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@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-02-03 09:45:06

Wow, man, imagine being the kind of person that suspends anyone he sees from Gaza during a genocide.
The inhumanity of some Germans is really quite remarkable. Didn’t you get enough of genocide the first time around?
Add social.tchncs.de to the list of Zionist, pro-genocide Mastodon servers.
#germany #israel

@nelson@tech.lgbt
2026-01-04 00:26:13

I continue to be impressed with how the LLM systems are pretty open about queerness and non-judgmental, non-homophobic. Remarkable given that so much of the training material must be hateful! Here's Gemini being cautious but helpful after I asked it about a summary of what it knows about me and asked why it didn't mention me being gay.
I do have access to information regarding your personal life and sexual orientation from our previous conversations. However, I am designed with specific safety and privacy guardrails that prevent me from storing or outputting information related to a user's sexual orientation or sensitive medical conditions in these types of summaries.
While I can remember and use those details to provide context during our active discussions—such as when we were looking into the history of queer voices or specific support resources—I cannot include them in a "permanent" distilled profile like the one above.

@gwire@mastodon.social
2026-01-03 17:46:41

"Venezuela stole our oil" is a remarkable thing for a former colony's government to say.

@Sythelux@social.tchncs.de
2026-02-03 11:07:38

I wonder if there is a list of websites that support
curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" aka serving markdown directly.
then there could actually be a "browser" on remarkable tablets.
I also still wonder how firefox does the "read mode"

@chrisnelder@mastodon.energy
2026-03-02 22:01:46

Given the amount of damage and disruption to the flow of ME oil, it's pretty remarkable that Brent is still below $80 and within it's 52-wk range. A stark difference from the 2008 days.

@marcus@hachyderm.io
2026-01-01 20:08:54

nix-converter just hit 1.0.0 #nix - I frequently use this with github.com/reMarkable/helmfile when I want to convert some kubernetes object into a nix chart.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-01-01 13:32:31

You’d think people who post “I asked AI to help me with [thing] but for some reason what it said didn’t work” reflect on their experience.
But no, most will use it over and over again.
The reason for this is that it’s designed to be an obsequious and sycophantic slave-simulator and people get high on the perceived power dynamic.
Truly a remarkable grift.

@detondev@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-01 02:10:12

sometimes u must be made to explain the motive or reasoning or why u found the sentence posted remarkable

“Overweighting the US has served global investors well the past 15 years,” Lisa Shalett, chief investment officer at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management said.
“That said, we believe shifting geopolitical, monetary and fiscal policy regimes amid technological upheaval and the constraints of developed world debt are creating a need for diversification beyond US stocks and bonds for long-term investors.”
“One of the biggest and most underappreciated surprises of 2025 has been the extr…

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-01-31 15:42:03

from my link log —
Ode to the AA battery.
jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/ode
saved 2026-01-31

@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
2025-12-29 19:10:18

I have been using Codex extensively to fix crashes. Usually when I get an obscure crash I go “well there goes my afternoon”. These days, I paste the stack trace into codex and go “fix this”, and it does a remarkable job at finding clues I miss, and to find the root causes.
It doesn’t always work, but it has a very solid hit rate. What seemed like a daunting uphill mountain of despair is now a quick sweeping job.

@pre@boing.world
2025-12-31 13:44:43

Media stuff

Rewatched all of Buffy

Broken wrist meant I had to sit on the sofa for a month doing nothing really. I re-watched all 200 or so episodes of Buffy for the first time this decade.
What an achievement in TV production. Amazing show.
I'll watch it again next decade maybe.
Not that I read a huge amount. Hopefully more next year.
"Outland" by Dennis E Taylor, and actually also his "Not Till We Are Lost"
"Broken Money" by Lyn Alden.
Think "Severance" was the most remarkable show I watched this year, with "Trek, Strange New Worlds" also being great again.
"Pantheon" was a pretty great cartoon, haven't seen the second season yet.

@brichapman@mastodon.social
2026-01-01 02:15:01

China just flipped the switch on something remarkable: the world's largest liquid air battery.
The facility cools air to -194°C, liquefies it, and stores it in tanks. When power is needed, the liquid expands and drives turbines. It's paired with a massive solar plant in the Gobi Desert, turning thin air into a 600 MWh energy storage solution.

@edintone@mastodon.green
2026-01-21 07:56:08

Iraq is ‘Unrecognizable and Remarkable’ After Decades of Conflict – UN Coordinator Shows Why goodnewsnetwork.org/iraq-unrec

@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social
2025-12-28 13:09:33

Nothing new under the sun. Remarkable parallels with today.
[via @smalls2672 RT by @… on X]

Someone filmed a tiktok on the screen of their laptop. It's an old black and white film with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. He looks on and listens as she reveals extensive evidence of fascism in America. The parallels with today are striking.
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-01-28 02:53:40
Content warning: Minnesota Trump Sex (not necessarily in that order)

Here's a temporal conjunction that is remarkable.
#MelaniaTrump made a comment on That Tabloid Network, that she was “against the violence” in #Minnesota.
Trump appears to be backpedaling on his efforts there.
Can You say, Lysistrata?
This, of course, presupposes something t…

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-02-18 17:00:17

"China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban"
#China #Environment #Rivers

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2026-02-18 00:02:42

China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban theguardian.com/environment/20

@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2026-03-03 20:35:19

Aging is like a grand symphony, each note echoing with wisdom. 🎼 From my experience, staying socially connected is vital for mental health and longevity. It's remarkable how social engagement keeps the mind sharp and spirit lively, proving our best days are often ahead. Let's age with grace and purpose. #AgingGracefully #SeniorWisdom

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-29 16:14:45

🐦‍⬛ Why strange cures made sense in mysterious times
#medicine

"In the early twentieth century,
Mecklenburgh Square,
a hidden architectural gem in the heart of London,
was a radical address.
On the outskirts of Bloomsbury
known for the eponymous group who "lived in squares, painted in circles, and loved in triangles,"
the square was home to students, struggling artists, and revolutionaries.
In the pivotal era between the two world wars, the lives of five remarkable women intertwined at this one…

@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.com
2026-01-27 10:37:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HxFEi22XKQ

What's remarkable about this agreement is that it's plainly understood (DW is a mainstream state-owned German broadcaster) to be urgent primarily because of the energy dependency on the *USA*, a country that *cannot be relied upon*.

#Ren…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
2026-01-27 10:37:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HxFEi22XKQ

What's remarkable about this agreement is that it's plainly understood (DW is a mainstream state-owned German broadcaster) to be urgent primarily because of the energy dependency on the *USA*, a country that *cannot be relied upon*.

#Ren…
@yetiinabox@todon.nl
2026-02-21 09:37:04

Looks like studies of hominins in East Asia are this week's goodies. Following on from the study of H. sapiens expansion routes into East Asia, we've now got this remarkable dating of H. erectus suggesting rapid expansion out of Africa 1.9 million years ago.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-26 00:36:44

Patriots beat Broncos: Mike Vrabel can become first to win Super Bowl as player and coach for same team

cbssports.com/nfl/news/patriot

@jensilber@mastodon.social
2026-01-25 22:28:45

bsky.app/profile/ianboudreau.c

@timbray@cosocial.ca
2026-01-16 19:12:39

Today’s eye candy, remarkable underwater photos: #photography

A grid of dramatically colored underwater photos from DPReview.com
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2025-12-23 10:07:16

But when U.C.L.A.’s campus shut down during the pandemic, something remarkable happened: The beaks of juncos born on campus reverted to their wildland shape.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-18 16:45:55

Jesse Jackson's Remarkable Life Was a Model for All of Us (Robert L. Borosage/The Nation)
thenation.com/article/activism
memeorandum.com/260218/p51#a26

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-18 08:25:46

The Spectator has 113K subscribers, a record, print is its fastest-growing type of subscription, and it is offering its subscription service to external clients (Freddie Sayers/The Spectator)
spectator.com/article/the-spec

