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(YouTube, 2024) Learning to see again with a bionic eye #BCI

Prompt Injection Attacks on LLM Generated Reviews of Scientific Publications
Janis Keuper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10248 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10248…

Prompt Injection Attacks on LLM Generated Reviews of Scientific Publications
The ongoing intense discussion on rising LLM usage in the scientific peer-review process has recently been mingled by reports of authors using hidden prompt injections to manipulate review scores. Since the existence of such "attacks" - although seen by some commentators as "self-defense" - would have a great impact on the further debate, this paper investigates the practicability and technical success of the described manipulations. Our systematic evaluation uses 1k reviews of 2024 ICLR papers…

Have A Plan - 10 Tips for Boosting Productivity https://muz4now.com/2024/have-a-plan-10-tips-for-boosting-productivity/

Have A Plan - 10 Tips for Boosting Productivity
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

JD.com: sales of the iPhone 17 series in the first minute after pre-orders opened in China surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of 2024's iPhone 16 series (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

Strong appetite for new iPhone in China as pre-orders break record
The numbers underscore Apple’s brand loyalty in China despite growing competition from the likes of Huawei, analysts say.

Adaptive FEM with explicit time integration for the wave equation
Marcus J. Grote, Omar Lakkis, Carina S. Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11193 https://

Adaptive FEM with explicit time integration for the wave equation
Starting from a recent a posteriori error estimator for the finite element solution of the wave equation with explicit time-stepping [Grote, Lakkis, Santos, 2024], we devise a space-time adaptive strategy which includes both time evolving meshes and local time-stepping [Diaz, Grote, 2009] to overcome any overly stringent CFL stability restriction on the time-step due to local mesh refinement. Moreover, at each time-step the adaptive algorithm monitors the accuracy thanks to the error indicators…

"2024 was the third year in a row in which all of the extremist-related killings in the United States were carried out by… right-wingers."
Charlie Kirk Killing and How Political Violence Comes From the Right
https://zeteo.com/p/charlie-kirk-killing-political-violence

😬 https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/vimeo-to-be-acquired-by-bending-spoons-in-1-38b-all-cash-deal/

Vimeo to be acquired by Bending Spoons in $1.38B all-cash deal | TechCrunch
The announcement comes as Bending Spoons was interested in a potential takeover of Vimeo as far back as March 2024.

from my link log —
Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login".
https://ntietz.com/blog/lets-say-instead-of-auth/
saved 2024-05-27

Healing Vibe - happy inspirations of all sorts
#CreativeProcess #HealingVibes
https://m…

Healing Vibe - happy inspirations of all sorts
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Bulk Thermal Conductance of the 5/2 and 7/3 Fractional Quantum Hall States in the Corbino Geometry
F. Boivin, M. Petrescu, Z. Berkson-Korenberg, K. W. West L. N. Pfeiffer, G. Gervais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09588

Bulk Thermal Conductance of the 5/2 and 7/3 Fractional Quantum Hall States in the Corbino Geometry
In this work, making use of time-resolved in situ Joule heating of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the Corbino geometry, we report bulk thermal conductance measurements for the ν = 5/2 and ν = 7/3 fractional quantum Hall (FQH) states for electron temperatures ranging from 20 to 150 mK. We compare our findings with a recent study by Melcer et al. [Nature 625, 489 (2024)] that observed a finite bulk thermal conductivity \k{appa}xx in FQH states. In spite of the large size difference an…

On Global Rates for Regularization Methods based on Secant Derivative Approximations
Coralia Cartis, Sadok Jerad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07580 https://a…

On Global Rates for Regularization Methods based on Secant Derivative Approximations
An inexact framework for high-order adaptive regularization methods is presented, in which approximations may be used for the $p$th-order tensor, based on lower-order derivatives. Between each recalculation of the $p$th-order derivative approximation, a high-order secant equation can be used to update the $p$th-order tensor as proposed in (Welzel 2024) or the approximation can be kept constant in a lazy manner. When refreshing the $p$th-order tensor approximation after $m$ steps, an exact evalu…

