technocracy

arXiv:2603.03613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The No Free Lunch (NFL) theorem guarantees equal average performance only under uniform sampling of a function space closed under permutation (c.u.p.). We ask when this averaging ceases to reflect what benchmarking actually reports. We study an iterative-search setting with sampling without replacement, where algorithms differ only in evaluation order. Binary objectives allow exhaustive evaluation in the fully enumerable case, and efficiency is defined by the first time the global minimum is reached. […]

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arXiv:2603.05511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As artificial intelligence shifts from pure tool for delegation toward agentic collaboration, its use in the arts can shift beyond the exploration of machine autonomy toward synergistic co-creation. While our earlier robotic works utilized automation to distance the artist’s intent from the final mark, we present Companion: an artistic apparatus that integrates a drawing robot with Large Language Models (LLMs) to re-center human-machine presence. By leveraging in-context learning and real-time tool use, the […]

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arXiv:2604.18761v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper examines Web3 ecosystems not merely as markets for digital assets, but as networked social spaces where economic transactions give rise to enduring social ties, shared narratives, and collective identities. Leveraging large-scale data mining of fused on-chain blockchain transactions and off-chain social media activity, we analyze over one hundred NFT collections to uncover how different forms of participation structure community formation in decentralized environments. Using network analysis, we identify distinct ecosystem roles, […]

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Most developer machines are not clean. They just look clean. At some point, every dev laptop turns into a dumping ground. You install tools to follow a blog post. You try a framework for a weekend. You switch jobs and inherit a new stack. You uninstall things, but only halfway. Binaries stick around. Config files stay buried in your home directory. Caches grow quietly in the background. Nothing is fully broken, but nothing feels right either. Your terminal […]

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arXiv:2603.04133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Neural Networks are powerful tools for solving machine learning problems, but their training often involves dense and costly parameter updates. In this work, we use a novel Max-Plus neural architecture in which classical addition and multiplication are replaced with maximum and summation operations respectively. This is a promising architecture in terms of interpretability, but its training is challenging. A particular feature is that this algebraic structure naturally induces sparsity in the subgradients, […]

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arXiv:2601.15465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As digital tools increasingly mediate mental health care, self-clone chatbots can offer a uniquely novel approach to intra-personal exploration and self-derived support. Trained to replicate users’ conversational patterns, self-clones allow users to talk to themselves through their digital replicas. Despite the promises, these systems may carry risks around identity confusion, negative reinforcement, and blurred user agency. Through interviews with 16 mental health professionals and 6 general users, we aim to uncover tensions and […]

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arXiv:2602.06238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Consider multiple users and a fusion center. Each user possesses a sequence of bits and can communicate with the fusion center through a one-way public channel. The fusion center’s task is to compute the sum of all the sequences under the privacy requirement that a set of colluding users, along with the fusion center, cannot gain more than a predetermined amount $delta$ of information, measured through mutual information, about the sequences of other […]

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I first noticed the failure mode on a long chain when Scene 12 looked plausible—but it no longer felt like it belonged to Scene 1. Nothing was “broken” in any single step. The drift was death-by-a-thousand-cuts: each transition was slightly off, and those slight offs multiplied. That’s the moment I stopped thinking about consistency as a global memory problem. In Scenematic, I treat consistency like signal propagation in a circuit. You don’t carry the whole circuit state inside […]

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arXiv:2602.22392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enabling efficient, high-performance data access in parallel file systems (PFS) is critical for today’s high-performance computing systems. PFS client-side I/O heavily impacts the final I/O performance delivered to individual applications and the entire system. Autotuning the key client-side I/O behaviors has been extensively studied and shows promising results. However, existing work has heavily relied on extensive number of global runtime metrics to monitor and accurate modeling of applications’ I/O patterns. Such heavy overheads […]

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