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Exclusive: ADL chief compares student protesters to ISIS and al-Qaeda in address to Republican officials (The Forward)
https://forward.com/news/726133/greenblatt-adl-protesters-terrorists/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p149#a250606p149

It’s important to note some exceptions, not all AI pioneers fell into this trap.
Some, like Seymour Papert went to do a lot of good (creator of Logo, Mindstorms and a principal of One Laptop Per Child).
https://forward.com/culture/346666/remembering-seymour-papert-revolutionary-socialist-and-father-of-ai/

i've upgraded the Ethernet controller applet for #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer
this is the main loop of the applet working in bridge mode (acting as a network card for your PC). no weird optimizations, no hacks, just a loop that forwards packets in normal boring Python
on a 100BASE-T link, i get ~95.5 Mbps [saturated link] of upload bandwidth and ~70 Mbps of downlo…

Real-World Evaluation of Protocol-Compliant Denial-of-Service Attacks on C-V2X-based Forward Collision Warning Systems
Jean Michel Tine, Mohammed Aldeen, Abyad Enan, M Sabbir Salek, Long Cheng, Mashrur Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02805

Real-World Evaluation of Protocol-Compliant Denial-of-Service Attacks on C-V2X-based Forward Collision Warning Systems
Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) technology enables low-latency, reliable communications essential for safety applications such as a Forward Collision Warning (FCW) system. C-V2X deployments operate under strict protocol compliance with the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the Society of Automotive Engineers Standard (SAE) J2735 specifications to ensure interoperability. This paper presents a real-world testbed evaluation of protocol-compliant Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks …

Before Moving Forward, the Raiders Must Take a Step Back https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-seattle-seahawks-geno-smith-pete-carroll-jamal-adams

Pay it forward.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/pay-it-forward

Probing non-perturbative QCD aspects on particle production in pp collisions with forward-backward correlations using \texttt{PYTHIA8}
Rohit Agarwala, Kalyan Dey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03124

Probing non-perturbative QCD aspects on particle production in pp collisions with forward-backward correlations using \texttt{PYTHIA8}
We employ PYTHIA8 simulations to study forward-backward (FB) correlations in pp collisions at LHC energies, probing non-perturbative QCD dynamics via color reconnection (CR) and QCD radiation (ISR/FSR). Using \texttt{PYTHIA8} (v8.311) under ALICE/ATLAS kinematics, we analyze: extensive: FB multiplicity ($b_{\rm corr}^{\rm mult}$) and summed $p_{\rm T}$ ($b_{\rm corr}^{\sum p_{\rm T}}$) correlations; intensive: FB mean $p_{\rm T}$ ($b_{\rm corr}^{\overline p_{\rm T}}$) correlations; and \textit{…

The Trump administration found
“no viable path” forward
to complete California’s high-speed rail project
following a nearly four-month investigation that jeopardizes
$4 billion in federal funding.
In a 310-page compliance review released Wednesday,
the Department of Transportation cited budget shortfalls,
missed deadlines and a misleading projected ridership to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles via fast rail.
The review targets federal gran…

Trump administration moves to pull funding on high-speed rail
The Trump administration could pull $4 billion in federal funding from California's high-speed rail project within 37 days, following a Department of Transportation compliance review.

Looking forward to #Raturday ... Need More Rats! :blobrat_tongue: :rat_jam:

After Boulder attack, Trump to revive Muslim travel ban with targeted changes (Jacob Kornbluh/The Forward)
https://forward.com/fast-forward/725572/boulder-donald-trump-muslim-travel-ban/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p183#a250604p183

Looking forward to joining the panel for the book launch of @… book 'Selected papers by Bill Hillier' this evening, 7 May at 6pm BST at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London
Join the launch event online:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Book Launch – Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us online for the launch of Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier, a landmark volume celebrating 50 years of space syntax research. This long-awaited collection reflects Bill Hillier’s transformational way of thinking about buildings and cities that influenced generations of scholars, researchers and practitioners within the built environment disciplines and way beyond – in fields ranging from archaeology and biology to physics and zoology. Edited by Laura Vaughan, John Pepon…

Anyone with experience on here driving an #EV around the French Alps? Problems finding chargers? ABRP looks like it's a bit thin on the ground for fast chargers? Maybe ok for trickle charge? Trying to work out if I dare rent an EV or should l stick to ICE for now (which I really don't like..). #askFedi
EDIT: update - thanks all for your helpful info, looks like it's easily possible even in the french Alps. Looking forward to my summer holidays!

