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The Trinity Session
Cowboy Junkies
1988
There is something uniquely Canadian about The Trinity Session. The Trinity Session is a beautiful piece of folk #Canadiana an album that is far more than the sum of its parts – but whose parts, if you really give them your full attention, stand up perfectly well on their own.

(this might piss off both sides but hey)
One of the weirder parts of the AI debate for me is the "destroying the environment" bit.
Love it or hate it - my $500 graphics card with open source downloaded models is absolutely keeping up with the big boys for anything remotely useful and my electric bill is the same
#AI

This was part of Stephen Colbert’s Monday monologue:
After playing clips of the Trump admin spokespeople parroting the party line about not being at war with Iran, but being at war with Iran’s nuclear weapons program, he added the following bit:
“Honey, NO! I’m not having an affair with Stacey, … but I am having an affair with some of Stacey’s parts.

"Bangladesh protects sacred forests to strengthen biodiversity conservation"
#Bangladesh #Trees #Biodiversity

Bangladesh protects sacred forests to strengthen biodiversity conservation
With an aim to protect biodiversity that’s become fragmented and is scattered across the country, Bangladesh is listing all the old, sacred and socially important trees and forests. The Forest Department has been collecting information from the locals in various parts of the country about locations and details of sites that are centuries-old and sacred […]

ReLink: Computational Circular Design of Planar Linkage Mechanisms Using Available Standard Parts
Maxime Escande, Kristina Shea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19657

ReLink: Computational Circular Design of Planar Linkage Mechanisms Using Available Standard Parts
The Circular Economy framework emphasizes sustainability by reducing resource consumption and waste through the reuse of components and materials. This paper presents ReLink, a computational framework for the circular design of planar linkage mechanisms using available standard parts. Unlike most mechanism design methods, which assume the ability to create custom parts and infinite part availability, ReLink prioritizes the reuse of discrete, standardized components, thus minimizing the need for…

The Ultimate I-band Calibration of the TRGB Standard Candle
A. Udalski, D. M. Skowron, J. Skowron, M. K. Szyma\'nski, I. Soszy\'nski, P. Pietrukowicz, P. Mr\'oz, R. Poleski, S. Koz{\l}owski, K. Ulaczyk, K. Rybicki, P. Iwanek, M. Gromadzki, M. Wrona, M. Ratajczak, M. J. Mr\'oz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20766

The Ultimate I-band Calibration of the TRGB Standard Candle
We present the ultimate I-band calibration of the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) standard candle. Our calibration is based on photometry from the outer parts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, 2.75

Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/692248/fairp

The smaller Fairphone 6 introduces swappable accessories
The Fairphone 6 is smaller and lighter but offers better battery life and a more modular design, making it easier to repair and upgrade than other phones.

Earlier this month, the Copyright Office issued the third part of its report on on AI: this one covering how generative AI may infringe on copyright and whether that's fair use (short answer: maybe, maybe not). I have a new article up summarizing the report.
https://www.…

Copyright Office's report discusses whether generative AI use is fair use
Earlier this month, the Copyright Office issued the third part of its report on AI. As with the first two parts, the Copyright Office discusses arguments from people who responded to its call for comments and then provides its analysis. The three main sections in this part focus on infringement, fair use, and licensing regimes. Here, I’m going to cover what the report says about the first two items: whether using copyrighted material in generative AI infringes on owners’ rights and whether…

I’m buying computer parts from Germany thanks to the peculiar political choices of the nearby island

From Translink
With more Canadians opting to be tourists in their own country this summer, TransLink is making it easier (and a lot more fun) with a series of Transit-Friendly Summer Tours throughout Metro Vancouver.
More than 50 curated tours will be launched over the course of this summer, each of which offer unique ways to see different parts of Metro Vancouver while taking transit, cycling, or walking.
see full post at

Run 2/3 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment by the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab
Estifa'a Zaid (University of Liverpool, Oliver Lodge, Liverpool, United Kingdom)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21219

Run 2/3 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment by the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab
The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab seeks to measure the muon magnetic moment anomaly, $a_μ=(g-2)/2$, with a final target precision of 0.14 parts-per-million (ppm). The experiment's initial result, published in 2021 using Run 1 data from 2018, confirmed the previous measurement at Brookhaven National Laboratory with a comparable sensitivity of 0.46 ppm. In 2023, a new result based on Run 2 and Run 3 data, collected in 2019 and 2020, was released. These datasets contain four times the data from…

