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masks at protests / demographics
Interestingly, at the May Day gathering I was the only one in a mask.
Thinking about the contrast with the trans protest the other week, where "good" (fitted not floppy) masks were dotted about throughout the crowd, and felt normalised.
Today's march was a less crowded event than the trans protest, so pretty low-risk for covid transmission anyway. But then when we got to the mini-fair after the march, indoors at the Friends' Meeting House, I didn't see anyone masking indoors either.
I wonder about the demographics of that difference. Seems like there's a traditional union/Labour left who share the mainstream denial of present-day covid, and a statistically more disabled & marginalised cohort where trans awareness and disability/illness awareness overlap.
#masks #CovidIsntOver

it’s a lonely free lunch wednesday at the systems lab #alas

We need people like Matthew Cassel and Kyri Evangelou that are able to stand with a straight face when being in the middle of this. But what face can the rest of us afford to have?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/…

IdolSongsJp Corpus: A Multi-Singer Song Corpus in the Style of Japanese Idol Groups
Hitoshi Suda, Junya Koguchi, Shunsuke Yoshida, Tomohiko Nakamura, Satoru Fukayama, Jun Ogata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01349

IdolSongsJp Corpus: A Multi-Singer Song Corpus in the Style of Japanese Idol Groups
Japanese idol groups, comprising performers known as "idols," are an indispensable part of Japanese pop culture. They frequently appear in live concerts and television programs, entertaining audiences with their singing and dancing. Similar to other J-pop songs, idol group music covers a wide range of styles, with various types of chord progressions and instrumental arrangements. These tracks often feature numerous instruments and employ complex mastering techniques, resulting in high signal lo…

SComCP: Task-Oriented Semantic Communication for Collaborative Perception
Jipeng Gan, Yucheng Sheng, Hua Zhang, Le Liang, Hao Ye, Chongtao Guo, Shi Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00895

SComCP: Task-Oriented Semantic Communication for Collaborative Perception
Reliable detection of surrounding objects is critical for the safe operation of connected automated vehicles (CAVs). However, inherent limitations such as the restricted perception range and occlusion effects compromise the reliability of single-vehicle perception systems in complex traffic environments. Collaborative perception has emerged as a promising approach by fusing sensor data from surrounding CAVs with diverse viewpoints, thereby improving environmental awareness. Although collaborati…

On the Optimality of Coded Distributed Computing for Ring Networks
Zhenhao Huang, Minquan Cheng, Kai Wan, Qifu Tyler Sun, Youlong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00091

On the Optimality of Coded Distributed Computing for Ring Networks
We consider a coded distributed computing problem in a ring-based communication network, where $N$ computing nodes are arranged in a ring topology and each node can only communicate with its neighbors within a constant distance $d$. To mitigate the communication bottleneck in exchanging intermediate values, we propose new coded distributed computing schemes for the ring-based network that exploit both ring topology and redundant computation (i.e., each map function is computed by $r$ nodes). Tw…

🌀 Simulations find ghostly whirls of dark matter trailing galaxy arms
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/simulations-find-ghostly-whirls-of-dark-matter-trailing-galaxy-arms/

Simulations find ghostly whirls of dark matter trailing galaxy arms
Simulations suggest where we might look for the mystery material.

LIGHTS. A robust technique to identify galaxy edges
Giulia Golini, Ignacio Trujillo, Dennis Zaritsky, Mireia Montes, Ra\'ul Infante Sainz, Garreth Martin, Nushkia Chamba, Ignacio Ruiz Cejudo, Andr\'es Asensio Ramos, Chen Yu Chuang, Mauro D'Onofrio, Sepideh Eskandarlou, S. Zahra Hosseini ShahiSavandi, Ouldouz Kaboud, Carlos Marrero de la Rosa, Minh Ngoc Le, Samane Raji, Javier Rom\'an, Nafise Sedighi, Zahra Sharbaf, Richard Donnerstein, Sergio Guerra Arencibia

LIGHTS. A robust technique to identify galaxy edges
The LIGHTS survey is imaging galaxies at a depth and spatial resolution comparable to what the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will produce in 10 years (i.e., $\sim$31 mag/arcsec$^2$; 3$σ$ in areas equivalent to 10$^{\prime\prime}$$\times$ 10$^{\prime\prime}$). This opens up the possibility of probing the edge of galaxies, as the farthest location of in-situ star formation, with a precision that we have been unable to achieve in the past. Traditionally, galaxy edges have been analyzed i…

How the video game industry, which has used AI since the 1980s, is embracing AI-enhanced gameplay, worrying some developers as major studios cut employees (Zachary Small/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/arts/video-games-artificial-intelligen…

The Unnerving Future of A.I.-Fueled Video Games
Game designers have used artificial intelligence since the 1980s. But digital characters demonstrating self-awareness is a far cry from the ghosts chasing Pac-Man.

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