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TransLink preparing transit services for winter weather
Deeper tread tires expanded to 70 per cent of bus fleet to help keep customers moving
TransLink is equipping roughly 500 more buses than last year with tires featuring deeper tread patterns for improved traction, to prepare for winter weather in Metro Vancouver.

Up to 1,100 buses, about 70% of the fleet and double from 2024, will be operating with Michelin Grip D tires this upcoming season.

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Decentralized and Self-adaptive Core Maintenance on Temporal Graphs
Davide Rucci, Emanuele Carlini, Patrizio Dazzi, Hanna Kavalionak, Matteo Mordacchini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00758

Decentralized and Self-adaptive Core Maintenance on Temporal Graphs
Key graph-based problems play a central role in understanding network topology and uncovering patterns of similarity in homogeneous and temporal data. Such patterns can be revealed by analyzing communities formed by nodes, which in turn can be effectively modeled through temporal $k$-cores. This paper introduces a novel decentralized and incremental algorithm for computing the core decomposition of temporal networks. Decentralized solutions leverage the ability of network nodes to communicate a…

Stochastic Gradient Descent for Incomplete Tensor Linear Systems
Anna Ma, Deanna Needell, Alexander Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07630 https://arxiv.org/…

Stochastic Gradient Descent for Incomplete Tensor Linear Systems
Solving large tensor linear systems poses significant challenges due to the high volume of data stored, and it only becomes more challenging when some of the data is missing. Recently, Ma et al. showed that this problem can be tackled using a stochastic gradient descent-based method, assuming that the missing data follows a uniform missing pattern. We adapt the technique by modifying the update direction, showing that the method is applicable under other missing data models. We prove convergenc…

Emergent evaluation hubs in a decentralizing large language model ecosystem
Manuel Cebrian, Tomomi Kito, Raul Castro Fernandez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01286 https://

Emergent evaluation hubs in a decentralizing large language model ecosystem
Large language models are proliferating, and so are the benchmarks that serve as their common yardsticks. We ask how the agglomeration patterns of these two layers compare: do they evolve in tandem or diverge? Drawing on two curated proxies for the ecosystem, the Stanford Foundation-Model Ecosystem Graph and the Evidently AI benchmark registry, we find complementary but contrasting dynamics. Model creation has broadened across countries and organizations and diversified in modality, licensing, …

This thread is brilliant, and a call to action.
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Adam Goodman (@akgood.bsky.social)
The @annarborobserver.bsky.social newsletter had a decent summary of the dynamic at the #a2council Transportation Commission meeting last week (https://mailchi.mp/aaobserver/a2view-november-26-2025?e=476ffa7e6c ). But we need to take some time to talk in detail about why the city's presentation was so damaging and damning... (🧵)

The Narcissus Hypothesis:Descending to the Rung of Illusion
Riccardo Cadei, Christian Intern\`o
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17999 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

The Narcissus Hypothesis:Descending to the Rung of Illusion
Modern foundational models increasingly reflect not just world knowledge, but patterns of human preference embedded in their training data. We hypothesize that recursive alignment-via human feedback and model-generated corpora-induces a social desirability bias, nudging models to favor agreeable or flattering responses over objective reasoning. We refer to it as the Narcissus Hypothesis and test it across 31 models using standardized personality assessments and a novel Social Desirability Bias …

myPhysmatics: Connected Mathematical Models in Physics
Sergej Pankratow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16269 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16269

myPhysmatics: Connected Mathematical Models in Physics
This book is devoted to an informal discussion of patterns constructed for treating physical problems. Such patterns, when sufficiently formalized, are usually referred as "models", and tents to be applied not only in physics, but conquer the fields traditionally occupied by other disciplines generally considered to be different from physics. The author calls this unification of seemingly disjoint results a "physmatical effect" - pointing to the fact that multitudes of fine - grained physics-ba…