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copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

Meta launches generative AI tools in its Advantage suite for advertisers and agencies at Cannes, including to turn still images into videos and Virtual Try-On (Mark Mwachiro/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/meta…

Meta’s Advantage+ Adds Gen AI Tools for Advertisers and Agencies
The new features include the ability to transform still images into video.

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

Meta launches generative AI tools in its Advantage suite for advertisers and agencies at Cannes, including to turn still images into videos and Virtual Try-On (Mark Mwachiro/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/meta…

Meta’s Advantage+ Adds Gen AI Tools for Advertisers and Agencies
The new features include the ability to transform still images into video.

Has anyone provided helper functions with and for one of their :nixos: #NixOS modules? 🤔
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/providing-helper-functions-in-and…

Providing helper functions in and for a module
Some (of my) module options would benefit greatly from helper functions for defining option values. An example would be populating services.jupyterub.kernels, which can get quite verbose if you include things like wrapping in an FHS env or custom virtualenv management. Sure, types.submodule exists, but such a submodule is rather suitable for perfectly similar structures with just different values. Instead, something like this would be helpful: { pkgs, config, lib, ... }: { services.jupyterhu…

Today I had cause to get out my old #Acorn #RISCOS 3 Style Guide to demonstrate that the fundamentals of good #UX can date back well over 30 years - same with the

Enhancing Symbolic Machine Learning by Subsymbolic Representations
Stephen Roth, Lennart Baur, Derian Boer, Stefan Kramer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14569 …

Enhancing Symbolic Machine Learning by Subsymbolic Representations
The goal of neuro-symbolic AI is to integrate symbolic and subsymbolic AI approaches, to overcome the limitations of either. Prominent systems include Logic Tensor Networks (LTN) or DeepProbLog, which offer neural predicates and end-to-end learning. The versatility of systems like LTNs and DeepProbLog, however, makes them less efficient in simpler settings, for instance, for discriminative machine learning, in particular in domains with many constants. Therefore, we follow a different approach:…

Advances in LLMs with Focus on Reasoning, Adaptability, Efficiency and Ethics
Asifullah khan, Muhammad Zaeem Khan, Saleha Jamshed, Sadia Ahmad, Aleesha Zainab, Kaynat Khatib, Faria Bibi, Abdul Rehman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12365

Advances in LLMs with Focus on Reasoning, Adaptability, Efficiency and Ethics
This survey paper outlines the key developments in the field of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as enhancing their reasoning skills, adaptability to various tasks, increased computational efficiency, and ability to make ethical decisions. The techniques that have been most effective in bridging the gap between human and machine communications include the Chain-of-Thought prompting, Instruction Tuning, and Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback. The improvements in multimodal learning and…

Sources said journalists’ Microsoft accounts were compromised and could have granted the intruder access to work emails they sent and received. The reporters targeted include those on the national security and economic policy teams, including some who write about China.
No paywall.
Cyberattack on Washington Post Strikes Journalists’ Email Accounts

21st century Father's Day activities include getting a drone off the roof after an unsuccessful landing wedged it in the gutter

Enhancing Orthopedic Surgical Training With Interactive Photorealistic 3D Visualization
Roni Lekar, Tatiana Gerth, Sergey Prokudin, Matthias Seibold, Reto B\"urgin, Benjamin Vella, Armando Hoch, Siyu Tang, Philipp F\"urnstahl, Helmut Grabner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13389

Enhancing Orthopedic Surgical Training With Interactive Photorealistic 3D Visualization
Surgical training integrates several years of didactic learning, simulation, mentorship, and hands-on experience. Challenges include stress, technical demands, and new technologies. Orthopedic education often uses static materials like books, images, and videos, lacking interactivity. This study compares a new interactive photorealistic 3D visualization to 2D videos for learning total hip arthroplasty. In a randomized controlled trial, participants (students and residents) were evaluated on spa…

Privacy-preserving and reward-based mechanisms of proof of engagement
Matteo Marco Montanari, Alessandro Aldini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12523 https://…

Privacy-preserving and reward-based mechanisms of proof of engagement
Proof-of-Attendance (PoA) mechanisms are typically employed to demonstrate a specific user's participation in an event, whether virtual or in-person. The goal of this study is to extend such mechanisms to broader contexts where the user wishes to digitally demonstrate her involvement in a specific activity (Proof-of-Engagement, PoE). This work explores different solutions, including DLTs as well as established technologies based on centralized systems. The main aspects we consider include the l…

