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Depending how you want to analyze it, an even split or a majority in this small poll believe the US send its military against Venezuela directly.
😔
#usa #venezuela #war
https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/115155459830582839

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

Independent music company Reservoir Media acquires the majority of the Miles Davis estate's music rights; Reservoir has spent $876M on acquisitions since 2007 (Ben Sisario/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/arts/music/miles-davis-esta…

Miles Davis Catalog Sells to Reservoir Media, a Small but Savvy Player
Reservoir, led by Golnar Khosrowshahi, has acquired the majority of music rights owned by the Davis estate ahead of the jazz master’s centennial next year.

In Estonia’s border town, Russian-speaking majority enjoys NATO’s shield, remains mute on Russia’s threat: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/in-estonias-border-town-russianspeaking.html

The Majority is not always right: RL training for solution aggregation
Wenting Zhao, Pranjal Aggarwal, Swarnadeep Saha, Asli Celikyilmaz, Jason Weston, Ilia Kulikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06870

The Majority is not always right: RL training for solution aggregation
Scaling up test-time compute, by generating multiple independent solutions and selecting or aggregating among them, has become a central paradigm for improving large language models (LLMs) on challenging reasoning tasks. While most prior work relies on simple majority voting or reward model ranking to aggregate solutions, these approaches may only yield limited benefits. In this work, we propose to learn aggregation as an explicit reasoning skill: given a set of candidate solutions, we train an…

A Landmark Step Toward Justice: UN Establishes Investigative Mechanism for Afghanistan - Feminist Majority Foundation
https://feminist.org/news/a-landmark-step-toward-justice-un-establishes-investigative-mechanism-for-afghanistan/

It WILL get worse.
The upside here is that the overwhelming majority of Americans are entirely unaffected by air travel problems the overwhelming majority of the time. However, most members of Congress routinely commute by air on a weekly basis.
https://flipboard.com/@…

The government shutdown is snarling air travel. Officials say it could get worse
Travelers across the U.S. are beginning to feel the impacts of the government shutdown, as air traffic control staffing shortages disrupt flights across the country. A dozen Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) facilities saw staffing shortages on Monday, according to an evening advisory from the …

Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into its 38th day.
https://www.

WATCH: Senate meets as Republicans reject Democratic offer to end shutdown
Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into its 38th day.

Unitary Quantum Cellular Automata for Density Classification
Pedro C. S. Costa, Yuval R. Sanders, Pedro Paulo Balbi, Gavin K. Brennen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06947 https://…

Unitary Quantum Cellular Automata for Density Classification
We investigate the density classification task (DCT) -- determining the majority bit in a one-dimensional binary lattice -- within a quantum cellular automaton (CA) framework. While there is no one-dimensional two-state, radius $r \geq 1$, deterministic CA with periodic boundary conditions that solves the DCT perfectly, we explore whether a unitary quantum model can succeed. We employ the Partitioned Unitary Quantum Cellular Automaton (PUQCA), a number-conserving model, and, via evolutionary se…

Comparison of typicality in quantum and classical many-body systems
Peter Reimann, Nicolas Nessi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06795 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

Comparison of typicality in quantum and classical many-body systems
Quantum typicality refers to the phenomenon that the expectation values of any given observable are nearly identical for the overwhelming majority of all normalized vectors in a sufficiently high-dimensional Hilbert (sub-)space. As a consequence, we show that the thermal equilibrium fluctuations in many-body quantum systems can be very closely imitated by the purely quantum mechanical uncertainties (quantum fluctuations) of suitably chosen pure states. On the other hand, we find that analogous …

Learning from Majority Label: A Novel Problem in Multi-class Multiple-Instance Learning
Shiku Kaito, Shinnosuke Matsuo, Daiki Suehiro, Ryoma Bise
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04023

Learning from Majority Label: A Novel Problem in Multi-class Multiple-Instance Learning
The paper proposes a novel multi-class Multiple-Instance Learning (MIL) problem called Learning from Majority Label (LML). In LML, the majority class of instances in a bag is assigned as the bag-level label. The goal of LML is to train a classification model that estimates the class of each instance using the majority label. This problem is valuable in a variety of applications, including pathology image segmentation, political voting prediction, customer sentiment analysis, and environmental m…

Relational Database Distillation: From Structured Tables to Condensed Graph Data
Xinyi Gao, Jingxi Zhang, Lijian Chen, Tong Chen, Lizhen Cui, Hongzhi Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06980

Relational Database Distillation: From Structured Tables to Condensed Graph Data
Relational databases (RDBs) underpin the majority of global data management systems, where information is structured into multiple interdependent tables. To effectively use the knowledge within RDBs for predictive tasks, recent advances leverage graph representation learning to capture complex inter-table relations as multi-hop dependencies. Despite achieving state-of-the-art performance, these methods remain hindered by the prohibitive storage overhead and excessive training time, due to the m…

The Anti-MAGA Majority Reemerges (David A. Graham/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2025/11/elections-anti-maga-democrats/684824/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p131#a251105p131

Adaptive Memory Momentum via a Model-Based Framework for Deep Learning Optimization
Kristi Topollai, Anna Choromanska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04988 https://

