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The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang
Chiang is a great author, and I enjoyed everything I read but him so far. I started the mentioned short story but him, and all felt comfortable and interesting, and I thought already like I knew where this was going, and then, approximately just after the middle of the story, there are suddenly two sentences that shredder and shock me and I have to stop reading and process.
I really want to continue reading, but physically c…

I'm sorry, was it always that obvious a technology was fake and a bubble? If so, I seriously condemn all past generations for falling for this voodoo, crypto, nft, fusion reactor, new element nonsense.
https://…

Palantir’s CTO claims AI researchers are smoking to prove they believe AI will cure cancer, and he says it’s a sign of tech-fueled ‘mass psychosis’
Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said some researchers are smoking to signal to other researchers “how much they believe in AI.”

Okay, now this is getting interesting... I admit I haven't tried Linux on my T490s in quite a while, after my earlier attempts to get the built-in 5G modem to work failed.
Following yesterday’s controversy over why, in my attempt to boycott U.S. products and services, I’d choose Microsoft over Fedora of all things (because, as I said, I need Windows for work—just like any other common operating system), I installed a different SSD today just for fun and put the latest beta of Fedo…

Found a site that always goes the extra mile for it's niche subject, to the point I genuinely feel bad tryna explore rather than be a sincere initiate https://enochian.net/

Folk who've been following me for a long time will remember that last autumn I was posting pictures of doing the joinery for a new workshop. And then I went mad, and got ill, and for most of this year there's been no progress.
But my friend Lucy has been here for a week, and between the two of us the frame is now erected. Now I need to sort the timber stack (which hasn't been improving while I've been ill), erect a roof, and build some walls. But the bit I couldn't …

Theoretical derivation of blood velocity from TOF-MRA based artery centerline
Abrar Faiyaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16498 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.16498 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.16498
arXiv:2607.16498v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (TOF-MRA) is widely used for structural vascular imaging, but extracting functional hemodynamics like blood velocity typically requires supplementary phase-contrast scans. This study proposes a novel, physics-informed computational framework to extract variable fluid velocity directly from standard TOF-MRA signal profiles. We analytically expand the Bloch equations into Bloch-McConnell flow equations, establishing a mathematical relationship between the spatial decay of longitudinal magnetization and fluid velocity. To validate this derivation and overcome the limitations of constant-velocity assumptions, a MATLAB simulation framework was developed to model fluid flow in two variable-geometry flowing tube cases i.e continuous tapering and focal stenosis -under synthetic scanner noise. A global inverse optimization approach utilizing Dual-Tikhonov regularization was deployed to stably invert the ill-posed transit time integral, actively penalizing high-frequency numerical ringing while preserving structural curve stiffness. The computational sim-ulations successfully recovered ground-truth point-wise velocities, accurately tracking gradual hemodynamic accelerations and sharp stenotic jets. This theoretical framework provides a robust mathematical proof-of-concept that quantitative, localized functional hemodynamic metrics can be extracted from standard structural MRA imaging, estab-lishing a foundation for advanced flow quantification without requiring additional scan time.
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I couldn't decide what to do today and where to go. I got up too late for a longer hike due to the heat. In the end I just got on my bike and followed the road and pushed myself for some training effect.
It was a really enjoyable ride except for the last 10km where the heat got really annoying.
Is this a #silentsunday contribution? I think so... No talking, less thinking, j…

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.GA. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.GA/new
[1/3]:
- CO Observations of Early-mid Stage Major Mergers in the MaNGA Survey
Yu, Fang, Xu, Feng, Feng, Gao, Jiang, Lisenfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18999 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/112364597912941989
- A first systematic study of [OIII] 88$\mu$m at $z>8$: two luminous oxygen lines and a powerful io...
Hiddo S. B. Algera, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14486 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/115734347184965000
- Electron temperature relations and the direct N, O, Ne, S and Ar abundances of 49959 star-forming...
D. Scholte, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02463 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/115852861581257007
- The Role of Inner Halo Angular Momentum (Spin) in Shaping Dark Matter Bars in Milky Way Analogs
Shouvik Ghosh, Sandeep Kumar Kataria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14420 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/115938036617000433
- GA-NIFS: Dissecting The Alchemised: JWST reveals turbulent metal-poor gas fuelling a co-spatial s...
Robert G. Pascalau, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00232 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116164296791419745
- The Star Formation History of WLM from Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars and The Discovery of a Candi...
Abigail J. Lee, Daniel R. Weisz, Andrew E. Dolphin, Alessandro Savino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00243 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116164584608441374
- Two Exciting High-redshift Galaxy Candidates Turn Out to Be Two Exciting Ultra-cool Brown Dwarfs
Maru\v{s}a Brada\v{c}, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23668 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116481375281380996
- PEARLS: JWST Counterparts of Micro-Jy Radio Sources in the NEP Time Domain Field. II. All Four Sp...
S. P. Willner, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17040 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116600246884579228
- Eppur non si trovano Vol. 3: Phoebe -- a Mirage of a Primordial Black Hole
Andrzej Udalski, Przemek Mr\'oz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19442 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116775643602203820
- LEGGOS I: The JWST LEGGOS Survey -- LEnsing and Galaxy Growth: Observing Substructures -- Unpacks...
Gourav Khullar, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20845 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophGA_bot/116798485365000724
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How Trump and Musk made the Nepal disaster worse, by glaciologist dr Heïdi Sevestre:
"What about early warning systems?"
SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya, a joint initiative by NASA, USAID and ICIMOD monitoring, had mapped landslide and flood hazard in these valleys since 2010.
The Trump administration’s aid freeze cut it in January 2025."
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I spent the entire summer worrying about glaciers collapsing. With the crazy temperature records everywhere I knewit was only a question of time. On August 26th, all these fears came true. At… | Dr. Heïdi Sevestre | 62 comments
I spent the entire summer worrying about glaciers collapsing. With the crazy temperature records everywhere I knewit was only a question of time. On August 26th, all these fears came true. At 8:37AM, Nepal time, 100 to 200 million cubic metres of rock and ice detached from the north flank of Langtang Lirung at 5200m high, the equivalent of 90 to 175 Wembley stadiums, on Mohd. Farooq Azam's estimate at ICIMOD. Dan Shugar in Calgary and Jakob Steiner in Graz find from the satellite imagery that…

I want to throw companies who force login via emailed timed codes over a bridge. If they only have a username/e-mail field without a password field ready right away, I want to light them on fire. If they offer the option to add TOTP 2FA but still do the previous two, I want to crush them in one of those things for compacting trash. Kickstarter would be a little burning cube falling from a bridge, incidentally.