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Quantum-centric simulation of hydrogen abstraction by sample-based quantum diagonalization and entanglement forging
Tyler Smith, Tanvi P. Gujarati, Mario Motta, Ben Link, Ieva Liepuoniute, Triet Friedhoff, Hiromichi Nishimura, Nam Nguyen, Kristen S. Williams, Javier Robledo Moreno, Caleb Johnson, Kevin J. Sung, Abdullah Ash Saki, Marna Kagele
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Quantum-centric simulation of hydrogen abstraction by sample-based quantum diagonalization and entanglement forging
The simulation of electronic systems is an anticipated application for quantum-centric computers, i.e. heterogeneous architectures where classical and quantum processing units operate in concert. An important application is the computation of radical chain reactions, including those responsible for the photodegradation of composite materials used in aerospace engineering. Here, we compute the activation energy and reaction energy for hydrogen abstraction from 2,2-diphenyldipropane, used as a mi…

Virtualizing RAN: Science, Strategy, and Architecture of Software-Defined Mobile Networks
Ryan Barker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09878 https://

Virtualizing RAN: Science, Strategy, and Architecture of Software-Defined Mobile Networks
Virtualising the Radio Access Network (RAN) is widely touted as the corner-stone of affordable 5G and a prerequisite for AI-native 6G. Yet current discourse often isolates spectrum policy, cloud engineering and organisational readiness into silos. This paper delivers an integrated analysis that spans science, technology, business strategy and culture. I first review spectrum-auction economics and show-via a comparative study of T-Mobile US and Verizon-that mid-band contiguity leveraged through …

Dumping Google’s enshittified search for Kagi - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/

Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi
Enough is enough: I’ve jettisoned Google in favor of a search engine that doesn’t treat me like a product.

"At one point, an ICE agent addressed a protester, saying 'Just keep a distance. We get it alright, we get it.' A protestor responded, 'If you get it, why are you doing this?'
"'You know that’s not what I meant,' the agent said."
#FuckICE #IceOutofTheBay

Video: ICE agents brandish rifles, drive through protesters at S.F. immigration court
Immigration agents clashed protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.

The initial evolution of SN 1993J: Piston phase versus standard model
C. -I. Bjornsson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07137 https://arxiv…

The initial evolution of SN 1993J: Piston phase versus standard model
The evolution of SN 1993J is unlikely to be self-similar. Spatially resolved VLBI-observations show that the velocity of the outer rim of the radio emission region brakes at a few hundred days. The reason for this break remains largely unknown. It is argued here that it is due to the transition between an initial piston phase to a later phase, which is described by the standard model. The properties of the reverse shock are quite different for a piston phase as compared to the standard self-sim…

MIRROR: Cognitive Inner Monologue Between Conversational Turns for Persistent Reflection and Reasoning in Conversational LLMs
Nicole Hsing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00430

MIRROR: Cognitive Inner Monologue Between Conversational Turns for Persistent Reflection and Reasoning in Conversational LLMs
Human intelligence relies on inner monologue to process complex information through simultaneous reflection, memory retrieval, and response formulation. We introduce MIRROR (Modular Internal Reasoning, Reflection, Orchestration, and Response), a cognitive architecture that systematically implements these parallel reasoning capabilities in large language models. MIRROR operates as a unified system with two distinct functional layers: the Thinker and the Talker. The Thinker encompasses: (1) the I…

UiS-IAI@LiveRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Information Nugget-Based Generation of Responses
Weronika {\L}ajewska, Ivica Kostric, Gabriel Iturra-Bocaz, Mariam Arustashvili, Krisztian Balog
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22210

UiS-IAI@LiveRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Information Nugget-Based Generation of Responses
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) faces challenges related to factual correctness, source attribution, and response completeness. The LiveRAG Challenge hosted at SIGIR'25 aims to advance RAG research using a fixed corpus and a shared, open-source LLM. We propose a modular pipeline that operates on information nuggets-minimal, atomic units of relevant information extracted from retrieved documents. This multistage pipeline encompasses query rewriting, passage retrieval and reranking, nugget d…

i was put in charge of three grandchildren for a few hours yesterday so we headed straight to ben & jerry's to split a milkshake, then explored the state theater (and even sneaked into a movie but later got thrown out for horsing around on the escalator), then i gave a nickel tour of angell/mason/haven halls, then they chased squirrels on the diag which took longer than you might think, then we looked in all the windows in nickels arcade. it all went slowly and well.

Hiding behind a curtain of dust: Gas and dust properties of an ultra-luminous strongly-lensed z = 3.75 galaxy behind the Milky Way disk
Bel\'en Alcalde Pampliega, Kevin C. Harrington, Aristeidis Amvrosiadis, Manuel Aravena, Min S. Yun, Hugo Messias, Antonio Hern\'an-Caballero, Leindert Boogaard, Axel Wei{\ss}, Benjamin Beauchesne, Alejandro Santamar\'ia-Miranda, Monica Ivette Rodriguez, Eric Jim\'enez-Andrade, Manuel Solimano, James Lowenthal, Pascale Hibon, Patrick Kam…

Hiding behind a curtain of dust: Gas and dust properties of an ultra-luminous strongly-lensed z = 3.75 galaxy behind the Milky Way disk
We present a detailed analysis of J154506, a strongly lensed submillimeter galaxy (SMG) behind the Lupus-I molecular cloud, and characterization of its physical properties. Using a combination of archival and new data (including sub-arcsecond resolution ($\sim0.75$) ALMA observations, VLT/MUSE and FORS2 optical data, as well as spectral scans from the ACA and the LMT) we identify two high-significance (SNR>5) emission lines at 97.0 and 145.5 GHz, corresponding to CO(4-3) and CO(6-5), respective…

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Luciano Berio, Sarah Aristidou, Ensemble intercontemporain & Pierre Bleuse:
🎵 Recital I
#LucianoBerio #SarahAristidou #Ensembleintercontemporain #PierreBleuse
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