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'22 1st-rounder Strange among Pats' roster cuts https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46082348/cole-strange-2022-1st-round-pick-patriots-roster-cuts

Hand Shadow Art: A Differentiable Rendering Perspective
Aalok Gangopadhyay, Prajwal Singh, Ashish Tiwari, Shanmuganathan Raman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21252

Hand Shadow Art: A Differentiable Rendering Perspective
Shadow art is an exciting form of sculptural art that produces captivating artistic effects through the 2D shadows cast by 3D shapes. Hand shadows, also known as shadow puppetry or shadowgraphy, involve creating various shapes and figures using your hands and fingers to cast meaningful shadows on a wall. In this work, we propose a differentiable rendering-based approach to deform hand models such that they cast a shadow consistent with a desired target image and the associated lighting configur…

Convergence and error analysis of a semi-implicit finite volume scheme for the Gray--Scott system
Tsiry Avisoa Randrianasolo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18910 https://

Convergence and error analysis of a semi-implicit finite volume scheme for the Gray--Scott system
We analyze a semi-implicit finite volume scheme for the Gray--Scott system, a model for pattern formation in chemical and biological media. We prove unconditional well-posedness of the fully discrete problem and establish qualitative properties, including positivity and boundedness of the numerical solution. A convergence result is obtained by compactness arguments, showing that the discrete approximations converge strongly to a weak solution of the continuous system. Under additional regularit…

The on-shell action of supergravity & the B-side of TsT and single-trace $T\bar T$
Luis Apolo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19246 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

The on-shell action of supergravity & the B-side of TsT and single-trace $T\bar T$
We propose boundary terms for the action of the NS sector of supergravity on $M_3 \times S^3 \times T^4$ spacetimes -- where $M_3$ is an AdS$_3$ or a linear dilaton background -- that render the Brown-York stress tensor and the on-shell action finite. For AdS$_3$ backgrounds, we show that the on-shell action yields a free energy with chemical potentials determined by the $B$-field. TsT (T-duality + shift + T-duality) transformations of these backgrounds generate classes of linear dilaton backgr…

Interesting thing about tomorrow's tarot show, rendering now, is that I upgraded from Blender 4.0 to blender 4.4 and it's quite a bit nicer to look at the timeline editor.
Was sad to find that the render time was up though. From about 3 seconds per frame usually to more like 12!?
Trying it with an old version I see that the lights and textures look way better with 4.4 than 4.0 though. A substantial step up in the way the show looks without me even doing anything other than waiting four times longer per frame.
Seems to be heavily dependent upon lighting now. The slow frames are like 12 seconds but the fast frames with minimal lighting and close up on the video are more like 2.
Looks too beautiful now to go back though. Upgraded my cloud-remote render machines too. We will render on four machines tonight. FOUR! The power of it all.
g3.4xlarge is no faster than g3.large but g6.xlarge seems to be twice the speed.
But hard to be sure really coz of the massive variance in time depending on the lighting.
Anyway, great show coming tomorrow. Sometimes I wonder what the hell I'm trying to do with it but tomorrow's show is the answer. Hide the angry bitter political rant behind a strange CGI tarot show. When the rant comes together well I like it.
https://wordcloudtarot.com/@wordcloudtarot/statuses/01JYFF0GQV1680Z0VG0YTFZDTP

Linear and Second-order-cone Valid Inequalities for Problems with Storage
Juan M. Morales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21470 https://ar…

Linear and Second-order-cone Valid Inequalities for Problems with Storage
Batteries are playing an increasingly central role as distributed energy resources in the shift toward power systems dominated by renewable energy sources. However, existing battery models must invariably rely on complementarity constraints to prevent simultaneous charging and discharging, rendering models of a disjunctive nature and NP-hard. In this paper, we analyze the disjunctive structure of the battery's feasible operational set and uncover a submodularity property in its extreme power tr…

Irgendwie hat so ein #Datenklo schon ein bisschen #Stålenhag Vibes.
#CCCamp #Hackercamp

Renters Flock to Cities While Buyers Turn to the Outskirts
Globe St - August 18
“As affordability challenges and economic uncertainty persist, more affluent tenants are increasingly choosing to rent within prime metropolitan markets.”
https://www.globest.com/2025/0…

Renters Flock to Cities While Buyers Turn to the Outskirts
The new landscape is a blend of different renter profiles.

Autonomous Cyber Resilience via a Co-Evolutionary Arms Race within a Fortified Digital Twin Sandbox
Malikussaid, Sutiyo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20102 h…

Autonomous Cyber Resilience via a Co-Evolutionary Arms Race within a Fortified Digital Twin Sandbox
The convergence of IT and OT has created hyper-connected ICS, exposing critical infrastructure to a new class of adaptive, intelligent adversaries that render static defenses obsolete. Existing security paradigms often fail to address a foundational "Trinity of Trust," comprising the fidelity of the system model, the integrity of synchronizing data, and the resilience of the analytical engine against sophisticated evasion. This paper introduces the ARC framework, a method for achieving analytic…

Sodele, bin grade seit langem mal wieder in #Zürich #Bus gefahren. Beim #BromptonGLine hat sich ein Bremsbelag verklemmt und ist auch komplett runtergebremst. Was davon Ursache und was Wirkung ist, ist unk…