Trump: Parts Of My Megabill Are A "Giant Scam" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/trump-parts-of-my-megabill-are-a-giant-scam/

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[2/5]:
- Sum-of-Parts: Self-Attributing Neural Networks with End-to-End Learning of Feature Groups
Weiqiu You, Helen Qu, Marco Gatti, Bhuvnesh Jain, Eric Wong

Earlier this month, the Copyright Office issued the third part of its report on on AI: this one covering how generative AI may infringe on copyright and whether that's fair use (short answer: maybe, maybe not). I have a new article up summarizing the report.
https://www.…

Copyright Office's report discusses whether generative AI use is fair use
Earlier this month, the Copyright Office issued the third part of its report on AI. As with the first two parts, the Copyright Office discusses arguments from people who responded to its call for comments and then provides its analysis. The three main sections in this part focus on infringement, fair use, and licensing regimes. Here, I’m going to cover what the report says about the first two items: whether using copyrighted material in generative AI infringes on owners’ rights and whether…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21003 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Efficient application of the Voigt functions in the Fourier transform
In this work, we develop a method of rational approximation of the Fourier transform (FT) based on the real and imaginary parts of the complex error function \[ w(z) = e^{-z^2}(1 - {\rm{erf}}(-iz)) = K(x,y) + iL(x,y), \quad z = x + iy, \] where $K(x,y)$ and $L(x,y)$ are known as the Voigt and imaginary Voigt functions, respectively. In contrast to our previous rational approximation of the FT, the expansion coefficients in this method are not dependent on values of a sampled function. As the va…

A new report from global energy think tank Ember says
🔥batteries have officially hit the price point that lets solar power deliver affordable electricity almost every hour of the year in the sunniest parts of the world
https://ember-ene…

Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything | Ember
Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar energy’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.

It may appear to be looking empty and quiet at the MPS Göttingen right now - but we have been bustling about and are very busy getting everything ready for our visitors at the Night of Science tomorrow! Care for a few sneak previews in today's thread?
@…
#ndwgoe

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Isley Brothers:
🎵 For the Love of You, Parts 1 & 2
#TheIsleyBrothers
https://open.spotify.com/track/7teF2kwC3GL00mQfwtxzo9

Artificial Disruption – Hardcore Avant Garde
#byncsa

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16941 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Overpartitions with separated overlined parts and non-overlined parts
Recently, Andrews considered the partitions with parts separated by parity, in which parts of a given parity are all smaller than those of the other parity. Inspired from the partitions with parts separated by parity, we investigate the overpartitions with separated overlined parts and non-overlined parts, in which the sizes of overlined parts (resp. non-overlined parts) are greater than or equal to those of non-overlined parts (resp. overlined parts).

Codeword-Segmentation Rate-Splitting Multiple Access and Evaluation under Suboptimal Decoding
Sibo Zhang, Bruno Clerckx, David Vargas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17164

Codeword-Segmentation Rate-Splitting Multiple Access and Evaluation under Suboptimal Decoding
Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) has been recognized as a promising multiple access technique. We propose a novel architecture for downlink RSMA, namely Codeword-Segmentation RSMA (CS-RSMA). Different from conventional RSMA which splits users' messages into common and private parts before encoding, CS-RSMA encodes the users' messages directly, segments the codewords into common and private parts, and transmits the codeword segments using common and private streams. In addition to the princ…

Approximating Submodular Matroid-Constrained Partitioning
Krist\'of B\'erczi, Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran, Tam\'as Kir\'aly, Daniel P. Szabo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19507

Approximating Submodular Matroid-Constrained Partitioning
The submodular partitioning problem asks to minimize, over all partitions P of a ground set V, the sum of a given submodular function f over the parts of P. The problem has seen considerable work in approximability, as it encompasses multiterminal cuts on graphs, k-cuts on hypergraphs, and elementary linear algebra problems such as matrix multiway partitioning. This research has been divided between the fixed terminal setting, where we are given a set of terminals that must be separated by P, a…

@… @… @… Maybe it's two parts in one? I'd swear there is a rounded 2x3 :crabrave:

A High-Order Compact Hermite Difference Method for Double-Diffusive Convection
Jianqing Yang, Jianxian Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19367 https://…