"How plants could help us detect, and even destroy, dangerous ‘forever chemicals’"
#Plants #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

How plants could help us detect, and even destroy, dangerous ‘forever chemicals'
Tools to address PFAS pollution are limited. Here's what researchers are learning about how these chemicals travel through the environment — and what farmers and landowners can do about it.

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Oregon, Oregon Health Plan (OHP)
Pennsylvania, Medical Assistance
Rhode Island, RI Medical Assistance Program
South Carolina, Healthy Connections
South Dakota, Medicaid
Tennessee, TennCare
Texas, STAR PLUS
Utah, Medicaid
Vermont, Green Mountain Care
Virginia, Cardinal Care
Washington, Apple Health
West Virginia, Medicaid
Wisconsin, Forward Health, BadgerCare
Wyoming, Equality Care

🗃️ The Belgian lab shaping modern soccer’s data revolution
#soccer

#SGDQ2025 starts today!
For those who haven't heard of it, it's a charity marathon steam (plus in-person event for many of the runners) that raises money for Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders). Some of the best runners in the world speedrun games for an entire week, and while there's sometimes cringey moments, it's overall an LBGTQ-inclusive space with a thoughtful core team, and there are always going to be a ton of epic and/or hilarious moments throughout the week.
Check out the schedule page to see if any games you love are on it, and you can always catch VODs on YouTube after the fact if you miss something good.
I was going to post some games I'm looking forward to, but it seems like the schedule & main page are down right now. Hope it's not a DDoS...
#SGDQ #GDQ

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
GAN: Is she bluffing?
AVON: She's not bluffing, is she, Travis?
TRAVIS: Do something reckless and find out.
AVON: Well now, I might just blow your head off.
BLAKE: How would you like to die, too, Supreme Commander?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/474

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Packers' Jordan Love can't wait to square off against Steelers' Aaron Rodgers 'on different sides' https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-jordan-love-can-t-wait-to-square-off-against-steelers-aaron-rod…

Uni3R: Unified 3D Reconstruction and Semantic Understanding via Generalizable Gaussian Splatting from Unposed Multi-View Images
Xiangyu Sun, Haoyi jiang, Liu Liu, Seungtae Nam, Gyeongjin Kang, Xinjie wang, Wei Sui, Zhizhong Su, Wenyu Liu, Xinggang Wang, Eunbyung Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03643

Uni3R: Unified 3D Reconstruction and Semantic Understanding via Generalizable Gaussian Splatting from Unposed Multi-View Images
Reconstructing and semantically interpreting 3D scenes from sparse 2D views remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Conventional methods often decouple semantic understanding from reconstruction or necessitate costly per-scene optimization, thereby restricting their scalability and generalizability. In this paper, we introduce Uni3R, a novel feed-forward framework that jointly reconstructs a unified 3D scene representation enriched with open-vocabulary semantics, directly from unpos…

Because you need to start somewhere, I'll be putting KDE 6.4.4 with FreeBSD on my laptop today. That latest Plasma arrived in Ports yesterday already. As I mentioned before FreeBSD can be very quick with cutting edge updates (basically anything Wayland as well, i.e. Niri et al). By using the latest KDE, which I'm very familiar with, it gives me all the time to learn about FreeBSD. Looking forward to it!

Here’s how to end the Tush Push for good https://insidethestar.com/heres-how-to-end-the-tush-push-for-good

Every once in a while I wonder if all of this is because I didn’t forward that email to ten people all those years ago.

I'm nervous but looking forward to it. (For non-Australians, this small town writing festival is one of the bigger ones in Australia). Should be a lot of fun. We're kicking it off on the main stage. #permaculture #writing

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Efficient Parallel Scheduling for Sparse Triangular Solvers
We develop and analyze new scheduling algorithms for solving sparse triangular linear systems (SpTRSV) in parallel. Our approach produces highly efficient synchronous schedules for the forward- and backward-substitution algorithm. Compared to state-of-the-art baselines HDagg and SpMP, we achieve a $3.32 \times$ and $1.42 \times$ geometric-mean speed-up, respectively. We achieve this by obtaining an up to $12.07 \times$ geometric-mean reduction in the number of synchronization barriers over HDag…

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On the Sylvester program and Cayley algorithm for vector partition reduction
A vector partition problem asks for a number of nonnegative integer solutions to a system of several linear Diophantine equations with integer nonnegative coefficients. J.J. Sylvester put forward an idea of reduction of vector partition to a sum of scalar partitions. In the simplest case of two equations with positive coefficients A. Cayley performed a reduction of the corresponding double partition to a sum of scalar partitions using an algorithm subject to a set of conditions on the coefficie…

Grid-like Error-Correcting Codes for Matrix Multiplication with Better Correcting Capability
Hao Shi, Zhengyi Jiang, Zhongyi Huang, Bo Bai, Gong Zhang, Hanxu Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04355

Grid-like Error-Correcting Codes for Matrix Multiplication with Better Correcting Capability
Matrix multiplication over the real field constitutes a foundational operation in the training of deep learning models, serving as a computational cornerstone for both forward and backward propagation processes. However, the presence of silent data corruption (SDC) in large-scale distributed training environments poses a significant threat to model convergence and predictive accuracy, particularly when such errors manifest during matrix multiplication. Due to their transient and non-intrusive n…

I will try to make it - it is today:
https://mas.wrong.tools/@crystalvisits/114593299739628516

Crystal Huff (they/them) (@crystalvisits@wrong.tools)
Attached: 1 image I'm looking forward to this book talk next week! Copaganda: how the police and media manipulate our news. Wednesday, 6/4 at 6:30 pm at Connexion in Somerville, MA. #MApoli #Somerpoli #policing #politics #SomervilleMA

Pay it forward.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/pay-it-forward

A matrix preconditioning framework for physics-informed neural networks based on adjoint method
Jiahao Song, Wenbo Cao, Weiwei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03421 https://

A matrix preconditioning framework for physics-informed neural networks based on adjoint method
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently emerged as a popular approach for solving forward and inverse problems involving partial differential equations (PDEs). Compared to fully connected neural networks, PINNs based on convolutional neural networks offer advantages in the hard enforcement of boundary conditions and in reducing the computational cost of partial derivatives. However, the latter still struggles with slow convergence and even failure in some scenarios. In this study…

Looking forward to it!

Forward Reverse Kernel Regression for the Schr\"{o}dinger bridge problem
Denis Belomestny, John. Schoenmakers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00640 https:/…

Forward Reverse Kernel Regression for the Schrödinger bridge problem
In this paper, we study the Schrödinger Bridge Problem (SBP), which is central to entropic optimal transport. For general reference processes and begin--endpoint distributions, we propose a forward-reverse iterative Monte Carlo procedure to approximate the Schrödinger potentials in a nonparametric way. In particular, we use kernel based Monte Carlo regression in the context of Picard iteration of a corresponding fixed point problem. By preserving in the iteration positivity and contractivity …

HumanRAM: Feed-forward Human Reconstruction and Animation Model using Transformers
Zhiyuan Yu, Zhe Li, Hujun Bao, Can Yang, Xiaowei Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03118

HumanRAM: Feed-forward Human Reconstruction and Animation Model using Transformers
3D human reconstruction and animation are long-standing topics in computer graphics and vision. However, existing methods typically rely on sophisticated dense-view capture and/or time-consuming per-subject optimization procedures. To address these limitations, we propose HumanRAM, a novel feed-forward approach for generalizable human reconstruction and animation from monocular or sparse human images. Our approach integrates human reconstruction and animation into a unified framework by introdu…

CASH: Context-Aware Smart Handover for Reliable UAV Connectivity on Aerial Corridors
Abdul Saboor, Zhuangzhuang Cui, Achiel Colpaert, Evgenii Vinogradov, Sofie Pollin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03862

CASH: Context-Aware Smart Handover for Reliable UAV Connectivity on Aerial Corridors
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) envisions aerial corridors for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to reduce ground traffic congestion by supporting 3D mobility, such as air taxis. A key challenge in these high-mobility aerial corridors is ensuring reliable connectivity, where frequent handovers can degrade network performance. To resolve this, we present a Context-Aware Smart Handover (CASH) protocol that uses a forward-looking scoring mechanism based on UAV trajectory to make proactive handover decision…

Dozens of Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives are heading to Illinois to deny a necessary quorum for the GOP to move forward with redistricting efforts.
Roughly 30 Democrats are expected to stay for the week in a plan brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

Texas Democrats head to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting
Dozens of Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives are heading to Illinois to deny a necessary quorum for the GOP to move forward with redistricting efforts. The roughly 30 Democrats are expected to stay for the week in a plan brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Former Attorney General Eric Holder joins MSNBC's Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss the move.

