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physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
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Mexiko: Untersuchung wegen mutmaßlicher Schmiergeldzahlung beim Kauf von Pegasus
Beim Kauf der Spionagesoftware Pegasus soll Mexikos Ex-Präsident Enrique Peña Nieto Schmiergeld kassiert haben. Die Staatsanwaltschaft leitet Ermittlungen ein.

Sometimes you get data in less than optimal format, e.g. as a png of a figure 😭... In that case https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/metaDigitise/vignettes/metaDigitise.html might be the rescue.

So #Zope released new versions of their packages, with pkg-resources style namespace removal.
Totally normal way to do the bumps:
1. At first, keep the existing testing hack (writing `__init__.py`).
2. Notice that the next package fails because it expects test paths relative to `zope` subdirectory. Skip it for now.
3. While doing the next package, realize you could remove that hack and simply run tests within the `zope` subdirectory! Go back and update all the previous packages, including the one that failed before.
4. Back to bumping. Notice that in the very next package you've had an even better solution: instead of `cd`, you just called `python -m unittest -s …`. Go back and update all the previous packages.
5. Back to bumping. The very next package turns out to actually expects test paths relative to the top-level site-packages directory. Well, you can use a hybrid of the `__init__.py` hack with `python -m unittest -s …`.
#Gentoo #Python

"ChatGPT psychosis": Experts warn that people are losing themselves to #AI https://futurism.com/expert-people-losing-themselves-ai Does getting too rich and powerful have the same effec…

"ChatGPT Psychosis": Experts Warn that People Are Losing Themselves to AI
AI users are spiraling into severe mental health crises after extensive use of chatbots like ChatGPT — and health experts are taking notice.

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Improving Dense Passage Retrieval with Multiple Positive Passages
Shuai Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09534 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09534

Improving Dense Passage Retrieval with Multiple Positive Passages
By leveraging a dual encoder architecture, Dense Passage Retrieval (DPR) has outperformed traditional sparse retrieval algorithms such as BM25 in terms of passage retrieval accuracy. Recently proposed methods have further enhanced DPR's performance. However, these models typically pair each question with only one positive passage during training, and the effect of associating multiple positive passages has not been examined. In this paper, we explore the performance of DPR when additional posit…

@… Butterfly can save locally and on WebDAV https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.linwood.butterfly/
Memento stores them locally.

Sources: Microsoft is trying to poach Meta's AI talent, is making multimillion-dollar offers, with a mandate to match Meta's compensation for top talent (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-trying-poa…

Microsoft is trying to poach Meta AI talent, documents show
The company has compiled a list of its most-wanted Meta engineers and researchers, part of an effort to be more competitive in the AI talent wars.

KI-Psychose: Warum Chatbots wahnhafte Ideen bestärken können
Ein Chatbot als Spiegel der Seele. Was passiert, wenn dieser Risse bekommt und eine verzerrte Realität zeigt, die für manche zur gefährlichen Gewissheit wird?