Tootfinder

If only someone had predicted this three years ago, before this whole fiasco destroyed an industry...
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/05/06/ai-layoffs-backfire-as-cutting-staff-doesnt-cut-it-firms-warned/5230…

AI layoffs backfire as cutting staff doesn't cut it, firms warned
Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn't the gold mine some CEOs hoped for

Tschüss, Core ML: Apple plant neues KI-Framework
Einem Bericht zufolge wird Apple seinen KI-Ansatz für Entwickler überdenken. Auf Core ML folgt „Core AI” – mit moderneren Methoden.
https://www.…

RE: https://social.mitexleo.one/@ml/116353103585419169
Yeehaw! I gonna commit war crimes, y’all! Pew! Pew! Pew!
U-S-A! U-S-A!

Fuzzing the brain: automated stress testing for the safety of ML-driven neurostimulation https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/ae4927 Curiously, the paper does not mention known risks such as seizures like those that already happened with the Dobelle and Orion…

On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs - Open for research home #dataset - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-data.html

On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs
Open for research home #dataset

Microsoft is updating devices from Windows 11 24H2 to version 25H2 with no way to fully opt out, and says an "intelligent" ML-based system handles the rollout (Kunal Khullar/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/wind

Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions — 'intelligent' update system uses machine learning to determine when a device is ready
Microsoft forces 25H2 rollout ahead of 24H2 end-of-support

The F is silent in ML

I realise on the fediverse this is maybe asking for a flaming, but yesterday out of sheer curiosity I tried Claude for a simpleish coding task that I'd been putting off (largely inspired by @… 's latest on #theclimatebrink). The performance of Claude was seriously impressive. I am convinced the AI cycle is more than hype (and have been for a while), the chatbots have been a huge attention hogger, misleadingly so, while the serious work has been done elsewhere. (We are developing ML tools to supplement parts of our climate model workflows).
Now I'm wondering if there is any serious EU competition to Anthropic? - Mistral's codestral perhaps?
Because this kind of performance changes everything and we can't afford to lag behind...
#AIcoding #ML
Edit: here is the climate brink post I mentioned
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-ai-augmented-scientist

ML is still too much habit, not enough process. William Benton is back at #bbuzz26 to talk about what it actually looks like to change that, making ML disciplined by default.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/sunset-for-the-wild-west-making-ml-disciplined-by-default/
Get your ticket: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/

Progress report for #Kreutz come C/2026 A1 (MAPS) as it marches towards the Sun in the LASCO and CCOR coronagraphs where it is brightening: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/35184 - at https://ccor.nrl.navy.mil/realtime-movie you can watch an animation of the most recent CCOR images.

@… That's the core of the problem: the existing law doesn't clearly codify the difference between GenAI (ab)uses and benign uses of ML.
Setting a precedent that models are infringing derived work could be abused, e.g. spammers could make a case that antispam filters are illegal, because model weights were derived from their precious copyrighted spam e…

RE: https://social.mitexleo.one/@ml/116162576720495326
unboosted: it’s a fraud

This is a great accomplishment in machine learning.
I just hate that it's not called this even once in the article and video.
Everything is shoved into the buzzword AI.
But there is no general artificial intelligence here.
It's good old fashioned ML.
https://newatlas.com/robo…

Watch: Sony's insane autonomous robot shows off 'superhuman' skills
Flying under the radar of robot hype, Sony AI's Ace has shown off its rapid-speed learning abilities that are seriously remarkable, displaying powerful split-second decision-making while taking on some of the best table tennis players – and winning.

Whoa. The schedule for #FOSSnorth is live: https://foss-north.se/2026/schedule.html
If you want to hear my new talk on how to disobey with

RE: https://loma.ml/display/373ebf56-32c1ad61-8d704fa04291d97b
Ahhhhja. CD und DVD sind also "analoge Medien". Ich glaube die DACs in den Abspielgeräten möchten da Einspruch einlegen.

It takes a village to raise a fascism. @… https://ecoevo.social/@ml/116456227378920367

Michel LeGrand - "LeGrand Jazz" (1959)
#NowPlaying

AI/ML Security
<https://openssf.org/groups/ai-ml-security/> @… @…

A clear detection of #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) on the morning of March 2 "despite the 99% illuminated Moon, morning twilight and the comet at an altitude of 4.2 degrees": https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/34974 -> "The fact that the comet is showing this much detail under such bad conditions with such bad equipment and software bodes well for what we expect will be a very nice comet in the next few months."

Выписываю вам рецепт на блины :blobcat_doctor:
Rp.: Farinae Tritici 500,0
Ovi gallini 140,0
Natrii chloridi 10,0
Natrii hydrocarbonatis 2,0
Lactis vaccini 1000 ml
Aquae coctae 300 ml
Olei Helianthi 90 ml
M. f. pasta
D. S. Внутрь, предварительно обжарив на сильно разогретой смазанной маслом сковороде 10 секунд с одной стороны, 5 секунд - с другой. Подавать со сметаной, вареньем, сгущенным молоком или сливочным маслом.

