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Just read this long post on "the current state of Cara" https://cara.app/post/2e0d29d3-a57a-4b70-b0d0-9cefc15176ca
🤔 "Not having an algorithmically recommended feed is the biggest reason why people dropped off from Cara after we went viral. In a chronolog…

Jingna Zhang (@zemotion) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform
About the current state of Cara— Hi all, I’d like to address some users' concerns about Cara’s stability, algorithms and reach, and why we don’t actively promote Cara and recruit new users. I have touched on most of these before through other posts, but I’ll like to go over the main points and put them in one place since they often come up as recurring questions: — Cara’s longevity/stability > "A few weeks ago, after learning how much Jingna was struggling with her personal l…

Early Detection of Branched Broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa) Infestation in Tomato Crops Using Leaf Spectral Analysis and Machine Learning
Mohammadreza Narimani, Alireza Pourreza, Ali Moghimi, Parastoo Farajpoor, Hamid Jafarbiglu, Mohsen B. Mesgaran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12074

Early Detection of Branched Broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa) Infestation in Tomato Crops Using Leaf Spectral Analysis and Machine Learning
Branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa) is a chlorophyll-deficient parasitic weed that threatens tomato production by extracting nutrients from the host. We investigate early detection using leaf-level spectral reflectance (400-2500 nm) and ensemble machine learning. In a field experiment in Woodland, California, we tracked 300 tomato plants across growth stages defined by growing degree days (GDD). Leaf reflectance was acquired with a portable spectrometer and preprocessed (band denoising, 1 n…

3DViT-GAT: A Unified Atlas-Based 3D Vision Transformer and Graph Learning Framework for Major Depressive Disorder Detection Using Structural MRI Data
Nojod M. Alotaibi, Areej M. Alhothali, Manar S. Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12143

3DViT-GAT: A Unified Atlas-Based 3D Vision Transformer and Graph Learning Framework for Major Depressive Disorder Detection Using Structural MRI Data
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent mental health condition that negatively impacts both individual well-being and global public health. Automated detection of MDD using structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) and deep learning (DL) methods holds increasing promise for improving diagnostic accuracy and enabling early intervention. Most existing methods employ either voxel-level features or handcrafted regional representations built from predefined brain atlases, limiting their a…

Read this thread all the way through and rate your enthusiasm for it.
https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/115025535193319606

A proud achievement of my half-century IT career happened in 1996 consulting to the #UNDP toward the first published edition of the Humanity Development Library.
It seemed easy enough: "It can be fairly estimated that 1/3, or about 20 million pages of UN, and as much University and NGO material are very useful. Those 20 million pages useful UN publications probably contain about 50% of solutions for major World problems. This information must be released in digital format for non-profit redistribution in all countries."
also portable and accessible to all platforms, everywhere.
Happily, not only did the project live on, but thanks to @… our once-intractable problem of global delivery is now globally solved!
So, whether or not this is timely, I don't know, but should you need to suddenly rebuild some semblance of civilization from scratch…
Humanity Development Library 2.0 CD-ROM 1998 : #HumanityLibrariesProject : #InternetArchive
https://archive.org/details/humanity-development-library-2.0

Short-Lived Radioisotopic enrichment from AGB interlopers in low-mass star-forming regions
Joseph W. Eatson, Richard J. Parker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12079 https://

Short-Lived Radioisotopic enrichment from AGB interlopers in low-mass star-forming regions
The decay of Short-Lived Radioisotopes (SLRs) can be a significant source of heating early in protoplanetary systems, though how a protoplanetary disk becomes enriched with these SLRs far above the galactic background level remains an open question. Observational evidence suggests that this enrichment occurs during the period from when the disk forms to when it progresses into a protoplanetary system, and is homogenous throughout the resultant planetary system. Whilst SLRs such as 26Al and 60Fe…

Hm...
This sounds like something that needs to be changed...
... dunno if on the side of #PeerTube or #Mastodon.
https://

Unwitting Markowitz' Simplification of Portfolio Random Returns
Victor Olkhov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08148 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08148

Unwitting Markowitz' Simplification of Portfolio Random Returns
In his famous paper, Markowitz (1952) derived the dependence of portfolio random returns on the random returns of its securities. This result allowed Markowitz to obtain his famous expression for portfolio variance. We show that Markowitz's equation for portfolio random returns and the expression for portfolio variance, which results from it, describe a simplified approximation of the real markets when the volumes of all consecutive trades with the securities are assumed to be constant during t…

8 coax lanes, DC - 70 GHz, solderless compression fit... *drool*
https://www.hubersuhner.com/en/newsroom/blog-and-literature/blog/introducing-mxpd70-the-next-step-in-multicoax-test-solut…

Primordial planet spin driven by boundary layer effects in a decretion disc
Rebecca G. Martin, Stephen H. Lubow, David Vallet, Madeline Overton, Stephen Lepp, Zhaohuan Zhu, Shunquan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09273

Primordial planet spin driven by boundary layer effects in a decretion disc
Accretion of material from a protoplanetary disc on to a forming giant planet can spin the planet up to close to its breakup rate, $Ω_{\rm b}=(G M_{\rm p}/R_{\rm p}^3)$, where $M_{\rm p}$ is the mass and $R_{\rm p}$ is the radius of the planet. After the protoplanetary disc dissipates, the rapidly rotating planet may eject a decretion (outflowing) disc in a similar way to a Be star. Boundary layer effects in a hydrodynamic disc allow for decretion disc formation at spin rates below the breakup…