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Hume's Representational Conditions for Causal Judgment: What Bayesian Formalization Abstracted Away

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hume's account of causal judgment presupposes three representational conditions: experiential grounding (ideas must trace to impressions), structured retrieval (association

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IC3-Evolve: Proof-/Witness-Gated Offline LLM-Driven Heuristic Evolution for IC3 Hardware Model Checking

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: IC3, also known as property-directed reachability (PDR), is a commonly-used algorithm for hardware safety model checking. It checks if a state transition system complies wi

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Position: Science of AI Evaluation Requires Item-level Benchmark Data

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI evaluations have become the primary evidence for deploying generative AI systems across high-stakes domains. However, current evaluation paradigms often exhibit systemic

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Structural Segmentation of the Minimum Set Cover Problem: Exploiting Universe Decomposability for Metaheuristic Optimization

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Minimum Set Cover Problem (MSCP) is a classical NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with numerous applications in science and engineering. Although a wide range

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TABQAWORLD: Optimizing Multimodal Reasoning for Multi-Turn Table Question Answering

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal reasoning has emerged as a powerful framework for enhancing reasoning capabilities of reasoning models. While multi-turn table reasoning methods have improved re

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To Throw a Stone with Six Birds: On Agents and Agenthood

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Six Birds Theory (SBT) treats macroscopic objects as induced closures rather than primitives. Empirical discussions of agency often conflate persistence (being an object) w

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VERT: Reliable LLM Judges for Radiology Report Evaluation

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03376v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current literature on radiology report evaluation has focused primarily on designing LLM-based metrics and fine-tuning small models for chest X-rays. However, it remains un

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Samsung shares rise nearly 5% as profit seen jumping 8-fold on AI chip boom

Strategic angle: Samsung Electronics forecasts record first-quarter operating profit driven by booming demand for AI memory chips.

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Google just dropped a new AI dictation app on iOS, and it looks like Android is coming soon - Chrome Unboxed

Strategic angle: Google just dropped a new AI dictation app on iOS, and it looks like Android is coming soon Chrome Unboxed

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After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites

Strategic angle: A personal reflection on the decision to discontinue Google Adsense after two decades.

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NYC Families Need over $125,000 in Income to Live in Any Borough

Strategic angle: A recent report highlights the financial challenges faced by families in New York City.

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Trump operating in a 'carnival framework' that allows rule-breaking in domestic and foreign policy

Strategic angle: US President Donald Trump's mixed messaging and conflicting signals have characterised the war in Iran. For more on the US president's increasingly bombastic rhetoric, and what's likely to happen next, FRANCE 24's Sharon

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Ah, peptides. where to begin?

Strategic angle: Exploring the fascinating world of peptides and their applications.

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A macOS kernel bug can cause OpenClaw to stop working after 49.7 days

Strategic angle: A critical bug in macOS networking affects OpenClaw functionality, leading to potential disruptions.

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OpenAI asks California, Delaware to investigate Musk's 'anti-competitive behavior' ahead of April trial

Strategic angle: OpenAI urges state attorneys general to probe Elon Musk's actions that may hinder competition.

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Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting

Strategic angle: TrueType fonts have a hinting VM that grid-fits glyphs. It has a stack, storage area, conditionals, function calls, and it turns out it's Turing-complete. So I built a raycasting engine in the hinting bytecode. The glyph

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Google quietly launched an AI dictation app that works offline - TechCrunch

Strategic angle: Google quietly launched an AI dictation app that works offline TechCrunch

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A.I. Is on Its Way to Upending Cybersecurity - The New York Times

Strategic angle: A.I. Is on Its Way to Upending Cybersecurity The New York Times

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UK Courts Anthropic Amid Transatlantic Tensions Over AI Policy

Strategic angle: The UK is seeking to engage with Anthropic as tensions rise over AI regulations between the US and Europe.

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GM Stops Corvette Sales Because One Turn Signal Won’t Admit When It’s Broken

A software issue is keeping thousands of Corvettes off dealer lots, all due to a failure to detect a bad turn signal bulb.