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❝Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content.❞
Oh!
❝But that's just the beginning. Next, we'll work on a marketplace where content creators and AI companies, large and small, can come together.❞
Oh.
First quote sounds like a strike. Second quote sounds more like a company trying to situate itself as an unavoidable middle player who can control both sides of a market.
https://mastodon.acm.org/@avandeursen/114799313365332691

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Sample Compression for Continual Learning
Continual learning algorithms aim to learn from a sequence of tasks, making the training distribution non-stationary. The majority of existing continual learning approaches in the literature rely on heuristics and do not provide learning guarantees. In this paper, we present a new method called Continual Pick-to-Learn (CoP2L), which is able to retain the most representative samples for each task in an efficient way. CoP2L combines the Pick-to-Learn algorithm (rooted in the sample compression th…

More time should be devoted about the (near) future businessmodels of AI and how it collects data/content. Just trying to prevent AI models from scraping data will be futile.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compen…

Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

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Rethinking the Role of Prompting Strategies in LLM Test-Time Scaling: A Perspective of Probability Theory
Recently, scaling test-time compute on Large Language Models (LLM) has garnered wide attention. However, there has been limited investigation of how various reasoning prompting strategies perform as scaling. In this paper, we focus on a standard and realistic scaling setting: majority voting. We systematically conduct experiments on 6 LLMs $\times$ 8 prompting strategies $\times$ 6 benchmarks. Experiment results consistently show that as the sampling time and computational overhead increase, co…

Viele europäische #Landwirt*innen zeigen mehr #Klimaskepsis als andere Berufsgruppen, vor allem in wohlhabenderen Ländern mit geringerem #Klimarisiko.
Das erschwert

Climate change skepticism of European farmers and implications for effective policy actions - Communications Earth & Environment
The majority of farmers in European Union countries are more skeptical about climate change impact and attribution than the general population, and more so in more innovative and higher-income countries, according to an analysis of European-level surveys.

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Investigating Timing-Based Information Leakage in Data Flow-Driven Real-Time Systems
Leaking information about the execution behavior of critical real-time tasks may lead to serious consequences, including violations of temporal constraints and even severe failures. We study information leakage for a special class of real-time tasks that have two execution modes, namely, typical execution (which invokes the majority of times) and critical execution (to tackle exceptional conditions). The data flow-driven applications inherit such a multimode execution model. In this paper, we i…

"Maryland House of Delegates Majority Leader David Moon (D) told host Alicia Menendez that two bills he's introduced would enable his state to begin withholding state funds meant for the federal government. Moon defended the bills as necessary due to the Trump administration's recent announcement withholding $7 billion from K-12 schools across the country."
'Act like a collections agency': Democrat reveals blue states' secret weapon against Trump - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/blue-states-trump/

Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media (Brian O'Donovan/RTÉ)
https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0704/1521746-meta-eu/

Meta backs EU digital majority age
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has said it supports proposals for a common digital majority age across EU member states.

Dutch @… opinion editor selects letter from reader claiming that Wilders' far-right PVV has an 'enormous majority' in parliament, and that this mirrors the country.
In real life, PVV got 23.5% of the votes and almost 25% of the seats in parliament.

A Poisson-Guided Decomposition Network for Extreme Low-Light Image Enhancement
Isha Rao, Sanjay Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04470 https://

A Poisson-Guided Decomposition Network for Extreme Low-Light Image Enhancement
Low-light image denoising and enhancement are challenging, especially when traditional noise assumptions, such as Gaussian noise, do not hold in majority. In many real-world scenarios, such as low-light imaging, noise is signal-dependent and is better represented as Poisson noise. In this work, we address the problem of denoising images degraded by Poisson noise under extreme low-light conditions. We introduce a light-weight deep learning-based method that integrates Retinex based decomposition…

For Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Trump's big bill is a big test (Theodoric Meyer/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/02/trump-bill-senate-thune/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p15#a250602p15

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RoundTable: Investigating Group Decision-Making Mechanism in Multi-Agent Collaboration
Effective group decision-making is critical in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Yet, how different mechanisms for reaching consensus impact collaboration quality and efficiency remains understudied. We conduct a systematic study on group decision-making mechanisms in a decentralized setting. Through controlled experiments, we analyze how different voting rules affect decision quality and efficiency in a multi-round collaboration. Results reveal that majority voting often cause inefficient collaborati…

Ranking the opposing offenses the Raiders will face this season https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/ranking-the-opposing-offenses-the-raiders-will-face-this-season-3393100/

«Sure, people from Latin-language-majority countries also list their “pronouns” in e-mail signatures and on social-media profiles, but this is, I think, largely the subconscious acceptance of the English-speakers’ hegemony over social norms (and queerness?).»
🔥 by @….
I'd even go one further and say "USian English's hegemony, both for online social norms generally and queerness in particular 🙈
https://blog.achintyarao.in/post/the-english-language/

Principal Context-aware Diffusion Guided Data Augmentation for Fault Localization
Shihao Fu, Yan Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24079 https://