A High-Order Compact Hermite Difference Method for Double-Diffusive Convection
In this paper, a class of high-order compact finite difference Hermite scheme is presented for the simulation of double-diffusive convection. To maintain linear stability, the convective fluxes are split into positive and negative parts, then the compact Hermite difference methods are used to discretize the positive and negative fluxes, respectively. The diffusion fluxes of the governing equations are directly approximated by a high-order finite difference scheme based on the Hermite interpolat…

You won't want to miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Trump cyber EO reverses some parts of Biden, Obama orders
--Starlink endangers WH security,
--Nigeria convicts Chinese cybercriminals,
--US sentences Nigerian hacker,
--ICE arrests Oz hacker,
--Italy ends contract with spyware company Paragon,
--Supreme Ct. gives DOGE social security data,
--BADBOX 2.0 …

Trump cyber EO reverses some parts of Biden, Obama orders
Starlink endangers WH security, Nigeria convicts Chinese cybercriminals, US sentences Nigerian hacker, ICE arrests Oz hacker, Italy ends contract with spyware company Paragon, Supreme Ct. gives DOGE our social security data, BADBOX 2.0 infects 1m+ devices, EU issues cyber blueprint, much more

US enters first major heat wave of 2025 #UnitedStates #USA

US enters first major heat wave of 2025
The United States is experiencing its first significant heat wave of the year, beginning Friday across the Great Plains and expanding into parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).

"Mommy, I want a retro train!" "We have a retro train at home."
#Retro #train at home:
(It's non-modernized EN57-1278 in #Leszno. Unusual in these parts, apparently arrived from Wrocław. No, it doesn't have AC. But it's likely they've mounted a vacuum toilet already.)

"Le Monde – Agir pour le climat, un impératif catégorique"
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/06/21/agir-pour-le-climat-un-imperatif-categorique_6615070_3232.html

Agir pour le climat, un impératif catégorique
Alors que la lutte contre le dérèglement climatique est attaquée de toutes parts, aux Etats-Unis comme sur les bancs de l’Assemblée nationale en France, il devient urgent et nécessaire de bâtir un discours capable d’impulser une nouvelle dynamique, en mettant davantage en avant les bénéfices associés à la transition et le coût concret de l’inaction.

On the arithmetic properties of partitions into parts simultaneously $4$-regular and $9$-distinct
Mohammed L. Nadji, Moussa Ahmia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07704

On the arithmetic properties of partitions into parts simultaneously $4$-regular and $9$-distinct
In 2017, Keith presented a comprehensive survey on integer partitions into parts that are simultaneously regular, distinct, and/or flat. Recently, the authors initiated a study of partitions into parts that are simultaneously regular and distinct, examining them from both arithmetic and combinatorial perspectives. In particular, several Ramanujan-like congruences were obtained for $\myRD^{(\ell, t)}(n)$, the number of partitions of $n$ into parts that are simultaneously $\ell$-regular and $t$-d…

The Upward-Driven Disk, a Steadily Forced Chaotic Pendulum
Leo Maas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17957 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17957…

The Upward-Driven Disk, a Steadily Forced Chaotic Pendulum
An "upward-driven disk" is a novel mechanical device built from LEGO parts. A circular disk is suspended from the point where it is sandwiched between two wheels, making it free to oscillate as a pendulum, but the location of that suspension point on the disk changes with time due to a steady upward driving force applied by rotation of one of the wheels. The pendulum can dynamically flip between hanging downward and being inverted. Depending on the upward drive and the initial conditions, the d…

"The British used parts of North America as a penal colony. Convicts were transported by private companies and sold by auction to plantation owners. Between 1718 and 1776, it is estimated that 30,000-50,000 convicts were transported for penal labor to at least nine of the continental colonies." -- https://

Penal labor in the United States - Wikipedia

Noticing a lot more coughing people on trains in #Japan recently too. Bet it's surging here too #Covid #covid19

I got annoyed waiting for the parts to fix my Elna so I bid on and won this Featherweight that I will give as a gift. Needs a clean and a new pedal/cord but otherwise excellent. #sewing #sewingmachines

Amsterdam is celebrating its 750th anniversary. Tomorrow, this will be celebrated with activities on a large section of the ring road: for one day, there will be a bit more city for people and less for cars. Hopefully, this will be an appetiser for more.
https://opdering.amsterdam/en/

Random rotational invariance of integration by parts formulas within a Bismut-type approach
Susanna Deh\`o, Francesco C. De Vecchi, Paola Morando, Stefania Ugolini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11937

