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Pre-order “Digital Accessibility Ethics”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/11/pre-order-digital-accessibility-ethics.html
Or wait until it comes out if you have to. I’m not your dad / boss / spaghetti monster.

Pre-order “Digital Accessibility Ethics”
Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, and Chancey Fleet gathered 36 authors across 10 countries and a commonwealth to write 32 chapters about ethics in digital accessibility. I am one of those 36 authors. The painting on the cover was created by Ana Maria Vidalon, a Spanish-speaking artist with a disability originally…

Chicago is in Cook County and now courts are safer.
"Cook County’s top judge signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at court."
"...bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to court proceedings. It includes arrests inside courthouses and in parking lots, surrounding sidewalks and entryways."

Cook County judge's order bars ICE from arresting people at court in Chicago area
Cook County’s top judge signed an order barring ICE from arresting people at court. The county includes Chicago, which has seen a federal immigration crackdown in recent months. Detaining residents outside courthouses has been a common tactic for federal agents, who have been stationed outside county courthouses for weeks, making arrests and drawing crowds of protesters. The order, which takes effect Wednesday, bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while goin…

So I've a medical thing that I need to buy once a month on Amazon and they cancelled my subscription delivery for it last time (but not the subscription itself), without telling me.
I tried to just order it for one time delivery, but the delivery date was a month out and they immediately cancelled my order.
My wife told me to use my developer brain—and yes, imagining a bug with some row in a database being in a fugue state, the exactly a month out delivery date being the biggest hint to something going into a default state when a calculation fails.
So I removed the subscription to the item (they make it hard to find where to do this).
Bingo: I can now order immediately for delivery in two days and for working subscrpition delivery.

How David Sacks and AI adviser Sriram Krishnan overcame the opposition to Trump's AI EO, reaching out to lawmakers and finally modifying the text of the order (Washington Post)

How Trump’s tech advisers overcame a MAGA rebellion over AI
President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting states’ power to regulate AI split his supporters and highlighted Silicon Valley’s growing influence over his agenda.

2026 NFL Draft order after Week 15: Jets back into the top five as Saints win second consecutive game

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-draft-order-updated-top-picks-team…

Updated 2026 NFL Draft order: Giants, Raiders on pace to claim top selections entering Week 15 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/2026-nfl-draft-order-giants-raiders-week-15/7eca9d3d5d998c0c1728b831

Billionaire tech advisers overcame a MAGA rebellion over AI in the Trump Whitehouse
A power struggle over the future of technology is playing out inside the administration,
as officials confront high-stakes decisions that touch everything
from national security and jobs
to online safety for children.

How Trump’s tech advisers overcame a MAGA rebellion over AI
President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting states’ power to regulate AI split his supporters and highlighted Silicon Valley’s growing influence over his agenda.

A characterization of locally ordered ternary relations in terms of digraphs
Guillermo Gamboa Quintero, Mart\'in Matamala, Juan Pablo Pe\~na
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11956

A characterization of locally ordered ternary relations in terms of digraphs
In 1917, Huntington and Kline, followed by Huntington in 1924, studied systems of axioms for ternary relations aiming to capture the concepts of linear order (called betwenness) and cycle order, respectively. Among many other properties, they proved there are several independent set of axioms defining either linear order or cycle order. In this work, we consider systems arising from the four common axioms of linear order and cycle order, together with a new axiom F, stating that if a tuple abc …

Restoring Law and Order in Memphis (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restoring-law-and-order-in-memphis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250915/p148#a250915p148

Fractional-Order Nesterov Dynamics for Convex Optimization
Tumelo Ranoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11987 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11987

Fractional-Order Nesterov Dynamics for Convex Optimization
We propose and analyze a class of second-order dynamical systems for continuous-time optimization that incorporate fractional-order gradient terms. The system is given by \begin{equation} \ddot{x}(t) + \fracα{t}\dot{x}(t) + \nabla^θ f(x(t)) = 0, \end{equation} where $θ\in (1,2)$, and the fractional operators are interpreted in the sense of Caputo, Riemann--Liouville, and Grünwald--Letnikov derivatives. This formulation interpolates between memory effects of fractional dynamics and higher-or…

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI: "States have been the only effective line of defense against AI harms."
On the topic of states rights, Donald Trump doesn’t exactly follow the party line. During his first term, he couched himself in populist, small-government rhetoric — even as he attacked individual states that dared to defend migrants and legalize marijuana.

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI
Donald Trump recently signed an executive order allowing his administration to attack states that try to regulate artificial intelligence.

Permutation decoding of first-order Generalized Reed-Muller codes
Jos\'e Joaqu\'in Bernal, Juan Jacobo Sim\'on
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11757 https://

Permutation decoding of first-order Generalized Reed-Muller codes
In [4] we describe a variation of the classical permutation decoding algorithm that can be applied to any binary affine-invariant code; in particular, it can be applied to first-order Reed-Muller codes successfully. In this paper we study how to implement it for the family of first-order Generalized Reed-Muller codes. Then, we give examples which show that we improve the number of errors we can correct in comparison with the known results for this family of codes. Finally, we deal, from a proba…

Collateral damage in Abbott’s war on rainbows.
Buddy Holly crosswalk in Texas hometown to be removed following governor’s order on road safety https://ground.news/article/buddy-holly-crosswalk-in-texas-hometown-to-be-removed-following-governors-order-on-road-safety

Apple to start selling Vision Pro-compatible PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers for $250 on November 11 and the $130 Logitech Muse digital pen on October 22 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/15/apple-v

Apple Vision Pro: PlayStation VR2 Sense controller in November, Logitech Muse and standalone Dual Knit Band available to order - 9to5Mac
Apple Vision Pro is officially being upgraded from the M2 to the new M5, but existing customers don’t need an...

A New Method of Constructing Hadamard Matrices, Circulant Hadamard Matrices, CZCS, GCS, CCC, and CZCSS
Piyush Priyanshu, Sudhan Majhi, Subhabrata Paul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12315

A New Method of Constructing Hadamard Matrices, Circulant Hadamard Matrices, CZCS, GCS, CCC, and CZCSS
A Hadamard matrix $H$ is a square matrix of order $n$ with entries $\pm 1$, such that $HH^\top=nI_{n}$, where $I_n$ is an identity matrix of order $n$. A circulant Hadamard matrix $H$ is a Hadamard matrix that has rows of entries in cyclic order. There exist only $8$ circulant Hadamard matrices of order 4, and here, we provide a novel construction of all such $8$ circulant Hadamard matrices using a linear operator and generalized Boolean function (GBF). The constructed circulant Hadamard matric…

A Denotational Product Construction for Temporal Verification of Effectful Higher-Order Programs
Kazuki Watanabe, Mayuko Kori, Taro Sekiyama, Satoshi Kura, Hiroshi Unno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11320

A Denotational Product Construction for Temporal Verification of Effectful Higher-Order Programs
We propose a categorical framework for linear-time temporal verification of effectful higher-order programs, including probabilistic higher-order programs. Our framework provides a generic denotational reduction -- namely, a denotational product construction -- from linear-time safety verification of effectful higher-order programs to computation of weakest pre-conditions of product programs. This reduction enables us to apply existing algorithms for such well-studied computations of weakest pr…

The Classification of 3 1d Symmetry Enriched Topological Order
Thibault D. D\'ecoppet, Matthew Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10603 https://arxiv.org/pd…

The Classification of 3+1d Symmetry Enriched Topological Order
We use a 2-categorical version of (de-)equivariantization to classify (3+1)d topological orders with a finite $G$-symmetry. In particular, we argue that (3+1)d fermionic topological order with $G$-symmetry correspond to $\mathbf{2SVect}$-enriched $G$-crossed braided fusion 2-categories. We then show that the categorical data necessary to define these theories agrees with that arising from a fermionic generalization of the Wang-Wen-Witten construction of bosonic topological theories with $G$-sym…

Card Dealing Math
Eric Huang, Tanya Khovanova, Timur Kilybayev, Ryan Li, Brandon Ni, Leone Seidel, Samarth Sharma, Nathan Sheffield, Vivek Varanasi, Alice Yin, Boya Yun, William Zelevinsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11395

Card Dealing Math
Various card tricks involve under-down dealing, where alternatively one card is placed under the deck and the next card is dealt. We study how the cards need to be prepared in the deck to be dealt in order. The order in which the $N$ cards are prepared defines a permutation. In this work, we analyze general dealing patterns, considering properties of the resulting permutations. We give recursive formulas for these permutations, their inverses, the final dealt card, and the dealing order of th…

Euclidean Correlation Functions in Quantum Gravity
Jack Laiho, Kenny Ratliff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11888 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11888

Euclidean Correlation Functions in Quantum Gravity
We calculate Euclidean correlation functions through next-to-leading order in the low energy effective theory of gravity. We focus on correlation functions of curvature and volume operators, calculating these functions through one-loop order. We show that quantum fluctuations of the background spacetime must be taken into account in order to obtain gauge invariant expressions, and we point out a subtlety associated with the analytic continuation of the conformal mode. Our final expressions for …

Ferroelectric Fluids for Nonlinear Photonics: Evaluation of Temperature Dependence of Second-Order Susceptibilities
Matija Lov\v{s}in, Luka Cmok, Calum J. Gibb, Jordan Hobbs, Richard J. Mandle, Alenka Mertelj, Irena Dreven\v{s}ek-Olenik, Nerea Sebastian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11835

Ferroelectric Fluids for Nonlinear Photonics: Evaluation of Temperature Dependence of Second-Order Susceptibilities
Ferroelectric nematic fluids are promising materials for tunable nonlinear photonics, with applications ranging from second harmonic generation to sources of entangled photons. However, the few reported values of second-order susceptibilities vary widely depending on the molecular architecture. Here, we systematically measure second-order NLO susceptibilities of five different materials that exhibit the ferroelectric nematic phase, as well as the more recently discovered layered smectic A ferro…

How Top of Draft Order Could Impact Raiders' QB Plans https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/how-top-of-draft-order-could-impact-raiders-qb-plans-01kccsm0f4yb

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills (Martin E. Comas/Orlando Sentinel)
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/14/judge-grants-ex-girlfriend-restraining-order-against-rep-cory-mills/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p1#a251015p1

Analytical Perturbative Construction of Initial Data for Binary Black Holes up to Third Order in Spin and Momentum
Leyla Ogurol, Tore Boybeyi, Bayram Tekin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11144

Analytical Perturbative Construction of Initial Data for Binary Black Holes up to Third Order in Spin and Momentum
We analytically solve the constraints in General Relativity for two black holes with arbitrary momenta and spin up to third order in these parameters. We compute the location and geometry of the apparent horizon, which depend on the spins, momenta, relative orientation angles, and the separation between the black holes, and present the result in a coordinate-independent form. We also extract the ADM mass and the irreducible mass and verify their consistency. The final expressions are depicted i…

Large Chern-Number Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect from Canted Antiferromagnetic Order in $d$-Electron System on Kagome Lattice
Waquar Ahmed, Steffen Schaeffer, Pierre Lombardo, Roland Hayn, Imam Makhfudz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10976

Large Chern-Number Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect from Canted Antiferromagnetic Order in $d$-Electron System on Kagome Lattice
Electrons of $d$-symmetry in a kagome lattice are considered which interact with non-collinear antiferromagnetic order in the absence of spin-orbit coupling. The non-collinearity of spin texture gives rise to non-relativistic spin splitting and the associated intrinsic Berry curvature. The integral of the latter over the Brillouin zone becomes nontrivial for non-coplanar (canted) non-collinear spin order even without explicit on-site or transfer spin-orbit coupling. That gives rise to a nonzero…

Superresolving Non-linear PDE Dynamics with Reduced-Order Autodifferentiable Ensemble Kalman Filtering For Turbulence Modeling and Flow Regulation
Mrigank Dhingra, Omer San
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12149

Superresolving Non-linear PDE Dynamics with Reduced-Order Autodifferentiable Ensemble Kalman Filtering For Turbulence Modeling and Flow Regulation
Accurately reconstructing and forecasting high-resolution (HR) states from computationally cheap low-resolution (LR) observations is central to estimation-and-control of spatio-temporal PDE systems. We develop a unified superresolution pipeline based on the reduced-order autodifferentiable Ensemble Kalman filter (ROAD-EnKF). The method learns a low-dimensional latent dynamics model and a nonlinear decoder from latent variables to HR fields; the learned pair is embedded in an EnKF, enabling simu…

No one wants to build bad products. But in an industry where programmers implement features to order, it can be hard to shake that feeling.
This is how orgs see the ROI of UX: as a soothing function to tell everyone they're doing a good job. And as a scapegoat, when we finally learn otherwise.
UX cheerleading is doing the industry no favors.
#UX

Stop doing UX cheerleading
Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.

Taco Trump reverses course and cuts tariffs on US food imports
Order exempting coffee, beef, bananas and other items comes as White House fights off concerns about rising costs
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/trump-tariffs-food?C…

SU(2) gadget for higher-order Poincar\'{e} sphere
Mohammad Umar, Paramasivam Senthilkumaran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10964 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

SU(2) gadget for higher-order Poincaré sphere
The combination of two quarter-wave plates and one half-wave plate, regardless of their sequential arrangement, constitutes a well-established universal SU(2) gadget capable of implementing all polarization transformations on the standard Poincaré sphere. However, there is no analogous system for realizing all polarization transformations on the higher-order Poincaré sphere, a member of a higher topological index space. This work demonstrates that an optical gadget, comprising two quarter-wav…

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A fourth-order active flux method for parabolic problems with application to porous medium equation
Junming Duan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11527 https://a…

A fourth-order active flux method for parabolic problems with application to porous medium equation
The active flux (AF) method is a compact high-order finite volume method originally proposed for solving hyperbolic conservation laws, in which cell averages and point values at cell interfaces are evolved simultaneously. This paper develops a fourth-order AF method for one- and two-dimensional parabolic problems, employing the explicit strong-stability-preserving Runge-Kutta (SSP-RK) method for time integration. The proposed method is built on a degenerate first-order system with auxiliary var…

Finite-Size Spectral Signatures of Order by Quantum Disorder: A Perspective from Anderson's Tower of States
Subhankar Khatua, Griffin C. Howson, Michel J. P. Gingras, Jeffrey G. Rau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10610

Finite-Size Spectral Signatures of Order by Quantum Disorder: A Perspective from Anderson's Tower of States
In frustrated magnetic systems with a subextensive number of classical ground states, quantum zero-point fluctuations can select a unique long-range ordered state, a celebrated phenomenon referred to as \emph{order by quantum disorder} (ObQD). For frustrated spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ systems, unbiased numerical methods able to expose ObQD are necessary. We show that ObQD can be identified from exact diagonalization (ED) calculations through an analysis akin to the Anderson tower of states associated w…

How media coverage of Trump's AI EO overstated federal authority over states and overlooked how the order's interstate commerce argument could backfire (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/trump-pretends-to-…

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across…

For those out of the Loop:
#Google, #Meta, Microsoft, any of the tech companies who provide "portals" to news and content, scrape this content and shove it in a feed that they have control over (obstensibly based on your "habits" and "preferences"). The portal keeps the $ad.revenue$ th…

PIC12F683 SRAM row address decoding.
The physical memory array is 32 x 32 bitcells (1 kbit / 128 bytes), logically 32 rows x 4-way column mux x 8 bit data bus.
The row logic decodes the 5-bit row address into ten one-hot signals for X and !X. Each wordline is driven by a 5-input AND gate, where each row selects a different one of the 32 combinations.
The PIC12F683 uses a very straightforward address order with MSB at left and LSB at right, and addresses counting in what see…

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New Order:
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Glauber quark and gluon contributions to quark energy loss at next-to-leading order in the highly virtual regime
Amit Kumar, Gojko Vujanovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10743 htt…

Glauber quark and gluon contributions to quark energy loss at next-to-leading order in the highly virtual regime
The higher-twist (HT) formalism is used at $O(α^2_s)$ to compute all possible medium-induced single emission scattering kernels for an incoming highly virtual and energetic quark traversing the nuclear environment. The effects of the heavy-quark mass scale are taken into account [Phys. Rev. C 94, 054902 (2016)] both in the initial state as well as in the final state, along with interactions involving both in-medium Glauber gluons and quarks [Nucl. Phys. A 793, 128 (2007)], as well as coherence…

To the Aztecs, death was instrumental in the perpetuation of creation, and gods and humans alike had the responsibility of sacrificing themselves in order to allow life to continue.
This worldview is best described in the myth of the five suns recorded in the Codex Chimalpopoca, which recounts how Quetzalcoatl stole the bones of the previous generation in the underworld and how later the gods created four successive worlds or "suns" for their subjects to live in, all of whic…

“By 2040, the Locational scenario could reduce the total system cost by 23 – 59 Bn. EUR annually. These savings are in the order of magnitude of those associated with the integration of European electricity markets.”
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/J…

Locational Price Signals in Europe
As Europe strives to become the first climate neutral continent, grid congestion is becoming an increasingly urgent issue, with the potential to lead to large-scale curtailment of renewables and undermine the system’s security. Accordingly, the Mission Letter to Commissioner for Energy and Affordable Housing Dan Jørgensen lists the task to improve locational price signals. These aim to ensure that investments occur where they are most beneficial to the system, while incentivizing an efficien…

Where the Raiders Stand in Draft Order After Eagles Loss https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-stand-draft-order-after-eagles-loss

just released liboprf-0.9.3
liboprf is a library implementing the OPRF from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9497.html and in addition it also provides a threshold variant (tOPRF) and a distributed key generation (DKG) protocol for the tOPRF shared secret, as well as a key update protocol fo…

Abstract second-order boundary control systems
Till Preuster, Timo Reis, Manuel Schaller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10363 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10363

Abstract second-order boundary control systems
We consider abstract second order systems of the form $\ddot{x}(t) + D \dot{x}(t) + Sx(t)=0$, which are typically analyzed via the operator matrix $\mathcal{A}=\left[\begin{smallmatrix} 0 & I \\ -S & -D \end{smallmatrix}\right]$ governing the free dynamics of the corresponding first-order in time formulation. While previous work (e.g. on spectral properties of) $\mathcal{A}$ has focused on self-adjoint uniformly positive $S$, we consider the more general case which comprises the situation w…

Trump signs executive order on 'national framework' for AI regulation https://therecord.media/trump-executive-order-ai-national-framework

🪓 Algorithms do widen the divide: Social media feeds shape political polarization
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-27/algorithms-do-widen-the-divide-social-media-feeds-shape-political-polarizati…

Algorithms do widen the divide: Social media feeds shape political polarization
A study shows that the order in which platforms like X display content to their users affects their animosity towards other ideological groups

Ergodic approach to the study of boundedness of solutions of one type of the first-order semilinear difference equations
Andrii Chaikovskyi, Oleksandr Liubimov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11320

Ergodic approach to the study of boundedness of solutions of one type of the first-order semilinear difference equations
We investigate the sufficient conditions for boundedness of one type of difference equations of the form $x(n+1)=ax(n)+f(x(n)) + y(n), \ n\geq 1$ in critical case $|a|=1$. For this equation the following assumptions are introduced: 1) The function $f: \mathbb{C} \to \mathbb{C}$ and the input sequence $\{y(n)\}_{n\geq1}$ are assumed to be bounded. 2) $\text{Re}\left(\overline{f(ρ\, e^{2πi θ})} \; \cdot ae^{2πi θ}\right)$ converges uniformly on $[0,1) \ni θ$ to some real-val…

Exploiting higher-order correlation functions for photon-statistics-based characterization and reconstruction of arbitrary Gaussian states
Philip Heinzel, Ren\'e Sondenheimer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09083

Exploiting higher-order correlation functions for photon-statistics-based characterization and reconstruction of arbitrary Gaussian states
Gaussian states are an essential building block for various applications in quantum optics and quantum information science, yet the precise relation between their second- and third-order correlation functions remains not fully explored. We discuss connections between these correlation functions by constructing an explicit decomposition formula for arbitrary sixth-order moments of ladder operators for general Gaussian states and demonstrate how the derived relations enable state classification f…

Ukraine is looking to order 27 Patriot air defense systems, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/10/ukraine-is-looking-to-order.html

Implicit Third-Order Peer Triplets with Variable Stepsizes for Gradient-Based Solutions in Large-Scale ODE-Constrained Optimal Control
Jens Lang, Bernhard A. Schmitt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11684

Implicit Third-Order Peer Triplets with Variable Stepsizes for Gradient-Based Solutions in Large-Scale ODE-Constrained Optimal Control
This paper is concerned with the theory, construction and application of variable-stepsize implicit Peer two-step methods that are super-convergent for variable stepsizes, i.e., preserve their classical order achieved for uniform stepsizes when applied in a gradient-based solution algorithm to solve ODE-constrained optimal control problems in a first-discretize-then-optimize setting. Gradients of the objective function can be computed most efficiently using approximate adjoint variables. High a…

Spectroscopic Determination of Site-Selective Ligand Binding on Single Anisotropic Nanocrystals
Dong Le, Wade Shipley, Alexandria Do, Liya Bi, Yufei Wang, Krista P. Balto, Rourav Basak, Hans A. Bechtel, Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder, Ilya Mazalov, Tesa Manto, Reno Sammons, Yutong She, Fiona Liang, Ganesh Raghavendran, Joshua S. Figueroa, Shaowei Li, Tod A. Pascal, Andrea R. Tao, Alex Frano

Spectroscopic Determination of Site-Selective Ligand Binding on Single Anisotropic Nanocrystals
Organic surface ligands are integral components of nanocrystals and nanoparticles that have a strong influence on their physicochemical properties, their interaction with the environment, and their ability to self-assemble and order into higher-order structures. These hybrid nanomaterials are tunable with applications in catalysis, directed self-assembly, next-generation optoelectronics, and chemical and quantum sensing. Critically, future advances depend on our ability to rationally engineer t…

The Potential of Second-Order Optimization for LLMs: A Study with Full Gauss-Newton
Natalie Abreu, Nikhil Vyas, Sham Kakade, Depen Morwani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09378 https…

The Potential of Second-Order Optimization for LLMs: A Study with Full Gauss-Newton
Recent efforts to accelerate LLM pretraining have focused on computationally-efficient approximations that exploit second-order structure. This raises a key question for large-scale training: how much performance is forfeited by these approximations? To probe this question, we establish a practical upper bound on iteration complexity by applying full Gauss-Newton (GN) preconditioning to transformer models of up to 150M parameters. Our experiments show that full GN updates yield substantial gain…

Leading order asymptotics for non-local energies and the Read-Shockley law
Peter J. Grabner, Florian Theil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12041 https://arxiv.o…

Leading order asymptotics for non-local energies and the Read-Shockley law
We study an energy minimization problem $\sum_{i \neq j} W(z_i - z_j)$ for $N$ points $\left\{z_1, \dots, z_N\right\}$ with applications in dislocation theory. The $N$ points lie in the two-dimensional domain $\mathbb{R} \times [-π, π]$, %who are trying to minimize their interaction energy where where the kernel $W$ is derived from the Volterra potential $V(x,y) = \frac{x^2}{x^2+y^2}-\frac12\log(x^2+y^2)$. We prove that the minimum energy is given by $- N \log{N} +\mathcal{O}(N)$. This lowe…

From hidden order to skyrmions: Quantum Hall states in an extended Hofstadter-Fermi-Hubbard model
Fabian J. Pauw, Ulrich Schollw\"ock, Nathan Goldman, Sebastian Paeckel, Felix A. Palm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12184

From hidden order to skyrmions: Quantum Hall states in an extended Hofstadter-Fermi-Hubbard model
The interplay between topology and strong interactions gives rise to a variety of exotic quantum phases, including fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states and their lattice analogs - fractional Chern insulators (FCIs). Such topologically ordered states host fractionalized excitations, which for spinful systems are often accompanied by ferromagnetism and skyrmions. Here, we study a Hofstadter-Hubbard model of spinful fermions on a square lattice, extended by nearest-neighbor interactions. Using lar…

Physics-Informed High-order Graph Dynamics Identification Learning for Predicting Complex Networks Long-term Dynamics
Bicheng Wang, Jinping Wang, Yibo Sue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09082

Physics-Informed High-order Graph Dynamics Identification Learning for Predicting Complex Networks Long-term Dynamics
Learning complex network dynamics is fundamental to understanding, modelling and controlling real-world complex systems. There are two main problems in the task of predicting the dynamic evolution of complex networks: on the one hand, existing methods usually use simple graphs to describe the relationships in complex networks; however, this approach can only capture pairwise relationships, while there may be rich non-pairwise structured relationships in the network. First-order GNNs have diffic…

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/12/trump-states-defiant-ai-executive-order

States defiant in face of Trump's AI executive order
States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

Emergent order from mixed chaos at low temperature
Pavel Chvykov, Jeremy England
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11583 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11583

Emergent order from mixed chaos at low temperature
This paper explores a novel connection between a thermodynamic and a dynamical systems perspective on emergent dynamical order. We provide evidence for a conjecture that Hamiltonian systems with mixed chaos spontaneously find regular behavior when minimally coupled to a thermal bath at sufficiently low temperature. Numerical evidence across a diverse set of five dynamical systems supports this conjecture, and allows us to quantify corollaries about the organization timescales and disruption of …

DeepMMSearch-R1: Empowering Multimodal LLMs in Multimodal Web Search
Kartik Narayan, Yang Xu, Tian Cao, Kavya Nerella, Vishal M. Patel, Navid Shiee, Peter Grasch, Chao Jia, Yinfei Yang, Zhe Gan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12801

DeepMMSearch-R1: Empowering Multimodal LLMs in Multimodal Web Search
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in real-world applications require access to external knowledge sources and must remain responsive to the dynamic and ever-changing real-world information in order to address information-seeking and knowledge-intensive user queries. Existing approaches, such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) methods, search agents, and search equipped MLLMs, often suffer from rigid pipelines, excessive search calls, and poorly constructed search queries, which resu…

Higher-Order Fluctuations: Unveiling the Final Frontier of QCD at the LHC with ALICE
Ilya Fokin (for the ALICE Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10847 https://

Higher-Order Fluctuations: Unveiling the Final Frontier of QCD at the LHC with ALICE
Lattice QCD (LQCD) calculations predict that chiral symmetry is restored in a smooth crossover transition between a quark-gluon plasma and a hadron resonance gas (HRG) at vanishing net-baryon density, a condition realized in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. In this regime, the net-baryon number cumulants computed using the HRG and LQCD partition functions are in good agreement up to third order. However, starting with the fourth-order cumulants, the LQCD results are significantly lower than the…

2026 NFL Draft order after Week 6: Jets remain No. 1 as bottom-dwellers stay stuck; Bucs, Colts surge to 5-1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-draft-order-upd…

How Trump's tech advisers overcame a MAGA rebellion over AI (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/14/trump-ai-executive-order-divisions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p43#a251214p43

On a Conjecture of Dyer on the Join in the Weak Order of a Coxeter group
Riccardo Biagioli, Lorenzo Perrone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11446 https://arxiv.…

On a Conjecture of Dyer on the Join in the Weak Order of a Coxeter group
In one of his papers on the weak order of Coxeter groups, Dyer formulates several conjectures. Among these, one affirms that the extended weak order forms a lattice, while another offers an algebraic-geometric description of the join of two elements in this poset. The former was recently proven for affine types by Barkley and Speyer. In this paper, we establish the latter for Coxeter groups of types $A$ and $I$. Moreover, we verified the validity of this conjecture for types $H_3$ and $F_4$ thr…

»`Uint8Array.prototype.toHex()`
The toHex() method of Uint8Array instances returns a hex-encoded string based on the data in this Uint8Array object.«
I've only just discovered this and I think it's a cool new feature in JavaScript. I am now surprised when almost all users have up-to-date web browsers in order to use it easily in the frontend WebDev.
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Uint8Array.prototype.toHex() - JavaScript | MDN
The toHex() method of Uint8Array instances returns a hex-encoded string based on the data in this Uint8Array object.

