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The whole "we need better AI criticism" is a bit like "we need better AI regulation".
The actual statement is: The existing criticism/regulation is in my way, we need something that let's me do what I want.

Titans' Calvin Ridley says Cam Ward has that 'f--- it' mentality that quarterbacks need

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/titans-

"The places that need to worry are those that look vulnerable or unlikely to fight back. Greenland may fall into that category — which suggests that Denmark and the EU need to find ways of letting Trump know that there will be a price to pay if he makes a move on the island"
Trump always chickens out on foreign policy too - https://on.ft.com/458Z5FI v

I know folks here dump on WAPO but my wife likes this columnist, Anne Lamott, and this column is pretty good. I hope the guest link works.
“The one thing liberals need to address before the June parade
Putting Biden’s head on a stake is not helpful.”
Opinion by Anne Lamott
https://wapo.st/4jqeQLP…

The one thing liberals need to address before the June parade
Putting Biden’s head on a stake is not helpful.

Do you need inspiration how to present a dataset in a clear figure and what package to use? Check out #rstats

From data to Viz | Find the graphic you need
A classification of chart types based on their input data format.

What do professional software developers need to know to succeed in an age of Artificial Intelligence?
Matthew Kam, Cody Miller, Miaoxin Wang, Abey Tidwell, Irene A. Lee, Joyce Malyn-Smith, Beatriz Perez, Vikram Tiwari, Joshua Kenitzer, Andrew Macvean, Erin Barrar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00202…

What do professional software developers need to know to succeed in an age of Artificial Intelligence?
Generative AI is showing early evidence of productivity gains for software developers, but concerns persist regarding workforce disruption and deskilling. We describe our research with 21 developers at the cutting edge of using AI, summarizing 12 of their work goals we uncovered, together with 75 associated tasks and the skills & knowledge for each, illustrating how developers use AI at work. From all of these, we distilled our findings in the form of 5 insights. We found that the skills & know…

Cowboys need more from Tyler Guyton, and he's making significant changes to improve https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6398198/2025/06/03/dallas-cowboys-tyler-guyton-otas/

*has personally ordered satellite imagery to be captured and delivered voice* you know you don't need to be a nation state to get satellite imagery right? it starts at six hundred bucks. you, dear reader, can buy some

I may need to get back to doing illustrations again since it's been about a year that I took a break...
Hand drawn stuff (even if digitally) might be the future of human art with all this AI bullshit going on.
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/projects/illustrations/

Illustrations
In March 2024 I started doing sketches on an iPad using Procreate and an Apple Pencil. As of writing this it's May 2024 and I'm still doing it. I'll try to keep this page updated with new illustrations as they are completed. Each illustration links to a page with more info about it, and some [...]

I need a new #carryon #luggage, a #trolley and I want your opinions:
I'm leaning towards 2 wheels (in contrast to 4 or 8 wheels) because:
- better on rough surface
- doesn't float around in …

Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on "a 50% chance" of AGI in the next five to 10 years, bad actors and technical risks, AI regulation, jobs, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmin

Google DeepMind’s CEO Thinks AI Will Make Humans Less Selfish
Demis Hassabis says that systems as smart as humans are almost here, and we’ll need to radically change how we think and behave.

The One Player the Raiders Need to Trade Before 2025 Season Revealed https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/michael-mayer-trade-rumors-br/?adt_ei=[email]

All You Need Is Binary Search! A Practical View on Lightweight Database Indexing on GPUs
Justus Henneberg, Felix Schuhknecht
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01576

All You Need Is Binary Search! A Practical View on Lightweight Database Indexing on GPUs
Performing binary search on a sorted dense array is a widely used baseline when benchmarking sophisticated index structures: It is simple, fast to build, and indexes the dataset with minimal memory footprint. However, the popular opinion is that it cannot compete with sophisticated indexes in terms of lookup performance, and hence, should not actually be considered in practice. Interestingly, in our recent works on (even more sophisticated) GPU-resident index structures, we observed the surpr…

Huntsman may need to be irradiated
Shunyi Lan, Xiangcun Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00537 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.00537…

Huntsman may need to be irradiated
Millisecond pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars, and it is now widely accepted that their extremely short rotation periods result from the accretion of material from a companion star. Binary evolution theory predicts that millisecond pulsars can have various types of companion stars. However, in observations, binary pulsars with giant companions, referred to as ``huntsman pulsars'', are extremely rare. Following the initial discovery of the first huntsman pulsar, 1FGL J1417.7-4407, a sec…

I wish Mastodon had a block with note and request unblock button. Some people I’m not mad at but were annoying and I want them to fix that before they interact further. I don’t need to send them the message but I do want them to be able to find it.

