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💫 Study shows information on slot machines is misleading players into thinking they have a higher chance of winning
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-slot-machines-players-higher-chance.html

Study shows information on slot machines is misleading players into thinking they have a higher chance of winning
A new gambling study has found that payout information shown on slot machines is misleading and is making players believe they have a higher chance of winning.

I still love the Minimalist Marble Machine that @… built...
➡️ https://tinkerlog.com/portfolio/minimalist-marble-machine/

Minimalist Marble Machine
I always loved watching marble machines, especially the creations of denha. These little machines are super cute and very well made. So a marble machine was on my todo list for a very long time. mo…

Textual-Based vs. Thinging Machines Conceptual Modeling
Sabah Al-Fedaghi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02646 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

Textual-Based vs. Thinging Machines Conceptual Modeling
Software engineers typically interpret the domain description in natural language and translate it into a conceptual model. Three approaches are used in this domain modeling: textual languages, diagrammatic languages, and a mixed based of text and diagrams. According to some researchers, relying on a diagrammatic notation levies certain burdens for designing large models because visual languages are intended to depict everything diagrammatically during a development process but fail to do so fo…

A framework for fluctuating times and counting observables in stochastic excursions
Guilherme Fiusa, Pedro E. Harunari, Abhaya S. Hegde, Gabriel T. Landi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05160

A framework for fluctuating times and counting observables in stochastic excursions
Many natural systems exhibit dynamics characterized by alternating phases. Describing the fluctuations of such systems over stochastic trajectories is necessary across diverse fields, from biological motors to quantum thermal machines. In an accompanying Letter, we introduced the notion of stochastic excursions -- a framework to analyze far from equilibrium processes via sub-trajectories. Through counting observables, this framework captures finite-time fluctuations and trajectory-level behavio…

Apropos of yet another conversation today, I’m a big fan of using automation in WCAG testing.
But I also know WCAG well enough to understand the limitations (and lies) the tools.
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/04/automated-wcag-testing-is-grrreat.htm…

Automated WCAG Testing Is Grrreat!
I’m a big fan of using automation in WCAG testing. I use bookmarklets, dev tools, browser features & reporting, and a pile of third-party products from assorted vendors. These save me time and effort, letting me focus on more tricky cases. But… Unfortunately, the marketing machines of some vendors seem…

Big thanks to the City of #Memphis and Lehman-Roberts for paving my street this week. Kinda fascinating to watch these #machines at work, but I bet the crews get tired of it all really quickly.
#infrastructure

An Open-source Capping Machine Suitable for Confined Spaces
Francisco Munguia-Galeano, Louis Longley, Satheeshkumar Veeramani, Zhengxue Zhou, Rob Clowes, Hatem Fakhruldeen, Andrew I. Cooper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03743

An Open-source Capping Machine Suitable for Confined Spaces
In the context of self-driving laboratories (SDLs), ensuring automated and error-free capping is crucial, as it is a ubiquitous step in sample preparation. Automated capping in SDLs can occur in both large and small workspaces (e.g., inside a fume hood). However, most commercial capping machines are designed primarily for large spaces and are often too bulky for confined environments. Moreover, many commercial products are closed-source, which can make their integration into fully autonomous wo…

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LAVA: Lifetime-Aware VM Allocation with Learned Distributions and Adaptation to Mispredictions
Scheduling virtual machines (VMs) on hosts in cloud data centers dictates efficiency and is an NP-hard problem with incomplete information. Prior work improved VM scheduling with predicted VM lifetimes. Our work further improves lifetime-aware scheduling using repredictions with lifetime distributions versus one-shot prediction. Our approach repredicts and adjusts VM and host lifetimes when incorrect predictions emerge. We also present novel approaches for defragmentation and regular system mai…

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LLM4SP: Large Language Models for Scatterer Prediction via Synesthesia of Machines
Guided by Synesthesia of Machines (SoM), the nonlinear mapping relationship between sensory and communication information serves as a powerful tool to enhance both the accuracy and generalization of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) multi-modal intelligent channel modeling (MMICM) in intelligent transportation systems (ITSs). To explore the general mapping relationship between physical environment and electromagnetic space, a new intelligent sensing-communication integration dataset, named V2V-M3, is co…

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Scalable Connectivity for Ising Machines: Dense to Sparse
In recent years, hardware implementations of Ising machines have emerged as a viable alternative to quantum computing for solving hard optimization problems among other applications. Unlike quantum hardware, dense connectivity can be achieved in classical systems. However, we show that dense connectivity leads to severe frequency slowdowns and interconnect congestion scaling unfavorably with system sizes. As a scalable solution, we propose a systematic sparsification method for dense graphs by …

Some of you probably remember WAIS. An Internet search engine from the Gopher era (more specific: a search protocol). TIL: Thinking Machines (those with the massive red blinkenlights servers) were the main driver and developer of WAIS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information…

