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I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.

TL;DR: what if nationalism, not anarchy, is futile?
Since I had the pleasure of seeing the "what would anarchists do against a warlord?" argument again in my timeline, I'll present again my extremely simple proposed solution:
Convince the followers of the warlord that they're better off joining you in freedom, then kill or exile the warlord once they're alone or vastly outnumbered.
Remember that even in our own historical moment where nothing close to large-scale free society has existed in living memory, the warlord's promise of "help me oppress others and you'll be richly rewarded" is a lie that many understand is historically a bad bet. Many, many people currently take that bet, for a variety of reasons, and they're enough to coerce through fear an even larger number of others. But although we imagine, just as the medieval peasants might have imagined of monarchy, that such a structure is both the natural order of things and much too strong to possibly fail, in reality it takes an enormous amount of energy, coordination, and luck for these structures to persist! Nations crumble every day, and none has survived more than a couple *hundred* years, compared to pre-nation societies which persisted for *tends of thousands of years* if not more. I'm this bubbling froth of hierarchies, the notion that hierarchy is inevitable is certainly popular, but since there's clearly a bit of an ulterior motive to make (and teach) that claim, I'm not sure we should trust it.
So what I believe could form the preconditions for future anarchist societies to avoid the "warlord problem" is merely: a widespread common sense belief that letting anyone else have authority over you is morally suspect. Given such a belief, a warlord will have a hard time building any following at all, and their opponents will have an easy time getting their supporters to defect. In fact, we're already partway there, relative to the situation a couple hundred years ago. At that time, someone could claim "you need to obey my orders and fight and die for me because the Queen was my mother" and that was actually a quite successful strategy. Nowadays, this strategy is only still working in a few isolated places, and the idea that one could *start a new monarchy* or even resurrect a defunct one seems absurd. So why can't that same transformation from "this is just how the world works" to "haha, how did anyone ever believe *that*? also happen to nationalism in general? I don't see an obvious reason why not.
Now I think one popular counterargument to this is: if you think non-state societies can win out with these tactics, why didn't they work for American tribes in the face of the European colonizers? (Or insert your favorite example of colonialism here.) I think I can imagine a variety of reasons, from the fact that many of those societies didn't try this tactic (and/or were hierarchical themselves), to the impacts of disease weakening those societies pre-contact, to the fact that with much-greater communication and education possibilities it might work better now, to the fact that most of those tribes are *still* around, and a future in which they persist longer than the colonist ideologies actually seems likely to me, despite the fact that so much cultural destruction has taken place. In fact, if the modern day descendants of the colonized tribes sow the seeds of a future society free of colonialism, that's the ultimate demonstration of the futility of hierarchical domination (I just read "Theory of Water" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson).
I guess the TL;DR on this is: what if nationalism is actually as futile as monarchy, and we're just unfortunately living in the brief period during which it is ascendant?

"How to Become an Integrity Sleuth in the Library"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/how-to-become-an-integrity-sleuth-in-the-library
"Open access agreement management c…

"Despite good-faith efforts by DSI [dense street imagery] providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and license plates, these measures fail to address broader privacy concerns. In this work, we find that increased data density and advancements in artificial intelligence enable harmful group membership inferences from supposedly anonymized data."
via @…

Privacy of Groups in Dense Street Imagery
Spatially and temporally dense street imagery (DSI) datasets have grown unbounded. In 2024, individual companies possessed around 3 trillion unique images of public streets. DSI data streams are only set to grow as companies like Lyft and Waymo use DSI to train autonomous vehicle algorithms and analyze collisions. Academic researchers leverage DSI to explore novel approaches to urban analysis. Despite good-faith efforts by DSI providers to protect individual privacy through blurring faces and l…

I missed today's protest because I had client work but clients paying me for work helps fuel the efforts in put into the community.
I got a bunch of supplies recently to make more unhoused person care packages and I purchased art from marginalized people that will be made available in the Free Little Art Gallery.
We all gotta do what we can, when we can, in the ways we can.
#resist

Google Cloud has competed well against AWS in AI, attracting business from The Browser Company, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab, and OpenAI (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-finds-crack-amazons-c…

Google Finds a Crack in Amazon’s Cloud Dominance
Earlier this year, when The Browser Company was looking for a cloud provider to power the artificial intelligence features in a web browser it was developing, the startup’s leaders asked Amazon Web Services if it could handle the work. Winning this business was important to AWS. The Browser ...

White House officials said they would review the Smithsonian’s exhibition text, curation, exhibition planning and collections,
starting with eight museums
“The Smithsonian’s work is grounded in a deep commitment to scholarly excellence, rigorous research, and the accurate, factual presentation of history,”
a Smithsonian spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
“We are reviewing the letter with this commitment in mind and will continue to collaborate constr…

White House announces more aggressive review of Smithsonian museums
In a letter to the Smithsonian’s leader, White House officials said they would review exhibition text, curation, exhibition planning and collections starting with eight museums.

Writer and activist Daniel Sherrell on finding joy in a difficult journey
#creativity

Writer and activist Daniel Sherrell on finding joy in a difficult journey – The Creative Independent
Writer and activist Daniel Sherrell discusses discipline, balancing activism with creative work, and when to listen to let yourself rest

OK I'm being a bit silly here, yes. Over the years I have written many custom install scripts for myself and others in the Vivaldi team. We have a few special requirements, e.g. we often run a bunch of copies of Vivaldi side by side. In addition to the public stable and snapshot releases we do multiple builds a day (often per commit) straight from our main branch, and developers make branch builds where they work on a feature or bug, that QA and others test. Even for the public builds, a…

Not to downplay the seriousness of the many crimes of the CIA, however the bulk of their work is in gathering and analyzing information, rather than in the covert action side. And for all their well-known *failures* in the pure intelligence side, they mostly do it well.
Everything has a caveat. The existence of black and white is an evil myth.

