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Snowpark: Performant, Secure, User-Friendly Data Engineering and AI/ML Next To Your Data
Brandon Baker, Elliott Brossard, Chenwei Xie, Zihao Ye, Deen Liu, Yijun Xie, Arthur Zwiegincew, Nitya Kumar Sharma, Gaurav Jain, Eugene Retunsky, Mike Halcrow, Derek Denny-Brown, Istvan Cseri, Tyler Akidau, Yuxiong He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05904…

Snowpark: Performant, Secure, User-Friendly Data Engineering and AI/ML Next To Your Data
Snowflake revolutionized data analytics with an elastic architecture that decouples compute and storage, enabling scalable solutions supporting data architectures like data lake, data warehouse, data lakehouse, and data mesh. Building on this foundation, Snowflake has advanced its AI Data Cloud vision by introducing Snowpark, a managed turnkey solution that supports data engineering and AI and ML workloads using Python and other programming languages. This paper outlines Snowpark's design obj…

Memo: Meta Superintelligence Labs' products team, led by Nat Friedman, pushes staff to ditch Meta's slow internal systems in favor of external tools like Vercel (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-super

Meta Superintelligence Labs executives are pushing staff to ditch slow internal systems for faster engineering tools
As part of Meta's big bet on superintelligence, it's steering its AI teams to new tools like Vercel and GitHub, as revealed by internal memos.

Detection of New Auroral Emissions at Io and Implications for Its Interaction with the Plasma Torus
Zachariah Milby, Katherine de Kleer, Carl Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04807

Detection of New Auroral Emissions at Io and Implications for Its Interaction with the Plasma Torus
We observed Io's optical aurora in eclipse on six nights between 2022 and 2024 using Keck I/HIRES. Spectra revealed 13 new auroral emissions not identified previously, tripling the total number of optical emissions lines detected at Io. These included the O I lines at 777.4 and 844.6 nm, the Na I lines at 818.3 and 819.5 nm, the [S I] lines at 458.9 and 772.5 nm, the S I triplet at 922.3 nm, the [O II] lines at 732.0 and 733.0 nm and the [S II] lines at 406.9, 407.6, 671.6 and 673.1 nm. We leve…

Excitation Spectra of the ${}^{12}{\rm C}(p,d)$ Reaction near the $\eta'$-Meson Emission Threshold Measured in Coincidence with High-Momentum Protons
R. Sekiya, K. Itahashi, Y. K. Tanaka, S. Hirenzaki, N. Ikeno, V. Metag, M. Nanova, J. Yamagata-Sekihara, V. Drozd, H. Ekawa, H. Geissel, E. Haettner, A. Kasagi, E. Liu, M. Nakagawa, S. Purushothaman, C. Rappold, T. R. Saito, H. Alibrahim Alfaki, F. Amjad, M. Armstrong, K. -H. Behr, J. Benlliure, Z. Brencic, T. Dickel, S. Dubey, S. Esc…

Excitation Spectra of the ${}^{12}{\rm C}(p,d)$ Reaction near the $η'$-Meson Emission Threshold Measured in Coincidence with High-Momentum Protons
The missing mass of the ${}^{12}{\rm C}(p,d)$ reaction has been measured near the $η'$-meson emission threshold in coincidence with a high-momentum proton to selectively collect $η'$-${}^{11}{\rm C}$ mesic nucleus formation events at GSI, Germany. A 2.5 GeV proton excites a carbon nucleus to form an $η'$-mesic nucleus emitting a deuteron forward with an energy of $\sim 1.6$ GeV. The deuteron is momentum-analyzed by the Fragment Separator used as a high-resolution spectrometer to deduce the e…

SDSS-V LVM: Detectability of Wolf-Rayet stars and their He II ionizing flux in low-metallicity environments I. The weak-lined, early-type WN3 stars in the SMC
G. Gonz\'alez-Tor\`a, A. A. C. Sander, E. Egorova, R. R. Lefever, V. Ramachandran, O. V. Egorov, J. Josiek, E. C. Sch\"osser, M. Bernini-Peron, K. Kreckel, A. Wofford, O. G. Telford, P. Senchyna, C. Leitherer, F. -H. Liang, G. Blanc, N. Drory, J. G. Fern\'andez-Trincado, E. J. Johnston, A. J. Mej\'ia-Narv\'ae…