A new skyrmion topological transition driven by higher-order exchange interactions in Janus MnSeTe
Megha Arya, Moritz A. Goerzen, Lionel Calmels, R\'emi Arras, Soumyajyoti Haldar, Stefan Heinze, Dongzhe Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10661

A new skyrmion topological transition driven by higher-order exchange interactions in Janus MnSeTe
Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals magnets offer a promising platform for pushing skyrmion technology to the single-layer limit with high tunability. While Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) is often recognized as central to skyrmion formation, their stability, collapse, and topological transition in 2D materials remain largely unexplored. In particular, the effect of higher-order exchange interactions (HOI) on these phenomena is unknown. Here, using first-principles calculations and atomi…

A Note on the Feynman Lectures on Gravitation
Satoshi Nakajima
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11799 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11799

A Note on the Feynman Lectures on Gravitation
Following Feynman's lectures on gravitation, we consider the theory of the gravitational (massless spin-2) field in flat spacetime and present the third- and fourth-order Lagrangian densities for the gravitational field. In particular, we present detailed calculations for the third-order Lagrangian density.

Black Hole Gravitational Phenomena in Higher-Order Curvature-Scalar Gravity
A. A. Ara\'ujo Filho, N. Heidari, Iarley P. Lobo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11985 https://…

Black Hole Gravitational Phenomena in Higher-Order Curvature-Scalar Gravity
This work aims to explore the gravitational consequences of a recently proposed black hole solution presented in the literature [Phys. Dark Univ. 50 (2025) 102061]. We initiate our analyzes by taking into account the horizon structure, focusing on both the event and Cauchy horizons. Subsequently, we examine the quasinormal modes by considering all types of perturbations -- scalar, vector, tensor, and spinorial. To strengthen these results, we also compute the time-domain for each perturbation. …

Uniformly High Order Discontinuous Galerkin Gas Kinetic Scheme for Compressible flows
Mengqing Zhang, Shiyi Li, Dongmi Luo, Jianxian Qiu, Yibing Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10656

Uniformly High Order Discontinuous Galerkin Gas Kinetic Scheme for Compressible flows
In this paper, a uniformly high-order discontinuous Galerkin gas kinetic scheme (DG-HGKS) is proposed to solve the Euler equations of compressible flows. The new scheme is an extension of the one-stage compact and efficient high-order GKS (CEHGKS, Li et al. , 2021. J. Comput. Phys. 447, 110661) in the finite volume framework. The main ideas of the new scheme consist of two parts. Firstly, starting from a fully discrete DG formulation, the numerical fluxes and volume integrals are expanded in ti…

found an academic arguing in defense of those liberian county flags imfamous for looking like archetypal mspaint doodles
https://steven-knowlton.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf3746/files/knowltonliberianflags.pdf

Convergence rates for the vanishing viscosity approximation of fully nonlinear, non-convex, second-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations
Alekos Cecchin, Alessandro Goffi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12144

Convergence rates for the vanishing viscosity approximation of fully nonlinear, non-convex, second-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations
We obtain new quantitative estimates of the vanishing viscosity approximation for time-dependent, degenerate, Hamilton-Jacobi equations that are neither concave nor convex in the gradient and Hessian entries of the form $\partial_t u+H(x,t,Du,D^2u)=0$ in the whole space. We approximate the PDE with a fully nonlinear, possibly degenerate, elliptic operator $\varepsilon F(x,t,D^2u)$. Assuming that $u\in C^α_x$, $u_0\in C^η$, $H\in C^β_x$ and having power growth $γ$ in the gradient entry, we e…

The House has voted on a bipartisan basis
to restore labor rights to 1 million federal workers
after Donald Trump yanked them away in an executive order earlier this year,
in a rare show of defiance against the president by over a dozen GOP members.
In a 231 to 195 vote on Thursday afternoon,
the House passed the "Protect America’s Workforce Act",
which would nullify Trump’s ordersin March and August to exempt workers at dozens of agencies from c…

House Passes Bill to Undo Trump Order to End Federal Workers’ Bargaining Rights
The bill passed with 20 Republicans joining all Democrats in voting “yes,” in a rare rebuke to Trump.

Near-Optimal Second-Order Guarantees for Model-Based Adversarial Imitation Learning
Shangzhe Li, Dongruo Zhou, Weitong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09487 https://

Near-Optimal Second-Order Guarantees for Model-Based Adversarial Imitation Learning
We study online adversarial imitation learning (AIL), where an agent learns from offline expert demonstrations and interacts with the environment online without access to rewards. Despite strong empirical results, the benefits of online interaction and the impact of stochasticity remain poorly understood. We address these gaps by introducing a model-based AIL algorithm (MB-AIL) and establish its horizon-free, second-order sample-complexity guarantees under general function approximations for bo…

Flavors of Quantifiers in Hyperlogics
Marek Chalupa, Thomas A. Henzinger, Ana Oliveira da Costa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12298 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Flavors of Quantifiers in Hyperlogics
Hypertrace logic is a sorted first-order logic with separate sorts for time and execution traces. Its formulas specify hyperproperties, which are properties relating multiple traces. In this work, we extend hypertrace logic by introducing trace quantifiers that range over the set of all possible traces. In this extended logic, formulas can quantify over two kinds of trace variables: constrained trace variables, which range over a fixed set of traces defined by the model, and unconstrained trace…

All-$k$-Isolation in Trees
Geoffrey Boyer, Garrett C. Farrell, Wayne Goddard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11857 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11857

All-$k$-Isolation in Trees
We define an all-$k$-isolating set of a graph to be a set $S$ of vertices such that, if one removes $S$ and all its neighbors, then no component in what remains has order $k$ or more. The case $k=1$ corresponds to a dominating set and the case $k=2$ corresponds to what Caro and Hansberg called an isolating set. We show that every tree of order $n \neq k$ contains an all-$k$-isolating set $S$ of size at most $n/(k+1)$, and moreover, the set $S$ can be chosen to be an independent set. This extend…

UK PM Keir Starmer says he supports "a strong and independent BBC" but it must get its "house in order" as some people "would rather the BBC didn't exist" (Ian Youngs/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crre8gnzg10o

PM Keir Starmer says BBC must 'put house in order' over mistakes
Sir Keir Starmer says it "must uphold the highest standards" but supports "a strong, independent BBC".

