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Trump, the Self-Styled "President of PEACE" Abroad, Makes War at Home (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/trump-the-self-styled-president-of-peace-abroad-makes-war-at-home
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p127#a251009p127

Sonnet 004 - IV
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
For having traffic with thy self alone,
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dos…

Mitigating Attention Localization in Small Scale: Self-Attention Refinement via One-step Belief Propagation
Nakyung Lee, Yeongoon Kim, Minhae Oh, Suhwan Kim, Jin Woo Koo, Hyewon Jo, Jungwoo Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07324

Mitigating Attention Localization in Small Scale: Self-Attention Refinement via One-step Belief Propagation
Transformer-based self-attention mechanism serves as the core of modern language models, yet it often suffers from localization, where attentions collapse onto a limited subset of tokens and fail to capture long-range dependencies. To address this issue, we propose Self-Attention One-step Belief Propagation (SAOBP), a refinement framework that injects multi-hop relationships through a belief propagation process. To interpret and quantify these interactions, we introduce Global Token Dependency …

As US schools adopt AI, a look at the growing use of AI-powered monitoring tools like GoGuardian to scan students' chatbot conversations for signs of self-harm (Janne Knodler/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

AI Chatbot Surveillance Tools Are Quietly Watching Kids In Class
As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.

Kernel VICReg for Self-Supervised Learning in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space
M. Hadi Sepanj, Benyamin Ghojogh, Paul Fieguth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07289 https://

Kernel VICReg for Self-Supervised Learning in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space
Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for representation learning by optimizing geometric objectives--such as invariance to augmentations, variance preservation, and feature decorrelation--without requiring labels. However, most existing methods operate in Euclidean space, limiting their ability to capture nonlinear dependencies and geometric structures. In this work, we propose Kernel VICReg, a novel self-supervised learning framework that lifts the VICReg objective…

Self-supervised Physics-guided Model with Implicit Representation Regularization for Fast MRI Reconstruction
Jingran Xu, Yuanyuan Liu, Yanjie Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06611

Self-supervised Physics-guided Model with Implicit Representation Regularization for Fast MRI Reconstruction
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a vital clinical diagnostic tool, yet its widespread application is limited by prolonged scan times. Fast MRI reconstruction techniques effectively reduce acquisition duration by reconstructing high-fidelity MR images from undersampled k-space data. In recent years, deep learning-based methods have demonstrated remarkable progress in this field, with self-supervised and unsupervised learning approaches proving particularly valuable in scenarios where fully sa…

RareAgent: Self-Evolving Reasoning for Drug Repurposing in Rare Diseases
Lang Qin, Zijian Gan, Xu Cao, Pengcheng Jiang, Yankai Jiang, Jiawei Han, Kaishun Wu, Jintai Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05764

RareAgent: Self-Evolving Reasoning for Drug Repurposing in Rare Diseases
Computational drug repurposing for rare diseases is especially challenging when no prior associations exist between drugs and target diseases. Therefore, knowledge graph completion and message-passing GNNs have little reliable signal to learn and propagate, resulting in poor performance. We present RareAgent, a self-evolving multi-agent system that reframes this task from passive pattern recognition to active evidence-seeking reasoning. RareAgent organizes task-specific adversarial debates in w…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Yalla Miku:
🎵 Maximum Self-Care
#YallaMiku
https://yallamiku.bandcamp.com/track/maximum-self-care
https://open.spotify.com/track/1a0OMv1hKVWqRF8IMzlXxK

Self-Interaction Effects on Vortex Scaling in Soliton Mergers
Yuanyuan Zeng, Bokai Zhang, Jiajun Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07401 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Self-Interaction Effects on Vortex Scaling in Soliton Mergers
This study investigates the impact of self-interaction strength on the formation and scale of turbulent vortex structures during the merger of Bose stars, using numerical simulations of the Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson (GPP) equations. We find that vortex formation is a universal outcome of soliton mergers, with the vortex size strongly dependent on the self-interaction coupling parameter $g$. Through analysis of velocity correlations, kinetic energy spectra, and vorticity distributions, we conclud…

Self-concordant Schr\"odinger operators: spectral gaps and optimization without condition numbers
Sander Gribling, Simon Apers, Harold Nieuwboer, Michael Walter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06115

Self-concordant Schrödinger operators: spectral gaps and optimization without condition numbers
Spectral gaps play a fundamental role in many areas of mathematics, computer science, and physics. In quantum mechanics, the spectral gap of Schrödinger operators has a long history of study due to its physical relevance, while in quantum computing spectral gaps are an important proxy for efficiency, such as in the quantum adiabatic algorithm. Motivated by convex optimization, we study Schrödinger operators associated with self-concordant barriers over convex domains and prove non-asymptotic …

RAISE: A self-driving laboratory for interfacial property formulation discovery
Mohammad Nazeri (Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada), Sheldon Mei (Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Canada), Jeffrey Watchorn (Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto, Canada), Alex Zhang (Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada), Erin Ng (Department of Chemical Engineering and A…

RAISE: A self-driving laboratory for interfacial property formulation discovery
Surface wettability is a critical design parameter for biomedical devices, coatings, and textiles. Contact angle measurements quantify liquid-surface interactions, which depend strongly on liquid formulation. Herein, we present the Robotic Autonomous Imaging Surface Evaluator (RAISE), a closed-loop, self-driving laboratory that is capable of linking liquid formulation optimization with surface wettability assessment. RAISE comprises a full experimental orchestrator with the ability of mixing li…

A Systematic Evaluation of Self-Supervised Learning for Label-Efficient Sleep Staging with Wearable EEG
Emilio Estevan, Mar\'ia Sierra-Torralba, Eduardo L\'opez-Larraz, Luis Montesano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07960