Influence of photon inverse emission on forward-backward asymmetry in dilepton production at LHC
Vladimir Zykunov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03736 https://…

Influence of photon inverse emission on forward-backward asymmetry in dilepton production at LHC
Contribution of photon inverse emission to the dilepton production process in hadron collisions for Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experimental program is calculated in details. Numerical analysis of inverse emission effects on observable quantities (cross sections and forward-backward asymmetry) is performed in a wide kinematical region including the CMS LHC experiment in Run3/HL regime which corresponds to ultra-high energies and dilepton invariant masses. Effective technics of additive relative…

Looking forward to Debian Trixie :)

Time was the Autumn/Winter cycle shows would come out and run for 26 weeks and brighten up your darker seasons with something small to look forward to each week, even on shitty days like Monday and Tuesday. Now they just dump the entire season (10 episodes, not 26) all at once in early August and you're intended to sit and watch it in one or two evenings. If you don't do that and choose to pace yourself, well, I guess you'll have to find something else to talk about with the othe…

Love a night walk on the beach. Looks like I interrupted someone’s dinner.

Forward cascade of large-scale primordial magnetic fields during structure formation
Molly Abramson, Emma Clarke, Tina Kahniashvili, Sayan Mandal, Salome Mtchedlidze, Jennifer Schober
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00694

Forward cascade of large-scale primordial magnetic fields during structure formation
The origin of large scale magnetic fields in the Universe is widely thought to be from early Universe processes, like inflation or phase transitions. These magnetic fields evolve via magnetohydrodynamic processes until the epoch of recombination. When structures begin to form in the later Universe, the conservation of magnetic flux amplifies the magnetic fields via the adiabatic collapse of gravitationally bound gas clouds hosting the magnetic fields and moves them to smaller scales. In this wo…

On the way to Tübingen – this afternoon punting with @…, ‪@okohlbacher.bsky.social€ and @…. Tomorrow I’ll be giving a talk on ‘How LLMs help us with programming’ at Tübix:

Tübix 2025
We will be at Tübix on 5 July 2025 and look forward to exciting discussions with you.

Latest neutrino results from the FASER experiment and their implications for forward hadron production
FASER Collaboration, Roshan Mammen Abraham, Xiaocong Ai, Saul Alonso Monsalve, John Anders, Claire Antel, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga, Jeremy Atkinson, Florian U. Bernlochner, Tobias Boeckh, Jamie Boyd, Lydia Brenner, Angela Burger, Franck Cadoux, Roberto Cardella, David W. Casper, Charlotte Cavanagh, Xin Chen, Dhruv Chouhan, Andrea Coccaro, Stephane D\'ebieux, Ansh Desai, Sergey …

Latest neutrino results from the FASER experiment and their implications for forward hadron production
The muon puzzle -- an excess of muons relative to simulation predictions in ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray air showers -- has been reported by many experiments. This suggests that forward particle production in hadronic interactions is not fully understood. Some of the scenarios proposed to resolve this predict reduced production of forward neutral pions and enhanced production of forward kaons (or other particles). The FASER experiment at the LHC is located 480 m downstream of the ATLAS interact…

Relaxed and inertial nonlinear Forward-Backward algorithm
Juan Jos\'e Maul\'en, Fernando Rold\'an, Cristian Vega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18856 https://

Relaxed and inertial nonlinear Forward-Backward algorithm
The Nonlinear Forward-Backward (NFB) algorithm, also known as warped resolvent iterations, is a splitting method for finding zeros of sums of monotone operators. In particular cases, NFB reduces to well-known algorithms such as Forward-Backward, Forward-Backward-Forward, Chambolle--Pock, and Condat-Vu. Therefore, NFB can be used to solve monotone inclusions involving sums of maximally monotone, cocoercive, monotone and Lipschitz operators as well as linear compositions terms. In this article, w…

Also with yesterday being “flat tire day“ I was really looking forward to trying to have today be a kind of chill day.
Apparently, I forgot to consult with “today”, because it clearly has other ideas.
☠️☠️

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A Selective Homomorphic Encryption Approach for Faster Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning
Federated learning (FL) has come forward as a critical approach for privacy-preserving machine learning in healthcare, allowing collaborative model training across decentralized medical datasets without exchanging clients' data. However, current security implementations for these systems face a fundamental trade-off: rigorous cryptographic protections like fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) impose prohibitive computational overhead, while lightweight alternatives risk vulnerable data leakage th…

How to prepare for a 8h train ride: go running.
Now of to Prague to #FlockToFedora; looking forward to meet a lot of old friends there and make new ones.
Ohh, and I give a talk there, too: When and how to use upstream Linux kernels to fix or improve Fedora –

My article just out:
Progressive Jews (and non-Jews too!) need to revive the social democratic politics of solidarity. It brings poor & middle together, in contrast to the politics of far-left "allyship" & elite charity which both drive them apart.
https://www.

