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Kremlin signals preemptive rejection of Trump’s peace plan ahead of Berlin talks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/kremlin-signals-preemptive-rejection-of.html

Good transplant results.
#Medicine #MedicalScience #RejectionSuppression

Scientists Reverse Human Rejection of Pig Organ Transplant for First Time Ever
Facing a shortage of organs needed by tens of thousands of patients, scientists have been studying pig organs as a potential solution. Genetically …

I'm tired of random follows from not accounts. Every new follower will need to be approved.
The bar is low, just be a human being interested in conversation.
Bot, spammers and "I follow you so you check my profile" all gets an automatic rejection block.
If you also follow a thousand or more accounts I will get suspicious you are not really interested in what I write or the stuff I repost.
I don't care about inflating my numbers. I actually care much m…

SEC filing: WBD says the Ellisons offered David Zaslav a compensation package of several hundred million dollars, which Zaslav said was inappropriate to discuss (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ins

Inside the Fractious WBD-Paramount Deal Talks Between Ellison, Zaslav
WBD presented a chronology of events and meetings that occurred, leading to its deal to sell Warner Bros. studios and HBO Max to Netflix, following by David Ellison’s hostile takeover bid and the WBD board’s official rejection of the $30/share bid on Dec. 17.

Finished "The Collected Regrets of Clover" by Mikki Brammer. Clover is a death doula, who avoids most human social connections for fear of rejection, the residual trauma of her childhood.
You make allowances for characters you can't relate to, but this book was a bowl of sugary cereal w/ extra teaspoons of sugar poured on top. Predictable & ridiculous. The characters all one-dimensional stereotypes.
Most people really liked it. I didn't.
2/5 stars ⭐ ⭐ …

The Collected Regrets of Clover
What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if…

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT (Liam Knox/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-13/trump-invites-all-colleges-to-join-compact-after-mit-s-rejection
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p102#a251013p102

Wow! Some #FOSDEM rooms don't even bother to send rejection emails :) You need to go to the interface and see the truth :)

Court rejection of rigged "racially gerrymandered" Republican #TX voting #redistricting maps hinged on #Drumpf #DOJ dubious declarations and h…

As Microsoft accelerates its AI buildout in rural Wisconsin, one community's vocal opposition led the company to withdraw plans for a proposed data center site (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/microsoft-ai-data-center-rejection-vs-sup…

Why rural Wisconsin is blocking the AI data center boom: 'Horses are skittish'
Tech giants are increasingly facing community backlash as they select places to build mammoth AI data centers.

Update: The same address wrote the same email to me again today. So I guess they didn’t get my hand-crafted rejection ¯\_(ツ~)_/¯ https://social.telemetrydeck.com/@daniel/115530489285441216

Finished "Lobizona" by Romina Garber. I have extremely mixed feelings about this book. It's a powerful depiction of the fear of living as an undocumented child/teen and it has interesting things to say about rejection, belonging, and the choice between seeking to be recognized for who you are and wanting you blend in enough to be accepted as normal. However, it's also an explicit homage to Harry Potter, and while it doesn't include antisemitic tropes or glorify slavery or even have any anti-trans sentiments I can detect, to me the magical school setup felt forced and I thought it would have been a better book had it not tried to fit that mould. Also, it would have been a super interesting situation to explore trans issues, and while it's definitely fine for it not to do that, the author's praise of Rowling's work has me wondering...
There's a sequel that I think could in theory be amazing, but given the execution of the first book, I think I'll wait a bit before checking it out. By putting her main character in opposition to both ICE in the human world and the magical authorities in the other world, Garber explicitly sets the stage for a revolution standing between her protagonist and any kind of lasting peace. But I'm not confident she's capable of writing that story without relying on some kind of supernatural deus ex machina, which would be disappointing to me, since "a better world if only possible through divine intervention" is an inherently regressive message.
Overall, #OwnVoices fantasy centering an undocumented immigrant is an excellent thing, and I've certainly got a lot of privilege that surely influences my criticism. However, #OwnVoices stuff has a range of levels of craft and political stances, and it can be excellent for some reasons and mediocre for others.
On that point, if anyone reading this has suggestions for fiction books grappling with borders and the carceral state, Is be happy to hear them.
#AmReading

Loading non-Maxwellian Velocity Distributions in Particle Simulations
Seiji Zenitani, Shunsuke Usami, Shuichi Matsukiyo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11890 https://

Loading non-Maxwellian Velocity Distributions in Particle Simulations
Numerical procedures for generating non-Maxwellian velocity distributions in particle simulations are presented. First, Monte Carlo methods for an $(r,q)$ distribution that generalizes flattop and kappa distributions are discussed. Then, two rejection methods for the regularized kappa distribution are presented, followed by a comparison in the $κ$ space. A simple recipe is proposed for the subtracted kappa distribution. Properties and numerical recipes for the ring and shell distributions with…

⏰ The new engine of voting: Out-party hostility outpaces in-party loyalty across established democracies
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-voting-party-hostility-outpaces-loyalty.html

The new engine of voting: Out-party hostility outpaces in-party loyalty across established democracies
A new study led by Professor Diego Garzia of the University of Lausanne, published in Public Opinion Quarterly, reveals a major shift in electoral motivation. In many Western democracies, voters are now more driven by opposition to their political adversaries than by support for their own side. This phenomenon marks a move away from ideological disagreement toward an emotionally charged dynamic rooted in rejection and hostility, an evolution that may ultimately weaken the very foundations of de…

Optimally revealing bits for rejection sampling
Louis-Roy Langevin, Alex Waese-Perlman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24290 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24290

Optimally revealing bits for rejection sampling
Rejection sampling is a popular method used to generate numbers that follow some given distribution. We study the use of this method to generate random numbers in the unit interval from increasing probability density functions. We focus on the problem of sampling from $n$ correlated random variables from a joint distribution whose marginal distributions are all increasing. We show that, in the worst case, the expected number of random bits required to accept or reject a sample grows at least li…

MINORITIES NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS REJECTION OF GREED ADVOCACY OF THE SOCIETAL WHOLE TRUE DEMOCRACY OMG WHAT ARE WE TO DO
#ReleasetheEpsteinfiles
✅ MAGA Melts Down Over Mamdani’s Mayoral Victory: “New York City Has Fallen” | Vanity Fair

MAGA Melts Down Over Mamdani’s Mayoral Victory: “New York City Has Fallen”
The right-wing decries the “major Islam problem in America” as Trump himself vows to retaliate against New York City. The incoming mayor’s response: “To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”

well in the UK duty on wine varies according to the alcohol percentage, so £2.44 if it is 11%, up to £3.32 if it 15%.
So given other costs the amount actually paid to the vineyard for cheap plonk can be derisory.
I do have to differ slightly about your seeming rejection of the possibility of good white wines, though agree with Tom that finding a good Chardonnay takes care, especially on my budget.
Disclaimer: I have no no wine diploma, but my dad was the Wine and Spirit Manag…

Enhancing Safety in Diabetic Retinopathy Detection: Uncertainty-Aware Deep Learning Models with Rejection Capabilities
Madhushan Ramalingam, Yaish Riaz, Priyanthi Rajamanoharan, Piyumi Dasanayaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00029

Enhancing Safety in Diabetic Retinopathy Detection: Uncertainty-Aware Deep Learning Models with Rejection Capabilities
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of visual impairment, and effective treatment options depend heavily on timely and accurate diagnosis. Deep learning models have demonstrated great success identifying DR from retinal images. However, relying only on predictions made by models, without any indication of model confidence, creates uncertainty and poses significant risk in clinical settings. This paper investigates an alternative in uncertainty-aware deep learning models, including a reje…

Control Disturbance Rejection in Neural ODEs
Erkan Bayram, Mohamed-Ali Belabbas, Tamer Ba\c{s}ar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18034 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Control Disturbance Rejection in Neural ODEs
In this paper, we propose an iterative training algorithm for Neural ODEs that provides models resilient to control (parameter) disturbances. The method builds on our earlier work Tuning without Forgetting-and similarly introduces training points sequentially, and updates the parameters on new data within the space of parameters that do not decrease performance on the previously learned training points-with the key difference that, inspired by the concept of flat minima, we solve a minimax prob…

Self-Tuned Rejection Sampling within Gibbs and a Case Study in Small Area Estimation
Andrew M. Raim, Kyle M. Irimata, James A. Livsey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17155 https://…

Self-Tuned Rejection Sampling within Gibbs and a Case Study in Small Area Estimation
When preparing a Gibbs sampler, some conditionals may be unfamiliar distributions without well-known variate generation routines. Rejection sampling may be used to draw from such distributions exactly; however, it can be challenging to obtain practical proposal distributions. A practical proposal is one where accepted draws are not extremely rare occurrences and which is not too computationally intensive to use repeatedly within the Gibbs sampler. Consequently, approximate methods such as Metro…

The Trump administration’s bid to systematically lock up nearly all immigrants facing deportation proceedings has led to a fierce
— and mounting
— rejection by courts across the country.
That effort, which began with an abrupt policy change by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on July 8,
has led to a tidal wave of emergency lawsuitsafter ICE’s targets were arrested at workplaces, courthouses or check-ins with immigration officers.
Many have lived in the U.S. …

An empirical study on declined proposals: why are these proposals declined?
Masanari Kondo, Mahmoud Alfadel, Shane McIntosh, Yasutaka Kamei, Naoyasu Ubayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06984

An empirical study on declined proposals: why are these proposals declined?
Design-level decisions in open-source software (OSS) projects are often made through structured mechanisms such as proposals, which require substantial community discussion and review. Despite their importance, the proposal process is resource-intensive and often leads to contributor frustration, especially when proposals are declined without clear feedback. Yet, the reasons behind proposal rejection remain poorly understood, limiting opportunities to streamline the process or guide contributor…

Rejection of wavefront aberrations in an atomic gradiometer
Louis Pagot (LTE), S\'ebastien Merlet (LTE, IACI), Leonid A Sidorenkov (LNE - SYRTE, PSL, CNRS, SU), Franck Pereira dos Santos (SYRTE, LTE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07013

Adaptive randomized pivoting and volume sampling
Ethan N. Epperly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02513 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02513

Adaptive randomized pivoting and volume sampling
Adaptive randomized pivoting (ARP) is a recently proposed and highly effective algorithm for column subset selection. This paper reinterprets the ARP algorithm by drawing connections to the volume sampling distribution and active learning algorithms for linear regression. As consequences, this paper presents new analysis for the ARP algorithm and faster implementations using rejection sampling.

Opposition leader Benny Gantz proclaims long-term multiparty rejection of a Palestinian state by Israeli Jewish political society. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/opinion/israel-war-security.html?un…

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: You CANNOT reject a direct command.
BLAKE: Justify that rejection, please.
ZEN: Your command reduces to an order to self-destruct. This runs counter to Prime Directive.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/146 B7B4

Everywhere I turn, I stumble over stories - different in details, but similar in implications - of society in decay. These include rapid growth in student food bank use, spiking anxiety among kids, random acts of aggression on public transit, rejection of expertise during crises of health, homelessness, democracy, etc, and on and on. These stories are always accompanied by hand-wringing over cause and remedy, but somehow state provision of financial resources only rarely comes up. Funny that…

Variational Reasoning for Language Models
Xiangxin Zhou, Zichen Liu, Haonan Wang, Chao Du, Min Lin, Chongxuan Li, Liang Wang, Tianyu Pang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22637 https:…

Variational Reasoning for Language Models
We introduce a variational reasoning framework for language models that treats thinking traces as latent variables and optimizes them through variational inference. Starting from the evidence lower bound (ELBO), we extend it to a multi-trace objective for tighter bounds and propose a forward-KL formulation that stabilizes the training of the variational posterior. We further show that rejection sampling finetuning and binary-reward RL, including GRPO, can be interpreted as local forward-KL obje…

Predictive Quality Assessment for Mobile Secure Graphics
Cas Steigstra, Sergey Milyaev, Shaodi You
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20028 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Predictive Quality Assessment for Mobile Secure Graphics
The reliability of secure graphic verification, a key anti-counterfeiting tool, is undermined by poor image acquisition on smartphones. Uncontrolled user captures of these high-entropy patterns cause high false rejection rates, creating a significant 'reliability gap'. To bridge this gap, we depart from traditional perceptual IQA and introduce a framework that predictively estimates a frame's utility for the downstream verification task. We propose a lightweight model to predict a quality score…

Hidden Actions and Hidden Information in Peer Review: A Dynamic Solution
Raphael Mu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04906 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04906

Hidden Actions and Hidden Information in Peer Review: A Dynamic Solution
We develop a simple model of the scientific peer review process, in which authors of varying ability invest to produce papers of varying quality, and journals evaluate papers based on a noisy signal, choosing to accept or reject each paper. We find that the first-best outcome is the limiting case as the evaluation technology is perfected, even though author type and effort are not known to the journal. Then, we consider the case where journals allow authors to challenge an initial rejection, an…

The Surprising Effectiveness of Linear Models for Whole-Body Model-Predictive Control
Arun L. Bishop, Juan Alvarez-Padilla, Sam Schoedel, Ibrahima Sory Sow, Juee Chandrachud, Sheitej Sharma, Will Kraus, Beomyeong Park, Robert J. Griffin, John M. Dolan, Zachary Manchester
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17884

The Surprising Effectiveness of Linear Models for Whole-Body Model-Predictive Control
When do locomotion controllers require reasoning about nonlinearities? In this work, we show that a whole-body model-predictive controller using a simple linear time-invariant approximation of the whole-body dynamics is able to execute basic locomotion tasks on complex legged robots. The formulation requires no online nonlinear dynamics evaluations or matrix inversions. We demonstrate walking, disturbance rejection, and even navigation to a goal position without a separate footstep planner on a…

When backgrounds become signals: neutrino interactions in xenon-based dark matter detectors
M. Atzori Corona, M. Cadeddu, N. Cargioli, F. Dordei, M. Sestu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22178

When backgrounds become signals: neutrino interactions in xenon-based dark matter detectors
Direct detection dark matter experiments have proven to be compelling probes for studying low-energy neutrino interactions with both nuclei and atomic electrons, offering complementary information to accelerator and reactor-based neutrino experiments. Recently, the XENONnT and PandaX-4T collaborations reported the first evidence of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering from $^8\mathrm{B}$ solar neutrinos. Thanks to their excellent background rejection capabilities and distinctive signal …

Tenure Under Pressure: Simulating the Disruptive Effects of AI on Academic Publishing
Shan Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16925 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Tenure Under Pressure: Simulating the Disruptive Effects of AI on Academic Publishing
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to reshape academic publishing by enabling the rapid production of submission-ready manuscripts. While such tools promise to enhance productivity, they also raise concerns about overwhelming journal systems that have fixed acceptance capacities. This paper uses simulation modeling to investigate how AI-driven surges in submissions may affect desk rejection rates, review cycles, and faculty publication portfolios, with a focus on business school …

Leveraging the group structure of hypotheses for more powerful multiple testing with FDR control for the filtered rejection set
Marina Bogomolov, Shinjini Nandi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15444

Leveraging the group structure of hypotheses for more powerful multiple testing with FDR control for the filtered rejection set
Modern biological studies often involve testing many hypotheses organized in a group or a hierarchical structure, such as a directed acyclic graph (DAG). In these studies, researchers often wish to control the false discovery rate (FDR) after filtering the discoveries to obtain interpretable results. For addressing this goal, Katsevich, Sabatti, and Bogomolov (2023, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 118(541), 165-176) developed a general method, Focused BH, that guarantees FDR co…

Oracle-based Uniform Sampling from Convex Bodies
Thanh Dang, Jiaming Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02983 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02983

Oracle-based Uniform Sampling from Convex Bodies
We propose new Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms to sample a uniform distribution on a convex body $K$. Our algorithms are based on the Alternating Sampling Framework/proximal sampler, which uses Gibbs sampling on an augmented distribution and assumes access to the so-called restricted Gaussian oracle (RGO). The key contribution of this work is the efficient implementation of RGO for uniform sampling on $K$ via rejection sampling and access to either a projection oracle or a separation oracle…

Modeling Scintillation Photon Transport and Reconstruction Algorithms for the Time-of-Flight Detector in the T2K Neutrino Experiment
C. Alt, A. Blanchet, S. Bordoni, P. Collard, T. H. Bui, M. H. Bui, G. Ha, C. Jes\'us-Valls, V. S. Kasturi, A. Klustov\'a, A. Korzenev, T. A. Le, T. Lux, A. D. Nguyen, D. T. Nguyen, H. Nguyen, S. Samani, F. S\'anchez, M. Ta, T. Tha\'iduc, E. Villa

Modeling Scintillation Photon Transport and Reconstruction Algorithms for the Time-of-Flight Detector in the T2K Neutrino Experiment
The T2K ND280 upgrade aims to reduce the systematic uncertainty of the CP-violating phase, $δ_{CP}$, to reject non-CP violation hypothesis at $3σ$ confidence level. A crucial component of the ND280 upgrade, alongside the Super Fine Grained Detector (SuperFGD) and two High-Angle Time Projection Chambers (TPCs), is the Time-of-Flight (ToF) detector, which significantly enhances background rejection and particle identification capabilities. The ToF detector features six modules in a cube configu…

Explainable AI-Enhanced Supervisory Control for Robust Multi-Agent Robotic Systems
Reza Pirayeshshirazinezhad, Nima Fathi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15491 https://

Explainable AI-Enhanced Supervisory Control for Robust Multi-Agent Robotic Systems
We present an explainable AI-enhanced supervisory control framework for multi-agent robotics that combines (i) a timed-automata supervisor for safe, auditable mode switching, (ii) robust continuous control (Lyapunov-based controller for large-angle maneuver; sliding-mode controller (SMC) with boundary layers for precision and disturbance rejection), and (iii) an explainable predictor that maps mission context to gains and expected performance (energy, error). Monte Carlo-driven optimization pro…

The Pareto Frontier of Resilient Jet Tagging
Rikab Gambhir, Matt LeBlanc, Yuanchen Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19431 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19431…

The Pareto Frontier of Resilient Jet Tagging
Classifying hadronic jets using their constituents' kinematic information is a critical task in modern high-energy collider physics. Often, classifiers are designed by targeting the best performance using metrics such as accuracy, AUC, or rejection rates. However, the use of a single metric can lead to the use of architectures that are more model-dependent than competitive alternatives, leading to potential uncertainty and bias in analysis. We explore such trade-offs and demonstrate the consequ…

A Bayesian model-free dose-finding approach in Phase II clinical trials with the flexibility of historical borrowing
Linxi Han, Qiqi Deng, Feng Yu, Zhangyi He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23777

A Bayesian model-free dose-finding approach in Phase II clinical trials with the flexibility of historical borrowing
Accurate dose selection in Phase II trials is critical to the success of subsequent Phase III trials, but suboptimal choices remain a leading cause of trial failure and regulatory rejection. Although MCP-Mod is widely adopted and endorsed by regulatory agencies, it requires prespecification of candidate models and is highly sensitive to model misspecification. To address these challenges, we introduce MAP-curvature, a general model-free framework for dose-response modelling that penalises the t…