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Just spotted a random @… post on Imgur...
https://imgur.com/gallery/random-stolen-meme-dump-sunday-july-20-part-1-oWCgiWL#kyB6Kl…

Ah, what could possibly go wrong with that: «DC National Guard Is Being Trained to Carry Pistols Known to Fire at Random»
https://www.404media.co/dc-national-guard-is-being-trained-to-carrying-pistols-known-to-fire-at-random/

Local Nurse Abducted by ICE - Random Lengths News
https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/2025/08/21/abducted-by-ice/72004

Random Variate Generation with Formal Guarantees
Feras A. Saad, Wonyeol Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13494 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Random Variate Generation with Formal Guarantees
This article introduces a new approach to principled and practical random variate generation with formal guarantees. The key idea is to first specify the desired probability distribution in terms of a finite-precision numerical program that defines its cumulative distribution function (CDF), and then generate exact random variates according to this CDF. We present a universal and fully automated method to synthesize exact random variate generators given any numerical CDF implemented in any bina…

Was für ein unterirdischer Artikel zu #Renten in Deutschland!
Welche Jahrgänge bekommen die niedrigsten Renten?
Richtig: schwer zu bestimmen.
Dann erklären sie richtig das jährliche Rentenniveau nur um dieses dann irgendwie in Relation mit der Eingangsfrage zu insinuieren? Die detaillierte Tabelle der Regelaltersgrenze ist dann aus Wikipedia kopiert und völlig irrelevant ist.…

Rente: Manche Jahrgänge sichern kaum ihren Lebensstandard
Die Rente reicht oft nicht aus, um den Lebensstandard im Alter zu sichern. Einige Jahrgänge erhalten sogar so wenig, dass die Existenz gefährdet ist.

Analytical bounds for decoy-state quantum key distribution with discrete phase randomization
Zhaohui Liu, Ahmed Lawey, Mohsen Razavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14664 https://

Analytical bounds for decoy-state quantum key distribution with discrete phase randomization
We analyze the performance of quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols that rely on discrete phase randomization (DPR). For many QKD protocols that rely on weak coherent pulses (WCPs), continuous phase randomization is assumed, which simplifies the security proofs for such protocols. However, it is challenging to achieve such a perfect phase randomization in practice. As an alternative, we can select a discrete set of global phase values for WCPs, but we need to redo the security analysis for s…

The speed of biased random walks among dynamical random conductances
Eszter Couillard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13664 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13664

The speed of biased random walks among dynamical random conductances
We study biased random walks on dynamical random conductances on $\mathbb{Z}^d$. We analyze three models: the Variable Speed Biased Random Walk (VBRW), the Normalized VBRW (NVBRW), and the Constant Speed Biased Random Walk (CBRW). We prove positivity of the linear speed for all models and investigate how the speed depends on the bias $λ$. Notably, while the CBRW speed increases for large $λ$, the NVBRW speed can asymptotically decrease even in uniformly elliptic conductances. The results for …

Generalisation and benign over-fitting for linear regression onto random functional covariates
Andrew Jones, Nick Whiteley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13895 https://

Generalisation and benign over-fitting for linear regression onto random functional covariates
We study theoretical predictive performance of ridge and ridge-less least-squares regression when covariate vectors arise from evaluating $p$ random, means-square continuous functions over a latent metric space at $n$ random and unobserved locations, subject to additive noise. This leads us away from the standard assumption of i.i.d. data to a setting in which the $n$ covariate vectors are exchangeable but not independent in general. Under an assumption of independence across dimensions, $4$-th…

AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event Booked Random Meetings for Attendees https://www.404media.co/ai-at-the-worlds-biggest-games-event-booked-random-meetings-for-attendees/

Quantum Sampling and Moment Estimation for Transformed Gaussian Random Fields
Matthias Deiml, Daniel Peterseim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13879 https://arx…

Quantum Sampling and Moment Estimation for Transformed Gaussian Random Fields
We present a quantum algorithm for efficiently sampling transformed Gaussian random fields on $d$-dimensional domains, based on an enhanced version of the classical moving average method. Pointwise transformations enforcing boundedness are essential for using Gaussian random fields in quantum computation and arise naturally, for example, in modeling coefficient fields representing microstructures in partial differential equations. Generating this microstructure from its few statistical paramete…