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The Trump administration is promising to
block billions in
already-awarded
infrastructure bill broadband grants
to any states that enforce net neutrality
or try to impose any sort of meaningful oversight on the country’s unpopular, predatory broadband monopolies.
That was the promise of Commerce Department official Arielle Roth,
a former Ted Cruz staffer now in charge of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
Ro…

Trump Admin Blocking Billions In Already Awarded Broadband Grants To States That Enforce Net Neutrality Or Engage In Telecom Oversight
The Trump administration is promising to block billions in already-awarded infrastructure bill broadband grants to any states that enforce net neutrality or try to impose any sort of meaningful ove…

I wish I had enough understanding of the guts of the financial system to parse articles like this. The news seems meaningful — but what does it actually mean?
https://zeroes.ca/@datum/115835464830556913

Politics
So I'm thinking of finally adding something meaningful to my mail signature — but I want to keep it short. How does this sound?
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Capitalism: nazis buy power, Israel & Russia commit genocide, techbros burn the world, anti-vaxxers kill, and free lunches are the concern.
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#AntiCapitalism

Source: Vanity Fair editor Mark Guiducci asked staff to stop covering Prince Andrew's daughters, as the magazine takes a deferential approach to celebrities (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/02/2025/the-new-vanity-fa…

Exclusive: The new Vanity Fair’s one rule: Leave the princesses alone!
Vanity Fair is trying to offer meaningful journalism that reveals inner workings of power — while also convincing the powerful to pose for its covers and attend its Hollywood events.

Why Things Won't Get Any Easier for New-Look Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-things-wont-get-any-easier

This piece by @… just hits different. So good.
“The "problem" was that creating art—real, human, meaningful writing—is slow. It is expensive. It is unpredictable. And it is diverse. It requires dealing with people. People with traumas, people with political opinions, people with voices that don't fit into a corporate style guide. [……

appropriates meaningful things in hopes that it makes yours meaningful

"An LLM helped me with some task" is not a good argument for these things increasing productivity. Did you also factor in all the cases where it made you slower? Where the output created extra work? And how much of your work/activity is that task?
All bigger studies we know (even those done by Google for example) show a total lack of meaningful productivity gains, especially when looking at a whole organization.
(There are few exceptions: Spam generation might see prod…

Wish the #NeuroAI modeling people could say something meaningful about learning to see with sound (visual-to-auditory sensory substitution). Digital twin? https://www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm…

Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first time, in Q3; Sundar Pichai says "AI Overviews drive meaningful query growth" and AI Mode has 75M DAUs (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-posts-

Google Posts First-Ever $100B Quarter in Wake of Historic DOJ Antitrust Battles
Google surged past Wall Street’s Q3 estimates, with shares up over 6% in after-hours trading Wednesday.

The closest I have to a Halloween post, from 5 years ago and last updated in mid-2023:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/11/more-accessible-skeletons.html

More Accessible Skeletons
I had this post queued up for Halloween because, come on, skeletons, and then life did its thing and now it is a … Thanksgiving post? Many skeleton patterns do a poor job presenting themselves to screen reader users in any meaningful way. They often stuff aria-busy into their widget,…

Diving into a thrilling action-adventure or unraveling the complexities of WWII history offers me the ultimate escape. These stories inspire strategic thinking and meaningful connections in life. What genre do you relax with? 📚✨
#BookLovers #HistoryBuffs #AdventureReads

Mongabay's environmental journalism packed a serious punch in 2025.
Their reporting exposed illegal Amazon activities, spotlighted conservation wins in Colombia and Mexico, and tackled wildlife trafficking. The impact? Real indictments in Brazil, policy recommendations, and action from major orgs like WWF.
Over 870 documented impacts—all empowering communities to protect their land and ecosystems.

How Mongabay's journalism made an impact in 2025
The guiding star at Mongabay isn’t pageviews or clicks; it’s meaningful impact. As 2025 draws to a close, we look back at some of the ways Mongabay’s journalism made a difference this year. Empowering Indigenous and local communities A Mongabay Latam investigation found 67 illegal airstrips were cut into the Peruvian Amazon to transport drugs, […]

“[open social] must be funded like infrastructure, not consumer apps. In fact, given the scale of hybrid threats, it should be funded from defense budgets, not innovation leftovers.
The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social
<…

Perhaps one of my next projects is to set up a Mastodon instance (may be this one) on a cluster of 3 or more Raspberry Pi's. Still no exact imagination on how to distribute the different services in a meaningful manner. An example could be:
🖥️ Node Roles
pi-master: PostgreSQL, Redis, Reverse Proxy
pi-worker1: Web (Rails), Streaming
pi-worker2: Sidekiq, Web (replica)
#mastodon

Mark Kelly here:
Is there anything I can say to convince you to chip in?
Any amount is meaningful. https://mark4az.org

I came across this quote of David Graeber recently: „You can make a cup once, but wash it a thousand times.“
That stuck with me. Capitalism focuses on making things but the most meaningful work is maintaining stuff.

School feeding programs lead to modest but meaningful results, according to review
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-school-modest-meaningful-results.html

Alphabet passed $100B in quarterly revenue for the first time, in Q3; Sundar Pichai says "AI Overviews drive meaningful query growth" and AI Mode has 75M DAUs (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/google-posts-

Google Posts First-Ever $100B Quarter in Wake of Historic DOJ Antitrust Battles
Google surged past Wall Street’s Q3 estimates, with shares up over 6% in after-hours trading Wednesday.

Blogged about my new take on Hierarchical data in CLI, scripts and code. And a look into the future direction I want for solving a particular configuration management use case.
https://choria.io/blog/post/2025/11/25/hierarchical_data/

Because I’ve see people saying you should be “respectful” to chatbots:
You can’t.
You’re not actually talking to someone and the chatbot doesn’t actually understand what you’re saying.
It’s parsing tokens and uses applied statistics to generate more tokens, that’s it.
If even it could understand you and form meaningful concepts and mental images— there’s no self there that could be disrespected.

Nexperia warns customers face impending production halts and urges its Chinese unit to reengage, says it hadn't got "any meaningful response" despite outreach (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@… thank you!! it feels great to be making meaningful progress!!

2025 Sports Equinox viewing guide: Where to watch all four major North American sports leagues on Monday

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/2025-sp

Achieving Meaningful Collaboration: Worker-centered Design of a Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Blending Task
Nicky Mol, Luka Peternel, Alessandro Ianniello, Denis Zatyagov, Auke Nachenius, Stephan Balvert, J. Micah Prendergast, Sara Muscolo, Olger Siebinga, Eva Verhoef, Deborah Forster, David A. Abbink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12340

Achieving Meaningful Collaboration: Worker-centered Design of a Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Blending Task
The use of robots in industrial settings continues to grow, driven by the need to address complex societal challenges such as labor shortages, aging populations, and ever-increasing production demands. In this abstract, we advocate for (and demonstrate) a transdisciplinary approach when considering robotics in the workplace. Transdisciplinarity emphasizes the integration of academic research with pragmatic expertise and embodied experiential knowledge, that prioritize values such as worker well…

«#23andMe recently launched an AI-powered version of our Health Action Plan feature (only available to 23andMe members in the United States) and is investing in better ways to summarize and prioritize your results so you can be the best advocate for your own healthcare.»
Hahahahaha 😂 Given 23andMe's history, "only available in the US" probably means "we can only offer this in a place without any meaningful regulation". 🙈

Lately, I’ve been feeling burned out by how much people in my life assume things about me and my beliefs, so let's talk about it.
I spend some parts (not all) of my evenings online, usually from around 20:00 to 22:00 or sometimes even until midnight (00:00), not because I am consumed by politics but because I like to learn and reflect on how society could be better. I enjoy exploring ideas about justice, solidarity, and human rights in a way that feels meaningful to me. For me, spe…

I'd be interested find out if AI providers are considered responsible for any defamation their equipment generates and publishes. How much of the law assumes an intent that can't be applied to AI?
Is mens rea something that can be tested in LLM? Is that even a meaningful question? Is it all just libel through negligence?

AI-generated content wrongly accuses fiddler Ashley MacIsaac of being sex offender
HALIFAX - Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac says he may have been defamed by Google after it recently produced an AI-generated summary falsely identifying him as a sex offender.

