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BD at BEA 2025 Shared Task: MPNet Ensembles for Pedagogical Mistake Identification and Localization in AI Tutor Responses
Shadman Rohan, Ishita Sur Apan, Muhtasim Ibteda Shochcho, Md Fahim, Mohammad Ashfaq Ur Rahman, AKM Mahbubur Rahman, Amin Ahsan Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01817

BD at BEA 2025 Shared Task: MPNet Ensembles for Pedagogical Mistake Identification and Localization in AI Tutor Responses
We present Team BD's submission to the BEA 2025 Shared Task on Pedagogical Ability Assessment of AI-powered Tutors, under Track 1 (Mistake Identification) and Track 2 (Mistake Location). Both tracks involve three-class classification of tutor responses in educational dialogues - determining if a tutor correctly recognizes a student's mistake (Track 1) and whether the tutor pinpoints the mistake's location (Track 2). Our system is built on MPNet, a Transformer-based language model that combines …

Partially-shared Imaging Regression on Integrating Heterogeneous Brain-Cognition Associations across Alzheimer's Diagnoses
Yang Sui, Qi Xu, Ting Li, Yang Bai, Annie Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24259

Partially-shared Imaging Regression on Integrating Heterogeneous Brain-Cognition Associations across Alzheimer's Diagnoses
This paper is motivated by the heterogeneous associations among demographic covariates, imaging data, and cognitive performances across different diagnostic groups within the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) study. We propose a novel PArtially-shared Imaging Regression (PAIR) model with smooth spatial component integration to capture heterogeneous imaging coefficients across multiple data sources. The model assumes that each imaging coefficient can be represented as a weighted…

The EU Commission fines European takeaway groups Delivery Hero and Glovo €329M for taking part in an "online food delivery cartel", closing a July 2024 probe (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b0f37773-e68b-4c31-a7d5-b6ce8b9542d8…

EU fines Delivery Hero and Glovo €329mn for takeaway ‘cartel’
European Commission says European food delivery groups shared trade secrets

I realized that this batch of files I want to shared need a home, and in the old days I would have dumped them onto GitHub because, free hosting for me that someone else pays for, but now that I use Codeberg I'm not going to abuse them by dumping large files there.
I guess I'll just put them on my own server!

Trump doesn't want information on ICEBlock to be shared, so... UPDATE: I understood however there are possible serious security issues with this app
#trump

today's distracting mindblow: samuel delany & karen dalton shared bills at cafe elysee, plus fred neil, tim hardin, & other notables. (can't find any other details/documentation of the west village venue of that name.) https://archive.org/details/motionofli…

The motion of light in water : sex and science fiction writing in the East Village : Delany, Samuel R : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
572 p. ; 24 cm

Data breach reveals Catwatchful ‘stalkerware’ is spying on thousands of phones
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/data-breach-reveals-catwatchful-stalkerware-spying-on-thousands-android-phones/

Exclusive: Data breach reveals Catwatchful 'stalkerware' is spying on thousands of phones
The spyware operation's exposed customer email addresses and passwords were shared with data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.

Future shuts down Laptop Mag, which started as a print magazine in 1991; Future shut down AnandTech in 2024 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/695969/laptop-mag-shutdown-future-plc

Laptop Mag is shutting down
Laptop Mag, the publication that shared in-depth information about laptops and other devices, is shutting down after almost 35 years.

Testimony from an Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC) Survivor https://buddhism-controversy-blog.com/2017/10/29/testimony-from-an-ogyen-kunsang-choling-okc-survivor/

PSA:
If you don't drink all your beer on Friday and take up so much space in the shared refrigerator (6 large cans, 6 bottles) that I can't put my lunch in there, you might have to search for your alcohol elsewhere. Far away. In a warm place.
But I left a note where to find it.
Hey, you didn't label it, I would have been in my rights to drink it or pour it down the drain.

Asking #AI models: How will representational drift in human visual cortex affect the need to often recalibrate a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision to the blind?
ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/…

ChatGPT - Hochrechnungen vor Wahlschluss
Shared via ChatGPT

Face to face with solar telescopes, meteorites and exoplanets: For the 6th Night of Science on June 21st 2025 in Göttingen, the MPI for Solar System Research is offering a full program of hands-on activities, lectures, guided tours, and unique exhibits.
Infos by MPS: https://www.mps.mpg.de/night-of-science-20

Last year I made the raised beds. We, unwillingly, shared our harvest with the birds and small mammals.
This spring I built enclosures out of 1” PVC sched 40 pipes with 3/4” PVC Sched 40 side panels.
Our intention this year is to share only with family and friends.
Tomatoes in one bed, Strawberries in the other.
Enclosures are 6’ high to allow easy human access via side panels.

