We study how many riffle shuffles are required to mix n cards if only certain features of the deck are of interest, e.g. suits disregarded or only the colors of interest. For these features, the number of shuffles drops from 3/2 log_2(n) to log_2(n...
We constructed a modular, biomimetic red panda paw with which to experimentally investigate the evolutionary reason for the existence of the false thumbs of red pandas. These thumbs were once believed to have shared a common origin with the similar f...
Volume containing the Late-Breaking Abstracts submitted to the Evo* 2025 Conference, held in Trieste (Italy) from April 23rd to 25th. These extended abstracts showcase ongoing research and preliminary findings exploring the application of various Bio...
Jul 14, 2025 · The 2025 Digital News Report, which distills data from six continents and 48 markets, finds that these traditional news media sources are struggling to connect with the public, with …
Foundation model developers are among the world's most important companies. As these companies become increasingly consequential, how do their transparency practices evolve? The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index is the third edition of an annu...
Current Vision Language Models (VLMs) remain vulnerable to malicious prompts that induce harmful outputs. Existing safety benchmarks for VLMs primarily rely on automated evaluation methods, but these methods struggle to detect implicit harmful conten...
I owe my Trump-supporting friends an apology. I’ve been critical of the Trump presidency these last four years, and am still exhausted from the experience. But to be fair, President Trump wasn’...
Sep 10, 2025 · Trump dines in DC amidst protests, showcasing the political divide and restaurant challenges.
I’ve been critical of the Trump presidency these last four years and am still exhausted from the experience. But to be fair, President Trump wasn’t that bad, other than when he incited an insurr...
I describe some examples in support of the conjecture that the horizon area of a near equilibrium black hole is an adiabatic invariant. These include a Schwarzschild black hole perturbed by quasistatic scalar fields (which may be minimally or nonmi...
We present a spectral analysis of three simultaneous NuSTAR and Swift/XRT observations of the transient Be-neutron star binary KS 1947+300 taken during its outburst in 2013/2014. These broad-band observations were supported by Swift/XRT monitoring sn...
I’m left handed and honestly haven’t thought about it since school. We’re all fortunate to live in an era where it’s not seen as “***devilish***” anymore, and it’s honestly intuitive for...
Browser Security Handbook Written and maintained by Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@google.com>. Copyright 2008, 2009 Google Inc, rights reserved. Released under terms and conditions of the CC-3.0-BY license. Table of Contents → Part 1: Basic concepts behind web brow…
Please scroll through photos! These are my 4 inch wide, 1 inch thick chewy brown butter cookies. I ran my costs and how much each cookie costs, and to be making a profit that's worth my while, 6 dolla...
18 hours ago · African regions are treated under the titles Central Africa, eastern Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, and western Africa; these articles also contain the principal treatment of African …
We present a new proof of the Burkholder-Davis-Gundy inequalities for $1\leq p<\infty$. The novelty of our method is that these martingale inequalities are obtained as consequences of elementary deterministic counterparts. The latter have a natural i...
to remain or continue in existence or use:[no object] How did some of those crazy ideas survive after all these years? survive on, [~ + on + object] to live or exist with just enough of (money, water, food, …
**I am NOT OOP, OOP is u/Antique_Bet_3553** **Originally posted to r/LegaladviceUK** **I spent £17,900 converting aspects of my office (break room, desk, elevator, and disabled bathroom) to make it...
Software engineering for digital health applications entails several challenges, including heterogeneous data acquisition, data standardization, software reuse, security, and privacy considerations. We explore these challenges and how our Stanford Sp...
Electronic health record (EHR) data is collected by individual institutions and often stored across locations in silos. Getting access to these data is difficult and slow due to security, privacy, regulatory, and operational issues. We show, using IC...