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I feel like some people lost the thread on this one. everyone needs to chill.
#videogames

As exotic pet demands rise, invertebrates need trade protections too: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/as-exotic-pet-demands-rise-invertebrates-need-trade-protections-too-study/

As exotic pet demands rise, invertebrates need trade protections too: Study
As the demand for butterflies, spiders, ants and other terrestrial invertebrates grows worldwide, researchers in a recent study say better policy and regulation coverage can help ensure sustainability. The researchers reviewed existing scientific studies that mention the trade in terrestrial invertebrates and found that most research focuses on the exotic pet trade, specifically of spiders […]

Generative AI in Science: Applications, Challenges, and Emerging Questions
Ryan Harries, Cornelia Lawson, Philip Shapira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08310 h…

Generative AI in Science: Applications, Challenges, and Emerging Questions
This paper examines the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) on scientific practices, conducting a qualitative review of selected literature to explore its applications, benefits, and challenges. The review draws on the OpenAlex publication database, using a Boolean search approach to identify scientific literature related to GenAI (including large language models and ChatGPT). Thirty-nine highly cited papers and commentaries are reviewed and qualitatively coded. Results are cat…

Looks like github copilot PR review now supports all the languages in public preview. This will be useful for me as I commit #fsharp code a lot. In fact I had a PR today that it reviewed, found a few decent suggestions actually.

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Polarization dynamics in vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers
Thorsten Ackemann, Markus Sondermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08672 https://

Polarization dynamics in vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers
Experiments and their interpretation on polarization dynamics and polarization switching in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers operated in the fundamental transverse mode regime are reviewed. Important observations are switching events to a mode with the lower unsaturated gain and the existence of elliptically polarized dynamical transition states after the destabilization of the low-frequency polarization mode. The observations demonstrate the need to consider explicitly the phase propert…

Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency still hadn't not answered nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers.
The agency laid off the contractors on July 5 after their contracts expired and were not extended

FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/chinese-hackers-suspected-law-firm-hack Chinese hackers hacked into the most powerful telecom and communications law firm in DC and maybe the world. Founded by former FCC chairman and true gentleman Dick Wiley.

Chinese hackers suspected in breach of powerful DC law firm
Suspected Chinese hackers have broken into the email accounts of attorneys and advisers at a powerful Washington, DC, law firm in an apparent intelligence-gathering operation, the firm, Wiley Rein, told clients this week in a memo reviewed by CNN.

1/2 “My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this is mine. I think the following is a bit unique because it focuses on cost, working backward from there.”

AI Angst

Theoretical study of the ECRIPAC accelerator concept
Andrea Cernuschi (Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, Grenoble, France), Thomas Thuillier (Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LPSC-IN2P3, Grenoble, France), Laurent Garrigues (Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse INP, CNRS, LAPLACE, Toulouse, France)
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Theoretical study of the ECRIPAC accelerator concept
The Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Plasma ACcelerator (ECRIPAC) is an original concept for a plasma-based particle accelerator able to generate pulsed ion beams with adjustable energy, targeting mostly medical applications. In a complementary letter (Cernuschi et al., arXiv:2507.07827) we thoroughly reviewed and corrected the current literature on the subject, including also an original theoretical investigation on the influence of several physical parameters on the accelerator stability. Thi…

Our track this week comes from the gloriously unhinged metal supergroup Fantômas .. chaotic, theatrical, and impossible to pin down.
It’s not your usual listen, but that’s exactly the point.
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Fantômas - Spider Baby
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Next investigation should be into the councillors themselves
Warrnambool council abandons peer-reviewed flood study, citing 'supposed science' - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-05/regiona…

Warrnambool council abandons peer-reviewed flood study, questioning 'supposed science'
An independent flood study flagging high-risk areas in Victoria's south-west is abandoned after councillors decide they do not trust the data.

Mathematical modelling in Physics: deterministic processes
Sergej Pankratow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08004 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Mathematical modelling in Physics: deterministic processes
Basic principles of mathematical modeling are reviewed in this book, with the focus on physics and its practical applications, and examples of selected mathematical methods are presented. Most of the models have been imported from physics and applied for scientific and engineering problems. More specifically, the accent is placed on the theory of dynamical systems being used to produce evolutionary models. Classes of different models are presented and the relationship of mathematical modeling t…

Code-Switching in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition: A Systematic Literature Review
Maha Tufail Agro, Atharva Kulkarni, Karima Kadaoui, Zeerak Talat, Hanan Aldarmaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07741

Code-Switching in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition: A Systematic Literature Review
Motivated by a growing research interest into automatic speech recognition (ASR), and the growing body of work for languages in which code-switching (CS) often occurs, we present a systematic literature review of code-switching in end-to-end ASR models. We collect and manually annotate papers published in peer reviewed venues. We document the languages considered, datasets, metrics, model choices, and performance, and present a discussion of challenges in end-to-end ASR for code-switching. Our …

Deepintodev.com reviews how modern database storage engines store, retrieve, and update database table rows on memory and disk. This serves as a foundation to understanding how indexes and clustered indexes work, the concerned data structures, and their use cases; these are reviewed as well.
"How Databases Store Your Tables on Disk"
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Big if true
"Kamala Harris won the U.S elections: Bombshell report claims voting machines were tampered with before 2024"
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Kamala Harris won the U.S elections: Bombshell report claims voting machines were tampered with before 202
Kamala Harris election tampering story raises new questions about the 2024 U.S. presidential election outcome. A quiet but major change to voting machines by Pro V&V—used in over 40% of U.S. counties—was never publicly reviewed or disclosed. Watchdog group SMART Elections flagged suspicious updates, missing votes, and statistical anomalies suggesting potential vote tampering. Now, a lawsuit is moving forward, challenging whether Kamala Harris may have actually won.

FPGA-Based Multiplier with a New Approximate Full Adder for Error-Resilient Applications
Ali Ranjbar, Elham Esmaeili, Roghayeh Rafieisangari, Nabiollah Shiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09596

FPGA-Based Multiplier with a New Approximate Full Adder for Error-Resilient Applications
Electronic devices primarily aim to offer low power consumption, high speed, and a compact area. The performance of very large-scale integration (VLSI) devices is influenced by arithmetic operations, where multiplication is a crucial operation. Therefore, a high-speed multiplier is essential for developing any signal-processing module. Numerous multipliers have been reviewed in existing literature, and their speed is largely determined by how partial products (PPs) are accumulated. To enhance t…

Got a new op-ed in LNC/LancasterOnline this morning, on the importance of the curiosity-driven science the National Science Foundation is supposed to support
"For every Thermus aquaticus there are hundreds of scientific projects that end in nothing more than a peer-reviewed research article and some fond memories of fieldwork. But we need those hundreds of curiosity-driven studies to find that one lucky, world-changing discovery."

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Examining Human-AI Collaboration for Co-Writing Constructive Comments Online
This paper examines if large language models (LLMs) can help people write constructive comments on divisive social issues due to the difficulty of expressing constructive disagreement online. Through controlled experiments with 600 participants from India and the US, who reviewed and wrote constructive comments on threads related to Islamophobia and homophobia, we observed potential misalignment between how LLMs and humans perceive constructiveness in online comments. While the LLM was more lik…

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Gauge preservation in renormalization for Yang-Mills and gravity theories
In the present work, multiplicative renormalization \cite{dixon} for Yang-Mills theories is reviewed. While this subject is not new, it is suggested that a clear understanding of these methods leads to a systematic way for interpreting the counter terms needed for non multiplicative renormalization of quantum gravity, for models such as \cite{dewitt}-\cite{stelle2}. These models are renormalizable but contain apparent instabilities leading to possible unitarity loss, an earlier analog is \cite{…

A proposal and assessment of an improved heuristic for the Eager Test smell detection
Huynh Khanh Vi Tran, Nauman bin Ali, Michael Unterkalmsteiner, J\"urgen B\"orstler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06354

