Tootfinder

When humans feel powerless, especially after traumatic events or retraumatization or ~ gestures generally at C-PTSD ~ what often helps is having an area of control over choices, decisions, and outcomes (especially outcomes that have positive side effects like humans liking the action/work/result)
And thus I flew to LA for a weekend and got a tattoo.
#BloomScrolling

Sigh... I really should change the CMOS battery on the work computer. The time/date is never right after I shut it down and start it back up.

Back home after a week away to see family and itching to get back to work on the Small Web on Monday.
Expect an exciting update soon :)
:kitten: 💕
#SmallWeb #SmallTech #humanRights…

Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing
Reuben Binns, Jake Stein, Siddhartha Datta, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278

Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing
Ride-sharing platforms like Uber market themselves as enabling `flexibility' for their workforce, meaning that drivers are expected to anticipate when and where the algorithm will allocate them jobs, and how well remunerated those jobs will be. In this work we describe our process of participatory action research with drivers and trade union organisers, culminating in a participatory audit of Uber's algorithmic pay and work allocation, before and after the introduction of dynamic pricing. Throu…

OpenAI says it is phasing out its work with Scale AI, in which Meta invested billions; Scale accounted for a small fraction of OpenAI's overall data needs (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The weather was too good to not run outside, and skip the treadmill last Thursday! First time running outside at my work running route this year after returning to the work FT this month, and it was spectacular!
Not expecting to hit a sub 8 minute mile, especially with my health issues, but if it happens, I'll be elated!
#running

In the early morning hours of 12 June, Moises Sotelo woke up to go to work in the rolling hills of Oregon’s Willamette Valley wine country, a place he has called home for decades.
But a car tailed Sotelo as soon as he left his driveway, according to an account from his co-worker.
Trucks surrounded him just outside of St Michael’s Episcopal church, where he was detained by federal immigration agents.
By the end of the day, Sotelo was in an Ice detention facility.
“He was…

For me if someone schedules a meeting before 08:00 and after 15:00 it is an automatic NO.
Early morning mail checks (before 07:00) is done only when I am on call and to see if there was any emergencies in the prior evening production run that I missed. When I do that my day starts at that time! I adjust the end of day time to allow for the early start. Normal hours for me is 07:00 to 15:30.

I had ONE meeting that required my physical presence at work today.
That one meeting got cancelled 10 minutes after I got to work.
I could be at home right now being x2 productive in my pajamas with coffee that doesn't suck.
Me:

Watching the livestream of what we can all do next after #NoKings protests success on Saturday.
(YouTube link, should work for a replay after the livestream completes too.)
https://www.youtube.com/live/ECEbs-zOfdc

We are closing in on #Studioworks Beta launch (finally 😴; I’ve barely done anything but work on this (and under-sleep) all year).
During the month-long beta period, we’ll be letting Founding Members (people who sign up before the beta) use the product before paid subscriptions start—they also get lifetime discounts. We don’t intend to offer free trials after this.
If you’re interested i…

Studioworks: Join now
Reserve your studio handle and select your future plan to become a Founding Member. In return, you’ll get lifetime discounts and other perks.

A friend of mine just retired after 28 years as a teacher… I’ve been working for 31 years since I got out of school and probably have another 10 to 15 (or more) years before I can even think about retirement.
(I’m not jealous, I just wish we had a better system where people didn’t have to work their entire adult lives.)

ECHOPRAXIA – Hysteria Titanum
#ambient

Forgive the Instagram link, but someone posted this marvellous piece of voice work on BSky, without attribution, and I had to go looking for it.
Such magnificent prosody; even though done in a Texan accent, it has all the familiar features of the best Shakespearean speeches, recited by the best actors!
Hilarious, but also high art!

Jerry Wayne Longmire on Instagram: "Texan reads electric bill like he’s in a Faulkner novel. #comedyreels #electricity #electricbill #faulkner #heat #texas"
52K likes, 2,159 comments - jerrywaynelive on June 15, 2025: "Texan reads electric bill like he’s in a Faulkner novel. #comedyreels #electricity #electricbill #faulkner #heat #texas".

Insights Informed Generative AI for Design: Incorporating Real-world Data for Text-to-Image Output
Richa Gupta, Alexander Htet Kyaw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15008

Insights Informed Generative AI for Design: Incorporating Real-world Data for Text-to-Image Output
Generative AI, specifically text-to-image models, have revolutionized interior architectural design by enabling the rapid translation of conceptual ideas into visual representations from simple text prompts. While generative AI can produce visually appealing images they often lack actionable data for designers In this work, we propose a novel pipeline that integrates DALL-E 3 with a materials dataset to enrich AI-generated designs with sustainability metrics and material usage insights. After t…

Optimizing Length Compression in Large Reasoning Models
Zhengxiang Cheng, Dongping Chen, Mingyang Fu, Tianyi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14755 https://…

Optimizing Length Compression in Large Reasoning Models
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have achieved remarkable success, yet they often suffer from producing unnecessary and verbose reasoning chains. We identify a core aspect of this issue as "invalid thinking" -- models tend to repeatedly double-check their work after having derived the correct answer. To address this specific inefficiency, we move beyond the general principles of Efficacy and Efficiency to propose two new, fine-grained principles: Brevity, which advocates for eliminating redundancy…

Treasure Hunt: Real-time Targeting of the Long Tail using Training-Time Markers
Daniel D'souza, Julia Kreutzer, Adrien Morisot, Ahmet \"Ust\"un, Sara Hooker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14702

Treasure Hunt: Real-time Targeting of the Long Tail using Training-Time Markers
One of the most profound challenges of modern machine learning is performing well on the long-tail of rare and underrepresented features. Large general-purpose models are trained for many tasks, but work best on high-frequency use cases. After training, it is hard to adapt a model to perform well on specific use cases underrepresented in the training corpus. Relying on prompt engineering or few-shot examples to maximize the output quality on a particular test case can be frustrating, as models …

I'm having a short burst of efficiency, which is very unlike me after work. The only thing I can't be arsed to do is sort out breakfast to take to work in the morning, but I have things I can fling together at the last minute.
Among other things I've just reserved a Devla Murphy book from the library, after listening to Great Lives about her today. After that I'll be casting about for another book as I've nearly finished Nikki Erlick's The Measure, thought-provo…

I'm now with my buddy Shaun who sadly recently lost his girl Dotty. I looked after the two of them this time last year, so this time it's just me and the old boy. I've still got my work cut out for me though: Shaun normally likes to walk about 15km per day!
#Greyhounds #AdoptDontShop

I’m a recovering frequent flier, and today I’m at the airport to take my first travel-for-work flight in TWO YEARS … after 3 days in my new role. Travel is a craft and I feel like I’ve lost a lot of skills!

Is anyone aware of case law / settlements (in the USA or elsewhere, just curious) about copyright/trademark infringing tattoos?
People get fan-art tattoos all the time and most of the time the rights owner doesn't care... but under some circumstances, they might.
Obviously they could try to go after the artist, that's a "standard" copyright/trademark infringement case.
But what about the infringing work that is now part of your body?
The three plausi…

I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
https://youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw

Sorry if I fucked up your day too, but I fucking love you all! After looking at this GIF, I’m over it!
Autism is real as hell, and autism is fucking awesome. Fuck the haters, fuck anyone who’s “anti-autism,” and fuck domestic violence against autistic people.
I exist, I’m proud, and I’m not going anywhere. Autism power, always fucking rad!
Mistakes happen, and I gotta work on myself, lmao! You do you, and I’ll do me. Cool? Cool.

