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'If someone doesn't like it, we'll close it' — Poland's Duda calls out Ukraine, allies over attitudes toward key military aid hub: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/if-someone-doesnt-like-it.html

"Justice Jackson on writing dissents: "I'm not afraid to use my voice""
Justice Jackson says state of US democracy keeps her up at night
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/11/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-democracy-dissents

Bayesian Double Descent
Nick Polson, Vadim Sokolov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07338 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07338

Bayesian Double Descent
Double descent is a phenomenon of over-parameterized statistical models. Our goal is to view double descent from a Bayesian perspective. Over-parameterized models such as deep neural networks have an interesting re-descending property in their risk characteristics. This is a recent phenomenon in machine learning and has been the subject of many studies. As the complexity of the model increases, there is a U-shaped region corresponding to the traditional bias-variance trade-off, but then as the …

AI doesn't make you more efficient:
Thoughts after a year of working with LLMs and building Agent
Since everyone is in the business of giving their opinion on the whole AI craze at the moment I thought I’d throw mine out in the ether. […]
👉 https://byt3bl33d3r.substack.com/p/…

AI doesn't make you more efficient
Thoughts after a year of working with LLMs and building Agents

Decentralized Optimization with Amplified Privacy via Efficient Communication
Wei Huo, Changxin Liu, Kemi Ding, Karl Henrik Johansson, Ling Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07102

Decentralized Optimization with Amplified Privacy via Efficient Communication
Decentralized optimization is crucial for multi-agent systems, with significant concerns about communication efficiency and privacy. This paper explores the role of efficient communication in decentralized stochastic gradient descent algorithms for enhancing privacy preservation. We develop a novel algorithm that incorporates two key features: random agent activation and sparsified communication. Utilizing differential privacy, we demonstrate that these features reduce noise without sacrificing…

Distributed and Decentralised Training: Technical Governance Challenges in a Shifting AI Landscape
Jakub Kry\'s, Yashvardhan Sharma, Janet Egan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07765

Distributed and Decentralised Training: Technical Governance Challenges in a Shifting AI Landscape
Advances in low-communication training algorithms are enabling a shift from centralised model training to compute setups that are either distributed across multiple clusters or decentralised via community-driven contributions. This paper distinguishes these two scenarios - distributed and decentralised training - which are little understood and often conflated in policy discourse. We discuss how they could impact technical AI governance through an increased risk of compute structuring, capabili…

The Orlando Sentinel got a cease-and-desist from Florida's DCF that claims its reporter coerced families for a story on a foundation tied to Gov. DeSantis' wife (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/orlando-sen

Florida agency tells newspaper to halt reporting angle on foundation associated with governor's wife
Florida’s child welfare agency has sent a letter to a newspaper telling it to “cease and desist” its reporting on foster families for a story about a nonprofit associated with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ wife. The foundation is the subject of an investigation. The Orlando Sentinel received the letter on Friday from the Department of Children and Families. The letter claims the newspaper’s Tallahassee reporter intimidated foster families who had received money from the Hope Florida Foundation w…

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court (Jay Willis/Balls and Strikes)
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketanji-brown-jackson-dissents-term-recap/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p125#a250710p125

Homan: "ICE Doesn't Need Probable Cause" For Arrests - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/homan-ice-doesnt-need-probable-cause-for-arrests/

State Attorney General Angry That AI Doesn’t Love Trump More, Will Waste Taxpayer Money Until It Does! - Dealbreaker
https://dealbreaker.com/2025/07/state-attorney-general-angry-that-ai-doesnt-love-trump-more-will-waste-taxpayer-money-until-it-does