Why are other journalists in the room not reacting immediately to T's attacks on their colleagues?
Amplify the questions until they get meaningful answers.
Or they could walk out.
-- @locprof.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/newsguy.bsky.social/po…

Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social)
CBS News' Nancy Cordes: Your DoJ OIG "reported this year that there was thorough vetting by DHS and the FBI of these Afghans who were brought into the US so why do you blame the Biden administration?" President Trump: "Because they let them in. Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person?"

I’ve worked over the past year to reduce the amount of noise in my consciousness on a daily basis.
By that I mean - information noise, not literal sounds “noise”. (That problem was solved long ago by some good earplugs and noise canceling earphones.)
I’ve gotten used to spending less time on social media, regularly blocking most apps on my devices (anything with a feed news, most work communication apps, etc.), putting my phone and other devices aside for extended periods of time. Often go to work places with my iPad explicitly having its WiFi turned off and selecting cafes that don’t offer WiFi at all.
Negotiated better boundaries at work and in personal life where I exchange messages with people less often but try to make those interactions more meaningful, and people rarely expect me to respond to requests in less than 24 hours. Spent a lot of time setting up custom notification settings on all apps that would allow it, so I get fewer pings. With software, choosing fewer cloud-based options and using tools that are simple and require as few interruptions as possible.
Accustomed myself to lower-tech versions of doing things I like to do: reading on paper, writing by hand, drawing in physical sketchbooks, got a typewriter for typing without a screen. Choosing to call people on audio more, trying to make more of an effort to see people in person. Going to museums to look at art instead of browsing Pinterest. Defaulting to the library when looking for information.
I’m commenting on this now for two reasons:
1. I am pretty proud of myself for how much I’ve actually managed to reduce the constant stream of modern life esp. as a remote worker in tech!
2. Now that I’ve reached a breaking point of reducing enough noise that it’s NOTICEABLE - I am struck by the silence. I don’t know what to do with it. I don’t know how to navigate it and fill it. I made this space to be able to read and write and think more deeply - for now I feel stuck in limbo where I’m just reacquainting myself with the concept of having any space in my mind at all.

Do you use LLMs to generate regular expressions? We do, too! Do you *review* your regexes? Is that frustrating? How can we put humans in the loop better, doing relatively few, meaningful tasks? Please try out our new tool PICK:regex, available for VSCode!
https://blog.brownplt.org/2025/12/11/p

I really want to be optimistic but it’s soooo hard to believe that the ultra-racist wing of Bibi's govt will allow the assault on Gaza to stop or an actually meaningful withdrawal. And they have the whip hand; if they walk, Bibi falls and maybe goes to jail. Hoping I’m wrong and the firing really ceases.
https://www.…

I miss the limits. Forces concise communication. Long posts/threads should be a post on your site. https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115733189272793078

I'm grateful to #Mastodon for still attracting interesting people. I have the chance to regularly interact with those who are genuinely interested in two-way conversations. Unfortunately, nowadays, too many people engage with others not to foster meaningful connections, but to seek validation and self-recognition. A big thank YOU.

Reference Grounded Skill Discovery
Seungeun Rho, Aaron Trinh, Danfei Xu, Sehoon Ha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06203 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06203…

Reference Grounded Skill Discovery
Scaling unsupervised skill discovery algorithms to high-DoF agents remains challenging. As dimensionality increases, the exploration space grows exponentially, while the manifold of meaningful skills remains limited. Therefore, semantic meaningfulness becomes essential to effectively guide exploration in high-dimensional spaces. In this work, we present Reference-Grounded Skill Discovery (RGSD), a novel algorithm that grounds skill discovery in a semantically meaningful latent space using refer…

An interesting write up of an interview with the Edinburgh Spokes cycle campaign.
"Spokes also started producing cycle maps at that point [in the 80s]. Partly you produce a cycle map to show people where the nice places are, whether it's off road routes, quiet streets or whatever, to just show them that it is possible."
"But it's also a campaigning tool, because the map shows you the gaps."

