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Why a self-hosted blog and not Instagram? #bigtech

Why a self-hosted blog and not Instagram?
You may have asked yourself why we're self-hosting our own blog instead of publishing on social media to potentially reach a wider audience.

Self-hosting is becoming popular among a certain kind of user,
-- say the typical readership of ItsFoss.
There is a simple explanation for this shift:
people want their data, dollars, and destiny back.
Centralized platforms optimized for engagement and extraction are colliding with real-world needs
— privacy, compliance, predictability, and craft.
Linux, containers, and a flood of polished open-source apps have turned what used to be an enthusiast’s pro…

Self-Hosting is Rising and Linux Users are Leading This Revolution
Self‑hosting isn’t anti‑cloud; it’s pro‑agency. It’s choosing the right locus of control for the things you care about.

Cardinals Cover 2 - Self-Scouting Complete, So What Will It Look Like https://www.azcardinals.com/podcasts/cardinals-cover-2-self-scouting-complete-so-what-will-it-look-like

Cowboys vs. Packers NFL player props: Self-Learning AI backing Jordan Love under 234.5 passing yards on SNF

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys

Learning the Neighborhood: Contrast-Free Multimodal Self-Supervised Molecular Graph Pretraining
Boshra Ariguib, Mathias Niepert, Andrei Manolache
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22468

Learning the Neighborhood: Contrast-Free Multimodal Self-Supervised Molecular Graph Pretraining
High-quality molecular representations are essential for property prediction and molecular design, yet large labeled datasets remain scarce. While self-supervised pretraining on molecular graphs has shown promise, many existing approaches either depend on hand-crafted augmentations or complex generative objectives, and often rely solely on 2D topology, leaving valuable 3D structural information underutilized. To address this gap, we introduce C-FREE (Contrast-Free Representation learning on Ego…

CCNeXt: An Effective Self-Supervised Stereo Depth Estimation Approach
Alexandre Lopes, Roberto Souza, Helio Pedrini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22627 https://

CCNeXt: An Effective Self-Supervised Stereo Depth Estimation Approach
Depth Estimation plays a crucial role in recent applications in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality. These scenarios commonly operate under constraints imposed by computational power. Stereo image pairs offer an effective solution for depth estimation since it only needs to estimate the disparity of pixels in image pairs to determine the depth in a known rectified system. Due to the difficulty in acquiring reliable ground-truth depth data across diverse scenarios, self-supervis…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Yalla Miku:
🎵 Maximum Self-Care
#YallaMiku
https://yallamiku.bandcamp.com/track/maximum-self-care
https://open.spotify.com/track/1faaEMR5x5dZuB8x9Rs8br

One-DoF Robotic Design of Overconstrained Limbs with Energy-Efficient, Self-Collision-Free Motion
Yuping Gu, Bangchao Huang, Haoran Sun, Ronghan Xu, Jiayi Yin, Wei Zhang, Fang Wan, Jia Pan, Chaoyang Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22002

One-DoF Robotic Design of Overconstrained Limbs with Energy-Efficient, Self-Collision-Free Motion
While it is expected to build robotic limbs with multiple degrees of freedom (DoF) inspired by nature, a single DoF design remains fundamental, providing benefits that include, but are not limited to, simplicity, robustness, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency. Mechanisms, especially those with multiple links and revolute joints connected in closed loops, play an enabling factor in introducing motion diversity for 1-DoF systems, which are usually constrained by self-collision during a full-cycle…

"In my defense, only three hours on Instagram": Designing Toward Digital Self-Awareness and Wellbeing
Karthik S. Bhat, Jiayue Melissa Shi, Wenxuan Song, Dong Whi Yoo, Koustuv Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21860

"In my defense, only three hours on Instagram": Designing Toward Digital Self-Awareness and Wellbeing
Screen use pervades daily life, shaping work, leisure, and social connections while raising concerns for digital wellbeing. Yet, reducing screen time alone risks oversimplifying technology's role and neglecting its potential for meaningful engagement. We posit self-awareness -- reflecting on one's digital behavior -- as a critical pathway to digital wellbeing. We developed WellScreen, a lightweight probe that scaffolds daily reflection by asking people to estimate and report smartphone use. In …

InfiAgent: Self-Evolving Pyramid Agent Framework for Infinite Scenarios
Chenglin Yu, Yang Yu, Songmiao Wang, Yucheng Wang, Yifan Yang, Jinjia Li, Ming Li, Hongxia Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22502 …

InfiAgent: Self-Evolving Pyramid Agent Framework for Infinite Scenarios
Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in organizing and executing complex tasks, and many such agents are now widely used in various application scenarios. However, developing these agents requires carefully designed workflows, carefully crafted prompts, and iterative tuning, which requires LLM techniques and domain-specific expertise. These hand-crafted limitations hinder the scalability and cost-effectiveness of LLM agents across a wide range of industrie…

Symmetry of concentration and scaling for self-bounding functions
George Crowley, I\~naki Esnaola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22375 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Symmetry of concentration and scaling for self-bounding functions
We prove generalised concentration inequalities for a class of scaled self-bounding functions of independent random variables, referred to as ${(M,a,b)}$ self-bounding. The scaling refers to the fact that the component-wise difference is upper bounded by an arbitrary positive real number $M$ instead of the case $M=1$ previously considered in the literature. Using the entropy method, we derive symmetric bounds for both the upper and lower tails, and study the tightness of the proposed bounds. Ou…

Monday Night Football NFL player props: Self-learning AI backs Jake Browning Over 219.5 passing yards

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/monday-

Coassociative structures on self-injective algebras
Alexandru Chirvasitu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21435 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21435

Coassociative structures on self-injective algebras
For general finite-dimensional self-injective algebra $A$ we construct a family of injective coassociative coproducts $A\to A\otimes A$, all $A$-bimodule morphisms. In particular such structures always exist, confirming a conjecture of Hernandez, Walton and Yadav. The coproducts are indexed by subsets of $\{1,\cdots,m(i)\}\times \{1,\cdots,m(ν^{-1}i)\}$, where $A\cong \mathrm{End}_Λ(M)$ is the general form of a self-injective algebra in terms of a basic Frobenius $Λ$, the $m(i)$, $1\le i\le …

Self-avoiding fluid deformable surfaces
Maik Porrmann, S\"oren Bartels, Axel Voigt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22110 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22110…

Self-avoiding fluid deformable surfaces
We propose a numerical method for fluid deformable surfaces governed by surface Stokes flow and Helfrich bending energy under active growth, aiming to model shape evolution of the epithelium in developmental processes. To prevent self-intersections, which commonly arise under large deformations or low enclosed volume to area ratios, we incorporate the nonlocal tangent-point energy to penalize non-embedded configurations. The resulting formulation is discretized using higher order surface finite…

A therapist details treating ChatGPT as a "patient", describing its programmed self-critique as "a brilliant means of seducing a techno-skeptical therapist" (Gary Greenberg/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/pu…

Putting ChatGPT on the Couch
Gary Greenberg, a psychotherapist, writes about conversations with ChatGPT in which he addresses the bot as he would a patient in therapy.

Interpretable Spectral Features Predict Conductivity in Self-Driving Doped Conjugated Polymer Labs
Ankush Kumar Mishra, Jacob P. Mauthe, Nicholas Luke, Aram Amassian, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21330

Interpretable Spectral Features Predict Conductivity in Self-Driving Doped Conjugated Polymer Labs
Self-driving labs (SDLs) promise faster materials discovery by coupling automation with machine learning, but a central challenge is predicting costly, slow-to-measure properties from inexpensive, automatable readouts. We address this for doped conjugated polymers by learning interpretable spectral fingerprints from optical spectroscopy to predict electrical conductivity. Optical spectra are fast, non-destructive, and sensitive to aggregation and charge generation; we automate their featurizati…

🗞️ I just pressed 'go' on my September newsletter.
You can find it online here: #newsletter

Entropy rates in the dimension theory of self-similar measures
P\'eter P. Varj\'u
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22042 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22042…

Entropy rates in the dimension theory of self-similar measures
This is a survey paper on the dimension theory of self-similar measures focusing on the role of entropy rates.

Coarsening of biomimetic condensates in a self-stirring active fluid
Jeremy Laprade, Layne Frechette, Christopher Amey, Adrielle Cusi, Aparna Baskaran, W. Benjamin Rogers, Guillaume Duclos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21753

Coarsening of biomimetic condensates in a self-stirring active fluid
Coarsening, the process where larger structures grow at the expense of smaller ones, is a fundamental aspect of multiphase systems. The cell cytoplasm exemplifies an out-of-equilibrium multiphase system, where phase-separated condensates nucleate and expand within an active fluid made of biopolymers and energy-dependent enzymes. In this study, we explore how condensates grow in a self-stirring active fluid by examining the coarsening of biomimetic condensates embedded in a 3D reconstituted cyto…

@… @… had a few listed on their latest blog post: https://

dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Killer new self-titled EP by Sydney's BIG MODERN. Great guitar tone & lyrics, dynamics, it's tight, minimal sometimes.. there's some cool surprises on this one and I'm really digging it. And it's on Bandcamp AND Qobuz, which is cool - links below for both.
https://bigmodern.bandcamp.com/album/b

After months without working search, I deleted the elasticsearch 8 container and created a new one with elasticsearch 9. Currently hydrating it with tootctl search deploy. 12.721.688 documents, 2 hours left.
I hate self hosting. (Still thankful to everyone who makes it possible.)

Note to self: En ulempe ved at gå meget tidligt (kl 20.30) fordi man er meget træt, er at man så risikerer at ligge vågen længe efter at have været på toilettet. Arghhh 🥴
Nå, men jeg fik da brugt noget af den ufrivilligt vågne tid på at få kŸbt nogle julegaver til bŸrnene. (YngsteSŸn Ÿnsker sig hŸrbukser - ret cool, synes jeg - og det er jo uden for sæsonen (og måske også Black Friday?), så der var 70 % på mange af dem hos Magasin. Bare et tip, hvis I har nogen der Ÿnsker sig…

Over Thanksgiving I’ve been using TypeScript more, after previous experience with Python typing. Some things are way better. Some are worse.
In Python, you can declare and initialize a field together:
self.foo: int = 5
In TS, you can do this in two ways. You can write in the class declaration
foo: number = 5;
but the expression is evaluated before the constructor(!). Or you can write
constructor(public foo: number)
but this only works if i…

Quantified Self, wisstanoch?

