yeast_transcription: Yeast transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
This network has 916 nodes and 1094 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…
Is there a name for a number representation system where you store an exponent for an entire dataset, then a mantissa for each value?
So you might have e.g. units=Hz, scale factor=1e6, values=A....Z (measured in MHz)
Factor B Podcast
Factor B, the sonic architect hailing from the sun-soaked shores of Australia, has carved a distinct niche in the trance music landscape with his emotive and uplifting productions...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/factor-b…
@… For me personally, once I factor in that I want an EV, CarPlay, and something that fits a 6’9” driver, it becomes a *really* short list 😂
Park Service orders changes to staff ratings, a move experts call illegal
A top National Park Service official has instructed park superintendents to limit the number of staff who get top marks in performance reviews
-- a move that experts say violates federal code and could make it easier to lay off staff.
Parks leadership generally evaluate individual employees annually on a five-point scale,
with a three rating given to those who are successful in achieving their go…
Optimal factor matchings for point processes on non-amenable unimodular graphs
Yinon Spinka, Oren Yakir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08983 https://arxiv.org/…
Spotify will begin testing a feature that lets a user write a prompt for a playlist and receive a unique set of songs based on the user's earlier behavior (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/spotify-tests-more-person…
One pattern you can always count on: if you ever explain a technology by describing how the human and social aspects matter more than the obscure technical details, a certain cohort of dudes who are inept at socialization will lash out about their insecurities by trying to condescend. Who here thinks I wrote ~5000 words on Markdown but I don’t know what plain text files are?
There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the
changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts.
Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's
science. Three: Be aware that you live in a malevolent Universe controlled
by Murphy's Law, sometimes offset by Brewster's Factor; that's engineering.
Who do you like for domain name registration that supports giving multiple accounts admin access for the same domain?
I usually use Hover, but I think (?) they’re strictly one domain name = one admin account. And we can just share a password securely between admins, but…I always like to reduce that bus factor when I can!
I have recently had a good run of success with partner acceptance factor on my home technical choices.
First I replaced Kodi with Jellyfin for video media and this has met with approval.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115854453599100931
And yes we had full-on IBM compatible PCs in this form factor even in the 1980s, e.g. Schneider Euro PC.
Meta-learning three-factor plasticity rules for structured credit assignment with sparse feedback
Dimitra Maoutsa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09366 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09366 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.09366
arXiv:2512.09366v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Biological neural networks learn complex behaviors from sparse, delayed feedback using local synaptic plasticity, yet the mechanisms enabling structured credit assignment remain elusive. In contrast, artificial recurrent networks solving similar tasks typically rely on biologically implausible global learning rules or hand-crafted local updates. The space of local plasticity rules capable of supporting learning from delayed reinforcement remains largely unexplored. Here, we present a meta-learning framework that discovers local learning rules for structured credit assignment in recurrent networks trained with sparse feedback. Our approach interleaves local neo-Hebbian-like updates during task execution with an outer loop that optimizes plasticity parameters via \textbf{tangent-propagation through learning}. The resulting three-factor learning rules enable long-timescale credit assignment using only local information and delayed rewards, offering new insights into biologically grounded mechanisms for learning in recurrent circuits.
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yeast_transcription: Yeast transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
This network has 916 nodes and 1094 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@hyphacoop/115685327547429897
They likely won't like my answers. 😅
FWIW a 7B param LLM costs around 55MWh to train and test, and about 300Wh per query. Then factor that 52% of the answers are unusable, so like Lay's potato chips, NOBODY does only one prompt.
Having Johnny Knoxville host a reboot of Fear Factor sounds about right.
Facts: “The report shouldn’t be a shock to anyone...because zoning is just one factor of 100. I’m afraid ‘We’re going to sue the government until the capital markets do what we want’ is basically the textbook definition of San Francisco YIMBYism.” - @…
"An LLM helped me with some task" is not a good argument for these things increasing productivity. Did you also factor in all the cases where it made you slower? Where the output created extra work? And how much of your work/activity is that task?
All bigger studies we know (even those done by Google for example) show a total lack of meaningful productivity gains, especially when looking at a whole organization.
(There are few exceptions: Spam generation might see prod…
Two-loop electron self-energy in bound-electron $g$ factor: diagrams in momentum-coordinate representation
V. A. Yerokhin, B. Sikora, Z. Harman, C. H. Keitel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08122
Why is Greenpeace East Asia releasing an #AI report that doesn't include a single company based in East Asia?
It also does not include an single social factor, only ranking on energy, which seems to go against @… own core on centering communities when campaig…
@… @…
Yeah, for the truly portable laptop there isn't.
For the laptop in form-factor but nearly always plugged to the mains and placed on a desk Intel/AMD could be O…
@… @…
Yeah, for the truly portable laptop there isn't.
