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California lawmakers pass bill banning law enforcement officers from covering their faces
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-12/bill-banning-masks-on-law-enforcement-officers-passes-state-legislature

California lawmakers pass bill banning law enforcement officers from covering their faces
The California Legislature on Thursday passed a pair of bills to prohibit on-duty law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from masking their faces and requires them to identify themselves.

Y'all I just typed in "heist model of developer collaboration" into Google _on my work account_
and although the AI overview said "this isn't a thing"
the _very top hit_ on the actual links was a Livejournal echo of a post *THAT I WROTE* in 2013
https://trochee.net/20…

“Bank heist” collaboration pattern
Here’s my favorite collaboration pattern so far: the Bank Heist collaboration pattern. This pattern, which we know from The A-Team, Ocean’s 11 and Leverage, among others, shares many pr…

Toward Low-Latency, High-Fidelity Calibration of the LIGO Detectors with Enhanced Monitoring Tools
M. Wade, J. Betzwieser, D. Bhattacharjee, L. Dartez, E. Goetz, J. Kissel, L. Sun, A. Viets, M. Carney, E. Makelele, L. Wade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08423

Toward Low-Latency, High-Fidelity Calibration of the LIGO Detectors with Enhanced Monitoring Tools
Accurate and reliable calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors has enabled a plethora of gravitational-wave discoveries over the past decade, starting with the ground-breaking discovery, GW150914. Over the past ten years, the calibrated strain data from Advanced LIGO detectors has become available at a lower latency and with more reliability. In this paper, we discuss the relevant history of Advanced LIGO calibration and introduce new tools that have been developed to enable faster and more r…

If you're a Californian, please contact your senator and ask him to vote yes on AB 1264 to remove ultra-processed "food" from school lunches. These products have many adverse health impacts.
This link makes it easy to write your senator: https://action…

California: Tell Your State Senator to Get Dangerous, Ultra-Processed Food Out of School Lunches
This bill has already passed the Senate Health Committee unanimously, but manufacturers are pushing back hard against this bill, and the Senate will be voting soon to decide its fate.

If you're a Californian, please contact your senator and ask him to vote yes on AB 1264 to remove ultra-processed "food" from school lunches. These products have many adverse health impacts.
This link makes it easy to write your senator: https://action…

California: Tell Your State Senator to Get Dangerous, Ultra-Processed Food Out of School Lunches
This bill has already passed the Senate Health Committee unanimously, but manufacturers are pushing back hard against this bill, and the Senate will be voting soon to decide its fate.

Marketron Through the Looking Glass: From Equity Dynamics to Option Pricing in Incomplete Markets
Igor Halperin, Andrey Itkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09863 https://

Marketron Through the Looking Glass: From Equity Dynamics to Option Pricing in Incomplete Markets
The Marketron model, introduced by [Halperin, Itkin, 2025], describes price formation in inelastic markets as the nonlinear diffusion of a quasiparticle (the marketron) in a multidimensional space comprising the log-price $x$, a memory variable $y$ encoding past money flows, and unobservable return predictors $z$. While the original work calibrated the model to S\&P 500 time series data, this paper extends the framework to option markets - a fundamentally distinct challenge due to market incomp…

A Contextual Bandits Approach for Personalization of Hand Gesture Recognition
Duke Lin, Michael Paskett, Ying Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08915 https://

A Contextual Bandits Approach for Personalization of Hand Gesture Recognition
In human-computer interaction applications like hand gesture recognition, supervised learning models are often trained on a large population of users to achieve high task accuracy. However, due to individual variability in sensor signals and user behavior, static models may not provide optimal performance for all users. Personalizing pretrained models via calibration--collecting labeled data from each user--can improve performance but introduces user friction and struggles with limited data. To…

HALT-RAG: A Task-Adaptable Framework for Hallucination Detection with Calibrated NLI Ensembles and Abstention
Saumya Goswami, Siddharth Kurra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07475 ht…

HALT-RAG: A Task-Adaptable Framework for Hallucination Detection with Calibrated NLI Ensembles and Abstention
Detecting content that contradicts or is unsupported by a given source text is a critical challenge for the safe deployment of generative language models. We introduce HALT-RAG, a post-hoc verification system designed to identify hallucinations in the outputs of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines. Our flexible and task-adaptable framework uses a universal feature set derived from an ensemble of two frozen, off-the-shelf Natural Language Inference (NLI) models and lightweight lexical…

Voting Republican means voting for lower wages. I mean, why pay America's workers when you can enrich billionaires, amirite? 🙄
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The Intellectualist (@the_intellectualist_official) on Threads
In 2025, 21 states—mostly Democrat-led—raised their minimum wage, while 20 Republican-led states kept the $7.25 federal rate. Washington leads at $16.66, followed by California ($16.50) and Connecticut ($15.69), highlighting sharp political and regional divides.

Lifeguards rescued hundreds of people from Rip Currents in Newport Beach, California on July 4th weekend
https://abc7.com/post/lifeguards-make-hundreds-rescues-hazardous-conditions-socal-beaches-july-4th-weekend…

Lifeguards make hundreds of rescues with hazardous conditions at SoCal beaches on July 4th weekend
Newport Beach lifeguards shared a video of crews saving 10 swimmers from what they called a "monster rip current." They made 350 rescues there on Friday.