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As the Colorado River slowly dries up, states angle for influence over future water rights
https://theconversation.com/as-the-colorado-river-slowly-dries-up-states-angle-for-influence-over-future-water-rights-254132…

As the Colorado River slowly dries up, states angle for influence over future water rights
Long-standing water-use agreements allocate more water than the river and its basin actually contain, forcing users to cut back and face future shortages as well.

Klingt ja simpel, aber schon erstaunlich, dass Instrumente nicht angepasst sind…
When surgical tools don’t fit: how gender bias in design puts female surgeons at risk
https://theconversation.com/when-surgical-tools-…

When surgical tools don’t fit: how gender bias in design puts female surgeons at risk
Why surgical device design is changing to match the diversity of today’s operating rooms.

TokenVerse : Towards Flexible Multitask Learning with Dynamic Task Activation
Shashi Kumar, Srikanth Madikeri, Esa\'u Villatoro-Tello, Sergio Burdisso, Pradeep Rangappa, Andr\'es Carofilis, Petr Motlicek, Karthik Pandia, Shankar Venkatesan, Kadri Hacio\u{g}lu, Andreas Stolcke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19856

TokenVerse++: Towards Flexible Multitask Learning with Dynamic Task Activation
Token-based multitasking frameworks like TokenVerse require all training utterances to have labels for all tasks, hindering their ability to leverage partially annotated datasets and scale effectively. We propose TokenVerse++, which introduces learnable vectors in the acoustic embedding space of the XLSR-Transducer ASR model for dynamic task activation. This core mechanism enables training with utterances labeled for only a subset of tasks, a key advantage over TokenVerse. We demonstrate this b…

TokenBlowUp: Resolving Representational Singularities in LLM Token Spaces via Monoidal Transformations
Dongfang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19747 https://

TokenBlowUp: Resolving Representational Singularities in LLM Token Spaces via Monoidal Transformations
Recent work has provided compelling evidence challenging the foundational manifold hypothesis for the token embedding spaces of Large Language Models (LLMs). These findings reveal the presence of geometric singularities around polysemous tokens, which can lead to representational instability. Existing methodologies, which presuppose a smooth data manifold, are ill-equipped to address such intrinsic structural flaws. In this paper, we formalize this problem in the language of scheme theory and p…

Tikhonov regularized exterior penalty methods for hierarchical variational inequalities
Meggie Marschner, Mathias Staudigl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20872 https://

Tikhonov regularized exterior penalty methods for hierarchical variational inequalities
We consider nested variational inequalities con- sisting in a (upper-level) variational inequality whose feasible set is given by the solution set of another (lower-level) variational inequality. This class of hierarchical equilibrium contains a wealth of important applications, including purely hierarchical convex bilevel optimization problems and certain multi-follower games. Working within a real Hilbert space setting, we develop a double loop prox-penalization algorithm with strong conver- …

"Winners and losers in a hotter ocean"
#Oceans #Climate #ClimateChange

Winners and losers in a hotter ocean
Fish will follow the plankton.

The bombings will continue until peace improves. https://mastodon.social/@TheComfortableSpotPodcast/114726188191631345

Ken M Sweeney (@TheComfortableSpotPodcast@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Peace president my arse. #NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine #IsraelWarCrimes #FuckIsreal #Iran

As Spotify moves to video, the environmental footprint of music streaming hits the high notes https://theconversation.com/as-spotify-moves-to-video-the-environmental-footprint-of-music-streaming-hits-the-hig…

As Spotify moves to video, the environmental footprint of music streaming hits the high notes
Why aimless streaming should be avoided because video uses so much more energy than just audio.

"As Spotify moves to video, the environmental footprint of music streaming hits the high notes"
#Spotify #Music #Environment

As Spotify moves to video, the environmental footprint of music streaming hits the high notes
Why aimless streaming should be avoided because video uses so much more energy than just audio.

"Getting rid of fossil fuels is really hard – and we’re not making much progress"
#FossilFuels #Energy #Climate

Getting rid of fossil fuels is really hard – and we’re not making much progress
Solar on rooftops and EVs on the roads can give a false sense of progress. But it will take much more to actually end reliance on fossil fuels.