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Not ordering an appetizer is a crime in Italy that I can get behind. It helps that when paired with a 1st course, the price and portion comes out reasonable.

Cries for help from our dying local newspaper:
Due to external issues we have been unable to produce a 16 page newspaper and have had to make the tough decision to go down in our regular page count from two 8 page sections, to 12 pages yesterday, and 10 pages in today's edition.

I watched "Thief" (1981), directed by Michael Mann. Sort of a heist movie, sort of a mob movie, but aspires to be a Cassavetes movie. An interesting mix, and really well shot. Ryan Coogler said this was the film that made "wet-downs" a thing, and judging by all of the wet streets & sidewalks, I believe it.
Features Willie Nelson in a minor role. Also features a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.

The Curious Case of V CVn
Michael T. Power, Hilding R. Neilson, Galina Sherren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11672 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11672

The Curious Case of V CVn
Decades of observations on the star V Canum Venaticorum (V CVn) have revealed an unusual inverse relationship between its linear polarization and light curves (sometimes with a lead/lag time between them) and an almost constant polarization position angle. One theory proposed to explain this behaviour is the existence of a bow shock driven by a spherically symmetric time-varying dusty wind from the star, which is assumed to vary due to radial pulsations. To test this hypothesis, this study uses…

Measurement-induced entanglement in noisy 2D random Clifford circuits
Zhi-Yuan Wei, Jon Nelson, Joel Rajakumar, Esther Cruz, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Michael J. Gullans, Daniel Malz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12743

Measurement-induced entanglement in noisy 2D random Clifford circuits
We study measurement-induced entanglement generated by column-by-column sampling of noisy 2D random Clifford circuits of size $N$ and depth $T$. Focusing on the operator entanglement $S_{\rm op}$ of the sampling-induced boundary state, first, we reproduce in the noiseless limit a finite-depth transition from area- to volume-law scaling. With on-site probablistic trace noise at any constant rate $p>0$, the maximal $S_{\rm op}$ attained along the sampling trajectory obeys an area law in the bound…

The BART dancers need to up their game. Currently on narrow gage railway with a 3 piece band playing in a sardine packed carriage.

Wait, don't i know someone named Russ Nelson?
Probably a different guy... https://flipboard.com/@npr/all-things-considered-ji18657oz/-/a-sasZChVSTP--xxajoEyJ_w:a:3195441-/0

Russell M. Nelson, head of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dies at 101
The leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has died. Russell M. Nelson was 101 years old — the oldest person to have ever led the Salt Lake City-based faith.

An Asynchronous Many-Task Algorithm for Unstructured $S_{N}$ Transport on Shared Memory Systems
Alex Elwood, Tom Deakin, Justin Lovegrove, Chris Nelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11513

An Asynchronous Many-Task Algorithm for Unstructured $S_{N}$ Transport on Shared Memory Systems
Discrete ordinates $S_N$ transport solvers on unstructured meshes pose a challenge to scale due to complex data dependencies, memory access patterns and a high-dimensional domain. In this paper, we review the performance bottlenecks within the shared memory parallelization scheme of an existing transport solver on modern many-core architectures with high core counts. With this analysis, we then survey the performance of this solver across a variety of compute hardware. We then present a new Asy…

Persistent Charge and Spin Currents in a Ferromagnetic Hatano-Nelson Ring
Sourav Karmakar, Sudin Ganguly, Santanu K. Maiti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06109 https://

Persistent Charge and Spin Currents in a Ferromagnetic Hatano-Nelson Ring
We investigate persistent charge and spin currents in a ferromagnetic Hatano-Nelson ring with anti-Hermitian intradimer hopping, where non-reciprocal hopping generates a synthetic magnetic flux and drives a non-Hermitian Aharonov-Bohm effect. The system supports both real and imaginary persistent currents, with ferromagnetic spin splitting enabling all three spin-current components, dictated by the orientation of magnetic moments. The currents are computed using the current operator method with…

Waiting for a waymo to come down the road to back out of my driveway. They are the only cars that will stop in San Francisco.