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Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
SOOLIN: This is a pleasure cruiser. It's got no armour.
KEILLER: I told you, it's incognito. Listen, every so often they send up a highly armed ship with security written all over it, bristling with guards. And every so often someone attacks it and gets killed. Which is crazy. Because that ship's carrying fruit. We carry gold with hardly any guards.

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Probing Partonic Evolution and Hadronization via Balance Functions and Correlations of Charmed Hadrons
Oveis Sheibani, Claude Pruneau, Victor Gonzalez, Sumit Basu, Alexandru Florin Dobrin, Yash Patley, Basanta Nandi, Sadhana Dash
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21014

Probing Partonic Evolution and Hadronization via Balance Functions and Correlations of Charmed Hadrons
Predictions of charm correlation functions and more specifically balance functions are presented in proton--proton (pp) collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 13 TeV based on the PYTHIA 8.3 event generator. Correlations are computed for identical and cross-species charmed hadrons in both minimum bias and high-pT biased collisions. We study the strength of correlations as a function of the number of balanced flavors and investigate the impact of variations of PYTHIA parameters controlling the Lund string fr…

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
VILA: The interceptors!
MULLER: Send it back. That box must go back! [Throws Tarrant to floor.]
VILA: Slave, set a course for base. Maximum power. Go! Go! [Tarrant shoulders Muller away from the box.]
h…

Improving the Generation of VAEs with High Dimensional Latent Spaces by the use of Hyperspherical Coordinates
Alejandro Ascarate, Leo Lebrat, Rodrigo Santa Cruz, Clinton Fookes, Olivier Salvado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15900

Improving the Generation of VAEs with High Dimensional Latent Spaces by the use of Hyperspherical Coordinates
Variational autoencoders (VAE) encode data into lower-dimensional latent vectors before decoding those vectors back to data. Once trained, decoding a random latent vector from the prior usually does not produce meaningful data, at least when the latent space has more than a dozen dimensions. In this paper, we investigate this issue by drawing insight from high dimensional statistics: in these regimes, the latent vectors of a standard VAE are by construction distributed uniformly on a hyperspher…

We are a stupid species.... Here is my county government trying to create a Rube Goldberg class blockchain based system to deal with a problem that could be solved by printed lists of paper
The crypto/blockchain mindset certainly contains a big element of "if all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail".
(By-the-way, our county government is dumb in other dimensions - for year the emergency response command center was in a basement next to, and and *below…

Santa Cruz County quietly abandons blockchain program once touted as bleeding edge
Santa Cruz County has shelved its ambitious blockchain wallet project after two years, citing complexity and low public adoption. Officials now plan to pursue simpler digital tools they say are better suited to resident needs.

“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,”
Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Sunday morning,
shortly after being driven from the White House to his golf club in Virginia.
“We will give you places to stay,
but FAR from the Capital.”
Trump’s post promoted a previously announced news conference on Monday,
which he has promised,
“will, essentially, stop violent crime” in the capital district,
without explaining how.
In a subsequen…

Getting the cars to dealers early would have meant a big financial blow from absorbing the higher tariff rate,
while late arrivals that missed the quarter-end would have meant reporting a big slump in sales.
So Aston Martin decided to send hundreds of cars to bonded warehouses in the US
– where goods can be stored without being subject to tariffs
– before delivery firms raced to get them all to dealers before the end of day on 30 June. Those cars attracted the 10% rat…

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: Oh, what do you say to that Zen?
ZEN: Please state course and speed.
BLAKE: Very diplomatic. Set a course for Centero, speed standard by two.
ZEN: Confirmed.
[End of episode. Roll credits.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/504 …

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
ZEN: Confirm course changing to zero three one zero. Destination: the planet Auron. State speed.
TARRANT: Standard by Six.
ZEN: Confirm.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/171 B7B5