BTW - that CBC article used a lot of numbers from this report, which because it's all numbers is awesome. Some tidbits:
- The number of farms over 3,500 acres has nearly doubled in 20 years.
- 41.3% of Canadian farmland is rented.
- From 1971 to 2021, the farm population declined by 62.2%, from 1 in 14 Canadians to 1 in 61.
- Farm debt has more than doubled in the last 20 years, from $43B in 2002 to $138.8B in 2022. That is currently 10x the size of net farm income.
- In 2021, 96,043 tonnes of pesticides were sold for agricultural use – more than three times the amount sold in 1991.
#Statistics #Farming
https://www.nfu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Canadian-Ag-by-the-Numbers-2024.pdf

Last year I raised the idea of Open Source Quality Institute: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/01/OSQI
Today, I’m wondering if anyone has tried to launch an Open-Source-Maintainer guild or union or whatever? It could set rates and draft contracts…

OSQI

Trump said he threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin attacked Ukraine, 2024 fundraiser tapes show (Adam Cancryn/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/trump-tape-putin-bomb-fundraiser
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p156#a250708p156

The Role of Legacy Mobile Networks in Infrastructure Resilience: Evidence from the Southern Brazil Flood
Daniel Meyer, Lisandro Z Granville, Leandro M. Bertholdo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08595

The Role of Legacy Mobile Networks in Infrastructure Resilience: Evidence from the Southern Brazil Flood
This paper investigates the resilience of mobile communication networks during the extreme flooding that affected Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in May 2024. Based on regulatory data and technical insights from operators, the study identifies the leading causes of mobile network disruptions, primarily related to flooding and prolonged power outages. The results reveal the significant vulnerability of modern networks (4G/5G) during the event and the essential role played by legacy technologies (2G/3…

Finally, there'll be weekend transit service to Reinhardt Redwood Regional Park in Oakland once AC Transit's service changes launch on August 10
https://hikingbytransit.com/2024/09/14/realign/

What does AC Transit Realign mean for recreational access in the East Bay? - Hiking by Transit
Trailheads that are convenient to get to by bus, train, or ferry in the San Francisco Bay Area

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Ray Charles:
🎵 No Use Crying
#RayCharles
https://raycharles.bandcamp.com/track/no-use-crying-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/6dcclzmnE2mOifAlUexgZH

Somehow I missed this 2024 Reuters report on how the first Trump administration ordered the US military to carry out a psyop campaign that spread disinformation about COVID-19 around the world.
In particular, the campaign falsely claimed that the Chinese vaccine ChinaVac is unsafe/haram or ineffective. It also doubted the usefulness of face masks. As a result, lots of people died.

Christian Watson contract: Packers reward WR with one-year extension amid recovery from torn ACL, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/christi

Raiders report: Pass rusher ready for opener after missing all of 2024 https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-report-pass-rusher-ready-for-opener-after-missing-all-of-2024-3435404/

Healing Voices - nothing quite like the human voice
#CreativeProcess #HealingMusic
https://

Healing Voices - nothing quite like the human voice
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Eagles unveil 2024 Super Bowl banner amid fireworks before NFL opener against Dallas https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/eagles-unveil-2024-super-bowl-banner-amid-fireworks-before-nfl-opener-against-dallas

PitchBook: VCs have invested $5B in humanoid robotics startups since the beginning of 2024, as years of steady progress and GenAI triggers an investment frenzy (Washington Post)

Humanoid robots were a sci-fi dream. Suddenly they’re everywhere.
A frenzy of investment from Amazon, Meta and other companies has created a crowd of new humanoid robots.

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Group Decision Making and Beyond 2. Distorted Polarization and Vulnerability
Serge Galam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06649 https://

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Group Decision Making and Beyond 2. Distorted Polarization and Vulnerability
This paper extends previous work on echo chambers modeled by an Ising-like system at zero temperature (1. Echo Chambers and random Polarization, Symmetry 2024, 16(12), 1566). There, polarization emerged as a spontaneous symmetry-breaking process with a randomly selected direction. Here using a mean-field analysis and Monte Carlo simulations I show that this mechanism is highly vulnerable to minimal distortions. An external symmetry-breaking field, even vanishingly small, suffices to impose a gl…

The Geodesics Less Traveled: Nonminimal RT Surfaces and Holographic Scattering
Jacqueline Caminiti, Caroline Lima, Robert C. Myers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03597 https://

The Geodesics Less Traveled: Nonminimal RT Surfaces and Holographic Scattering
The connected wedge theorem states that in order to have a scattering process in the bulk, it is necessary to have O(1/G) mutual information between certain "decision" regions in the boundary theory. While this large mutual information is not generally sufficient to imply scattering, Caminiti et al. (2024) showed that for a certain class of geometries, bulk scattering is implied by a certain relation between two (possibly non-minimal) Ryu-Takayanagi surfaces. Here, we show that the 2-to-2 versi…

Am Wochenende ausgelesen: World Press Photo 2024. Ich hab's ja sehr mit dokumentarischer und journalistischer Fotografie. Diese Bücher geben Jahr für Jahr einen guten Überblick zu (einigen) Problemzonen der Erde. Die Ausgabe für 2025 liegt schon parat für die nächsten 2-3 Wochen. #bücherliebe #fotografie

The Python-based data-exfiltration utility used by the Cl0p ransomware group (commonly distributed as part of the toolset during the 2023 – 2024 MoveIt campaigns) constructs operating-system commands by directly concatenating attacker-supplied strings without input sanitization. An authenticated endpoint on the Cl0p operators’ staging/collection host passes file-or directory-names received from compromised machines straight into a shell-escape sequence. No official patch or cooperation from …

Event: Religion and Democratic Ideals: Reproductive Healthcare Access and White Nationalism
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2024, 6 – 7:30PM This event is free and open to the public. A liberal democracy should produce societies that are inclusive, equitable, dynamic, and responsive to the needs of citizens. This series will focus on where religion intersects with democratic ideals and institutions. We will discuss the outcomes we want from a democratic system and how such an…

@… I don't know about games, but I thought this article was good (I switched to Mint in 2024):
https://www.zdnet.com/articl…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
Mehr zu

from my link log —
Nontransitive comparison functions lead to out-of-bounds read and write in glibc's qsort().
https://www.qualys.com/2024/01/30/qsort.txt
saved 2025-09-06

BLUEX Revisited: Enhancing Benchmark Coverage with Automatic Captioning
Jo\~ao Guilherme Alves Santos, Giovana Kerche Bon\'as, Thales Sales Almeida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21294

BLUEX Revisited: Enhancing Benchmark Coverage with Automatic Captioning
With the growing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), there is an increasing need for robust evaluation methods, especially in multilingual and non-English contexts. We present an updated version of the BLUEX dataset, now including 2024-2025 exams and automatically generated image captions using state-of-the-art models, enhancing its relevance for data contamination studies in LLM pretraining. Captioning strategies increase accessibility to text-only models by more than 40%, producing …

Comscore: US and Canada summer box office revenue was $3.67B, down slightly from $3.68B in 2024, and well short of the $4B from the Barbenheimer-fueled 2023 (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Summer Box Office Clobbered by Kryptonite: Domestic Revenue Barely Matches Last Year
The May to Labor Day season initially soared, but global grosses took a nosedive as foreign movie ticket sales plunged further and a glut of male-skewing tentpoles battled for scraps in the U.S.

Here are some details of the new #logseq DB variant (currently in alpha):
https://discuss.logseq.com/t/logseq-db-unofficial-faq/32508
TL;DR:
- you can't edit the …

T CrB - overview of the accretion history, Roche-lobe filling, orbital solution, and radiative modeling: #TCrB are mounting, initiated by the discovery in 2015 of a new enhanced mass-transfer phase (SAP), which is reminiscent of the one preceding the last recorded outburst in 1946. [...] SAP has been caused by an inside-out collapse of the disk, during which the mean accretion rate onto the WD has been ~28x larger than in quiescence. SAP ended in April 2023, but from May 2024 mass-flow has intensively resumed at disk inner radii while the collapse wave reached the outer portions of the disk; the consequent revamp in mass accretion could fill the gap inherited by the fainter 2015-2023 SAP and eventually lead the WD accreted shell to ignition."

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Brahms Symphony No 3 at the BBC Proms
A BBC Proms performance from 2024 that includes Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with Alice Coote.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hn0c

I'm sorry but aren't pros/cons lists supposed to cover both faces of the coin? The list here is very one-sided for immich:
https://www.wetransco.de/2024/09/immich-app-and-nextc…

The Serial Port’s new video on IRC is good.
I’d been on IRC of some sort, nearly constantly from ~1992 to 2024, and I learned some things from this documentary.
For example, I knew EFNet was Eris-Free net, but I didn’t know that Eris was a rogue server at Berkeley. Makes sense in hindsight. Always thought it was free as in freedom, not free as in exclusive.
…

Trump said he threatened to bomb Moscow if Putin attacked Ukraine, 2024 fundraiser tapes show
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/politics/trump-tape-putin-bomb-fundraiser?cid=ios_app

The Torelli locus and Newton polygons
Rachel Pries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00998 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00998

The Torelli locus and Newton polygons
This manuscript is about abelian varieties that are Jacobians of curves. I started writing it for a lecture series at the Arizona Winter School in 2024 on abelian varieties. A longer more descriptive title might be: The Torelli locus in the moduli space of abelian varieties, with applications to Newton polygons of curves in positive characteristic. To elaborate, this manuscript covers two topics: the first is about the geometry of the Torelli locus; the second is about the arithmetic invariants…

"Australia may install 220,000 home batteries under subsidy scheme"
#Australia #Batteries #Energy

Australia may install 220,000 home batteries under subsidy scheme
Australia is on track to surpass 2024 home battery installation records, with July data from SunWiz indicating that up to 220,000 units could be deployed in the first year of the federal Cheaper Home Batteries subsidy.

Healing Love – the best remedy for body and soul #healing #inspiration #love #musicianresources

Healing Love - the best remedy for body and soul
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Today I took the time to have another look at #ActualBudget
#firefly_iii is great, but my mind just doesn't work well with traditional budgeting methods and my overall balance went down in 2025.
This might just be a coincidence (it went up in 2024 after all) but I just…

Plastik-futternde Pilze:
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/plastic-eating-fungi-could-be-glimmer-hope-cutting-ocean-pollution-2024-08-08/
🍄‍🟫

Netzwerk aufgeflogen - Freundin betäubt und vergewaltigt: 7 Jahre Haft #News #Nachrichten

Internal memo: Revolut begins a secondary share sale for staffers at $1,381.06 per share, valuing Revolut at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Multi Scale Analysis of Nifty 50 Return Characteristics Valuation Dynamics and Market Complexity 1990 to 2024
Chandradew Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00697 https://

Multi Scale Analysis of Nifty 50 Return Characteristics Valuation Dynamics and Market Complexity 1990 to 2024
This study presents a unified, distribution-aware, and complexity-informed framework for understanding equity return dynamics in the Indian market, using 34 years (1990 to 2024) of Nifty 50 index data. Addressing a key gap in the literature, we demonstrate that the price to earnings ratio, as a valuation metric, may probabilistically map return distributions across investment horizons spanning from days to decades. Return profiles exhibit strong asymmetry. One-year returns show a 74 percent p…

The Uranus Flagship: Investigating New Paradigms for Outer Solar System Exploration Workshop Summary Report
Amy Simon, Louise Prockter, Ian Cohen, Kathleen Mandt, Lynnae Quick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21074

The Uranus Flagship: Investigating New Paradigms for Outer Solar System Exploration Workshop Summary Report
This white paper is a summary of the Uranus Flagship Workshop that took place 21 to 23 May 2024 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Co-led by Goddard and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab conveners, we had a broad, international, Science Organizing Committee, and a largely early career Local Organizing Committee from APL and GSFC. From prior workshops, it was apparent that the community was wildly enthusiastic about starting a mission, but lacked focus on what was possible or where to begin.…

Our trip down Müller's play started over a decade ago, with rehearsals finally starting a year before the pandemic. The script has so many facets, it's imperative to give a production a unique focus. It took us until 2024 to find ours: Amidst all the brutality and perversion, it's a love story.
https://chao…

Interface crossing behavior of prolate microswimmers: thermo and hydrodynamics
Rishish Mishra, Harish Pothukuchi, Harinadha Gidituri, Juho Lintuvuori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23708

