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Bin ich der einzige, der von diesem Projekt nichts wusste?
Läuft fast drei Jahre 🧐 . Exzellente Geheimhaltung 💪
#Radfahr-Studie 2025 👇
https://www.intellige…

masks at protests / demographics 2/n
I wonder about the influence of employment, as well. If you're at risk every work day, I could well imagine it seeming pointless to start being careful the rest of the time, and maybe just too cognitively dissonant to consider.
I remember in 2020, someone I knew was working at Waterstones, and they were forbidden to mask up at work - even though 2020 was before the whole "covid is over" thing.
I also remember reading about someone - maybe a nurse? that _kind_ of job, anyway - who'd started wearing a fitted mask while the default in their workplace was baggy blues, and iirc was formally rebuked. It wasn't allowed.
If for whatever reason you're unable to hold down a typical job, you might not have much cash for _getting_ things like masks, but you're also not under that same kind of economic pressure to put yourself at risk.
#masks #work #CovidIsntOver

As it happens she was upset before PMQs started, it's reported as being something personal, pointless speculation isn't very useful.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/114784881998604378

The Automated but Risky Game: Modeling Agent-to-Agent Negotiations and Transactions in Consumer Markets
Shenzhe Zhu, Jiao Sun, Yi Nian, Tobin South, Alex Pentland, Jiaxin Pei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00073

The Automated but Risky Game: Modeling Agent-to-Agent Negotiations and Transactions in Consumer Markets
AI agents are increasingly used in consumer-facing applications to assist with tasks such as product search, negotiation, and transaction execution. In this paper, we explore a future scenario where both consumers and merchants authorize AI agents to fully automate negotiations and transactions. We aim to answer two key questions: (1) Do different LLM agents vary in their ability to secure favorable deals for users? (2) What risks arise from fully automating deal-making with AI agents in consum…

A Vertical Approach to Designing and Managing Sustainable Heterogeneous Edge Data Centers
Aikaterini Maria Panteleaki, Varatheepan Paramanayakam, Vasileios Pentsos, Andreas Karatzas, Spyros Tragoudas, Iraklis Anagnostopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01712

A Vertical Approach to Designing and Managing Sustainable Heterogeneous Edge Data Centers
The increasing demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing poses significant environmental challenges, with both operational and embodied carbon emissions becoming major contributors. This paper presents a carbon-aware holistic methodology for designing and managing sustainable Edge Data Centers (EDCs), based on three design principles that challenge the state-of-the-art optimization paradigms. Our approach employs vertical integration across the architecture, system, and runtime layers, …

When Influence Misleads: Informational and Strategic Limits of Social Learning in Trading Networks
Bijin Joseph, Christoph Riedl, Alex Pentland, Esteban Moro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01817

When Influence Misleads: Informational and Strategic Limits of Social Learning in Trading Networks
Social learning is a fundamental mechanism shaping decision-making across numerous social networks, including social trading platforms. In those platforms, investors combine traditional investing with copying the behavior of others. However, the underlying factors that drive mirroring decisions and their impact on performance remain poorly understood. Using high-resolution data on trades and social interactions from a large social trading platform, we uncover a fundamental tension between popul…

I think I may have got this giant roll of 2” (I think) flexible pipe….. for free?
I don’t have a receipt for it. All I have is the tracking number. The Amazon order is cancelled so there is no info there. My credit card has two $0 transactions on the date it was ordered.
I was not expecting it to show up. I need to confirm that it is actually 2” but either way, I guess…
…umm… 🎁 🐴
#amazon #pondlife

Generative Exaggeration in LLM Social Agents: Consistency, Bias, and Toxicity
Jacopo Nudo, Mario Edoardo Pandolfo, Edoardo Loru, Mattia Samory, Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00657

Generative Exaggeration in LLM Social Agents: Consistency, Bias, and Toxicity
We investigate how Large Language Models (LLMs) behave when simulating political discourse on social media. Leveraging 21 million interactions on X during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we construct LLM agents based on 1,186 real users, prompting them to reply to politically salient tweets under controlled conditions. Agents are initialized either with minimal ideological cues (Zero Shot) or recent tweet history (Few Shot), allowing one-to-one comparisons with human replies. We evaluate t…

Spherical Pendulum with Quad-Rotor Thrust Vectoring Actuation -- A Novel Mechatronics and Control Benchmark Platform
Yuchen Li, Omar Curiel, Sheng-Fan Wen, Tsu-Chin Tsao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22410

Spherical Pendulum with Quad-Rotor Thrust Vectoring Actuation -- A Novel Mechatronics and Control Benchmark Platform
Motor-actuated pendulums have been established as arguably the most common laboratory prototypes used in control system education because of the relevance to robot manipulator control in industry. Meanwhile, multi-rotor drones like quadcopters have become popular in industrial applications but have not been broadly employed in control education laboratory. Platforms with pendulums and multi-rotor copters present classical yet intriguing multi-degree of freedom (DoF) dynamics and coordinate syst…