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Members of Congress are routinely escorted through airport security,
but the process does not normally result in profanity-laced airport tirades
Police investigation faults Nancy Mace for testy exchanges

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20

Police investigation faults Nancy Mace for profanity-laced airport tirade  
A report found Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) turned a “minor miscommunication” by police into a “spectacle” during a recent encounter at Charleston International Airport.

Rational functions that share finite values with their first derivative
Andreas Sauer, Andreas Schweizer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08517 https://arxiv.org…

Rational functions that share finite values with their first derivative
We treat shared value problems for rational functions $R(z)$ and their derivative $R'(z)$ in the plane and on the sphere. We also consider shared values for the pair $R(w)$ and $\partial_{z} R = λw \cdot R'(w)$ on ${\mathbb C} \setminus \{ 0 \}$ and $\widehat{\mathbb C}$, again with rational functions $R$. In ${\mathbb C} \setminus \{ 0 \}$ this is related to shared values of meromorphic functions $f : {\mathbb C} \to \widehat{\mathbb C}$ and $f'$ through $f(z)=R(w)$ with $w=\exp(λz)$, while …

Optimizing for Persuasion Improves LLM Generalization: Evidence from Quality-Diversity Evolution of Debate Strategies
Aksel Joonas Reedi, Corentin L\'eger, Julien Pourcel, Loris Gaven, Perrine Charriau, Guillaume Pourcel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05909

Optimizing for Persuasion Improves LLM Generalization: Evidence from Quality-Diversity Evolution of Debate Strategies
Large Language Models (LLMs) optimized to output truthful answers often overfit, producing brittle reasoning that fails to generalize. While persuasion-based optimization has shown promise in debate settings, it has not been systematically compared against mainstream truth-based approaches. We introduce DebateQD, a minimal Quality-Diversity (QD) evolutionary algorithm that evolves diverse debate strategies across different categories (rationality, authority, emotional appeal, etc.) through tour…

It may well be that the so-called political elite surrounding Darth #Trump is currently incapable of rational thinking and is causing a lot of damage (including to US interests). But I believe that there are still strategists, particularly in the military (who are not related to Trump ;-), who will ultimately step in to put the brakes on.
Trump's EU policy is also damaging US interests enormou…

Trade in Minutes! Rationality-Driven Agentic System for Quantitative Financial Trading
Zifan Song, Kaitao Song, Guosheng Hu, Ding Qi, Junyao Gao, Xiaohua Wang, Dongsheng Li, Cairong Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04787

Trade in Minutes! Rationality-Driven Agentic System for Quantitative Financial Trading
Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) and agentic systems have shown exceptional decision-making capabilities, revealing significant potential for autonomic finance. Current financial trading agents predominantly simulate anthropomorphic roles that inadvertently introduce emotional biases and rely on peripheral information, while being constrained by the necessity for continuous inference during deployment. In this paper, we pioneer the harmonization of strategic depth in agents w…

Americans express fear and negativity toward AI, often relying on bad arguments like water usage, a stark contrast with Asia and Europe's relative positivity (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/i-love-ai-why-doesnt-everyone

I love AI. Why doesn't everyone?
Anti-AI sentiment might or might not be rational, but it certainly relies on a lot of bad arguments.

U.S. Multifamily Market Snapshot — November 2025
“The U.S. multifamily market demonstrated clear signs of stabilization during the third quarter of 2025, as supply imbalances eased and investment activity climbed.”

Nearly Tight Regret Bounds for Profit Maximization in Bilateral Trade
Simone Di Gregorio, Paul D\"utting, Federico Fusco, Chris Schwiegelshohn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22563

Nearly Tight Regret Bounds for Profit Maximization in Bilateral Trade
Bilateral trade models the task of intermediating between two strategic agents, a seller and a buyer, willing to trade a good for which they hold private valuations. We study this problem from the perspective of a broker, in a regret minimization framework. At each time step, a new seller and buyer arrive, and the broker has to propose a mechanism that is incentive-compatible and individually rational, with the goal of maximizing profit. We propose a learning algorithm that guarantees a nearl…

High Five From ASTEP: Three Validated Planets and Two Eclipsing Binaries in a Diverse Set of Long-Period Candidates
Erika Rea, Maximilian N. G\"unther, George Dransfield, Tristan Guillot, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Keivan G. Stassun, Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal, Rafael Brahm, Sol\`ene Ulmer-Moll, Matteo Beltrame, Vincent Deloupy, Mathilde Timmermans, Lyu Abe, Karim Agabi, Philippe Bendjoya, Djamel Mekarnia, Francois-Xavier Schmider, Olga Suarez, Ana M. Heras, Bruno Mer\'in, Fran\c{c…

High Five From ASTEP: Three Validated Planets and Two Eclipsing Binaries in a Diverse Set of Long-Period Candidates
We present the analysis of five long-period TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs), each with orbital periods exceeding one month. Initially identified by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), we extensively monitored these targets with the Antarctic Search for Transiting Exoplanets (ASTEP), supported by other facilities in the TESS Follow-Up (TFOP) network. These targets occupy a relatively underexplored region of the period-radius parameter space, offering valuable primordial probes for …

Es wundert mich schon sehr lange, dass Bundesregierung und Ministerien ob Bund oder Land sowie große dt. Unternehmen immer noch auf #X unterwegs sind.
Wer sich in schelchter bis krimineller Gesellschaft bewegt, darf sich nicht wundern, wenn man ihm selbst ein Mindestmaß an Anstand, Rationalität, Zivilcourage und Verstand in Abrede stellt.
Ist den Verantwortlichen eigentlich noch zu helfen? Wie du…

Kommentar: Nach Musks Aufruf zur Gewalt muss die Bundesregierung X verlassen
Elon Musk hat am Samstag als Sprecher einer Großdemonstration zu Gewalt aufgerufen. Doch die Bundesregierung und viele Medien sind weiterhin auf seiner Plattform X. Was muss eigentlich noch passieren, bis sie diesem gewaltbereiten Rechtsradikalen den Rücken kehren? Ein Kommentar.