'Hortman played a central role in MN's pursuit of racial justice, actively participating in vital police reform legislation. [H]er efforts continue to shape the state. Significant reforms include prohibitions on neck restraints and chokeholds, banning "warrior-style" training, and the creation of an independent body to investigate police misconduct.'
White George Floyd Advocate and Husband 'Target of Political Assasination' but It Gets Worse | The Root
https://www.theroot.com/white-george-floyd-advocate-and-husband-target-of-polit-2000045678

Regular Power-Maxwell Black Holes
Yi-bo Liang, Hong-Rong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13676 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13676

Regular Power-Maxwell Black Holes
We present a new class of regular, spherically symmetric spacetimes in nonlinear electrodynamics that are asymptotically dynamical but not de Sitter, exhibiting power-law Maxwell behavior at infinity. Starting from magnetic solutions, we demonstrate that the weak energy condition is satisfied, while the dominant energy condition is also fulfilled. These configurations are extended to include regular black holes, with their existence conditions and global structures analyzed via novel Penrose di…

So as @… pointed out, "Sneaky way to include the Russian flag in your official messaging." 🤔
#USpol #dod

Constraints on Dark Energy Models Using Late Universe Probes
Shubham Barua, Shantanu Desai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12709 https://a…

Constraints on Dark Energy Models Using Late Universe Probes
We use late Universe probes - Type Ia Supernovae from the PantheonPlus compilation, Quasars, and Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1) BAO data - along with Cosmic Chronometers or Megamasers to constrain various dark energy parameterizations. These include the standard $Λ$CDM model ($w_0=-1,w_a=0$), as well as the Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL), Barboza-Alcaniz (BA), Jassal-Bagla-Padmanabhan (JBP), Exponential (EXP), and Transitional Dark Energy (TDE) parameterizat…

dbpedia_country: Person-Country Affiliations (DBpedia, 2016)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between notable people and countries of the world, as extracted from Wikipedia via the DBpedia project. Countries include former countries, empires, kingdoms, and some country-like entities.
This network has 592414 nodes and 637134 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

crikey, on compiler explorer you can hash include a url https://github.com/compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer/issues/1442

How do you include files from urls? · Issue #1442 · compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer
I have seen some talk where compiler explorer accepts includes from URL. For example #include "https://...." Is there an option to allow this and make it work?

On the diffusion of hard sphere fluids in disordered porous media: New extended Enskog theory description
M. F. Holovko, M. Ya. Korvatska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13483

On the diffusion of hard sphere fluids in disordered porous media: New extended Enskog theory description
We proposed a new extended version of Enskog theory for the description of the self-diffusion coefficient of a colloidal hard-sphere fluid adsorbed in a matrix of disordered hard-sphere obstacles. In a considered approach instead of contact values of the fluid-fluid and fluid-matrix pair distribution functions, we introduced by input the new functions that include the dependence on the fraction of the volume free from matrix particles and from fluid particles trapped by matrix particles. It is …

Machine Mirages: Defining the Undefined
Hamidou Tembine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13990 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13990

Machine Mirages: Defining the Undefined
As multimodal machine intelligence systems started achieving average animal-level and average human-level fluency in many measurable tasks in processing images, language, and sound, they began to exhibit a new class of cognitive aberrations: machine mirages. These include delusion, illusion, confabulation, hallucination, misattribution error, semantic drift, semantic compression, exaggeration, causal inference failure, uncanny valley of perception, bluffing-patter-bullshitting, cognitive stereo…

Nondistortionary belief elicitation
Marcin P\k{e}ski, Colin Stewart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12167 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12167…

Nondistortionary belief elicitation
A researcher wants to ask a decision-maker about a belief related to a choice the decision-maker made; examples include eliciting confidence or cognitive uncertainty. When can the researcher provide incentives for the decision-maker to report her belief truthfully without distorting her choice? We identify necessary and sufficient conditions for nondistortionary elicitation and fully characterize all incentivizable questions in three canonical classes of problems. For these problems, we show ho…

7 winners from Dallas Cowboys 2025 OTAs include shocking RB1 candidate https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/7-winners-from-dallas-cowboys-2025-otas-include-shocking-rb1-candidate

"MediaMatters for America" is good to read. ALWAYS. Here's their story about how media is reporting on, and ignoring, our own governments plans to implement NAZI "ethnic cleansing" deportations.
https://www.mediamatt…

