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"Iyengar told me she isn’t worried about Musk ruining D&D.
Musk is welcome to waste his money on “trying to make everyone play the version of D&D that he thinks should exist in the world,” Iyengar said. “That’s never been how that works. Everyone will play it how they want, or they’ll play something else.”
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One last running photo for today -- I'll post a few more of my best tomorrow and hopefully a link to my Behance with more, counting down 25 1/2 hours to Caturday
#photo #photography #running

Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.

LMC : Large-scale mapping of [CII] and [OIII] in the LMC molecular ridge, I. Dataset and line ratio analyses
C. Fischer, S. C. Madden, A. Krabbe, F. L. Polles, D. Fadda, E. Tarantino, F. Galliano, C. -H. R. Chen, N. Abel, A. Beck, L. Belloir, F. Bigiel, A. Bolatto, M. Chevance, S. Colditz, N. Fischer, A. Green, A. Hughes, R. Indebetouw, C. Iserlohe, M. Ka\'zmierczak-Barthel, R. Klein, A. Lambert-Huyghe, V. Lebouteiller, E. Mikheeva, A. Poglitsch, L. Ramambason, W. Reach, M. Rubio, …

LMC+: Large-scale mapping of [CII] and [OIII] in the LMC molecular ridge, I. Dataset and line ratio analyses
The fundamental process of star formation in galaxies involves the interplay between the fueling of star formation via molecular gas and the feedback from recently formed massive stars. This process, by which galaxies evolve, is also closely connected to the intrinsic properties of the interstellar medium (ISM). To study the role that different molecular and atomic phases of the ISM play in star formation, and to characterize their physical conditions, we zoom into our nearest neighboring galax…

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In melancholy, the spirits are carried away by an agitation, but a weak agitation that lacks power or violence, a sort of impotent upset that follows neither a particular path nor the aperta opercula [open ways], but traverses the cerebral matter constantly creating new pores. Yet the spirits do not wander far on the new paths they create, and their agitation dies down rapidly, as their strength is quickly spent and motion comes to a halt: ‘non longe perveniunt’ [they do not reach far]. A trouble of this nature, common to all delirium, does not have the power to produce on the surface of the body the violent movements or the cries to be observed in mania and frenzy. Melancholy never attains frenzy; it is a madness always at the limits of its own impotence. That paradox is explained by the secret alterations in the spirits. Ordinarily, they travel with the speed and instantaneous transparency of rays of light, but in melancholy they become weighed down with night, becoming ‘obscure, thick and dark’, and the images of things that they bring before consciousness are ‘in a shadow, or covered with darkness’. As a result they move more slowly, and are more like a dark, chemical vapour than pure light. This chemical vapour is acid in nature, rather than sulphurous or alcoholic, for in acid vapours the particles are mobile and incapable of repose, but their activity is weak and without consequence. When they are distilled, all that remains in the still is a kind of insipid phlegm. Acid vapours, therefore, are taken to have the same properties as melancholy, whereas alcoholic vapours, which are always ready to burst into flames, are more related to frenzy, and sulphurous vapours bring on mania, as they are agitated by continuous, violent movement. If the ‘formal reason and causes’ of melancholy were to be sought, it made sense to look for them in the vapours that rose up from the blood to the head, and which had degenerated into ‘an acetous or sharp distillation’. A cursory glance seems to indicate that a melancholy of spirits and a whole chemistry of humours lies behind Willis’ analyses, but in fact his guiding principle mostly reflects the immediate qualities of the melancholic illness: an impotent disorder, and the shadow that comes over the spirit with an acrid acidity that slowly corrodes the heart and the mind. The chemistry of acids is not an explanation of the symptoms, but a qualitative option: a whole phenomenology of melancholic experience.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

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Day 6 - Shakespeare had taste.
I have a feeling that my butt is stronger and more forgiving than I thought. I really expected to be crawling like those naked snails, but I guess I learned something new about my body.
HelsingŸr is home to Kronborg Slot, the castle that Shakespeare used in Hamlet. Not only that, it was also very important for payments to enter the Baltic Sea. Today, you can walk around the castle, drink coffee, or even visit some local art studios, such as those fe…

Quantum Dynamics and Elementary Excitations in Superfluid He4 Films at Low Temperatures
Vladimir I. Kruglov, Houria Triki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09137 https://

Quantum Dynamics and Elementary Excitations in Superfluid He4 Films at Low Temperatures
We have formulated a novel quantum nonlinear Schrodinger equation describing of superfluid He4 in films at low temperatures. It is shown that in classical limit the found nonlinear Schrodinger equation reduces to a system of equations which are equivalent to Boussinesq equations describing the propagation of long gravity waves in incompressible fluids. This nonlinear Schrodinger equation leads to phonon-roton dispersion relation for elementary excitations in superfluid He4 films at low …

Interesting thread to get a first-hand account on the current state of LLMs for assisting US tax filings, even in complex situations. tl;dr: Very helpful for a sophisticated user that can check the output.
Another point towards my very narrow defense of LLMs, i.e., feel free to dislike LLMs for many good reasons, but please don't call them useless.

Patrick McKenzie
So October 15th, the extended US tax deadline, is just around the corner, and I have some observations which are more about LLM progress than taxes. Background: many people professionally involved with LLMs estimate 2026-2028 as the year where one can get an LLM to "do taxes."