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F.T.C. May Put Unusual Condition on Ad Mega-Merger: No Boycotting (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/business/ftc-omnicom-interpublic-merger.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OU8.n6Rb.0DJnT0vuw02y&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p164#a250612p164

BemaGANv2: A Tutorial and Comparative Survey of GAN-based Vocoders for Long-Term Audio Generation
Taesoo Park, Mungwi Jeong, Mingyu Park, Narae Kim, Junyoung Kim, Mujung Kim, Jisang Yoo, Hoyun Lee, Sanghoon Kim, Soonchul Kwon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09487

BemaGANv2: A Tutorial and Comparative Survey of GAN-based Vocoders for Long-Term Audio Generation
This paper presents a tutorial-style survey and implementation guide of BemaGANv2, an advanced GAN-based vocoder designed for high-fidelity and long-term audio generation. Built upon the original BemaGAN architecture, BemaGANv2 incorporates major architectural innovations by replacing traditional ResBlocks in the generator with the Anti-aliased Multi-Periodicity composition (AMP) module, which internally applies the Snake activation function to better model periodic structures. In the discrimin…

NO KINGS Santa Barbara
Rally · Volunteer organized
Saturday, June 14
10:30am – 12pm PDT
Chase Palm Park
236 E Cabrillo Blvd.
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/788033/

NO KINGS Santa Barbara · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens, and defied the courts. They’ve done this all while continuing to serve and enrich their billionaire allies. 🚨**On Saturday, June 14, we’re takin…

Is there anything I can put in robots.txt that will stop Scrapy?
Failing that, let’s take the ship up and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

"Two men arrested in #Washington state with an arsenal that included dozens of guns, explosives and body armor, along with Nazi paraphernalia, were former military members who attacked a soldier with a hammer while stealing gear from Joint Base Lewis-McChord."
"Agents found rifles staged at windows, 'observed numerous Nazi/white supremacy memorabilia, murals, and lite…

Surgeons Awareness, Expectations, and Involvement with Artificial Intelligence: a Survey Pre and Post the GPT Era
Lorenzo Arboit, Dennis N. Schneider, Toby Collins, Daniel A. Hashimoto, Silvana Perretta, Bernard Dallemagne, Jacques Marescaux, EAES Working Group, Nicolas Padoy, Pietro Mascagni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08258

Surgeons Awareness, Expectations, and Involvement with Artificial Intelligence: a Survey Pre and Post the GPT Era
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming medicine, with generative AI models like ChatGPT reshaping perceptions of its potential. This study examines surgeons' awareness, expectations, and involvement with AI in surgery through comparative surveys conducted in 2021 and 2024. Two cross-sectional surveys were distributed globally in 2021 and 2024, the first before an IRCAD webinar and the second during the annual EAES meeting. The surveys assessed demographics, AI awareness, expectations, inv…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was quickly met with sharp questions and criticism Tuesday
by lawmakers who pressed him about his early moves to deploy troops to Los Angeles,
fire key military leaders
and purge diversity programs.
They expressed bipartisan frustration that Congress has not yet gotten a full defense budget from the Trump administration.
“Your tenure as secretary has been marked by endless chaos,”
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., told Hegseth.

Hegseth faces Democrats in Congress for first time since Signal leaks
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been met with sharp questions and criticism by lawmakers who demanded details on his moves to deploy troops to Los Angeles. Lawmakers also expressed bipartisan frustration Tuesday that Congress doesn't yet have a full defense budget from the Trump administration. The hearing before the House Appropriations defense subcommittee was the first time lawmakers have been able to challenge Trump’s defense chief directly. After persistent questioning about the cost …

Interpretation Meets Safety: A Survey on Interpretation Methods and Tools for Improving LLM Safety
Seongmin Lee, Aeree Cho, Grace C. Kim, ShengYun Peng, Mansi Phute, Duen Horng Chau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05451

Interpretation Meets Safety: A Survey on Interpretation Methods and Tools for Improving LLM Safety
As large language models (LLMs) see wider real-world use, understanding and mitigating their unsafe behaviors is critical. Interpretation techniques can reveal causes of unsafe outputs and guide safety, but such connections with safety are often overlooked in prior surveys. We present the first survey that bridges this gap, introducing a unified framework that connects safety-focused interpretation methods, the safety enhancements they inform, and the tools that operationalize them. Our novel t…

The bias of IID resampled backtests for rolling-window mean-variance portfolios
Andrew Paskaramoorthy, Terence van Zyl, Tim Gebbie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06383

The bias of IID resampled backtests for rolling-window mean-variance portfolios
Backtests on historical data are the basis for practical evaluations of portfolio selection rules, but their reliability is often limited by reliance on a single sample path. This can lead to high estimation variance. Resampling techniques offer a potential solution by increasing the effective sample size, but can disrupt the temporal ordering inherent in financial data and introduce significant bias. This paper investigates the critical questions: First, How large is this bias for Sharpe Ratio…

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NO KINGS Santa Barbara · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. We’ve watched as they’ve cracked down on free speech, detained people for their political views, threatened to deport American citizens, and defied the courts. They’ve done this all while continuing to serve and enrich their billionaire allies. 🚨**On Saturday, June 14, we’re takin…