Adaptive Memory Momentum via a Model-Based Framework for Deep Learning Optimization
The vast majority of modern deep learning models are trained with momentum-based first-order optimizers. The momentum term governs the optimizer's memory by determining how much each past gradient contributes to the current convergence direction. Fundamental momentum methods, such as Nesterov Accelerated Gradient and the Heavy Ball method, as well as more recent optimizers such as AdamW and Lion, all rely on the momentum coefficient that is customarily set to $β= 0.9$ and kept constant during …

Comprehensive Analyses of the Strongly Carbon-chain Depleted Comets in Lowell Observatory's Narrowband Photometry Database
Allison N. Bair, David G. Schleicher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05499

Comprehensive Analyses of the Strongly Carbon-chain Depleted Comets in Lowell Observatory's Narrowband Photometry Database
We present measurements, analyses and results for the seventeen strongly carbon-chain depleted comets in Lowell Observatory's narrowband photometry database. The majority of comets exhibit a very similar, i.e. typical, composition in optical wavelengths, though the existence of anomalous comets with lower abundances of carbon-chain molecules relative to CN has long been known. M. F. A'Hearn et al. (1995) identified an entire class of these carbon-chain depleted comets, and the most recent full …

Where Have All the Firewalls Gone? Security Consequences of Residential IPv6 Transition
Erik Rye, Dave Levin, Robert Beverly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04792 https://

Where Have All the Firewalls Gone? Security Consequences of Residential IPv6 Transition
IPv4 NAT has limited the spread of IoT botnets considerably by default-denying bots' incoming connection requests to in-home devices unless the owner has explicitly allowed them. As the Internet transitions to majority IPv6, however, residential connections no longer require the use of NAT. This paper therefore asks: has the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 ultimately made residential networks more vulnerable to attack, thereby empowering the next generation of IPv6-based IoT botnets? To answer thi…

How did Jaguars use Travis Hunter in NFL debut? Jacksonville had noticeable change in snaps for two-way star

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-did…

A New 'Nanoparticle Vaccine' Prevented Cancer In Mice, Study Says https://www.404media.co/a-new-nanoparticle-vaccine-prevented-cancer-in-mice-study-says/

"For Afghan women, the stakes could not be any clearer. Every gesture towards normalization tells them their rights can be traded away for political convenience. Every meeting that sidelines the issue of gender apartheid reinforces the message that their lives are secondary to geopolitical interests. "
UN Report Details Deepening Crisis for Afghan Women and Warns Against Normalising Taliban Rule - Feminist Majority Foundation
https://feminist.org/news/un-report-details-deepening-crisis-for-afghan-women-and-warns-against-normalising-taliban-rule/

StimulHeat: a Low-Energy Wearable Thermal Feedback Device Using Peltier Elements with Heat Flow Controlled Loop for Hand Interactions in Virtual Reality
Matthieu Mesnage, Sophie Villenave, Bertrand Massot, Matthieu Blanchard, Pierre Raimbaud, Guillaume Lavou\'e, Claudine Gehin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05020

StimulHeat: a Low-Energy Wearable Thermal Feedback Device Using Peltier Elements with Heat Flow Controlled Loop for Hand Interactions in Virtual Reality
Nowadays, the majority of wearable thermal feedback systems designed for use in virtual reality applications are not compatible or not integrated to standard controllers and are based on temperature control. The objectives of the present work is to enable integration with existing controllers, in this case Valve Index controllers, and to propose an alternative approach to managing thermal stimulation with Peltier modules by controlling heat flow instead of temperature. We introduce StimulHeat a…

There will be more positions on the Raiders with new starters than returning starters https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/09/06/majority-of-raiders-positions-fielding-new-starte…

MEGATRON: The environments of Population III stars at Cosmic Dawn and their connection to present day galaxies
Anatole Storck, Harley Katz, Julien Devriendt, Adrianne Slyz, Corentin Cadiou, Nicholas Choustikov, Martin P. Rey, Aayush Saxena, Oscar Agertz, Taysun Kimm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06853…

MEGATRON: The environments of Population III stars at Cosmic Dawn and their connection to present day galaxies
We present results of Pop. III formation in the MEGATRON suite of simulations, which self-consistently follows radiation and non-equilibrium chemistry, and resolves gas at near-pc resolution of a Milky Way-mass halo at Cosmic Dawn. While the very first Pop. III stars form in halos with masses well below the atomic cooling limit, whose cooling is dominated by molecular hydrogen, the majority of Pop. III stars form in more massive systems above the $10^4$~K atomic cooling threshold. The shift in …

Computational predictions of nutrient precipitation for intensified cell 1 culture media via amino acid solution thermodynamics
Jayanth Venkatarama Reddy, Nelson Ndahiro, Lateef Aliyu, Ashwin Dravid, Tianxin Xang, Jinke Wu, Michael Betenbaugh, Marc Donohue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06271

Computational predictions of nutrient precipitation for intensified cell 1 culture media via amino acid solution thermodynamics
The majority of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) on the market are produced using Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells cultured at scale in chemically defined cell culture medium. Because of the high costs associated with mammalian cell cultures, obtaining high cell densities to produce high product titers is desired. These bioprocesses require high concentrations of nutrients in the basal media and periodically adding concentrated feed media to sustain cell growth and therapeutic protein …

Missing Data Imputation in the Context of Propensity Score Analysis: A Systematic Review
Saghar Garayemi, Reza Ali Akbari Khoei, Sarah Friedrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05857

Missing Data Imputation in the Context of Propensity Score Analysis: A Systematic Review
Missing data is a common challenge in observational studies. Another challenge stems from the observational nature of the study itself. Here, propensity score analysis can be used as a technique to replicate conditions similar to those found in clinical trials. With regard to the missing data, a majority of studies only analyze the complete cases, but this has several pitfalls. In this review, we investigate which methods are used for the handling of missing data in the context of propensity sc…

AQA-TTRL: Self-Adaptation in Audio Question Answering with Test-Time Reinforcement Learning
Haoyu Zhang, Jiaxian Guo, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05478

AQA-TTRL: Self-Adaptation in Audio Question Answering with Test-Time Reinforcement Learning
Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) demonstrate impressive general audio understanding, but once deployed, they are static and fail to improve with new real-world audio data. As traditional supervised fine-tuning is costly, we introduce a novel framework for test-time audio understanding, AQA-TTRL, where an LALM evolves on-the-fly using only unlabeled test data. It first generates pseudo-labels from the prediction via majority voting, then optimizes the model via reinforcement learning. To hand…

Swedish news giant Bonnier takes a majority stake in Danish digital outlet Zetland, which has 70,000 members, with subscriptions making up 80% of revenue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/zetland-bonnier-n…

CEO of Danish publisher Zetland: 'It's bullshit to say young people aren't willing to pay for news'
Bonnier News has taken a majority stake in Danish publisher Zetland which reaches a strong base of young people with digital subscriptions.

Cowboys schedule: Is Dallas playing today? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/07/cowboys-schedule-is-dallas-playing-today-sept-7-week-1-2025/86026217007/

Best-of-Majority: Minimax-Optimal Strategy for Pass@$k$ Inference Scaling
Qiwei Di, Kaixuan Ji, Xuheng Li, Heyang Zhao, Quanquan Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03199 https://

Best-of-Majority: Minimax-Optimal Strategy for Pass@$k$ Inference Scaling
LLM inference often generates a batch of candidates for a prompt and selects one via strategies like majority voting or Best-of- N (BoN). For difficult tasks, this single-shot selection often underperforms. Consequently, evaluations commonly report Pass@$k$: the agent may submit up to $k$ responses, and only the best of them is used when computing regret. Motivated by this, we study inference scaling in the more general Pass@$k$ inference setting, and prove that neither majority voting nor BoN …

Biased parameter inference of eccentric, spin-precessing binary black holes
Divyajyoti, Isobel M. Romero-Shaw, Vaishak Prasad, Kaushik Paul, Chandra Kant Mishra, Prayush Kumar, Akash Maurya, Michael Boyle, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04332

Biased parameter inference of eccentric, spin-precessing binary black holes
While the majority of gravitational wave (GW) events observed by the LIGO and Virgo detectors are consistent with mergers of binary black holes (BBHs) on quasi-circular orbits, some events are also consistent with non-zero orbital eccentricity, indicating that the binaries could have formed via dynamical interactions. Moreover, there may be GW events which show support for spin-precession, eccentricity, or both. In this work, we study the interplay of spins and eccentricity on the parameter est…

Instagram Account Promotes Holocaust Denial T-Shirts to 400,000 Followers https://www.404media.co/instagram-account-promotes-holocaust-denial-t-shirts-to-400-000-followers/

Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/pennsylvania-supreme-court-vote-election-race-retains-justices-rcna238914
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p154#a251104p154

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 4️⃣: My data
Here is a hexbinned map of the over 1600 #Wikidata items I’ve created that have coordinates in the #Philippines 🇵🇭. The vast majority of these are items o…

When Americans thinks #Trump is doing a horrific job in *every* poll... maybe it's time to look in a mirror, Trump voter.
✅ Lawrence O’Donnell Drags Trump Over Latest Disapproval Ratings: ‘You Are Not Alone’ | HuffPost Latest News

Lawrence O’Donnell Drags Trump Over Latest Disapproval Ratings: ‘You Are Not Alone’
The MSNBC host probed numerous recent polls, which showed that the majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump.

The Radical Left does not have the majority in Congress. In the Senate, Republicans have the majority. In the House of Representatives, Republicans have the majority. In Congress, Republicans have the majority. Republicans control all three branches of the federal government.
Spread it wide, loud, and clear.
#uspol

Majority Edge Colouring of Hypergraph
Jiangdong Ai, Feiyu Nan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22157 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22157

Majority Edge Colouring of Hypergraph
Let G = (V, E) be a hypergraph. A 1/k-majority (k+1)-edge-colouring of a hypergraph is an edge-colouring with k+1 colours such that for every vertex v and each colour i, at most floor(d(v)/k) hyperedges incident to v receive colour i. Motivated by a recent work of Pękała and Przybyło on majority edge-colouring in graphs, we prove that every hypergraph G with minimum degree delta(G) >= 2 r k^2 admits a 1/k-majority (k+1)-edge-colouring, where r = max_{e in E} |e|, by extending their…

