arXiv:2601.12134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI assistance becomes embedded in programming practice, researchers have increasingly examined how these systems help learners generate code and work more efficiently. However, these studies often position AI as a replacement for human collaboration and overlook the social and learning-oriented aspects that emerge in collaborative programming. Our work introduces human-human-AI (HHAI) triadic programming, where an AI agent serves as an additional collaborator rather than a substitute for a human partner. Through a […]

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arXiv:2601.11744v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study nonasymptotic (finite-sample) confidence intervals for treatment effects in randomized experiments. In the existing literature, the effective sample sizes of nonasymptotic confidence intervals tend to be looser than the corresponding central-limit-theorem-based confidence intervals by a factor depending on the square root of the propensity score. We show that this performance gap can be closed, designing nonasymptotic confidence intervals that have the same effective sample size as their asymptotic counterparts. Our approach involves […]

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arXiv:2602.12321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Internet services and applications depend critically on the availability and acc uracy of network time. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is one of the oldest core network protocols and remains the de facto mechanism for clock synchronization across the Internet today. While multiple NTP infrastructures exist, one, the “NTP Pool,” presents an attractive attack target for two basic reasons, it is: 1) administratively distributed and based on volunteer servers; and 2) heavily utilized, […]

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Recently, some of my mentees—freshmen in college—asked me the question everyone is thinking: “If AI is going to disrupt everything, is it even worth pursuing Computer Science? What do we even do? If there are going to be no jobs in the future, what is the point?” This reminded me of a recent insight from Andrej Karpathy: “I often say that pre-AGI education is useful. Post-AGI education is fun. In a similar way, people go to the gym […]

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arXiv:2601.14348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI tools are increasingly suggested as solutions to assist public agencies with heavy workloads. In public defense, where a constitutional right to counsel meets the complexities of law, overwhelming caseloads and constrained resources, practitioners face especially taxing conditions. Yet, there is little evidence of how AI could meaningfully support defenders’ day-to-day work. In partnership with the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, we develop the NJ BriefBank, a retrieval tool which surfaces […]

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Honestly tired of seeing all the top tier labs pushing their papers to arxiv and publicizing it like crazy on X and other platforms. Like the work hasn’t even been reviewed and becomes a “media trial” just because its from a prestigious institution. The academic system needs a serious overhaul. submitted by /u/casualcreak [link] [comments]

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arXiv:2603.03387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clustering is a fundamental approach to understanding data patterns, wherein the intuitive Euclidean distance space is commonly adopted. However, this is not the case for implicit cluster distributions reflected by qualitative attribute values, e.g., the nominal values of attributes like symptoms, marital status, etc. This paper, therefore, discovered a tree-like distance structure to flexibly represent the local order relationship among intra-attribute qualitative values. That is, treating a value as the vertex of the […]

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Guess what? There are some useful and fun software programs around for pet owners, too. We can even use some projects for free. The open-source world is full of clever, heartfelt projects that help shelters, protect lost animals, or make it easier to manage your pet’s day-to-day life. Many of these tools run on passion instead of big budgets, which means small donations can truly keep them going. So today, we’ll look at five open-source and free pet-related […]

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arXiv:2603.00585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in video generation have opened new avenues for macroscopic simulation of complex dynamic systems, but their application to microscopic phenomena remains largely unexplored. Microscale simulation holds great promise for biomedical applications such as drug discovery, organ-on-chip systems, and disease mechanism studies, while also showing potential in education and interactive visualization. In this work, we introduce MicroWorldBench, a multi-level rubric-based benchmark for microscale simulation tasks. MicroWorldBench enables systematic, rubric-based evaluation through 459 […]

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