Tootfinder

Dangerous Cancel Culture Precedent Following Kirk’s Murder
The Trump administration continues to counter the First Amendment rights that Kirk so often referenced and arguably died defending.
For example, the Pentagon has promised to “address” federal employees who are deemed to mock or celebrate Kirk’s death.
(The Pentagon has also in recent days announced that it will require credentialed journalists to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information that has not been …

The ‘Right to Offend’ and the Legacy of Charlie Kirk - San Francisco Bay Times
The day before right-wing activist and Turning Point USA Co-Founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025, he texted the following to civil rights advocate and CNN host Van Jones: “Hey, Van, I mean it, I’d love to have you on my show to have a respectful conversation about crime and race. I would […]

Linking Process to Outcome: Conditional Reward Modeling for LLM Reasoning
Zheng Zhang, Ziwei Shan, Kaitao Song, Yexin Li, Kan Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26578 https://

Linking Process to Outcome: Conditional Reward Modeling for LLM Reasoning
Process Reward Models (PRMs) have emerged as a promising approach to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by guiding their step-by-step reasoning toward a final answer. However, existing PRMs either treat each reasoning step in isolation, failing to capture inter-step dependencies, or struggle to align process rewards with the final outcome. Consequently, the reward signal fails to respect temporal causality in sequential reasoning and faces ambiguous credit assign…

MSRepaint: Multiple Sclerosis Repaint with Conditional Denoising Diffusion Implicit Model for Bidirectional Lesion Filling and Synthesis
Jinwei Zhang, Lianrui Zuo, Yihao Liu, Hang Zhang, Samuel W. Remedios, Bennett A. Landman, Peter A. Calabresi, Shiv Saidha, Scott D. Newsome, Dzung L. Pham, Jerry L. Prince, Ellen M. Mowry, Aaron Carass
https://

MSRepaint: Multiple Sclerosis Repaint with Conditional Denoising Diffusion Implicit Model for Bidirectional Lesion Filling and Synthesis
In multiple sclerosis, lesions interfere with automated magnetic resonance imaging analyses such as brain parcellation and deformable registration, while lesion segmentation models are hindered by the limited availability of annotated training data. To address both issues, we propose MSRepaint, a unified diffusion-based generative model for bidirectional lesion filling and synthesis that restores anatomical continuity for downstream analyses and augments segmentation through realistic data gene…

Investigation of structure and anisotropic electrical resistivity in single-crystalline CoSn kagome metal thin films for interconnect applications
Tomoya Nakatani, Nattamon Suwannaharn, Taisuke Sasaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21711

Investigation of structure and anisotropic electrical resistivity in single-crystalline CoSn kagome metal thin films for interconnect applications
CoSn kagome metal is a pseudo-one-dimensional electronic conductor, exhibiting low resistivity (\r{ho}) along the [0001] direction (c-axis) and significantly higher \r{ho} along other crystallographic directions. Such anisotropic conduction is expected to mitigate resistivity increases in narrow interconnect wires at advanced semiconductor technology process nodes, making CoSn a promising candidate for future interconnect applications. In this study, CoSn thin films were fabricated by magnetron…

A viscosity solution approach to the large deviation principle for stochastic convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations
Sagar Gautam, Manil T. Mohan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01166

A viscosity solution approach to the large deviation principle for stochastic convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations
This article develops the viscosity solution approach to the large deviation principle for the following two- and three-dimensional stochastic convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations on the torus $\mathbb{T}^d,\ d\in\{2,3\}$ with small noise intensity: \begin{align*} \mathrm{d}\boldsymbol{u}_n+[-μΔ\boldsymbol{u}_n+ (\boldsymbol{u}_n\cdot\nabla)\boldsymbol{u}_n +α\boldsymbol{u}_n+β|\boldsymbol{u}_n|^{r-1}\boldsymbol{u}_n+\nabla p_n]\mathrm{d} t=\boldsymbol{f}\mathrm{d} t+\fra…

Learning Generalizable Shape Completion with SIM(3) Equivariance
Yuqing Wang, Zhaiyu Chen, Xiao Xiang Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26631 https://arxiv.or…

Learning Generalizable Shape Completion with SIM(3) Equivariance
3D shape completion methods typically assume scans are pre-aligned to a canonical frame. This leaks pose and scale cues that networks may exploit to memorize absolute positions rather than inferring intrinsic geometry. When such alignment is absent in real data, performance collapses. We argue that robust generalization demands architectural equivariance to the similarity group, SIM(3), so the model remains agnostic to pose and scale. Following this principle, we introduce the first SIM(3)-equi…

Photonic Simulation of Beyond-Quantum Nonlocal Correlations (e.g. Popescu-Rohrlich Box) with Non-Signaling Quantum Resources
Kunal Shukla, Anirudh Verma, Kanad Sengupta, Sanchari Chakraborti, Manik Banik, C. M. Chandrashekar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26271

Photonic Simulation of Beyond-Quantum Nonlocal Correlations (e.g. Popescu-Rohrlich Box) with Non-Signaling Quantum Resources
Bell nonlocality exemplifies the most profound departure of quantum theory from classical realism. Yet, the extent of nonlocality in quantum theory is intrinsically bounded, falling short of the correlations permitted by the relativistic causality (the no-signaling) principle. A paradigmatic example is the Popescu-Rohrlich correlation: two distant parties sharing arbitrary entanglement cannot achieve this correlation, though it can be simulated with classical communication between them. Here we…

BALLAST: Bayesian Active Learning with Look-ahead Amendment for Sea-drifter Trajectories under Spatio-Temporal Vector Fields
Rui-Yang Zhang, Henry B. Moss, Lachlan Astfalck, Edward Cripps, David S. Leslie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26005

BALLAST: Bayesian Active Learning with Look-ahead Amendment for Sea-drifter Trajectories under Spatio-Temporal Vector Fields
We introduce a formal active learning methodology for guiding the placement of Lagrangian observers to infer time-dependent vector fields -- a key task in oceanography, marine science, and ocean engineering -- using a physics-informed spatio-temporal Gaussian process surrogate model. The majority of existing placement campaigns either follow standard `space-filling' designs or relatively ad-hoc expert opinions. A key challenge to applying principled active learning in this setting is that Lagra…

Raiders Could Face Patriots Without Star Player After Injury Update https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/las-vegas-patriots-christian-gonzalez-update/?adt_ei=[email]

Finally got some emulator stuff up and running on my (now-sidelined) #PinePhone running #PostmarketOS. Not that bad, just followed the wiki to install #RetroArch some cores, grabbed some ROMs online, and connected a Bluetooth controller following another wiki page. Definitely needed to pay close attention to RetroArch config settings and I still haven't figured out how to get overlays working. The Bluetooth connection was a bit spotty at first but after pairing and a restart it reconnected automatically with no command line stuff needed which was great.
Sadly, it seems like the phone isn't really powerful enough to run even GB ROMs smoothly, so it may not serve as a good gaming platform for the kids unless I can figure out settings tweaks that will get it working better.