NaaS – No-as-a-Service
No-as-a-Service (NaaS) is a simple API that returns a random rejection reason. Use it when you need a realistic excuse, a fun “no,” or want to simulate being turned down in style.
– from @…
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GitHub - hotheadhacker/no-as-a-service: No-as-a-Service (NaaS) is a simple API that returns a random rejection reason. Use it when you need a realistic excuse, a fun “no,” or want to simulate being turned down in style.
No-as-a-Service (NaaS) is a simple API that returns a random rejection reason. Use it when you need a realistic excuse, a fun “no,” or want to simulate being turned down in style. - hotheadhacker/n...

If LLMs were so good at writing code, they wouldn’t need a new thought leader yelling about them every day.
They might be. At this point, I do not care. Lots of people (including, most recently, Ptacek, Yegge, etc.) are trying to sell me something and I have no interest in listening.
If your thing is good, show, don’t tell.
But it’s not, is it?
These articles… you’re not trying to convince me, you’re trying to convince yourselves.
So please: keep them to yoursel…

Israeli soldiers on Monday blocked an international media tour organized by No Other Land directors in the West Bank, citing the need to maintain order (Nick Vivarelli/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/no-…

'No Other Land' Press Tour of West Bank Village Halted by Israeli Army
The Israeli army has blocked journalists from visiting the village featured in Palestinian Oscar winner 'No Other Land' amid escalating violence.

Trump rescinds Emtala guidance protecting women in need of emergency abortions (Carter Sherman/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/03/trump-admin-emergency-abortion-emtala
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p135#a250603p135

"Specieswatch: freshwater pearl mussel is threatened by disappearing habitat"
#Environment #Animals

Does Anarchy Need Leaders? | #NowWatching

🇬🇧 I know there are a lot of experts here on uploading custom software to phones and I need help - during a move I found a #Samsung #GalaxyNote3 in great condition, however, its official software is long out of date by the manufacturer, I would like to give it a second life by uploading some C…

You want to use a #StaticSiteGenerator and need to support #multilingual sites? It’s now easier than ever! For quite a while, #Pelican had a great plugin for that use case. Now I helped migrate it …

I just took the dogs out to do their business and I don't think that I'm going to need to water the plants at all today. #Milwaukee #Moist

#Sonnenstürme verkürzen die Lebensdauer von #Starlink-Satelliten und lassen sie schneller zur Erde zurückkehren.
Durch erhöhte #Atmosphärendichte steigt der Luftwiderstan…

Tracking Reentries of Starlink Satellites During the Rising Phase of Solar Cycle 25
The exponential increase of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites in the past 5 years has brought into intense focus the need for reliable monitoring and reentry prediction to safeguard from space collisions and ground debris impacts. However, LEO satellites fly within the upper atmosphere region that exerts significant drag forces to their orbits, reducing their lifetimes, and increasing collision risks during dynamic events, like geomagnetic storms. Such conditions can become more severe during ge…

For the last month or so I've been working on seeing how far I can push CircuitPython into emulating a TB-303 bass synth. With the new audiofilters library, you can "stack" filters to make two two-pole filters seem like a 4-pole filter, getting close to that squelchy sound we need. My efforts so far:
https://www.youtube…

For the last month or so I've been working on seeing how far I can push CircuitPython into emulating a TB-303 bass synth. With the new audiofilters library, you can "stack" filters to make two two-pole filters seem like a 4-pole filter, getting close to that squelchy sound we need. My efforts so far:
https://www.youtube…

Fun fact: did you know the Switch 2 is merely an upgrade to the Switch so if you already have the Switch you don’t really need a Switch 2?

S\"{o}ze: One Network Telemetry Is All You Need for Per-flow Weighted Bandwidth Allocation at Scale
Weitao Wang, T. S. Eugene Ng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00834

Söze: One Network Telemetry Is All You Need for Per-flow Weighted Bandwidth Allocation at Scale
Weighted bandwidth allocation is a powerful abstraction that has a wide range of use cases in modern data center networks. However, realizing highly agile and precise weighted bandwidth allocation for large-scale cloud environments is fundamentally challenging. In this paper, we propose Söze, a lightweight decentralized weighted bandwidth allocation system that leverages simple network telemetry features of commodity Ethernet switches. Given the flow weights, Söze can effectively use the tele…

We get 300 applicants for every job posting & if a candidate has job-hopped every year, why would I hire & train them knowing that I'm going to have to rehire & retrain the role again in a year? #facts
✅ Is Job Hopping Bad for the Careers of Gen Zers? | Teen Vogue

Is Job Hopping Bad for the Careers of Gen Zers? We Asked Experts for Their Insight
We spoke to experts about how to address job changes during interviews, and whether you really need to stick it out for a year.

Figured I'd post a picture of the Honeycomb Aeronautical Charlie Rudder Pedal. Pretty solid, but I need to figure out how to keep it from moving or to reduce the resistance of the pedals. Should be fairly straightforward.
#gaming #pedals

We need people like Matthew Cassel and Kyri Evangelou that are able to stand with a straight face when being in the middle of this. But what face can the rest of us afford to have?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/…

"You must have a market for interesting jobs, good housing, and a market to switch partners. Because people do that too"
#sovereignity #North

What will the positive consequences of the antagonist's plan be, if they are successful?
#amwriting #amwritingscifi #creativewriting

How to prepare for a 8h train ride: go running.
Now of to Prague to #FlockToFedora; looking forward to meet a lot of old friends there and make new ones.
Ohh, and I give a talk there, too: When and how to use upstream Linux kernels to fix or improve Fedora –

What unexpected tools should be in a IT toolbox? Things you wouldn't expect to need (ie. Not screwdrivers, cable tester, etc).
I'll go first: A bent paperclip.
#IT
#Tools
#Toolbox

Companies House have just sent me an email telling me that because of new laws, I need to verify my identity. So I leapt into action. There follows an open letter.
Dear Companies House.
The questions "Do you have a passport?" and "Do you have your passport on you in the office right now?" are different fucking questions and you should clarify which you mean before you direct me down an irreversible cul-de-sac in your application's verification logic.

It’s wild growing up under constant ridicule from the neurotypicals for being at the computer all the time instead of playing outside, to then two decades later witness them all anthropomorphize statistical models and act like they’re “friends”, not a vehicle for capitalism’s need for control over the consumer.

Woo, nice find by my wife in a charity shop this morning! Now I just need to find time to read it. (How To Build A Car, by Adrian Newey)

'He's got an aura about him': Panthers need 'Turk' Wharton's championship experience to boost D https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45441385/nfl-carolina-panthers-tershawn-turk-wharton

Trump's budget eliminating funding for #IMLS --and so many other critical federal programs-- means we can't wait for court cases to proceed, but need to keep the pressure on our elected officials to stop this budgetary assault on our country. I just called my representative and senators and hope that you all will as well.

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An End-to-End Approach for Child Reading Assessment in the Xhosa Language
Child literacy is a strong predictor of life outcomes at the subsequent stages of an individual's life. This points to a need for targeted interventions in vulnerable low and middle income populations to help bridge the gap between literacy levels in these regions and high income ones. In this effort, reading assessments provide an important tool to measure the effectiveness of these programs and AI can be a reliable and economical tool to support educators with this task. Developing accurate a…

Finished streaming #Paradise. A 2nd season has been confirmed and I'm looking forward to it. The characters are intriguing and the VFX are great. Nothing too fancy on the surface, mostly digital landscape stuff and set extensions. But those are actually hard because you need an incredible amount of detail to get the "CG look" out of CG towns and landscapes.
They also went cra…

I don’t need a cute little branded tote bag
I don’t need a cute little branded tote bag
I don’t need a cute little branded tote bag
I don’t need a cute little branded tote bag
I don’t need a cute little branded tote bag
If I say it enough times I’ll believe it right?

