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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.

I hadn't quite internalized just how expensive London is until being in Aberdeen. London prices for taxis and restaurants are double, maybe triple what they are in Aberdeen. Beer's about the same though.

Numerical effects on the stripping of dark matter and stars in IllustrisTNG galaxy groups and clusters
Mark R. Lovell (ICC Durham, Durham Physics, University of Iceland), Annalisa Pillepich (MPIA), Christoph Engler (MPIA), Dylan Nelson (Heidelberg), Rahul Ramesh (Heidelberg), Volker Springel (MPA), Lars Hernquist (ITP Harvard)
https://arxi…

Numerical effects on the stripping of dark matter and stars in IllustrisTNG galaxy groups and clusters
The stellar haloes and intra-cluster light around galaxies are crucial test beds for dark matter (DM) physics and galaxy formation models. We consider the role that the numerical resolution plays in the modelling of these systems by studying the stripping of satellites in the IllustrisTNG cosmological simulations. We focus on host haloes of total halo mass $M_\mathrm{200c}=10^{12-15}M_{\odot}$ and satellites of stellar mass $>10^{7}$$M_{\odot}$, and compare stellar halo / satellite properties a…

Mahasosotra be ilay montage vidéo nataon’ny TVM mamintina ny fivoriana tamin’ny Asabotsy.
Nesoriny tanteraka ny zavatra notsindriana voalohany indrindra :
- tsy mety ny fomba « fitandroana filaminana » amin’izao fotoana izao, tafahoatra ny herisetra ataon’ny « mpitandro filaminana »
- mitongilana ny fanomezana fahafahana mivory sy maneho hevitra.
Tsy hisy ady hevitra hitombona raha tsy miova ireo.

Superstring amplitudes from the field-theory limit: an n-point map at one loop
Ricardo Monteiro, Lecheng Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02455 https://arxiv…

Superstring amplitudes from the field-theory limit: an n-point map at one loop
Are perturbative superstring amplitudes for massless external states just an $α'$ dressing of super-Yang-Mills/supergravity? This is the case at tree level, where the worldsheet correlators at $n$ points can be written in a natural worldsheet basis, such that the kinematic coefficients are BCJ numerators of super-Yang-Mills/supergravity amplitudes, with the non-trivial $α'$ dependence carried only by the Koba-Nielsen factor. Motivated by this construction, we present for the first time a comp…

New version of Android "Android 16 QPR1" is now out, that's supposed to be a minor quarterly release. No idea if they fixed all the bugs I've been finding. But they've changed the UI around. Again. For instance the icons showing WiFi and cellular signal strength have changed.
Maybe it's better, maybe it's worse, but I grow weary of these changes. Some images here.

Data Management System Analysis for Distributed Computing Workloads
Kuan-Chieh Hsu, Sairam Sri Vatsavai, Ozgur O. Kilic, Tatiana Korchuganova, Paul Nilsson, Sankha Dutta, Yihui Ren, David K. Park, Joseph Boudreau, Tasnuva Chowdhury, Shengyu Feng, Raees Khan, Jaehyung Kim, Scott Klasky, Tadashi Maeno, Verena Ingrid Martinez Outschoorn, Norbert Podhorszki, Fr\'ed\'eric Suter, Wei Yang, Yiming Yang, Shinjae Yoo, Alexei Klimentov, Adolfy Hoisie

Data Management System Analysis for Distributed Computing Workloads
Large-scale international collaborations such as ATLAS rely on globally distributed workflows and data management to process, move, and store vast volumes of data. ATLAS's Production and Distributed Analysis (PanDA) workflow system and the Rucio data management system are each highly optimized for their respective design goals. However, operating them together at global scale exposes systemic inefficiencies, including underutilized resources, redundant or unnecessary transfers, and altered erro…

Not only Gmail has been infested with bad AI, but also other Google products. Chrome has a "help me write" feature. You can [disable it in the AI innovations settings](chrome://settings/ai). Unfortunately the intrusive popup is still showing up in Gmail and I can't find any way to turn it off. (See image)
There's also a Chrome setting that allows better browser history search. I've wanted that for years so I've turned that one on for now. Maybe it's better than all the other Gemini crap?

Saw this cool 3d map at the North Star Powerhouse Museum. It's a gold mine. Layers of the mine are painted on clear panels and they are stacked to show the 3d view.

Google Workspace is full of dire warnings about how you can try things but they won't work for a long time (maybe). Sometimes that's because of DNS and Internet caching problems. Sometimes it's because Google made a decision in 2001 it was OK to store data in databases that didn't commit immediately and they thought it was OK to show the user inconsistent state. Twenty-four years later that awful decision persists, even if my data doesn't.