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Fear and Openness
- a #poem -
https://muz4now.com/2014/fear-and-openness-poem/

Fear and Openness
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Penalizing Transparency? How AI Disclosure and Author Demographics Shape Human and AI Judgments About Writing
Inyoung Cheong, Alicia Guo, Mina Lee, Zhehui Liao, Kowe Kadoma, Dongyoung Go, Joseph Chee Chang, Peter Henderson, Mor Naaman, Amy X. Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01418

Penalizing Transparency? How AI Disclosure and Author Demographics Shape Human and AI Judgments About Writing
As AI integrates in various types of human writing, calls for transparency around AI assistance are growing. However, if transparency operates on uneven ground and certain identity groups bear a heavier cost for being honest, then the burden of openness becomes asymmetrical. This study investigates how AI disclosure statement affects perceptions of writing quality, and whether these effects vary by the author's race and gender. Through a large-scale controlled experiment, both human raters (n =…

Pitfalls of Evaluating Language Models with Open Benchmarks
Md. Najib Hasan (Wichita State University), Mohammad Fakhruddin Babar (Washington State University), Souvika Sarkar (Wichita State University), Monowar Hasan (Washington State University), Santu Karmaker (University of Central Florida)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00460…

Pitfalls of Evaluating Language Models with Open Benchmarks
Open Large Language Model (LLM) benchmarks, such as HELM and BIG-bench, offer standardized, transparent protocols that facilitate the fair comparison, reproducibility, and iterative advancement of Language Models (LMs). However, their openness also introduces critical and underexplored pitfalls. This study exposes these weaknesses by systematically constructing ``cheating'' models -- smaller variants of BART, T5, and GPT-2 fine-tuned directly on public test sets -- which achieve top rankings on…

Authentication and authorization in Data Spaces: A relationship-based access control approach for policy specification based on ODRL
Irene Plaza-Ortiz, Andres Munoz-Arcentales, Joaqu\'in Salvach\'ua, Carlos Aparicio, Gabriel Huecas, Enrique Barra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24742 …

Authentication and authorization in Data Spaces: A relationship-based access control approach for policy specification based on ODRL
Data has become a crucial resource in the digital economy, fostering initiatives for secure and sovereign data sharing frameworks such as Data Spaces. However, these distributed environments require fine-grained access control mechanisms that balance openness with sovereignty and security. This paper proposes an extension of the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) standard, the ODRL Data Spaces (ODS) profile, aimed at supporting authorization and complementing existing authentication mechanisms…

I for one am intrigued by the out of the box blue sky thinking of those who suggest moving Europe's IP registry to the United Arab Emirates or Qatar for their international openness and cosmopolitan approach to sanctions.
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A Combinatorial Study of the Fixed Point Index
Jes\'us A. \'Alvarez L\'opez, Alejandro O. Majadas-Moure, David Mosquera-Lois
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24530

A Combinatorial Study of the Fixed Point Index
We introduce a theory of integration with respect to the fixed point index, offering a substantial improvement over previous approaches based on the Lefschetz number. This framework eliminates several restrictive assumptions -- such as the need for definability, openness, or f-invariance of subspaces -- thereby allowing broader applicability. We also present a natural combinatorial adaptation of the fixed point index that extends the combinatorial Lefschetz number. This extension yields new top…

An Ohsawa-Takegoshi-type $L^2$ extension for upper semi-continuous $L^2$-optimal functions
Zhuo Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22834 https://

An Ohsawa-Takegoshi-type $L^2$ extension for upper semi-continuous $L^2$-optimal functions
In this article, we obtain an Ohsawa-Takegoshi-type $L^2$-extension for upper semi-continuous $L^2$-optimal functions via a Lebesgue-type differentiation theorem. As applications, we give a characterization of plurisubharmonic functions via the multiple coarse $L^2$-estimate property for (strongly) upper semi-continuous functions and show that (strongly) upper semi-continuous $L^2$-optimal functions satisfy Skoda's integrability theorem and the strong openness property.

Eli Noam, Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, introduces an 'International Cooperation on Internet Freedom and Openness' webinar on April 23 2024. #humanrights #openinternet

#Kilmar
Judge Signals Openness to Granting Bail to Returned Deportee - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/abrego-garcia-judge-bail.html

Neighbour dropped off a welder with a blown FET on the PCB (within a snubber circuit). Found a suspect diode. Found a manufacturer and boardset ID: Arcsonic AT-06-A7. Wrote to Arcsonic on AliExpress, and after about 3 messages exchanged I had a full circuit schematic for the thing sitting in my e-mail inbox. As much as we (rightly!) complain about and fear over-reliance on China in the West, their culture of openness and repair is something we would do well to emulate. Imagine writing to Bos…