"If your campaigning doesn't generate a response, you're not being radical enough": Active travel campaigners Spokes on making spaces bike friendly
road.cc chat with the organisation as they release their new cycle map of West Lothian and discuss meaningful cycle campaigning after nearly 50 years

South Carolina already ranks 8th nationally in highest maternal mortality rate,
and MAGA extremists are vying to become #1.
Now, for the third time since 2023, MAGA Republicans in South Carolina have introduced
S 323, also known as
The Unborn Child Protection Act.
South Carolina Senate Bill 323 is one of the most extreme pieces of legislation we’ve seen.
It proposes changing the legal definition of the word “person” to include an unborn fetus.
Th…

S. Carolina RE-Intros Bill To Kill Women For Getting An Abortion
Here's what's in the bill, why it is so dangerous, and the meaningful steps you can take to fight back, support women's health, and help block this bill from becoming law

This illustrates what i always thought, there is no copyright issue with regard to AI. It is just a matter of making financial deals...
#ai

The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach landmark agreement to bring beloved characters from across Disney’s brands to Sora
Agreement marks a significant step in setting meaningful standards for responsible AI in entertainment.

ok so the MHO98 logic analyzer is. not good. at all.
and the protocol decoders are basically not useful, i can see why they haven't bothered implementing even 10 of them (they only decode what's exactly on screen, like on the lower end models)
it's best understood as "logic analyzer attachment to orient you for where you want to see your analog traces" more so than a "logic analyzer" per se in any meaningful sense of the term

I think this film is going to be one of those really meaningful ones. Not out yet, but here's the trailer: (recommended by @…)
https://youtu.be/5sJjy_Xdra0?si=HKUPu9

Aaron Rodgers loses first game vs. Packers; LSU's next steps after Brian Kelly; World Series returns Monday

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-r

On defining astronomically meaningful Reference Frames in General Relativity
L. Filipe O. Costa, Francisco Frutos-Alfaro, Jos\'e Nat\'ario, Michael Soffel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07400

On defining astronomically meaningful Reference Frames in General Relativity
In a recent paper we discussed when it is possible to define reference frames nonrotating with respect to distant inertial reference objects (extension of the IAU reference systems to exact general relativity), and how to construct them. We briefly review the construction, illustrating it with further examples, and caution against the recent misuse of zero angular momentum observers (ZAMOs).

Had a phenomenal dinner at Akoko, a fine dining West African restaurant in London. French cooking and saucing techniques with Senegalese, Nigerian, and Ghanaian flavors. Also lovely front of house.
Very exciting meal, one of the best I've had in years. Run by Aji Akokomi, current chef is Mutaro Balde. These flavors are terrific and don't normally get the fine dining treatment, a real pleasure to enjoy.
Everything was great but our favorite dish was thin ribbons of squid in a sauce with coriander and a meaningful chile heat.

🚨 🚨 Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/13/coral-reefs-ice-sheets-amazon-rainforest-tipping-point-global-heating-scientists-report…

MammoDINO: Anatomically Aware Self-Supervision for Mammographic Images
Sicheng Zhou, Lei Wu, Cao Xiao, Parminder Bhatia, Taha Kass-Hout
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11883 https://…

MammoDINO: Anatomically Aware Self-Supervision for Mammographic Images
Self-supervised learning (SSL) has transformed vision encoder training in general domains but remains underutilized in medical imaging due to limited data and domain specific biases. We present MammoDINO, a novel SSL framework for mammography, pretrained on 1.4 million mammographic images. To capture clinically meaningful features, we introduce a breast tissue aware data augmentation sampler for both image-level and patch-level supervision and a cross-slice contrastive learning objective that l…

🎉 How FOSS Won and Why It Matters
#software

Khalil Mack on the Challenge of Facing the Cowboys Offense https://www.chargers.com/video/khalil-mack-media-availability-thursday-week-16-2025

I can't help but wonder if "...democracy-under-threat messaging might not work on voters in places such as the Central Valley. It hearkens back to 2024, when Democrats repeatedly — and unsuccessfully — warned that then-candidate Trump posed a risk to Democracy." is key to Democratic losses.
I have heard too few Democratic messages that clearly offer a meaningful message of how a #DemocraticParty

Will Prop. 50 burst state Dems’ bubble?
Advocates warn messaging that works in places like SF doesn’t cut it elsewhere.

I can't help but wonder if "...democracy-under-threat messaging might not work on voters in places such as the Central Valley. It hearkens back to 2024, when Democrats repeatedly — and unsuccessfully — warned that then-candidate Trump posed a risk to Democracy." is key to Democratic losses.
I have heard too few Democratic messages that clearly offer a meaningful message of how a #DemocraticParty

Will Prop. 50 burst state Dems’ bubble?
Advocates warn messaging that works in places like SF doesn’t cut it elsewhere.

