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"While a Trump presidency might be bad news for, say, Tesla..."
Uh, I guess that aged well... just not in the way the author thought.
✅ These are the brands that divide America - Sherwood News
https://sherwood.news/business/brands-libera…

Oracle-Based Multistep Strategy for Solving Polynomial Systems Over Finite Fields and Algebraic Cryptanalysis of the Aradi Cipher
La Scala Roberto, Sharwan Kumar Tiwari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09950

Oracle-Based Multistep Strategy for Solving Polynomial Systems Over Finite Fields and Algebraic Cryptanalysis of the Aradi Cipher
The multistep solving strategy consists in a divide-and-conquer approach: when a multivariate polynomial system is computationally infeasible to solve directly, one variable is assigned over the elements of the base finite field, and the procedure is recursively applied to the resulting simplified systems. In a previous work by the same authors (among others), this approach proved effective in the algebraic cryptanalysis of the Trivium cipher. In this paper, we present a new implementation of t…

"You are a software worker. And you are able to do your job in more or less good conditions only because you are standing on the shoulders of countless others. We are talking about the fact that if you have 20 days of holidays, if you only work 5 days a week, if you are able to take some days or weeks off after the birth of your child, it is because some others before you have sacrificed their lives so you can work in decent conditions."

A good news story about the great gender preference divide.
After years of declining sex ratios that saw increases in female infanticide and missing girls, it seems there's a change.
'Globally, among babies born in 2000, a staggering 1.6m girls were missing from the number you would expect, given the natural sex ratio at birth. This year that number is likely to be 200,000—and it is still falling.'
Beautiful hope.

The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy
tweeted:
“Important to remember that Trump isn’t trying to heal or keep the peace.
He is looking to inflame and divide.
His movement doesn’t believe in democracy or protest
– and if they get a chance to end the rule of law they will take it.
None of this is on the level.”

Goodness-of-fit testing for the stationary density of a size-structured PDE
Van Ha Hoang, Phu Thanh Nguyen, Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc, Vincent Rivoirard, Viet Chi Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05103

Goodness-of-fit testing for the stationary density of a size-structured PDE
We consider two division models for structured cell populations, where cells can grow, age and divide. These models have been introduced in the literature under the denomination of `mitosis' and `adder' models. In the recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Biology to understand whether the cells divide equally or not, as this can be related to important mechanisms in cellular aging or recovery. We are therefore interested in testing the null hypothesis $H_0$ where the division o…

Fast Estimation of Globally Optimal Independent Contact Regions for Robust Grasping and Manipulation
Jonathan P. King, Harnoor Ahluwalia, Michael Zhang, Nancy S. Pollard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08856

Fast Estimation of Globally Optimal Independent Contact Regions for Robust Grasping and Manipulation
This work presents a fast anytime algorithm for computing globally optimal independent contact regions (ICRs). ICRs are regions such that one contact within each region enables a valid grasp. Locations of ICRs can provide guidance for grasp and manipulation planning, learning, and policy transfer. However, ICRs for modern applications have been little explored, in part due to the expense of computing them, as they have a search space exponential in the number of contacts. We present a divide an…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00631 has been replaced.
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Phase-space distortion as a key to unraveling galactic bar buckling
For the first time, we investigate the resonant structure of $N$-body galactic bar at the stage of buckling using action-angle variables. We studied the evolution of vertical actions ($J_z$) and angles associated with vertical resonance ($θ_\mathrm{res}=θ_z - θ_R$) for all orbits in the bar. For this purpose, we divide the orbits into types according to the behavior (libration or circulation) of their resonant angle with respect to fixed points $θ_\mathrm{res}=0$ and $π$ (vertical resonanc…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02658 has been replaced.
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Computational Thinking Reasoning in Large Language Models
While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities, they often struggle with complex tasks that require specific thinking paradigms, such as divide-and-conquer and procedural deduction, \etc Previous researches integrate external, reliable tools to alleviate logical inconsistencies and hallucinations in LLMs' problem-solving processes. However, we argue that the root challenge is more profound: LLMs lack the complex thinking paradigms (\ie, computational thin…

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Divide-Fuse-Conquer: Eliciting "Aha Moments" in Multi-Scenario Games
Large language models (LLMs) have been observed to suddenly exhibit advanced reasoning abilities during reinforcement learning (RL), resembling an ``aha moment'' triggered by simple outcome-based rewards. While RL has proven effective in eliciting such breakthroughs in tasks involving mathematics, coding, and vision, it faces significant challenges in multi-scenario games. The diversity of game rules, interaction modes, and environmental complexities often leads to policies that perform well in…

Phase-space distortion as a key to unraveling galactic bar buckling
Viktor D. Zozulia, Natalia Ya. Sotnikova, Anton A. Smirnov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00631

Phase-space distortion as a key to unraveling galactic bar buckling
For the first time, we investigate the resonant structure of $N$-body galactic bar at the stage of buckling using action-angle variables. We studied the evolution of vertical actions ($J_z$) and angles associated with vertical resonance ($θ_\mathrm{res}=θ_z - θ_R$) for all orbits in the bar. For this purpose, we divide the orbits into types according to the behavior (libration or circulation) of their resonant angle with respect to fixed points $θ_\mathrm{res}=0$ and $π$ (vertical resonanc…

Why do I even watch this YouTube spectacle about 20 FRP voters and one Red politician?
No state or party can grasp my needs better than I do. All political systems serve only to chain freedom and divide society.
This is why YouTube is a tool of domination, spreading the lies that keep us enslaved.
https://www.

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Patrick Gerard, Hans W. A. Hanley, Luca Luceri, Emilio Ferrara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21729

Bridging the Narrative Divide: Cross-Platform Discourse Networks in Fragmented Ecosystems
Political discourse has grown increasingly fragmented across different social platforms, making it challenging to trace how narratives spread and evolve within such a fragmented information ecosystem. Reconstructing social graphs and information diffusion networks is challenging, and available strategies typically depend on platform-specific features and behavioral signals which are often incompatible across systems and increasingly restricted. To address these challenges, we present a platform…

Analytical Reconstruction of Periodically Deformed Objects in Time-resolved CT
Qianwei Qu, Christian M. Schlep\"utz, Marco Stampanoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03792

Analytical Reconstruction of Periodically Deformed Objects in Time-resolved CT
Time-resolved CT is an advanced measurement technique that has been widely used to observe dynamic objects, including periodically varying structures such as hearts, lungs, or hearing structures. To reconstruct these objects from CT projections, a common approach is to divide the projections into several collections based on their motion phases and perform reconstruction within each collection, assuming they originate from a static object. This describes the gating-based method, which is the st…

Computational Thinking Reasoning in Large Language Models
Kechi Zhang, Ge Li, Jia Li, Huangzhao Zhang, Jingjing Xu, Hao Zhu, Lecheng Wang, Jia Li, Yihong Dong, Jing Mai, Bin Gu, Zhi Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02658

Computational Thinking Reasoning in Large Language Models
While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities, they often struggle with complex tasks that require specific thinking paradigms, such as divide-and-conquer and procedural deduction, \etc Previous researches integrate external, reliable tools to alleviate logical inconsistencies and hallucinations in LLMs' problem-solving processes. However, we argue that the root challenge is more profound: LLMs lack the complex thinking paradigms (\ie, computational thin…

Fun fact about #data transfer speeds, Mbps and MB/s are not the same, shouldn't me treated as such, as in terms of numbers, they are different by a factor of 8.
Simply
**multiply by 8 when MB/s to Mbps**
or
**divide by 8 when Mbps to MB/s**
Companies seemingly use Mbps to mislead consumers about the specs about data transfer speeds on products for those uninfor…

"also seemed pleased about the prospects of “large-scale trade” with Russia."
...oh, so that's the game. Divide and conquer, comrade.