Random rotational invariance of integration by parts formulas within a Bismut-type approach
The stochastic rotational invariance of an integration by parts formula inspired by the Bismut approach to Malliavin calculus is proved in the framework of the Lie symmetry theory of stochastic differential equations. The non-trivial effect of the rotational invariance of the driving Brownian motion in the derivation of the integration by parts formula is discussed and the invariance property of the formula is shown via applications to some explicit two-dimensional Brownian motion-driven stocha…

Hey. I don’t know how to share this here. I don't know how to "frame" it for Mastodon...
But I want to share it. Because I know other people out there hurt. I know how isolating it is.
So, this isn't snappy & well-packaged. But neither am I. And neither is pain.
I hope this somehow helps someone feel less alone in their pain:

An Open Letter to My Body (and an Apology to the Public)
This is a post in two parts. One to my body, and one to you.

Purism's $1,999 security-focused Liberty Phone, assembled in the US with decade-old specs and some US-made parts, exposes the gaps in US phone manufacturing (Ben Raab/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Charles Avison, Pavlo Beznosiuk & Avison Ensemble:
🎵 Concerto in 4 parts in F major, Op 9 No 10
#CharlesAvison #PavloBeznosiuk #AvisonEnsemble

Reports of Bluesky’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (MATHEW INGRAM, 18 Jun 2025)
https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/reports-of-blueskys-death-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/

If my bio didn’t make it obvious, I’m an anarcho-syndicalist who’s bisexual, gender-fluid, and autistic!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism

CNN's chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt, whose 2021 story led to a suit in which a jury awarded $5M to an ex-CIA operative, is leaving CNN (Stephen Battaglio/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latime…

CNN parts ways with correspondent whose story led to defamation lawsuit
A jury awarded a military contractor $5 million over Alex Marquardt's 2021 report on a military contractor.

Action Language BC
Joseph Babb, Joohyung Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18044 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18044

Action Language BC+
Action languages are formal models of parts of natural language that are designed to describe effects of actions. Many of these languages can be viewed as high level notations of answer set programs structured to represent transition systems. However, the form of answer set programs considered in the earlier work is quite limited in comparison with the modern Answer Set Programming (ASP) language, which allows several useful constructs for knowledge representation, such as choice rules, aggrega…

What do you do with a news organization like ABC that is frightened to the point of being cowardly of the very institutions it's supposed to report on?
✅ ABC News Parts Ways With Terry Moran After Trump Social Media Post
https://deadline.com/2025/06/terry-mor

ABC News Parts Ways With Terry Moran Over His Social Media Post About Trump And Aide Stephen Miller
ABC News says that it has chosen not to renew the contract of Terry Moran after he posted, then deleted, an attack on Donald Trump and his top aide Stephen Miller. ABC News suspended Moran on Sunday. “We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post – […]

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Time to build a... Let's play!
#AssembleThingsASongOrPoem

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
won Best Documentary at the United Nations Association Film Festival
#PrivateEquity #Journalism #FreePress

This fashion look isn't limited to GenAI. You too can sport extra body parts as accessories!

Make fancy tables: #rstats #tables

Slow progress the last couple days because I've been going into the office for work and the commute is eating up my time I'd otherwise spend on such things.
But now it's the weekend and the switch engine board is coming together nicely.
Still have 514 nets to route - mostly the supervisor, line card management buses, and power supply but also some other odds and ends like the FPGA JTAG and part of the SPI flash.
Also I have to get the tach/PWM signals from the m…

Dead Amstrad ALT-286 becomes something new #Amstrad

Dead Amstrad Becomes Something New
When you run into old hardware you cannot restore, what do you do? Toss it? Sell it for parts? If you’re [TME Retro], you hide a high-end mini PC inside an Amstrad-shaped sleeper build. The d…

Some mining today on Albion Asia when Albion EU was offline for maintenance.
As of this moment the guild "Mastodon Fediverse 100 Tax" got 8 members and 3 are online including me.
#AlbionOnline #MastodonFediAsia

Color study.
#bloomscrolling #photography

"Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find
No matter which questions we ask an AI, the model will come up with an answer. To produce this information—regardless of whether the answer is correct or not—the model uses tokens. Tokens are words or parts of words that are converted into a string of numbers that can be processed by the LLM.

