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Oh the irony!
Wes Streeting suggesting that Donald Trump is wrong to stop prescribing paracetamol (as we know it here) without any evidence it is causing harm is EXACTLY WHAT HE IS DOING by stopping prescribing of puberty suppressing drugs in children experiencing gender incongruence. Literally, exactly the same - no evidence, just politics.
#ukpolitics

Wes Streeting Slams Donald Trump Over Claim Paracetamol Use Linked To Autism
The health secretary told pregnant women not to "pay any attention whatsoever" to the US president. Wes Streeting has slammed Donald Trump’s claim …

Basis pursuit by inconsistent alternating projections
Roger Behling, Yunier Bello-Cruz, Luiz-Rafael Santos, Paulo J. S. Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15026 https://

Basis pursuit by inconsistent alternating projections
Basis pursuit is the problem of finding a vector with smallest $\ell_1$-norm among the solutions of a given linear system of equations. It is a famous convex relaxation of what the literature refers to as sparse affine feasibility problem, in which sparse solutions to underdetermined systems are sought. In addition to enjoying convexity, the basis pursuit can be trivially rewritten as a linear program, and thus standard tools in linear programming apply for solving it. In turn, we tackle the …

Incentives and Outcomes in Bug Bounties
Serena Wang, Martino Banchio, Krzysztof Kotowicz, Katrina Ligett, R. Preston McAfee, Eduardo' Vela'' Nava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16655

Incentives and Outcomes in Bug Bounties
Bug bounty programs have contributed significantly to security in technology firms in the last decade, but little is known about the role of reward incentives in producing useful outcomes. We analyze incentives and outcomes in Google's Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP), one of the world's largest bug bounty programs. We analyze the responsiveness of the quality and quantity of bugs received to changes in payments, focusing on a change in Google's reward amounts posted in July, 2024, in which …

Demystifying Reward Design in Reinforcement Learning for Upper Extremity Interaction: Practical Guidelines for Biomechanical Simulations in HCI
Hannah Selder, Florian Fischer, Per Ola Kristensson, Arthur Fleig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15727

Demystifying Reward Design in Reinforcement Learning for Upper Extremity Interaction: Practical Guidelines for Biomechanical Simulations in HCI
Designing effective reward functions is critical for reinforcement learning-based biomechanical simulations, yet HCI researchers and practitioners often waste (computation) time with unintuitive trial-and-error tuning. This paper demystifies reward function design by systematically analyzing the impact of effort minimization, task completion bonuses, and target proximity incentives on typical HCI tasks such as pointing, tracking, and choice reaction. We show that proximity incentives are essent…

Prostate Capsule Segmentation from Micro-Ultrasound Images using Adaptive Focal Loss
Kaniz Fatema, Vaibhav Thakur, Emad A. Mohammed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15595 https://

Prostate Capsule Segmentation from Micro-Ultrasound Images using Adaptive Focal Loss
Micro-ultrasound (micro-US) is a promising imaging technique for cancer detection and computer-assisted visualization. This study investigates prostate capsule segmentation using deep learning techniques from micro-US images, addressing the challenges posed by the ambiguous boundaries of the prostate capsule. Existing methods often struggle in such cases, motivating the development of a tailored approach. This study introduces an adaptive focal loss function that dynamically emphasizes both har…

Antifa,
at least as imagined by Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters,
simply does not exist.
The president recently signed an executive order declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization,”
which is not a legal designation.
His memo was so thick with lies that it would take a week to debunk them all.
Antifa is not “a militarist, anarchist enterprise,”
nor does it use “illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism.”…

How the Proud Boys invented antifa
The far-right gang has been fully absorbed by Trump's White House

Real-time imaging through dynamic scattering media enabled by fixed optical modulations
Yuegang Li, Junjie Wang, Tailong Xiao, Ze Zheng, Jingzheng Huang, Ming He, Jianping Fan, Guihua Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15286

Real-time imaging through dynamic scattering media enabled by fixed optical modulations
Dynamic scattering remains a significant challenge to the practical deployment of anti-scattering imaging. Existing methods, such as transmission matrix measurements, iterative wavefront shaping, and optical phase conjugation, depend on a quasi-static assumption, requiring the object and scattering medium to remain stable during a single imaging process to enable one-to-one compensation. However, image reconstruction becomes unattainable when this assumption is violated. Here, we propose a nove…

Un 23 de octubre de 1951 en Buenos Aires, Argentina, nació el que se convertiría en uno de los mšs reconocidos, talentosos e irreverentes de los músicos de Latinoamérica y el mundo entero: Charly García.
¡Gracias por tanto, viejo loco!
#CharlyGarcia #CumpleañosRockero

Trump has proposed a thesis:
Crime in D.C. will go down if masked paramilitaries flood the city and amble about the streets.
The task for the media, then, is to see if his theory stands up to the test
My former New Republic colleague Prem Thakker spent Wednesday morning at the Columbia Heights metro station witnessing a farce
as various troops and cops rode the escalators up and down and back again,
only to eventually nab a single alleged fare evader.
T…

The Useful Idiots in the Media Abetting Trump’s D.C. Takeover
Imagine if the president’s radical claims about reducing crime were actually scrutinized?

A novel imaging solution, called
"prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography (PET) scanning",
can more effectively detect the recurrence of prostate cancer
compared to standard imaging methods,
and is associated with improved survival outcomes.

New imaging technique boosts survival in prostate cancer patients
A multicenter study led by London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute (LHSCRI), Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's Health Care London (Lawson), and University Health Network (UHN) has found a novel imaging solution, called prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography (PET) scanning, can more effectively detect the recurrence of prostate cancer compared to standard imaging methods, and is associated with improved survival outcomes.