Principal Context-aware Diffusion Guided Data Augmentation for Fault Localization
Test cases are indispensable for conducting effective fault localization (FL). However, test cases in practice are severely class imbalanced, i.e. the number of failing test cases (i.e. minority class) is much less than that of passing ones (i.e. majority class). The severe class imbalance between failing and passing test cases have hindered the FL effectiveness. To address this issue, we propose PCD-DAug: a Principal Context-aware Diffusion guided Data Augmentation approach that generate syn…

Hey, North Carolina. Remember Hurricane Helene? This is the idiocy the majority of voters voted for.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-202…

Towards culturally-appropriate conversational AI for health in the majority world: An exploratory study with citizens and professionals in Latin America
Dorian Peters, Fernanda Espinoza, Marco da Re, Guido Ivetta, Luciana Benotti, Rafael A. Calvo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01719

Towards culturally-appropriate conversational AI for health in the majority world: An exploratory study with citizens and professionals in Latin America
There is justifiable interest in leveraging conversational AI (CAI) for health across the majority world, but to be effective, CAI must respond appropriately within culturally and linguistically diverse contexts. Therefore, we need ways to address the fact that current LLMs exclude many lived experiences globally. Various advances are underway which focus on top-down approaches and increasing training data. In this paper, we aim to complement these with a bottom-up locally-grounded approach bas…

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ODIN: Star Formation Histories Reveal Formative Starbursts Experienced by Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies at Cosmic Noon
In this work, we test the frequent assumption that Lyman Alpha Emitting galaxies (LAEs) are experiencing their first major burst of star formation at the time of observation. To this end, we identify 74 LAEs from the ODIN Survey with rest-UV-through-NIR photometry from UVCANDELS. For each LAE, we perform non-parametric star formation history (SFH) reconstruction using the Dense Basis Gaussian process-based method of spectral energy distribution fitting. We find that a strong majority (67%) of o…

"Oceans feel the heat from human climate pollution"
#Oceans #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

Oceans feel the heat from human climate pollution
Oceans have absorbed the vast majority of the warming caused by burning fossil fuels and shielded societies from the full impact of greenhouse gas emissions.

Zip Bombs: simple, yet powerful in the fight against #AI bots
https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-oklahoma-religious-charter-school-arguments?r=e32bm&utm_campaign=post&amp…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school
A ruling for Oklahoma's charter school board would further increase the role of religion in public life — and change public education in America.

Causal Prompting for Implicit Sentiment Analysis with Large Language Models
Jing Ren, Wenhao Zhou, Bowen Li, Mujie Liu, Nguyen Linh Dan Le, Jiade Cen, Liping Chen, Ziqi Xu, Xiwei Xu, Xiaodong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00389

Causal Prompting for Implicit Sentiment Analysis with Large Language Models
Implicit Sentiment Analysis (ISA) aims to infer sentiment that is implied rather than explicitly stated, requiring models to perform deeper reasoning over subtle contextual cues. While recent prompting-based methods using Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in ISA, they often rely on majority voting over chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning paths without evaluating their causal validity, making them susceptible to internal biases and spurious correlations. To address this challenge, we …

is anyone surprised their $20 streaming sticks sell their data lol
https://www.techmeme.com/250602/p1#a250602p1

A deep dive into Apple TV's privacy features shows that Apple's streaming device is more private than the vast majority of alternatives, save for dumb TVs
By Scharon Harding / Ars Technica. View the full context on Techmeme.

On Securing Berrut Approximated Coded Computing Through Discrete Cosine Transforms
Rimpi Borah, J. Harshan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01330 https://…

On Securing Berrut Approximated Coded Computing Through Discrete Cosine Transforms
Coded computing is a reliable and fault-tolerant mechanism for implementing large computing tasks over a distributed set of worker nodes. While a majority of coded computing frameworks address accurate computation of the target functions, they are restricted to computing multivariate polynomial functions. To generalize these computing platforms to non-polynomial target functions, Jahani-Nezhad and Maddah-Ali recently proposed Berrut Approximated Coded computing (BACC), which was proven fault-to…

Clues for Solar System Formation from Meteorites and their Parent Bodies
Bernard Marty, Katherine R. Bermingham, Larry R. Nittler, Sean N. Raymond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02721

Clues for Solar System Formation from Meteorites and their Parent Bodies
Understanding the origin of comets requires knowledge of how the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas 4.567 Gyr ago. Here, a review is presented of how the remnants of this formation process, meteorites and to a lesser extent comets, shed light on Solar System evolution. The planets formed by a process of collisional agglomeration during the first hundred million years of Solar System history. The vast majority of the original population of planetary building blocks (~100 km-scale p…

Learning thermodynamic master equations for open quantum systems
Peter Sentz, Stanley Nicholson, Yujin Cho, Sohail Reddy, Brendan Keith, Stefanie G\"unther
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01882

Learning thermodynamic master equations for open quantum systems
The characterization of Hamiltonians and other components of open quantum dynamical systems plays a crucial role in quantum computing and other applications. Scientific machine learning techniques have been applied to this problem in a variety of ways, including by modeling with deep neural networks. However, the majority of mathematical models describing open quantum systems are linear, and the natural nonlinearities in learnable models have not been incorporated using physical principles. We …