Mainstream media ignore Trump’s planned Office of Remigration, a term for ethnic cleansing
Mainstream media outlets almost entirely ignored news that the Trump administration is reportedly reorganizing the State Department to include a new “Office of Remigration.” “Remigration” is a term long used by far-right extremists to describe ethnic cleansing. 

freshmen: Zeggelink's freshmen (1999)
Snapshots of friendships among freshmen majoring in Sociology at the University of Groningen, collected five times over the 1998-1999 year. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j, and the edge weight gives their friendship level from 1 (best friend) to 5 (troubled relation). Metadata include gender, age, program type, and smoking behavior.
This network has 34 nodes and 1156 edges.
Tags: Social, O…

Exploring the Potential of Metacognitive Support Agents for Human-AI Co-Creation
Frederic Gmeiner, Kaitao Luo, Ye Wang, Kenneth Holstein, Nikolas Martelaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12879

Exploring the Potential of Metacognitive Support Agents for Human-AI Co-Creation
Despite the potential of generative AI (GenAI) design tools to enhance design processes, professionals often struggle to integrate AI into their workflows. Fundamental cognitive challenges include the need to specify all design criteria as distinct parameters upfront (intent formulation) and designers' reduced cognitive involvement in the design process due to cognitive offloading, which can lead to insufficient problem exploration, underspecification, and limited ability to evaluate outcomes. …

Interactive resizing of picture and table content in Rmd and Quarto: #rstats

ZipVoice: Fast and High-Quality Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Flow Matching
Han Zhu, Wei Kang, Zengwei Yao, Liyong Guo, Fangjun Kuang, Zhaoqing Li, Weiji Zhuang, Long Lin, Daniel Povey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13053

ZipVoice: Fast and High-Quality Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with Flow Matching
Existing large-scale zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) models deliver high speech quality but suffer from slow inference speeds due to massive parameters. To address this issue, this paper introduces ZipVoice, a high-quality flow-matching-based zero-shot TTS model with a compact model size and fast inference speed. Key designs include: 1) a Zipformer-based flow-matching decoder to maintain adequate modeling capabilities under constrained size; 2) Average upsampling-based initial speech-text alignm…

SVD method for sparse recovery
Long Li, Liang Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11379 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11379

SVD method for sparse recovery
Sparsity regularization has garnered significant interest across multiple disciplines, including statistics, imaging, and signal processing. Standard techniques for addressing sparsity regularization include iterative soft thresholding algorithms and their accelerated variants. However, these algorithms rely on Landweber iteration, which can be computationally intensive. Therefore, there is a pressing need to develop a more efficient algorithm for sparsity regularization. The Singular Value Dec…

How to politely use assert in a header (gcc/clang/msvc/what else?):
#pragma push_macro("NDEBUG")
#undef NDEBUG
#include <assert.h>
// your asserts should properly asser…

You might want to fine-tune your notification settings:
“Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications” - https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-thousands-of-push-notifications/

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

Fermion masses and mixings in supersymmetric SO(10)
Shaikh Saad, Qaisar Shafi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11806 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Fermion masses and mixings in supersymmetric SO(10)
We discuss the charged and neutral fermion masses and mixings in a supersymmetric SO(10) model with a minimal Higgs sector consisting of the multiplets $10_H$, $45_H$, and $16_H + \overline{16}_H$. In addition to the renormalizable Yukawa couplings involving the Higgs 10-plet, we include non-renormalizable Yukawa couplings, which are important for reproducing with good accuracy the observed masses and mixings in the quark and lepton sectors. We identify a preferred solution which is compatible …

Doritos, M&Ms Could Be Forced to Include Warning Labels in Texas (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-02/doritos-m-ms-could-be-forced-to-include-warning-labels-in-texas
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p147#a250602p147

With moving my calendar away from Google I was looking for a Caldev solution, but ...
Interesting take on CalDev and encryption on Cryptpad's github page.
No chance that that will happen encrypted.
It's waiting for an solution in the Caldev protocol. 😇
[Feature request] Possibility to have CalDAV for the Calendar · Issue #823 · cryptpad/cryptpad

Out for a walk.

The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, whose members include AMD, Cisco, HPE, and Intel, publishes the 1.0 specification for enhancing Ethernet standards for AI and HPC (Sean Michael Kerner/Network World)
https://www.networkworld.com/ar…

Ultra Ethernet Consortium publishes 1.0 specification, readies Ethernet for HPC, AI
The UEC 1.0 specification includes a modern RDMA approach, new transport protocols, and congestion control mechanisms designed for AI and HPC requirements.

