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Uff finally I wrote the blogpost for a hike I did in May (and you've probably seen the video of it already). But I haven't shared the #photos ans some more background story from it.
I don't know why but this time I found it really hard to write. Maybe I'm a bit out of practice or I just didn't find the right mood for it - I'm not sure.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy…

Post Edited: Duston and St James tramways https://edintone.com/duston-tramway/ The landscape of St James and Duston has changed unrecognisably in the last 100 years.

Duston and St James tramways - Miscellanea Edintone
Old maps reveal a lot about our town. The landscape of St James and Duston has changed unrecognisably in the last 100 years. Examining an OS map surveyed in

Loss-Complexity Landscape and Model Structure Functions
Alexander Kolpakov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13543 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Loss-Complexity Landscape and Model Structure Functions
We develop a framework for dualizing the Kolmogorov structure function $h_x(α)$, which then allows using computable complexity proxies. We establish a mathematical analogy between information-theoretic constructs and statistical mechanics, introducing a suitable partition function and free energy functional. We explicitly prove the Legendre-Fenchel duality between the structure function and free energy, showing detailed balance of the Metropolis kernel, and interpret acceptance probabilities a…

AI is transforming the cybersecurity landscape, but human insight remains critical.
As part of our ongoing #GEANTCybersecurity campaign webinars, Dr. Maria Bada will explore how #AI is being used on both sides of the conflict: to automate attacks as well as to detect threats faster.
She’…

Post Edited: Duston and St James tramways https://edintone.com/duston-tramway/ Old maps reveal a lot about our town. The landscape of St James and Duston has changed unr

Duston and St James tramways - Miscellanea Edintone
Old maps reveal a lot about our town. The landscape of St James and Duston has changed unrecognisably in the last 100 years. Examining an OS map surveyed in

Anthropic updates Claude usage policy, adding stricter cybersecurity rules and explicitly banning the development of WMDs, and loosens political content rules (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/760080/anthropic-updated-usage-policy-…

Anthropic has new rules for a more dangerous AI landscape
Anthropic has updated its usage policy to ban people from using its AI chatbot to help develop biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear weapons.

Now walking down the creek in the inaccessible section I was surprised to see beavers making a serious attempt to dam the creek
#photo #photography #landscape

On the Fitness Landscape in the $NK$ Model
Wei-Kuo Chen, Si Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12464 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12464

On the Fitness Landscape in the $NK$ Model
The $NK$ model, introduced by Kauffman, Levin, and Weinberger, is a random field used to describe the fitness landscape of certain species with $N$ genetic loci, each interacting with $K$ others. The model has wide applications in understanding evolutionary and natural selection as it captures ruggedness feature of the fitness landscape. Earlier literature has been focused on the case $K$ being a fixed positive integer and used tools from Ergodic and Markov theory. In this paper, by viewing it …

Navigating the Lobbying Landscape: Insights from Opinion Dynamics Models
Daniele Giachini, Leonardo Ciambezi Verdiana Del Rosso, Fabrizio Fornari, Valentina Pansanella, Lilit Popoyan, Alina S\^irbu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13767

Navigating the Lobbying Landscape: Insights from Opinion Dynamics Models
While lobbying has been demonstrated to have an important effect on public opinion and policy making, existing models of opinion formation do not specifically include its effect. In this work we introduce a new model of opinion dynamics where lobbyists can implement complex strategies and are characterised by a finite budget. Individuals update their opinions through a learning process resembling Bayesian learning, but influenced by cognitive biases such as under-reaction and confirmation bias.…

RotBench: Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models on Identifying Image Rotation
Tianyi Niu, Jaemin Cho, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mohit Bansal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13968 ht…

RotBench: Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models on Identifying Image Rotation
We investigate to what extent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can accurately identify the orientation of input images rotated 0°, 90°, 180°, and 270°. This task demands robust visual reasoning capabilities to detect rotational cues and contextualize spatial relationships within images, regardless of their orientation. To evaluate MLLMs on these abilities, we introduce RotBench -- a 350-image manually-filtered benchmark comprising lifestyle, portrait, and landscape images. Despite t…

Choosing the Right Engine in the Virtual Reality Landscape
Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13116 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Choosing the Right Engine in the Virtual Reality Landscape
Virtual reality (VR) development relies on game engines to provide real-time rendering, physics simulation, and interaction systems. Among the most widely used game engines, Unreal Engine and Unity dominate the industry, offering distinct advantages in graphics rendering, performance optimization, usability, resource requirements, and scalability. This study presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of both engines, evaluating their capabilities and trade-offs through empirical assessments …

Navigating the New Landscape: A Conceptual Model for Project-Based Assessment (PBA) in the Age of GenAI
Rajan Kadel, Samar Shailendra, Urvashi Rahul Saxena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11709

Navigating the New Landscape: A Conceptual Model for Project-Based Assessment (PBA) in the Age of GenAI
The rapid integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into higher education presents both opportunities and challenges for assessment design, particularly within Project-Based Assessment (PBA) contexts. Traditional assessment methods often emphasise the final product in the PBA, which can now be significantly influenced or created by GenAI tools, raising concerns regarding product authenticity, academic integrity, and learning validation. This paper advocates for a reimagined asse…

City Features VIII 👣
城市特征 VIII 👣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Testing Autonomous Driving Systems -- What Really Matters and What Doesn't
Changwen Li, Joseph Sifakis, Rongjie Yan, Jian Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13661

Testing Autonomous Driving Systems -- What Really Matters and What Doesn't
Despite extensive research, the testing of autonomous driving systems (ADS) landscape remains fragmented, and there is currently no basis for an informed technical assessment of the importance and contribution of the current state of the art. This paper attempts to address this problem by exploring two complementary aspects. First, it proposes a framework for comparing existing test methods in terms of their intrinsic effectiveness and validity. It shows that many methods do not meet both of …

Roadblocks and Opportunities in Quantum Algorithms -- Insights from the National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop, May 20--22, 2024
Eliot Kapit, Peter Love, Jeffrey Larson, Andrew Sornborger, Eleanor Crane, Alexander Schuckert, Teague Tomesh, Frederic Chong, Sabre Kais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13973

Roadblocks and Opportunities in Quantum Algorithms -- Insights from the National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop, May 20--22, 2024
The National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop brought together researchers across academia, national laboratories, and industry to assess the current landscape of quantum algorithms and discuss roadblocks to progress. The workshop featured discussions on emerging algorithmic techniques, resource constraints in near-term hardware, and opportunities for co-design across software and systems. Presented here are seven topics from the workshop, each highlighting a critical challenge or p…

New Software Synth, Solstice, Turns Any Sample Into A Playable Landscape
#MusicTech
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2025/09

New Software Synth, Solstice, Turns Any Sample Into A Playable Landscape
Solstice is a new software synth for Mac & Windows, designed to “Turn any sample into an explorable landscape.”

Invitation Is All You Need! Promptware Attacks Against LLM-Powered Assistants in Production Are Practical and Dangerous
Ben Nassi, Stav Cohen, Or Yair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12175

Invitation Is All You Need! Promptware Attacks Against LLM-Powered Assistants in Production Are Practical and Dangerous
The growing integration of LLMs into applications has introduced new security risks, notably known as Promptware - maliciously engineered prompts designed to manipulate LLMs to compromise the CIA triad of these applications. While prior research warned about a potential shift in the threat landscape for LLM-powered applications, the risk posed by Promptware is frequently perceived as low. In this paper, we investigate the risk Promptware poses to users of Gemini-powered assistants (web applicat…

Hey, just wanted to share this again. I took it last autumn at one of the last warm weekends.
I want to go to the same place again for a longer walk along a nice ridge. - Anyways, this was a really good day with a nice chat with a fellow hiker and great views.
Enjoy.
#mountains #hiking

LAMMPS-KOKKOS: Performance Portable Molecular Dynamics Across Exascale Architectures
Anders Johansson, Evan Weinberg, Christian R. Trott, Megan J. McCarthy, Stan G. Moore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13523

LAMMPS-KOKKOS: Performance Portable Molecular Dynamics Across Exascale Architectures
Since its inception in 1995, LAMMPS has grown to be a world-class molecular dynamics code, with thousands of users, over one million lines of code, and multi-scale simulation capabilities. We discuss how LAMMPS has adapted to the modern heterogeneous computing landscape by integrating the Kokkos performance portability library into the existing C++ code. We investigate performance portability of simple pairwise, many-body reactive, and machine-learned force-field interatomic potentials. We pres…

Universality in the Axiverse
Junyi Cheng, Naomi Gendler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12516 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12516

Universality in the Axiverse
Studies of axion effective theories in the type IIB Calabi-Yau landscape have revealed that hierarchies in cycle volumes drive correlations between axion physics and the number of axions in a given model. We analyze distributions of divisor volumes in toric hypersurface Calabi-Yau threefolds, and provide evidence that aspects of these distributions are universal across this landscape. Furthermore, we show that axion observables in this landscape can be approximated efficiently in terms of only …

Runaway stars and the Galactic supernova remnant landscape: non-thermal emission and observational evidence
Rowan Batzofin, Kathrin Egberts, Dominique M. -A. Meyer, Constantin Steppa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12721

Runaway stars and the Galactic supernova remnant landscape: non-thermal emission and observational evidence
Context. A significant fraction (~30%) of massive stars in our Galaxy are moving supersonically through the interstellar medium, which strongly governs their location at the time they end their lives, e.g. die as a supernova and give birth to a supernova remnant (SNR). These dead stellar environments accelerate particles, emitting by non-thermal mechanisms up to the TeV range, and they are considered as a major contributor to the very-high-energy band of the local cosmic-ray spectrum. Aims. T…

Investigating the Ferroelectric Potential Landscape of 3R-MoS$_2$ through Optical Measurements
Jan-Niklas Heidkamp, Johannes Schwandt-Krause, Swarup Deb, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Rico Schwartz, Tobias Korn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14929

Investigating the Ferroelectric Potential Landscape of 3R-MoS$_2$ through Optical Measurements
In recent years, sliding ferroelectricity has emerged as a topic of significant interest due to its possible application in non-volatile random access memory. This phenomenon is unique to two-dimensional van der Waals materials, where vertical ferroelectric polarization switching is induced by relative in-plane sliding of the constituent layers. The intrinsic stacking order influences the resulting polarization, creating distinct polarization regions separated by domain walls. These regions and…

Douro Valley hiking day 3. #hiking #portugal

Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' canceled by CBS, ends May 2026
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/stephen-colbert-says-cbs-ending-235704805.html

Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' canceled by CBS, ends May 2026
CBS is canceling “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” next May, shuttering a decades-old TV institution in a changing media landscape and removing from air...

Skyrmion Lattice Domain Formation in a Non-Flat Energy Landscape
Raphael Gruber, Jan Roth\"orl, Simon M. Fr\"ohlich, Maarten A. Brems, Tobias Sparmann, Fabian Kammerbauer, Maria-Andromachi Syskaki, Elizabeth M. Jefremovas, Sachin Krishnia, Asle Sudb{\o}, Peter Virnau, Mathias Kl\"aui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12988

Skyrmion Lattice Domain Formation in a Non-Flat Energy Landscape
Magnetic skyrmions are chiral spin structures with non-trivial topology that comprise two-dimensional quasi-particles and are promising information carriers for data storage and processing devices. Skyrmion lattices in magnetic thin films exhibit Kosterlitz-Thouless-Halperin-Nelson-Young (KTHNY) phase transitions and have garnered significant interest for studying emergent 2D phase behavior. In experimental skyrmion lattices, the main factor limiting the quasi-long-range order in thin films has…

#FotoVorschlag 'gegenlicht'
I think this might the topic.
I took the photo in early march this year.
The summit wasn't very crowded as it was VERY windy and thus very cold up there. Most people weren't prepared for this much wind and went further down to seek shelter from the wind and sit cozy in the sun.
I dressed up and spend the time exposed to the …

Quantum-Inspired Artificial Bee Colony for Latency-Aware Task Offloading in IoV
Mamta Kumari, Mayukh Sarkar, Rohit Kumar Nonia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13637 https://

Quantum-Inspired Artificial Bee Colony for Latency-Aware Task Offloading in IoV
Efficient task offloading is crucial for reducing latency and ensuring timely decision-making in intelligent transportation systems within the rapidly evolving Internet of Vehicles (IoV) landscape. This paper introduces a novel Quantum-Inspired Artificial Bee Colony (QABC) algorithm specifically designed for latency-sensitive task offloading involving cloud servers, Roadside Units (RSUs), and vehicular nodes. By incorporating principles from quantum computing, such as quantum state evolution an…

Editorial: Neuro-behavioral insights on low vision and beyond #AMD

Frontiers | Editorial: Neuro-behavioral insights on low vision and beyond
The landscape of low vision research is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the convergence of neuroscience, behavioral science, and technologica...

Alfalfa Field where we parked for Sunday's Car Show in Little York, NY showing the kind of hill that the glaciers shaped all over upstate NY
#photo #photography #landscape

The #ExpandingHorizons timeline - FIRST the science case has to be defined with the landscape of the 2040s in mind, THEN technology becomes important. And the DG emphasizes that #ESO has no favorite. #ag2025goerlitz

Continents have lost so much water to the ocean since 2002 that they have surpassed ice sheets as the biggest contributor to global sea level rise, a new study reveals.
Almost 70% of this loss is due to unchecked groundwater extraction,
which removes water from deep aquifers and eventually transfers it to the ocean, researchers found.
Together with rising rates of evaporation due to climate change, this has caused rapidly drying "hotspots" to merge into four &quo…

'Like a creeping mold that's spreading across the landscape': Separate dry areas around the world are merging into 'mega-drying' regions at an alarming rate, study finds
Unchecked groundwater extraction and climate change have dried continents significantly over the past 22 years, with 101 countries now losing fresh water to the ocean, research reveals.

Predator-Prey Model: Driven Hunt for Accelerated Grokking
I. A. Lopatin, S. V. Kozyrev, A. N. Pechen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10562 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Predator-Prey Model: Driven Hunt for Accelerated Grokking
A machine learning method is proposed using two agents that simulate the biological behavior of a predator and a prey. In this method, the predator and the prey interact with each other - the predator chases the prey while the prey runs away from the predator - to perform an optimization on the landscape. This method allows, for the case of a ravine landscape (i.e., a landscape with narrow ravines and with gentle slopes along the ravines) to avoid getting optimization stuck in the ravine. For t…

And here are the last two #photos from my bike&hike recently. the one shows one of the (in my point of view) interesting geological parts of the hike. And in the second I tried to get some more foreground into the photo
I hope you enjoy the view as much as I enjoyed the hike up there 🙂
And I wonder if we could see the home area of @…

When Content is Goliath and Algorithm is David: The Style and Semantic Effects of Generative Search Engine
Lijia Ma, Juan Qin, Xingchen Xu, Yong Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14436

When Content is Goliath and Algorithm is David: The Style and Semantic Effects of Generative Search Engine
Generative search engines (GEs) leverage large language models (LLMs) to deliver AI-generated summaries with website citations, establishing novel traffic acquisition channels while fundamentally altering the search engine optimization landscape. To investigate the distinctive characteristics of GEs, we collect data through interactions with Google's generative and conventional search platforms, compiling a dataset of approximately ten thousand websites across both channels. Our empirical analy…

Charting GLOBs in Asymptotically Safe Gravity
Francesco Del Porro, Jonas Pfeiffer, Alessia Platania, Samuele Silveravalle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14309 https://

Charting GLOBs in Asymptotically Safe Gravity
Computing the gravitational effective action provides a direct route to charting the landscape of admissible black hole spacetimes and their alternatives, which we will collectively call "gravitationally localized objects" (GLOBs). In this work, we provide a proof of principle of this idea within the framework of asymptotically safe gravity. Focusing on the Einstein-Weyl truncation, we identify the unique ultraviolet-complete trajectory emanating from the asymptotically safe fixed point and use…

This summer’s extreme weather will leave a €126 billion dent in the EU’s economy by 2029, according to new research. The climate bills are coming in now. https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/09/15/europe-face…

Extreme weather cost Europe billions this summer, study finds
Experts have revealed how extreme weather events are already reshaping Europe’s economic landscape.