Nearly half of Israelis support army killing all Palestinians in Gaza, poll finds.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-israelis-support-expulsion-palestinians-gaza-poll

Nearly half of Israelis support army killing Palestinians in Gaza, poll finds
An overwhelming number of Israelis, including seculars, back the forced transfer of Palestinians from Gaza and Israel

Long-Term Optical Follow Up of S231206cc: Multi-Model Constraints on BBH Merger Emission in AGN Disks
P. Darc, C. R. Bom, C. D. Kilpatrick, A. Souza Santos, B. Fraga, J. C. Rodr\'iguez-Ram\'irez, D. A. Coulter, C. Mendes de Oliveira, A. Kanaan, T. Ribeiro, W. Schoenell, E. A. D. Lacerda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02224…

Long-Term Optical Follow Up of S231206cc: Multi-Model Constraints on BBH Merger Emission in AGN Disks
The majority of gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA Collaboration originate from binary black hole (BBH) mergers, for which no confirmed electromagnetic counterparts have been identified to date. However, if such mergers occur within the disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), they may generate observable optical flares induced by relativistic jet activity and shock-heated gas. We present results from a long-term optical follow-up of the gravitational wave event S…

Investigating Timing-Based Information Leakage in Data Flow-Driven Real-Time Systems
Mohammad Fakhruddin Babar, Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Mohammad Hamad, Monowar Hasan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01991

Investigating Timing-Based Information Leakage in Data Flow-Driven Real-Time Systems
Leaking information about the execution behavior of critical real-time tasks may lead to serious consequences, including violations of temporal constraints and even severe failures. We study information leakage for a special class of real-time tasks that have two execution modes, namely, typical execution (which invokes the majority of times) and critical execution (to tackle exceptional conditions). The data flow-driven applications inherit such a multimode execution model. In this paper, we i…

A deep dive into Apple TV's privacy features shows that Apple's streaming device is more private than the vast majority of alternatives, save for dumb TVs (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates’ go-to streaming device
Using the Apple TV app or an Apple account means giving Apple more data, though.

Power density spectra morphologies of seismically unresolved red-giant asteroseismic binaries
Jeong Yun Choi, Francisca Espinoza-Rojas, Quentin Copp\'ee, Saskia Hekker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01745

Power density spectra morphologies of seismically unresolved red-giant asteroseismic binaries
Asteroseismic binaries are two oscillating stars detected in a single light curve. These systems provide robust constraints on stellar models from the combination of dynamical and asteroseismical stellar parameters. Predictions suggested that approximately 200 asteroseismic binaries may exist among the Kepler long-cadence data, and the majority of them consist of two red-clump stars. However, detecting these systems is challenging when the binary components exhibit oscillations at similar frequ…

Pretty amazing. And yet, the majority of Americans won’t see this story because the truth is paywalled but the bullshit is free. Which feels more and more to me like one of the world’s most important problems.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114580574368958399

Memo: Business Insider is cutting staff by 21% to "endure extreme traffic drops outside of our control" and "exiting the majority of our Commerce business" (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://x.com/benmullin/status/1928046544390926339

Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) on X
scoop: Business Insider is reducing staff by 21% as it reduces its reliance on “traffic-sensitive businesses.” Memo from CEO Barbara Peng:

Die Verkäufe von #BYD werden von Quartal zu Quartal besser. Heben die in Europa doch noch richtig ab?
https://eu-evs.com/groupCharts/BYD/ALL_DAILY/QoQ-Chart

This has been accelerating since 9/11. What is TSA pre check or glabal entry if not paying for your rights?
From: @…
https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114755

A few good choices
Thanh Nguyen, Haoyu Song, Young-San Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22133 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.22133

A few good choices
A Condorcet winning set addresses the Condorcet paradox by selecting a few candidates--rather than a single winner--such that no unselected alternative is preferred to all of them by a majority of voters. This idea extends to $α$-undominated sets, which ensure the same property for any $α$-fraction of voters and are guaranteed to exist in constant size for any $α$. However, the requirement that an outsider be preferred to every member of the set can be overly restrictive and difficult to jus…

"Just Because You Lost The Battle, It Doesn't Mean You've Lost The War: Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent shows there is a way forward."
Sotomayor Outlawyers Supreme Court Majority In Shadow Docket Deportation Ruling - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/06/sotomayor-outlawyers-supreme-court-majority-in-shadow-docket-deportation-ruling/

Studying Protoplanets and Protoplanetary Disks with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Bin B. Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24129 https://

Studying Protoplanets and Protoplanetary Disks with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Since the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star, the confirmation of nearly 6000 exoplanets to date - and their diversity - has revolutionized our knowledge of planetary systems in the past three decades. Nevertheless, the majority of these planets are around mature stars (${\gtrsim}1$ Gyr), where the planet birth environments have already dissipated. Indeed, we have only confirmed 2 forming planets (i.e., protoplanets; ${\lesssim}10$ Myr) residing in one single system. In c…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-oklahoma-religious-charter-school-arguments?r=e32bm&utm_campaign=post&amp…

SCOTUS majority appears likely to OK nation's first religious charter school
A ruling for Oklahoma's charter school board would further increase the role of religion in public life — and change public education in America.

