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Here's my Boles Bells article about aging:
https://bolesbells.com/blog/2025/9/10/three-overlooked-secrets-to-aging-better-than-average-the-science-of-growing-stronger-with-age

Three Overlooked Secrets to Aging Better Than Average: The Science of Growing Stronger With Age — David Boles Bells
What strikes me most is how these patterns all share a common thread of deliberate discomfort: cognitive, physical, and social. The average person's relationship with discomfort fundamentally shifts somewhere between ages twenty five and thirty five, from seeing it as growth to viewing it as somethi

Steering MoE LLMs via Expert (De)Activation
Mohsen Fayyaz, Ali Modarressi, Hanieh Deilamsalehy, Franck Dernoncourt, Ryan Rossi, Trung Bui, Hinrich Sch\"utze, Nanyun Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09660

Steering MoE LLMs via Expert (De)Activation
Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) in Large Language Models (LLMs) routes each token through a subset of specialized Feed-Forward Networks (FFN), known as experts. We present SteerMoE, a framework for steering MoE models by detecting and controlling behavior-linked experts. Our detection method identifies experts with distinct activation patterns across paired inputs exhibiting contrasting behaviors. By selectively (de)activating such experts during inference, we control behaviors like faithfulness and s…

Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on social media algorithms, studying music at Stanford, music streaming economics, creators, TikTok, influencers, AI, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-jack-conte-patreon/…

Patreon CEO Jack Conte Wants You to Get Off of Your Phone
The man who cofounded Patreon is tired of influencers making content to get clicks. He’d rather creators earn lifelong fans—and he has a plan for that.

Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on social media algorithms, studying music at Stanford, streaming, paying out $10B, creators, TikTok, influencers, AI, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-jack-conte-patreon/

Patreon CEO Jack Conte Wants You to Get Off of Your Phone
The man who cofounded Patreon is tired of influencers making content to get clicks. He’d rather creators earn lifelong fans—and he has a plan for that.

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情绪化城市 - 谕 🈳
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Mitigating Distribution Shift in Graph-Based Android Malware Classification via Function Metadata and LLM Embeddings
Ngoc N. Tran, Anwar Said, Waseem Abbas, Tyler Derr, Xenofon D. Koutsoukos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06734

Mitigating Distribution Shift in Graph-Based Android Malware Classification via Function Metadata and LLM Embeddings
Graph-based malware classifiers can achieve over 94% accuracy on standard Android datasets, yet we find they suffer accuracy drops of up to 45% when evaluated on previously unseen malware variants from the same family - a scenario where strong generalization would typically be expected. This highlights a key limitation in existing approaches: both the model architectures and their structure-only representations often fail to capture deeper semantic patterns. In this work, we propose a robust se…

Sea-Undistort: A Dataset for Through-Water Image Restoration in High Resolution Airborne Bathymetric Mapping
Maximilian Kromer, Panagiotis Agrafiotis, Beg\"um Demir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07760

Sea-Undistort: A Dataset for Through-Water Image Restoration in High Resolution Airborne Bathymetric Mapping
Accurate image-based bathymetric mapping in shallow waters remains challenging due to the complex optical distortions such as wave induced patterns, scattering and sunglint, introduced by the dynamic water surface, the water column properties, and solar illumination. In this work, we introduce Sea-Undistort, a comprehensive synthetic dataset of 1200 paired 512x512 through-water scenes rendered in Blender. Each pair comprises a distortion-free and a distorted view, featuring realistic water effe…

Dust devil migration patterns reveal strong near-surface winds across #Mars: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw5170 -> Dancing dust devils trace raging winds on Mars / Raging winds on Mars / How fast winds sweep across Mars: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Dancing_dust_devils_trace_raging_winds_on_Mars / https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2025/media_releases_2025/raging_winds_on_mars/index_eng.html / https://www.dlr.de/en/latest/news/2025/how-fast-winds-sweep-across-mars

Arrested coarsening, oscillations, and memory from a conserved phase separating nucleator in a self-straining cytoskeletal network
Quentin Bodini--Lefranc, Jakob Schindelwig, Daniel Weidinger, Lucas Engleder, Sebastian F\"urthauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07181

Arrested coarsening, oscillations, and memory from a conserved phase separating nucleator in a self-straining cytoskeletal network
How do phase separated cellular structures set their size? To elucidate this, we study the dynamics and steady states of a phase separating nucleator that is advected by the self-straining cytoskeletal network which it nucleates. We find (i) that the interplay between transport and the tendency of nucleators to phase separate arrests coarsening; (ii) that the system undergoes damped oscillations towards a patterned steady state with a well defined length scale; (iii) that the system supports a …

Graphene-Gold THz Metasurfaces with Tailored Resonant Structure for Enhanced Nonlinear Response
Anna Theodosi, Isaac Appiah Otoo, Anastasios D. Koulouklidis, Nikolaos Matthaiakakis, George Kakarantzas, Petri Mustonen, Harri Lipsanen, Georgy Fedorov, Ioannis Liontos, Stelios Tzortzakis, Polina Kuzhir, Maria Kafesaki, Odysseas Tsilipakos
https://

Graphene-Gold THz Metasurfaces with Tailored Resonant Structure for Enhanced Nonlinear Response
Graphene's exceptional nonlinear optical properties combined with resonant photonic structures offer a promising pathway for efficient nonlinear applications at terahertz (THz) frequencies. In this work, we propose and demonstrate a fabrication-friendly hybrid nonlinear metasurface composed of gold patches integrated with uniform graphene, circumventing the need for complex graphene patterning. The structure supports strong localized resonances that enhance nonlinear interactions. By exploiting…