Wann immer es um Veränderungen geht, besteht ein Spektrum, in dem diese diskutierbar sind: Auf der einen Seite, sollten Veränderungen die gewünschten Verbesserungen mit sich bringen. Auf der anderen Seite, müssen sie in den bestehenden Strukturen beschlossen und umgesetzt werden können.
Das bringt Agenten dieser Veränderung in eine Zwickmühle: Machen sie einen zu radikalen Vorschlag, der tatsächliche Veränderung mit sich bringt, wird dieser schnell abgelehnt. Machen sie von Beginn an …

On Signal’s Meredith Whittaker in The Economist. Or: The origins of poor digital policy demands
Over the last years, I have taken part in numerous meetings about how to square the circle of formulating policy demands that both make a difference and have a vague prospect of being adopted by policy-makers. And I often get to observe how this kills any meaningful debate and narrows perspectives.

Another reminder that people who send emails without meaningful subject lines show a lack of respect for other people's time.
https://www.theverge.com/news/826901/jeffrey-epstein-files-emails-gmail-jmail

‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails
The 20,000 pages of Epstein messages released earlier this month are now available in the style of a Gmail inbox.

Fundamentals of Building Autonomous LLM Agents
Victor de Lamo Castrillo, Habtom Kahsay Gidey, Alexander Lenz, Alois Knoll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09244 https://

Fundamentals of Building Autonomous LLM Agents
This paper reviews the architecture and implementation methods of agents powered by large language models (LLMs). Motivated by the limitations of traditional LLMs in real-world tasks, the research aims to explore patterns to develop "agentic" LLMs that can automate complex tasks and bridge the performance gap with human capabilities. Key components include a perception system that converts environmental percepts into meaningful representations; a reasoning system that formulates plans, adapts t…

The EmpathiSEr: Development and Validation of Software Engineering Oriented Empathy Scales
Hashini Gunatilake, John Grundy, Rashina Hoda, Ingo Mueller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12546

The EmpathiSEr: Development and Validation of Software Engineering Oriented Empathy Scales
Empathy plays a critical role in software engineering (SE), influencing collaboration, communication, and user-centred design. Although SE research has increasingly recognised empathy as a key human aspect, there remains no validated instrument specifically designed to measure it within the unique socio-technical contexts of SE. Existing generic empathy scales, while well-established in psychology and healthcare, often rely on language, scenarios, and assumptions that are not meaningful or inte…

We're not looking for a show vote from Republicans.
We're looking for meaningful help so that people can afford medical care.
-- Senator Elizabeth Warren
https://bsky.app/profile/warren.senate.gov/post/3m3fmmifads2u

Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov)
We're not looking for a show vote from Republicans. We're looking for meaningful help so that people can afford medical care.

TALP-Pages: An easy-to-integrate continuous performance monitoring framework
Valentin Seitz, Jordy Trilaksono, Marta Garcia-Gasulla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12436 https://

TALP-Pages: An easy-to-integrate continuous performance monitoring framework
Ensuring good performance is a key aspect in the development of codes that target HPC machines. As these codes are under active development, the necessity to detect performance degradation early in the development process becomes apparent. In addition, having meaningful insight into application scaling behavior tightly coupled to the development workflow is helpful. In this paper, we introduce TALP-Pages, an easy-to-integrate framework that enables developers to get fast and in-repository feedb…

Anyone who supports or sympathizes with anarcho-syndicalist ideas is welcome to join and help build a friendly, inclusive space for memes and or even meaningful real discussions.
My new Steam group:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Anarcho-syndicalist

The One-Year Jewish Studies Program at Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134939/one-year-jewish-studies-program-paideia-european-institute-jewish

What the Raiders' Performance vs. Texans Meant for Pete Carroll https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-performance-texans-meant-pete-carroll

Data-driven multifidelity and multiscale topology optimization based on phasor-based evolutionary de-homogenization
Shuzhi Xu, Yifan Guo, Hiroki Kawabe, Kentaro Yaji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08830

Data-driven multifidelity and multiscale topology optimization based on phasor-based evolutionary de-homogenization
Multiscale topology optimization is crucial for designing porous infill structures with high stiffness-to-weight ratios and excellent energy absorption. Although gradient-based methods provide a rigorous framework, they are computationally expensive and struggle to capture cross-scale sensitivities in nonlinear settings. Moreover, the resulting hierarchical geometries are often overly complex and lack macroscopically meaningful features. To overcome these issues, we propose an evolutionary de-h…