For the laptop in form-factor but nearly always plugged to the mains and placed on a desk Intel/AMD could be O…
RE: https://newsie.social/@Tendar/115833199614876660
Perhaps because it was about oil and regime change?
And the "please, please, please, speak about ANYTHING but Epstein, please" factor?
🤔
Predictions for the world in general. Again, outside my field, so these are just guesses.
1) Recession in the US. EU economy hit hard as well.
2) The Russian NWF hits 1% of GDP. The resulting economic downturn is a deciding factor in the peace process.
3) Blue wave in the midterms. Democrats take both the House and the Senate.
A look at the uphill battle to win regulatory approval for Netflix's acquisition of WBD, and the roles of the US DOJ, EU regulators, and state attorneys general (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/netflix-warner-bros-trump-regulatory…
ecoli_transcription: E. coli transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the bacteria Escherichia coli.
This network has 424 nodes and 577 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…
In order to report my phone as lost, I have to log in to the carrier's website. In order to log in to the carrier's website, I have to type in my password as usual, and *then* I have to type in the 9 digit code they sent to my phone... My lost phone.
2-factor authentication has never *once* done me any good, but it sure has fucked up plenty of significant events in my life! Good job, Comp. Sci., you made everything suck.
For your edification, the most common form factor of floppy disks:
5¼ inch (no metal door thing)
3½ inch (the one the save icon was modeled after)
There were also 8 inch (used before 1980s mainly), and various not very successful 3 inch, 2½ inch and 2 inch formats.
Note that while the form factor might have been the same, a lot of diskettes aren't mutually software compatible between systems.
There's physical sub-formats (e.g. one sided, hard sectors, varying supported densities due to magnetic properties etc.) too.
Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- State-space kinetic Ising model reveals task-dependent entropy flow in sparsely active nonequilib...
Ken Ishihara, Hideaki Shimazaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15440 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/114057779012161849
- Mechanisms for anesthesia, unawareness, respiratory depression, memory replay and sleep: MHb > IP...
Karin Vadovi\v{c}ov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04454 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115167812677714466
- Meta-learning three-factor plasticity rules for structured credit assignment with sparse feedback
Dimitra Maoutsa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09366 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115699940165988688
- Prefrontal scaling of reward prediction error readout gates reinforcement-derived adaptive behavi...
Sang, Huang, Zhong, Wang, Yu, Li, Feng, Wang, Chai, Menon, Wang, Fang, Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09761 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115700046994546552
- Proof of a perfect platonic representation hypothesis
Liu Ziyin, Isaac Chuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01098 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114788750477759162
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I was going go setup #authelia in front of some selfhosted services to make multi-factor authentication possible. What I just noticed: This stops app synchronization for these services... :mastofacepalm:
Do I continue that route and configure authelia to bypass for the apps or do you have other suggestions?
#homeserver
“Take a breath, take a step back. Critical thinking is now the key when using technology,” says Dr Maria Bada, behavioural scientist and presenter at our upcoming #GEANTCybersecurity webinar.
#AI is changing how we work, and how we’re deceived. Scammers know trust is the real target.
Joi…
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/115594249106598392
A browser is a perfectly fine way of interacting with a service. A web app works on any device regardless of form factor or OS and is always up-to-date.
One should never need an …
Strategyproof Tournament Rules for Teams with a Constant Degree of Selfishness
David Pennock, Daniel Schoepflin, Kangning Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05235 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05235 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05235
arXiv:2512.05235v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We revisit the well-studied problem of designing fair and manipulation-resistant tournament rules. In this problem, we seek a mechanism that (probabilistically) identifies the winner of a tournament after observing round-robin play among $n$ teams in a league. Such a mechanism should satisfy the natural properties of monotonicity and Condorcet consistency. Moreover, from the league's perspective, the winner-determination tournament rule should be strategyproof, meaning that no team can do better by losing a game on purpose.
Past work considered settings in which each team is fully selfish, caring only about its own probability of winning, and settings in which each team is fully selfless, caring only about the total winning probability of itself and the team to which it deliberately loses. More recently, researchers considered a mixture of these two settings with a parameter $\lambda$. Intermediate selfishness $\lambda$ means that a team will not lose on purpose unless its pair gains at least $\lambda s$ winning probability, where $s$ is the individual team's sacrifice from its own winning probability. All of the dozens of previously known tournament rules require $\lambda = \Omega(n)$ to be strategyproof, and it has been an open problem to find such a rule with the smallest $\lambda$.
In this work, we make significant progress by designing a tournament rule that is strategyproof with $\lambda = 11$. Along the way, we propose a new notion of multiplicative pairwise non-manipulability that ensures that two teams cannot manipulate the outcome of a game to increase the sum of their winning probabilities by more than a multiplicative factor $\delta$ and provide a rule which is multiplicatively pairwise non-manipulable for $\delta = 3.5$.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@rperezrosario/115692585722590533
My poll on the form-factor of devices most used by respondents revealed that most of them prefer a desktop or laptop (55%) when computing in their free time. 43% reported they prefer the f…
I really like my Presonus speakers. They sound decent! But they take up a lot of space and have lots of wires. I'd love something in a soundbar form factor and am willing to take a small hit in driver size and stereo separation for it. But not a cheap plastic box.
Dual Magnetic and Electric Dipole Symmetry: Pseudo Angular Momentum in Parity Space and the Electric Land\'e $g$-Factor
Michael E. Tobar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07692 htt…
Als Jimmy Dijk (SP) zegt dat hij wil regeren, zijn mensen verbaasd. ‘Ik denk dat ik bekender moet worden’ | #Trouw
#TK2025 #SP
Electrotech, not fossil fuels, will power the future
During a recent parliamentary committee meeting, Bloc Quebecois MP Patrick Bonin grilled Alberta Premier Danielle Smith about climate change. Her answers were evasive — although she conceded that the planet is warming. Bonin asked if she thought humans were the main factor in Earth’s recent heating. “I don't know the answer to that. I'm not a scientist,” she replied.
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ecoli_transcription: E. coli transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the bacteria Escherichia coli.
This network has 424 nodes and 577 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…
Hmm, what would you call this computer form factor
My games of the year are Blue Prince and Abiotic Factor #thegameawards
yeast_transcription: Yeast transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
This network has 916 nodes and 1094 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…
I hope I can get some clemency from Facebook for this deadline
ChatGPT Atlas hands-on: generally able to interpret instructions and navigate simple menus, but "technical constraints on session length" are a limiting factor (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/
The agency told ProPublica it has made no decision on whether to vaccinate hens and has no timeline on when it might announce one
— though it is “proactively assessing” the possibility.
Avoiding the question of airborne spread appears to be in the USDA’s
“best interests,” said Michelle Kromm, an animal health consultant
who directed Jennie-O Turkey’s bird flu response in past outbreaks.
“If this is a major risk factor, then vaccine is absolutely a critical mit…
Sometimes \(2^n 1\) is not prime. but let me just check that on #Google.
#Odometer #AISlop #math
ecoli_transcription: E. coli transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the bacteria Escherichia coli.
This network has 423 nodes and 578 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Mara Carlyle:
🎵 Ex-Factor
#MaraCarlyle
Analysis of collision shift assessments in ion-based clocks
M. D. Barrett, K. J. Arnold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05474 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05474 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05474
arXiv:2512.05474v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We consider back-ground gas collision shifts in ion-based clocks. We give both a classical and quantum description of a collision between an ion and a polarizable particle with a simple hard-sphere repulsion. Both descriptions give consistent results, which shows that a collision shift bound is determined by the classical Langevin collision rate reduced by a readily calculated factor describing the decoupling of the clock laser from the ion due to the recoil motion. We also show that the result holds when using a more general Lennard-Jones potential to describe the interaction between the ion and its collision partner. This leads to a simple bound for the collision shift applicable to any single ion clock without resorting to large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations or determination of molecular potential energy curves describing the collision. It also provides a relatively straightforward means to measure the relevant collision rate.
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The USDA told ProPublica it has made no decision on whether to vaccinate hens
and has no timeline on when it might announce one
— though it is “proactively assessing” the possibility.
Avoiding the question of airborne spread appears to be
in the USDA’s “best interests,”
said Michelle Kromm, an animal health consultant who directed Jennie-O Turkey’s bird flu response in past outbreaks.
“If this is a major risk factor, then vaccine is absolutely a critical…
ecoli_transcription: E. coli transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the bacteria Escherichia coli.
This network has 423 nodes and 578 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…
yeast_transcription: Yeast transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
This network has 916 nodes and 1094 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…
ecoli_transcription: E. coli transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the bacteria Escherichia coli.
This network has 424 nodes and 577 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…
ecoli_transcription: E. coli transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the bacteria Escherichia coli.
This network has 424 nodes and 577 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…
yeast_transcription: Yeast transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
This network has 916 nodes and 1094 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…
ecoli_transcription: E. coli transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the bacteria Escherichia coli.
This network has 423 nodes and 578 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…
yeast_transcription: Yeast transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
This network has 916 nodes and 1094 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…
ecoli_transcription: E. coli transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the bacteria Escherichia coli.
This network has 424 nodes and 577 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…
yeast_transcription: Yeast transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
This network has 916 nodes and 1094 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.sk…