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Your Token Becomes Worthless: Unveiling Rug Pull Schemes in Crypto Token via Code-and-Transaction Fusion Analysis
Hao Wu, Haijun Wang, Shangwang Li, Yin Wu, Ming Fan, Wuxia Jin, Yitao Zhao, Ting Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18398

Your Token Becomes Worthless: Unveiling Rug Pull Schemes in Crypto Token via Code-and-Transaction Fusion Analysis
Rug pull scams have emerged as a persistent threat to cryptocurrency, causing significant financial losses. A typical scenario involves scammers deploying honeypot contracts to attract investments, restricting token sales, and draining the funds, which leaves investors with worthless tokens. Current methods either rely on predefined patterns to detect code risks or utilize statistical transaction data to train detection models. However, real-world Rug Pull schemes often involve a complex interp…

"Gotta say, “earnings inflection strategy” as a term for squeezing your customers — basically, #enshittification — is a euphemism to be savoured" – Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.…

The General Theory of Enshittification
It isn’t a new phenomenon, but it seems to matter more

Le train suivant est supprimé : - TER 891203 départ Paris Gare de Lyon 18h21, arrivée Montereau 19h23. Prochain train Š circuler pour les voyageurs Š destination des gares entre Melun et Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons : - GAME départ Paris Gare de Lyon 18h32, passage Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons 19h21, arrivée Montargis 19h56. Prochain train Š circuler pour les voyageurs Š destination des gares de Saint-Mammès et Montereau : - KUMO départ Paris Gare de Lyon 18h46, arrivée Montereau 19h44.
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Targeting Obama, Trump's Retribution Campaign Takes Another Turn (Michael S. Schmidt/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/us/politics/trump-obama-retribution.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p91#a250723p91

A Fisher's exact test justification of the TF-IDF term-weighting scheme
Paul Sheridan, Zeyad Ahmed, Aitazaz A. Farooque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15742

A Fisher's exact test justification of the TF-IDF term-weighting scheme
Term frequency-inverse document frequency, or TF-IDF for short, is arguably the most celebrated mathematical expression in the history of information retrieval. Conceived as a simple heuristic quantifying the extent to which a given term's occurrences are concentrated in any one given document out of many, TF-IDF and its many variants are routinely used as term-weighting schemes in diverse text analysis applications. There is a growing body of scholarship dedicated to placing TF-IDF on a sound …

Sad to see Ozzy's breathed his last. Strangely, yesterday while changing at the town pool after swimming laps, I remarked to the few random folk in the room how odd it was for the pool to be playing Black Sabbath (Crazy Train) over the sound system following the Beatles and Harry Styles. How times have changed, eh. It's like hearing a song that was mega edgy when released when you're at the supermarket...

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
-Tim Curry
#acting

In-Memory Sorting-Searching with Cayley Tree
Subrata Paul, Sukanta Das, Biplab K Sikdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19379 https://arxi…

In-Memory Sorting-Searching with Cayley Tree
This work proposes a computing model to reduce the workload of CPU. It relies on the data intensive computation in memory, where the data reside, and effectively realizes an in-memory computing (IMC) platform. Each memory word, with additional logic, acts as a tiny processing element which forms the node of a Cayley tree. The Cayley tree in turn defines the framework for solving the data intensive computational problems. It finds the solutions for in-memory searching, computing the max (min) in…

Counting rational points on transcendental curves in valued fields
Floris Vermeulen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19411 https://arxiv.or…

Counting rational points on transcendental curves in valued fields
We prove upper bounds on the number of rational points on transcendental curves in arbitrary $1$-h-minimal fields, similar to the Pila--Wilkie counting theorem in the o-minimal setting. These results extend results due to Cluckers--Comte--Loeser from $p$-adic fields to arbitrary valued fields of mixed characteristic. Our methods rely on parametrizations, where we avoid the usage of $r$-th power maps, combined with the determinant method.

Lawmakers are poised to extend Pell Grant eligibility to short-term credential programs.
With few guardrails in place, it could incentivize an explosion in unaccredited and for-profit providers.
https://www.insidehighered.com/ne…

Workforce Pell Would Extend Grants to Unaccredited Programs
Lawmakers are poised to extend Pell eligibility to short-term credential programs. With few guardrails in place, it could incentivize an explosion in unaccredited and for-profit providers.