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Really feeling the slowness of #fsharp compilation process. I am surprised they haven't made more progress in this area but I am sure I am not understanding the full complexities involved - or perhaps it's not a big enough issue to warrant too much attention. Either way. The only thing that's missing for this beautiful ecosystem of f#/.net world in my book.

Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.

Quantum criticality at the end of a pseudogap phase in superconducting infinite-layer nickelates
C. Iorio-Duval, E. Beauchesne-Blanchet, F. Perreault, J. L. Santana Gonz\'alez, W. Sun, Y. F. Nie, A. Gourgout, G. Grissonnanche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12786

Quantum criticality at the end of a pseudogap phase in superconducting infinite-layer nickelates
In many unconventional superconductors, the strange-metal regime is thought to emerge from quantum criticality, yet in cuprates this link is obscured by the enigmatic pseudogap. Superconducting infinite-layer nickelates provide a new arena to test this paradigm but are constrained to thin films, precluding calorimetry. We use the Seebeck coefficient as a low-temperature proxy for entropy per carrier and uncover a clear quantum-critical thermodynamic signature: in La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$NiO$_2$ at the …

Matchmaker: An Open-source Library for Real-time Piano Score Following and Systematic Evaluation
Jiyun Park, Carlos Cancino-Chac\'on, Suhit Chiruthapudi, Juhan Nam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10087 …

Matchmaker: An Open-source Library for Real-time Piano Score Following and Systematic Evaluation
Real-time music alignment, also known as score following, is a fundamental MIR task with a long history and is essential for many interactive applications. Despite its importance, there has not been a unified open framework for comparing models, largely due to the inherent complexity of real-time processing and the language- or system-dependent implementations. In addition, low compatibility with the existing MIR environment has made it difficult to develop benchmarks using large datasets avail…

Made this with Sora yesterday.
I think it has the nice, comforting feeling of a Soviet (or British?) version of the XB-36H (the bomber with the unshielded nuclear reactor) in Charlie Stross's A Colder War. You get the sense that even with a telephoto lens, the camera operator has absorbed enough sieverts that a gruesome death of radiation poisoning in the very near future is going to take place. #airart

I was photographing a seagull in a flock standing on the beach and then … this happened. I think the camera’s autofocus had a nervous breakdown. Elephant Seal Vista Point, Big Sur, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #raggedpoint #bigsur

Complex Gaussianity and spatio-frequential memory effect of random wave processes
Guillaume Bal, Anjali Nair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09402 https://arxiv…

Complex Gaussianity and spatio-frequential memory effect of random wave processes
Wavefield speckle patterns are generated by interference of randomly scattered coherent light. In the weak-coupling regime of the Itô-Schrödinger paraxial model for long-distance wave propagation, we show the following multiscale character: a macroscopic envelope solves a deterministic diffusion equation while the local wavefield (the speckle) is described by a complex Gaussian process both in terms of spatial axial and lateral displacements as well as frequency and angular variations of the …

This is only true for some flavors of "big accounts."
A number of the people I follow with thousands of followers are ONLY on the #Fediverse and most of the rest are only here and on Bluesky. I routinely block people here and on Bluesky (and across the bridge) who pull in the sewage from X and dump it in either place.
I'm not really interested in following people that wa…

Series D, Episode 02 - Power
PELLA: I shall. You follow. [exits]
[Gunn Sar's room. He is lying on a table while Nina massages him.]
CATO: [Enters] Sir, we have the intruder. His equipment and gun. [Hands them to Gunn Sar.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/56 B7B3

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 11. November 1965 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 11. #Atombombe "Sepia". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests