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Somewhat surprised that the Bezos Post allowed that article to hit paper. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rbnonayr4sau6mm2yqt447wj/post/3m4xmwnpnqk2m

Andy Carvin (@acarv.in)
"Roberts’s speechwriter, Evan Myers, suggested that Heritage’s attempts to address accusations of antisemitism would eventually mean he would be required to attend a Shabbat dinner, which he said would conflict with his faith." [contains quote post or other embedded content]

I suspect we’re doing something similar to the tank classifier when we ascribe intelligence to AIs: there are patterns such as (for example) grammatical correctness which we •associate• with this abstract thing called “intelligence,” and we thus mis-infer the existence of everything else we associate with the notion of “intelligence” when we see (for example) correct grammar.
Or should we just call the machine intelligent because we classify it as intelligence because our brains, which we assume are intelligent, think it fits the pattern of intelligence? And now you see what the OP means about “begging the question of intelligence.”

Non-Ferroelectric to Ferroelectric Phase Transition in epitaxial Y:HfO$_2$ via Rapid Thermal Annealing Induced Nitrogen Doping
Soumyajyoti Mondal, Asraful Haque, Binoy Krishna De, Shubham Kumar Parate, Pramod Kumar Yadav, Arup Basak, Kaushal Tiwari, Bhagwati Prasad, Pavan Nukala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02229

Non-Ferroelectric to Ferroelectric Phase Transition in epitaxial Y:HfO$_2$ via Rapid Thermal Annealing Induced Nitrogen Doping
Oxygen vacancies are often essential for stabilizing the orthorhombic ferroelectric phase in HfO$_2$, with cationic doping widely employed to introduce such defects. In contrast, systematic studies on anionic doping to induce ferroelectricity remain largely in nascent stages. On epitaxial Y:HfO$_2$ grown on ITO buffered YSZ substrates that crystallize in a mixed monoclinic (non-polar) and orthorhombic (polar) phases, we introduce nitrogen doping via post deposition rapid thermal annealing (RTA)…

Quantum-Circuit-Based Visual Fractal Image Generation in Qiskit and Analytics
Hillol Biswas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18835 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.188…

Quantum-Circuit-Based Visual Fractal Image Generation in Qiskit and Analytics
As nature is ascribed as quantum, the fractals also pose some intriguing appearance which is found in many micro and macro observable entities or phenomena. Fractals show self-similarity across sizes; structures that resemble the entire are revealed when zoomed in. In Quantum systems, the probability density or wavefunction may exhibit recurring interference patterns at various energy or length scales. Fractals are produced by basic iterative rules (such as Mandelbrot or Julia sets), and they p…

The Origins of Neutron-capture Elements In Globular Cluster M22
Muhammad Zeshan Ashraf, Wenyuan Cui, Hongjie Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18650 https://ar…

The Origins of Neutron-capture Elements In Globular Cluster M22
The chemical abundances of metal-poor stars in globular clusters provide important constraints on their evolutionary scenarios. Using both main r-process and weak r-process patterns, we fit the abundances of s-poor stars in the globular cluster M22. The coefficients of the main and weak r-process components are nearly constant for the sample stars, including s-rich stars. By accounting for the contribution of the s-process from low-mass asymptotic giant branch stars, the abundances of s-rich st…

Stafford to work out with Rams on Saturday https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45980515/matthew-stafford-work-rams-saturday

Ions leaving no tracks
Azat Abdullaev, Javier Garcia Fernandez, Chloe Nozais, Jacques O'Connell, Rustem Tlegenov, Kairolla Sekerbayev, Alexander Azarov, Aleksi Leino, Junlei Zhao, Aldo Artimez Pena, Nikita Medvedev, Zhandos Utegulov, Oystein Prytz, Flyura Djurabekova, Andrej Kuznetsov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07440

Ions leaving no tracks
The paths of swift heavy ions are typically traceable in solids, because of confined electronic interactions along the paths, inducing what is known in literature as 'ion tracks', i.e. nano-sized in cross-section cylindrical zones of modified material extending for microns in length. Such tracks readily form in materials exhibiting low thermal conductivities, in particular insulators or semiconductors, altering the homogeneity of materials. In this work, using recently discovered gamma/beta-Ga2…

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