"When the Trump regime took over in January and Elon Musk's data-raiders started hacking federal agencies of various kinds, a group chat in which I participate started speculating about what kinds of terrible things this crowd might do. One member of the group wondered if the hacking might include the Social Security Administration's "death master file" – a list of people, presumably deceased, who would not receive any federal benefits and whose names and other identifying information would be flagged so that financial institutions would refuse to serve them.
What if, the conversation continued, the infamously cruel and paranoid regime decided to add living persons to the death master list? Doing so would destroy people's actual lives – which might make it just what a vicious government would do."
#USPolitics
https://cornerstone.dangillmor.com/essentials-april-12-2025/

Rhetorical Analysis of an Open Letter
I want to talk first about the effects of genre on rhetorical analysis. Let’s start with two main categories. Primary sources: These are texts from a writer or an organization to a specific audience or audiences with a persuasive purpose. Such texts include op-eds, letters, press releases, blog posts, tweets, and emails. These texts provide an opportunity for a straightforward rhetorical analysis because the rhetorical situation is…

Meta is preparing to unveil a new artificial intelligence research lab
dedicated to pursuing “superintelligence,”
a hypothetical A.I. system that exceeds the powers of the human brain,
as the tech giant jockeys to stay competitive in the technology race,
according to four people with the knowledge of the company’s plans.
Meta has tapped Alexandr Wang, 28,
the founder and chief executive of the A.I. start-up Scale AI,
to join the new lab, the people s…

Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’
The new lab, set to include the Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, is part of a reorganization of Meta’s artificial intelligence efforts under Mark Zuckerberg.

Amazing. #Gemini just wrote this #LAMP app for me to keep notes in folders with formatting in #markdown.
"Write a LAMP app for keeping notes. Include the ability to create, edit, and delete n…

This episode was incredibly good! It’s super interesting that HTML imports would actually be possible (and also that they might be called <rupert> – and include lazy loading)! Thank you guys! 👏
https://front-end.social/@shoptalkshow/114652349874960200

Gone But Not Forgotten: Musicians We Lost in 2025 https://www.billboard.com/photos/musicians-who-died-2025-1235881159/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/music…

Gone But Not Forgotten: Musicians We Lost in 2025
Musicians who died in 2025 include Marianne Faithfull, Garth Hudson, John Sykes, Sam Moore and more.

Uncovering Reliable Indicators: Improving IoC Extraction from Threat Reports
Evangelos Froudakis, Athanasios Avgetidis, Sean Tyler Frankum, Roberto Perdisci, Manos Antonakakis, Angelos Keromytis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11325

Uncovering Reliable Indicators: Improving IoC Extraction from Threat Reports
Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) are critical for threat detection and response, marking malicious activity across networks and systems. Yet, the effectiveness of automated IoC extraction systems is fundamentally limited by one key issue: the lack of high-quality ground truth. Current extraction tools rely either on manually extracted ground truth, which is labor-intensive and costly, or on automated ground truth creation methods that include non-malicious artifacts, leading to inflated false po…

"Apple provided governments around the world with data related to thousands of push notifications sent to its devices, which can identify a target’s specific device or in some cases include unencrypted content."
https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governm

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

Pivotal moments in US history shaped by confrontational street protest include:
– Unionization of the auto industry 1936
– Passing the Fair Housing Act 1968
– Ending the US invasion of Cambodia 1970

Cowboys' new workouts include 75-game NFL starter, All-UFL defender, former draft picks https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/12/cowboys-workouts-nfl-ufl-experience/84167152007/

Evangelical dogma says Christ changes you. Does that include your core beliefs? And how does Catholic dogma affect a new Washington law?
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/beyond-dogma-can-compassion-exist-without-compromise/

Beyond Dogma: Can Compassion Exist Without Compromise? – Bob Mueller
Evangelical dogma says Christ changes you. What about your core beliefs? And how does Catholic dogma affect a new Washington law?

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

Every few years I go and dig out a 65-line C program that I wrote as a grad student and try to gently poke it through a compiler but I finally got tired of that and replaced it with a 10-line awk script.
Wow, take a look at this jalopy! Written ca. 1977 (with ed(1), the standard editor) on a PDP-11/45 running V7, prob'ly on an ADM-3A "glass terminal" in the terminal room on the second floor of the E-Quad.

My interests include being interested in interesting things.