According to the TidBITS article “A Roundup of Vertical Tab Support in Mac Web Browsers” <https://tidbits.com/2023/06/05/a-roundup-of-vertical-tab-support-in-mac-web-browsers/>, Safari supports vertical tabs since version 16.
I did not know it!
I don’t seem to be able to get the Safari vertical tabs to work though.
I can see the list of tabs in the Sidebar.
I also have the tabs displays horizontally at the top of the window (in both Separate or Compact mode).
I was expecting no tabs at the top when using vertical tabs. Is that not what you’d expect when thinking about vertical tabs?

So much of the work we do in software is about asking not just what •does• happen when the developer runs their own code, but what •could• happen when the code is running in the wild, out from under the watchful eye of its author.
That’s really, really hard. It’s a large portion of what makes development time-consuming and labor-intensive.
And it’s something you can only do if you actually understand what the code •means• — both to the computers and to the humans.
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Definitely just one more or I'll be here all night. And I have work in the morning!
//public.image.limited in the mountains outside of Sacramento CA
#W3WBands

Nonprofit news outlet Spotlight PA teams up with Nexstar in Pennsylvania to widen the reach of Spotlight PA's reporting, funded by a $500K Press Forward grant (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/can-nonp

Can nonprofit news mix with local TV? A Pennsylvania partnership aims to find out
“This is a nut that no one else in the country has cracked — how to translate what nonprofit newsrooms are doing for commercial TV.”

Diagnosing Failures in Large Language Models' Answers: Integrating Error Attribution into Evaluation Framework
Zishan Xu, Shuyi Xie, Qingsong Lv, Shupei Xiao, Linlin Song, Sui Wenjuan, Fan Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08459

Diagnosing Failures in Large Language Models' Answers: Integrating Error Attribution into Evaluation Framework
With the widespread application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in various tasks, the mainstream LLM platforms generate massive user-model interactions daily. In order to efficiently analyze the performance of models and diagnose failures in their answers, it is essential to develop an automated framework to systematically categorize and attribute errors. However, existing evaluation models lack error attribution capability. In this work, we establish a comprehensive Misattribution Framework wi…

Gov. Lee to work with Trump administration to deploy National Guard in Memphis | News From The States
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/gov-lee-work-trump-administration-deploy-national-guard-memphis

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

There's some great explanation for how map projections work in this short, but it's too hot today for me to work it out 😅
https://youtube.com/shorts/hrGJIk7zpho?si=xITVIzbJhaNr_qNS

Value Function Initialization for Knowledge Transfer and Jump-start in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Soumia Mehimeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09277 https://…

Value Function Initialization for Knowledge Transfer and Jump-start in Deep Reinforcement Learning
Value function initialization (VFI) is an effective way to achieve a jumpstart in reinforcement learning (RL) by leveraging value estimates from prior tasks. While this approach is well established in tabular settings, extending it to deep reinforcement learning (DRL) poses challenges due to the continuous nature of the state-action space, the noisy approximations of neural networks, and the impracticality of storing all past models for reuse. In this work, we address these challenges and intro…

Scaling Learned Image Compression Models up to 1 Billion
Yuqi Li, Haotian Zhang, Li Li, Dong Liu, Feng Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09075 https://arxiv.or…

Scaling Learned Image Compression Models up to 1 Billion
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) highlight a strong connection between intelligence and compression. Learned image compression, a fundamental task in modern data compression, has made significant progress in recent years. However, current models remain limited in scale, restricting their representation capacity, and how scaling model size influences compression performance remains unexplored. In this work, we present a pioneering study on scaling up learned image compression mode…

Families of curves in Vinberg representations
Jef Laga, Beth Romano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09607 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09607

Families of curves in Vinberg representations
Inspired by orbit parametrizations in arithmetic statistics, we explain how to construct families of curves associated to certain nilpotent elements in $\mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z}$-graded Lie algebras, generalizing work of Thorne to the $m\geq 3$ case and the non-simply laced case. We classify such families arising from subregular nilpotents in stable gradings and interpret almost all orbit parametrizations associated with algebraic curves appearing in the literature in this framework. As an extend…

Who could've guessed?
https://ni.hil.ist/@mu/114840348453639236

An incomplete list of people excluded from 'international' conferences that are in-person only and aren't streamed or recorded
- People with caring responsibilities
- People with disabilities
- People with health vulnerabilities
- People who don't fly in recognition of climate emergencies
- People who work for orgs with ethical no-fly policies
- People who have their travel disrupted due to climate chaos
- People who only engage with fully o…

Saints add joint practice with Rams to Calif. stay https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45970369/saints-rams-work-logistics-joint-practice-thu

Amazing story, "North Koreans tell BBC they are being sent to work 'like slaves' in Russia"
#northkorea

North Koreans tell BBC they are sent to work 'like slaves' in Russia
More than 50,000 North Koreans will be sent to work in Russia, as Moscow's war in Ukraine drains labour pools.

@… My honest answer: I never share my battery pack with my spouse. It lives in my backpack that I bring to work. It never leaves that pack unless I’m using it.
My wife has her own battery packs (She plays a lot of Pokémon Go).
Maybe in other families or cultures sharing is common? But in my house, that would never be a consideration I woul…

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

Fault tolerant Operations in Majorana-based Quantum Codes: Gates, Measurements and High Rate Constructions
Maryam Mudassar, Alexander Schuckert, Daniel Gottesman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09928

Fault tolerant Operations in Majorana-based Quantum Codes: Gates, Measurements and High Rate Constructions
Majorana-based quantum computation in nanowires and neutral atoms has gained prominence as a promising platform to encode qubits and protect them against noise. In order to run computations reliably on such devices, a fully fault-tolerant scheme is needed for state preparation, gates, and measurements. However, current fault-tolerant schemes have either been limited to specific code families or have not been developed fully. In this work, we develop a general framework for fault-tolerant comput…

Generation of Real-time Robotic Emotional Expressions Learning from Human Demonstration in Mixed Reality
Chao Wang, Michael Gienger, Fan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08999 h…

Generation of Real-time Robotic Emotional Expressions Learning from Human Demonstration in Mixed Reality
Expressive behaviors in robots are critical for effectively conveying their emotional states during interactions with humans. In this work, we present a framework that autonomously generates realistic and diverse robotic emotional expressions based on expert human demonstrations captured in Mixed Reality (MR). Our system enables experts to teleoperate a virtual robot from a first-person perspective, capturing their facial expressions, head movements, and upper-body gestures, and mapping these b…

Triggering and quenching in the shadow of AGN: How does AGN proximity affect star formation in the EAGLE simulation?
Apashanka Das, Biswajit Pandey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08790

Triggering and quenching in the shadow of AGN: How does AGN proximity affect star formation in the EAGLE simulation?
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most energetic phenomena in the universe, capable of regulating star formation in galaxies via radiative and mechanical feedback. While AGN feedback is well studied in host galaxies, its influence on neighbouring galaxies within the same large-scale environment remains less understood. In this work, we use the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulation to examine how proximity to AGN affects star formation in nearby star-forming galaxies (SFGs) out t…

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: [V.O.]Have you done it, Avon?
AVON: Soon.
BLAKE: [V.O.]How soon?
AVON: I can talk or I can work, but I can't do both.
BLAKE: [V.O.]We're running out of time, Avon.
[Flight deck]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/225…

Emotion Detection in Older Adults Using Physiological Signals from Wearable Sensors
Md. Saif Hassan Onim, Andrew M. Kiselica, Himanshu Thapliyal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08167

Emotion Detection in Older Adults Using Physiological Signals from Wearable Sensors
Emotion detection in older adults is crucial for understanding their cognitive and emotional well-being, especially in hospital and assisted living environments. In this work, we investigate an edge-based, non-obtrusive approach to emotion identification that uses only physiological signals obtained via wearable sensors. Our dataset includes data from 40 older individuals. Emotional states were obtained using physiological signals from the Empatica E4 and Shimmer3 GSR+ wristband and facial expr…

TIL linking likely does not make a program a derivative of a library in the EU, thus making the GPL, LGPL and MPL effectivelly identical here.
https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/news/copyleft-or-reciprocal

"it is undeniable that Kirk was not just a part of the extremely tense, very dangerous national dialogue, he was an accelerationist force whose work to dehumanize LGBTQ people and threaten the free speech of professors, teachers, and school board members around the country has directly put the livelihoods and physical safety of many people in danger. We do no one any favors by ignoring this, even in the immediate aftermath of an assassination like this."
(Original title: Cha…

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.

Have a last minute day trip to Goulburn tomorrow. So a very long day today to get enough work done to cover while I'm away.
Now have been booked in for a tech support call on Friday afternoon for a very non-tech friend in FNQ. Could be interesting. Life is never dull.
Oh and I have virtually no voice again - I'm not sick, just a bit drained of energy, and very very squeaky. So much so that, at times, my voice must only be audible to bats. Hopefully my prodigal voice wil…

Today thanks to a defect of another train combined with complete incompetence of Polish railway traffic controllers, I've spend almost 3 hours in a train, stopped halfway between Złotniki Grzybowe and #Poznań Strzeszyn train stops (1.5 km from either). I would lose perhaps half of this time if they instead stopped us at the previous stop, and told us what's up, so we could just go catch the urban bus. But that's not my biggest problem.
These 3 lost hours means I'm behind with work. So I'm hurrying to catch up. Except I'm so completely messed up because of all this, I can't really focus on work, so I had to stop. So I'm going to be even more behind.
#rail #ActuallyAutistic

💰 Do anti-bribery laws work when doing international business? New research sheds light
#bribery

Do anti-bribery laws work when doing international business? New research sheds light
In today's global economy, companies often do business with countries that have different standards, especially regarding what's acceptable, such as acts like bribery.

Lots of fun this week at @…. Got to show off my research group's latest work and meet a bunch of cool internet hackers in person for the first time.

Demystifying the Role of Rule-based Detection in AI Systems for Windows Malware Detection
Andrea Ponte, Luca Demetrio, Luca Oneto, Ivan Tesfai Ogbu, Battista Biggio, Fabio Roli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09652

Demystifying the Role of Rule-based Detection in AI Systems for Windows Malware Detection
Malware detection increasingly relies on AI systems that integrate signature-based detection with machine learning. However, these components are typically developed and combined in isolation, missing opportunities to reduce data complexity and strengthen defenses against adversarial EXEmples, carefully crafted programs designed to evade detection. Hence, in this work we investigate the influence that signature-based detection exerts on model training, when they are included inside the training…

DiffVolume: Diffusion Models for Volume Generation in Limit Order Books
Zhuohan Wang, Carmine Ventre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08698 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

DiffVolume: Diffusion Models for Volume Generation in Limit Order Books
Modeling limit order books (LOBs) dynamics is a fundamental problem in market microstructure research. In particular, generating high-dimensional volume snapshots with strong temporal and liquidity-dependent patterns remains a challenging task, despite recent work exploring the application of Generative Adversarial Networks to LOBs. In this work, we propose a conditional \textbf{Diff}usion model for the generation of future LOB \textbf{Volume} snapshots (\textbf{DiffVolume}). We evaluate our mo…

Spectra for the Vacuum Cherenkov Effect in Astrophysical Electromagnetic Cascades with Lorentz Invariance Violation
Andrey Saveliev, Rafael Alves Batista, Feodor Mishin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08593

Spectra for the Vacuum Cherenkov Effect in Astrophysical Electromagnetic Cascades with Lorentz Invariance Violation
Lorentz invariance violation is a feature of several quantum gravity models in which Lorentz symmetry is broken at high energies, possibly leading to changes in particle behavior and interactions. In this work, we investigate vacuum Cherenkov radiation, a reaction in which an electron spontaneously emits a photon. This process, forbidden when Lorentz symmetry is unbroken, is a phenomenological consequence of some quantum gravity models. We derive, for the first time, the spectra for the vacuum …

Academics who levy heavy late penalties on student assignments are often the same who feel like they deserve a prize for simply getting their work in on time.

Gas of thin tubes of massless scalar field as a possible model of unified dark fluid
Alexander Lelyakov, Stepan Lelyakov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08054 h…

Gas of thin tubes of massless scalar field as a possible model of unified dark fluid
In this work, we investigated the influence of constants that characterize the motion of thin tubes of a massless scalar field (TToMSF) in a gas on the global properties of such a gas, in particular, on its ability to accelerated expansion. The peculiarity of the TToMSF gas is related to the fact that the parameter of its equation of state $w$ depends on the degree of rarefaction of the gas and can take values in a very wide range of values $-1< w <1$. In this case, fluctuations in the density …

A Personalised Formal Verification Framework for Monitoring Activities of Daily Living of Older Adults Living Independently in Their Homes
Ricardo Contreras, Filip Smola, Nu\v{s}a Fari\v{c}, Jiawei Zheng, Jane Hillston, Jacques D. Fleuriot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08701

A Personalised Formal Verification Framework for Monitoring Activities of Daily Living of Older Adults Living Independently in Their Homes
There is an imperative need to provide quality of life to a growing population of older adults living independently. Personalised solutions that focus on the person and take into consideration their preferences and context are key. In this work, we introduce a framework for representing and reasoning about the Activities of Daily Living of older adults living independently at home. The framework integrates data from sensors and contextual information that aggregates semi-structured interviews, …

Learning Zero Constellations for Binary MOCZ in Fading Channels
Anthony Joseph Perre, Parker Huggins, Alphan Sahin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08571 https://

Learning Zero Constellations for Binary MOCZ in Fading Channels
In this work, we propose two methods to design zero constellations for binary modulation on conjugate-reciprocal zeros (BMOCZ). In the first approach, we treat constellation design as a multi-label binary classification problem and learn the zero locations for a direct zero-testing (DiZeT) decoder. In the second approach, we introduce a neural network (NN)-based decoder and jointly learn the decoder and zero constellation parameters. We show that the NN-based decoder can directly generalize to …

The (proposed) #Anthropic settlement is a good reminder that #copyright registration can be worth the hassle. (Although, even at 3000 $/work, most money will be eaten by transaction costs and middlemen.)

Anthropic’s $1.5 Billion Speeding Ticket
It’s the largest copyright settlement in history. But for Anthropic, it’s a toll booth, not a stop sign.

Invertible Syntax without the Tuples (Functional Pearl)
Mathieu Boespflug, Arnaud Spiwack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09856 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09856…

Invertible Syntax without the Tuples (Functional Pearl)
In the seminal paper Functional unparsing, Olivier Danvy used continuation passing to reanalyse printf-like format strings as combinators. In the intervening decades, the conversation shifted towards a concurrent line of work -- applicative, monadic or arrow-based combinator libraries -- in an effort to find combinators for invertible syntax descriptions that simultaneously determine a parser as well as a printer, and with more expressive power, able to handle inductive structures such as lists…

Directed Cycles as Higher-Order Units of Information Processing in Complex Networks
Hardik Rajpal, Paul Expert, Vaiva Vasiliauskaite
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09808 https://

Directed Cycles as Higher-Order Units of Information Processing in Complex Networks
Directed cycles form the fundamental motifs in natural, social and artificial networks, yet their distinct computational roles remain under-explored, particularly in the context of higher-order structure and function. In this work, we investigate how two types of directed cycles - feedforward and feedback - can act as higher-order structures to facilitate the flow and integration of information in sparse random networks, and how these roles depend on the environment of the cycles. Using informa…

Même si vous ne faites pas de macrophotographie, voici une vidéo avec de superbes images (et des conseils avisés il me semble)
https://photog.social/@stevenlawson/114839063166927548

@… @… Evidence strongly implies that quotas work. If you set a minimum diversity quota, on any given axis, it doesn’t just improve your quality (because e.g. women who stay in male-dominated industries tend to be way better than their male cou…

Here's an article on the still-racist Grok "AI".
In the article is a chunk of Python code that was generated by Grok.
What a stinkin' pile of code.
It is really simple code, but it has unacceptably weak error detection and handling that would give a user almost no useful information if something goes awry.
The hardest (and largest part) of most code (at least the code I work with) is validating inputs and handling errors. It is the most boring part …

Elon Musk Updated Grok. Guess What It Said?
After praising Hitler earlier this week, the chatbot is now listing the “good races.”

The virtual contributions from $K^*$ in the $B \to K^*\pi h$ and $B \to K\rho h$ decays
Ai-Jun Ma, Wen-Fei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09578 https://ar…

The virtual contributions from $K^*$ in the $B \to K^*πh$ and $B \to Kρh$ decays
Inspired by the significant virtual contributions of the subprocesses $D^{*}/B^{*}\to Dπ$ and $ ρ\toωπ/K\bar{K}$ in the three-body hadronic $B$ meson decays, we study the off-shell effects of the resonance $K^*$ decaying into the $K^*π$ or $Kρ$ system in the decays $B \to K^*πh$ and $B \to Kρh$ (with $h=π, K$) within the perturbative QCD approach. The strong coupling constants $g_{K^*K^*π}$ and $g_{K^*Kρ}$ involved in this work are derived from the coupling constant $g_{ρωπ}$ unde…

Representative Volume Element: Existence and Extent in Cracked Heterogeneous Medium
Hari Sankar R, Harpreet Singha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08320 https://

Representative Volume Element: Existence and Extent in Cracked Heterogeneous Medium
Acknowledging the ever-increasing demand for composites in the engineering industry, this paper focuses on the failure of composites at the microscale and augmenting the use of multiscale modelling techniques to make them better for various applications. This work aims to increase the representativeness of the volume element by attenuating the mesh and size sensitivities in representative volume element (RVE) modelling. A technique to alleviate mesh sensitivity in RVE modelling is proposed, whi…

Eigenvalue falls in thin broken quantum strips
Lucas Chesnel, Sergei A. Nazarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08403 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08403

Eigenvalue falls in thin broken quantum strips
We are interesting in the spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian in thin broken strips with angle $α$. Playing with symmetries, this leads us to investigate spectral problems for the Laplace operator with mixed boundary conditions in thin trapezoids characterized by a parameter $\varepsilon$ small. We give an asymptotic expansion of the first eigenvalues and corresponding eigenfunctions as $\varepsilon$ tends to zero. The new point in this work is to study the dependence with respect to $α$. We …

Approaching Maximal Information Extraction in Low-Signal Regimes via Multiple Instance Learning
Atakan Azakli, Bernd Stelzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07114 https://

Approaching Maximal Information Extraction in Low-Signal Regimes via Multiple Instance Learning
In this work, we propose a new machine learning (ML) methodology to obtain more precise predictions for some parameters of interest in a given hypotheses testing problem. Our proposed method also allows ML models to have more discriminative power in cases where it is extremely challenging for state-of-the-art classifiers to have any level of accurate predictions. This method can also allow us to systematically decrease the error from ML models in their predictions. In this paper, we provide a m…

from my link log —
Idris 2: quantitative type theory in practice.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00480
saved 2025-06-11 https://dotat…

Idris 2: Quantitative Type Theory in Practice
Dependent types allow us to express precisely what a function is intended to do. Recent work on Quantitative Type Theory (QTT) extends dependent type systems with linearity, also allowing precision in expressing when a function can run. This is promising, because it suggests the ability to design and reason about resource usage protocols, such as we might find in distributed and concurrent programming, where the state of a communication channel changes throughout program execution. As yet, howe…

Office window open at work and I can hear Scotland the Brave in the distance. I do like it when all the pipe bands come to Glasgow and practice across the city ahead of the pipe band championship.

I'm back! This morning was fun, I did a 7.6 mile ride on the borrowed ebike, and almost the entire ride was without pedal assist. I kicked it in for the hills (about 6 in total) but the majority of the ride was pedal powered.
Using the assist just for hills is doable. It's a bit more work but that's okay. It's probably the same amount of work I would do on my lighter Trek.
Average speed was pretty close to what I would get on the non-powered Trek.

Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/thinking-machines-lab…

Thinking Machines Lab wants to make AI models more consistent | TechCrunch
In a blog post shared Wednesday, Mira Murati's startup offered a rare glimpse into some of work its doing to improve AI models.

(Footnote: code that only has to run once is a different beast from code that has to work in a production environement. I’ve noticed a mismatch between data science / research types using LLMs to jump start one-off code and developers writing code for unknown end users / prod env. Serious pitfalls in both cases, but different pitfalls. Understanding that mismatch may help some of these conversation be less unreasonable!)
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Time Is a Feature: Exploiting Temporal Dynamics in Diffusion Language Models
Wen Wang, Bozhen Fang, Chenchen Jing, Yongliang Shen, Yangyi Shen, Qiuyu Wang, Hao Ouyang, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09138

Time Is a Feature: Exploiting Temporal Dynamics in Diffusion Language Models
Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) generate text through iterative denoising, yet current decoding strategies discard rich intermediate predictions in favor of the final output. Our work here reveals a critical phenomenon, temporal oscillation, where correct answers often emerge in the middle process, but are overwritten in later denoising steps. To address this issue, we introduce two complementary methods that exploit temporal consistency: 1) Temporal Self-Consistency Voting, a training-…

dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://

Spotify signs a direct licensing deal with rights group Kobalt to provide "greater flexibility, efficiency, value, and protections to songwriters in the US" (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mus

Spotify Secures Direct Licensing Deal with Kobalt
This partnership is a step in the right direction, and we look forward to continuing to work with Spotify to increase the value of songwriter royalties," Kobalt CEO Laurent Hubert said.

Beyond Blanket Masking: Examining Granularity for Privacy Protection in Images Captured by Blind and Low Vision Users
Jeffri Murrugarra-LLerena, Haoran Niu, K. Suzanne Barber, Hal Daum\'e III, Yang Trista Cao, Paola Cascante-Bonilla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09245

Beyond Blanket Masking: Examining Granularity for Privacy Protection in Images Captured by Blind and Low Vision Users
As visual assistant systems powered by visual language models (VLMs) become more prevalent, concerns over user privacy have grown, particularly for blind and low vision users who may unknowingly capture personal private information in their images. Existing privacy protection methods rely on coarse-grained segmentation, which uniformly masks entire private objects, often at the cost of usability. In this work, we propose FiGPriv, a fine-grained privacy protection framework that selectively mask…

Realizing Parrondo's Paradox in Single-Qubit Quantum Walks via Local Phase-Induced Spatial Inhomogeneity
Ran-Yu Chang, Yun-Hsuan Chen, Gooi Zi Liang, Tsung-Wei Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09457

Realizing Parrondo's Paradox in Single-Qubit Quantum Walks via Local Phase-Induced Spatial Inhomogeneity
Parrondo's paradox describes a counterintuitive phenomenon where alternating between two individually losing games results in a winning expectation. While its classical origin relies on capital-dependent bias and noise-induced asymmetry, realizing a robust quantum version of the paradox has remained challenging, especially under the constraint of single-qubit coin systems. In this work, we demonstrate that a genuine quantum Parrondo effect can emerge in discrete-time quantum walks (DTQWs) by al…

Fulfillment of the Work Games: Warehouse Workers' Experiences with Algorithmic Management
EunJeong Cheon, Ingrid Erickson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09438 https://

Fulfillment of the Work Games: Warehouse Workers' Experiences with Algorithmic Management
The introduction of algorithms into a large number of industries has already restructured the landscape of work and threatens to continue. While a growing body of CSCW research centered on the future of work has begun to document these shifts, relatively little is known about workers' experiences beyond those of platform-mediated gig workers. In this paper, we turn to a traditional work sector, Amazon fulfillment centers (FC), to deepen our field's empirical examination of algorithmic managemen…

Today I erased my NVMe NTFS games partition and formatted it with XFS, taking the next step in ditching #Windows for gaming in favor of #Linux. While going through my library I'm once again astonished how many games work out of the box with Proton / Wine nowadays, no tinkering required.

Generating code via an LLM prompt at breakneck speed can, predictably, lead to less-than-stellar work.
Now, in an ironic twist, it seems that, having dispensed with more skilled coders for the cheap effectiveness of a chatbot-aided code monkey,
companies are having to hire additional contractors to fix the AI’s screw-ups.

After AI Led to Layoffs, Coders Are Being Hired to Fix 'Vibe-Coded' Screwups
Fire human, use AI, fire AI, hire human.

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…

Image selective encryption analysis using mutual information in CNN based embedding space
Ikram Messadi, Giulia Cervia, Vincent Itier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08832 https://…

Image selective encryption analysis using mutual information in CNN based embedding space
As digital data transmission continues to scale, concerns about privacy grow increasingly urgent - yet privacy remains a socially constructed and ambiguously defined concept, lacking a universally accepted quantitative measure. This work examines information leakage in image data, a domain where information-theoretic guarantees are still underexplored. At the intersection of deep learning, information theory, and cryptography, we investigate the use of mutual information (MI) estimators - in pa…

Learning Robust Motion Skills via Critical Adversarial Attacks for Humanoid Robots
Yang Zhang, Zhanxiang Cao, Buqing Nie, Haoyang Li, Yue Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08303

Learning Robust Motion Skills via Critical Adversarial Attacks for Humanoid Robots
Humanoid robots show significant potential in daily tasks. However, reinforcement learning-based motion policies often suffer from robustness degradation due to the sim-to-real dynamics gap, thereby affecting the agility of real robots. In this work, we propose a novel robust adversarial training paradigm designed to enhance the robustness of humanoid motion policies in real worlds. The paradigm introduces a learnable adversarial attack network that precisely identifies vulnerabilities in motio…

Oh and I should also add that while the original video and the screenshots later in the thread are all from Ubuntu, my main machine at work is actually running Slackware, so those rpm and deb packages (which is all we make for internal builds) would not be a lot of use to me directly anyway. 😜

Kinematic patterns of the enriched gas phase in the Local Group {\sc Hestia} simulations
L. Biaus, S. E. Nuza, C. Scannapieco, F. G. Iza, E. Lozano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08455

Kinematic patterns of the enriched gas phase in the Local Group {\sc Hestia} simulations
Observations of intergalactic absorbers in the Local Group suggest the existence of a velocity dipole in the general barycentre--antibarycentre direction which can be interpreted as evidence of a general flow of material towards the group's centre of mass. In this work, we study the kinematics of gas in the Local Group using one of the high-resolution realisations of the {\sc Hestia} simulations with a particular focus on the evidence left by different ionic species. Our simulation includes the…

Australia is emerging as a prominent player in quantum computing, enabled by breakthrough academic work and sustained government funding since the 1990s (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3bac2c02-4c59-4010-934d-2c0e2106d74a

NFLPA executive committee backs director Lloyd Howell following concerns about conflict of interest https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6491352/2025/07/13/lloyd-howell-nflpa-carlyle-group/

7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…

A lot of the design work that goes into programming languages and tools is about prompting developers to •think about meaning•: tests, types, scope, compile errors, runtime errors — all about •preventing code from running• in the presence of an expectation/reality mismatch.
I’m always on high alert for tools that promise to speed development by letting developers skip the thinking.
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Planning to bike to work tomorrow but the part of the Oak Leaf Trail I normally ride on to avoid street traffic is probably underwater along the Menomonee River...

https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/USGS-04087120/#d…

As Palantir continues to expand its influence within the administration,
the Trump administration has given the company the right to surveil  Americans.
In a chilling report,The New York Times notes that the company is already creating
“detailed portraits of Americans based on government data,”
with the Trump administration already seeking
“access to hundreds of data points on citizens and others through government databases,
including their bank accoun…

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.

Addressing Bias in VLMs for Glaucoma Detection Without Protected Attribute Supervision
Ahsan Habib Akash, Greg Murray, Annahita Amireskandari, Joel Palko, Carol Laxson, Binod Bhattarai, Prashnna Gyawali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09087

Addressing Bias in VLMs for Glaucoma Detection Without Protected Attribute Supervision
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success on multimodal tasks such as image-text retrieval and zero-shot classification, yet they can exhibit demographic biases even when explicit protected attributes are absent during training. In this work, we focus on automated glaucoma screening from retinal fundus images, a critical application given that glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness and disproportionately affects underserved populations. Building on a reweight…

Neural quantum states for emitter dynamics in waveguide QED
Tatiana Vovk, Anka Van de Walle, Hannes Pichler, Annabelle Bohrdt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08964 https://

Neural quantum states for emitter dynamics in waveguide QED
Quantum emitters coupled to one-dimensional waveguides constitute a paradigmatic quantum-optical platform for exploring collective phenomena in open quantum many-body systems. For appropriately spaced emitters, they realize the Dicke model, whose characteristic permutation symmetry allows for efficient exact solutions featuring superradiance. When the emitters are arbitrarily spaced, however, this symmetry is lost and general analytical solutions are no longer available. In this work, we introd…

A Survey of Cognitive Distortion Detection and Classification in NLP
Archie Sage, Jeroen Keppens, Helen Yannakoudakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09878 https://

A Survey of Cognitive Distortion Detection and Classification in NLP
As interest grows in the application of natural language processing (NLP) techniques to mental health, a growing body of work explores the automatic detection and classification of cognitive distortions (CDs). CDs are habitual patterns of negatively biased or flawed thinking that distort how people perceive events, judge themselves, and react to the world around them. Identifying and addressing them is an important part of therapy. Despite its momentum, the field remains fragmented, with incons…

[Extended] Ethics in Computer Security Research: A Data-Driven Assessment of the Past, the Present, and the Possible Future
Harshini Sri Ramulu, Helen Schmitt, Bogdan Rerich, Rachel Gonzalez Rodriguez, Tadayoshi Kohno, Yasemin Acar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09351

[Extended] Ethics in Computer Security Research: A Data-Driven Assessment of the Past, the Present, and the Possible Future
Ethical questions are discussed regularly in computer security. Still, researchers in computer security lack clear guidance on how to make, document, and assess ethical decisions in research when what is morally right or acceptable is not clear-cut. In this work, we give an overview of the discussion of ethical implications in current published work in computer security by reviewing all 1154 top-tier security papers published in 2024, finding inconsistent levels of ethics reporting with a stron…

Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying Windsurf employees will have vesting cliffs waived and receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/cognition-ai-windsurf.html

Cognition AI Buys Windsurf as A.I. Frenzy Escalates
The deal follows Google’s $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race to gain technological talent and provide A.I. tools.

Towards Safe Imitation Learning via Potential Field-Guided Flow Matching
Haoran Ding, Anqing Duan, Zezhou Sun, Leonel Rozo, No\'emie Jaquier, Dezhen Song, Yoshihiko Nakamura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08707

Towards Safe Imitation Learning via Potential Field-Guided Flow Matching
Deep generative models, particularly diffusion and flow matching models, have recently shown remarkable potential in learning complex policies through imitation learning. However, the safety of generated motions remains overlooked, particularly in complex environments with inherent obstacles. In this work, we address this critical gap by proposing Potential Field-Guided Flow Matching Policy (PF2MP), a novel approach that simultaneously learns task policies and extracts obstacle-related informat…

I guess we had a little bit of water come in through a loading dock door at work. It soaked a box full of Cat5 cable, not too bad. It's a good thing I moved a UPS off the floor where it was and onto a small rolling dolly a few months ago.
Also, USB-C is great because you can plug a cable into two different ports of a USB hub! Looks like it destroyed the cable and the hub. (Not sure who did it but people were trying to help while I was out.)
Anyway, all is up and running again…

U.S. democracy has always been fragile, and we are now witnessing its dismantlement.
The rising tide of political violence poses one threat to democracy in this country,
but another quieter threat is also hard at work via the erosion of free speech and critical thinking,
both of which are necessary for a flourishing democracy.
Trump’s book bans and attacks on opposing political ideas,
the blocking of independent journalism,
the intimidation of news organizat…

Trump’s Education Plan Seeks to Make Cruel Domination Into “Common Sense”
Trump isn’t even trying to hide his authoritarianism within social acceptability.

Spin-Orbit Structure and Helicity Anomaly in Relativistic Electron Vortex Beams
Zhongze Guo, Bei Xu, Qiang Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08493 https://

Spin-Orbit Structure and Helicity Anomaly in Relativistic Electron Vortex Beams
The relativistic electron vortex beam (REVB) has attracted increasing attention due to its nontrivial spin-orbit structure recently. As relativistic electrons are governed by the Dirac equation, exact solutions to this equation provide the most reliable starting point for understanding angular momentum characteristics of REVBs. In this work, a set of exact eigensolutions of the Dirac equation are derived in a complex cylindrical coordinate system using a generalized series expansion method. We …

Harnessing Input-Adaptive Inference for Efficient VLN
Dongwoo Kang, Akhil Perincherry, Zachary Coalson, Aiden Gabriel, Stefan Lee, Sanghyun Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09262

Harnessing Input-Adaptive Inference for Efficient VLN
An emerging paradigm in vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is the use of history-aware multi-modal transformer models. Given a language instruction, these models process observation and navigation history to predict the most appropriate action for an agent. While they have significantly improved performance, the scale of these models can be a bottleneck in practical settings with limited computational resources. In this work, we propose a novel input-adaptive navigation method to enhance VLN …

Specialised or Generic? Tokenization Choices for Radiology Language Models
Hermione Warr, Wentian Xu, Harry Anthony, Yasin Ibrahim, Daniel McGowan, Konstantinos Kamnitsas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09952

Specialised or Generic? Tokenization Choices for Radiology Language Models
The vocabulary used by language models (LM) - defined by the tokenizer - plays a key role in text generation quality. However, its impact remains under-explored in radiology. In this work, we address this gap by systematically comparing general, medical, and domain-specific tokenizers on the task of radiology report summarisation across three imaging modalities. We also investigate scenarios with and without LM pre-training on PubMed abstracts. Our findings demonstrate that medical and domain-s…

U.S. democracy has always been fragile, and we are now witnessing its dismantlement.
The rising tide of political violence poses one threat to democracy in this country,
but another quieter threat is also hard at work via the erosion of free speech and critical thinking,
both of which are necessary for a flourishing democracy.
Trump’s book bans and attacks on opposing political ideas,
the blocking of independent journalism,
the intimidation of news organizat…

Trump’s Education Plan Seeks to Make Cruel Domination Into “Common Sense”
Trump isn’t even trying to hide his authoritarianism within social acceptability.

I saw a guy with an Aventon PAC this morning, chatted for a bit, he offered to let me test ride but I said “Thanks, but I’m good!” then ran into a guy with an Aventon Aventure later in they day. Both said they loved their bikes. Both looked a few years older than me.
I really think I’m just gonna go for the Level 3. Spent a bunch of time reading and watching reviews, looks like it would be a great commuter bike for work & weekend fun rides.

Procedural Generation and Games at the Dawn of Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing
Daniel Bultrini, James Wootton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09683 https://arx…

Procedural Generation and Games at the Dawn of Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing
Quantum computers have long been more of a toy for researchers than a tool for solving complex problems. However, recent advances in the field make exploiting the advantages of fault-tolerant quantum computers feasible in the next 5 to 10 years. It is now time to begin imagining how such devices could be used in practice for game development and deployment. In this work we identify procedural content generation as a very promising area of application and exploration. We examine a selection of a…

LLM-as-a-Supervisor: Mistaken Therapeutic Behaviors Trigger Targeted Supervisory Feedback
Chen Xu, Zhenyu Lv, Tian Lan, Xianyang Wang, Luyao Ji, Leyang Cui, Minqiang Yang, Jian Shen, Qunxi Dong, Xiuling Liu, Juan Wang, Bin Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09042

LLM-as-a-Supervisor: Mistaken Therapeutic Behaviors Trigger Targeted Supervisory Feedback
Although large language models (LLMs) hold significant promise in psychotherapy, their direct application in patient-facing scenarios raises ethical and safety concerns. Therefore, this work shifts towards developing an LLM as a supervisor to train real therapists. In addition to the privacy of clinical therapist training data, a fundamental contradiction complicates the training of therapeutic behaviors: clear feedback standards are necessary to ensure a controlled training system, yet there i…

The Impact of Automatic Speech Transcription on Speaker Attribution
Cristina Aggazzotti, Matthew Wiesner, Elizabeth Allyn Smith, Nicholas Andrews
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08660 …

The Impact of Automatic Speech Transcription on Speaker Attribution
Speaker attribution from speech transcripts is the task of identifying a speaker from the transcript of their speech based on patterns in their language use. This task is especially useful when the audio is unavailable (e.g. deleted) or unreliable (e.g. anonymized speech). Prior work in this area has primarily focused on the feasibility of attributing speakers using transcripts produced by human annotators. However, in real-world settings, one often only has more errorful transcripts produced b…

innovations from the semiconductor, electronics, metallurgy, and petroleum industries played a major role in reducing both PhotoVoltaic and Balance of System (BOS) costs,
but BOS costs were also impacted by innovations in software engineering and electric utilities.
Noninnovation factors, like efficiency gains from bulk purchasing and the accumulation of knowledge in the solar power industry, also reduced some cost variables.
In addition, while most PV panel innovations origi…

Surprisingly diverse innovations led to dramatically cheaper solar panels
A new study reveals key innovations that contributed to the rapid decline of solar energy systems, showing that many of the most significant technological advances came from outside the solar sector. This work could help businesses, researchers, and policymakers identify optimal areas for future investment.

Weak measurement in strong laser field physics
Philipp Stammer, Javier Rivera-Dean, Marcelo F. Ciappina, Maciej Lewenstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09048 https://

Weak measurement in strong laser field physics
The advantage of attosecond measurements is the possibility of time-resolving ultrafast quantum phenomena of electron dynamics. Many such measurements are of interferometric nature, and therefore give access to the phase. Likewise, weak measurements are intrinsically interferometric and specifically take advantage of interfering probability amplitudes, therefore encoding the phase information of the process. In this work, we show that attosecond interferometry experiments can be seen as a weak …

Relative Wavefront Errors in Continuous-Variable Quantum Communication
Nathan K. Long, John Wallis, Alex Frost, Benjamin P. Dix-Matthews, Sascha W. Schediwy, Kenneth J. Grant, Robert Malaney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09491

Relative Wavefront Errors in Continuous-Variable Quantum Communication
When undertaking continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) across atmospheric channels, strong classical local oscillators (LOs) are often polarization-multiplexed with the weak quantum signals for coherent measurement at the receiver. Although the wavefronts of the quantum signal and LO are often assumed to experience the same distortion across channels, previous theoretical work has shown that they can experience differential distortions, resulting in relative wavefront errors (WF…

Subsampling Factorization Machine Annealing
Yusuke Hama, Tadashi Kadowaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08778 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08778

Subsampling Factorization Machine Annealing
Quantum computing and machine learning are state-of-the-art technologies which have been investigated intensively in both academia and industry. The hybrid technology of these two ingredients is expected to be a powerful tool to solve complex problems in many branches of science and engineering such as combinatorial optimization problems and accelerate the creation of next-generation technologies. In this work, we develop an algorithm to solve a black-box optimization problem by improving Facto…

Demonstration of a photonic time-frequency Fourier transform and temporal double slit using atomic quantum memory
Ankit Papneja, Jesse Everett, Cameron Trainor, Aaron D. Tranter, Ben C. Buchler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09316

Demonstration of a photonic time-frequency Fourier transform and temporal double slit using atomic quantum memory
Aquantummemoryforlightisexpectedtoplayacrucialroleinquantumcommunicationprotocols and distributed quantum computing. In addition to storage and buffering, a quantum memory can be used for manipulations of stored states to allow more complex quantum network operations. In this work, we demonstrate an in-memory Fourier transform using a combination of two well-established quantum memory protocols: Gradient Echo Memory and Electromagnetically Induced Transparency. Our experiment is realised using …