After Zohran Mamdani’s upset, there’s a way forward for pro-Israel progressives
In the fight for economic fairness for all, Jews shouldn't have to give up on defending their particular interests, writes a long-time contributor to Dissent magazine.

#news #science

The Name of the Game for the Raiders in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/maxx-crosby-las-vegas-pete-carroll-geno-smith-john-spytek

Sampling Preferences Yields Simple Trustworthiness Scores
Sean Steinle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03399 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.03…

Sampling Preferences Yields Simple Trustworthiness Scores
With the onset of large language models (LLMs), the performance of artificial intelligence (AI) models is becoming increasingly multi-dimensional. Accordingly, there have been several large, multi-dimensional evaluation frameworks put forward to evaluate LLMs. Though these frameworks are much more realistic than previous attempts which only used a single score like accuracy, multi-dimensional evaluations can complicate decision-making since there is no obvious way to select an optimal model. Th…

My Nintendo Switch 2 should arrive tomorrow.
Looking forward to the resolution upgrade.
Playing on a 4k monitor was a bit too blurry with the first generation.
#nintendoswitch2

Tackling Ill-posedness of Reversible Image Conversion with Well-posed Invertible Network
Yuanfei Huang, Hua Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02111 https://…

Tackling Ill-posedness of Reversible Image Conversion with Well-posed Invertible Network
Reversible image conversion (RIC) suffers from ill-posedness issues due to its forward conversion process being considered an underdetermined system. Despite employing invertible neural networks (INN), existing RIC methods intrinsically remain ill-posed as inevitably introducing uncertainty by incorporating randomly sampled variables. To tackle the ill-posedness dilemma, we focus on developing a reliable approximate left inverse for the underdetermined system by constructing an overdetermined s…

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Recurrent neural chemical reaction networks that approximate arbitrary dynamics
Many important phenomena in biochemistry and biology exploit dynamical features such as multi-stability, oscillations, and chaos. Construction of novel chemical systems with such rich dynamics is a challenging problem central to the fields of synthetic biology and molecular nanotechnology. In this paper, we address this problem by putting forward a molecular version of a recurrent artificial neural network, which we call recurrent neural chemical reaction network (RNCRN). The RNCRN uses a modul…

LFG
The proposed transit sales tax is “‘problematic for two reasons; one, it does not fully fund the operational shortfall. It’s also a politically vulnerable ballot measure,’ said Ryan Williams, the campaign director for Bay Area Forward, founded this year by local transit unions.”

Buccaneers' Jalen McMillan not worried about crowded WR room: 'Looking forward to making the most of my opportunities' https://www.nfl.com/news/buccaneers-jalen-mcmillan-not-worried-a…

Finished streaming #Paradise. A 2nd season has been confirmed and I'm looking forward to it. The characters are intriguing and the VFX are great. Nothing too fancy on the surface, mostly digital landscape stuff and set extensions. But those are actually hard because you need an incredible amount of detail to get the "CG look" out of CG towns and landscapes.
They also went cra…

@… You mean, once one user on an instance can see a post, every user can?
You would have to trust that “followers only” is respected, but that’s also true for everything else. Creators on Patreon trust that I don’t forward the emails to others, or give them read-only access to my mailbox.

I'm wave packet bundles. (Hi!)
My directions of propagation are mostly inward and forward, with less wave action in my outward directions. (No children.)
I usually try to surf near the crest of social norms, while still moving perpendicular to most others. (Less thrilling vertical plunge, but more forward motion.)
#Social

I am pleased to share that I am receiving professional support regarding my diagnosis (SETD5) and gender dysphoria.
It has been extremely challenging for me to come forward about my gender identity(15 years), however, I will now be formally consulting with a therapist.
#Autism #GenderDysphoria

Remarks on graph-like forward self-similar solutions to the surface diffusion flow equations
Yoshikazu Giga, Sho Katayama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22731 …

Remarks on graph-like forward self-similar solutions to the surface diffusion flow equations
We clarify existence and non-existence of graph-like forward self-similar solutions to the planar surface diffusion equations.

Charting 15 years of progress in deep learning for speech emotion recognition: A replication study
Andreas Triantafyllopoulos, Anton Batliner, Bj\"orn W. Schuller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02448 …

Charting 15 years of progress in deep learning for speech emotion recognition: A replication study
Speech emotion recognition (SER) has long benefited from the adoption of deep learning methodologies. Deeper models -- with more layers and more trainable parameters -- are generally perceived as being `better' by the SER community. This raises the question -- \emph{how much better} are modern-era deep neural networks compared to their earlier iterations? Beyond that, the more important question of how to move forward remains as poignant as ever. SER is far from a solved problem; therefore, ide…

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Backpropagation-free Spiking Neural Networks with the Forward-Forward Algorithm
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired computational paradigm that emulates neuronal activity through discrete spike-based processing. Despite their advantages, training SNNs with traditional backpropagation (BP) remains challenging due to computational inefficiencies and a lack of biological plausibility. This study explores the Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm as an alternative learning framework for SNNs. Unlike backpropagation, which relies on forward and backward passes…

A high-order deterministic dynamical low-rank method for proton transport in heterogeneous media
Pia Stammer, Niklas Wahl, Jonas Kusch, Danny Lathouwers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04484

A high-order deterministic dynamical low-rank method for proton transport in heterogeneous media
Dose calculations in proton therapy require the fast and accurate solution of a high-dimensional transport equation for a large number of (pencil) beams with different energies and directions. Deterministically solving this transport problem at a sufficient resolution can however be prohibitively expensive, especially due to highly forward peaked scattering of the protons. We propose using a model order reduction approach, the dynamical low-rank approximation (DLRA), which evolves the solution …

Israeli soldiers fired gunshots into the sky.
That was the signal:
Move forward.
The crowd surged as one.
There were no organized lines, no distribution points
— just scattered supplies thrown from trucks or dropped by parachute.
People climbed over each other to grab whatever they could before it was gone.
I wished I had the muscle to fight my way through, to claim a small box of pasta or a can of tuna.
But my body has been malnourished for m…

In Gaza, Aid Is a Tracking Device Distributed by People With Guns and Drones
Hunger in Gaza isn’t accidental — it’s managed. It’s enforced. And now, aid is being militarized.

Thermal-phototactic bioconvection in a forward scattering algal suspension
S. K. Rajput, M. K. Panda, A. Rathi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23224 https://

Thermal-phototactic bioconvection in a forward scattering algal suspension
Bioconvection induced by phototaxis and thermal gradients in an anisotropic (forward) scattering algal suspension is investigated in this article. The suspension is illuminated by collimated irradiation from above and heated either from top or bottom. The linear theory is deployed on the steady state of the proposed bioconvective system and resulting eigen value problem is solved using fourth-order accurate finite-difference scheme based on Newton-Raphson-Kantorovich iteration. The results indi…

‘I Knew What I Was Signing up for’: ICEBlock App Creator Moves Forward Amid Threats
Trump Officials Want to Prosecute Over the ICEBlock App. Lawyers Say That’s Unconstitutional - Wired https://ground.news/article/app-warns-against-ice-raids-iceblock-brings-us-government-representatives-to-white-glow

"Sean 'Diddy' Combs reacts after verdicts are read of the five counts against him"
this is not fair! I want my mommy!
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/02/diddy-trial-verdict-sean-combs

MINDS. Young binary systems with JWST/MIRI: Variable water-rich primaries and extended emission
Nicolas T. Kurtovic, Sierra L. Grant, Milou Temmink, Andrew D. Sellek, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Thomas Henning, Inga Kamp, Valentin Christiaens, Andrea Banzatti, Danny Gasman, Till Kaeufer, Lucas M. Stapper, Riccardo Franceschi, Manuel G\"udel, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Marissa Vlasblom, Giulia Perotti, Kamber Schwarz, Alice Somigliana

MINDS. Young binary systems with JWST/MIRI: Variable water-rich primaries and extended emission
As part of the JWST GTO program MINDS, we analyze the mid-infrared emission of three Class II binary systems: VW Cha, WX Cha, and RW Aur, to investigate the impact of stellar multiplicity on the chemistry and physics of their inner disk. We analyze the 1D spectrum from JWST/MIRI-MRS for primary and secondary disks separately, extracted by combining forward modeling with a theoretical PSF and aperture photometry. We modeled the molecular lines with 0D slab models. We interpret the results by com…

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Sensitivity-Constrained Fourier Neural Operators for Forward and Inverse Problems in Parametric Differential Equations
Parametric differential equations of the form du/dt = f(u, x, t, p) are fundamental in science and engineering. While deep learning frameworks such as the Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) can efficiently approximate solutions, they struggle with inverse problems, sensitivity estimation (du/dp), and concept drift. We address these limitations by introducing a sensitivity-based regularization strategy, called Sensitivity-Constrained Fourier Neural Operators (SC-FNO). SC-FNO achieves high accuracy in…

Rodrigues Network for Learning Robot Actions
Jialiang Zhang, Haoran Geng, Yang You, Congyue Deng, Pieter Abbeel, Jitendra Malik, Leonidas Guibas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02618

Rodrigues Network for Learning Robot Actions
Understanding and predicting articulated actions is important in robot learning. However, common architectures such as MLPs and Transformers lack inductive biases that reflect the underlying kinematic structure of articulated systems. To this end, we propose the Neural Rodrigues Operator, a learnable generalization of the classical forward kinematics operation, designed to inject kinematics-aware inductive bias into neural computation. Building on this operator, we design the Rodrigues Network …

French Judiciary Targets OKC Cult Leader Robert Spatz https://chardonsbleus.org/en/french-judiciary-targets-okc-cult-leader-robert-spatz/#

French Judiciary Targets OKC Cult Leader Robert Spatz
Source information from Le Monde latest on the OKC case In 2019, six survivors brought forward allegations of severe abuse, including coercion, assault, and ...

This tiny juvenile five-lined skink didn’t see me and zipped forward to bask in the sun. About the size of your pinky. #lizard #WildLife

I'm preparing for that FreeBSD Mate install. The poll is already pointing to that 🥳
Thnx all for input; the polling station is still open.
I'll start out with 14.2, and have GhostBSD already lined up as a fallback.
Of course I've done a number of installs of FreeBSD before, but that was just scratching the surface.
Looking forward to the deep dive! Jails, ports, bhyves and podmans beware 👻

Solving engineering eigenvalue problems with neural networks using the Rayleigh quotient
Conor Rowan, John Evans, Kurt Maute, Alireza Doostan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04375

Solving engineering eigenvalue problems with neural networks using the Rayleigh quotient
From characterizing the speed of a thermal system's response to computing natural modes of vibration, eigenvalue analysis is ubiquitous in engineering. In spite of this, eigenvalue problems have received relatively little treatment compared to standard forward and inverse problems in the physics-informed machine learning literature. In particular, neural network discretizations of solutions to eigenvalue problems have seen only a handful of studies. Owing to their nonlinearity, neural network d…

Republicans move forward with controversial megabill accounting move (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/29/congress/republicans-move-forward-with-controversial-megabill-accounting-move-00432212
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p72#a250629p72

When your function expects a path fragment string as a parameter, you MUST specify, explicitly, if it should have a leading, trailing, or neither forward slash.
If you do not say *explicitly in the docblock of that exact function/method*, then you are wrong and your code is wrong and I will curse your name every time I am forced to use your broken code.
#Programming

"Earth Overshoot Day creeps forward due to human exploitation of natural resources"
#EarthOverShootDay #Environment

Differentiable Fuzzy Cosmic-Web for Field Level Inference
P. Rossell\'o, F. -S. Kitaura, D. Forero-S\'anchez, F. Sinigaglia, G. Favole
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03969

Differentiable Fuzzy Cosmic-Web for Field Level Inference
A comprehensive analysis of the cosmological large-scale structure derived from galaxy surveys involves field-level inference, which requires a forward modelling framework that simultaneously accounts for structure formation and tracer bias. While structure formation models are well-understood, the development of an effective field-level bias model remains imprecise, particularly in the context of tracer perturbation theory within Bayesian reconstruction methods, which we address in this work. …

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Backpropagation-free Spiking Neural Networks with the Forward-Forward Algorithm
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired computational paradigm that emulates neuronal activity through discrete spike-based processing. Despite their advantages, training SNNs with traditional backpropagation (BP) remains challenging due to computational inefficiencies and a lack of biological plausibility. This study explores the Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm as an alternative learning framework for SNNs. Unlike backpropagation, which relies on forward and backward passes…

UDFA ready to carry Dallas Cowboys offense on his back https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/udfa-ready-to-carry-dallas-cowboys-offense-on-his-back

Extreme Forward Scattering Observed in Disk-Averaged Near-Infrared Phase Curves of Titan
Chase A. Cooper, Tyler D. Robinson, Jason W. Barnes, Laura C. Mayorga, Lily Robinthal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00924

Extreme Forward Scattering Observed in Disk-Averaged Near-Infrared Phase Curves of Titan
Titan, with its thick and hazy atmosphere, is a key world in our solar system for understanding light scattering processes. NASA's Cassini mission monitored Titan between 2004 and 2017, where the derived dataset includes a large number of whole disk observations. Once spatially integrated, these whole disk observations reveal Titan's phase-dependent brightness which can serve as an analog for how hazy worlds might appear around other stars. To explore Titan's phase curve, we present a pipeline …

