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Just like in Nazi Germany...educators get reported and thrown out
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/am-dean-professor-removed-following-student-complaints-over-curriculum/

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum (Rusty Surette/KBTX-TV)
https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/am-dean-professor-removed-following-student-complaints-over-curriculum/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250909/p13#a250909p13

Hmmmm… here is a problem I did not anticipate.
Every time I empty the main pond hole of water, (the actual hole under the liner) water returns within an hour or two. I’ve done it 4 times now, and it keeps filling back up with water.
Obviously there is water underground infiltrating into the pond hole, and/or the water table itself is above the bottom of the hole. It is not coming from either of the other holes because they both have the same amount of water in them as they did this morning.
I have “watered” the blueberry patch and hazelnut tree a lot with the water that I have been cleaning the filter with… and we also had lots of water flying around outside the liners yesterday as I tested the pump. So it is quite possible that the ground around the pond is simply well saturated.
I think I am going to have to just keep removing the water (and putting it into the sewer) until it does not refill. We have a week of hot weather coming. Surely that will be enough time for everything to dry out completely.
Otherwise I might run into some issues if the rains return before I can anchor down the pond liner with gravel and get the plumbing in!
How is time already running short!?
Never underestimate the ability of water to find a place where it is not wanted. 😆
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy

Origin of persistent photoconductivity in surface conducting hydrogenated diamond films
N. Mohasin Sulthana, K. Ganesan, P. K. Ajikumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06559

Origin of persistent photoconductivity in surface conducting hydrogenated diamond films
The p-type surface conductivity of hydrogen-terminated diamond (HD) has opened up new possibilities for the development of diamond-based electronic devices. However, the origin of the persistent photoconductivity (PPC) observed in surface-conducting HD remains unclear, an understanding that is crucial for advancing HD-based optoelectronic technologies. In this study, we investigate the underlying mechanism of PPC in surface-conducting HD films. A systematic analysis was performed by tuning the …

Investigation of tantalum films growth for coplanar resonators with internal quality factors above ten million
E. V. Zikiy, N. S. Smirnov, E. A. Krivko, A. R. Matanin, A. I. Ivanov, E. I. Malevannaya, V. I. Polozov, S. V. Bukatin, D. A. Baklykov, I. A. Stepanov, S. A. Kotenkov, S. P. Bychkov, I. A. Ryzhikov, A. V. Andriyash, I. A. Rodionov
https://

Investigation of tantalum films growth for coplanar resonators with internal quality factors above ten million
Alpha-tantalum on silicon is a promising platform for high-coherence superconducting quantum circuits. However, the growth mechanism of alpha-tantalum on silicon remains poorly understood. We present a comprehensive study on alpha-tantalum films growth on various substrate. The decisive role of a substrate material Debye temperature on phase selection mechanism in tantalum films growth is experimentally confirmed, contradicting the prior assumptions on substrate temperature influence. Crucially…

On the Parallel Complexity of Identifying Groups and Quasigroups via Decompositions
Dan Johnson, Michael Levet, Petr Vojt\v{e}chovsk\'y, Brett Widholm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06478

On the Parallel Complexity of Identifying Groups and Quasigroups via Decompositions
In this paper, we investigate the computational complexity of isomorphism testing for finite groups and quasigroups, given by their multiplication tables. We crucially take advantage of their various decompositions to show the following: - We first consider the class $\mathcal{C}$ of groups that admit direct product decompositions, where each indecompsable factor is $O(1)$-generated, and either perfect or centerless. We show any group in $\mathcal{C}$ is identified by the $O(1)$-dimensional c…

Congestion-Aware Path Selection for Load Balancing in AI Clusters
Erfan Nosrati, Majid Ghaderi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08132 https://

Congestion-Aware Path Selection for Load Balancing in AI Clusters
Fast training of large machine learning models requires distributed training on AI clusters consisting of thousands of GPUs. The efficiency of distributed training crucially depends on the efficiency of the network interconnecting GPUs in the cluster. These networks are commonly built using RDMA following a Clos-like datacenter topology. To efficiently utilize the network bandwidth, load balancing is employed to distribute traffic across multiple redundant paths. While there exists numerous tec…

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Tuning of electronic properties in highly lattice-mismatched epitaxial SmN
K. D. Vallejo, V. Buturlim, Z. Cresswell, B. Campbell, B. G. Duersch, B. J. May, K. Gofryk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06372

Tuning of electronic properties in highly lattice-mismatched epitaxial SmN
We demonstrate that the electronic properties of epitaxial SmN thin films can be effectively tuned during growth by controlling the synthesis parameters. By carefully adjusting these parameters, we are able to drive SmN from an insulating ferromagnetic state to a ferromagnetic metallic state. However, no signatures of previously reported superconductivity were observed down to 0.35 K, even in the most conductive samples. We discuss possible scenarios for the absence of superconductivity in thes…

I think maybe it isn't #mastodon that is slowing down and filling up #footiMac.
It's the 700GB of webcam images/videos.
Just bought a fast dual USB A/C 500GB flash stick to offload this stuff and lighten things up a bit.
This is stuff I need to archive anyway. I want to gradually build a physical USB stick based digital library of webcam imagery from the cams @….
#mastoadmin #weather #webcams