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A federal judge in Washington permanently barred the Trump administration on Friday from requiring proof of citizenship on federal voter registration forms,
a change dictated in an executive order Donald Trump signed in March.
The ruling definitively halted the effort to compel the Elections Assistance Commission,
an independent body,
to adopt nationwide changes to voting procedures
at a time when the president has also called for requiring voter identification …

Judge Permanently Bars Trump From Requiring Proof of Citizenship for Voter Registration
The ruling on Friday found that Trump had usurped the power vested in Congress and the states to administer and oversee elections protocols.

from my link log —
Saving Skylab.
https://www.airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/saving-skylab
saved 2025-11-30 https://

Saving Skylab
During launch, the micrometeoroid shield surrounding the Skylab Workshop ripped loose. Designed to protect the workshop from tiny space particles and the sun's scorching heat, its loss caused sunlight to raise internal temperatures to over 130° F, making the station uninhabitable and threatening foods, medicines, films, and experiments that were onboard. Astronaut Rusty Schweickart was responsible for testing a parasol on Earth and developing procedures for deploying it in space in an effort …

A federal judge in Washington permanently barred the Trump administration on Friday from requiring proof of citizenship on federal voter registration forms,
a change dictated in an executive order Donald Trump signed in March.
The ruling definitively halted the effort to compel the Elections Assistance Commission,
an independent body,
to adopt nationwide changes to voting procedures
at a time when the president has also called for requiring voter identification …

Judge Permanently Bars Trump From Requiring Proof of Citizenship for Voter Registration
The ruling on Friday found that Trump had usurped the power vested in Congress and the states to administer and oversee elections protocols.

Source: Bari Weiss is planning to create a masthead for CBS News as part of a broader overhaul of standards and procedures (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/23/bari-weiss-cbs-news-60-minutes

Scoop: Bari Weiss plans overhaul of CBS News and "60 Minutes" standards and procedures
The changes follow a controversy that saw her pulling a story about Trump administration deportations of Venezuelan immigrants to an El Salvador prison.

HHS unleashes sweeping crackdown on child 'sex-rejecting procedures,' threatens hospital, Medicaid funding (Emma Colton/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hhs-unleashes-sweeping-crackdown-child-sex-rejecting-procedures-threatens-hospital-medicaid-funding-e
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p37#a251219p37

"de gemeente Emmen [heeft] alle procedures versneld, vergunningen verleend en grond beschikbaar gesteld om de bouw van het station mogelijk te maken.
[..]
Tennet, dat de vertraging deels zou verklaren doordat de bouwvergunning eerder dan verwacht onherroepelijk werd. "Een meevaller in de juridische procedures wordt nu een excuus om drie tot vijf jaar uitloop te accepteren," "
Ik snap de frustratie goed.

Emmer raad haalt hard uit naar Tennet: 'Vertraging hoogspanningsstation Veenoord is onacceptabel'
"Een meevaller in de procedures wordt nu een excuus om drie tot vijf jaar uitloop te accepteren. Dat is geen overmacht, dat is een verkeerde inschatting en tekortschietend risicomanagement. En dat mag niet op Emmen worden afgewenteld."

Ultra-conformable tattoo electrodes for providing sensory feedback via transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation #haptics

Ultra-conformable tattoo electrodes for providing sensory feedback via transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation - Scientific Reports
Electrical stimulation of the peripheral nervous system has been demonstrated to be effective in restoring somatotopic sensory information in subjects with amputations. It can be achieved using invasive electrodes, which require surgical implantation, or non-invasive electrodes, which are applied directly to the skin. Whereas less selective, non-invasive electrodes offer the advantage of avoiding surgical procedures. Additionally, commercially available wet Ag/AgCl electrodes lack adaptability …

Sources: Eagles DT Carter out after procedures https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47202530/sources-eagles-dt-jalen-carter-shoulder-procedures

I guess it's good that they're following Proper Procedures.
#monsterdon

not that anyone asked, but here's a chart of UM LSA grade inflation over the past 25 years
taken from
https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/academics/lsa-academic-policies-and-procedures/grading-and-transcript-n…

☿️ Victoria could become first Australian state to ban unnecessary surgery on intersex children
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/01/victoria-may-ban-unnecessary-surgery-intersex-children

Victoria could become first Australian state to ban unnecessary surgery on intersex children
Exclusive: Legislation would prohibit deferrable, irreversible procedures until child can give informed consent, bringing state in line with ACT

Today's archival tidbit (from the 1970s) is a perfect politician's turn of phrase: they're developing "procedures that are sufficiently adequate" to ensure "satisfactory results."

Texas A&M committee finds university wrong in firing professor | AP News https://apnews.com/article/texas-am-professor-fired-mccoul-gender-trump-52049257b6eb4a3fa0dc7254c146ef1c

Texas A&M committee finds university wrong in firing professor
A Texas A&M committee agreed the university was wrong to fire a professor earlier this year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender identity. The internal committee ruled that the university didn’t follow proper procedures and didn’t prove there was good cause to fire Melissa McCoul, who was a senior lecturer in the English department with over a decade of teaching experience. Republican lawmakers, including…

Paying forward a good recommendation I got: Over the weekend, I watched a couple more episodes of "The Pitt". Holy crap, this series is good! Even though objectively not a lot is happening (in the sense of an overarching, connected storyline), the storytelling is superb, I am glued to the screen and can't wait to keep watching. If you are up for some realistic (as far as I can tell) emergency room drama and don't mind a few fairly graphic depictions of medical procedures (o…

Seeing the discussion, I’d like to clarify:
This post is not a statement on #nuclear energy. I was responding to the specific article that I shared, where @… reported that tech companies are “using AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.”
My point is - cutting corners and trying to “speed up” the construction or operation of nuclear power plants can have CATASTROPHIC effects.
Chernobyl was a disaster of mismanagement, cost cutting, and insufficient safety procedures.
I do not trust AI, a technology that is notoriously probabilistic and inconsistent in outputs (and with famously high error rates) to be reliable and competent for a use case where the risks are this high.
I also do not support the mindset of wanting to “speed up” ANY regulatory processes and safety checks when it comes to constructing nuclear power infrastructure.
Licensing is not a “bottleneck” here. It’s a safety prerogative.
(Thanks @… for bringing this to my attention!)

My requirements (and expectations, after several bad experiences) for dentists is pretty low. Non-painful cleanings, and not recommending unnecessary procedures. My current dentist is...okay. But they had a bunch of "we back the blue!" cards in the waiting room last time, and now they've sent me 4 "please leave is a good review on yelp/google!" emails in the past 4 days. Not great.

Today I learned about the true power of macros...and holy crap, they are awesome. Started back on the Z80 emulator and wondered if there was a way to reference procs in Nim using strings. Did some searching and came across someone who did something very similar and it never crossed my mind to even try this.
#nim

Selection Procedures in Competitive Admission
Nathan Hancart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12653 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12653

Selection Procedures in Competitive Admission
Two identical firms compete to attract and hire from a pool of candidates of unknown productivity. Firms simultaneously post a selection procedure which consists of a test and an acceptance probability for each test outcome. After observing the firms' selection procedures, each candidate can apply to one of them. Both firms have access to a limited set of feasible tests. The firms face two key considerations when choosing their selection procedure: the statistical properties of their test and t…

Test-Time Search in Neural Graph Coarsening Procedures for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem
Yoonju Sim, Hyeonah Kim, Changhyun Kwon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00958 https…

Test-Time Search in Neural Graph Coarsening Procedures for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem
The identification of valid inequalities, such as the rounded capacity inequalities (RCIs), is a key component of cutting plane methods for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP). While a deep learning-based separation method can learn to find high-quality cuts, our analysis reveals that the model produces fewer cuts than expected because it is insufficiently sensitive to generate a diverse set of generated subsets. This paper proposes an alternative: enhancing the performance of a trai…

"Iran became a pioneer in gender transition operations by forcing procedures on L.G.B.T.Q. Iranians. Desperate for cash, the Islamic republic is hoping to attract trans patients from around the world."
Iran Lures Transgender Foreigners for Surgery but Forces Operations on Locals - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/myZKw

Scientists spend 50 years ironing the kinks out of nukes and nuke procedures to make them the safest they've ever been, finally rehabbing nuclear's image sufficiently in the minds of Millennials that new plants can be built, and then these lazy jackwads decide to have ChatGPT do the paperwork.
Toss them in the cooling pond! (They'll be fine, it's not radioactive.)

Browns legend Bernie Kosar undergoes 'aggressive procedures,' awaits liver transplant

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/browns-bernie-kosar-health-updates-liver-transpla…

ExpVid: A Benchmark for Experiment Video Understanding & Reasoning
Yicheng Xu, Yue Wu, Jiashuo Yu, Ziang Yan, Tianxiang Jiang, Yinan He, Qingsong Zhao, Kai Chen, Yu Qiao, Limin Wang, Manabu Okumura, Yi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11606

ExpVid: A Benchmark for Experiment Video Understanding & Reasoning
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) hold promise for accelerating scientific discovery by interpreting complex experimental procedures. However, their true capabilities are poorly understood, as existing benchmarks neglect the fine-grained and long-horizon nature of authentic laboratory work, especially in wet-lab settings. To bridge this gap, we introduce ExpVid, the first benchmark designed to systematically evaluate MLLMs on scientific experiment videos. Curated from peer-reviewed video…

Trisected Rainbows and Braids
Rom\'an Aranda, Scott Carter, Julia Courtney, Puttipong Pongtanapaisan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04248 https://arxiv.org…

Trisected Rainbows and Braids
New explicit procedures for passing among triplane diagrams, braid movies, and braid charts for knotted surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^4$ are presented. To this end, rainbow diagrams, which lie between braid charts and triplanes, are introduced. Inequalities relating the braid index and the bridge index of 2-knots are obtained via these procedures. Another consequence is a 4-dimensional version of the classical result that ``the minimal number of Seifert circles equals the braid index of a link'' due …

Shape-Aware Whole-Body Control for Continuum Robots with Application in Endoluminal Surgical Robotics
Mohammadreza Kasaei, Mostafa Ghobadi, Mohsen Khadem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12332

Shape-Aware Whole-Body Control for Continuum Robots with Application in Endoluminal Surgical Robotics
This paper presents a shape-aware whole-body control framework for tendon-driven continuum robots with direct application to endoluminal surgical navigation. Endoluminal procedures, such as bronchoscopy, demand precise and safe navigation through tortuous, patient-specific anatomy where conventional tip-only control often leads to wall contact, tissue trauma, or failure to reach distal targets. To address these challenges, our approach combines a physics-informed backbone model with residual le…

Gradient-Guided Furthest Point Sampling for Robust Training Set Selection
Morris Trestman, Stefan Gugler, Felix A. Faber, O. A. von Lilienfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08906 h…

Gradient-Guided Furthest Point Sampling for Robust Training Set Selection
Smart training set selections procedures enable the reduction of data needs and improves predictive robustness in machine learning problems relevant to chemistry. We introduce Gradient Guided Furthest Point Sampling (GGFPS), a simple extension of Furthest Point Sampling (FPS) that leverages molecular force norms to guide efficient sampling of configurational spaces of molecules. Numerical evidence is presented for a toy-system (Styblinski-Tang function) as well as for molecular dynamics traject…

An Empirical Study of Security-Policy Related Issues in Open Source Projects
Rintaro Kanaji, Brittany Reid, Yutaro Kashiwa, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Hajimu Iida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05604

An Empirical Study of Security-Policy Related Issues in Open Source Projects
GitHub recommends that projects adopt a SECURITY.md file that outlines vulnerability reporting procedures. However, the effectiveness and operational challenges of such files are not yet fully understood. This study aims to clarify the challenges that SECURITY.md files face in the vulnerability reporting process within open-source communities. Specifically, we classified and analyzed the content of 711 randomly sampled issues related to SECURITY.md. We also conducted a quantitative comparative …

Quenching, Fast and Slow: Breaking Kibble-Zurek Universal Scaling by Jumping along Geodesics
Thi Ha Kyaw, Guillermo Romero, Gaurav Saxena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08528 https:…

Quenching, Fast and Slow: Breaking Kibble-Zurek Universal Scaling by Jumping along Geodesics
A major drawback of adiabatic quantum computing (AQC) is fulfilling the energy gap constraint, which requires the total evolution time to scale inversely with the square of the minimum energy gap. Failure to satisfy this condition violates the adiabatic approximation, potentially undermining computational accuracy. Recently, several approaches have been proposed to circumvent this constraint. One promising approach is to use the family of adiabatic shortcut procedures to fast-forward AQC. One c…

Loading non-Maxwellian Velocity Distributions in Particle Simulations
Seiji Zenitani, Shunsuke Usami, Shuichi Matsukiyo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11890 https://

Loading non-Maxwellian Velocity Distributions in Particle Simulations
Numerical procedures for generating non-Maxwellian velocity distributions in particle simulations are presented. First, Monte Carlo methods for an $(r,q)$ distribution that generalizes flattop and kappa distributions are discussed. Then, two rejection methods for the regularized kappa distribution are presented, followed by a comparison in the $κ$ space. A simple recipe is proposed for the subtracted kappa distribution. Properties and numerical recipes for the ring and shell distributions with…

Macroeconomic Forecasting and Machine Learning
Ta-Chung Chi (Kevin), Ting-Han Fan (Kevin), Raffaele M. Ghigliazza (Kevin), Domenico Giannone (Kevin), Zixuan (Kevin), Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11008

Macroeconomic Forecasting and Machine Learning
We forecast the full conditional distribution of macroeconomic outcomes by systematically integrating three key principles: using high-dimensional data with appropriate regularization, adopting rigorous out-of-sample validation procedures, and incorporating nonlinearities. By exploiting the rich information embedded in a large set of macroeconomic and financial predictors, we produce accurate predictions of the entire profile of macroeconomic risk in real time. Our findings show that regulariza…

Maximum softly penalised likelihood in factor analysis
Philipp Sterzinger, Ioannis Kosmids, Irini Moustaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06465 https://arxiv.o…

Maximum softly penalised likelihood in factor analysis
Estimation in exploratory factor analysis often yields estimates on the boundary of the parameter space. Such occurrences, known as Heywood cases, are characterised by non-positive variance estimates and can cause issues in numerical optimisation procedures or convergence failures, which, in turn, can lead to misleading inferences, particularly regarding factor scores and model selection. We derive sufficient conditions on the model and a penalty to the log-likelihood function that i) guarantee…

Sensing Management for Pilot-Free Predictive Beamforming in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
Eren Berk Kama, Murat Babek Salman, Isaac Skog, Emil Bj\"ornson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06936

Sensing Management for Pilot-Free Predictive Beamforming in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
This paper introduces a sensing management method for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Conventional communication systems employ channel estimation procedures that impose significant overhead during data transmission, consuming resources that could otherwise be utilized for data. To address this challenge, we propose a state-based approach that leverages sensing capabilities to track the user when there is no commun…

Reinforcement Learning for Clinical Reasoning: Aligning LLMs with ACR Imaging Appropriateness Criteria
Anni Tziakouri, Filippo Menolascina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05194 https…

Reinforcement Learning for Clinical Reasoning: Aligning LLMs with ACR Imaging Appropriateness Criteria
Medical imaging has revolutionized diagnosis, yet unnecessary procedures are rising, exposing patients to radiation and stress, limiting equitable access, and straining healthcare systems. The American College of Radiology Appropriateness Criteria, developed through extensive multidisciplinary review, provide evidence-based guidance but remain underutilized. Leveraging advances in LLM reasoning, we introduce a Reasoning Agent trained with Reinforcement Learning (RL), specifically Group Relative…

Bernie Kosar to receive liver transplant, Browns legend suffering from cirrhosis, internal bleeding

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bernie-kosar-liver-transplant-updates-browns…

🥼 Room-temperature RNA detection method eliminates need for complex lab equipment
#rna …

Room-temperature RNA detection method eliminates need for complex lab equipment
A new method to detect ribonucleic acid (RNA) without needing any complex lab procedures or heating equipment has been developed by researchers at UConn Health.

Dynamic micromagnetism a la Ericksen-Leslie, allowing the Einstein-de Haas and Barnett effects
Amit Acharya, Siladitya Pal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04393 https://

Dynamic micromagnetism a la Ericksen-Leslie, allowing the Einstein-de Haas and Barnett effects
A model of dissipative micromagnetics coupled to elasticity is developed, following the procedures of the Ericksen-Leslie theory of nematic liquid crystals allowing for angular momentum due to magnetization. An outcome is the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert theory coupled to material spin. A further power-less augmentation to the angular momentum of the theory with classical kinetic energy density is also considered, which allows for plausible approaches to model the Einstein-de Haas and Barnett effect…

Efficient reductions from a Gaussian source with applications to statistical-computational tradeoffs
Mengqi Lou, Guy Bresler, Ashwin Pananjady
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07250 h…

Efficient reductions from a Gaussian source with applications to statistical-computational tradeoffs
Given a single observation from a Gaussian distribution with unknown mean $θ$, we design computationally efficient procedures that can approximately generate an observation from a different target distribution $Q_θ$ uniformly for all $θ$ in a parameter set. We leverage our technique to establish reduction-based computational lower bounds for several canonical high-dimensional statistical models under widely-believed conjectures in average-case complexity. In particular, we cover cases in whi…

Unraveling longitudinal field mediated versatile Stokes polarimetry
Shuaijie Yuan, Xu Zhu, Jin Yang, Yu Liu, Jinhai Zou, Zhongquan Nie, Baohua Jia, Bing Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03180

Unraveling longitudinal field mediated versatile Stokes polarimetry
Stokes polarimetry has been considered as an alluring platform that enables a plethora of applications ranging from single-molecule orientation to deep-space sensing. Existing polarimetry avenues, however, rely primarily on the transversely polarized field reconstruction, thus suffering from several challenges such as multiple time sequenced detections, complex demodulation algorithms, and intricate engineering procedures. To circumvent these challenges, here we first demonstrate a longitudinal…

Using Robotics to Improve Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair of the Mitral Valve
L\'ea Pistorius, Namrata U. Nayar, Phillip Tran, Sammy Elmariah, Pierre E. Dupont
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04178

Using Robotics to Improve Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair of the Mitral Valve
Transcatheter valve repair presents significant challenges due to the mechanical limitations and steep learning curve associated with manual catheter systems. This paper investigates the use of robotics to facilitate transcatheter procedures in the context of mitral valve edge-to-edge repair. The complex handle-based control of a clinical repair device is replaced by intuitive robotic joint-based control via a game controller. Manual versus robotic performance is analyzed by decomposing the ove…

Efficient Coherence Inference Using the Demodulated Band Transform and a Generalized Linear Model
Md Rakibul Mowla, Sukhbinder Kumar, Ariane E. Rhone, Brian J. Dlouhy, Christopher K. Kovach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05559

Efficient Coherence Inference Using the Demodulated Band Transform and a Generalized Linear Model
Statistical significance testing of neural coherence is essential for distinguishing genuine cross-signal coupling from spurious correlations. A widely accepted approach uses surrogate-based inference, where null distributions are generated via time-shift or phase-randomization procedures. While effective, these methods are computationally expensive and yield discrete p-values that can be unstable near decision thresholds, limiting scalability to large EEG/iEEG datasets. We introduce and valida…

Bridging Clinical Narratives and ACR Appropriateness Guidelines: A Multi-Agent RAG System for Medical Imaging Decisions
Satrio Pambudi, Filippo Menolascina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04969

Bridging Clinical Narratives and ACR Appropriateness Guidelines: A Multi-Agent RAG System for Medical Imaging Decisions
The selection of appropriate medical imaging procedures is a critical and complex clinical decision, guided by extensive evidence-based standards such as the ACR Appropriateness Criteria (ACR-AC). However, the underutilization of these guidelines, stemming from the difficulty of mapping unstructured patient narratives to structured criteria, contributes to suboptimal patient outcomes and increased healthcare costs. To bridge this gap, we introduce a multi-agent cognitive architecture that autom…

Testing the equality of estimable parameters across many populations
Marcos Romero-Madro\~nal, Mar\'ia de los Remedios Sillero-Denamiel, Mar\'ia Dolores Jim\'enez-Gamero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06763

Testing the equality of estimable parameters across many populations
The comparison of a parameter in $k$ populations is a classical problem in statistics. Testing for the equality of means or variances are typical examples. Most procedures designed to deal with this problem assume that $k$ is fixed and that samples with increasing sample sizes are available from each population. This paper introduces and studies a test for the comparison of an estimable parameter across $k$ populations, when $k$ is large and the sample sizes from each population are small when …

An Anytime, Scalable and Complete Algorithm for Embedding a Manufacturing Procedure in a Smart Factory
Christopher Leet, Aidan Sciortino, Sven Koenig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01770

An Anytime, Scalable and Complete Algorithm for Embedding a Manufacturing Procedure in a Smart Factory
Modern automated factories increasingly run manufacturing procedures using a matrix of programmable machines, such as 3D printers, interconnected by a programmable transport system, such as a fleet of tabletop robots. To embed a manufacturing procedure into a smart factory, an operator must: (a) assign each of its processes to a machine and (b) specify how agents should transport parts between machines. The problem of embedding a manufacturing process into a smart factory is termed the Smart Fa…

Copula-Based Clustering of Financial Time Series via Evidence Accumulation
Andrea Mecchina, Roberta Pappad\`a, Nicola Torelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05960 https://

Copula-Based Clustering of Financial Time Series via Evidence Accumulation
Understanding the dependence structure of asset returns is fundamental in risk assessment and is particularly relevant in a portfolio diversification strategy. We propose a clustering approach where evidence accumulated in a multiplicity of classifications is achieved using classical hierarchical procedures and multiple copula-based dissimilarity measures. Assets that are grouped in the same cluster are such that their stochastic behavior is similar during risky scenarios, and riskaverse invest…