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The challenge today isn't the model in isolation—it’s building a system that doesn't crumble when the world throws it a curveball.
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[2606.00235] Civilizational Metamaterials: Engineering Coordination Under Capability Gradients and Structural Turbulence
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2606.00235: Civilizational Metamaterials: Engineering Coordination Under Capability Gradients and Structural Turbulence
[2606.02311] $γ$-CounterBoost: Optimizing response time tails using job type information only
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[2606.02392] Topology as Logic: Structural Role Geometry Across Formal, Software, Biological, and Prebiotic Systems
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2606.02392: Topology as Logic: Structural Role Geometry Across Formal, Software, Biological, and Prebiotic Systems
[2605.31569] A Datalog Framework for Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.31569: A Datalog Framework for Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
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The strongest customer experiences emerge when employee experience, leadership behavior and customer-facing systems reinforce one another.
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[2605.29129] Governing Technical Debt in Agentic AI Systems
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.29129: Governing Technical Debt in Agentic AI Systems
[2605.29385] Closed-Loop Identification of Periodically Time-Varying Systems via Cyclic Reformulation
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.29385: Closed-Loop Identification of Periodically Time-Varying Systems via Cyclic Reformulation
Stragglers, Not Failures: How Adaptive Hedged Requests Reduce p99 Latency by 74 Percent
Stragglers, not failures, drive p99 latency in fan-out architectures. An adaptive hedging mechanism using DDSketch and token bucket budgets reduces tail latency...