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Nice!
One of the better #litrpg webnovels I've read, Worth the Candle by Alexander Wales, is being made into a #manhwa / #manga!
Already enjoying the story! 😄

Worth the Candle
Juniper was always the Dungeon Master, never the player. He was always a creator of worlds rather than the one who walked within them…until now. Somehow, the tables have turned in the most dramatic way possible. Juniper finds himself in a world filled with the wildest fantasies a mind could come up with, and his fingerprints are all over it. Throughout this world, echoes of his own ideas and plots leave him feeling like he’s always one step behind. He finds bits and pieces of ancient infl…

They make a good point.
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Stable amalgamation over a predicate and the Gaifman property
Saharon Shelah, Alexander Usvyatsov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12631 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Stable amalgamation over a predicate and the Gaifman property
We consider the following property of a first order theory T with a distinguished unary predicate P: every model of the theory of P occurs as the P-part of some model of T. We call this property the Gaifman property. Gaifman conjectured that if T is relatively categorical over P, then it has the Gaifman property. We propose a generalized version of this conjecture: if T fails the Gaifman property, then it exhibits non-structure over P, i.e., has many non-isomorphic models over P in many cardina…

On the Vertices of Delta-modular Polyhedra
Bludov Mikhail, Gribanov Dmitry, Klimenko Maxim, Kupavskii Andrey, L\'angi Zsolt, Rogozin Alexander, Voronov Vsevolod
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12774

On the Vertices of Delta-modular Polyhedra
Let $P$ be a polytope defined by the system $A x \leq b$, where $A \in R^{m \times n}$, $b \in R^m$, and $\text{rank}(A) = n$. We give a short geometric proof of the following tight upper bound on the number of vertices of $P$: $$ n! \cdot \fracΔ{Δ_{\text{average}}} \cdot \text{vol}(B_2) \sim \frac{1}{\sqrt{Ï€n}} \cdot \left(\frac{2 Ï€}{e}\right)^{n/2} \cdot n^{n/2} \cdot \fracΔ{Δ_{\text{average}}}, $$ where $Δ$ is the maximum absolute value of $n \times n$ subdeterminants of $A$, and $Î…

Packers trying out WR Bo Melton at CB following release of Jaire Alexander https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-trying-out-wr-bo-melton-at-cb-following-release-of-jaire-alexander

Sources: Meta's Scale AI deal was motivated by Mark Zuckerberg's desire to find new leadership for Meta's AI efforts, relationship with Alexandr Wang, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-betting-n…

Why Meta is Betting Nearly $15 Billion on Alexandr Wang
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to fix a seemingly existential problem in recent months. His company’s large language model, Llama, was falling behind competitors and struggling to perform as well as models from OpenAI, particularly on complex tasks. Increasingly, Zuckerberg turned ...

How Warm-Glow Alters the Usability of Technology
Antonios Saravanos (New York University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14720 https://ar…

How Warm-Glow Alters the Usability of Technology
As technology increasingly aligns with users' personal values, traditional models of usability, focused on functionality and specifically effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction, may not fully capture how people perceive and evaluate it. This study investigates how the warm-glow phenomenon, the positive feeling associated with doing good, shapes perceived usability. An experimental approach was taken in which participants evaluated a hypothetical technology under conditions designed to evok…

Detection of low-luminosity X-ray pulsations from the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511-3057: an ever-thinning thread between bright accretion and sub-luminous states
Giulia Illiano, Alessandro Papitto, Sergio Campana, Alessio Marino, Arianna Miraval Zanon, Francesco Carotenuto, Francesco Coti Zelati, Maria Cristina Baglio, Filippo Ambrosino, Christian Malacaria, Caterina Ballocco, Gaurava K. Jaisawal, Marco M. Messa, Emilie Parent, Thomas D. Russell, Andrea Sanna, Anastasios Tzi…

Detection of low-luminosity X-ray pulsations from the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511-3057: an ever-thinning thread between bright accretion and sub-luminous states
After nearly a decade in quiescence, the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511$-$3057 displayed a new outburst on 2025 February 11, its third since discovery, following previous activity in 2009 and 2015. We report on an XMM-Newton Target of Opportunity observation performed on 2025 March 4, more than twenty days after the outburst onset. From the X-ray spectrum - well described by an absorbed Comptonization model - we estimated an unabsorbed 0.5$-$10 keV luminosity of $L_X \sim 7 \times 10^{…

Accretion of Dark Energy Candidates Following Redshift Parametrization Type Equation of State : Horava-Lifshitz Gravity
Promila Biswas, Sukanya Dutta, Ritabrata Biswas, Farook Rahaman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11173

Accretion of Dark Energy Candidates Following Redshift Parametrization Type Equation of State : Horava-Lifshitz Gravity
In this article, accretion of particular dark energy candidates is studied. These dark energy models possess equation of state dependent on redshift and some free parameters. Central gravitating object for this accretion model is chosen to be the Kehagias Sfetsos black hole sitting in Horava Gravity. Four special redshift parametrization models, viz. Chevallier-Polarski-Linder, Jassal-Bagala-Padmanabhan, Barboza-Alcaniz and Barboza-Alcaniz-Zhu-Silva are picked to study different accretion prope…

Sources: Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to CEO, replacing Alexandr Wang, who is set to join Meta after its investment in Scale AI (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Scale AI Picks New CEO as Alexandr Wang Set to Join Meta After Investment
Scale AI plans to promote Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to serve as its next chief executive officer following a multibillion-dollar investment from Meta Platforms Inc., according to two people familiar with the matter.