So my Netgear ORBI router died after seven years. It always amazes me when a simple "board in a box" appliance with no moving parts suddenly fails. It's bricked, and the "corrupted firmware" LED blinks if you try and factory reset it. Why?
Only sign of visible stress are these metal boxes just before the antenna connections. Looks like they got a bit warm. Transformers? I suppose these could have shorted and taken something else with it.

Thunderstorm here this morning! Oddly refreshing.
I know there are parts of the world where thunder is common, but here it isn't.

"You are a software worker. And you are able to do your job in more or less good conditions only because you are standing on the shoulders of countless others. We are talking about the fact that if you have 20 days of holidays, if you only work 5 days a week, if you are able to take some days or weeks off after the birth of your child, it is because some others before you have sacrificed their lives so you can work in decent conditions."

Urban Living IV - Greens 🟢
都市生活 IV - 绿色 🟢
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

Two-Person Cooperative Games with delta-Rationality
Fang-Fang Tang, Yongsheng Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16465 https://arxiv.org/p…

Two-Person Cooperative Games with delta-Rationality
A player's payoff is modeled as consisting of two parts: a rational-value part and a distortion-value part. It is argued that the (total) payoff function should be used to explain and predict the behaviors of the players, while the rational value function should be used to conduct welfare analysis of the final outcome. We use the Nash demand game to illustrate our model.

Saw a computer (desktop tower PC) on the side of the road today and stopped to see if there were any useful parts I could pull from it because I thought it would be hilarious to have parts in my NAS from a literal garbage PC on the side of the road.

I like @…’s analysis here in many respects, both its broad conclusion (when the hype dies down, the useful parts remain and we take them for granted as normal tools), and this gem here:
Machine learning is well-suited for ❝any problem where we don’t actually know the rules and where the cost of a wrong answer is significantly lower than the benefit of a right answer.❞
1/2 https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/112716199046923540

A federal judge Friday issued a second preliminary injunction blocking some provisions of the sweeping executive order on elections that Donald Trump signed in March.
Judge Denise Casper blocked provisions ordering the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to take steps to require documentary proof of citizenship from people registering to vote and requiring federal voter registration agencies to “assess” the citizenship of individuals who receive public assistance before providing them …

Parts of Trump’s executive order on elections blocked by a federal court
A federal court granted a coalition of states an injunction halting implementation of parts of Trump’s executive order on elections.

Todays project:
Built a minecraft server for my kids and their friends using cheap parts.

In Vitro Antibacterial activity of hexane, Chloroform and methanolic extracts of different parts of Acronychia pedunculata grown in Sri Lanka
R. D. Nimantha Karunathilaka, Athige Rajith Niloshan Silva, Chathuranga Bharathee Ranaweera, D. M. R. K. Dissanayake, N. R. M. Nelumdeniya, Ranjith Pathirana, W. D. Ratnasooriya
https://ar…

In Vitro Antibacterial activity of hexane, Chloroform and methanolic extracts of different parts of Acronychia pedunculata grown in Sri Lanka
This study accessed the antibacterial potential in vitro of hexane, chloroform and methanol extracts made from leaves, stem bark, flowers, seeds or roots of Sri Lankan grown Acronychia pedunculata plant against two Gram positive bacteria, Staphylococus aureus (ATCC 25923) and Bacilus cereus (ATCC 11778), and two Gram negative bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC 9027) and Escherichia coli (ATCC 35218), using agar disc diffusion bioassay technique. The results showed that none the of the extra…

Mixed phases in a Fermi--Hubbard model describing altermagnetism
E. Langmann, J. Lenells
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16503 https://arx…

Mixed phases in a Fermi--Hubbard model describing altermagnetism
We study an extension of the 2D Fermi--Hubbard model, which was recently introduced in [Das et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263402 (2024)] and shown to describe altermagnetism that can be studied in cold atom systems. Using an updated Hartree--Fock method that can detect instabilities towards phase separation, we show that the model is in a mixed phase in large parts of the parameter regime at half-filling. We argue that the occurrence of a mixed phase is an indication of exotic physics which, in…

THE NASTIEST PARTS OF YOUR BODY!
You won't believe number 17!