Probably stating the obvious, but for the past 30 years at least, contributing (in any capacity) on opensource projects is an excellent way to network with a global pool of top-tier folks in all the related domains, and to test the limits of your craft, plus all the work you do can be openly shared with any prospective employer. So you aren't 'volunteering' as much as you're building your portfolio in grad school, but with no student fees 😁
#fedihire #lifelonglearning

Olha, @… . Como eu dizia ontem.
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.ap

News Literacy Project (@newslit.org)
❌ NO: This is not genuine footage of a military attack by #Ukraine on #Russia. The viral clip shows footage from the video game Arma 3. ⚠️ Video game footage is often repurposed & shared out of context. #RumorGuard post: go.newslit.org/drone

"Ministeriö arvioi nyt ensimmäisen kerran yliopistoja muun muassa sen perusteella, kuinka suuri osa valmistuneista maistereista sijoittuu Uudellemaalle. Ministeriön ajattelussa yliopisto on sitä parempi, mitä suurempi osuus sieltä valmistuneista sijoittuu alueelle"
#yliopisto #koulutus …

Tapio Määttä: Ministeriö asetti yliopistot paremmuusjärjestykseen – yksi peruste on, kuinka suuri osa valmistuneista sijoittuu Uudellemaalle
Indikaattoreilla johtamisen keskeinen ongelma on, että sitä saa, mitä mitataan, kirjoittaa kolumnisti.

reading this: #fuzzer? and …

Vision Transformers for Multi-Variable Climate Downscaling: Emulating Regional Climate Models with a Shared Encoder and Multi-Decoder Architecture
Fabio Merizzi, Harilaos Loukos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22447

Vision Transformers for Multi-Variable Climate Downscaling: Emulating Regional Climate Models with a Shared Encoder and Multi-Decoder Architecture
Global Climate Models (GCMs) are critical for simulating large-scale climate dynamics, but their coarse spatial resolution limits their applicability in regional studies. Regional Climate Models (RCMs) refine this through dynamic downscaling, albeit at considerable computational cost and with limited flexibility. While deep learning has emerged as an efficient data-driven alternative, most existing studies have focused on single-variable models that downscale one variable at a time. This approa…

Josh Johnson nails it about men trying to make friends 😆 https://youtube.com/shorts/vKRBEbX6SzM?feature=shared

Eye-tracking-Driven Shared Control for Robotic Arms:Wizard of Oz Studies to Assess Design Choices
Anke Fischer-Janzen, Thomas M. Wendt, Daniel G\"orlich, Kristof Van Laerhoven
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23147

Eye-tracking-Driven Shared Control for Robotic Arms:Wizard of Oz Studies to Assess Design Choices
Advances in eye-tracking control for assistive robotic arms provide intuitive interaction opportunities for people with physical disabilities. Shared control has gained interest in recent years by improving user satisfaction through partial automation of robot control. We present an eye-tracking-guided shared control design based on insights from state-of-the-art literature. A Wizard of Oz setup was used in which automation was simulated by an experimenter to evaluate the concept without requir…

AI Slop is destroying our shared objective reality. John Oliver reports.
#ai #llm

Stealtooth: Breaking Bluetooth Security Abusing Silent Automatic Pairing
Keiichiro Kimura, Hiroki Kuzuno, Yoshiaki Shiraishi, Masakatu Morii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00847

Stealtooth: Breaking Bluetooth Security Abusing Silent Automatic Pairing
Bluetooth is a pervasive wireless communication technology used by billions of devices for short-range connectivity. The security of Bluetooth relies on the pairing process, where devices establish shared long-term keys for secure communications. However, many commercial Bluetooth devices implement automatic pairing functions to improve user convenience, creating a previously unexplored attack surface. We present Stealtooth, a novel attack that abuses unknown vulnerabilities in the automatic …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00420 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Think Small, Act Big: Primitive Prompt Learning for Lifelong Robot Manipulation
Building a lifelong robot that can effectively leverage prior knowledge for continuous skill acquisition remains significantly challenging. Despite the success of experience replay and parameter-efficient methods in alleviating catastrophic forgetting problem, naively applying these methods causes a failure to leverage the shared primitives between skills. To tackle these issues, we propose Primitive Prompt Learning (PPL), to achieve lifelong robot manipulation via reusable and extensible primi…

Ex-Raiders Star QB Delights Oakland, Las Vegas Fans With Video https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/derek-carr-top-5-moments-raiders/?adt_ei=[email]

@… That’s good news! I host it on a little computer but I’m all for shared hosting.

Quadratic Segre indices
Felipe Espreafico, Stephen McKean, Sabrina Pauli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01547 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

Quadratic Segre indices
We prove that the local Euler class of a line on a degree $2n-1$ hypersurface in projective $n+1$ space is given by a product of indices of Segre involutions. Segre involutions and their associated indices were first defined by Finashin and Kharlamov over the reals. Our result is valid over any field of characteristic not 2 and gives an infinite family of problems in enriched enumerative geometry with a shared geometric interpretation for the local type.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20710 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_…

i$^2$VAE: Interest Information Augmentation with Variational Regularizers for Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation
Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) leverages user behaviors across multiple domains to mitigate data sparsity and cold-start challenges in Single-Domain Sequential Recommendation. Existing methods primarily rely on shared users (overlapping users) to learn transferable interest representations. However, these approaches have limited information propagation, benefiting mainly overlapping users and those with rich interaction histories while neglecting non-overlapping (cold-start) and …

Make This Mediterranean Chickpea Salad Your Go-To Summer Meal #plantbased

Make This Mediterranean Chickpea Salad Your Go-To Summer Meal
Nisha Vora (founder of Rainbow Plant Life) recently shared a dish she describes as a summer staple: Mediterranean chickpea salad.

YouTube advice request:
How to watch shared YouTube posts without influencing my algorithms.
Context: A family member keeps sending me links that I should occasionally review but I don't want to end up with that person's choices changing what I'm offered up.
#YouTube
#algorithm

Plan-Based Scalable Online Virtual Network Embedding
Oleg Kolosov, David Breitgand, Dean H. Lorenz, Gala Yadgar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00237 https://…

Plan-Based Scalable Online Virtual Network Embedding
Network virtualization allows hosting applications with diverse computation and communication requirements on shared edge infrastructure. Given a set of requests for deploying virtualized applications, the edge provider has to deploy a maximum number of them to the underlying physical network, subject to capacity constraints. This challenge is known as the virtual network embedding (VNE) problem: it models applications as virtual networks, where virtual nodes represent functions and virtual lin…

Integrative, Scalable Modeling of Hydrological Systems with MBSE and HFGT
Megan Harris, Ehsanoddin Ghorbanichemazkati, Mohammad Mahdi Naderi, John C. Little, Amro M. Farid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00696

Integrative, Scalable Modeling of Hydrological Systems with MBSE and HFGT
Worsening global challenges in the Anthropocene demand complex, adaptive solutions grounded in a systems-level understanding of coupled social and environmental dynamics. However, existing modeling approaches often fall short due to disciplinary silos, limited scalability, and the absence of shared ontological frameworks. Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), when integrated with Hetero-functional Graph Theory (HFGT), offers a powerful methodology for modeling systems of systems while preserv…

Dangerous waters - According to Media Watch, "Austen Tayshus" has since last year received more than 90 minutes of airtime on ABC local radio over 11 segments,
https://www.

ABC chair Kim Williams denies interfering with editorial decisions over comedian's radio appearances
Kim Williams has denied interfering in editorial decision-making in order to secure airtime for an Australian comedian.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11943 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSI_…

Public versus Less-Public News Engagement on Facebook: Patterns Across Bias and Reliability
The rapid growth of social media as a news platform has raised significant concerns about the influence and societal impact of biased and unreliable news on these platforms. While much research has explored user engagement with news on platforms like Facebook, most studies have focused on publicly shared posts. This focus leaves an important question unanswered: how representative is the public sphere of Facebook's entire ecosystem? Specifically, how much of the interactions occur in less-publi…

Meta verarbeitet jetzt eure Fotos. Ob da wohl Palantir mit gefüttert wird. Das hätte dann zur Folge, dass einige deutsche Polizeien und natürlich das gesamte amerikanische Law Enforcement automatisiert mit euren Fotos fahnden kann.
Big Brother auf Steroiden.
#Überwachung #meta

highly recommend Nixta Foods, a plant-based pop-up at Radio Habana Sat/Sun 12-7pm. my omnivore friends said it was the best vegan food they remember having in some time. we shared everything on the menu: various pupusas; hibiscus tacos; nachos; and glazed plantains for a dessert.

Advancing Learnable Multi-Agent Pathfinding Solvers with Active Fine-Tuning
Anton Andreychuk, Konstantin Yakovlev, Aleksandr Panov, Alexey Skrynnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23793

Advancing Learnable Multi-Agent Pathfinding Solvers with Active Fine-Tuning
Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) is a common abstraction of multi-robot trajectory planning problems, where multiple homogeneous robots simultaneously move in the shared environment. While solving MAPF optimally has been proven to be NP-hard, scalable, and efficient, solvers are vital for real-world applications like logistics, search-and-rescue, etc. To this end, decentralized suboptimal MAPF solvers that leverage machine learning have come on stage. Building on the success of the recently intro…

Maybe I’ve already shared this here but sharing it again because reasons #furryart

TUM-MiKaNi at SemEval-2025 Task 3: Towards Multilingual and Knowledge-Aware Non-factual Hallucination Identification
Miriam Ansch\"utz, Ekaterina Gikalo, Niklas Herbster, Georg Groh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00579

TUM-MiKaNi at SemEval-2025 Task 3: Towards Multilingual and Knowledge-Aware Non-factual Hallucination Identification
Hallucinations are one of the major problems of LLMs, hindering their trustworthiness and deployment to wider use cases. However, most of the research on hallucinations focuses on English data, neglecting the multilingual nature of LLMs. This paper describes our submission to the SemEval-2025 Task-3 - Mu-SHROOM, the Multilingual Shared-task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes. We propose a two-part pipeline that combines retrieval-based fact verification against Wik…

Next Generation Authentication for Data Spaces: An Authentication Flow Based On Grant Negotiation And Authorization Protocol For Verifiable Presentations (GNAP4VP)
Rodrigo Men\'endez, Andres Munoz-Arcentales, Joaqu\'in Salvach\'ua, Carlos Aparicio, Irene Plaza, Gabriel Huecas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24698

