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I’m going to be very honest and clear.
I am fully preparing myself to die under this new American regime.
That’s not to say that it’s the end of the world. It isn’t.
But I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*.
I do hope a lot of you run. I hope you vote, sure.
Maybe do a general strike or rent strike.
All great!
But I spent the last week reading things and this is not, for ME…

karate: Zachary Karate Club
Network of friendships among members of a university karate club. Includes metadata for faction membership after a social partition. Note: there are two versions of this network, one with 77 edges and one with 78, due to an ambiguous typo in the original study. (The most commonly used is the one with 78 edges.).
This network has 34 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted

A cool thing about the Seattle Frontrunners group runs is that this barred owl (Strix varia) is not even the first owl I've seen this close on a run. (This one was along the ravine trail in Ravenna Park this morning.)
#naturalist #wildlife

"The RDBMS field is so young, we can actually see it grow through the pages of computer magazines of the 1980s. BYTE Magazine had its first issue dedicated to databases in November 1981, and then another one in October 1984. Dr. Dobb’s Journal did not feature an article about databases until 1984 and did not have many more throughout the decade; actually most of them were authored by Gene Head, and talk about dBASE."

This week's #ThursDeath is a recent find I've been listening a lot to this week, Belgium's DISCARNATION have re-released their 2023 demo as 'Mournful Incantations of Mortality'. This is a fantastic piece of gloomy, death-doom that's super growly and cavernous, just how I like it-- much like this year's Cave, Ovenhead or Annihilation Cult. Definitely one to try out, for fans o…

I know folks here dump on WAPO but my wife likes this columnist, Anne Lamott, and this column is pretty good. I hope the guest link works.
“The one thing liberals need to address before the June parade
Putting Biden’s head on a stake is not helpful.”
Opinion by Anne Lamott
https://wapo.st/4jqeQLP…

The one thing liberals need to address before the June parade
Putting Biden’s head on a stake is not helpful.

This Zohran Mamdani video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? It is the blueprint.

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
AVON: There is only Lurgan's word. Everybody else who knew is either dead or amnesiac. One clue. Just one, and we have got it. Why are you listening to this drivel, Blake? We can take Star One, let's get on with it.
JENNA: Very stirring. When did you become a believer?
https://blake.torpi…

If you haven't yet called your rep to oppose this disastrous budget bill, it's urgent to do it today! 5calls.org makes it easy: https://5calls.org/issue/hr1-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-budget-reconciliation/

I've orchids flowering in my meadow again this year, which brings me joy.

Are the Cowboys setting up this player to fail in 2025? https://insidethestar.com/are-the-cowboys-setting-up-this-player-to-fail-in-2025

How to tell a vibe coder of lying when they say they check their code.
People who will admit to using LLMs to write code will usually claim that they "carefully check" the output since we all know that LLM code has a lot of errors in it. This is insufficient to address several problems that LLMs cause, including labor issues, digital commons stress/pollution, license violation, and environmental issues, but at least it's they are checking their code carefully we shouldn't assume that it's any worse quality-wise than human-authored code, right?
Well, from principles alone we can expect it to be worse, since checking code the AI wrote is a much more boring task than writing code yourself, so anyone who has ever studied human-computer interaction even a little bit can predict people will quickly slack off, stating to trust the AI way too much, because it's less work. I'm a different domain, the journalist who published an entire "summer reading list" full of nonexistent titles is a great example of this. I'm sure he also intended to carefully check the AI output, but then got lazy. Clearly he did not have a good grasp of the likely failure modes of the tool he was using.
But for vibe coders, there's one easy tell we can look for, at least in some cases: coding in Python without type hints. To be clear, this doesn't apply to novice coders, who might not be aware that type hints are an option. But any serious Python software engineer, whether they used type hints before or not, would know that they're an option. And if you know they're an option, you also know they're an excellent tool for catching code defects, with a very low effort:reward ratio, especially if we assume an LLM generates them. Of the cases where adding types requires any thought at all, 95% of them offer chances to improve your code design and make it more robust. Knowing about but not using type hints in Python is a great sign that you don't care very much about code quality. That's totally fine in many cases: I've got a few demos or jam games in Python with no type hints, and it's okay that they're buggy. I was never going to debug them to a polished level anyways. But if we're talking about a vibe coder who claims that they're taking extra care to check for the (frequent) LLM-induced errors, that's not the situation.
Note that this shouldn't be read as an endorsement of vibe coding for demos or other rough-is-acceptable code: the other ethical issues I skipped past at the start still make it unethical to use in all but a few cases (for example, I have my students use it for a single assignment so they can see for themselves how it's not all it's cracked up to be, and even then they have an option to observe a pre-recorded prompt session instead).

Public Service Announcement: If you've worked in the UK, and you've changed the UK number that you use for accessing Gov.UK services, it is impossible to restore access because the default recovery workflow requires UK-issued photo ids: either a UK passport, or a UK driving license, are mandatory, even if you never had one or provided one in the first place.
Happily enough, as long as you keep your National Insurance Number, you can create a new Gateway ID, but this time follow…

the3million | Proving identity on Government websites with a non-UK passport | Giving a voice to EU citizens in the UK
HMRC, DWP and other government services have changed the way in which people sign in to access these services. This is a step-by-step guide for EU citizens and other non-UK passport holders to be able to access the Government Gateway, to see your tax records, pension records and other finance information, even if you do not have a British passport.

One Raiders Defender Who No One is Talking About https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-patrick-graham-leki-fotu-arizona-cardinals

'In philosophy, one must start from scratch – & it takes a very long time to reach scratch'
Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, Clare Mac Cumhaill, or Rachael Wiseman*
This dictum has stuck in my mind since I heard it on BBC 4 Extra this morning. It occurred in a reading of Metaphysical Animals, a book by philosophy lecturers Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman.

MV Zaandam headed North to Alaska this evening

Children's Voice Privacy: First Steps And Emerging Challenges
Ajinkya Kulkarni, Francisco Teixeira, Enno Hermann, Thomas Rolland, Isabel Trancoso, Mathew Magimai Doss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00100

Children's Voice Privacy: First Steps And Emerging Challenges
Children are one of the most under-represented groups in speech technologies, as well as one of the most vulnerable in terms of privacy. Despite this, anonymization techniques targeting this population have received little attention. In this study, we seek to bridge this gap, and establish a baseline for the use of voice anonymization techniques designed for adult speech when applied to children's voices. Such an evaluation is essential, as children's speech presents a distinct set of challenge…

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Perturbative partial moment matching and gradient-flow adaptive importance sampling transformations for Bayesian leave one out cross-validation
Importance sampling (IS) allows one to approximate leave one out (LOO) cross-validation for a Bayesian model, without refitting, by inverting the Bayesian update equation to subtract a given data point from a model posterior. For each data point, one computes expectations under the corresponding LOO posterior by weighted averaging over the full data posterior. This task sometimes requires weight stabilization in the form of adapting the posterior distribution via transformation. So long as one …

Ok, this is hilarious. https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/06/27/worlds-narrowest-fiat-panda-is-one-anorexic-19-inch-wide-ev-destined-for-the-record-books/

from my link log —
Behind the scenes of Rust string formatting and format_args!().
https://blog.m-ou.se/format-args/
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So, if you've been using Fly to deploy stuff you might want to reconsider. Given this true believer post on "AI" my trust into the security of their infrastructure has plummeted to zero. (My one deployment I had with them was incidentally already deleted before reading this 😅).
https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

Last year I made the raised beds. We, unwillingly, shared our harvest with the birds and small mammals.
This spring I built enclosures out of 1” PVC sched 40 pipes with 3/4” PVC Sched 40 side panels.
Our intention this year is to share only with family and friends.
Tomatoes in one bed, Strawberries in the other.
Enclosures are 6’ high to allow easy human access via side panels.

"The administration’s claims to monarchical power are a real threat to America’s constitutional order. But its executive orders and policy feints are so haphazard and poorly articulated that they amount to a kind of autocratic takeover written in smudge-able crayon: terrifying, cartoonish, and vulnerable to erasure, all at once.
This is not to say that Americans should ignore Trump’s efforts to make confetti of the Constitution. Rather, when evaluating any one Trump policy, one has to keep front of mind the possibility that it simply won’t exist by the end of the week. Despite an energetic effort by some right-wing intellectuals to make Trump out to be some kind of 14-dimensional-chess player, his approach doesn’t resemble chess so much as a denial-of-service attack on a functioning government."
#USPolitcs
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-self-destructive-agenda/683013/

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NoCodeGPT: A No-Code Interface for Building Web Apps with Language Models
In this paper, we first report an exploratory study where three participants were instructed to use ChatGPT to implement a simple Web-based application. A key finding of this study revealed that ChatGPT does not offer a user-friendly interface for building applications, even small web systems. For example, one participant with limited experience in software development was unable to complete any of the proposed user stories. Then, and as the primary contribution of this work, we decided to desi…

That is one round squirrel.

I finished Jim Butcher's The Olympian Affair this morning and very satisfying it is, an Airship Punk, Victorian aesthetic in a post-post-post-apocalyptic world, crystal magic and horrible beasties.
He orchestrates battles and one on one fights with wit, peril and purpose.
I hope it's not quite so long between the Second and Third of the Spires series as it was between the First and Second.

What you do with this information is up to you, but whatever you do, I assume you do responsibly. 😆
BTW Krishna Navami is the 9th day of the waning moon phase. The next one is on this 19th (and every 28-30 days thereafter).
Excerpt from: #trivia #cheeky #calendar

Wow. I did 100,090 changes to the #openstreetmap. Since I prefer quality over quantity, I am happy with this milestone
https://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Bogomil S

Today’s our last full day up north so we’re hanging out on Thunder Bay even though it’s a little cloudy and a little windy and a little chilly.
Lynn’s labyrinth amazingly survives from year to year (with a little annual TLC).

This is exactly what I was afraid of when #laravel took VC money.
https://hachyderm.io/@j3j5/114784445289560905

@… move from a TLDR to TLD with this one weird trick

Re this from @…: YES.
My first job out of college, I successfully built several high-profile executive darling software projects. I was celebrated for it (someone once use the phrase “white knight,” yikes), which was heady for a 20-something fresh out of college.
Despite that, I don’t think a single one of those projects actually mattered diddly to the company in the long term.
1/2
https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/114785755537309714

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Near-Optimal Nonconvex-Strongly-Convex Bilevel Optimization with Fully First-Order Oracles
In this work, we consider bilevel optimization when the lower-level problem is strongly convex. Recent works show that with a Hessian-vector product (HVP) oracle, one can provably find an $ε$-stationary point within ${\mathcal{O}}(ε^{-2})$ oracle calls. However, the HVP oracle may be inaccessible or expensive in practice. Kwon et al. (ICML 2023) addressed this issue by proposing a first-order method that can achieve the same goal at a slower rate of $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(ε^{-3})$. In this pap…

The concept of nullity in general spaces and contexts
Suddhasattwa Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00212 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00…

The concept of nullity in general spaces and contexts
The notion of nullity is present in all discourses of mathematics. The two most familiar notions of nullity are "almost-every" and "almost none". A notion of nullity corresponds to a choice of subsets that one interprets as null or non-empty. The rationale behind this choice depends on the context, such as Topology or Measure theory. One also expects that the morphisms or transformations within the contexts preserve the nullity structures. Extending this idea, a generalized notion of nullity is…

