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A small aside, during my vacation I finally started on writing a Metal backend for SwiftTerm.
It has a few missing features, so not worth comparing performance yet, but it is feeling great:
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm/tree/metal-backend

GitHub - migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm at metal-backend
Xterm/VT100 Terminal emulator in Swift. Contribute to migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm development by creating an account on GitHub.

from my link log —
Elementary functions NOT following the IEEE 754 floating-point standard.
http://www.hlsl.co.uk/blog/2020/1/29/ieee754-is-not-followed
saved 2025-02-11

Elementary Functions and NOT Following the IEEE 754 Floating-Point Standard — TRYING TO FIND THE OBVIOUS
The IEEE-754 Standard for floating-point numbers was introduced initially in 1985 to solve the problem of diverse floating point implementations prevent code being portable and increase stability across platforms. It has been widely adopted and revised over the last 30 years and if you have dealt

AVweb, Aviation Consumer, IFR. KITPLANES, Aviation Safety are all gone. A dark time for aviation. A beacon of hope: Russ Niles has created a new site: AVBrief.
https://avbrief.org/so-long-avweb-hello-avbrief/
If you fly, or if you want to fly, or if you love flying, sign up…

Electronic localization on the structural inhomogeneities formed due to Bi and Te deficiency in the MBE grown films of AFM topological insulator MnBi2Te4: Evidence from spectroscopic ellipsometry and infrared studies
N. N. Kovaleva, D. Chvostova, T. N. Fursova, A. V. Muratov, S. I. Bozhko, Yu. A. Aleshchenko, A. Dejneka, D. V. Ishchenko, O. E. Tereshchenko, K. I. Kugel

Electronic localization on the structural inhomogeneities formed due to Bi and Te deficiency in the MBE grown films of AFM topological insulator MnBi2Te4: Evidence from spectroscopic ellipsometry and infrared studies
The intrinsic substitutional and antisite defects cause unintentional doping and shift of the E_F position above the conduction band minimum in the AFM topological insulator (TI) MnBi2Te4. This prevents measurements of the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAH) and investigation of the topological Dirac states. In the present study, the Mn-Bi-Te films grown by the MBE technique onto Si(111) substrates with decreasing Bi and Te contents and increasing Mn content were investigated by 0.5-6.5 eV spec…

Texans safety Ward facing felony assault charge https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45498756/texans-safety-jimmie-ward-facing-felony-assault-charge

Cheap Drone Built to Kill Shahed Recorded Flying at Bullet Train Speed - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/cheap-drone-shahed-sting-wild-hornets-bullet-train-speed-2025-8

• Foundations for OT Cybersecurity: Asset Inventory Guidance for Owners and Operators
13 August 2025
site: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/foundations-ot-cybersecurity-asset-inventory-guidance-owners-a…

Extended Parameter Shift Rules with Minimal Derivative Variance for Parameterized Quantum Circuits
Zhijian Lai, Jiang Hu, Dong An, Zaiwen Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08802 ht…

Extended Parameter Shift Rules with Minimal Derivative Variance for Parameterized Quantum Circuits
Parameter shift rules (PSRs) are useful methods for computing arbitrary-order derivatives of the cost function in parameterized quantum circuits. The basic idea of PSRs is to evaluate the cost function at different parameter shifts, then use specific coefficients to combine them linearly to obtain the exact derivatives. In this work, we propose an extended parameter shift rule (EPSR) which generalizes a broad range of existing PSRs and has the following two advantages. First, EPSR offers an inf…

Lions-Falcons preseason game suspended following injury to Detroit safety Morice Norris https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-falcons-preseason-game-suspended-following-injury-to-detroit-safety-morice-norris