Interface crossing behavior of prolate microswimmers: thermo and hydrodynamics
Motivated by recent experiments of motile bacteria crossing liquid-liquid interfaces of isotropic- nematic coexistence (Cheon et al., Soft Matter 20: 7313-7320, 2024), we study the dynamics of prolate microswimmers traversing clean liquid-liquid interfaces. Using large-scale lattice Boltzmann simulations, we observe that neutrally wetting swimmers can be either trapped or cross the in- terface, depending on their initial angle, swimming speed and the interfacial tension between the two fluids. …

Predicting Movie Success with Multi-Task Learning: A Hybrid Framework Combining GPT-Based Sentiment Analysis and SIR Propagation
Wenlan Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02809 http…

Predicting Movie Success with Multi-Task Learning: A Hybrid Framework Combining GPT-Based Sentiment Analysis and SIR Propagation
This study presents a hybrid framework for predicting movie success. The framework integrates multi-task learning (MTL), GPT-based sentiment analysis, and Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) propagation modeling. The study examines limitations in existing approaches. It models static production attributes, information dissemination, and audience sentiment at the same time. The framework uses 5,840 films from 2004 to 2024 and approximate 300,000 user reviews. It shows predictive performance wit…

Challenges and Applications of Large Language Models: A Comparison of GPT and DeepSeek family of models
Shubham Sharma, Sneha Tuli, Narendra Badam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21377

Challenges and Applications of Large Language Models: A Comparison of GPT and DeepSeek family of models
Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming AI across industries, but their development and deployment remain complex. This survey reviews 16 key challenges in building and using LLMs and examines how these challenges are addressed by two state-of-the-art models with unique approaches: OpenAI's closed source GPT-4o (May 2024 update) and DeepSeek-V3-0324 (March 2025), a large open source Mixture-of-Experts model. Through this comparison, we showcase the trade-offs between closed source models …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Favourite - Reading 2024
#FontainesDC
https://open.spotify.com/track/27w0RH5IDt6xU3B2j7QOuy

Wow, een jaar lang geen verkeersdoden in Helsinki. Laat dat een voorbeeld zijn voor @… (15 doden in 2022, de laatste cijfers) @… (9 doden in 2024) en andere steden.

… found only 8% of articles in 2023 shared ANY Open data, consistent with previous reports for psychiatry and psychology research.
In our bioscience sample that year, only 8% of articles shared no Open data. Many factors underlying this difference, of course.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2024-301333
👇 CMHN is our analysis of articles from researchers in the MRC-funded "Circadian and Mental Health Network". 3/3

A profile of A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as the studio focuses on big budget projects and invests in AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions (Alex Barasch/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/a24s-empire-of-auteurs?curre…

A24’s Empire of Auteurs
Alex Barasch offers the first inside look at the studio behind such movies as Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight,” and Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme”—and reports on its shift toward big budgets and A.I. tools.

Decrease in Milky Way rotation curve revisited
Jozef Kla\v{c}ka, Michal \v{S}turc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23551 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23551

Decrease in Milky Way rotation curve revisited
Context. Latest papers on the rotation curve of the Milky Way galaxy, i. e. Ou et al. (2024); Jiao et al. (2023); Sylos Labini et al. (2023) suggest a Keplerian decrease in the rotation curve. This behavior is not consistent with other spiral galaxies (Lelli et al. 2016; Mistele et al. 2024). Aims. Show that the prior use of the axisymmetric Jeans equation is not consistent with the final model produced in the papers. Methods. Comparison of the results on gravitational potential in Ou et al. (2…

China überschreitet als erstes Land der Welt die Marke von 1.000 GW Solarleistung
https://www.iwr.de/news/china-ueberschreitet-als-erstes-land-der-welt-die-marke-von-1-000-gw-solarleistung-news39292

China überschreitet als erstes Land der Welt die Marke von 1.000 GW Solarleistung
Münster – China entwickelt sich immer schneller zum Motor für den globalen Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien. Allein in den ersten sechs Monaten des Jahres 2025 wurden in China neue Solaranlagen mit einer Leistung von 210 GW (210.000 MW) neu errichtet. Das ist deutlich mehr als die gesamte installierte Solarleistung in den USA mit rund 178 GW (IRENA, 2024); Deutschland liegt Ende letzten Jahres bei 100 GW (MaStR, BNetzA).

Multi-wavelength Study of HESS J0632 057: New Insights into Pulsar-Disk Interaction
Jaegeun Park (Chungbuk National University), Hongjun An (Chungbuk National University), Chanho Kim (Chungbuk National University), Natalie Matchett (University of the Free State), Kaya Mori (Columbia University), Brian van Soelen (University of the Free State), VERITAS Collaboration, :, A. Archer, P. Bangale, J. T. Bartkoske, W. Benbow, J. H. Buckley, Y. Chen, A. J. Chromey, A. Duerr, M. Errando, M. Es…

Multi-wavelength Study of HESS J0632+057: New Insights into Pulsar-Disk Interaction
We present an analysis of new multi-wavelength observations of the TeV gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057, conducted using SALT, Swift, NuSTAR, and VERITAS in 2023--2024. By combining these new data with archival observations, we confirm previous suggestions of orbital variability in the source's X-ray spectrum, including increased X-ray absorption at the orbital phase interval of $ϕ\approx0.3\textrm{--}0.4$. The source's X-ray flux within this phase interval seems to have exhibited a significant…

Comment on "Quantum tunneling from Schwarzschild black hole in non-commutative gauge theory of gravity"
A. A. Ara\'ujo Filho, Iarley P. Lobo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22965

Comment on "Quantum tunneling from Schwarzschild black hole in non-commutative gauge theory of gravity"
The particle creation via quantum tunneling was recently calculated for the Schwarzschild non-commutative black hole solution in Ref. [Phys. Lett. B 848 (2024) 138335, e-Print: 2310.02445 [gr-qc]]. Nevertheless, it contains inconsistencies in the calculations that need to be properly corrected. In particular, the event horizon was incorrectly determined in that work, which affected all the subsequent calculations. Moreover, the same issue have been repeated elsewhere by the same authors in Refs…

Der Markt für #Elektroautos in Deutschland zieht nach dem Rückgang 2024 wieder an.
Im ersten Halbjahr 2025 waren 17,8 Prozent der #Neuzulassungen vollelektrisch.
Gründe sind neue Modelle, stärkere

E-Auto-Markt: Die E-Autos sind zurück
Nach einem schwierigen Jahr 2024 verkaufen sich E-Autos jetzt wieder überraschend gut – ganz ohne Prämie. Ein Grund dafür: Tricks der Hersteller.

Internal data: Amazon registered 5.4M US Prime sign-ups over the 21-day run-up to Prime Day and the four-day event, ~116K less than 2024 and 106K below its goal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

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Attention, users of Arch-based distributions !!!
Malware distributed on the AUR #archlinux

Native American teens kayak river to celebrate dam removals, symbolizing restoration and honoring ancestors. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Native American teens kayak US river to celebrate dam removals
Four dams were dynamited and removed between 2023 to 2024, freeing hundreds of miles of the Klamath.

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Pranav Darshan, Rohan J S, Raghuveer Rajesh, Ruchitha M, Sanika Kamath, Manas M N
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00172

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Non Fungible Tokens have changed digital ownership and how creators earn money. Between 2021 and 2024, the market value exceeded 40 billion. However, the fast growth of the NFT ecosystem has revealed serious issues in managing intellectual property rights. There is a lot of confusion about the difference between owning an NFT and owning the copyright for the underlying content. This research looks at the gap between traditional copyright laws and blockchain-based transactions. We use a mixed me…

Habits for Creativity – Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health #creativity #inspiration #motivational

Habits for Creativity - Investing in Yourself for Improved Mental and Physical Health
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

EconAgentic in DePIN Markets: A Large Language Model Approach to the Sharing Economy of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure
Yulin Liu, Mocca Schweitzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21368

