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Quantitative Mapping of the Loeb Scale
Oem Trivedi, Abraham Loeb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06253 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06253

Quantitative Mapping of the Loeb Scale
The recent discovery of a third interstellar object (ISO) 3I/ATLAS, following 1I/`Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, has raised questions about the nature and origin of these enigmatic objects. With the Vera C. Rubin Observatory expected to discover dozens of new ISOs over the next decade, it is timely to use a classification scheme for their nature in the context of the recently proposed Loeb scale. Here, we provide a formalism for ranking ISOs quantitatively on the Loeb Scale in analogy to Sagan's form…

Can slow recombination in ordered superconductors explain the excess quasiparticle population?
Eva Gurra, Douglas A. Bennett, Shannon M. Duff, Michael R. Vissers, Joel N. Ullom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03217

Can slow recombination in ordered superconductors explain the excess quasiparticle population?
An excess density of quasiparticles is widely observed in superconducting films. This excess causes performance degradation in a variety of superconducting devices, including decoherence in qubits. In this Letter, we evaluate the hypothesis of [1] that the quasiparticle excess is caused by anomalously slow recombination at low quasiparticle densities due to localization in sub-gap states. We probe the density of states in aluminum and niobium films using current-voltage measurements of tunnel j…

Moir\'e-assisted charge instability in ultrathin RuO$_2$
Philipp Ke{\ss}ler, Andreas Feuerpfeil, Armando Consiglio, Hendrik Hohmann, Ronny Thomale, Jonas Erhardt, Bing Liu, Vedran Jovic, Ralph Claessen, Patrick H\"artl, Matteo D\"urrnagel, Simon Moser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05047

Moiré-assisted charge instability in ultrathin RuO$_2$
Ruthenium dioxide (RuO$_2$) has been in the focus of contemporary condensed matter research as a prototypical candidate material for altermagnetism. In the face of daunting evidence for bulk magnetic order despite promising theoretical predictions, it naturally suggests the focus on thin films where Coulomb interactions are dimensionally quenched and may yield a more strongly correlated environment prone to magnetic ordering. Here, we combine scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), density functio…

SEC filing: Super Micro cautions that its financial control weaknesses, if not fixed, could hurt its ability to report results "in a timely and accurate manner" (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Learning Optimal Crew Dispatch for Grid Restoration Following an Earthquake
Farshad Amani, Faezeh Ardali, Amin Kargarian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04308 https://

Learning Optimal Crew Dispatch for Grid Restoration Following an Earthquake
Post-disaster crew dispatch is a critical but computationally intensive task. Traditional mixed-integer linear programming methods often require minutes to several hours to compute solutions, leading to delays that hinder timely decision-making in highly dynamic restoration environments. To address this challenge, we propose a novel learning-based framework that integrates transformer architectures with deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to deliver near real-time decision support without comprom…

Eros and filmmaker Aanand L. Rai clash over plans to re-release the Tamil-language version of 2013 Indian film Raanjhanaa with an AI-enabled alternative ending (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/eros-aanand-l-…

Eros-Aanand Rai Dispute Over AI-Altered 'Raanjhanaa' Ending Escalates
Eros International and director Aanand L. Rai clash over AI-altered 'Raanjhanaa' ending, with both sides citing legal rights and creative ethics.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
RAVELLA: There's the signal.
[They see a torchlight in the distance. BLAKE and RAVELLA walk into a tunnel and through a metal door. Richie closes the door behind them. DEV TARRANT is outside, still apparently following. RICHIE and RAVELLA escort BLAKE through the room. BLAKE points at some people.]

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Waiting for the train to Denmark at Flensburg. Do I really look that sad or depressed, needing help, as the Bahnhofsmission lady came and talked to me? Or maybe she was just bored.

Distributed Kaplan-Meier Analysis via the Influence Function with Application to COVID-19 and COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events
Malcolm Risk, Xu Shi, Lili Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14351

Distributed Kaplan-Meier Analysis via the Influence Function with Application to COVID-19 and COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events
During the COVID-19 pandemic, regulatory decision-making was hampered by a lack of timely and high-quality data on rare outcomes. Studying rare outcomes following infection and vaccination requires conducting multi-center observational studies, where sharing individual-level data is a privacy concern. In this paper, we conduct a multi-center observational study of thromboembolic events following COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccination without sharing individual-level data. We accomplish this by devel…

The feeling when you find the root cause for a problem that has been bothering you for months. And it turns out to be fixable by adding a single letter. (To turn an "unsigned long" literal into an "unsigned long long" one.) (Actually I made it use the UINT64_C() macro from <cstdint>.)
Writing portable code is hard. And thanks, Windows, for keeping "long" as 32 bits even in 64-bit code.
Now, if only Clang or gcc on Linux would warn about such po…