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once again love whenever i come across an overly specific meme, like what real friend of the creator is getting ribbed here

📉 Token That’s Literally USELESS Is Crypto’s Latest Meme Cult
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/06/18/token-that-s-literally-useless-is-crypto-s-latest-meme-cult

Looking for the Next Dogecoin (DOGE), SHIB, PEPE? Useless Might Just be The Bet
In a flat market, where most tokens promise the moon and deliver a tweet, USELESS has found its niche: no promises, no pretenses — just a meme that’s worth tens of millions.

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A look at Tokyo-based Nittobo, currently the only supplier in the world of the highest-end "T-glass", a material essential for making high-powered AI servers (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Techn

Nvidia and others court niche Japanese supplier to ease AI bottlenecks
Glass cloth maker Nittobo is latest example country's overlooked role in supply chain

Scaling the human niche
Marcus J. Hamilton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20902 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20902

Scaling the human niche
The human niche represents the intersection of biological, ecological, cultural, and technological processes that have co-evolved to shape human adaptation and societal complexity. This paper explores the human niche through the lens of macroecological scaling theory, seeking to define and quantify the dimensions along which human ecological strategies have diversified. By leveraging concepts from classic niche theory, niche construction, and complex adaptive systems, I develop a framework for …

In the ZIRP era, #UX was evangelized as a magic wand to 10x value — and after that bubble popped, UX found a niche as a delivery function. Unfortunately, optimizing our process for faster outputs over outcomes meant that #AI came and ate our lunch with instant outputs/no outcomes.
But this was no golden…

Design struggles to be born
The golden age of UX is over. But the momentum that it brought is not yet extinguished, and a new generation of design leaders is seizing it.

"‘We don’t want to be a niche brand’: Seaweed is taking plastic out of stadiums and sandwich boxes"
#Seaweed #Packaging

Seaweed packaging is shifting single-use plastic out of stadiums
Notpla is aiming to expand in Europe and displace 1 billion units of single-use plastic by 2030.

Remember when in 2017 everyone* was going full-in to “VR” and “AR”, like Microsoft coming out with “Paint 3D” and Facebook had bottomless people and it was worth trillions and now it’s basically a niche tech for a few sim enthusiasts?
*except Apple who was like 6 years late

Causality in the human niche: lessons for machine learning
Richard D. Lange, Konrad P. Kording
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13803 https://

Causality in the human niche: lessons for machine learning
Humans interpret the world around them in terms of cause and effect and communicate their understanding of the world to each other in causal terms. These causal aspects of human cognition are thought to underlie humans' ability to generalize and learn efficiently in new domains, an area where current machine learning systems are weak. Building human-like causal competency into machine learning systems may facilitate the construction of effective and interpretable AI. Indeed, the machine learnin…

The Hyperpersonalized AI Slop Silo Machine Is Here https://www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-niche-machine-is-here/

Has civilisation ever been more than a niche development?

I need to share my excitement here even though it’s a nerdy niche excitement: I found a Swahili Verb Conjugation Dataset and I cannot wait to play with it. #Wikifunctions #wikidata

Now there's a niche market: products for people with second, detachable heads? 🤪

The fuck do you people want? I wrote you software that didn't exist, filling a niche that was entirely neglected on Linux, and gave it to you gratis en voor niks, and put it in the public domain. It does exactly what it needs to, nothing more. I get five for my trouble? A FIVE!?
*sigh*

Modeling Income Distribution with the Gause-Witt Population Ecology System
Marcelo B. Ribeiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20881 https://

Modeling Income Distribution with the Gause-Witt Population Ecology System
This paper presents an empirical application of the Gause-Witt model of population ecology and ecosystems to the income distribution competitive dynamics of social classes in economic systems. The Gause-Witt mathematical system of coupled nonlinear first-order ordinary differential equations employed to model population of species sharing the same ecological niche and competing for the same resources was applied to the income data of Brazil. Previous studies using Brazilian income data from 198…

@… There are definitely massive downsides to using a niche language!
Last year I spent months having to deal with breaking changes in the Rust `http` package and all the knock-on effects though, so I’m not convinced it’s better elsewhere.
Haskell Language Server is in definite need of TLC, but there were some major QoL improvements made at Zuri…

Chameleon Channels: Measuring YouTube Accounts Repurposed for Deception and Profit
Alejandro Cuevas, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Nicolas Christin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16045

Chameleon Channels: Measuring YouTube Accounts Repurposed for Deception and Profit
Online content creators spend significant time and effort building their user base through a long, often arduous process, which requires finding the right ``niche'' to cater to. So, what incentive is there for an established content creator known for cat memes to completely reinvent their page channel and start promoting cryptocurrency services or cover electoral news events? And, if they do, do their existing subscribers not notice? We explore this problem of \textit{repurposed channels}, wher…

At first hearing of this place the dog-phobic in me noped out but it looks like they’ve got some good rules/policies in place. Milwaukee dog people who eat sandwiches this one’s for you.
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/07/05/dining-rileys-offers-up-s…

Dining: Riley’s Offers Up Sandwiches, Space for Fido
Dog-friendly business has a clear niche in Third Ward.

«I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community. I do not know how to determine whether someone’s post about their new bicycle is genuine enthusiasm or automated astroturf.»
I hate everything about this future and how it isolates us.
https://aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future-of-forums-is-lies-i-guess

The Trip to ZigBee Backscatter across a Decade, a Systematic Review
Yang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13822 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

The Trip to ZigBee Backscatter across a Decade, a Systematic Review
The field of backscatter communication has undergone a profound transformation, evolving from a niche technology for radio-frequency identification (RFID) into a sophisticated paradigm poised to enable a truly battery-free Internet of Things (IoT). This evolution is built upon a deepening understanding of the fundamental principles governing these ultra-low-power links. Modern backscatter systems are no longer simple reflectors of continuous waves but are increasingly designed to interact with …

LIMITER: A Gamified Interface for Harnessing Just Intonation Systems
Antonis Christou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08675 https://arxiv.…

LIMITER: A Gamified Interface for Harnessing Just Intonation Systems
This paper introduces LIMITER, a gamified digital musical instrument for harnessing and performing microtonal and justly intonated sounds. While microtonality in Western music remains a niche and esoteric system that can be difficult both to conceptualize and to perform with, LIMITER presents a novel, easy to pickup interface that utilizes color, geometric transformations, and game-like controls to create a simpler inlet into utilizing these sounds as a means of expression. We report on the bac…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23630 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_…

Finding Interest Needle in Popularity Haystack: Improving Retrieval by Modeling Item Exposure
Recommender systems operate in closed feedback loops, where user interactions reinforce popularity bias, leading to over-recommendation of already popular items while under-exposing niche or novel content. Existing bias mitigation methods, such as Inverse Propensity Scoring (IPS) and Off-Policy Correction (OPC), primarily operate at the ranking stage or during training, lacking explicit real-time control over exposure dynamics. In this work, we introduce an exposure-aware retrieval scoring appr…

High Socioeconomic Status is Associated with Diverse Consumption across Brands and Price Levels
Yuanmo He, Milena Tsvetkova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13840

High Socioeconomic Status is Associated with Diverse Consumption across Brands and Price Levels
Consumption practices are determined by a combination of economic, social, and cultural forces. We posit that lower economic constraints leave more room to diversify consumption along cultural and social aspects in the form of omnivorous or lifestyle-based niche consumption. We provide empirical evidence for this diversity hypothesis by analysing millions of mobile-tracked visits from thousands of Census Block Groups to thousands of stores in New York State. The results show that high income is…

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Sensitive and accurate femtosecond pulse characterization via two-photon absorption in Fabry-P\'erot laser diodes
Adrian F. Chlebowski, Jakub Mnich, Lukasz A. Sterczewski, Jaroslaw Z. Sotor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03978

Sensitive and accurate femtosecond pulse characterization via two-photon absorption in Fabry-Pérot laser diodes
Semiconductor lasers offer native bifunctionality enabling coherent light emission and linear photodetection. They can also operate as sensitive two-photon absorption detectors due to the third-order nonlinearity of the heterostructure constituting the active region. The strong two-photon response at room temperature is highly desired in ultrafast optics, where such detectors are used for interferometric characterization of femtosecond light pulses for shape and duration. Another niche is pulse…

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