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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Algiers:
🎵 Irony. Utility. Pretext.
#Algiers
https://algierstheband.bandcamp.com/track/irony-utility-pretext
https://open.spotify.com/track/5YZSmdCrsYFRtkGqx3ysQ1

Rhetorik und Realität klaffen auseinander: Axel Oppermann analysiert, wie Microsoft sich als digitale Grundversorgung positioniert – mit allen damit verbundenen Abhängigkeiten. Er warnt vor der Bequemlichkeit, sich zu früh und zu exklusiv in ein einziges Ökosystem zu integrieren. Strategische Mündigkeit ist kein Luxus, sondern Pflicht. @…

„Ich hab’s gesagt“ – Warum Axel Oppermann mit seiner Microsoft-Kritik recht behält - ichsagmal.com
Axel Oppermann, Analyst bei Avispador, wollte eigentlich nur einen fundierten Strategiekommentar schreiben – wurde aber prompt als Microsoft-Basher abgestempelt. Sein Fazit: „Die Positionierung Microsofts als Utility bzw. ‚Planet-Scale-System‘ und die faktische Rolle als digitaler Versorger sind zugleich eine riesige Chance und ein massives Risiko für Kunden und Partner.“ Und Du? Wenn Du im Mittelstand Verantwortung … „Ich hab’s gesagt“ – Warum Axel Oppermann mit seiner Mic…

Cold and windy, but my gluttony over the holidays has insulated me well. I would trade some of it for fitness, which I suppose is what’s happening, albeit much slower and more arduously than I might like.
Ran 4/1 minute run/walk intervals for what turned out to be 6.5 km. Pace was 8:03/km.
#Running

"Nearly half of solar capacity will be co-located with storage by 2060, says DNV"
#Batteries #Energy #SolarPower

Nearly half of solar capacity will be co-located with storage by 2060, says DNV
DNV's Energy Transition Outlook 2025 report also predicts that distributed generation solar should begin outpacing utility-scale installations in some parts of the world by 2060. It adds that the levelized cost of electricity for solar is beginning to plateau and is expected to slow to an annual drop below 1% by the 2050s.

Urban Spots ✴️
城市噪点 ✴️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Voting is under way in Georgia for two seats on the utilities regulatory commission. Current GOP members are totally in the pocket of the entities they're supposed to be regulating.
https://energyandpolicy.org/georgia-psc-in…

Cyber volunteer effort for small water utilities announces new MSSP effort https://therecord.media/cyber-volunteer-water-utility-mssp

@… About a year ago I was contracting with a utility company, and someone unironically pitched using LLMs to figure out what to do about the capacity problem caused by data centers.
I am dumbfounded to this day.

Manipulation of photonic topological edge and corner states via trivial claddings
Hai-Xiao Wang, Li Liang, Shuai Shao, Shiwei Tang, Junhui Hu, Yin Poo, Jian-Hua Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18705 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18705 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18705
arXiv:2511.18705v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Crystalline symmetry offers a powerful tool to realize photonic topological phases, in which additional trivial claddings are typically required to confine topological boundary states. However, the utility of the trivial cladding in manipulating topological waves is often overlooked. Here, we demonstrate two topologically distinct kagome photonic crystals (KPCs) based on different crystalline symmetries: \mathbit{C}_\mathbf{6}- symmetric KPCs exhibit a quantum spin Hall phase, while \mathbit{C}_\mathbf{3}-symmetric KPCs serve as trivial cladding. By tuning the geometric parameter of the trivial cladding, we observe that a pair of topological interface states featured with pseudospin-momentum locking undergoes a phase transition, accompanied by the appearance and disappearance of corner states in a finite hexagonal supercell. Such a geometry-induced band inversion is characterized by a sign change in the Dirac mass of the topological interface states and holds potential for applications such as rainbow trapping. Furthermore, we experimentally demonstrate the corner states, which is a hallmark of higher-order topology, also depend critically on the trivial cladding. Our work highlights the crucial role of trivial claddings on the formation of topological boundary states, and offers a novel approach for their manipulation.
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More Americans Fall Behind on Utility Bills as AI Data Centers, Trump Attacks on Renewables Raise Costs | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/utility-bills-data-centers

Denmark says Russia was behind "destructive and disruptive" cyberattacks on a water utility in 2024 and DDoS attacks in the lead-up to local November elections (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec…

Giddy up.
✅ PowerToys 0.95 is here: new Light Switch utility, faster Command Palette, and Peek with Spacebar - Windows Command Line
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/powertoys-0-95-is-her…

PowerToys 0.95 is here: new Light Switch utility, faster Command Palette, and Peek with Spacebar
New month, new release! This one’s packed with quality-of-life improvements, performance boosts, and a bunch of long-standing community requests finally checked off the list — all while keeping the focus on fundamentals like speed and reliability! Get the update by checking for updates in PowerToys or heading to the release page. Let’s dive in! 🆕 […]

hey does anyone have a copy of Windows 11 http.sys before and after build 26100.6899, or (since you probably don't want to roll back or install the update just for this purpose) can you run ApplyDeltaB* to materialize the file from WinSxS?
* https://github.com/whitequark/ApplyDeltaB…

GitHub - whitequark/ApplyDeltaB: An utility to apply Windows Update binary patches (i.e. call msdelta.dll!ApplyDeltaB)
An utility to apply Windows Update binary patches (i.e. call msdelta.dll!ApplyDeltaB) - whitequark/ApplyDeltaB

Moody Urbanity - Metro Consistency 🏁
情绪化城市 - 都市质地 🏁
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

"South Africa court halts natural gas power plant project, cites climate commitments"
#SouthAfrica #FossilFuels #Energy

"Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
@… on
The majority AI view: spot on I'd say given advances in my field.
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/

@… utility HTTP headers 😅

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
BLAKE: Chevner, the security robot. [Into communicator] Avon! Cally! Bring us up!
[Scene: Cuts between the Liberator and the tunnel.]
ZEN: Liberator has resumed original position and status.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/312 B7B6

"This PR introduces a new utility, detect-fash, which scans a system for the presence of software and configurations known to be associated with fascist ideologies. This may help identify undesirable and/or malicious activity that may interfere with the intended operations of other systemd utilities."
It seems to detect the presence of Omarchy Linux, Ladybird browser, hyprland, and DHH's ssh public key.

Increasing Value of Information Implies Separable Utility
Michel de Lara (CERMICS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11102 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11102…

Increasing Value of Information Implies Separable Utility
We consider decision-making under incomplete information about an unknown state of nature. Utility acts (that is, utility vectors indexed by states of nature) and beliefs (probability distributions over the states of nature) are naturally paired by bilinear duality, giving the expected utility. With this pairing, an expected utility maximizer (DM) is characterized by a continuous closed convex comprehensive set of utility acts (c-utility act set). We show that DM M values information more than …

{testthat} is great for automatic testing. Here are some tricks for the heavy user: #rstats

'xmllint' is a general XML utility; I mostly use it for pretty-printing huge machine generated, single line XML files into an indented hierarchy that's almost readable so I can figure out what's wrong with them.
It can also do schema validation etc.
It's part of Gnome's libxml2.
https://

"Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value." https://www.anildash.com//20…

The Majority AI View
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

AI: use "minimal utility CS classes" like one class to set padding right, another for margin top, one more for height,...
Me:
(ofc this styling approach didn't start with AI)
#webdev #CSS #AI #LLM #sarcasm #opinion

Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the "world's first utility-scale fusion power plant" in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e1978d5-535b-4241-872f-38db778df694

LLM-Specific Utility: A New Perspective for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Hengran Zhang, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo, Jiaming Zhang, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Xueqi Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11358

LLM-Specific Utility: A New Perspective for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge. While traditional retrieval focuses on relevance, RAG's effectiveness depends on the utility of retrieved passages, i.e., the usefulness in facilitating the generation of an accurate and comprehensive answer. Existing studies often treat utility as a generic attribute, ignoring the fact that different LLMs may benefit differently from the same passage due to variations in internal kno…

Targeted Sequential Pattern Mining with High Average Utility
Kai Cao, Yucong Duan, Wensheng Gan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10115 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Targeted Sequential Pattern Mining with High Average Utility
Incorporating utility into targeted pattern mining can address the practical limitations of traditional frequency-based approaches. However, utility-based methods often suffer from generating a large number of long and complicated sequences. To improve pattern relevance and interpretability, average utility provides a more balanced metric by considering both utility and sequence length. Moreover, incorporating user-defined query targets into the mining process enhances usability and interactivi…

I was experiencing unusually high VRAM usage on the RX 7800 XT (GPU choking and cr@pping itself) in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (and in a couple of other games). So I decided to use the AMD Cleanup Utility and reinstall the current 25.12.1 drivers. When I started the game again, the ray tracing settings in it were grayed out, and there's NO fixing it, no matter what I tried 😆 And the VRAM issue wasn't fixed 😄
(Grayed out RT settings aslo seem to be a problem on the 9000 s…

Battery costs keep going down, good news for energy transition and renewable energy.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/batteries-now-cheap-enough-to-make-dispatchable-solar-economically-feasible/

Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[2/5]:
- The Diffusion Duality
Sahoo, Deschenaux, Gokaslan, Wang, Chiu, Kuleshov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10892 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114675526577078472
- Multimodal Representation Learning and Fusion
Jin, Ge, Xie, Luo, Song, Bi, Liang, Guan, Yeong, Song, Hao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20494 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114749113025183688
- The kernel of graph indices for vector search
Mariano Tepper, Ted Willke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20584 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114749118923266356
- OptScale: Probabilistic Optimality for Inference-time Scaling
Youkang Wang, Jian Wang, Rubing Chen, Xiao-Yong Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22376 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114771735361664528
- Boosting Revisited: Benchmarking and Advancing LP-Based Ensemble Methods
Fabian Akkerman, Julien Ferry, Christian Artigues, Emmanuel Hebrard, Thibaut Vidal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18242 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114913322736512937
- MolMark: Safeguarding Molecular Structures through Learnable Atom-Level Watermarking
Runwen Hu, Peilin Chen, Keyan Ding, Shiqi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17702 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115095014405732247
- Dual-Distilled Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Adaptive Margins for Trainable Global Protot...
Fatema Siddika, Md Anwar Hossen, Wensheng Zhang, Anuj Sharma, Juan Pablo Mu\~noz, Ali Jannesari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19009 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115100269482762688
- STDiff: A State Transition Diffusion Framework for Time Series Imputation in Industrial Systems
Gary Simethy, Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo, Petar Durdevic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19011 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115100270137397046
- EEGDM: Learning EEG Representation with Latent Diffusion Model
Shaocong Wang, Tong Liu, Yihan Li, Ming Li, Kairui Wen, Pei Yang, Wenqi Ji, Minjing Yu, Yong-Jin Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20705 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115111565155687451
- Data-Free Continual Learning of Server Models in Model-Heterogeneous Cloud-Device Collaboration
Xiao Zhang, Zengzhe Chen, Yuan Yuan, Yifei Zou, Fuzhen Zhuang, Wenyu Jiao, Yuke Wang, Dongxiao Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25977 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115298721327100391
- Fine-Tuning Masked Diffusion for Provable Self-Correction
Jaeyeon Kim, Seunggeun Kim, Taekyun Lee, David Z. Pan, Hyeji Kim, Sham Kakade, Sitan Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01384 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115309690976554356
- A Generic Machine Learning Framework for Radio Frequency Fingerprinting
Alex Hiles, Bashar I. Ahmad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09775 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115372387779061015
- ASecond-Order SpikingSSM for Wearables
Kartikay Agrawal, Abhijeet Vikram, Vedant Sharma, Vaishnavi Nagabhushana, Ayon Borthakur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14386 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115389079527543821
- Utility-Diversity Aware Online Batch Selection for LLM Supervised Fine-tuning
Heming Zou, Yixiu Mao, Yun Qu, Qi Wang, Xiangyang Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16882 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115412243355962887
- Seeing Structural Failure Before it Happens: An Image-Based Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN...
Omer Jauhar Khan, Sudais Khan, Hafeez Anwar, Shahzeb Khan, Shams Ul Arifeen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23117 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115451891042176876
- Training Deep Physics-Informed Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Spyros Rigas, Fotios Anagnostopoulos, Michalis Papachristou, Georgios Alexandridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23501 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115451942159737549
- Semi-Supervised Preference Optimization with Limited Feedback
Seonggyun Lee, Sungjun Lim, Seojin Park, Soeun Cheon, Kyungwoo Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00040 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115490555013124989
- Towards Causal Market Simulators
Dennis Thumm, Luis Ontaneda Mijares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04469 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115507943827841017
- Incremental Generation is Necessary and Sufficient for Universality in Flow-Based Modelling
Hossein Rouhvarzi, Anastasis Kratsios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09902 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115547587245365920
- Optimizing Mixture of Block Attention
Guangxuan Xiao, Junxian Guo, Kasra Mazaheri, Song Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11571 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115564541392410174
- Assessing Automated Fact-Checking for Medical LLM Responses with Knowledge Graphs
Shasha Zhou, Mingyu Huang, Jack Cole, Charles Britton, Ming Yin, Jan Wolber, Ke Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12817 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115570877730326947
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How to Get Actual Privacy and Utility from Privacy Models: the k-Anonymity and Differential Privacy Families
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, David S\'anchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11299

How to Get Actual Privacy and Utility from Privacy Models: the k-Anonymity and Differential Privacy Families
Privacy models were introduced in privacy-preserving data publishing and statistical disclosure control with the promise to end the need for costly empirical assessment of disclosure risk. We examine how well this promise is kept by the main privacy models. We find they may fail to provide adequate protection guarantees because of problems in their definition or incur unacceptable trade-offs between privacy protection and utility preservation. Specifically, k-anonymity may not entirely exclude …

i see a lot of people expressing sadness over colorForth being gone. i'm quite okay with it: from Chuck Moore's webpage you can see that its primary utility in the last 20 years or so (if not more) was patent trolling, and while not being able to run the software won't stop that, it's a small bit of satisfaction.

Writing database queries is too close to the metal. Best practices don’t work! It’s time to make SQL enterprise-scale with utility classes.
https://tailwindsql.xyz/

TMTG agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and begin building the "world's first utility-scale fusion power plant" in 2026 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1e1978d5-535b-4241-872f-38db778df694

"Facing a Hostile Administration, U.S. Offshore Wind Is in Retreat"
#US #USA #America #Energy

Facing a Hostile Administration, U.S. Offshore Wind Is in Retreat
Offshore wind had been poised to take off along the East Coast, with about 30 utility-scale farms planned. But the Trump administration’s opposition to wind power has caused most of those projects to be abandoned, with only seven farms now moving ahead or in operation.

TIL that the behavior of the “sort” utility differs between MacOS and Debian Linux.
[UPDATE: See replies; the behavior depends on the LANG value in surprising and pernicious ways.]
/tmp> uname ; sort problem
Darwin
OS-X
OSCO
tbray.org /tmp/ 503> uname ; sort problem
Linux
OSCO
OS-X
Does anyone other than me find this surprising?
#Linux …

A Framework for Distributed Resource Allocation in Quantum Networks
Nitish K. Panigrahy, Leonardo Bacciottini, C. V. Hollot, Emily A. Van Milligen, Matheus Guedes de Andrade, Nageswara S. V. Rao, Gayane Vardoyan, Don Towsley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09371

A Framework for Distributed Resource Allocation in Quantum Networks
We introduce a distributed resource allocation framework for the Quantum Internet that relies on feedback-based, fully decentralized coordination to serve multiple co-existing applications. We develop quantum network control algorithms under the mathematical framework of Quantum Network Utility Maximization (QNUM), where utility functions quantify network performance by mapping entanglement rate and quality into a joint optimization objective. We then introduce QPrimal-Dual, a decentralized, sc…

I am super impressed with how Ohio newspapers and Ohio journalists in general report on cyber incidents. They've got game.
Cyberattack that crippled Middletown's systems shows how hackers target smaller cities
https://www.cinci…

Cyberattack that crippled Middletown's systems shows how hackers target smaller cities
Over 2 months after a cyberattack took the city's utility payments offline, Middletown can't charge locals. The hack is part of a growing trend.

Efficient Mining of Low-Utility Sequential Patterns
Jian Zhu, Zhidong Lin, Wensheng Gan, Ruichu Cai, Zhifeng Hao, Philip S. Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10243 https://

Efficient Mining of Low-Utility Sequential Patterns
Discovering valuable insights from rich data is a crucial task for exploratory data analysis. Sequential pattern mining (SPM) has found widespread applications across various domains. In recent years, low-utility sequential pattern mining (LUSPM) has shown strong potential in applications such as intrusion detection and genomic sequence analysis. However, existing research in utility-based SPM focuses on high-utility sequential patterns, and the definitions and strategies used in high-utility S…

That patch to "detect fascism" is a nice piece of satire, but I think it has a bit too much of a broad audience and therefore I think it is not really good.
I therefore I have a proposal for a better utility that does not label projects or people, and instead tackles the problem at the root: a questionaire at boot. During the boot process it will ask you if you support queer rights, if you support trans rights, if you think white people are getting replaced or if you think pe…

I always find it interesting to compare my work with other developers' work. In this case I built a migration utility for Mastodon written in Python. After I posted to the "Support Post Migration" thread on Github someone else posted with their solution.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

Denmark summons Russian ambassador over alleged cyberattacks on water utility, elections https://therecord.media/denmark-summons-russian-ambassador-cyberattack-elections

Who would like to see live streams of me developing a modern #Intel #firmware utility?

Linux utility for binding keyboard/mouse/touchpad actions to system actions (which reportedly has the ability to override and disable the touchpad gestures that are literally compiled into KDE Plasma-Wayland for some unfathomable fucking reason)
https://github.com/taj-ny/InputActions

Looking to Learn: Token-wise Dynamic Gating for Low-Resource Vision-Language Modelling
Bianca-Mihaela Ganescu, Suchir Salhan, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08470

Looking to Learn: Token-wise Dynamic Gating for Low-Resource Vision-Language Modelling
Training vision-language models on cognitively-plausible amounts of data requires rethinking how models integrate multimodal information. Within the constraints of the Vision track for the BabyLM Challenge 2025, we propose a lightweight decoder-based architecture with (1) token-wise dynamic gating for adaptive fusion of linguistic and visual cues, (2) feature modulation and channel attention to maximise the utility of limited visual information and (3) auxiliary contrastive objectives for visua…

Elizabeth Warren and two Democratic senators write to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and more to investigate AI data centers' role in rising electricity costs (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/busines

Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs
Three Democrats are seeking information from tech firms about the growing energy use of data centers and the utility bills of individuals and other businesses.

U-Bench: A Comprehensive Understanding of U-Net through 100-Variant Benchmarking
Fenghe Tang, Chengqi Dong, Wenxin Ma, Zikang Xu, Heqin Zhu, Zihang Jiang, Rongsheng Wang, Yuhao Wang, Chenxu Wu, Shaohua Kevin Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07041

U-Bench: A Comprehensive Understanding of U-Net through 100-Variant Benchmarking
Over the past decade, U-Net has been the dominant architecture in medical image segmentation, leading to the development of thousands of U-shaped variants. Despite its widespread adoption, there is still no comprehensive benchmark to systematically evaluate their performance and utility, largely because of insufficient statistical validation and limited consideration of efficiency and generalization across diverse datasets. To bridge this gap, we present U-Bench, the first large-scale, statisti…

Fair Division of Indivisible Items
Kevin Hsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12158 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12158

Fair Division of Indivisible Items
We study the fair division of indivisible items. In the general model, the goal is to allocate $m$ indivisible items to $n$ agents while satisfying fairness criteria such as MMS, EF1, and EFX. We also study a recently-introduced graphical model that represents the fair division problem as a multigraph, in which vertices correspond to agents and edges to items. The graphical model stipulates that an item can have non-zero marginal utility to an agent only if its corresponding edge is incident to…

Metropolitana VII - 🆙 🆙 🆙
城 VII - 🆙 🆙 🆙
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

MIP-Based Tumor Segmentation: A Radiologist-Inspired Approach
Romario Zarik, Nahum Kiryati, Michael Green, Liran Domachevsky, Arnaldo Mayer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09326 http…

MIP-Based Tumor Segmentation: A Radiologist-Inspired Approach
PET/CT imaging is the gold standard for tumor detection, offering high accuracy in identifying local and metastatic lesions. Radiologists often begin assessment with rotational Multi-Angle Maximum Intensity Projections (MIPs) from PET, confirming findings with volumetric slices. This workflow is time-consuming, especially in metastatic cases. Despite their clinical utility, MIPs are underutilized in automated tumor segmentation, where 3D volumetric data remains the norm. We propose an alternati…

I’m not interested in any model that doesn’t solve for those problems. No matter what utility it has.
Inversely, if one does solve for those problems in a way I find satisfactory, I’d be at least somewhat curious no matter what utility it may (or may not) have.

Catalog and Characterization of Science Orbit Configurations for an Enceladus Orbiter
Spencer Boone, Joan Pau Sanchez Cuartialles, St\'ephanie Lizy-Destrez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12421

Catalog and Characterization of Science Orbit Configurations for an Enceladus Orbiter
Saturn's moon Enceladus is an exciting destination for future exploration missions due to the scientifically interesting geyser region located on its South pole. In this work, we compile the different types of science orbit configurations that have been proposed in the literature and present numerical methods to compute each of them in the Saturn-Enceladus circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP). In addition, we explore the utility of the higher period dynamical structures found in the C…

Learning interpretable closures for thermal radiation transport in optically-thin media using WSINDy
Daniel Messenger, Ben Southworth, Hans Hammer, Luis Chacon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11840

Learning interpretable closures for thermal radiation transport in optically-thin media using WSINDy
We introduce an equation learning framework to identify a closed set of equations for moment quantities in 1D thermal radiation transport (TRT) in optically thin media. While optically thick media admits a well-known diffusive closure, the utility of moment closures in providing accurate low-dimensional surrogates for TRT in optically thin media is unclear, as the mean-free path of photons is large and the radiation flux is far from its Fickean limit. Here, we demonstrate the viability of using…

📉 Rooftop solar is in a slump. Are dark days ahead?
#solar …

Rooftop solar is in a slump. Are dark days ahead?
The popularity of residential solar is seeing a steep reversal due to shifting state and federal policies driven by powerful utility interests. And while some say the decline is simply a mild adjustment, others fear the market for residential solar may be on the brink of a long-term slide.   

Blackwell without Priors
Maxwell Rosenthal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08709 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08709

Blackwell without Priors
This paper proposes a fully prior-free model of experimentation in which the decision maker observes the entire distribution of signals generated by a known experiment under an unknown distribution of the state of the world. One experiment is robustly more informative than another if the decision maker's maxmin expected utility after observing the output of the former is always at least her maxmin expected utility after observing the latter. We show that this ranking holds if and only if the le…

US sees record growth in battery energy storage, with utility-scale leading the way. Enough to power 3.7 million homes during peak-demand hours. Florida and Georgia emerging as key markets. #climatechange #climatesolutions

US grid-scale storage leaps 63%, residential 132%
A report from the American Clean Power Association (ACP) and Wood Mackenzie indicates the utility-scale energy storage sector added 4.9 GW in the April-to-June quarter, representing 63% year-on-year growth, while residential storage increased by 608 MW.

Sample-Efficient Omniprediction for Proper Losses
Isaac Gibbs, Ryan J. Tibshirani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12769 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12769

Sample-Efficient Omniprediction for Proper Losses
We consider the problem of constructing probabilistic predictions that lead to accurate decisions when employed by downstream users to inform actions. For a single decision maker, designing an optimal predictor is equivalent to minimizing a proper loss function corresponding to the negative utility of that individual. For multiple decision makers, our problem can be viewed as a variant of omniprediction in which the goal is to design a single predictor that simultaneously minimizes multiple los…

ACADATA: Parallel Dataset of Academic Data for Machine Translation
I\~naki Lacunza, Javier Garcia Gilabert, Francesca De Luca Fornaciari, Javier Aula-Blasco, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Maite Melero, Marta Villegas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12621

ACADATA: Parallel Dataset of Academic Data for Machine Translation
We present ACADATA, a high-quality parallel dataset for academic translation, that consists of two subsets: ACAD-TRAIN, which contains approximately 1.5 million author-generated paragraph pairs across 96 language directions and ACAD-BENCH, a curated evaluation set of almost 6,000 translations covering 12 directions. To validate its utility, we fine-tune two Large Language Models (LLMs) on ACAD-TRAIN and benchmark them on ACAD-BENCH against specialized machine-translation systems, general-purpos…

Utility-Scale Quantum State Preparation: Classical Training using Pauli Path Simulation
Cheng-Ju Lin, Hrant Gharibyan, Vincent P. Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02428 https://

Utility-Scale Quantum State Preparation: Classical Training using Pauli Path Simulation
We use Pauli Path simulation to variationally obtain parametrized circuits for preparing ground states of various quantum many-body Hamiltonians. These include the quantum Ising model in one dimension, in two dimensions on square and heavy-hex lattices, and the Kitaev honeycomb model, all at system sizes of one hundred qubits or more, beyond the reach of exact state-vector simulation, thereby reaching utility scale. We benchmark the Pauli Path simulation results against exact ground-state energ…

Locket: Robust Feature-Locking Technique for Language Models
Lipeng He, Vasisht Duddu, N. Asokan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12117 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

Locket: Robust Feature-Locking Technique for Language Models
Chatbot providers (e.g., OpenAI) rely on tiered subscription schemes to generate revenue, offering basic models for free users, and advanced models for paying subscribers. However, a finer-grained pay-to-unlock scheme for premium features (e.g., math, coding) is thought to be more economically viable for the providers. Such a scheme requires a feature-locking technique (FLoTE) which is (i) effective in refusing locked features, (ii) utility-preserving for unlocked features, (iii) robust against…

"India passes 132.8 GW of installed solar capacity"
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India passes 132.8 GW of installed solar capacity
India’s installed solar capacity reached 132.85 GW at the end of November 2025, led by utility-scale projects in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra, according to the central government.

Pro-Russian hackers caught bragging about attack on fake water utility https://therecord.media/fake-water-utility-honeypot-hacked-pro-russian-group

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Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
VILA: I am!
SOOLIN: I know.
VILA: Where's Orac? He can run a scan first.
SOOLIN: 'Fraid not, sorry.
AVON: [Who has entered unnoticed and is leaning casually against the doorway.] Why not?
SOOLIN: Orac's in hiding.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/444…

Measuring the Hidden Cost of Data Valuation through Collective Disclosure
Patrick Mesana, Gilles Caporossi, Sebastien Gambs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08869 https://

Measuring the Hidden Cost of Data Valuation through Collective Disclosure
Data valuation methods assign marginal utility to each data point that has contributed to the training of a machine learning model. If used directly as a payout mechanism, this creates a hidden cost of valuation, in which contributors with near-zero marginal value would receive nothing, even though their data had to be collected and assessed. To better formalize this cost, we introduce a conceptual and game-theoretic model, the Information Disclosure Game, between a Data Union (sometimes also c…

If your priorities aren’t the same as mine… well I don’t like it. But I understand that’s the case.
The problem is when you’re wasting your effort and my time trying to convince me that the utility is *really* there.
Maybe? Probably not, but it doesn’t matter. Because that’s not what *I* care about.

Dual Pruning and Sorting-Free Overestimation for Average-Utility Sequential Pattern Mining
Kai Cao, Yucong Duan, Wensheng Gan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04014 https://

Dual Pruning and Sorting-Free Overestimation for Average-Utility Sequential Pattern Mining
In a quantitative sequential database, numerous efficient algorithms have been developed for high-utility sequential pattern mining (HUSPM). HUSPM establishes a relationship between frequency and significance in the real world and reflects more crucial information than frequent pattern mining. However, high average-utility sequential pattern mining (HAUSPM) is deemed fairer and more valuable than HUSPM. It provides a reasonable measure for longer patterns by considering their length. In contras…

Fundamental Limit of Discrete Distribution Estimation under Utility-Optimized Local Differential Privacy
Sun-Moon Yoon, Hyun-Young Park, Seung-Hyun Nam, Si-Hyeon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24173

Fundamental Limit of Discrete Distribution Estimation under Utility-Optimized Local Differential Privacy
We study the problem of discrete distribution estimation under utility-optimized local differential privacy (ULDP), which enforces local differential privacy (LDP) on sensitive data while allowing more accurate inference on non-sensitive data. In this setting, we completely characterize the fundamental privacy-utility trade-off. The converse proof builds on several key ideas, including a generalized uniform asymptotic Cramér-Rao lower bound, a reduction showing that it suffices to consider a n…

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Logical Consistency Between Disagreeing Experts and Its Role in AI Safety
Andr\'es Corrada-Emmanuel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00821 https://arxiv.org/…

Logical Consistency Between Disagreeing Experts and Its Role in AI Safety
If two experts disagree on a test, we may conclude both cannot be 100 per cent correct. But if they completely agree, no possible evaluation can be excluded. This asymmetry in the utility of agreements versus disagreements is explored here by formalizing a logic of unsupervised evaluation for classifiers. Its core problem is computing the set of group evaluations that are logically consistent with how we observe them agreeing and disagreeing in their decisions. Statistical summaries of their al…

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- Maximising the Utility of Validation Sets for Imbalanced Noisy-label Meta-learning
Dung Anh Hoang, Cuong Nguyen, Belagiannis Vasileios, Thanh-Toan Do, Gustavo Carneiro

"Atlas Renewable Energy energizes 201 MW solar park in Colombia"
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Atlas Renewable Energy energizes 201 MW solar park in Colombia
Atlas Renewable Energy says its 201 MW solar project in Ibagué represents the company’s first utility-scale installation in Colombia and is supported by financing from multilateral and local lenders.

New York-based Kaizen, which provides a commerce platform for government agencies to offer services like utility billing, raised a $21M Series A led by NEA (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/202…

Exclusive: Govtech startup Kaizen raises $21M for commerce platform
NEA led the round.

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Secret-Protected Evolution for Differentially Private Synthetic Text Generation
Tianze Wang, Zhaoyu Chen, Jian Du, Yingtai Xiao, Linjun Zhang, Qiang Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10990

Secret-Protected Evolution for Differentially Private Synthetic Text Generation
Text data has become extremely valuable on large language models (LLMs) and even lead to general artificial intelligence (AGI). A lot of high-quality text in the real world is private and cannot be freely used due to privacy concerns. Therefore, differentially private (DP) synthetic text generation has been proposed, aiming to produce high-utility synthetic data while protecting sensitive information. However, existing DP synthetic text generation imposes uniform guarantees that often overprote…

"Australia installs 5.2 GW of solar in 2024"
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Australia installs 5.2 GW of solar in 2024
The International Energy Agency (IEA) says that Australia installed 5.2 GW of solar capacity in 2024, bringing the national total to 40 GW across distributed and utility-scale systems.

Selling Privacy in Blockchain Transactions
Georgios Chionas, Olga Gorelkina, Piotr Krysta, Rida Laraki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08096 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08096 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.08096
arXiv:2512.08096v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study methods to enhance privacy in blockchain transactions from an economic angle. We consider mechanisms for privacy-aware users whose utility depends not only on the outcome of the mechanism but also negatively on the exposure of their economic preferences. Specifically, we study two auction-theoretic settings with privacy-aware users. First, we analyze an order flow auction, where a user auctions off to specialized agents, called searchers, the right to execute her transaction while maintaining a degree of privacy. We examine how the degree of privacy affects the revenue of the auction and, broadly, the net utility of the privacy-aware user. In this new setting, we describe the optimal auction, which is a sealed-bid auction. Subsequently, we analyze a variant of a Dutch auction in which the user gradually decreases the price and the degree of privacy until the transaction is sold. We compare the revenue of this auction to that of the optimal one as a function of the number of communication rounds. Then, we introduce a two-sided market - a privacy marketplace - with multiple users selling their transactions under their privacy preferences to multiple searchers. We propose a posted-price mechanism for the two-sided market that guarantees constant approximation of the optimal social welfare while maintaining incentive compatibility (from both sides of the market) and budget balance. This work builds on the emerging line of research that attempts to improve the performance of economic mechanisms by appending cryptographic primitives to them.
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Dynamic Regret Bounds for Online Omniprediction with Long Term Constraints
Yahav Bechavod, Jiuyao Lu, Aaron Roth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07266 https://a…

Dynamic Regret Bounds for Online Omniprediction with Long Term Constraints
We present an algorithm guaranteeing dynamic regret bounds for online omniprediction with long term constraints. The goal in this recently introduced problem is for a learner to generate a sequence of predictions which are broadcast to a collection of downstream decision makers. Each decision maker has their own utility function, as well as a vector of constraint functions, each mapping their actions and an adversarially selected state to reward or constraint violation terms. The downstream dec…

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Indirect Prompt Injections: Are Firewalls All You Need, or Stronger Benchmarks?
Rishika Bhagwatkar, Kevin Kasa, Abhay Puri, Gabriel Huang, Irina Rish, Graham W. Taylor, Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham, Alexandre Lacoste
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05244

Indirect Prompt Injections: Are Firewalls All You Need, or Stronger Benchmarks?
AI agents are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks, where malicious instructions embedded in external content or tool outputs cause unintended or harmful behavior. Inspired by the well-established concept of firewalls, we show that a simple, modular and model-agnostic defense operating at the agent--tool interface achieves perfect security (0% or the lowest possible attack success rate) with high utility (task success rate) across four public benchmarks: AgentDojo, Agent Security Ben…

"How to build giant solar plants in mountainous areas"
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How to build giant solar plants in mountainous areas
Chinese researchers have proposed a new methodology for designing utility-scale solar power projects in mountainous regions. They simulated a 386.4 MW solar farm near Pu’er, a city in southern China located 1,037 meters above sea level.

Empirical Comparison of Membership Inference Attacks in Deep Transfer Learning
Yuxuan Bai, Gauri Pradhan, Marlon Tobaben, Antti Honkela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05753 https://…

Empirical Comparison of Membership Inference Attacks in Deep Transfer Learning
With the emergence of powerful large-scale foundation models, the training paradigm is increasingly shifting from from-scratch training to transfer learning. This enables high utility training with small, domain-specific datasets typical in sensitive applications.Membership inference attacks (MIAs) provide an empirical estimate of the privacy leakage by machine learning models. Yet, prior assessments of MIAs against models fine-tuned with transfer learning rely on a small subset of possible att…

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High-Fidelity Synthetic ECG Generation via Mel-Spectrogram Informed Diffusion Training
Zhuoyi Huang, Nutan Sahoo, Anamika Kumari, Girish Kumar, Kexuan Cai, Shixing Cao, Yue Kang, Tian Xia, Somya Chatterjee, Nicholas Hausman, Aidan Jay, Eric S. Rosenthal, Soundar Srinivasan, Sadid Hasan, Alex Fedorov, Sulaiman Vesal, Soundar Srinivasan, Sadid Hasan, Alex Fedorov, Sulaiman Vesal

High-Fidelity Synthetic ECG Generation via Mel-Spectrogram Informed Diffusion Training
The development of machine learning for cardiac care is severely hampered by privacy restrictions on sharing real patient electrocardiogram (ECG) data. Although generative AI offers a promising solution, the real-world use of existing model-synthesized ECGs is limited by persistent gaps in trustworthiness and clinical utility. In this work, we address two major shortcomings of current generative ECG methods: insufficient morphological fidelity and the inability to generate personalized, patient…

PATCH: Mitigating PII Leakage in Language Models with Privacy-Aware Targeted Circuit PatcHing
Anthony Hughes, Vasisht Duddu, N. Asokan, Nikolaos Aletras, Ning Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07452

PATCH: Mitigating PII Leakage in Language Models with Privacy-Aware Targeted Circuit PatcHing
Language models (LMs) may memorize personally identifiable information (PII) from training data, enabling adversaries to extract it during inference. Existing defense mechanisms such as differential privacy (DP) reduce this leakage, but incur large drops in utility. Based on a comprehensive study using circuit discovery to identify the computational circuits responsible PII leakage in LMs, we hypothesize that specific PII leakage circuits in LMs should be responsible for this behavior. Therefor…

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Power Mechanism: Private Tabular Representation Release for Model Agnostic Consumption
Praneeth Vepakomma, Kaustubh Ponkshe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05581 https://

Power Mechanism: Private Tabular Representation Release for Model Agnostic Consumption
Traditional collaborative learning approaches are based on sharing of model weights between clients and a server. However, there are advantages to resource efficiency through schemes based on sharing of embeddings (activations) created from the data. Several differentially private methods were developed for sharing of weights while such mechanisms do not exist so far for sharing of embeddings. We propose Ours to learn a privacy encoding network in conjunction with a small utility generation net…

"Italy clears 710 MW of solar in Puglia, challenges regional PV rules"
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Italy clears 710 MW of solar in Puglia, challenges regional PV rules
The italian government says it is fast-tracking utility-scale solar, approving about 710 MW of mainly agrivoltaic projects in Puglia while moving to curb regional limits on where PV plants can be built, sharpening tensions over land use and energy policy.

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SafeGuider: Robust and Practical Content Safety Control for Text-to-Image Models
Peigui Qi, Kunsheng Tang, Wenbo Zhou, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu, Tianwei Zhang, Qing Guo, Jie Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05173

SafeGuider: Robust and Practical Content Safety Control for Text-to-Image Models
Text-to-image models have shown remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality images from natural language descriptions. However, these models are highly vulnerable to adversarial prompts, which can bypass safety measures and produce harmful content. Despite various defensive strategies, achieving robustness against attacks while maintaining practical utility in real-world applications remains a significant challenge. To address this issue, we first conduct an empirical study of the text e…

"US energy storage installations surpass 2024 total by Q3 2025"
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US energy storage installations surpass 2024 total by Q3 2025
US energy storage deployments exceeded full-year 2024 levels within nine months, led by utility-scale projects and sustained residential growth, according to industry data.

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Distilled Protein Backbone Generation
Liyang Xie, Haoran Zhang, Zhendong Wang, Wesley Tansey, Mingyuan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03095 https://arxiv.…

Distilled Protein Backbone Generation
Diffusion- and flow-based generative models have recently demonstrated strong performance in protein backbone generation tasks, offering unprecedented capabilities for de novo protein design. However, while achieving notable performance in generation quality, these models are limited by their generating speed, often requiring hundreds of iterative steps in the reverse-diffusion process. This computational bottleneck limits their practical utility in large-scale protein discovery, where thousand…

ObCLIP: Oblivious CLoud-Device Hybrid Image Generation with Privacy Preservation
Haoqi Wu, Wei Dai, Ming Xu, Li Wang, Qiang Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04153 https://

ObCLIP: Oblivious CLoud-Device Hybrid Image Generation with Privacy Preservation
Diffusion Models have gained significant popularity due to their remarkable capabilities in image generation, albeit at the cost of intensive computation requirement. Meanwhile, despite their widespread deployment in inference services such as Midjourney, concerns about the potential leakage of sensitive information in uploaded user prompts have arisen. Existing solutions either lack rigorous privacy guarantees or fail to strike an effective balance between utility and efficiency. To bridge thi…

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Poolformer: Recurrent Networks with Pooling for Long-Sequence Modeling
Daniel Gallo Fern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02206 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Poolformer: Recurrent Networks with Pooling for Long-Sequence Modeling
Sequence-to-sequence models have become central in Artificial Intelligence, particularly following the introduction of the transformer architecture. While initially developed for Natural Language Processing, these models have demonstrated utility across domains, including Computer Vision. Such models require mechanisms to exchange information along the time dimension, typically using recurrent or self-attention layers. However, self-attention scales quadratically with sequence length, limiting …

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