String Matching with a Dynamic Pattern
Bruno Monteiro, Vinicius dos Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11318 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

String Matching with a Dynamic Pattern
In this work, we tackle a natural variation of the String Matching Problem on the case of a dynamic pattern, that is, given a static text $T$ and a pattern $P$, we want to support character additions and deletions to the pattern, and after each operation compute how many times it occurs in the text. We show a simple and practical algorithm using Suffix Arrays that achieves $\mathcal O(\log |T|)$ update time, after $\mathcal O(|T|)$ preprocess time. We show how to extend our …

I had this idea for a Cairn lifepath generator where there are three stages of life and you roll 1d6 for your stats at each stage, and also get appropriate items.
It has not been playtested, it's barely been proofread, but I've been having a lot of fun generating guys
perchance.org/lt8m69fg35
#ttrpg #CairnRpg

Palantir removed three journalists from a security conference after they asked about its work with ICE and threatened to call police on a Wired reporter (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-defense-conference-journalists/

Palantir Is Going on Defense
Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firm’s work with the Trump administration.

"You are a software worker. And you are able to do your job in more or less good conditions only because you are standing on the shoulders of countless others. We are talking about the fact that if you have 20 days of holidays, if you only work 5 days a week, if you are able to take some days or weeks off after the birth of your child, it is because some others before you have sacrificed their lives so you can work in decent conditions."

Yours truly and Joe Don, then photobombed by Jay Demarcus.
#GearSquad , Joe Don decided to use the AMP1 after seeing me use it last year, so we took the second picture to send to Thomas Blug. I was not aware of Jay's participation until much later 🤣
But that picture 100% gives a flavor of what it's like to work with these guys!

If you read the headlines or on social media, you’ve seen what’s happening.
• The career professional laid off after 22 years who can't get rehired
• The small business owner who can’t keep up with tariffs or inflation
• The young adult feeling like they’ll never be able to afford a home
• The retiree forced back to work after their retirement account took a hit
These aren't isolated incidents. They're symptoms of a fundamental shift.

ShelterBox
To ensure no one is without shelter after disaster
We often work in places that others don’t,
making sure that we reach families who need support to take the next step in resuming their livelihoods and rebuilding their communities
https://www.shelterboxusa.org/

I'm now with my buddy Shaun who sadly recently lost his girl Dotty. I looked after the two of them this time last year, so this time it's just me and the old boy. I've still got my work cut out for me though: Shaun normally likes to walk about 15km per day!
#Greyhounds #AdoptDontShop

The constant choice I have to make with LLM usage appears to be ... is it faster to correct this LLM output or do this work from scratch. Was this the future we were promised?
I am not sure if the Pillsbury company would be nearly as successful if you had to fix the recipe after opening the can.

SAG-AFTRA ends the 300 day video game actors strike after reaching a tentative deal for a new Interactive Media Agreement with the major video game companies (Erik Hayden/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

SAG-AFTRA Suspends Strike Against Video Game Companies, Paving Way for Return to Work
The union had taken a stand on artificial intelligence, among other concerns, as it looked to advocate for voice and performance capture workers.

Considerations on Everett J. Nelson's connexive logic
Davide Fazio, Raffaele Mascella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10893 https://ar…

Considerations on Everett J. Nelson's connexive logic
This work explores Everett John Nelson's connexive logic, outlined in his PhD thesis and partially summarized in his 1930 paper \emph{Intensional Relations}, which is obtained by extending the system $\mathsf{NL}$ (reconstructed by E. Mares and F. Paoli) with a weak conjunction elimination rule explicitly assumed in the former but not in the latter. After a preliminary analysis of Nelson's philosophical ideas, we provide an algebraic-relational semantics for his logic and we investigate possibl…

Bought a couple breadboard power supplies from Canaduino awhile back. Noticed one on a friends bench and after examining it decided I needed one too. Better than the ones with linear chips. If this fails it just stops working does not send whatever source voltage was to your project. Took awhile to get. They used a shipper called Sendle to ship it from Canada to the U.S.
Anyway I looked around and ordered one of these to to send to the niece.