A Systematic Evaluation of Self-Supervised Learning for Label-Efficient Sleep Staging with Wearable EEG
Wearable EEG devices have emerged as a promising alternative to polysomnography (PSG). As affordable and scalable solutions, their widespread adoption results in the collection of massive volumes of unlabeled data that cannot be analyzed by clinicians at scale. Meanwhile, the recent success of deep learning for sleep scoring has relied on large annotated datasets. Self-supervised learning (SSL) offers an opportunity to bridge this gap, leveraging unlabeled signals to address label scarcity and …

Self-learning AI releases NFL picks, score predictions every Week 15 game

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-15-picks-ai-score-predictions/

Self-Normalization for CUSUM-based Change Detection in Locally Stationary Time Series
Florian Heinrichs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07112 https://arxiv.org/…

Self-Normalization for CUSUM-based Change Detection in Locally Stationary Time Series
A novel self-normalization procedure for CUSUM-based change detection in the mean of a locally stationary time series is introduced. Classical self-normalization relies on the factorization of a constant long-run variance and a stochastic factor. In this case, the CUSUM statistic can be divided by another statistic proportional to the long-run variance, so that the latter cancels. Thereby, a tedious estimation of the long-run variance can be avoided. Under local stationarity, the partial sum pr…

Self-similar collapse with elasticity
Jorge V. Rocha, Diogo L. F. G. Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07136 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07136

Self-similar collapse with elasticity
Critical collapse is a well-studied subject for a variety of self-gravitating matter. One of the most intensively examined models is that of perfect fluids, which have been used extensively to describe compact objects such as stars, as well as being of cosmological interest. However, neutron stars are believed to possess an elastic crust, thus departing from a perfect fluid body, and critical collapse with elastic materials is an entirely unexplored topic. In this work, we employ a scale-invari…

Self-replication and Computational Universality
Jordan Cotler, Cl\'ement Hongler, Barbora Hudcov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08342 https://arxiv.…

Techno-economic analysis of self-sustainable thermophotovoltaic systems for grid-scale energy generation
Jihun Lim, Sungwon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07338 https://

Techno-economic analysis of self-sustainable thermophotovoltaic systems for grid-scale energy generation
To facilitate the widespread adoption of renewable energy, dispatchable, zero-emission power sources are essential for grid stability. This work performs a comprehensive techno-economic analysis of a self-sustainable thermophotovoltaic (TPV) system, an architecture that integrates solar charging to function as a standalone power generation asset. Using theory-based models for air-bridge InGaAs and Si diode cells, our analysis reveals that while the system is not currently competitive from a pur…

Thermal one-loop self-energy correction for hydrogen-like systems: relativistic approach
M. Reiter, D. Solovyev, A. Bobylev, D. Glazov, T. Zalialiutdinov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06828 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.06828 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.06828
arXiv:2512.06828v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Within a fully relativistic framework, the one-loop self-energy correction for a bound electron is derived and extended to incorporate the effects of external thermal radiation. In a series of previous works, it was shown that in quantum electrodynamics at finite temperature (QED), the description of effects caused by blackbody radiation can be reduced to using the thermal part of the photon propagator. As a consequence of the non-relativistic approximation in the calculation of the thermal one-loop self-energy correction, well-known quantum-mechanical (QM) phenomena emerge at successive orders: the Stark effect arises at leading order in $\alpha Z$, the Zeeman effect appears in the next-to-leading non-relativistic correction, accompanied by diamagnetic contributions and their relativistic refinements, among other perturbative corrections. The fully relativistic approach used in this work for calculating the SE contribution allows for accurate calculations of the thermal shift of atomic levels, in which all these effects are automatically taken into account. The hydrogen atom serves as the basis for testing a fully relativistic approach to such calculations. Additionally, an analysis is presented of the behavior of the thermal shift caused by the thermal one-loop correction to the self-energy of a bound electron for hydrogen-like ions with an arbitrary nuclear charge $Z$. The significance of these calculations lies in their relevance to contemporary high-precision experiments, where thermal radiation constitutes one of the major contributions to the overall uncertainty budget.
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Families of self-inverse functions and dilogarithm identities
Lauri Alha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07598 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07598

Families of self-inverse functions and dilogarithm identities
We introduce a self-inverse function via an integral equivalent to a two-term combination of dilogarithms. We refer to this function as a fundamental form, since there is a family of extensions of this function that satisfy similar self-inverse and symmetric properties. We also construct a family of functions generalizing the fundamental form via two auxiliary parameters, which we refer to as shape and scale factors. Through new integration techniques, we introduce and prove a number of dilogar…

Aligning Large Language Models via Fully Self-Synthetic Data
Shangjian Yin, Zhepei Wei, Xinyu Zhu, Wei-Lin Chen, Yu Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06652 https://

Aligning Large Language Models via Fully Self-Synthetic Data
Traditional reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) for large language models (LLMs) relies on expensive human-annotated datasets, while Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF) also incurs significant costs, requiring the collection of diverse prompts and corresponding responses, often necessitating external reward models or proprietary models like GPT-4 to annotate preference pairs. In this work, we introduce Self-Alignment Optimization (SAO), a fully self-synthetic framework…

TDoA-Based Self-Supervised Channel Charting with NLoS Mitigation
Mohsen Ahadi, Omid Esrafilian, Florian Kaltenberger, Adeel Malik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08001 https://

TDoA-Based Self-Supervised Channel Charting with NLoS Mitigation
Channel Charting (CC) has emerged as a promising framework for data-driven radio localization, yet existing approaches often struggle to scale globally and to handle the distortions introduced by non-line-of-sight (NLoS) conditions. In this work, we propose a novel CC method that leverages Channel Impulse Response (CIR) data enriched with practical features such as Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) and Transmission Reception Point (TRP) locations, enabling a self-supervised localization functio…

Recursive construction and enumeration of self-orthogonal and self-dual codes over finite commutative chain rings of even characteristic - II
Monika Yadav, Anuradha Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06069