Site-Specific RIS Deployment in Cellular Networks via Calibrated Ray Tracing
Sina Beyraghi, Javad Shabanpour, Giovanni Geraci, Paul Almasan, Angel Lozano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09478

Site-Specific RIS Deployment in Cellular Networks via Calibrated Ray Tracing
This work introduces a fully-automated RIS deployment strategy validated through a digital twin, powered by Sionna ray tracing, of a UK city. On a scene calibrated with measured data, the method jointly optimizes RIS placement, orientation, configuration, and BS beamforming across 4G, 5G, and hypothetical 6G frequencies. Candidate RIS sites are identified via scattering-based rays, while user clustering reduces deployment overhead. Results show that meaningful coverage enhancement requires dens…

TopROI: A topology-informed network approach for tissue partitioning
Sergio Serrano de Haro Iv\'a\~nez, Joshua W. Moore, Lucile Grzesiak, Eoghan J. Mullholand, Heather Harrington, Simon J. Leedham, Helen M. Byrne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12772

TopROI: A topology-informed network approach for tissue partitioning
Mammalian tissue architecture is central to biological function, and its disruption is a hallmark of disease. Medical imaging techniques can generate large point cloud datasets that capture changes in the cellular composition of such tissues with disease progression. However, regions of interest (ROIs) are usually defined by quadrat-based methods that ignore intrinsic structure and risk fragmenting meaningful features. Here, we introduce TopROI, a topology-informed, network-based method for par…

Procrustes Problems on Random Matrices
Hajg Jasa, Ronny Bergmann, Christian K\"ummerle, Avanti Athreya, Zachary Lubberts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05182 https://

Procrustes Problems on Random Matrices
Meaningful comparison between sets of observations often necessitates alignment or registration between them, and the resulting optimization problems range in complexity from those admitting simple closed-form solutions to those requiring advanced and novel techniques. We compare different Procrustes problems in which we align two sets of points after various perturbations by minimizing the norm of the difference between one matrix and an orthogonal transformation of the other. The minimization…

Evaluating High-Resolution Piano Sustain Pedal Depth Estimation with Musically Informed Metrics
Hanwen Zhang, Kun Fang, Ziyu Wang, Ichiro Fujinaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03750

Evaluating High-Resolution Piano Sustain Pedal Depth Estimation with Musically Informed Metrics
Evaluation for continuous piano pedal depth estimation tasks remains incomplete when relying only on conventional frame-level metrics, which overlook musically important features such as direction-change boundaries and pedal curve contours. To provide more interpretable and musically meaningful insights, we propose an evaluation framework that augments standard frame-level metrics with an action-level assessment measuring direction and timing using segments of press/hold/release states and a ge…

Advancing End-to-End Pixel Space Generative Modeling via Self-supervised Pre-training
Jiachen Lei, Keli Liu, Julius Berner, Haiming Yu, Hongkai Zheng, Jiahong Wu, Xiangxiang Chu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12586

Advancing End-to-End Pixel Space Generative Modeling via Self-supervised Pre-training
Pixel-space generative models are often more difficult to train and generally underperform compared to their latent-space counterparts, leaving a persistent performance and efficiency gap. In this paper, we introduce a novel two-stage training framework that closes this gap for pixel-space diffusion and consistency models. In the first stage, we pre-train encoders to capture meaningful semantics from clean images while aligning them with points along the same deterministic sampling trajectory, …

It is not clear whether the National Capital Planning Commission was consulted or received any meaningful insight prior to the White House’s demolition,
particularly as it has been closed since the government shut down 23 days ago.
“The decisions were made in complete secrecy and undertaken without public disclosure or proper consultation,” 
the ranking members on the House Oversight and Natural Resources committees and the subcommittee on energy on mineral resources wrote T…

Karoline Leavitt Says Trump Can Destroy Entire White House if He Wants
Leavitt dodged a key question on the limits to Donald Trump’s abilities to renovate.

