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All that killing for nothing:
Court rejects Netanyahu’s call to postpone graft trial hearings | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/court-rejects-netanyahus-call-to-postpone-graft-trial-hearings/

Lol, how did I miss that the UK military named its AI trial WINTERMUTE?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/largest-ever-uk-defence-ai-trial-conducted-across-land-sea-and-air

Largest ever UK defence AI trial conducted across land, sea and air
Sailors and air crews are set to benefit from new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities following the UK's largest ever multi-domain AI trial, bringing together land, sea and air equipment.

#NeuroPace stock falls after setback in trial for #neuromodulation system https://seekingal…

We have made some changes to our pricing in Xogot, and introduced a free trial.
Enjoy!
https://blog.la-terminal.net/xogot-pricing-update-free-trial-lower-prices-and-lifetime-unlock/

Xogot Pricing Update: Free Trial, Lower Prices, and Lifetime Unlock
It’s been just over two weeks since we launched Xogot, bringing the ability to edit and run Godot projects natively on iPad to the Apple App Store. Thousands of developers have downloaded Xogot in that time, and the app has ranked consistently among the top downloads in the App

A US judge rules Anthropic use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a "central library" used for training was not (Olivia Sophie Rafferty/ai fray)
https://aifra…

Fetmamedicin som endast tas en gång i månaden.
Monthly weight loss drug helps people lose 20% of body weight, trial finds https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/monthly-weight-loss-drug-helps-people-l…

Monthly weight loss drug helps people lose 20% of body weight, trial finds
A monthly weight loss drug from Amgen helped people lose about 20% of their body weight, according to the results of a phase 2 clinical trial.

A small victory on the data retention front. #Czechia https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/court-rules-that-czechia-co…

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
COMPUTER: Holding.
THANIA: Defence requests the names of the alleged victims and the cause of death in each case be specified.
SAMOR: All of them?
THANIA: If it pleases the arbiter.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/58 B7B5

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A US judge rules Anthropic use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a "central library" used for training was not (Olivia Sophie Rafferty/ai fray)
https://aifra…

Development and in silico imaging trial evaluation of a deep-learning-based transmission-less attenuation compensation method for DaT SPECT
Zitong Yu, Md Ashequr Rahman, Zekun Li, Chunwei Ying, Hongyu An, Tammie L. S. Benzinger, Richard Laforest, Jingqin Luo, Scott A. Norris, Abhinav K. Jha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20781

Development and in silico imaging trial evaluation of a deep-learning-based transmission-less attenuation compensation method for DaT SPECT
Quantitative measures of dopamine transporter (DaT) uptake in caudate, putamen, and globus pallidus derived from DaT-single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) images are being investigated as biomarkers to diagnose, assess disease status, and track the progression of Parkinsonism. Reliable quantification from DaT-SPECT images requires performing attenuation compensation (AC), typically with a separate X-ray CT scan. Such CT-based AC (CTAC) has multiple challenges, a key one being the n…

Complex Model Transformations by Reinforcement Learning with Uncertain Human Guidance
Kyanna Dagenais, Istvan David
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20883 https:…

Complex Model Transformations by Reinforcement Learning with Uncertain Human Guidance
Model-driven engineering problems often require complex model transformations (MTs), i.e., MTs that are chained in extensive sequences. Pertinent examples of such problems include model synchronization, automated model repair, and design space exploration. Manually developing complex MTs is an error-prone and often infeasible process. Reinforcement learning (RL) is an apt way to alleviate these issues. In RL, an autonomous agent explores the state space through trial and error to identify benef…

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
ZIL: To be alone must not be feared. The Host is slow to recognize one who is alone. Though there are many, all stay alone. [Clears off a patch of ground] Do you hunger? [Tears the ground open, scoops up some of the lining of the opening and eats it.] Do you hunger?
BLAKE: What is it?
https://

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Differential contributions of low-frequency phase and power in crossmodal temporal prediction: A MEG study https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.26.656128v1 on "tactile-to-visual influences on temporal prediction", "broad applicability of …

Differential contributions of low-frequency phase and power in crossmodal temporal prediction: A MEG study
Introduction Our representation of time is embedded within multisensory perception, based on sight, sound, or touch. However, despite being a crucial aspect of daily life, the neural dynamics of cross-modal temporal predictions remain elusive. The objective of this study was to investigate neural correlates of tactile-to-visual influences on temporal prediction using magnetoencephalography (MEG). We hypothesized to observe increased inter-trial phase consistency (ITPC) in the low-frequency delt…

The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
ZIL: To be alone must not be feared. The Host is slow to recognize one who is alone. Though there are many, all stay alone. [Clears off a patch of ground] Do you hunger? [Tears the ground open, scoops up some of the lining of the opening and eats it.] Do you hunger?
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Vaseline. Vaseline (or, indeed, lip balm) on the lenses works a treat. Causes no lasting damage but places the vehicle out of use for some time. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/10/uber-uk-trial-of-self…

Ukrainian commander faces trial for failing to stop torture within his unit: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/ukrainian-commander-faces-trial-for.html

An Analytic Prime Indicator Based on the Fejer Kernel
Sebastian Fuchs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18933 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.189…

An Analytic Prime Indicator Based on the Fejer Kernel
This note introduces an analytic prime indicator, constructed by smoothing a trigonometric analogue of trial division. First, a function P: R -> R of class C1 is presented, whose zeros for x > 2 correspond precisely to the odd primes. Its second derivative exhibits jump discontinuities at integer squares. Subsequently, it is shown how this construction can be modified via an infinite series to yield a globally smooth function, P_phi, of class C-inf that preserves this prime-zero property. As a …

A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Bernoulli-Trial Collisions Families in Treating Rarefied Micro Flows and Hypersonic Flows
Ahmad Shoja-sani, Maryam Javani, Ehsan Roohi, Stefan Stefanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17256

A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Bernoulli-Trial Collisions Families in Treating Rarefied Micro Flows and Hypersonic Flows
The collision process is essential to the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method, as it incorporates the fundamental principles of the Boltzmann and Kac stochastic equations. A series of collision algorithms, known as the Bernoulli-trials (BT) family schemes, have been proposed based on the Kac stochastic equation. The impetus of this paper is to present a comprehensive evaluation of different BT-based collision partner selection schemes, including the simplified Bernoulli-trials (SBT), ge…

Colon cancer recurrence and deaths cut 28% by simple exercise, trial finds https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/exercise-improves-colon-cancer-survival-high-quality-trial-finds/

Exercise improves colon cancer survival, high-quality trial finds
Any type of aerobic exercise works for the improvements, study finds.

Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release from jail before trial, but ICE plans to detain him (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/abrego-garcia-deportation-error-c0a515baffdf54baba412edf4cdbd310
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p77#a250622p77

Exercise can reduce the risk of cancer patients dying by a third,
stop tumours coming back
and is even more effective than drugs,
according to the results of a landmark trial that could transform health guidelines worldwide.

Defence lawyer in Hockey Player Sex Assault Trial:
"She may not have initially planned a night like this, but her “inhibitions were lowered and her sexual interest was heightened.””
Tell Me I'm Wrong: the lawyer basically just argued that if you get a woman (or any unwilling partner) drunk or high enough that it ‘lowers” their inhibitions and “heightens" their sexual interest, then you can do whatever the hell you want. No regrets.
Disgusting violent-misogynist-excusing bullshit.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/livestory/defence-targets-e-m-s-credibility-judge-questions-consent-videos-shown-at-world-juniors-sex-assault-trial-9.6790561

Learning, Reasoning, Refinement: A Framework for Kahneman's Dual-System Intelligence in GUI Agents
Jinjie Wei, Jiyao Liu, Lihao Liu, Ming Hu, Junzhi Ning, Mingcheng Li, Weijie Yin, Junjun He, Xiao Liang, Chao Feng, Dingkang Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17913

Learning, Reasoning, Refinement: A Framework for Kahneman's Dual-System Intelligence in GUI Agents
Graphical User Interface (GUI) agents have made significant progress in automating digital tasks through the utilization of computer vision and language models. Nevertheless, existing agent systems encounter notable limitations. Firstly, they predominantly depend on trial and error decision making rather than progressive reasoning, thereby lacking the capability to learn and adapt from interactive encounters. Secondly, these systems are assessed using overly simplistic single step accuracy metr…

#NancyValen #YasmineBleeth
Season 7 Episode 19 "Trial by Fire"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx

https://timesofmalta.com/article/maksar-trial-verdict-carmel-chircop-daphne-caruana-galizia.1110867

"The ChargeWise California pilot found that dynamic price signals, combined with automated charging management, achieve up to 98% EV charging load delivered off-peak, above the 60-70% typically achieved by ToU tariffs."
https://www.current-new…

Dynamic price signals beat time-of-use tariffs for energy load management in US trial
A pilot programme funded by the California Energy Commission shows EV charging on dynamic price signals outperforms time-of-use (ToU) rates.

Improving Surgical Risk Prediction Through Integrating Automated Body Composition Analysis: a Retrospective Trial on Colectomy Surgery
Hanxue Gu, Yaqian Chen, isoo Lee, Diego Schaps, Regina Woody, Roy Colglazier, Maciej A. Mazurowski, Christopher Mantyh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11996

Improving Surgical Risk Prediction Through Integrating Automated Body Composition Analysis: a Retrospective Trial on Colectomy Surgery
Objective: To evaluate whether preoperative body composition metrics automatically extracted from CT scans can predict postoperative outcomes after colectomy, either alone or combined with clinical variables or existing risk predictors. Main outcomes and measures: The primary outcome was the predictive performance for 1-year all-cause mortality following colectomy. A Cox proportional hazards model with 1-year follow-up was used, and performance was evaluated using the concordance index (C-index…

"AI tool trial could save equivalent of 1.5m meals in food waste"
#FoodWaste #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Azerbaijan gives eight journalists prison sentences ranging from 7.5 to 15 years, as part of a series of media trials set to obliterate independent reporting (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/8-journalists-g…

8 journalists given lengthy jail terms as Azerbaijan crushes free press - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, June 23, 2025— Eight Azerbaijani journalists have received prison sentences ranging from 7 ½ to 15 years, as part of an ongoing series of media trials likely to obliterate independent reporting in the Caucasus nation. In a closed-door trial on Monday, columnist and peace activist Bahruz Samadov was sentenced by a court in...

Texas enacts legislation, effective September 1, requiring a permit to operate self-driving vehicles, just before Tesla's planned robotaxi trial in Austin (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-trans…

Transporting results from a trial to an external target population when trial participation impacts adherence
Rachael K. Ross, Ivan Diaz, Amy J. Pitts, Elizabeth A. Stuart, Kara E. Rudolph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00157

Transporting results from a trial to an external target population when trial participation impacts adherence
Randomized clinical trials are considered the gold standard for informing treatment guidelines, but results may not generalize to real-world populations. Generalizability is hindered by distributional differences in baseline covariates and treatment-outcome mediators. Approaches to address differences in covariates are well established, but approaches to address differences in mediators are more limited. Here we consider the setting where trial activities that differ from usual care settings (e…

MyPillow CEO decries ‘Ministry of Truth’ as election fraud defamation trial heads to jury | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/mypillow-ceo-decries-ministry-of-truth-as-election-fraud-defamation-trial-heads-to-jury/

"The jury found that two of Lindell’s statements about Eric Coomer, the former security and product strategy director at Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, including calling him a traitor, were defamatory."
https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindel…

Jury finds MyPillow founder defamed former employee for a leading voting equipment company
A federal jury in Colorado has found MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed a former employee for a leading voting equipment company. Jurors reached the verdict Monday for Lindell, one of the nation’s most prominent election conspiracy theorists. He had called the employee for Dominion Voting Systems, Eric Coomer, a traitor. Lindell’s online media platform also streamed an event where a conservative podcaster accused Coomer of helping rig the 2020 election. During the trial in Denver, Lindel…

From Minimax Optimal Importance Sampling to Uniformly Ergodic Importance-tempered MCMC
Quan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19186 https://

From Minimax Optimal Importance Sampling to Uniformly Ergodic Importance-tempered MCMC
We make two closely related theoretical contributions to the use of importance sampling schemes. First, for independent sampling, we prove that the minimax optimal trial distribution coincides with the target if and only if the target distribution has no atom with probability greater than $1/2$, where "minimax" means that the worst-case asymptotic variance of the self-normalized importance sampling estimator is minimized. When a large atom exists, it should be downweighted by the trial distribu…

The never ending justice journey : the trial for the OKC Tibetan Buddhist "community" aka toxic cult, almost a decade later, the survivors are still seeking Justice, now in France
https://www.brusselstimes.com/36129/tc-bru

