices at the most competitive colleges
and the global reputations for some of the crown jew…

The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities
May Mailman is credited as an animating force behind a strategy that has intimidated independent institutions and undercut years of medical and scientific research.

A look at Defense Secretary Hegseth's efforts to limit Pentagon press access; sources: he tried to bar an NBC News reporter who had dug up info about his past (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/business/media/hegseth-penta…

Inside Hegseth’s Effort to Limit Press Access at the Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is at odds with the news media to a degree unseen in modern times, former Pentagon officials say.

Ja'Marr Chase criticizes Bengals' effort in blowout loss to Broncos: 'Didn't look like we wanted it'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jamarr-

Fear of flying therapy is about reframing the flight experience;
if my mind’s eye squints,
I can almost interpret my sweating palms and pounding heartbeat as a kind of buzz.
But this requires repeated, strenuous effort,
and the result is a mental exhaustion that makes the worst-case scenario appealing:
succumbing to my fears and never flying again.
I imagine this as analogous to what many Americans, aerophobic or not, are feeling.
It’s simply easier…

Winging It | Noelle Mateer
For those trying to overcome their fears of flying, it’s been . . . a challenging time to say the least.

Ant Group unit Robbyant showcases its first LLM-powered humanoid robot, the R1, at a conference in Shanghai, joining an intensifying effort by Chinese companies (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google says it hit a milestone of 1.3 quadrillion monthly tokens processed across its services this summer, up from 980T monthly tokens announced in July (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/google-boasts-1-3…

Google boasts 1.3 quadrillion tokens each month, but the figure is mostly window dressing
Google says it now processes more than 1.3 quadrillion tokens every month with its AI models. But this headline number mostly reflects computing effort, not real usage or practical value, and it raises questions about Google's own environmental claims.

Data from 300K pull requests shows OpenAI is catching up to Anthropic in AI coding: Codex has a 74.3% success rate vs. Claude Code's 73.7% in code approvals (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-catching-anthropi…

OpenAI Is Catching Up To Anthropic in AI Coding
OpenAI’s effort to catch up to Anthropic in code-generating artificial intelligence seems to be working.New data show OpenAI’s Codex coding assistant has pulled ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Code assistant in certain coding capabilities. Codex usage among developers is also catching up to Claude ...

Melania Trump says she hopes to become the First Lady of Technology as she leads the Presidential AI Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI (Miranda Devine/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/25/opinion/

Exclusive | First lady Melania Trump will head effort to teach next generation about AI
First lady Melania Trump will lead the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI technology and help accelerate innovation in the field.