Tootfinder

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

Storytelling, music and spoken word for Palestine in Portsmouth | Morning Star https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/storytelling-music-and-spoken-word-palestine-portsmouth

Testing Suffixient Sets
Davide Cenzato, Francisco Olivares, Nicola Prezza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08225 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Testing Suffixient Sets
Suffixient sets are a novel prefix array (PA) compression technique based on subsampling PA (rather than compressing the entire array like previous techniques used to do): by storing very few entries of PA (in fact, a compressed number of entries), one can prove that pattern matching via binary search is still possible provided that random access is available on the text. In this paper, we tackle the problems of determining whether a given subset of text positions is (1) a suffixient set or (2)…

Causal Sufficiency and Necessity Improves Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Xiangning Yu, Zhuohan Wang, Linyi Yang, Haoxuan Li, Anjie Liu, Xiao Xue, Jun Wang, Mengyue Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09853

Causal Sufficiency and Necessity Improves Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting plays an indispensable role in endowing large language models (LLMs) with complex reasoning capabilities. However, CoT currently faces two fundamental challenges: (1) Sufficiency, which ensures that the generated intermediate inference steps comprehensively cover and substantiate the final conclusion; and (2) Necessity, which identifies the inference steps that are truly indispensable for the soundness of the resulting answer. We propose a causal framework that …

Shout out to Spigen for still selling phone cases for several generations older phones. I have a Samsung Galaxy S20 FE and my old case literally fell apart, so I looked for a new case and Spigen was still selling them.

A Practical Guide to Tuning Spiking Neuronal Dynamics
William Gebhardt, Alexander G. Ororbia, Nathan McDonald, Clare Thiem, Jack Lombardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08138

A Practical Guide to Tuning Spiking Neuronal Dynamics
In this work, we examine fundamental elements of spiking neural networks (SNNs) as well as how to tune them. Concretely, we focus on two different foundational neuronal units utilized in SNNs -- the leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) and the resonate-and-fire (RAF) neuron. We explore key equations and how hyperparameter values affect behavior. Beyond hyperparameters, we discuss other important design elements of SNNs -- the choice of input encoding and the setup for excitatory-inhibitory population…

I don’t agree in one respect:
Neither OOP nor FP (nor 4GLs nor IDEs nor SOAs nor any of the other new hotnesses past) had anything remotely resembling the current money behind them. None led to companies speculatively laying off tens of thousands of employees for imagined productivity boosts that had not actually arrived yet. None shaped whole election cycles, or led to national proposals for preemptive deregulation. None led to the construction of nuclear power plants or the draining of rivers. None sent oligarchs or fascists into spasmodic wet dreams of world domination. None started quasi-religious cults like EA.
All •that• is the part that feels like blockchain — but even worse, if such a thing is possible.
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Matt Damon as Loki, speaking to a group of greedy, wealthy execs:
"Do you know what makes a human being decent?
Fear.
And therein lies the problem. None of you has anything left to fear any more."
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