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Sen. Klobuchar urges peers to mitigate 'inflamed' rhetoric after Minnesota shootings (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/16/nx-s1-5434268/minnesota-shooting-amy-klobuchar
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p84#a250616p84

Dallas Cowboys starter gets shocking top 20 NFL ranking among peers https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-starter-gets-shocking-top-20-nfl-ranking-among-peers

Chinese state media: CEO Ren Zhengfei says Huawei chips lag one generation behind US peers and claims the US "exaggerated Huawei's achievements" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

(AI peers) are people learning from the same standpoint: Perception of AI characters in a Collaborative Science Investigation
Eunhye Grace Ko, Soo Hyoung Joo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06165

(AI peers) are people learning from the same standpoint: Perception of AI characters in a Collaborative Science Investigation
While the complexity of 21st-century demands has promoted pedagogical approaches to foster complex competencies, a persistent gap remains between in-class learning activities and individualized learning or assessment practices. To address this, studies have explored the use of AI-generated characters in learning and assessment. One attempt is scenario-based assessment (SBA), a technique that not only measures but also fosters the development of competencies throughout the assessment process. SB…

Quantile Peer Effect Models
Aristide Houndetoungan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12920 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12920

Quantile Peer Effect Models
I propose a flexible structural model to estimate peer effects across various quantiles of the peer outcome distribution. The model allows peers with low, intermediate, and high outcomes to exert distinct influences, thereby capturing more nuanced patterns of peer effects than standard approaches that are based on aggregate measures. I establish the existence and uniqueness of the Nash equilibrium and demonstrate that the model parameters can be estimated using a straightforward instrumental va…

Upgrade or Switch: Do We Need a New Registry Architecture for the Internet of AI Agents?
Ramesh Raskar, Pradyumna Chari, Jared James Grogan, Mahesh Lambe, Robert Lincourt, Raghu Bala, Abhishek Singh, Ayush Chopra, Rajesh Ranjan, Shailja Gupta, Dimitris Stripelis, Maria Gorskikh, Sichao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12003

Upgrade or Switch: Do We Need a New Registry Architecture for the Internet of AI Agents?
The emerging Internet of AI Agents challenges existing web infrastructure designed for human-scale, reactive interactions. Unlike traditional web resources, autonomous AI agents initiate actions, maintain persistent state, spawn sub-agents, and negotiate directly with peers: demanding millisecond-level discovery, instant credential revocation, and cryptographic behavioral proofs that exceed current DNS/PKI capabilities. This paper analyzes whether to upgrade existing infrastructure or implement…

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Depermissioning Web3: a Permissionless Accountable RPC Protocol for Blockchain Networks
In blockchain networks, so-called "full nodes" serve data to and relay transactions from clients through an RPC interface. This serving layer enables integration of "Web3" data, stored on blockchains, with "Web2" mobile or web applications that cannot directly participate as peers in a blockchain network. In practice, the serving layer is dominated by a small number of centralized services ("node providers") that offer permissioned access to RPC endpoints. Clients register with these providers …

"Journalism screwed itself over by betting
on Meta and its profit-over-society peers.
Now, nobody trusts “the media” and
everyone is going bankrupt. The next bet
is on generative AI, with its inability to
distinguish truth from “hallucinations” –
fabrications that on the page become lies.
The Continent is an attempt to prove
journalism can be done differently.
Expect more of this in what our team
has decided to call our “serious era”.
We’re no longer a start-up. We’re going
to empower more people with quality
journalism. We’re going to help others
launch newspapers. We’re going to
stay sane. And we’re going to prove
that African excellence can set global
standards."
@… reaches 5 years and 200 issues. If you're not already receiving their copy via @… (or email, telegram or WhatsApp if you must) then it's really worth signing up to remind yourself just how big and diverse the world ist.
This weeks highlights are an extraordinary story about how Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe directly interfered with Mozambique's election. Plus a frankly beautiful photo piece on Addis Ababa

Intelligent System of Emergent Knowledge: A Coordination Fabric for Billions of Minds
Moshi Wei, Sparks Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09335 https://…

Intelligent System of Emergent Knowledge: A Coordination Fabric for Billions of Minds
The Intelligent System of Emergent Knowledge (ISEK) establishes a decentralized network where human and artificial intelligence agents collaborate as peers, forming a self-organizing cognitive ecosystem. Built on Web3 infrastructure, ISEK combines three fundamental principles: (1) a decentralized multi-agent architecture resistant to censorship, (2) symbiotic AI-human collaboration with equal participation rights, and (3) resilient self-adaptation through distributed consensus mechanisms. The…

The pursuit of happiness
Debora Princepe, Onofrio Mazzarisi, Erol Akcay, Simon A. Levin, Matteo Marsili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10537 https://

The pursuit of happiness
Happiness, in the U.S. Declaration of Independence, was understood quite differently from today's popular notions of personal pleasure. Happiness implies a flourishing life - one of virtue, purpose, and contribution to the common good. This paper studies populations of individuals - that we call homo-felix - who maximise an objective function that we call happiness. The happiness of one individual depends on the payoffs that they receive in games they play with their peers as well as on the hap…

Here’s Why Raiders’ Second-Round Pick Jack Bech Remains Unsigned https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/heres-why-jack-bech-remains-unsigned/?adt_ei=[email]

Particle Builder -- Learn about the Standard Model while playing against an AI
Mohammad Attar, Andrew Carse, Yeming Chen, Thomas Green, Jeong-Yeon Ha, Yanbai Jin, Amy McWilliams, Theirry Panggabean, Zhengyu Peng, Lujin Sun, Jing Ru, Jiacheng She, Jialin Wang, Zilun Wei, Jiayuan Zhu, Lachlan McGinness
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.0…

Particle Builder -- Learn about the Standard Model while playing against an AI
Particle Builder Online is a web-based education game designed for high school physics students. Students can play against an AI opponent or peers to familiarise themselves with the Standard Model of Particle Physics. The game is aimed at a high school level and tailored to the International Baccalaureate and the Australian Curriculum. Students from four schools in Canberra took pre/post-tests and a survey while completing a lesson where they played Particle Builder. Students' understanding of …

"If anything, this author firmly believes that programming skills are second to those related to communication; most engineers coming out of colleges these days are unable to express themselves in public, to teach their peers, to write an essay or a blog post, to communicate their ideas to stakeholders, or to put together a simple documentation bundle without suffering a seizure in the process."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/banning-adopting-reckoning/

MOSAIC-F: A Framework for Enhancing Students' Oral Presentation Skills through Personalized Feedback
Alvaro Becerra, Daniel Andres, Pablo Villegas, Roberto Daza, Ruth Cobos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08634

MOSAIC-F: A Framework for Enhancing Students' Oral Presentation Skills through Personalized Feedback
In this article, we present a novel multimodal feedback framework called MOSAIC-F, an acronym for a data-driven Framework that integrates Multimodal Learning Analytics (MMLA), Observations, Sensors, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Collaborative assessments for generating personalized feedback on student learning activities. This framework consists of four key steps. First, peers and professors' assessments are conducted through standardized rubrics (that include both quantitative and qualitat…

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An Isotonic Mechanism for Overlapping Ownership
Motivated by the problem of improving peer review at large scientific conferences, this paper studies how to elicit self-evaluations to improve review scores in a natural many-to-many owner-item (e.g., author-paper) situation with overlapping ownership. We design a simple, efficient and truthful mechanism to elicit self-evaluations from item owners that can be used to calibrate their noisy review scores in the existing evaluation process (e.g., papers' review scores from peers). Our approach …

A commented translation of Boltzmann's work, "Ueber die sogenannte H-Curve."
Jae Wan Shim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04262 https://

A commented translation of Boltzmann's work, "Ueber die sogenannte H-Curve."
Boltzmann's work, ``Ueber die sogenannte H-Curve," discusses his demonstration of the essential characteristics of the H-curve in a clear, concise, and precise style, showcasing his efforts to persuade his peers. To make these findings more widely accessible, the author aims to provide a translated version of the original article, while also correcting some typographical errors in the mathematical expressions with explanatory footnotes. The final section offers concluding remarks with graphs an…

RenderFormer: Transformer-based Neural Rendering of Triangle Meshes with Global Illumination
Chong Zeng, Yue Dong, Pieter Peers, Hongzhi Wu, Xin Tong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21925

RenderFormer: Transformer-based Neural Rendering of Triangle Meshes with Global Illumination
We present RenderFormer, a neural rendering pipeline that directly renders an image from a triangle-based representation of a scene with full global illumination effects and that does not require per-scene training or fine-tuning. Instead of taking a physics-centric approach to rendering, we formulate rendering as a sequence-to-sequence transformation where a sequence of tokens representing triangles with reflectance properties is converted to a sequence of output tokens representing small patc…

Stochastically Dominant Peer Prediction
Yichi Zhang, Shengwei Xu, David Pennock, Grant Schoenebeck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02259 https://

Stochastically Dominant Peer Prediction
Eliciting reliable human feedback is essential for many machine learning tasks, such as learning from noisy labels and aligning AI systems with human preferences. Peer prediction mechanisms incentivize truthful reporting without ground truth verification by scoring agents based on correlations with peers. Traditional mechanisms, which ensure that truth-telling maximizes the expected scores in equilibrium, can elicit honest information while assuming agents' utilities are linear functions of the…

Mapping Student-AI Interaction Dynamics in Multi-Agent Learning Environments: Supporting Personalised Learning and Reducing Performance Gaps
Zhanxin Hao, Jie Cao, Ruimiao Li, Jifan Yu, Zhiyuan Liu, Yu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02993

Mapping Student-AI Interaction Dynamics in Multi-Agent Learning Environments: Supporting Personalised Learning and Reducing Performance Gaps
Multi-agent AI systems, which simulate diverse instructional roles such as teachers and peers, offer new possibilities for personalized and interactive learning. Yet, student-AI interaction patterns and their pedagogical implications remain unclear. This study explores how university students engaged with multiple AI agents, and how these interactions influenced cognitive outcomes (learning gains) and non-cognitive factors (motivation, technology acceptance). Based on MAIC, an online learning p…

Defiant peers have delivered an ultimatum to the government – calling on it to offer artists copyright protection against artificial intelligence companies or risk losing a key piece of legislation.
The government suffered a fifth defeat in the House of Lords over controversial plans to allow the AI companies to train their models using copyrighted material
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/04/ministers-offer-concessions-ai-copyright-avoid-fifth-lords-defeat?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other