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The GAPS programme at TNG XYZ. A sub-Neptune suitable for atmospheric characterization in a multiplanet and mutually inclined system orbiting the bright K dwarf TOI-5789 (HIP 99452)
A. S. Bonomo, L. Naponiello, A. Sozzetti, S. Benatti, I. Carleo, K. Biazzo, P. E. Cubillos, M. Damasso, C. Di Maio, C. Dorn, N. Hara, D. Polychroni, M. -L. Steinmeyer, K. A. Collins, S. Desidera, X. Dumusque, A. F. Lanza, B. S. Safonov, C. Stockdale, D. Turrini, C. Ziegler, L. Affer, M. D'Arpa, V. Farde…

The GAPS programme at TNG XYZ. A sub-Neptune suitable for atmospheric characterization in a multiplanet and mutually inclined system orbiting the bright K dwarf TOI-5789 (HIP 99452)
Sub-Neptunes with planetary radii of $R_{p} \simeq 2-4 R_{\oplus}$ are the most common planets around solar-type stars in short-period ($P<100$ d) orbits. It is still unclear, however, what their most likely composition is, that is whether they are predominantly gas dwarfs or water worlds. The sub-Neptunes orbiting bright host stars are very valuable because they are suitable for atmospheric characterization, which can break the well-known degeneracy in planet composition from the planet bulk d…

"How climate change could affect production of the world’s favorite fruit, the banana"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Food

How climate change could affect production of the world’s favorite fruit, the banana
Sweet, savory, raw, fried or baked. A main course, side dish, dessert or smoothie. Raise a hand: Who doesn’t have at least one fond memory of the world’s most widely consumed fruit, the banana? Maybe it’s because of its shape, texture or how easily it can be peeled and prepared (when it’s not eaten raw […]

I'm starting to figure out the "dashboard" for the Beat Bike. I'll have the RD-6 mounted onto a 14"x11" board along with the battery pack for it, and the controller that gets input from the reed switch/magnet at the rear wheel.
The controller needs power, so I may add another battery to the right of it.
(Oh, laser cut banana for scale!)
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#diy

Probing Gender Bias in Multilingual LLMs: A Case Study of Stereotypes in Persian
Ghazal Kalhor, Behnam Bahrak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20168 https://arxi…

Probing Gender Bias in Multilingual LLMs: A Case Study of Stereotypes in Persian
Multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used worldwide, making it essential to ensure they are free from gender bias to prevent representational harm. While prior studies have examined such biases in high-resource languages, low-resource languages remain understudied. In this paper, we propose a template-based probing methodology, validated against real-world data, to uncover gender stereotypes in LLMs. As part of this framework, we introduce the Domain-Specific Gender Skew I…

Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon explicitly declared the other day that ICE officers will be employed during the 2026 midterm elections in large numbers to monitor voting booths,
again floating undocumented voters as the bullshit pretext to justify it.
Bannon is not in a position to compel this, of course, but it’s clear the MAGA movement now sees Trump’s militarization of cities as a precursor to the use of law enforcement and/or the military to intimidate voters in large num…

Steve Bannon says ICE agents will be near polling places: "If you don't have an ID — if you're not a citizen — you're not voting"

Quantum Boltzmann Machines using Parallel Annealing for Medical Image Classification
Dani\"elle Schuman, Mark V. Seebode, Tobias Rohe, Maximilian Balthasar Mansky, Michael Schroedl-Baumann, Jonas Stein, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Florian Krellner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14116

Quantum Boltzmann Machines using Parallel Annealing for Medical Image Classification
Exploiting the fact that samples drawn from a quantum annealer inherently follow a Boltzmann-like distribution, annealing-based Quantum Boltzmann Machines (QBMs) have gained increasing popularity in the quantum research community. While they harbor great promises for quantum speed-up, their usage currently stays a costly endeavor, as large amounts of QPU time are required to train them. This limits their applicability in the NISQ era. Following the idea of Noè et al. (2024), who tried to allev…

Multi-Robot Task Planning for Multi-Object Retrieval Tasks with Distributed On-Site Knowledge via Large Language Models
Kento Murata, Shoichi Hasegawa, Tomochika Ishikawa, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Akira Taniguchi, Lotfi El Hafi, Tadahiro Taniguchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12838

Multi-Robot Task Planning for Multi-Object Retrieval Tasks with Distributed On-Site Knowledge via Large Language Models
It is crucial to efficiently execute instructions such as "Find an apple and a banana" or "Get ready for a field trip," which require searching for multiple objects or understanding context-dependent commands. This study addresses the challenging problem of determining which robot should be assigned to which part of a task when each robot possesses different situational on-site knowledge-specifically, spatial concepts learned from the area designated to it by the user. We propose a task plannin…

Evidence for Half-Quantized Chiral Edge Current in a C = 1/2 Parity Anomaly State
Deyi Zhuo, Bomin Zhang, Humian Zhou, Han Tay, Xiaoda Liu, Zhiyuan Xi, Chui-Zhen Chen, Cui-Zu Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15525

Evidence for Half-Quantized Chiral Edge Current in a C = 1/2 Parity Anomaly State
A single massive Dirac surface band is predicted to exhibit a half-quantized Hall conductance, a hallmark of the C = 1/2 parity anomaly state in quantum field theory. Experimental signatures of the C = 1/2 parity anomaly state have been observed in semi-magnetic topological insulator (TI) bilayers, yet whether it supports a half-quantized chiral edge current remains elusive. Here, we observe a robust half-quantized Hall conductance plateau in a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)-grown asymmetric magn…

Directly observing relativistic Bohmian mechanics
Yun-Fei Wang, Hui Wang, Tong Zhang, Yi-Teng Ye, Xiao-Yu Wang, Chao-Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11609 https…

Directly observing relativistic Bohmian mechanics
Bohmian mechanics, also referred to as the de Broglie-Bohm pilot-wave theory, represents a deterministic and nonlocal interpretation of quantum mechanics. Since its origination in 1927, despite many attempts, reconciling it with relativistic theory and verification of its relativistic effects have remained elusive. Here, we report a direct observation of relativistic characteristics of Bohmian mechanics. We reconstruct the relativistic Bohmian trajectories of single photons utilizing weak measu…