Aparentemente um estudo japonês apontou que a maioria dos gatos ao deitar enolado prefere se enrolar para a esquerda. rs #CatsOfMastodon
https://mstdn.jp/@unseenjapan/11474642

@ddayen.bsky.social @… This kind of "public participation" is what nimbys rail against. It's *anti-democratic* because opponents use it to frustrate the will of the majority.
What both sides of the "abundance" debate miss is that in practice you can do this to transit & infill housing but no…

Rivera Proposal Would Slow Down Seattle Light Rail Permitting - The Urbanist
# Councilmember Maritza Rivera's last-minute proposal would require additional public outreach and documentation for light rail permit applications. The underlying bill had been intended to cut red rape. After pushback from Councilmembers Rinck and Strauss, the vote was delayed a week.

Majority of Voters Oppose Trump's “Big, Beautiful Bill,”
With Just 27 Percent Backing It
The bill would gut billions of dollars in health care spending,
and redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich.
https://truthout.org/articl…

Majority of Americans Oppose Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” With Just 27 Percent Backing It
The bill would gut billions of dollars in health care spending, and redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich.

A majority of Americans disapproves of Trump's Iran airstrikes, CNN poll finds (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/trump-iran-strikes-poll-cnn-ssrs
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p16#a250624p16

Windows 11 on Arm now has enough native apps that most users are spending the majority of their time in them, says Arm https://www.windowscentral.com/software-ap…

The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after the recent departures of two members (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-fcc-majority-olivia-trusty-senate-1236436125/

Donald Trump And Republicans To Gain A Majority On FCC As Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty
The Republicans will have a 2-1 majority.

Not good
MPs back assisted dying bill in historic Commons vote - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgeqj1egxvyo

MPs back assisted dying bill by majority of 23
The bill would allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to end their own lives.

Ambiguities, Built-in Biases and Flaws in Big Data Insight Extraction
Serge Galam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21262 https://arxiv.org/…

Ambiguities, Built-in Biases and Flaws in Big Data Insight Extraction
I address the challenge of extracting reliable insights from large datasets using a simplified model that illustrates how hierarchical classification can distort outcomes. The model consists of discrete pixels labeled red, blue, or white. Red and blue indicate distinct properties, and white represents unclassified or ambiguous data. A macro-color is assigned only if one color holds a strict majority among the pixels. Otherwise, the aggregate is labeled white, reflecting uncertainty. This setup …

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Unbound neutron $\nu0d_{3/2}$ strength in $^{17}$C and the N=16 shell gap
Significant continuum strength has been observed to be populated in $^{17}$C produced in the d($^{16}$C,p) reaction at a beam energy of 17.2~MeV/nucleon. The strength appears at greater than $\sim$2~MeV above the single-neutron decay threshold and has been identified as arising from transfer into the neutron $0d_{3/2}$ orbital. Guided by shell model predictions the greater majority of the strength is associated with a 3/2$^+$ state at an excitation energy of 4.40$_{-0.14}^{+0.33}$ MeV and a muc…

ISI-Aware Code Design: A Linear Approach Towards Reliable Molecular Communication
Tamoghno Nath, Krishna Gopal Benerjee, Adrish Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23787

ISI-Aware Code Design: A Linear Approach Towards Reliable Molecular Communication
Intersymbol Interference (ISI) is a major bottleneck in Molecular Communication via Diffusion (MCvD), degrading system performance. This paper introduces two families of linear channel codes to mitigate ISI: Zero Pad Zero Start (ZPZS) and Zero Pad (ZP) codes, ensuring that each codeword avoids consecutive bit-1s. The ZPZS and ZP codes are then combined to form a binary ZP code, offering a higher code rate than linear ZP codes and allowing simple decoding via the Majority Location Rule (MLR). Ad…

How about non Europeans? Can they safely bath in EU's waters as well?
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/green-news-8pjijreoz/-/a-jJtjBPzBTfaTHp1LnzHMFQ:a:89340020-/0

Safe summer swimming: Europeans can confidently bathe in the majority of the EU's waters, report
Some 95 per cent of coastal waters in Greece and Cyprus are safe for swimming, a new report has found. From the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, …

The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after the recent departures of two members (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-fcc-majority-olivia-trusty-senate-1236436125/

Donald Trump And Republicans To Gain A Majority On FCC As Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty
The Republicans will have a 2-1 majority.

Less is More: Data Curation Matters in Scaling Speech Enhancement
Chenda Li, Wangyou Zhang, Wei Wang, Robin Scheibler, Kohei Saijo, Samuele Cornell, Yihui Fu, Marvin Sach, Zhaoheng Ni, Anurag Kumar, Tim Fingscheidt, Shinji Watanabe, Yanmin Qian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23859

Less is More: Data Curation Matters in Scaling Speech Enhancement
The vast majority of modern speech enhancement systems rely on data-driven neural network models. Conventionally, larger datasets are presumed to yield superior model performance, an observation empirically validated across numerous tasks in other domains. However, recent studies reveal diminishing returns when scaling speech enhancement data. We focus on a critical factor: prevalent quality issues in ``clean'' training labels within large-scale datasets. This work re-examines this phenomenon a…

#SCOTUS majority supports #DJT admin efforts for Kristi Noem and friends to deport people they don't like from US soil to random countries with no notice.
Damning dissent issued by some robed gals in DC that no one will read...

SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice
Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.

QuickSilver -- Speeding up LLM Inference through Dynamic Token Halting, KV Skipping, Contextual Token Fusion, and Adaptive Matryoshka Quantization
Danush Khanna, Aditya Kumar Guru, Srivarshinee Sridhar, Zidan Ahmed, Rubhav Bahirwani, Meetu Malhotra, Vinija Jain, Aman Chadha, Amitava Das, Kripabandhu Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2…

QuickSilver -- Speeding up LLM Inference through Dynamic Token Halting, KV Skipping, Contextual Token Fusion, and Adaptive Matryoshka Quantization
Inference accounts for the majority of latency and energy consumption in large language model (LLM) deployments, often exceeding 90% of total cost. While training-time efficiency has seen extensive progress, runtime optimization remains a key bottleneck, particularly under autoregressive decoding. Existing approaches -- such as pruning, quantization, early exits, and speculative decoding -- often require retraining, architectural changes, or disrupt decoding compatibility. We introduce QuickSil…

Just read through "Sanctuary" by Paola Mendez & Abby Sher, which was electrifying as I read news about ICE kidnappings in local towns, including one in Waltham today where they left a kid alone on the sidewalk:
#ICE #kidnappings

Mike Johnson warns Senate GOP they're fucking the House majority - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/06/25/mike-johnson-warns-senate-gop-theyre-fucking-the-house-majority/

Spins of SMBHs in distant low luminosity AGNs
M. Yu. Piotrovich, S. D. Buliga, T. M. Natsvlishvili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22207 https://

Spins of SMBHs in distant low luminosity AGNs
We estimated radiative efficiency, spin and SMBH mass values for sample of 33 distant low luminosity AGNs. The distribution of the estimated spin values (majority of objects have a spin greater than 0.8) is fairly typical for many types of AGNs. The dependence of the estimated spin values on the estimated SMBH masses shows strong correlation between them, which suggests a rapid increase in spin with mass, i.e. that the main mechanism of mass growth in this case is disk accretion. We did not fin…

Pixel-wise Modulated Dice Loss for Medical Image Segmentation
Seyed Mohsen Hosseini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15744 https://arxiv.or…

Pixel-wise Modulated Dice Loss for Medical Image Segmentation
Class imbalance and the difficulty imbalance are the two types of data imbalance that affect the performance of neural networks in medical segmentation tasks. In class imbalance the loss is dominated by the majority classes and in difficulty imbalance the loss is dominated by easy to classify pixels. This leads to an ineffective training. Dice loss, which is based on a geometrical metric, is very effective in addressing the class imbalance compared to the cross entropy (CE) loss, which is adopt…

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FASTDASH: An Implementation of 3D Earthquake Cycle Simulation on Complex Fault Systems Using the Boundary Element Method Accelerated by H-matrices
Fault systems have geometrically complex structures in nature, such as stepovers, bends, branches, and roughness. Many geological and geophysical studies have shown that the geometrical complexity of fault systems in nature decisively influences the initiation, arrest, and recurrence of seismic and aseismic events. However, a vast majority of models of slip dynamics are conducted on planar faults due to algorithmic limitations. We develop a 3D quasi-dynamic slip dynamics model to overcome this …

Met someone from the #Philippines who knew nearly nothing about #Indonesia but was convinced it must be much more conservative than their home country only because it's #Muslim majority...

Efficient space reduction techniques by optimized majority rules for the Kemeny aggregation problem
Xuan Kien Phung, Sylvie Hamel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15097

Efficient space reduction techniques by optimized majority rules for the Kemeny aggregation problem
The Kemeny aggregation problem consists of computing the consensus rankings of an election with respect to the Kemeny-Young voting method. These aggregated rankings are the geometric medians as well as the maximum likelihood estimators in the Mallows model of the rankings in the election under the Kendall-tau distance which counts the number of pairwise disagreements. The problem admits fundamental applications in various domains such as computational social choice, machine learning, operations…

Surprised no one in my timeline highlighted this source probs, maybe the majority of the fedi collectivity shrugs? https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1SsW

A group of 17 GOP governors write to Senate majority leader and House speaker urging for the state AI bill moratorium to be removed from the reconciliation bill (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025

Exclusive: Republican governors want state AI pause out of budget bill
Many Republican-run states have passed AI-related laws and don't want to see them knocked down.

