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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…

Three-dimensional and clap-and-fling effects on a pair of flapping wings used for thrust generation
Antoine Papillon, Mathieu Olivier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07873

Three-dimensional and clap-and-fling effects on a pair of flapping wings used for thrust generation
This research investigates the three-dimensional effects of flow around a pair of flapping wings undergoing clap-and-fling interactions through harmonic in-plane motions combining pitching, heaving, and deviation. Both wings mirror each other in their movements. Baseline parameters were selected based on efficient configurations from a previous two-dimensional study. Simulations at a Reynolds number of 800 were conducted on wings in a thrust configuration utilizing the clap-and-fling mechanism.…

Mean dimension and rate-distortion function revisited
Rui Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08051 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08051

Mean dimension and rate-distortion function revisited
Around the mean dimensions and rate-distortion functions, using some tools from local entropy theory this paper establishes the following main results: $(1)$ We prove that for non-ergodic measures associated with almost sure processes, the mean Rényi information dimension coincides with the information dimension rate. This answers a question posed by Gutman and Śpiewak (in Around the variational principle for metric mean dimension, \emph{Studia Math.} \textbf{261}(2021) 345-360). $(2)$ We…

DACIP-RC: Domain Adaptive Continual Instruction Pre-Training via Reading Comprehension on Business Conversations
Elena Khasanova, Harsh Saini, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Xue-Yong Fu, Cheng Chen, Shashi Bhushan TN
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08152

DACIP-RC: Domain Adaptive Continual Instruction Pre-Training via Reading Comprehension on Business Conversations
The rapid advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled their adoption in real-world industrial scenarios for various natural language processing tasks. However, the high inference cost of large-scale LLMs makes their deployment impractical, necessitating the use of smaller models. Despite their efficiency, smaller LLMs lack robust zero-shot instruction-following capabilities across diverse domains, limiting their adaptability to dynamic user requirements. Traditional fine-tuning ap…

One of #California's coastal jewel cities, home to a seaside amusement park, outdoor shopping promenades, private airports and expensive hotels and dining spots favored by celebrities has gone belly up...
Officials are filing a declaration of a #FiscalEmergency ...

Superconducting meander-line surface coil for NMR spectroscopy of nanoscale thin films
Louis Beaudoin, Aim\'e Verrier, Youcef A. Bioud, Mathieu Massicotte, Bertrand Reulet, Jeffrey A. Quilliam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07679

Superconducting meander-line surface coil for NMR spectroscopy of nanoscale thin films
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful technique to study local magnetism in a variety of materials. However, the inherently low sensitivity of conventional inductively detected solid state NMR typically requires a large number of spins, reducing its applicability to two-dimensional (2D) materials and nanoscale thin films. To overcome this experimental challenge, we introduce a novel probe based on a superconducting meander-line surface coil that significantly enhances the …

A Meat-Summer Night's Dream: A Tangible Design Fiction Exploration of Eating Biohybrid Flying Robots
Ziming Wang, Yiqian Wu, Qingxiao Zheng, Shihan Zhang, Ned Barker, Morten Fjeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06507

A Meat-Summer Night's Dream: A Tangible Design Fiction Exploration of Eating Biohybrid Flying Robots
What if future dining involved eating robots? We explore this question through a playful and poetic experiential dinner theater: a tangible design fiction staged as a 2052 Paris restaurant where diners consume a biohybrid flying robot in place of the banned delicacy of ortolan bunting. Moving beyond textual or visual speculation, our ``dinner-in-the-drama'' combined performance, ritual, and multisensory immersion to provoke reflection on sustainability, ethics, and cultural identity. Six partic…

The US Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment
Techdirt wrote about Trump’s extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there’s an even more damning story here: how that revelation almost never saw the light of day because of journalistic cowardice.

The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment
Earlier today we wrote about Trump’s extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there’s an even mor…

This is an interesting news report.
I would add that if this report is even partially accurate we may see a massive temporary decline in beef/meat prices as dairy farmers "reduce" their herds in the face of diminished demand for milk products.
By-the-way, Devin Nunes - yes that Devin Nunes, now head of trump's failing social network/crypto-bank - is a diary farmer in some state or another.

Experimental demonstration of corrugated nanolaminate films as reflective light sails
Matthew F. Campbell, Pawan Kumar, Jason Lynch, Ramon Gao, Adam Alfieri, John Brewer, Thomas J. Celenza, Mohsen Azadi, Michael Kelzenberg, Eric Stach, Aaswath P. Raman, Harry A. Atwater Jr., Igor Bargatin, Deep Jariwala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05035

Experimental demonstration of corrugated nanolaminate films as reflective light sails
Achieving laser-driven, reflective, relativistic light sails would represent a tremendous breakthrough for humankind, allowing us to advance our understanding of the solar system and deep space far beyond what we know from space probes, telescopes, and objects passing near Earth. Numerous sail film designs have been proposed, but none have been demonstrated that satisfy all of the stringent optical, mechanical, and mass budget constraints. Here we overcome this challenge by experimentally demon…