SDSS-V LVM: Detectability of Wolf-Rayet stars and their He II ionizing flux in low-metallicity environments I. The weak-lined, early-type WN3 stars in the SMC
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is the nearest low-metallicity dwarf galaxy. Its proximity and low reddening has enabled us to detect its Wolf-Rayet (WR) star population with 12 known objects. Quantitative spectroscopy of the stars revealed half of these WR stars to be strong sources of He ii ionizing flux, but the average metallicity of the SMC is below where WR bumps are usually detected in integrated galaxy spectra showing nebular He ii emission. Utilizing the Local Volume Mapper (LVM), we …

The Laude Institute, a nonprofit that runs the K Prize multi-round AI coding challenge, says a Brazilian prompt engineer won with just 7.5% of the right answers (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/a-ne

A new AI coding challenge just published its first results – and they aren’t pretty | TechCrunch
A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.  On Wednesday at 5pm PST, the

Preparing students for the quantum information revolution: Interdisciplinary teaching, curriculum development, and advising in quantum information science and engineering
Fargol Seifollahi, Chandralekha Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00150

Preparing students for the quantum information revolution: Interdisciplinary teaching, curriculum development, and advising in quantum information science and engineering
As the field of quantum information science and engineering (QISE) continues its rapid growth, there are increasing concerns about the workforce demands and the necessity of preparing students for quantum-related careers. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the field, it is necessary to offer diverse educational opportunities to ensure that students are well-prepared for careers emerging from the second quantum revolution. In this paper, we present our findings from a qualitative study involv…

Vibe Coding: Is Human Nature the Ghost in the Machine?
Cory Knobel, Nicole Radziwill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20918 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20918

Vibe Coding: Is Human Nature the Ghost in the Machine?
This exploratory study examined the consistency of human-AI collaboration by analyzing three extensive "vibe coding" sessions between a human product lead and an AI software engineer. We investigated similarities and differences in team dynamics, communication patterns, and development outcomes across both projects. To our surprise, later conversations revealed that the AI agent had systematically misrepresented its accomplishments, inflating its contributions and systematically downplaying imp…

Diversity of Cold Worlds: Predicted Near- to Mid-infrared Spectral Signatures of a Cold Brown Dwarf with Potential Auroral Heating
Genaro Su\'arez (American Museum of Natural History), Jacqueline K. Faherty (American Museum of Natural History), Ben Burningham (University of Hertfordshire), Caroline V. Morley (University of Texas at Austin), Johanna M. Vos (Trinity College Dublin), Brianna Lacy (University of California Santa Cruz, NASA Ames Research Center), Melanie J. Rowland (Ame…

Diversity of Cold Worlds: Predicted Near- to Mid-infrared Spectral Signatures of a Cold Brown Dwarf with Potential Auroral Heating
Recent JWST/NIRSpec observations have revealed strong methane emission at 3.326 microns in the $\approx$482 K brown dwarf CWISEP J193518.59$-$154620.3 (W1935). Atmospheric modeling suggests the presence of a $\approx$300 K thermal inversion in its upper atmosphere, potentially driven by auroral activity. We present an extension of the retrieved spectra of W1935 with and without inversion spanning 1--20 microns, to identify thermal inversion-sensitive spectral features and explore the origin of …

Innovative building material: cardboard-confined rammed earth. Strong, cheap, sustainable - revolutionizing construction with lower carbon footprint and waste. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

This surprising building material is strong, cheap, and sustainable
A team at RMIT University has created a cement-free construction material using only cardboard, soil, and water. Strong enough for low-rise buildings, it reduces emissions, costs, and waste compared to concrete. The lightweight, on-site process makes it ideal for remote areas, while its thermal properties naturally cool buildings. Researchers see it as a key step toward greener, more resilient architecture.