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How much do you a) drive, b) walk/bicycle/etc, or c) take transit?
#ModeShift

Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)
Have you seen this? This recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips that are by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024001272

How much do you a) drive, b) walk/bicycle/etc, or c) take transit?
#ModeShift

Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)
Have you seen this? This recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips that are by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024001272

Apple throwing some time into bugs today…
• 240961: `position: relative` doesn't work as expected on table row, 26 May 2022, https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240961
• 305719: REGRESSION (iOS 26): Datalist options obscure text input, 18 January 2026,

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes,
the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same.
Where do those differences come from?
Scientists are realizing the defining qualities that make up each cell actually lie in a cousin of DNA called RNA.
RNA was long considered DNA’s boring biochemical relative.
Researchers thought it merely takes the genetic information stored in DNA and delivers i…

RNA is key to the dark matter of the genome − scientists are sequencing it to illuminate human health and disease
Researchers are embarking on the RNA equivalent of the Human Genome Project, including sequencing all the chemical modifications that make cells unique.

Barely depictive: Predicting imagery vividness relative to perception with EEGNet https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.11.711041v1 on visual mental imagery.

any benefits attributed to daylight savings time should instead be attributed to society collectively scheduling activities an hour earlier (relative to the sun cycle that determines our physical reality), which we could do without arbitrarily defining the middle of the solar day as 1pm

L'occasion de rappeler que l'acupuncture n'est qu'un placebo bien mis en scène.
https://www.rtbf.be/article/les-acupuncteurs-mettent-en-garde-apres-la-disparition-de-tout-cadre-legislatif-11676602…

"Snoopy", "Adolf" e "Password": le password del governo ungherese esposte online
Quasi 800 indirizzi e-mail del governo ungherese e le relative password stanno circolando online, rivelando vulnerabilitŠ di base nei protocolli di sicurezza dei ministeri coinvolti in attivitŠ classificate e sensibili.
Un’analisi di Bellingcat dei dati della violazione mostra che 12 dei 13 ministeri del governo sono stati colpiti, il che in alcuni casi ha rivelato le in…

OpenAI says GPT-5.4's "individual claims are 33% less likely to be false and its full responses are 18% less likely to contain any errors, relative to GPT-5.2" (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openai-gpt-5-4/

OpenAI's new GPT-5.4 clobbers humans on pro-level work in tests - by 83%
GPT-5.4 is also more reliable, producing 18% fewer errors and 33% fewer false claims than GPT-5.2, according to OpenAI.

Bought a USB power analyzing device. Unfortunately, its figures differ significantly from the values shown in the #AccuBattery app.
The relative difference is even bigger with approximately 5W charging power.
Which values would you trust more? 🤔

It was a terrible mistake or maybe even a warcrime, but there are no excuses in these days of relative precise weaponry, satellite images, other intelligence. The USA killed innocent children and it could have been prevented.
https://www.

Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base
The Feb. 28 school strike in Minab, which killed dozens, including children, appears to have been part of an attack on an adjacent naval base in southern Iran, where officials said U.S. forces were operating.

@… @… @… I think relative color would change the browser support minimums, if you gate it v…

Why didn’t the senior citizen cross the road? Gait speed in community-dwelling older adults with mobility limitations relative to pedestrian crossing times
https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/54/12/afaf345/8371949

From 1981 to 2016, hermit thrushes migrating through Chicago became smaller, with shorter bills and longer wings, relative to body size— there are genetic changes associated with shortening bills, but not the other changes
Genetic and morphological shifts associated with climate change in a migratory bird https://doi.org/10.11…

LIVE | NEW PHASE OF WAR: Ukraine tests "FLAMINGO" relative missile and scales up DRONE PRODUCTION: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/02/live-new-phase-of-war.html

"Something that starts as fundamentally innovative ends up being pushed to ridiculous extremes. Belief turns to madness. Momentum is everywhere. Value loses touch with fundamentals, and everything becomes relative. Eventually the bubble bursts with dire financial consequences" - Mark Carney, Values.

