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It is hard to imagine a worse decision than the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday
allowing Texas to use its new congressional maps designed to elect five more Republicans to the House of Representatives.
In a 6-3 decision, the six conservative justices have opened the door to states being able to adopt unconstitutional laws on voting
— with immunity from judicial review for at least one election.
At the urging of President Trump, Texas’ Republican-controlled state L…

Constructions of Efficiently Implementable Boolean Functions with Provable Nonlinearity/Resiliency/Algebraic Immunity Trade-Offs
Palash Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01720 h…

Constructions of Efficiently Implementable Boolean Functions with Provable Nonlinearity/Resiliency/Algebraic Immunity Trade-Offs
We describe several families of efficiently implementable Boolean functions achieving provable trade-offs between resiliency, nonlinearity, and algebraic immunity. In concrete terms, the following result holds for each of the function families that we propose. Given integers $m_0\geq 0$, $x_0\geq 1$, and $a_0\geq 1$, it is possible to construct an $n$-variable function which has resiliency at least $m_0$, linear bias (which is an equivalent method of expressing nonlinearity) at most $2^{-x_0}$ …

TCR-EML: Explainable Model Layers for TCR-pMHC Prediction
Jiarui Li, Zixiang Yin, Zhengming Ding, Samuel J. Landry, Ramgopal R. Mettu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04377 https://…

TCR-EML: Explainable Model Layers for TCR-pMHC Prediction
T cell receptor (TCR) recognition of peptide-MHC (pMHC) complexes is a central component of adaptive immunity, with implications for vaccine design, cancer immunotherapy, and autoimmune disease. While recent advances in machine learning have improved prediction of TCR-pMHC binding, the most effective approaches are black-box transformer models that cannot provide a rationale for predictions. Post-hoc explanation methods can provide insight with respect to the input but do not explicitly model b…

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https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/rfk-jr-s-new-cdc-deputy-director-prefers-natural-immunity-over-vaccines/

Rasnik 3-point alignment system: algorithm, control framework, and its applications
Anoop Nagesh Koushik, Harry van der Graaf, Kevin Ravensberg, Rene M. Wanders, Sena N. Gomashie, Nick van Remortel, Joris van Heijningen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03539

Rasnik 3-point alignment system: algorithm, control framework, and its applications
Rasnik is a three-point optical displacement sensor originally developed for particle detector alignment in high-energy physics experiments, including the muon chambers of L3 at LEP and ATLAS at the LHC. The system has evolved from four-quadrant photodiodes to CMOS pixel sensors with custom ChessField coded masks, enabling absolute position measurement with no cumulative drift due to absolute value coded. Key advantages include electromagnetic immunity through purely optical measurement princip…

Some day in the future - some glorious day in the future - I hope that the maga government - from El Cheato through Miller, Noem, Vought, etc - will face tribunals.
They will, of course, demand our full panoply of due processes. And they will claim immunity as merely carrying out government business and powers.
Do they deserve those due processes or that we give credit to those claims of immunity?
The lawyer in me says "YES!!". The person in me says "Hold o…

Sooooo.... UN Open Source Week 2026? What do you suppose the odds are of it not happening in NYC?
https://mastodon.social/@progressiveparker/115288358676220071

progressiveparker (@progressiveparker@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Petro Calls for Moving UN HQ After Trump Admin Revokes His Visa Over Protest Speech “What the US government is doing to me breaks all the norms of immunity on which the functioning of the United Nations and its General Assembly is based,” Petro said. Olivia Rosane Sep 27, 2025 https://www.commondreams.org/news/gustavo-petro-un-trump

Accuracy-First R\'enyi Differential Privacy and Post-Processing Immunity
Ossi R\"ais\"a, Antti Koskela, Antti Honkela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22213 https://

Accuracy-First Rényi Differential Privacy and Post-Processing Immunity
The accuracy-first perspective of differential privacy addresses an important shortcoming by allowing a data analyst to adaptively adjust the quantitative privacy bound instead of sticking to a predetermined bound. Existing works on the accuracy-first perspective have neglected an important property of differential privacy known as post-processing immunity, which ensures that an adversary is not able to weaken the privacy guarantee by post-processing. We address this gap by determining which ex…

Trump has ordered a massive naval deployment off Venezuela’s northern coast.
“You can save yourself and those closest to you,
but you must leave the country now,”
Trump reportedly said,
offering safe passage for Maduro,
his wife and his son
“only if he agreed to resign right away”.
However, Venezuela’s president reportedly refused to step down immediately
and allegedly made a series of counter-demands,
including worldwide immunity from pr…

Health Secretary Kennedy said
“In fact this is exactly how herd immunity works.”
A truckload of rhesus monkeys from Tulane university escaped after a crash.
The university warned they’re highly aggressive toward humans and infected with hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID.
https://bsky.app/profil…