Natura Urbana IX 🏡
城市自然 IX 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Spreading of information on a network: a quantum view
This paper concerns the modeling of the spread of information through a complex, multi-layered network, where the information is transferred from an initial transmitter to a final receiver. The mathematical model is deduced within the framework of operatorial methods, according to the formal mathematical apparatus typical of quantum mechanics. Two different approaches are considered: one based on the ($H,ρ$)-induced dynamics and one on the Gorini--Kossakowski--Sudarshan--Lindblad (GKSL) equati…

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Direct Kinematics, Inverse Kinematics, and Motion Planning of 1-DoF Rational Linkages
This study presents a set of algorithms that deal with trajectory planning of rational single-loop mechanisms with one degree of freedom (DoF). Benefiting from a dual quaternion representation of a rational motion, a formula for direct (forward) kinematics, a numerical inverse kinematics algorithm, and the generation of a driving-joint trajectory are provided. A novel approach using the Gauss-Newton search for the one-parameter inverse kinematics problem is presented. Additionally, a method for…

Today I saw this quote
> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
attributed to Francis M. Wilhoit. I took some political science classes from him at Drake University but couldn't recall him saying anything like this.
It turns out the quote was incorrectly attributed to him. It was really Frank Wilhoit in Ohio.

Went out this morning to survey things.
The raccoons ate one of my nerf darts. I may have bit off more than I planned.

New sign and revised handle... Larger back piece in case of wind.
(No stencil for this one... printed on a nice printer!)
Laser-cut banana for scale.

#protest #resist #fascism

Meta’s banning of two anti-Zionist comedians from Instagram is the latest example of Big Tech’s deep anti-Palestinian bias
#meta #facebook #instagram

Checked in at Bean Around The World. One thing about this place is that it is open early so you can get a breakfast sandwich while you wait for Revolver to open.

Drone wreckage kills 1, injures 2 in Russia's Lipetsk, authorities say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/drone-wreckage-kills-injures-in.html

Tur\'{a}n density of tight cycles minus one edge in the $\ell_2$-norm
Levente Bodn\'ar, Jinghua Deng, Jianfeng Hou, Xizhi Liu, Hongbin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00812

Turán density of tight cycles minus one edge in the $\ell_2$-norm
The $3$-uniform tight $\ell$-cycle minus one edge $C_{\ell}^{3-}$ is the $3$-graph on $\ell$ vertices consisting of $\ell-1$ consecutive triples in the cyclic order. We show that for every integer $\ell \ge 5$ satisfying $\ell\not\equiv 0\pmod3$, every $C_{\ell}^{3-}$-free $3$-graph whose $\ell_2$-norm, that is, the sum of codegree squares, is close to the maximum must be structurally close to the iterative blowup of a single triple. This confirms a conjecture of Balogh--Clemen--Lidický~[Surve…

Of the many popular music stars of the 80s, I feel the one most likely to be found—and happiest—playing a country song in a small room with 20 people and just a guitar is Mark Knopfler.
(Why yes, some early years' Dire Straits showed up on my recommended playlist this morning.)

reading this anthology about #StopCopCity and one of the most interesting chapters talks about how the movement handled having a diversity of tactics. some people were writing op-eds, filing lawsuits, and pursuing a ballot measure. others were occupying the forest, burning bulldozers, and setting traps for the cops raiding them. the aboveground parts of the movement refused to condemn the under…

No Cop City, No Cop World

Spin Systems Coupled to Photons: A Case study of Phase Transition in a One-Dimensional Classical Ferromagnetic Ising Spin Chain at Finite Temperature
Shuntaro Otake, Motoaki Bamba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01486

Spin Systems Coupled to Photons: A Case study of Phase Transition in a One-Dimensional Classical Ferromagnetic Ising Spin Chain at Finite Temperature
Although one-dimensional classical spin chains do not exhibit phase transitions, we found that a phase transition does occur when they are coupled to a cavity photon mode. This provides one of the simplest examples demonstrating that finite-temperature superradiant phase transitions can emerge from long-range fully connected interactions mediated by photons and interactions within the material.

