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Profile of Dominick McGee, a right-wing X influencer who has amassed 1.5M followers and made $157K since 2023 by spending 11 hours daily posting about politics (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/technol

He’s a Master of Outrage on X. The Pay Isn’t Great.
An online creator went from a “nobody” to a conspiratorial sensation on X. What he gets in return is less clear.

Upcoming GÉANT infoshare 🚀
Earth Observations Support Through NRENs - Part 1
Explore the multi-national policy context which supports earth observation, the complimentary RREN research engagement approaches employed, and discover the Group on Earth Observations (GEO).
👥 Hosted by Daniela Brauner, Chris Atherton and Hendrik Ike (GÉANT), with presentations from Paola De Salvo (GEO Secretariat), Yousef Torman (ASREN), and Mark Urban (RedCLARA).
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Infoshare Series on Earth Observations Support Through NRENs - Part 1
Earth observation has a direct impact on societal ambitions to reduce the effects of climate change, monitor the achievement of the UN sustainable development goals, and for its use in disaster and emergency response.  As a wide-ranging topic area, Earth observation is reliant upon ever increasing volumes of data for achieving the latest scientific discoveries.  It is because of the societal impact, and large-scale data transit to universities and national institutions which makes this an...

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning and PDE Control for Flexible Manipulators
Amir Hossein Barjini, Seyed Adel Alizadeh Kolagar, Sadeq Yaqubi, Jouni Mattila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08639

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning and PDE Control for Flexible Manipulators
This article presents a motion planning and control framework for flexible robotic manipulators, integrating deep reinforcement learning (DRL) with a nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE) controller. Unlike conventional approaches that focus solely on control, we demonstrate that the desired trajectory significantly influences endpoint vibrations. To address this, a DRL motion planner, trained using the soft actor-critic (SAC) algorithm, generates optimized trajectories that inherently …

IntenTest: Stress Testing for Intent Integrity in API-Calling LLM Agents
Shiwei Feng, Xiangzhe Xu, Xuan Chen, Kaiyuan Zhang, Syed Yusuf Ahmed, Zian Su, Mingwei Zheng, Xiangyu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07524

IntenTest: Stress Testing for Intent Integrity in API-Calling LLM Agents
LLM agents are increasingly deployed to automate real-world tasks by invoking APIs through natural language instructions. While powerful, they often suffer from misinterpretation of user intent, leading to the agent's actions that diverge from the user's intended goal, especially as external toolkits evolve. Traditional software testing assumes structured inputs and thus falls short in handling the ambiguity of natural language. We introduce IntenTest, an API-centric stress testing framework th…

A Neuronal Model at the Edge of Criticality: An Ising-Inspired Approach to Brain Dynamics
Sajedeh Sarmastani, Maliheh Ghodrat, Yousef Jamali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07027

A Neuronal Model at the Edge of Criticality: An Ising-Inspired Approach to Brain Dynamics
We present a neuronal network model inspired by the Ising model, where each neuron is a binary spin ($s_i = \pm1$) interacting with its neighbors on a 2D lattice. Updates are asynchronous and follow Metropolis dynamics, with a temperature-like parameter $T$ introducing stochasticity. To incorporate physiological realism, each neuron includes fixed on/off durations, mimicking the refractory period found in real neurons. These counters prevent immediate reactivation, adding biologically grounde…

The connection between galaxy mergers, star formation and AGN activity in the HSC-SSP
Kiyoaki Christopher Omori, Connor Bottrell, Sabine Bellstedt, Aaron Robotham, Hassen M. Yesuf, Andy D. Goulding, Marcin Sawicki, Tohru Nagao, Tsutomu T. Takeuchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08469

The connection between galaxy mergers, star formation and AGN activity in the HSC-SSP
Internal gas inflows driven by galaxy mergers are considered to enhance star formation rates (SFR), fuel supermassive black hole growth and stimulate active galactic nuclei (AGN). However, quantifying these phenomena remains a challenge, due to difficulties both in classifying mergers and in quantifying galaxy and AGN properties. We quantitatively examine the merger-SFR-AGN connection using Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) galaxies using novel methods for both galaxy classif…

Evaluating AI-Powered Learning Assistants in Engineering Higher Education: Student Engagement, Ethical Challenges, and Policy Implications
Ramteja Sajja, Yusuf Sermet, Brian Fodale, Ibrahim Demir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05699

Approaching Dialogue State Tracking via Aligning Speech Encoders and LLMs
\v{S}imon Sedl\'a\v{c}ek, Bolaji Yusuf, J\'an \v{S}vec, Pradyoth Hegde, Santosh Kesiraju, Old\v{r}ich Plchot, Jan \v{C}ernock\'y
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08633

Approaching Dialogue State Tracking via Aligning Speech Encoders and LLMs
In this work, we approach spoken Dialogue State Tracking (DST) by bridging the representation spaces of speech encoders and LLMs via a small connector module, with a focus on fully open-sourced and open-data components (WavLM-large, OLMo). We focus on ablating different aspects of such systems including full/LoRA adapter fine-tuning, the effect of agent turns in the dialogue history, as well as fuzzy matching-based output post-processing, which greatly improves performance of our systems on nam…

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#makesciencegreatagain #standupforscience #decency #resistance | Ingmar Rentzhog | 32 comments
⚠️ This is what we’re up against. The anti-science movement is no longer hiding its intentions. If we lose science, we lose democracy—and with it, our future. But it’s not too late to stop this. ✊ Join the resistance. Help us #MakeScienceGreatAgain → https://lnkd.in/dDYhYRfR 💚 I’m proud we launched our defense of science in Paris—a country that still honors truth, knowledge, and reason. 🎥 Watch our science panel from ChangeNOW featuring representatives from the Frenc…

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