Recursive construction and enumeration of self-orthogonal and self-dual codes over finite commutative chain rings of even characteristic - II
Let $\mathcal{R}_{e,m}$ be a finite commutative chain ring of even characteristic with maximal ideal $\langle u \rangle$ of nilpotency index $e \geq 2,$ Teichm$\ddot{u}$ller set $\mathcal{T}_{m},$ and residue field $\mathcal{R}_{e,m}/\langle u \rangle$ of order $2^m.$ Suppose that $2 \in \langle u^κ\rangle \setminus \langle u^{κ+1}\rangle$ for some even positive integer $ κ\leq e.$ In this paper, we provide a recursive method to construct a self-orthogonal code $\mathcal{C}_e$ of type $\{λ_…

Interleaved Learning and Exploration: A Self-Adaptive Fuzz Testing Framework for MLIR
Zeyu Sun, Jingjing Liang, Weiyi Wang, Chenyao Suo, Junjie Chen, Fanjiang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07815

Interleaved Learning and Exploration: A Self-Adaptive Fuzz Testing Framework for MLIR
MLIR (Multi-Level Intermediate Representation) has rapidly become a foundational technology for modern compiler frameworks, enabling extensibility across diverse domains. However, ensuring the correctness and robustness of MLIR itself remains challenging. Existing fuzzing approaches-based on manually crafted templates or rule-based mutations-struggle to generate sufficiently diverse and semantically valid test cases, making it difficult to expose subtle or deep-seated bugs within MLIR's complex…

Finite element models for Self-Deployable Miura-folded origami
Suraj Singh Gehlot, Siddhanth Gautam, Sanhita Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08029 https://a…

Finite element models for Self-Deployable Miura-folded origami
Origami-inspired self-deployable structures offer lightweight, compact, and autonomous deployment capabilities, making them highly attractive for aerospace and defence applications, such as solar panels, antennas, and reflector systems. This paper presents finite element frameworks for simulating Miura-origami units in ABAQUS, focusing on two deployment mechanisms: elastic strain energy release and thermally activated shape-memory polymers (SMPs). Validation against experimental data for elasti…

Human-Centered Development of Indicators for Self-Service Learning Analytics: A Transparency through Exploration Approach
Shoeb Joarder, Mohamed Amine Chatti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08395

Human-Centered Development of Indicators for Self-Service Learning Analytics: A Transparency through Exploration Approach
The aim of learning analytics is to turn educational data into insights, decisions, and actions to improve learning and teaching. The reasoning of the provided insights, decisions, and actions is often not transparent to the end-user, and this can lead to trust and acceptance issues when interventions, feedback, and recommendations fail. In this paper, we shed light on achieving transparent learning analytics by following a transparency through exploration approach. To this end, we present the …

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

Distributed Resource Selection for Self-Organising Cloud-Edge Systems
Quentin Renau, Amjad Ullah, Emma Hart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08228 https://arxiv.…

Distributed Resource Selection for Self-Organising Cloud-Edge Systems
This paper presents a distributed resource selection mechanism for diverse cloud-edge environments, enabling dynamic and context-aware allocation of resources to meet the demands of complex distributed applications. By distributing the decision-making process, our approach ensures efficiency, scalability, and resilience in highly dynamic cloud-edge environments where centralised coordination becomes a bottleneck. The proposed mechanism aims to function as a core component of a broader, distribu…

Understanding Ice Crystal Habit Diversity with Self-Supervised Learning
Joseph Ko, Hariprasath Govindarajan, Fredrik Lindsten, Vanessa Przybylo, Kara Sulia, Marcus van Lier-Walqui, Kara Lamb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07688

Understanding Ice Crystal Habit Diversity with Self-Supervised Learning
Ice-containing clouds strongly impact climate, but they are hard to model due to ice crystal habit (i.e., shape) diversity. We use self-supervised learning (SSL) to learn latent representations of crystals from ice crystal imagery. By pre-training a vision transformer with many cloud particle images, we learn robust representations of crystal morphology, which can be used for various science-driven tasks. Our key contributions include (1) validating that our SSL approach can be used to learn me…

🍃 Honda’s Self-Driving Lawn Mower Is Super Cool But Will Cost More Than a Civic Si
https://www.thedrive.com/news/hondas-self-driving-lawn-mower-is-super-cool-but-will-cost-more-than-a-civic-si

Honda’s Self-Driving Lawn Mower Is Super Cool But Will Cost More Than a Civic Si
By this time next year, you'll be able to buy a lawn mower with LiDAR.

Auto-Stega: An Agent-Driven System for Lifelong Strategy Evolution in LLM-Based Text Steganography
Jiuan Zhou, Yu Cheng, Yuan Xie, Zhaoxia Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06565 h…

Auto-Stega: An Agent-Driven System for Lifelong Strategy Evolution in LLM-Based Text Steganography
With the rapid progress of LLMs, high quality generative text has become widely available as a cover for text steganography. However, prevailing methods rely on hand-crafted or pre-specified strategies and struggle to balance efficiency, imperceptibility, and security, particularly at high embedding rates. Accordingly, we propose Auto-Stega, an agent-driven self-evolving framework that is the first to realize self-evolving steganographic strategies by automatically discovering, composing, and a…

Today I discovered #ForgeJo. It's fucking awesome for self-hosting (I'm actually using it for private repositories at home).
https://forgejo.org/

Forgejo – Beyond coding. We forge.
Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.

Unleashing the True Potential of LLMs: A Feedback-Triggered Self-Correction with Long-Term Multipath Decoding
Jipeng Li, Zeyu Gao, Yubin Qi, Hande Dong, Weijian Chen, Qiang Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07676

Unleashing the True Potential of LLMs: A Feedback-Triggered Self-Correction with Long-Term Multipath Decoding
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across diverse tasks, yet their susceptibility to generating incorrect content during inference remains a critical unsolved challenge. While self-correction methods offer potential solutions, their effectiveness is hindered by two inherent limitations: (1) the absence of reliable guidance signals for error localization, and (2) the restricted reasoning depth imposed by conventional next-token decoding paradigms. To address these …

I made pizza

Why learn good time management, when you can achieve the same with abject self-exploitation? #academicChatter

It's so depressing how orgs like #Mozilla squander volunteer goodwill for nothing. They'll never recover from this self-inflicted damage:
«Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets»
https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/12/08/mozillas-betrayal-of-open-source-googles-gemini-ai-is-overwriting-volunteer-work-on-support-mozilla.html

Cuts to Lifesaving Hunger Aid Could Impact Millions: 'Our President and Congress Think Budget Cuts Will Help People Achieve Self-Sufficiency. They Won’t.' - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2025/10/08/snap-food-stamps-republicans-trump-hunger-tax-cuts-rich/

I hold that genuine freedom can only be realized through the direct self-management of labor and the collective organization of social life by those engaged in it. No political vanguard, governmental apparatus, or capitalist hierarchy can provide emancipation, it must emerge from the autonomous initiative of workers acting in solidarity, constructing federations of production and community based on voluntary association and mutual responsibility.
For me, anarcho-syndicalism represents …

Nonparametric Estimation of Self- and Cross-Impact
Natascha Hey, Eyal Neuman, Sturmius Tuschmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06879 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

Nonparametric Estimation of Self- and Cross-Impact
We introduce an offline nonparametric estimator for concave multi-asset propagator models based on a dataset of correlated price trajectories and metaorders. Compared to parametric models, our framework avoids parameter explosion in the multi-asset case and yields confidence bounds for the estimator. We implement the estimator using both proprietary metaorder data from Capital Fund Management (CFM) and publicly available S&P order flow data, where we augment the former dataset using a metaorder…

Gaussian Equivalence for Self-Attention: Asymptotic Spectral Analysis of Attention Matrix
Tomohiro Hayase, Beno\^it Collins, Ryo Karakida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06685 https:…

Gaussian Equivalence for Self-Attention: Asymptotic Spectral Analysis of Attention Matrix
Self-attention layers have become fundamental building blocks of modern deep neural networks, yet their theoretical understanding remains limited, particularly from the perspective of random matrix theory. In this work, we provide a rigorous analysis of the singular value spectrum of the attention matrix and establish the first Gaussian equivalence result for attention. In a natural regime where the inverse temperature remains of constant order, we show that the singular value distribution of t…

I recently watched a Veritasium video that touches on Braess's Paradox[1]: sometimes removing connections (eg roads) makes things faster.
The part that caught my attention was "even though every driver made a rational decision to minimize their own time, collectively it made the situation worse."
IOW, proof that adding up everyone's self interested actions does NOT lead to the best outcome. aka,

Improving Machine Learning-Based Robot Self-Collision Checking with Input Positional Encoding
Bartlomiej Kulecki, Dominik Belter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07542 https://…

Improving Machine Learning-Based Robot Self-Collision Checking with Input Positional Encoding
This manuscript investigates the integration of positional encoding -- a technique widely used in computer graphics -- into the input vector of a binary classification model for self-collision detection. The results demonstrate the benefits of incorporating positional encoding, which enhances classification accuracy by enabling the model to better capture high-frequency variations, leading to a more detailed and precise representation of complex collision patterns. The manuscript shows that mac…

Neurosurgeon analyses Waymo’s data on 100M miles of driverless travel, concludes that it’s dramatically, qualitatively safer (at least the way that Waymo does it). Says if this were a clinical trial they’d stop it because giving placebos would be unethical.

Opinion | The Medical Case for Self-Driving Cars
Compared to human drivers, Waymo cars were involved in 91 percent fewer crashes that resulted in serious injuries.

a world you can fully understand and hold in your head and hand. being the snowman in his globe rather than on yours. where's the water come from? the rain, these tanks. where's the power generated? those solar panels and batteries. you know the limits and work with them. self-sufficient. a fantasy irl, but one of the most universal magic cores you can imbue a fantasy with. no man is an island, no man isn't offputtingly hard to grasp.

Just finished "The Deep Dark" by Molly Knox Ostertag. An absolutely excellent graphic novel about monsters, childhood secrets, and how self-love refracts through romance.
I've liked other stuff by Ostertag, but this is definitely my favorite of hers so far.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Mephisto: Self-Improving Large Language Model-Based Agents for Automated Interpretation of Multi-band Galaxy Observations
Zechang Sun, Yuan-Sen Ting, Yaobo Liang, Nan Duan, Song Huang, Zheng Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08354

Mephisto: Self-Improving Large Language Model-Based Agents for Automated Interpretation of Multi-band Galaxy Observations
Astronomical research has long relied on human expertise to interpret complex data and formulate scientific hypotheses. In this study, we introduce Mephisto -- a multi-agent collaboration framework powered by large language models (LLMs) that emulates human-like reasoning for analyzing multi-band galaxy observations. Mephisto interfaces with the CIGALE codebase (a library of spectral energy distribution, SED, models) to iteratively refine physical models against observational data. It conducts …

For hosting our internal source code repositories, we're using #gitea. There are a bunch of other options and all of them seem to mimic github's look and feel. Gitea was the one I found out about first some years ago and it stuck. It has an issue tracker and works well for doing pull requests and reviewing them online.
There's a commercial cloud hosting offer and an enterprise opt…

A Robot That Listens: Enhancing Self-Disclosure and Engagement Through Sentiment-based Backchannels and Active Listening
Hieu Tran, Go-Eum Cha, Sooyeon Jeong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07873

A Robot That Listens: Enhancing Self-Disclosure and Engagement Through Sentiment-based Backchannels and Active Listening
As social robots get more deeply integrated intoour everyday lives, they will be expected to engage in meaningful conversations and exhibit socio-emotionally intelligent listening behaviors when interacting with people. Active listening and backchanneling could be one way to enhance robots' communicative capabilities and enhance their effectiveness in eliciting deeper self-disclosure, providing a sense of empathy,and forming positive rapport and relationships with people.Thus, we developed an L…

On exponential separation of analytic self-conformal sets on the real line
Bal\'azs B\'ar\'any, Istv\'an Kolossv\'ary, Sascha Troscheit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07888

On exponential separation of analytic self-conformal sets on the real line
In a recent article, Rapaport showed that the there is no dimension drop for exponentially separated analytic IFSs on the real line. We show that the set of such exponentially separated IFSs in the space of analytic IFSs contains an open and dense set in the $\mathcal{C}^2$ topology. Moreover, we give a sufficient condition for the IFS to be exponentially separated which allows us to construct explicit examples which are exponentially separated. The key technical tool is the introduction of the…

Diffusion-Guided Renormalization of Neural Systems via Tensor Networks
Nathan X. Kodama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06361 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06361…

Diffusion-Guided Renormalization of Neural Systems via Tensor Networks
Far from equilibrium, neural systems self-organize across multiple scales. Exploiting multiscale self-organization in neuroscience and artificial intelligence requires a computational framework for modeling the effective non-equilibrium dynamics of stochastic neural trajectories. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and representational geometry offer theoretical foundations, but we need scalable data-driven techniques for modeling collective properties of high-dimensional neural networks from partia…

Adapting HFMCA to Graph Data: Self-Supervised Learning for Generalizable fMRI Representations
Jakub Frac, Alexander Schmatz, Qiang Li, Guido Van Wingen, Shujian Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05177

Adapting HFMCA to Graph Data: Self-Supervised Learning for Generalizable fMRI Representations
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis faces significant challenges due to limited dataset sizes and domain variability between studies. Traditional self-supervised learning methods inspired by computer vision often rely on positive and negative sample pairs, which can be problematic for neuroimaging data where defining appropriate contrasts is non-trivial. We propose adapting a recently developed Hierarchical Functional Maximal Correlation Algorithm (HFMCA) to graph-structured f…

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Hey, thanks for your interest.
I don't cross-post to any of those things.
How do I do it?
Self-restraint 😃
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Self-Image Multiplicity in a Concave Cylindrical Mirror
Thach A. Nguyen, Kaitlyn S. Yasumura, Duy V. Tran, Trung V. Phan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04370 https://

Self-Image Multiplicity in a Concave Cylindrical Mirror
Concave mirrors are fundamental optical elements, yet some easily observed behaviors are rarely addressed in standard textbooks, such as the formation of multiple reflected images. Here we investigate self-imaging -- where the observer is also the observed object -- using a concave cylindrical mirror. We predict the number of self-images visible from different observation points and classify space into regions by image count. We then test these predictions with an inexpensive stainless-steel co…

It’s #MondayRandom10 again, and here are 10 random tracks from my playlist (currently of 2068 tracks):
1. White Zombie—“Grindhouse (A Go-go)”
2. The Beatles—“Helter Skelter (2018 Mix)”
3. Cop Shoot Cop—“Room 429”
4. AG Club—“Adam Sandler”
5. Alpine Universe—“The Empire of Winds”
6. Bryce Fox—“Golden Boy”
7. Mindless Self Indulgence—“Tom Sawyer (Remastered)”

Grouped Differential Attention
Junghwan Lim, Sungmin Lee, Dongseok Kim, Wai Ting Cheung, Beomgyu Kim, Taehwan Kim, Haesol Lee, Junhyeok Lee, Dongpin Oh, Eunhwan Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06949

Grouped Differential Attention
The self-attention mechanism, while foundational to modern Transformer architectures, suffers from a critical inefficiency: it frequently allocates substantial attention to redundant or noisy context. Differential Attention addressed this by using subtractive attention maps for signal and noise, but its required balanced head allocation imposes rigid constraints on representational flexibility and scalability. To overcome this, we propose Grouped Differential Attention (GDA), a novel approach…

En Nombre del Progreso (In the Name of Progress)
2017 by Alfonso "Piloto" Nieves Ruiz, active in the United States, born Querétaro, Mexico. at Intuit Art Museum, West Town, #Chicago

Giants vs. Eagles NFL player props: Self-learning AI backs Hurts under 196.5 yards on Thursday Night Football

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-eagles-n…

Land War or Self-Terrorism? (Timothy Snyder/Thinking about)
https://snyder.substack.com/p/self-terrorism
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p41#a251207p41

Go Fuck Yourself
but as a self-care recommendation

Resolution scaling governs DINOv3 transfer performance in chest radiograph classification
Soroosh Tayebi Arasteh, Mina Shaigan, Christiane Kuhl, Jakob Nikolas Kather, Sven Nebelung, Daniel Truhn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07191

Resolution scaling governs DINOv3 transfer performance in chest radiograph classification
Self-supervised learning (SSL) has advanced visual representation learning, but its value in chest radiography, a high-volume imaging modality with fine-grained findings, remains unclear. Meta's DINOv3 extends earlier SSL models through Gram-anchored self-distillation. Whether these design choices improve transfer learning for chest radiography has not been systematically tested. We benchmarked DINOv3 against DINOv2 and ImageNet initialization across seven datasets (n>814,000). Two representati…

🔌 #Firecrawl integration for web scraping and search: standard API key setup for contributors, partner integration option for production deployments with per-user API key management, automatic key provisioning on signup, self-healing system with fallback for invalid keys

SID: Multi-LLM Debate Driven by Self Signals
Xuhang Chen, Zhifan Song, Deyi Ji, Shuo Gao, Lanyun Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06843 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

SID: Multi-LLM Debate Driven by Self Signals
Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive capabilities across diverse application domains. Recent work has explored Multi-LLM Agent Debate (MAD) as a way to enhance performance by enabling multiple LLMs to discuss and refine responses iteratively. Nevertheless, existing MAD methods predominantly focus on utilizing external structures, such as debate graphs, using LLM-as-a-Judge, while neglecting the application of self signals, such as token logits and attention, that arise during …

Diffusion Codes: Self-Correction from Small(er)-Set Expansion with Tunable Non-locality
Adithya Sriram, Vedika Khemani, Benedikt Placke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07179 https://…

Diffusion Codes: Self-Correction from Small(er)-Set Expansion with Tunable Non-locality
Optimal constructions of classical LDPC codes can be obtained by choosing the Tanner graph uniformly at random among biregular graphs. We introduce a class of codes that we call ``diffusion codes'', defined by placing each edge connecting bits and checks on some graph, and acting on that graph with a random SWAP network. By tuning the depth of the SWAP network, we can tune a tradeoff between the amount of randomness -- and hence the optimality of code parameters -- and locality with respect to …

Mercedes partners with Chinese software developer Momenta to deploy Level 4 self-driving cars for Lumo Mobility in Abu Dhabi, its first foray into robotaxis (William Wilkes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Recursive construction and enumeration of self-orthogonal and self-dual codes over finite commutative chain rings of even characteristic - I
Monika Yadav, Anuradha Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06082

Recursive construction and enumeration of self-orthogonal and self-dual codes over finite commutative chain rings of even characteristic - I
Let $\mathscr{R}_{e,m}$ denote a finite commutative chain ring of even characteristic with maximal ideal $\langle u \rangle$ of nilpotency index $e \geq 3,$ Teichm$\ddot{u}$ller set $\mathcal{T}_{m},$ and residue field $\mathscr{R}_{e,m}/\langle u \rangle$ of order $2^m.$ Suppose that $2 \in \langle u^κ\rangle \setminus \langle u^{κ+1}\rangle$ for some odd integer $κ$ with $3 \leq κ\leq e.$ In this paper, we first develop a recursive method to construct a self-orthogonal code $\mathscr{D}_e…

Simultaneous optimization of assembly time and yield in programmable self-assembly
Maximilian C. H\"ubl, Carl P. Goodrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07876 https://

Simultaneous optimization of assembly time and yield in programmable self-assembly
Rational design strategies for self-assembly require a detailed understanding of both the equilibrium state and the assembly kinetics. While the former is starting to be well understood, the latter remains a major theoretical challenge, especially in programmable systems and the so-called semiaddressable regime, where binding is often nondeterministic and the formation of off-target structures negatively influences the assembly. Here, we show that it is possible to simultaneously sculpt the ass…

From Agentification to Self-Evolving Agentic AI for Wireless Networks: Concepts, Approaches, and Future Research Directions
Changyuan Zhao, Ruichen Zhang, Jiacheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, Geng Sun, Xianbin Wang, Shiwen Mao, Abbas Jamalipour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05596

From Agentification to Self-Evolving Agentic AI for Wireless Networks: Concepts, Approaches, and Future Research Directions
Self-evolving agentic artificial intelligence (AI) offers a new paradigm for future wireless systems by enabling autonomous agents to continually adapt and improve without human intervention. Unlike static AI models, self-evolving agents embed an autonomous evolution cycle that updates models, tools, and workflows in response to environmental dynamics. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of self-evolving agentic AI, highlighting its layered architecture, life cycle, and key techniques,…

When vacuum breaks: a self-consistency test for astrophysical environments in extreme mass ratio inspirals
Lorenzo Copparoni, Rohit S. Chandramouli, Enrico Barausse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06948

When vacuum breaks: a self-consistency test for astrophysical environments in extreme mass ratio inspirals
Gravitational-wave signals are typically interpreted under the vacuum hypothesis, i.e. assuming negligible influence from the astrophysical environment. This assumption is expected to break down for low-frequency sources such as extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs), which are prime targets for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and are expected to form, at least in part, in dense environments such as Active Galactic Nuclei or dark-matter spikes/cores. Modeling environmental effects p…

Partitioning and Self-organization of Distributed Generation in Large Distribution Networks
Badr Al Faiya, Stephen McArthur, Ivana Kockar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07918 https:…

Partitioning and Self-organization of Distributed Generation in Large Distribution Networks
Distribution networks will experience more installations of distributed generation (DG) that is unpredictable and stochastic in nature. Greater distributed control and intelligence will allow challenges such as voltage control to be handled effectively. The partitioning of power networks into smaller clusters provides a method to split the control problem into manageable sub-problems. This paper presents a community detection-based partitioning technique for distribution networks considering lo…

Steelers vs. Chargers NFL player props: Self-learning AI backs Justin Herbert Over 252.5 passing on SNF

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-chargers-nfl-pla…

Self-Interacting Sub-GeV Dark Matter with Strong MeV Gamma-ray
Yu Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05630 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05630

Self-Interacting Sub-GeV Dark Matter with Strong MeV Gamma-ray
Sub-GeV dark matter (DM) with $s$-channel resonant self-scattering provides a promising framework for addressing small-scale structure problems. However, models that also account for the observed relic abundance through the same resonance are strongly constrained by current $γ$-ray observations, since the associated signals are significantly enhanced. To overcome this limitation, we propose a framework in which the relic abundance and self-scattering are governed independently by two distinct …

PhishSSL: Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Phishing Website Detection
Wenhao Li, Selvakumar Manickam, Yung-Wey Chong, Shankar Karuppayah, Priyadarsi Nanda, Binyong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05900

PhishSSL: Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Phishing Website Detection
Phishing websites remain a persistent cybersecurity threat by mimicking legitimate sites to steal sensitive user information. Existing machine learning-based detection methods often rely on supervised learning with labeled data, which not only incurs substantial annotation costs but also limits adaptability to novel attack patterns. To address these challenges, we propose PhishSSL, a self-supervised contrastive learning framework that eliminates the need for labeled phishing data during trainin…

Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's H200 chips despite President Trump allowing their export to China, in its push for chip self-sufficiency (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c4e81a67-cd5b-48b4-9749-92ecf116313d

🔋 Feeding off spent battery waste, a novel bacterium signals a new method for self-sufficient battery recycling
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-spent-battery-bacterium-method-sufficient.html

Feeding off spent battery waste, a novel bacterium signals a new method for self-sufficient battery recycling
A unique bacterium that thrives in highly acidic environments feeds on spent battery "waste," making it a promising new method for self-sufficient battery recycling, according to new research from Boston College chemists.

https://foone.org/ponies/zohran/

Hierarchical self-assembly of Brownian particle-like pulses in a modelocked laser
Aladin \c{S}ura, F. \"Omer Ilday
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05344 https://

Hierarchical self-assembly of Brownian particle-like pulses in a modelocked laser
Passive modelocking involves self-locking of thousands of frequency modes to form ultrashort pulses. In fundamental modelocking, a single intracavity pulse provides high stability and reproducibility, but limits the repetition rate. Harmonic modelocking can overcome this by supporting multiple pulses, but suffers from instabilities and poor reproducibility, with specific states achievable only sporadically. Biology exploits hierarchy to organise complexity, which has inspired hierarchical self-…

Arrested coarsening, oscillations, and memory from a conserved phase separating nucleator in a self-straining cytoskeletal network
Quentin Bodini--Lefranc, Jakob Schindelwig, Daniel Weidinger, Lucas Engleder, Sebastian F\"urthauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07181

Arrested coarsening, oscillations, and memory from a conserved phase separating nucleator in a self-straining cytoskeletal network
How do phase separated cellular structures set their size? To elucidate this, we study the dynamics and steady states of a phase separating nucleator that is advected by the self-straining cytoskeletal network which it nucleates. We find (i) that the interplay between transport and the tendency of nucleators to phase separate arrests coarsening; (ii) that the system undergoes damped oscillations towards a patterned steady state with a well defined length scale; (iii) that the system supports a …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
past self:
🎵 무당 / Mudang
#pastself
https://pastself.bandcamp.com/track/mudang
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JIMWEMYEVSOtUMaHFeNXN

TGPR: Tree-Guided Policy Refinement for Robust Self-Debugging of LLMs
Daria Ozerova, Ekaterina Trofimova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06878 https://arxiv.org…

TGPR: Tree-Guided Policy Refinement for Robust Self-Debugging of LLMs
Iterative refinement has been a promising paradigm to enable large language models (LLMs) to resolve difficult reasoning and problem-solving tasks. One of the key challenges, however, is how to effectively search through the enormous search space of possible refinements. Existing methods typically fall back on predefined heuristics, which are troubled by the exploration-exploitation dilemma and cannot adapt based on past refinement outcomes. We introduce Tree-Guided Policy Refinement (TGPR), a …

The R(1)W(1) Communication Model for Self-Stabilizing Distributed Algorithms
Hirotsugu Kakugawa, Sayaka Kamei, Masahiro Shibata, Fukuhito Ooshita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04644

The R(1)W(1) Communication Model for Self-Stabilizing Distributed Algorithms
Self-stabilization is a versatile methodology in the design of fault-tolerant distributed algorithms for transient faults. A self-stabilizing system automatically recovers from any kind and any finite number of transient faults. This property is specifically useful in modern distributed systems with a large number of components. In this paper, we propose a new communication and execution model named the R(1)W(1) model in which each process can read and write its own and neighbors' local variabl…

Introspection in Learned Semantic Scene Graph Localisation
Manshika Charvi Bissessur, Efimia Panagiotaki, Daniele De Martini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07053 https://

Introspection in Learned Semantic Scene Graph Localisation
This work investigates how semantics influence localisation performance and robustness in a learned self-supervised, contrastive semantic localisation framework. After training a localisation network on both original and perturbed maps, we conduct a thorough post-hoc introspection analysis to probe whether the model filters environmental noise and prioritises distinctive landmarks over routine clutter. We validate various interpretability methods and present a comparative reliability analysis. …

How Jared Kushner, a Self-Described 'Deal Guy,' Helped Broker a Gaza Breakthrough (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/politics/jared-kushner-gaza-deal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251009/p125#a251009p125

Self-Reflective Generation at Test Time
Jian Mu, Qixin Zhang, Zhiyong Wang, Menglin Yang, Shuang Qiu, Chengwei Qin, Zhongxiang Dai, Yao Shu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02919 http…

Self-Reflective Generation at Test Time
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly solve complex reasoning tasks via long chain-of-thought, but their forward-only autoregressive generation process is fragile; early token errors can cascade, which creates a clear need for self-reflection mechanisms. However, existing self-reflection either performs revisions over full drafts or learns self-correction via expensive training, both fundamentally reactive and inefficient. To address this, we propose Self-Reflective Generation at Test Time …

OpenAI executive Bill Peebles says Sora users can now stop AI-generated versions of themselves from appearing in certain contexts like videos involving politics (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/792638/sora-provides-bet…

Sora provides better control over videos featuring your AI self
After a week of video slop, OpenAI is putting guardrails in place over how your AI double is used on Sora. 

Online automatic code generation for robot swarms: LLMs and self-organizing hierarchy
Weixu Zhu, Marco Dorigo, Mary Katherine Heinrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04774 https://

Online automatic code generation for robot swarms: LLMs and self-organizing hierarchy
Our recently introduced self-organizing nervous system (SoNS) provides robot swarms with 1) ease of behavior design and 2) global estimation of the swarm configuration and its collective environment, facilitating the implementation of online automatic code generation for robot swarms. In a demonstration with 6 real robots and simulation trials with >30 robots, we show that when a SoNS-enhanced robot swarm gets stuck, it can automatically solicit and run code generated by an external LLM on the …

From Poisoned to Aware: Fostering Backdoor Self-Awareness in LLMs
Guangyu Shen, Siyuan Cheng, Xiangzhe Xu, Yuan Zhou, Hanxi Guo, Zhuo Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05169

From Poisoned to Aware: Fostering Backdoor Self-Awareness in LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) can acquire deceptive behaviors through backdoor attacks, where the model executes prohibited actions whenever secret triggers appear in the input. Existing safety training methods largely fail to address this vulnerability, due to the inherent difficulty of uncovering hidden triggers implanted in the model. Motivated by recent findings on LLMs' situational awareness, we propose a novel post-training framework that cultivates self-awareness of backdoor risks and ena…

A Semantics-Aware Hierarchical Self-Supervised Approach to Classification of Remote Sensing Images
Giulio Weikmann, Gianmarco Perantoni, Lorenzo Bruzzone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04916

A Semantics-Aware Hierarchical Self-Supervised Approach to Classification of Remote Sensing Images
Deep learning has become increasingly important in remote sensing image classification due to its ability to extract semantic information from complex data. Classification tasks often include predefined label hierarchies that represent the semantic relationships among classes. However, these hierarchies are frequently overlooked, and most approaches focus only on fine-grained classification schemes. In this paper, we present a novel Semantics-Aware Hierarchical Consensus (SAHC) method for learn…

Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider experience are generally similar to Waymo's, as they build businesses at home while also expanding internationally (Peter Landers/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/china-r

Vector Autoregression (VAR) of Longitudinal Sleep and Self-report Mood Data
Jeff Brozena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02511 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02511

Vector Autoregression (VAR) of Longitudinal Sleep and Self-report Mood Data
Self-tracking is one of many behaviors involved in the long-term self-management of chronic illnesses. As consumer-grade wearable sensors have made the collection of health-related behaviors commonplace, the quality, volume, and availability of such data has dramatically improved. This exploratory longitudinal N-of-1 study quantitatively assesses four years of sleep data captured via the Oura Ring, a consumer-grade sleep tracking device, along with self-reported mood data logged using eMood Tra…

EEG-Based Acute Pain Classification: Machine Learning Model Comparison and Real-Time Clinical Feasibility
Aavid Mathrawala, Dhruv Kurup, Josie Lau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05511

EEG-Based Acute Pain Classification: Machine Learning Model Comparison and Real-Time Clinical Feasibility
Current pain assessment within hospitals often relies on self-reporting or non-specific EKG vital signs. This system leaves critically ill, sedated, and cognitively impaired patients vulnerable to undertreated pain and opioid overuse. Electroencephalography (EEG) offers a noninvasive method of measuring brain activity. This technology could potentially be applied as an assistive tool to highlight nociceptive processing in order to mitigate this issue. In this study, we compared machine learning…

Self-Improvement in Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey
Shijian Deng, Kai Wang, Tianyu Yang, Harsh Singh, Yapeng Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02665 https://

Self-Improvement in Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey
Recent advancements in self-improvement for Large Language Models (LLMs) have efficiently enhanced model capabilities without significantly increasing costs, particularly in terms of human effort. While this area is still relatively young, its extension to the multimodal domain holds immense potential for leveraging diverse data sources and developing more general self-improving models. This survey is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of self-improvement in Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs). …

Self-learning AI reveals NFL against the spread, over/under and money-line picks for every Week 6, 2025 game

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ai-nfl-spread-overunder-money-lin…

'Rat Hunting' Harvard Law Professor Agrees to Self-Deport After Firing Pellet Gun Near Synagogue During Yom Kippur (Jessica Schwalb/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/campus/rat-hunting-harvard-law-professor-agrees-to-self-deport-after-firing-pellet-gun-near-synagogue-during-yom-kippur/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p98#a251205p98

Self-Anchor: Large Language Model Reasoning via Step-by-step Attention Alignment
Hongxiang Zhang, Yuan Tian, Tianyi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03223 https://

Self-Anchor: Large Language Model Reasoning via Step-by-step Attention Alignment
To solve complex reasoning tasks for Large Language Models (LLMs), prompting-based methods offer a lightweight alternative to fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. However, as reasoning chains extend, critical intermediate steps and the original prompt will be buried in the context, receiving insufficient attention and leading to errors. In this paper, we propose Self-Anchor, a novel pipeline that leverages the inherent structure of reasoning to steer LLM attention. Self-Anchor decomposes rea…

Chiefs vs. Texans NFL player props, SGP: Self-learning AI backs Mahomes Over 234.5 passing yards on 'SNF'

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

Amazon is testing an AI tool called Kindle Translate that automatically translates books into other languages, for authors that self-publish on the platform (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/amazon-is-test

Amazon is testing an AI tool that automatically translates books into other languages
Amazon is introducing an AI tool that will automatically translate books into other languages. This should be useful for authors who self publish.

The Path of Self-Evolving Large Language Models: Achieving Data-Efficient Learning via Intrinsic Feedback
Hangfan Zhang, Siyuan Xu, Zhimeng Guo, Huaisheng Zhu, Shicheng Liu, Xinrun Wang, Qiaosheng Zhang, Yang Chen, Peng Ye, Lei Bai, Shuyue Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02752

The Path of Self-Evolving Large Language Models: Achieving Data-Efficient Learning via Intrinsic Feedback
Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated potential in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but such training typically demands substantial efforts in creating and annotating data. In this work, we explore improving LLMs through RL with minimal data. Our approach alternates between the LLM proposing a task and then attempting to solve it. To minimize data dependency, we introduce two novel mechanisms grounded in self-awareness: (1) self-aware difficulty predi…

Harbaugh pins Chargers' slide on fixable mistakes https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46504355/harbaugh-pins-chargers-slide-self-inflicted-wounds

What I liked from Jayden Daniels' play in return against Chargers — Quick Outs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6696785/2025/10/08/nfl-daniels-emeka-egbuka-quick-outs-week-5/

Impressions from a test ride in London in a car using Wayve's self-driving tech; Wayve has raised $1.3B since launch and is testing cars with Level 2 autonomy (John Thornhill/Financial Times)

NFL asks teams to hold moment of silence in honor of Cowboys' Marshawn Kneeland: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6790578/2025/11/08/marshawn-kneeland-moment-of-silence-nfl-memo/