Determining a magnetic Schr\"odinger equation by a single far-field measurement
Chaohua Duan, Zhen Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08198 https://arxiv.…

Determining a magnetic Schrödinger equation by a single far-field measurement
This paper investigates the inverse scattering problem for the magnetic Schrödinger equation. We first establish the well-posedness of the direct problem through a variational approach under physically meaningful assumptions on the magnetic and electric potentials. Our main results demonstrate that a single far-field measurement uniquely determines the support of the potential functions when the scatterer has polyhedral structures. A significant theoretical byproduct of our analysis reveals …

For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…

Mayor Lurie: Prioritize Climate Action Plan goals as you restructure city government
San Francisco approved a detailed and comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2021 with a top-line goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. Some progress towards this goal has been made since then, including general fund budget money awarded over the last few years to the SF Environment Department, for the first time ever. But we are now in danger of going backwards in our fight to mitigate climate change. Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors recently approved a 2-year budget that revokes...

For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…

Mayor Lurie: Prioritize Climate Action Plan goals as you restructure city government
San Francisco approved a detailed and comprehensive Climate Action Plan in 2021 with a top-line goal of net-zero GHG emissions by 2040. Some progress towards this goal has been made since then, including general fund budget money awarded over the last few years to the SF Environment Department, for the first time ever. But we are now in danger of going backwards in our fight to mitigate climate change. Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors recently approved a 2-year budget that revokes...

A High-Performance Training-Free Pipeline for Robust Random Telegraph Signal Characterization via Adaptive Wavelet-Based Denoising and Bayesian Digitization Methods
Tonghe Bai, Ayush Kapoor, Na Young Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10752

A High-Performance Training-Free Pipeline for Robust Random Telegraph Signal Characterization via Adaptive Wavelet-Based Denoising and Bayesian Digitization Methods
Random telegraph signal (RTS) analysis is increasingly important for characterizing meaningful temporal fluctuations in physical, chemical, and biological systems. The simplest RTS arises from discrete stochastic switching events between two binary states, quantified by their transition amplitude and dwell times in each state. Quantitative analysis of RTSs provides valuable insights into microscopic processes such as charge trapping in semiconductors. However, analyzing RTS becomes considerably…

CodeWatcher: IDE Telemetry Data Extraction Tool for Understanding Coding Interactions with LLMs
Manaal Basha, Aime\^e M. Ribeiro, Jeena Javahar, Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Gema Rodr\'iguez-P\'erez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11536

CodeWatcher: IDE Telemetry Data Extraction Tool for Understanding Coding Interactions with LLMs
Understanding how developers interact with code generation tools (CGTs) requires detailed, real-time data on programming behavior which is often difficult to collect without disrupting workflow. We present \textit{CodeWatcher}, a lightweight, unobtrusive client-server system designed to capture fine-grained interaction events from within the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor. \textit{CodeWatcher} logs semantically meaningful events such as insertions made by CGTs, deletions, copy-paste action…

Fun paper with a good message:
“We shift from viewing self‐tracking as mere data work to imagining it as an ongoing conversation; from constant monitoring to ambient, meaningful sensing; from judgmental prompts to caring guidance.”
Severes, B., Bala, P., Piedade, P., Gomes, E., Esteves, A., & Barreto, M. (2025). Making Sense of Our Data: Exploring Well-Being Self-Tracking Through Creative Collaboration.
#tracking #wellbeing #codesign #hci

Inductive inference of gradient-boosted decision trees on graphs for insurance fraud detection
F\'elix Vandervorst, Bruno Deprez, Wouter Verbeke, Tim Verdonck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05676

Inductive inference of gradient-boosted decision trees on graphs for insurance fraud detection
Graph-based methods are becoming increasingly popular in machine learning due to their ability to model complex data and relations. Insurance fraud is a prime use case, since false claims are often the result of organised criminals that stage accidents or the same persons filing erroneous claims on multiple policies. One challenge is that graph-based approaches struggle to find meaningful representations of the data because of the high class imbalance present in fraud data. Another is that insu…

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No Kings will be massive, powerful, and meaningful - but it won’t be the end of our work. Join movement leaders and fellow local activists after the big day to come together, celebrate what we accomplished, and learn about what’s next.

