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from my link log —
Ruminating about mutable value semantics.
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/ruminating-about-mutable-value-semantics/
saved 2026-08-12

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🎵 Belly
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https://samanthacrain.bandcamp.com/track/belly
https://open.spotify.com/track/2OJ1EXZ2EmK7fNVgDb984a

STCC: A Unified Source-Channel Semantic Token Coding Framework for Semantic Communications
Zhicheng Bao, Chen Dong, Sen Wang, Long Liu, Nan Ma, Hao Chen, Xiaodong Xu, Yinqiu Liu, Ping Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11819 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11819 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11819
arXiv:2606.11819v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) has emerged as a promising paradigm for overcoming the ``cliff effect" in wireless communications. However, existing Deep JSCC frameworks operate directly on raw analog data such as image pixels rather than the discrete semantic tokens that foundation models require. Moreover, traditional systems employ fixed, hand-designed constellations that treat all tokens equally, leading to catastrophic random errors under channel noise. In this paper, the Semantic Token Codebook Communication (STCC) is proposed as a unified source-channel semantic token coding framework designed to transmit the discrete semantic tokens of foundation models over noisy channels. The core of STCC is the Semantic Token Codec (STC). It accepts discrete tokens as input, which maintains compatibility with foundation models while employing a residual multiple layer perceptron, i.e., MLP-based encoder that learns geometrically structured constellations optimized with a triple-loss objective. This learned mapping forces the channel topology to align with the semantic embedding space, ensuring that channel noise results in topological errors rather than random corruption. This phenomenon is theoretically and empirically characterized, identifying ``Semantic Drift" in symbolic modalities and ``Structural Distortion" in perceptual modalities, where errors shift predictions to semantically or structurally similar tokens. Extensive experiments demonstrate that STCC significantly outperforms traditional systems in low-SNR regimes, effectively converting channel noise into semantic variations without requiring receiver-side modification.
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Oracle warns customers of a critical PeopleSoft flaw after ShinyHunters claimed breaches of 100 organizations using PeopleSoft; Oracle has not issued a patch (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/11/orac

Oracle warns of security bug that hackers abused to breach 100+ companies | TechCrunch
The tech giant warned of a security flaw that a cybercrime gang said it's exploiting as part of a mass-hacking campaign. Google said it notified more than 100 organizations that had potentially vulnerable servers.

Warum heißt es Spongebob und nicht Schwammintelligenz?

RE: https://social.bau-ha.us/@xepia_/116911730571673653
In Deutschland ist so viel Infrastruktur von Jahrzehnten schwarz-rot so übel abgenutzt und zerstört, dass selbst einfach scheinende Lösungen schnell Probleme in der Ausführung bekommen, wenn man das a…

How's Lich McConnell doing today? Summoned an army of skeletons yet?

Google is introducing an insulin-resistance trend feature that uses AI, accelerometer, and other sensors, launching first on the Watch 5 and Fitbit devices (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

from my link log —
Implementation strategies for mutable value semantics.
https://www.jot.fm/contents/issue_2022_02/article2.html
saved 2026-08-12

Databricks closed a $5B funding round at a $190B valuation, six months after raising $5B at a $134B valuation, and says it has crossed $7B in revenue run rate (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/13/databricks-funding-round-190-billion-valuat…

Databricks wraps $5 billion funding round at $190 billion valuation
Databricks is benefitting off of the agentic AI wave.