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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.

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…

A look at VideoAmp, which claims ad spending based on its data rose from $300M annually to $3B over the past three years, and is considered a real Nielsen rival (Matt Craig/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2025/10/30…

Why VideoAmp Thinks It Can Bust Nielsen’s TV Ratings Monopoly
With viewership data underpinning $60 billion in television advertising, an industry behemoth is suddenly facing questions about whether it is “bringing an abacus to an AI fight.”

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…

NGTS-EB-8: A double-lined eclipsing M M binary discovered by citizen scientists
Sean M. O'Brien, Megan E. Schwamb, Christopher A. Watson, Louise D. Nielsen, Edward M. Bryant, Sarah L. Casewell, Matthew R. Burleigh, Lucy Fortson, Samuel Gill, Chris J. Lintott, Katlyn L. Hobbs, Ioannis Apergis, Daniel Bayliss, Jorge Fern\'andez Fern\'andez, Maximilian N. G\"unther, Faith Hawthorn, James S. Jenkins, Alicia Kendall, James McCormac, Ernst J. W. de Mooij, Toby Rodel, Suman S…

NGTS-EB-8: A double-lined eclipsing M+M binary discovered by citizen scientists
We report the identification and characterization of a new binary system composed of two near-equal mass M-dwarfs. The binary NGTS-EB-8 was identified as a planet candidate in data from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) by citizen scientists participating in the Planet Hunters NGTS project. High-resolution spectroscopic observations reveal the system to be a double-lined binary. By modeling the photometric and radial velocity observations, we determine an orbital period of 4.2 days and …

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.

Thanks to @… for suggesting this new personality is tunable. I've asked ChatGPT to use a different tone and it says it will remember that. Curious how well this works.

Here are my favourites from the National Portrait Gallery's Portrait Award 2025. It's a fantastic selection this year, and free to see as always.
#art #portraits #painting

Today we visited Oyne and Culsamond, two little spots 30 minutes drive west of Aberdeen. Ken's grandparents came from this part of Scotland. We saw his grandfather's home and the church we think he was baptized in. Beautiful part of the world and fun to connect to his story in this way.

I am very on the fence about upgrading from a Pixel 8 to a Pixel 10 Pro, mostly for the much better camera. It's a good time: $300 sale, $250 tradein. Am I crazy? Talk me in or out of it.
(I am firmly committed to Android and while I'm a little Samsung-curious, I've stuck with Pixel phones so far.)