Comparing probability distributions: application to quantum states of light
Soumyabrata Paul, V. Balakrishnan, S. Ramanan, S. Lakshmibala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10760

Comparing probability distributions: application to quantum states of light
Probability distributions play a central role in quantum mechanics, and even more so in quantum optics with its rich diversity of theoretically conceivable and experimentally accessible quantum states of light. Quantifiers that compare two different states or density matrices in terms of `distances' between the respective probability distributions include the Kullback-Leibler divergence $D_{\rm KL}$, the Bhattacharyya distance $D_{\rm B}$, and the $p$-Wasserstein distance $W_{p}$. We present a …

"Two final considerations include (1) the necessity of being both deliberate and strategic and (2) the importance of being flexible and even whimsical about your future."
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.…

Modeling Trust Dynamics in Robot-Assisted Delivery: Impact of Trust Repair Strategies
Dong Hae Mangalindan, Karthik Kandikonda, Ericka Rovira, Vaibhav Srivastava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10884

Modeling Trust Dynamics in Robot-Assisted Delivery: Impact of Trust Repair Strategies
With increasing efficiency and reliability, autonomous systems are becoming valuable assistants to humans in various tasks. In the context of robot-assisted delivery, we investigate how robot performance and trust repair strategies impact human trust. In this task, while handling a secondary task, humans can choose to either send the robot to deliver autonomously or manually control it. The trust repair strategies examined include short and long explanations, apology and promise, and denial. …

Apple's July 2022 to June 2024 transparency report shows it gave governments data on thousands of push notifications, which can include unencrypted content (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-tho…

Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications
Push notification data can sometimes include the unencrypted content of notifications. Requests include from the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Israel.

Multiple Soft Scatterings in Scalar Dark Matter Freeze-In
Mathias Becker, Maria Jose Fernandez Lozano, Julia Harz, Carlos Tamarit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11185

Multiple Soft Scatterings in Scalar Dark Matter Freeze-In
We present an improved calculation of the freeze-in production rate for scalar dark matter (DM) from a gauge-charged parent particle via a renormalizable interaction. Building on the previously developed 1PI-resummed framework to accurately capture the relevant regime $T \sim M$, we expand the analysis to include the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) effect, which contributes at leading order $g^2 T$ to the interaction rate in the ultra-relativistic limit. To this end, we derive an equation for t…

Novel browser extension idea: Site bookmarks
Sometimes bookmarks are only useful when you're on a specific website, when visiting a specific page, etc. This extension would let you create a bookmark that would only show up as a suggestion on specific pages
Extra credit: allow users to configure include/exclude rules for showing a bookmark

Bias-Switchable Row-Column Array Imaging using Fast Orthogonal Row-Column Electronic Scanning (FORCES) Compared with Conventional Row-Column Array Imaging
Randy Palamar, Mohammad Rahim Sobhani, Darren Dahunsi, Negar Majidi, Afshin Kashani Ilkhechi, Joy Wang, Jeremy Brown, Roger Zemp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10958

Bias-Switchable Row-Column Array Imaging using Fast Orthogonal Row-Column Electronic Scanning (FORCES) Compared with Conventional Row-Column Array Imaging
Row-Column Arrays (RCAs) offer an attractive alternative to fully wired 2D-arrays for 3D-ultrasound, due to their greatly simplified wiring. However, conventional RCAs face challenges related to their long elements. These include an inability to image beyond the shadow of the aperture and an inability to focus in both transmit and receive for desired scan planes. To address these limitations, we recently developed bias-switchable RCAs, also known as Top Orthogonal to Bottom Electrode (TOBE) arr…

networking folks: the minimum Ethernet frame size is 64 octets, right? does that include the FCS?

Angular Blog editor Minko Gechev shares what's new on Angular 20. Highlights include newly stabilized APIs, improved debugging tools, polishing the developer experience, and features to enhance generative AI development.
Also, the Angular team has launched an RFC to pick an official mascot for Angular. Isn't that great?
"Announcing Angular v20"

GPU Acceleration of SQL Analytics on Compressed Data
Zezhou Huang, Krystian Sakowski, Hans Lehnert, Wei Cui, Carlo Curino, Matteo Interlandi, Marius Dumitru, Rathijit Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10092

GPU Acceleration of SQL Analytics on Compressed Data
GPUs are uniquely suited to accelerate (SQL) analytics workloads thanks to their massive compute parallelism and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) -- when datasets fit in the GPU HBM, performance is unparalleled. Unfortunately, GPU HBMs remain typically small when compared with lower-bandwidth CPU main memory. Besides brute-force scaling across many GPUs, current solutions to accelerate queries on large datasets include leveraging data partitioning and loading smaller data batches in GPU HBM, and hyb…