Replaced article(s) found for stat.ML. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ML/new
[1/1]:
- Convergence Rates for Non-Log-Concave Sampling and Log-Partition Estimation
David Holzm\"uller, Francis Bach

RE: https://loma.ml/display/373ebf56-595c02ae-e4e712bd0deeaf55
Sonderbare Überschrift. Wenn die Ministerin davon ausgehen würde, dass ihre Anordnung gegen Gesetze verstoßen könnte, wäre sie rechtswidrig.

The #Kreutz comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) is now in the field of view of SOHO's LASCO C3, https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/1024/latest.gif - and has only 4th magnitude or so. Here is how Lovejoy entered in 2011 which eventually did great: https://nitter.net/JAtanackov/status/2039812615988224394#m. Meanwhile here is the light curve of MAPS from PUNCH: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/35159

The future of astronomy is bright. That is not good.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260427.html

An article about using "AI" for drug discovery (that fails to distinguish ML from LLMs from…), but nicely profiles Matt Might's work!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/well/ai-drug-repurposing.html

A.I. Saved His Life by Discovering New Uses for Old Drugs
Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.

Michel LeGrand - "LeGrand Piano" (1960)
#NowPlaying #MichelLeGrand

Varant Zanoyan (co-founder of Zipline AI, creator of Chronon at Airbnb) is joining #bbuzz26 to talk feature chaining and keeping training and serving in sync at scale.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/real-time-ml-pipelines-feature-chaining-with-chronon/
Get your ticket: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/

https://vvtat.lrv.lt/lt/pavojingi-produktai/pavojingi-produktai/cbd-aliejus-30-3000-mg-10-ml-bruksninis-kodas-4779044360444-RCw/

The #Kreutz comet MAPS is now also in the field of view of the coronagraph CCOR-1: help yourself to the latest images at https://ccor.nrl.navy.mil/ccor_realtime/last_image_MinBckgnd.png (15 minute cadence). What SOHO's LASCO C3 and PUNCH's NFI see and what it all means I've just summarized the bottom of https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/artemis-ii-vor-dem-start-maps-vor-dem-perihel/ with the still growing thread https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/118640744 as the major source - in a nutshell there is still some life in this sungrazer (25 hours til perihelion!) and no evidence that it's beginning to fall apart which it will certainly do at one point.

So etwas regt mich auf: zwei Produkte der gleichen Marke, vegan, nutriscore gleich, quasi gleiche Gestaltung und Name vorne, nur unterschiedliche Größe.
Per Zufall auf die Nährwerte geschaut und gestaunt: 24,2% Zucker im Vergleich zu 17,8% Zucker, 30 kcal Unterschied.
Das ist ja fast ein Kandidat für #GoldenerWindbeutel

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CR/new
[1/2]:
- Evasion Adversarial Attacks Remain Impractical Against ML-based Network Intrusion Detection Syste...
Mohamed elShehaby, Ashraf Matrawy

Crosslisted article(s) found for stat.ML. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ML/new
[1/1]:
- Regime-Calibrated Demand Priors for Ride-Hailing Fleet Dispatch and Repositioning
Indar Kumar, Akanksha Tiwari

The *other* potentially quite interesting April #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) has been recovered in morning twilight: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/34973 - it "has brightened nicely since my last observation on February 9 when it was in evening twilight at magnitude 13.3, magnitude calculations on the mornings of February 27/28 found the comet at magnitude 11.1 and 10.7 but I am sure the coma is a lot bigger and not fully reflected in these magnitude measurements."

But bigger picture, I do find it highly credible — likely, even — to imagine that once people settle on specific use cases for LLMs that actually deliver some kind of real value for them…
(however many or few such use cases might exist, no comment on that in this thread)
…then they’ll be able to develop more focused ML models that provide equal or better performance for that specific task with hardware requirements that are multiple •orders of magnitude• smaller…

The second day of #UndoneCS starts with the talk “Explainable AI as a consequence of target system ignorance in Machine Learning” by Clément Arlotti.
https://www.undonecs.org/2026/programme.html

The second day of #UndoneCS starts with the talk “Explainable AI as a consequence of target system ignorance in Machine Learning” by Clément Arlotti.
https://www.undonecs.org/2026/programme.html

🪪 The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text
#llm #ml

After lunch, #UndoneCS continues with the first keynote by
Payal Arora: “Building Inclusive Datasets: From Values to Design.”
https://www.undonecs.org/2026/programme.html#arora

on my blog!
one page of async Rust
https://dotat.at/@/2026-02-16-async.html
what is the least boilerplate needed to make a minimal async runtime?

TIL: Im #Pankow|er Bürgerpark gab (und gibt!) es eine offenbar private Parkbücherei, vgl. https://www.fuerpankow.de/parkbuecherei.html
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-U0721-0007 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 (…

Replaced article(s) found for stat.ML. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ML/new
[1/1]:
- Accumulated Aggregated D-Optimal Designs for Estimating Main Effects in Black-Box Models
Chih-Yu Chang, Ming-Chung Chang

Internal memo: CNN hires Chris Wiggins, who was chief data scientist at the NYT for more than a decade, for a newly created role as head of ML and AI science (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/cnn-chris-wiggins-head-ai-machine-lea…

CNN Hires NY Times Chief Data Scientist Chris Wiggins to Head AI Team
CNN hired Chris Wiggins, former chief data scientist at the New York Times, for a newly created role as head of machine learning and AI science.

Just had a "software engineer specializing on full stack AI/ML development" show up in the ngscopeclient dev chat, give like two lines of what looked like human generated feedback on the CI/build setup, then descend into AI slop completely misunderstanding the infrastructure.
What is the world coming to...

A work friend said this to me today, in the middle of continued reorg chaos
> Piffle. When things blow up I expect you will extend an invitation to build rad slow tech normal ass ML and FST based products for people who need them
Reader, my heart grew three sizes

I am tackeling my next project in moving away from #BigTech and #USTech companies. This one is one that is really hard for me, and that pains me a bit: I'm moving away from #GitHub - it's…

@… my context was:
― the The AI/ML Security Working Group.
The working group is an Open Source Security Foundation project. The OpenSSF is a project of the Linux Foundation.
If you must use extreme, inflammatory phrases such as "the beast" and "shitcan" in the future:
― be clearer about the meanings.
Cc

Crosslisted article(s) found for stat.ML. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.ML/new
[1/1]:
- Decision-Focused Federated Learning Under Heterogeneous Objectives and Constraints
Konstantinos Ziliaskopoulos, Alexander Vinel

Hierarchic-EEG2Text: Assessing EEG-To-Text Decoding across Hierarchical Abstraction Levels
Anupam Sharma, Harish Katti, Prajwal Singh, Shanmuganathan Raman, Krishna Miyapuram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20932 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20932 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20932
arXiv:2602.20932v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: An electroencephalogram (EEG) records the spatially averaged electrical activity of neurons in the brain, measured from the human scalp. Prior studies have explored EEG-based classification of objects or concepts, often for passive viewing of briefly presented image or video stimuli, with limited classes. Because EEG exhibits a low signal-to-noise ratio, recognizing fine-grained representations across a large number of classes remains challenging; however, abstract-level object representations may exist. In this work, we investigate whether EEG captures object representations across multiple hierarchical levels, and propose episodic analysis, in which a Machine Learning (ML) model is evaluated across various, yet related, classification tasks (episodes). Unlike prior episodic EEG studies that rely on fixed or randomly sampled classes of equal cardinality, we adopt hierarchy-aware episode sampling using WordNet to generate episodes with variable classes of diverse hierarchy. We also present the largest episodic framework in the EEG domain for detecting observed text from EEG signals in the PEERS dataset, comprising $931538$ EEG samples under $1610$ object labels, acquired from $264$ human participants (subjects) performing controlled cognitive tasks, enabling the study of neural dynamics underlying perception, decision-making, and performance monitoring.
We examine how the semantic abstraction level affects classification performance across multiple learning techniques and architectures, providing a comprehensive analysis. The models tend to improve performance when the classification categories are drawn from higher levels of the hierarchy, suggesting sensitivity to abstraction. Our work highlights abstraction depth as an underexplored dimension of EEG decoding and motivates future research in this direction.
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This image shows the #Kreutz comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) "on a stack build from (star subtracted) difference images [from the PUNCH satellites] between March 26, 7:28 UT and 13:36 UT. The visible tail extends to about 6 degrees" - but the recent brightness surge has levelled off at about 8.8 mag.: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/35114

After lunch, #UndoneCS continues with the first keynote by
Payal Arora: “Building Inclusive Datasets: From Values to Design.”
https://www.undonecs.org/2026/programme.html#arora

'Artemis I: Flight Day 13' From the #NASA_App :
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260131.html

65 years of the first human spaceflight, incredible. Always great to read Anatoly Zak's website:
https://russianspaceweb.com/vostok1.html

World's first orbital flight
Mission of the Vostok spacecraft

For fuck’s sake, this is one of the few ways Palestinians can get/use money from the West currently.
They are trying to choke any and all means of helping them.
Genocide isn’t just bombing and shooting people, it’s also removing the conditions for life.
And so many beyond the ones pulling the triggers in occupied Palestine are complicit in that.
#israel

Fuck paypal - Lemmy
Lemmy

Whoa, what has the #Kreutz comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) done now?!? Photometry from images by the outer corona observing satellite constellation PUNCH - by Thomas Lehmann; https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/35106 - shows a sudden increase in coma brightness ... whatever that means for the apparently quite fragile nucleus. PUNCH can follow the comet closer to the Sun than ground-based observers who will lose sight by month's end.