Vortrags-Video: "[Public] Library social media in a post-twitter world" by Ned Potter: https://www.ned-potter.com/blog/new-video-library-social-media-in-a-post-twitter-world
für wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken gibts ein Pendant hier: …

OpenAI is preparing to launch a new AI-powered web browser that could significantly shake up the digital landscape dominated by Alphabet's Google Chrome.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/openai-perplexity-b…

OpenAI, Perplexity browsers present direct challenge to Google Chrome's dominance
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new AI-powered web browser that could significantly shake up the digital landscape dominated by Alphabet's Google Chrome.

Douro Valley hiking day 5. Possibly the best views so far and certainly best beer at the end. #hiking #portugal #craftbeer

Me waiting for my wife today. We tried a hike today to check how well recovered her knee is. - All went very well. Except that it was a bit warm.
But the views were pretty nice.
#photography #naturephotography

"An overlooked biocultural landscape in Sri Lanka receives overdue protection"
#SriLanka #Environment #Nature

An overlooked biocultural landscape in Sri Lanka receives overdue protection
COLOMBO — Nestled in the eastern edge of Sri Lanka’s Uva province, Nilgala stands out as a landscape of remarkable ecological and cultural importance. Long overlooked in mainstream conservation efforts despite its significance, Nilgala finally received due recognition on June 2 when it was declared a forest reserve covering its full extent of 40,685 hectares […]

Bridging Farm Economics and Landscape Ecology for Global Sustainability through Hierarchical and Bayesian Optimization
Kevin Bradley Dsouza, Graham Alexander Watt, Yuri Leonenko, Juan Moreno-Cruz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06386

Bridging Farm Economics and Landscape Ecology for Global Sustainability through Hierarchical and Bayesian Optimization
Agricultural landscapes face the dual challenge of sustaining food production while reversing biodiversity loss. Agri-environmental policies often fall short of delivering ecological functions such as landscape connectivity, in part due to a persistent disconnect between farm-level economic decisions and landscape-scale spatial planning. We introduce a novel hierarchical optimization framework that bridges this gap. First, an Ecological Intensification (EI) model determines the economically opt…

The Landscape of Memorization in LLMs: Mechanisms, Measurement, and Mitigation
Alexander Xiong, Xuandong Zhao, Aneesh Pappu, Dawn Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05578

The Landscape of Memorization in LLMs: Mechanisms, Measurement, and Mitigation
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of tasks, yet they also exhibit memorization of their training data. This phenomenon raises critical questions about model behavior, privacy risks, and the boundary between learning and memorization. Addressing these concerns, this paper synthesizes recent studies and investigates the landscape of memorization, the factors influencing it, and methods for its detection and mitigation. We explore key driver…

Spatiotemporal Order and Parametric Instabilities from First-Principles
Daniel Kaplan, Pavel A. Volkov, Jennifer Coulter, Shiwei Zhang, Premala Chandra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14110

Spatiotemporal Order and Parametric Instabilities from First-Principles
Shaping crystal structure with light is an enduring goal of physics and materials engineering. Here we present calculations in candidate materials selected by symmetry that allow light-induced spatiotemporal parametric instabilities. We demonstrate a theoretical framework that includes a complete symmetry analysis of phonon modes that contribute to parametric instabilities across all non-centrosymmetric point groups, a detailed survey of the materials landscape and finally the computation of no…

Generalized Quasispecies Model with Time Delays and Periodic Fluctuations in Replication
Nolbert Morales, Edward A. Turner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12424 https://

Generalized Quasispecies Model with Time Delays and Periodic Fluctuations in Replication
In this research, we present a generalized quasispecies model in which population growth is governed by an arbitrary nonlinear function incorporating time delays. We begin by demonstrating that, under the constant population constraint, the dynamics of the system with time delays remain confined to the invariant manifold for both forward and backward time evolution. Furthermore, we establish that in this modified quasispecies model, defined on a single-peak fitness landscape, in the presence of…

Fabrication, characterization and mechanical loading of Si/SiGe membranes for spin qubit devices
Lucas Marcogliese, Ouviyan Sabapathy, Rudolf Richter, Jhih-Sian Tu, Dominique Bougeard, Lars R. Schreiber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14589

Fabrication, characterization and mechanical loading of Si/SiGe membranes for spin qubit devices
Si/SiGe heterostructures on bulk Si substrates have been shown to host high fidelity electron spin qubits. Building a scalable quantum processor would, however, benefit from further improvement of critical material properties such as the valley splitting landscape. Flexible control of the strain field and the out-of-plane electric field $\mathcal{E}_z$ may be decisive for valley splitting enhancement in the presence of alloy disorder. We envision the Si/SiGe membrane as a versatile scientific p…

How the NFL changed its streaming strategy as the TV landscape shifted; in a first, every NFL game will be available on streaming by the end of August (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

The NFL’s Next Big Play: Owning the Media
The league isn’t content to be a ratings juggernaut for partners. As it takes equity in ESPN and Paramount Skydance, it's muscling into Hollywood’s end zone.

