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Fair Kernel-Lock-Free Claim/Release Protocol for Shared Object Access in Cooperatively Scheduled Runtimes
Kevin Chalmers, Jan B{\ae}kgaard Pedersen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10818

Fair Kernel-Lock-Free Claim/Release Protocol for Shared Object Access in Cooperatively Scheduled Runtimes
We present the first spin-free, kernel-lock-free mutex that cooperates with user-mode schedulers and is formally proven FIFO-fair and linearizable using CSP/FDR. Our fairness oracle and stability-based proof method are reusable across coroutine runtime designs. We designed the claim/release protocol for a process-oriented language -- ProcessJ -- to manage the race for claiming shared inter-process communication channels. Internally, we use a lock-free queue to park waiting processes for gaining…

Sonnet 078 - LXXVIII
So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,
And found such fair assistance in my verse
As every alien pen hath got my use
And under thee their poesy disperse.
Thine eyes, that taught the dumb on high to sing
And heavy ignorance aloft to fly,
Have added feathers to the learned's wing
And given grace a double majesty.
Yet be most proud of that which I compile,
Whose influence is thine, and born of thee:
In o…

Interesting: I was unsure if I should buy a 2nd hand OLED computer monitor for a specific price and if I really should because it's some kind of luxury for a few hundred Euros.
So I asked ChatGPT for (1) estimating a fair price given all the relevant information about that and then (2) describing my situation and letting it generate a /- list (to check if I have overseen an aspect) and a recommendation for buy/not buy.
The result was fascinating to me. One of the better use-…

An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

Ein US-Gericht urteilt erstmals gegen ein #KI-Unternehmen wegen #Urheberrechtsverletzung – und verweigert die Berufung auf „Fair Use“.
Das #Urteil gegen Ross Intelligence könnte Signalwi…

Kein Fair Use: Ross Intelligence verliert gegen Medienkonzern
Darf KI mit urheberrechtlich geschützten Texten trainieren? Das Gerichtsurteil gegen Ross Intelligence zeigt: Nein!

Proportional and Pareto-Optimal Allocation of Chores with Subsidy
Jugal Garg, Eklavya Sharma, Xiaowei Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10335 https://arxiv.org…

Proportional and Pareto-Optimal Allocation of Chores with Subsidy
We consider the problem of allocating $m$ indivisible chores among $n$ agents with possibly different weights, aiming for a solution that is both fair and efficient. Specifically, we focus on the classic fairness notion of proportionality and efficiency notion of Pareto-optimality. Since proportional allocations may not always exist in this setting, we allow the use of subsidies (monetary compensation to agents) to ensure agents are proportionally-satisfied, and aim to minimize the total subsid…

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

An interview with Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on copyright lawsuits that threatened to bankrupt the nonprofit, fair use, IA's future, AI, and more (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
“We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

Fair Vote Canada is pleased to announce the Teacher Resources section of our website. The first teacher resource has now been added.
A Fair Vote? Rights, Responsibilities, and Decision-Making in a Democracy is an exciting new resource for Grade 5 Social Studies teachers, which was developed by the Elementary Teachers of Toronto and Fair Vote Canada.

Cooperative Flexibility Exchange: Fair and Comfort-Aware Decentralized Resource Allocation
Rabiya Khalid, Evangelos Pournaras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04192 https://

Cooperative Flexibility Exchange: Fair and Comfort-Aware Decentralized Resource Allocation
The growing electricity demand and increased use of smart appliances are placing new pressures on power grids, making efficient energy management more important than ever. The existing energy management systems often prioritize system efficiency (balanced energy demand and supply) at the expense of user comfort. This paper addresses this gap by proposing a novel decentralized multi-agent coordination-based demand-side management system. The proposed system enables individual agents to coordinat…

Sonnet 082 - LXXXII
I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,
And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,
Finding thy worth a limit past my praise;
And therefore art enforced to seek anew
Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days.
And do so, love; yet when they have devis'd,
What strained touches rh…

Comparative Study of Subjective Video Quality Assessment Test Methods in Crowdsourcing for Varied Use Cases
Babak Naderi, Ross Cutler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20118 https://…

Comparative Study of Subjective Video Quality Assessment Test Methods in Crowdsourcing for Varied Use Cases
In crowdsourced subjective video quality assessment, practitioners often face a choice between Absolute Category Rating (ACR), ACR with Hidden Reference (ACR-HR), and Comparison Category Rating (CCR). We conducted a P.910-compliant, side-by-side comparison across six studies using 15 talking-head sources of good and fair quality, processed with realistic degradations (blur, scaling, compression, freezing, and their combinations), as well as a practical bitrate-ladder task at 720p and 1080p reso…

Sonnet 082 - LXXXII
I grant thou wert not married to my Muse,
And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook
The dedicated words which writers use
Of their fair subject, blessing every book.
Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,
Finding thy worth a limit past my praise;
And therefore art enforced to seek anew
Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days.
And do so, love; yet when they have devis'd,
What strained touches rh…