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After being many years late to the Blasphemous party, I am now falling in love with it. I took the right path: reaching Mercy Dreams after Albero, and not heading to a snowy area that causes many newcomers to quit.
The game art is AMAZING.
#SharanLog #Blasphemous

Bears' Williams: Pressure not in '25 game plan https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45874363/bears-caleb-williams-no-pressure-entering-second-season

Microsoft became the second company to surpass $4T in market cap, joining Nvidia, after shares jumped 8% in after-hours trading on better-than-expected results (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/microsoft-market-cap-tops-4-trillion-…

Microsoft tops $4 trillion in market cap after hours, joining Nvidia in exclusive club
Based on its post-market trading, Microsoft has become the world's second $4 trillion company following quarterly earnings.

Novel Feelings
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

In which I recommend that if you’re building or upgrading a moderately serious music-listening system, you use Qobuz and include a cheap Mac Mini: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/06/22/Qobuz-and-Others

Qobuz and Mac

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. III. Survey Performance After Three Years on Sky
Arvind F. Gupta, Evan Fitzmaurice, Suvrath Mahadevan, Paul Robertson, Jacob K. Luhn, Jason T. Wright, Sarah E. Logsdon, Daniel M. Krolikowski, Leonardo A. Paredes, Chad F. Bender, Mark R. Giovinazzi, Andrea S. Lin, Cullen H. Blake, Caleb I. Ca\~nas, Eric B. Ford, Samuel P. Halverson, Shubham Kanodia, Michael W. McElwain, Joe P. Ninan, Jayadev Rajagopal, Arpita Roy, Christian Schwab, Gu{\dh}mundur Stef\'ans…

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. III. Survey Performance After Three Years on Sky
The NEID Earth Twin Survey (NETS) has been delivering a rich set of precise radial velocity (RV) measurements for 41 bright, nearby main sequence stars. Here, we describe the status of the survey after three years on sky and we present the full set of RV measurements and accompanying stellar activity indicators. We discuss intermediate survey diagnostics, including calibration of the known RV zero point offset introduced following the Contreras fire in 2022 and the identification of an undiagno…

CLuP practically achieves $\sim 1.77$ positive and $\sim 0.33$ negative Hopfield model ground state free energy
Mihailo Stojnic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22396 https://

CLuP practically achieves $\sim 1.77$ positive and $\sim 0.33$ negative Hopfield model ground state free energy
We study algorithmic aspects of finding $n$-dimensional \emph{positive} and \emph{negative} Hopfield ($\pm$Hop) model ground state free energies. This corresponds to classical maximization of random positive/negative semi-definite quadratic forms over binary $\left \{\pm \frac{1}{\sqrt{n}} \right \}^n$ vectors. The key algorithmic question is whether these problems can be computationally efficiently approximated within a factor $\approx 1$. Following the introduction and success of \emph{Contro…

Next week is the first edition of the relaunch of Papers Club! Read the following paper in preparation: “Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens” by Anastasia Kozyreva, Sam Wineburg, Stephan Lewandowsky, and Ralph Hertwig.
Date: July 28th, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM (discussion will happen about a half an hour later).
Location: Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W., Toronto.
A link to the paper and the PDF can be found at the Luma link. RSVP is not necessary but r…

Real Noncommutative Convexity II: Extremality and nc convex functions
David P. Blecher, Caleb Becker McClure
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22833 https://arxiv…

Real Noncommutative Convexity II: Extremality and nc convex functions
We continue with the theory of real noncommutative (nc) convexity, following the recent and profound complex case developed by Davidson and Kennedy. The present paper focuses on the theory of nc extreme (and pure and maximal) points and the nc Choquet boundary in the real case, and on the theory of real nc convex and semicontinuous functions and real nc convex envelopes. Our main emphasis is on how these interact with complexification. For example some of our paper analyzes carefully how variou…

This is me (playing bass) with my first band ever called Rapa Nui. This was officially our first gig, although the first one happened a few months before this one, in Sarajevo, in front of the then-demolished Youth House.
Back then, I hated melodic punk, feeling the buzz from bands like Motorhead and different extreme metal and grindcore artists.
However, in 2016, I rediscovered an old favorite.
This is a story of how Bad Religion made me start listening to punk rock, an…

How I Started Believing in Bad Religion
For almost a decade, after their song You, made me fall in love with punk rock, I hated the band called Bad Religion. And then they turned out to be one of my favorites ever.