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Programming language tradeoffs.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/language-tradeoffs

what was that silly helmet that Jonas #Vngegaard wore in his time trial uP a MOUNTAIN!
#TourdeFrance #TDF2025

I’ve carefully avoided hearing any #tourdefrance news this summer so that I can watch it all play out in next years #Netflix series… but will there be one for 2025???
I’ve nearly finished watching the 2024 one - those guys are amazing - I really like Jonas’ attitude and conduct. So much more m…

Watch Tour de France: Unchained | Netflix Official Site
Through tears and triumph, this engrossing documentary series follows several elite cycling teams as they compete in the world's most grueling bike race.

SteeringControl: Holistic Evaluation of Alignment Steering in LLMs
Vincent Siu, Nicholas Crispino, David Park, Nathan W. Henry, Zhun Wang, Yang Liu, Dawn Song, Chenguang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13450

SteeringControl: Holistic Evaluation of Alignment Steering in LLMs
We introduce SteeringControl, a benchmark for evaluating representation steering methods across core alignment objectives--bias, harmful generation, and hallucination--and their effects on secondary behaviors such as sycophancy and commonsense morality. While prior alignment work often highlights truthfulness or reasoning ability to demonstrate the side effects of representation steering, we find there are many unexplored tradeoffs not yet understood in a systematic way. We collect a dataset of…

Mapping Microscopic and Systemic Risks in TradFi and DeFi: a literature review
Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli, Pierpaolo Vivo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12007

Mapping Microscopic and Systemic Risks in TradFi and DeFi: a literature review
This work explores the formation and propagation of systemic risks across traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi), offering a comparative framework that bridges these two increasingly interconnected ecosystems. We propose a conceptual model for systemic risk formation in TradFi, grounded in well-established mechanisms such as leverage cycles, liquidity crises, and interconnected institutional exposures. Extending this analysis to DeFi, we identify unique structural and tec…

Scavenger : Revisiting Space-Time Tradeoffs in Key-Value Separated LSM-trees
Jianshun Zhang, Fang Wang, Jiaxin Ou, Yi Wang, Ming Zhao, Sheng Qiu, Junxun Huang, Baoquan Li, Peng Fang, Dan Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13935

Scavenger+: Revisiting Space-Time Tradeoffs in Key-Value Separated LSM-trees
Key-Value Stores (KVS) based on log-structured merge-trees (LSM-trees) are widely used in storage systems but face significant challenges, such as high write amplification caused by compaction. KV-separated LSM-trees address write amplification but introduce significant space amplification, a critical concern in cost-sensitive scenarios. Garbage collection (GC) can reduce space amplification, but existing strategies are often inefficient and fail to account for workload characteristics. Moreove…

new beanytuesday politicians dont hit like og bloodfeast but ill take it

Why all roads don't lead to Rome: Representation geometry varies across the human visual cortical hierarchy
Arna Ghosh, Zahraa Chorghay, Shahab Bakhtiari, Blake A. Richards
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13459

Why all roads don't lead to Rome: Representation geometry varies across the human visual cortical hierarchy
Biological and artificial intelligence systems navigate the fundamental efficiency-robustness tradeoff for optimal encoding, i.e., they must efficiently encode numerous attributes of the input space while also being robust to noise. This challenge is particularly evident in hierarchical processing systems like the human brain. With a view towards understanding how systems navigate the efficiency-robustness tradeoff, we turned to a population geometry framework for analyzing representations in t…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[1/4]:
- Is Smaller Always Faster? Tradeoffs in Compressing Self-Supervised Speech Transformers
Tzu-Quan Lin, Tsung-Huan Yang, Chun-Yao Chang, Kuang-Ming Chen, Tzu-hsun Feng, Hung-yi Lee, Hao Tang

Interesting, PhantomCard, NFC-based fraude/malware.
https://www.threatfabric.com/blogs/phantomcard-new-nfc-driven-android-malware-emerging-in-brazil

PhantomCard: New NFC-driven Android malware emerging in Brazil 🇧🇷
PhantomCard is a sophisticated Android malware leveraging NFC relaying techniques.