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I had this idea for a Cairn lifepath generator where there are three stages of life and you roll 1d6 for your stats at each stage, and also get appropriate items.
It has not been playtested, it's barely been proofread, but I've been having a lot of fun generating guys
perchance.org/lt8m69fg35
#ttrpg #CairnRpg

Ask yourself: How many water bottles thrown at cops are worth keeping one innocent American* teen out of inhumane #ICE detention?
For anyone criticizing the #LA protests or suggesting they should stop for any reason, let's be clear about the stakes. Read this article (or my summary):
https://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-teen-detained-ice-family-video-ice/story?id=122511685
This 18-year-old was snatched without a warrant, because he was in his dad's car and allegedly (possibly a lie or mistake) his dad drove recklessly. He's been in the US since he was 5, originally on a student visa that's since expired. He is an innocent American, by any reasonable definition of those two words*. Thankfully, he's since been released on bail, but he may yet be held indefinitely in ICE detention (in inhumane conditions that have been repeatedly documented) and/or separated from his family & friends and shipped off to Brazil where he last lived when he was 5 (ICE does not care whether he speaks Portuguese, has any family there, etc), all potentially without due process (though he seems to be getting that in this case). Even if this doesn't happen to Marcelo due to the media attention & protests, it is certainly happening to other innocent Americans throughout the country who aren't as lucky to have people standing up for them.
Here's Marcelo speaking about detention conditions and those he was detained with:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZpZMUb9aEys?si=bpK-022CU7Acb5RY
Do you know how many kids like Marcelo were detained in LA yesterday? Probably zero, because of the protests, including their confrontational tactics. The most "violence" I've seen (from the protestors) is throwing a water bottle at a line of heavily-armored riot police. So the protests are working to protect the community. If you're suggesting a change in tactics, consider whether your suggested tactics (like pre-scheduled non-confrontational protests that have been happening for weeks) will protect the Marcelos of LA.
*Whether he's innocent or American should not in fact matter, but sadly it might to some reading this. If that's you, you've still got some growing up to do.

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
BLAKE: Seen any sign of Travis?
JENNA: Have you?
BLAKE: No. We'd better make ourselves some weapons.
[LATER - Blake is sharpening two stakes into spears with his machete]
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A Direct Reduction from Stochastic Parity Games to Simple Stochastic Games
Rapha\"el Berthon, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Zihan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06223

A Direct Reduction from Stochastic Parity Games to Simple Stochastic Games
Significant progress has been recently achieved in developing efficient solutions for simple stochastic games (SSGs), focusing on reachability objectives. While reductions from stochastic parity games (SPGs) to SSGs have been presented in the literature through the use of multiple intermediate game models, a direct and simple reduction has been notably absent. This paper introduces a novel and direct polynomial-time reduction from quantitative SPGs to quantitative SSGs. By leveraging a gadget-b…

FAIRTOPIA: Envisioning Multi-Agent Guardianship for Disrupting Unfair AI Pipelines
Athena Vakali, Ilias Dimitriadis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09107 https:…

FAIRTOPIA: Envisioning Multi-Agent Guardianship for Disrupting Unfair AI Pipelines
AI models have become active decision makers, often acting without human supervision. The rapid advancement of AI technology has already caused harmful incidents that have hurt individuals and societies and AI unfairness in heavily criticized. It is urgent to disrupt AI pipelines which largely neglect human principles and focus on computational biases exploration at the data (pre), model(in), and deployment (post) processing stages. We claim that by exploiting the advances of agents technology,…

On the Batch Size Selection in Stochastic Gradient Methods Using No-Replacement Sampling
Marco Boresta, Alberto De Santis, Stefano Lucidi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08758

On the Batch Size Selection in Stochastic Gradient Methods Using No-Replacement Sampling
Recent stochastic gradient methods that have appeared in the literature base their efficiency and global convergence properties on a suitable control of the variance of the gradient batch estimate. This control is typically achieved by dynamically increasing the batch size during the iterations of the algorithm. However, in the existing methods the statistical analysis often relies on sampling with replacement. This particular batch selection appears unrealistic in practice. In this paper, we c…

Beyond Overconfidence: Foundation Models Redefine Calibration in Deep Neural Networks
Achim Hekler, Lukas Kuhn, Florian Buettner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09593

Beyond Overconfidence: Foundation Models Redefine Calibration in Deep Neural Networks
Reliable uncertainty calibration is essential for safely deploying deep neural networks in high-stakes applications. Deep neural networks are known to exhibit systematic overconfidence, especially under distribution shifts. Although foundation models such as ConvNeXt, EVA and BEiT have demonstrated significant improvements in predictive performance, their calibration properties remain underexplored. This paper presents a comprehensive investigation into the calibration behavior of foundation mo…

Ich habe knapp 1.200 Kilometer mit dem Zug zurückgelegt, um mich in einer stickigen polnischen Fabrikhalle mit voller Lautstärke anbrüllen zu lassen. Und ich liebe alles daran. 😍🤘 #metal #lornashore