Sonnet 069 - LXIX
Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due,
Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.
Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd;
But those same tongues, that give thee so thine own,
In other accents do this praise confound
By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.
They look into the beauty of t…

I was handed a bucket full of lego worm gears https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=4716 a few weeks ago and came up with this model:

😡
#USpol

TRIZ Agents: A Multi-Agent LLM Approach for TRIZ-Based Innovation
Kamil Szczepanik, Jaros{\l}aw A. Chudziak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18783 https://

TRIZ Agents: A Multi-Agent LLM Approach for TRIZ-Based Innovation
TRIZ, the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving, is a structured, knowledge-based framework for innovation and abstracting problems to find inventive solutions. However, its application is often limited by the complexity and deep interdisciplinary knowledge required. Advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have revealed new possibilities for automating parts of this process. While previous studies have explored single LLMs in TRIZ applications, this paper introduces a multi-agent approach. W…

Matroids, intersecting bases, and Borsuk property
Gyivan L\'opez-Campos, Fr\'ed\'eric Meunier, Jorge L. Ram\'irez Alfons\'in
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17082

Matroids, intersecting bases, and Borsuk property
A subset $S$ of $\mathbb R^d$ has the Borsuk property if it can be decomposed into at most $d+1$ parts of diameter smaller than $S$. This is an important geometric property, inspired by a conjecture of Borsuk from the 1930s, which has attracted considerable attention over the years. In this paper, we define and investigate the Borsuk property for matroids, providing a purely combinatorial approach to the Borsuk property for matroid polytopes, a well-studied family of $(0,1)$-polytopes associate…

Does someone know if it is possible to use the devenv services with flake-parts?
I would like to only consume the nix modules and use them with flake-parts.
I know that services-flake exists but I want specifically the devenv services.
#nix #nixos

BiAssemble: Learning Collaborative Affordance for Bimanual Geometric Assembly
Yan Shen, Ruihai Wu, Yubin Ke, Xinyuan Song, Zeyi Li, Xiaoqi Li, Hongwei Fan, Haoran Lu, Hao dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06221

BiAssemble: Learning Collaborative Affordance for Bimanual Geometric Assembly
Shape assembly, the process of combining parts into a complete whole, is a crucial robotic skill with broad real-world applications. Among various assembly tasks, geometric assembly--where broken parts are reassembled into their original form (e.g., reconstructing a shattered bowl)--is particularly challenging. This requires the robot to recognize geometric cues for grasping, assembly, and subsequent bimanual collaborative manipulation on varied fragments. In this paper, we exploit the geometri…

Great stuff in this article but I do not know if unplugging from the broligarch's platforms is the solution to end their delusional grandeur.
It is the same with the climate crisis. This cannot hinge on the individual to solve but the whole system has to change. Individual action is good but that is not enough.
(For all its shortfalls the EU is regulating parts of the tech industry, but there has to be more.)

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

"The process of coding with an “agentic” LLM appears to be the process of carefully distilling all the worst parts of code review, and removing and discarding all of its benefits."
Very insightful post on #GenAI by Glyph
(Original title: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now)

benches have gone up at bus stops around the Mission and parts south. thanks https://sfbabc.org !! everybody deserves comfort and dignity while waiting for the bus

"ICE is preparing to deploy tactical units known as Special Response Teams to five Democratic-run cities."
Somewhere in my head alarm bells are ringing and I can't find the "off" button.
https://www.

What is SMB? @… has these fantastic storyboards explaining key parts of the project. I suppose more wil be added later too.
https://polarres.github.io/Storyboards/smb

I love that I can re-color individual parts of SVG graphics automatically for prefers-color-scheme user preferences using CSS! #WebDesign

The highlight would be if key parts of SpaceX (not just StarLink) were nationalized for national security reasons.

Today I skipped radparade.at and instead we assembled the kitchen block (exact positioning all the parts took some time) and re-build the rounded shelf that goes below the end of the worktop.

Unfortunately & conversely, this (below) is the same framing tech bros (and parts of the population) are finding so attractive to anthropomorphize LLMs: These are not machines, and them making mistakes is normal and expected... At the same time, the other card being played (by politics, military & law enforcement) is that AI-driven insights and decision making are _already_ considered superior, infallible and unchallengeable... in the middle of this two pronged rhetoric is the fate o…

CPU-Based Layout Design for Picker-to-Parts Pallet Warehouses
Timo Looms, Lin Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04266 https://arxiv.org/…

CPU-Based Layout Design for Picker-to-Parts Pallet Warehouses
Picker-to-parts pallet warehouses often face inefficiencies due to conventional layouts causing excessive travel distances and high labor requirements. This study introduces a novel layout design inspired by CPU architecture, partitioning warehouse space into specialized zones, namely Performance (P), Efficiency (E), and Shared (S). Discrete-event simulation is used to evaluate this design against traditional rectangular (random and ABC storage) and Flying-V layouts. Results demonstrate signifi…

