The integration of Non-player characters (NPCs) within digital environments has been increasingly recognized for its potential to augment user immersion and cognitive engagement. The sophisticated orchestration of their daily activities, reflecting the nuances of human daily routines, contributes significantly to the realism of digital environments. Nevertheless, conventional approaches often produce monotonous repetition, falling short of capturing the intricacies of real human activity plans. In response to this, we introduce ORACLE, a novel generative model for the synthesis of […]

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We investigate the geometrical structure underlying the notion of Inferential Scattering, which was formulated by E. T. Jaynes in the 1980s using the language of equilibrium statistical mechanics. We show that inferential scattering can be naturally defined on a dually flat Riemannian manifold equipped with dual coordinate systems, a differential- geometric structure that occupies a central place in information geometry. We find that the evolution of the system on the dually flat manifold can be expressed as the […]

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arXiv:2602.20398v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Competition complexity formalizes a compelling intuition: rather than refining the mechanism, how much additional competition is sufficient for a simple mechanism to compete with an optimal one? We begin the study of this question in multi-unit pricing for welfare maximization using prophet inequalities. An online decision-maker observes $m geq k$ nonnegative values drawn independently from a known distribution, may select up to $k$ of them, and aims to maximize the expected sum of […]

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A step-by-step guide to containerizing a FastAPI application with Docker and deploying it to the cloud for consistent, production-ready delivery. Modern applications rarely live in isolation. They move between laptops, staging servers, and production environments. Each environment has its own quirks, missing libraries, or slightly different configurations. This is where many “works on my machine” problems begin. Docker was created to solve this exact issue, and it has become a core skill for anyone building and deploying software […]

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Canguilhem argues that while machines can imitate life, only living beings create their own rules for survival. A machine obeys commands; an organism invents its own norms. Life isn’t just mechanical function—it’s the power to adapt, to value, to define what “working” even means. Living things aren’t built—they build themselves.

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In this work, we study the mechanical behavior of solids with microstructure using the framework of Cosserat elasticity with a single unit director. This formulation captures the coupling between deformation and orientational fields that arises in many structured materials. To compute equilibrium configurations of such media, we develop two complementary computational approaches: a finite element formulation based on variational principles and a neural network-based solver that directly minimizes the total potential energy. The neural architecture is constructed to […]

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arXiv:2602.00945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs are multilingual by training, yet their lingua franca is often English, reflecting English language dominance in pretraining. Other languages remain in parametric memory but are systematically suppressed. We argue that language defaultness is governed by a sparse, low-rank control circuit, language neurons, that can be mechanistically isolated and safely steered. We introduce Neural FOXP2, that makes a chosen language (Hindi or Spanish) primary in a model by steering language-specific neurons. Neural FOXP2 […]

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Every failed decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) tells roughly the same story: a burst of idealism, a Discord server with too many channels, and a treasury someone eventually walked off with. Magenta Ceiba has spent years building the exceptions. As a project manager at dOrg, one of the few DAOs that has quietly kept working since 2019 and the first ever legally recognized as an LLC in the US, and co-founder of Bloom Network, a regenerative social cooperative building […]

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