Tootfinder

Implantation studies of low-energy positive muons in niobium thin films
Ryan M. L. McFadden, Andreas Suter, Leon Ruf, Angelo Di Bernardo, Arnold M. M\"uller, Thomas Prokscha, Zaher Salman, Tobias Junginger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03785

Implantation studies of low-energy positive muons in niobium thin films
Here we study the range of keV positive muons $μ^+$ implanted in Nb$_2$O$_5$($x$ nm)/Nb($y$ nm)/SiO$_2$(300 nm)/Si [$x$ = 3.6 nm, 3.3 nm; $y$ = 42.0 nm, 60.1 nm] thin films using low-energy muon spin spectroscopy (LE-$μ$SR). At implantation energies 1.3 keV $\leq E \leq$ 23.3 keV, we compare the measured diamagnetic $μ^+$ signal fraction $f_{\mathrm{dia.}}$ against predictions derived from implantation profile simulations using the TRIM.SP Monte Carlo code. Treating the implanted $μ^+$ as l…

You know you had too much DnD group memes when you hear the receptionist at the doctor's office ask someone "Can I have your name and birthday please?", and you have to stop yourself from jumping between them and shout "Nooooo!" #dnd

Chinese startups and tech giants are racing to create AI agents for both local and global consumers, following the popularity of Butterfly Effect's Manus (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/05/1117958/china-ai-a…

Manus has kick-started an AI agent boom in China
A stampede of contenders and copycats has followed the launch of the general AI agent, but China’s internet restrictions have so far made it easier to cater to overseas users.

Janus-faced influence of oxygen vacancy in high entropy oxide films with Mott electrons
Suresh Chandra Joshi, Nandana Bhattacharya, Manav Beniwal, Jyotirmay Maity, Prithwijit Mandal, Hua Zhou, Christoph Klewe, Srimanta Middey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05879

Janus-faced influence of oxygen vacancy in high entropy oxide films with Mott electrons
Contrary to traditional approaches, high entropy oxides (HEOs) strategically employ cationic disorder to engineer tunable functionalities. This disorder, stemming from multiple elements at the same crystallographic site, disrupts local symmetry and induces local distortions. By examining a series of single-crystalline [La$_{0.2}$Pr$_{0.2}$Nd$_{0.2}$Sm$_{0.2}$Eu$_{0.2}$]NiO$_{3-δ}$ thin films, we demonstrate herein that the creation of oxygen vacancies (OVs) further offers a powerful means of t…

DesignBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for MLLM-based Front-end Code Generation
Jingyu Xiao, Ming Wang, Man Ho Lam, Yuxuan Wan, Junliang Liu, Yintong Huo, Michael R. Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06251

DesignBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for MLLM-based Front-end Code Generation
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in automated front-end engineering, e.g., generating UI code from visual designs. However, existing front-end UI code generation benchmarks have the following limitations: (1) While framework-based development becomes predominant in modern front-end programming, current benchmarks fail to incorporate mainstream development frameworks. (2) Existing evaluations focus solely on the UI code generation task, whereas p…

I watched Multiple Maniacs last night for the first time (I don't recommend it 😂). Although I love John Waters films and I've seen most/all of them at this point, Multiple Maniacs' plot was kinda everywhere alongside its clear shock intentions. Pink Flamingos came out just two years later in 1972, was in color, features basically all the same actors, and unbelievably, Pink Flamingos is the more coherent and cohesive film 😂🤣

Multiple Maniacs (1970)
The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.

More Belgian (Flemish?) households with solar panels, batteries or electric vehicles will be able to benefit from the flexibility they can offer the energy system as energy retailers Bolt and Trevion collaborate with VPP operator Powernaut.
https://powernaut.io/press/powernaut-a

Powernaut, Bolt, Trevion and Partners launch Belgium’s first energy contracts that pay consumers for grid support - Powernaut
Using Powernaut’s smart software, households with solar panels, home batteries, or EVs can now earn money by allowing their energy retailer to manage their devices intelligently. For example, devices may charge or reduce output during peak times to avoid grid overload. Retailers like Bolt and Trevion are offering these new contracts, allowing customers to benefit financially without sacrificing comfort. Partners such as Qbus and Innovoltus support the initiative, which is seen as a key step …

MagicGUI: A Foundational Mobile GUI Agent with Scalable Data Pipeline and Reinforcement Fine-tuning
Liujian Tang, Shaokang Dong, Yijia Huang, Minqi Xiang, Hongtao Ruan, Bin Wang, Shuo Li, Zhihui Cao, Hailiang Pang, Heng Kong, He Yang, Mingxu Chai, Zhilin Gao, Xingyu Liu, Yingnan Fu, Jiaming Liu, Tao Gui, Xuanjing Huang, Yu-Gang Jiang, Qi Zhang, Kang Wang, Yunke Zhang, Yuran Wang

MagicGUI: A Foundational Mobile GUI Agent with Scalable Data Pipeline and Reinforcement Fine-tuning
This paper presents MagicGUI, a foundational mobile GUI agent designed to address critical challenges in perception, grounding, and reasoning within real-world mobile GUI environments. The framework is underpinned by following six key components: (1) a comprehensive and accurate dataset, constructed via the scalable GUI Data Pipeline, which aggregates the largest and most diverse GUI-centric multimodal data to date from open-source repositories, automated crawling, and targeted manual annotatio…

and, 50 years ago today, following the dead session at ace’s, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders in #berkeley with a mystery drummer, presumably the same as the previous show. bob menke/louis falenga audience tape:

Hot springs and dust reservoirs: JWST reveals the dusty, molecular aftermath of extragalactic stellar mergers
Viraj Karambelkar, Mansi Kasliwal, Ryan M. Lau, Jacob E. Jencson, Nadejda Blagorodnova, Marco A. Gomez-Munoz, Hugo Tranin, Maxime Wavasseur, Melissa Shahbandeh, Kishalay De
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03932

Hot springs and dust reservoirs: JWST reveals the dusty, molecular aftermath of extragalactic stellar mergers
We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations of four Luminous Red Novae (LRNe): dusty, extragalactic transients from stellar mergers following common-envelope evolution (CEE) in massive binary stars. Our targets - AT2021blu, AT2021biy, AT2018bwo, and M31-LRN-2015 - span a broad range in progenitor primary masses ($\approx$3-24M$_{\odot}$) and post-merger ages ($\approx$1100-3700 days). All four were observed with the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) from 5-25$μ$m; AT2021blu and AT20…