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Steering Elongate Multi-legged Robots By Modulating Body Undulation Waves
Centipedes exhibit great maneuverability in diverse environments due to their many legs and body-driven control. By leveraging similar morphologies and control strategies, their robotic counterparts also demonstrate effective terrestrial locomotion. However, the success of these multi-legged robots is largely limited to forward locomotion; steering is substantially less studied, in part because of the difficulty in coordinating a high degree-of-freedom robot to follow predictable, planar trajec…

Two-time Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams spoke at the event,
denouncing efforts by the Trump administration to strip the names of activists from Navy vessels, including possibly Medgar Evers.
“They want to take his name off a boat because they don’t want us to have a reminder of how far he sailed us forward,” Abrams told the conference crowd.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has undertaken an effort to change the names of ships a…

Activists honor assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers' birthday
Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Evers was assassinated by a white supremacist in 1963. The 2025 Democracy in Action Convening, a four-day conference, celebrated Evers last week. Former Georgia state Rep. Stacey Abrams headlined the four-day conference. Abrams, also a voting rights activist, railed against recent actions by President Donald Trump’s administration and denoun…

TEEC and azimuthal correlations in forward {\gamma}-hadron production in proton-proton and proton-lead collisions at LHC
Ishita Ganguli, Piotr Kotko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23435

TEEC and azimuthal correlations in forward γ-hadron production in proton-proton and proton-lead collisions at LHC
We investigate photon-hadron Transverse Energy-Energy Correlation (TEEC) and azimuthal correlations in the forward rapidity region for proton-proton and proton-lead collisions within the small $x$ saturation formalism based on the Color Glass Condensate (CGC), supplemented by the initial-state and final-state parton shower simulation and hadronization using CASCADE. The study was performed in light of the upcoming FoCal detector of ALICE and the ATLAS detector upgrades with the extended pseudor…

16 AFC teams, 16 offseason awards: Sizing up each front office's moves with one superlative https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45164455/2025-nfl-offseason-afc-teams-best-worst-deals-contracts-draft-picks-…

American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades
-- as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press.
Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal operations,
said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous and irresponsible practices.
…

Karen Strickholm (@KarenStrickholm@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image 🔥🔥🔥 TRIGGER WARNING 🔥🔥🔥 Truly SHOCKING video reporting here by #AP, about US contractors in Gaza firing live ammo at Palestinians as they come for food aid. IMHO, this is one of those times when it's important to bear witness, unless it would be too distressing to watch the footage. Will be shocked if this does not explode in the news. https://youtube.com/watch?v=63XTo2EyLZA&si=w9W1uKIMznffVone .#Israel #Hezbollah #Hamas #Houthi #Gaza #Palestine #Lebanon …

An inverse-free fixed-time stable dynamical system and its forward-Euler discretization for solving generalized absolute value equations
Xuehua Li, Linjie Chen, Dongmei Yu, Cairong Chen, Deren Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00531

An inverse-free fixed-time stable dynamical system and its forward-Euler discretization for solving generalized absolute value equations
An inverse-free dynamical system is proposed to solve the generalized absolute value equation (GAVE) within a fixed time, where the time of convergence is finite and is uniformly bounded for all initial points. Moreover, an iterative method obtained by using the forward-Euler discretization of the proposed dynamic model are developed and sufficient conditions which guarantee that the discrete iteration globally converge to an arbitrarily small neighborhood of the unique solution of GAVE within …

Not Marty's NFL: Cowboys HC Schottenheimer refuses to be bound by his nor team's history https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/03/brian-schottenheimer-focused-o…

Accurate Latent Inversion for Generative Image Steganography via Rectified Flow
Yuqi Qian, Yun Cao, Meiyang Lv, Haocheng Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00434 https://

Accurate Latent Inversion for Generative Image Steganography via Rectified Flow
Steganography based on diffusion models has attracted increasing attention due to its ability to generate high-quality images and exhibit strong robustness. In such approaches, the secret message is first embedded into the initial latent variable, and then the stego image is generated through the forward process. To extract the message, an inversion process is required to reconstruct the latent variables from the received image. However, inaccurate latent inversion leads to significant discrepa…

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Jets, Vilardi reach 6-year, $45 million extension https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/45771151/jets-sign-forward-gabriel-vilardi-6-year-45-million-extension

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? (Jill Jacobs/The Forward)
https://forward.com/opinion/757549/american-jewish-leadership-gaza-starvation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p172#a250723p172

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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it move forward with mass layoffs of federal workforce (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-supreme-court-reductions-in-force-layoffs-federal-workers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p113#a250602p113