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Wisdom of Crowds Through Myopic Self-Confidence Adaptation
Giacomo Como, Fabio Fagnani, Anton Proskurnikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18195 https://…

Wisdom of Crowds Through Myopic Self-Confidence Adaptation
The wisdom of crowds is an umbrella term for phenomena suggesting that the collective judgment or decision of a large group can be more accurate than the individual judgments or decisions of the group members. A well-known example illustrating this concept is the competition at a country fair described by Galton, where the median value of the individual guesses about the weight of an ox resulted in an astonishingly accurate estimate of the actual weight. This phenomenon resembles classical resu…

#wordweavers 26. If you were starting an anthology of short stories, what theme would be easiest for you?
Loss.
Loss of freedom. Loss of autonomy. Loss of agency. Loss of control. Loss of self-confidence. Loss of independence. Loss of dignity.
How much can you loose without actually losing yourself?

Confidence-Based Self-Training for EMG-to-Speech: Leveraging Synthetic EMG for Robust Modeling
Xiaodan Chen, Xiaoxue Gao, Mathias Quoy, Alexandre Pitti, Nancy F. Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11862

Confidence-Based Self-Training for EMG-to-Speech: Leveraging Synthetic EMG for Robust Modeling
Voiced Electromyography (EMG)-to-Speech (V-ETS) models reconstruct speech from muscle activity signals, facilitating applications such as neurolaryngologic diagnostics. Despite its potential, the advancement of V-ETS is hindered by a scarcity of paired EMG-speech data. To address this, we propose a novel Confidence-based Multi-Speaker Self-training (CoM2S) approach, along with a newly curated Libri-EMG dataset. This approach leverages synthetic EMG data generated by a pre-trained model, followe…

Self-ensemble: Mitigating Confidence Distortion for Large Language Models
Zicheng Xu, Guanchu Wang, Guangyao Zheng, Yu-Neng Chuang, Alexander Szalay, Xia Hu, Vladimir Braverman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01951

Self-ensemble: Mitigating Confidence Distortion for Large Language Models
Although Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well in general fields, they exhibit a confidence distortion problem on multi-choice question-answering (MCQA), particularly as the number of answer choices increases. Specifically, on MCQA with many choices, LLMs suffer from under-confidence in correct predictions and over-confidence in incorrect ones, leading to a substantially degraded performance. To solve this problem, we propose Self-ensemble in this work. Our method splits the choices into se…

#wordweavers 26. If you were starting an anthology of short stories, what theme would be easiest for you?
Loss.
Loss of freedom. Loss of autonomy. Loss of agency. Loss of control. Loss of self-confidence. Loss of independence. Loss of dignity.
How much can you loose without actually losing yourself?

Man, I had a shit week.
Tried to stretch outside my comfort zone in a big way; but failed myself really badly.
Old trauma woke up at a crucial moment, and bit me really hard; and I think the whole thing, instead of being healing, just … doubled everything down.
I’m feeling worthless in a whole new way.
Feeling like I undid, in like one hour, years and years of self-confidence building.

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This week's selection covers
--Bashar al-Assad was toppled by spyware,
--Facial recognition threatens us all with deportation,
--VC money fuels worker surveillance,
--Will Trump launch offensive cyber ops on US networks?,
--The Pall Mall Process and commercial c…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 5/31/25
Bashar al-Assad was toppled by spyware, Facial recognition threatens us all with deportation, VC money fuels worker surveillance, Will Trump launch offensive cyber ops on US networks?, The Pall Mall Process and commercial cyber intrusions, Self-confidence leads to GenAI skepticism, more

Replaced article(s) found for physics.ed-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ed-ph/new
[1/1]:
Improving Student Self-Confidence in Quantum Computing with the Qubit Touchdown Board Game