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"The destruction of the climate by industrial processes is a real-world problem. If programming language selection has no impact on it, then maybe we’re all just wasting our time, creating shiny consumer distractions to make the last few years of humanity that little more palatable for the richest 1% of the world’s human population."

Choosing A Programming Language
Selecting the correct programming language for a particular task often feels like a bunfight. Suggestions are thrown around based on the individual's preferences and desires. The experience is very likely to leave one feeling that programming is an art, rather than a science.

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
-Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration

CPU-Based Layout Design for Picker-to-Parts Pallet Warehouses
Timo Looms, Lin Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04266 https://arxiv.org/…

CPU-Based Layout Design for Picker-to-Parts Pallet Warehouses
Picker-to-parts pallet warehouses often face inefficiencies due to conventional layouts causing excessive travel distances and high labor requirements. This study introduces a novel layout design inspired by CPU architecture, partitioning warehouse space into specialized zones, namely Performance (P), Efficiency (E), and Shared (S). Discrete-event simulation is used to evaluate this design against traditional rectangular (random and ABC storage) and Flying-V layouts. Results demonstrate signifi…

"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
-Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Adaptive Traffic-Following Scheme for Orderly Distributed Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems
Anahita Jain, Husni Idris, John-Paul Clarke, Daniel Delahaye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00703

Adaptive Traffic-Following Scheme for Orderly Distributed Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems
We present an adaptive control scheme to enable the emergence of order within distributed, autonomous multi-agent systems. Past studies showed that under high-density conditions, order generated from traffic-following behavior reduces travel times, while under low densities, choosing direct paths is more beneficial. In this paper, we leveraged those findings to allow aircraft to independently and dynamically adjust their degree of traffic-following behavior based on the current state of the air…

Computational Complexity of Model-Checking Quantum Pushdown Systems
Deren Lin, Tianrong Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18439 https://…

Computational Complexity of Model-Checking Quantum Pushdown Systems
In this paper, we study the problem of model-checking quantum pushdown systems from a computational complexity point of view. We arrive at the following equally important, interesting new results: We first extend the notions of the {\it probabilistic pushdown systems} and {\it Markov chains} to their quantum analogues and investigate the question of whether it is necessary to define a quantum analogue of {\it probabilistic computational tree logic} to describe the probabilistic and branching-…

Binary Neutron Star Mergers as Potential Sources for Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays and High-Energy Neutrinos
Gang Guo, Yong-Zhong Qian, Meng-Ru Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17581

Binary Neutron Star Mergers as Potential Sources for Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays and High-Energy Neutrinos
Recent studies suggest that the most energetic cosmic rays, exceeding 100 EeV, may primarily consist of $r$-process nuclei. This highlights binary neutron star mergers and collapsars as promising sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). Building on these insights, we examine the conditions that facilitate the efficient production of UHE $r$-process nuclei during the prompt radiation (PR), extended emission (EE), and plateau emission phases of short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) following n…

It all fits. Suppose you’re corporate leadership. You’re laying people off / refusing to hire because you have no clue what things will look like even 1 or 2 years in the future, and you are •terrified•.
Meanwhile, your investors, your gullible trend-chasing investors, are already mentally dividing companies into “pre-AI” and “post-AI.” And not only do you have no idea how to be “post-AI,” but you have no idea whether you’ll be solvent next year. What do you tell them?!??
Obviously you tell them you’re not hiring because you’re having such incredible success with AI! Maybe even you’re going to lay off all the senior people! They’ll love that!
Now you’re not failing and flailing — you’re leading the march into the future! Yay!

Some recent popular books “explaining” music are actually awful. They commit the naturalistic fallacy with flair - as if the sweep of nature had quietly handed us a tidy little musical rulebook. I come away not with understanding but with a feeling of aesthetic conscription. Or constipation.

"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
-Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration