technocracy

A busy week. I finished my Aerial Robotics course! The next in the Specialization is Computational Motion Planning, which I am more excited about – mainly because the curriculum goes more towards my areas of expertise. Aerial Robotics was challenging primarily because I was doing a lot of physics/calculus which I had not attempted since a long time. Onto the articles for this week: Colab is now public! Google made Colaboratory, a previously-internal tool public. ‘Colab’ is a […]

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arXiv:2602.23672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study proposes the General Bayes framework for policy learning. We consider decision problems in which a decision-maker chooses an action from an action set to maximize its expected welfare. Typical examples include treatment choice and portfolio selection. In such problems, the statistical target is a decision rule, and the prediction of each outcome $Y(a)$ is not necessarily of primary interest. We formulate this policy learning problem by loss-based Bayesian updating. Our main […]

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When capability scales faster than interpretation, trust erodes before anyone notices The Failure Most Teams Don’t Instrument Most system failures don’t start with broken tools. n They startwhen capability scales faster than interpretation. AI ships output faster than teams can review or debug. n Startups ship demos faster than users can integrate or rely on. n Markets ship leverage faster than anyone can trace where risk actually sits. Throughput goes up. Latency is ignored. Confidence stays green. But […]

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Mobile Fortify, the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters, is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike. That’s why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and civil rights organizations are demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shut down the use of Mobile Fortify, release the agency’s privacy analyses of the app, and clarify the agency’s policy […]

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FL has emerged as a transformative paradigm for ITS, notably camera-based Road Condition Classification (RCC). However, by enabling collaboration, FL-based RCC exposes the system to adversarial participants launching Targeted Label-Flipping Attacks (TLFAs). Malicious clients (vehicles) can relabel their local training data (e.g., from an actual uneven road to a wrong smooth road), consequently compromising global model predictions and jeopardizing transportation safety. Existing countermeasures against such poisoning attacks fail to maintain resilient model performance near the necessary attack-free levels […]

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arXiv:2604.08570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for code generation, yet quantum code generation is still evaluated mostly within single frameworks, making it difficult to separate quantum reasoning from framework familiarity. We introduce QuanBench+, a unified benchmark spanning Qiskit, PennyLane, and Cirq, with 42 aligned tasks covering quantum algorithms, gate decomposition, and state preparation. We evaluate models with executable functional tests, report Pass@1 and Pass@5, and use KL-divergence-based acceptance for probabilistic outputs. We […]

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Numerical weather prediction has long been constrained by the computational bottlenecks inherent in data assimilation and numerical modeling. While machine learning has accelerated forecasting, existing models largely serve as "emulators of reanalysis products," thereby retaining their systematic biases and operational latencies. Here, we present FuXiWeather2, a unified end-to-end neural framework for assimilation and forecasting. We align training objectives directly with a combination of real-world observations and reanalysis data, enabling the framework to effectively rectify inherent errors within reanalysis […]

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In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python’s assert: Debug and Test Your Code Like a Pro. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how assertions help you debug, test, and document your code, when to disable them in production, and which common pitfalls to avoid. [ Improve Your Python With 🐍 Python Tricks 💌 – Get a short & sweet Python Trick delivered to your inbox every couple of days. >> Click here to learn more […]

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Victoria, Seychelles, February 9, 2026 As Bitcoin trades below $69,000 following its October 2025 peak of $126,000, MEXC Chief Operating Officer Vugar Usi outlined why retail-focused exchanges are gaining ground in an increasingly institutionalized market during last week’s CoinGecko Meetup #33. Leading MEXC, the fastest-growing global cryptocurrency exchange redefining a user-first approach to digital assets through true zero-fee trading, Usi charted a strategic path forward that leverages retail strength in uncertain times. The smartest investors aren’t just getting […]

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arXiv:2505.18526v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning expressive kernels while retaining tractable inference remains a central challenge in scaling Gaussian processes (GPs) to large and complex datasets. We propose a scalable GP regressor based on deep basis kernels (DBKs). Our DBK is constructed from a small set of neural-network-parameterized basis functions with an explicit low-rank structure. This formulation immediately enables linear-complexity inference with respect to the number of samples, possibly without inducing points. DBKs provide a unifying perspective that […]

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