The One-Year Jewish Studies Program at Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden
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You Only Train Once: Differentiable Subset Selection for Omics Data
Daphn\'e Chopard, Jorge da Silva Gon\c{c}alves, Irene Cannistraci, Thomas M. Sutter, Julia E. Vogt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17678 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17678 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17678
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Abstract: Selecting compact and informative gene subsets from single-cell transcriptomic data is essential for biomarker discovery, improving interpretability, and cost-effective profiling. However, most existing feature selection approaches either operate as multi-stage pipelines or rely on post hoc feature attribution, making selection and prediction weakly coupled. In this work, we present YOTO (you only train once), an end-to-end framework that jointly identifies discrete gene subsets and performs prediction within a single differentiable architecture. In our model, the prediction task directly guides which genes are selected, while the learned subsets, in turn, shape the predictive representation. This closed feedback loop enables the model to iteratively refine both what it selects and how it predicts during training. Unlike existing approaches, YOTO enforces sparsity so that only the selected genes contribute to inference, eliminating the need to train additional downstream classifiers. Through a multi-task learning design, the model learns shared representations across related objectives, allowing partially labeled datasets to inform one another, and discovering gene subsets that generalize across tasks without additional training steps. We evaluate YOTO on two representative single-cell RNA-seq datasets, showing that it consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines. These results demonstrate that sparse, end-to-end, multi-task gene subset selection improves predictive performance and yields compact and meaningful gene subsets, advancing biomarker discovery and single-cell analysis.
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Wasserstein crossover for evolutionary algorithm-based topology optimization
Taisei Kii, Kentaro Yaji, Hiroshi Teramoto, Kikuo Fujita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02870 https://…

Wasserstein crossover for evolutionary algorithm-based topology optimization
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are promising approaches for non-differentiable or strongly multimodal topology optimization problems, but they often suffer from the curse of dimensionality, generally leading to low-resolution optimized results. This limitation stems in part from the difficulty of producing effective offspring through traditional crossover operators, which struggle to recombine complex parent design features in a meaningful way. In this study, we propose a novel crossover operato…

A survey on the optimal partition problem
Roberto Ognibene, Bozhidar Velichkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08241 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08241

A survey on the optimal partition problem
This survey synthesizes the current state of the art on the regularity theory for solutions to the optimal partition problem. Namely, we consider non-negative, vector-valued Sobolev functions whose components have mutually disjoint support, and which are either local minimizers of the Dirichlet energy or, more generally, critical points satisfying a system of variational inequalities. This is particularly meaningful as the problem has emerged on several occasions and in diverse contexts: our ai…

Raiders Might Have Perfect Fantasy Sleeper for Playoffs https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-might-have-perfect-fantasy-sleeper-playoffs

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This Saturday, millions of people are going to say no, and insist that every American has a right to dissent.
It’s going to be big
— there will be enormous rallies in major cities, and smaller but still meaningful ones in towns around the country.
There will be families, and dogs, and people in silly costumes.
They’re going to march, and stand together, and listen to speeches, and hold up signs
Trump and his allies will spin their absurd conspiracy theories,…

Ahead of No Kings Protest, Trump and GOP Try to Delegitimize All Dissent
There is no such thing as genuine progressive public opinion, and therefore mass and mobilized opposition to Trump doesn't count.

👀Great, hopeful review on one avenue to increase #crop yield 🌿🧪.
Context - we'll need 35-50% more food globally by 2050 but there are few signs that we're getting there. Yes, many issues in this space.
But photosynthesis is now one of the plant metabolic pathways where we have really good understanding, sufficient to see meaningful improvements of yield in the field, in #rice, #potato, #soybean. This is detailed in the review ➡️ #PlantSci #FoodSecurity

Low-probability Tokens Sustain Exploration in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward
Guanhua Huang, Tingqiang Xu, Mingze Wang, Qi Yi, Xue Gong, Siheng Li, Ruibin Xiong, Kejiao Li, Yuhao Jiang, Bo Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03222

Low-probability Tokens Sustain Exploration in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has propelled Large Language Models in complex reasoning, yet its scalability is often hindered by a training bottleneck where performance plateaus as policy entropy collapses, signaling a loss of exploration. Previous methods typically address this by maintaining high policy entropy, yet the precise mechanisms that govern meaningful exploration have remained underexplored. Our analysis suggests that an unselective focus on entropy risks amp…

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
-- Timothy Snyder
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Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action
Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who serve in five brigades of Khartiia, the 2nd Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine.