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US delays Patriot deliveries to Switzerland, prioritizes Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/us-delays-patriot-deliveries-to.html

UXR Point of View on Product Feature Prioritization Prior To Multi-Million Engineering Commitments
Jonas Lau, Annie Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15294 h…

UXR Point of View on Product Feature Prioritization Prior To Multi-Million Engineering Commitments
This paper discusses a popular UX research activity, feature prioritization, using the User Experience Research Point of View (UXR PoV) Playbook framework. We describe an application of multinomial logistic regression, frequently marketed as MaxDiff, for prioritizing product features in consumer product development. It addresses challenges of traditional surveying techniques. We propose a solution using MaxDiff to generate a reliable preference list with a reasonable sample size. We also adapt …

Spaces of left-preorders on free products
Iv\'an Ch\'ercoles Cuesta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12676 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Spaces of left-preorders on free products
Using dynamical techniques we show that there are no isolated elements on the space of left-preorders on a free product of two groups. As a consequence, when the groups are finitely generated, this space is either empty or a Cantor set. For any subgroup of a free product having finite Kurosh rank, we develop similar results for the subspace consisting on the set of left-preorders relative to that subgroup. We provide a generating set for a certain intersection of subgroups of a free product.

Die Bahn ist so ein Saftladen. (Aktuelle Verspätung noch vor Abfahrt: 35 Min.)
Mir erzählte neulich eine Person, die da arbeitet, dass jetzt prioritär Trassen saniert werden, die im Kriegsfall für Truppentransporte benutzt werden.
Dazu würde ich auch gern mal eine Recherche sehen.

The Complexity of Deciding Characteristic Formulae Modulo Nested Simulation (extended abstract)
Luca Aceto, Antonis Achilleos, Aggeliki Chalki, Anna Ing\'olfsd\'ottir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14089

The Complexity of Deciding Characteristic Formulae Modulo Nested Simulation (extended abstract)
This paper studies the complexity of determining whether a formula in the modal logics characterizing the nested-simulation semantics is characteristic for some process, which is equivalent to determining whether the formula is satisfiable and prime. The main results are that the problem of determining whether a formula is prime in the modal logic characterizing the 2-nested-simulation preorder is coNP-complete and is PSPACE-complete in the case of the n-nested-simulation preorder, when n>=3. T…

Scale AI emphasizes that it remains an independent company and says Meta will not have access to Scale's internal systems or customers' confidential information (Scale AI)
https://scale.com/blog/customer-trust-scale-meta-deal

Scale Remains Independent After Meta Investment | Scale
Customer trust and data security remain Scale’s top priorities.

There's plenty of money. It's all about priorities.

Russia implements 'severe austerity' amid financial crisis: military spending prioritized over national projects: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/russia-implements-severe-austerity-amid.html

CNN-Enabled Scheduling for Probabilistic Real-Time Guarantees in Industrial URLLC
Eman Alqudah, Ashfaq Khokhar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14987 https://

CNN-Enabled Scheduling for Probabilistic Real-Time Guarantees in Industrial URLLC
Ensuring packet-level communication quality is vital for ultra-reliable, low-latency communications (URLLC) in large-scale industrial wireless networks. We enhance the Local Deadline Partition (LDP) algorithm by introducing a CNN-based dynamic priority prediction mechanism for improved interference coordination in multi-cell, multi-channel networks. Unlike LDP's static priorities, our approach uses a Convolutional Neural Network and graph coloring to adaptively assign link priorities based on r…

This reporting doesn't make clear the resolution is nonbinding: the departments are free to blow off not just the "deadlines" but the requested actions as well.
It does signal priorities the supervisors may go on to weigh at budget time, when evaluating mayoral appointees that need confirmation, or negotiating with Lurie about legislation he wants passed. But it may be a weak signal because supes who signed onto this did so knowing it was nonbinding.

Supervisors approve new traffic safety plan with deadlines for city departments
After San Francisco’s policy on traffic safety expired at the end of 2024, city supervisors on Tuesday adopted a new plan to curb traffic fatalities and injuries on city streets. The Board of Supervisors passed the Street Safety Act, sponsored by District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar, that includes actions with deadlines for seven city departments, […]