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Sawfish in Sri Lanka may be 'functionally extinct,' but refuges remain
The sawfish is now thought to be “functionally extinct” in Sri Lankan waters. This means that while a few individuals may still exist, their numbers are likely too low for a viable breeding population.

A giant mirror to create
“sunlight on demand”
was just approved by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
despite opposition from astronomers and the public, and real safety concerns.
The FCC approved the company
Reflect Orbital
to test one satellite, named Earendil-1,
as a means of reflecting the sun’s rays back to Earth for extra solar energy
and wide-area lighting.
The light is expected to cover an area about five ki…

The U.S. just approved a giant space mirror to test ‘sunlight on demand.’ Low Earth orbit is getting weird
From space hotels and artificial meteor showers, to a new giant mirror that reflects sunlight to Earth — low-Earth orbit is getting weird.

Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.

Evaluating the Expressive Appropriateness of Speech in Rich Contexts
Tianrui Wang, Ziyang Ma, Yizhou Peng, Haoyu Wang, Zhikang Niu, Zikang Huang, Yihao Wu, Yi-Wen Chao, Yu Jiang, Yuheng Lu, Guanrou Yang, Xuanchen Li, Hexin Liu, Chunyu Qiang, Cheng Gong, Yifan Yang, Tianchi Liu, Junyu Wang, Nana Hou, Meng Ge, Fuming You, Wei Yang, Zhongqian Sun, Haifeng Hu, Xiaobao Wang, Eng Siong Chng, Xie Chen, Longbiao Wang, Jianwu Dang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09413 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.09413 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.09413
arXiv:2605.09413v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Evaluating expressive speech remains challenging, as existing methods mainly assess emotional intensity and overlook whether a speech sample is expressively appropriate for its contextual setting. This limitation hinders reliable evaluation of speech systems used in narrative-driven and interactive applications, such as audiobooks and conversational agents. We introduce CEAEval, a Context-rich framework for Evaluating Expressive Appropriateness in speech, which assesses whether a speech sample expressively aligns with the underlying communicative intent implied by its discourse-level narrative context. To support this task, we construct CEAEval-D, the first context-rich speech dataset with real human performances in Mandarin conversational speech, providing narrative descriptions together with fifteen dimensions of human annotations covering expressive attributes and expressive appropriateness. We further develop CEAEval-M, a model that integrates knowledge distillation, planner-based multi-model collaboration, adaptive audio attention bias, and reinforcement learning to perform context-rich expressive appropriateness evaluation. Experiments on a human-annotated test set demonstrate that CEAEval-M substantially outperforms existing speech evaluation and analysis systems.
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Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.IT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.IT/new
[1/2]:
- Homomorphic Quantum Error Correction
Kornikar Sen, Miguel A. Martin-Delgado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25692 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116640053090772171
- Belief-Space Control for Personalized Cancer Treatment via Active Inference
Deniz Sargun, H. Bugra Tulay, C. Emre Koksal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10376 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116724820434554519
- A Geometric Profile of Semantic Information in Text: Frame-Conditional Uniqueness and a Trade-Off...
Dmitriy Kompaneets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11222 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116730477023664354
- An Entropy-based Framework for Hybrid Coalitions in Game Theory. Part I: Human Arbitration
Salome A. Sepulveda-Fontaine, Jose M. Amigo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11288 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_bot/116730374222115774
- Additive Noise, Shift Recovery, and Signed Signals in the Cumulative Distribution Transform
Harbir Antil, Ratna Khatri, Aryan Saxena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11432 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/116730375993496615
- A Unified Lower Bound on the Noisy Query Complexity of Boolean Functions
Yuzhou Gu, Xin Li, Yinzhan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11448 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/116730380321553481
- Optimizing Encoder Circuits of Entanglement-Assisted Quantum LDPC Codes via Beam Search
Aditya Sodhani, Pavan Kumar, Shayan Srinivasa Garani, Keshab K. Parhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11468 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116730421187038523
- FlexiBrain: Resolution-Agnostic Voxel-Level Encoding for Native fMRI
Mo Wang, Wenhao Ye, Junfeng Xia, Minghao Xu, Hongkai Wen, Quanying Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11500 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/116730364588705644
- Measuring language complexity from hierarchical reuse of recurring patterns
Junyi Zhou, Rui Liu, Pengyu Liu, Yu Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11531 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116730518902862163
- Superspace Concentration and Adversarial Robustness in Quantum Algorithms
Eric Yocam, Christian Yocam, Varghese Vaidyan, Yong Wang, Mahesh Kalappattil, Anthony Rizi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11580 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/116730474074812546
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ANNS-AMP: Accelerating Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search via Adaptive Mixed-Precision Computing
Mingkai Chen, Cheng Liu, Shengwen Liang, Lei Zhang, Xiaowei Li, Huawei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07156 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.07156 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.07156
arXiv:2606.07156v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Approximate nearest neighbor search(ANNS) is a critical kernel in modern applications such as LLM and recommendation systems.However,its efficiency is fundamentally limited by the need to compute distances between a query and a massive number of high-dimensional vectors,most of which are non-neighbors.Existing approaches reduce redundancy via index optimization or early termination,but remain constrained by fixed-precision computation,leading to unnecessary arithmetic and memory bandwidth overhead.This paper presents ANNS-AMP,an adaptive mixed-precision framework and accelerator that adapts the precision of distance computation to the characteristics of queries and data distribution.The key insight is that different regions of the vector space require different levels of precision to preserve top-k accuracy.ANNS-AMP leverages the clustered structure of PQ-based indices and introduces a lightweight predictor to determine cluster-level precision at runtime based on features such as scale,radius,and query distance.To efficiently realize variable-precision execution,we design a bit-serial accelerator with a bit-interleaved data layout,enabling throughput to scale with reduced precision while mitigating memory bandwidth bottlenecks and load imbalance through a greedy scheduling strategy.Moreover,the runtime predictor can also reuse the bit-serial computing array for efficient runtime prediction and can be fitted to the ANNS pipeline without performance penalty.According to our experiments on representative datasets,ANNS-AMP achieves 163.76x,10.57x,and 2.06x performance speedups on average,and reduces average energy consumption by 1100.00x,39.41x,and 6.66x compared to CPU,GPU,and customized ANNS accelerator baselines,respectively,while maintaining accuracy loss below 2.7%.These results demonstrate that adaptive mixed-precision computing is a promising direction for efficient large-scale ANNS.
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Crosslisted article(s) found for eess.AS. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.AS/new
[1/1]:
- ShipEcho -- An Interactive Tool for Global Mapping of Underwater Radiated Noise from Vessels
Mark Shipton, Valentino Denona, {\DJ}ula Na{\dj}, Roee Diamant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08194 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/116560461888286028
- Bangla-WhisperDiar: Fine-Tuning Whisper and PyAnnote for Bangla Long-Form Speech Recognition and ...
Bhuiyan, Adib, Bhuiyan, Chakraborty, Saswato, Dhrubo, Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08214 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/116560470901569776
- Dolphin-CN-Dialect: Where Chinese Dialects Matter
Meng, Zhong, Lin, Wang, Du, Shao, Huang, Li, Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08961
- How Should LLMs Listen While Speaking? A Study of User-Stream Routing in Full-Duplex Spoken Dialogue
Hui Lu, Xueyuan Chen, Huimeng Wang, Shuhai Peng, Shiyin Kang, Xixin Wu, Zhiyong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10199
- Polyphonia: Zero-Shot Timbre Transfer in Polyphonic Music with Acoustic-Informed Attention Calibr...
Haowen Li, Tianxiang Li, Yi Yang, Boyu Cao, Qi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10203 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/116560575501371296
- Probing Cross-modal Information Hubs in Audio-Visual LLMs
Jihoo Jung, Chaeyoung Jung, Ji-Hoon Kim, Joon Son Chung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10815 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116560938059845601
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Replaced article(s) found for cs.IT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.IT/new
[1/1]:
- Optimal Proximity Gap for Folded Reed--Solomon Codes via Subspace Designs
Fernando Granha Jeronimo, Lenny Liu, Pranav Rajpal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10047 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_bot/115903956641689136
- Breaking Symmetry in D2D Coded Caching: Optimal Communication with Low Subpacketization
Xiang Zhang, Giuseppe Caire, Mingyue Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12220 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_bot/116062725600909840
- A New Approach to Code Smoothing Bounds
Tsuyoshi Miezaki, Yusaku Nishimura, Katsuyuki Takashima
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18077 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_bot/116260380391748925
- Fluid Antenna Systems Enabling 6G HRLLC With Port Switching Delay
Xusheng Zhu, Kai-Kit Wong, Hao Xu, Chenguang Rao, Hyundong Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06275 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_bot/116537839161835575
- Accurate Estimation of Mutual Information in High Dimensional Data
Eslam Abdelaleem, K. Michael Martini, Ilya Nemenman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00330 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsdataan_bot/114618315134354611
- SDQM: Synthetic Data Quality Metric for Object Detection Dataset Evaluation
Ayush Zenith, Arnold Zumbrun, Neel Raut, Jing Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06596 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115343628773188610
- SEDULity: A Proof-of-Learning Framework for Distributed and Secure Blockchains with Efficient Use...
Weihang Cao, Mustafa Doger, Sennur Ulukus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13666 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115729118798706696
- A theory of learning data statistics in diffusion models, from easy to hard
Lorenzo Bardone, Claudia Merger, Sebastian Goldt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12901 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116237842977106276
- On the independence number of de Bruijn graphs
Pietro Majer, Matteo Novaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14671 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathCO_bot/116419097221023806
- Information bottleneck for learning the phase space of dynamics from high-dimensional experimenta...
K. Michael Martini, Eslam Abdelaleem, Paarth Gulati, Ilya Nemenman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24662 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsdataan_bot/116481236697063671
- Improved Amenability Bounds for Local Coordination Games
Ron Peretz, Dean Kraizberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01963 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_bot/116679490095124433
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