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Writer Ariel Courage on never feeling finished https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-ariel-courage-on-ne…

Writer Ariel Courage on never feeling finished – The Creative Independent
Author Ariel Courage discusses hyper-individualism, MFAs, and writing as a social act.

Universal tradeoff relations between resource cost and irreversibility of channels: General-resource Wigner-Araki-Yanase theorems and beyond
Hiroyasu Tajima, Koji Yamaguchi, Ryuji Takagi, Yui Kuramochi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23760

Universal tradeoff relations between resource cost and irreversibility of channels: General-resource Wigner-Araki-Yanase theorems and beyond
Quantum technologies offer exceptional -- sometimes almost magical -- speed and performance, yet every quantum process costs physical resources. Designing next-generation quantum devices, therefore, depends on solving the following question: which resources, and in what amount, are required to implement a desired quantum process? Casting the problem in the language of quantum resource theories, we prove a universal cost-irreversibility tradeoff: the lower the irreversibility of a quantum proces…

> Two years ago, the Flemish Roads Agency (AWV) announced the introduction of the new system: via an app on your smartphone, you can get a traffic light to turn green more quickly.
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/07/24/200-000-flemish…

gardening trivia of the day / no I don't want to get into roses I am just rabbit holing rose varieties and gardens for no reason
#TIL #roses

Change Data Capture is a powerful technique enabling organisations to respond to real-time data changes. At Berlin Buzzwords, Muhammet Orazov explored FlinkCDC, a component of Apache Flink and discussed how it uses Flink's robust stream processing capabilities to provide a CDC pattern.
Watch the full session: https://

ReasonBridge: Efficient Reasoning Transfer from Closed to Open-Source Language Models
Ziqi Zhong, Xunzhu Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22865 https://

ReasonBridge: Efficient Reasoning Transfer from Closed to Open-Source Language Models
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have revealed a significant performance gap between closed-source and open-source models, particularly in tasks requiring complex reasoning and precise instruction following. This paper introduces ReasonBridge, a methodology that efficiently transfers reasoning capabilities from powerful closed-source to open-source models through a novel hierarchical knowledge distillation framework. We develop a tailored dataset Reason1K with only 1,000 care…

Musician YATTA on going towards the unknown https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-yatta-on-going-towards-…

Musician YATTA on going towards the unknown – The Creative Independent
Musician YATTA (aka ricky sallay zoker) discusses not playing shows after an album release, following their curiosity, and seeking slow and supportive environments to see the work through.

Low Temperature Formation of Crystalline VO2 Domains in Porous 1 Nanocolumnar Thin Films for Thermochromic Applications
H. Acosta-Rivera, V. Rico, F. J. Ferrer, T. C. Rojas, R. Alvarez, N. Martin, A. R. Gonzalez-Elipe, A. Palmero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23393

Low Temperature Formation of Crystalline VO2 Domains in Porous 1 Nanocolumnar Thin Films for Thermochromic Applications
The formation of VO2 crystalline domains in amorphous substoichiometric nanocolumnar VOx thin films subjected to an oxidation process at temperatures below 300°C has been studied. It is obtained that values of [O]/[V] above 1.9 lead to the sole formation of V2O5 after oxidation, while values below 1.9 favor the formation of VO2, V3O7 and V2O5 crystalline domains for temperatures as low as 260°C. Moreover, it is found that the adsorption of oxygen and its incorporation into the film network pr…

A look at SFGate, which has the largest audience of any purely local US news site; EIC Grant Marek says the site has 60 employees and has "never had a layoff" (Lucy Kenningham/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/pub…

How SFGATE is making local news pay and filling California's news gaps
SFGATE has the largest audience of any purely local news site in the US.

Designer Meg Lewis on separating who you're told to be from who you really are – The Creative Independent https://thecreat…

Designer Meg Lewis on separating who you're told to be from who you really are – The Creative Independent
Designer Meg Lewis discusses following what's enjoyable, leaving doors open to possibility, and recapturing the impulsive creativity of childhood.