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"But Wall Street professionals, like so many other ostensibly smart people, refused to see Trump clearly, mistaking his skill as a demagogue for wisdom as a policymaker. “I don’t think this was foreseeable,” a mournful Ackman posted on X on Monday. “I assumed economic rationality would be paramount.” What an odd assumption to make about a man who bankrupted casinos.
Berezin thinks Wall Street still hasn’t come to terms with the cost of the nascent Trump presidency. “I do think that at this point we might have passed the event horizon, meaning that even if Trump backs off from the tariffs, there’s been enough damage done to the U.S. economy, to the global economy, to investor confidence, consumer confidence, that we’re probably going to see a recession regardless of what happens,” he said.""
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-stock-market-wall-street.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.q7Gk.5YS3EpoLnh8C&smid=url-share

Some detail i just realized although it was out in the open: In the british mandate area of Palestine lived arabs druzes, jews, christians,..., but the term "Palestinians" was created by Arafat in the 70s, but meaning arabs exclusively. So far, so known.
But, with the word he claimed the whole territory of Palestine for arabs, defining all others as foreigners.
Therefore semantically the use of the word 'Palestinians' for arabs in Palestine implies the eradication…

from my link log —
Surety: The world’s oldest blockchain has been hiding in the New York Times since 1995.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5nzx4/what-was-the-first-blockchain
saved 2023-10-05

The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995
This really gives a new meaning to the “paper of record."

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Mapped Exponent and Asymptotic Critical Exponent of Words
We study how much injective morphisms can increase the repetitiveness of a given word. This question has a few possible variations depending on the meaning of ``repetitiveness''. We concentrate on fractional exponents of finite words and asymptotic critical exponents of infinite words. We characterize finite words that, when mapped by injective morphisms, can have arbitrarily high fractional exponent. For infinite words, alongside other results, we show that the asymptotic critical exponent gro…

Calamus 21 Music always round me
A celebration of life, the metaphor of music all around us if only you can hear it. The last line is what gives me pause, it suggests an interesting nuance of meaning.
I do not think the performers know themselves—But now I think I begin to know them.
I'm a little pressed to find a gay reading of this poem, it doesn't have the usual paeans to manly love. There is a pleasant exuberance and sensuality to it, "shuddering luciously" and all. But it's the beginning lines that really catch me:
Music always round me ... yet long untaught I did not hear,
But now the chorus I hear, and am elated,
It's like there's a secret world of pleasure that Whitman only recently has learned to enjoy himself. A feeling similar to the epiphany of coming out to oneself.

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SignBot: Learning Human-to-Humanoid Sign Language Interaction
Sign language is a natural and visual form of language that uses movements and expressions to convey meaning, serving as a crucial means of communication for individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH). However, the number of people proficient in sign language remains limited, highlighting the need for technological advancements to bridge communication gaps and foster interactions with minorities. Based on recent advancements in embodied humanoid robots, we propose SignBot, a novel framew…

Numbers play a role in the music of the suite "Ritual & Mayhem". The composer lays out their meaning for us in this article.
#music and #numbers

"Ritual & Mayhem" by the numbers
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

I also see that the FFOTUS Imperial parade is being designated a "National Security Event", meaning they expect an elevated risk of terrorist events.
From whom? I suspect foreign interests, like neo-ISIS, are quite happy with the way that FFOTUS is dis-assembling the US - Bin Laden must be quite proud of what FFOTUS Musk miller/noem ... are doing to the USA. So why would they bother attacking this silly (and expensive) parade that makes the US look like it is doing a spin-o…

Behind the Blog: Lighting Money on Fire and the Meaning of Vetting https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-lighting-money-on-fire-and-the-meaning-of-vetting/

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BV Functions and Sets of Finite Perimeter on Configuration Spaces
This paper contributes to foundations of the geometric measure theory in the infinite dimensional setting of the configuration space over the Euclidean space $\mathbb R^n$ equipped with the Poisson measure $π$. We first provide a rigorous meaning and construction of the $m$-codimensional Poisson measure -- formally written as "$(\infty-m)$-dimensional Poisson measure" -- on the configuration space. We then show that our construction is consistent with potential analysis by establishing the abs…

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Charon: An Analysis Framework for Rust
With the explosion in popularity of the Rust programming language, a wealth of tools have recently been developed to analyze, verify, and test Rust programs. Alas, the Rust ecosystem remains relatively young, meaning that every one of these tools has had to re-implement difficult, time-consuming machinery to interface with the Rust compiler and its cargo build system, to hook into the Rust compiler's internal representation, and to expose an abstract syntax tree (AST) that is suitable for analy…

Re this from @…, of the biggest tells about the current AI hype bubble:
Instead of replacing the work humans don’t want to do, it’s purporting to replace the work executives hate paying for.
Instead of an end to drudgery, they’re pushing an end to purpose and meaning.
And yeah, we’re going to end up cleaning up the AI’s messes. And doing its laundry.
https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/114598616057210141

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Emergence of Hermitian topology from non-Hermitian knots
The non-Hermiticity of the system gives rise to a distinct knot topology in the complex eigenvalue spectrum, which has no counterpart in Hermitian systems. In contrast, the singular values of a non-Hermitian (NH) Hamiltonian are always real by definition, meaning that they can also be interpreted as the eigenvalues of some underlying Hermitian Hamiltonian. In this work, we demonstrate that if the singular values of an NH Hamiltonian are treated as eigenvalues of prototype translational invarian…

Bozo is the Brotherhood of Zips and Others. Bozos are people who band
together for fun and profit. They have no jobs. Anybody who goes on a
tour is a Bozo. Why does a Bozo cross the street? Because there's a Bozo
on the other side. It comes from the phrase vos otros, meaning others.
They're the huge, fat, middle waist. The archetype is an Irish drunk
clown with red hair and nose, and pale skin. Fields, William Bendix.
Everybody tends to drift towar…

Introducing multiverse analysis to bibliometrics: The case of team size effects on disruptive research
Christian Leibel, Lutz Bornmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03726

Introducing multiverse analysis to bibliometrics: The case of team size effects on disruptive research
Although bibliometrics has become an essential tool in the evaluation of research performance, bibliometric analyses are sensitive to a range of methodological choices. Subtle choices in data selection, indicator construction, and modeling decisions can substantially alter results. Ensuring robustness, meaning that findings hold up under different reasonable scenarios, is therefore critical for credible research and research evaluation. To address this issue, this study introduces multiverse an…

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Forcing techniques for Cichoń's Maximum: Lecture notes for the mini-course at the University of Vienna
Cichoń's diagram describes the connections between combinatorial notions related to measure, category, and compactness of sets of irrational numbers. In the second part of the 2010's, Goldstern, Kellner and Shelah constructed a forcing model of Cichoń's Maximum (meaning that all non-dependent cardinal characteristics are pairwise different) by using large cardinals. Some years later, we eliminated this large cardinal assumption. In this mini-course, we explore the forcing techniques to constr…

In the #ISE2025 lecture today we were introducing our students to the concept of distributional semantics as the foundation of modern large language models. Historically, Wittgenstein was one of the important figures in the Philosophy of Language stating thet "The meaning of a word is its use in the language."

Calamus 20 I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing
What a heartaching poem of loneliness and the need for the love of another! Just wonderful. I understand now why this poem is so popular, particularly as a gay poem. It is full of meaning and is quite clear about it.
I wondered how it could utter joyous leaves, standing alone there, without its friend, its lover near—for I knew I could not
There's a more cerebral interpretation of this work, particularly if you understand "leaves" to mean "pages in my poetry book Leaves of Grass". Whitman talking about his own poetic inspiration from lovers.
Which well enough. But I'm more interested in Whitman's expressed need for "manly love". Which is clearly on his mind constantly:
my own dear friends ... I believe lately I think of little else than of them
Also Whitman's own eroticization of nature and himself. Here speaking of the tree,
its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself

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Conflict-Aware Pseudo Labeling via Optimal Transport for Entity Alignment
Entity alignment aims to discover unique equivalent entity pairs with the same meaning across different knowledge graphs (KGs). Existing models have focused on projecting KGs into a latent embedding space so that inherent semantics between entities can be captured for entity alignment. However, the adverse impacts of alignment conflicts have been largely overlooked during training, thereby limiting the entity alignment performance. To address this issue, we propose a novel Conflict-aware Pseudo…

Beyond just predicting words, LLMs interpolate meaning between data points, as in the recent phenomenon of AI explaining fake idioms like "you can’t lick a badger twice." The danger is that made-up "truths" will fuel future models
https://www.

Novel black holes with scalar hair in the Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar Theory with positive coupling
Hong Guo, Wei-Liang Qian, Bean Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02445

Novel black holes with scalar hair in the Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar Theory with positive coupling
In this work, we find a new branch of hairy black hole solutions in the Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar (EMS) theory in four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes. Different from spontaneous scalarization induced by tachyonic instabilities in Reissner-Nordström (RN) black holes with a negative coupling parameter, these scalar-hairy black hole solutions arise when the coupling parameter is positive, where nonlinear coupling plays the dominant role, meaning that the coupling is positively correlate…

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Measurement to Meaning: A Validity-Centered Framework for AI Evaluation
While the capabilities and utility of AI systems have advanced, rigorous norms for evaluating these systems have lagged. Grand claims, such as models achieving general reasoning capabilities, are supported with model performance on narrow benchmarks, like performance on graduate-level exam questions, which provide a limited and potentially misleading assessment. We provide a structured approach for reasoning about the types of evaluative claims that can be made given the available evidence. For…

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Identifying Metric Structures of Deep Latent Variable Models
Deep latent variable models learn condensed representations of data that, hopefully, reflect the inner workings of the studied phenomena. Unfortunately, these latent representations are not statistically identifiable, meaning they cannot be uniquely determined. Domain experts, therefore, need to tread carefully when interpreting these. Current solutions limit the lack of identifiability through additional constraints on the latent variable model, e.g. by requiring labeled training data, or by r…

Sometimes I feel like a broken record when #writing about #neurodivergence
But re-processing my past through the lens of #Autism

We've got buried treasure on view in a new display at the museum. Thanks to a recent gift and the work of a consultant and a staff member, we're displaying mingqi, or "spirit goods," in two adjoining cases in the permanent collection. Read on to learn more about how this grouping of well-preserved objects came together.

Re this from @…, of the biggest tells about the current AI hype bubble:
Instead of replacing the work humans don’t want to do, it’s purporting to replace the work executives hate paying for.
Instead of an end to drudgery, they’re pushing an end to purpose and meaning.
And yeah, we’re going to end up cleaning up the AI’s messes. And doing its laundry.
https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/114598616057210141

REfugEEs From Beyond – Odd Spede Noisecore
#byncsa

I am noticing that many websites are no longer giving cookie choices, rather they merely say "we are spying on you" (they use nicer words, but that is the meaning) with only one option:
"I Understand".
To my mind that knocks out the last prop underneath website operators' argument that those of us with ad blockers (and more) are somehow on the wrong side of the ethical fence.

Exciting new ground in Centrist science being broken in the Irish Times this morning.
Splitting the very atom of meaning to reveal this previously only-theorised new Centrist element fused within:

In announcing her resignation from the National Science Board, Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social details #DOGE interference in National Science Foundation #NSF grant making. «

Software Portability for Computer Algebra
Arthur C. Norman, Stephen M. Watt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01864 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Software Portability for Computer Algebra
We have been involved in the creation of multiple software systems for computer algebra, including Reduce, Maple, Axiom and Aldor as well as a number of smaller specialised programs. We relate observations on how the meaning of software portability has changed over time and how it continues to evolve. We describe how the systems with which we have first-hand experience have achieved portability, how the central issues have changed over time and the challenges that remain.

“#SFUSD sent a sternly worded letter to the #SFParksAlliance. The language was cool and technical, but the meaning was not. It mirrored the poem that won Flyguy the Pimp of the Year contest: ‘Better have my money! Through rain, sleet or snow! Better have my money! Not half! Not some! But alllllllll my…

S.F. Parks Alliance’s downfall came gradually, then suddenly. But always predictably.
Years ago, the Parks Alliance allegedly stiffed the school district a six-figure sum. Why have consequences been so long in coming? 

Both Harvard and Columbia are failing to articulate the need and meaning of education, besides economic value. There is no sense of humanity or the humanities or the search for a truths. Both schools are for-profit companies in the minds of their boards, and their presidents reflect that understanding.
From: @…

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Entropy Production for Discrete-Time Markov Processes
We study the multiple definitions of the entropy production for discrete-time Markov processes in single systems and composite systems. These definitions have been studied in single systems, but less so in composite systems. With a clear distinction, we review the equivalence condition and the meaning of the multiple definitions and show that all definitions satisfy the important property for the entropy production, such as non-negativity. We also show that the inequalities between total entrop…

Questions about the meaning of #artificialintelligence and its implications for human dignity and well-being highlighted a major conference at YDS last month, titled, “A.I. and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically After ChatGPT.” Full story by Timothy Cahill '16 M.A.R.