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US proposes adding seven pangolin species to Endangered Species Act https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/us-proposes-adding-seven-pangolin-species-to-endangered-species-act/

US proposes adding seven pangolin species to Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recently proposed listing seven species of pangolins, the most trafficked mammals on the planet, under the Endangered Species Act. If finalized, an ESA listing would prohibit the import and sale of pangolins and their parts in the U.S., except for scientific or conservation purposes. It would also open […]

"A review of 700 body parts named after 432 people found 424 were male physicians. "
A woman's body is a man's world. Just ask an anatomist... | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26635470-100-a-womans-body-is-a-mans-world-just-ask-an-anatomist/?c=pidayemail&utm_source=nssub-

Virtually all of the most important parts of the U.S. government that were created to protect the U.S. from the greatest risks we face
are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized.
What is more, plans and statements of the president and his advisers suggest further cuts are contemplated
that increase the likelihood that one or more crises will catch us unawares
🔥and that when that happens, we will be much less equipped to handle it than we have been in decades.

We Better Pray That No Unexpected Crisis Hits While Trump Is President
It’s a world exploding with crises waiting to happen. Donald Trump has made us less prepared for every one of them.

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Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/metas-llama-31-can-recall-42-perc…

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI.

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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12145 has been replaced.
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New arithmetic properties for overpartitions where nonoverlined parts are $\ell$-regular
In this paper, we study the partition functions $\overline{R_\ell^\ast}(n)$, which count the number of overpartitions of $n$ where the non-overlined parts are $\ell$-regular for a given $\ell$. Using elementary techniques, as well as the theory of modular forms, we establish several new arithmetic properties, including infinite families of congruences for these functions.

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Known as “white” asbestos,
chrysotile asbestos is banned in more than 50 countries
for its link to lung cancer and mesothelioma,
a cancer that forms in the lining of internal organs.
White asbestos, however, has been imported for use in the United States for roofing materials, textiles and cement as well as gaskets, clutches, brake pads and other automotive parts.
It is also used in chlorine manufacturing.
Last year the Environmental Protection Agency, u…

E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos
The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries.

Here's one way to see what's going on in parts of LAX: traffic cameras.
Los Angeles, CA Live Traffic Cameras & Local Road Conditions | WeatherBug
https://www.weatherbug.com/traffic-cam/los-angeles-ca-90007

Visa: stablecoin transaction volumes hit $752B in May, up from $409B in May 2024, and wallets that regularly send and receive payments hit a record 46M average (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b69f304c-798e-4dc3-9f17-6f7a7c8d3ac0

How stablecoins are entering the financial mainstream
Usage of the digital assets is growing rapidly, but concerns remain about supervision and their impact on other parts of the financial system

Weather tracker: Storms make way for summer heat in Europe https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/09/weather-tracker-storms-summer-heat-europe-south-africa

⭐️Trump, Bashed the Federalist Society
(Not Corrupt Enough),
Asserts Autonomy on Judge Picks
⭐️Felon growns increasingly angry at court rulings blocking parts of his agenda,
including by judges he appointed
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Trump, Bashing the Federalist Society, Asserts Autonomy on Judge Picks
The president has grown increasingly angry at court rulings blocking parts of his agenda, including by judges he appointed.

Waymo suspends operations in downtown Los Angeles after at least five vehicles were destroyed during riots; it continues to operate in other parts of the city (Caroline Petrow-Cohen/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/202

Waymo halts service in downtown Los Angeles amid ICE protests
Driverless taxi company Waymo suspended service in downtown Los Angeles after at least five of its vehicles were set on fire during protests in the area.

The modern standard model of cosmology is a triumph of the scientific process.
On the other hand, it’s also kind of a kludge.
The modern standard model seems to glue together a bunch of disparate parts without any overarching theoretical structure.
Take inflation and dark energy.
In both cases, we have a form of pervasive energy that pushes space apart.
Inflation does it really fast and then dissipates.
Dark energy does it much slower and does not dissipate…

Our standard model of cosmology is both a triumph and a jumbled mess
The standard model of cosmology is very successful, but cosmologists are largely still in the dark about the forces that drive the Universe.

Epic v. Apple: a US appeals court rejects Apple's request to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring it to open the App Store to more competition (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustain…