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Can we please stop making non-Christians the boogeyman? The school was wrong from the get-go, and the comment about Satanic symbols didn't help their case.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-dispute-over-a-students-parking

A dispute over a student's parking spot shows how schools keep failing Religious Freedom 101
A New York school told a Christian girl she couldn't paint Bible verses in her parking spot because then they'd have to "approve a Satanic symbol"

Audiovisual integration of simple stimuli: spatial congruency effects unaffected by working memory load https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1594306/full "suggesting that it occurs at a low-level percep…

Frontiers | Audiovisual integration of simple stimuli: spatial congruency effects unaffected by working memory load
The present study sought to investigate whether working memory (WM) load influences the spatial congruency effect in audiovisual (AV) integration using simpl...

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
CALLY: On Auron, the name of the Thaarn is a symbol of darkness and evil. [Caliph enters cell with Dayna]
CALIPH: So. You're Cally.
CALLY: What of it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/269 B7B5

William James is right in that religious experiences are simply human experiences: “Religious happiness is happiness. Religious trance is trance.”
#Philosophy #HumanNature #Pragmatism

SBND-PRISM: Sampling Off-Axis Neutrino Fluxes with the Short-Baseline Near Detector
P. Abratenko, R. Acciarri, C. Adams, L. Aliaga-Soplin, O. Alterkait, R. Alvarez-Garrote, D. Andrade Aldana, C. Andreopoulos, A. Antonakis, L. Arellano, J. Asaadi, S. Balasubramanian, A. Barnard, V. Basque, J. Bateman, A. Beever, E. Belchior, M. Betancourt, A. Bhat, M. Bishai, A. Blake, B. Bogart, D. Brailsford, A. Brandt, S. Brickner, M. B. Brunetti, L. Camilleri, D. Caratelli, D. Carber, B. Carlson, M.…

SBND-PRISM: Sampling Off-Axis Neutrino Fluxes with the Short-Baseline Near Detector
The Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND), the near detector in the Short-Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is located just 110 m from the Booster Neutrino Beam target. Thanks to this close proximity, relative to its 4 m $\times$ 4 m front face, neutrinos enter SBND over a range of angles from $0^{\circ}$ to approximately $1.6^{\circ}$, enabling the detector to sample variations in the neutrino flux as a function of angle-a technique known as PRISM, referred to h…

Beyond Shallow Heuristics: Leveraging Human Intuition for Curriculum Learning
Vanessa Toborek, Sebastian M\"uller, Tim Selbach, Tam\'as Horv\'ath, Christian Bauckhage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19873

Beyond Shallow Heuristics: Leveraging Human Intuition for Curriculum Learning
Curriculum learning (CL) aims to improve training by presenting data from "easy" to "hard", yet defining and measuring linguistic difficulty remains an open challenge. We investigate whether human-curated simple language can serve as an effective signal for CL. Using the article-level labels from the Simple Wikipedia corpus, we compare label-based curricula to competence-based strategies relying on shallow heuristics. Our experiments with a BERT-tiny model show that adding simple data alone yie…

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

Current status: taking a screenshot of a Javascript popup, then using AI to convert the image to text. All so I can copy a number out of a web page that some terrible UX designer decided to not present just as simple text on the page.

Proton Pressure: A Simplified Model
Julliana Marinho Paszko, Mauro Rog\'erio Cosentino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19266 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1926…

Proton Pressure: A Simplified Model
In this work, the authors present a simplified method for determining proton pressure, based on concepts from statistical mechanics, quantum chromodynamics - specifically asymptotic freedom of quarks - and other well-established physical concepts. The result obtained for the proton pressure was $0.3570\times10^{35}$ Pa, which is consistent with recently reported experimental data.

Interpretable by AI Mother Tongue: Native Symbolic Reasoning in Neural Models
Hung Ming Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18988 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.189…

Interpretable by AI Mother Tongue: Native Symbolic Reasoning in Neural Models
We present a framework where neural models develop an AI Mother Tongue, a native symbolic language that simultaneously supports intuitive reasoning, compositional symbol chains, and inherent interpretability. Unlike post-hoc explanation methods, our approach embeds reasoning directly into the model's representations: symbols capture meaningful semantic patterns, chains trace decision paths, and gated induction mechanisms guide selective focus, yielding transparent yet flexible reasoning. We int…