Recent hype is that o3 solved AI web search.
But so far I've tried using it for two "hard" search problems (meaning I first tried searching manually and didn't find much). Both times it hallucinated a ton, making claims that weren't actually in the sources.
On the other hand, both times, I did ultimately find nuggets of useful information after picking through all the hallucinations. So I'm glad I used it?
[1/3]

Gee, that statement by senator (no capitalization deserved) Joni Ernst and "the white house" about how good it is for Medicare to let people die is applicable to the abortion issue:
As the white house (and Ernst) argue, fewer people receiving medical assistance means (does it really mean?) more for everyone else.
Gee, then if that argument holds they ought to be in favor of abortion - because that means fewer people who will need government services, meaning more for th…

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Simplicity of crossed products by FC-hypercentral groups
In this paper, we give a complete, two-way characterization, of when a noncommutative crossed product $A \rtimes_λG$ is simple, in the case of $G$ being an FC-hypercentral group. This is a large class of amenable groups that contains all virtually nilpotent groups, and in the finitely-generated setting, coincides with the set of groups which have polynomial growth. We further completely characterize the ideal intersection property under the assumption that the group is FC, meaning that every e…

Here’s the real actual definition of “artificial intelligence,” the true technical meaning in research and engineering circles when it’s not being used as marketing hype.
Artificial intelligence is anything that
1. humans are generally good at, and
2. computers were recently bad at.
That’s it. That’s all it means. You’ll hear people refine it and dress it up, but that’s the heart of the definition. (Check Wikipedia!)
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A preview of Monday’s post in case you need a distraction from the state of the world.
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/the-generative-turn-on-ais-as-stochastic-parrots-and-art/

The Generative Turn: On AIs as Stochastic Parrots and Art - varnelis.net
Kazys Varnelis, Stochastic Parrots, 2025.Large Language Model (LLM)-based Artificial Intelligences have been derided for hallucinating—a topic that I addressed in my last essay, “The New Surrealism. On AI and Hallucinations,”—and labeled “stochastic parrots,” supposedly incapable of generating authentic meaning beyond remixed texts. Coined by researcher Emily Bender and her colleagues, the term “stochastic parrots” describes ...

@nelson@tech.lgbt
2025-05-27 01:06:52

Calamus 14 Not heat flames up and consumes
A declaration of love, eroticism mixed with nature imagery. Something of a theme in Calamus! It didn't really grab me though, I think because so many of the lines start with negations and it distances me from the meaning.
The sexy line here:
the flames of me, consuming, burning for his love whom I love!
I also like the imagery of seeds wafted in the wind, then heading to "my Soul is borne through the open air".
This musical performance by the Erato Ensemble is a nice interpretation.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2025-05-30 22:02:06

Here’s the real actual definition of “artificial intelligence,” the true technical meaning in research and engineering circles when it’s not being used as marketing hype.
Artificial intelligence is anything that
1. humans are generally good at, and
2. computers were recently bad at.
That’s it. That’s all it means. You’ll hear people refine it and dress it up, but that’s the heart of the definition. (Check Wikipedia!)
3/

@otakubinary@sakurajima.moe
2025-03-18 19:50:13

English Version too! :ai_yay:
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@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.us
2025-05-13 08:50:24

Moki Mcfly – Divin(e)tion: Music in the key of zero
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/05/13/moki-mcfly-divinetion-music-in-the-key-of-zero/

Moki Mcfly – Divin(e)tion: Music in the key of zero
[mhrk442] Moki Mcfly “Divin(e)tion: Music in the key of zero” “This recording is a deliberate act of listening as thinking, a ritual engagement with sound as sovereign and self articulating. It seeks no allegiance to narrative conventions nor does it ask the listener to tether meaning to fixed symbols. This is sound emancipated from the...

@nelson@tech.lgbt
2025-05-29 04:06:51

Calamus 16 Who is now reading this?
A funny little poem, omitted in later editions. On the surface it's a challenge to the reader and a chance for Whitman to establish himself as self-aware. Claiming his own flaws.
But the text drips with some latent queer meaning
as if I do not secretly love strangers!
(O tenderly, a long time, and never avow it ;)
A secret love that you can never avow? Hello! At least it's tenderly and a long time.
This seems as good a time as any to link Whitman's Boys, a good recent piece considering Whitman as a queer man and what that means to us in current times. It's a nice overview of some queer theory and is even-handed.

@arXiv_csDL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-05-26 10:18:53

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Gaming the Metrics? Bibliometric Anomalies and the Integrity Crisis in Global University Rankings
Global university rankings have transformed how certain institutions define success, often elevating metrics over meaning. This study examines universities with rapid research growth suggestive of metric-driven behaviors. Among the 1,000 most publishing institutions, 98 showed extreme output increases between 2018-2019 and 2023-2024. Of these, eighteen were selected for exhibiting sharp declines in first and corresponding authorship. Compared to national, regional, and international norms, thes…

@mk_rexx@metalhead.club
2025-05-24 01:15:19

pork budbod chicken sizzler
#food #friedRice #philippines #rice