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There has long been a quiet debate, currently drowned out but still very much happening, about human replacement vs human augmentation. Think of Gary Kasparov remarking years ago that he thought chess played by humans with computer assistance could be a far more interesting game than either human-only or computer-only chess.
Here’s an argument for augmentation over automation, and note how far it diverges from the current hype despite it being written from a very AI-friendly point of view:
https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/the-turing-trap-the-promise-peril-of-human-like-artificial-intelligence/

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Ebo Taylor:
🎵 Will You Promise
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Oy - the monster is trying to become even more monstrous.
"Trump promises expanded immigration crackdown after ‘No Kings’ protests"
(And this is on top of FFOTUS' order to allow medical providers to discriminate against [and refuse medical care] to pretty much anyone for almost anything.)

Significant role of first-principles electron-phonon coupling in the electronic and thermoelectric properties of LiZnAs and ScAgC semiconductors
Vinod Kumar Solet, Sudhir K. Pandey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13675

Significant role of first-principles electron-phonon coupling in the electronic and thermoelectric properties of LiZnAs and ScAgC semiconductors
The half-Heusler (hH) compounds are currently considered promising thermoelectric (TE) materials due to their favorable thermopower and electrical conductivity. Accurate estimates of these properties are therefore highly desirable and require a detailed understanding of the microscopic mechanisms that govern transport. To enable such estimations, we carry out comprehensive first-principles computations of one of the primary factors limiting carrier transport, namely the electron-phonon ($e-ph$)…

Accessibility Barriers in Multi-Terabyte Public Datasets: The Gap Between Promise and Practice
Marc Bara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13256 https://

Accessibility Barriers in Multi-Terabyte Public Datasets: The Gap Between Promise and Practice
The promise of "free and open" multi-terabyte datasets often collides with harsh realities. While these datasets may be technically accessible, practical barriers -- from processing complexity to hidden costs -- create a system that primarily serves well-funded institutions. This study examines accessibility challenges across web crawls, satellite imagery, scientific data, and collaborative projects, revealing a consistent two-tier system where theoretical openness masks practical exclusivity. …

Quenched invariance principle with a rate for random dynamical systems
Zhenxin Liu, Benoit Saussol, Sandro Vaienti, Zhe Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13167

Quenched invariance principle with a rate for random dynamical systems
In this paper, we consider the quenched invariance principle for random Young towers driven by an ergodic system. In particular, we obtain the Wassertein convergence rate in the quenched invariance principle. As a key ingredient, we derive a new martingale-coboundary decomposition for the random tower map, which provides a good control over sums of squares of the approximating martingale. We apply our results to a class of random dynamical systems that admit a random Young tower, such as indepe…

Polynomial Prenexing of QBFs with Non-Monotone Boolean Operators
Abdallah Saffidine, Andreas Herzig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12562 https://

Polynomial Prenexing of QBFs with Non-Monotone Boolean Operators
It is well-known that every quantified boolean formula (QBF) can be transformed into a prenex QBF whose only boolean operators are negation, conjunction, and disjunction. It is also well-known that the transformation is polynomial if the boolean operators of the original QBF are restricted to negation, conjunction, and disjunction. In contrast, up to now no polynomial transformation has been found when the original QBF contains other boolean operators such as biconditionals or exclusive disjunc…

Passend zum #PrideMonth eine Lektüre noch vom Comicsalon letzten Jahres: The Deep and Dark Blue von Niki Smith.
Der #Comic erzählt von Zwillingen, Prinzen der Herrscherfamilie, die vor einem Staatsstreich fliehen und sich in einem Nonnenkloster verstecken. Von dort bereiten sie sich nicht nur a…

Particle Masses Spectrum from Harmonic Cascade Principles
Jonathan Washburn, Elshad Allahyarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12859 https://

Particle Masses Spectrum from Harmonic Cascade Principles
We present a parameter-free framework, Recognition Science (RS), that predicts the full spectrum of Standard-Model particle masses from first principles. The derived mass formula $m(n,d,s,g) = m_0 \cdot (X_{opt})^{n} \cdot (X_{opt})^{R_{RS}} \cdot E(d,s,g)$ prescribes to each particle a discrete harmonic lattice site $n$ involving only geometric constants: the optimal recognition scale $X_{opt} = ϕ/π$, a resonance index $R_{RS} = 7/12$, the Planck-derived base mass $m_0$, and an efficiency fa…