Epsilon-saturation for stable graphs and Littlestone classes
Maryanthe Malliaris, Olga Medrano Mart\'in del Campo, Shay Moran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21807 https://

Epsilon-saturation for stable graphs and Littlestone classes
Any Littlestone class, or stable graph, has finite sets which function as ``virtual elements'': these can be seen from the learning side as representing hypotheses which are expressible as weighted majority opinions of hypotheses in the class, and from the model-theoretic side as an approximate finitary version of realizing types. We introduce and study the epsilon-saturation of a Littlestone class, or stable graph, which is essentially the closure of the class under inductively adding all such…

🧑‍🏭 It’s Still Possible to Rebuild a Working-Class Majority
#politics

It’s Still Possible to Rebuild a Working-Class Majority
Labor organizing can’t succeed at scale without a supportive legal and political environment, created by majoritarian coalitions that can win reforms, confront corporate power, and prove to skeptical workers that progressive governance delivers.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
While crustaceans are common as #zooplankton, insects are very rare, but one group is found globally in freshwaters. Chaoborus (phantom midge or glassworm) spend the majority of their life as predaceous plankton, but are familiar to many when the adults emerge lake…

By popular request: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful take on LLMs that (in my experience) the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-m

The Majority AI View
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Pro-EU party in Moldova wins election despite heavy Russian interference. Majority in parliament seems certain.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2rdlj8ejgo

Moldovans await pivotal election result as leader warns of Russian interference
The vote is seen as critical for Moldova's future EU path, with the two main political forces thought to be neck and neck.

Watchdog report finds overwhelming majority of IRS employees fired by DOGE for performance had no documented issues - ICIJ
https://www.icij.org/news/2025/09/watchdog-report-finds-overwhelming-majority-of-irs-employees-fired-by-doge-for-performance-had-no-documented-issues/

Optimizing Geometry Problem Sets for Skill Development
Michael Bouzinier, Sergey Trifonov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02758 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02758…

Optimizing Geometry Problem Sets for Skill Development
This article describes an ontology and methodology for annotating and organizing Euclidean Geometry problems, developed in the early 1990s and implemented as a software tool. While the majority of this work -- including the ontology and solution graph paradigm -- was completed over thirty years ago, we argue that it has renewed relevance in the context of modern artificial intelligence. In particular, we explore the hypothesis that this established framework can facilitate automated solution va…

Moldova’s PAS keeps majority as Kremlin-backed bloc falters, but risks of unrest persist: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/29/moldovas-pas-keeps-majority-as.html

Can a mobile robot learn from a pedestrian model to prevent the sidewalk salsa?
Olger Siebinga, David Abbink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21690 https://arxiv…

Can a mobile robot learn from a pedestrian model to prevent the sidewalk salsa?
Pedestrians approaching each other on a sidewalk sometimes end up in an awkward interaction known as the "sidewalk salsa": they both (repeatedly) deviate to the same side to avoid a collision. This provides an interesting use case to study interactions between pedestrians and mobile robots because, in the vast majority of cases, this phenomenon is avoided through a negotiation based on implicit communication. Understanding how it goes wrong and how pedestrians end up in the sidewalk salsa will …

QB McCarthy out; Wentz starts with battered OL https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46475666/vikings-qb-jj-mccarthy-majority-starting-o-line

LLUAD: Low-Latency User-Anonymized DNS
Philip Sj\"osv\"ard, Hongyu Jin, Panos Papadimitratos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24174 https://arxiv.org/p…

LLUAD: Low-Latency User-Anonymized DNS
The Domain Name System (DNS) is involved in practically all web activity, translating easy-to-remember domain names into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Due to its central role on the Internet, DNS exposes user web activity in detail. The privacy challenge is honest-but-curious DNS servers/resolvers providing the translation/lookup service. In particular, with the majority of DNS queries handled by public DNS resolvers, the organizations running them can track, collect, and analyze massive us…

German investigators conduct raids in relation to Northern Data, which is majority-owned by Tether and has been pivoting from crypto mining to AI computing (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-26/german-police…

Decidability of Extensions of Presburger Arithmetic by Hardy Field Functions
Hera Brown, Jakub Konieczny
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19206 https://arxiv.org…

Decidability of Extensions of Presburger Arithmetic by Hardy Field Functions
We study the extension of Presburger arithmetic by the class of sub-polynomial Hardy field functions, and show the majority of these extensions to be undecidable. More precisely, we show that the theory $\mathrm{Th}(\mathbb{Z}; <, +, \lfloor f \rceil)$, where $f$ is a Hardy field function and $\lfloor \cdot \rceil$ the nearest integer operator, is undecidable when $f$ grows polynomially faster than $x$. Further, we show that when $f$ grows sub-linearly quickly, but still as fast as some polynom…

"‘I worry about the future of my daughter’: the ‘silent majority’ who care about the climate crisis"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Coupling Magnons to an Opto-Electronic Parametric Oscillator
Junming Wu, Shihao Zhou, Benedetta Flebus, Wei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01435 https://…

