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#ScribesAndMakers - 10 Oct. Shameless self-promotion day.
Neat demos of incremental/pseudoinfinite PCG ideas:
https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/labyrinfinite/
https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/effervescent/
https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/hydrodendron/
Incremental reversible RNG library for PCG:
https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/anarchy
Exploration graphs library:
https://pypi.org/project/exploration/
With visualizer:
https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/mvmap/egviewer/explorationViewer/viewer
Not quite final form but playable pseudoinfinite minesweeper game:
https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/chlorophyll/

(€) In #Welchweiler werden drei alte #Windkraftanlagen zurückgebaut und durch größere, leistungsstärkere Modelle ersetzt.
Die Gemeinde unterstützt das Vorhaben und setzt damit ein Zeichen für den weiteren Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien in der Verbandsgemeinde Kusel-Altenglan. Die ne…

Klein gegen Groß: Bei Welchweiler entstehen neue Windkraftanlagen
Während andere Kommunen Windräder ablehnen, macht Welchweiler den Weg für neue Anlagen frei. Warum das so ist und wo in der VG Kusel-Altenglan weitere Projekte möglich sind.

But can these neighbours afford the high prices small shops must pay for small-batch wholesale and rent? Will banks finance small enterprise or treat them like restaurants?
I'm all for a walkable ward, but mine is already conspicuously littered with boarded up small shops and gentrified boutiques.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-council-votes-oppose-ford-government-bill-60-9.6976288

Measuring the Evolution of Bulge, Disk and Colour Gradients in HST Observations of Galaxies with 3D Modelling
N. Welikala, L. Miller, A. N. Taylor, G. Congedo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11156

Measuring the Evolution of Bulge, Disk and Colour Gradients in HST Observations of Galaxies with 3D Modelling
We measure galaxy structural properties and colour gradients using HST images to trace the evolution of galaxy components. We jointly fit 3D bulge and disk models to 2505 galaxies in GOODS-South across seven bands (bvizYJH) to IAB = 25.5, accounting for different component ellipticities and inclination-dependent dust extinction. Extinction strongly affects structural parameters and colour gradients in ~26% of the sample - primarily edge-on galaxies with central obscuration (B-band face-on optic…

Empowering Prosumers: Incentive Design for Local Electricity Markets Under Generalized Uncertainty and Grid Constraints
P{\aa}l Forr Austnes, Matthieu Jacobs, Lu Wang, Mario Paolone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12318

Empowering Prosumers: Incentive Design for Local Electricity Markets Under Generalized Uncertainty and Grid Constraints
Since the 1990s, widespread introduction of central (wholesale) electricity markets has been seen across multiple continents, driven by the search for efficient operation of the power grid through competition. The increase of renewables has made significant impacts both on central electricity markets and distribution-level grids as renewable power generation is often connected to the latter. These stochastic renewable technologies have both advantages and disadvantages. On one hand they offer v…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewMusicShow
Will Glaser & Will Glaser:
🎵 Then It Wasn't
#WillGlaser

Just bundled up my interactive lab notebook system for an open-source release; it's just a panflute filter but has some cool functionality if you want to make little interactive tutorials that live as standalone static pages without any server app necessary beyond a basic host. You can check out an example here:
#AcademicChatter

After almost two centuries,
Baker & Taylor,
a nationwide library book distributor,
will reportedly shut down operations in January.
Baker & Taylor CEO Aman Kochar told employees Monday that following a recent failed acquisition deal with ReaderLink, the Charlotte-based company has no viable path forward, though he had hoped to find another solution

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down
At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

Trump’s assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom:‘a wholesale attack on free and fair elections’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/09/trump-midterm-elections-voting-system

Trump’s assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom:‘a wholesale attack on free and fair elections’
White House is manipulating voting system, from redistricting to rule changes, to affect midterms