hello my #fuckaas friends in my phone
you know about mastodon. you may have heard of lemmy, the fedi equivalent of reddit, or pixelfed, the fedi equivalent of Instagram, or bookwyrm, the Goodreads equivalent.
but did you know there's like 8 bajillion other things in the fediverse that you can check out and start using in place of corporate-captured platforms? it's true!
YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics (David Wheeldon/YouTube Official Blog)
https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/2025-youtube-europe-impact-…
kangaroo: Grey kangaroo dominance
Dominance relations among a group of free-ranging grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus). Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 17 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kangar…
I have a question about elliptic curve cryptography: I assumed the order of a curve's bit length is equivalent to the private key size. Yet...
sect233k1 has 0x8000000000000000000000000000069d5bb915bcd46efb1ad5f173abdf group order, which is 232 bit. Wouldn't we expect sect*233*k1 to be 233 bit long? (similar with sect409k1, where the order is 407 bit).
Those are binary curves, and, honestly, I don't even know what that means... anything different in the world of binary c…
The environmental sciences have been modeling pollution for over 100 years, creating a large set of mathematical tools to model and understand pollution and its impact on the environment.
A famous example is the Streeter-Phelps equation, made to study the pollution of of the Ohio River and that has helped understand if or how a stream can support life at different times/distances from the pollution.
Is there an equivalent for digital pollution?
🧵 4/X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streeter–Phelps_equation
Wave maps from circle to Riemannian manifold: global controllability is equivalent to homotopy
Jean-Michel Coron, Joachim Krieger, Shengquan Xiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12779
cattle: Dairy cattle (1955)
Dominance interactions among a group of dairy cattle at the Iberia Livestock Experiment Station in Jenerette, Louisiana. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 28 nodes and 217 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://ne…
From @…
"The ACT is our mini-Washington DC. Canberra gets teased a lot, mostly by people who’ve never been. But Australia’s capital is a beautifully designed city surrounded by bushland.
It offers the ultimate mix of civics and scenery. You can visit Parliament House in the morning, the National Gallery at lunch, and still have time fo…
❝Americans are democracy’s equivalent of second-generation wealth. They were born into democracy and have no appreciation of what life is like without it.❞
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/14/wang-jian-china-journalist-reports-united-states-donald-trump-xi-jinping
rhesus_monkey: Rhesus monkey grooming (1963)
Grooming interactions among a group of wild adult rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in Cayo Santiago, during a two month period in 1963. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 16 nodes and 111 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
Exploring the spatially-resolved capabilities of the J-PAS survey with Py2DJPAS
J. E. Rodr\'iguez-Mart\'in, L. A. D\'iaz-Garc\'ia, R. M. Gonz\'alez Delgado, G. Mart\'inez-Solaeche, R. Garc\'ia-Benito, A. de Amorim, J. Thain\'a-Batista, R. Cid Fernandes, I. M\'arquez, A. Fern\'andez-Soto, I. Breda, R. Abramo, J. Alcaniz, N. Ben\'itez, S. Bonoli, S. Carneiro, A. J. Cenarro, D. Crist\'obal-Hornillos, R. A. Dupke, A. Ederoclite, A. Hern\'…

Exploring the spatially-resolved capabilities of the J-PAS survey with Py2DJPAS
We present Py2DJPAS, a Python-based tool to automate the analysis of spatially resolved galaxies in the \textbf{miniJPAS} survey, a 1~deg$^2$ precursor of the J-PAS survey, using the same filter system, telescope, and Pathfinder camera. Py2DJPAS streamlines the entire workflow: downloading scientific images and catalogs, performing PSF homogenization, masking, aperture definition, SED fitting, and estimating optical emission line equivalent widths via an artificial neural network.
We validate…
Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[9/14]:
- Equivalent Linear Mappings of Large Language Models
James R. Golden
https://
Important decision for #V2G in Germany: parliament approves a legislative amendment that exempts electricity stored and supplied by bidirectional charging cars from energy tax and network costs. This makes the business case viable (and equivalent to large stationary batteries).
Inhalers drive carbon emissions equivalent to 530,000 cars each year, study shows
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-inhalers-carbon-emissions-equivalent-cars.html
«Milei has dashed his ship of state against the rocks, quite simply, because he followed the cracked compass called libertarianism. Libertarianism doesn’t work. Its core assumptions aren’t true. It’s the intellectual equivalent of huffing paint. But the pro-capitalist press outside #Argentina, for their part, ignored Milei’s obvious flaws and hyped him up because they wanted him to be the real deal.»
The article shows how other countries want to run off that cliff too…
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/this-is-why-you-dont-let-libertarians-run-your-country
Totally paracompact spaces and the Menger covering property
Davide Giacopello, Maddalena Bonanzinga, Piotr Szewczak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10252 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10252 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10252
arXiv:2511.10252v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A topological space is totally paracompact if any base of this space contains a locally finite subcover. We focus on a problem of Curtis whether in the class of regular Lindel\"of spaces total paracompactness is equivalent to the Menger covering property. To this end we consider topological spaces with certain dense subsets. It follows from our results that the above equivalence holds in the class of Lindel\"of GO-spaces defined on subsets of reals. We also provide a game-theoretical proof that any regular Menger space is totally paracompact and show that in the class of first-countable spaces the Menger game and a partial open neighborhood assignment game of Aurichi are equivalent. We also show that if $\mathfrak{b}=\omega_1$, then there is an uncountable subspace of the Sorgenfrey line whose all finite powers are Lindel\"of, which is a strengthening of a famous result due to Michael.
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I migrated to #Bandcamp in early 2022 before #Spotify started serving #ICE as “free content.”
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Spatial two-grid compact difference scheme for two-dimensional nonlinear diffusion-wave equations with variable exponent
Hao Zhang, Kexin Li, Wenlin Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12188
Quasi-conformal VS quasi-isometric equivalence in spaces with controlled growth
Katrin F\"Assler, Enrico Le Donne, Sebastiano Nicolussi Golo, Alessandro Ottazzi, Pierre Pansu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12161
Evidence for easy-plane XY ferromagnetism in heavy-fermion quantum-critical CeRh6Ge4
Riku Yamamoto, Sejun Park, Zachary W. Riedel, Phurba Sherpa, Joe D. Thompson, Filip Ronning, Eric D. Bauer, Adam P. Dioguardi, Michihiro Hirata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12006
Binary Choice Games and Arithmetical Comprehension
Juan Pablo Aguilera, Thibaut Kouptchinsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12612 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12…
When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.
Autonomous vehicles need social awareness to find optima in multi-agent reinforcement learning routing games
Anastasia Psarou, {\L}ukasz Gorczyca, Dominik Gawe{\l}, Rafa{\l} Kucharski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11410
Replaced article(s) found for math.DG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.DG/new
[1/1]:
- Filtered complexes and cohomologically equivalent subcomplexes
Erlend Grong, Francesca Tripaldi
From Stand Earth
Despite B.C.’s Peace River region facing an ongoing severe drought, last year oil and gas companies set a new record high for freshwater extraction with an alarming 50% increase over the previous year. If that doesn’t sit right with you, you’re not alone!
Last year B.C. oil and gas companies withdrew and polluted enough freshwater for more than 110,000 households – that’s equivalent to the entire population of Nanaimo.
read more at
Computer scientists: The Turing test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to that of a human.
Reality: The Turing test is a test of a human's ability not to be fooled by themselves that a machine is mimicking a human.
(Because the test uses a human to decide if something else is a human, it essentially explores the gullibility limit of an individual human—and says nothing about machine intelligence.)
absolutely cursed property. anything short of returning it to death by audio/285 kent/glasslands (or equivalent) will result in generations of karmic haunt to all future tenants & their parent corporations. (or as somebody else put it "wow, zohran works fast") https://www.
cattle: Dairy cattle (1955)
Dominance interactions among a group of dairy cattle at the Iberia Livestock Experiment Station in Jenerette, Louisiana. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 28 nodes and 217 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://ne…
Is there a #UNIX style tool with which I can do any or all of (some are equivalent when combined with other tools):
* Turn absolute symlinks into relative ones or vice versa
* Increase or decrease the number of `../` segments in symlinks during/after copying/moving them
* Get me all a tree's symlinks in a text file so I can edit/sed them and turn them back into symlinks
* Full…
One-dimensional long-range Ising model: two (almost) equivalent approximations
Valerio Pagni, Guido Giachetti, Andrea Trombettoni, Nicol\`o Defenu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02458
"In China, the longest ultrahigh-voltage power line stretches more than 2,000 miles from the far northwest to the populous southeast — the equivalent of transmitting electricity from Idaho to New York City."
**How China Powers Its Electric Cars and High-Speed Trains** - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/CglXF
"Did you know that for every US$1,000 a person has in savings is roughly equivalent to the direct #Emissions generated by flying from New York to Seattle every year”
#Banks are a core part of how we store and spend money. This
On Modified Diagonal Cycles and the Beauville Decomposition of the Ceresa Cycle
Lucas Lagarde, Mohamed Moakher, Morena Porzio, James Rawson, Fernando Trejos Su\'arez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07416
"L'attirance humaine pour les boissons alcoolisées pourrait être, dans une large mesure, héritée de nos ancêtres primates. et d'une certaine manière, c'est quelque chose que nous partageons avec nos plus proches parents vivants : selon une nouvelle étude [...] les chimpanzés consomment quotidiennement des doses élevées d'alcool par rapport Š leur poids corporel, par l'intermédiaire des fruits qui font partie de leur régime alimentaire habituel"
Drilling for 'cleaner' natural gas in the North Sea - with low methane leakage - will only reduce global greenhouse gas emissions if it keeps an equivalent amount of 'dirty' natural gas - e.g. US shale gas - in the ground. Which remains to be seen.
I know, it's an ingrained part of German culture to complain about its bureaucracy, how it's slow, based on sending Fax, etc. But the folks at the register office in my last place of residency in 🇩🇪 are just great.
It took in total 3 weeks to get our marriage from 🇬🇧 registered with them, which included some wait time for translations and the timezone difference. And all back & forth was handled via email.
In comparison, the 🇦🇷 equivalent has been ongoing for 1 1/2 years, at >10x the cost. 😂
hens: White Leghorn hens (1946)
Dominance interactions (pecking) among a group of White Leghorn hens, observed in 1946. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 32 nodes and 496 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/hens
A density counterpart of the Scheepers covering property
Leandro Aurichi, Fortunato Maesano, Lyubomyr Zdomskyy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11033 https://arx…
Jensen Huang says the 10 GW OpenAI project is equivalent to 4M-5M GPUs; the first phase is expected to come online in H2 2026 using Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/22/nvidia-openai-data-center.html
rhesus_monkey: Rhesus monkey grooming (1963)
Grooming interactions among a group of wild adult rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in Cayo Santiago, during a two month period in 1963. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 16 nodes and 111 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
Imagine ChatGPT but instead of predicting text it just linked you to the to 3 documents most-influential on the probabilities that would have been used to predict that text.
Could even generate some info about which parts of each would have been combined how.
There would still be issues with how training data is sourced and filtered, but these could be solved by crawling normally respecting robots.txt and by paying filterers a fair wage with a more relaxed work schedule and mental health support.
The energy issues are mainly about wild future investment and wasteful query spam, not optimized present-day per-query usage.
Is this "just search?"
Yes, but it would have some advantages for a lot of use cases, mainly in synthesizing results across multiple documents and in leveraging a language model more fully to find relevant stuff.
When we talk about the harms of current corporate LLMs, the opportunity cost of NOT building things like this is part of that.
The equivalent for art would have been so amazing too! "Here are some artists that can do what you want, with examples pulled from their portfolios."
It would be a really cool coding assistant that I'd actually encourage my students to use (with some guidelines).
#AI #GenAI #LLMs
BiasBusters: Uncovering and Mitigating Tool Selection Bias in Large Language Models
Thierry Blankenstein, Jialin Yu, Zixuan Li, Vassilis Plachouras, Sunando Sengupta, Philip Torr, Yarin Gal, Alasdair Paren, Adel Bibi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00307
Compression for Coinductive Infinitary Rewriting: A Generic Approach, with Applications to Cut-Elimination for Non-Wellfounded Proofs
R\'emy Cerda, Alexis Saurin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08420
kangaroo: Grey kangaroo dominance
Dominance relations among a group of free-ranging grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus). Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 17 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kangar…
Amazon launches its Trainium3 AI chip, claiming it is 4x faster than the previous gen and can reduce AI training and operating costs by ~50% vs. equivalent GPUs (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazons-custom-chips-pose-a…
kangaroo: Grey kangaroo dominance
Dominance relations among a group of free-ranging grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus). Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 17 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kangar…
rhesus_monkey: Rhesus monkey grooming (1963)
Grooming interactions among a group of wild adult rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in Cayo Santiago, during a two month period in 1963. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 16 nodes and 111 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
rhesus_monkey: Rhesus monkey grooming (1963)
Grooming interactions among a group of wild adult rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in Cayo Santiago, during a two month period in 1963. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 16 nodes and 111 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
rhesus_monkey: Rhesus monkey grooming (1963)
Grooming interactions among a group of wild adult rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in Cayo Santiago, during a two month period in 1963. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 16 nodes and 111 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
kangaroo: Grey kangaroo dominance
Dominance relations among a group of free-ranging grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus). Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 17 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kangar…
kangaroo: Grey kangaroo dominance
Dominance relations among a group of free-ranging grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus). Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 17 nodes and 91 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/kangar…
cattle: Dairy cattle (1955)
Dominance interactions among a group of dairy cattle at the Iberia Livestock Experiment Station in Jenerette, Louisiana. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 28 nodes and 217 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://ne…
cattle: Dairy cattle (1955)
Dominance interactions among a group of dairy cattle at the Iberia Livestock Experiment Station in Jenerette, Louisiana. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction. The two versions below are equivalent.
This network has 28 nodes and 217 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://ne…