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Jos pesee polkupyörän ketjuineen kunnolla, kehtaako sen tehdä ihan pihalla että öljyiset vedet valuu maaperään? (Tai vielä pahemmin, valuu säiliöön mihin kertyy sadevettä ja josta ihmiset pumppaa vettä palstojen kasteluun.) Mutta jos ei, niin missä sitten?

Causes in neuron diagrams, and testing causal reasoning in Large Language Models. A glimpse of the future of philosophy?
Louis Vervoort, Vitaly Nikolaev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14239

Causes in neuron diagrams, and testing causal reasoning in Large Language Models. A glimpse of the future of philosophy?
We propose a test for abstract causal reasoning in AI, based on scholarship in the philosophy of causation, in particular on the neuron diagrams popularized by D. Lewis. We illustrate the test on advanced Large Language Models (ChatGPT, DeepSeek and Gemini). Remarkably, these chatbots are already capable of correctly identifying causes in cases that are hotly debated in the literature. In order to assess the results of these LLMs and future dedicated AI, we propose a definition of cause in neur…

I shy away from the "Apple philosophy" with all my might, but there are many companies that apply it. I have a high-end 3D printer with a closed ecosystem, nothing that frightens an Apple user, but it terrifies me. Why? Because a simple (bad) printing bed costs more than 120 euros.
It's not a question of whether I can afford it, it's that I don't want to do it.
Fuck them, I'm going to get a Chinese one (and probably better) for half the price.

L'agacement du jour : "l'agent en ressenti déceptif". Enfin, je cite celui-ci, mais je suis en ressenti répulsif sur une ribambelle d'autres, l'auteur en charge des pages en cours de correction ayant opté pour l'adoption répétée, récurrente, constante et durable d'un style relevant du jargon technique et spécifique en congruence… ou pas (pour une bien pâle imitation).
Éclatons de rire au lieu de nous arracher les cheveux…

Was hat die Bundesregierung an "Nie wieder ist jetzt" nicht verstanden? (Omri Boehm)
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-omri-boehm-menschenrechte-holocaust-israel-li.3258161

Der Philosoph Omri Boehm spricht in München über Menschenrechte und den Nahostkonflikt
Die deutsche Lehre aus dem Holocaust dürfe nicht die bedingungslose Unterstützung israelischer Kampfhandlungen sein, sagt der Philosoph Omri Boehm bei einer SZ-Veranstaltung im Residenztheater.

Large Language Models for History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science: Interpretive Uses, Methodological Challenges, and Critical Perspectives
Arno Simons, Michael Zichert, Adrian W\"uthrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12242

Large Language Models for History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science: Interpretive Uses, Methodological Challenges, and Critical Perspectives
This paper explores the use of large language models (LLMs) as research tools in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS). LLMs are remarkably effective at processing unstructured text and inferring meaning from context, offering new affordances that challenge long-standing divides between computational and interpretive methods. This raises both opportunities and challenges for HPSS, which emphasizes interpretive methodologies and understands meaning as context-dependent, ambigu…

HOIDiNi: Human-Object Interaction through Diffusion Noise Optimization
Roey Ron, Guy Tevet, Haim Sawdayee, Amit H. Bermano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15625

HOIDiNi: Human-Object Interaction through Diffusion Noise Optimization
We present HOIDiNi, a text-driven diffusion framework for synthesizing realistic and plausible human-object interaction (HOI). HOI generation is extremely challenging since it induces strict contact accuracies alongside a diverse motion manifold. While current literature trades off between realism and physical correctness, HOIDiNi optimizes directly in the noise space of a pretrained diffusion model using Diffusion Noise Optimization (DNO), achieving both. This is made feasible thanks to our ob…

Bewaffneter halbnackt - Cobra-Einsatz mitten in Fronleichnamsprozession #News #Nachrichten

Connecting dilaton thermal fluctuation with the Polyakov loop at finite temperature
Bing-Kai Sheng, Yong-Liang Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13549 https://…

Connecting dilaton thermal fluctuation with the Polyakov loop at finite temperature
Understanding the character of the deconfinement phase transition is one of the fundamental challenges in particle physics. In this work, we derive a formula for the expectation value of the Polyakov loop -- the order parameter of the deconfinement phase transition -- in pure $\mathrm{SU(N_{\mathrm{c}})}$ gauge systems at finite temperatures starting from the Coleman\textendash Weinberg-type effective potential encoding the trace anomaly of QCD. Our results are in good agreement with the Lattic…