A Shopware 6 plugin failed because it used a relative path to load a file from vendor/, which broke in a deployer setup where custom/plugins is shared across releases. Since plugins can live in different locations, such paths are unreliable. The fix is to use kernel.project_dir and build the vendor path dynamically via DI. Read the full blog post to learn how.

Shopware 6: Don’t make assumptions about paths and were your plugin lives
We have a template which generates documents for us. Unfortunately it broke with the following error: php.CRITICAL: Uncaught Error: Failed opening required ‚/var/www/customer-deploy/shared/cu…

ICE selects untested firms to oversee new warehouse detention centers
For decades, two companies have been the government’s go-to partners for immigrant detention:
Geo Group and CoreCivic
run the facilities where the majority of people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are held.

But as the Trump administration embarks on a $38 billion plan to convert industrial warehouses into a new breed of large-scale holding centers,
it is turning to a cr…

ICE selects untested firms to oversee new warehouse detention centers
The Trump administration has picked new companies to oversee warehouse detention centers, despite their relative lack of experience in immigrant detention.

From @… at that other site.
https://bsky.app/profile/ericwbailey.website/post/3mgidriwhq22g

Eric Bailey (@ericwbailey.website)
View transitions, anchor positioning, ​@scope, focusgroup, invokers, popovers, container queries, grid, relative colors, style-able selects, and more. The web feels like it’s getting so good at exactly the moment our collective worst practices are getting calcified as the default.

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JENNA: Switched in
AVON: Activated.
BLAKE: Zen, relative position?
ZEN: Liberator is centred on all flight paths.
JENNA: What course?
BLAKE: Maintain course. Increase speed to standard by ten.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/67 B7…

#2024YR4 - Identification of Possible Precoveries in 2016 IPTF Data: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00449 -> "These candidate detections, not accounting for any currently-undetected Yarkovsky forces, predict a perilune of 22001 /- 49 km and a perigee of 277534 /- 46 km (relative to the center of each respective body) representing an improvement of > 300 times in the approach distance uncertainty above the existing orbit solution and, if confirmed, decisively ruling out a lunar impact in 2032" -> https://groups.io/g/mpml/message/41437

This morning in Minneapolis:
Somebody posted in one of the local chats that their neighbor didn’t come home last night, looking for help finding them. Family doesn’t know where they are. They’d been taking the legal path to seek asylum. ICE doesn’t have their name (but that means very little; they hide names, kidnap anonymously, even discard people’s IDs).
Meanwhile, confirmed ICE sightings are ramping up in my area now after some relative early morning quiet.
Just in case you wondered how things are going here.

Approximate Cartesian Tree Matching with Substitutions
Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Jonas Ellert, Manal Mohamed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08570 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08570 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08570
arXiv:2602.08570v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Cartesian tree of a sequence captures the relative order of the sequence's elements. In recent years, Cartesian tree matching has attracted considerable attention, particularly due to its applications in time series analysis. Consider a text $T$ of length $n$ and a pattern $P$ of length $m$. In the exact Cartesian tree matching problem, the task is to find all length-$m$ fragments of $T$ whose Cartesian tree coincides with the Cartesian tree $CT(P)$ of the pattern. Although the exact version of the problem can be solved in linear time [Park et al., TCS 2020], it remains rather restrictive; for example, it is not robust to outliers in the pattern.
To overcome this limitation, we consider the approximate setting, where the goal is to identify all fragments of $T$ that are close to some string whose Cartesian tree matches $CT(P)$. In this work, we quantify closeness via the widely used Hamming distance metric. For a given integer parameter $k>0$, we present an algorithm that computes all fragments of $T$ that are at Hamming distance at most $k$ from a string whose Cartesian tree matches $CT(P)$. Our algorithm runs in time $\mathcal O(n \sqrt{m} \cdot k^{2.5})$ for $k \leq m^{1/5}$ and in time $\mathcal O(nk^5)$ for $k \geq m^{1/5}$, thereby improving upon the state-of-the-art $\mathcal O(nmk)$-time algorithm of Kim and Han [TCS 2025] in the regime $k = o(m^{1/4})$.
On the way to our solution, we develop a toolbox of independent interest. First, we introduce a new notion of periodicity in Cartesian trees. Then, we lift multiple well-known combinatorial and algorithmic results for string matching and periodicity in strings to Cartesian tree matching and periodicity in Cartesian trees.
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Good confidence builder, certainly, but it shows how much stronger the EPL is relative to the Champions League. At this moment, 5 of the top 8 UCL spots are EPL teams.
Don't have a clear MOTM today. So many players were excellent. I'll give it to Endo for doing so much dirty work and filling in seamlessly.
#LFC

One more thought...
One of the more toxic elements of the whole "manosphere" thing relative to dating is the application of game theory to relationships. They've got people trying to "maximize their dating potential" or whatever, trying to find the "most attractive march" (which is it's own fucked up thing I'm not even going to dig in to). But that whole mindset is basically going to always leave you miserable.
Oh, you're single? You need a partner. Oh you have a partner? Could you get a "better" one?
It turns relationships into the endless pointless grind of capitalism. Fuck that. None of that shit makes sense. No matter how "well" you do in that game, you always feel like a loser. Everyone does. Fuck that game. Quit.
The constant desire makes you miserable and your misery makes you unlikable. When you let go of it, you leave room to experience what is instead of constantly imagining what could be.
You will always be able to imagine a better "could be" than what is now. By comparing your situation now to that "could be" you will always see your situation as bad because it's worse than your yardstick.
Is your situation good for you? Is it serving you? It can be good and it can also be possible to make it better. When was the last time you just experience your life instead of trying to strategize your way into "something better."
Throw away the yardstick. Something something Buddha.
Edit: all this is of course aside from the whole objectification thing, which is it's own whole set of fucked up. But yeah... All that shit is real bad news.

Late in 2024, Elon Musk endorsed Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland. We document that after this, Tesla sales rose by up to 30 percent in right-leaning districts relative to left-leaning ones [..] Divestment in second-hand markets shows no partisan differences, consistent with resale requiring a larger identity cost from Tesla’s image shock than non-purchase. Our lower bound-estimate for the overall loss in Tesla sales is [..] worth at least €241 million."

> "The whole social contract of Dubai involves a wilful blindness to the proximity of suffering and violence. After all, Gaza is geographically close."
I guess "geographically close" is relative, but no-one ever talks about London in the context of it being geographically close to Libya.

Expat influencers sold Dubai to the world and were paid to look the other way. Now the dream is crumbling
The Maseratis are borrowed, the helicopters rented by the hour. But deep down Dubai is a lonely place, built by oppressed people

Is Senator Mike Lee sad that he isn't old enough to have witnessed his relative's execution for the Mountain Meadows Massacre?
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2026/01/20/charlie-kirk-mike-lee-calls/

The Interstate Highway System cost $600B adjusted. Projected AI investment is over $1T in the next decade, four times the relative GDP scale compressed into a fraction of the time. Difficult to see how it all pays off. https://www.poppastring.com/blog/private-ai-investment-…

I have seen less of the traditional biannual whining about the clock change this cycle, which has been nice. Never understood the problem. If you can drive from Illinois to Michigan without getting so horribly jetlagged that you infarct and die, then you can handle a 1-hour clock advance on a Sunday from the relative comfort of your bed.
I'd fully support year-round DST, however!

Turns out #Godot mouse events on control nodes are already received with the coordinated relative to the control node in question, no need to compensate for offsets to the current element.

A 29-year-old Llano California man is in custody,
charged with killing #Carl #Grillmair, a Caltech astrophysicist Monday after carjacking his own relative and burglarizing a home.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's detectives say 67-year-old Carl Grillmair was found shot to death on the porch of his home in rural…

29-year-old man charged with killing renowned Caltech astrophysicist at his Llano home
A 29-year-old Llano man is in custody, charged with killing a Caltech astrophysicist Monday after carjacking his own relative and burglarizing a home.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[3/6]:
- Towards Scalable Oversight via Partitioned Human Supervision
Ren Yin, Takashi Ishida, Masashi Sugiyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22500 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115451787490434401
- ContextPilot: Fast Long-Context Inference via Context Reuse
Yinsicheng Jiang, Yeqi Huang, Liang Cheng, Cheng Deng, Xuan Sun, Luo Mai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03475 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115502245581974540
- Metabolomic Biomarker Discovery for ADHD Diagnosis Using Interpretable Machine Learning
Nabil Belacel, Mohamed Rachid Boulassel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11283 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115921183182326799
- PhysE-Inv: A Physics-Encoded Inverse Modeling approach for Arctic Snow Depth Prediction
Akila Sampath, Vandana Janeja, Jianwu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17074
- SAGE-5GC: Security-Aware Guidelines for Evaluating Anomaly Detection in the 5G Core Network
Cristian Manca, Christian Scano, Giorgio Piras, Fabio Brau, Maura Pintor, Battista Biggio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.03596
- LORE: Jointly Learning the Intrinsic Dimensionality and Relative Similarity Structure From Ordina...
Anand, Helbling, Davenport, Berman, Alagapan, Rozell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04192
- Towards Robust Scaling Laws for Optimizers
Alexandra Volkova, Mher Safaryan, Christoph H. Lampert, Dan Alistarh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07712 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116046369672796465
- Do We Need Adam? Surprisingly Strong and Sparse Reinforcement Learning with SGD in LLMs
Sagnik Mukherjee, Lifan Yuan, Pavan Jayasinha, Dilek Hakkani-T\"ur, Hao Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07729 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116046377539155485
- AceGRPO: Adaptive Curriculum Enhanced Group Relative Policy Optimization for Autonomous Machine L...
Yuzhu Cai, Zexi Liu, Xinyu Zhu, Cheng Wang, Siheng Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07906 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116046423413650658
- VESPO: Variational Sequence-Level Soft Policy Optimization for Stable Off-Policy LLM Training
Guobin Shen, Chenxiao Zhao, Xiang Cheng, Lei Huang, Xing Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10693 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116057229834947730
- KBVQ-MoE: KLT-guided SVD with Bias-Corrected Vector Quantization for MoE Large Language Models
Zukang Xu, Zhixiong Zhao, Xing Hu, Zhixuan Chen, Dawei Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11184 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116062537528208461
- MUSE: Multi-Tenant Model Serving With Seamless Model Updates
Correia, Ferreira, Martins, Bento, Guerreiro, Pereira, Gomes, Bono, Ferreira, Bizarro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11776 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116062952355379801
- Pawsterior: Variational Flow Matching for Structured Simulation-Based Inference
Jorge Carrasco-Pollo, Floor Eijkelboom, Jan-Willem van de Meent
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13813 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116085828112928218
- Silent Inconsistency in Data-Parallel Full Fine-Tuning: Diagnosing Worker-Level Optimization Misa...
Hong Li, Zhen Zhou, Honggang Zhang, Yuping Luo, Xinyue Wang, Han Gong, Zhiyuan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14462 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116085997857526328
- Divine Benevolence is an $x^2$: GLUs scale asymptotically faster than MLPs
Alejandro Francisco Queiruga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14495 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116086011618741857
- \"UberWeb: Insights from Multilingual Curation for a 20-Trillion-Token Dataset
DatologyAI, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15210 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116090912256712568
- GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
GLM-5-Team, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15763 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116091080686771018
- Anatomy of Capability Emergence: Scale-Invariant Representation Collapse and Top-Down Reorganizat...
Jayadev Billa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15997 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116096541546306333
- AI-CARE: Carbon-Aware Reporting Evaluation Metric for AI Models
KC Santosh, Srikanth Baride, Rodrigue Rizk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16042 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116096581524696028
- Beyond Message Passing: A Symbolic Alternative for Expressive and Interpretable Graph Learning
Chuqin Geng, Li Zhang, Haolin Ye, Ziyu Zhao, Yuhe Jiang, Tara Saba, Xinyu Wang, Xujie Si
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16947 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102426238903124
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Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/five-year-old-girl-us-citizen-and-mother-deported-honduras

Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative

…and the injunction is blocked by a circuit court packed with Trump loyalists.
Given ICE’s sharp increase in attacks on observers this morning, and the viciousness of those attacks — that coming on suddenly after a few days of relative quiet — I really wonder if they heard about the decision before the public did.
https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115935167630801010

A minimal wake-vortex model explains formation flight of flapping birds
Olivia Pomerenk, Kenneth S. Breuer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22043 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22043 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22043
arXiv:2602.22043v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Collective patterns of motion emerge across biological taxa: insects swarm, fish school, and birds flock. In particular, large migratory birds form strikingly ordered V-shaped formations, which experiments and direct numerical simulations have demonstrated provide substantial energetic benefits during long-distance flight. However, the precise aerodynamic and morphological mechanisms underlying these benefits remain unclear. In this work, we develop a reduced-order model of the wake-vortex interactions between two flapping birds flying in tandem. The model retains essential unsteady flapping dynamics while remaining computationally tractable. By optimizing over a six-dimensional state space, which comprises the follower's three-dimensional relative position and three independent flapping parameters, we identify the energetically optimal leader-follower configuration of northern bald ibises. The predicted optimum agrees quantitatively with live-bird measurements. Because of its simplicity, the model allows for direct interrogation of the physical mechanisms responsible for this optimum. In particular, it isolates precisely how the follower's wing kinematics interact with the leader's wake to enhance aerodynamic efficiency. The model predicts an 11% reduction in total mechanical power for a follower in formation flight -- consistent with experimental estimates -- and shows that this saving arises from reductions in both induced and profile power, dominated by decreased profile power enabled primarily through reduced flapping amplitude and, secondarily, reduced upstroke flexion. These results provide a mechanistic explanation for the structure of V-formations and offer new insight into the aerodynamic principles governing collective flight.
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Replaced article(s) found for math.SG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.SG/new
[1/1]:
- Geodesics of positive Lagrangians from special Lagrangians with boundary
Jake P. Solomon, Amitai M. Yuval
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06058
- A relative orientation for the moduli space of stable maps to a del Pezzo surface
Jesse Leo Kass, Marc Levine, Jake P. Solomon, Kirsten Wickelgren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01941 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAG_bot/110665833898986051
- From Hitchin Systems to Rational Elliptic Surfaces with C*-actions via Orbifold Hilbert Schemes
Yonghong Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14812 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAG_bot/115230240380611333
- Topological 5d $\mathcal{N} = 2$ Gauge Theories: Mirror Symmetry and Langlands Duality of $A_\inf...
Arif Er, Meng-Chwan Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15953 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepth_bot/115586980934221520
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Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[1/2]:
- Bridge-RAG: An Abstract Bridge Tree Based Retrieval Augmented Generation Algorithm With Cuckoo Fi...
Li, Liu, Zong, Tao, Dai, Ren, Liu, Jiang, Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26668 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116322781593134028
- SRAG: RAG with Structured Data Improves Vector Retrieval
Shalin Shah, Srikanth Ryali, Ramasubbu Venkatesh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26670 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116322784870180864
- LITTA: Late-Interaction and Test-Time Alignment for Visually-Grounded Multimodal Retrieval
Seonok Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26683 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116322841916406330
- Agentic AI for Human Resources: LLM-Driven Candidate Assessment
Yuksel, Anees, Elneima, Hewavitharana, Al-Badrashiny, Sawaf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26710 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116322937601675587
- SEAR: Schema-Based Evaluation and Routing for LLM Gateways
Zecheng Zhang, Han Zheng, Yue Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26728 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDB_bot/116322627580095245
- SleepVLM: Explainable and Rule-Grounded Sleep Staging via a Vision-Language Model
Guifeng Deng, Pan Wang, Jiquan Wang, Shuying Rao, Junyi Xie, Wanjun Guo, Tao Li, Haiteng Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26738 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116322739676378309
- Aesthetic Assessment of Chinese Handwritings Based on Vision Language Models
Chen Zheng, Yuxuan Lai, Haoyang Lu, Wentao Ma, Jitao Yang, Jian Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26768 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116323078149576728
- Learning to Select Visual In-Context Demonstrations
Eugene Lee, Yu-Chi Lin, Jiajie Diao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26775 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116322648878995047
- CRISP: Characterizing Relative Impact of Scholarly Publications
Hannah Collison, Benjamin Van Durme, Daniel Khashabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26791 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_bot/116322621679820997
- GroupRAG: Cognitively Inspired Group-Aware Retrieval and Reasoning via Knowledge-Driven Problem S...
Xinyi Duan, Yuanrong Tang, Jiangtao Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26807 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116322959557860848
- In your own words: computationally identifying interpretable themes in free-text survey data
Jenny S Wang, Aliya Saperstein, Emma Pierson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26930 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_bot/116322780637316287
- Multilingual Stutter Event Detection for English, German, and Mandarin Speech
Felix Haas, Sebastian P. Bayerl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26939 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/116322704289189130
- FormalProofBench: Can Models Write Graduate Level Math Proofs That Are Formally Verified?
Ravi, Ying, Nesterov, Krishnan, Uskuplu, Xia, Aswedige, Nashold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.26996 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116322625941412681
- PHONOS: PHOnetic Neutralization for Online Streaming Applications
Waris Quamer, Mu-Ruei Tseng, Ghady Nasrallah, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27001 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116322763598554193
- ChartNet: A Million-Scale, High-Quality Multimodal Dataset for Robust Chart Understanding
Jovana Kondic, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27064 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116323214468792735
- daVinci-LLM:Towards the Science of Pretraining
Qin, Liu, Mi, Xie, Huang, Si, Lu, Feng, Wu, Liu, Luo, Hou, Guo, Qiao, Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27164 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116322653467105951
- LightMover: Generative Light Movement with Color and Intensity Controls
Zhou, Wang, Kim, Shu, Yu, Hold-Geoffroy, Chaturvedi, Wu, Lin, Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27209 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116323263295656104
- Self-evolving AI agents for protein discovery and directed evolution
Tan, Zhang, Li, Yu, Zhong, Zhou, Dong, Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27303 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116322838641595927
- Inference-Time Structural Reasoning for Compositional Vision-Language Understanding
Amartya Bhattacharya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27349 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116323280006044500
- LLM Readiness Harness: Evaluation, Observability, and CI Gates for LLM/RAG Applications
Alexandre Cristov\~ao Maiorano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27355 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116322987708962414
- Heterogeneous Debate Engine: Identity-Grounded Cognitive Architecture for Resilient LLM-Based Eth...
Jakub Mas{\l}owski, Jaros{\l}aw A. Chudziak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27404 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116322999177460352
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Implementation of the multigrid Gaussian-Plane-Wave algorithm with GPU acceleration in PySCF
Rui Li, Xing Zhang, Qiming Sun, Yuanheng Wang, Junjie Yang, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24881 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.24881 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.24881
arXiv:2603.24881v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce a GPU-accelerated multigrid Gaussian-Plane-Wave density fitting (FFTDF) approach for efficient Fock builds and nuclear gradient evaluations within Kohn-Sham density functional theory, as implemented in the GPU4PySCF module of PySCF. Our CUDA kernels employ a grid-based parallelization strategy for contracting Gaussian basis function pairs and achieve up to 80% of the FP64 peak performance on NVIDIA GPUs, with no loss of efficiency for high angular momentum (up to f-shell) functions. Benchmark calculations on molecules and solids with up to 1536 atoms and 20480 basis functions show up to 25x speedup on an H100 GPU relative to the CPU implementation on a 28-core shared memory node. For a 256-water cluster, the ground-state energy and nuclear gradients can be computed in ~30 seconds on a single H100 GPU. This implementation serves as an open-source foundation for many applications, such as ab initio molecular dynamics and high-throughput calculations.
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Discriminating vibrotactile signals: the relative roles of amplitude and frequency https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0825/15/3/164 "basic constraints on vibrotactile perception that are relevant for the design of wearable tactile interfaces and sensory substitution devices"

It’s possible that this is nothing at all, and they’ll be back in full force today. Nobody, and I mean nobody, has suggested that maybe the worst is over.
But we took the days of relative rest anyway. Hmm, “rest” is wrong: mutual aid, food distribution, school observers, people doing laundry for those who can’t go to a laundromat — that continues unabated. But there’s a definite feeling of catching our breath for a moment.
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Operational tracking loss in nonautonomous second-order oscillator networks
Veronica Sanz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19420 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.19420 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.19420
arXiv:2603.19420v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study when a network of coupled oscillators with inertia ceases to follow a time-dependent driving protocol coherently, using a simplified graph-based model motivated by inverter-dominated energy systems. We show that this loss of tracking is diagnosed most clearly in the frequency dynamics, rather than in phase-based observables. Concretely, a tracking ratio built from the frequency-disagreement observable $E_\omega(t)$ and normalized by the instantaneous second-order modal decay rate yields a robust protocol-dependent freeze-out time whose relative dispersion decreases with system size. Graph topology matters substantially: the resulting freeze-out time is only partly captured by the algebraic connectivity $\lambda_2$, while additional structural descriptors, particularly Fiedler-mode localization and low-spectrum structure, improve the explanation of graph-to-graph variation. By contrast, phase-sector observables develop strong non-monotonic and underdamped structure, so simple diagonal low-mode relaxation closures are not quantitatively reliable in the same regime. These results identify the frequency sector as the natural operational sector for nonautonomous tracking loss in second-order oscillator networks and clarify both the usefulness and the limits of reduced spectral descriptions in this setting.
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In Trump’s war messaging, veterans see something new — and disturbing

“They’re completely diminishing what they’re asking the nation to do in Iran,”
retired Army colonel Joe Buccino said in an interview.
“It seems almost obscene relative to the actual violence and suffering that’s involved with this.”

In Trump’s war messaging, veterans see something new — and disturbing
Service members and families who lost loved ones say the Trump team’s memes and jokes trivialize combat and sacrifice. Trump aides say the backlash sends views soaring.

Copy-Trasform-Paste: Zero-Shot Object-Object Alignment Guided by Vision-Language and Geometric Constraints
Rotem Gatenyo, Ohad Fried
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14207 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.14207 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.14207
arXiv:2601.14207v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study zero-shot 3D alignment of two given meshes, using a text prompt describing their spatial relation -- an essential capability for content creation and scene assembly. Earlier approaches primarily rely on geometric alignment procedures, while recent work leverages pretrained 2D diffusion models to model language-conditioned object-object spatial relationships. In contrast, we directly optimize the relative pose at test time, updating translation, rotation, and isotropic scale with CLIP-driven gradients via a differentiable renderer, without training a new model. Our framework augments language supervision with geometry-aware objectives: a variant of soft-Iterative Closest Point (ICP) term to encourage surface attachment and a penetration loss to discourage interpenetration. A phased schedule strengthens contact constraints over time, and camera control concentrates the optimization on the interaction region. To enable evaluation, we curate a benchmark containing diverse categories and relations, and compare against baselines. Our method outperforms all alternatives, yielding semantically faithful and physically plausible alignments.
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I spent Sunday with friends I hadn’t seen in a month or more. We baked cookies, worked on a jigsaw puzzle, shared stories. The story sharing consists of someone talking about a personal experience that would have seemed unthinkable a month ago: a friend with a missing relative, a car left in the street, a family who had 8 loads of laundry because they couldn’t leave the house, running on the ice and fumbling for the whistle while witnessing somebody being abducted right there, right in front of them.
After each story, there is really nothing to say. It is horrible. We nod. We know. We continue the puzzle.
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Got a bit closer to this dog at No Kings than I really should have as-a-fox
#photo #photography #foxography #ithaca

Modeling the mutational dynamics of very short tandem repeats
Amos Onn (Chair of Experimental Medicine and Therapy Research, University of Regensburg, Bioinformatics Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig), Tzipy Marx (Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science), Liming Tao (Cellular Tissue Genomics, Genentech), Tamir Biezuner (Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science), Ehud Shapiro (Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science), Christoph A. Klein (Chair of Experimental Medicine and Therapy Research, University of Regensburg, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine Regensburg), Peter F. Stadler (Bioinformatics Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, University of Copenhagen, Santa Fe Institute)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25628 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.25628 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.25628
arXiv:2603.25628v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Short tandem repeats (STRs) are low-entropy regions in the genome, consisting of a short (1-6 bp) unit that is consecutively repeated multiple times. They are known for high mutational instability, due to so-called stutter-mutations, in which the number of units in the run increases or descreases. In particular, STRs with repeat unit length of 1-2 bp are prone to mutate even within several cell divisions. The extremely rapid accumulation of variation makes them interesting phylogenetic markers for retrospective single-cell lineage reconstruction. Here we model their mutational dynamics at the level of individual repeat unit type and then aggregate length variations over many STR loci with the aim of obtaining a very fast ``molecular clock''. We calibrate our model based on several datasets with known lineage structure prepared from cultured cells. We find that the mutational dynamics of STRs are reasonably consistent for a given cell line, but vary among different ones. This suggests that the dynamics are not entirely explained by mutations in caretaker genes, rather, various other factors play a role -- possibly tissue origin and differentiation state. Further data and research is necessary to asses their relative effects.
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Sequential Counterfactual Inference for Temporal Clinical Data: Addressing the Time Traveler Dilemma
Jingya Cheng, Alaleh Azhir, Jiazi Tian, Hossein Estiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21168 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21168 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21168
arXiv:2602.21168v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Counterfactual inference enables clinicians to ask "what if" questions about patient outcomes, but standard methods assume feature independence and simultaneous modifiability -- assumptions violated by longitudinal clinical data. We introduce the Sequential Counterfactual Framework, which respects temporal dependencies in electronic health records by distinguishing immutable features (chronic diagnoses) from controllable features (lab values) and modeling how interventions propagate through time. Applied to 2,723 COVID-19 patients (383 Long COVID heart failure cases, 2,340 matched controls), we demonstrate that 38-67% of patients with chronic conditions would require biologically impossible counterfactuals under naive methods. We identify a cardiorenal cascade (CKD -> AKI -> HF) with relative risks of 2.27 and 1.19 at each step, illustrating temporal propagation that sequential -- but not naive -- counterfactuals can capture. Our framework transforms counterfactual explanation from "what if this feature were different?" to "what if we had intervened earlier, and how would that propagate forward?" -- yielding clinically actionable insights grounded in biological plausibility.
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Done mapping all 25 #barangays of Minalabac, Camarines Sur, #Philippines 🇵🇭 in #OpenStreetMap, creating/updating their #Wikidata

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Elliot Page, born February 21, 1987, in Halifax Nova Scotia. Page is a Canadian actor, producer, and activist, known for his leading roles across Canadian and American film and television, and for his outspoken work as an activist for #LGBTQ rights and against discrimination. His accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a SAG Award. While most of his career was performed as Ellen Page, he came out as gay in 2014 and as transgender in 2020.
Next time we try to summon the courage to defend or joyfully acknowledge a LGBTQ friend or relative, we should recognize the struggle that most experience just to find a little bit of happiness. Everyone deserves to love and be loved.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.biography.com/actors/elliot-page

Good Morning #Canada
Almost all remaining #CanadaRivers on our countdown are legendary and/or have historical significance, and #14 is an example. The Athabasca River in Alberta, Canada, originates at the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park and flows more than 1,231 km, or 1,538 km depending on the information source. It is the longest river that flows entirely within Alberta, emptying into Lake Athabasca after draining an area of roughly 95,300 km2. Much of the land along its banks is protected in national and provincial parks, and the river is designated a Canadian heritage river for its historical and cultural importance. The Athabasca River and tributaries have provided vital transportation routes for Indigenous People for 1,000s of years, and a relative heartbeat for European explorers, and the fur traders. Preservation errorts conflict with resource extraction as uranium mines, pulp & paper mills and oil sands all impact the Athabasca.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/athabasca-river