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I often find it gut-wrenching to watch the snail’s pace at which established scientific knowledge trickles into the public consciousness.
The study of income inequality is a good example.
In 2001, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez published a landmark paper which showed, for the first time, that US top income shares had been on the rise since the 1980s.
Piketty and Saez’s work has since been replicated and expanded numerous times.
In short, scientists know that the US …

Partisan Politics and the Road to Plutocracy – Economics from the Top Down
In this essay, I take a deep dive into the history of American plutocracy and its conspicuously Republican roots.

Wait-free Replicated Data Types and Fair Reconciliation
Petr Kuznetsov, Maxence Perion, Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18193 https://ar…

Wait-free Replicated Data Types and Fair Reconciliation
Replication is a standard way to maintain availability of shared data in fault-prone distributed systems. To make sure that the data replicas are up-to-date, they need to synchronize, which typically means engaging the replicas in waiting for coherent responses from each other. The amount of waiting depends on the consistency and availability guarantees we impose on the system. The folklore CAP theory states that strong consistency (the set of replicas create an illusion of one correct server) …

@… That makes sense if notifications are derivatives of replicated data.

ForeSight: A Predictive-Scheduling Deterministic Database
Junfang Huang, Yu Yan, Hongzhi Wang, Yingze Li, Jinghan Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17375 https://

ForeSight: A Predictive-Scheduling Deterministic Database
Deterministic databases enable scalable replicated systems by executing transactions in a predetermined order. However, existing designs fail to capture transaction dependencies, leading to insufficient scheduling, high abort rates, and poor resource utilization. By addressing these challenges with lightweight conflict prediction and informed scheduling, we present ForeSight, a high-performance deterministic database system. Our system has three core improvements: (1) We design an Association S…

An adaptive procedure for detecting replicated signals with $k$-family-wise error rate control
Ninh Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15363 https://arxiv.org…

An adaptive procedure for detecting replicated signals with $k$-family-wise error rate control
Partial conjunction (PC) hypothesis testing is widely used to assess the replicability of scientific findings across multiple comparable studies. In high-throughput meta-analyses, testing a large number of PC hypotheses with k-family-wise error rate (k-FWER) control often suffers from low statistical power due to the multiplicity burden. The state-of-the-art AdaFilter-Bon procedure by Wang et al. (2022, Ann. Stat., 50(4), 1890-1909) alleviates this problem by filtering out hypotheses unlikely t…

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
SERVALAN: Daughter? Surely the man would have replicated in his own image.
GINKA: It seems she was born while he was still developing the process.
SERVALAN: Ah. Born of natural birth.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/262 B7B2

Replicated liquid theory in $1 \infty$ dimensions
Yukihiro Tomita, Hajime Yoshino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21639 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21639

Replicated liquid theory in $1+\infty$ dimensions
We develop a replicated liquid theory for structural glasses which exhibit spatial variation of physical quantities along one axis, say $z$-axis. The theory becomes exact with infinite transverse dimension $d-1 \to \infty$. It provides an exact free-energy functional with space-dependent glass order parameter $Δ_{ab}(z)$. As a first application of the scheme, we study diverging lengths associated with dynamic/static glass transitions of hardspheres with/without confining cavity. The exponents …

from my link log —
CRDTs are built on an elegant kernel, but offer a leaky abstraction that misleads a lot of developers and researchers.
https://jhellerstein.github.io/blog/crdt-intro/
saved 2025-08-29

MuFASA -- Asynchronous Checkpoint for Weakly Consistent Fully Replicated Databases
Raaghav Ravishankar, Sandeep Kulkarni, Nitin H Vaidya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06404 https:/…

MuFASA -- Asynchronous Checkpoint for Weakly Consistent Fully Replicated Databases
We focus on the problem of checkpointing in fully replicated weakly consistent distributed databases, which we refer to as Distributed Transaction Consistent Snapshot (DTCS). A typical example of such a system is a main-memory database that provides strong eventual consistency. This problem is important and challenging for several reasons: (1) eventual consistency often creates anomalies that the users do not anticipate. Hence, frequent checkpoints to ascertain desired invariants is highly bene…

Hand by Hand: LLM Driving EMS Assistant for Operational Skill Learning
Wei Xiang, Ziyue Lei, Haoyuan Che, Fangyuan Ye, Xueting Wu, Lingyun Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06000 h…

Hand by Hand: LLM Driving EMS Assistant for Operational Skill Learning
Operational skill learning, inherently physical and reliant on hands-on practice and kinesthetic feedback, has yet to be effectively replicated in large language model (LLM)-supported training. Current LLM training assistants primarily generate customized textual feedback, neglecting the crucial kinesthetic modality. This gap derives from the textual and uncertain nature of LLMs, compounded by concerns on user acceptance of LLM driven body control. To bridge this gap and realize the potential o…

Tiga: Accelerating Geo-Distributed Transactions with Synchronized Clocks [Technical Report]
Jinkun Geng, Shuai Mu, Anirudh Sivaraman, Balaji Prabhakar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05759