Coupling Magnons to an Opto-Electronic Parametric Oscillator
Hybrid magnonic systems have emerged as versatile modular components for quantum signal transduction and sensing applications owing to their capability of connecting distinct quantum platforms. To date, the majority of the magnonic systems have been explored in a local, near-field scheme, due to the close proximity required for realizing a strong coupling between magnons and other excitations. This constraint greatly limits the applicability of magnons in developing remotely-coupled, distribute…

Day 26: Emily Short
If you know who Short is, you know exactly why she's on this list. If you don't, you're probably in the majority. She's an absolutely legendary author within the interactive fiction (IF) community, which gets somewhat pigeonholed by stuff like Zork when there's actually a huge range of stuff in the medium some of which isn't even puzzle-focused, and Short has been writing & coding on the bleeding edge of things for decades.
I was lucky enough to be introduced to Short's work in graduate school, where we played "Galatea" as part of an interactive fiction class. Short uses a lot of clever parser tricks to make your conversation with a statue feel very fluid and conversational, giving to contemporary audiences a great example of how vibrant interaction with a well-designed agent can be in contrast to an LLM, if you're willing to put in some work on bespoke parsing & responses (although the user does need to know basic IF conventions). While I didn't explore the full range of Galatea's many possible outcomes, it left a strong impression on me as a vision for what IF could be besides dorky puzzles, and I think that "visionary" is a great term to describe Short.
If you'd like you get a feel for her (very early) work, you can play Galatea here: #30AuthorsNoMen

Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce company Flipkart acquires a majority stake in digital content platform Pinkvilla; source: the deal values Pinkvilla at ~$15M (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/te…

Flipkart acquires majority stake in content platform Pinkvilla to tap Gen Z shoppers
While Flipkart did not disclose details of the deal, a person close to the matter said the online retailer is likely to have picked up more than 75% in Pinkvilla valuing it at around $15 million.

"Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
@… on
The majority AI view: spot on I'd say given advances in my field.
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/

Ethics Statements in AI Music Papers: The Effective and the Ineffective
Julia Barnett, Patrick O'Reilly, Jason Brent Smith, Annie Chu, Bryan Pardo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25496

Ethics Statements in AI Music Papers: The Effective and the Ineffective
While research in AI methods for music generation and analysis has grown in scope and impact, AI researchers' engagement with the ethical consequences of this work has not kept pace. To encourage such engagement, many publication venues have introduced optional or required ethics statements for AI research papers. Though some authors use these ethics statements to critically engage with the broader implications of their research, we find that the majority of ethics statements in the AI music li…

Back from a week abroad, Donald Trump called on the Senate to scrap the filibuster and reopen the government,
an idea swiftly rejected Friday by Republican leaders who have long opposed such a move.
https://apnews.com/article/filibuster-…

Trump says scrap the filibuster to end shutdown, an idea opposed by Republicans
President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster. That's so the Republican majority can bypass Democrats in the Senate and reopen the shutdown federal government. Trump targeted the 60-vote threshold for passing legislation in a social media post. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has strongly opposed changing the filibuster and repeatedly said he is not considering changing the rules to end the shutdown. Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah quickly took to social media to…

SemGuard: Real-Time Semantic Evaluator for Correcting LLM-Generated Code
Qinglin Wang, Zhihong Sun, Ruyun Wang, Tao Huang, Zhi Jin, Ge Li, Chen Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24507

SemGuard: Real-Time Semantic Evaluator for Correcting LLM-Generated Code
Large Language Models (LLMs) can translate natural language requirements into code, yet empirical analyses of representative models reveal that semantic errors-programs that compile but behave incorrectly-constitute the majority of observed faults (e.g., >60% on DeepSeek-Coder-6.7B and QwenCoder-7B). Post-hoc repair pipelines detect such faults only after execution, incurring latency, relying on incomplete test suites, and often mis-localizing the defect. Since semantic drift originates in the …

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
[1/1]:
- Beyond Majority Voting: LLM Aggregation by Leveraging Higher-Order Information
Rui Ai, Yuqi Pan, David Simchi-Levi, Milind Tambe, Haifeng Xu

Homogenization framework for rigid and non-rigid foldable origami metamaterials
Xuwen Li, Amin Jamalimehr, Mathias Legrand, Damiano Pasini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00037 https…

Homogenization framework for rigid and non-rigid foldable origami metamaterials
Origami metamaterials typically consist of folded sheets with periodic patterns, conferring them with remarkable mechanical properties. In the context of Continuum Mechanics, the majority of existing predictive methods are mechanism analogs which favor rigid folding and panel bending. While effective in predicting primary deformation modes, existing methods fall short in capturing the full spectrum of deformation of non-rigid foldable origami, such as the emergence of curvature along straight c…

https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/

The Majority AI View
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

BALLAST: Bayesian Active Learning with Look-ahead Amendment for Sea-drifter Trajectories under Spatio-Temporal Vector Fields
Rui-Yang Zhang, Henry B. Moss, Lachlan Astfalck, Edward Cripps, David S. Leslie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26005

