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Self-Stabilizing Replicated State Machine Coping with Byzantine and Recurring Transient Faults
Shlomi Dolev, Amit Hendin, Maurice Herlihy, Maria Potop Butucaru, Elad Michael Schiller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12900

Self-Stabilizing Replicated State Machine Coping with Byzantine and Recurring Transient Faults
The ability to perform repeated Byzantine agreement lies at the heart of important applications such as blockchain price oracles or replicated state machines. Any such protocol requires the following properties: (1) \textit{Byzantine fault-tolerance}, because not all participants can be assumed to be honest, (2) r\textit{ecurrent transient fault-tolerance}, because even honest participants may be subject to transient ``glitches'', (3) \textit{accuracy}, because the results of quantitative queri…

Reflections on Tech, Faith, and Justice
This week, I'm talking about yet another Christian-famous person falling from grace. Plus a sad court case, and a few other bits.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/reflections-on-tech-faith-and-justice/

Reflections on Tech, Faith, and Justice – Bob Mueller
DIY wins, tech fixes, Disney stars in space, faith deconstruction, and justice in CCM—this week had it all.

CMI-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Music Instruction Following
Yinghao Ma, Siyou Li, Juntao Yu, Emmanouil Benetos, Akira Maezawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12285 …

CMI-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Music Instruction Following
Recent advances in audio-text large language models (LLMs) have opened new possibilities for music understanding and generation. However, existing benchmarks are limited in scope, often relying on simplified tasks or multi-choice evaluations that fail to reflect the complexity of real-world music analysis. We reinterpret a broad range of traditional MIR annotations as instruction-following formats and introduce CMI-Bench, a comprehensive music instruction following benchmark designed to evaluat…

TMMax: High-performance modeling of multilayer thin-film structures using transfer matrix method with JAX
Bahrem Serhat Danis, Esra Zayim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11341

TMMax: High-performance modeling of multilayer thin-film structures using transfer matrix method with JAX
Optical multilayer thin-films are fundamental components that enable the precise control of reflectance, transmittance, and phase shift in the design of photonic systems. Rapid and accessible simulation of these structures holds critical importance for designing and analyzing complex coatings, such as distributed Bragg reflectors, anti-reflection layers, and spectral filters. While researchers commonly use the traditional transfer matrix method for designing these structures, its scalar approac…

So as @… pointed out, "Sneaky way to include the Russian flag in your official messaging." 🤔
#USpol #dod

Initial ideal of a general rational or elliptic curve on quadrics
Francesca Cioffi, Davide Franco, Giovanna Ilardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12428 https:/…

Initial ideal of a general rational or elliptic curve on quadrics
Over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, we prove that the generic initial ideal with respect to the degree reverse lexicographic term order of a general rational or elliptic curve on quadrics is almost revlex. Following constructive arguments, our proof combines features of a pencil of quadrics, interpolation methods and the notion of double generic initial ideal.

Sources: Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to CEO, replacing Alexandr Wang, who is set to join Meta after its investment in Scale AI (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Scale AI Picks New CEO as Alexandr Wang Set to Join Meta After Investment
Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to serve as its next chief executive officer following a multibillion-dollar investment from Meta Platforms Inc., according to two people familiar with the matter.

Global existence and boundedness in an attraction-repulsion chemotaxis system with nonlocal logistic source and sublinear productions
Gnanasekaran Shanmugasundaram, Nithyadevi Nagarajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08305

Global existence and boundedness in an attraction-repulsion chemotaxis system with nonlocal logistic source and sublinear productions
This paper deals with the following attraction-repulsion chemotaxis system with nonlocal logistic source and sublinear productions \begin{align} \left\{ \begin{array}{rrll} &&u_t = d_1 Δu-χ\nabla\cdot(u^k \nabla v)+ξ\nabla\cdot(u^k \nabla w)+ μu^m \left(1-\int_Ωu(x,t)\dx\right),\hspace*{0.5cm} &x\inΩ,\, t>0,\\ &&v_t = d_2 Δv-αv+f(u), &x\inΩ,\, t>0,\\ &&w_t = d_3 Δw-βw+f(u), &x\inΩ,\, t>0,\\ &&\frac{\partial u}{\partialν} = \frac{\partial v}{\partialν} = \frac{\partial …

BlackRock halted Ukraine recovery fund following Trump victory, France working on replacement, Bloomberg reports
https://kyivindependent.com/blackrock-halted-ukraine-recovery-fund-following-trump-victory-france-working-on-replacement-bloomberg-reports-06-2025/

BlackRock halted Ukraine recovery fund following Trump victory, France working on replacement, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/blackrock-halted-ukraine-recovery-fund.html