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i was put in charge of three grandchildren for a few hours yesterday so we headed straight to ben & jerry's to split a milkshake, then explored the state theater (and even sneaked into a movie but later got thrown out for horsing around on the escalator), then i gave a nickel tour of angell/mason/haven halls, then they chased squirrels on the diag which took longer than you might think, then we looked in all the windows in nickels arcade. it all went slowly and well.

PROL : Rehearsal Free Continual Learning in Streaming Data via Prompt Online Learning
M. Anwar Ma'sum, Mahardhika Pratama, Savitha Ramasamy, Lin Liu, Habibullah Habibullah, Ryszard Kowalczyk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12305

PROL : Rehearsal Free Continual Learning in Streaming Data via Prompt Online Learning
The data privacy constraint in online continual learning (OCL), where the data can be seen only once, complicates the catastrophic forgetting problem in streaming data. A common approach applied by the current SOTAs in OCL is with the use of memory saving exemplars or features from previous classes to be replayed in the current task. On the other hand, the prompt-based approach performs excellently in continual learning but with the cost of a growing number of trainable parameters. The first ap…

Relative Error Fair Clustering in the Weak-Strong Oracle Model
Vladimir Braverman, Prathamesh Dharangutte, Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang, Hoai-An Nguyen, Chen Wang, Yubo Zhang, Samson Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12287

Relative Error Fair Clustering in the Weak-Strong Oracle Model
We study fair clustering problems in a setting where distance information is obtained from two sources: a strong oracle providing exact distances, but at a high cost, and a weak oracle providing potentially inaccurate distance estimates at a low cost. The goal is to produce a near-optimal fair clustering on $n$ input points with a minimum number of strong oracle queries. This models the increasingly common trade-off between accurate but expensive similarity measures (e.g., large-scale embedding…

NOCTA: Non-Greedy Objective Cost-Tradeoff Acquisition for Longitudinal Data
Dzung Dinh, Boqi Chen, Marc Niethammer, Junier Oliva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12412

NOCTA: Non-Greedy Objective Cost-Tradeoff Acquisition for Longitudinal Data
In many critical applications, resource constraints limit the amount of information that can be gathered to make predictions. For example, in healthcare, patient data often spans diverse features ranging from lab tests to imaging studies. Each feature may carry different information and must be acquired at a respective cost of time, money, or risk to the patient. Moreover, temporal prediction tasks, where both instance features and labels evolve over time, introduce additional complexity in dec…

Stop spreading misinformation about Mastodon users being able to see who visits their profile.
THEY CANNOT.
If you claim they do please provide proof and link to the code.
Here is the code:
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/
If you have proof then open a suggestion like this user here:
https://g…

Do not suggest inactive accounts for following · Issue #34458 · mastodon/mastodon
Pitch There is a feature (it seems that it recently appeared in web timeline) that suggests accounts to follow (similar to https://mastodon.social/explore/suggestions). When I checked some of these...

Join us for our Get-Together right after today's last session at 18:00 CEST!
Head over to the partner area, where you can unwind with tasty snacks and refreshing drinks while enjoying great live music, all sponsored by Search Guard. What better way to end the first day of the conference than by catching up with old friends and making new connections?
#bbuzz

“Noor, who made so many friends on Bluesky since she started an account there in the summer of 2023, had her account suddenly suspended on Friday. Bluesky did not send a reason for the suspension, so while she wrote an appeal, she did not know what actions she was appealing, so as of now it's still suspended. She’s been silenced, and effectively disappeared.”

A Future for Noor and Her Children
Hello! I'm Meave, a U.S. citizen sponsoring this fundraiser on behalf of my dear friend Noor Hassan and her children. Noor and her son Abdul Rahman are kind, generous people; though their original fundraiser succeeded last summer, supporting themselves and their extended family cost them everything. This fundraiser will allow them to support themselves and save up to buy passage to Egypt and pursue a better future.

Progress in photonic technologies for next-generation astrophotonic instruments
Ahmed Shadman Alam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10941 https://

Progress in photonic technologies for next-generation astrophotonic instruments
The study of integrating photonic devices into astronomical instruments is the primary focus of astrophotonics. The growth in this area of study is relatively recent. Research related to astronomical spectroscopic phenomena has received a lot of attention in recent times. There are several important advantages to integrating photonics technology into an astronomical instrument, such as cost savings because of increased reproducibility, thermal and mechanical stability, and miniaturization. This…

Vegan Shopping Basket Saves Austrian Families €225 per Month, Study Shows https://vegconomist.com/studies-and-numbers/vegan-shopping-basket-saves-austrian-families-e225-per-month-study-shows/

Vegan Shopping Basket Saves Austrian Families €225 per Month, Study Shows - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A recent study conducted by the Institute for Organic Farming (FiBL) has provided new insight into the cost of various diets, revealing that a fully vegan

Considering a heat pump for your AC needs? Learn about the costs, incentives, and benefits before making the switch. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Need air conditioning? Consider the heat pump.
Heat pumps provide both cooling and heating, typically pay for themselves in energy bill savings, and can allow you to sidestep the cost of replacing a…