"The waste of having processes that create defects and then use inspection to catch them is certainly something to avoid. A significant part of the effort in code reviews should be geared toward capturing learning that can be applied to current processes to improve them so fewer bugs are created in the future.
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Decorrelation of Poroelastic Data via Multiscale Mollifiers Wavelets
Bianca Kretz, Willi Freeden, Volker Michel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04239 https://…
The random $k$-SAT Gibbs uniqueness threshold revisited
Arnab Chatterjee, Amin Coja-Oghlan, Catherine Greenhill, Vincent Pfenninger, Maurice Rolvien, Pavel Zakharov, Kostas Zampetakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01359
Just read Plantin & Thomer's article, on the changes Figshare for Institutions introduces into the provision & organization of data-management labor in libraries. The authors worry that this commercial SaaS platform for institutional & data repositories, while fulfilling a number of library needs, will have detrimental effects. While it's a good piece of infrastructure-studies research, I question some of the analysis & conclusions.
VolTex: Food Volume Estimation using Text-Guided Segmentation and Neural Surface Reconstruction
Ahmad AlMughrabi, Umair Haroon, Ricardo Marques, Petia Radeva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02895
The party that was supposed to be good at managing the nation's finances cancelled the second leg of #HS2. Apparently, to save £36 billion, which "would instead be allocated to infrastructure projects to provide better transport links across the north of England." Yet we still do not really know the cancellation cost, or whether anything will really be spent extra on the north of Englan…