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„As the state imposed a sweeping information blackout and advanced claims blaming foreign agents for the violence, this brutality has nonetheless been met with a striking absence of sustained outrage in spaces that otherwise position themselves as opponents of state violence. Among Western progressives, the response has largely been silence.“

Regarding the Erasure of Iranian Uprising - TripleAmpersand Journal (&&&)
The most recent state crackdown on Iranian protesters stands among the most violent suppressions of public dissent in Iran’s modern history. Protesters have been killed, blinded, and mass-arrested. As the state imposed a sweeping information blackout and advanced claims blaming foreign agents for the violence, this brutality has nonetheless been met with a striking absence… Read More »

Counterpoint: India smartphone shipments were flat YoY at ~153M; Apple shipped 14M iPhones, raising its share of shipments to a record 9%, up from 7% in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/appl

Apple iPhone just had its best year in India as the smartphone market stays broadly flat | TechCrunch
Apple shipped a record 14 million iPhones in India in 2025 and gained market share.

Very close recording of fascist paramilitary invaders brutalizing and murdering a community member in front of Glam Doll Donuts (Minneapolis, MN - 01/24/26)
Source:
#politics

Probing Dec-POMDP Reasoning in Cooperative MARL
Kale-ab Tessera, Leonard Hinckeldey, Riccardo Zamboni, David Abel, Amos Storkey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20804 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20804 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20804
arXiv:2602.20804v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is typically framed as a decentralised partially observable Markov decision process (Dec-POMDP), a setting whose hardness stems from two key challenges: partial observability and decentralised coordination. Genuinely solving such tasks requires Dec-POMDP reasoning, where agents use history to infer hidden states and coordinate based on local information. Yet it remains unclear whether popular benchmarks actually demand this reasoning or permit success via simpler strategies. We introduce a diagnostic suite combining statistically grounded performance comparisons and information-theoretic probes to audit the behavioural complexity of baseline policies (IPPO and MAPPO) across 37 scenarios spanning MPE, SMAX, Overcooked, Hanabi, and MaBrax. Our diagnostics reveal that success on these benchmarks rarely requires genuine Dec-POMDP reasoning. Reactive policies match the performance of memory-based agents in over half the scenarios, and emergent coordination frequently relies on brittle, synchronous action coupling rather than robust temporal influence. These findings suggest that some widely used benchmarks may not adequately test core Dec-POMDP assumptions under current training paradigms, potentially leading to over-optimistic assessments of progress. We release our diagnostic tooling to support more rigorous environment design and evaluation in cooperative MARL.
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Digitalminister Wildberger: Bei Staatsmodernisierung "brutal fokussieren"
Weniger Bürokratie, sinnvollere Strukturen: Das Digitalministerium will die Verwaltung entwirren – und sammelt dafür Hinweise auf einem neuen Portal.

For #GrindayFriday, Czech Republic's oldschool-style grinders SIEGE CONTROL and their new self titled EP. This is nine brutal songs, very inspired by early 80s grind, but they still kinda maintain that modern feel, too. This was all recorded direct from a rehearsal room, and it sounds impressive as FUCK, especially for that.

recent-ish reading/rereading. #books

Perovskite solar cells just cleared a major hurdle toward commercialization.
Researchers developed a new two-dimensional interlayer that kept modules running at 95% efficiency after 5,000 hours of brutal light, heat, and UV exposure. The breakthrough uses neutral triazine molecules and co-crystal engineering that slots right into existing manufacturing lines.

Researchers achieve record perovskite solar module stability under light, heat, and UV stress
An international research team has developed a new two-dimensional perovskite interlayer based on a co-crystal engineering strategy for more robust perovskite films. It demonstrated improved performance in small area perovskite solar cells and, in a 48 cm2 module, contributed to retain 95% of initial efficiency after 5,000 h.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
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- Performance Asymmetry in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Jing Yu Lim, Rushi Shah, Zarif Ikram, Samson Yu, Haozhe Ma, Tze-Yun Leong, Dianbo Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19698 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114578810521008766
- Towards Robust Real-World Multivariate Time Series Forecasting: A Unified Framework for Dependenc...
Jinkwan Jang, Hyungjin Park, Jinmyeong Choi, Taesup Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08660 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114664238967892509
- Wasserstein Barycenter Soft Actor-Critic
Zahra Shahrooei, Ali Baheri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10167 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114675175949432731
- Foundation Models for Causal Inference via Prior-Data Fitted Networks
Yuchen Ma, Dennis Frauen, Emil Javurek, Stefan Feuerriegel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10914 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114675529854402158
- FREQuency ATTribution: benchmarking frequency-based occlusion for time series data
Dominique Mercier, Andreas Dengel, Sheraz Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18481 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114738421450807709
- Complexity-aware fine-tuning
Andrey Goncharov, Daniil Vyazhev, Petr Sychev, Edvard Khalafyan, Alexey Zaytsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21220 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114754764750730849
- Transfer Learning in Infinite Width Feature Learning Networks
Clarissa Lauditi, Blake Bordelon, Cengiz Pehlevan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04448 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114818005803079705
- A hierarchy tree data structure for behavior-based user segment representation
Liu, Kang, Iyer, Malik, Li, Wang, Lu, Zhao, Wang, Liu, Liu, Liang, Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01115 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114975999992144374
- One-Step Flow Q-Learning: Addressing the Diffusion Policy Bottleneck in Offline Reinforcement Lea...
Thanh Nguyen, Chang D. Yoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13904 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115060568241390847
- Uncertainty Propagation Networks for Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
Hadi Jahanshahi, Zheng H. Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16815 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115094785677272005
- Learning Unified Representations from Heterogeneous Data for Robust Heart Rate Modeling
Zhengdong Huang, Zicheng Xie, Wentao Tian, Jingyu Liu, Lunhong Dong, Peng Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21785 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115128450608548173
- Monte Carlo Tree Diffusion with Multiple Experts for Protein Design
Liu, Cao, Jiang, Luo, Duan, Wang, Sosnick, Xu, Stevens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15796 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115247429156900905
- From Samples to Scenarios: A New Paradigm for Probabilistic Forecasting
Xilin Dai, Zhijian Xu, Wanxu Cai, Qiang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19975 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115264498084813952
- Why High-rank Neural Networks Generalize?: An Algebraic Framework with RKHSs
Yuka Hashimoto, Sho Sonoda, Isao Ishikawa, Masahiro Ikeda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21895 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115287261047939306
- From Parameters to Behaviors: Unsupervised Compression of the Policy Space
Davide Tenedini, Riccardo Zamboni, Mirco Mutti, Marcello Restelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22566 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115287379672141023
- RHYTHM: Reasoning with Hierarchical Temporal Tokenization for Human Mobility
Haoyu He, Haozheng Luo, Yan Chen, Qi R. Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23115 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115293273559547106
- Polychromic Objectives for Reinforcement Learning
Jubayer Ibn Hamid, Ifdita Hasan Orney, Ellen Xu, Chelsea Finn, Dorsa Sadigh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25424 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115298579764580635
- Recursive Self-Aggregation Unlocks Deep Thinking in Large Language Models
Siddarth Venkatraman, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26626 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115298789487177431
- Cautious Weight Decay
Chen, Li, Liang, Su, Xie, Pierse, Liang, Lao, Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12402 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115377759317818093
- TeamFormer: Shallow Parallel Transformers with Progressive Approximation
Wei Wang, Xiao-Yong Wei, Qing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15425 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115405933861293858
- Latent-Augmented Discrete Diffusion Models
Dario Shariatian, Alain Durmus, Umut Simsekli, Stefano Peluchetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18114 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115417332500265972
- Predicting Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease using Machine Learning Method...
Mary E. An, Paul Griffin, Jonathan G. Stine, Ramakrishna Balakrishnan, Soundar Kumara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22293 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115451746201804373
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Sources and a memo: Amazon plans to cut 370 jobs, or ~8.5% of its 4,370 employees, at its European HQ in Luxembourg, the country's biggest layoffs in 20 years (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20