Theoretical Tensions in RLHF: Reconciling Empirical Success with Inconsistencies in Social Choice Theory
Jiancong Xiao, Zhekun Shi, Kaizhao Liu, Qi Long, Weijie J. Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12350

Theoretical Tensions in RLHF: Reconciling Empirical Success with Inconsistencies in Social Choice Theory
Despite its empirical success, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has been shown to violate almost all the fundamental axioms in social choice theory -- such as majority consistency, pairwise majority consistency, and Condorcet consistency. This raises a foundational question: why does RLHF perform so well in practice if it fails these seemingly essential properties? In this paper, we resolve this paradox by showing that under mild and empirically plausible assumptions on the pre…

The vast majority of the plastic flotsam and jetsam in the North Pacific subtropical gyre (the North Pacific Garbage Patch) consists of discarded fishing gear.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-16529-0

Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre - Scientific Reports
The subtropical oceanic gyre in the North Pacific Ocean is currently covered with tens of thousands of tonnes of floating plastic debris, dispersed over millions of square kilometres. A large fraction is composed of fishing nets and ropes while the rest is mostly composed of hard plastic objects and fragments, sometimes carrying evidence on their origin. In 2019, an oceanographic mission conducted in the area, retrieved over 6000 hard plastic debris items > 5 cm. The debris was later sorte…

GFlowGR: Fine-tuning Generative Recommendation Frameworks with Generative Flow Networks
Yejing Wang, Shengyu Zhou, Jinyu Lu, Qidong Liu, Xinhang Li, Wenlin Zhang, Feng Li, Pengjie Wang, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng, Xiangyu Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16114

GFlowGR: Fine-tuning Generative Recommendation Frameworks with Generative Flow Networks
Generative recommendations (GR), which usually include item tokenizers and generative Large Language Models (LLMs), have demonstrated remarkable success across a wide range of scenarios. The majority of existing research efforts primarily concentrate on developing powerful item tokenizers or advancing LLM decoding strategies to attain superior performance. However, the critical fine-tuning step in GR frameworks, which is essential for adapting LLMs to recommendation data, remains largely unexpl…

6/20/25 ☀️ AM: ... The Senate just started a long weekend, but Senate Majority ... (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/62025-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p4#a250620p4

An improved upper bound for the second eigenvalue on tori
Fan Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05846 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05846

An improved upper bound for the second eigenvalue on tori
In this paper, we consider the problem of maximizing the second non-zero eigenvalue $λ_2(T,g)$ of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a torus $(T,g)$, among all unit-area metrics in a fixed conformal class. Based on work by Karpukhin-Stern and Eddaoudi-Girouard, we give an explicit upper bound for $λ_2(T,g)$ in a fixed conformal class of the torus. Our bound improves previous estimates based on conformal area and shows that, in the majority of conformal classes, the second eigenvalue is strictly…

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On the $h$-majority dynamics with many opinions
Francesco d'Amore, Niccol\`o D'Archivio, George Giakkoupis, Emanuele Natale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20218

On the $h$-majority dynamics with many opinions
We present the first upper bound on the convergence time to consensus of the well-known $h$-majority dynamics with $k$ opinions, in the synchronous setting, for $h$ and $k$ that are both non-constant values. We suppose that, at the beginning of the process, there is some initial additive bias towards some plurality opinion, that is, there is an opinion that is supported by $x$ nodes while any other opinion is supported by strictly fewer nodes. We prove that, with high probability, if the bi…

A compressible Reynolds-averaged mixing model considering turbulent entropy and heat flux
Hansong Xie, Tengfei Luo, Yaomin Zhao, Yousheng Zhang, Jianchun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16296

A compressible Reynolds-averaged mixing model considering turbulent entropy and heat flux
In typical nature and engineering scenarios, such as supernova explosion and inertial confinement fusion, mixing flows induced by hydrodynamics interfacial instabilities are essentially compressible. Despite their significance, accurate predictive tools for these compressible flows remain scarce. For engineering applications, the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulation stands out as the most practical approach due to its outstanding computational efficiency. However, the majority of R…

Pairwise similarity method for majority domination problem
N. I. Shushko, D. V. Lemtyuzhnikova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08886 https://

Pairwise similarity method for majority domination problem
The paper considers the problem of finding the number of dominant voters in two-level voting procedures. At the first stage, voting is conducted among local groups of voters, and at the second stage, the results are aggregated to form a final decision. The goal is to determine the minimum proportion of voters supporting a proposal for it to be accepted. The paper uses the method of pairwise comparisons to analyze the structure of the problem and develop heuristic algorithms with guaranteed accu…

Krispy Kreme: Over 160,000 people had data stolen during November 2024 cyberattack https://therecord.media/krispy-kreme-reports-data-breach-from-2024-attack

«people’s options for mainstream (and an alarming amount of industry) news are somewhere between “I’m smarter than you,” “something happened!” “sneering contempt,” “a trip to the principal’s office,” or “here’s who you should be mad at,” which I realize also describes the majority of the New York Times opinion page.»
https://www.wheresyoured.at/sic/

NFL minicamp 2025 live updates: Browns rookie QBs look sharp https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45460351/nfl-minicamp-live-updates-2025-news-notes-depth-charts

The near-total repeal of the #InflationReductionAct, as passed by the US House, would increase USA carbon emissions by 150 MtCO2eq/year by 2030 (for power generation alone) and 1 Gt/y by 2035. (While also increasing costs nearly everywhere.)
http…

Dissipative quantum North-East-Center model: steady-state phase diagram, universality and nonergodic dynamics
Pietro Brighi, Alberto Biella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19011

Dissipative quantum North-East-Center model: steady-state phase diagram, universality and nonergodic dynamics
In this work we study the dissipative quantum North-East-Center (NEC) model: a two-dimensional spin-1/2 lattice subject to chiral, kinetically constrained dissipation and coherent quantum interactions. This model combines kinetic constraints and chirality at the dissipative level, implementing local incoherent spin flips conditioned by an asymmetric majority-vote rule. Through a cluster mean-field approach, we determine the steady-state phase diagram of the NEC model under different Hamiltonian…

This is quite an effort to signal a single bit of information.
https://apnews.com/article/conclave-pope-francis-cardinals-50c798caa826bbb7c913791175536add

Black smoke indicates conclave hasn't elected a new pope
Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church. The smoke billowed out at 9 p.m. Wednesday, some four hours after 133 cardinals solemnly entered the Sistine Chapel, took their oaths of secrecy and formally opened the centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis to lead the 1.4 billion-member church. With no one securing the necessary two-thirds majority, or 89…

@… @… Political parties in an electoral system that enables a party to win a majority is the traditional means of overcoming this. The US currently has a system of one disciplined political party and one party composed of individual…

Many people have this sense that the price of books is primarily linked to the cost of materials, manufacture, & distribution. But the majority of the cost of publishing books are in the labor leading up to the 1st copy: editorial & editorial production work, before any reproduction in whatever format. Addition labor happens later, for marketing. When you buy a book, you’re mainly paying for these kinds of labor.
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It can be useful to remember who are these national guard troops. You may be surprised to realize that the majority of our men (and a few of our women) are already subject to Federal control by FFOTUS as commander-in-chief of the militia.
They are defined by our Federal law https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/te…

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Towards an Accessible, Noninvasive Micronutrient Status Assessment Method: A Comprehensive Review of Existing Techniques
Nutrients are critical to the functioning of the human body and their imbalance can result in detrimental health concerns. The majority of nutritional literature focuses on macronutrients, often ignoring the more critical nuances of micronutrient balance, which require more precise regulation. Currently, micronutrient status is routinely assessed via complex methods that are arduous for both the patient and the clinician. To address the global burden of micronutrient malnutrition, innovations i…

Predicting the response of structurally altered and asymmetrical networks
Melvyn Tyloo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14609 https://arxiv…

Predicting the response of structurally altered and asymmetrical networks
We investigate how the response of coupled dynamical systems is modified due to a structural alteration of the interaction. The majority of the literature focuses on additive perturbations and symmetrical interaction networks. Here, we consider the challenging problem of multiplicative perturbations and asymmetrical interaction coupling. We introduce a framework to approximate the averaged response at each network node for general structural perturbations, including non-normal and asymmetrical …

Enabling Bitcoin Smart Contracts on the Internet Computer
Ryan Croote, Islam El-Ashi, Thomas Locher, Yvonne-Anne Pignolet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21327 …

Enabling Bitcoin Smart Contracts on the Internet Computer
There is growing interest in providing programmatic access to the value locked in Bitcoin, which famously offers limited programmability itself. Various approaches have been put forth in recent years, with the vast majority of proposed mechanisms either building new functionality on top of Bitcoin or leveraging a bridging mechanism to enable smart contracts that make use of ``wrapped'' bitcoins on entirely different platforms. In this work, an architecture is presented that follows a differen…

At UN Human Rights Council, Afghan Women Demand Action - Feminist Majority Foundation
https://feminist.org/news/at-un-human-rights-council-afghan-women-demand-action/

An investigation into the nonconformity of homogeneous gas limit for kinetic energy density of atomic systems
Priya, Anuvab Panda, Saswata Basu, Mainak Sadhukhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15393

An investigation into the nonconformity of homogeneous gas limit for kinetic energy density of atomic systems
Developing a reliable kinetic energy density functional within orbital-free density functional theory remains a long-standing challenge, particularly for atomic and molecular systems. A major difficulty lies in the absence of a systematic approach to accurately compute the kinetic energy density in such contexts. In our recent work, we introduced an analytical Green's function-based framework to address this issue. Majority of the existing efforts to construct an approximate kinetic energy dens…

High resolution radio observations of the Chamaeleon star-forming region
Ernesto Garc\'ia Valencia, Laurent Loinard, Arnaud Belloche, Gisela N. Ortiz Le\'on, Sergio A. Dzib, Cherie K. Day, Roopesh Ojha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15927

High resolution radio observations of the Chamaeleon star-forming region
We report on large-scale radio observations of the Chamaeleon star-forming region obtained with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) that led to the definite detection of five young stars and the tentative detection of five more. As in other regions surveyed in the radio domain, the majority of detected sources are fairly evolved low-mass T Tauri stars, but we also detect one protostellar object (Ced 110 IRS4) and one Herbig Ae/Be star. With the exception of the protostellar source, the…

New poll on "abundance agenda" shows majority still support local decision-making.
Do you support or oppose limiting local zoning rules to build more homes? Yes 28% No 43%
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-approval-at-42-democrats-up
BUT…

#Global surveys by #Pew Research finds confidence in #DJT as a world leader by majority of respondents in only three countries: Israel, Hungary & India, for a total approval rating of 34% across 24 surveyed nations. While ranking higher in …

U.S. Image Declines in Many Nations Amid Low Confidence in Trump
More than half of adults in 19 of 24 countries surveyed lack confidence in Trump’s leadership on the world stage.