Tiga: Accelerating Geo-Distributed Transactions with Synchronized Clocks [Technical Report]
This paper presents Tiga, a new design for geo-replicated and scalable transactional databases such as Google Spanner. Tiga aims to commit transactions within 1 wide-area roundtrip time, or 1 WRTT, for a wide range of scenarios, while maintaining high throughput with minimal computational overhead. Tiga consolidates concurrency control and consensus, completing both strictly serializable execution and consistent replication in a single round. It uses synchronized clocks to proactively order tra…

GW231123: extreme spins or microglitches?
Anarya Ray, Sharan Banagiri, Eric Thrane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07228 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07228…

GW231123: extreme spins or microglitches?
The recently reported binary black hole merger, GW231123, has unusual properties that make it hard to explain astrophysically. Parameter estimation studies are consistent with maximally spinning black holes and the dimensionless spin of the more massive component is constrained to be $χ_1\gtrsim 0.8$. Analysis of data also revealed potential systematics that could not be fully replicated with simulated studies. We explore the possibility that these measurements are biased due to unmodeled non-…

Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse
Emi Tanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10382 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10382

Examining the Interface Design of Tidyverse
The tidyverse is a popular meta-package comprising several core R packages to aid in various data science tasks, including data import, manipulation and visualisation. Although functionalities offered by the tidyverse can generally be replicated using other packages, its widespread adoption in both teaching and practice indicates there are factors contributing to its preference, despite some debate over its usage. Thissuggests that particular aspects, such as interface design, may play a signif…

Private Information Retrieval over Graphs
Gennian Ge, Hao Wang, Zixiang Xu, Yijun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26512 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26512…

Private Information Retrieval over Graphs
The problem of PIR in graph-based replication systems has received significant attention in recent years. A systematic study was conducted by Sadeh, Gu, and Tamo, where each file is replicated across two servers and the storage topology is modeled by a graph. The PIR capacity of a graph $G$, denoted by $\mathcal{C}(G)$, is defined as the supremum of retrieval rates achievable by schemes that preserve user privacy, with the rate measured as the ratio between the file size and the total number of…

Variational Gaussian Approximation in Replica Analysis of Parametric Models
Takashi Takahashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11780 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1…

Variational Gaussian Approximation in Replica Analysis of Parametric Models
We revisit the replica method for analyzing inference and learning in parametric models, considering situations where the data-generating distribution is unknown or analytically intractable. Instead of assuming idealized distributions to carry out quenched averages analytically, we use a variational Gaussian approximation for the replicated system in grand canonical formalism in which the data average can be deferred and replaced by empirical averages, leading to stationarity conditions that ad…

Synthetic Founders: AI-Generated Social Simulations for Startup Validation Research in Computational Social Science
Jorn K. Teutloff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02605 https://

Synthetic Founders: AI-Generated Social Simulations for Startup Validation Research in Computational Social Science
We present a comparative docking experiment that aligns human-subject interview data with large language model (LLM)-driven synthetic personas to evaluate fidelity, divergence, and blind spots in AI-enabled simulation. Fifteen early-stage startup founders were interviewed about their hopes and concerns regarding AI-powered validation, and the same protocol was replicated with AI-generated founder and investor personas. A structured thematic synthesis revealed four categories of outcomes: (1) Co…

Reply to "Limitations of detecting structural changes and time-reversal symmetry breaking in scanning tunneling microscopy experiments"
Yuqing Xing, Seokjin Bae, Stephen D. Wilson, Ziqiang Wang, Rafael M. Fernandes, Vidya Madhavan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01305

Reply to "Limitations of detecting structural changes and time-reversal symmetry breaking in scanning tunneling microscopy experiments"
In their comment, the authors attribute our observations of light- and magnetic-field-induced manipulation of the CDW state in RbV3Sb5 to random experimental artifacts such as tip changes, drift, and scan conditions, concluding that no intrinsic effect exists. In this reply, we clarify three points. First, our reported magnetic-field-induced CDW switching has been independently replicated in multiple STM studies and corroborated by transport measurements. Second, in our data, the switching of C…

Multidata Causal Discovery for Statistical Hurricane Intensity Forecasting
Saranya Ganesh S., Frederick Iat-Hin Tam, Milton S. Gomez, Marie McGraw, Mark DeMaria, Kate Musgrave, Jakob Runge, Tom Beucler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02050

Multidata Causal Discovery for Statistical Hurricane Intensity Forecasting
Improving statistical forecasts of Atlantic hurricane intensity is limited by complex nonlinear interactions and difficulty in identifying relevant predictors. Conventional methods prioritize correlation or fit, often overlooking confounding variables and limiting generalizability to unseen tropical storms. To address this, we leverage a multidata causal discovery framework with a replicated dataset based on Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme (SHIPS) using ERA5 meteorological rea…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cond-mat.dis-nn. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.dis-nn/new
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- Replicated liquid theory in $1 \infty$ dimensions
Yukihiro Tomita, Hajime Yoshino