Electronic Education DIY Kit “The broken code lock” (Troubleshooting Project)
A DIY soldering kit with “integrated” design flaws. Understand the working principle, find the mistakes on the PCB and in the schematics, and make it work.

Efficient Reasoning Through Suppression of Self-Affirmation Reflections in Large Reasoning Models
Kaiyuan Liu, Chen Shen, Zhanwei Zhang, Junjie Liu, Xiaosong Yuan, Jieping ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12353

Efficient Reasoning Through Suppression of Self-Affirmation Reflections in Large Reasoning Models
While recent advances in large reasoning models have demonstrated remarkable performance, efficient reasoning remains critical due to the rapid growth of output length. Existing optimization approaches highlights a tendency toward "overthinking", yet lack fine-grained analysis. In this work, we focus on Self-Affirmation Reflections: redundant reflective steps that affirm prior content and often occurs after the already correct reasoning steps. Observations of both original and optimized reasoni…

"You should know Trump isn’t doing this on his own. The Hoover Institution has been plotting revenge against FDR since 1932. Groups like the Heritage Foundation and Heartland Foundation are generations old. The Federalist Society has been promising to overturn liberal justice since the 1960s. The Religious Right started working to overturn Roe v. Wade the day it was promulgated. All these groups have big money, and they play the long game.
What’s happening today is their platform, backed by their research. The fact it won’t work, that the 20th century won’t be put back into a bottle, that the Amendments put in place after 1865 somehow aren’t part of the “real” Constitution, is yet to be proven by events."
https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/all-in-the-family

Maryland DOT launches new policy of quick-fix road diets with paint & plastic "bollards" after initial test projects work well. Approach is try it for 6-9 months and see if it works in place of long studies.
https://www.

Maryland plans more ‘quick build’ road safety changes, citing success across state
Planners have a menu of traffic calming measures to consider for each site.

After Eagles' FA defections, do Cowboys or Giants have NFC East's best DL? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/08/ranking-defensive-lines-nfc-east-co…

A note on the boundary Dehn twist of $K3$ surfaces
Yujie Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10444 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10444…

A note on the boundary Dehn twist of $K3$ surfaces
By the work of Baraglia-Konno and Kronheimer-Mrowka, the boundary Dehn twist on punctured $K3$ surfaces is nontrivial in the smooth mapping class group relative to boundary. In this short note, we prove that it becomes trivial after abelianization. The proof is based on an obstruction for $\mathrm{Spin}^\mathbb{C}$ families due to Baraglia-Konno and the global Torelli theorem of $K3$ surfaces.

Three months after the fires, I finally took a break from work, disaster management, and re-establishing domestic infrastructure. I flew up the Owens Valley to Lone Pine, and and spent last weekend walking in the desert, biking in the foothills, and gazing at the stars.
#aviation #California

Just did a once over on my Vimeo as a portfolio for a lead producer job application.
Mainly, just updated some descriptions. Nice to be reminded of some past work I like: #film

David August
David August is an award-winning actor, acting coach, writer, director, and producer. He plays a role in the movie Dependent’s Day, and after its theatrical…

For me I use both type of laptops. The windows machine (soon going to #linux) and my #linux laptop (retiring after I convert the windows laptop) I use for serious photo editing, condo newsletters, some work related programming, personal items (like medical).
The Chromebook I use for light…

Towards the $p$-adic derived Hecke algebra for weight one forms
Robin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09139 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Towards the $p$-adic derived Hecke algebra for weight one forms
This note outlines an approach to defining $p$-adic Shimura classes and $p$-adic derived Hecke operators on the completed cohomology of modular curves from upcoming work by the author. After reviewing the modulo-$p$ constructions of Harris and Venkatesh, we formulate a conjecture relating the action of $p$-adic derived Hecke operators on cusp forms of weight $1$ and level $Γ_1(N)$ to the $p$-adic logarithm of the Stark unit for the corresponding adjoint Deligne-Serre representation. This new $…

"Guide to German Facial Expressions" based on extensive field work by @…: https://linguistgoneforeign.wordpress.…

Vincent Scardina supported Donald Trump’s tough stance on immigration at the ballot box.
But that decision came back to bite the roofing boss when ICE detained a third of his workforce.
The six men, all from Nicaragua, were pulled over in a work truck on May 27 while heading to a job
—and carted off to jail.
According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office,
deputies helped transport the men to a local detention facility
“for deportation.”
Scardina, wh…

Trump Voter Gets Choked Up After ICE Detains a Third of His Staff
A Florida roofing boss backed the president’s tough immigration policies. Then six of his workers were taken away...

This is our cats’ hedgehog. We never actually see them play with it, but it moves around the house all the time. Nearly every morning, after the first hour or two of my work day, I mysteriously find this little guy in the kitchen.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06197 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Metainformation in Quantum Guessing Games
Quantum guessing games offer a structured approach to analyzing quantum information processing, where information is encoded in quantum states and extracted through measurement. An additional aspect of this framework is the influence of partial knowledge about the input on the optimal measurement strategies. This kind of side information can significantly influence the guessing strategy and earlier work has shown that the timing of such side information, whether revealed before or after the mea…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22694 has been replaced.
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On the Marinus--Ptolemy and Delisle--Euler conical maps
We examine connections between the mathematics behind methods of drawing geographical maps due, on the one hand to Marinos and Ptolemy (1st-2nd c. CE) and on the other hand to Delisle and Euler (18th century). A recent work by the first two authors of this article shows that methods of Delisle and Euler for drawing geographical maps, which are improvements of methods of Marinus and Ptolemy, are best among a collection of geographical maps we term ``conical''. This is an instance where after pra…

After struggling to get #Tvmarks to work for 4 months that fact that it just works now is truly wild.

If you read the headlines or on social media, you’ve seen what’s happening.
• The career professional laid off after 22 years who can't get rehired
• The small business owner who can’t keep up with tariffs or inflation
• The young adult feeling like they’ll never be able to afford a home
• The retiree forced back to work after their retirement account took a hit
These aren't isolated incidents. They're symptoms of a fundamental shift.

Result of many months of work - over 15,000 LEDs to make a dim room. For #neotropolis
The triangles on the front are segments of 32 addressable LEDs, but were just solid white most of the time. The window clock is sheets of WS2816 driven by Novastar processor. The columns are RGBW DMX512. (one color per column.)
The columns are laser cut. The mirror pieces are CNC'd with my home…

Around the turn of this century, a composer named Camille Saint-Saens wrote
a satirical zoological-fantasy called "Le Carnaval des Animaux." Aside from
one movement of this piece, "The Swan", Saint-Saens didn't allow this work
to be published or even performed until a year had elapsed after his death.
(He died in 1921.)
Most of us know the "Swan" movement rather well, with its smooth,
flowing cello melody against a calm backgr…

Impact chronology of leftover planetesimals
R. Brasser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08499 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08499

Impact chronology of leftover planetesimals
After the formation of the Moon the terrestrial planets were pummelled by impacts from planetesimals left over from terrestrial planet formation. This work attempts to reproduce the impact rates set by modern crater chronologies using leftover planetesimals from three different dynamical models of terrestrial planet formation. I ran dynamical simulations for 1 billion years using leftover planetesimals from the Grand Tack, Depleted Disc and Implantation models of terrestrial planet formation wi…

WATCH: 49ers' Trent Williams pancakes teammate in return to practice field following ankle injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/watch-4

What Comes After Harm? Mapping Reparative Actions in AI through Justice Frameworks
Sijia Xiao, Haodi Zou, Alice Qian Zhang, Deepak Kumar, Hong Shen, Jason Hong, Motahhare Eslami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05687

What Comes After Harm? Mapping Reparative Actions in AI through Justice Frameworks
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are integrated into more aspects of society, they offer new capabilities but also cause a range of harms that are drawing increasing scrutiny. A large body of work in the Responsible AI community has focused on identifying and auditing these harms. However, much less is understood about what happens after harm occurs: what constitutes reparation, who initiates it, and how effective these reparations are. In this paper, we develop a taxonomy of AI harm rep…

Comprehensive Radio Monitoring of the Black Hole X-ray Binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 during its 2023$-$2024 Outburst
Andrew K. Hughes, Francesco Carotenuto, Thomas D. Russell, Alexandra J. Tetarenko, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Arash Bahramian, Joe S. Bright, Fraser J. Cowie, Rob Fender, Mark A. Gurwell, Jasvinderjit K. Khaulsay, Anastasia Kirby, Serena Jones, Elodie Lescure, Michael McCollough, Richard M. Plotkin, Ramprasad Rao, Saeqa D. Vrtilek, David R. A. Williams-Baldwin, Callan M. Wo…

Comprehensive Radio Monitoring of the Black Hole X-ray Binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 during its 2023$-$2024 Outburst
This work presents comprehensive multi-frequency radio monitoring of the black hole low-mass X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613, which underwent its first recorded outburst after its discovery in August 2023. Through a considerable community effort, we have coalesced the data from multiple, distinct observing programs; the light curves include ${\sim} 10$ months and 197 epochs of monitoring from 7 radio facilities with observing frequencies ranging from (approximately) 0.3$-$230GHz. The primary …

Over the last few months, I have filtered out most USA news, so I have basically a minimal knowledge of what is happening in that part of the world. To be honest, it's great! The same goes for tech, I work long 12-hour days and weekends as a sysadmin, and the last thing I want to see after those days is tech stuff. So, I read tech news through newsletters sent to an email address I only use for that purpose.
It’s making my life more relaxed not to care about what is happening on ot…

I've tried *again* to write a blog post (about my new corne layout) but failed *again* after 5 lines.
It really requires more focus and time than what I can give after work. On a great way to complete my 0 post challenge this year. Nothing can stop me !!! -evil laugh-

Initial stage jet momentum broadening in tBLFQ formalism
Dana Avramescu, Carlos Lamas, Tuomas Lappi, Meijian Li, Carlos A. Salgado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06206

Initial stage jet momentum broadening in tBLFQ formalism
We study the momentum broadening of a high-energy quark jet in the large density gluon medium created right after the collision of two ultrarelativistic heavy nuclei, the Glasma. Previous Glasma studies modeled the jet as a classical probe particle, for which position and momentum are simultaneously determined. In this work, we use the light-front QCD Hamiltonian formalism to treat the jet as a fully quantum state. We compute its real-time evolution while propagating through the Glasma classica…

The new documentary, “Lawrence Welk: A North Dakota Farm Boy”will premiere May 31 at the North Dakota Heritage Center on May 31.
"Born to German-Russian immigrant parents in Strasburg, ND, Lawrence Welk built a strong work ethic and love for music growing up on the family farmstead. After touring the Midwest in his 20s, he was scouted by ABC in 1955 to create the iconic "The Lawrence Welk Show,” "

So Builder . ai Mechanical Turked things and Microsoft (and others) were none the wiser.
Due diligence: boring stuff that when you skip it with catch up with you fast.
“Builder . ai’s platform relied on around 700 engineers based in India who manually wrote code based on customer requests. Despite the company marketing it as AI-generated, most of the work was done by humans behind the scenes.”

London AI startup Builder.ai collapses after 'human-powered' tech revelation
London AI startup Builder.ai collapses after 'human-powered' tech revelation

I'm setting up a new device for someone who wants to try out Linux. What distro would you recommend?
Some information about the user:
- uses MacOS currently
- wants stuff to work (minimal tinkering after setup)
- quick to boot
The device will probs be quite an old device (~3-5 years old, 8gb RAM though) and is mostly to run OBS. I'll check system requirements when I know the device ofc, just wondering what you people think is a good distro for them.

The Ohio Senate has decided to remove the Rejoining of the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission and eliminate the Passenger Rail Seat on the Ohio Rail Development Commission.
This is a huge setback over 75% of Ohioans support passenger rail! #transit

Maximally recoverable codes with locality and availability
Umberto Mart\'inez-Pe\~nas, V. Lalitha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24573 https://

Maximally recoverable codes with locality and availability
In this work, we introduce maximally recoverable codes with locality and availability. We consider locally repairable codes (LRCs) where certain subsets of $ t $ symbols belong each to $ N $ local repair sets, which are pairwise disjoint after removing the $ t $ symbols, and which are of size $ r+δ-1 $ and can correct $ δ-1 $ erasures locally. Classical LRCs with $ N $ disjoint repair sets and LRCs with $ N $-availability are recovered when setting $ t = 1 $ and $ t=δ-1=1 $, respectively. Al…

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Dynamical phases of short-term memory mechanisms in RNNs
Short-term memory is essential for cognitive processing, yet our understanding of its neural mechanisms remains unclear. Neuroscience has long focused on how sequential activity patterns, where neurons fire one after another within large networks, can explain how information is maintained. While recurrent connections were shown to drive sequential dynamics, a mechanistic understanding of this process still remains unknown. In this work, we introduce two unique mechanisms that can support this f…

Canadians are working past retirement, but not because they want to | CBC Radio
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/canadians-retirement-inflation-1.6868937

Metainformation in Quantum Guessing Games
Teiko Heinosaari, Hanwool Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06197 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.0…

Metainformation in Quantum Guessing Games
Quantum guessing games offer a structured approach to analyzing quantum information processing, where information is encoded in quantum states and extracted through measurement. An additional aspect of this framework is the influence of partial knowledge about the input on the optimal measurement strategies. This kind of side information can significantly influence the guessing strategy and earlier work has shown that the timing of such side information, whether revealed before or after the mea…

Gov. Newsom asks Trump to rescind ‘unlawful deployment’ of California National Guard
Blocks from Los Angeles City Hall, protesters have started to hide behind city benches
as police work to clear streets using pepper balls and stun grenades.
https://www.wa…

Live updates: Gov. Newsom asks Trump to rescind ‘unlawful deployment’ of California National Guard
The president said he is sending 2,000 soldiers to Los Angeles County after immigration sweeps led to tense confrontations.

Sources: Palantir's Foundry is now deployed in at least four federal agencies, after Trump signed an EO calling for the government to share data across agencies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/…

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

A continuum mechanics approach for the deformation of non-Euclidean origami generated by piecewise constant nematic director fields
Linjuan Wang, Fan Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01309

A continuum mechanics approach for the deformation of non-Euclidean origami generated by piecewise constant nematic director fields
We merge classical origami concepts with active actuation by designing origami patterns whose panels undergo prescribed metric changes. These metric changes render the system non-Euclidean, inducing non-zero Gaussian curvature at the vertices after actuation. Such patterns can be realized by programming piecewise constant director fields in liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) sheets. In this work, we address the geometric design of both compatible reference director patterns and their corresponding …

Reply to the Comment on "Shell-Shaped Quantum Droplet in a Three-Component Ultracold Bose Gas"
Yinfeng Ma, Xiaoling Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01436

Reply to the Comment on "Shell-Shaped Quantum Droplet in a Three-Component Ultracold Bose Gas"
In our work (Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 043402 (2025)), we have proposed to realize a shell-shaped BEC with self-bound character in a three-component ($1,2,3$) Bose gas, where $(2,3)$ and $(1,2)$ both form quantum droplets and meanwhile are linked as core-shell structure. It was then commented in 2505.16554 that such structure is unstable against decaying to a ``dimer" configuration with lower energy, and moreover, it is ``most likely" impossible to be realized after releasing from the trap. In cont…

Welfare Reform: Consequences for the Children
Marianne Simonsen, Lars Skipper, Jeffrey A. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03927 https://

Welfare Reform: Consequences for the Children
This paper uses register-based data to analyze the consequences of a recent major Danish welfare reform for children's academic performance and well-being. In addition to work requirements, the reform brought about considerable reductions in welfare transfers. We implement a comparative event study that contrasts outcomes for individuals on welfare at the time of reform announcement before and after the implementation of the reform with the parallel development in outcomes for an uncontaminated…

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Towards Machine Unlearning for Paralinguistic Speech Processing
Orchid Chetia Phukan, Girish, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Shubham Singh, Swarup Ranjan Behera, Vandana Rajan, Muskaan Singh, Arun Balaji Buduru, Rajesh Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02230

Towards Machine Unlearning for Paralinguistic Speech Processing
In this work, we pioneer the study of Machine Unlearning (MU) for Paralinguistic Speech Processing (PSP). We focus on two key PSP tasks: Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) and Depression Detection (DD). To this end, we propose, SISA++, a novel extension to previous state-of-the-art (SOTA) MU method, SISA by merging models trained on different shards with weight-averaging. With such modifications, we show that SISA++ preserves performance more in comparison to SISA after unlearning in benchmark SE…

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Paper Copilot Position: The Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Community Should Adopt a More Transparent and Regulated Peer Review Process
The rapid growth of submissions to top-tier Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) conferences has prompted many venues to transition from closed to open review platforms. Some have fully embraced open peer reviews, allowing public visibility throughout the process, while others adopt hybrid approaches, such as releasing reviews only after final decisions or keeping reviews private despite using open peer review systems. In this work, we analyze the strengths and limitations of …

Menelaus' and Ceva's theorems for translation triangles in Thurston geometries
Jen\H{o} Szirmai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01354 https://

Menelaus' and Ceva's theorems for translation triangles in Thurston geometries
After having investigated and defined the ``surface of a translation-like triangle" in each non-constant curvature Thurston geometry \cite{Cs-Sz25}, we generalize the famous Menelaus' and Ceva's theorems for translation triangles in the mentioned spaces. The described method makes it possible to transfer further classical Euclidean theorems and notions to Thurston geometries with non-constant curvature. In our work we will use the projective models of Thurston geometries described by E. Moln�…

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SHARAD Illuminates Deeper Martian Subsurface Structures with a Boost from Very Large Rolls of the MRO Spacecraft
Throughout its mission, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has often rolled about its along-track axis by up to 28° to partially compensate for the suboptimal location of the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) antenna along an edge of the spacecraft that is opposite the imaging payload deck, thereby enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of echoes returned from the surface. After recent modeling work predicted that a much larger roll would improve the S/N by ~10 dB relative to nadir-pointed observin…

SHARAD Illuminates Deeper Martian Subsurface Structures with a Boost from Very Large Rolls of the MRO Spacecraft
Nathaniel E. Putzig, Gareth A. Morgan, Matthew R. Perry, Bruce A. Campbell, Jennifer L. Whitten, Fabrizio Bernardini, Alessandro DiCarlofelice, Pierfrancesco Lombardo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21810

SHARAD Illuminates Deeper Martian Subsurface Structures with a Boost from Very Large Rolls of the MRO Spacecraft
Throughout its mission, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has often rolled about its along-track axis by up to 28° to partially compensate for the suboptimal location of the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) antenna along an edge of the spacecraft that is opposite the imaging payload deck, thereby enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) of echoes returned from the surface. After recent modeling work predicted that a much larger roll would improve the S/N by ~10 dB relative to nadir-pointed observin…