@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-02-27 08:32:10

From synthetic turbulence to true solutions: A deep diffusion model for discovering periodic orbits in the Navier-Stokes equations
Jeremy P Parker, Tobias M Schneider
arxiv.org/abs/2602.23181 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.23181 arxiv.org/html/2602.23181
arXiv:2602.23181v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence has shown remarkable success in synthesizing data that mimic complex real-world systems, but its potential role in the discovery of mathematically meaningful structures in physical models remains underexplored. In this work, we demonstrate how a generative diffusion model can be used to uncover previously unknown solutions of a nonlinear partial differential equation: the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in a turbulent regime. Trained on data from a direct numerical simulation of turbulence, the model learns to generate time series that resemble physically plausible trajectories. By carefully modifying the temporal structure of the model and enforcing the symmetries of the governing equations, we produce synthetic trajectories that are periodic in time, despite the fact that the training data did not contain periodic trajectories. These synthetic trajectories are then refined into true solutions using an iterative solver, yielding 111 new periodic orbits (POs) with very short periods. Our results reveal a previously unobserved richness in the PO structure of this system and suggest a broader role for generative AI: not as replacements for simulation and existing solvers, but as a complementary tool for navigating the complex solution spaces of nonlinear dynamical systems.
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@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social
2026-01-26 15:20:53

Remarkable.
[for those who haven't followed this story, Linehan went from being a beloved comic writer to being a despised anti-trans activist]

screenshot Bluesky:
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly  @seamas.bsky.social

Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.

screenshot FB:
Graham Linehan Page  : January 26, 2017

Here's something to watch for: sub-par entertainers/hacks etc smelling that sweet right wing sucker money and making their move.
09:00 - 26 Jan 2026
@jacobgudiol@mastodonsweden.se
2026-02-17 08:11:22

Än mer data som visar att vaccination mot bältros minskar risken för demens, framför allt alzheimers
Spotlight on the Shingles Vaccine—Again! erictopol.substack.com/p/spotl

@piger@mastodon.social
2026-01-26 17:43:00

bought a jabra to give ears and mouth to home assistant and after a remarkable amount of cursing I got it working.
It's amazing considering that this whole stack is basically a caesar salad of free software

@arXiv_mathDG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-02-26 08:18:10

Quadric surfaces of revolution in the 3-sphere as Weingarten surfaces
Ildefonso Castro, Daniel L\'opez-L\'opez
arxiv.org/abs/2602.21785 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21785 arxiv.org/html/2602.21785
arXiv:2602.21785v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The study of quadric surfaces of revolution is a cornerstone of classical Euclidean geometry, but its extension to the three-dimensional sphere $\mathbb{S}^3$ has not been sufficiently explored. This article addresses this important gap by providing a rigorous classification and characterization of non-degenerate quadric surfaces of revolution in $\mathbb{S}^3$, namely spherical ellipsoids, hyperboloids and paraboloids, generated by the rotation of spherical conics around a geodesic axis containing their foci or is orthogonal to them.
Using the concept of spherical angular momentum as a prominent geometric invariant, we discover that these surfaces constitute a remarkable class of Weingarten surfaces and prove that they are uniquely characterised by a specific cubic functional relation between their principal curvatures. This result not only provides a unified description of spherical quadric surfaces of revolution, but also highlights a profound geometric universality, reflecting exactly the same cubic Weingarten relations observed in their Euclidean and Lorentzian counterparts.
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@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social
2026-02-16 19:45:50

"Bless everyone you can think of."
—The Rev. Spencer Reece ’11 M.Div. who brings far-flung life experience and a poetic voice to his vocation as vicar of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Wickford, R.I. Read our new story by Ray Waddle on this remarkable YDS/Berkeley graduate!

A priest sitting
@laurentperrinet@neuromatch.social
2026-01-19 09:22:01

👁️ Very glad to present our Art/Perception collaboration with Etienne Rey today!
🔗 laurentperrinet.github.io/talk
What happens today:
We will discuss with Etienne about the emergence of our collaboration, discover th…

@nelson@tech.lgbt
2026-02-22 16:59:46

The Basilica Santa Maria del Popolo randomly has a couple of Caravaggios, a Raphael sculpture, plus a bunch of remarkable decoration.

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-02-25 10:42:41

Scaling Vision Transformers: Evaluating DeepSpeed for Image-Centric Workloads
Huy Trinh, Rebecca Ma, Zeqi Yu, Tahsin Reza
arxiv.org/abs/2602.21081 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21081 arxiv.org/html/2602.21081
arXiv:2602.21081v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in image processing tasks by utilizing self-attention mechanisms to capture global relationships within data. However, their scalability is hindered by significant computational and memory demands, especially for large-scale models with many parameters. This study aims to leverage DeepSpeed, a highly efficient distributed training framework that is commonly used for language models, to enhance the scalability and performance of ViTs. We evaluate intra- and inter-node training efficiency across multiple GPU configurations on various datasets like CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, exploring the impact of distributed data parallelism on training speed, communication overhead, and overall scalability (strong and weak scaling). By systematically varying software parameters, such as batch size and gradient accumulation, we identify key factors influencing performance of distributed training. The experiments in this study provide a foundational basis for applying DeepSpeed to image-related tasks. Future work will extend these investigations to deepen our understanding of DeepSpeed's limitations and explore strategies for optimizing distributed training pipelines for Vision Transformers.
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@scott@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-22 18:11:12

this is really cool news, and I think we should lower the age that you can get the shingles vaccine, I can't get it because I'm too young despite chronic shingles outbreaks
erictopol.substack.com/p/spotl

@ocrampal@mastodon.social
2026-01-21 11:58:17

Why does calling out a hallucination feel like calling someone’s kid "ugly"?
We’ve stopped treating AI like software and started treating it like a protégé. Here’s why criticizing an algorithm has suddenly become so personal.
ocrampal.com/why-criticizing-a

@samvarma@fosstodon.org
2026-01-17 16:42:24

Rewatching Tron (and then Legacy) to prepare for Ares.
What an absolutely remarkable film. It somehow completely still holds up. They've done a nice job on the remaster, so it looks fresh. It's incredible how the ingenuity of the filmmaking means it doesn't look dated, and is still a compelling world. I can't imagine how much painstaking compositing work this took…
#film <…

@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2026-01-17 14:30:48

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Hypoxia (low oxygen) is a serious environmental impact in some coastal marine and freshwater environments, often referred to as "dead zones". In spite of the name, while fish are absent, they can be teeming with crustacean and gelateous zooplankton, which have remarkable tolerance to hypoxia. Some cladoceran zooplankton even produce hemoglobin to store …

image/jpeg microscopic photo of two crustacean zooplankton side by side, with the one on the left distinctly red in colour while the right one is translucent. Image from CES University of Indiana.
@smashtie@mas.to
2026-01-15 20:34:30

It's remarkable that some of the faithful in #traitors are just reliably wrong. They haven't suggested or voted for a traitor once, not even by accident. Can you guess who I'm taking about?

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-02-13 03:52:40

Watching a show on the Incas on NatGeo and I can’t help myself…
Every time they do the documentary thing of posing a question they are about answer at length, in the form “So, how did the Inca [do something remarkable]” I give the obvious 1-word answer.
COCAINE!!!

@gfriend@mas.to
2026-02-15 16:01:53

#periodicrreminder that “The History of Human Civilization” is a roller coaster ride through landscapes of near infinite variety, and that “human nature” is no less varied. Not the fixed “thing” you might think it to be.
From the co-author of the remarkable “The Dawn of Everything.”

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-01-18 21:00:14

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#20thCenturyRadicals
- Helmut Lachenmann: The Beauty of Decay
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week, Gillian explores the remarkable musical aesthetics of Helmut Lachenmann.
Relisten now 👇
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002przz

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-05 14:40:29

TCL unveils the €339 70 Pro phone, with a 6.9" NXTPaper 4.0 display and a paper-like textured finish, and the $549 Note A1 NXTPaper, an 11.5" Remarkable rival (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
theverge.com/tech/854132/tcl-n

A remarkable clash is playing out between state and federal authorities on Sunday
over the investigation into the fatal shooting by immigration agents in Minneapolis.
A judge issued a late-night order barring federal officials from destroying evidence,
as Trump administration officials continued to lodge baseless accusations against the victim.
The ruling late Saturday came hours after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, 37, a nurse at the city’s Veterans Aff…

@villavelius@mastodon.online
2025-12-13 17:36:23

"It is 'remarkable' to see that China is so dominant and advanced in so many fields compared with the United States."
nature.com/articles/d41586-025

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-11 01:34:10

I can’t believe capitalism pulled this one off again. How do you keep outdoing yourself? Truly remarkable, in the most depressing way imaginable.
#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism

@cheryanne@aus.social
2025-12-10 08:24:18

The Helen Glanville - A Second Chance Podcast
Here you'll find Helen Glanville's guest interviews and media appearances as she shares the remarkable true story behind her husband Richard Geoff Glanville, a former white-collar criminal extradited from Brazil to Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory:

The Helen Glanville - A Second Chance Podcast
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange
2026-02-07 07:16:54

RE: kolektiva.social/@igd_news/116
I agree. He's referenced this quoted section from "They'Thought They Were Free" before. I know because I found the idea so remarkable, I had to painstakingly transcribe it so I c…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-01-09 08:53:56

Revised January 8, 2026: Simulation of prosthetic vision with the PRIMA system and enhancement of face representation arxiv.org/abs/2503.11677 retinal implant

@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-08 20:57:14

Sometimes those that inspire us take a turn. For whatever reason I often remember that by the time he died in 1995, musique concrète don Pierre Schaeffer had become disillusioned with his entire musical output, singing the praises of conventional music and Bach / Beethoven instead. It is one of the more remarkable about-faces in music. (I remember reading Tod Dockstader say in an interview he was horrified by what he’d heard Schaeffer say!)
Schaeffer admitted during even his creative y…

A book about Pierre Shaeffer with his face on the cover; yellow font "In Search of a Concrete Music"
@nelson@tech.lgbt
2026-01-23 14:07:39

It's remarkable how much modern web page programming breaks fundamental things. Scrolling with spacebar or page down doesn't work. Or selecting text. Or doing Ctrl-F to find stuff on a page. All this basic functionality destroyed so some mediocre programmer can use a giant Javascript framework that isn't even necessary.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-12-23 22:16:23

If Rams are NFL's top team, who is No. 2? Plus: Purdy's performance, 2026 targets nytimes.com/athletic/6916089/2

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-12-10 17:58:58

What’s amazing to me is that *anyone* still visits the US as a tourist.
“Hey, I know, let’s go to Fascistland… maybe we’ll get deported to fuck-knows-where and it’ll be a real adventure!” mastodon.online/@mastodonmigra

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2026-01-06 19:52:17

AI-Led Growth Conceals an Economy Built on Debt and Inequality jacobin.com/2026/01/artificial

@textproof@mathstodon.xyz
2025-12-13 13:02:31

“A [remarkable study](faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/) in [Perspectives on Politics](

@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to
2025-12-05 08:28:04

"In a key scene of the 2012 blockbuster film “Skyfall”, MI6 quartermaster Q realizes too late that plugging a cable into the laptop of a notoriously skilled terrorist like Raoul Silva was a terrible idea. After a few seconds, the laptop infects the systems of MI6, releasing all physical doors and disabling all security guards, prompting Silva to escape and wreak havoc. A message appears on the laptop screen, taunting Q, reading “Not such a clever boy”."

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-02-25 10:37:31

Regret-Guided Search Control for Efficient Learning in AlphaZero
Yun-Jui Tsai, Wei-Yu Chen, Yan-Ru Ju, Yu-Hung Chang, Ti-Rong Wu
arxiv.org/abs/2602.20809 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20809 arxiv.org/html/2602.20809
arXiv:2602.20809v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) agents achieve remarkable performance but remain far less learning-efficient than humans. While RL agents require extensive self-play games to extract useful signals, humans often need only a few games, improving rapidly by repeatedly revisiting states where mistakes occurred. This idea, known as search control, aims to restart from valuable states rather than always from the initial state. In AlphaZero, prior work Go-Exploit applies this idea by sampling past states from self-play or search trees, but it treats all states equally, regardless of their learning potential. We propose Regret-Guided Search Control (RGSC), which extends AlphaZero with a regret network that learns to identify high-regret states, where the agent's evaluation diverges most from the actual outcome. These states are collected from both self-play trajectories and MCTS nodes, stored in a prioritized regret buffer, and reused as new starting positions. Across 9x9 Go, 10x10 Othello, and 11x11 Hex, RGSC outperforms AlphaZero and Go-Exploit by an average of 77 and 89 Elo, respectively. When training on a well-trained 9x9 Go model, RGSC further improves the win rate against KataGo from 69.3% to 78.2%, while both baselines show no improvement. These results demonstrate that RGSC provides an effective mechanism for search control, improving both efficiency and robustness of AlphaZero training. Our code is available at rlg.iis.sinica.edu.tw/papers/r.
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@nelson@tech.lgbt
2025-12-23 00:46:46

It is remarkable how quickly one gets used to a nice screen. This is my first desktop high density screen (218 PPI) and even with Windows' slightly shaky support everything just looks so much better. Text and graphics.