EconAgentic in DePIN Markets: A Large Language Model Approach to the Sharing Economy of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure
The Decentralized Physical Infrastructure (DePIN) market is revolutionizing the sharing economy through token-based economics and smart contracts that govern decentralized operations. By 2024, DePIN projects have exceeded \$10 billion in market capitalization, underscoring their rapid growth. However, the unregulated nature of these markets, coupled with the autonomous deployment of AI agents in smart contracts, introduces risks such as inefficiencies and potential misalignment with human value…

from my link log —
Making a compiler to prove tmux Is Turing complete.
https://willhbr.net/2024/03/15/making-a-compiler-to-prove-tmux-is-turing-complete/
saved 2025-08-01

Computing Radially-Symmetric Solutions of the Ultra-Relativistic Euler Equations with Entropy-Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Ferdinand Thein, Hendrik Ranocha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21427

Computing Radially-Symmetric Solutions of the Ultra-Relativistic Euler Equations with Entropy-Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
The ultra--relativistic Euler equations describe gases in the relativistic case when the thermal energy dominates. These equations for an ideal gas are given in terms of the pressure, the spatial part of the dimensionless four-velocity, and the particle density. Kunik et al.\ (2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113330) proposed genuine multi--dimensional benchmark problems for the ultra--relativistic Euler equations. In particular, they compared full two-dimensional discontinuous Galerkin…

The nebular phase of SN 2024ggi: a low-mass progenitor with no signs of interaction
L. Ferrari, G. Folatelli, K. Ertini, H. Kuncarayakti, T. Regna, M. C. Bersten, C. Ashall, E. Baron, C. R. Burns, L. Galbany, W. B. Hoogendam, K. Maeda, K. Medler, N. I. Morrel, B. Shapee, M. D. Stritzinger, H. Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22794

The nebular phase of SN 2024ggi: a low-mass progenitor with no signs of interaction
Context: SN 2024ggi is a Type II supernova (SN) discovered in the nearby galaxy NGC 3621 (D $\approx6.7\pm0.d$ Mpc) on 2024 April 03.21 UT. Its proximity enabled a detailed investigation of the SN's properties and its progenitor star. This work focuses on the optical evolution of SN 2024ggi at the nebular phase. Aims: We investigate the progenitor properties and possible asymmetries in the ejecta by studying the nebular phase evolution between days 287 and 400 after the explosion. Methods: We p…

Commitment Gap via Correlation Gap
Shuchi Chawla, Dimitris Christou, Trung Dang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20246 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20246

Commitment Gap via Correlation Gap
Selection problems with costly information, dating back to Weitzman's Pandora's Box problem, have received much attention recently. We study the general model of Costly Information Combinatorial Selection (CICS) that was recently introduced by Chawla et al. [2024] and Bowers et al. [2025]. In this problem, a decision maker needs to select a feasible subset of stochastic variables, and can only learn information about their values through a series of costly steps, modeled by a Markov decision pr…

Phase transition properties via partition function zeros: The Blume-Capel ferromagnet revisited
Le\"ila Moueddene, Nikolaos G Fytas, Bertrand Berche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20084

Phase transition properties via partition function zeros: The Blume-Capel ferromagnet revisited
Since the landmark work of Lee and Yang, locating the zeros of the partition function in the complex magnetic-field plane has become a powerful method for studying phase transitions. Fisher later extended this approach to complex temperatures, and subsequent generalizations introduced other control parameters, such as the crystal field. In previous works [Moueddene et al, J. Stat. Mech. (2024) 023206; Phys. Rev. E 110, 064144 (2024)] we applied this framework to the two- and three-dimensional B…

Exploring the Design Space of 3D MLLMs for CT Report Generation
Mohammed Baharoon, Jun Ma, Congyu Fang, Augustin Toma, Bo Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21535

Exploring the Design Space of 3D MLLMs for CT Report Generation
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have emerged as a promising way to automate Radiology Report Generation (RRG). In this work, we systematically investigate the design space of 3D MLLMs, including visual input representation, projectors, Large Language Models (LLMs), and fine-tuning techniques for 3D CT report generation. We also introduce two knowledge-based report augmentation methods that improve performance on the GREEN score by up to 10\%, achieving the 2nd place on the MICCAI 2024 …

Event-by-event vortex rings in fixed-target p Ar collisions
David Chinellato, Michael Lisa, Willian Serenone, Chun Shen, Jun Takahashi, Giorgio Torrieri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00512

