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This essay (ht @… ) offers a lot to chew on: some gems, some flubs, some quibblable provocations, some big insights. This sentence in particular stood out to me (context for it in the screenshot):
“Whether we’re reading or conversing, we want something to be meant, not just said.”
https://slate.com/life/2025/06/ai-chatgpt-generator-grok-gemini-writing.html

Some of these big retailer breaches have tended to surface in the Korean press first, now it's Papa John's.
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-06-26/na…

Papa John's Korea confirms customer data breech exposing names, contact info, addresses
Pizza franchise Papa John's Korea has confirmed a customer data breach caused by a security vulnerability, prompting an official investigation by the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC).

A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up | Quanta Magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-pyramid-like-shape-always-lands-the-same-side-up-20250625/

A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up | Quanta Magazine
A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture.

Conformal Rigidity and Spectral Embeddings of Graphs
Jo\~ao Gouveia, Stefan Steinerberger, Rekha R. Thomas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20541 https://…

Conformal Rigidity and Spectral Embeddings of Graphs
We investigate the structure of conformally rigid graphs. Graphs are conformally rigid if introducing edge weights cannot increase (decrease) the second (last) eigenvalue of the Graph Laplacian. Edge-transitive graphs and distance-regular graphs are known to be conformally rigid. We establish new results using the connection between conformal rigidity and edge-isometric spectral embeddings of the graph. All $1$-walk regular graphs are conformally rigid, a consequence of a stronger property of t…

Time is On My Side: Dynamics of Talk-Time Sharing in Video-chat Conversations
Kaixiang Zhang, Justine Zhang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20474

Time is On My Side: Dynamics of Talk-Time Sharing in Video-chat Conversations
An intrinsic aspect of every conversation is the way talk-time is shared between multiple speakers. Conversations can be balanced, with each speaker claiming a similar amount of talk-time, or imbalanced when one talks disproportionately. Such overall distributions are the consequence of continuous negotiations between the speakers throughout the conversation: who should be talking at every point in time, and for how long? In this work we introduce a computational framework for quantifying bot…

Volumetric segmentation of muscle compartments using in vivo imaging and architectural validation in human finger flexors
Yang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20206

Volumetric segmentation of muscle compartments using in vivo imaging and architectural validation in human finger flexors
Segmenting muscle compartments and measuring their architecture can facilitate movement function assessment, accurate musculoskeletal modeling, and synergy-based electromyogram simulation. Here, we presented a novel method for volumetric segmentation of muscle compartments using in vivo imaging, focusing on the independent compartments for finger control of flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS). Besides, we measured the architectural properties of FDS compartments and validated the segmentation.…

Shoot First laws in the United States lead to substantial increases in violence
and the senseless loss of hundreds of lives every year.
Research shows that these laws have increased gun homicides by up to 11 percent nationally,
translating to more than 700 deaths annually.
Some Shoot First states have seen even steeper increases, with those rates rising by 30 percent or more in Alabama, Florida, and Missouri.
Adolescents experience higher rates of gun homicides…

The Dangers of Shooting First: "Stand Your Ground" Laws Are a License to Kill
Shoot First laws, also known as Stand Your Ground laws, allow a person to use deadly force in a confrontation without any duty to retreat.

"La Banque nationale de Belgique, dirigée par son gouverneur Pierre Wunsch, n’effectuerait pas une supervision très serrée de Worldline Belgique selon des sources concordantes. Bien qu’elle ait eu connaissance de plusieurs violations de la conformité."
#DirtyPayments #BNB

Ich zögere immer noch einen Gaming Rechner für Videobearbeitung mit #DaVinci (Studio V20) für Linux aufzusetzen.
Habt ihr Erfahrung damit? Besser doch Win11?
Und wenn wir schon dabei sind: AMD Ryzen oder Intel Prozessor? GeForce oder Radeon?
Habe mich bei Puget schon eingelesen...

DaVinci Resolve Studio: AMD Ryzen 9000 Series vs Intel Core 14th Gen
AMD's new Ryzen 9000 processors are here, but how do they compare to the previous generation Ryzen 7000 or Intel's Core 14th Gen processors in DaVinci Resolve Studio?

"What's Up, Doc?": Analyzing How Users Seek Health Information in Large-Scale Conversational AI Datasets
Akshay Paruchuri, Maryam Aziz, Rohit Vartak, Ayman Ali, Best Uchehara, Xin Liu, Ishan Chatterjee, Monica Agrawal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21532

"What's Up, Doc?": Analyzing How Users Seek Health Information in Large-Scale Conversational AI Datasets
People are increasingly seeking healthcare information from large language models (LLMs) via interactive chatbots, yet the nature and inherent risks of these conversations remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we filter large-scale conversational AI datasets to achieve HealthChat-11K, a curated dataset of 11K real-world conversations composed of 25K user messages. We use HealthChat-11K and a clinician-driven taxonomy for how users interact with LLMs when seeking healthcare information in or…