Inter(sectional) Alia(s): Ambiguity in Voice Agent Identity via Intersectional Japanese Self-Referents
Takao Fujii, Katie Seaborn, Madeleine Steeds, Jun Kato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01998

Inter(sectional) Alia(s): Ambiguity in Voice Agent Identity via Intersectional Japanese Self-Referents
Conversational agents that mimic people have raised questions about the ethics of anthropomorphizing machines with human social identity cues. Critics have also questioned assumptions of identity neutrality in humanlike agents. Recent work has revealed that intersectional Japanese pronouns can elicit complex and sometimes evasive impressions of agent identity. Yet, the role of other "neutral" non-pronominal self-referents (NPSR) and voice as a socially expressive medium remains unexplored. In a…

Non-invasive measurement of local stress inside soft materials with programmed shear waves
Zhaoyi Zhang, Guo-Yang Li, Yuxuan Jiang, Yang Zheng, Artur L. Gower, Michel Destrade, Yanping Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03816

Non-invasive measurement of local stress inside soft materials with programmed shear waves
Mechanical stresses in soft materials across different length scales play a fundamental role in understanding the function of biological systems and in the use of artificial materials for engineering soft machines and biomedical devices. Yet it remains a great challenge to probe local mechanical stresses in situ in a non-invasive, non-destructive manner, in particular when the mechanical properties are unknown. To address this challenge, we propose an acoustoelastic imaging-based method to infe…

Emergence of thermodynamic functioning regimes from finite coupling between a quantum thermal machine and a load
Gauthameshwar S., Noufal Jaseem, Dario Poletti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01852

Emergence of thermodynamic functioning regimes from finite coupling between a quantum thermal machine and a load
Autonomous quantum thermal machines are particularly suited to understand how correlations between thermal baths, a load, and a thermal machine affect the overall thermodynamic functioning of the setup. Here, we show that by tuning the operating temperatures and the magnitude of the coupling between machine and load, the thermal machine can operate in four modes: engine, accelerator, heater, or refrigerator. In particular, we show that as we increase the coupling strength, the engine mode is su…

Developing a Mixed-Methods Pipeline for Community-Oriented Digitization of Kwak'wala Legacy Texts
Milind Agarwal, Daisy Rosenblum, Antonios Anastasopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01775

Developing a Mixed-Methods Pipeline for Community-Oriented Digitization of Kwak'wala Legacy Texts
Kwak'wala is an Indigenous language spoken in British Columbia, with a rich legacy of published documentation spanning more than a century, and an active community of speakers, teachers, and learners engaged in language revitalization. Over 11 volumes of the earliest texts created during the collaboration between Franz Boas and George Hunt have been scanned but remain unreadable by machines. Complete digitization through optical character recognition has the potential to facilitate transliterat…

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Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Symbiosis of Agents is a large-scale installation by Baoyang Chen that embeds AI-driven robots in an immersive, mirror-lined arena, probing the tension between machine agency and artistic authorship. Drawing on early cybernetics, rule-based conceptual art, and seminal robotic works, it orchestrates fluid exchanges among robotic arms, quadruped machines, their environment, and the public. A three tier faith system pilots the ecology: micro-level adaptive tactics, meso-level narrative drives, and…

Efficient Optimization Accelerator Framework for Multistate Ising Problems
Chirag Garg, Sayeef Salahuddin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20250 https://

Efficient Optimization Accelerator Framework for Multistate Ising Problems
Ising Machines are a prominent class of hardware architectures that aim to solve NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. These machines consist of a network of interacting binary spins/neurons that evolve to represent the optimum ground state energy solution. Generally, combinatorial problems are transformed into quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) form to harness the computational efficiency of these Ising machines. However, this transformation, especially for multi-state p…

That @… is on the way to collecting/making 10,000 esoteric web-based drum machines https://10kdrummachines.com/

You will find no answers to the struggles we face as humans by looking to the machines.
Be eager to say “I don’t know… but I want to find out!”
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/06/02/experts-dont-know/

Experts Don’t Know
Humans don't know it all, and that's good...

A Sequential Computation Algorithm for the Center of the Smallest Enclosing Ball
Kenji Nakagawa, Yoshinori Takei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00734 https://

A Sequential Computation Algorithm for the Center of the Smallest Enclosing Ball
In this paper, we consider the problem of finding the center $Q^\ast$ of the SEB (smallest enclosing ball) for $n$ points in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. One application of the SEB is SVDD (support vector data description) in support vector machines. Our objective is to develop a sequential computation algorithm for determining the barycentric coordinate of $Q^\ast$. To achieve it, we apply the concept of the Arimoto-Blahut algorithm, which is a sequential computation algorithm used to comp…

If you are interested in the multiple moving parts needed to get #mte support for #qemu's #gdbstub you might find my colleges blog post interesting:

Adding Support for MTE debugging to QEMU | Blog | Linaro
This blog post explains how Linaro enabled QEMU to debug MTE (Memory Tagging Extension) code on machines that support this feature. We'll start by explaining MTE and what was needed to enable debugging. Then, we'll describe the components we upstreamed to GDB and QEMU to make it work.

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Continuous Approximation of the Ising Hamiltonian: Exact Ground States and Applications to Fidelity Assessment in Ising Machines
In this study, we present a novel analytical approach to solving large-scale Ising problems by reformulating the discrete Ising Hamiltonian into a continuous framework. This transformation enables us to derive exact solutions for a non-trivial class of fully connected Ising models. To validate our method, we conducted numerical experiments comparing our analytical solutions with those obtained from a quantum-inspired Ising algorithm and a quantum Ising machine. The results demonstrate that the …

2 PhD positions at CWI/UvA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The curriculum of sight - How visual processing develops in brains and machines https://academicpositions.nl/ad/centrum-wiskunde-informatica-cwi/2…

Our coffee machine died this morning. That makes 4 Kuerig machines in 9 years, and our last one ever. We ordered an 8-cup drip maker with carafe this morning. No more feeling guilty about using pods (I'm sorry, Mother Earth), cost per cup will be cheaper, I can control my flavor and strength, and the coffee grounds are great in our compost. Yes, it took me a decade to figure out I was a slave to convenience and waste. No judging, please.

Viewing large language models as compression machines helps explain why they seem at turns big-brained and pea-brained. To learn more, join me for Honey, AI Shrunk the Archive, an IEEE/UMaine AI webinar next Thursday 3 April at noon Eastern
https://ai.umaine.edu/webinars

Extended-variable probabilistic computing with p-dits
Christian Duffee, Jordan Athas, Andrea Grimaldi, Deborah Volpe, Giovanni Finocchio, Ermin Wei, Pedram Khalili Amiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00269

Extended-variable probabilistic computing with p-dits
Ising machines can solve combinatorial optimization problems by representing them as energy minimization problems. A common implementation is the probabilistic Ising machine (PIM), which uses probabilistic (p-) bits to represent coupled binary spins. However, many real-world problems have complex data representations that do not map naturally into a binary encoding, leading to a significant increase in hardware resources and time-to-solution. Here, we describe a generalized spin model that supp…

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Towards a double operadic theory of systems
We present a unified framework for categorical systems theory which packages a collection of open systems, their interactions, and their maps into a symmetric monoidal loose right module of systems over a symmetric monoidal double category of interfaces and interactions. As examples, we give detailed descriptions of (1) the module of open Petri nets over undirected wiring diagrams and (2) the module of deterministic Moore machines over lenses. We define several pseudo-functorial constructions o…

“What we ultimately want, and what we believe we need, is a commons that is strong, resilient, growing, useful (to machines and to humans)—all the good things, frankly. But as our open infrastructures mature they become increasingly taken for granted, and the feeling that “this is for all of us” is replaced with “everyone is entitled to this”. While this sounds the same, it really isn’t. Because with entitlement comes misuse, the social contract breaks, reciprocation evaporates, and ultimately the magic weakens.”
Very glad to see that @… is working to address the deep challenges that have arisen at the intersection of the open movement and corporate AI.
https://creativecommons.org/2025/04/02/reciprocity-in-the-age-of-ai/
h/t @…

Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Baoyang Chen, Xian Xu, Huamin Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02606 https://

Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Symbiosis of Agents is a large-scale installation by Baoyang Chen that embeds AI-driven robots in an immersive, mirror-lined arena, probing the tension between machine agency and artistic authorship. Drawing on early cybernetics, rule-based conceptual art, and seminal robotic works, it orchestrates fluid exchanges among robotic arms, quadruped machines, their environment, and the public. A three tier faith system pilots the ecology: micro-level adaptive tactics, meso-level narrative drives, and…

ZeroSep: Separate Anything in Audio with Zero Training
Chao Huang, Yuesheng Ma, Junxuan Huang, Susan Liang, Yunlong Tang, Jing Bi, Wenqiang Liu, Nima Mesgarani, Chenliang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23625

ZeroSep: Separate Anything in Audio with Zero Training
Audio source separation is fundamental for machines to understand complex acoustic environments and underpins numerous audio applications. Current supervised deep learning approaches, while powerful, are limited by the need for extensive, task-specific labeled data and struggle to generalize to the immense variability and open-set nature of real-world acoustic scenes. Inspired by the success of generative foundation models, we investigate whether pre-trained text-guided audio diffusion models c…

Stupidly, today I decided to play around with the DuckDuckGo ai (duck.ai) to see if I could get it to write the code for me to change the resolution of a dataset to the native model resolution.
I *knew* that LLM were bad at math. But I didn’t realize HOW bad.
I asked it to change a 0.25 by 0.25 georeferenced global array to 1 by 1.25 degrees.
Maybe I was naïve in thinking it would ‘know’ that there are 180 degrees of latitude and 360 degrees on longitude.
But I had to do 5 prompts to get that piece corrected. Admittedly, I did not correct it directly— I corrected it as I would a student by prompting that there was an error in a particular line. (And yes- I realize it isn’t human and this is the wrong approach.)
I think I’m done with AI for now. I would have failed a student taking a class with me who didn’t have this most basic of knowledge down the first 5 minutes of class.
I keep thinking that LLM are sewing machines. They do a lot of good in the hands of someone who knows how to make them work, but they are only marginally better than hand-stitching when given to someone like me.
Is there a LLM that can write code in FORTRAN?

Enhancing Finite State Machine Design Automation with Large Language Models and Prompt Engineering Techniques
Qun-Kai Lin, Cheng Hsu, Tian-Sheuan Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00001

Enhancing Finite State Machine Design Automation with Large Language Models and Prompt Engineering Techniques
Large Language Models (LLMs) have attracted considerable attention in recent years due to their remarkable compatibility with Hardware Description Language (HDL) design. In this paper, we examine the performance of three major LLMs, Claude 3 Opus, ChatGPT-4, and ChatGPT-4o, in designing finite state machines (FSMs). By utilizing the instructional content provided by HDLBits, we evaluate the stability, limitations, and potential approaches for improving the success rates of these models. Further…

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A Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem Involving Reconfigurable Machine Tools Under Industry 5.0
The rise of Industry 5.0 has introduced new demands for manufacturing companies, requiring a shift in how production schedules are managed to address human centered, environmental, and economic goals comprehensively. The flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSSP), which involves processing operations on various capable machines, accurately reflects the complexities of modern manufacturing settings. This paper investigates the FJSSP involving reconfigurable machine tools with configuration dep…

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Fully Onboard SLAM for Distributed Mapping with a Swarm of Nano-Drones
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is rapidly increasing in applications ranging from surveillance and first-aid missions to industrial automation involving cooperation with other machines or humans. To maximize area coverage and reduce mission latency, swarms of collaborating drones have become a significant research direction. However, this approach requires open challenges in positioning, mapping, and communications to be addressed. This work describes a distributed mapping system ba…

The #geek in me loves stories like this. When we moved into the RV in 2011, I tossed out a still-wrapped set of #Win95 disks. Part of me wishes I still had my old Packard Bell, a 286SX25 machine.

Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers
As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.

GPU-Accelerated Simulated Oscillator Ising/Potts Machine Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Yilmaz Ege Gonul, Ceyhun Efe Kayan, Ilknur Mustafazade, Nagarajan Kandasamy, Baris Taskin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22631

GPU-Accelerated Simulated Oscillator Ising/Potts Machine Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Oscillator-based Ising machines (OIMs) and oscillator-based Potts machines (OPMs) have emerged as promising hardware accelerators for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems by leveraging the phase dynamics of coupled oscillators. In this work, a GPU-accelerated simulated OIM/OPM digital computation framework capable of solving combinatorial optimization problems is presented. The proposed implementation harnesses the parallel processing capabilities of GPUs to simulate large-scale …

Space Charge in Circular Machines
Massimo Ferrario, Mauro Migliorati, Luigi Palumbo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14091 https://arxiv.or…

Space Charge in Circular Machines
Space charge forces, which arise directly from the beam's charge distribution and include the influence of image charges and currents induced by interactions with a perfectly conducting, smooth pipe, are very important in high-intensity, low-energy accelerators. These forces play a key role under various beam dynamics regimes, leading to effects such as energy spread, modifications of betatron tunes, and potential instabilities. This lecture will explore the fundamental characteristics of space…

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A Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem Involving Reconfigurable Machine Tools Under Industry 5.0
The rise of Industry 5.0 has introduced new demands for manufacturing companies, requiring a shift in how production schedules are managed to address human centered, environmental, and economic goals comprehensively. The flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSSP), which involves processing operations on various capable machines, accurately reflects the complexities of modern manufacturing settings. This paper investigates the FJSSP involving reconfigurable machine tools with configuration dep…

== Food for thoughts ==
Tariffs equal more expensive laptops, which equals people opting for older machines, and older machines work terribly on Windows 11, but on Linux they work wonderfully, so Linux it is.
Makes you start to dream a bit, picture a renaissance of OS minimalism, DWM and i3 trending on TikTok. Influencers rocking Hyprland.

Does anyone have opinions on Rancher Desktop? Seems to be good so far, Docker Desktop repeatedly breaks itself on my Windows machines and I'm looking for an alternative...