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A historical record of four black rainstorm episodes in Hong Kong, China in July to August 2025
P. W. Chan, Y. T. Kwok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07600 https://

A historical record of four black rainstorm episodes in Hong Kong, China in July to August 2025
Four episodes of black rainstorms, the highest tier of heavy rain according to the rainstorm warning system in Hong Kong, occurred within eight days from 29 July to 5 August 2025, breaking the record for torrential rain in the territory. Providing early alerts to the public about these black rainstorms has considerable application value and has a substantial impact on their lives. This initial review of the four black rainstorm cases focuses on the predictability of the events from the synoptic…

Instructional Prompt Optimization for Few-Shot LLM-Based Recommendations on Cold-Start Users
Haowei Yang, Yushang Zhao, Sitao Min, Bo Su, Chao Yao, Wei Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09066

Instructional Prompt Optimization for Few-Shot LLM-Based Recommendations on Cold-Start Users
The cold-start user issue further compromises the effectiveness of recommender systems in limiting access to the historical behavioral information. It is an effective pipeline to optimize instructional prompts on a few-shot large language model (LLM) used in recommender tasks. We introduce a context-conditioned prompt formulation method P(u,\ Ds)\ \rightarrow\ R\widehat, where u is a cold-start user profile, Ds is a curated support set, and R\widehat is the predicted ranked list of items. Based…

Nonlinear Ringdowns as Sources and Detectors of Quantum Gravitational Waves
Thiago Guerreiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07348 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07…

Nonlinear Ringdowns as Sources and Detectors of Quantum Gravitational Waves
Is gravity quantum mechanical? If so, we argue that nonlinear effects in black hole ringdowns - notably second harmonic generation - generates gravitational waves in non-classical states. While quantum features of these states such as sub-Poissonian statistics or entanglement could in principle be measured at interferometric detectors, the tiny coupling of gravity to matter makes this extremely challenging. Drawing on ideas from quantum optics, we instead propose that the nonlinearities in ring…

On bursty star formation during cosmological reionization -- influence on the metal and dust content of low-mass galaxies
Anand Menon, Sreedhar Balu, Chris Power
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08363

On bursty star formation during cosmological reionization -- influence on the metal and dust content of low-mass galaxies
Observations indicate that high-redshift galaxies undergo episodic star formation bursts, driving strong outflows that expel gas and suppress accretion. We investigate the consequences for metal and dust content of galaxies at $z\geq\!5$ using our semi-analytical model, ASHVINI. We track gas-phase and stellar metallicities $(Z_\text{g}, Z_\star)$ and dust mass $(M_{\rm d})$ in dark matter haloes spanning $M_{\rm h} = 10^6 - 10^{11}\,M_\odot$, comparing continuous and bursty star formation scena…

Yesterday, it was Romania:
Flash floods after torrential rainstorms kill at least 3 people and force hundreds of evacuations.
https://apnews.com/article/romania-flash-floods-rain-evacuations-886009c299a3b120d1a96f2f5083eb6c

Flash floods in Romania kill at least 1 person and force hundreds of evacuations
Officials in Romania say flash floods in the northeast of the country have killed at least one person. The torrential rainstorms that triggered the flooding happened overnight into Monday. Hundreds of people were forced to leave their homes as Romania’s rescue services deployed teams in the hard-hit counties of Neamt and Suceava. Helicopters and firefighters rescued residents. Some of them were trapped in their homes by floodwaters. Authorities said that 890 people were evacuated from Neamt C…

Oh my God, they riled Donny! The 15 biggest South Park scandals … ranked https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/05/oh-my-god-they-riled-donny-the-15-biggest-south-park-scandal…

Replaced article(s) found for physics.optics. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.optics/new
[1/1]:
- Effect of polarisation on two-photon resonance in a large Zeeman manifold
Nayan Sharma, Ranjit Kumar Singh, Souvik Chatterjee, Prasanta K. Panigrahi, Ajay Tripathi

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
CALLY: Scan.
ZEN: Gun ship. It is manoeuvering for attack position.
CALLY: Warn them off.
ZEN: Warning ignored.
CALLY: Compute coordinates, range blasters.
ZEN: Blasters ranged.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/277 B7B5

In-Context Learning as an Effective Estimator of Functional Correctness of LLM-Generated Code
Susmita Das, Madhusudan Ghosh, Priyanka Swami, Debasis Ganguly, Gul Calikli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05200

In-Context Learning as an Effective Estimator of Functional Correctness of LLM-Generated Code
When applying LLM-based code generation to software development projects that follow a feature-driven or rapid application development approach, it becomes necessary to estimate the functional correctness of the generated code in the absence of test cases. Just as a user selects a relevant document from a ranked list of retrieved ones, a software generation workflow requires a developer to choose (and potentially refine) a generated solution from a ranked list of alternative solutions, ordered …

Like the DOOM/DOOM II bundle that recently came out, now there's one for Heretic and Hexen for PC & consoles -- remasters with two new episodes. FUCK yes. The Steam version includes the original DOS versions, too.
[[ Greetings, mortal. Are you ready to die ]]
Launch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnzow2f3Rt4…