Accelerating Newton-Schulz Iteration for Orthogonalization via Chebyshev-type Polynomials
Ekaterina Grishina, Matvey Smirnov, Maxim Rakhuba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10935

Accelerating Newton-Schulz Iteration for Orthogonalization via Chebyshev-type Polynomials
The problem of computing optimal orthogonal approximation to a given matrix has attracted growing interest in machine learning. Notable applications include the recent Muon optimizer or Riemannian optimization on the Stiefel manifold. Among existing approaches, the Newton-Schulz iteration has emerged as a particularly effective solution, as it relies solely on matrix multiplications and thus achieves high computational efficiency on GPU hardware. Despite its efficiency, the method has inherent …

when it comes to #psychology and #mentalhealth I've read a decent number of #books on the topic.
I think the best I've read are:
- David D. Burns' Feeling Good (CBT generally including anxiety, depression)
- Sue Johnson's Hold Me Tight (romantic/marital relationships)
- Peter Kramer's Against Depression (on why depression is not a creative gift or sign of moral incompetence, biological underpinnings)
Peter Rutter's Sex in the Forbidden Zone has also been instrumental in forming my understanding of the unhealthy ways romantic interest manifests.
Anne Wilson Schaef's Co-Dependence: Misunderstood--Mistreated is the best I've read explaining how "being good" can oftentimes actually be bad.
The latter two are both more things I extract from the books rather than the books themselves and both are couched in ways that make them not ideally suited to the topic...but still the best I've found.
In addition one might include Joel Fuhrman's Eat for Life (I'm reading it now, I originally read Eat to Live) for nutritional health (which affects psychological) and David Allen's Getting Things Done (still one of the most influential books I've read on productivity).
My #question is, are there books you've read that you'd considered "must reads" on psychological / mental health? Not just mental illness, but mental health?

Question: To you, what is the relationship between society and stories?
My aim is to discover more perspectives than what I'm familiar with.
Bonus: Include a description of a visualisation.
Example: recycle symbol between society & stories, mirror, time travel machine, etc.
Thank you! And let me know if you need more info!

This Wednesday afternoon April 9th from 3-6pm there's an end of life information event at the Westbury Community Centre.
Speakers include myself, the northern Palliative Care Tasmania coordinator and a social worker with palliative care.
There will also be a short film.
I'll be discussing rights, options, choices, and money saving tips.
#tasmania

I remember a time when I called a business and someone answered. Now when the phone is answered, I am immediately put on hold to listen to annoying computer generated music, then an announcement about how much they value my business, then a land acknowledgement, then a warning about abusive language or behaviour, then a number select menu, which does not include “talk to the receptionist”, then I pick a number and have to leave a message! 🤷😠

China Mieville contra Perry Anderson: Anti-Streeck
»On immigration, socialist demands should include full labour and civic rights for migrants, full entitlement to benefits, unionisation across the economy, and an undoing of vulnerabilities that contribute to the super-exploitation of migrants.«
https://www.

Entropy proxy inversions as tracers of the evolution of physical conditions at the base of the solar convective envelope
G. Buldgen, A. Noels, V. A. Baturin, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, S. V. Ayukov, A. V. Oreshina, R. Scuflaire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09503

Entropy proxy inversions as tracers of the evolution of physical conditions at the base of the solar convective envelope
The Sun is an important calibrator for the theory of stellar structure and evolution. However, the accuracy of our solar evolution models is tightly linked to the physical ingredients that enter their computations. This include, amongst other, the equation of state, the opacities, the transport of chemicals and the modelling of turbulent convection. Deriving model-independent probes of these ingredients is therefore crucial to further test the quality of these ingredients and potentially reveal…

Cool! @…'s /e/OS 3.0 will include a pre-installed #FindMyDevice feature! 😎
https://

“#Montreal police arrest 13 suspected of extorting restaurant owners”
The local mafia is going to be *cheesed* about this.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mo

Montreal police arrest 13 suspected of extorting restaurant owners for money | CBC News
The alleged crimes include one in February where a restaurant’s glass facade was shot on Ste-Catherine Street West, near De Bleury Street. Another restaurant owned by the victims was also targeted, as was the residence of one of the co-owners, the SPVM says.

