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Q&A with Alan Rusbridger on criticism of the BBC for its Gaza coverage, the difficulty of leading the broadcaster, the need for it to be independent, and more (Josh Hersh/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/alan-rusbridger-kicker-bbc-gaza.p…

Alan Rusbridger Wants the BBC to Find Its Nerve
The former Guardian editor has been keeping tabs on the challenges at the venerable broadcaster.

Urban Living 🌝
都市生活 🌝
📷 Nikon FE
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#filmphotography

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The Detection-vs-Retrieval Challenge: Titan as an Exoplanet
Prajwal Niraula, Julien de Wit, Robert Hargreaves, Iouli E. Gordon, Clara Sousa-Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12144 …

The Detection-vs-Retrieval Challenge: Titan as an Exoplanet
Cassini's observations of Titan's atmosphere are exemplary benchmarks for exoplanet atmospheric studies owing to (1) their precision and (2) our independent knowledge of Titan. Leveraging these observations, we perform retrievals (i.e., analyses) of Titan's transmission spectrum to investigate the strengths/limitations of exoplanet atmospheric retrievals with a particular focus on the underlying assumptions regarding the molecular species included in the retrieval. We find that multiple hydroca…

It's only a week away until the moving truck arrives and puts an end to our 16 years in Caledon. Today, I'm taking some time to squeeze in 9 holes of golf with my brother, who has a cottage close to our new home. My car is packed with 11 different plants that we split from our current garden, over 70 individual plants for the new house. Two planters will have to wait for the next trip.
#Moving #Gardening

Non-Euclidean dual gradient ascent for entropically regularized linear and semidefinite programming
Yuhang Cai, Michael Lindsey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09711

Non-Euclidean dual gradient ascent for entropically regularized linear and semidefinite programming
We present an optimization framework that exhibits dimension-independent convergence on a broad class of semidefinite programs (SDPs). Our approach first regularizes the primal problem with the von Neumann entropy, then solve the regularized problem using dual gradient ascent with respect to a problem-adapted norm. In particular, we show that the dual gradient norm converges to zero at a rate independent of the ambient dimension and, via rounding arguments, construct primal-feasible solutions i…

Seems pretty legit to me!

One of the young starlings, now quite independent.

Watching Get Over It which I had never seen but has every IT actor from 2001. It's wild.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192071/?ref_=ext_shr

I'm working with a few organisations with different meeting cultures at the moment, and I really enjoyed this post about levels of note taking #linkTuesday Which level do you use?

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,…