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Spotify’s Royalty Threshold Is Conscious Parallelism Reshaping the Music Business—But Not in a Good Way
https://thetrichordist.com/2025/08/07/

Spotify’s Royalty Threshold Is Conscious Parallelism Reshaping the Music Business—But Not in a Good Way
Spotify’s 1,000-stream royalty threshold isn’t just a cost-saving measure—it’s a redistribution scheme that cuts out millions of tracks while still using them to drive engagement, ads, and algorith…

ALFred: An Active Learning Framework for Real-world Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection with Adaptive Thresholds
Shanle Yao, Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre, Armin Danesh Pazho, Hamed Tabkhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09058

ALFred: An Active Learning Framework for Real-world Semi-supervised Anomaly Detection with Adaptive Thresholds
Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) can play a key role in spotting unusual activities in video footage. VAD is difficult to use in real-world settings due to the dynamic nature of human actions, environmental variations, and domain shifts. Traditional evaluation metrics often prove inadequate for such scenarios, as they rely on static assumptions and fall short of identifying a threshold that distinguishes normal from anomalous behavior in dynamic settings. To address this, we introduce an active le…

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Parspec, whose AI-powered workflow tool automates procurement processes in the construction supply chain, raised a $20M Series A led by Threshold Ventures (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/construction-supply-chain-startup-parspec/

Exclusive: AI-Powered Construction Procurement Startup Lands $20M Series A 
Parspec, a startup using artificial intelligence to improve efficiency in the construction industry supply chain to help sales agents and wholesale distributors “efficiently bid and supply” construction products, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding, the company told Crunchbase News exclusively.

GPU-Accelerated Syndrome Decoding for Quantum LDPC Codes below the 63 $\mu$s Latency Threshold
Oscar Ferraz, Bruno Coutinho, Gabriel Falcao, Marco Gomes, Francisco A. Monteiro, Vitor Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07879

GPU-Accelerated Syndrome Decoding for Quantum LDPC Codes below the 63 $μ$s Latency Threshold
This paper presents a GPU-accelerated decoder for quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes that achieves sub-$63$ $μ$s latency, below the surface code decoder's real-time threshold demonstrated on Google's Willow quantum processor. While surface codes have demonstrated below-threshold performance, the encoding rates approach zero as code distances increase, posing challenges for scalability. Recently proposed QLDPC codes, such as those by Panteleev and Kalachev, offer constant-rate encod…

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Uw wekelijkse Sheila:
Het thema ‘goed bestuur’ is opeens verdwenen, terwijl het probleem er nog steeds is | de Volkskrant
https://archive.ph/dvkKK

Crossed products by compact group actions with the weak tracial Rokhlin property
Xiaochun Fang, Haotian Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06844 https://arxiv…

Crossed products by compact group actions with the weak tracial Rokhlin property
In this paper, we introduce compact group actions with the weak tracial Rokhlin property. This concept simultaneously generalizes finite group actions with the weak tracial Rokhlin property and compact group actions with the tracial Rokhlin property (in the sense of the Elliott program). Under this framework, we prove that simplicity, pure infiniteness, tracial $\mathcal{Z}$-stability and the combination of nuclearity and $\mathcal{Z}$-stability can be transferred from the original algebra to t…

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Improving quantum communication rates with permutation-invariant codes
Sujeet Bhalerao, Felix Leditzky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09978 https://arxiv.org/p…

Improving quantum communication rates with permutation-invariant codes
In this work we improve the quantum communication rates of various quantum channels of interest using permutation-invariant quantum codes. We focus in particular on parametrized families of quantum channels and aim to improve bounds on their quantum capacity threshold, defined as the lowest noise level at which the quantum capacity of the channel family vanishes. These thresholds are important quantities as they mark the noise level up to which faithful quantum communication is theoretically po…