Tootfinder

you may be familiar with this 1st photo of a polish gentleman recording music at the jarocin festival in 1986, but here's what the rest of the tapers' section looked like! (sadly, the linked interview doesn't seem to be archived.) https://web.archive.org/web/…

Apple seems to be working on adding CUDA support to open-source ML framework MLX, which may mean that code developed using MLX would work with CUDA (Malcolm Owen/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/0

Apple Silicon machine learning code may become more easily portable to Nvidia hardware
A project is trying to cut the cost of making machine learning applications for Nvidia hardware, by developing on an Apple Silicon Mac and exporting it to CUDA.

Introducing the PIT-plot -- a new tool in the portfolio manager's toolkit
Stig-Johan Wiklund, Magnus Ytterstad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12068 https:/…

Introducing the PIT-plot -- a new tool in the portfolio manager's toolkit
Project portfolio management is an essential process for organizations aiming to optimize the value of their R&D investments. In this article, we introduce a new tool designed to support the prioritization of projects within project portfolio management. We label this tool the PIT-plot, an acronym for Project Impact Tornado plot, with reference to the similarity to the Tornado plot often used for sensitivity analyses. Many traditional practices in portfolio management focus on the properties of…

Hydrodynamical simulations of the vertical shear instability with dynamic dust and cooling rates in protoplanetary disks
Yuya Fukuhara, Mario Flock, Satoshi Okuzumi, Ryosuke T. Tominaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11156

Hydrodynamical simulations of the vertical shear instability with dynamic dust and cooling rates in protoplanetary disks
Turbulence in protoplanetary disks affects dust evolution and planetesimal formation. The vertical shear instability (VSI) is one of the candidate turbulence-driving mechanisms in the outer disk region. Since the VSI requires rapid gas cooling, dust grains in disks can influence and potentially control VSI-driven turbulence. However, VSI-driven turbulence has strong vertical motion, causing vertical dust diffusion. As a result, it remains unclear how turbulent structures and dust distributions …

Uncertainty-Informed Scheduling of Decision Points for Intelligent Mobile Health Interventions
Asim H. Gazi, Bhanu T. Gullapalli, Daiqi Gao, Benjamin M. Marlin, Vivek Shetty, Susan A. Murphy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10798

Uncertainty-Informed Scheduling of Decision Points for Intelligent Mobile Health Interventions
Timely decision making is critical to the effectiveness of mobile health (mHealth) interventions. At predefined timepoints called "decision points," intelligent mHealth systems such as just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) estimate an individual's biobehavioral context from sensor or survey data and determine whether and how to intervene. For interventions targeting habitual behavior (e.g., oral hygiene), effectiveness often hinges on delivering support shortly before the target behavior…

Multivariate Time-series Transformer Embeddings for Light Curves
Gabriel Chiong, Ignacio Becker, Pavlos Protopapas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11637 https:/…

Multivariate Time-series Transformer Embeddings for Light Curves
Astronomical surveys produce time-series data by observing stellar objects across multiple wavelength bands. Foundational transformer-based models, such as Astromer, encode each time-series as a sequence of embeddings of uniform dimensions. However, such models operate independently on each band at a single time and do not natively leverage information across telescope filters. We extend this framework by introducing a fusion mechanism that maps the collection of single-band embeddings to a uni…

Solvable Models of Heat Transport in Quantum Mechanics
R Loganayagam, Prithvi Narayan, Swathi T S
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09253 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Solvable Models of Heat Transport in Quantum Mechanics
We investigate solvable models of heat transport between a pair of quantum mechanical systems initialized at two different temperatures. At time $t=0$, a weak interaction is switched on between the systems, and we study the resulting energy transport. Focusing on the heat current as the primary observable, we analyze both the transient dynamics and the long-time behavior of the system. We demonstrate that simple toy models - including Random Matrix Theory like models ({\it RMT models}) and Schw…

One aspect that's often overlooked with dwm is its portability and uniqueness.
The dwm I'm sporting is one that no one else has; it is totally mine and in that sense unique.You build your own program, patches, binds et al.
Making sure all prerequisites are fulfilled you can then just copy your suckless configs to basically any distro and run a make clean install.
That's why I learned to love dwm and why it's still the best wm around, wayland or not.

projects in the near future:
1. my mac-mini server runs ubuntu server and need apps. I'm thinking about Heimdall and a next cloud instance that I can reach via tailscale. I will also use it as an exit node for my tailscale network.
2. Making the server sleep when not in use and use an old RPi to 'wake it up' also over tailscale.
3. Making a portable router out of a Radxa Rock 4c that also use tailscale as a vpn alternative using the exit node.

Effect of Galactic Chemical Evolution on Exoplanet Properties
Jason H. Steffen (UNLV), Cody Shakespeare (UNLV), Robert Royer (UNLV), David Rice (Open University of Israel), Allona Vazan (Open University of Israel)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10942

Effect of Galactic Chemical Evolution on Exoplanet Properties
We couple a simplified model for the galactic chemical evolution, with software that models the condensation of dust in protoplanetary disks and software that models the interior structure of planets in order to estimate the effects that the galactic chemical evolution has on the properties of planets as they form over time. We find that the early abundance of elements formed from the evolution and death of high-mass stars (such as Oxygen, Silicon, and Magnesium) yields planets with larger mant…