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Saquon Barkley takes 'smarter' offseason workload after high-volume debut with Philadelphia Eagles

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/saquon-

Tim Walz Takes Coded Swipe at Trump After MN Murder Suspect's Arrest: 'It's Not About Mean Tweets' (David Gilmour/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/tim-walz-takes-coded-swipe-at-trump-at-presser-after-mn-murder-suspects-arrest/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p78#a250616p78

Prospects for Degrowth
The DegrowthUK network is mounting a series on Prospects for Degrowth. See the articles in this series "As much of the world takes a sinister turn on several fronts, not least in the UK with the re-vindication of GDP growth and militarism, DegrowthUK is inviting timely submissions on the topic ‘Prospects for Degrowth’. This will create a series, and to start it, we publish a short piece ‘Prospects for Degrowth’.

Prospects for Degrowth
The DegrowthUK network is mounting a series on Prospects for Degrowth. See the articles in this series “As much of the world takes a sinister turn on several fronts, not least in the UK with …

I am once again reminded that I am the sort of person who takes photos of manhole covers.

Generalized False Vacuum Skyrme model
L. A. Ferreira, L. R. Livramento
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12235 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12…

Generalized False Vacuum Skyrme model
We propose a generalization of the False Vacuum Skyrme model for any simple compact Lie groups $G$ that leads to Hermitian symmetric spaces. The Skyrme field that in the original theory takes its values in $SU(2)$ Lie group, now takes its values in $G$, while the remaining fields correspond to the entries of a symmetric, positive, and invertible $\dim G \times \dim G$-dimensional matrix $h$. This model is also an extension of the generalized BPS Skyrme model. We prove that the global minima cor…

Xi Pushes to Deepen Central Asia Influence With Kazakh Visit (Nariman Gizitdinov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-15/xi-takes-push-for-global-sway-to-central-asia-with-kazakh-visit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p18#a250616p18

Dear #saas #cloud platform #software companies: If you have a page titled `Pricing` and then, after a features/tiers matrix that takes seven minutes to scroll past, don't have _any_ pricing information, instead saying `Contact Sa…

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: I'm not the type for this sort of thing, Avon.
AVON: Why not?
VILA: This Egrorian, you said he was some kind of genius.
AVON: They said he was supposed to be some time back.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/62 B7B5

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\o/ i just did a 5-way DKG with one of the "servers" being a xiao esp32s3 over bluetooth LE! \m/
i'm porting #klutshnik to #zephyr it's not very quick, takes a few seconds, but this is creating of a key. decrypting should be much quicker. also i expect this to be faster when done…

Tonight's adventure takes us to a galaxy far, far away! Streaming SWTOR on Linux. Come see how it runs and hang out! #LinuxGaming

Fani Willis takes subpoena fight to Supreme Court of Georgia
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/nobody-is-above-the-law-fani-willis-takes-her-fight-against-subpoenas-for-documents-and-testimony-about-trump-rico-prosecution-to-supreme-court-of-georgia/

To conclude the first evening of Berlin Buzzwords, Gregor Bransky invites you to join a tour of c-base. Afterwards, you can unwind at one of its recreational areas, enjoying a refreshing beverage by the waterside of the Spree.
A travel group will form during the Get-Together.
📅 When: Today – 7 pm
📍 Where: c-base, Rungestraße 20 | 10179 Berlin
Learn more:

Satellite Events
Satellite Events Find out what other open source events and meet-ups are taking place around Berlin Buzzwords.You are hosting a meetup, get-together, workshop or other kind of event at the same time? Get in touch, and we’ll happily add your event to our list! MICES EU 2025 Our partner conference, MICES - Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes [...]

I have no words. Satire is dead.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/12/boos-cheers-and-a-heavy-dose-of-irony-as-trump-takes-in-les-mis-against-backdrop-of-la-protests

Azure cost reduction/optimization for hosted applications using Artificial Intelligence. And it's REPEATABLE. Interested? Read on...
✅ Daniel Meppiel's Project Post
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielmeppiel_enterpriseai-ai-…

💥 What if AI could shrink your cloud bill by 80% in the time it takes to drink your coffee? | Daniel Meppiel
💥 What if AI could shrink your cloud bill by 80% in the time it takes to drink your coffee? 💥 I recently got it to happen—firsthand. What started as a quick experiment turned into something game-changing. Using VSCode's reusable prompts and the Azure MCP server, GitHub Copilot identified key optimizations for my app's infra in a predictable manner. Then, the Coding Agent implemented them. 📉 The result? An 80% smaller cloud bill. Just like that. In this 2-minute demo (linked below …

"For the first time, we architected every part of the rack as a unified system," Su explained, highlighting Helios as "really a rack that functions like a single, massive compute engine."
http://m.timesofindia.com/articleshow/121834703.cms
Why does th…

AMD unveils next-gen AI chips as it takes on Nvidia: 'For the first time, we...' CEO Lisa Su says - The Times of India
Tech News : AMD has revealed its Instinct MI400 series AI chips, designed for rack-scale systems and set to compete with Nvidia's Blackwell. CEO Lisa Su highlight

Installing LaTeX on Fedora takes either :
- 384 MB
- 1 GB
- 3 GB depending on the amount you choose from https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/neurofedora/latex/
This is on version 42 of the distribution

LaTeX
Learn more about Fedora Linux, the Fedora Project & the Fedora Community.

President Emmanuel Macron says France will ban social media access for children under 15 within "a few months" if it is not done at the European level (Gavin Blackburn/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06…

Macron says France will ban social media for under-15s if EU does not
Macron's pledge comes after a 14-year-old pupil fatally stabbed a staff member during a routine bag check at a school in eastern France. #EuropeNews

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can (sometimes) change the world, and twice as often when done by peaceful means
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

I was reminded again why it takes more than a feeling to get #Connections right, even when the hurried, obvious answer is waiting there for you. I nearly bit the dust by falling for a barracuda of a red herring.
#Connections734
Puzzle № 734
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🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Brian Schottenheimer takes Dak Prescott, Dallas Cowboys QBs to dance class https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/brian-schottenheimer-takes-dak-prescott-dallas-cowboys-qbs-dance-class

Greed is slow on sparse graphs of oriented valued constraints
Artem Kaznatcheev, Sofia Vazquez Alferez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11662 https://

Greed is slow on sparse graphs of oriented valued constraints
Greedy local search is especially popular for solving valued constraint satisfaction problems (VCSPs). Since any method will be slow for some VCSPs, we ask: what is the simplest VCSP on which greedy local search is slow? We construct a VCSP on 6n Boolean variables for which greedy local search takes 7(2^n - 1) steps to find the unique peak. Our VCSP is simple in two ways. First, it is very sparse: its constraint graph has pathwidth 2 and maximum degree 3. This is the simplest VCSP on which some…

fuck, cloning linux-next over git takes an age

Starting to think about GPU acceleration of protocol decodes (rather than just basic math blocks) in ngscopeclient.
Here's the filter graph I'm thinking of using as a benchmark: dual lane QSGMII, 20M points per channel.
The filter graph takes 944 ms end to end to run on my box (2x Xeon 6144 2080 Ti).
Major time consumers:
* Eye pattern (~345 ms)
* QSGMII (~337 ms)
* CDR PLL (~310 ms)
* 8B10B (~160 ms)
* SGMII (~120 ms)
Note that the …

Gosh, I hate to undercut in any way all those press reports about how the Trump cyber EO demolishes the cyber initiatives of Biden and Obama, but with a couple of exceptions it doesn't.
“I’m pleased to see that there’s a lot of consistency between what was in the last administration’s order and what they’re going forward with,” Caitlin Clarke, a former senior cyber leader on the National Security Council and now a senior director for cybersecurity services at Venable LLP, told CSO.…

Trump takes aim at Biden’s cyber executive order but leaves it largely untouched
A new Trump executive order revises Biden’s last cyber EO to eliminate significant sections on digital IDs and secure software attestations, among other changes, but keeps much of Biden’s cyber protections in place.

"Pairs and Squares" Periodic Table
Leonid A. Levin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11247 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11247…

"Pairs and Squares" Periodic Table
I present a new "Pairs and Squares" rendering of the Periodic Table. It takes advantage of the number of orbitals at each atomic energy level being a whole square. This makes the table very regular and intuitive in contrast with its currently used presentations.

Takeoff. Allens Hummingbird. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. June, 2025. #huntingtonlibrary #hummingbird #allenshummingbird

I think a key reason the AI grift is so devious it it's built on top of an actual product that does have some utility. The grift just promises far more than AI is actually capable of in the foreseeable future.
Previous grifts like crypto and NFTs were entirely vaporware, but when we see AI generated images and text in the wild, it takes a more nuanced understanding to navigate the hype.

Head Start for the tiniest learners at risk as Trump’s budget takes shape
The federal preschool program also supports infants up to age three
in home-based child-care centers.
Funding levels are still in flux under the Trump’s administration’s proposed year one budget.

Inside Chicago homes, Head Start for the tiniest learners at risk as Trump’s budget takes shape
The federal preschool program also supports infants up to age three in home-based child-care centers. Funding levels are still in flux under the Trump’s administration’s proposed year one budget.

The building blocks of asymptotically flat spacetimes
Shadi Ali Ahmad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11190 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.111…

The building blocks of asymptotically flat spacetimes
The classification of all possible induced representations arising from theories admitting a Poincaré symmetry has molded our very conception of particles in flat space. In this note, we argue that if one takes the same viewpoint on the asymptotic symmetry group instead of the global one, the familiar relativistic classification is enhanced to provide a new notion of excitations in asymptotically flat spacetimes. These excitations blur the line between the quantum description of a particle and…

The {conflicted} package makes sure that namespace conflicts are solved explicitly and prevents unpleasent surprises: #rstats

OpenAI takes down ChatGPT accounts linked to state-backed hacking, disinformation https://therecord.media/openai-takes-down-chatgpt-accounts-hacking

The Correspondent: This is fascism.
https://decorrespondent.nl/16177/this-is-fascism/c4bf802c-8087-0bbc-31d5-5ed403fd281d?pk_kwd=all

This is fascism
Fascism starts with talk, not tanks. With democratic elections, not a coup. And it takes hold thanks to people who think things won’t move quickly—until they do just that.

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
VILA: [Grabbing Blake's arm] You'll hit him!
BLAKE: Let go! [Shakes free, takes aim, and fires] Avon, run for your life! [Muttering] Come on, come on.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/447 B7B5

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Let me think about what really radicalized me. I’m autistic, so I forget things fast. I need to dig into my brain and find that quirky, weird thing or topic that made me feel radical years ago.
It might be something I hyperfocused on or a strange idea that stuck with me for a long time. I’ll try to find it and figure out what pushed me to where I am now.
I’ll post it when I find it. Sometimes it takes me a bit to dig through all the thoughts and memories in my brain, especially w…

Cowboys mandatory minicamp: Key position battles, storylines, players to watch before team takes summer break

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/new…

This is worth a listen, especially if you like Armando Iannucci and/or Stewart Lee!
Comedy writer Armando Iannucci decodes the utterly baffling world of political language.
This week, Helen Lewis is away, so comedian and writer Stewart Lee joins Armando to look at Robert Jenrick's flashy video in which he takes aim at 'weird Turkish barber shops', among other things. They discuss how the way politicians, entertainers and journalists are changing and overlapping…

Convenience gives the illusion of freedom but is quite often the exact opposite.
Convenience creates "freedom from choice" and takes away the ability to make decisions on your own.

If the media continues to refer to people as "undocumented" when they have valid work/student visas, green cards, and judicial orders allowing them to be here.. Then they will also refer to a US citizen as "undocumented" when ICE takes them (you).

"This so-called big, beautiful bill pushes 16 million people off of health care and literally takes food from the mouths of hungry children. An enormous tax cut for the very wealthiest is the definition of an immoral bill," said Sen. Coons, a Presbyterian and graduate of Yale Divinity School.

Episcopalians join other faith leaders, lawmakers, in DC rally against budget bill
[Religion News Service – Washington] Religious leaders are ramping up pressure on lawmakers to reject the Republican-led budget bill currently before the U.S. Senate, arguing proposed cuts to healt…

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

Trying to order a product I normally get from Amazon, directly from the vendor.
Takes 4 days to say “order getting ready”, still in that state 3 days later, and it costs 25% more! It also takes 3-4 business days to hear back from their support.
From Amazon, in their own store, it's cheaper and comes in like 2 days.
I know I shouldn't expect same speed/pricing from vendors as Amazon, but this makes it very hard to support vendors directly.
Am I expecting too mu…

I think a key reason the AI grift is so devious it it's built on top of an actual product that does have some utility. The grift just promises far more than AI is actually capable of in the foreseeable future.
Previous grifts like crypto and NFTs were entirely vaporware, but when we see AI generated images and text in the wild, it takes a more nuanced understanding to navigate the hype.

“And note the rare special case illustrated by Harry S Truman: the S in this name never takes a full stop, because it's not an abbreviation for anything; President #Truman's parents actually gave him the middle name S.”
Wow, just wow. Didn't know. My world view is crumbling.

Here’s a thoughtful piece from @…, well worth reading. It says things I hadn’t heard yet articulated so well.
One thing I appreciate immensely: the way Fred’s analytical approach centers humans instead of tech, and takes the subjective experiences of human developers •seriously•.
Fred’s summary in the quoted post gives the core idea, but the larger piece has many sharp thoughts and rewards close reading. I’ll quote a few in the thread below.
1/ https://hachyderm.io/@mononcqc/114653605519944320

Former Raiders First-Round Draft Bust Takes Major Step Toward NFL Comeback https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/damon-arnette-comeback-texans-rumors/?adt_ei=[email]

RAG has revolutionised AI by merging search and generation. Agentic behaviour takes this search to the next level by enabling LLMs to make decisions and call tools. At this year's Berlin Buzzwords, Bilge Yücel will discuss how agentic behaviour enhances pipelines, what it means for a system to act as an 'agent', and core concepts such as routing, tool calling and reasoning, along with a live demo.
Learn more:

Next stop in our NLP timeline is 2013, the introduction of low dimensional dense word vectors - so-called "word embeddings" - based on distributed semantics, as e.g. word2vec by Mikolov et al. from Google, which enabled representation learning on text.
T. Mikolov et al. (2013). Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space.
…

Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space
We propose two novel model architectures for computing continuous vector representations of words from very large data sets. The quality of these representations is measured in a word similarity task, and the results are compared to the previously best performing techniques based on different types of neural networks. We observe large improvements in accuracy at much lower computational cost, i.e. it takes less than a day to learn high quality word vectors from a 1.6 billion words data set. Fur…

For all the German speakers in my network: this wonderful and entertaining podcast by ZEIT Wissen takes my research on workplace environments and makes it personal by walking through their own offices, assessing them and checking in with staff on how they feel
The big question: which office form is best? Single offices, shared or open-plan? Assigned desks or activity based working?
Must listen! 👏🏻

Einzelbüro, Großraum, Zuhause? Wo der Mensch am besten arbeitet
ZEIT WISSEN. Woher weißt Du das? · Episode

'Not happy': Bishop appointed by Pope Leo reportedly takes action against Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/immigration-2672364892/

Raskin takes swipe at Trump over price of military parade, GOP megabill (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5350608-raskin-trump-military-parade-gop-bill/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p59#a250614p59

One way I see LLMs harming workers is workers being assigned impossible tasks on the assumption that "AI can do it" then holding them to account when it can't. Human takes the fall, AI takes the win.

You should #protest this Saturday. If ever there was a time to do it, it's now. Do it while you still can!
Making a sign is kind of fun the first time, but honestly the protests are tedious. So just show up. Bring a book. Stay near the edges. But show up!
It really can makea difference:

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

[OT] Saturday June 14: No Kings protests https://www.nokings.org Could be US citizen's last chance to save US democracy from oligarchy and a police state

No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.

I’ve been eying @… for some time, but I haven’t had time to play with it yet. In case you never heard about OpenRewrite, OpenRewrite takes care of refactoring your codebase to newer language, framework, and paradigm versions.
Using OpenRewrite is pretty straightforward. It already provides a large corpus of existing recipes, some of which are free.…

I find the @… #firefox #addon very useful: It just takes one click to archive the website you're on. It's also easy to find archived vers…

Michael Irvin takes legendary photo with Cowboys' revamped WR group https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/michael-irvin-takes-legendary-photo-dallas-cowboys-revamped-wr-group

The Internet IS a *set* of physical things that can be blown up by bombs.
However, where there used to be about a dozen places where you’d need to plant a substantial bomb to wreck the Internet, while now there are hundreds you’d need to hit simultaneously to affect most users. It isn’t even really feasible to figure out where those places all are, because the live interconnections are so complex and the fallback links are entirely invisible normally.

jwz (@jwz@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image I am really enjoying this series W0rldtr33, which takes the positions that A) the Internet is very literally evil, and B) the Internet is a physical thing that can be blown up with bombs... https://jwz.org/b/ykoy

@… is there a way to not display tags as buttons? My issue is
It takes up way too much space, it's not working consistently. It only buttonizes tags after a newline, which makes sense, because tags inside a sentence must be left untouched.
Determining which tags to make a button should be smarter. Some posts only contain tags, they stay untouched, some …

The hackathon FIRSTCON25 takes place physically at 37th ANNUAL FIRST CONFERENCE on Sunday 22nd June in Copenhagen.
GCVE.eu topic has been added to the hackathon.
🔗 About the hackathon https://discourse.ossbase.org/c/hackathon-firstcon25/12
🔗 GCVE.eu topic

hackathon@FIRSTCON25
FIRST is the global Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams and this category is for the hackathon at FIRSTCON25

International operation takes down crypting sites used for testing malware https://therecord.media/international-operation-takes-down-cryptor

Terrific response from BBC's Ros Atkins ‪@rosatkins.bsky.social €to Trump administration's unfounded criticisms of BBC coverage of Gaza. The piece of paper held up by press sec was a tweet from student activist -pathetic.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c9wgq9vv51do…

Ros Atkins on... The White House claims on BBC Gaza coverage
On Tuesday White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt launched an attack on the BBC's coverage of reports that Israeli forces had killed Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza. She claimed that the BBC took down a story after reviewing footage. The BBC has said the claim is completely wrong and that it stands by its journalism. Ros Atkins from BBC Verify takes a look at the facts.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
M.I.A.:
🎵 It Takes A Muscle
#MIA
https://couped-decaled.bandcamp.com/track/m-i-a-it-takes-a-muscle-chopped-screwed-by-duba

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16398 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

The global convergence time of stochastic gradient descent in non-convex landscapes: Sharp estimates via large deviations
In this paper, we examine the time it takes for stochastic gradient descent (SGD) to reach the global minimum of a general, non-convex loss function. We approach this question through the lens of randomly perturbed dynamical systems and large deviations theory, and we provide a tight characterization of the global convergence time of SGD via matching upper and lower bounds. These bounds are dominated by the most "costly" set of obstacles that the algorithm may need to overcome in order to reach…

Impact of nonlinearities on relativistic dynamical tides in compact binary inspirals
Tristan Pitre, Eric Poisson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08722 https://

Impact of nonlinearities on relativistic dynamical tides in compact binary inspirals
The tidal deformation of a neutron star in a binary inspiral driven by the emission of gravitational waves affects the orbital dynamics and produces a measurable modulation of the waves. Late in the inspiral, a regime of dynamical tides takes over from a prior regime of static tides. A recent analysis by Yu et al. [M.N.R.A.S. 519, 4325 (2022)] reveals that nonlinear aspects of the tidal interaction are important during the regime of dynamical tides. Their theoretical framework is grounded in Ne…

Today the #SemDH2025 workshop takes place alongside #ESWC2025. I’m happy that Philipp Tögel will present our paper on Data-rich Web Annotations. We discuss how web annotations, a W3C standard, can be leveraged to include complex analysis with domain-specific data models as

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang
said he’s reached out to Elon Musk
in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party,
Yang, along with mutual friends, believes the Tesla CEO has what it takes to form a new faction that propels America’s strongest leaders. ($$$$)
When asked if Musk has responded to his inquiry, Yang told the outlet “Not yet, but I assume he’s been very busy.”

Andrew Yang reaches out to Musk to collaborate on new political party
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang said he’s reached out to Elon Musk in hopes of collaborating on the creation of a new political party...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00486 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

It Takes a Good Model to Train a Good Model: Generalized Gaussian Priors for Optimized LLMs
Despite rapid advancements in the research and deployment of large language models (LLMs), the statistical distribution of model parameters, as well as their influence on initialization, training dynamics, and downstream efficiency, has received surprisingly little attention. A recent work introduced BackSlash, a training-time compression algorithm. It first demonstrated that pre-trained LLM parameters follow generalized Gaussian distributions (GGDs) better. By optimizing GG priors during train…

Faster negative length shortest paths by bootstrapping hop reducers
Yufan Huang, Peter Jin, Kent Quanrud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00428 https://

Faster negative length shortest paths by bootstrapping hop reducers
The textbook algorithm for real-weighted single-source shortest paths takes $O(m n)$ time on a graph with $m$ edges and $n$ vertices. The breakthrough algorithm by Fineman [Fin24] takes $\tilde{O}(m n^{8/9})$ randomized time. The running time was subsequently improved to $\tilde{O}(mn^{4/5})$ [HJQ25]. We build on [Fin24; HJQ25] to obtain an $\tilde{O}(m n^{3/4} + m^{4/5} n)$ randomized running time. (Equivalently, $\tilde{O}(mn^{3/4})$ for $m \geq n^{5/4}$, and $\tilde{O}(m^{4/5} n)$ for $m \…

"Pure Movement"
is a mostly-danceable album that takes a journey around the world
#DanceMusic #OriginalMusic

Pure Movement #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Podcast: Final Observations from Raiders Final Minicamp Practice https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-minicamp-pete-carroll-tommy-mellott-tom-mcmahon

QForce-RL: Quantized FPGA-Optimized Reinforcement Learning Compute Engine
Anushka Jha, Tanushree Dewangan, Mukul Lokhande, Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07046

QForce-RL: Quantized FPGA-Optimized Reinforcement Learning Compute Engine
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has outperformed other counterparts in sequential decision-making and dynamic environment control. However, FPGA deployment is significantly resource-expensive, as associated with large number of computations in training agents with high-quality images and possess new challenges. In this work, we propose QForce-RL takes benefits of quantization to enhance throughput and reduce energy footprint with light-weight RL architecture, without significant performance degrada…

For Zotero users, the Android app is finally out of closed beta. It supports saving papers directly from the browser or other apps, which takes several steps out of my workflow for increasing my TBR pile.
https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-for-android/

Diffusive spreading of a polydisperse polymer solution in a channel
Hanyang. Wang, Gary W Slater
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08323 https://

Diffusive spreading of a polydisperse polymer solution in a channel
Long DNA molecules can be mapped by cutting them with restriction enzymes inside a narrow channel. Once cut, the individual fragments thus produced move away from each other due to diffusion and entropic effects. We investigate how long it takes for these fragments to travel distances large enough for an experimental device to distinguish them and (possibly) estimate their size. In essence, this is a single-file diffusion process in which molecules of different sizes and hence different diffusi…

To conclude the first evening of Berlin Buzzwords, Gregor Bransky invites you to join a tour of c-base. Afterwards, you can unwind at one of its recreational areas, enjoying a refreshing beverage by the waterside of the Spree.
A travel group will form during the Get-Together.
📅 When: June 17, 2025 – 7 pm
📍 Where: c-base, Rungestraße 20 | 10179 Berlin
Learn more:

Satellite Events
Satellite Events Find out what other open source events and meet-ups are taking place around Berlin Buzzwords.You are hosting a meetup, get-together, workshop or other kind of event at the same time? Get in touch, and we’ll happily add your event to our list! MICES EU 2025 Our partner conference, MICES - Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes [...]

MAGA turns on Walmart after heiress takes out full-page NYT ad - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/walmart-maga-boycott-2672344965/

According to the folks at Messente, here are the top AI-crackable four digit PINs.
https://messente.com/blog/most-vulnerable-pins

It Takes 0.44 Seconds to Crack These PINs - Are You Using One?
The security level of 4-digit code remains uncertain. Our research found that it takes 0.44 seconds for AI to crack your PIN.

New China Trade 'Deal' Takes U.S. Back to Where It Started (Ana Swanson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/us-china-trade-deal-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p179#a250611p179

Tonight's adventure takes us to a galaxy far, far away! Streaming SWTOR on Linux. Come see how it runs and hang out! #LinuxGaming

Sources: Byron Allen takes substantial steps toward selling all of his local TV stations, including those affiliated with ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC in 24 markets (Matthew Keys/Multicast News)
https://multicastnews.com/p/exclusive-byron-allen-selling-off

Exclusive: Byron Allen is selling his local TV stations
Allen has received offers for some or all of his local TV station portfolio; a divestiture allows Allen Media Group to pay down existing debt, rather than refinance it.

Podcast: Day Two Mandatory Minicamp Observations https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-minicamp-pete-carroll-tom-mcmahon-ashton-jeanty

Join Adrien Grand and Luca Cavanna at this year's Berlin Buzzwords as they share the fascinating journey to the release of version 10.0 of the popular Java search engine Apache Lucene, discussing the ups and downs, the team effort it took to get there, and much more.
Learn more: https://

Homeland Security’s list of ‘sanctuary cities’ pulled down after sheriffs object - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-administration-takes-down-sanctuary-city-list-following-law-enforcement-ba/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Cameron Winter:
🎵 Love Takes Miles
#CameronWinter
https://cameronwinter.bandcamp.com/track/love-takes-miles
https://open.spotify.com/track/2zf1izCOz2F22PF27uhxRF

Cowboys Legend Sends Strong Message on Brian Schottenheimer https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-legend-sends-strong-message-on-brian-schottenheimer/?adt_ei=[email]

Musk happens to be right:
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act
— its actual name!
— is indeed a disgusting abomination.
But this is one of those cases where it takes one to know one.
Few men have done as much damage out of sheer arrogance, ignorance and pettiness as Elon Musk.
He has thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of deaths on his hands.
And even his parting blast is destructive,
demonstrating that he has learned nothing from his abject f…

Elon Musk is a Disgusting Abomination
So is the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But still

Join Adrien Grand and Luca Cavanna at this year's Berlin Buzzwords as they share the fascinating journey to the release of version 10.0 of the popular Java search engine Apache Lucene, discussing the ups and downs, the team effort it took to get there, and much more.
Learn more: https://

Donald Trump: The Instagram account proving he’s not actually succeeding at much.
https://slate.com/life/2025/06/donald-trump-news-instagram-account-amanda-mild-takes.html

Boundary dynamics of Maxwell-invariant three-dimensional Chern-Simons gravity
Felix H\"ofenstock, Patricio Salgado-Rebolledo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07651

Boundary dynamics of Maxwell-invariant three-dimensional Chern-Simons gravity
We construct a two-dimensional dual field theory induced at the boundary of three-dimensional Chern-Simons gravity invariant under the Maxwell algebra. The resulting action takes the form of a Maxwellian extension of the flat Liouville theory known from the analysis of asymptotically flat three-dimensional gravity. This boundary theory is derived by reducing the bulk gravitational action to a Maxwell-invariant chiral Wess-Zumino-Witten model and imposing boundary conditions compatible with asym…

Podcast: Day One Obsersvations from Raiders Minicamp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-minicamp-pete-carroll-elandon-roberts

AOC takes victory lap as Trump-Elon nuclear breakup confirms everything she and Bernie Sanders warned (Eric Garcia/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-bernie-sanders-trump-elon-breakup-b2765219.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p7#a250607p7

Last week, billionaire and onetime unofficial co-president Elon Musk ended his tenure as a special government employee after four months of spreading chaos, misery, and death throughout the federal government and world.
Much reporting has attributed his departure to philosophical differences with Trump.
Musk has criticized various Trump policies,
most recently the House GOP spending bill for adding trillions to the federal deficit.
But a crucial factor in Musk’s dep…

Tesla Takedown takes down Musk
Protest works.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Cameron Winter:
🎵 Love Takes Miles
#CameronWinter
https://cameronwinter.bandcamp.com/track/love-takes-miles
https://open.spotify.com/track/2zf1izCOz2F22PF27uhxRF

Cowboys QB Joe Milton Takes Shot at Patriots After Trade https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/joe-milton-fires-shot-patriots-trade/?adt_ei=[email]

Will Israelis Repent for Gaza Genocide? Re-Humanization Takes Courage
https://www.juancole.com/2025/06/genocide-humanization-courage.html

Soul Vlog posts sorted by relevance for query "Grateful Dead".
Sorted by date
https://soulvlog.blogspot.com/search?q=Grateful Dead&m=1

New around here, hi!
For those who'd like a big old dose of "yes we can" energy,
please check out
"Words to Win By "
where every episode details a campaign we've won somewhere
and delves into the research, messaging & strategies used to do it.
https://wordstowinby-pod.com/

Words to Win By
Words to Win By, formerly Brave New Words, takes listeners on a journey around the globe with renowned communications researcher and campaign advisor Anat Shenker-Osorio as she unpacks real-world narrative shifts that led to real-world victories.

Want to make the most of your time around Berlin Buzzwords?
Check out our Satellite Events page to find out about other interesting meet-ups and conferences happening around #bbuzz: https://2025.berlinbuzzwords.de/sate…

Satellite Events
Satellite Events Find out what other open source events and meet-ups are taking place around Berlin Buzzwords.You are hosting a meetup, get-together, workshop or other kind of event at the same time? Get in touch, and we’ll happily add your event to our list! MICES EU 2025 Our partner conference, MICES - Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes [...]

In April Todd Lyons,
the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ice),
lamented that it takes too long to deport illegal immigrants.
At the Border Security Expo in Phoenix he told a crowd of startup bosses vying for government contracts that a better deportation system would function more like Amazon, the tech giant whose delivery drivers zigzag the country at record speed.
“Like Prime, but with human beings,” he said.

America’s immigration detention centres are at capacity
A visit to the second biggest, in Georgia, shows what that looks like