BALLAST: Bayesian Active Learning with Look-ahead Amendment for Sea-drifter Trajectories under Spatio-Temporal Vector Fields
We introduce a formal active learning methodology for guiding the placement of Lagrangian observers to infer time-dependent vector fields -- a key task in oceanography, marine science, and ocean engineering -- using a physics-informed spatio-temporal Gaussian process surrogate model. The majority of existing placement campaigns either follow standard `space-filling' designs or relatively ad-hoc expert opinions. A key challenge to applying principled active learning in this setting is that Lagra…

Ian Sinclair on the SAFER report from Climate Majority.
"Could ‘strategic adaptation’ combat climate breakdown and the surging hard right?" | Morning Star https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/could-strategic-adap…

Compatibility of Multiple Control Barrier Functions for Constrained Nonlinear Systems
Max H. Cohen, Eugene Lavretsky, Aaron D. Ames
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04220 https://

Compatibility of Multiple Control Barrier Functions for Constrained Nonlinear Systems
Control barrier functions (CBFs) are a powerful tool for the constrained control of nonlinear systems; however, the majority of results in the literature focus on systems subject to a single CBF constraint, making it challenging to synthesize provably safe controllers that handle multiple state constraints. This paper presents a framework for constrained control of nonlinear systems subject to box constraints on the systems' vector-valued outputs using multiple CBFs. Our results illustrate that…

Clinical Uncertainty Impacts Machine Learning Evaluations
Simone Lionetti, Fabian Gr\"oger, Philippe Gottfrois, Alvaro Gonzalez-Jimenez, Ludovic Amruthalingam, Alexander A. Navarini, Marc Pouly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22242

Clinical Uncertainty Impacts Machine Learning Evaluations
Clinical dataset labels are rarely certain as annotators disagree and confidence is not uniform across cases. Typical aggregation procedures, such as majority voting, obscure this variability. In simple experiments on medical imaging benchmarks, accounting for the confidence in binary labels significantly impacts model rankings. We therefore argue that machine-learning evaluations should explicitly account for annotation uncertainty using probabilistic metrics that directly operate on distribut…

I’m an industry dev turned comp sci prof. I’ve been writing code for 40-some years; my first commercial software was for the Apple ][ . I’ve worked on web, mobile, desktop, server, and data plumbing projects for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100 to arts nonprofits. In short, I’ve been lucky to know a lot of people in a lot of corners of tech.
@…’s opening paragraphs are spot on. If consensus is not 100%, well, it’s 99%.
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/

Google, which is happy to answer all kinds of questions using their AI, seems to answer with a mix of non-committal results, a few current ones, and plenty outdated results for "who has the majority in the house" and similar questions.
Are you getting better results?
EDIT: I get reports from people that they get better results
#uspol

EuroSpeech: A Multilingual Speech Corpus
Samuel Pfisterer, Florian Gr\"otschla, Luca A. Lanzend\"orfer, Florian Yan, Roger Wattenhofer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00514

EuroSpeech: A Multilingual Speech Corpus
Recent progress in speech processing has highlighted that high-quality performance across languages requires substantial training data for each individual language. While existing multilingual datasets cover many languages, they often contain insufficient data for most languages. Thus, trained models perform poorly on the majority of the supported languages. Our work addresses this challenge by introducing a scalable pipeline for constructing speech datasets from parliamentary recordings. The p…

🫦 Mouse study links chronic pain to disrupted sleep patterns
#pain

Mouse study links chronic pain to disrupted sleep patterns
Pain and sleep disturbances often go hand in hand—more than 30% of the U.S. population lives with pain, and a majority of those with pain also report sleep disorders—but the relationship between the two has remained largely unexplored.

Majority relations for Condorcet domains of tiling type
Victor Reiner, Bridget Eileen Tenner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19614 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19…

Majority relations for Condorcet domains of tiling type
Condorcet domains are subsets of permutations arising in voting theory: regarding their permutations as preference orders on a list of candidates, one avoids Condorcet's paradox when aggregating the preferences via a simple majority relation. We use poset theory to show that, for the subclass of Condorcet domains of tiling type, the majority rule has stronger properties. We then develop techniques to predict the majority rule explicitly for the uniform vote tally on Condorcet domains of tiling …

EU reportedly considers move to bypass Hungary's veto on Russia sanctions.
Long overdue!
https://kyivindependent.com/eu-reportedly-considers-limiting-hungarys-veto-on-russia-sanctions/

EU reportedly considers move to bypass Hungary's veto on Russia sanctions
The commission reportedly proposes shifting from unanimity to a qualified majority when renewing sanctions packages.

Sources: ByteDance is expected to receive ~50% of TikTok US' overall profit despite selling majority ownership to US investors, including a 20% licensing fee (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-26/b…

Access Paths for Efficient Ordering with Large Language Models
Fuheng Zhao, Jiayue Chen, Yiming Pan, Tahseen Rabbani, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00303

Access Paths for Efficient Ordering with Large Language Models
We present the LLM ORDER BY operator as a logical abstraction and study its physical implementations within a unified evaluation framework. Our experiments show that no single approach is universally optimal, with effectiveness depending on query characteristics and data. We introduce three new designs: an agreement-based batch-size policy, a majority voting mechanism for pairwise sorting, and a two-way external merge sort adapted for LLMs. With extensive experiments, our agreement-based proced…

Majority of voters object to Trump's National Guard deployment in DC, poll finds (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/27/trump-national-guard-poll-00531862
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p136#a250827p136

49ers fans overtake MetLife in win over Giants https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46823439/49ers-fans-overtake-metlife-win-giants

Replaced article(s) found for cs.SE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SE/new
[1/1]:
- Are the Majority of Public Computational Notebooks Pathologically Non-Executable?
Tien Nguyen, Waris Gill, Muhammad Ali Gulzar

Obesity & diet
I wouldn't normally share a positive story about the new diet drugs, because I've seen someone get obsessed with them who was at a perfectly acceptable weight *by majority standards* (surprise: every weight is in fact perfectly acceptable by *objective* standards, because every "weight-associated" health risk is its own danger that should be assessed *in individuals*). I think two almost-contradictory things:
1. In a society shuddering under the burden of metastasized fatmisia, there's a very real danger in promoting the new diet drugs because lots of people who really don't need them will be psychologically bullied into using them and suffer from the cost and/or side effects.
2. For many individuals under the assault of our society's fatmisia, "just ignore it" is not a sufficient response, and also for specific people for whom decreasing their weight can address *specific* health risks/conditions that they *want* to address that way, these drugs can be a useful tool.
I know @… to be a trustworthy & considerate person, so I think it's responsible to share this:
#Fat #Diet #Obesity

SurGBSA: Learning Representations From Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Derek Jones, Yue Yang, Felice C. Lightstone, Niema Moshiri, Jonathan E. Allen, Tajana S. Rosing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03084

SurGBSA: Learning Representations From Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Self-supervised pretraining from static structures of drug-like compounds and proteins enable powerful learned feature representations. Learned features demonstrate state of the art performance on a range of predictive tasks including molecular properties, structure generation, and protein-ligand interactions. The majority of approaches are limited by their use of static structures and it remains an open question, how best to use atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to develop more gen…

Taking a SEAT: Predicting Value Interpretations from Sentiment, Emotion, Argument, and Topic Annotations
Adina Nicola Dobrinoiu, Ana Cristiana Marcu, Amir Homayounirad, Luciano Cavalcante Siebert, Enrico Liscio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01976

Taking a SEAT: Predicting Value Interpretations from Sentiment, Emotion, Argument, and Topic Annotations
Our interpretation of value concepts is shaped by our sociocultural background and lived experiences, and is thus subjective. Recognizing individual value interpretations is important for developing AI systems that can align with diverse human perspectives and avoid bias toward majority viewpoints. To this end, we investigate whether a language model can predict individual value interpretations by leveraging multi-dimensional subjective annotations as a proxy for their interpretive lens. That i…

New numbers from the Trump administration released Friday showed
⭐️70 percent of immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention
did 💥NOT have criminal convictions.
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-record-detainment-convict…

ICE Detentions Hit Record Under Trump Admin, 70% Lack Convictions Latest Data Shows
The Trump administration has insisted that the majority of immigrants being detained by ICE are known criminals.

Best-of-$\infty$ -- Asymptotic Performance of Test-Time Compute
Junpei Komiyama, Daisuke Oba, Masafumi Oyamada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21091 https://arx…

Best-of-$\infty$ -- Asymptotic Performance of Test-Time Compute
We study best-of-$N$ for large language models (LLMs) where the selection is based on majority voting. In particular, we analyze the limit $N \to \infty$, which we denote as Best-of-$\infty$. While this approach achieves impressive performance in the limit, it requires an infinite test-time budget. To address this, we propose an adaptive generation scheme that selects $N$ based on answer agreement, thereby efficiently allocating inference-time computation. Beyond adaptivity, we extend the frame…

Majority Of Voters Oppose Deploying National Guard To D.C., Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Support Drops For U.S. Military Aid To Israel As 50% ... (Quinnipiac University Poll)
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3929
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p106#a250827p106

RoofSeg: An edge-aware transformer-based network for end-to-end roof plane segmentation
Siyuan You, Guozheng Xu, Pengwei Zhou, Qiwen Jin, Jian Yao, Li Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19003

RoofSeg: An edge-aware transformer-based network for end-to-end roof plane segmentation
Roof plane segmentation is one of the key procedures for reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) building models at levels of detail (LoD) 2 and 3 from airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) point clouds. The majority of current approaches for roof plane segmentation rely on the manually designed or learned features followed by some specifically designed geometric clustering strategies. Because the learned features are more powerful than the manually designed features, the deep learning-bas…

Meanwhile, in other "No shit, Sherlock" news:
☑️ Majority of companies hiking prices to cover tariffs: KPMG
https://www.newsweek.com/majority-companies-hiking-prices-cover-tariffs-kpmg-10840802

Majority of Companies Hiking Prices to Cover Tariffs: KPMG
KPMG LLP found that many companies are passing costs onto customers while adopting other strategic changes to cope with the duties.

Experimental Results for Vampire on the Equational Theories Project
Mikol\'a\v{s} Janota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15856 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15…

Experimental Results for Vampire on the Equational Theories Project
Equational Theories Project is a collaborative effort, which explores the validity of certain first-order logic implications of certain kind. The project has been completed but triggered further research. This report investigates how much can be automatically proven and disproven by the automated theorem prover Vampire. An interesting conclusion is that Vampire can prove all the considered implications that hold and also is able to refute a vast majority of those that do not hold.

