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Convenience gives the illusion of freedom but is quite often the exact opposite.
Convenience creates "freedom from choice" and takes away the ability to make decisions on your own.

Rethinking the Privacy of Text Embeddings: A Reproducibility Study of "Text Embeddings Reveal (Almost) As Much As Text"
Dominykas Seputis, Yongkang Li, Karsten Langerak, Serghei Mihailov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07700

Rethinking the Privacy of Text Embeddings: A Reproducibility Study of "Text Embeddings Reveal (Almost) As Much As Text"
Text embeddings are fundamental to many natural language processing (NLP) tasks, extensively applied in domains such as recommendation systems and information retrieval (IR). Traditionally, transmitting embeddings instead of raw text has been seen as privacy-preserving. However, recent methods such as Vec2Text challenge this assumption by demonstrating that controlled decoding can successfully reconstruct original texts from black-box embeddings. The unexpectedly strong results reported by Vec2…

I need to bring up I2C on the line card supervisor MCU soon. Some of the stuff I've been debugging would be a lot easier if the main MCU had the ability to power cycle line cards on request.

During the last week in May, the leading topic on the 5Calls app was opposition to a provision of the House budget bill restraining judges’ ability to enforce contempt sanctions (17,600 calls).
The rest of the Top 5 topics were slashing Medicare and Medicaid (13,658 calls);
cuttinggender-affirming care (7,697 calls);
attacks on so-called “woke” universities (7,319 calls);
and other “harmful provisions” in the megabill (7,142 calls).
The issues change slightly e…

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Understanding the complex morphology of a CME: multi-view analysis and numerical modeling
Cecilia Mac Cormack (Heliospheric Physics Laboratory, Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Abril Sahade (Heliospheric Physics Laboratory, Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Angelos Vourlidas (The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), Phillip Hess (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory), Robin Colaninno (U.S. Naval Research Labora…

Understanding the complex morphology of a CME: multi-view analysis and numerical modeling
Although all coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that propagate into the heliosphere should contain a magnetic flux rope (MFR) component, the majority do not exhibit the expected white-light MFR morphology of a leading edge plus cavity. This different appearance could be the result of distortion of the internal magnetic structure, merging with other structures, or simply projection effects. These factors complicate the interpretation of CMEs. This complexity is exemplified by a CME observed on 28 Mar…

MasHost Builds It All: Autonomous Multi-Agent System Directed by Reinforcement Learning
Kuo Yang, Xingjie Yang, Linhui Yu, Qing Xu, Yan Fang, Xu Wang, Zhengyang Zhou, Yang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08507

MasHost Builds It All: Autonomous Multi-Agent System Directed by Reinforcement Learning
Large Language Model (LLM)-driven Multi-agent systems (Mas) have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for tackling complex real-world tasks. However, existing Mas construction methods typically rely on manually crafted interaction mechanisms or heuristic rules, introducing human biases and constraining the autonomous ability. Even with recent advances in adaptive Mas construction, existing systems largely remain within the paradigm of semi-autonomous patterns. In this work, we propose MasHos…

“I can also find no obvious correlation between where someone lands on that spectrum [of finding LLMs useful for coding] and things like experience levels; people fall here and there regardless of where they work, how much trust I have in their ability, how good they are at communicating, how much of a hard worker they are, or how willing to learn they might be.”
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HaLert: A Resilient Smart City Architecture for Post-Disaster Based on Wi-Fi HaLow Mesh and SDN
Ana Rita Ortigoso, Gabriel Vieira, Daniel Fuentes, Lu\'is Fraz\~ao, Nuno Costa, Ant\'onio Pereira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07841

HaLert: A Resilient Smart City Architecture for Post-Disaster Based on Wi-Fi HaLow Mesh and SDN
Events such as catastrophes and disasters are, in most cases, unpredictable. Consequently, reusing existing infrastructures to develop alternative communication strategies after disasters is essential to minimise the impact of these events on the population's ability to communicate and promptly receive alerts from authorities. In this context, the emergence of smart cities, characterised by dense and geographically distributed IoT networks, presents significant potential for such reuse. This wo…

An AI Approach for Learning the Spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami Operator
Yulin An, Enrique del Castillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07073 https://

An AI Approach for Learning the Spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami Operator
The spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami (LB) operator is central in geometric deep learning tasks, capturing intrinsic properties of the shape of the object under consideration. The best established method for its estimation, from a triangulated mesh of the object, is based on the Finite Element Method (FEM), and computes the top k LB eigenvalues with a complexity of O(Nk), where N is the number of points. This can render the FEM method inefficient when repeatedly applied to databases of CAD mecha…