Second-order Optimization under Heavy-Tailed Noise: Hessian Clipping and Sample Complexity Limits
Abdurakhmon Sadiev, Peter Richt\'arik, Ilyas Fatkhullin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10690

Second-order Optimization under Heavy-Tailed Noise: Hessian Clipping and Sample Complexity Limits
Heavy-tailed noise is pervasive in modern machine learning applications, arising from data heterogeneity, outliers, and non-stationary stochastic environments. While second-order methods can significantly accelerate convergence in light-tailed or bounded-noise settings, such algorithms are often brittle and lack guarantees under heavy-tailed noise -- precisely the regimes where robustness is most critical. In this work, we take a first step toward a theoretical understanding of second-order opt…

From Grounding to Skolemization: A Logic-Constrained Vector Symbolic Architecture for Complex Query Answering
Yuyin Lu, Hegang Chen, Yanghui Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10837

From Grounding to Skolemization: A Logic-Constrained Vector Symbolic Architecture for Complex Query Answering
Complex Query Answering (CQA) over incomplete Knowledge Graphs (KGs), typically formalized as reasoning with Existential First-Order predicate logic with one free variable (EFO$_1$), faces a fundamental trade-off between logical soundness and computational efficiency. This work establishes the Grounding-Skolemization dichotomy for systematically analyzing CQA methods through the lens of formal logic. While Grounding-based methods inherently suffer from combinatorial explosion, most Skolemizatio…

Marginally deformed AdS$_5$/CFT$_4$ and spindle-like orbifolds
Paul Merrikin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12448 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12448

Marginally deformed AdS$_5$/CFT$_4$ and spindle-like orbifolds
In this thesis, the AdS/CFT correspondence is used as a tool to explore novel AdS$_5$ Supergravity backgrounds (containing five-dimensional Anti-de Sitter spacetime) and their dual (four dimensional) Conformal Field Theory descriptions. In order to obtain precise results, both conformal symmetry and supersymmetry play an important role. However, in order to align with experimental observation, supersymmetry must be broken at low energies. In the absence of supersymmetry, finding deformations of…

Trump's AI EO directs federal agencies to look into withholding federal funding for states that introduce "burdensome" AI regulations (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/11/trump-executive-ord…

Trump defies GOP critics by signing controversial order threatening states over AI laws
Trump’s latest executive order attempts to punish states that regulate artificial intelligence technology, a policy that has triggered division in the GOP.

Picosecond-level corrections to the Shapiro time delay in a Schwarzschild spacetime
Oscar del Barco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11366 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Picosecond-level corrections to the Shapiro time delay in a Schwarzschild spacetime
We present an exact analytical equation for the Shapiro time delay (STD) due to a spherical non-rotating body. As a result, accurate values of the STD in comparison with first and second-order expressions for Schwarzschild spacetime (1Sch and 2Sch) and first-order post-Newtonian formalism (1PN) are achieved. Accordingly, the lowest STD discrepancies between our exact equation and these approximations lie within the picosecond and sub-picosecond level for light beams affected by the Sun's gravit…

The Heritage Foundation,
an influential rightwing thinktank currently mired in controversy over its president’s apparent apology for extremism,
has appointed as a director the founder of a secretive all-male network of Christian nationalist fraternal lodges.
Scott Yenor, who was appointed as Heritage’s new director of the
"B Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies"
has recently offered ultra-conservative opinions on
women, marriage and LGBTQ ri…

Vectorized 3D mesh refinement and implementation of primal hybrid FEM in MATLAB
Harish Nagula Mallesham, Sharat Gaddam, Jan Valdman, Sanjib Kumar Acharya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11133

Vectorized 3D mesh refinement and implementation of primal hybrid FEM in MATLAB
In this article, we introduce a Face-to-Tetrahedron connectivity in MATLAB together with a vectorized 3D uniform mesh refinement technique. We introduce a MATLAB vectorized assembly of 3D lowest-order primal hybrid finite element matrices for a second-order elliptic problem. We introduce a parallel solver and a vectorized Schur complement solver to solve the associated linear problem. The numerical results illustrate the software's runtime performance.

2026 NFL Draft order projections: Jets on track for No. 1, Bengals move into top 10 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6713591/2025/10/14/nfl-draft-2026-top-10-jets-qbs/

On the Combinatorics of Pseudo-Latin Squares
Andrew Pendleton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11980 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11980

On the Combinatorics of Pseudo-Latin Squares
We introduce a new class of combinatorial objects called consecutive pseudo-Latin squares (CPLSs), a variant of Latin squares in which at least one row or column is in consecutive or reverse-consecutive order, but every element may not appear in every row or column. We derive exact and asymptotic formulas for the number of CPLSs of order $n$, showing that their proportion among all pseudo-Latin squares (PLSs) rapidly approaches zero as $n\to\infty$. We also analyze the distribution of CPLSs und…

Woman Is Granted a Protective Order Against Florida Congressman (Neil Vigdor/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/cory-mills-lindsey-langston-florida-rep.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251014/p167#a251014p167

On a class of thin obstacle-type problems for the bi-Laplacian operator
Donatella Danielli, Giovanni Gravina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11372 https://arxiv…

On a class of thin obstacle-type problems for the bi-Laplacian operator
This paper investigates the regularity of solutions and structural properties of the free boundary for a class of fourth-order elliptic problems with Neumann-type boundary conditions. The singular and degenerate elliptic operators studied naturally emerge from the extension procedure for higher-order fractional powers of the Laplacian, while the choice of non-linearity considered encompasses two-phase boundary obstacle problems as a special case. After establishing local regularity properties o…

Q-Linear Convergence of the Proximal Augmented Lagrangian Method for Non-Convex Conic Programming
Ning Zhang, Yi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11531 https://