Next Generation Authentication for Data Spaces: An Authentication Flow Based On Grant Negotiation And Authorization Protocol For Verifiable Presentations (GNAP4VP)
Identity verification in Data Spaces is a fundamental aspect of ensuring security and privacy in digital environments. This paper presents an identity verification protocol tailored for shared data environments within Data Spaces. This protocol extends the Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol (GNAP) and integrates OpenID Connect for Verifiable Presentations (OIDC4VP) along with support for Linked Verifiable Presentations (LVP), providing a robust foundation for secure and privacy-preser…

Robust and Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework with Communication for Autonomous Vehicles
Keshawn Smith, Zhili Zhang, H M Sabbir Ahmad, Ehsan Sabouni, Maniak Mondal, Song Han, Wenchao Li, Fei Miao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00982

Robust and Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework with Communication for Autonomous Vehicles
Deep multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has been demonstrated effectively in simulations for many multi-robot problems. For autonomous vehicles, the development of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technologies provide opportunities to further enhance safety of the system. However, zero-shot transfer of simulator-trained MARL policies to hardware dynamic systems remains challenging, and how to leverage communication and shared information for MARL has limited demonstrations on hardw…

Crafting Hanzi as Narrative Bridges: An AI Co-Creation Workshop for Elderly Migrants
Wen Zhan, Ziqun Hua, Peiyue Lin, Yunfei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01548

Crafting Hanzi as Narrative Bridges: An AI Co-Creation Workshop for Elderly Migrants
This paper explores how older adults, particularly aging migrants in urban China, can engage AI-assisted co-creation to express personal narratives that are often fragmented, underrepresented, or difficult to verbalize. Through a pilot workshop combining oral storytelling and the symbolic reconstruction of Hanzi, participants shared memories of migration and recreated new character forms using Xiaozhuan glyphs, suggested by the Large Language Model (LLM), together with physical materials. Suppo…

Kauft Frieden! Er ist bald alle!
https://shared.graphics/i/web/post/70526248530612224

FastSet: Parallel Claim Settlement
Xiaohong Chen, Grigore Rosu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23395 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23395

FastSet: Parallel Claim Settlement
FastSet is an actor-based distributed protocol for decentralized finance and settlement, which is inspired from blockchains. Account holders cooperate by making claims, which can include payments, holding and transferring assets, accessing and updating shared data, medical records, digital identity, and mathematical theorems, among many others. The claims are signed by their owners and are broadcast to a decentralized network of validators, which validate and settle them. Validators replicate t…

Raining Symphony 🎷
雨奏鸣曲 🎷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fomapan 400 Action
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

C'était déjŠ il y a 8 ans sur #CaCommenceAujourdhui
https://youtu.be/r8uzVXwNqow?feature=shared
On a malheureusement pas vraiment eu le temps d'aller p…

Brains and language models converge on a shared conceptual space across different languages
Zaid Zada, Samuel A Nastase, Jixing Li, Uri Hasson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20489

Brains and language models converge on a shared conceptual space across different languages
Human languages differ widely in their forms, each having distinct sounds, scripts, and syntax. Yet, they can all convey similar meaning. Do different languages converge on a shared neural substrate for conceptual meaning? We used language models (LMs) and naturalistic fMRI to identify neural representations of the shared conceptual meaning of the same story as heard by native speakers of three languages: English, Chinese, and French. We found that LMs trained on entirely different languages co…

Parallax QAMA: Novel Downlink Multiple Access for MISO Systems with Simple Receivers
Jie Huang, Ming Zhao, Shengli Zhou, Ling Qiu, Jinkang Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23301

Parallax QAMA: Novel Downlink Multiple Access for MISO Systems with Simple Receivers
In this paper, we propose a novel downlink multiple access system with a multi-antenna transmitter and two single-antenna receivers, inspired by the underlying principles of hierarchical quadrature amplitude modulation (H-QAM) based multiple access (QAMA) and space-division multiple access (SDMA). In the proposed scheme, coded bits from two users are split and assigned to one shared symbol and two private symbols carried by different beams. Based on joint symbol mapping of H-QAM constellations …

At its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).
Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not fre…

A little more than 30 years ago, I learned basic general relativity in physics. I couldn't really understand time. It just seemed like there was something that was missing.
I developed an idea of how time and space should be described, but I never managed to explain it to anyone in an understandable way.
After recently watching Sabine Hossenfelder tear down a paper with a similar idea (

Optimal Targeting in Dynamic Systems
Yuchen Hu, Shuangning Li, Stefan Wager
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00312 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Optimal Targeting in Dynamic Systems
Modern treatment targeting methods often rely on estimating the conditional average treatment effect (CATE) using machine learning tools. While effective in identifying who benefits from treatment on the individual level, these approaches typically overlook system-level dynamics that may arise when treatments induce strain on shared capacity. We study the problem of targeting in Markovian systems, where treatment decisions must be made one at a time as units arrive, and early decisions can impa…

Teaching Cars to Drive: Spotlight on Connected and Automated Vehicles
Filippos N. Tzortzoglou, Andreas A. Malikopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01211 htt…

Teaching Cars to Drive: Spotlight on Connected and Automated Vehicles
In recent decades, society has witnessed significant advancements in emerging mobility systems. These systems refer to transportation solutions that incorporate digital technologies, automation, connectivity, and sustainability to create safer, more efficient, and user-centered mobility. Examples include connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), shared mobility services (car-pooling), electric vehicles, and mobility-as-a-service platforms. These innovations have the potential to greatly impact a…

Today we saw a white-eared opossum and that's how I learned that Argentinians call them "comadreja" - literally weasel.
The evolutionary biologist in me is extremely amused by that, their shared ancestry is that both opossum and weasels are mammals, but that's it. And they definitely look like their ancestry stops there. 😅
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-eared_opossum

Facebook renames its Videos tab as the Reels tab and says all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/face

Facebook announces that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels | TechCrunch
Facebook announced on Tuesday that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation.

Mitä tapahtuu, jos maailma kohtaa uuden pandemian ja samaan aikaan Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vastaa Yhdysvaltojen terveyspolitiikasta?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Arvostettu ympäristöjuristi sai pakkomielteen, ja seuraukset voivat olla kohtalokkaat maailmalle
Time-lehti nosti Kennedyn 2006 yhdeksi ”planeetan sankareista”. Jos uusi pandemia puhkeaa, hän aiheuttaa USA:n terveysministerinä katastrofin.

Great version of Gorillaz Feel good inc https://youtu.be/rk0NzRu6Wr0?feature=shared

On the one hand, good.
On the other hand, still good.
https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-signals

General many-body entanglement swapping protocol
Santeri Huhtanen, Yousef Mafi, Ali G. Moghaddam, Teemu Ojanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22430 https://

General many-body entanglement swapping protocol
Sharing entangled pairs between non-signaling parties via entanglement swapping constitutes a striking demonstration of the nonlocality of quantum mechanics and a crucial building block for future quantum technologies. In this work, we generalize pair-swapping methods by introducing a many-body entanglement swapping protocol, which allows two non-signaling parties to share general many-body states along an arbitrary partitioning. The shared many-body state retains exactly the same Schmidt vecto…

What Makes ChatGPT Effective for Software Issue Resolution? An Empirical Study of Developer-ChatGPT Conversations in GitHub
Ramtin Ehsani, Sakshi Pathak, Esteban Parra, Sonia Haiduc, Preetha Chatterjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22390

What Makes ChatGPT Effective for Software Issue Resolution? An Empirical Study of Developer-ChatGPT Conversations in GitHub
Conversational large-language models are extensively used for issue resolution tasks. However, not all developer-LLM conversations are useful for effective issue resolution. In this paper, we analyze 686 developer-ChatGPT conversations shared within GitHub issue threads to identify characteristics that make these conversations effective for issue resolution. First, we analyze the conversations and their corresponding issues to distinguish helpful from unhelpful conversations. We begin by catego…

#video #RIT

Now that SCOTUS has crippled the ability of Federal judges to issue blanket injunctions against unconstitutional acts by the government we can anticipate that there have to be many, many, many more individual lawsuits, pretty much one suit per victim of a government policy.
I do hope that lawyers have begun to create a shared repository of text and research that can be updated and evolved as cases succeed or fail.
(Of course there will have to be limited access rights in order to…

So #Gentoo #Python eclasses are pretty modern, in the sense that they tend to follow the best practices and standards, and eventually deal with deprecations. Nevertheless, they have a long history and carry quite some historical burden, particularly regarding to naming.
The key point is that the eclasses were conceived as a replacement for the old eclasses: "distutils" and "python". Hence, much like we revision ebuilds, I've named the matching eclasses "distutils-r1" and "python-r1". For consistency, I've also used the "-r1" suffix for the remaining eclasses introduced at the time: "python-any-r1", "python-single-r1" and "python-utils-r1" — even though there were never "r0"s.
It didn't take long to realize my first mistake. I've made the multi-impl eclass effectively the "main" eclass, probably largely inspired by the previous Gentoo recommendations. However, in the end I've found out that for the most use cases (i.e. where "distutils-r1" is not involved), there is no real need for multi-impl, and it makes things much harder. So if I were naming them today, I would have named it "python-multi", to indicate the specific use case — and either avoid designating a default at all, or made "python-single" the default.
What aged even worse is the "distutils-r1" eclass. Admittedly, back when it was conceived, distutils was still largely a thing — and there were people (like me) who avoided unnecessary dependency on setuptools. Of course, nowadays it has been entirely devoured by setuptools, and with #PEP517 even "setuptools" wouldn't be a good name anymore. Nowadays, people are getting confused why they are supposed to use "distutils-r1" for, say, Hatchling.
Admittedly, this is something I could have done differently — PEP517 support was a major migration, and involved an explicit switch. Instead of adding DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517 (what a self-contradictory name) variable, I could have forked the eclass. Why didn't I do that? Because there used to be a lot of code shared between the two paths. Of course, over time they diverged more, and eventually I've dropped the legacy support — but the opportunity to rename was lost.
In fact, as a semi-related fact, I've recognized another design problem with the eclass earlier — I should have gone for two eclasses rather than one: a "python-phase" eclass with generic sub-phase support, and a "distutils" (or later "python-pep517") implementing default sub-phases for the common backends. And again, this is precisely how I could have solved the code reuse problem when I introduced PEP517 support.
But then, I didn't anticipate how the eclasses would end up looking like in the end — and I can't really predict what new challenges the Python ecosystem is going to bring us. And I think it's too late to rename or split stuff — too much busywork on everyone.

#Antifa #Justizproblem #Polizeiproblem Ella Strübbe, @… "In…

„Dann zog der AfD-Stadtverordnete ein Klappmesser“
In der AfD gibt es viele gewaltbereite Politiker:innen. Ich habe mit mehreren Personen gesprochen, die von ihnen angegriffen wurden.

I have never been a tweeter. But a colleague shared this with me.
It predates the announcement by nasa brass by a day.
https://x.com/dogeai_gov/status/1915098704538669127?s=42
(Access:: I tried to paste all text into pic 1:: I also have eye problems and this is the best I can do, so please don’t give me 💩)

Democratic lawmakers in Congress are furious
after the Trump administration announced plans to
💥limit classified information that is typically shared with both houses of the legislature -- following a leak regarding the U.S.’s recent military strikes on Iran.
After President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet claimed his ordered attacks on three sites in Iran last weekend “obliterated” the country’s nuclear capabilities,
a leaked intelligence document disputed tha…

White House Plans to Limit Intel Sharing With Congress Over Leak Showing Iran’s Nuclear Capabilities Weren’t “Obliterated”
“This isn’t about national security — it’s about Trump’s insecurity,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said.

Facebook renames its Videos tab as the Reels tab and says all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/face

Facebook announces that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels | TechCrunch
Facebook announced on Tuesday that all videos on its platform will soon be shared as reels, regardless of their length or orientation.

To ChatGPT: In view of Neuralink PR, there must be a good reason why in their Summer 2025 Neuralink update they did not show any video of a monkey performing even a simple visual task with its Neuralink Blindsight brain implant. It is probably not performing well? https://chatgpt.com/share/686264d2-fad…

ChatGPT - Trump vs Hitler Comparison
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CeeDee Lamb Posts Photo with George Pickens That Will Fire Up Cowboys Fans https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/ceedee-lamb-photo-george-pickens/?adt_ei=[email]

Found in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger. The one lesson I wish the modern left would internalize more than anything.
Use shared language.
Don't use lefty jargon when the person you're talking to doesn't subscribe to these ideas. No white privilege, no colonial oppression, no intersectionality. Translate to a shared language, built on reasonable, common assumptions and do the work required to bring people on board.
Because you can be damned sure the MAGA crowd ar…

WA Medicaid data shared with federal immigration authorities, report says • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/06/13/wa-medicaid-data-shared-with-federal-immigration-authorities-report-says/

I feel very undecided about the book I picked up: “Think Like a Monk” by Jay Shetty.
There’s a nagging thought in the back of my mind that the book might not be what I’m looking for. The confirmation bias kicked in immediately and within minutes it called out the following: “Three years after I moved to Mumbai, my teacher, Gauranga Das, told me he believed I would be of greater value and service if I left the ashram and shared what I’d learned with the world”. So these are the teachings of someone who studied for 3 years what others are practicing a life time and then was sent out to be a marketer.

"Half a million hectares of rainforest were saved — in part thanks to journalism"
#Rainforest #Environment

Half a million hectares of rainforest were saved — in part thanks to journalism
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In a packed event held in Palo Alto, California, at the end of SF Climate Week in April, Willie Shubert, the vice president of programs and executive editor at Mongabay, shared a compelling example of how Mongabay’s journalism […]

Reminder that my shared ActBlue fundraising form is still live: #NHPolitics

Randall Monroe's recent "xkcd What if" video has a Great Lakes connection.
"What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?"
Super cool system where we did fieldwork some year ago.
Kudos for mentioning trouble with the Niagara Board of Control. 🏅
https://youtu.be/pfbzrr…

The shared braincell was late to work :neocat_woozy:

Pseudo-Equilibria, or: How to Stop Worrying About Crypto and Just Analyze the Game
Alexandros Psomas, Athina Terzoglou, Yu Wei, Vassilis Zikas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22089

Pseudo-Equilibria, or: How to Stop Worrying About Crypto and Just Analyze the Game
We consider the problem of a game theorist analyzing a game that uses cryptographic protocols. Ideally, a theorist abstracts protocols as ideal, implementation-independent primitives, letting conclusions in the "ideal world" carry over to the "real world." This is crucial, since the game theorist cannot--and should not be expected to--handle full cryptographic complexity. In today's landscape, the rise of distributed ledgers makes a shared language between cryptography and game theory increasin…

Ein überraschend erleuchtender Artikel IMHO: https://krautreporter.de/psyche-und-gesundheit/5870-hoffnung-ist-bullshit?shared=9549fcec-3110-4d10-982b-4712422d0c33

Hoffnung ist Bullshit
Angesichts der Weltlage suchen viele verzweifelt nach Hoffnung. Mir hat es geholfen, sie loszuwerden.

Ravens' Kyle Hamilton reveals engagement to longtime girlfriend on Instagram https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45598572/kyle-hamilton-baltimore-ravens-announces-engagement

This is Jon Stewart and it's very good presentation showing how what's going on in the US makes no sense at all. He manages some humour in the midst of his obvious frustration. Be ready to laugh through your tears.
Worth a watch:
https://youtu.be/3Q08a7BI9XI?feature=shared…

Multimodal Medical Image Binding via Shared Text Embeddings
Yunhao Liu, Suyang Xi, Shiqi Liu, Hong Ding, Chicheng Jin, Chenxi Yang, Junjun He, Yiqing Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18072

Multimodal Medical Image Binding via Shared Text Embeddings
Medical image analysis increasingly relies on the integration of multiple imaging modalities to capture complementary anatomical and functional information, enabling more accurate diagnosis and treatment planning. Achieving aligned feature representations across these diverse modalities is therefore important for effective multimodal analysis. While contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) and its variant have enabled image-text alignments, they require explicitly paired data between arbi…

Remember Alphaville's song Forever Young?
If you have 8 more minutes here's what I recently found. I hope it gives you as much joy listening to it as it does for me.
https://youtu.be/tejB6cG7bBg?feature=shared

Blowing up NATO's foundation, right before its Summit:
"Trump refused to give a clear commitment to NATO’s Article 5 — its collective defense clause — as he departed for The Hague, raising fresh concerns about his stance on one of NATO’s core principles."
https://

Trump casts doubt on NATO defense pledge as alliance confronts Russian threat
Although Article 5 is central to NATO’s security framework, U.S. President Donald Trump has previously expressed skepticism about honoring it, often criticizing member states for not contributing enough to shared defense efforts.

#DIAMAS project final ouput before next week's conference:
DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS RECOMMENDATIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR INSTITUTIONS, FUNDERS, SPONSORS, DONORS, AND POLICYMAKERS. #DiamondOA
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De kör verkligen ChatGPT på allt utan att kontrollera någonting. Det är som något Cullberg skulle kunna lägga upp men det här är för en presentation inför utvärdering av vaccin för hela befolkningen.
Vilka jävla fån. Helt absurt att ganska många människor fortsätter att tycka att detta är helt okej. https:…

Presentation for CDC advisers appears to cite nonexistent study to support claims about risk of vaccine preservative
A presentation slated to be shared at this week’s meeting of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed that a study in animals suggested that use of the vaccine preservative thimerosal can have “long-term consequences in the brain.”

Somehow we made this part of the Queensboro Bridge worse. This is a 3-4ft wide two-way bike lane. There's so much wrong with this, from the metal manhole cover taking up almost the entire width of the bike lane, to the MUTCD-violating usage of sharrows, to those shitty rumble strip/speed bump things THAT ARE LOOSE.
Wtaf! #bikeNYC
@…

Ohhh, I just discovered that @… published a special edition with the collected entries of the “The Museum of Stolen History” series: https://www.thecontinent.org/archive

Archive | The Continent
The Continent is a free weekly newspaper, designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp. It showcases the best reporting from journalists across Africa.

SAM4D: Segment Anything in Camera and LiDAR Streams
Jianyun Xu, Song Wang, Ziqian Ni, Chunyong Hu, Sheng Yang, Jianke Zhu, Qiang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21547

SAM4D: Segment Anything in Camera and LiDAR Streams
We present SAM4D, a multi-modal and temporal foundation model designed for promptable segmentation across camera and LiDAR streams. Unified Multi-modal Positional Encoding (UMPE) is introduced to align camera and LiDAR features in a shared 3D space, enabling seamless cross-modal prompting and interaction. Additionally, we propose Motion-aware Cross-modal Memory Attention (MCMA), which leverages ego-motion compensation to enhance temporal consistency and long-horizon feature retrieval, ensuring …

Estimating Multiple Weighted Networks with Node-Sparse Differences and Shared Low-Rank Structure
Hao Yan, Keith Levin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15915 http…

Estimating Multiple Weighted Networks with Node-Sparse Differences and Shared Low-Rank Structure
We study the problem of modeling multiple symmetric, weighted networks defined on a common set of nodes, where networks arise from different groups or conditions. We propose a model in which each network is expressed as the sum of a shared low-rank structure and a node-sparse matrix that captures the differences between conditions. This formulation is motivated by practical scenarios, such as in connectomics, where most nodes share a global connectivity structure while only a few exhibit condit…

An Efficient Implementation of Guard-Based Synchronization for an Object-Oriented Programming Language
Shucai Yao (Huawai Technologies Canada), Emil Sekerinski (McMaster University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20850

An Efficient Implementation of Guard-Based Synchronization for an Object-Oriented Programming Language
In the shared variable model of concurrency, guarded atomic actions restrict the possible interference between processes by regions of atomic execution. The guard specifies the condition for entering an atomic region. That is a convenient model for the specification and verification of concurrent programs, but has eschewed efficient execution so far. This article shows how guarded atomic actions, when attached to objects, can be implemented highly efficiently using a combination of coroutines, …