On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs - Open for research home #dataset - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-data.html

On 16WW Data Collections and Graphs
Open for research home #dataset

Machine Learning techniques are upending multiple scientific fields. Operational 5-day forecasting of air quality in 1 minute in this paper from Chinese researchers.
This is awesome work with very clear public health implications.
EDIT for clarity: I am.not suggesting LLMs have anything to do with this work, but many people hear AI and imagine LLMs. And many of them.are perhaps rightly sceptical of AI as a result.
But AI or ML techniques can be useful for lots of things, not just chatbots. And we should probably invest more in those.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10234-y

MadSpace -- Event Generation for the Era of GPUs and ML
Theo Heimel, Olivier Mattelaer, Ramon Winterhalder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06895 https://arxiv.o…

Whatever eagerly awaited #Kreutz #comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) is up to - see also https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/118409957 and https://nitter.net/JAtanackov/status/2035718257060036738 and https://scicomm.xyz/@qicheng@cometary.org/116262858373488354 - less than two weeks from perihelion, it has developed a long plasma tail now: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=25816609931372735 (Rhemann & Jäger yesterday with a 12 inch telescope; full and detail).

Prune, Don't Rebuild: Efficiently Tuning $\alpha$-Reachable Graphs for Nearest Neighbor Search
Tian Zhang, Ashwin Padaki, Jiaming Liang, Zack Ives, Erik Waingarten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08097 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08097 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08097
arXiv:2602.08097v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vector similarity search is an essential primitive in modern AI and ML applications. Most vector databases adopt graph-based approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search algorithms, such as DiskANN (Subramanya et al., 2019), which have demonstrated state-of-the-art empirical performance. DiskANN's graph construction is governed by a reachability parameter $\alpha$, which gives a trade-off between construction time, query time, and accuracy. However, adaptively tuning this trade-off typically requires rebuilding the index for different $\alpha$ values, which is prohibitive at scale. In this work, we propose RP-Tuning, an efficient post-hoc routine, based on DiskANN's pruning step, to adjust the $\alpha$ parameter without reconstructing the full index. Within the $\alpha$-reachability framework of prior theoretical works (Indyk and Xu, 2023; Gollapudi et al., 2025), we prove that pruning an initially $\alpha$-reachable graph with RP-Tuning preserves worst-case reachability guarantees in general metrics and improved guarantees in Euclidean metrics. Empirically, we show that RP-Tuning accelerates DiskANN tuning on four public datasets by up to $43\times$ with negligible overhead.
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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@11011110/116308526898756191
I think it is a bit funny (but only a bit) to observe the wild west that is happening at these big CS/ML conferences: Everything relies heavily on LLMs: the papers, the reviews, all paperwork, etc. Everybody is trying to trick everybody else. Dog eat dog.
Does anybody read the papers ever? Is this still science or just the game for an accepted submission at ICML which then secures a coveted job?

[2026-04-24 Fri (UTC), 10 new articles found for stat.ML Machine Learning]
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Preliminary Nucleus Size Estimate for #Kreutz Sungrazer C/2026 A1 (MAPS): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ae5220 -> "JWST imagery of the approaching Kreutz sungrazer C/2026 A1 (MAPS) appears sufficient to distinguish the comet’s nucleus from the surrounding dust. Coma model fitting indicates the morphology is compatible with a ∼0.4 km diameter nucleus—likely larger than those of the minor Kreutz fragments routinely discovered with coronagraphs, and comparable to or slightly smaller than that of C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy). However, since C/2026 A1 is the only Kreutz sungrazer whose nucleus has been directly observed, these comparisons should be treated with caution" -> https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/35035 / https://scicomm.xyz/@qicheng@cometary.org/116245251072721081

Prospects for #Comet C/2026 A1 MAPS - a comet with a narrow tail in the evening twilight, with uncertain but potentially high brightness? https://hdr-astrophotography.com -> Tail simulations for comet MAPS: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/34888 - in order not to depend on a single prediction, i have simulated different scenarii.

The #Kreutz #comet #MAPS "has become more than 1 mag brighter between March 6 and 9" and stands at 10.5 mag. right now: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/35019 and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2374472359736249 with the latest picture by Jäger & Rhemann here - less than 4 weeks til perihelion, and the brightness continues to rise with a strong n~8 ...