Analytic model for neutral penetration and plasma fueling
George J. Wilkie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10906 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…
The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill.
Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector
Emergent anisotropic three-phase order in critically doped superconducting diamond films
Jyotirmay Dwivedi, Jake Morris, Saurav Islam, Kalana D. Halanayake, Gabriel A. Vazquez-Lizardi, David Snyder, Anthony Richardella, Luke Lyle, Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey, Nazar Delegan, F. Joseph Heremans, David D. Awschalom, Nitin Samarth
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A live blog of WWDC, where OS redesigns, new naming conventions, and more are expected, after failing to deliver on Apple Intelligence, unveiled at WWDC 2024 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/681646/apple-wwdc-2025-news-rumors-ios-26…
Next stop on our NLP timeline (as part of the #ISE2025 lecture) was Terry Winograd's SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding system developed in 1968-70 that could manipulate blocks in a virtual world.
Winograd, T. Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language. MIT AI Technical Report 235.
Ferroelectric switching of quantum anomalous Hall effects in MnBi2Te4 films
Jiaheng Li, Quansheng Wu, Hongming Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07653 https:…
Integer-Clustering Optimization of Hydrogen and Battery EV Fleets Considering DERs
Sijia Geng, Thomas Lee, Dharik Mallapragada, Audun Botterud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09388
WATCH: Raiders Cornerback Jakorian Bennett Following Minicamp https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jakorian-bennett-patrick-graham-pete-carroll
HyperCard was magnificent. Still is.
The HyperTalk language was cool — but even cooler IMO was the way the dev environment mixed code with direct manipulation of the UI. There are lots of problems with that approach for generalized Ui development, yes, but the experience of it was magical.
Unity and the like have a similar editor structure — edit UI objects, attach code to them — but the feeling is totally different somehow.
https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/114643259120579546