@… maybe we need an ICP intense clown possum

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Do ATCOs Need Explanations, and Why? Towards ATCO-Centered Explainable AI for Conflict Resolution Advisories
Interest in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is surging. Prior research has primarily focused on systems' ability to generate explanations, often guided by researchers' intuitions rather than end-users' needs. Unfortunately, such approaches have not yielded favorable outcomes when compared to a black-box baseline (i.e., no explanation). To address this gap, this paper advocates a human-centered approach that shifts focus to air traffic controllers (ATCOs) by asking a fundamental yet ov…

Common Corpus: The Largest Collection of Ethical Data for LLM Pre-Training
Pierre-Carl Langlais, Carlos Rosas Hinostroza, Mattia Nee, Catherine Arnett, Pavel Chizhov, Eliot Krzystof Jones, Ir\`ene Girard, David Mach, Anastasia Stasenko, Ivan P. Yamshchikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01732

Common Corpus: The Largest Collection of Ethical Data for LLM Pre-Training
Large Language Models (LLMs) are pre-trained on large amounts of data from different sources and domains. These data most often contain trillions of tokens with large portions of copyrighted or proprietary content, which hinders the usage of such models under AI legislation. This raises the need for truly open pre-training data that is compliant with the data security regulations. In this paper, we introduce Common Corpus, the largest open dataset for language model pre-training. The data assem…

In the responses to my #rp25 talk this year I got a lot of "Now digital rights organizations are libertarian? When did that change?" and I am sorry to say that digital rights discourse has been imbued with if not based on libertarian belief systems since the beginning. That is the heritage we need to move beyond.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says Democrats need to take a page from Donald Trump’s own playbook.
“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner,” the former vice presidential hopeful said during a speech at the South Carolina Democratic Party’s annual convention in Columbia, South Carolina.
“Maybe it’s time for us to be a little more fierce because we have to ferociously push back on this.”
“When it’s a bully like Donald Trump, you bully the s--t out of him,” Walz added

Walz Tells Dems to ‘Bully the S**t’ Out of Trump or Risk Becoming ‘Roadkill’
The former vice presidential candidate doled out harsh words for both the president and his own party.

✊ Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
#politics…

Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
As he visits the US for the first time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise, writes about the collapse of triumphal capitalist narratives and sets out an alternative vision for humanity that can save us from a dystopian future.

I don't use linux solely because of privacy. The biggest reason is because I want an OS that works. I need something that doesn't hinder my work. #linux #arch #archlinux

Calamus 20 I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing
What a heartaching poem of loneliness and the need for the love of another! Just wonderful. I understand now why this poem is so popular, particularly as a gay poem. It is full of meaning and is quite clear about it.
I wondered how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near—for I knew I could not
There's a more cerebral interpretation of this work, particularly if you understand "leaves" to mean "pages in my poetry book Leaves of Grass". Whitman talking about his own poetic inspiration from lovers.
Which well enough. But I'm more interested in Whitman's expressed need for "manly love". Which is clearly on his mind constantly:
my own dear friends ... I believe lately I think of little else than of them
Also Whitman's own eroticization of nature and himself. Here speaking of the tree,
its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself

A double selection entanglement distillation-based state estimator
Joshua Carlo A. Casapao, Ananda G. Maity, Naphan Benchasattabuse, Michal Hajdu\v{s}ek, Akihito Soeda, Rodney Van Meter, David Elkouss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24280

A double selection entanglement distillation-based state estimator
With the advent of practical quantum communication networks drawing closer, there is a growing need for reliable estimation protocols that can efficiently characterize quantum resources with minimum resource overhead requirement. A novel approach to this problem is to integrate an estimator into an existing network task, thereby removing the need for an additional characterization protocol. In this work, we show that the measurement statistics of a double selection distillation protocol alone c…

BitBypass: A New Direction in Jailbreaking Aligned Large Language Models with Bitstream Camouflage
Kalyan Nakka, Nitesh Saxena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02479

BitBypass: A New Direction in Jailbreaking Aligned Large Language Models with Bitstream Camouflage
The inherent risk of generating harmful and unsafe content by Large Language Models (LLMs), has highlighted the need for their safety alignment. Various techniques like supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning from human feedback, and red-teaming were developed for ensuring the safety alignment of LLMs. However, the robustness of these aligned LLMs is always challenged by adversarial attacks that exploit unexplored and underlying vulnerabilities of the safety alignment. In this paper, we …

A Multi-agent LLM-based JUit Test Generation with Strong Oracles
Qinghua Xu, Guancheng Wang, Lionel Briand, Kui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02943 https:…

A Multi-agent LLM-based JUit Test Generation with Strong Oracles
Unit testing plays a critical role in ensuring software correctness. However, writing unit tests manually is laborious, especially for strong typed languages like Java, motivating the need for automated approaches. Traditional methods primarily rely on search-based or randomized algorithms to generate tests that achieve high code coverage and produce regression oracles, which are derived from the program's current behavior rather than its intended functionality. Recent advances in large languag…

We need something like iWeb for many things… Bento was another nice piece of software of the same vein… And of course HyperCard. That’s the Apple I miss the most.
https://stefanbohacek.online/@discontinued/114615179591160763

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FF-SRL: High Performance GPU-Based Surgical Simulation For Robot Learning
Robotic surgery is a rapidly developing field that can greatly benefit from the automation of surgical tasks. However, training techniques such as Reinforcement Learning (RL) require a high number of task repetitions, which are generally unsafe and impractical to perform on real surgical systems. This stresses the need for simulated surgical environments, which are not only realistic, but also computationally efficient and scalable. We introduce FF-SRL (Fast and Flexible Surgical Reinforcement …

My TrueNAS server is reporting one of the disks I got just two months ago with "CRITICAL: 10 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors" which seems bad...
It's a WD disk and there should be a two year warranty on it, so I may need to look into replacing it.
Self hosting really is Tamagotchi for Nerds.
#truenas

I need to become engulfed in softness on a physical, mental, and spiritual level

Initial default PCB layout for the switch engine board.
Surprisingly simple, the UltraRAM means I should be able to keep the entire switch's buffering on chip and not need any external RAM. So most of the HP I/Os are completely unused.

Integrating Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments: A Comparative Study of Perceived Needs among Open Universities in Five Southeast Asian Countries
Roberto Bacani Figueroa Jr, Mai Huong Nguyen, Aliza Ali, Lugsamee Nuamthanom Kimura, Marisa Marisa, Ami Hibatul Jameel, Luisa Almeda Gelisan
https://arxiv.org/abs/25…

Integrating Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments: A Comparative Study of Perceived Needs among Open Universities in Five Southeast Asian Countries
Amid the growing need to keep learners abreast of rapid technological advancements brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, this study explores perceived needs of students in virtual learning environments supported by emerging technologies. A survey was conducted across five leading open universities in Southeast Asia. The study aimed to identify student preferences regarding features of their virtual learning environments that could better prepare them as productive citizens and prof…

Adaptive Configuration Selection for Multi-Model Inference Pipelines in Edge Computing
Jinhao Sheng, Zhiqing Tang, Jianxiong Guo, Tian Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02814

Adaptive Configuration Selection for Multi-Model Inference Pipelines in Edge Computing
The growing demand for real-time processing tasks is driving the need for multi-model inference pipelines on edge devices. However, cost-effectively deploying these pipelines while optimizing Quality of Service (QoS) and costs poses significant challenges. Existing solutions often neglect device resource constraints, focusing mainly on inference accuracy and cost efficiency. To address this, we develop a framework for configuring multi-model inference pipelines. Specifically: 1) We model the de…

“i need everyone in the white house press pool to ask karoline leavitt if the president thinks joe biden is a clone or a robot. he can’t be both! we need to know which one he thinks it is.” https://bsky.app/profile/socialistdogmom.bsky.social/post/3lqj7isldfs2y…

Without much proven production behind Jakobi Meyers, Raiders rookie WRs have a shot https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45444580/las-vegas-raiders-2025-outlook-receivers

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Do Large Language Models (Really) Need Statistical Foundations?
Large language models (LLMs) represent a new paradigm for processing unstructured data, with applications across an unprecedented range of domains. In this paper, we address, through two arguments, whether the development and application of LLMs would genuinely benefit from foundational contributions from the statistics discipline. First, we argue affirmatively, beginning with the observation that LLMs are inherently statistical models due to their profound data dependency and stochastic genera…

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Grace Period is All You Need: Individual Fairness without Revenue Loss in Revenue Management
Imagine you and a friend purchase identical items at a store, yet only your friend received a discount. Would your friend's discount make you feel unfairly treated by the store? And would you be less willing to purchase from that store again in the future? Based on a large-scale online survey that we ran on Prolific, it turns out that the answers to the above questions are positive. Therefore, when allocating resources to different customers, sellers should consider both the total reward and in…

Curate, Connect, Inquire: A System for Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Human-Robot Centered Datasets
Xingru Zhou, Sadanand Modak, Yao-Cheng Chan, Zhiyun Deng, Luis Sentis, Maria Esteva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00220

Curate, Connect, Inquire: A System for Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Human-Robot Centered Datasets
The rapid growth of AI in robotics has amplified the need for high-quality, reusable datasets, particularly in human-robot interaction (HRI) and AI-embedded robotics. While more robotics datasets are being created, the landscape of open data in the field is uneven. This is due to a lack of curation standards and consistent publication practices, which makes it difficult to discover, access, and reuse robotics data. To address these challenges, this paper presents a curation and access system wi…

Conclusions from the excellent #AlternativeDefenceReview
https://cnduk.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ADR-digital.pdf

I pay $50/yr for @… and at some point (once it's fully baked), I'm going to be paying $100/yr for @… but I don't feel like I use it enough. I need to remedy that.

Xbox Games Showcase & The Outer Worlds 2 Direct... streaming this Sunday!
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/06/02/xbox-games-showcase-2025-outer-worlds-2-direct-how-to-watch/

How to Watch the Xbox Games Showcase and The Outer Worlds 2 Direct on Sunday - Xbox Wire
This Sunday, it’s time for another huge double feature. The Xbox Games Showcase 2025 kicks off on June 8, immediately followed by The Outer Worlds 2 Direct. Here's everything you need to know.

What will the positive consequences of the antagonist's plan be, if they are successful?
#amwriting #amwritingscifi #creativewriting

So, completed the first flight with the new controls. They are _significantly_ different than the setup that I have for _Elite: Dangerous_ which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Once I managed to get used to the control scheme the flight was pretty smooth.
Unfortunately I'm gonna need to practice landing and using the rudder pedals a lot because the landing was one of the absolute worst yet. The passengers were not amused, but since we all lived they should be grateful.
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I honestly don’t get how this is possible in 2025.
There’s no excuse for not having protected backups of everything critical. That was true 30 years ago, it is true today. Back then a bigger piece of the risk was hardware, less malware. Today it is unlikely for a disk failure to take your data because we all learned that RAID was worthwhile. But RAID is not a backup and backups today need to be resistant to intentional malicious deletion.

It doesn't take much to create a #fedi alternative to #Linkedin. We just need structured profiles (featuring experience and education) and posts (that let people know if they could still apply or position is taken).

Alignment Revisited: Are Large Language Models Consistent in Stated and Revealed Preferences?
Zhuojun Gu, Quan Wang, Shuchu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00751

Alignment Revisited: Are Large Language Models Consistent in Stated and Revealed Preferences?
Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) highlight the need to align their behaviors with human values. A critical, yet understudied, issue is the potential divergence between an LLM's stated preferences (its reported alignment with general principles) and its revealed preferences (inferred from decisions in contextualized scenarios). Such deviations raise fundamental concerns for the interpretability, trustworthiness, reasoning transparency, and ethical deployment of LLMs, particularly …

It's on days like today that @…'s rain radar really comes into it's own - I've been trying to clear some admin from home, but I need to bike to the office to print a poster for this week's @… meeting in Brussels - guess I'm going to wait an hour or so then..
https://www.dmi.dk/#radar

Code-Switching and Syntax: A Large-Scale Experiment
Igor Sterner, Simone Teufel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01846 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Code-Switching and Syntax: A Large-Scale Experiment
The theoretical code-switching (CS) literature provides numerous pointwise investigations that aim to explain patterns in CS, i.e. why bilinguals switch language in certain positions in a sentence more often than in others. A resulting consensus is that CS can be explained by the syntax of the contributing languages. There is however no large-scale, multi-language, cross-phenomena experiment that tests this claim. When designing such an experiment, we need to make sure that the system that is p…

Did the Dallas Cowboys do enough to fix their massive flaw on defense? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/did-dallas-cowboys-do-enough-to-fix-massive-flaw-on-defense

Raiders Told to Trade for Former Browns 1st-Round Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/greg-newsome-browns-trade-rumors-cb/?adt_ei=[email]

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LaSDVS : A Post-Quantum Secure Compact Strong-Designated Verifier Signature
Digital signatures are fundamental cryptographic primitives that ensure the authenticity and integrity of digital communication. However, in scenarios involving sensitive interactions -- such as e-voting or e-cash -- there is a growing need for more controlled signing mechanisms. Strong-Designated Verifier Signature (SDVS) offers such control by allowing the signer to specify and restrict the verifier of a signature. The existing state-of-the-art SDVS are mostly based on number-theoretic hardne…

Stochastic Modeling of Road Hazards on Intersections and their Effect on Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
Peter Popov, Lorenzo Strigini, Cornelius Buerkle, Fabian Oboril, Michael Paulitsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02688

Stochastic Modeling of Road Hazards on Intersections and their Effect on Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AV) look set to become common on our roads within the next few years. However, to achieve the final breakthrough, not only functional progress is required, but also satisfactory safety assurance must be provided. Among those, a question demanding special attention is the need to assess and quantify the overall safety of an AV. Such an assessment must consider on the one hand the imperfections of the AV functionality and on the other hand its interaction with the environment…

If you just need a pretty figure from a dataset and not the full power of R, have a look at #gui

SPAC: A Python Package for Spatial Single-Cell Analysis of Multiplex Imaging
Fang Liu, Rui He, Andrei Bombin, Ahmad B. Abdallah, Omar Eldaghar, Tommy R. Sheeley, Sam E. Ying, George Zaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01560

SPAC: A Python Package for Spatial Single-Cell Analysis of Multiplex Imaging
Multiplexed immunofluorescence microscopy captures detailed measurements of spatially resolved, multiple biomarkers simultaneously, revealing tissue composition and cellular interactions in situ among single cells. The growing scale and dimensional complexity of these datasets demand reproducible, comprehensive and user-friendly computational tools. To address this need, we developed SPAC (SPAtial single-Cell analysis), a Python-based package and a corresponding shiny application within an inte…

Navigating the Edge-Cloud Continuum: A State-of-Practice Survey
Loris Belcastro, Fabrizio Marozzo, Alessio Orsino, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02003

Navigating the Edge-Cloud Continuum: A State-of-Practice Survey
The edge-cloud continuum has emerged as a transformative paradigm that meets the growing demand for low-latency, scalable, end-to-end service delivery by integrating decentralized edge resources with centralized cloud infrastructures. Driven by the exponential growth of IoT-generated data and the need for real-time responsiveness, this continuum features multi-layered architectures. However, its adoption is hindered by infrastructural challenges, fragmented standards, and limited guidance for d…

Innovative Tangible Interactive Games for Enhancing Artificial Intelligence Knowledge and Literacy in Elementary Education: A Pedagogical Framework
Nikolaos Sampanis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00651

Innovative Tangible Interactive Games for Enhancing Artificial Intelligence Knowledge and Literacy in Elementary Education: A Pedagogical Framework
This paper presents an innovative pedagogical framework employing tangible interactive games to enhance artificial intelligence (AI) knowledge and literacy among elementary education students. Recognizing the growing importance of AI competencies in the 21st century, this study addresses the critical need for age-appropriate, experiential learning tools that demystify core AI concepts for young learners. The proposed approach integrates physical role-playing activities that embody fundamental A…

Ethical AI: Towards Defining a Collective Evaluation Framework
Aasish Kumar Sharma, Dimitar Kyosev, Julian Kunkel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00233 https://…

Ethical AI: Towards Defining a Collective Evaluation Framework
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming sectors such as healthcare, finance, and autonomous systems, offering powerful tools for innovation. Yet its rapid integration raises urgent ethical concerns related to data ownership, privacy, and systemic bias. Issues like opaque decision-making, misleading outputs, and unfair treatment in high-stakes domains underscore the need for transparent and accountable AI systems. This article addresses these challenges by proposing a modular ethical assess…

3 breakout candidates to watch for the Cowboys this season https://insidethestar.com/dallas-cowboys-2025-breakout-candidates-3-players-to-watch

Tunable Virtual IMU Frame by Weighted Averaging of Multiple Non-Collocated IMUs
Yizhou Gao, Tim Barfoot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00371 https://

Tunable Virtual IMU Frame by Weighted Averaging of Multiple Non-Collocated IMUs
We present a new method to combine several rigidly connected but physically separated IMUs through a weighted average into a single virtual IMU (VIMU). This has the benefits of (i) reducing process noise through averaging, and (ii) allowing for tuning the location of the VIMU. The VIMU can be placed to be coincident with, for example, a camera frame or GNSS frame, thereby offering a quality-of-life improvement for users. Specifically, our VIMU removes the need to consider any lever-arm terms in…

Asymmetry by Design: Boosting Cyber Defenders with Differential Access to AI
Shaun Ee, Chris Covino, Cara Labrador, Christina Krawec, Jam Kraprayoon, Joe O'Brien
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02035

Asymmetry by Design: Boosting Cyber Defenders with Differential Access to AI
As AI-enabled cyber capabilities become more advanced, we propose "differential access" as a strategy to tilt the cybersecurity balance toward defense by shaping access to these capabilities. We introduce three possible approaches that form a continuum, becoming progressively more restrictive for higher-risk capabilities: Promote Access, Manage Access, and Deny by Default. However, a key principle across all approaches is the need to prioritize defender access, even in the most restrictive scen…

Even coming off a career year it’s ‘same s–t different day’ for Raiders WR Jakobi Meyers https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/03/raiders-wr-jak…

Cam Ward, Travis Hunter impress at OTAs, plus 2026 mock draft and Saquon Barkley retirement talk

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cam-war

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The Many Challenges of Human-Like Agents in Virtual Game Environments
Human-like agents are an increasingly important topic in games and beyond. Believable non-player characters enhance the gaming experience by improving immersion and providing entertainment. They also offer players the opportunity to engage with AI entities that can function as opponents, teachers, or cooperating partners. Additionally, in games where bots are prohibited -- and even more so in non-game environments -- there is a need for methods capable of identifying whether digital interaction…

Ranking Travis Hunter's chances of winning Offensive Rookie of the Year, plus top NFC minicamp storylines

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/r…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.02580 has been replaced.
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LP-ICP: General Localizability-Aware Point Cloud Registration for Robust Localization in Extreme Unstructured Environments
The Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm is a crucial component of LiDAR-based SLAM algorithms. However, its performance can be negatively affected in unstructured environments that lack features and geometric structures, leading to low accuracy and poor robustness in localization and mapping. It is known that degeneracy caused by the lack of geometric constraints can lead to errors in 6-DOF pose estimation along ill-conditioned directions. Therefore, there is a need for a broader and more f…

Raiders Urged to Trade for 115-Tackle Linebacker https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/las-vegas-raiders-urged-to-trade-for-115-tackle-linebacker/?adt_ei=[email]

2025 NFL season: Bears, Bengals, Steelers among teams trying to nix negative narratives https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-season-bears-bengals-steelers-among-teams-trying-to-nix-negative-narratives

What to watch in Raiders’ 3rd week of OTAs: Is TE ready to break out? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/what-to-watch-in-raiders-3rd-week-of-otas-is-te-ready-to-break-out-3380889/