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Ted Bundy's cousin recalls the chilling moment that exposed the monster within

FOX News

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Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing?

The New Yorker

Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing? In 1934, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit eastern India, killing thousands and devastating several cities. Curiously, in areas that were spared the worst destruction, stories soon spread that an even bigger disaster was on its way. Leon Festinger, a young American psychologist at the University of Minnesota, read about these rumors in the early nineteen-fifties and was puzzled. Festinger didn't think people would voluntarily adopt anxiety-inducing ideas. Instead, he reasoned, the rumors could better be described as "anxiety justifying." Some had felt the earth shake and were overwhelmed with fear. When the outcome--they were spared--didn't match their emotions, they embraced predictions that affirmed their fright.


Watch: Chris Martin surprises couple with performance at their wedding

BBC News

Coldplay's Chris Martin made a surprise appearance at a couple's wedding to play the music for their first dance. The groom's mother had asked the singer for a video message to be played at the wedding of Abbie and James Hotchkiss from Stafford. He went one better, though, and said he would appear in person, with only the newlyweds and the groom's parents in on the secret. Surprised guests saw him walk into the wedding venue, Blithfield Lakeside Barns in Staffordshire, wearing a white beanie hat to perform All My Love at the piano while the couple danced. Guests took a while to notice it was actually him, but didn't want to ruin our wedding day so asked us loads of questions once he'd gone, Mrs Hotchkiss said.


Irish police investigating drone activity during Zelensky visit

BBC News

An Garda Síochána (Irish police force) has launched an investigation after drones were detected in Irish skies on the night the Ukrainian president arrived in Ireland. Volodymyr Zelensky flew into Dublin late on Monday night for a one-day official visit with his wife, First Lady Olena Zelenska. Senior Irish government figures, including Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Micheál Martin, have been briefed on the issue. Martin confirmed it would be discussed at a National Security Council meeting later this month. In a statement, gardaí said its Special Detective Unit (SDU) is investigating the matter and will be liaising with the Defence Forces and international security partners.


Emergent Lexical Semantics in Neural Language Models: Testing Martin's Law on LLM-Generated Text

Kugler, Kai

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

We present the first systematic investigation of Martin's Law - the empirical relationship between word frequency and polysemy - in text generated by neural language models during training. Using DBSCAN clustering of contextualized embeddings as an operationalization of word senses, we analyze four Pythia models (70M-1B parameters) across 30 training checkpoints. Our results reveal a non-monotonic developmental trajectory: Martin's Law emerges around checkpoint 100, reaches peak correlation (r > 0.6) at checkpoint 104, then degrades by checkpoint 105. Smaller models (70M, 160M) experience catastrophic semantic collapse at late checkpoints, while larger models (410M, 1B) show graceful degradation. The frequency-specificity trade-off remains stable (r $\approx$ -0.3) across all models. These findings suggest that compliance with linguistic regularities in LLM-generated text is not monotonically increasing with training, but instead follows a balanced trajectory with an optimal semantic window. This work establishes a novel methodology for evaluating emergent linguistic structure in neural language models.


Deep Learning Games

Neural Information Processing Systems

We investigate a reduction of supervised learning to game playing that reveals new connections and learning methods. For convex one-layer problems, we demonstrate an equivalence between global minimizers of the training problem and Nash equilibria in a simple game. We then show how the game can be extended to general acyclic neural networks with differentiable convex gates, establishing a bijection between the Nash equilibria and critical (or KKT) points of the deep learning problem. Based on these connections we investigate alternative learning methods, and find that regret matching can achieve competitive training performance while producing sparser models than current deep learning approaches.


Reranking Laws for Language Generation: A Communication-Theoretic Perspective

Neural Information Processing Systems

To ensure large language models (LLMs) are used safely, one must reduce their propensity to hallucinate or to generate unacceptable answers. A simple and often used strategy is to first let the LLM generate multiple hypotheses and then employ a reranker to choose the best one.


One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

WIRED

Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. The news last week that Dominion Voting Systems was purchased by the founder and CEO of Knowink, a Missouri-based maker of electronic poll books, has left election integrity activists confused over what, if anything, this could mean for voters and the integrity of US elections. The company, acquired by Scott Leiendecker, a former Republican Party operative and election director in Missouri before founding Knowink, said in a press release that he was rebranding Dominion, which has headquarters in Canada and the United States, under the name Liberty Vote "in a bold and historic move to transform and improve election integrity in America" and to distance the company from false allegations made previously by President Donald Trump and his supporters that the company had rigged the 2020 presidential election to give the win to President Joe Biden. The Liberty release said that the rebranded company will be 100 percent American owned, that it will have a "paper ballot focus" that leverages hand-marked paper ballots, will "prioritize facilitating third-party auditing," and is "committed to domestic staffing and software development." The press release provided no details, however, to explain what this means in practice.


LOMORO: Long-term Monitoring of Dynamic Targets with Minimum Robotic Fleet under Resource Constraints

Lu, Mingke, Wang, Shuaikang, Guo, Meng

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Long-term monitoring of numerous dynamic targets can be tedious for a human operator and infeasible for a single robot, e.g., to monitor wild flocks, detect intruders, search and rescue. Fleets of autonomous robots can be effective by acting collaboratively and concurrently. However, the online coordination is challenging due to the unknown behaviors of the targets and the limited perception of each robot. Existing work often deploys all robots available without minimizing the fleet size, or neglects the constraints on their resources such as battery and memory. This work proposes an online coordination scheme called LOMORO for collaborative target monitoring, path routing and resource charging. It includes three core components: (I) the modeling of multi-robot task assignment problem under the constraints on resources and monitoring intervals; (II) the resource-aware task coordination algorithm iterates between the high-level assignment of dynamic targets and the low-level multi-objective routing via the Martin's algorithm; (III) the online adaptation algorithm in case of unpredictable target behaviors and robot failures. It ensures the explicitly upper-bounded monitoring intervals for all targets and the lower-bounded resource levels for all robots, while minimizing the average number of active robots. The proposed methods are validated extensively via large-scale simulations against several baselines, under different road networks, robot velocities, charging rates and monitoring intervals.