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This review examines the Critical AI, "Humanities in the Loop," which argues for the constitutive participation of the interpretive humanities in artificial intelligence research, design, and governan…

This review examines the Critical AI, "Humanities in the Loop," which argues for the constitutive participation of the interpretive humanities in artificial intelligence research, design, and governance. The review evaluates the essay's framing of three core dilemmas: reductive and contested meanings of "intelligence," problematic benchmarks for "AGI," and the intertwined issues of bias, error, and concentrated technological power. The argument is situated within converging scholarly traditions, including the "stochastic parrots" critique advanced with the post-Saussurean theory from Derrida, Bakhtin, and Jameson, and the historical critiques of Weizenbaum and Arendt regarding the separation of judgment from calculation. The review finds that the essay's central methodological contribution is its shift from langue to parole, from language as system to language as enacted use, which reframes the human-machine relation around the irreducibility of vouloir-dire, the "desire to say," to statistical prediction. However, the review identifies three limitations: the essay's scope as an editor's introduction, its relative inattention to the political economy of AI development, and its predominantly English-language focus, which limits its applicability to low-resource language contexts where linguistic erasure, rather than anthropomorphic projection, is the primary risk. The review concludes that the most valuable contribution lies not in definitive answers but in carving out space for patient, theoretically informed critique that refuses both technodeterminist despair and techno-utopianism, positioning the humanities as essential interlocutors in the governance of accountable technology in the public interest.

Run records and input data for the paper "When does diversity help in active learning? A large-scale empirical study of uncertainty, diversity and worst-case risk" (E. Bertrand-Bonvillain, Y. Nasser, …

Run records and input data for the paper "When does diversity help in active learning? A large-scale empirical study of uncertainty, diversity and worst-case risk" (E. Bertrand-Bonvillain, Y. Nasser, F. Ros, submitted to Neurocomputing). records.zip: 36,120 run records (one JSON per regime, dataset, classifier, split and strategy): 43 datasets (16 synthetic, 15 tabular, 12 image embeddings) x 2 classifiers (logistic regression, random forest) x 20 paired splits x 21 strategies. Each record stores the protocol hash, code version, seeds, data hashes, learning curve, uncertain-band widths, timings and the pool points queried at every round. check_report.json is the integrity report (complete, consistent, clean). data.zip: input data. data/tab/reeltabulaire: the 15 tabular datasets (.txt, label in the last column). data/latent/latent_pca{10,20,50,100}H3: ResNet-18 (ImageNet weights) embeddings of MNIST, Fashion-MNIST and CIFAR-10 reduced by PCA to 10, 20, 50 and 100 dimensions. Synthetic datasets are regenerated from the protocol and are not included. Code and one-command reproduction of every table and figure: https://github.com/frederic-ros/when-does-diversity-help (release v1.0.0). Original data sources: tabular datasets from the UCI Machine Learning Repository and OpenML; MNIST (LeCun et al.), Fashion-MNIST (Xiao et al., 2017), CIFAR-10 (Krizhevsky, 2009).

Paxta eng ko'p suv talab qiladigan dala ekinlaridan biri hisoblanadi: qishloq xo'jaligi global chuchuk suvning taxminan 70% ini iste'mol qiladi, shundan taxminan 11% i faqat paxtaga to'g'ri keladi [1]…

Paxta eng ko'p suv talab qiladigan dala ekinlaridan biri hisoblanadi: qishloq xo'jaligi global chuchuk suvning taxminan 70% ini iste'mol qiladi, shundan taxminan 11% i faqat paxtaga to'g'ri keladi [1]. O'zbekistonda sug'oriladigan dehqonchilik milliy suv resurslarining 90% dan ortig'ini sarflaydi, iqlim o'zgarishi va Orol dengizi inqirozining oqibatlari esa suv tejovchi sug'orishni milliy ustuvor vazifaga aylantirdi [2]; amaldagi davlat siyosati 2030-yilgacha 2 million gektar, ya'ni sug'oriladigan yerlarning 50% ini suv tejovchi sug'orish texnologiyalari bilan ta'minlashni ko'zda tutadi [3]. Aniq suv boshqaruvi – tuproq, o'simlik yoki atmosfera o'lchovlari asosida suvni kerakli miqdorda, kerakli vaqtda va kerakli joyga yetkazib berish – ekin hosildorligini suv tanqisligi bilan muvofiqlashtirish imkonini beradi, biroq O'zbekistonga tegishli dalillar agronomiya, muhandislik va ijtimoiy-iqtisodiy adabiyotlarda tarqoq bo'lib, kamdan-kam hollarda yagona asosda solishtiriladi.

This archive documents an R workflow to standardize species names with the WorldFlora package, using taxonomic backbone datasets from World Flora Online and the World Checklist of Vascular Plants. The…

This archive documents an R workflow to standardize species names with the WorldFlora package, using taxonomic backbone datasets from World Flora Online and the World Checklist of Vascular Plants. The workflow was prepared initially to be uploaded onto the Rpubs server as an update of a previous workflow (see here), but this server is now being retired. This publication was initiated partially from ongoing work in a Darwin Initiative project (DAREX001]) that developed The Global Biodiversity Standard (https://www.biodiversitystandard.org/). Through (co-)funding by this project, the GlobalUsefulNativeTrees, EcoregionsTreeFinder and Tree Globally Observed Environmental Ranges databases were released. Similar scripts were also used to create the Agroforestry Species Switchboard database.

La creciente competitividad electoral y la confiabilidad de los datos electorales en México tienen un resultado colateral muy positivo para el desarrollo de una nueva disciplina: la geograf&iac…

La creciente competitividad electoral y la confiabilidad de los datos electorales en México tienen un resultado colateral muy positivo para el desarrollo de una nueva disciplina: la geografía política. La posibilidad de contar con datos congruentes sobre el comportamiento electoral de las regiones del país facilita la posibilidad de intentar cruzamientos y juegos estadísticos con otros indicadores, como son los diversos índices de bienestar social –ingreso de los hogares, niveles educativos, ocupaciones, servicios, salud, etcétera , tanto los simples como los compuestos.  Se trata de observar el comportamiento electoral como una expresión posible de ser relacionada con el entorno social y explicada en función de los cambios –positivos o negativos   que se registren en los indicadores del nivel de vida, para obtener conclusiones que puedan ser ampliadas o comparadas con casos similares en otras regiones del país.Este trabajo es un acercamiento a esta temática político-social, y es un esfuerzo que se inscribe dentro del proyecto general “Cultura política y pobreza en México”, que coordinaron las doctoras María Eugenia Valdés (UAM-I) y Silvia Gómez Tagle (ColMex). El autor es responsable de la indagación en Guanajuato, una de las entidades federativas que han acusado un fuerte dinamismo político-electoral tanto a escala estatal como en sus municipios. Se trata de trabajar sobre los indicadores más importantes del nivel de vida y su reflejo en lo político: el activismo y la participación por el acceso a servicios, la educación, la salud, el factor étnico, la migración, la violencia, etcétera. The growing electoral competitiveness and the reliability of electoral data in Mexico have yielded a highly positive side effect for the development of a new discipline: political geography. The availability of consistent data on electoral behavior across the country's regions facilitates the cross-referencing and statistical analysis of this information against other indicators—such as various social well-being indices (household income, education levels, occupations, public services, health, etc.), whether simple or composite. The aim is to view electoral behavior as a phenomenon that can be linked to the social environment and explained in terms of changes—positive or negative—in standard-of-living indicators, thereby drawing conclusions that can be expanded upon or compared with similar cases in other regions of the country.This study approaches this socio-political subject matter as part of the broader project "Political Culture and Poverty in Mexico," coordinated by Dr. María Eugenia Valdés (UAM-I) and Dr. Silvia Gómez Tagle (ColMex). The author is responsible for the research conducted in Guanajuato, a state that has demonstrated significant political-electoral dynamism at both the state and municipal levels. The work focuses on key standard-of-living indicators and their political manifestations—such as activism and participation regarding access to services, education, and healthcare, as well as factors like ethnicity, migration, and violence.

Туберкулёз спондилитида Mycobacterium tuberculosis таъсирида шаклланган сурункали яллиғланиш маҳаллий суяк деструкцияси билан чекланиб қолмай, бутун организмда метаболик ўзгаришларга олиб келади. Каса…

Туберкулёз спондилитида Mycobacterium tuberculosis таъсирида шаклланган сурункали яллиғланиш маҳаллий суяк деструкцияси билан чекланиб қолмай, бутун организмда метаболик ўзгаришларга олиб келади. Касаллик фонида иштаҳа пасайиши, энергия сарфининг ортиши ва катаболик жараёнларнинг кучайиши оқсил алмашинувининг бузилиши учун шароит яратади. Нутритив етишмовчилик эса ўз навбатида ҳужайравий иммунитетни сусайтириб, инфекцион жараённинг узоқ давом этишига ёрдам бериши мумкин [1, 5].

This philosophical essay examines how contingent, weak, marginal, and anomalous phenomena acquire intellectual or practical significance through judgment. Its comparison concerns two historically gene…

This philosophical essay examines how contingent, weak, marginal, and anomalous phenomena acquire intellectual or practical significance through judgment. Its comparison concerns two historically generated role configurations rather than two demographic classes. The first is a historically generative scholarly role: a relational position through which scholarly communities and wider social institutions can expect intergenerational reception, interpretation, preservation, transmission, revision, and extension of bodies of learning under concrete historical conditions. The second is the traditional sage figure, reconstructed as a heterogeneous cultural role oriented toward subtle change, timing, conduct, and situational responsiveness. Neither role guarantees wisdom, competence, or reliable intuition. The paper distinguishes scholarly problem formation from sage-oriented situational orientation while showing how their practices can overlap. It reconstructs an illustrative, non-exhaustive set of scholarly capacities and an account of mediated judgment in which aesthetic, epistemic, normative, historical, systemic, situational, and temporal considerations shape whether a contingency is investigated, preserved, communicated, acted upon, or left provisionally unresolved. Higher-order capacities, including knowledge migration and cross-domain translation, can emerge from combinations of these judgments and relational practices rather than constituting fixed traits. Calibration separates sensitivity to weak signals from warranted confidence and from the practical threshold for response. The resulting proposal, a practical epistemology of contingency, studies the interval between encounter and stabilized problem or decision, including the selective attention and preservation through which inherited problem spaces are formed. Classical materials are used interpretively; they do not provide empirical validation of divinatory or prognostic claims.