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Mic Drop or Data Flop? Evaluating the Fitness for Purpose of AI Voice Interviewers for Data Collection within Quantitative & Qualitative Research Contexts
Shreyas Tirumala, Nishant Jain, Danny D. Leybzon, Trent D. Buskirk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01814

Mic Drop or Data Flop? Evaluating the Fitness for Purpose of AI Voice Interviewers for Data Collection within Quantitative & Qualitative Research Contexts
Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) have paved the way for "AI interviewers" that can administer voice-based surveys with respondents in real-time. This position paper reviews emerging evidence to understand when such AI interviewing systems are fit for purpose for collecting data within quantitative and qualitative research contexts. We evaluate the capabilities of AI interviewers as well as current Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems across two dimensions: input/output perform…

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In melancholy, the spirits are carried away by an agitation, but a weak agitation that lacks power or violence, a sort of impotent upset that follows neither a particular path nor the aperta opercula [open ways], but traverses the cerebral matter constantly creating new pores. Yet the spirits do not wander far on the new paths they create, and their agitation dies down rapidly, as their strength is quickly spent and motion comes to a halt: ‘non longe perveniunt’ [they do not reach far]. A trouble of this nature, common to all delirium, does not have the power to produce on the surface of the body the violent movements or the cries to be observed in mania and frenzy. Melancholy never attains frenzy; it is a madness always at the limits of its own impotence. That paradox is explained by the secret alterations in the spirits. Ordinarily, they travel with the speed and instantaneous transparency of rays of light, but in melancholy they become weighed down with night, becoming ‘obscure, thick and dark’, and the images of things that they bring before consciousness are ‘in a shadow, or covered with darkness’. As a result they move more slowly, and are more like a dark, chemical vapour than pure light. This chemical vapour is acid in nature, rather than sulphurous or alcoholic, for in acid vapours the particles are mobile and incapable of repose, but their activity is weak and without consequence. When they are distilled, all that remains in the still is a kind of insipid phlegm. Acid vapours, therefore, are taken to have the same properties as melancholy, whereas alcoholic vapours, which are always ready to burst into flames, are more related to frenzy, and sulphurous vapours bring on mania, as they are agitated by continuous, violent movement. If the ‘formal reason and causes’ of melancholy were to be sought, it made sense to look for them in the vapours that rose up from the blood to the head, and which had degenerated into ‘an acetous or sharp distillation’. A cursory glance seems to indicate that a melancholy of spirits and a whole chemistry of humours lies behind Willis’ analyses, but in fact his guiding principle mostly reflects the immediate qualities of the melancholic illness: an impotent disorder, and the shadow that comes over the spirit with an acrid acidity that slowly corrodes the heart and the mind. The chemistry of acids is not an explanation of the symptoms, but a qualitative option: a whole phenomenology of melancholic experience.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Rashomon in the Streets: Explanation Ambiguity in Scene Understanding
Helge Spieker, J{\o}rn Eirik Betten, Arnaud Gotlieb, Nadjib Lazaar, Nassim Belmecheri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03169

Rashomon in the Streets: Explanation Ambiguity in Scene Understanding
Explainable AI (XAI) is essential for validating and trusting models in safety-critical applications like autonomous driving. However, the reliability of XAI is challenged by the Rashomon effect, where multiple, equally accurate models can offer divergent explanations for the same prediction. This paper provides the first empirical quantification of this effect for the task of action prediction in real-world driving scenes. Using Qualitative Explainable Graphs (QXGs) as a symbolic scene represe…

Write on Paper, Wrong in Practice: Why LLMs Still Struggle with Writing Clinical Notes
Kristina L. Kupferschmidt, Kieran O'Doherty, Joshua A. Skorburg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04340

Write on Paper, Wrong in Practice: Why LLMs Still Struggle with Writing Clinical Notes
Large Language Models (LLMs) are often proposed as tools to streamline clinical documentation, a task viewed as both high-volume and low-risk. However, even seemingly straightforward applications of LLMs raise complex sociotechnical considerations to translate into practice. This case study, conducted at KidsAbility, a pediatric rehabilitation facility in Ontario, Canada examined the use of LLMs to support occupational therapists in reducing documentation burden.We conducted a qualitative study…

Integers with small digits in multiple bases
Thomas F. Bloom, Ernie Croot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02835 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02835

Integers with small digits in multiple bases
We show that, for any $r\geq 1$, if $g_1,\ldots,g_r$ are distinct coprime integers, sufficiently large depending only on $r$, then for any $ε>0$ there are infinitely many integers $n$ such that all but $ε\log n$ of the digits of $n$ are $\leq g_i/2$ in base $g_i$ for all $1\leq i\leq r$. In other words, for any fixed large bases, there are infinitely many $n$ such that almost all of the digits of $n$ are small in all bases simultaneously. This is both a quantitative and qualitative improvemen…

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
BELKOV: I wouldn't do that if I were you.
SERVALAN: Go ahead. [guard opens a panel and is electrocuted]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/236 B7B2

Existence and large radial solutions for an elliptic system under finite new Keller-Osserman integral conditions
Dragos-Patru Covei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04099 https://

Existence and large radial solutions for an elliptic system under finite new Keller-Osserman integral conditions
We investigate the existence and qualitative behavior of entire positive radial solutions to the semilinear elliptic system% \begin{equation*} Δu=p(|x|)\,g(v),\qquad Δv=q(|x|)\,f(u),\qquad x\in \mathbb{R}% ^{n},\ n\geq 3, \end{equation*}% under finite Keller--Osserman-type integral conditions on the nonlinearities $f$ and $g$, and integrability constraints on the radial weights $p$ and $q$% . The nonlinearities are assumed continuous on $[0,\infty )$, differentiable on $(0…

Mathematical research with GPT-5: a Malliavin-Stein experiment
Charles-Philippe Diez, Luis da Maia, Ivan Nourdin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03065 https://a…

Mathematical research with GPT-5: a Malliavin-Stein experiment
On August 20, 2025, GPT-5 was reported to have solved an open problem in convex optimization. Motivated by this episode, we conducted a controlled experiment in the Malliavin--Stein framework for central limit theorems. Our objective was to assess whether GPT-5 could go beyond known results by extending a \emph{qualitative} fourth-moment theorem to a \emph{quantitative} formulation with explicit convergence rates, both in the Gaussian and in the Poisson settings. To the best of our knowledge, t…

Sampling methods for the inverse cavity scattering problem of biharmonic waves
Isaac Harris, Peijun Li, General Ozochiawaeze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02773 https://

Sampling methods for the inverse cavity scattering problem of biharmonic waves
This paper addresses the inverse problem of qualitatively recovering a clamped cavity in a thin elastic plate using far-field measurements. We present a strengthened analysis of the linear sampling method by carefully examining the range of the far-field operator and employing the reciprocity relation of the biharmonic far-field pattern. In addition, we implement both the linear sampling method for reconstructing the cavity and the extended sampling method for localizing the cavity under limite…