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On its 10th anniversary, YouTube Music gets new features, including "Taste Match" playlists similar to Spotify Blend and event notifications through Bandsintown (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/yout

YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify | TechCrunch
YouTube Music is rolling out taste match playlists, comments, badges and more.

Boca and cricket, not your average sports combination 😅 @…

https://davidallengreen.com/2025/08/everything-is-going-to-be-alright-conflict-balance-and-resolution-in-law-and-policy/

“…everything is going to be alright” – conflict, balance and resolution in law and policy
22nd August 2025 * In his 1992 memoir Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby describes his experience of a crush in a stadium at a 1980 match (before the tragedies later on that decade): “…there was a forty-thou…

On its 10th anniversary, YouTube Music gets new features, including "Taste Match" playlists similar to Spotify Blend and event notifications through Bandsintown (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/yout

YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify | TechCrunch
YouTube Music is rolling out taste match playlists, comments, badges and more.

LinkedIn is like, "Linux Engineer - <random small company> High experience match!"
And then when you click on the link, it's all "<random small company> is here to rise above the ordinary. The work we do here goes far beyond day-to-day projects - we protect the US defense industry with our automated, efficient mass killing machines. Huge growth opportunity and career growth in the Genocide Industry!"

In June 2005, in the RDS Arena, Dublin, WWE held a non-televised Live Event.
One of the matches was John Cena vs Kurt Angle vs JBL in a Triple Threat match with Stone Cold Steve Austin as special guest referee.
#WWE #ProWrestling

Mag-Match: Magnetic Vector Field Features for Map Matching and Registration
William McDonald, Cedric Le Gentil, Jennifer Wakulicz, Teresa Vidal-Calleja
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15300

Mag-Match: Magnetic Vector Field Features for Map Matching and Registration
Map matching and registration are essential tasks in robotics for localisation and integration of multi-session or multi-robot data. Traditional methods rely on cameras or LiDARs to capture visual or geometric information but struggle in challenging conditions like smoke or dust. Magnetometers, on the other hand, detect magnetic fields, revealing features invisible to other sensors and remaining robust in such environments. In this paper, we introduce Mag-Match, a novel method for extracting an…

Hypergeometric decomposition of Delsarte K3 pencils
Rachel Davis, Jessamyn Dukes, Eli Orvis, Thais Ribeiro, Adriana Salerno, Leah Sturman, Ursula Whitcher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15049

Hypergeometric decomposition of Delsarte K3 pencils
We study five pencils of projective quartic Delsarte K3 surfaces. Over finite fields, we give explicit formulas for the point counts of each family, written in terms of hypergeometric sums. Over the complex numbers, we match the periods of the corresponding family with hypergeometric differential operators and series. We also obtain a decomposition of the $L$-function of each pencil in terms of hypergeometric $L$-series and Dedekind zeta functions. This gives an explicit description of the hype…

The shared braincell was late to work :neocat_woozy:

Building Earth with pebbles made of chondritic components
Susmita Garai, Peter L. Olson, Zachary D. Sharp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16057 https://

Building Earth with pebbles made of chondritic components
Pebble accretion provides new insights into Earth's building blocks and early protoplanetary disk conditions. Here, we show that mixtures of chondritic components: metal grains, chondrules, calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs), and amoeboid olivine aggregates (AOAs) match Earth's major element composition (Fe, Ni, Si, Mg, Ca, Al, O) within uncertainties, whereas no combination of chondrites and iron meteorites does. Our best fits also match the $ε^{54}$Cr and $ε^{50}$Ti values of Earth pre…

Fairphone 6 in white with apple earpods on USB are a perfect match.

California high school girls volleyball team forfeits against opponent with trans athlete (Jackson Thompson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/16/sports/california-riverside-poly-high-school-forfeits-girls-volleyball-match-against-jurupa-valley-with-transgender-ab-hernandez/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250816/p74#a250816p74

ZPD-SCA: Unveiling the Blind Spots of LLMs in Assessing Students' Cognitive Abilities
Wenhan Dong, Zhen Sun, Yuemeng Zhao, Zifan Peng, Jun Wu, Jingyi Zheng, Yule Liu, Xinlei He, Yu Wang, Ruiming Wang, Xinyi Huang, Lei Mo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14377

ZPD-SCA: Unveiling the Blind Spots of LLMs in Assessing Students' Cognitive Abilities
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in educational applications, yet their capacity to accurately assess the cognitive alignment of reading materials with students' developmental stages remains insufficiently explored. This gap is particularly critical given the foundational educational principle of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), which emphasizes the need to match learning resources with Students' Cognitive Abilities (SCA). Despite the importance of this alignment,…

Klub postet Foto - Vandalismus! Böse Überraschung vor Quali-Match #News #Nachrichten…

A practical application of AI in research.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-genera

Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers designed novel antibiotics that can combat a drug-resistant form of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Personalized Contest Recommendation in Fantasy Sports
Madiraju Srilakshmi, Kartavya Kothari, Kamlesh Marathe, Vedavyas Chigurupati, Hitesh Kapoor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14065

Personalized Contest Recommendation in Fantasy Sports
In daily fantasy sports, players enter into "contests" where they compete against each other by building teams of athletes that score fantasy points based on what actually occurs in a real-life sports match. For any given sports match, there are a multitude of contests available to players, with substantial variation across 3 main dimensions: entry fee, number of spots, and the prize pool distribution. As player preferences are also quite heterogeneous, contest personalization is an important t…

Convection-Driven Multi-Scale Magnetic Fields Determine the Observed Solar-Disk Gamma Rays
Jung-Tsung Li, Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi, John F. Beacom, Annika H. G. Peter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14154

Convection-Driven Multi-Scale Magnetic Fields Determine the Observed Solar-Disk Gamma Rays
The solar disk is a continuous source of GeV--TeV gamma rays. The emission is thought to originate from hadronic Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) interacting with the gas in the photosphere and uppermost convection zone after being reflected by solar magnetic fields. Despite this general understanding, existing theoretical models have yet to match observational data. At the photosphere and the uppermost convection zone, granular convection drives a multi-scale magnetic field, forming a larger-scale …

The Alma catalogue of OB stars. III. A cross-match with Gaia DR3 and an extension based on new spectral classifications
M. Pantaleoni Gonz\'alez, J. Ma\'iz Apell\'aniz, R. H. Barb\'a, B. Cameron Reed, S. R. Berlanas, A. Parras Rico, A. Bodaghee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14875

The Alma catalogue of OB stars. III. A cross-match with Gaia DR3 and an extension based on new spectral classifications
We present the third installment of the Alma Luminous Star (ALS) catalogue, aimed at creating the most comprehensive and clean sample of Galactic massive stars. This update extends the sample by adding approximately 2000 OB stars, incorporating astrometric and photometric data from the Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) alongside spectroscopic information from the Galactic O-Star Catalog based on recent ground-based spectroscopic surveys. Rigorous astrometric corrections are applied to Gaia DR3 parallax…

Unfortunately CrossOver Preview seems to have gotten rid of the "Display Settings" sidebar on the right which let you simulate different display geometries than what wine auto-detected, which was very helpful for on-the-go #Steam gaming on #macOS on my MBP since rarely does it detect proper 16:10 or 16:9.
I used this, for example, with #BluePrince to ensure the left and right sides of the display were not cropped.
As an odd, but very workable, alternative solution - if you get the free edition of BetterDisplay and have it create a Virtual Display of the aspect ratio you want and then enable it, you can go into Settings -> Displays and configure your built-in display as a mirror for the virtual display.
The net result will be that it forces your only real display to conform to match the mirrored alternative geometry. Doesn't seem to be too much of a performance impact so far, but I haven't tried it with any super intense games either yet.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sophia Kennedy:
🎵 Hot Match
#NowPlaying #SophiaKennedy
https://sophiakennedy.bandcamp.com/track/hot-match
https://open.spotify.com/track/1QBwezIfN3BP7CF1vN7wCk

Terry McLaurin seeks $33 million per year from Commanders to match DK Metcalf's price, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/terry-m

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DB. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DB/new
[1/1]:
- Common Data Format (CDF): A Standardized Format for Match-Data in Football (Soccer)
Anzer, Arnsmeyer, Bauer, Bekkers, Brefeld, Davis, Evans, Kempe, Robertson, Smith, Van Haaren

Evaluating Identity Leakage in Speaker De-Identification Systems
Seungmin Seo, Oleg Aulov, Afzal Godil, Kevin Mangold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14012 https://

Evaluating Identity Leakage in Speaker De-Identification Systems
Speaker de-identification aims to conceal a speaker's identity while preserving intelligibility of the underlying speech. We introduce a benchmark that quantifies residual identity leakage with three complementary error rates: equal error rate, cumulative match characteristic hit rate, and embedding-space similarity measured via canonical correlation analysis and Procrustes analysis. Evaluation results reveal that all state-of-the-art speaker de-identification systems leak identity information.…

Controlling Skyrmion Lattice Orientation with Local Magnetic Field Gradients
Duc Minh Tran, Edoardo Mangini, Elizabeth M. Jefremovas, Fabian Kammerbauer, Dennis Meier, Robert Fr\"omter, Mathias Kl\"aui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14771

Controlling Skyrmion Lattice Orientation with Local Magnetic Field Gradients
Precise control over the formation and arrangement of magnetic skyrmion lattices is essential for understanding their emergent behavior and advancing their integration into spintronic and magnonic devices. We report on a simple and minimally invasive technique to nucleate and manipulate skyrmion lattices in soft magnetic CoFeB using single-pass magnetic force microscopy (MFM). By tuning the scan-line spacing to match the intrinsic stripe domain periodicity, the stray field gradient from the MFM…

Im using case_when() quite a lot, case_match() is new to me: #rstats

A general vectorised switch() — case_match
This function allows you to vectorise multiple switch() statements. Each case is evaluated sequentially and the first match for each element determines the corresponding value in the output vector. If no cases match, the .default is used. case_match() is an R equivalent of the SQL "simple" CASE WHEN statement. Connection to case_when() While case_when() uses logical expressions on the left-hand side of the formula, case_match() uses values to match against .x with. The following two statement…

#PhantastikPrompts 21.07: Schreibst du sequentiell oder random Stückchenweise oder vom Ende her oder wie?
Mix and match. Die Romane der aktuellen Hauptreihe selbst entstehen sequentiell, aber die Drabbles sind chronologisch gesehen in alle möglichen Richtungen ausschlagend (von Fenia als Teenager zum Drabble über zwei kleine Prinzessinnen, die zum Zeitpunkt der Romanhandlungen n…

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
TRAVIS: Oh? Then you'll probably cease to exist.
MUTOID: Ready, Commander.
TRAVIS: Follow Blake's course.
MUTOID: We can't match his speed.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/499 B7B4

"Donald Trump cannot perform on the world stage because he simply does not have the intellect to match up with these world leaders. He's not Barack Obama, he's not Hillary Clinton, he's not even George [W.] Bush when it comes to being able to maneuver in these environments.”"
'Trump does not have the intellect': GOP strategist schooled after blaming Russia on Obama - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/send/trump-putin-obama/

Stable matchings with switching costs
Boris Pittel, Kirill Rudov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14362 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.14362

Stable matchings with switching costs
In a stable matching problem there are two groups of agents, with agents on one side having their individual preferences for agents on another side as a potential match. It is assumed silently that agents can freely and costlessly ``switch" partners. A matching is called stable if no two unmatched agents prefer each other to their matches. Half a century ago, for equinumerous sides, Knuth demonstrated existence of preferences for which there are exponentially many stable matchings, and he posed…

Enhancing Lung Disease Diagnosis via Semi-Supervised Machine Learning
Xiaoran Xua, In-Ho Rab, Ravi Sankarc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16845 https://arxiv.o…

Enhancing Lung Disease Diagnosis via Semi-Supervised Machine Learning
Lung diseases, including lung cancer and COPD, are significant health concerns globally. Traditional diagnostic methods can be costly, time-consuming, and invasive. This study investigates the use of semi supervised learning methods for lung sound signal detection using a model combination of MFCC+CNN. By introducing semi supervised learning modules such as Mix Match, Co-Refinement, and Co Refurbishing, we aim to enhance the detection performance while reducing dependence on manual annotations.…

David Barton isn’t just a primary pitchman for the Ten Commandments law in Texas
His fingerprints appear on 28 bills that have cropped up before the legislatures in 18 states this year.
A data analysis of the bills exposes how their language, structure and requirements are inherently identical.
In dozens of instances, they match model legislation pitched by Barton verbatim.
At the Texas hearing, Barton’s eyes fixated on the cover of the rare 1782 Aitken Bible.
…

28 Bills, Ten Commandments and 1 Source: A Christian Right ‘Bill Mill’
More than a dozen state bills — and three new laws mandating the Ten Commandments in public schools — are virtually identical to model legislation.

Match is settling with the FTC for $14M and a number of changes like making it easy to cancel subs, after the FTC sued in 2019 over false advertising and more (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/matc

Match to pay $14M to the FTC due to false advertising and other deceptive practices | TechCrunch
Match Group agrees to pay the FTC $14 million after it was sued for deceiving users into buying subscriptions.

from my link log —
Replication of quantum factorisation records with an 8-bit home computer, an abacus, and a dog.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237
saved 2025-07-18

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog
This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog. We hope that this work will inspire future efforts to match any further quantum factorisation records, should they arise.

FairVizARD: A Visualization System for Assessing Multi-Party Fairness of Ride-Sharing Matching Algorithms
Ashwin Kumar, Sanket Shah, Meghna Lowalekar, Pradeep Varakantham, Alvitta Ottley, William Yeoh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11770

FairVizARD: A Visualization System for Assessing Multi-Party Fairness of Ride-Sharing Matching Algorithms
There is growing interest in algorithms that match passengers with drivers in ride-sharing problems and their fairness for the different parties involved (passengers, drivers, and ride-sharing companies). Researchers have proposed various fairness metrics for matching algorithms, but it is often unclear how one should balance the various parties' fairness, given that they are often in conflict. We present FairVizARD, a visualization-based system that aids users in evaluating the fairness of rid…

Not quite an exact match but hey at least it's local to me.
//pine.inch.nails is less than an hour down the M6 from me, in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
#W3WBands

Carbon-rich Sub-Neptune Interiors Are Compatible with JWST Observations
Zifan Lin, Sara Seager
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15117 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

Carbon-rich Sub-Neptune Interiors Are Compatible with JWST Observations
Many possible interior compositions exist for sub-Neptunes: ice-poor, ice-rich, and water-dominated interiors can all match the measured masses and radii. Motivated by recent theory of carbon-rich planet formation outside of the refractory organic carbon "soot line" and observations of carbon-rich protoplanetary disks around late M dwarfs, we propose another possible sub-Neptune composition: a carbon-rich composition consisting of an iron-silicate core, a carbon layer, and a hydrogen/helium-dom…

Need more articles like this.
✅ California man in dire need of a kidney transplant finds 1-in-100,000 match: His wife
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-02/man-in-need-of-kidney-transplant-finds-1-in-100k-…

Man in need of kidney transplant finds 1-in-100,000 match: His wife
The odds of Jim and Mirna Irish having compatible kidneys was a long shot — roughly one in 100,000. But faced with a potential years-long backlog on the transplant waiting list, the San Diego couple set out to beat those odds.

Anyone ever see one of these before on iOS? I don’t use the reminders app. I don’t know anyone by the name Iaoqi Meng. Is this some new kind of #phish ? I can’t figure out where it came from. I have no email messages or calendar items that match this #cybersecurity

CASPER: Concept-integrated Sparse Representation for Scientific Retrieval
Lam Thanh Do, Linh Van Nguyen, David Fu, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13394 https:…

CASPER: Concept-integrated Sparse Representation for Scientific Retrieval
The exponential growth of scientific literature has made it increasingly difficult for researchers to keep up with the literature. In an attempt to alleviate this problem, we propose CASPER, a sparse retrieval model for scientific search that utilizes tokens and keyphrases as representation units (i.e. dimensions in the sparse embedding space), enabling it to represent queries and documents with research concepts and match them at both granular and conceptual levels. To overcome the lack of sui…

Open-Source LLMs Collaboration Beats Closed-Source LLMs: A Scalable Multi-Agent System
Shengji Tang, Jianjian Cao, Weihao Lin, Jiale Hong, Bo Zhang, Shuyue Hu, Lei Bai, Tao Chen, Wanli Ouyang, Peng Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14200

Open-Source LLMs Collaboration Beats Closed-Source LLMs: A Scalable Multi-Agent System
This paper aims to demonstrate the potential and strengths of open-source collectives. It leads to a promising question: Can we harness multiple open-source LLMs to match or even beat the closed-source LLMs? To answer this, we propose SMACS, a scalable multi-agent collaboration system (MACS) framework with high performance. Specifically, for continuous integration of new LLMs and generalization to diverse questions, we first propose a Retrieval-based Prior Selection (RPS), which assigns a proxy…

Google’s insists data it holds is secure and it won’t create lock-in for the UK government, but do the answers match the ambition?
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2025/exclusive-google-defends-uk-deal-data-sovereignty-concerns

Exclusive: Google defends UK deal amid data sovereignty concerns
Google’s insists data it holds is secure and it won’t create lock-in for the UK government, but do the answers match the ambition?

GNN-based Unified Deep Learning
Furkan Pala, Islem Rekik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10583 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10583…

GNN-based Unified Deep Learning
Deep learning models often struggle to maintain generalizability in medical imaging, particularly under domain-fracture scenarios where distribution shifts arise from varying imaging techniques, acquisition protocols, patient populations, demographics, and equipment. In practice, each hospital may need to train distinct models - differing in learning task, width, and depth - to match local data. For example, one hospital may use Euclidean architectures such as MLPs and CNNs for tabular or grid-…

Cooling of quark stars from perturbative QCD
\'Ursula Fonseca, Eduardo S. Fraga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11056 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11056

Cooling of quark stars from perturbative QCD
We investigate the thermal evolution of quark stars with and without a hadronic crust using an equation of state derived from perturbative QCD that incorporates the running of the strong coupling and the strange quark mass. Our analysis reveals that bare quark stars cool too rapidly to match the luminosity data, including those of the coldest observed isolated neutron stars, even when the uncertainty from the renormalization scale is taken into account. In contrast, configurations featuring a h…

Realizing the Petz Recovery Map on an NMR Quantum Processor
Gayatri Singh, Ram Sagar Sahani, Vinayak Jagadish, Lea Lautenbacher, Nadja K. Bernardes, Kavita Dorai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08998

Realizing the Petz Recovery Map on an NMR Quantum Processor
The Petz recovery map is a fundamental protocol in quantum information theory, enabling the retrieval of quantum information lost due to noisy processes. Here, we experimentally implement the Petz recovery map on a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) quantum processor using the duality quantum computing (DQC) algorithm. Focusing on two paradigmatic single-qubit channels, namely phase damping and amplitude damping, we demonstrate that the recovered states closely match theoretical predictions. Our …

Simple field test of ChatGPT 5. "Produce a table of Bolivia's largest 15 cities by population in the latest census. Provide a link to the source."
It offered the 2012 Census data, and provided a link. But each of the top nine cities has a population that doesn't match the source.
#ChatGPT #GPT5

Towards Integrated Alignment
Ben Y. Reis, William La Cava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06592 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06592

Towards Integrated Alignment
As AI adoption expands across human society, the problem of aligning AI models to match human preferences remains a grand challenge. Currently, the AI alignment field is deeply divided between behavioral and representational approaches, resulting in narrowly aligned models that are more vulnerable to increasingly deceptive misalignment threats. In the face of this fragmentation, we propose an integrated vision for the future of the field. Drawing on related lessons from immunology and cybersecu…

chess: Kaggle chess players (2010)
A network among chess players (nodes) giving the chess match outcomes (edges), for game-by-game results among the world’s top chess players. The direction of edge (i,j) denotes white player (i) and black player (j). Each edge is timestamped (approximate). Edge sign is 1 for a win by white, 0 for draw, and -1 for a win by black.
This network has 7301 nodes and 65053 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Signed, Timestamps

Optimizing Convolution Direction and Template Selection for Difference Image Analysis
Rodrigo Angulo, Armin Rest, William P. Blair, Jacob Jencson, David A. Coulter, Qinan Wang, Ryan J. Foley, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Xiaolong Li, Anthony L. Piro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10155

Optimizing Convolution Direction and Template Selection for Difference Image Analysis
Difference image analysis (DIA) is a powerful tool for studying time-variable phenomena, and has been used by many time-domain surveys. Most DIA algorithms involve matching the spatially-varying PSF shape between science and template images, and then convolving that shape in one image to match the other. The wrong choice of which image to convolve can introduce one of the largest sources of artifacts in the final difference image. We introduce a quantitative metric to determine the optimal conv…

Not a great penalty shootout performance, by any estimation. The average PK conversion rate is just above 80%. To miss three? Woof.
Congrats to Palace, who played well and deserved the win. They defended extremely well all game and outworked #LFC overall. Their strengths match LFC’s weaknesses.
LFC still look like a team trying to find chemistry. They were often on top of each other in the …

I hereby formally propose to switch the Argentine anthem (which, let's be honest, it's a bit dull) with the already available and much more awesome "San Lorenzo March".
> The march became famous in other countries over time and, according to the Argentine British Community Council, is currently considered in Europe one of the best five military marches ever written.
I can imagine the crowds singing this before a World Cup match. Seriously. I get the chills.…

San Lorenzo march - Wikipedia

@…
That "immediate run" really just implies an interpreted language. Python is a great example and probably a closer match than my JavaScript example.

Trump got into a shouting match with Netanyahu after Israeli PM denied pictures of starving Gazans were real: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-netanyahu-shouting-match-gaza-starvation-b2805154.html

Starting the week with Marie’s raspberry muffins, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. The weekend had a play, a soccer match and the Fringe fest opening party. This week will be even busier! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZMLDAzRVSYi8C41UA

Was cleaning out my tabs, and wow, this article aged well. 😂
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/18/24247985/tesla-cybertruck-july-2024-sales-deliveries-match-all-ev-trucks

Tesla sold more Cybertrucks than almost all other EV trucks combined
Tesla Cybertruck registrations in July almost match overall EV truck registrations, including Rivian R1T and Ford F-150 Lightning, suggesting strong Cybertruck demand.

#WWE #SmackDown is live from the 3Arena in Dublin, #Ireland next week.
These are currently advertised for the show (more will be added throughout the week)
* John Cena returns
* Aleister Black vs R-…

Accidentally deleted all my kernels while cleaning up. I figured `rm -rf *6.16*rc*` wouldn't pattern-match `6.16.0-arch-AMD-znver4-p14sg5` but it turns out 'arch' also includes 'rc' so, uh, derp. Anyway, building a fresh kernel before I reboot :D

Trump's D.C. crime claims don't match the data (Anna Spiegel/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/08/11/trump-dc-crime-rate-fact-check
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p109#a250811p109

(Bicycle) Speed and safety
For years I've heard people talking about how motor-assisted bicycles "are safer" because they can "match traffic speed", but I think this is mistaken.  Here's three reasons why. For me the most compelling reason comes from a 2007 paper by Laurie F. Beck, Ann M. Dellinger, and Mary E. O’Neil in the American Journal of Epidemiology, "Motor Vehicle Crash Injury Rates by Mode of Travel, United States: Using Exposure-Based Methods…

(Bicycle) Speed and safety
For years I’ve heard people talking about how motor-assisted bicycles “are safer” because they can “match traffic speed”, but I think this is mistaken.  Here’s t…

Bayesian weighted discrete-time dynamic models for association football prediction
Roberto Macr\`i-Demartino, Leonardo Egidi, Nicola Torelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05891 htt…

Bayesian weighted discrete-time dynamic models for association football prediction
In recent years, great emphasis has been placed on the prediction of association football. Due to this, several studies have proposed different types of statistical models to predict the outcome of a football match. However, most existing approaches usually assume that the offensive and defensive abilities of teams remain static over time. We introduce a Bayesian dynamic approach for football goal based models that uses period-specific commensurate priors to flexibly weight the evolution of att…

Supermassive Stars Match the Spectral Signatures of JWST's Little Red Dots
Devesh Nandal, Abraham Loeb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12618 https://…

Supermassive Stars Match the Spectral Signatures of JWST's Little Red Dots
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled a population of enigmatic, compact sources at high redshift known as ''Little Red Dots'' (LRDs), whose physical nature remains a subject of intense debate. Concurrently, the rapid assembly of the first supermassive black holes (SMBHs) requires the formation of heavy seeds, for which supermassive stars (SMSs) are leading theoretical progenitors. In this work, we perform the first quantitative test of the hypothesis that LRDs are the direct obser…

Case Studies of Generative Machine Learning Models for Dynamical Systems
Nachiket U. Bapat, Randy C. Paffenroth, Raghvendra V. Cowlagi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04459 https://

Case Studies of Generative Machine Learning Models for Dynamical Systems
Systems like aircraft and spacecraft are expensive to operate in the real world. The design, validation, and testing for such systems therefore relies on a combination of mathematical modeling, abundant numerical simulations, and a relatively small set of real-world experiments. Due to modeling errors, simplifications, and uncertainties, the data synthesized by simulation models often does not match data from the system's real-world operation. We consider the broad research question of whether …

YouTube... started defaulting to auto-translated audio.
It would default to my "preferred language".
My #preference is the original #language, and I speak multiple ones. That is not an option though. So I have to manually change the audio track or turn off CC all the time - w…

#Borussia Mönchengladbach feiert #125Jahre – und ich blicke auf drei Momente, die für mich unvergesslich sind: Netzers legendäre Selbsteinwechslung 1973, das Tränengasspiel 1984 am Bökelberg und das dramatische Elfmeterschießen im Pokalfinale 1984. Auch in schweren Zeiten bleibe ich Fohlen-Fan!

HapticGiant: A Novel Very Large Kinesthetic Haptic Interface with Hierarchical Force Control
Michael Fennel, Markus Walker, Dominik Pikos, Uwe D. Hanebeck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09595

HapticGiant: A Novel Very Large Kinesthetic Haptic Interface with Hierarchical Force Control
Research in virtual reality and haptic technologies has consistently aimed to enhance immersion. While advanced head-mounted displays are now commercially available, kinesthetic haptic interfaces still face challenges such as limited workspaces, insufficient degrees of freedom, and kinematics not matching the human arm. In this paper, we present HapticGiant, a novel large-scale kinesthetic haptic interface designed to match the properties of the human arm as closely as possible and to facilitat…

Data-Driven Density Steering via the Gromov-Wasserstein Optimal Transport Distance
Haruto Nakashima, Siddhartha Ganguly, Kenji Kashima
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06052 https://

Data-Driven Density Steering via the Gromov-Wasserstein Optimal Transport Distance
We tackle the data-driven chance-constrained density steering problem using the Gromov-Wasserstein metric. The underlying dynamical system is an unknown linear controlled recursion, with the assumption that sufficiently rich input-output data from pre-operational experiments are available. The initial state is modeled as a Gaussian mixture, while the terminal state is required to match a specified Gaussian distribution. We reformulate the resulting optimal control problem as a difference-of-con…

Yesterday, I watched "The Match" (승부), a movie that is now available on streaming platforms after it ran in cinemas in March. It tells the story of two Korean Go players who were both considered best in the world at some point: Cho Hun-hyun and Lee Chang-ho, a master and a student who later overtook the master. Side note: Lee Chang-ho was later followed by Lee Sedol as the world's best player who was then followed by AlphaGo. 1/2

V.I.P. : Iterative Online Preference Distillation for Efficient Video Diffusion Models
Jisoo Kim, Wooseok Seo, Junwan Kim, Seungho Park, Sooyeon Park, Youngjae Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03254

V.I.P. : Iterative Online Preference Distillation for Efficient Video Diffusion Models
With growing interest in deploying text-to-video (T2V) models in resource-constrained environments, reducing their high computational cost has become crucial, leading to extensive research on pruning and knowledge distillation methods while maintaining performance. However, existing distillation methods primarily rely on supervised fine-tuning (SFT), which often leads to mode collapse as pruned models with reduced capacity fail to directly match the teacher's outputs, ultimately resulting in de…

ContractEval: Benchmarking LLMs for Clause-Level Legal Risk Identification in Commercial Contracts
Shuang Liu, Zelong Li, Ruoyun Ma, Haiyan Zhao, Mengnan Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03080

ContractEval: Benchmarking LLMs for Clause-Level Legal Risk Identification in Commercial Contracts
The potential of large language models (LLMs) in specialized domains such as legal risk analysis remains underexplored. In response to growing interest in locally deploying open-source LLMs for legal tasks while preserving data confidentiality, this paper introduces ContractEval, the first benchmark to thoroughly evaluate whether open-source LLMs could match proprietary LLMs in identifying clause-level legal risks in commercial contracts. Using the Contract Understanding Atticus Dataset (CUAD),…

Decidable Reversible Equivalences for Finite Petri Nets
Roberto Gorrieri, Ivan Lanese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11517 https://arxiv.…

Decidable Reversible Equivalences for Finite Petri Nets
In the setting of Petri nets, we prove that {\em causal-net bisimilarity} \cite{G15,Gor22,Gor25a}, which is a refinement of history-preserving bisimilarity \cite{RT88,vGG89,DDM89}, and the novel {\em hereditary} causal-net bisimilarity, which is a refinement of hereditary history-preserving bisimilarity \cite{Bed91,JNW96}, do coincide. This means that causal-net bisimilarity is a {\em reversible behavioral equivalence}, as causal-net bisimilar markings not only are able to match each other's fo…

Interviewing candidates on-line for a job today.
One candidate kept having "network issues" every time a question was asked, so there were long pauses before every answer.
I pasted one of our questions into ChatGPT. The answer that came from the candidate was an almost perfect match.
They didn't get the job.

AFC West Division Match Early for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-geno-smith-ashton-jeanty-los-angeles-chargers

Sources: Microsoft is trying to poach Meta's AI talent, is making multimillion-dollar offers, with a mandate to match Meta's compensation for top talent (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-trying-poa…

Microsoft is trying to poach Meta AI talent, documents show
The company has compiled a list of its most-wanted Meta engineers and researchers, part of an effort to be more competitive in the AI talent wars.

What makes Arch Manning the 2026 NFL Draft’s most intriguing prospect? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6527638/2025/08/06/arch-manning-2026-nfl-draft-prospect-scouting-report/

Hagel, Sturm und Co. - Sintflut-Unwetter stoppt Cup-Match von Leverkusen! #News #Nachrichten

Beyond Round Robin: Evaluating Competitiveness in UEFA's New Champions League Format
Karel Devriesere, Dries Goossens, Frits Spieksma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08290 https:…

Beyond Round Robin: Evaluating Competitiveness in UEFA's New Champions League Format
Recently, UEFA changed the group stage of its international soccer competitions to an incomplete round robin tournament. Previously, teams were divided into groups, each playing a double round robin tournament with a resulting ranking table. In contrast, the new format has all teams competing in one league, producing a single ranking. We investigate the effect of the new format on the expected number of noncompetitive matches in the UEFA Champions League. A match is noncompetitive if the prize …

Effects of symmetry on coupled rotary molecular motors
Sara Iranbakhsh, David A. Sivak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03869 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03869

Effects of symmetry on coupled rotary molecular motors
As engineering advances toward the nanoscale, understanding design principles for molecular motors becomes increasingly valuable. Many molecular motors consist of coupled components transducing one free-energy source into another. Here, we study the performance of coupled rotary molecular motors with different rotational symmetries under constant and scaling driving forces. Under constant driving and strong coupling, symmetry match between the motors decreases the output power. In contrast, und…

Empowering Nanoscale Connectivity through Molecular Communication: A Case Study of Virus Infection
Xuan Chen, Yu Huang, Miaowen Wen, Shahid Mumtaz, Fatih Gulec, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, Andrew W. Eckford
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04415

Empowering Nanoscale Connectivity through Molecular Communication: A Case Study of Virus Infection
The Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT), envisioned as a revolutionary healthcare paradigm, shows promise for epidemic control. This paper explores the potential of using molecular communication (MC) to address the challenges in constructing IoBNT for epidemic prevention, specifically focusing on modeling viral transmission, detecting the virus/infected individuals, and identifying virus mutations. First, the MC channels in macroscale and microscale scenarios are discussed to match viral transm…

from my link log —
When do pattern match compilation heuristics matter?
https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/pubs/match-abstract.html
saved 2025-06-02

Toward AI Matching Policies in Homeless Services: A Qualitative Study with Policymakers
Caroline M. Johnston, Olga Koumoundouros, Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang, Laura Onasch-Vera, Eric Rice, Phebe Vayanos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07129

Toward AI Matching Policies in Homeless Services: A Qualitative Study with Policymakers
Artificial intelligence researchers have proposed various data-driven algorithms to improve the processes that match individuals experiencing homelessness to scarce housing resources. It remains unclear whether and how these algorithms are received or adopted by practitioners and what their corresponding consequences are. Through semi-structured interviews with 13 policymakers in homeless services in Los Angeles, we investigate whether such change-makers are open to the idea of integrating AI i…

Pseudo-isotopy versus isotopy for homeomorphisms of 4-manifolds
Daniel Galvin, Isacco Nonino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11905 https://

Pseudo-isotopy versus isotopy for homeomorphisms of 4-manifolds
We define obstructions which obstruct topological pseudo-isotopies from being isotopic to isotopies in dimension four. These match the smooth obstructions of Hatcher-Wagoner for smooth pseudo-isotopies, and accordingly are valued in certain Whitehead groups. We show that our obstructions are fully realisable, and we use these realisations to build homeomorphisms of $Y\times S^1$ for many 3-manifolds $Y$ that are pseudo-isotopic to the identity but not isotopic to the identity.

My very cancellable take is that today's ENG-IND #cricket win was boring; it would have been far more exciting as a proper Test match draw. ENG were dreaming of Stokes at Headingley when they needed to channel Atherton in Johannesburg (or even Leach at Headingley).

Gabriella DeGasperis (aka @GabbyGolfGirl) goes head-to-head with the greatest shooter of all time, NBA Superstar Stephen Curry.

▶️ Steph Curry's 1st Ever 1v1 Golf Match On YouTube
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Pw7x9uDQw&si=xXqopJHeR9zLoqqe

This is a BFD.
Rand Paul and Tom Massie have been calling out Stephen Miller's gulag numbers for several weeks;
it got them both disinvited from the White House picnic.
And now Ron Johnson is joining in?
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsk…

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
This is a BFD. Rand Paul and Tom Massie have been calling out Miller's gulag numbers for several weeks; it got them both disinvited from the White House picnic. And now Ron Johnson is joining in?

Pretty even match so far. Italy have had more possession and more shots, but Norway have the higher xG. Each side probably should have scored.
Norway need to find more shots when they have the counter going. Italy pushing bodies forward is a gamble.
Really anyone's game. Should be a wide open second half.
#NORITA

Constraints on the progenitor and explosion of SN 2024ggi in harmony with pre-explosion detection and hydrodynamic simulations
Amar Aryan, Erin Higgins, Matt Nicholl, Ting-Wan Chen, Yu-Hsuan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10573

Constraints on the progenitor and explosion of SN 2024ggi in harmony with pre-explosion detection and hydrodynamic simulations
Supernova (SN) 2024ggi is a nearby Type II SN discovered by ATLAS, showing early flash-ionization features. The pre-explosion images reveal a red supergiant (RSG) progenitor with an initial mass of 10-17 M$_\odot$. In the present work, we perform detailed hydrodynamic modeling to refine and put robust constraints on the progenitor and explosion parameters of SN 2024ggi. Among the progenitor models in our study, the pre-SN properties of the 11 M$_{\odot}$ match the pre-explosion detected progeni…

Match Q2: revenue of $864M, flat YoY, net earnings of $125.5M, down from $133.3M YoY, and provides a Q3 forecast beating estimates; MTCH jumps 11% after hours (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Mallorca statt Match - Eigentor-Skandal wegen Urlaub: Strafen stehen fest #News #Nachrichten

This weekend is the first 2-night #WWE #Summerslam
And there is Irish representation on the show.
On Sunday night, they run it back:
Becky Lynch defends her Women's Intercontinental Championship against Lyra Valkyria in a No Disqualification Match with the added stipulation that if Lyr…

Gravitational Binding and Star Formation in Molecular Clouds of the Milky Way
Philip C. Myers, Mark Heyer, Ian W. Stephens, Simon Coud\'e, Nicole Karnath, Howard A. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05826

Gravitational Binding and Star Formation in Molecular Clouds of the Milky Way
The gravitational binding and star-forming properties of molecular clouds (MCs) in the Milky Way (MW) are estimated from CO cloud observations and from a model of pressure-bounded virial equilibrium (PVE). Two CO surveys are analyzed with the standard CO conversion factor. The main results are: (1) For each survey the cloud virial parameter $α_{vir}$ increases by a factor ~2 from galactocentric radius $R_{gal}$ = 4 kpc to 15 kpc. (2) PVE models match these trends only if the surface densities …

A Shank Angle-Based Control System Enables Soft Exoskeleton to Assist Human Non-Steady Locomotion
Xiaowei Tan, Weizhong Jiang, Bi Zhang, Wanxin Chen, Yiwen Zhao, Ning Li, Lianqing Liu, Xingang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09876

A Shank Angle-Based Control System Enables Soft Exoskeleton to Assist Human Non-Steady Locomotion
Exoskeletons have been shown to effectively assist humans during steady locomotion. However, their effects on non-steady locomotion, characterized by nonlinear phase progression within a gait cycle, remain insufficiently explored, particularly across diverse activities. This work presents a shank angle-based control system that enables the exoskeleton to maintain real-time coordination with human gait, even under phase perturbations, while dynamically shaping assistance profiles to match the bi…

DS4RS: Community-Driven and Explainable Dataset Search Engine for Recommender System Research
Xinyang Shao, Tri Kurniawan Wijaya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10238 https://…

DS4RS: Community-Driven and Explainable Dataset Search Engine for Recommender System Research
Accessing suitable datasets is critical for research and development in recommender systems. However, finding datasets that match specific recommendation task or domains remains a challenge due to scattered sources and inconsistent metadata. To address this gap, we propose a community-driven and explainable dataset search engine tailored for recommender system research. Our system supports semantic search across multiple dataset attributes, such as dataset names, descriptions, and recommendatio…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[5/9]:
- Fidelity Isn't Accuracy: When Linearly Decodable Functions Fail to Match the Ground Truth
Jackson Eshbaugh

Crossing numbers of dense graphs on surfaces
Alfredo Hubard, Arnaud de Mesmay, Hugo Parlier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09974 https://…

Crossing numbers of dense graphs on surfaces
In this paper, we provide upper and lower bounds on the crossing numbers of dense graphs on surfaces, which match up to constant factors. First, we prove that if $G$ is a dense enough graph with $m$ edges and $Σ$ is a surface of genus $g$, then any drawing of $G$ on $Σ$ incurs at least $Ω\left(\frac{m^2}{g} \log ^2 g\right)$ crossings. The poly-logarithmic factor in this lower bound is new even in the case of complete graphs and disproves a conjecture of Shahrokhi, Székely and Vrt'o from 19…

chess: Kaggle chess players (2010)
A network among chess players (nodes) giving the chess match outcomes (edges), for game-by-game results among the world’s top chess players. The direction of edge (i,j) denotes white player (i) and black player (j). Each edge is timestamped (approximate). Edge sign is 1 for a win by white, 0 for draw, and -1 for a win by black.
This network has 7301 nodes and 65053 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Signed, Timestamps

Exploring MLLMs Perception of Network Visualization Principles
Jacob Miller, Markus Wallinger, Ludwig Felder, Timo Brand, Henry F\"orster, Johannes Zink, Chunyang Chen, Stephen Kobourov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14611

Exploring MLLMs Perception of Network Visualization Principles
In this paper, we test whether Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) can match human-subject performance in tasks involving the perception of properties in network layouts. Specifically, we replicate a human-subject experiment about perceiving quality (namely stress) in network layouts using GPT-4o and Gemini-2.5. Our experiments show that giving MLLMs exactly the same study information as trained human participants results in a similar performance to human experts and exceeds the performanc…

Infrared and Optical Emission-line Diagnostics
Mark Durr\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08603 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08603

Infrared and Optical Emission-line Diagnostics
We study a catalogue of over 130 emission-line galaxies with matched near infra-red (NIR) and optical spectra, where we examine the relationship between the respective nuclear activity classifications, diagnosed by the flux ratios of emission lines. We match the standard NIR classification with four different optical classifications. While there is a broad agreement between the two regimes, there are mismatches and overlaps caused either by aperture effects and/or NIR radiation penetrating obsc…

Measuring the stability and plasticity of recommender systems
Maria Jo\~ao Lavoura, Robert Jungnickel, Jo\~ao Vinagre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03941 https://

Measuring the stability and plasticity of recommender systems
The typical offline protocol to evaluate recommendation algorithms is to collect a dataset of user-item interactions and then use a part of this dataset to train a model, and the remaining data to measure how closely the model recommendations match the observed user interactions. This protocol is straightforward, useful and practical, but it only captures performance of a particular model trained at some point in the past. We know, however, that online systems evolve over time. In general, it i…

This weekend is the first 2-night #WWE #Summerslam
And there is Irish representation on the show.
On Sunday night, they run it back:
Becky Lynch defends her Women's Intercontinental Championship against Lyra Valkyria in a No Disqualification Match with the added stipulation that if Lyr…