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Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
DAYNA: Wait, I'm coming with you.
[Scene shifts back to Tarrant. One of the guards sprints toward him; the other removes a small card from their weapon, and studies it thoughtfully.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/308 B7B3

Activation-Deactivation: A General Framework for Robust Post-hoc Explainable AI
Akchunya Chanchal, David A. Kelly, Hana Chockler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01038 https://…

Activation-Deactivation: A General Framework for Robust Post-hoc Explainable AI
Black-box explainability methods are popular tools for explaining the decisions of image classifiers. A major drawback of these tools is their reliance on mutants obtained by occluding parts of the input, leading to out-of-distribution images. This raises doubts about the quality of the explanations. Moreover, choosing an appropriate occlusion value often requires domain knowledge. In this paper we introduce a novel forward-pass paradigm Activation-Deactivation (AD), which removes the effects o…

Practical security of local local oscillator continuous-variable quantum key distribution systems with pulse width mismatch
Yi Zheng, Jiarui Wu, Chenlei Fang, Qingbing Ji, Wei Pan, Haobin Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26021

Practical security of local local oscillator continuous-variable quantum key distribution systems with pulse width mismatch
In continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD) systems, using a local local oscillator (LLO) scheme removes the local oscillator side channel, enhances Bob's detection performance and reduces the excess noise caused by photon leakage, thereby effectively improves the system's security and performance. However, in this scheme, since the signal and the LO are generated by different lasers and the signal propagates through the untrusted quantum channel, their pulse widths may become misma…

Trump Fires Fed Governor Cook, Escalating Attack on Central Bank (Jonnelle Marte/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-26/trump-removes-fed-governor-lisa-cook-effective-immediately
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p142#a250825p142

Discogs statement on U.S. tariffs #VinylRecords @…

Prototyping of 6.2-mm-Pitch Fiber Positioner Modules for Stage-V Telescope Instrumentation
Malak Galal, Maxime Rombach, Jonathan Wei, Ricardo Ara\'ujo, Diane Chapuis, S\'ebastien Pernecker, Abby Bault, Joseph Harry Silber, Nicholas Wenner, William Van Shourt, Stefane Caseiro, Corentin Magnenat, David Schlegel, Jean-Paul Kneib
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Prototyping of 6.2-mm-Pitch Fiber Positioner Modules for Stage-V Telescope Instrumentation
Small-pitch populated focal planes are a critical enabling technology for the next generation of highly multiplexed astronomical instruments. This work reports on ongoing prototyping activities for 6.2 mm-pitch alpha-beta (theta-phi) fiber positioner modules. Following a concise review of the underlying concept, the performance of trillium-based and independently actuated robotic designs is compared. Key operational parameters including XY positioning repeatability, non-linearity, backlash, and…

Doubly robust pointwise confidence intervals for a monotonic continuous treatment effect curve
Charles R. Doss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08415 https://arx…

Doubly robust pointwise confidence intervals for a monotonic continuous treatment effect curve
We study nonparametric inference for the causal dose-response (or treatment effect) curve when the treatment variable is continuous rather than binary or discrete. We do this by developing doubly robust confidence intervals for the continuous treatment effect curve (at a fixed point) under the assumption that it is monotonic, based on inverting a likelihood ratio-type test. Monotonicity of the treatment effect curve is often a very natural assumption, and this assumption removes the need to cho…

How important is language for human-like intelligence?
Gary Lupyan, Hunter Gentry, Martin Zettersten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15560 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

How important is language for human-like intelligence?
We use language to communicate our thoughts. But is language merely the expression of thoughts, which are themselves produced by other, nonlinguistic parts of our minds? Or does language play a more transformative role in human cognition, allowing us to have thoughts that we otherwise could (or would) not have? Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive science have reinvigorated this old question. We argue that language may hold the key to the emergence of both more gene…

Thermal History Asymmetry and Dissipation in Dense Colloidal Microgel Glasses
Sonali Vasant Kawale, Yogesh M Joshi, Ranjini Bandyopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16697 https:…

Thermal History Asymmetry and Dissipation in Dense Colloidal Microgel Glasses
Microstructurally arrested matter, from molecular glasses to soft glassy materials, can retain a memory of their thermal or mechanical (shear) histories. Their history-dependent and nonlinear microstructural recoveries have been studied within the Kovacs framework. Here, we applied the temperature ramps of varying magnitudes to dense colloidal suspensions of thermoresponsive, deformable and compressible microgel particles should serve as an effective strategy to probe the nonlinear path-depende…

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
ZEN: Confirmed. [Oppressive noise. The crew all sink to their knees, hands over ears.]
ZEN: Information. Ship's velocity now in excess of design limitations. Force wall collapse imminent. [Distortion effect. Dayna, Vila, Cally unconcious. Avon struggles towards the seating. Tarrant rouses and crawls towards Avon. Avon removes spacesuit from storage compartment, starts to pull it on.]