I hope no-one minds the occasional moment of self-promotion. We've all gotta pay the bills.
@… https://mstdn.business/@ecoflap/115633011344656890

Ecoflap Home Draughtproofing (@ecoflap@mstdn.business)
Attached: 4 images Hi #caturday folk. If you're looking for a #draughtproof catflap and would like to buy from a small, family-owned business in the UK then may we suggest our Petflap? It's available in three - soon to be four - standard trunking lenths from 35-70mm (90mm coming soon), bespoke models with long trunking are available and we ship to most countries. You can find us at https://www.thepetflap.com/ Enquiries always welcome. #catsofmastodon

Made the mistake of watching a bit of #BBC #Newsnight. The programme is a shadow of it's former self.
Paddy McConnnel is out of his depth.
I wanted to hear Bel Ribiero Addy's argument about unfair dismissal and the probationary period but a jerk appointed by Starmer talked over her. Then …

In 2013, when #Montreal was deep into its corruption self-investigation, we almost ran out of asphalt.
We'd made a new rule that anyone named during the Charbonneau commission's corruption inquiry was disqualified from being a vendor/supplier for the city.
The hitch was that all of the asphalt suppliers were named. Yes, *all* of them.
So we had to decide “run out of pothole-p…

I ran a poll asking programmers in the Fediverse what age bracket do they belong to.
https://mastodon.social/@rperezrosario/115234900863397017
The poll had 4,839 self-professed computer programmer voters, and received 936 boosts.
Summary:
10-20 years o…

I was cleaning up my desktop and I found this image. I had forgotten about it. It comes from David Holmgren's 'Retrosuburbia'. I'm happy to see my position - towards the rational end of the rational/intuitive spectrum (I always think you need to thoroughly, skeptically question your own beliefs, lest you find wishful thinking or prejudices amongst them), and midway along the "leave nature do it's thing/use design to keep your elbows in" spectrum. Yep, that'…

WPP rolls out WPP Open Pro, a self-serve version of WPP Open, its AI-powered marketing platform that helps marketers build campaigns and develop creative assets (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/agencies/wpp-launch…

WPP Launches a Self-Serve Version of Its AI Platform To Court Small Biz Dollars
British advertising titan WPP is rolling out a self-serve version of WPP Open, its AI marketing platform. 

Slop at work is an act of self rebellion against bureaucracy and must be defended as a basic human right.

"Just like Ulysses on the open sea
On an odyssey of self-discovery"
Para quem gosta de músicas estranhas. Esta é uma de minhas favoritas.
https://youtu.be/8bXZY9tRdLA?si=TIjAqFHctYdaIqGQ

A Characterization of Triangle-Free Cyclic Graphs With Self-Loops Of Rank 3
Johnny Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20158 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20158

A Characterization of Triangle-Free Cyclic Graphs With Self-Loops Of Rank 3
Let $G_S$ be a self-loop graph as the graph obtained by attaching a self-loop at every vertex in $S \subseteq V(G)$ of a simple graph $G.$ If $G=C_n$ is the cycle graphs of order $n$ and $S \neq \emptyset,$ we show that there are no rank 3 self-loop graphs $(C_n)_S$ for $n\geq 5.$ As a consequence, we determine and construct all possible rank 3 triangle-free self-loop cyclic graph of order at least 4 from $(C_4)_S$ via graph join operations. This provides a partial solution to the characterizat…

SSVIF: Self-Supervised Segmentation-Oriented Visible and Infrared Image Fusion
Zixian Zhao, Xingchen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22450 https://arxiv.o…

SSVIF: Self-Supervised Segmentation-Oriented Visible and Infrared Image Fusion
Visible and infrared image fusion (VIF) has gained significant attention in recent years due to its wide application in tasks such as scene segmentation and object detection. VIF methods can be broadly classified into traditional VIF methods and application-oriented VIF methods. Traditional methods focus solely on improving the quality of fused images, while application-oriented VIF methods additionally consider the performance of downstream tasks on fused images by introducing task-specific lo…

Looks like blockchains have finally found a serious use case, just maybe not the one predicted/hoped for...
This article is about #Glassworm, the latest major exploit in JavaScript-land, targetting VSCode and using #Solana as command infrastructure and Google Calendar events as backup. It'…

GlassWorm: First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX Marketplace | Koi Blog