"How many #hashtags is too many hashtags?" fragt Ned Potter: https://www.ned-potter.com/blog/how-many-hashtags-is-too-many-hashtags
&quot…

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A Computational Approach to Improving Fairness in K-means Clustering
The popular K-means clustering algorithm potentially suffers from a major weakness for further analysis or interpretation. Some cluster may have disproportionately more (or fewer) points from one of the subpopulations in terms of some sensitive variable, e.g., gender or race. Such a fairness issue may cause bias and unexpected social consequences. This work attempts to improve the fairness of K-means clustering with a two-stage optimization formulation--clustering first and then adjust cluster …

I have to add I had six meetings with students this afternoon and only that one was icky. 💚 students #academicChatter

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Newspaces with Nebentypus: An Explicit Dimension Formula and Classification of Trivial Newspaces
Consider $N \geq 1$, $k \geq 2$, and $χ$ a Dirichlet character modulo $N$ such that $χ(-1) = (-1)^k$. For any bound $B$, one can show that $\dim S_k(Γ_0(N),χ) \le B$ for only finitely many triples $(N,k,χ)$. It turns out that this property does not extend to the newspace; there exists an infinite family of triples $(N,k,χ)$ for which $\dim S_k^{\text{new}}(Γ_0(N),χ) = 0$. However, we classify this case entirely. We also show that excluding the infinite family for which $\dim S_k^{\text{…

Color me shook. This was one of the hardest, most heart-wrenching days I've had in the past 30yrs.

Ce graphe dit tout...
This graph says it all...
Source (in French but nicely illustrated) https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/visuel/2025/07/02/comprendre-le-rechauffement-climatiq…

Comprendre le réchauffement climatique : comment nous avons bouleversé la planète
Deux siècles ont suffi à l’humanité pour dérégler le climat et enclencher une hausse des températures aux effets potentiellement dramatiques. Dans ce format visuel, « Le Monde » retrace cette évolution et les mécanismes à l’œuvre dans ce bouleversement.

Just read this on one of those vertical video things (old man here, bear with me) and it's actually an interesting observation:
Lottery winners are the only millionaires who get taxed by governments.

It was a little strange talking with some of the #Australia focused climate/energy groups for this @… story.
They really wanted to focus on #Japan, and not

China is challenging Japan's LNG dominance. What does that mean for Japanese buyers?
Japanese companies have long held the leading position in the buying and trading of one of the world's key energy sources, but that era of hegemony has come to an end.

Begin oktober kennelijk geen politieke advertenties meer op Facebook, interessant, ook voor de Nederlandse verkiezingen eind oktober, welke partij zou hier het meest last van hebben? (Of maakt het niets uit)
https://about.fb.com/news/2025/07/endi

Ending Political, Electoral and Social Issue Advertising in the EU in Response to Incoming European Regulation
From early October 2025, we will no longer allow political, electoral and social issue ads on our platforms in the EU. This is a difficult decision - one

Wee one had gone home to his mam this afternoon. Out of the last 10 day he was here for eight of them. So husband and I decided to celebrate with a leisurely roundabout walk with a plan to have coffee on the way back.
Well, we were almost at the cafe when we saw a big gorgeously ecstatic dog bounding up to us. We then heard a man, who we couldn't see, calling the dog back. Man came out of a house and dog eagerly started following us so we stopped and waited.
Every time the m…

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Four-twist effects on excitations in symmetric orbifold CFTs
Symmetric orbifold CFTs contain twist operators that can join and split copies of the CFT. In this paper, we study the effects of four twist-2 operators on two copies of a single free boson. A recent study analyzed their effects on the vacuum, finding a nontrivial left-right mixing that arises from the fact that the covering surface is a torus, while the effects of one or two twist-2 operators do not produce such mixing. Here, we extend this analysis to excited states and find a similar left-ri…

So, the maga-nazis go after universities because students question (as I do) the genocidal policies and acts of the government of Israel (as distinguished from the people of Israel) against Gaza.
Yet they fail to repudiate, or even question, those who clearly hate Jews and open espouse repressive measures.
And shame on Google/Alphabet/Youtube for feeding this troll who openly has profited from violations of Youtube's proclaimed (but apparently merely proclaimed but not enforc…

Today is one of those days on which the Fediverse once again disproves the myth that its users are generally morally superior to those of centralised platforms.
European Commission: “Today we honour the memory of victims of the Roma #Holocaust & stand against prejudice of Romani people.”
The Fediverse: “How dare you gaslight us […] To the staff managing this account: quit now …

Have you or some one you know played Geometry Dash? It's a simple game with some very challenging levels and a pretty epic community of level makers. Inside is almost a whole game engine to build some of the most wild level I have ever seen.
This game is my nightmare but my son has sunk hundreds of hours in to this game and has even learned some game dev skill while trying to build levels
What do other know about this game?

I’m still working but can hear the Downtown Hoedown starting outside my office, I’m going to have to join this event one time, it sounds like a lot of fun.

Downtown Hoedown on Front St. July 3rd | 4-9pm
Every First Thursday: Line Dancing, Country Music, and More Country-Western Fun on Front St.

This chainsaw might be older than me. Today, it decided it just didn't want to work. Even a little starter fluid wouldn't do anything. No sputter, no start and stall, just nothing. I ended up using a little electric one with difficulty when this guy would have been done in seconds.

Trump wins the appeals court lottery in D.C.
The panel hearing emergency appeals this month appears to be: Rao, Katsas, Walker.
All three are Trump appointees — in fact the only Trump appointees on the DC Circuit.
They are handling one of the key tariff appeals.
https://b…

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
ORAC: No. It was a priority one - for automatic relay to the senior officer present.
BLAKE: Orac, I want more information. I want to know everything there is to know about this man Coser; I want to know how he got out of the base; and I want to know what IMIPAK is.
https://blake.torpidi…

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

As a forum user from back in the 90s til recently, something that also bugs me, and apparently a lot of people, I felt this piece
'One last time, Discord is not a suitable replacement for forums': https://aftermath.site/discord-forums-

One Last Time, Discord Is Not A Suitable Replacement For Forums - Aftermath
They are not the same thing

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection

One Free Agent Signing The Las Vegas Raiders Would Greatly Benefit From https://raiderramble.com/2025/06/03/one-free-agent-las-vegas-raiders-would-greatly-benefit-from/

Who in Congresses voted for this bad bill: https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/roll190.xml
Gotta make memes that help cement each one of them as destroyers of Medicaid, SNAP, the Affordable Care Act and the explosion of ice into the largest law enforcement agency in the country.

Cowboys' defensive free agent signing has potential to make unit one of best in NFL https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-defensive-free-agent-solomon-thomas-impact-best-in-nfl

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Content Moderation by LLM: From Accuracy to Legitimacy
One trending application of LLM (large language model) is to use it for content moderation in online platforms. Most current studies on this application have focused on the metric of accuracy -- the extent to which LLMs make correct decisions about content. This article argues that accuracy is insufficient and misleading because it fails to grasp the distinction between easy cases and hard cases, as well as the inevitable trade-offs in achieving higher accuracy. Closer examination reveals that …

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Some Relations on Paratopisms and An Intuitive Interpretation on the Parastrophes of a Latin Square
This paper will present some intuitive interpretation of the parastrophe transformations of arbitrary Latin square. With this trick, we can generate the parastrophes of arbitrary Latin square directly from the original one without generating the orthogonal array. The relations of isotopisms and parastrophe transformations in composition will also be shown. It will solve the problem that when F1*I1=I2*F2 how can we obtain I2 and F2 from I1 and F1, where I1 and I2 are isotopisms while F1 and F2 a…

I'm not sure which is funnier, the idea of some random third party sending bot spam DMs trying to beg people to come back to the nazi bar, or the idea that this is actually some kind of official user retention program.
Whoever's behind it, it reeks of desperation lol. Anybody else get one of these?