New poll on "abundance agenda" shows majority still support local decision-making.
Do you support or oppose limiting local zoning rules to build more homes? Yes 28% No 43%
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-approval-at-42-democrats-up
BUT…

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Typical Quantum States of the Universe are Observationally Indistinguishable
We establish three new impossibility results regarding our knowledge of the quantum state of the universe -- a central object in quantum theory. We show that, if the universal quantum state is a typical unit vector from a high-dimensional subspace H_0 of Hilbert space H (such as the one defined by a low-entropy macro-state as prescribed by the Past Hypothesis), then no observation can determine or just significantly narrow down which vector it is. In other words, the overwhelming majority of po…

Diagnosing electron-neutrino lepton number crossings in core-collapse supernovae: a comparison of methods
Marie Cornelius (NBIA,DARK, Niels Bohr Institute), Irene Tamborra (NBIA,DARK, Niels Bohr Institute), Malte Heinlein (MPI Astrophysics, Garching,TUM, Garching), Hans-Thomas Janka (MPI Astrophysics, Garching)
https://arxiv.org…

Diagnosing electron-neutrino lepton number crossings in core-collapse supernovae: a comparison of methods
Fast neutrino flavor conversion may impact the explosion mechanism and nucleosynthesis in core-collapse supernovae. A necessary condition for fast flavor conversion is the presence of crossings in the angular distribution of the electron-neutrino lepton number (ELN crossing). Because of the computational costs, flavor-dependent angular distributions are not computed by the vast majority of state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations; instead, angular distributions are reconstructed employing ap…

A majority of six of the 11 judges on Brazil's Supreme Court have voted to hold social media companies liable for some types of users' content seen as illegal (Ricardo Brito/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/…

Brazil's Supreme Court rules that social media companies are accountable for some types of user content seen as illegal, a decision that could result in fines (Ricardo Brito/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bra

AI-Generated Compromises for Coalition Formation
Eyal Briman, Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06837 https://ar…

AI-Generated Compromises for Coalition Formation
The challenge of finding compromises between agent proposals is fundamental to AI subfields such as argumentation, mediation, and negotiation. Building on this tradition, Elkind et al. (2021) introduced a process for coalition formation that seeks majority-supported proposals preferable to the status quo, using a metric space where each agent has an ideal point. A crucial step in this process involves identifying compromise proposals around which agent coalitions can unite. How to effectively f…

"The vast majority of arrests have been for failing to leave the area in defiance of requests from law enforcement, according to police."
The Latest: Los Angeles police have made nearly 400 arrests and detentions since Saturday - SooLeader
https://www.sooleader.com/michigan-news-ap/the-latest-los-angeles-police-have-made-nearly-400-arrests-and-detentions-since-saturday-10793135

WBD's split is set to close in mid-2026; CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels says he assumes "the majority" of WBD's ~$37B debt will exist with the spun off Global Networks (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollyw…

“Majority” of Warner Bros. Discovery’s $37 Billion in Debt Will Be Spun Off With TV Networks, Its CEO Says
But “a not-insignificant portion” will remain with Streaming & Studios — and with David Zaslav.

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JWST's First View of Tidal Disruption Events: Compact, Accretion-Driven Emission Lines & Strong Silicate Emission in an Infrared-selected Sample
Mid-infrared (MIR) emission from tidal disruption events (TDEs) is a powerful probe of the circumnuclear environment around dormant supermassive black holes. This emission arises from the reprocessing of intrinsic emission into thermal MIR emission by circumnuclear dust. While the majority of optical- and X-ray-selected TDEs show only weak dust echoes consistent with primarily unobscured sight lines, there have been growing efforts aimed at finding TDEs in obscured environments using MIR select…

Towards Sustainable Computing: Exploring Energy Consumption Efficiency of Alternative Configurations and Workloads in an Open Source Messaging System
Maria Voreakou, George Kousiouris, Mara Nikolaidou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10693

Towards Sustainable Computing: Exploring Energy Consumption Efficiency of Alternative Configurations and Workloads in an Open Source Messaging System
Energy consumption in current large scale computing infrastructures is becoming a critical issue, especially with the growing demand for centralized systems such as cloud environments. With the advancement of microservice architectures and the Internet of Things, messaging systems have become an integral and mainstream part of modern computing infrastructures, carrying out significant workload in a majority of applications. In this paper, we describe an experimental process to explore energy-ba…