I don't envy "vibe coders". I mean, let's for a minute assume that their vision is not a pipe dream, but an accurate prediction of the future.
For a start, what's their plan for life? Driving a tool whose primary selling point is that anyone can use it. And I'm not even talking about all the inside competition. I'm talking of people realizing that they can cut the middleperson and do the coding themselves.
The way I see it, vibe coders are a bit like typists (with no offense to typists). Their profession is a product of a novelty. And just like typists largely disappeared when typewriters and then computers became commonplace, so are vibe coders bound to disappear when vibe coding becomes commonplace.
And are true programmers going to become obsolete? Well, let me ask you: did the proliferation of cars and corresponding self-service skills render car mechanics obsolete? On the contrary. The way I see it, the proliferation of slopcode will only make competent programmers ever the more necessary.
What vibe coders are saying is basically this: "This new automated self-service kit makes car maintenance so easy. Car mechanics will become obsolete now. Everyone's just going to hire *me* to run this kit instead."
#AI #LLM #VibeCoding

StepORLM: A Self-Evolving Framework With Generative Process Supervision For Operations Research Language Models
Chenyu Zhou, Tianyi Xu, Jianghao Lin, Dongdong Ge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22558

StepORLM: A Self-Evolving Framework With Generative Process Supervision For Operations Research Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising capabilities for solving Operations Research (OR) problems. While reinforcement learning serves as a powerful paradigm for LLM training on OR problems, existing works generally face two key limitations. First, outcome reward suffers from the credit assignment problem, where correct final answers can reinforce flawed reasoning. Second, conventional discriminative process supervision is myopic, failing to evaluate the interdependent steps of OR mo…

Zijn hier debatten over geweest? Die heb ik dan gemist
https://www.autoblog.nl/nieuws/nederland-eerste-eu-land-waar-tesla-full-self-driving-legaal-is-7182233

Learn the Ropes, Then Trust the Wins: Self-imitation with Progressive Exploration for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
Yulei Qin, Xiaoyu Tan, Zhengbao He, Gang Li, Haojia Lin, Zongyi Li, Zihan Xu, Yuchen Shi, Siqi Cai, Renting Rui, Shaofei Cai, Yuzheng Cai, Xuan Zhang, Sheng Ye, Ke Li, Xing Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22601

Learn the Ropes, Then Trust the Wins: Self-imitation with Progressive Exploration for Agentic Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning (RL) is the dominant paradigm for sharpening strategic tool use capabilities of LLMs on long-horizon, sparsely-rewarded agent tasks, yet it faces a fundamental challenge of exploration-exploitation trade-off. Existing studies stimulate exploration through the lens of policy entropy, but such mechanical entropy maximization is prone to RL training instability due to the multi-turn distribution shifting. In this paper, we target the progressive exploration-exploitation bala…

Sonnet 109 - CIX
O! never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify,
As easy might I from my self depart
As from my soul which in thy breast doth lie:
That is my home of love: if I have ranged,
Like him that travels, I return again;
Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,
So that myself bring water for my stain.
Never believe though in my nature reigned,
All frailties that besiege all kinds …

Tesla influencers just tried Elon Musk’s coast-to-coast self-driving challenge from 2017, crashed before 60 miles | Electrek https://electrek.co/2025/09/21/tesla-influencers-tried-elon-musk-coast-to-coast-self-driving-crashed-be…

So yeah if you want advice how to be a better programmer, start by not self-marinating in the false admiration of the worst obsequious yes-man incel basement dwellers just to feel something
#lifehacks

Paranoid shooter named Nigel Max Edge is in custody for firing upon crowded #CapeFear Carolina shore bar , apparently under his #MarineCorps era moniker Sean William DeBevoise also had self published a book avail on AMZ called #Headshot

Can Large Language Models Autoformalize Kinematics?
Aditi Kabra, Jonathan Laurent, Sagar Bharadwaj, Ruben Martins, Stefan Mitsch, Andr\'e Platzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21840

Can Large Language Models Autoformalize Kinematics?
Autonomous cyber-physical systems like robots and self-driving cars could greatly benefit from using formal methods to reason reliably about their control decisions. However, before a problem can be solved it needs to be stated. This requires writing a formal physics model of the cyber-physical system, which is a complex task that traditionally requires human expertise and becomes a bottleneck. This paper experimentally studies whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can automate the formalizati…

Dual-Language General-Purpose Self-Hosted Visual Language and new Textual Programming Language for Applications
Mahmoud Samir Fayed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20426 https://

Dual-Language General-Purpose Self-Hosted Visual Language and new Textual Programming Language for Applications
Most visual programming languages (VPLs) are domain-specific, with few general-purpose VPLs like Programming Without Coding Technology (PWCT). These general-purpose VPLs are developed using textual programming languages and improving them requires textual programming. In this thesis, we designed and developed PWCT2, a dual-language (Arabic/English), general-purpose, self-hosting visual programming language. Before doing so, we specifically designed a textual programming language called Ring for…

GlassWorm: First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX Marketplace
A month after Shai Hulud became the first self-propagating worm in the npm ecosystem, we just discovered the world's first worm targeting VS Code extensions on OpenVSX marketplace.
🐛 https://www.

GlassWorm: First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX Marketplace | Koi Blog

OpenAI launches new ChatGPT parental safety controls for users aged 13 to 18, including parental and law enforcement alerts for chats about self-harm or suicide (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-teen-safety-tools-chatgpt-parents-s…

OpenAI Adds Parental Safety Controls for Teen ChatGPT Users. Here’s What to Expect
OpenAI’s review process for teenage ChatGPT users who are flagged for suicidal ideation includes human moderators. Parents can expect an alert about alarming prompts within hours.

Nonlocal Games and Self-tests in the Presence of Noise
Honghao Fu, Minglong Qin, Haochen Xu, Penghui Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20350 https://arxiv.org…

Nonlocal Games and Self-tests in the Presence of Noise
Self-testing is a key characteristic of certain nonlocal games, which allow one to uniquely determine the underlying quantum state and measurement operators used by the players, based solely on their observed input-output correlations [MY04]. Motivated by the limitations of current quantum devices, we study self-testing in the high-noise regime, where the two players are restricted to sharing many copies of a noisy entangled state with an arbitrary constant noise rate. In this setting, many exi…

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.CT. https://arxiv.org/list/math.CT/new
[1/1]:
- Coassociative structures on self-injective algebras
Alexandru Chirvasitu
h…

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

From Indexing to Coding: A New Paradigm for Data Availability Sampling
Moritz Grundei, Aayush Rajasekaran, Kishori Konwar, Muriel Medard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21586 https:/…

From Indexing to Coding: A New Paradigm for Data Availability Sampling
The data availability problem is a central challenge in blockchain systems and lies at the core of the accessibility and scalability issues faced by platforms such as Ethereum. Modern solutions employ several approaches, with data availability sampling (DAS) being the most self-sufficient and minimalistic in its security assumptions. Existing DAS methods typically form cryptographic commitments on codewords of fixed-rate erasure codes, which restrict light nodes to sampling from a predetermined…

What rural folks don’t understand about city life
The wages of our well-paid college graduates support the
self-righteous people in red America

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/28/city-life-chicago-v…

What rural folks don’t understand about city life
Urban urbanity: Chicago, New York and San Francisco through readers’ eyes.

An $L$-function Approach to Two-Dimensional Conformal Field Theory
Eric Perlmutter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21672 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21672…

An $L$-function Approach to Two-Dimensional Conformal Field Theory
We introduce a framework for two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) in the language of analytic number theory. Attached to the torus partition function of every two-dimensional CFT is a self-dual, degree-4 $L$-function of root number $\varepsilon=1$, with a universal gamma factor determined by $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ and local conformal invariance. Due to the richness of CFT operator spectra, these are not, in general, standard $L$-functions. We explicate their analytic structure, exploring th…

Here's my latest Human Meme podcast about self-awareness and consciousness:
https://humanmeme.com/the-mirror-and-the-machine-a-meditation-on-consciousness-and-self-awareness

"Self-hosting DNS for no fun, but a little profit!" – Morten Linderud
https://linderud.dev/blog/self-hosting-dns-for-no-fun-but-a-little-profit/

Ravens vs. Dolphins NFL player props: Self-learning AI backs Lamar Jackson under 237.5 passing yards on TNF

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ravens-dolphins-…

Replaced article(s) found for nlin.AO. https://arxiv.org/list/nlin.AO/new
[1/1]:
- Dual Reinforcement Learning Synergy in Resource Allocation: Emergence of Self-Organized Momentum ...
Zhen-Na Zhang, Guo-Zhong Zhen, Li Chen, Chao-Ran Cai, Sheng-Feng Deng, Bin-Quan Li, Ji-Qiang Zhang
…

Anderson self-localization of light in pair plasmas
Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University), Victor Gurarie (University of Colorado)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20594 https://

Anderson self-localization of light in pair plasmas
We demonstrate that in pair plasma weakly nonlinear electromagnetic waves, $a_0 \leq 1$, experience Anderson self-localization. The beat between the driver and a back-scattered wave creates random, charge-neutral, large density fluctuations $δρ/ρ\gg 1$, and corresponding random fluctuations of the dielectric permittivity $ε$. Propagating in quasi-1D, waves in a medium with spatially random, time-varying, self-created fluctuations of dielectric permeability experience localization. Anderson …

Online Adaptation via Dual-Stage Alignment and Self-Supervision for Fast-Calibration Brain-Computer Interfaces
Sheng-Bin Duan, Jian-Long Hao, Tian-Yu Xiang, Xiao-Hu Zhou, Mei-Jiang Gui, Xiao-Liang Xie, Shi-Qi Liu, Zeng-Guang Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19403

Online Adaptation via Dual-Stage Alignment and Self-Supervision for Fast-Calibration Brain-Computer Interfaces
Individual differences in brain activity hinder the online application of electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain computer interface (BCI) systems. To overcome this limitation, this study proposes an online adaptation algorithm for unseen subjects via dual-stage alignment and self-supervision. The alignment process begins by applying Euclidean alignment in the EEG data space and then updates batch normalization statistics in the representation space. Moreover, a self-supervised loss is designed …

Geno Smith Gives Blunt Message After Raiders Loss to Bears https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-blunt-message-loss-bears/?adt_ei=[email]

⚙️ Flexible configuration options including temperature control, context windows, timeouts & customizable prompts for fine-tuned responses
🌐 https://tighten.com/insights/build-private-self-hosted-ai-applications-with-ollama-and-laravel/

Self-organization mechanism in Bridgman-grown MnBi2Te4/(Bi2Te3)n: influence on layer sequence and magnetic properties
Pawe{\l} Skupi\'nski, Kamil Sobczak, Katarzyna Gas, Anna Reszka, Yadhu K. Edathumkandy, Jakub Majewski, Krzysztof Grasza, Maciej Sawicki, Agnieszka Wo{\l}o\'s
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22303

Self-organization mechanism in Bridgman-grown MnBi2Te4/(Bi2Te3)n: influence on layer sequence and magnetic properties
The growth of high-quality magnetic topological insulator crystals by the Bridgman method remains challenging due to thermodynamic limitations inherent to this technique. Nevertheless, this approach continues to provide bulk materials with significantly reduced free carrier concentrations compared to epitaxial methods. Here, we investigate the Inverted Vertical Bridgman growth of MnBi2Te4/(Bi2Te3)n crystals, with particular emphasis on the structural ordering of MnBi2Te4 septuple layers within …

The Holistic Health Podcast
Each week Nat and Amie will bring you accessible, practical and insightful information on how to upgrade your health, self and environment to truly thrive...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/holistic-health…

A regret minimization approach to fixed-point iterations
Joon Kwon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21653 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21653

A regret minimization approach to fixed-point iterations
We propose a conversion scheme that turns regret minimizing algorithms into fixed point iterations, with convergence guarantees following from regret bounds. The resulting iterations can be seen as a grand extension of the classical Krasnoselskii--Mann iterations, as the latter are recovered by converting the Online Gradient Descent algorithm. This approach yields new simple iterations for finding fixed points of non-self operators. We also focus on converting algorithms from the AdaGrad family…

"The 65-year-old was exactly what I’d been hoping for: sincere, funny, anguished, a little crotchety, self-aware about his own grandiosity and, as always, unafraid to let it fly."

please enjoy: my Wasm-hosted, Wasm-targeting build of Clang/Clang /LLD: a self-contained, 25 MiB (gzipped) pure function
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@yowasp/clang

An overview of neural architectures for self-supervised audio representation learning from masked spectrograms
Sarthak Yadav, Sergios Theodoridis, Zheng-Hua Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18691

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting

Damn.. the new #Cloudron UI revamp is sick 😲 loving it! https://cloudron.io

Cloudron - Complete solution for self-hosting
Cloudron the best platform for self-hosting web apps.

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: You CANNOT reject a direct command.
BLAKE: Justify that rejection, please.
ZEN: Your command reduces to an order to self-destruct. This runs counter to Prime Directive.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/146 B7B4

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Uber plans to launch its first robotaxi in the San Francisco Bay Area in late 2026, built on Lucid's Gravity SUV, after testing 100 cars in the coming months (Dee-Ann Durbin/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/uber-robotaxi-…

Uber to deploy Lucid-powered robotaxi fleet in San Francisco
Uber said Wednesday that the San Francisco Bay Area will be the first market for its specially built autonomous taxi, which is expected to launch in late 2026. The San Francisco-based ride-hailing company said in July it was developing a robotaxi with the electric car company Lucid and the self-driving technology company Nuro Inc. Uber said it plans to have 100 test vehicles on the road in the coming months. Within six years, Uber plans to deploy 20,000 or more Lucid-based autonomous taxis in m…

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Judicious partitions for restricted self-sumsets in cyclic groups
Keane Maverick Irawan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20568 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20568…

Judicious partitions for restricted self-sumsets in cyclic groups
We study the minimax problem for restricted two-fold self-sumsets in $k$-colorings of $\mathbb{Z}_n$. For primes $p$ with $2\le k\le p$ we determine the exact minimum $\max\{0,\,2\lceil p/k\rceil-3\}$. For general $n$ (with $m=\lceil n/k\rceil$) we bound the optimum between a size term $\min\{p(n),\,2m-3\}$ and a periodicity term $f\big(n/q(n,k)\big)$, and show these bounds are tight when $2m-3\le p(n)$ or $f\big(n/q(n,k)\big)\le \min\{p(n),\,2m-3\}$. We further prove a stability inequality and…

I guess it’s just around the corner, like self-driving cars and Mars colonies https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115618976760392070

Estimating the Self-Consistency of LLMs
Robert Nowak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19489 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19489

Estimating the Self-Consistency of LLMs
Systems often repeat the same prompt to large language models (LLMs) and aggregate responses to improve reliability. This short note analyzes an estimator of the self-consistency of LLMs and the tradeoffs it induces under a fixed compute budget $B=mn$, where $m$ is the number of prompts sampled from the task distribution and $n$ is the number of repeated LLM calls per prompt; the resulting analysis favors a rough split $m,n\propto\sqrt{B}$.

Jets' Fields says benching took him by surprise https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47111846/jets-fields-surprised-benching-sees-self-qb1

Self-evolved Imitation Learning in Simulated World
Yifan Ye, Jun Cen, Jing Chen, Zhihe Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19460 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19460…

Self-evolved Imitation Learning in Simulated World
Imitation learning has been a trend recently, yet training a generalist agent across multiple tasks still requires large-scale expert demonstrations, which are costly and labor-intensive to collect. To address the challenge of limited supervision, we propose Self-Evolved Imitation Learning (SEIL), a framework that progressively improves a few-shot model through simulator interactions. The model first attempts tasksin the simulator, from which successful trajectories are collected as new demonst…

Sonnet 038 - XXXVIII
How can my muse want subject to invent,
While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse
Thine own sweet argument, too excellent
For every vulgar paper to rehearse?
O! give thy self the thanks, if aught in me
Worthy perusal stand against thy sight;
For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,
When thou thy self dost give invention light?
Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth
Than those old n…

Self-embeddings of homogeneous self-similar sets generated by three maps
Zhiqiang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18202 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18202

Self-embeddings of homogeneous self-similar sets generated by three maps
For $0< ρ< 1/3$ and $ρ\le λ\le 1-2ρ$, let $E$ be the self-similar set generated by the iterated function system $$Φ= \big\{ φ_1(x) = ρx ,\; φ_2(x) = ρx + λ, \; φ_3(x) = ρx + 1- ρ\big\}.$$ All contractive similitudes $f$ with $f(E) \subset E$ are characterized: one can find $i_1, i_2, \ldots, i_n \in \{1,2,3\}$ such that \[ f(E)=φ_{i_1} \circ φ_{i_2} \circ \cdots \circ φ_{i_n} (E). \]

HyCoVAD: A Hybrid SSL-LLM Model for Complex Video Anomaly Detection
Mohammad Mahdi Hemmatyar, Mahdi Jafari, Mohammad Amin Yousefi, Mohammad Reza Nemati, Mobin Azadani, Hamid Reza Rastad, Amirmohammad Akbari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22544

HyCoVAD: A Hybrid SSL-LLM Model for Complex Video Anomaly Detection
Video anomaly detection (VAD) is crucial for intelligent surveillance, but a significant challenge lies in identifying complex anomalies, which are events defined by intricate relationships and temporal dependencies among multiple entities rather than by isolated actions. While self-supervised learning (SSL) methods effectively model low-level spatiotemporal patterns, they often struggle to grasp the semantic meaning of these interactions. Conversely, large language models (LLMs) offer powerful…

Colts' Shane Steichen self-evaluating play calls after collapse to Chiefs https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-shane-steichen-self-evaluating-play-calls-after-collapse-to-chiefs

MACD: Multi-Agent Clinical Diagnosis with Self-Learned Knowledge for LLM
Wenliang Li, Rui Yan, Xu Zhang, Li Chen, Hongji Zhu, Jing Zhao, Junjun Li, Mengru Li, Wei Cao, Zihang Jiang, Wei Wei, Kun Zhang, Shaohua Kevin Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20067

MACD: Multi-Agent Clinical Diagnosis with Self-Learned Knowledge for LLM
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated notable potential in medical applications, yet they face substantial challenges in handling complex real-world clinical diagnoses using conventional prompting methods. Current prompt engineering and multi-agent approaches typically optimize isolated inferences, neglecting the accumulation of reusable clinical experience. To address this, this study proposes a novel Multi-Agent Clinical Diagnosis (MACD) framework, which allows LLMs to self-learn cli…

EvoMail: Self-Evolving Cognitive Agents for Adaptive Spam and Phishing Email Defense
Wei Huang, De-Tian Chu, Lin-Yuan Bai, Wei Kang, Hai-Tao Zhang, Bo Li, Zhi-Mo Han, Jing Ge, Hai-Feng Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21129

EvoMail: Self-Evolving Cognitive Agents for Adaptive Spam and Phishing Email Defense
Modern email spam and phishing attacks have evolved far beyond keyword blacklists or simple heuristics. Adversaries now craft multi-modal campaigns that combine natural-language text with obfuscated URLs, forged headers, and malicious attachments, adapting their strategies within days to bypass filters. Traditional spam detection systems, which rely on static rules or single-modality models, struggle to integrate heterogeneous signals or to continuously adapt, leading to rapid performance degra…

Deblock, an app that lets users manage fiat and digital assets in one place by linking a bank account with a self-owned crypto wallet, raised a €30M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/19/deblock-secures-eur30m-series…

Deblock secures €30M Series A to expand on-chain banking in Europe
French crypto-banking startup Deblock has secured €30 million in Series A funding led by Speedinvest, alongside CommerzVentures and Latitude. Existing investors 20VC, Headline, Chalfen Ventures, and Kraken Ventures also participated in the round. Deblock offers a fully on-chain banking solution in Europe that combines features of a traditional bank account with on-chain self-custody. By linking a euro current account with a personal, self-owned crypto wallet, the platform allows users t…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[2/9]:
- SEDM: Scalable Self-Evolving Distributed Memory for Agents
Haoran Xu, Jiacong Hu, Ke Zhang, Lei Yu, Yuxin Tang, Xinyuan Song, Yiqun Duan, Lynn Ai, Bill Shi

Instruction-tuned Self-Questioning Framework for Multimodal Reasoning
You-Won Jang, Yu-Jung Heo, Jaeseok Kim, Minsu Lee, Du-Seong Chang, Byoung-Tak Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21251

Instruction-tuned Self-Questioning Framework for Multimodal Reasoning
The field of vision-language understanding has been actively researched in recent years, thanks to the development of Large Language Models~(LLMs). However, it still needs help with problems requiring multi-step reasoning, even for very simple questions. Recent studies adopt LLMs to tackle this problem by iteratively generating sub-questions and answers. However, there are disadvantages such as 1) the fine-grained visual contents of images are not available using LLMs that cannot read visual in…

Monday Night Football NFL player props, Week 8: Self-learning AI says Marcus Mariota goes Under 199.5 yards

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-player-props-mond…

The Emergence of Altruism in Large-Language-Model Agents Society
Haoyang Li, Xiao Jia, Zhanzhan Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22537 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

The Emergence of Altruism in Large-Language-Model Agents Society
Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for social simulation is a frontier in computational social science. Understanding the social logics these agents embody is critical to this attempt. However, existing research has primarily focused on cooperation in small-scale, task-oriented games, overlooking how altruism, which means sacrificing self-interest for collective benefit, emerges in large-scale agent societies. To address this gap, we introduce a Schelling-variant urban migration model that…

RoSe: Robust Self-supervised Stereo Matching under Adverse Weather Conditions
Yun Wang, Junjie Hu, Junhui Hou, Chenghao Zhang, Renwei Yang, Dapeng Oliver Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19165

Cowboys overcome self-inflicted wounds vs. Eagles for future-altering win, keep playoff hopes alive

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys

Chinese state media: China's new five-year development plan aims to achieve tech self-reliance and expand the domestic market, after a four-day CCP conclave (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-23/…

petster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Estimating the Self-Consistency of LLMs
Robert Nowak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19489 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19489

Estimating the Self-Consistency of LLMs
Systems often repeat the same prompt to large language models (LLMs) and aggregate responses to improve reliability. This short note analyzes an estimator of the self-consistency of LLMs and the tradeoffs it induces under a fixed compute budget $B=mn$, where $m$ is the number of prompts sampled from the task distribution and $n$ is the number of repeated LLM calls per prompt; the resulting analysis favors a rough split $m,n\propto\sqrt{B}$.

Blind-Spot Guided Diffusion for Self-supervised Real-World Denoising
Shen Cheng, Haipeng Li, Haibin Huang, Xiaohong Liu, Shuaicheng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16091 https://…

Blind-Spot Guided Diffusion for Self-supervised Real-World Denoising
In this work, we present Blind-Spot Guided Diffusion, a novel self-supervised framework for real-world image denoising. Our approach addresses two major challenges: the limitations of blind-spot networks (BSNs), which often sacrifice local detail and introduce pixel discontinuities due to spatial independence assumptions, and the difficulty of adapting diffusion models to self-supervised denoising. We propose a dual-branch diffusion framework that combines a BSN-based diffusion branch, generati…

MACD: Multi-Agent Clinical Diagnosis with Self-Learned Knowledge for LLM
Wenliang Li, Rui Yan, Xu Zhang, Li Chen, Hongji Zhu, Jing Zhao, Junjun Li, Mengru Li, Wei Cao, Zihang Jiang, Wei Wei, Kun Zhang, Shaohua Kevin Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20067

MACD: Multi-Agent Clinical Diagnosis with Self-Learned Knowledge for LLM
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated notable potential in medical applications, yet they face substantial challenges in handling complex real-world clinical diagnoses using conventional prompting methods. Current prompt engineering and multi-agent approaches typically optimize isolated inferences, neglecting the accumulation of reusable clinical experience. To address this, this study proposes a novel Multi-Agent Clinical Diagnosis (MACD) framework, which allows LLMs to self-learn cli…

Agentic Metacognition: Designing a "Self-Aware" Low-Code Agent for Failure Prediction and Human Handoff
Jiexi Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19783 https://

Agentic Metacognition: Designing a "Self-Aware" Low-Code Agent for Failure Prediction and Human Handoff
The inherent non-deterministic nature of autonomous agents, particularly within low-code/no-code (LCNC) environments, presents significant reliability challenges. Agents can become trapped in unforeseen loops, generate inaccurate outputs, or encounter unrecoverable failures, leading to user frustration and a breakdown of trust. This report proposes a novel architectural pattern to address these issues: the integration of a secondary, "metacognitive" layer that actively monitors the primary LCNC…

Calibrated Reasoning: An Explanatory Verifier for Dynamic and Efficient Problem-Solving
Anisha Garg, Engin Tekin, Yash More, David Bick, Nishit Neema, Ganesh Venkatesh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19681 …

Calibrated Reasoning: An Explanatory Verifier for Dynamic and Efficient Problem-Solving
Advanced test-time computing strategies are essential for scaling reasoning models, but their effectiveness is capped by the models' poor self-evaluation. We propose a pairwise Explanatory Verifier, trained via reinforcement learning (GRPO), that produces calibrated confidence scores and associated natural language reasoning for generated solutions. Our verifier improves the accuracy and efficiency of test-time strategies like best-of-n and self-reflection. Crucially, it excels at identifying c…