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Harnessing the "Reactive Falling Effect" for rehabilitation and performance boosting
Paul-Emmanuel Sornette, Didier Sornette
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13959

Harnessing the "Reactive Falling Effect" for rehabilitation and performance boosting
We present Logic Workout, a novel training method based on radical dynamic instability combining rolling, deformation and spring instability on small fitballs. By exploiting the "reactive falling effect", it re-engages innate balance mechanisms and forces real-time motor corrections, leading to better joint control, coordination, and movement precision. Preliminary results from a cohort of 18 participants show complete resolution of chronic pain, enhanced functional mobility, and surprising imp…

Optimizers Qualitatively Alter Solutions And We Should Leverage This
Razvan Pascanu, Clare Lyle, Ionut-Vlad Modoranu, Naima Elosegui Borras, Dan Alistarh, Petar Velickovic, Sarath Chandar, Soham De, James Martens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12224

Optimizers Qualitatively Alter Solutions And We Should Leverage This
Due to the nonlinear nature of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), one can not guarantee convergence to a unique global minimum of the loss when using optimizers relying only on local information, such as SGD. Indeed, this was a primary source of skepticism regarding the feasibility of DNNs in the early days of the field. The past decades of progress in deep learning have revealed this skepticism to be misplaced, and a large body of empirical evidence shows that sufficiently large DNNs following stand…

Adaptive Framework for Ambient Intelligence in Rehabilitation Assistance
G\'abor Baranyi, Zsolt Csibi, Kristian Fenech, \'Aron F\'othi, Zs\'ofia Ga\'al, Joul Skaf, Andr\'as L\H{o}rincz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08624

Adaptive Framework for Ambient Intelligence in Rehabilitation Assistance
This paper introduces the Ambient Intelligence Rehabilitation Support (AIRS) framework, an advanced artificial intelligence-based solution tailored for home rehabilitation environments. AIRS integrates cutting-edge technologies, including Real-Time 3D Reconstruction (RT-3DR), intelligent navigation, and large Vision-Language Models (VLMs), to create a comprehensive system for machine-guided physical rehabilitation. The general AIRS framework is demonstrated in rehabilitation scenarios following…

Extrinsic Dopants as Growth Modifiers in Cu-Cr-O delafossites: A Study of Incorporation Limits and Film Properties
Marco Moreira, Yves Fleming, Patrick Grysan, Christele Vergne, Adrian Marie Philippe, Petru Lunca-Popa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13540

Extrinsic Dopants as Growth Modifiers in Cu-Cr-O delafossites: A Study of Incorporation Limits and Film Properties
Cu-Cr-O delafossite thin films were grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition with various extrinsic dopants (Al, Mg, Mn, Sc, Y, and Zn) targeted at 5 at % to investigate how such doping influences their structure and properties. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy revealed that the actual dopant incorporation is well below the nominal 5 %, with only Al and Sc present above detection. An off-stoichiometric Cu-Cr-O composition is determined, with no secondary phases detected. Transmission el…

"it’s believed to have revealed the identities of confidential informants."
PACER Gets Pwned: Hackers Breach Dinosaur Filing System - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/08/pacer-gets-pwned-hackers-breach-dinosaur-filing-system/

Five-time Pro Bowl guard Brandon Scherff retires from NFL after 10 seasons https://www.nfl.com/news/five-time-pro-bowl-guard-brandon-scherff-retires-from-nfl-after-10-seasons

Nice to see Michael Hansmeyer still following his dreams: The White Tower was finally revealed 2 weeks ago, currently the largest 3D printed structure in the world (30 meters [90ft] tall), located in a small village in Switzerland:
https://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/white-tower

Tor Alva | White Tower - Project Overview
Tor Alva, White Tower, Weisser Turm in Mulegns, Switzerland, Origen Foundation

Bipedal Balance Control with Whole-body Musculoskeletal Standing and Falling Simulations
Chengtian Ma, Yunyue Wei, Chenhui Zuo, Chen Zhang, Yanan Sui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09383

Bipedal Balance Control with Whole-body Musculoskeletal Standing and Falling Simulations
Balance control is important for human and bipedal robotic systems. While dynamic balance during locomotion has received considerable attention, quantitative understanding of static balance and falling remains limited. This work presents a hierarchical control pipeline for simulating human balance via a comprehensive whole-body musculoskeletal system. We identified spatiotemporal dynamics of balancing during stable standing, revealed the impact of muscle injury on balancing behavior, and genera…

Interesting that some who replied to my post on tax and GDP growth yesterday missed the point.
The point isn't to debate whether tax -> growth (it might, with a tail wind).
The point is that
1) Growth won't happen like it used to.
2) That is good because GDP growth is ecologically and socially lethal.
3) So our leaders (sic) had better adapt to the new reality and use taxation and other measures to build a better, fairer future.
More here:

Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK | Stop the Damage! Build a Better Future!
Britain and the rest of the world face a set of almost intractable challenges, ecological (including climate), economic and social. Yet political leaders with few exceptions are failing to propose the actions and policies that could address the scale of this pancrisis. Here though is an alternative initiative, a kind of alternative manifesto with a portfolio of illustrative policies...

Moir\'e dependent Chern insulators in twisted crystalline flatbands
Wenxuan Wang, Yijie Wang, Zaizhe Zhang, Zihao Huo, Gengdong Zhou, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, X. C. Xie, Kaihui Liu, Zhida Song, Xiaobo Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10875

Moiré dependent Chern insulators in twisted crystalline flatbands
In moiré crystals, the competition between different isospin configurations can be tuned by twist angles and stacking orders, forming various symmetry-broken states. Here we report twisted double rhombohedral-trilayer-gaphene as a new twisted crystalline flatbands system showing rich moiré dependent topological phenomena. For small twist angles, programmable Chern insulators with Chern number C = 3 at integer moiré filling v = 1 have been observed. We have further revealed multiple first-ord…