It took some trial and error, but I eventually managed to make sense of today’s #Strands puzzle.
#Strands471
“Make it work”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵

Evaluation of machine-learning models to measure individualized treatment effects from randomized clinical trial data with time-to-event outcomes
Elvire Roblin, Paul-Henry Courn\`ede, Stefan Michiels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12277

Evaluation of machine-learning models to measure individualized treatment effects from randomized clinical trial data with time-to-event outcomes
In randomized clinical trials, regression models can be used to explore the relationships between patients' variables (e.g., clinical, pathological or lifestyle variables, and also biomarker or genomics data) and the magnitude of treatment effect. Our aim is to evaluate the value of flexible machine learning models that can incorporate interactions and nonlinear effects of high-dimensional data to estimate individualized treatment recommendations in the setting of such trials with time-to-event…

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Trial and Trust: Addressing Byzantine Attacks with Comprehensive Defense Strategy
Recent advancements in machine learning have improved performance while also increasing computational demands. While federated and distributed setups address these issues, their structure is vulnerable to malicious influences. In this paper, we address a specific threat, Byzantine attacks, where compromised clients inject adversarial updates to derail global convergence. We combine the trust scores concept with trial function methodology to dynamically filter outliers. Our methods address the c…

Remember #shareware? Like, the demo / trial versions that you could use for free but only for limited time?
Nowadays, a lot of commercial software is like that, except that you pay for being able to use it for a limited time.

One-sample survival tests for non-proportional hazards in oncology clinical trial
Chlo\'e Szurewsky (U1018), Guosheng Yin (DSAS), Gw\'ena\"el Le Teuff (U1018)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18608

One-sample survival tests for non-proportional hazards in oncology clinical trial
In oncology, well-powered time-to-event randomized clinical trials are challenging due to a limited number of patients (e.g, pediatric cancers or personalized medicine). Last decade, many one- or two-stage designs for single-arm trials (SATs) have emerged as an alternative to overcome this issue. These designs rely on the one-sample log-rank test (OSLRT) and its modified version (mOSLRT) to compare the survival curves of an experimental and an external control group under the proportional hazar…

CNN's Post-Trial Purge (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/alex-marquardt-cnn-exit-defamation-trial
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p94#a250603p94

TRACE: Contrastive learning for multi-trial time-series data in neuroscience
Lisa Schmors, Dominic Gonschorek, Jan Niklas B\"ohm, Yongrong Qiu, Na Zhou, Dmitry Kobak, Andreas Tolias, Fabian Sinz, Jacob Reimer, Katrin Franke, Sebastian Damrich, Philipp Berens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04906

TRACE: Contrastive learning for multi-trial time-series data in neuroscience
Modern neural recording techniques such as two-photon imaging allow to acquire vast time-series datasets with responses of hundreds or thousands of neurons. Contrastive learning is a powerful self-supervised framework for learning representations of complex datasets. Existing applications for neural time series rely on generic data augmentations and do not exploit the multi-trial data structure inherent in many neural datasets. Here we present TRACE, a new contrastive learning framework that av…

Admissibility of Completely Randomized Trials: A Large-Deviation Approach
Guido Imbens, Chao Qin, Stefan Wager
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05329 https://

Admissibility of Completely Randomized Trials: A Large-Deviation Approach
When an experimenter has the option of running an adaptive trial, is it admissible to ignore this option and run a non-adaptive trial instead? We provide a negative answer to this question in the best-arm identification problem, where the experimenter aims to allocate measurement efforts judiciously to confidently deploy the most effective treatment arm. We find that, whenever there are at least three treatment arms, there exist simple adaptive designs that universally and strictly dominate non…

Det här lär inte bli godkänt utan data som visar på minskad sjukdom. Men potentiellt ordentligt positivt i fall man kan börja ta fram vaccin mot influensan med en snabbare metod.
"The current flu shots primarily rely on growing strains the of the virus in eggs, which is slower to make compared to the mRNA vaccines."

If you happen to resemble a fascist, talk like a fascist, parade around like a fascist, and suppress like a fascist, congratulations! You’ve just unlocked the exclusive, ultra-elite "Insta-Blocked" club membership—no application needed, no trial, just instant social media exile.
Because why waste time on subtlety when you can just hit the block button and pretend the problem vanished? Welcome to the future of discourse: if you fascist, you get ghosted faster than a bad Tinde…

So some Democratic politicians actually got the memo, but clearly others are flailing. To help them out, I’d like to offer my sage political wisdom. Try the following message:
1. Kick Trump out.
2. Tax the living shit out of billionaires.
3. Use the money to get folks back on their feet and clean up this mess.
Just that. Simple and direct, no fussing around. Give that a try and see how it lands. Float a trial balloon in some minor swing district election and see what happens.

Enhancing Orthopedic Surgical Training With Interactive Photorealistic 3D Visualization
Roni Lekar, Tatiana Gerth, Sergey Prokudin, Matthias Seibold, Reto B\"urgin, Benjamin Vella, Armando Hoch, Siyu Tang, Philipp F\"urnstahl, Helmut Grabner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13389

Enhancing Orthopedic Surgical Training With Interactive Photorealistic 3D Visualization
Surgical training integrates several years of didactic learning, simulation, mentorship, and hands-on experience. Challenges include stress, technical demands, and new technologies. Orthopedic education often uses static materials like books, images, and videos, lacking interactivity. This study compares a new interactive photorealistic 3D visualization to 2D videos for learning total hip arthroplasty. In a randomized controlled trial, participants (students and residents) were evaluated on spa…

Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his
roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the
forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind
the railroad yards."
-- H. L. Mencken, writing of William Jennings Bryan,
counsel for the supporters of Tennessee's anti-evolution
law at the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in 1925.

People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/health/diabetes-cure-insulin-stem-cell.html

Generalizable estimation of conditional average treatment effects using Causal Forest in randomized
Rikuta Hamaya, Etsuji Suzuki, Konan Hara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12296

Generalizable estimation of conditional average treatment effects using Causal Forest in randomized
Generalizing conditional average treatment effects (CATE) estimates in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to a broader source population can be challenging because of selection bias and high-dimensional covariates. We aim to evaluate CATE estimation approaches using Causal Forest that address selection bias due to trial participation. We propose and compare four CATE estimation approaches using Causal Forest: (1) ignoring selection variables, (2) including selection variables, (3) using invers…

US appeals court rules in Apple's favor by throwing out a $300M verdict that found it infringed on Optis' wireless tech patents, sending the case to a new trial (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a

Did we all know about the Yellowstone Zone of Death?
The 50 square mile portion of Yellowstone national park which is inside Idaho, where it is in theory impossible to receive a jury trial since the jury would have to be composed of residents of the state (Idaho) AND the district (uninhabited).

Worst-Case Complexity of High-Order Algorithms for Pareto-Front Reconstruction
Andrea Cristofari, Marianna De Santis, Stefano Lucidi, Giampaolo Liuzzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11929

Worst-Case Complexity of High-Order Algorithms for Pareto-Front Reconstruction
In this paper, we are concerned with a worst-case complexity analysis of a-posteriori algorithms for unconstrained multiobjective optimization. Specifically, we propose an algorithmic framework that generates sets of points by means of $p$th-order models regularized with a power $p+1$ of the norm of the step. Through a tailored search procedure, several trial points are generated at each iteration and they can be added to the current set if a decrease is obtained for at least one objective func…

Judge Declares Mistrial on Final Weinstein Charge (Hurubie Meko/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-sex-crimes-trial.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OU8.1E0I.e-JZX1V8np2b&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p62#a250612p62

"new evidence considered by the appeal court was that an eyewitness was given "substantial sums of money by the authorities pursuant to an agreement after he testified at the trial," Innocence Canada said."
https://www.cbc.ca/1.7550389

Monte Carlo simulations of crystal defects in open ensembles
Flynn Walsh, Babak Sadigh, Joseph T. McKeown, Timofey Frolov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12985 …

Monte Carlo simulations of crystal defects in open ensembles
Open materials systems are often inaccessible to conventional atomistic simulations, which add and remove atoms by creating high-energy defects that may be sampled with vanishing probability. This longstanding challenge motivates a new Hamiltonian Monte Carlo method that maps the grand canonical problem to a canonical system involving non-interacting fictitious particles. To trial deletions or insertions, a real or fictitious particle is selected according to an energy-based biasing scheme and …

Donald Trump Declares He Should Have Faced Trial - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/05/donald-trump-declares-he-should-have-faced-trial/

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VertiSelector: Automatic Curriculum Learning for Wheeled Mobility on Vertically Challenging Terrain
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has the potential to enable extreme off-road mobility by circumventing complex kinodynamic modeling, planning, and control by simulated end-to-end trial-and-error learning experiences. However, most RL methods are sample-inefficient when training in a large amount of manually designed simulation environments and struggle at generalizing to the real world. To address these issues, we introduce VertiSelector (VS), an automatic curriculum learning framework designed to …

Chinese state media: researchers successfully implanted a brain-computer interface in a tetraplegia patient in March, the second country after the US to do so (Karoline Kan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Oklahoma to retry Richard Glossip for noncapital murder after Supreme Court threw out conviction (Ella Lee/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5341673-oklahoma-new-trial-richard-glossip/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p57#a250610p57

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Cults:
🎵 Trials
#NowPlaying #Cults
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Mike Lindell heads into defamation trial planning to testify
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/i-have-nothing-to-hide-i-am-a-former-crack-addict-mike-lindell-plans-to-testify-at-his-billion-dollar-defamation-trial/

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Proximal indirect comparison
We consider the problem of indirect comparison, where a treatment arm of interest is absent by design in one randomized controlled trial but available in the other. The former is the target trial, and the latter is the source trial. The identifiability of the target population average treatment effect often relies on conditional transportability assumptions. However, it is a common concern whether all relevant effect modifiers are measured and controlled for. We give a new proximal identificati…

Turkish authorities ordered the detention of several opposition party members in Istanbul
and raided opposition-run municipalities on Saturday, state media said,
part of a widening legal crackdown against the opposition and city's jailed mayor.
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, who is also President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival and leads him in some polls, was jailed in March pending trial over charges of corruption and aiding a terrorist group, all of which h…

Turkish authorities order detention of dozens of opposition officials in widening crackdown
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish authorities ordered the detention of several opposition party members in Istanbul and raided opposition-run municipalities on...

G-Memory: Tracing Hierarchical Memory for Multi-Agent Systems
Guibin Zhang, Muxin Fu, Guancheng Wan, Miao Yu, Kun Wang, Shuicheng Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07398

G-Memory: Tracing Hierarchical Memory for Multi-Agent Systems
Large language model (LLM)-powered multi-agent systems (MAS) have demonstrated cognitive and execution capabilities that far exceed those of single LLM agents, yet their capacity for self-evolution remains hampered by underdeveloped memory architectures. Upon close inspection, we are alarmed to discover that prevailing MAS memory mechanisms (1) are overly simplistic, completely disregarding the nuanced inter-agent collaboration trajectories, and (2) lack cross-trial and agent-specific customiza…

US v. Google: during closing arguments, a judge queried both sides on ideas to limit Google's monopoly in search and said he expects to issue a ruling in August (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-search-ai-antitrust-trial-57ec6fd…

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Sublinear expectation structure under countable state space
In this study, we propose the sublinear expectation structure under countable state space. To describe an interesting "nonlinear randomized" trial, based on a convex compact domain, we introduce a family of probability measures under countable state space. Corresponding the sublinear expectation operator introduced by S. Peng, we consider the related notation under countable state space. Within the countable state framework, the sublinear expectation can be explicitly calculated by a novel repe…

NSO appeals WhatsApp decision, says it can’t pay $168 million in ‘unlawful’ damages https://therecord.media/nso-group-appeals-jury-award-168million-

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
VILA: Killing them?
ORAC: Correct. And replacing the energy thus expended by eating them.
JENNA: There's still forty-five minutes before that homing beacon activates.
AVON: Blake hasn't got that long.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/359

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Identifying interactions across brain areas while accounting for individual-neuron dynamics with a Transformer-based variational autoencoder
Qi Xin, Robert E. Kass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02263

Identifying interactions across brain areas while accounting for individual-neuron dynamics with a Transformer-based variational autoencoder
Advances in large-scale recording technologies now enable simultaneous measurements from multiple brain areas, offering new opportunities to study signal transmission across interacting components of neural circuits. However, neural responses exhibit substantial trial-to-trial variability, often driven by unobserved factors such as subtle changes in animal behavior or internal states. To prevent evolving background dynamics from contaminating identification of functional coupling, we developed …

Improving choice model specification using reinforcement learning
Gabriel Nova, Sander van Cranenburgh, Stephane Hess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06410 http…

Improving choice model specification using reinforcement learning
Discrete choice modelling is a theory-driven modelling framework for understanding and forecasting choice behaviour. To obtain behavioural insights, modellers test several competing model specifications in their attempts to discover the 'true' data generation process. This trial-and-error process requires expertise, is time-consuming, and relies on subjective theoretical assumptions. Although metaheuristics have been proposed to assist choice modellers, they treat model specification as a class…

Greedy recursion parameter selection for the One-Way Navier-Stokes (OWNS) equations
Michael K. Sleeman, Tim Colonius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02320 https…

Greedy recursion parameter selection for the One-Way Navier-Stokes (OWNS) equations
The One-Way Navier-Stokes (OWNS) equations use recursive filtering to construct efficient, well-posed one-way approximations to linear hyperbolic systems. The recursion parameters are critical to the accuracy and stability of the method, and have previously been chosen based on heuristic estimates of key eigenvalues (or their branches), which converges slowly and requires trial-and-error tuning for new systems. We review the projection and recursive OWNS formulations (OWNS-P and OWNS-R) for inh…

Re-experiment Smart: a Novel Method to Enhance Data-driven Prediction of Mechanical Properties of Epoxy Polymers
Wanshan Cui, Yejin Jeong, Inwook Song, Gyuri Kim, Minsang Kwon, Donghun Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01994

Re-experiment Smart: a Novel Method to Enhance Data-driven Prediction of Mechanical Properties of Epoxy Polymers
Accurate prediction of polymer material properties through data-driven approaches greatly accelerates novel material development by reducing redundant experiments and trial-and-error processes. However, inevitable outliers in empirical measurements can severely skew machine learning results, leading to erroneous prediction models and suboptimal material designs. To address this limitation, we propose a novel approach to enhance dataset quality efficiently by integrating multi-algorithm outlier …

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Adversarial bandit optimization for approximately linear functions
We consider a bandit optimization problem for nonconvex and non-smooth functions, where in each trial the loss function is the sum of a linear function and a small but arbitrary perturbation chosen after observing the player's choice. We give both expected and high probability regret bounds for the problem. Our result also implies an improved high-probability regret bound for the bandit linear optimization, a special case with no perturbation. We also give a lower bound on the expected regret.

The UK plans to launch an autonomous taxi trial in London in spring 2026, a year earlier than planned; Uber and Wayve will partner to operate the service (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4c9f4025-ec0b-4cdb-9ba5-1c3e77041487

UK to launch trials of driverless taxi services next spring
Britain tries to catch up in the race to adopt autonomous vehicles

Tournament of Prompts: Evolving LLM Instructions Through Structured Debates and Elo Ratings
Anirudh Nair, Adi Banerjee, Laurent Mombaerts, Matthew Hagen, Tarik Borogovac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00178

Tournament of Prompts: Evolving LLM Instructions Through Structured Debates and Elo Ratings
Prompt engineering represents a critical bottleneck to harness the full potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) for solving complex tasks, as it requires specialized expertise, significant trial-and-error, and manual intervention. This challenge is particularly pronounced for tasks involving subjective quality assessment, where defining explicit optimization objectives becomes fundamentally problematic. Existing automated prompt optimization methods falter in these scenarios, as they typicall…

If you want to break up Google, don't force them to sell an indirect-revenue product like Chrome. Force them to break up their advertising monopoly. Make them sell Android or YouTube. Fine them enough money to set up an endowment that can fund Mozilla or Servo or Ladybird to actually compete with Chrome and its family.

Independent increments and group sequential tests
Anastasios A. Tsiatis, Marie Davidian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15599 https://arxi…

Independent increments and group sequential tests
Widely used methods and software for group sequential tests of a null hypothesis of no treatment difference that allow for early stopping of a clinical trial depend primarily on the fact that sequentially-computed test statistics have the independent increments property. However, there are many practical situations where the sequentially-computed test statistics do not possess this property. Key examples are in trials where the primary outcome is a time to an event but where the a…

Stability of bound states in multi-component DFT in absolute coordinate systems
Bander Linjawi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07990 https://

Stability of bound states in multi-component DFT in absolute coordinate systems
Homogeneous electron and nuclear gases are transformed to a localized trial density in absolute coordinates of the multi-component hamiltonian to determine the stability of forming bound states. Regions of stability were found both at the high density and low density regimes, where electron-nuclear correlations could play a critical role in the intermediate density regime. The use of Galilean coordinates is motivated for its use in density functional theory to develop kinetic and potential dens…

You ever read the Declaration of Independance and wonder if Trump is working off it like a checklist? I mean, there's a lot that just couldn't apply but some of it...
"For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:"
"For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:"
Huh, pretty familiar. And when folks protest that last one?
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."
I mean, I have *a lot* of issues with that document and many others but it's interesting to see how this all rhymes.
#50501movement #NoKingsDay #Trump #ICE

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
SERVALAN: I was watching Samor. What Travis said bothered him!
THANIA: You were watching?
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Adversarial bandit optimization for approximately linear functions
We consider a bandit optimization problem for nonconvex and non-smooth functions, where in each trial the loss function is the sum of a linear function and a small but arbitrary perturbation chosen after observing the player's choice. We give both expected and high probability regret bounds for the problem. Our result also implies an improved high-probability regret bound for the bandit linear optimization, a special case with no perturbation. We also give a lower bound on the expected regret.

A UK government trial with 20K civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7c2aa19d-4c92-490d-bb35-f329a246fe5b

UK civil servants who used AI saved two weeks a year, government study finds
Staff used Microsoft’s Copilot to help draft documents and summarise meetings

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
THANIA: We reserve our opening declaration, sir.
SAMOR: Very well. Enter prosecution data. [A clerk presses some buttons.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/53

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Impact of normal lung volume choices on radiation pneumonitis risk prediction in locally advanced NSCLC radiotherapy
This study is to evaluate the impact of lung volume choices on predicting radiation pneumonitis (RP) risk in patients with locally advanced NSCLC undergoing radiotherapy. Dosimetric variables V20, V5, and mean lung dose (MLD) were extracted from the treatment plans of 442 patients enrolled in the NRG Oncology RTOG 0617 trial. Three lung volumes were defined: total lung excluding gross-tumor-target (TL-GTV), total lung excluding clinical-target-volume (TL-CTV), and total lung excluding planning-…

Paris' public prosecutor says it charged 25 people, including six minors, over a spate of kidnappings and attempted abductions targeting crypto executives (Le Monde)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2

France charges 25 suspects in crypto abduction cases
The Paris public prosecutor said 18 people were placed in pre-trial detention on Saturday after a spate of kidnappings, successful and attempted, related to those in the crypto world.

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Targeting relative risk heterogeneity with causal forests
The identification of heterogeneous treatment effects (HTE) across subgroups is of significant interest in clinical trial analysis. Several state-of-the-art HTE estimation methods, including causal forests, apply recursive partitioning for non-parametric identification of relevant covariates and interactions. However, the partitioning criterion is typically based on differences in absolute risk. This can dilute statistical power by masking variation in the relative risk, which is often a more a…

Towards model-based design of causal manipulations of brain circuits with high spatiotemporal precision
Anandita De, Roozbeh Kiani, Luca Mazzucato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24790

Towards model-based design of causal manipulations of brain circuits with high spatiotemporal precision
Recent advancements in neurotechnology enable precise spatiotemporal patterns of microstimulations with single-cell resolution. The choice of perturbation sites must satisfy two key criteria: efficacy in evoking significant responses and selectivity for the desired target effects. This choice is currently based on laborious trial-and-error procedures, unfeasible for sequences of multi-site stimulations. Efficient methods to design complex perturbation patterns are urgently needed. Can we design…

Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
VARON: He works in the Outer Worlds most of the time. He's in Security.
BLAKE: He's a murderer.
VARON: Then he'll come to trial like everyone else in this cover-up.
BLAKE: And what about me?
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Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
VARON: He works in the Outer Worlds most of the time. He's in Security.
BLAKE: He's a murderer.
VARON: Then he'll come to trial like everyone else in this cover-up.
BLAKE: And what about me?
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Semiparametric Weighted Spline Regression (SWSR) in Confirmatory Clinical Trials with Time-Varying Placebo Effects
In confirmatory Phase 3 clinical trials with recruitment over the years, the underlying placebo effect may follow an unknown temporal trend. Taking a clinical trial on Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) as an example, fluctuations or variabilities are common in HS-related endpoints, mainly due to the natural disease characteristics, variations of evaluation from different physicians, and standard of care evolvement. The adjustment of time-varying placebo effects receives some attention in adaptive c…