The Trump administration is preparing to begin the transfer of potentially thousands of foreigners who are in the United States illegally
to the U.S. military base in Guantšnamo Bay, Cuba,
starting as early as this week,
said U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The foreign nationals under consideration hail from a range of countries.
They include hundreds from friendly European nations, including Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Nethe…

Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies
The administration aims to send thousands of foreigners to Guantánamo, including people from Britain and France, with no plans to notify their home governments.

What Really is a Member? Discrediting Membership Inference via Poisoning
Neal Mangaokar, Ashish Hooda, Zhuohang Li, Bradley A. Malin, Kassem Fawaz, Somesh Jha, Atul Prakash, Amrita Roy Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06003

What Really is a Member? Discrediting Membership Inference via Poisoning
Membership inference tests aim to determine whether a particular data point was included in a language model's training set. However, recent works have shown that such tests often fail under the strict definition of membership based on exact matching, and have suggested relaxing this definition to include semantic neighbors as members as well. In this work, we show that membership inference tests are still unreliable under this relaxation - it is possible to poison the training dataset in a way…

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Revealed, a Daily Puzzle Game | Britannica
Uncover something interesting: Guess the topic using the fewest Reveals and Hints. Topics include People, Science & Tech, History & Society, and more.

dbpedia_country: Person-Country Affiliations (DBpedia, 2016)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between notable people and countries of the world, as extracted from Wikipedia via the DBpedia project. Countries include former countries, empires, kingdoms, and some country-like entities.
This network has 592414 nodes and 637134 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

Green Scheduling with Time-of-Use Tariffs and Machine States: Optimizing Energy Cost via Branch-and-Bound and Bin Packing Strategies
Ond\v{r}ej Benedikt, Istv\'an M\'odos, Antonin Novak, Zden\v{e}k Hanz\'alek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10405

Green Scheduling with Time-of-Use Tariffs and Machine States: Optimizing Energy Cost via Branch-and-Bound and Bin Packing Strategies
This paper presents a branch-and-bound algorithm, enhanced with bin packing strategies, for scheduling under variable energy pricing and power-saving states. The proposed algorithm addresses the 1,TOU|states|TEC problem, which involves scheduling jobs to minimize total energy cost (TEC) while considering time-of-use (TOU) electricity prices and different machine states (e.g., processing, idle, off). Key innovations include instance pre-processing for rapid lower bound calculations, a …

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 155 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Precision predictions of Starobinsky inflation with self-consistent Weyl-squared corrections
Eugenio Bianchi, Mauricio Gamonal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10081

Precision predictions of Starobinsky inflation with self-consistent Weyl-squared corrections
Starobinsky's $R+αR^2$ inflation provides a compelling one-parameter inflationary model that is supported by current cosmological observations. However, at the same order in spacetime derivatives as the $R^2$ term, an effective theory of spacetime geometry must also include the Weyl-squared curvature invariant $W^2$. In this paper, we study the inflationary predictions of the gravitational theory with action of the form $R+αR^2 - βW^2$, where the coupling constant $α$ sets the scale of infl…

Sources: Meta plans to unveil an AI lab dedicated to "superintelligence", led by Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and is offering seven- to nine-figure compensation (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/meta-new-ai…

Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’
The new lab, set to include Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, is part of a reorganization of Meta’s artificial intelligence efforts under Mark Zuckerberg.

Fubo and DAZN announce a multi-year deal to distribute their linear channels, which include exclusive sports rights, on each other's platforms in the US (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/fubo-and-dazn-strike-multi-year-spo…

Fubo and DAZN Strike Multi-Year Sports TV Network Partnership
The pact will see the streamers distribute their owned-and-operated linear channels on each other's U.S. platforms.

ArcNeural: A Multi-Modal Database for the Gen-AI Era
Wu Min, Qiao Yuncong, Yu Tan, Chenghu Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09467 https://

ArcNeural: A Multi-Modal Database for the Gen-AI Era
ArcNeural introduces a novel multimodal database tailored for the demands of Generative AI and Large Language Models, enabling efficient management of diverse data types such as graphs, vectors, and documents. Its storage-compute separated architecture integrates graph technology, advanced vector indexing, and transaction processing to support real-time analytics and AI-driven applications. Key features include a unified storage layer, adaptive edge collection in MemEngine, and seamless integra…

House Republicans quietly expanded their proposed Medicaid ban to include trans adults - Poynter
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/medicaid-ban-transgender-adults-gender-affirming-care/

Trump's proposed budget is a fiscal tightening relative to current policy.
And it doesn't even include the extra tightening from tariffs.
https://x.com/firstadopter/status/1930317264252793138/photo/1

tae kim (@firstadopter) on X
Great chart on the budget bill (Source: NYTimes)

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 105 nodes and 343 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Microsoft showcases a new fullscreen Xbox experience optimized for handhelds, coming first to the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X and to other handhelds in 2026 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/682011/microsof…

This is how Microsoft is combining Windows and Xbox for handheld PCs
Microsoft has worked with Asus to launch two new Xbox Ally devices. Both include improvements to Windows on handhelds with a full-screen Xbox experience.

