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A scalable estimator of high-order information in complex dynamical systems
Alberto Liardi, George Blackburne, Hardik Rajpal, Fernando E. Rosas, Pedro A. M. Mediano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18498

A scalable estimator of high-order information in complex dynamical systems
Our understanding of neural systems rests on our ability to characterise how they perform distributed computation and integrate information. Advances in information theory have introduced several quantities to describe complex information structures, where collective patterns of coordination emerge from high-order (i.e. beyond-pairwise) interdependencies. Unfortunately, the use of these approaches to study large neural systems is severely hindered by the poor scalability of existing techniques.…

Is comparing crowd size at No Kings versus the pathetic military parade just pure pettiness?
❝No. Right now crowd sizes matter a lot because competitive authoritarianism rests largely on self-fulfilling expectations.❞
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-parade-flopped-no-kings-day

"Let’s extend to ourselves and to others the invitation of a Christianity that seeks light, rests in darkness, remains deeply rooted in justice, and flourishes in our own individual ways of nurturing it." —Karis Slattery '20 M.Div. in her new Reflections piece, "Don’t Water Fake Plants"

I keep drinkin’ malted milk crate #Caturday, try’n to drive my blues away.

Keep the pressure on the very few republicans who know none of this is okay
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lr3xaxp7m22l

ICE Arrests Illegal Alien for Molotov Cocktail Attack on Law Enforcement Caught on Video (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/06/11/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-molotov-cocktail-attack-law-enforcement-caught-video
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p80#a250611p80

The latest in the #WordPress drama...
https://joost.blog/path-forward-for-wordpress/

A new path forward for WordPress, and for the open web
Back in December, I wrote about the state of leadership in the WordPress ecosystem. I shared how too much power rests with one person, and how the lack of clear governance puts contributors and businesses alike in difficult positions. That post ended with a call: we need to lead. That wasn’t rhetorical. It was a ... Read more

A New Path Forward for WordPress, and for the Open Web (JOOST.BLOG, 6 Jun 2025)
#edtech

A new path forward for WordPress, and for the open web
Back in December, I wrote about the state of leadership in the WordPress ecosystem. I shared how too much power rests with one person, and how the lack of clear governance puts contributors and businesses alike in difficult positions. That post ended with a call: we need to lead. That wasn’t rhetorical. It was a ... Read more

Green hairstreak seen @ Keyhaven & Pennington Marshes yesterday, 1st I've seen in the UK
#UKButterflies #insects

via https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/26/large-language-models-that-power-ai-should-be-publicly-owned:
Matteo Valleriani: "It is time to build public, open-access LLMs for the humanities…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08820 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Resolvent estimates for the one-dimensional damped wave equation with unbounded damping
We study the generator $G$ of the one-dimensional damped wave equation with unbounded damping. We show that the norm of the corresponding resolvent operator, $\| (G - λ)^{-1} \|$, is approximately constant as $|λ| \to +\infty$ on vertical strips of bounded width contained in the closure of the left-hand side complex semi-plane, $\overline{\mathbb{C}}_{-} := \{λ\in \mathbb{C}: \operatorname{Re} λ\le 0\}$. Our proof rests on a precise asymptotic analysis of the norm of the…