A proposal and assessment of an improved heuristic for the Eager Test smell detection
Context: The evidence for the prevalence of test smells at the unit testing level has relied on the accuracy of detection tools, which have seen intense research in the last two decades. The Eager Test smell, one of the most prevalent, is often identified using simplified detection rules that practitioners find inadequate. Objective: We aim to improve the rules for detecting the Eager Test smell. Method: We reviewed the literature on test smells to analyze the definitions and detection rules of…

"using a secret subpoena to force Colorado officials to ignore state laws and hand over private financial information of residents sponsoring unaccompanied immigrant children. The state’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis is allegedly demanding that those state officials comply under threat of termination, according to court documents reviewed by The Lever. "
Whistleblower Lawsuit Exposes Trump’s Secret ICE Plot
https://www.levernews.com/whistleblower-lawsuit-exposes-trumps-secret-ice-plot/

Level order of quark systems: The puzzle of the Roper resonance, and related questions
Jean-Marc Richard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07764 https://

Level order of quark systems: The puzzle of the Roper resonance, and related questions
The problem of ordering of radial vs.\ orbital excitations is reviewed. It is shown that the current quark models cannot explain the location of the Roper resonance which is slightly lower than the lowest negative-parity excitations. We also study some related spectral problems, such as the dependence of the energies on the quark masses, and the possibility of bound states in simple chromelectric models.

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DHS Flew Predator Drones Over LA Protests, Audio Shows https://www.404media.co/dhs-flew-predator-drones-over-la-protests-audio-shows/

How many peer-reviewed scientific papers exist about the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for the blind? [Spoiler: 0 at the time of writing] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Neuralink Blindsight&sort=date vs The vOICe

Neuralink Blindsight - Search Results - PubMed
Neuralink Blindsight - Search Results - PubMed

A research paper published by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), though not yet peer-reviewed,
has found nearly all bee colonies suffering collapse had contracted a bee virus spread by
parasitic mites that appear to have developed resistance to the main chemicals used to control them.
Varroa mites
– equivalent in size to a dinner plate on a human body
– crawl and jump between worker bees.
If there are no infections present, they do not typically dama…

Plant Based Data - Explore the library of peer-reviewed articles and summaries on the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle #plantbased

Home: Library & Summaries | Plant Based Data
The best library of peer-reviewed sources relating to a plant-based lifestyle

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From Concept to Measurement: A Survey of How the Blockchain Trilemma Can Be Analyzed
To meet non-functional requirements, practitioners must identify Pareto-optimal configurations of the degree of decentralization, scalability, and security of blockchain systems. Maximizing all of these subconcepts is, however, impossible due to the trade-offs highlighted by the blockchain trilemma. We reviewed analysis approaches to identify constructs and their operationalization through metrics for analyzing the blockchain trilemma subconcepts and to assess the applicability of the operation…

Delighted to have an article in the latest edition of 'The Coaching Psychologist', the peer-reviewed journal for the science of #coaching. 🎉
It's all about dealing effectively with psychological discomfort using Acceptance and Commitment coaching. 🧠

Quantum-like states from classical systems
Gregory D. Scholes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00967 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00967

Quantum-like states from classical systems
This work studies how a suitably-designed classical system generates with a quantum-like (QL) state space mediated by a graph. The graph plays a special dual role by directing the topology of the classical network and defining a state space that comprises superpositions of states in a tensor product basis. The basis for constructing QL graphs and their properties is reviewed and extended. An optimization of the graph product is developed to produce a more compact graph with the essential proper…

Understanding Everything as Code: A Taxonomy and Conceptual Model
Haoran Wei, Nazim Madhavji, John Steinbacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05100 https://

Understanding Everything as Code: A Taxonomy and Conceptual Model
Background: Everything as Code (EaC) is an emerging paradigm aiming to codify all aspects of modern software systems. Despite its growing popularity, comprehensive industry standards and peer-reviewed research clarifying its scope and guiding its adoption remain scarce. Aims: This study systematically analyzes existing knowledge and perceptions of EaC, clarifies its scope and boundaries, and provides structured guidance for researchers and practitioners. Method: We conducted a large-scale multi…

“Using LLMs makes you stupid” is such an emotionally appealing conclusion that I’m going to consciously work — this post is my public commitment! — not to read •too• much into this one study. As the OP says: small N, not peer reviewed, etc.
But I •will• immediately heed the authors’ “concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance.” However the research shakes out, it seems like good practice to double down on helping students keep their own brains awake and active regardless of the technology available to them.

The role of large language models in UI/UX design: A systematic literature review
Ammar Ahmed, Ali Shariq Imran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04469 https://…

The role of large language models in UI/UX design: A systematic literature review
This systematic literature review examines the role of large language models (LLMs) in UI/UX design, synthesizing findings from 38 peer-reviewed studies published between 2022 and 2025. We identify key LLMs in use, including GPT-4, Gemini, and PaLM, and map their integration across the design lifecycle, from ideation to evaluation. Common practices include prompt engineering, human-in-the-loop workflows, and multimodal input. While LLMs are reshaping design processes, challenges such as halluci…

A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference at the agency jeopardizing the future of US industries and economic growth, according to a Guardian investigation.
The gold standard peer-reviewed process used by the NSF to support cutting-edge, high-impact science is being undermined by the chaotic cuts to staff, programs a…

Now whose genius idea was it to limit calendar event colors to precisely the named colors of CSS in RFC7986, which were never intended as a sole palette because CSS also supports hex colors? 🤯
(Explicitly *not* blaming the author here; this probably comes from legacy systems and was reviewed by any number of people that could have caught it.)
#iCal

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Good code release at work and zero issues! People don't see all the work done in the background weeks before.
Multiple walkthroughs with some of the clients, testers, developers, and the support team. The full set of instructions, modules, db changes, job changes, and schedule changes are reviewed. The day of the release, the support team and release coordinator (me) walk through every job that implements the release, special jobs, backups, and checkpoints.
When done, we d…

Just received a friend request on Facebook by someone named Peter Waldmeier.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.waldmeier.865
He seemed such a nice person, I think he is a model in a Scandinavian country.
When I asked him why he was sending me a friend request he go…

Why AI can't possibly make you more productive; long
#AI and "productivity", some thoughts:
Edit: fixed some typos.
Productivity is a concept that isn't entirely meaningless outside the context of capitalism, but it's a concept that is heavily inflected in a capitalist context. In many uses today it effectively means "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations." This is not really what it should mean: even in an anarchist utopia, people would care about things like how many shirts they can produce in a week, although in an "I'd like to voluntarily help more people" way rather than an "I need to meet this quota to earn my survival" way. But let's roll with this definition for a second, because it's almost certainly what your boss means when they say "productivity", and understanding that word in a different (even if truer) sense is therefore inherently dangerous.
Accepting "productivity" to mean "satisfying your boss' expectations," I will now claim: the use of generative AI cannot increase your productivity.
Before I dive in, it's imperative to note that the big generative models which most people think of as constituting "AI" today are evil. They are 1: pouring fuel on our burning planet, 2: psychologically strip-mining a class of data laborers who are exploited for their precarity, 3: enclosing, exploiting, and polluting the digital commons, and 4: stealing labor from broad classes of people many of whom are otherwise glad to give that labor away for free provided they get a simple acknowledgement in return. Any of these four "ethical issues" should be enough *alone* to cause everyone to simply not use the technology. These ethical issues are the reason that I do not use generative AI right now, except for in extremely extenuating circumstances. These issues are also convincing for a wide range of people I talk to, from experts to those with no computer science background. So before I launch into a critique of the effectiveness of generative AI, I want to emphasize that such a critique should be entirely unnecessary.
But back to my thesis: generative AI cannot increase your productivity, where "productivity" has been defined as "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations."
Why? In fact, what the fuck? Every AI booster I've met has claimed the opposite. They've given me personal examples of time saved by using generative AI. Some of them even truly believe this. Sometimes I even believe they saved time without horribly compromising on quality (and often, your boss doesn't care about quality anyways if the lack of quality is hard to measure of doesn't seem likely to impact short-term sales/feedback/revenue). So if generative AI genuinely lets you write more emails in a shorter period of time, or close more tickets, or something else along these lines, how can I say it isn't increasing your ability to meet your boss' expectations?
The problem is simple: your boss' expectations are not a fixed target. Never have been. In virtue of being someone who oversees and pays wages to others under capitalism, your boss' game has always been: pay you less than the worth of your labor, so that they can accumulate profit and thus more capital to remain in charge instead of being forced into working for a wage themselves. Sure, there are layers of management caught in between who aren't fully in this mode, but they are irrelevant to this analysis. It matters not how much you please your manager if your CEO thinks your work is not worth the wages you are being paid. And using AI actively lowers the value of your work relative to your wages.
Why do I say that? It's actually true in several ways. The most obvious: using generative AI lowers the quality of your work, because the work it produces is shot through with errors, and when your job is reduced to proofreading slop, you are bound to tire a bit, relax your diligence, and let some mistakes through. More than you would have if you are actually doing and taking pride in the work. Examples are innumerable and frequent, from journalists to lawyers to programmers, and we laugh at them "haha how stupid to not check whether the books the AI reviewed for you actually existed!" but on a deeper level if we're honest we know we'd eventually make the same mistake ourselves (bonus game: spot the swipe-typing typos I missed in this post; I'm sure there will be some).
But using generative AI also lowers the value of your work in another much more frightening way: in this era of hype, it demonstrates to your boss that you could be replaced by AI. The more you use it, and no matter how much you can see that your human skills are really necessary to correct its mistakes, the more it appears to your boss that they should hire the AI instead of you. Or perhaps retain 10% of the people in roles like yours to manage the AI doing the other 90% of the work. Paradoxically, the *more* you get done in terms of raw output using generative AI, the more it looks to your boss as if there's an opportunity to get enough work done with even fewer expensive humans. Of course, the decision to fire you and lean more heavily into AI isn't really a good one for long-term profits and success, but the modern boss did not get where they are by considering long-term profits. By using AI, you are merely demonstrating your redundancy, and the more you get done with it, the more redundant you seem.
In fact, there's even a third dimension to this: by using generative AI, you're also providing its purveyors with invaluable training data that allows them to make it better at replacing you. It's generally quite shitty right now, but the more use it gets by competent & clever people, the better it can become at the tasks those specific people use it for. Using the currently-popular algorithm family, there are limits to this; I'm not saying it will eventually transcend the mediocrity it's entwined with. But it can absolutely go from underwhelmingly mediocre to almost-reasonably mediocre with the right training data, and data from prompting sessions is both rarer and more useful than the base datasets it's built on.
For all of these reasons, using generative AI in your job is a mistake that will likely lead to your future unemployment. To reiterate, you should already not be using it because it is evil and causes specific and inexcusable harms, but in case like so many you just don't care about those harms, I've just explained to you why for entirely selfish reasons you should not use it.
If you're in a position where your boss is forcing you to use it, my condolences. I suggest leaning into its failures instead of trying to get the most out of it, and as much as possible, showing your boss very clearly how it wastes your time and makes things slower. Also, point out the dangers of legal liability for its mistakes, and make sure your boss is aware of the degree to which any of your AI-eager coworkers are producing low-quality work that harms organizational goals.
Also, if you've read this far and aren't yet of an anarchist mindset, I encourage you to think about the implications of firing 75% of (at least the white-collar) workforce in order to make more profit while fueling the climate crisis and in most cases also propping up dictatorial figureheads in government. When *either* the AI bubble bursts *or* if the techbros get to live out the beginnings of their worker-replacement fantasies, there are going to be an unimaginable number of economically desperate people living in increasingly expensive times. I'm the kind of optimist who thinks that the resulting social crucible, though perhaps through terrible violence, will lead to deep social changes that effectively unseat from power the ultra-rich that continue to drag us all down this destructive path, and I think its worth some thinking now about what you might want the succeeding stable social configuration to look like so you can advocate towards that during points of malleability.
As others have said more eloquently, generative AI *should* be a technology that makes human lives on average easier, and it would be were it developed & controlled by humanists. The only reason that it's not, is that it's developed and controlled by terrible greedy people who use their unfairly hoarded wealth to immiserate the rest of us in order to maintain their dominance. In the long run, for our very survival, we need to depose them, and I look forward to what the term "generative AI" will mean after that finally happens.

Delighted to have an article in the latest edition of 'The Coaching Psychologist', the peer-reviewed journal for the science of #coaching. 🎉
It's all about dealing effectively with psychological discomfort using Acceptance and Commitment coaching. 🧠
https://explore.bps.org.uk/content/bpstcp/20/3/29

The Impact of LLM-Assistants on Software Developer Productivity: A Systematic Literature Review
Amr Mohamed, Maram Assi, Mariam Guizani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03156

The Impact of LLM-Assistants on Software Developer Productivity: A Systematic Literature Review
Large language model assistants (LLM-assistants) present new opportunities to transform software development. Developers are increasingly adopting these tools across tasks, including coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and design. Yet, despite growing interest, there is no synthesis of how LLM-assistants affect software developer productivity. In this paper, we present a systematic literature review of 37 peer-reviewed studies published between January 2014 and December 2024 that examine…

Systematic Review of Pituitary Gland and Pituitary Adenoma Automatic Segmentation Techniques in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mubaraq Yakubu, Navodini Wijethilake, Jonathan Shapey, Andrew King, Alexander Hammers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19797

Systematic Review of Pituitary Gland and Pituitary Adenoma Automatic Segmentation Techniques in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Purpose: Accurate segmentation of both the pituitary gland and adenomas from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for diagnosis and treatment of pituitary adenomas. This systematic review evaluates automatic segmentation methods for improving the accuracy and efficiency of MRI-based segmentation of pituitary adenomas and the gland itself. Methods: We reviewed 34 studies that employed automatic and semi-automatic segmentation methods. We extracted and synthesized data on segmentation te…

AIMSCheck: Leveraging LLMs for AI-Assisted Review of Modern Slavery Statements Across Jurisdictions
Adriana Eufrosina Bora, Akshatha Arodi, Duoyi Zhang, Jordan Bannister, Mirko Bronzi, Arsene Fansi Tchango, Md Abul Bashar, Richi Nayak, Kerrie Mengersen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01671

AIMSCheck: Leveraging LLMs for AI-Assisted Review of Modern Slavery Statements Across Jurisdictions
Modern Slavery Acts mandate that corporations disclose their efforts to combat modern slavery, aiming to enhance transparency and strengthen practices for its eradication. However, verifying these statements remains challenging due to their complex, diversified language and the sheer number of statements that must be reviewed. The development of NLP tools to assist in this task is also difficult due to a scarcity of annotated data. Furthermore, as modern slavery transparency legislation has bee…

Causal Inference for Experiments with Latent Outcomes: Key Results and Their Implications for Design and Analysis
Jiawei Fu, Donald P. Green
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21909

Causal Inference for Experiments with Latent Outcomes: Key Results and Their Implications for Design and Analysis
How should we analyze randomized experiments in which the main outcome is measured in multiple ways and each measure contains some degree of error? Since Costner (1971) and Bagozzi (1977), methodological discussions of experiments with latent outcomes have reviewed the modeling assumptions that are invoked when the quantity of interest is the average treatment effect (ATE) of a randomized intervention on a latent outcome that is measured with error. Many authors have proposed methods to estimat…

Now I just want to see giant kangaroos
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-24/australia-once-had-giant-kangaroos-experts-what-happened-to-them/105205566

Australia once had giant kangaroos — here's what experts think happened to them
A new peer-reviewed study has found that, unlike modern kangaroos, the extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon were less mobile, which they believe, along with a change in climate, led to their extinction.

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Emerging ML-AI Techniques for Analog and RF EDA
Zhengfeng Wu, Ziyi Chen, Nnaemeka Achebe, Vaibhav V. Rao, Pratik Shrestha, Ioannis Savidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00007

Emerging ML-AI Techniques for Analog and RF EDA
This survey explores the integration of machine learning (ML) into EDA workflows for analog and RF circuits, addressing challenges unique to analog design, which include complex constraints, nonlinear design spaces, and high computational costs. State-of-the-art learning and optimization techniques are reviewed for circuit tasks such as constraint formulation, topology generation, device modeling, sizing, placement, and routing. The survey highlights the capability of ML to enhance automation, …

A Survey of Multi-sensor Fusion Perception for Embodied AI: Background, Methods, Challenges and Prospects
Shulan Ruan, Rongwei Wang, Xuchen Shen, Huijie Liu, Baihui Xiao, Jun Shi, Kun Zhang, Zhenya Huang, Yu Liu, Enhong Chen, You He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19769

A Survey of Multi-sensor Fusion Perception for Embodied AI: Background, Methods, Challenges and Prospects
Multi-sensor fusion perception (MSFP) is a key technology for embodied AI, which can serve a variety of downstream tasks (e.g., 3D object detection and semantic segmentation) and application scenarios (e.g., autonomous driving and swarm robotics). Recently, impressive achievements on AI-based MSFP methods have been reviewed in relevant surveys. However, we observe that the existing surveys have some limitations after a rigorous and detailed investigation. For one thing, most surveys are oriente…

Perspectives for hyperon and hypernuclei physics
Jin-Hui Chen, Li-Sheng Geng, Emiko Hiyama, Zhi-Wei Liu, Josef Pochodzalla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00864

Perspectives for hyperon and hypernuclei physics
Hypernuclei, nuclei containing one or more hyperons, serve as unique laboratories for probing the non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Recent progress in hypernuclear physics, driven by advanced experimental techniques and theoretical innovations, is briefly reviewed with a focus on key findings and unresolved challenges, such as the precise determination of the hypertriton binding energy, investigations of charge symmetry breaking in mirror hypernuclei, and the search for exotic syst…

An Exploration of Internal States in Collaborative Problem Solving
Sifatul Anindho, Videep Venkatesha, Mariah Bradford, Anne M. Cleary, Nathaniel Blanchard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02229

An Exploration of Internal States in Collaborative Problem Solving
Collaborative problem solving (CPS) is a complex cognitive, social, and emotional process that is increasingly prevalent in educational and professional settings. This study investigates the emotional states of individuals during CPS using a mixed-methods approach. Teams of four first completed a novel CPS task. Immediately after, each individual was placed in an isolated room where they reviewed the video of their group performing the task and self-reported their internal experiences throughou…

Style-based Composer Identification and Attribution of Symbolic Music Scores: a Systematic Survey
Federico Simonetta
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Style-based Composer Identification and Attribution of Symbolic Music Scores: a Systematic Survey
This paper presents the first comprehensive systematic review of literature on style-based composer identification and authorship attribution in symbolic music scores. Addressing the critical need for improved reliability and reproducibility in this field, the review rigorously analyzes 58 peer-reviewed papers published across various historical periods, with the search adapted to evolving terminology. The analysis critically assesses prevailing repertoires, computational approaches, and evalua…

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Software Bill of Materials in Software Supply Chain Security A Systematic Literature Review
Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) are increasingly regarded as essential tools for securing software supply chains (SSCs), yet their real-world use and adoption barriers remain poorly understood. This systematic literature review synthesizes evidence from 40 peer-reviewed studies to evaluate how SBOMs are currently used to bolster SSC security. We identify five primary application areas: vulnerability management, transparency, component assessment, risk assessment, and SSC integrity. Despite c…

Chaos, coherence and turbulence
Javier Jimenez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13417 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13417

Chaos, coherence and turbulence
This paper is a personal overview of the efforts over the last half century to understand fluid turbulence in terms of simpler coherent units. The consequences of chaos and the concept of coherence are first reviewed, using examples from free-shear and wall-bounded shear flows, and including how the simplifications due to coherent structures have been useful in the conceptualization and control of turbulence. It is remarked that, even if this approach has revolutionized our understanding of the…

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From Literature to ReWA: Discussing Reproductive Well-being in HCI
Hafsah Mahzabin Chowdhury, Sharifa Sultana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01121 https://

From Literature to ReWA: Discussing Reproductive Well-being in HCI
Reproductive well-being is shaped by intersecting cultural, religious, gendered, and political contexts, yet current technologies often reflect narrow, Western-centric assumptions. In this literature review, we synthesize findings from 147 peer-reviewed papers published between 2015 and 2025 across HCI, CSCW and social computing, ICTD, digital and public health, and AI for well-being scholarship to map the evolving reproductive well-being landscape. We identify three thematic waves that focused…

Software Bill of Materials in Software Supply Chain Security A Systematic Literature Review
Eric O'Donoghue, Yvette Hastings, Ernesto Ortiz, A. Redempta Manzi Muneza
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Software Bill of Materials in Software Supply Chain Security A Systematic Literature Review
Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) are increasingly regarded as essential tools for securing software supply chains (SSCs), yet their real-world use and adoption barriers remain poorly understood. This systematic literature review synthesizes evidence from 40 peer-reviewed studies to evaluate how SBOMs are currently used to bolster SSC security. We identify five primary application areas: vulnerability management, transparency, component assessment, risk assessment, and SSC integrity. Despite c…

Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen: Sand, Wind and Inference
Michael S{\o}rensen
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Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen: Sand, Wind and Inference
This paper reviews Ole Eiler Barndorff-Nielsen's research in the first decades of his career. The focus is on topics that he kept returning to throughout his scientific life, and on papers that he built on in later important contributions. First his early contributions to the foundations of statistical inference are reviewed with focus on conditional inference and exponential families, two topics in which he had a lifelong interest. The second half of the paper reviews his research on wind blow…

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Surface Finishing and Coatings for Accelerator Vacuum Applications
Mauro Taborelli
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Surface Finishing and Coatings for Accelerator Vacuum Applications
The main applications and techniques of thin film coating and plating on vacuum components for particle accelerators are reviewed through significative examples.

Quantum correlation dynamics and in-medium 3$\leftrightarrow$3 collisions of fermions
Wolfgang Cassing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21683 https://

Quantum correlation dynamics and in-medium 3$\leftrightarrow$3 collisions of fermions
In this study we aim for quantifying the role of in-medium 3$\leftrightarrow$3 collisions for systems of fermions which initially are out-off equilibrium. The formulation of the 3-body dynamics is based on the equations of motion method for identical fermions -- also denoted as quantum correlation dynamics -- and presented in detail. The on-shell 2-body collision integral is briefly reviewed and the on-shell 3-body collision integral is derived on the basis of the same two-body interaction in l…

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Simulating the Waterfall Model: A Systematic Review
Antonios Saravanos (New York University)
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Simulating the Waterfall Model: A Systematic Review
This systematic mapping study examines how the Waterfall Model has been represented in computational simulations within peer-reviewed literature. While Agile methodologies dominate contemporary software design practices, the Waterfall Model persists, particularly, within hybrid approaches that fuse structured, sequential workflows with the adaptability of agile practices. Despite its continued presence, little attention has been given to how the Waterfall Model is simulated in research contexts…

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Deep Learning Framework Testing via Model Mutation: How Far Are We?
Yanzhou Mu, Rong Wang, Juan Zhai, Chunrong Fang, Xiang Chen, Zhiyuan Peng, Peiran Yang, Ruixiang Qian, Shaoyu Yang, Zhenyu Chen
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Deep Learning Framework Testing via Model Mutation: How Far Are We?
Deep Learning (DL) frameworks are a fundamental component of DL development. Therefore, the detection of DL framework defects is important and challenging. As one of the most widely adopted DL testing techniques, model mutation has recently gained significant attention. In this study, we revisit the defect detection ability of existing mutation-based testing methods and investigate the factors that influence their effectiveness. To begin with, we reviewed existing methods and observed that many…

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