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Now in cats: Be careful out there ...
Spike in avian flu cases in cats triggers worry about human spillover:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/spike-avian-flu-cases-cats-triggers-worry-about-human-spillover

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island
#Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/6g6DnHs3W4U6qMERbKwpDd

Insights into the role of dynamical features in protein complex formation: the case of SARS-CoV-2 spike binding with ACE2
Greta Grassmann, Mattia Miotto, Francesca Alessandrini, Leonardo Bo', Giancarlo Ruocco, Edoardo Milanetti, Andrea Giansanti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05549

Insights into the role of dynamical features in protein complex formation: the case of SARS-CoV-2 spike binding with ACE2
The functionality of protein-protein complexes is closely tied to the strength of their interactions, making the evaluation of binding affinity a central focus in structural biology. However, the molecular determinants underlying binding affinity are still not fully understood. In particular, the entropic contributions, especially those arising from conformational dynamics, remain poorly characterized. In this study, we explore the relationship between protein motion and binding stability and i…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/6g6DnHs3W4U6qMERbKwpDd

Spike in steel tariffs could imperil Trump promise of lower grocery prices | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/spike-in-steel-tariffs-could-imperil-trump-promise-of-lower-grocery-prices

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15927 has been replaced.
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Application based Evaluation of an Efficient Spike-Encoder, "Spiketrum"
Spike-based encoders represent information as sequences of spikes or pulses, which are transmitted between neurons. A prevailing consensus suggests that spike-based approaches demonstrate exceptional capabilities in capturing the temporal dynamics of neural activity and have the potential to provide energy-efficient solutions for low-power applications. The Spiketrum encoder efficiently compresses input data using spike trains or code sets (for non-spiking applications) and is adaptable to both…

Good article summarizing a lot of things relevant to continued COVID'19 caution:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888
Key points:
COVID'19 weakens the immune system:
"""
So it's not just about infecting you and causing respiratory illness and fever and all of the things that we usually get with the viral infection. This virus also specifically causes your immune system to become weaker.
"""
It damages blood vessels:
"""
In addition to SARS-CoV-2's ability to dysregulate the immune system and suppress the immune system, the spike protein itself is very damaging to blood vessel structures as well as red blood cells and platelets themselves.
"""
The folk idea that infections make our immune system stronger and stronger like a muscle just isn't true (or at least, doesn't apply to COVID'19 because of how, unlike most other viruses, it damages the immune system):
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For the longest time in the field of immunology, there was the sort of adage that your immune system needs to be tested every now and again to stay strong. That's an old-fashioned idea.
The more new-fashioned and evidence-based idea is that, although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives.
"""

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island
#NowPlaying #Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/6g6DnHs3W4U6qMERbKwpDd

The legendary rivals, Reggie Miller & Spike Lee, sits with the Inside the NBA panel!
▶️ Reggie Miller & Spike Lee Joined the Fellas Ahead of Game 5 🤝 | NBA on TNT
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TUpn6cylgFQ&si=tn5T4P0pDB8kliYT

H'mmm... My @forgejo instance has been hit very hard last night by AI crawlers, including from
* https://openai.com/gptbot (125,467 hits in 24 hours)
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Probing Dark Matter Spike with Gravitational Waves from Early EMRIs in the Milky Way Center
Chen Feng, Yong Tang, Yue-Liang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02937

Probing Dark Matter Spike with Gravitational Waves from Early EMRIs in the Milky Way Center
Cold dark matter may form dense structures around supermassive black holes (SMBHs), significantly influencing their local environments. These dense regions are ideal sites for the formation of extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs), in which stellar-mass compact objects gradually spiral into SMBH, emitting gravitational waves (GWs). Space-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories such as LISA and Taiji will be sensitive to these signals, including early-stage EMRIs (E-EMRIs) that persist in the…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18799 has been replaced.
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A General-Purpose Neuromorphic Sensor based on Spiketrum Algorithm: Hardware Details and Real-life Applications
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired computational paradigm, enabling energy-efficient data processing through spike-based information transmission. Despite notable advancements in hardware for SNNs, spike encoding has largely remained software-dependent, limiting efficiency. This paper addresses the need for adaptable and resource-efficient spike encoding hardware by presenting an area-optimized hardware implementation of the Spiketrum algorithm, which encodes time-vary…

Distributedness based scheduling
Paritosh Ranjan, Surajit Majumder, Prodip Roy, Bhuban Padhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02581 https://

Distributedness based scheduling
Efficient utilization of computing resources in a Kubernetes cluster is often constrained by the uneven distribution of pods with similar usage patterns. This paper presents a novel scheduling strategy designed to optimize the distributedness of Kubernetes resources based on their usage magnitude and patterns across CPU, memory, network, and storage. By categorizing resource usage into labels such as "cpu high spike" or "memory medium always," and applying these to deployed pods, the system cal…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island (6 Music Session)
#Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/6g6DnHs3W4U6qMERbKwpDd

This is just yet another example of what happens when #ClimateChange is ignored. A ramp-up of extreme #weather is causing #insurance companies to stop offering coverage in areas around the globe where…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15578 has been replaced.
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FireFly-S: Exploiting Dual-Side Sparsity for Spiking Neural Networks Acceleration with Reconfigurable Spatial Architecture
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their brain-inspired structure using discrete spikes instead of continuous activations, are gaining attention for their potential of efficient processing on neuromorphic chips. While current SNN hardware accelerators often prioritize temporal spike sparsity, exploiting sparse synaptic weights offers significant untapped potential for even greater efficiency. To address this, we propose FireFly-S, a Sparse extension of the FireFly series. This co-optimized so…

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Backpropagation-free Spiking Neural Networks with the Forward-Forward Algorithm
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired computational paradigm that emulates neuronal activity through discrete spike-based processing. Despite their advantages, training SNNs with traditional backpropagation (BP) remains challenging due to computational inefficiencies and a lack of biological plausibility. This study explores the Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm as an alternative learning framework for SNNs. Unlike backpropagation, which relies on forward and backward passes…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20411 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_…

Backpropagation-free Spiking Neural Networks with the Forward-Forward Algorithm
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired computational paradigm that emulates neuronal activity through discrete spike-based processing. Despite their advantages, training SNNs with traditional backpropagation (BP) remains challenging due to computational inefficiencies and a lack of biological plausibility. This study explores the Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm as an alternative learning framework for SNNs. Unlike backpropagation, which relies on forward and backward passes…