Q-Linear Convergence of the Proximal Augmented Lagrangian Method for Non-Convex Conic Programming
This paper provides a local convergence analysis of the proximal augmented Lagrangian method (PALM) applied to a class of non-convex conic programming problems. Previous convergence results for PALM typically imposed assumptions such as constraint non-degeneracy, strict complementarity, second-order sufficiency conditions, or a combination of constraint nondegeneracy with strong second-order sufficiency conditions. In contrast, our work demonstrates a Q-linear convergence rate for an inexact ve…

OpenAI asks a federal judge to reverse an order that required it to turn over 20M anonymized ChatGPT chat logs in NYT's copyright suit, citing privacy concerns (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

On the Formal Metatheory of the Pure Type Systems using One-sorted Variable Names and Multiple Substitutions
Sebasti\'an Urciuoli (Universidad ORT Uruguay)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12300

On the Formal Metatheory of the Pure Type Systems using One-sorted Variable Names and Multiple Substitutions
We develop formal theories of conversion for Church-style lambda-terms with Pi-types in first-order syntax using one-sorted variables names and Stoughton's multiple substitutions. We then formalize the Pure Type Systems along some fundamental metatheoretic properties: weakening, syntactic validity, closure under alpha-conversion and substitution. Finally, we compare our formalization with others related. The whole development has been machine-checked using the Agda system. Our work demonstrate…

A federal judge on Monday
struck down Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects,
saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was
“arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law.
Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
vacated Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order blocking wind energy projects and declared it unlawful.
Saris ruled in favor of a coalition of…

Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy
A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law. Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts vacated Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order. Saris ruled in favor of a coalition of state attorneys general from 17 states and Washington, D.C., led by New York's attor…

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reveals that Anthropic placed a $10B order for Google's Ironwood TPU racks in Q3 and says it placed an additional $11B order in Q4 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/broadcom-reveals-its-mystery-10-billion-custo…

Broadcom reveals its mystery $10 billion customer is Anthropic
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said Anthropic placed an additional $11 billion order in the fourth quarter.

2025 NFL Simulator: Updated playoff paths and projected draft order after Week 15 results https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/12/16/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

Optimal higher-order convergence rates for parabolic multiscale problems
Balaje Kalyanaraman, Felix Krumbiegel, Roland Maier, Siyang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09514 https:…

Optimal higher-order convergence rates for parabolic multiscale problems
In this paper, we introduce a higher-order multiscale method for time-dependent problems with highly oscillatory coefficients. Building on the localized orthogonal decomposition (LOD) framework, we construct enriched correction operators to enrich the multiscale spaces, ensuring higher-order convergence without requiring assumptions on the coefficient beyond boundedness. This approach addresses the challenge of a reduction of convergence rates when applying higher-order LOD methods to time-depe…

The most probable order of a random permutation
Adrian Beker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11698 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11698

The most probable order of a random permutation
Given positive integers $n$ and $m$, let $p_n(m)$ be the probability that a uniform random permutation of $[n]$ has order exactly $m$. We show that, as $n \to \infty$, the maximum of $p_n(m)$ over all $m$ is asymptotic to $1/n$, the probability of an $n$-cycle. Furthermore, for sufficiently large $n$, we show that the maximum is attained precisely if $m$ is the least positive integer divisible by all positive integers less than or equal to $n-m$. This answers a question of Acan, Burnette, Eberh…

The American Library Association (ALA) has touted a "massive win"
after previously revoked federal funding for libraries and museums was reinstated nationwide.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
announced on Wednesday it had
"reinstated all federal grants,"
8 months after an executive order from Donald Trump kick-started a firestorm
at the agency that supports the nation’s libraries.
Most of IMLS' staff, and i…

Library Grants Reinstated Nationwide After ‘Massive’ Legal Victory
Grants being restored after a Trump and DOGE firestorm are being hailed as "a massive win for libraries."

Accelerated stochastic first-order method for convex optimization under heavy-tailed noise
Chuan He, Zhaosong Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11676 https://a…

Accelerated stochastic first-order method for convex optimization under heavy-tailed noise
We study convex composite optimization problems, where the objective function is given by the sum of a prox-friendly function and a convex function whose subgradients are estimated under heavy-tailed noise. Existing work often employs gradient clipping or normalization techniques in stochastic first-order methods to address heavy-tailed noise. In this paper, we demonstrate that a vanilla stochastic algorithm -- without additional modifications such as clipping or normalization -- can achieve op…

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying "we want to have one central source of approval" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-will-sign-order-curbing-state-…

2025 NFL Simulator: Updated playoff picture and projected draft order after Week 15 results https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/12/14/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

Trump signs order to fight state AI laws (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5645562-executive-order-limits-state-ai/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p146#a251211p146

Trump Signs Executive Order to Neuter State A.I. Laws (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/technology/ai-trump-executive-order.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p145#a251211p145

NEWS: Dan Richman
— key figure in now-dismissed Comey case
— wins motion for return of materials seized from his devices.
Judge finds his rights were violated,
orders that DOJ can only access data pursuant to lawful warrant.
Order could complicate efforts to re-indict Comey.
https://

Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social)
NEWS: Dan Richman — key figure in now-dismissed Comey case — wins motion for return of materials seized from his devices. Judge finds his rights were violated, orders that DOJ can only access data pursuant to lawful warrant. Order could complicate efforts to re-indict Comey.

Trump seeks to cut restrictions on marijuana through planned order (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/11/trump-marijuana-reclassification-executive-order/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p133#a251211p133

How media coverage of Trump's AI EO overstated federal authority over states and overlooked how the order's interstate commerce argument could backfire (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/trump-pretends-to-…

Trump Pretends To Block State AI Laws; Media Pretends That’s Legal
The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…). Headlines across…