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Large Language Model-Empowered Channel Prediction and Predictive Beamforming for LEO Satellite Communications
Zhixiong Chen, Hyundong Shin, Arumugam Nallanathan, Jonathon Chambers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10561

Large Language Model-Empowered Channel Prediction and Predictive Beamforming for LEO Satellite Communications
Accurate channel prediction and effective beamforming are essential for low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications to enhance system capacity and enable high-speed connectivity. Most existing channel prediction and predictive beamforming methods are limited by model generalization capabilities and struggle to adapt to time-varying wireless propagation environments. Inspired by the remarkable generalization and reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), this work proposes an LLM…

Modeling the Impact of Communication and Human Uncertainties on Runway Capacity in Terminal Airspace
Yutian Pang, Andrew Kendall, John-Paul Clarke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09943

Modeling the Impact of Communication and Human Uncertainties on Runway Capacity in Terminal Airspace
We investigate the potential impact of communication and human performance uncertainties on runway operations. Specifically, we consider these impacts within the context of an arrival scenario with two converging flows: a straight-in approach stream and a downwind stream merging into it. Both arrival stream are modeled using a modified Possion distribution that incorporate the separation minima as well as the runway occupancy time. Various system level uncertainties are addressed in this proces…

Three people have changed the way I see the world in ways I can never undo: Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Rudolf Rocker.
Each of them, through their own political and philosophical struggles, stripped away the false comforts I once clung to. They exposed the machinery of power, the illusions of morality, and the myths of authority, leaving me face to face with the bare truth of how the world works.
Coming to that realization, one that cannot be undone, life appears more viv…

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

The role of communication in effective business management
Dariusz Baran, Ernest G\'orka, Micha{\l} \'Cwi\k{a}ka{\l}a, Gabriela Wojak, Mateusz Grzelak, Katarzyna Olszy\'nska, Piotr Mrzyg{\l}\'od, Maciej Frasunkiewicz, Piotr R\k{e}czajski, Maciej \'Slusarczyk, Jan Piwnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07016

The role of communication in effective business management
This paper examines the impact of internal communication on effective business management through a comparative analysis of two medium-sized car rental companies operating in Poland. Using a structured survey completed by 220 employees, the study evaluates 15 communication-related factors, including feedback culture, managerial accessibility, message clarity, and interdepartmental coordination. The findings indicate that Company X significantly outperforms Company Y across all evaluated dimensi…

"In Al-Mughayyir, a village near Ramallah, more than 3,000 olive trees were bulldozed by Israeli forces, part of a broader pattern of destruction. Similarly, Deir Ballout has been targeted once again. It’s where, in 2021, Zaytoun customers helped plant 2,000 olive trees with the Palestine Fair Trade Association to replace those previously destroyed by Israeli forces."
Olive Harvest 2025: a season of hope, struggle, and solidarity - Zaytoun

Olive Harvest 2025: a season of hope, struggle, and solidarity - Zaytoun
As the olive harvest commences this month, the outlook is grim. A number of forces are converging in real time: a poor harvest, soaring local prices, and a fragile economy already on the brink, all dealing a harsh blow to farmers who are contending with so much.

Clapping: Removing Per-sample Storage for Pipeline Parallel Distributed Optimization with Communication Compression
Boao Kong, Xu Huang, Yuqi Xu, Yixuan Liang, Bin Wang, Kun Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19029

FTTE: Federated Learning on Resource-Constrained Devices
Irene Tenison, Anna Murphy, Charles Beauville, Lalana Kagal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03165 https://

FTTE: Federated Learning on Resource-Constrained Devices
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed devices while preserving data privacy, but deployment on resource-constrained edge nodes remains challenging due to limited memory, energy, and communication bandwidth. Traditional synchronous and asynchronous FL approaches further suffer from straggler induced delays and slow convergence in heterogeneous, large scale networks. We present FTTE (Federated Tiny Training Engine),a novel semi-asynchronous FL framework t…

All set for flying out to Paris today, to attend a conference on digital #commons in Strasbourg next week - and meet some friends and family before that. 🥐
Being a very clever girl, Ohana recognized that me packing my travel backpack means that I'll be gone for a while, and she told her sister too. 🎒
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Rectified Decoupled Dataset Distillation: A Closer Look for Fair and Comprehensive Evaluation
Xinhao Zhong, Shuoyang Sun, Xulin Gu, Chenyang Zhu, Bin Chen, Yaowei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19743 …

Rectified Decoupled Dataset Distillation: A Closer Look for Fair and Comprehensive Evaluation
Dataset distillation aims to generate compact synthetic datasets that enable models trained on them to achieve performance comparable to those trained on full real datasets, while substantially reducing storage and computational costs. Early bi-level optimization methods (e.g., MTT) have shown promising results on small-scale datasets, but their scalability is limited by high computational overhead. To address this limitation, recent decoupled dataset distillation methods (e.g., SRe$^2$L) separ…