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

Lightweight Electronic Signatures and Reliable Access Control Included in Sensor Networks to Prevent Cyber Attacks from Modifying Patient Data
Mishall Al-Zubaidie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08828

Lightweight Electronic Signatures and Reliable Access Control Included in Sensor Networks to Prevent Cyber Attacks from Modifying Patient Data
Digital terrorism is a major cause of securing patient/healthcare providers data and information. Sensitive topics that may have an impact on a patient's health or even national security include patient health records and information on healthcare providers. Health databases and data sets have been continually breached by many, regular assaults, as well as local and remote servers equipped with wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in diverse locations. The problem was addressed by some contemporary …

Precision $e^ e^-$ Hemisphere Masses in the Dijet Region with Power Corrections
Andre H. Hoang, Vicent Mateu, Matthew D. Schwartz, Iain W. Stewart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09130

Precision $e^+e^-$ Hemisphere Masses in the Dijet Region with Power Corrections
We derive high-precision results for the $e^+e^-$ heavy jet mass (HJM) $d σ/d ρ$ and dihemisphere mass (DHM) $d^2σ/(d s_1 d s_2)$ distributions, for $s_1\sim s_2$, in the dijet region. New results include: i) the N$^3$LL resummation for HJM of large logarithms $\ln^n(ρ)$ at small $ρ$ including the exact two-loop non-global hemisphere soft function, the 4-loop cusp anomalous dimension and the 3-loop hard and jet functions, ii) N$^3$LL results for DHM with resummation of logarithms $\ln(s_{1…

MOSAIC-F: A Framework for Enhancing Students' Oral Presentation Skills through Personalized Feedback
Alvaro Becerra, Daniel Andres, Pablo Villegas, Roberto Daza, Ruth Cobos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08634

MOSAIC-F: A Framework for Enhancing Students' Oral Presentation Skills through Personalized Feedback
In this article, we present a novel multimodal feedback framework called MOSAIC-F, an acronym for a data-driven Framework that integrates Multimodal Learning Analytics (MMLA), Observations, Sensors, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Collaborative assessments for generating personalized feedback on student learning activities. This framework consists of four key steps. First, peers and professors' assessments are conducted through standardized rubrics (that include both quantitative and qualitat…

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

Sources: the UK has delayed proposals to regulate AI, with plans to introduce an AI bill in 2026 to address concerns about issues like safety and copyright (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

us_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Walmart expands its partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing to bring drone delivery services to Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa, adding 100 stores (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/680723/walmart-wing…

Wing and Walmart are bringing drone delivery to 100 new stores
Walmart and Wing announced an expansion of their drone delivery partnership to include 100 additional stores in five new cities.

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

A look at Russian GRU Unit 29155's hacking department, which started out in 2012, and its involvement in cyber warfare and disinformation campaigns (The Insider)
https://theins.press/en/inv/281731

Hidden Bear: The GRU hackers of Russia’s most notorious kill squad
Russian GRU Unit 29155 is best known for its long list of murder and sabotage ops, which include the Salisbury poisonings in England, arms depot explosions in Czechia, and an attempted coup d’etat in Montenegro. But its activities in cyberspace remained in the shadows — until now. After reviewing a trove of hidden data, The Insider can report that the Kremlin’s most notorious black ops squad also fielded a team of hackers — one that attempted to destabilize Ukraine in the months before …

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 453 nodes and 4879 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 511 nodes and 35013 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

freshmen: Zeggelink's freshmen (1999)
Snapshots of friendships among freshmen majoring in Sociology at the University of Groningen, collected five times over the 1998-1999 year. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j, and the edge weight gives their friendship level from 1 (best friend) to 5 (troubled relation). Metadata include gender, age, program type, and smoking behavior.
This network has 34 nodes and 1156 edges.
Tags: Social, O…

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps