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It is only a matter of time until noem, homan, dhs, ice and potus realize dropping people out of aircraft is cheaper than housing or moving them.
Unless they already have.
Rumors are the US is engaging in death flights. Already there are some known flight paths of ice flights turning around over bodies of water.
The US Congress and international community seem to be the only things that can stop this.

Following @… for several years now and only last week I noticed that the username is bagder, not badger

Its good to have many tests in your R package, but it can be a pain to debug some failing tests when it happens. {lazytest} for the rescue: only rerun the failing tests, until they pass: #RStats

ReasonBridge: Efficient Reasoning Transfer from Closed to Open-Source Language Models
Ziqi Zhong, Xunzhu Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22865 https://

ReasonBridge: Efficient Reasoning Transfer from Closed to Open-Source Language Models
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have revealed a significant performance gap between closed-source and open-source models, particularly in tasks requiring complex reasoning and precise instruction following. This paper introduces ReasonBridge, a methodology that efficiently transfers reasoning capabilities from powerful closed-source to open-source models through a novel hierarchical knowledge distillation framework. We develop a tailored dataset Reason1K with only 1,000 care…

Turning AI Data Centers into Grid-Interactive Assets: Results from a Field Demonstration in Phoenix, Arizona
Philip Colangelo, Ayse K. Coskun, Jack Megrue, Ciaran Roberts, Shayan Sengupta, Varun Sivaram, Ethan Tiao, Aroon Vijaykar, Chris Williams, Daniel C. Wilson, Zack MacFarland, Daniel Dreiling, Nathan Morey, Anuja Ratnayake, Baskar Vairamohan
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Turning AI Data Centers into Grid-Interactive Assets: Results from a Field Demonstration in Phoenix, Arizona
Artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling exponential electricity demand growth, threatening grid reliability, raising prices for communities paying for new energy infrastructure, and stunting AI innovation as data centers wait for interconnection to constrained grids. This paper presents the first field demonstration, in collaboration with major corporate partners, of a software-only approach--Emerald Conductor--that transforms AI data centers into flexible grid resources that can efficiently an…

Report on NSF Workshop on Science of Safe AI
Rajeev Alur, Greg Durrett, Hadas Kress-Gazit, Corina P\u{a}s\u{a}reanu, Ren\'e Vidal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22492

Report on NSF Workshop on Science of Safe AI
Recent advances in machine learning, particularly the emergence of foundation models, are leading to new opportunities to develop technology-based solutions to societal problems. However, the reasoning and inner workings of today's complex AI models are not transparent to the user, and there are no safety guarantees regarding their predictions. Consequently, to fulfill the promise of AI, we must address the following scientific challenge: how to develop AI-based systems that are not only accura…

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

Yeah, I won't be playing tennis tonight, despite wonderful weather.
On the plus side, I've managed to retain both lungs, and my throat now only feels like a brillo pad rather than a cheese grater.
Feeling much better thanks 🙂

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11172 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

On the holomorphic foliations admitting a common invariant algebraic curve
In this paper, we prove the following result using an entirely elementary method: for any algebraic curve $C$ given by $f(x,y)=0$, where $f(x,y)$ is a weakly tame polynomial in $ \mathbb{K}[x,y]$, the $\mathbb{K}[x,y]$-module of polynomial 1-forms admitting $C$ as an invariant curve is generated by two polynomail 1-forms, one of which is $\mathrm{d}f$, if and only if, $f$ belongs to the Jacobian ideal $\langle f_x, f_y\rangle$ in $\mathbb{K}[x,y]$, where $\mathbb{K}\subseteq\mathbb{C}$ is an ar…

Falling Threads During Solar Filament Eruptions
Yidian Wu, Rui Liu, Runbin Luo, Wensi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22020 https://a…

Falling Threads During Solar Filament Eruptions
Mass drainage is frequently observed in solar filaments. During filament eruptions, falling material most likely flows along magnetic field lines, which may provide important clues for the magnetic structures of filaments. Here we study three filament eruptions exhibiting significant mass draining, often manifested as falling threads at a constant speed ranging between 30--300 km/s. We found that most of the falling material lands onto the hooked segments of flare ribbons, only a small fraction…