Reducing Motion Sickness in Passengers of Autonomous Personal Mobility Vehicles by Presenting a Driving Path
Yuya Ide, Hailong Liu, Takahiro Wada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23457 …

Reducing Motion Sickness in Passengers of Autonomous Personal Mobility Vehicles by Presenting a Driving Path
Autonomous personal mobility vehicles (APMVs) are small mobility devices designed for individual automated transportation in shared spaces. In such environments, frequent pedestrian avoidance maneuvers may cause rapid steering adjustments and passive postural responses from passengers, thereby increasing the risk of motion sickness. This study investigated the effects of providing path information on 16 passengers' head movement behavior and motion sickness while riding an APMV. Through a contr…

Team LA at SCIDOCA shared task 2025: Citation Discovery via relation-based zero-shot retrieval
Trieu An, Long Nguyen, Minh Le Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18316

Team LA at SCIDOCA shared task 2025: Citation Discovery via relation-based zero-shot retrieval
The Citation Discovery Shared Task focuses on predicting the correct citation from a given candidate pool for a given paragraph. The main challenges stem from the length of the abstract paragraphs and the high similarity among candidate abstracts, making it difficult to determine the exact paper to cite. To address this, we develop a system that first retrieves the top-k most similar abstracts based on extracted relational features from the given paragraph. From this subset, we leverage a Large…

Disentangling network dependence among multiple variables
Zhejia Dong, Corwin Zigler, Youjin Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20974 https://

Disentangling network dependence among multiple variables
When two variables depend on the same or similar underlying network, their shared network dependence structure can lead to spurious associations. While statistical associations between two variables sampled from interconnected subjects are a common inferential goal across various fields, little research has focused on how to disentangle shared dependence for valid statistical inference. We revisit two different approaches from distinct fields that may address shared network dependence: the pre-…

QoS-aware State-Augmented Learnable Algorithm for Wireless Coexistence Parameter Management
Mohammad Reza Fasihi, Brian L. Mark
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22652

QoS-aware State-Augmented Learnable Algorithm for Wireless Coexistence Parameter Management
Efficient and fair coexistence in unlicensed spectrum is essential to support heterogeneous networks such as 5G NR-U and Wi-Fi, which often contend for shared wireless resources. We introduce a general framework for wireless Coexistence Parameter Management (CPM) based on state-augmented constrained reinforcement learning. We propose a novel algorithm, QaSAL-CPM, which incorporates state-augmentation by embedding the dual variables in the constrained optimization formulation directly into the a…

A. I wonder what language the French pres. uses to whisper to the Italian pres?
B. How does Meloni manage to dress like a 12 year old girl and somehow not seem ridiculous?
C. Feel the stomach acid the Japanese delegate is experiencing 😬
D. How is it that Starmer manages to look *exactly* as awkward at these meetings as Theresa May did?

ChatGPT on what is known about chronic phosphene stimulation and use of short current return paths #BCI

ChatGPT - Pferd auf Astronauten Missverständnis
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Opinion | Trump Is Daring Us to Impeach Him Again - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opinion/trump-third-impeachment.html?utm_source=pocket_shared

UiS-IAI@LiveRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Information Nugget-Based Generation of Responses
Weronika {\L}ajewska, Ivica Kostric, Gabriel Iturra-Bocaz, Mariam Arustashvili, Krisztian Balog
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22210

UiS-IAI@LiveRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Information Nugget-Based Generation of Responses
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) faces challenges related to factual correctness, source attribution, and response completeness. The LiveRAG Challenge hosted at SIGIR'25 aims to advance RAG research using a fixed corpus and a shared, open-source LLM. We propose a modular pipeline that operates on information nuggets-minimal, atomic units of relevant information extracted from retrieved documents. This multistage pipeline encompasses query rewriting, passage retrieval and reranking, nugget d…

Sipilän, Orvon ja Purran tiellä.
#kirjasto #hallitus

Kirjastojen resurssipula uhkaa jo palvelujen laatua – Mitä jää jäljelle?
Kirjastot ovat Suomen ylivoimaisesti käytetyin kulttuuripalvelu. Työntekijöiden mukaan aika ei enää riitä kaikkiin laissa määriteltyihin tehtäviin.

Memo: Matt Murray says WaPo will test a new feature called "From the Source", inviting sources named in articles to comment on those articles after publication (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/1937874420434981298

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
In a note to staff this morning shared with me, Washington Post editor Matt Murray announces that the paper will begin testing out a new feature called "from the source," which will invite sources named in articles to comment on those articles after they've been published

Change Point Localization and Inference in Dynamic Multilayer Networks
Fan Wang, Kyle Ritscher, Yik Lun Kei, Xin Ma, Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21878

Change Point Localization and Inference in Dynamic Multilayer Networks
We study offline change point localization and inference in dynamic multilayer random dot product graphs (D-MRDPGs), where at each time point, a multilayer network is observed with shared node latent positions and time-varying, layer-specific connectivity patterns. We propose a novel two-stage algorithm that combines seeded binary segmentation with low-rank tensor estimation, and establish its consistency in estimating both the number and locations of change points. Furthermore, we derive the l…