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Automated machine learning: AI-driven decision making in business analytics
The realization that AI-driven decision-making is indispensable in today's fast-paced and ultra-competitive marketplace has raised interest in industrial machine learning (ML) applications significantly. The current demand for analytics experts vastly exceeds the supply. One solution to this problem is to increase the user-friendliness of ML frameworks to make them more accessible for the non-expert. Automated machine learning (AutoML) is an attempt to solve the problem of expertise by providin…

LFG
The proposed transit sales tax is “‘problematic for two reasons; one, it does not fully fund the operational shortfall. It’s also a politically vulnerable ballot measure,’ said Ryan Williams, the campaign director for Bay Area Forward, founded this year by local transit unions.”

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Birth control and turnpike property of Lotka-McKendrick models with diffusion
In this paper, we study the turnpike property in age structured population dynamics with birth control. These models describe the temporal evolution of one or more populations, incorporating age dependence and spatial structure. To this end, we first establish the null controllability of the system: we prove that for any T > A and any initial datum in L2(Omega x (0,A)), the population can be driven to zero using control functions that are spatially localized in time but act only at age a = 0. W…

Great overview of SDCC 2025.
(Love this one guy...)
▶️ San Diego Comic-Con 2025: Epic Cosplay, Toys & Must-See Moments!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j-ikGQvQBbQ&si=1U7S0lhiSNCQYriJ

dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted

from my link log —
There is no Diffie-Hellman but elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman.
https://keymaterial.net/2025/05/23/there-is-no-diffie-hellman-but-elliptic-curve-diffie-hellman/
saved 2025-05-24

«Sure, people from Latin-language-majority countries also list their “pronouns” in e-mail signatures and on social-media profiles, but this is, I think, largely the subconscious acceptance of the English-speakers’ hegemony over social norms (and queerness?).»
🔥 by @….
I'd even go one further and say "USian English's hegemony, both for online social norms generally and queerness in particular 🙈
https://blog.achintyarao.in/post/the-english-language/

America’s democratic collapse has been coming for years, always just over the horizon.
But when everything that happened during Trump’s first three months in office happened and
(here’s the important part)
shockingly little was done by the few groups
(Congress, the Supreme Court, the Democratic Party, American corporations & other large institutions, media companies)
who had the power to counter it,
I knew it was over.
And over in a way that is…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
DURKIM: She can't be, it's unmanned. The systems are automatic.
SERVALAN: A group of scientists and technicians elected to spend the rest of their lives refining, checking and guarding the systems.

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Just added 18 new names to my 45 Names bot that posts a nickname of potus every hour:
@…
Follow the bot on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.social/@45names
An…

45 Name an Hour (@45names@mastodon.social)
4.7K Posts, 820 Following, 210 Followers · 45 names, one an hour. Created by @davidaugust@mastodon.online https://www.davidaugust.com Collection of names for the 45th President. Thanks to the writers, comedians, late night shows, internet folk and more who made these up. If I've gone missing, please come find me. Thanks to @boodoo@mastodon.social for helping this run. searchable on tootfinder.ch and #fedi22 For entertainment purposes only: please don't ruin my life. #satire #potus45 #potu…

foodweb_baywet: Florida cypress wetlands food web (1998)
Networks of carbon exchanges among species in the cypress wetlands of South Florida. One network covers the wet and the other the dry season. Each node represents a taxon (similar to a species), and a directed edge indicates that one taxon uses another as food.
This network has 128 nodes and 2106 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted

Even-degeneracy of a random graph
Ting-Wei Chao, Dingding Dong, Zixuan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01021 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Even-degeneracy of a random graph
A graph is even-degenerate if one can iteratively remove a vertex of even degree at each step until at most one edge remains. Recently, Janzer and Yip showed that the Erdős--Renyi random graph $G(n,1/2)$ is even-degenerate with high probability, and asked whether an analogous result holds for any general $G(n,p)$. In this paper, we answer this question for any constant $p\in (0,1)$ in affirmation by proving that $G(n,p)$ is even-degenerate with high probability.

'The beauty of Geno' Smith lies in one underrated aspect of the new Raiders QB's game https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/06/02/raiders-oc-chip-kelly-…

A movie I'm really psyched to rewatch soon is one of my favorites, Minority Report (despite my dislike of Tom Cruise), to see both the things I thought when I saw it as 'this is tech that basically already exists' (personally tailored ads) to tech we have now that's probably worse than that in terms of #surveillance and

Cowboys entering the danger zone with potential one-year wonder https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-entering-danger-zone-with-potential-one-year-wonder

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11396 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Finding Counterfactual Evidences for Node Classification
Counterfactual learning is emerging as an important paradigm, rooted in causality, which promises to alleviate common issues of graph neural networks (GNNs), such as fairness and interpretability. However, as in many real-world application domains where conducting randomized controlled trials is impractical, one has to rely on available observational (factual) data to detect counterfactuals. In this paper, we introduce and tackle the problem of searching for counterfactual evidences for the GNN…

This is a cause I could get behind.
I would donate to that fund.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3lvhaxmhkd22v

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
I don’t want to see Democrats in jail or fined for fighting back, but I do want to see Democrats using all the tools available to them and breaking quorum is one of them… 🧵

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
VILA: Have you thought of another plan?
AVON: Yes. I'm going to get some sleep.
VILA: How can you sleep with all this happening?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/403

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 31163 nodes and 120029 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaborati…

In the future, “they took us on buses, soldiers. When we arrived I was surprised: didn’t smell like I remember Everglades smelling. Wasn’t that wet rain smell. Was…different. Piles, sinking, of what had been people…my stomach turned.
I turned to the soldier with a different flag patch on their sleeve and tried to explain, ‘I didn’t do this, this wasn’t me.’
In lightly accented English, soldier said, ‘yes you did, you voted for this,’ punctuated with a rifle gesture to start carry…

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
AVON: If I can fire at ground level, the beam radiation should be great enough to cut a narrow channel through the sensor mesh. That would give you eight seconds to get from here to the blockhouse. The mesh would start its repair cycle instantly. Take one step off the channel and you're dead. I know it's a slim chance, but it's the best I can come up with.
BLAKE: Let's try it.

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Many are closely watching to see whether Representative
David Valadao, Republican of California
and one of the most politically vulnerable Republicans in the country,
votes to advance the procedural rule.
Almost no other member serves a district that relies as heavily on Medicaid as his,
where nearly two-thirds of the population depends on the program for health care.
This bill was always going to bring about a tough vote for Valadao,
and earlier th…

Live Updates: Trump’s Policy Bill Faces Final House Vote After Senate Approval

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: [To Plaxton, indicating a seat] There. [To Tarrant and Vila] Secure that and let's get the hell out of here.
VILA: [To Tarrant] Put it on the back of the counter. [They do so, and hurry to their seats.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/401 B7…

“Instead of understanding that sometimes the best deal in front of you today is the best deal you’re going to get, the prime minister has shown again and again that he prefers to wait for tomorrow and hope a better deal shows up,” Mr. Chen said.
“He miscalculated.”

New Hostage Videos Sow Fear and Horror in Israel
A “living skeleton, buried alive” in Gaza’s tunnels, was how the family of one hostage described him after seeing a video circulated by Hamas this week.