Unveiling the Landscape of Clinical Depression Assessment: From Behavioral Signatures to Psychiatric Reasoning
Zhuang Chen, Guanqun Bi, Wen Zhang, Jiawei Hu, Aoyun Wang, Xiyao Xiao, Kun Feng, Minlie Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04531

Unveiling the Landscape of Clinical Depression Assessment: From Behavioral Signatures to Psychiatric Reasoning
Depression is a widespread mental disorder that affects millions worldwide. While automated depression assessment shows promise, most studies rely on limited or non-clinically validated data, and often prioritize complex model design over real-world effectiveness. In this paper, we aim to unveil the landscape of clinical depression assessment. We introduce C-MIND, a clinical neuropsychiatric multimodal diagnosis dataset collected over two years from real hospital visits. Each participant comple…

Beyond CVEs: Mastering the Landscape with Vulnerability-Lookup is finally online.
The talk was given at @… conference.
#opensource #vulnerability

The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry
Cella M. Sum, Anna Konvicka, Mona Wang, Sarah E. Fox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12579

The Future of Tech Labor: How Workers are Organizing and Transforming the Computing Industry
The tech industry's shifting landscape and the growing precarity of its labor force have spurred unionization efforts among tech workers. These workers turn to collective action to improve their working conditions and to protest unethical practices within their workplaces. To better understand this movement, we interviewed 44 U.S.-based tech worker-organizers to examine their motivations, strategies, challenges, and future visions for labor organizing. These workers included engineers, product …

Tractable Asymmetric Verification for Large Language Models via Deterministic Replicability
Zan-Kai Chong, Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Bryan Ng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11068 https://

Tractable Asymmetric Verification for Large Language Models via Deterministic Replicability
The landscape of Large Language Models (LLMs) shifts rapidly towards dynamic, multi-agent systems. This introduces a fundamental challenge in establishing computational trust, specifically how one agent can verify that another's output was genuinely produced by a claimed LLM, and not falsified or generated by a cheaper or inferior model. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a verification framework that achieves tractable asymmetric effort, where the cost to verify a computation is su…

Navigating the Data Space Landscape: Concepts, Applications, and Future Directions
Bojana Marojevikj, Riste Stojanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06983 https://

Navigating the Data Space Landscape: Concepts, Applications, and Future Directions
This paper explores the evolving landscape of data spaces, focusing on key concepts, practical applications, and emerging future directions. It begins by introducing the foundational principles that underpin data space architectures, emphasizing their importance in facilitating secure and efficient data exchange. The core design principles and essential building blocks that form the backbone of data-space systems are then examined. Several real-world implementations are presented, showcasing ho…

Absolutely incredible photos in this article:
https://mastodon.energy/@jonshell/114837642341286945

When I got home I realized that I took this on top of the bluff that was pictured in the last photo, you can see that fallen tree to the right of the oxbow and the beaver dam to the left of it
#photo #photography

Banding and polarization in driven multistable materials
Sheng Huang, Daniel Hexner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12895 https://arxiv.or…

Banding and polarization in driven multistable materials
We study a disordered network of bistable bonds subjected to periodic strain. The model is inspired by experiments on crumpled sheets and it features behaviors associated with glasses, including a complex energy landscape, memories, and large avalanches. At small strain amplitudes, the system quickly converges to a limit cycle where the system repeatedly cycles between a set of states. At large amplitudes, motion is erratic and does not converge to a limit cycle. The transition appears to be co…

(Exhaustive) Symbolic Regression and model selection by minimum description length
Harry Desmond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13033 https://

(Exhaustive) Symbolic Regression and model selection by minimum description length
Symbolic regression is the machine learning method for learning functions from data. After a brief overview of the symbolic regression landscape, I will describe the two main challenges that traditional algorithms face: they have an unknown (and likely significant) probability of failing to find any given good function, and they suffer from ambiguity and poorly-justified assumptions in their function-selection procedure. To address these I propose an exhaustive search and model selection by the…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Ehnes Quartet: Beethoven alla Russia
The Ehnes Quartet explores two of Beethoven's legendary 'Razumovsky' Quartets that changed the landscape of writing for string quartet. Penny Gore presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002flwj

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
VILA: [On communicator] Avon.
AVON: Well?
VILA: [On communicator] There's no response. What's going on, where are they?
AVON: Inside. It must be shielded.
VILA: [On communicator] Do you want to come up?
AVON: No.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/285

Anisotropic Multi-Q Order in CoxTaS2
Jonathon Kruppe, Josue Rodriguez, Catherine Xu, James Analytis, Joseph Orenstein, Veronika Sunko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12588

Anisotropic Multi-Q Order in CoxTaS2
The cobalt-intercalated transition metal dichalcogenide Co$_x$TaS$_2$ hosts a rich landscape of magnetic phases that depend sensitively on $x$. While the stoichiometric compound with $x=1/3$ exhibits a single magnetic transition, samples with $x\leq 0.325$ display two transitions with an anomalous Hall effect (AHE) emerging in the lower temperature phase. Here, we resolve the spin structure in each phase by employing a suite of magneto-optical probes that include the discovery of anomalous magn…

So now I'm past the beaver dam and looking upstream at the bluff that was in the background
#photo #photography #monkeyrun

The Cybersecurity of a Humanoid Robot
V\'ictor Mayoral-Vilches
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14096 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14096

The Cybersecurity of a Humanoid Robot
The rapid advancement of humanoid robotics presents unprecedented cybersecurity challenges that existing theoretical frameworks fail to adequately address. This report presents a comprehensive security assessment of a production humanoid robot platform, bridging the gap between abstract security models and operational vulnerabilities. Through systematic static analysis, runtime observation, and cryptographic examination, we uncovered a complex security landscape characterized by both sophistica…

DVFL-Net: A Lightweight Distilled Video Focal Modulation Network for Spatio-Temporal Action Recognition
Hayat Ullah, Muhammad Ali Shafique, Abbas Khan, Arslan Munir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12426

DVFL-Net: A Lightweight Distilled Video Focal Modulation Network for Spatio-Temporal Action Recognition
The landscape of video recognition has evolved significantly, shifting from traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to Transformer-based architectures for improved accuracy. While 3D CNNs have been effective at capturing spatiotemporal dynamics, recent Transformer models leverage self-attention to model long-range spatial and temporal dependencies. Despite achieving state-of-the-art performance on major benchmarks, Transformers remain computationally expensive, particularly with dense …

Evaluating undergraduate mathematics examinations in the era of generative AI: a curriculum-level case study
Benjamin J. Walker, Beatriz Navarro Lameda, Ruth A. Reynolds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13359

Evaluating undergraduate mathematics examinations in the era of generative AI: a curriculum-level case study
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as OpenAI's ChatGPT are transforming the educational landscape, prompting reconsideration of traditional assessment practices. In parallel, universities are exploring alternatives to in-person, closed-book examinations, raising concerns about academic integrity and pedagogical alignment in uninvigilated settings. This study investigates whether traditional closed-book mathematics examinations retain their pedagogical relevance when hypotheti…

The Digital Landscape of God: Narrative, Visuals and Viewer Engagement of Religious Videos on YouTube
Rongyi Chen, Ziyan Xin, Qing Xiao, Ruiwei Xiao, Jingjia Xiao, Bingbing Zhang, Hong Shen, Zhicong Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10957

The Digital Landscape of God: Narrative, Visuals and Viewer Engagement of Religious Videos on YouTube
The digital transformation of religious practice has reshaped how billions of people engage with spiritual content, with video-sharing platforms becoming central to contemporary religious communication. Yet HCI research lacks systematic understanding of how narrative and visual elements create meaningful spiritual experiences and foster viewer engagement. We present a mixed-methods study of religious videos on YouTube across major religions, developing taxonomies of narrative frameworks, visual…

The Landscape of Fairness: An Axiomatic and Predictive Framework for Network QoE Sensitivity
Zhiyuan Ren, Xinke Jian, Wenchi Cheng, Kun Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08551 htt…

The Landscape of Fairness: An Axiomatic and Predictive Framework for Network QoE Sensitivity
Evaluating network-wide fairness is challenging because it is not a static property but one highly sensitive to Service Level Agreement (SLA) parameters. This paper introduces a complete analytical framework to transform fairness evaluation from a single-point measurement into a proactive engineering discipline centered on a predictable sensitivity landscape. Our framework is built upon a QoE-Imbalance metric whose form is not an ad-hoc choice, but is uniquely determined by a set of fundamental…

We had the pleasure of presenting at FIRST.org 2025, showcasing the Vulnerability-Lookup and GCVE.eu initiatives.
Slides are now available.
#cybersecurity #vulnerability #cve

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[3/3]:
- Web3 x AI Agents: Landscape, Integrations, and Foundational Challenges
Shen, Zhang, Shao, Luo, Wang, Chen, Zheng, Chen

I wonder if I ever shared #photos from my #FrozenMajesties Collection - or at least it is a while since I last shared them.
Anyways, I took it during a winter hike in the #Karwendel and r…

Statue of a rifleman on the old battlefield at Gettysburg, PA
#photo #photography #landscape #history

Statistics of Base Polytopes in F-theory
Washington Taylor, Yi-Nan Wang, Yihang Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13252 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13252…

Statistics of Base Polytopes in F-theory
We propose a new statistical ensemble of toric bases for elliptic Calabi-Yaus used in F-theory models, by focusing on only the convex hull of the base, i.e., the base polytope. This physically motivated coarse-graining greatly simplifies the combinatorial complexity of the part of the 4D F-theory landscape with toric bases. We develop a Monte Carlo approach that randomly samples the base polytopes within fixed boxes, with proper statistical weights. We first apply the algorithm to the set of 2d…

Salty Seagull: A VSAT Honeynet to Follow the Bread Crumb of Attacks in Ship Networks
Georgios Michail Makrakis, Jeroen Pijpker, Remco Hassing, Rob Loves, Stephen McCombie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11325

Salty Seagull: A VSAT Honeynet to Follow the Bread Crumb of Attacks in Ship Networks
Cyber threats against the maritime industry have increased notably in recent years, highlighting the need for innovative cybersecurity approaches. Ships, as critical assets, possess highly specialized and interconnected network infrastructures, where their legacy systems and operational constraints further exacerbate their vulnerability to cyberattacks. To better understand this evolving threat landscape, we propose the use of cyber-deception techniques and in particular honeynets, as a means t…

Uncovering AI Governance Themes in EU Policies using BERTopic and Thematic Analysis
Delaram Golpayegani, Marta Lasek-Markey, Arjumand Younus, Aphra Kerr, Dave Lewis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13387

Uncovering AI Governance Themes in EU Policies using BERTopic and Thematic Analysis
The upsurge of policies and guidelines that aim to ensure Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are safe and trustworthy has led to a fragmented landscape of AI governance. The European Union (EU) is a key actor in the development of such policies and guidelines. Its High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) issued an influential set of guidelines for trustworthy AI, followed in 2024 by the adoption of the EU AI Act. While the EU policies and guidelines are expected to be aligned, they may differ in their …

"Brazil Records 65 Percent Drop in Amazon Area Burned by Fire, Lowest Since Monitoring Began"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #Environment

Brazil Records 65 Percent Drop in Amazon Area Burned by Fire, Lowest Since Monitoring Began
The data also shows that across Brazil, both in the Amazon basin and beyond it, 54% fewer acres of landscape have been burned by fires. 

I got lost driving home and found this really sugoi gravel pit
#photo #photography #landscape #mining

Whil I'm editing photos from our vacation I quickly share this from last year for #WaterfallWednesday .
Enjoy!
#photography #nature

From Misunderstandings to Learning Opportunities: Leveraging Generative AI in Discussion Forums to Support Student Learning
Stanislav Pozdniakov, Jonathan Brazil, Oleksandra Poquet, Stephan Krusche, Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Shazia Sadiq, Hassan Khosravi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11150

From Misunderstandings to Learning Opportunities: Leveraging Generative AI in Discussion Forums to Support Student Learning
In the contemporary educational landscape, particularly in large classroom settings, discussion forums have become a crucial tool for promoting interaction and addressing student queries. These forums foster a collaborative learning environment where students engage with both the teaching team and their peers. However, the sheer volume of content generated in these forums poses two significant interconnected challenges: How can we effectively identify common misunderstandings that arise in stud…

Exploring the magnetic landscape of easily-exfoliable two-dimensional materials
Fatemeh Haddadi, Davide Campi, Flaviano dos Santos, Nicolas Mounet, Louis Ponet, Nicola Marzari, Marco Gibertini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09531

Exploring the magnetic landscape of easily-exfoliable two-dimensional materials
Magnetic materials often exhibit complex energy landscapes with multiple local minima, each corresponding to a self-consistent electronic structure solution. Finding the global minimum is challenging, and heuristic methods are not always guaranteed to succeed. Here, we apply a recently developed automated workflow to systematically explore the energy landscape of 194 magnetic monolayers obtained from the Materials Cloud 2D crystals database and determine their ground-state magnetic order. Our a…

Digital Sovereignty Control Framework for Military AI-based Cyber Security
Clara Maathuis, Kasper Cools
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13072 https://arxiv.org/…

Digital Sovereignty Control Framework for Military AI-based Cyber Security
In today's evolving threat landscape, ensuring digital sovereignty has become mandatory for military organizations, especially given their increased development and investment in AI-driven cyber security solutions. To this end, a multi-angled framework is proposed in this article in order to define and assess digital sovereign control of data and AI-based models for military cyber security. This framework focuses on aspects such as context, autonomy, stakeholder involvement, and mitigation of r…

Web3 x AI Agents: Landscape, Integrations, and Foundational Challenges
Yiming Shen, Jiashuo Zhang, Zhenzhe Shao, Wenxuan Luo, Yanlin Wang, Ting Chen, Zibin Zheng, Jiachi Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02773

Web3 x AI Agents: Landscape, Integrations, and Foundational Challenges
The convergence of Web3 technologies and AI agents represents a rapidly evolving frontier poised to reshape decentralized ecosystems. This paper presents the first and most comprehensive analysis of the intersection between Web3 and AI agents, examining five critical dimensions: landscape, economics, governance, security, and trust mechanisms. Through an analysis of 133 existing projects, we first develop a taxonomy and systematically map the current market landscape (RQ1), identifying distinct…

Here's a view of Little York Lake looking south from Dwyer Memorial Park -- so far as I can tell "Little York" is one of the four Yorks of New York
#photo #photography #landscape…

I took this photo pretty close after the last that I posted. I just turned around to see what's behind me. I assumed just the bushes and the trail.
But obviously I was high enough that I already got some nice view into the distance.
If you're wondering why it's so flat in the distance: I am directly at the northern end of the #alps. To the south, there are

Cyber Threat Hunting: Non-Parametric Mining of Attack Patterns from Cyber Threat Intelligence for Precise Threats Attribution
Rimsha Kanwal, Umara Noor, Zafar Iqbal, Zahid Rashid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11615

Cyber Threat Hunting: Non-Parametric Mining of Attack Patterns from Cyber Threat Intelligence for Precise Threats Attribution
With the ever-changing landscape of cyber threats, identifying their origin has become paramount, surpassing the simple task of attack classification. Cyber threat attribution gives security analysts the insights they need to device effective threat mitigation strategies. Such strategies empower enterprises to proactively detect and defend against future cyber-attacks. However, existing approaches exhibit limitations in accurately identifying threat actors, leading to low precision and a signif…

Consumer Law for AI Agents
Christoph Busch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11567 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.11567

Consumer Law for AI Agents
Since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the AI landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation. Currently, the use of AI chatbots by consumers has largely been limited to image generation or question-answering language models. The next generation of AI systems, AI agents that can plan and execute complex tasks with only limited human involvement, will be capable of a much broader range of actions. In particular, consumers could soon be able to delegate purchasing decisions to AI ag…

#FotoVorschlag " Dinge, die mit L beginnen " (Things starting with L)
I screened quite some photos because I didn't want to choose "Landscape" - But then I found this photo of the #Lynx that I took at the

Cyber Attack Mitigation Framework for Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks in Fog Computing
Fizza Khurshid, Umara Noor, Zahid Rashid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11668 https://

Cyber Attack Mitigation Framework for Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks in Fog Computing
Innovative solutions to cyber security issues are shaped by the ever-changing landscape of cyber threats. Automating the mitigation of these threats can be achieved through a new methodology that addresses the domain of mitigation automation, which is often overlooked. This literature overview emphasizes the lack of scholarly work focusing specifically on automated cyber threat mitigation, particularly in addressing challenges beyond detection. The proposed methodology comprise of the developme…

#FotoVorschlag "Bänke" (benches)
I took this photo in beautiful #scotland in #cawdor castle when we were there on holidays.
It's been a beautiful visit there and we lov…

Cornfield supporting dairy farm in the valley connecting Dryden and Richford, NY -- we're looking at the hills of Hammond Hill State Forest
#photo #photography #landscape

This boy told me you could catch sunfish and bass in the pond north of Dwyer Memorial Park when I was there for a car show this Sunday
#pond #photo #photography

Exploiting Jailbreaking Vulnerabilities in Generative AI to Bypass Ethical Safeguards for Facilitating Phishing Attacks
Rina Mishra, Gaurav Varshney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12185

Exploiting Jailbreaking Vulnerabilities in Generative AI to Bypass Ethical Safeguards for Facilitating Phishing Attacks
The advent of advanced Generative AI (GenAI) models such as DeepSeek and ChatGPT has significantly reshaped the cybersecurity landscape, introducing both promising opportunities and critical risks. This study investigates how GenAI powered chatbot services can be exploited via jailbreaking techniques to bypass ethical safeguards, enabling the generation of phishing content, recommendation of hacking tools, and orchestration of phishing campaigns. In ethically controlled experiments, we used Cha…

And there I was close to the summit. Finally!
I was happy to get a snack and relax my legs a bit. I wasn't alone up there but it wasn't crowded. Well it was just great to be there again.
I think it was just the second time in a decade that I was up there. Even though I can see the summit from my home 🙂
A bit more Context and the video:

Phishing Webpage Detection: Unveiling the Threat Landscape and Investigating Detection Techniques
Aditya Kulkarni, Vivek Balachandran, Tamal Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08424

Phishing Webpage Detection: Unveiling the Threat Landscape and Investigating Detection Techniques
In the realm of cybersecurity, phishing stands as a prevalent cyber attack, where attackers employ various tactics to deceive users into gathering their sensitive information, potentially leading to identity theft or financial gain. Researchers have been actively working on advancing phishing webpage detection approaches to detect new phishing URLs, bolstering user protection. Nonetheless, the ever-evolving strategies employed by attackers, aimed at circumventing existing detection approaches a…

💸 Heir Ball: How the Cost of Youth Sports Is Changing the N.B.A.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/30/heir-ball-how-the-cost-of-youth-sports-is-changing-the-nba
🆓

Heir Ball: How the Cost of Youth Sports Is Changing the N.B.A.
Jay Caspian Kang talks to Jermaine O’Neal, Luka Dončić, Steve Nash, and others around the N.B.A. about how the professionalization of youth sports is changing the landscape of pro basketball.

A Decade-long Landscape of Advanced Persistent Threats: Longitudinal Analysis and Global Trends
Shakhzod Yuldoshkhujaev (Sungkyunkwan University), Mijin Jeon (Sungkyunkwan University), Doowon Kim (University of Tennessee), Nick Nikiforakis (Stony Brook University), Hyungjoon Koo (Sungkyunkwan University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07457

A Decade-long Landscape of Advanced Persistent Threats: Longitudinal Analysis and Global Trends
An advanced persistent threat (APT) refers to a covert, long-term cyberattack, typically conducted by state-sponsored actors, targeting critical sectors and often remaining undetected for long periods. In response, collective intelligence from around the globe collaborates to identify and trace surreptitious activities, generating substantial documentation on APT campaigns publicly available on the web. While prior works predominantly focus on specific aspects of APT cases, such as detection, e…

'Am Fluss' #FotoVorschlag
This is a #photo from a walk last winter in a moor nearby. The slowly lifting fog made a really cool atmosphere.
#landscape

1/2 'Glitzer' #FotoVorschlag 'glitter'
I don't have a lot of glitter in my portfolio. But #snowflakes can be like glitter in the counter light!
I took this #photo …

I took this #photo when I thought that I'd be almost there. - Because I had mostly looked about the elevation. But as you might see on the photo, the way flattens a bit towards the summit.
Well, it was a great trail - it just took longer then I assumed.
Some more context and a video are on my blog:

This was a very nice loop between #ohlstadt and #garmischpartenkirchen!
Beautiful views to the #mountains, an excellent way, almost no major roads and we also escaped a little rain…

'Kunstwerke der Natur' #FotoVorschlag
'Works of Art of Nature'
Immediately, this #photo came to my mind. It's part of my #pristineWinter collection.
More…

While I'm starting to getting into the photos from our holidays, I just saw that it's #FootpathFriday !
This one is a really nice path to walk - when the weather is a bit more stable than it was during our visit two years ago. But I learned a couple of lessons that day 😄

Yesterday I finally wrote the blog post for the bike and hike recently.
For me it was pretty tough as it was constant incline of around 1000m over around 12km with just one short exception.
The view here is from the summit down to the "plain" where we left the bikes for the final climb.
The blog: https://w…