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My SLP spouse has a T-shirt that says “langauge,” and it gets a lot of appreciation.
Every profession that involved any sort of typing has these words, I suspect.
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I've mentioned it before, and I'm sure I will again, but, as much as there's a reason why I reject Christianity, there were also a lot of good things. Churches have governing bodies (with varying degrees of democratic representation) that guide the ministry (preaching and actions) as well as managing logistics (building maintenance, accounting, etc). This provides opportunities for self-governed collective action.
Quakers are the most radical in terms of this, and are basically anarchists. Quaker circles often meet at people's houses and can be as small as 3 people. There is often no leadership. A Quaker service could easily just be everyone sitting in a circle and someone talking at one point.
I grew up in a Presbyterian church, and one of my first jobs (at 11 or 12) was landscaping there. Within the church there were a lot of different trades, which meant that you could volunteer time and learn basically any kind of maintenance. Basically everything that needed to be done was done in-house. This also meant that if you needed a plumber, an electrician, etc, that you could pick one from within the church.
I remember painting the church, learning how to paint, with a bunch of other members of the congregation at a work party. I also remember being volunteered for child care during choir. There were a few rooms around that were used for different things, such as music practice. But these rooms could be made available for any type of community activity. This can actually include community organizing. In fact, Seattle GDC was offered an occasional space for organizing in a church (we didn't take it, but appreciated the offer), and that same church hosted a lot of other community events. I actually went to a queer relationships skills class once hosted in a church, which was great.
What I'm saying is that churches often act as a kind of parallel society up-to-and-including acting as dual power structures....

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
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- Diffusion Modulation via Environment Mechanism Modeling for Planning
Hanping Zhang, Yuhong Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20422 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130110576555049
- Heterogeneity-Aware Client Selection Methodology For Efficient Federated Learning
Nihal Balivada, Shrey Gupta, Shashank Shreedhar Bhatt, Suyash Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20450 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/116130191233002036
- Prior-Agnostic Incentive-Compatible Exploration
Ramya Ramalingam, Osbert Bastani, Aaron Roth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20465 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_bot/116130245628406144
- PhyGHT: Physics-Guided HyperGraph Transformer for Signal Purification at the HL-LHC
Mohammed Rakib, Luke Vaughan, Shivang Patel, Flera Rizatdinova, Alexander Khanov, Atriya Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20475 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepex_bot/116130242350426528
- ActionEngine: From Reactive to Programmatic GUI Agents via State Machine Memory
Zhong, Faisal, Fran\c{c}a, Leesatapornwongsa, Szekeres, Rong, Nath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20502 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130180718734838
- Inner Speech as Behavior Guides: Steerable Imitation of Diverse Behaviors for Human-AI coordination
Rakshit Trivedi, Kartik Sharma, David C Parkes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20517 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130223344095649
- Stop-Think-AutoRegress: Language Modeling with Latent Diffusion Planning
Lovelace, Belardi, Zalouk, Polavaram, Kundurthy, Weinberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20528 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130628998822849
- Standard Transformers Achieve the Minimax Rate in Nonparametric Regression with $C^{s,\lambda}$ T...
Yanming Lai, Defeng Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20555 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130512372759166
- Personal Information Parroting in Language Models
Nishant Subramani, Kshitish Ghate, Mona Diab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20580 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130630309564204
- Characterizing Online and Private Learnability under Distributional Constraints via Generalized S...
Mo\"ise Blanchard, Abhishek Shetty, Alexander Rakhlin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20585 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130525452248337
- Amortized Bayesian inference for actigraph time sheet data from mobile devices
Daniel Zhou, Sudipto Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20611 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130543144314661
- Knowing the Unknown: Interpretable Open-World Object Detection via Concept Decomposition Model
Xueqiang Lv, Shizhou Zhang, Yinghui Xing, Di Xu, Peng Wang, Yanning Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20616 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130795466851481
- On the Convergence of Stochastic Gradient Descent with Perturbed Forward-Backward Passes
Boao Kong, Hengrui Zhang, Kun Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20646 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathOC_bot/116130476952419594
- DANCE: Doubly Adaptive Neighborhood Conformal Estimation
Feng, Reich, Beaglehole, Luo, Park, Yoo, Huang, Mao, Boz, Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20652 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130551664144143
- Vision-Language Models for Ergonomic Assessment of Manual Lifting Tasks: Estimating Horizontal an...
Mohammad Sadra Rajabi, Aanuoluwapo Ojelade, Sunwook Kim, Maury A. Nussbaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20658 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130809228818544
- F10.7 Index Prediction: A Multiscale Decomposition Strategy with Wavelet Transform for Performanc...
Xuran Ma, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20712 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophIM_bot/116130530693731576
- Communication-Inspired Tokenization for Structured Image Representations
Davtyan, Sahin, Haghighi, Stapf, Acuaviva, Alahi, Favaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20731 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130824303022936
- SibylSense: Adaptive Rubric Learning via Memory Tuning and Adversarial Probing
Yifei Xu, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20751 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130739757479992
- Assessing the Impact of Speaker Identity in Speech Spoofing Detection
Anh-Tuan Dao, Driss Matrouf, Nicholas Evans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20805 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/116130218074059060
- Don't Ignore the Tail: Decoupling top-K Probabilities for Efficient Language Model Distillation
Sayantan Dasgupta, Trevor Cohn, Timothy Baldwin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20816 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116130753521420972
- DRESS: A Continuous Framework for Structural Graph Refinement
Eduar Castrillo Velilla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20833 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/116130545112457981
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Study finds warming world increases days when weather is prone to fires around the globe
The number of days when the weather gets hot, dry and windy—ideal to spark extreme wildfires—has nearly tripled in the past 45 years across the globe, with the trend increasing even higher in the Americas, a new study shows.

Trump: I won't use force to take Greenland
On Nato, Trump said “we give so much, and we get so little in return.”
At Davos Trump said the US only gets “death, disruption, and massive amounts of cash [given] to people who don’t appreciate what we do.”
– and he’s taking about both Nato and Europe generally.
Trump then points out Nato chief Mark Rutte in the audience
– who this morning was complimentary about Trump’s pressure to raise military spending among Nat…

I've been playing around with agent-powered HTTP debugging -there's a lot of potential here... Even just with minimal data, Claude gets a really good understanding of flows very quickly, amazing for exploring.
A quick summary of overall traffic & state flow across ~160 requests & responses:

GWTC-4.0 - an Introduction to Version 4.0 of the #GravitationalWave Transient Catalog: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0c06 -> The latest crop of space-time wobbles includes a variety of heavy, fast-spinning, and lopsided colliding black holes: https://physics.mit.edu/news/new-catalog-more-than-doubles-the-number-of-gravitational-wave-detections-made-by-ligo-virgo-and-kagra-observatories/ / New catalog of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observations published: https://www.aei.mpg.de/1415736/new-catalog-of-ligo-virgo-kagra-observations-published - the latest catalog, GWTC-4, includes 128 new candidates from the fourth observing run, more than doubling the previous total.

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This week, tens of thousands of game developers and producers will once again gather in San Francisco,
as they have since 1988,
for the weeklong Game Developers Conference.
But this year’s show will be missing many international developers
who say they no longer feel comfortable traveling to the United States to attend,
no matter how relevant the show is to their work and careers.
Dozens of those developers who spoke to Ars in recent months say they’re wa…

“It doesn't feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US
Stories of border issues lead to pervasive travel fears across the worldwide industry.