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François Legault doit stopper la réforme (Yves Boisvert)
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/chroniques/2025-10-30/remuneration-des-medecins/francois-legault-doit-stopper-la-reforme.php

The likelihood that one of Saturn’s moons may harbour life has risen, experts say, after finding an array of carbon-based substances being spewed out of Enceladus.
The sixth largest of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus has become one of the leading contenders in the search for bodies that could harbour extraterrestrial life,
with the Cassini mission – which ended in 2017 – revealing the moon has a plume of water ice grains and vapours erupting from beneath the surface at its south pole.

HilbertA: Hilbert Attention for Image Generation with Diffusion Models
Shaoyi Zheng, Wenbo Lu, Yuxuan Xia, Haomin Liu, Shengjie Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26538 https://

HilbertA: Hilbert Attention for Image Generation with Diffusion Models
Designing sparse attention for diffusion transformers requires reconciling two-dimensional spatial locality with GPU efficiency, a trade-off that current methods struggle to achieve. Existing approaches enforce two-dimensional spatial locality but often incur uncoalesced memory access. We present HilbertA, a 2D-aware and GPU-efficient sparse attention mechanism. HilbertA reorders image tokens along Hilbert curves to achieve a contiguous memory layout while preserving spatial neighborhoods, and …

Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion (Matthew Hutson/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agents-safety

AI Agents Care Less About Safety When Under Pressure
Can AI agents resist pressure or do they crack? Discover how PropensityBench tests their likelihood to misbehave when put under pressure.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/115634258137536478
Shai-hulud brings about the Big Ones.

Dublin is obvs v vulnerable to damage from rising sea levels. Limerick and Galway too. Cork not so much, if they invest properly (not quay walls on Morrison's Island, rather a tidal barrier btw Glanmire/Mahon in the short run and at Roche's Pt in the long run). h…

More than 100,000 properties along Irish coastline at risk of flooding
New analysis raises likelihood that thousands of properties will become uninsurable

J’avais pas Legault qui mentionne Gaza Š #Infoman sur ma carte de bingo

Ich muss nicht über Tiere schreiben (obwohl die mir natürlich leid tun). Ich werde morgen noch bei Tageslicht die Silvester-Lokalität aufsuchen und erst am 1. gegen Mittag wieder verlassen, weil ich eine Scheißangst vor bösartig-dummen Banden mit Böllern habe.

Neural-Model-Augmented Hybrid NMS-OSD Decoders for Near-ML in Short Block Codes
Guangwen Li, Xiao Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25580 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Neural-Model-Augmented Hybrid NMS-OSD Decoders for Near-ML in Short Block Codes
This paper introduces a hybrid decoding architecture that serially couples a normalized min-sum (NMS) decoder with reinforced ordered statistics decoding (OSD) to achieve near-maximum likelihood (ML) performance for short linear block codes. The framework incorporates several key innovations: a decoding information aggregation model that employs a convolutional neural network to refine bit reliability estimates for OSD using the soft-output trajectory of the NMS decoder; an adaptive decoding pa…

Calibrated Counterfactual Conformal Fairness ($C^3F$): Post-hoc, Shift-Aware Coverage Parity via Conformal Prediction and Counterfactual Regularization
Faruk Alpay, Taylan Alpay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25295

Calibrated Counterfactual Conformal Fairness ($C^3F$): Post-hoc, Shift-Aware Coverage Parity via Conformal Prediction and Counterfactual Regularization
We present Calibrated Counterfactual Conformal Fairness ($C^3F$), a post-hoc procedure that targets group-conditional coverage parity under covariate shift. $C^3F$ combines importance-weighted conformal calibration with a counterfactual regularizer based on path-specific effects in a structural causal model. The method estimates group-specific nonconformity quantiles using likelihood-ratio weights so that coverage degrades gracefully with the second moment of the weights. We derive finite-sampl…