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Saw a take speculating what the reintroduction of cane sugar to US Coca-Cola (the change was a result of 1980s tariffs) would have on demand for corn.
Unmeasurable, I'd imagine.
Only maybe 20% of US corn is for human consumption, and the amount used for HFCS is only a small number (under 4%?) and that amount has been declining in the last decade.

heise | So erlebt man die faszinierende Welt der Gaussian Splats auf Meta Quest 3
Gaussian Splatting ermöglicht erstaunlich realistische 3D-Szenen. Mit folgenden Anwendungen lässt sich die Rendertechnik unkompliziert auf Quest 3 ausprobieren.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Reyna Tropical (ft. Amantes del Futuro):
🎵 Conocerla
#ReynaTropicalftAmantesdelFuturo
https://reynatropical.bandcamp.com/track/conocerla
https://open.spotify.com/track/12MvkGPRCZQO4sXpfkx0a1

I'm a huge believer in having a hobby that forces you to focus on one thing. This summer I'm learning how to draw and paint wildflowers. It's absorbing and relaxing and even if the results are a bit rough, it forces you to really *look* at small details.
https://mastodon.art/@reinderdijkhuis/114815896842271008
reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.art - It's @ajroach42 's recent threads about addictive behavior in (mostly) kids (but he talks about adults and elders as well) that prompted me to evaluate my own online behavior, again. The line "… they'd rather do nothing, when doing nothing is causing them a great amount of distress, than have to put the work in to do something else" hit hard. More and more these past few months, that's been me, unless I make a very deliberate effort not to go down that path.

Enforcing Speech Content Privacy in Environmental Sound Recordings using Segment-wise Waveform Reversal
Modan Tailleur, Mathieu Lagrange, Pierre Aumond, Vincent Tourre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08412

Enforcing Speech Content Privacy in Environmental Sound Recordings using Segment-wise Waveform Reversal
Environmental sound recordings often contain intelligible speech, raising privacy concerns that limit analysis, sharing and reuse of data. In this paper, we introduce a method that renders speech unintelligible while preserving both the integrity of the acoustic scene, and the overall audio quality. Our approach involves reversing waveform segments to distort speech content. This process is enhanced through a voice activity detection and speech separation pipeline, which allows for more precise…

"Green roofs shown to capture nearly all microplastics from rainwater"
#Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics

Green roofs shown to capture nearly all microplastics from rainwater
A small team of researchers at Tongji University, working with a colleague from the Shanghai Academy of Landscape Architecture Science and Planning, both in China, has found that growing plants on roofs can serve as an effective way to remove microplastics from the air. In their study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, the group measured the amounts of microplastics found on plants and the soil in which they grow.

Quantum pions
M. Fabbrichesi, R. Floreanini, E. Gabrielli, L. Marzola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05464 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.054…

Quantum pions
We show that two- and three-pion states produced in the decay of neutral kaons are contextual, entangled, and Bell nonlocal in isospin space. By reinterpreting the experimental values of the different isospin amplitudes, we can determine the amount of entanglement enjoyed by these states and the extent to which they violate the non-contextuality and Bell locality inequalities. Notably, the three-pion state offers a genuine multipartite test of Bell nonlocality with qutrits.

An object-centric core metamodel for IoT-enhanced event logs
Yannis Bertrand, Christian Imenkamp, Lukas Malburg, Matthias Ehrendorfer, Marco Franceschetti, Joscha Gr\"uger, Francesco Leotta, J\"urgen Mangler, Ronny Seiger, Agnes Koschmider, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Barbara Weber, Estefania Serral
https://arxiv.org/abs/250…

An object-centric core metamodel for IoT-enhanced event logs
Advances in Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies have prompted the integration of IoT devices with business processes (BPs) in many organizations across various sectors, such as manufacturing, healthcare and smart spaces. The proliferation of IoT devices leads to the generation of large amounts of IoT data providing a window on the physical context of BPs, which facilitates the discovery of new insights about BPs using process mining (PM) techniques. However, to achieve these benefits, IoT dat…

Distributed Activity Detection for Cell-Free Hybrid Near-Far Field Communications
Jingreng Lei, Yang Li, Zeyi Ren, Qingfeng Lin, Ziyue Wang, Ya-Feng Liu, Yik-Chung Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14254

Distributed Activity Detection for Cell-Free Hybrid Near-Far Field Communications
A great amount of endeavor has recently been devoted to activity detection for massive machine-type communications in cell-free massive MIMO. However, in practice, as the number of antennas at the access points (APs) increases, the Rayleigh distance that separates the near-field and far-field regions also expands, rendering the conventional assumption of far-field propagation alone impractical. To address this challenge, this paper considers a hybrid near-far field activity detection in cell-fr…