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Q&A with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Notion's evolution into an "AI workspace", being profitable, B2B vs. B2C, usage-based pricing for AI, and more (Casey Newton/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Notion CEO Ivan Zhao wants you to demand better from your tools
Notion’s Ivan Zhao on AI, productivity, and the future of work.

When Prompt Engineering Meets Software Engineering: CNL-P as Natural and Robust "APIs'' for Human-AI Interaction
Zhenchang Xing, Yang Liu, Zhuo Cheng, Qing Huang, Dehai Zhao, Daniel Sun, Chenhua Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06942

When Prompt Engineering Meets Software Engineering: CNL-P as Natural and Robust "APIs'' for Human-AI Interaction
With the growing capabilities of large language models (LLMs), they are increasingly applied in areas like intelligent customer service, code generation, and knowledge management. Natural language (NL) prompts act as the ``APIs'' for human-LLM interaction. To improve prompt quality, best practices for prompt engineering (PE) have been developed, including writing guidelines and templates. Building on this, we propose Controlled NL for Prompt (CNL-P), which not only incorporates PE best practice…

Testing Magnetic Field Configurations in Spider Pulsar PSR J1723-2837 with IXPE
Michela Negro, Haocheng Zhang, Niccol\`o Di Lalla, Slavko Bogdanov, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Noel Klingler, Jeremy Hare
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05240

Testing Magnetic Field Configurations in Spider Pulsar PSR J1723-2837 with IXPE
We present the first X-ray polarimetry observations of a redback millisecond pulsar binary, \src, with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). Redbacks are compact binaries in which a rotation-powered millisecond pulsar interacts with a non-degenerate companion via an intrabinary shock, forming ideal laboratories for probing pulsar winds and relativistic shock physics, where ordered magnetic fields and particle acceleration shape the observed radiation. We conduct a spectro-polarimetric …

Who Do You Think You Are? Creating RSE Personas from GitHub Interactions
Felicity Anderson, Julien Sindt, Neil Chue Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05390 https://

Who Do You Think You Are? Creating RSE Personas from GitHub Interactions
We describe data-driven RSE personas: an approach combining software repository mining and data-driven personas applied to research software (RS), an attempt to describe and identify common and rare patterns of Research Software Engineering (RSE) development. This allows individuals and RS project teams to understand their contributions, impact and repository dynamics - an important foundation for improving RSE. We evaluate the method on different patterns of collaborative interaction behaviour…

Recoil-Safe Subtraction, Matching and Merging in e e- to hadrons
Stefan H\"oche, Frank Krauss, Peter Meinzinger, Daniel Reichelt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22837 https://…

Recoil-Safe Subtraction, Matching and Merging in e+e- to hadrons
We present the first next-to-leading order matched and multi-jet merged predictions based on the Alaric parton shower. The components needed for infrared subtraction in the S-MC@NLO algorithm are computed analytically for the case of color singlet decays to hadronic final states and validated against existing approaches for up to e+e- to 5 jets. Phenomenological results for e+e- to hadrons at the Z pole are obtained with up to five jets at next-to-leading order precision, for the first time usi…

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Samsung brings ads to US fridges | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/news/780757/samsung-brings-ads-to-us-fridges
Daar stond je als je als consument echt niet op te wachten...

Schleswig-Holsteins Digitalminister Schrödter rudert zurück: Nach Chaos, Ausfällen und Kritik an seinem Führungsstil entschuldigt er sich für Pannen bei der #OpenSource-Umstellung. Richtig bleibt: Weg von MS-Monopolen, hin zu freier Software. Falsch war: Überheblichkeit statt Organisation. Digitalisierung lernt man eben nicht „vom Zuschauen“, sondern durch Planung.
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Open-Source-Umstellung: Schleswig-Holsteins Digitalminister räumt Probleme ein
Bei der Migration auf freie Software laufe manches nicht so reibungslos wie gewünscht, entschuldigt sich Digitalisierungsminister Schrödter bei Mitarbeitern.

Comparative Evaluation of PyTorch, JAX, SciPy, and Neal for Solving QUBO Problems at Scale
Pei-Kun Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17770 https://arxiv.org/…

Comparative Evaluation of PyTorch, JAX, SciPy, and Neal for Solving QUBO Problems at Scale
Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) is a versatile framework for modeling combinatorial optimization problems. This study benchmarks five software-based QUBO solvers: Neal, PyTorch (CPU), PyTorch (GPU), JAX, and SciPy, on randomly generated QUBO matrices ranging from 1000x1000 to 45000x45000, under six convergence thresholds from 10^-1 to 10^-6. We evaluate their performance in terms of solution quality (energy) and computational time. Among the solvers tested, Neal achieved the …

NoCode-bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Natural Language-Driven Feature Addition
Le Deng, Zhonghao Jiang, Jialun Cao, Michael Pradel, Zhongxin Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18130

NoCode-bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Natural Language-Driven Feature Addition
Natural language-driven no-code development allows users to specify software functionality using natural language (NL) instead of editing source code, promising increased productivity and democratized development. Large language models (LLMs) show potential in enabling this paradigm. In this context, software documentation acts as an NL specification for functionality. This work introduces NoCode-bench, a benchmark designed to evaluate LLMs on real-world NL-driven feature addition tasks, consis…