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Training for Obsolescence? The AI-Driven Education Trap
Andrew J. Peterson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19625

Training for Obsolescence? The AI-Driven Education Trap
Artificial intelligence simultaneously transforms human capital production in schools and its demand in labor markets. Analyzing these effects in isolation can lead to a significant misallocation of educational resources. We model an educational planner whose decision to adopt AI is driven by its teaching productivity, failing to internalize AI's future wage-suppressing effect on those same skills. Our core assumption, motivated by a pilot survey, is that there is a positive correlation between…

At a tourist trap candy store in Central Indiana with a planetary science theme 🔵
#Astronomy

Liberalism and the Surrender Trap (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/liberalism-and-the-surrender-trap
http://www.memeorandum.com/250723/p89#a250723p89

Using optical tweezers to simultaneously trap, charge and measure the charge of a microparticle in air
Andrea Stoellner, Isaac C. D. Lenton, Artem G. Volosniev, James Millen, Renjiro Shibuya, Hisao Ishii, Dmytro Rak, Zhanybek Alpichshev, Gregory David, Ruth Signorell, Caroline Muller, Scott Waitukaitis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17591

Using optical tweezers to simultaneously trap, charge and measure the charge of a microparticle in air
Optical tweezers are widely used as a highly sensitive tool to measure forces on micron-scale particles. One such application is the measurement of the electric charge of a particle, which can be done with high precision in liquids, air, or vacuum. We experimentally investigate how the trapping laser itself can electrically charge such a particle, in our case a $\sim 1\,\mathrm{μm\;SiO_2}$ sphere in air. We model the charging mechanism as a two-photon process which reproduces the experimental …

The smile on her face when he walks into the trap with, "how did I do that?" (where "that" is a $25 billion increase in funds to United Healthcare)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7j…

Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
SERVALAN: Travis - here! [He comes over and opens a trap-door amongst the rocks.]
TRAVIS: There must be an easier way to get into the laboratory than this.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/87 B7B5

Trap-to-trap free falls with an optically levitated nanoparticle
M. Luisa Mattana, Nicola Carlon Zambon, Massimiliano Rossi, Eric Bonvin, Louisiane Devaud, Martin Frimmer, Lukas Novotny
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12995

Trap-to-trap free falls with an optically levitated nanoparticle
We perform free-fall experiments with a charge-neutral, optically levitated nanoparticle. This is achieved using an optical tweezer that can be rapidly toggled on and off and vertically displaced, enabling the particle to be released and recaptured after each free fall. The particle is insensitive to electric fields due to its charge neutrality and, during free evolution, is not subject to photon recoil heating. We achieve free-fall durations of up to 0.25 ms and observe a nearly two hundred-fo…

Finished “Trap Line”, a short story by Timothy Zahn.
Interstellar travel is possible by transporting your consciousness to a cloned body already at the destination. But when an engineer is sent to repair a spacecraft’s communications array, he is instead entrapped in his disembodied state by aliens. The only way out, say fellow entrapped aliens, is death.
Enjoyable, but somewhat lacking, like a junk food version of Andy Weir.
3/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Trap Line
An engineer’s groundbreaking solo mission is rudely int…

An excellent, though long, essay on what's really happening with spending on building out Data Centers for AI and how there is no hope to every pay it back
#AIHype
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

Sabot in the Age of AI
A list of offensive methods & strategic approaches for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, & intentional data poisoning.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/113867412641585520

ASRG (@asrg@tldr.nettime.org)
Attached: 1 image ## **Sabot in the Age of AI** A list of offensive methods & strategic approaches for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, & intentional data poisoning. ### **Selected Tools & Frameworks** - **Nepenthes** — [Endless crawler trap.](https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes) - **Babble** — [Standalone LLM crawler tarpit.](https://git.jsbarretto.com/zesterer/babble) - **Markov Tarpit** — [Traps AI bots & feeds them useless data.](https://git.rys.io/libre/m…

I worry spending so much time shitting on how bad AI images look will be a trap when it changes style.

Hey, #Milwaukee! The neighbor across the street said that she would trap the yard cat and her kittens for me, but I need somewhere for them to go and supposedly all of the shelters in Metro Milwaukee are either full or close.
Is anybody interested in fostering three cats?
(Boosts would be appreciated)

Quantum Kramers-Henneberger Transformation
Javier Arg\"uello-Luengo, Javier Rivera-Dean, Philipp Stammer, Marcelo F. Ciappina, Maciej Lewenstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13006

Quantum Kramers-Henneberger Transformation
The classical Kramers-Henneberger transformation connects, via a series of unitary transformations, the dynamics of a quantum particle of mass $m$ located in a trap at position $α(t)$, with the dynamics of a charge $e$ moving in an electric field $e{\cal{E}}(t)=-m\ddotα(t)$ within the dipole approximation. In this paper, we extend the classical Kramers-Henneberger transformation to the quantum electrodynamic and quantum optical realm, by explicitly treating the trap location quantum mechanica…

Three-dimensional Micromotion Compensation Protocols for an RF Ion Trap
Ryoichi Saito, Takashi Mukaiyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11162 https://arxiv.org…

👊 Building my own paper tape punch
#hardware #technology

Alkali doping of Zn$_{\rm x}$Mg$_{\rm 1-x}$O alloys for $p$-type conductivity
John L. Lyons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12446 https://…

Alkali doping of Zn$_{\rm x}$Mg$_{\rm 1-x}$O alloys for $p$-type conductivity
Nearly all ultrawide-bandgap oxides are affected by hole localization that limits $p$-type conductivity and thus potential applications for these materials. Highly localized holes, also known as hole polarons, trap in the vicinity of acceptor dopants, giving rise to large ionization energies and severely constraining free hole concentrations. Though this hole-trapping behavior affects wurtzite zinc oxide, rocksalt zinc oxide was recently found to be resistant to the formation of hole polarons. …

Experimental search for electric dipole moments of light radioactive nuclei
Chavdar Dutsov, Timothy Hume, Maxim Pospelov, Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13588

Experimental search for electric dipole moments of light radioactive nuclei
We discuss a search for the electric dipole moment (EDM) of a light beta-radioactive ion using a compact ion trap by adapting the "frozen-spin" method. The measurement will be done on ions stripped of their valence electrons, thereby bypassing the significant Schiff screening that hinders the application of successful contemporary EDM searches using heavy neutral atoms and molecules to light nuclei. We identified $^8$Li as the most promising candidate for a proof-of-concept EDM search and we es…

Half-life Measurements of Highly Charged Radioisotopes by Nuclear Recoil in a Penning Trap
Scott Moroch, Carolyn Chun, Doug VanDerwerken, Ariana Shearin, Brian Beaudoin, Klaus Blaum, Timothy Koeth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06527

Half-life Measurements of Highly Charged Radioisotopes by Nuclear Recoil in a Penning Trap
We present a novel method for measuring the half-life of highly charged radioisotopes by non-destructive nuclear recoil detection in a Penning ion trap. A specific emphasis is placed on $\rm ^7Be^{3+}$, which plays a crucial role in stellar evolution and the production of solar neutrinos. The determination of the half-life is necessary to constrain the free electron capture rate in the solar environment, but is difficult to measure by existing techniques. Simulations of the sympathetic cooling …

Experimental demonstration of high-fidelity logical magic states from code switching
Lucas Daguerre, Robin Blume-Kohout, Natalie C. Brown, David Hayes, Isaac H. Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14169

Experimental demonstration of high-fidelity logical magic states from code switching
Preparation of high-fidelity logical magic states has remained as a necessary but daunting step towards building a large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer. One approach is to fault-tolerantly prepare a magic state in one code and then switch to another, a method known as code switching. We experimentally demonstrate this protocol on an ion-trap quantum processor, yielding a logical magic state encoded in an error-correcting code with state-of-the-art logical fidelity. Our experiment is base…

Dissipative response of driven bead-spring-dashpot chains
R. Kailasham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05692 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05…

Dissipative response of driven bead-spring-dashpot chains
The work dissipated in pulling a polymer chain with internal friction is numerically calculated by considering a sequence of $N$ bead-spring-dashpots tethered at one end and being pulled at the other using a harmonic trap via linear and symmetric protocols. The variation of the dissipation with the chain length, pulling trap stiffness, and the internal friction parameter are examined in detail for both the protocols. In the limit of high trap stiffness: (i) the dissipation $decreases$ with $N$ …

Energy Dynamics of a Nonequilibrium Unitary Fermi Gas
Xiangchuan Yan, Jing Min, Dali Sun, Shi-Guo Peng, Xin Xie, Xizhi Wu, Kaijun Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12852

Energy Dynamics of a Nonequilibrium Unitary Fermi Gas
We investigate the energy dynamics of a unitary Fermi gas driven away from equilibrium. The energy is injected into the system by periodically modulating the trapping potential of a spherical unitary Fermi gas, and due to the existence of SO(2,1) symmetry, the breathing mode is excited without dissipation. Through the long-lived breathing oscillation, we precisely measure the energy evolution of the nonequilibrium system during the trap modulation. We find the trapping potential and internal en…

✅ double-checking PhD review for a female candidate that I didn't fall into the gender bias trap #academicChatter #amReviewing #effortVsAccomplishment #skillVsGrindstone

Long-time storage of a decoherence-free subspace logical qubit in a dual-type quantum memory
Y. L. Xu, L. Zhang, C. Zhang, Y. K. Wu, Y. Y. Chen, C. X. Huang, Z. B. Cui, R. Yao, W. Q. Lian, J. Y. Ma, W. X. Guo, B. X. Qi, P. Y. Hou, Y. F. Pu, Z. C. Zhou, L. He, L. M. Duan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13320

Long-time storage of a decoherence-free subspace logical qubit in a dual-type quantum memory
A quantum memory is an essential element for quantum computation, quantum network and quantum metrology. Previously, a single-qubit quantum memory with a coherence time of about an hour has been realized in a dual-species setup where a coolant ion provides sympathetic cooling for a memory ion of different species. However, the frequent random position hopping between the ions in the room-temperature trap limits the technique there only applicable to single-qubit storage. Here we report a multi-…

Towards a fictitious magnetic field trap for both ground and Rydberg state $^{87}$Rb atoms via the evanescent field of an optical nanofibre
Alexey Vylegzhanin, Dylan J. Brown, Danil F. Kornovan, Etienne Brion, S\'ile Nic Chormaic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12827

Engineering Cryogenic FETs: Addressing SCEs and Impact of Interface Traps Down to 2 K Temperature
Nilesh Pandey, Dipanjan Basu, Yogesh Singh Chauhan, Leonard F. Register, Sanjay K. Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09356

Engineering Cryogenic FETs: Addressing SCEs and Impact of Interface Traps Down to 2 K Temperature
This paper presents a comprehensive design and benchmarking of cryogenic bulk-FET using a calibrated TCAD model integrating 2-D electrostatics and interface trap effects across temperatures from T = 2 K to 300 K. For a 28-nm node FET, transport appears predominately ballistic at T = 2 K, shifting toward quasi-ballistic transport with increasing temperature. Short-channel effects (SCEs) dominate cryogenic benefits at Lg = 25 nm for T < 25 K, as evidenced by a modest improvement in the minimum su…

Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
KEILLER: Your friend, Vila, he wants no part in this?
SOOLIN: He doesn't trust you, Keiller. He thinks it's a trap.
KEILLER: Suspicious.
AVON: And frequently right. How much further?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/99 B7B5

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Replaced article(s) found for nucl-ex. https://arxiv.org/list/nucl-ex/new
[1/1]:
- High-precision Penning trap mass measurements of neutron-rich chlorine isotopes at the N=28 shell...
H. Erington, et al.

Tension-Induced Soft Stress and Viscoelastic Bending in Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Enhanced Energy Dissipation
Beijun Shen, Yuefeng Jiang, Christopher M. Yakacki, Sung Hoon Kang, Thao D. Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23360

Tension-Induced Soft Stress and Viscoelastic Bending in Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Enhanced Energy Dissipation
Architected materials that harness elastic snap-through buckling can trap energy reversibly. Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) exhibit excellent dissipation capabilities due to polymer network viscoelasticity and rate-dependent soft stress behavior associated with mesogen rotation. Incorporating LCEs into buckling lattice structures enhances energy absorption; however, conventional design cannot take advantage of the dissipation mechanism associated with mesogen rotation because buckling occurs …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
The Temper Trap:
🎵 Sweet Disposition
#TheTemperTrap
https://essmmusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-temper-trap-sweet-disposition-essm-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1jUkHIMc7UaJQuzWe5Iop2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics00sForever
The Temper Trap:
🎵 Sweet Disposition
#TheTemperTrap
https://essmmusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-temper-trap-sweet-disposition-essm-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1jUkHIMc7UaJQuzWe5Iop2

Optimal dynamical stabilization
Arnaud Lazarus, Emmanuel Tr\'elat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00006 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00006

Optimal dynamical stabilization
Stability is a fundamental concept that refers to a system's ability to return close to its original state after disturbances. The minimal conditions for stability when system parameters vary in time, though common in physics, have been largely overlooked. Here, we study the minimal amount of periodic stiffness a linear mass-spring system requires to remain stable and apply our findings to optimally trap the upside-down state of a compass in a time-varying magnetic field. We show that the abili…

Analyzing the optical pumping on the $5s4d\,{}^1D_2-5s8p\,{}^1P_1$ transition in a magneto-optical trap of Sr atoms
Naohiro Okamoto, Takatoshi Aoki, Yoshio Torii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04109