Tootfinder

A somewhat shitty day vastly improved by discovering that the French version of #bluey has Bandit speaking Italian in Pavlova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENdrIDTRAts

Differential Privacy in Kernelized Contextual Bandits via Random Projections
Nikola Pavlovic, Sudeep Salgia, Qing Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13639 htt…

Differential Privacy in Kernelized Contextual Bandits via Random Projections
We consider the problem of contextual kernel bandits with stochastic contexts, where the underlying reward function belongs to a known Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space. We study this problem under an additional constraint of Differential Privacy, where the agent needs to ensure that the sequence of query points is differentially private with respect to both the sequence of contexts and rewards. We propose a novel algorithm that achieves the state-of-the-art cumulative regret of $\widetilde{\mat…

Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200 earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice (Kasha Patel/Washington Post)

Your Android phone is getting better at warning you about earthquakes
An early-warning system on Android phones has detected more than 1,000 earthquakes worldwide since 2021, sometimes giving people 15 to 60 seconds’ notice

Eric Metaxas declares that holding members of the Obama administration responsible
is "a moral test for America":
"With this kind of filth, you cannot have the America that was given to us by God through the founders. It needs to be cleaned out. We need to have the equivalent of the Nuremberg Trials."
http…

A Moral Test For America
Unethical, Illegal, And Treasonous The Greatest Mass Murderer In History That's Quite A Line Up

On subshifts with low maximal pattern complexity
Anh N. Le, Ronnie Pavlov, Casey Schlortt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13420 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13420…

On subshifts with low maximal pattern complexity
For a finite alphabet $\mathcal{A}$ and a sequence $x \in \mathcal{A}^{\mathbb{N}}$, Kamae and Zamboni defined the maximal pattern complexity function $p^*_x(n)$ as a natural generalization of usual word complexity. They defined a nonperiodic sequence $x$ to be pattern Sturmian if it achieves the minimal growth rate $p^*_x(n) = 2n$, and asked the question of whether one could classify recurrent pattern Sturmian sequences. We answer their question by characterizing recurrent pattern Sturmian s…

Texas Republicans have locked Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier inside the state house chamber and refuse to allow her to leave?
Honestly, I think livestream: dance on other legislators’ desks. Mock w/parody lyrics from show-tunes, raid copier paper to stuff empty suits and print out opposition faces and put them in seats & act out humiliating legislative scenes.
You’re not locked in with them, their seats are locked in with you.
h/t @peoplefor.bsky.social

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Light Asylum:
🎵 Dark Allies
#NowPlaying #LightAsylum
https://pablobozzi.bandcamp.com/track/light-asylum-dark-allies-pablo-bozzi-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/32gCy8mpXzTF9wtn2HwYwB

Noise signatures of a charged Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev dot in mesoscopic transport
Andrei I. Pavlov, Mikhail N. Kiselev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13098 https://a…

Noise signatures of a charged Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev dot in mesoscopic transport
We investigate quantum noise in a mesoscopic quantum dot serving as a realization of the charged Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model weakly coupled to a fermionic lead via a tunnel contact. We find noise signatures under voltage and temperature biases that can serve as clear markers of the SYK physics in experiments with related setups. We develop a linear response theory that treats all types of noise on the same footing and generalizes a concept of transport coefficients for charge and heat current…

A profile of Rumble founder Chris Pavlovski, who declined an offer to become CEO of Truth Social and opted to provide services to the platform through Rumble (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-wh

The Tech Mogul Behind Trump’s Truth Social Used To Own Porn Domains
Before he helped run Truth Social, Chris Pavlovski owned porn domains. Now, he’s allied with a political movement that wants to ban pornography.

A profile of Rumble founder Chris Pavlovski, who declined an offer to become CEO of Truth Social and opted to provide services to the platform through Rumble (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-wh

The Tech Mogul Behind Trump’s Truth Social Used To Own Porn Domains
Before he helped run Truth Social, Chris Pavlovski owned porn domains. Now, he’s allied with a political movement that wants to ban pornography.