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May 2025 recap | The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, hosted by PCSS, brought together developers and experts from across Europe to explore generative #AI tools, risks, secure coding practices.
Highlights:
🔹#GenAI Buzz-Free Programming with LLMs – training by Maciej Łabędzki…

Responsible AI in Practice: Shaping a Safer Future for AI-Powered Software Development | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Poznań, 20–22 May 2025 — The latest edition of the GÉANT School of Software Engineering, held at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), brought together top-tier developers and experts from across Europe for a deep-dive into generative AI tools, risks, and secure coding practices. At the core of the event was the acclaimed training

Distributed Computing From First Principles
Kenneth Odoh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12959 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12959

Distributed Computing From First Principles
This book on Distributed Computing aims to benefit a diverse audience, ranging from aspiring engineers, and seasoned researchers, to a wide range of professionals. Driven by my passion for making the core concepts of distributed computing accessible, this work is a significant undertaking designed to empower individuals from all backgrounds to gain valuable insight. Have you ever wondered how a typical distributed system works under the hood? Are you looking for a pedagogical guide with complet…

“THE BIKE FRAME IS A BRIDGE ON WHEELS, BUILT TO CARRY PEOPLE OVER THE GROUND.”
The Modern Bicycle and its Accessories, 1898
Bridge Bike Works made In 🇨🇦
#cycling

BRIDGE Bike Works - North American Made Carbon Bikes
BRIDGE was founded with a vision to create a better carbon bike. One that is designed, precision-engineered and built locally. One that is handcrafted in North America by a team with an unparalleled passion for attention to detail, from product to experience. One that celebrates the relationship between rider and bike.

Exploring Discrete Factor Analysis with the discFA Package in R
Reza Arabi Belaghi, Yasin Asar, Rolf Larsson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13309 https://

Exploring Discrete Factor Analysis with the discFA Package in R
Literature suggested that using the traditional factor analysis for the count data may be inappropriate. With that in mind, discrete factor analysis builds on fitting systems of dependent discrete random variables to data. The data should be in the form of non-negative counts. Data may also be truncated at some positive integer value. The discFA package in R allows for two distributions: Poisson and Negative Binomial, in combination with possible zero inflation and possible truncation, hence, e…

One of the young starlings, now quite independent.

On the extremal spectral properties of random graphs
C. T Mart\'inez Mart\'inez, J. A. M\'endez Berm\'udez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12343

On the extremal spectral properties of random graphs
In this work, we study some statistical properties of the extreme eigenstates of the randomly-weighted adjacency matrices of random graphs. We focus on two random graph models: Erdős-Rényi (ER) graphs and random geometric graphs (RGGs). Indeed, the adjacency matrices of both graph models are diluted versions of the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble (GOE) of random matrix theory (RMT), such that a transition from the Poisson Ensemble (PE) and the GOE is observed by increasing the graph average degr…

Graffitti along the road downhill from Bertinoro castle taken while coming back from the daily morning run. Love & passion ;-)
#isws2025 #running #summerschool

Bij de protesten in LA waren slechts enkele honderden mensen betrokken. Het is duidelijk wat hier gebeurt, Trump volgt het fascistische script, meer geweld creëren om nog harder te kunnen ingrijpen, een vijand creëeren, burgerrechten afnemen etc. https://nos.nl/l/2570347

Opnieuw protesten LA om arrestaties immigranten, Trump gaat Nationale Garde sturen
Volgens het Witte Huis zet Trump de troepen in om "de wetteloosheid die in Californië is blijven etteren" aan te pakken. Gouverneur Newsom is fel tegen dat besluit.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07651 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

Quasi-Bayes empirical Bayes: a sequential approach to the Poisson compound decision problem
The Poisson compound decision problem is a long-standing problem in statistics, where empirical Bayes methodologies are commonly used to estimate Poisson's means in static or batch domains. In this paper, we study the Poisson compound decision problem in a streaming or online domain. Adopting a quasi-Bayesian approach, referred to as Newton's algorithm, we obtain a sequential estimate that is easy to evaluate, computationally efficient, and maintain a constant per-observation computational cost…

Poisson Midpoint Method for Log Concave Sampling: Beyond the Strong Error Lower Bounds
Rishikesh Srinivasan, Dheeraj Nagaraj
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07614

Poisson Midpoint Method for Log Concave Sampling: Beyond the Strong Error Lower Bounds
We study the problem of sampling from strongly log-concave distributions over $\mathbb{R}^d$ using the Poisson midpoint discretization (a variant of the randomized midpoint method) for overdamped/underdamped Langevin dynamics. We prove its convergence in the 2-Wasserstein distance ($W_2$), achieving a cubic speedup in dependence on the target accuracy ($ε$) over the Euler-Maruyama discretization, surpassing existing bounds for randomized midpoint methods. Notably, in the case of underdamped La…