Tootfinder

Testing a Computed Tomography Imaging Spectrometer for Earth Observations on the HEIMDAL Stratospheric Balloon Mission
Mads Juul Ahleb{\ae}k, Albertino Antonio Almeida Bach, Loui Collin-Enoch, Christian Cordes, Boas Hermansson, Christian Hald Jessen, S{\o}ren Peter J{\o}rgensen, Tobias J{\o}rgensen, Viktor Ulrich Kanstrup, Laurits Tv{\ae}rmose Nielsen, Jes Enok Steinm\"uller, Mads Svanborg Peters, Jonathan Merrison, Ren\'e Lynge Eriksen, Christoffer Karoff, Mads Toudal Frandse…

Testing a Computed Tomography Imaging Spectrometer for Earth Observations on the HEIMDAL Stratospheric Balloon Mission
Stratospheric High Altitude Balloons (HABs) have great potential as a remote sensing platform for Earth Observations that complements orbiting satellites and low flying drones. At altitudes between 20-35 kms, HABs operate significantly closer to ground than orbiting satellites, but significantly higher than most drones. HABs therefore offer a unique potential to deliver high spatial resolution imaging with large area coverage. Another two imaging parameters that are important for Earth Observat…

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Measurement of the differential and total cross-sections of $\gamma$-ray emission induced by $14.1$ MeV neutrons for C, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr, and Fe using the tagged neutron method
P. S. Prusachenko, D. N. Grozdanov, N. A. Fedorov, Yu. N. Kopatch, G. V. Pampushik, P. I. Kharlamov, V. R. Skoy, I. N. Ruskov, T. Yu. Tretyakova, A. V. Andreev, C. Hramco, P. G. Filonchik, TANGRA collaboration

Tanker om utvikling av KI-retningslinjer for norsk film – fredsnotes https://filmschoolteacher.info/fredsnotes/2025/08/03/tanker-om-utvikling-av-ki-retningslinjer-for-norsk-film/

TF-DWGNet: A Directed Weighted Graph Neural Network with Tensor Fusion for Multi-Omics Cancer Subtype Classification
Tiantian Yang, Zhiqian Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16301

TF-DWGNet: A Directed Weighted Graph Neural Network with Tensor Fusion for Multi-Omics Cancer Subtype Classification
Integration and analysis of multi-omics data provide valuable insights for cancer subtype classification. However, such data are inherently heterogeneous, high-dimensional, and exhibit complex intra- and inter-modality dependencies. Recent advances in graph neural networks (GNNs) offer powerful tools for modeling such structure. Yet, most existing methods rely on prior knowledge or predefined similarity networks to construct graphs, which are often undirected or unweighted, failing to capture t…

Curvature at the infinity of asymptotically flat Einstein manifold
Bing Wang, Hao Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16288 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16288

Curvature at the infinity of asymptotically flat Einstein manifold
In this paper, we construct coordinates at the infinity of an asymptotically flat end of a Ricci-flat manifold $(M_m, g)$ as long as the $L^{m/2}$ norm of the curvature is finite in this end. As applications, we can define a Weyl tensor at the infinity of $M$ and a version of renormalized volume following Biquard and Hein to ALE Ricci-flat manifolds/orbifolds of any dimension.

LTA-thinker: Latent Thought-Augmented Training Framework for Large Language Models on Complex Reasoning
Jiaqi Wang, Binquan Ji, Haibo Luo, Yiyang Qi, Ruiting Li, Huiyan Wang, Yuantao Han, Cangyi Yang, jiaxu Zhang, Feiliang Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12875

LTA-thinker: Latent Thought-Augmented Training Framework for Large Language Models on Complex Reasoning
Complex Reasoning in Large Language Models can be dynamically optimized using Test-Time Scaling (TTS) to mitigate Overthinking. Methods such as Coconut, SoftCoT and its variant are effective in continuous latent space inference, the core bottleneck still lies in the efficient generation and utilization of high-quality Latent Thought. Drawing from the theory of SoftCoT++ that a larger variance in the generated Latent Thought distribution more closely approximates the golden truth distribution, w…

Center of Kostant algebra
Tam\'as Hausel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20159 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20159

Center of Kostant algebra
In this note, following Muić-Savin, we compute the center of Kostant algebra, introduced by Kostant in 1975 as strongly commuting algebra. We explain how it encodes information on tensor products between a finite-dimensional and a Verma module, and about the structure of principal series representations via the work of Bernstein-Gelfand. We also discuss conjectured relationships to Langlands duality.

The tensor product of p-adic Hilbert spaces
Paolo Aniello, Lorenzo Guglielmi, Stefano Mancini, Vincenzo Parisi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07504 https://arx…

The tensor product of p-adic Hilbert spaces
In the framework of quantum mechanics over a quadratic extension of the ultrametric field of p-adic numbers, we introduce a notion of tensor product of p-adic Hilbert spaces. To this end, following a standard approach, we first consider the algebraic tensor product of p-adic Hilbert spaces. We next define a suitable norm on this linear space. It turns out that, in the p-adic framework, this norm is the analogue of the projective norm associated with the tensor product of real or complex normed …

Tensor Invariant Data-Assisted Control and Dynamic Decomposition of Multibody Systems
Mostafa Eslami, Maryam Babazadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11688 https://

Tensor Invariant Data-Assisted Control and Dynamic Decomposition of Multibody Systems
The control of robotic systems in complex, shared collaborative workspaces presents significant challenges in achieving robust performance and safety when learning from experienced or simulated data is employed in the pipeline. A primary bottleneck is the reliance on coordinate-dependent models, which leads to profound data inefficiency by failing to generalize physical interactions across different frames of reference. This forces learning algorithms to rediscover fundamental physical principl…