Sieging HELM's deep: PRIMA unveils the far-infrared properties of highly extincted low-mass galaxies
Laura Bisigello, Carlotta Gruppioni, Giulia Rodighiero, Giovanni Gandolfi, James M. S. Donnellan, Seb Oliver, Stephen M. Wilkins, L. Y. Aaron Yung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01305

Sieging HELM's deep: PRIMA unveils the far-infrared properties of highly extincted low-mass galaxies
Although the majority of star-forming galaxies show a tight correlation between stellar mass and dust extinction, recent James Webb Space Telescope observations have revealed a peculiar population of Highly Extincted Low-Mass (HELM) galaxies, which could revolutionise our understanding of dust production mechanisms. To fully understand the dust content of these galaxies, which are a minority of the overall galaxy population, far-infrared observations over large areas are pivotal. In this paper,…

Local reminiscence in the PXP model
Francesco Perciavalle, Gian Marco Rizzo, Francesco Plastina, Nicola Lo Gullo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19944 https://a…

Local reminiscence in the PXP model
We study the emergence of local reminiscence in the PXP model, a constrained spin system realized in Rydberg atom arrays. The spectrum of this model is characterized by a majority of eigenstates that satisfy the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, alongside a set of nonthermal eigenstates, known as quantum many-body scars, that violate it. While generic initial states lead to thermalization consistent with eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, special configurations generate non-ergodic dynam…

London-based media monitoring and risk management company Signal AI raised $165M led by Battery Ventures, which will hold a majority stake after the investment (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d2913fba-a867-4b63-9fed-1dd2e1c65453

A US district judge temporarily suspends the Trump administration's reduction-in-force plan to eliminate 532 jobs at USAGM, which oversees Voice of America (Michael Kunzelman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-trump-…

Judge suspends plan to cut hundreds of Voice of America jobs
A federal judge has agreed to temporarily suspend the Trump administration’s plan to eliminate hundreds of jobs at the agency that oversees Voice of America. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., ruled Monday that the U.S. Agency for Global Media cannot implement a reduction in force eliminating 532 jobs for full-time government employees on Tuesday. Those employees represent the vast majority of its remaining staff. Voice of America is a government-funded broadcaster founde…

Vertex-partitions of 2-edge-colored graphs
J{\o}rgen Bang-Jensen, Francois Pirot, Anders Yeo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18957 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18…

Vertex-partitions of 2-edge-colored graphs
A {\bf $\mathbf{k}$-majority coloring} of a digraph $D=(V,A)$ is a coloring of $V$ with $k$ colors so that each vertex $v\in V$ has at least as many out-neighbours of color different from its own color as it has out-neighbours with the same color as itself. Majority colorings have received much attention in the last years and many interesting open problems remain. Inspired by this and the fact that digraphs can be modelled via 2-edge-colored graphs we study several problems concerning verte…

Trump preparing for the 2026 midterms. He'll do everything to prevent reasonably free and fair elections.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/21/trump-redistricting-republican-100-seats-mail-voting

Trump lays out his redistricting endgame: A 100-seat Republican majority
"STOP MAIL-IN VOTING, a total fraud that has no bounds," Trump said.

Beware of snakes like Tricia Cotham in NC who switched parties and gave MAGA a veto-proof majority in the house.
https://ncnewsline.com/2023/04/05/rep-tricia-cothams-party-switch-gives-the-house-gop-a-veto-proof-majority/

The UK's Channel 4 purchases a majority stake in a production company, Firecrest Films, for the first time; it will now be able to own British IP (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/channel-4-buys-firecrest-films-first-majorit…

Channel 4 Makes History By Taking First Ever Majority Stake In A Production Company
Channel 4 has bought Firecrest Films, the producer of 'Murder Trial' and its first ever majority stake in a production company.

The Afghan People Want Education for Their Girls. The Taliban Says No. - Feminist Majority Foundation
https://feminist.org/news/the-afghan-people-want-education-for-their-girls-the-taliban-says-no/

Are most sentences unique? An empirical examination of Chomskyan claims
Hiram Ring
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19108 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19108…

Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial (Reuters)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/brazil/brazils-bolsonaro-guilty-coup-charges-court-majority-decides-landmark-rcna230678
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p145#a250911p145

Mehdi Hasan reminds us:
We are the majority
Worth a listen at full volume
https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1979627185439920443?s=12&t=JIzXmAfBKPksn8uWZp4aaA

Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) on X
‘There are more of us than there are of them. We are the majority!’ Watch my full speech at the DC ‘No Kings’ rally today.

Sources: ByteDance is expected to receive ~50% of TikTok US' overall profit despite selling majority ownership to US investors, including a 20% licensing fee (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-26/b…

Swalwell: When we're in majority, ICE masks coming off (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5559332-swalwell-democrats-ice-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p161#a251016p161

Media monitoring company Signal AI, which has content licensing deals with media groups like the FT, raised $165M led by Battery Ventures, now a majority owner (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d2913fba-a867-4b63-9fed-1dd2e1c65453