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AWS shuts down its Shanghai AI research lab, following similar moves by other US tech groups, including Microsoft and IBM, to scale back China-based R&D efforts (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a7cdb3bf-9c9d-40ef-951e-3c9f5bafe41d

the microclimates are strong tonight! biking south on the wiggle i abruptly went from feeling chilly to feeling comfortable in one moment while passing duboce park

GRAFT: GRaPH and Table Reasoning for Textual Alignment -- A Benchmark for Structured Instruction Following and Visual Reasoning
Abhigya Verma, Sriram Puttagunta, Seganrasan Subramanian, Sravan Ramachandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15690

GRAFT: GRaPH and Table Reasoning for Textual Alignment -- A Benchmark for Structured Instruction Following and Visual Reasoning
GRAFT is a structured multimodal benchmark for evaluating models on instruction-following, visual reasoning, and visual-textual alignment tasks. It features programmatically generated charts and synthetically rendered tables, created with Python visualization libraries to ensure control over data semantics, structure, and clarity. Each GRAFT instance pairs a chart or table image with a systematically generated, multi-step analytical question based solely on visual content. Answers are provided …

been faffing around with 3d geometry in build123d recently, and failing to get the cad kernel to produce geometric objects that do what i want
so i sat down to do some algebra
it’s annoying that the usual material about conic sections explains how ellipses and parabolas and hyperbolas work … but not how to derive them given a cone and a plane
so i worked it out for my particular problem, and happily things cancelled out very nicely, making the result nice and simple
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A Nevada City, CA newspaper article from 1852 describes a talk from someone raising capital to build a local telephone network. "A medium better befitting our wants and feelings—a tongue of lightning." What a great phrase.

On Tent Spaces for the Gaussian Measure
Liliana Forzani, Roberto Scotto, Wilfredo Urbina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16148 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16148

On Tent Spaces for the Gaussian Measure
Following the scheme of tent spaces in classical harmonic analysis developed by R. Coifman, Y. Meyer, and E. Stein in \cite{cms}, we succeed in doing so for the Gaussian setting. In \cite{MNP}, part of this theory (an atomic decomposition) is developed for a specific tent space where functions are defined just in a proper subset of $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}_+,$ and without the use of an area function. In the present paper, using a variation of the area function considered in \cite{FSU}, we define the G…

NFL Films deletes video detailing Brian Branch's struggles ahead of Lions-Chiefs brawl https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6726192/2025/10/17/brian-branch-detroit-lions-nfl-films-kansas-city-chiefs/

The Italian port of Ravenna on Thursday refused to load two containers filled with explosives for shipment to Israel,
following a request by local authorities,
according to a statement issued by the city’s municipality.
Ravenna’s mayor, Alessandro Barattoni, said in a statement: 
“Thanks to courageous dockers,
we were informed last night of the scheduled arrival today of two containers to the Ravenna port” 
Ravenna, along with provincial leaders and the re…

Italian port refuses to load containers of explosives bound for Israel
The Italian port of Ravenna on Thursday refused to load two containers filled with explosives for shipment to Israel, following a request by local authorities, according to a statement issued by th…

Non-Fermi liquid behaviour of CDW instabilities in fractionally-filled moir\'e flatbands
Ipsita Mandal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15996 https://arxiv.o…

Non-Fermi liquid behaviour of CDW instabilities in fractionally-filled moiré flatbands
Spin- and valley-polarized fractionally-filled moiré flatbands are known to host emergent Fermi-liquid phases, when analyzed with the help of a dual description in terms of holes. The dominant Coulomb interactions in an almost flatband endow the fermions with a nontrivial dispersion, when the system is described in terms of the hole operators (rather than the particle operators). In particular, for one-fourth filling, the Fermi surface takes a quasi-triangular shape, which brings about the pos…

ChronoLLM: Customizing Language Models for Physics-Based Simulation Code Generation
Jingquan Wang, Andrew Negrut, Harry Zhang, Khailanii Slaton, Shu Wang, Radu Serban, Jinlong Wu, Dan Negrut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13975

ChronoLLM: Customizing Language Models for Physics-Based Simulation Code Generation
This contribution is concerned with the following issue: can pretrained large language models (LLMs) be refined and customized to the point where they become virtual assistants helping experts with the effective use of a simulation tool? In this case study, the ``simulation tool'' considered is PyChrono, an open source multi-physics dynamics engine for multibody systems. We present a framework for refining and customizing both open- and closed-source LLMs to harness the power of AI in generatin…