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Constrained Sensing and Reliable State Estimation with Shallow Recurrent Decoders on a TRIGA Mark II Reactor
Stefano Riva, Carolina Introini, Jos\`e Nathan Kutz, Antonio Cammi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12368

Constrained Sensing and Reliable State Estimation with Shallow Recurrent Decoders on a TRIGA Mark II Reactor
Shallow Recurrent Decoder networks are a novel data-driven methodology able to provide accurate state estimation in engineering systems, such as nuclear reactors. This deep learning architecture is a robust technique designed to map the temporal trajectories of a few sparse measures to the full state space, including unobservable fields, which is agnostic to sensor positions and able to handle noisy data through an ensemble strategy, leveraging the short training times and without the need for …

OK, let's be clear about #Autism:
A majority of engineers, including software engineers, are #ActuallyAutistic; I suspect a majority of architects and people who invent new stuff generally are; many people in the creative arts are.
Without

Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: terms of reference

#OTD: 13 years ago, I visited the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart.
It is one of Germany's temples to “das Auto”. Architectural gems, this one is by UN Studio.

Just to hammer this home a bit more, I knew a guy who joined the army. I met him after he went AWOL. When he went into the recruiter's office, they asked him if he had any open warrants out for his arrest because they couldn't recruit anyone with a criminal record. He said he did, then they said, "oh, actually, we can help you with all that, don't get caught before we ship you out."
He was just trying to keep himself out of jail. That's not supposed to happen, but it does. IIRC it was on a drug charge, which, also, they're not supposed to take anyone who tests positive for weed... but they also just tell you how to prepare for a drug test.
Another friend joined because she wanted to be part Army Corps of Engineers. A good chunk of the folks I went to school with joined the military after graduation because the other choices were working at the saw mill or working at the canary. If you join the military, you get to go to college. (Or you get to stay out of jail... as long as you don't go AWOL.)

Cool little adapted tale on AI, by Alison Gopnik:
https://simons.berkeley.edu/news/stone-soup-ai

Besuche ein englisches Armenhaus. Erinnert mich an unsere Diskussion ums Bürgergeld.
Das Armengesetz von Elisabeth I. sah die verpflichtende Einweisung vor und verschlechterte gleichzeitig die Bedingungen. Diese wurden zu Orten, die Gefängnissen glichen. Kritiker wie Friedrich Engels beurteilten die Zustände in diesen Arbeitshäusern als so verheerend, dass sie unterstellten, ihr einziger Zweck bestehe darin, arme Menschen davon abzuhalten, staatliche Unterstützung in Anspruch zu nehmen…

Characterization of the Trans-Alfv\'enic Region Using Observations from Parker Solar Probe
Subash Adhikari, Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Joshua Goodwill, William H. Matthaeus, David Ruffolo, Panisara Thepthong, Peera Pongkitiwanichakul, Sohom Roy, Francesco Pecora, Rohit Chhiber, Rayta Pradata, Arcadi Usmanov, Michael Stevens, Samuel Badman, Orlando Romeo, Jiaming Wang, Melvyn L. Goldstein

Characterization of the Trans-Alfvénic Region Using Observations from Parker Solar Probe
Close to Earth the solar wind is usually super-Alfvénic, i.e. the speed of the solar wind is much larger than the Alfvén speed. However, in the lower coronal regions, the solar wind is mostly sub-Alfvénic. With the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) crossing the boundary between the sub- and super-Alfvénic flow, Bandyopadhyay et al. (2022) performed a turbulence characterization of the sub-Alfvénic solar wind with initial data from encounters 8 and 9. In this study, we re-examine the turbulence prop…

"Let us return to 2000: a few days before Joel Spolsky published his Test, Mark Lucovsky gave a talk titled “Windows: A Software-Engineering Odyssey” at the 4th USENIX Windows System Symposium in Seattle, Washington. He was a member of the original Windows NT team from 1988 to the mid-2000s. The PowerPoint slides of the talk are still available online, and I seriously recommend you take a look at them.
Because part of the “odyssey” was, you guessed it, source control."
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Twenty Years Is Nothing
In a previous edition of this magazine, we argued that English was so pervasive in our industry, nobody even questioned its use anymore. The same can be said of Git. It is difficult to imagine that merely twenty years ago, the landscape of source control tools was more diverse, and the choice of one such tool was much more complicated than today. Actually, Git was not even on the map yet. Before debating whether the hegemony of Git is good or bad, let us go back in time for a little while.

Parametric Neural Amp Modeling with Active Learning
Florian Gr\"otschla, Longxiang Jiao, Luca A. Lanzend\"orfer, Roger Wattenhofer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26564 htt…

Parametric Neural Amp Modeling with Active Learning
We introduce Panama, an active learning framework to train parametric guitar amp models end-to-end using a combination of an LSTM model and a WaveNet-like architecture. With \model, one can create a virtual amp by recording samples that are determined through an ensemble-based active learning strategy to minimize the amount of datapoints needed (i.e., amp knob settings). Our strategy uses gradient-based optimization to maximize the disagreement among ensemble models, in order to identify the mo…