@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca
2026-01-24 14:03:47

Seeking a way to boost your income? Discover our streamlined online business model. It's designed for ease and backed by comprehensive support. 🖥️ Move at your own pace, no tech skills needed. Let's achieve remarkable success together! 🌟 #OnlineSuccess #FlexibleIncome

@glauber@writing.exchange
2025-12-07 03:59:28

"Space Advent Calendar"
theatlantic.com/photography/20

@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
2025-12-05 14:16:32

Cowboys Playoff Chances Updated After Devastating Loss heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-co]

@brichapman@mastodon.social
2025-12-19 18:20:01

Communities in the DRC are building something remarkable: a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor connecting two major protected areas.
Strong Roots Congo has already secured 23 community forest concessions covering nearly 600,000 hectares. The project does double duty—allowing wildlife to move safely between habitats while supporting local livelihoods and protecting Indigenous peoples from land grabbing.

@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-12-16 09:45:03

The $10bn Trump/BBC lawsuit announced shortly before the BBC charter renewal green paper? What a remarkable coincidence.

@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-02-25 10:34:51

UrbanFM: Scaling Urban Spatio-Temporal Foundation Models
Wei Chen, Yuqian Wu, Junle Chen, Xiaofang Zhou, Yuxuan Liang
arxiv.org/abs/2602.20677 arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20677 arxiv.org/html/2602.20677
arXiv:2602.20677v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Urban systems, as dynamic complex systems, continuously generate spatio-temporal data streams that encode the fundamental laws of human mobility and city evolution. While AI for Science has witnessed the transformative power of foundation models in disciplines like genomics and meteorology, urban computing remains fragmented due to "scenario-specific" models, which are overfitted to specific regions or tasks, hindering their generalizability. To bridge this gap and advance spatio-temporal foundation models for urban systems, we adopt scaling as the central perspective and systematically investigate two key questions: what to scale and how to scale. Grounded in first-principles analysis, we identify three critical dimensions: heterogeneity, correlation, and dynamics, aligning these principles with the fundamental scientific properties of urban spatio-temporal data. Specifically, to address heterogeneity through data scaling, we construct WorldST. This billion-scale corpus standardizes diverse physical signals, such as traffic flow and speed, from over 100 global cities into a unified data format. To enable computation scaling for modeling correlations, we introduce the MiniST unit, a novel split mechanism that discretizes continuous spatio-temporal fields into learnable computational units to unify representations of grid-based and sensor-based observations. Finally, addressing dynamics via architecture scaling, we propose UrbanFM, a minimalist self-attention architecture designed with limited inductive biases to autonomously learn dynamic spatio-temporal dependencies from massive data. Furthermore, we establish EvalST, the largest-scale urban spatio-temporal benchmark to date. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UrbanFM achieves remarkable zero-shot generalization across unseen cities and tasks, marking a pivotal first step toward large-scale urban spatio-temporal foundation models.
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@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-12-10 08:38:00

Manifolds and Modules: How Function Develops in a Neural Foundation Model
Johannes Bertram, Luciano Dyballa, T. Anderson Keller, Savik Kinger, Steven W. Zucker
arxiv.org/abs/2512.07869 arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07869 arxiv.org/html/2512.07869
arXiv:2512.07869v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Foundation models have shown remarkable success in fitting biological visual systems; however, their black-box nature inherently limits their utility for under- standing brain function. Here, we peek inside a SOTA foundation model of neural activity (Wang et al., 2025) as a physiologist might, characterizing each 'neuron' based on its temporal response properties to parametric stimuli. We analyze how different stimuli are represented in neural activity space by building decoding man- ifolds, and we analyze how different neurons are represented in stimulus-response space by building neural encoding manifolds. We find that the different processing stages of the model (i.e., the feedforward encoder, recurrent, and readout modules) each exhibit qualitatively different representational structures in these manifolds. The recurrent module shows a jump in capabilities over the encoder module by 'pushing apart' the representations of different temporal stimulus patterns; while the readout module achieves biological fidelity by using numerous specialized feature maps rather than biologically plausible mechanisms. Overall, we present this work as a study of the inner workings of a prominent neural foundation model, gaining insights into the biological relevance of its internals through the novel analysis of its neurons' joint temporal response patterns.
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