Event-by-event vortex rings in fixed-target p+Ar collisions
We present event-by-event simulations for central asymmetric p+Ar collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 68$ GeV to investigate the formation and evolution of vortex-ring structures from the early-stage longitudinal flow velocity profile. Our predictions for their imprints on Lambda hyperon's polarization observables are complementary to those presented in Ref. [Phys.Rev.C 110 (2024) 5, 054908] and can be explored in the future fixed-target collisions at the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) e…

Digging My Way Out
#OrchestralMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/digging-my-wa

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
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Activity or popularity ranking for Internet properties is full of caveats, but allowing for all that, I was curious how #Twitter has been faring according to two sources of measure (DNS and web browsing measurements primarily).
At the start of 2024, twitter.com was at #44 and #11 according to Cloudflare Radar and the Tranco list respectively.
At the start of 2025 it fell to #59 and …

‘No one understands a woman in her 20s like Billy Joel [playing 🪗 in the 1970s]’: gen z finds solace in anti-hustle anthem Vienna
(I missed this story with the great #accordion pic last year)
https://www.

Jaycee Horn on Panthers' porous 2024 defense: 'We don't need to be anything close to that' in 2025 https://www.nfl.com/news/jaycee-horn-on-panthers-porous-2024-defense-we-don-t-need-to-be-anything-close-to-that…

Cowboys officially lose a 2024 draft pick to another NFL team https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/22/cowboys-lose-2024-draft-pick-justin-rogers/85329395007/

Re-Examining the Statistical Methodology and Onomastic Claims of Gregor and Blais' Argument from Name Popularity
Jason Wilson, Luuk van de Weghe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21150

Re-Examining the Statistical Methodology and Onomastic Claims of Gregor and Blais' Argument from Name Popularity
In 2024 Gregor and Blais published a JSNT article using two different statistical methods to conclude, contra Bauckham (2017), that selected Apocryphal texts and the Babylonian Talmud "do not correspond to the distribution among first-century Palestinian Jews statistically significantly worse than the distribution in Gospels-Acts" and "the two corpora paradoxically align better in some respects". In this paper, we show that the first method is statistically invalid, and the second is the wrong …

A profile of A24, valued at $3.5B in June 2024, as the studio focuses on big budget projects and invests in AI tools via A24 Labs, drawing mixed reactions (Alex Barasch/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/a24s-empire-of-auteurs?curre…

A24’s Empire of Auteurs
Alex Barasch offers the first inside look at the studio behind such movies as Ari Aster’s “Midsommar,” Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” the Daniels’ “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight,” and Josh Safdie’s upcoming “Marty Supreme”—and reports on its shift toward big budgets and A.I. tools.

Congested Clique Counting for Local Gibbs Distributions
Joshua Z. Sobel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13083 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13083

Congested Clique Counting for Local Gibbs Distributions
There are well established reductions between combinatorial sampling and counting problems (Jerrum, Valiant, Vazirani TCS 1986). Building off of a very recent parallel algorithm utilizing this connection (Liu, Yin, Zhang arxiv 2024), we demonstrate the first approximate counting algorithm in the CongestedClique for a wide range of problems. Most interestingly, we present an algorithm for approximating the number of $q$-colorings of a graph within $ε$-multiplicative error, when $q>αΔ$ for any…

Raiders 2025 Outlook: Can Michael Mayer Have a Bounce-Back Season? https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/03/raiders-2025-outlook-michael-mayer-season/

The multi-physics analysis, design and testing of CUSP, a CubeSat mission for space weather and solar flares x-ray polarimetry
Giovanni Lombardi, Sergio Fabiani, Ettore Del Monte, Andrea Alimenti, Riccardo Campana, Mauro Centrone, Enrico Costa, Nicolas De Angelis, Giovanni De Cesare, Sergio Di Cosimo, Giuseppe Di Persio, Abhay Kumar, Alessandro Lacerenza, Pasqualino Loffredo, Gabriele Minervini, Fabio Muleri, Paolo Romano, Alda Rubini, Emanuele Scalise, Enrico Silva, Paolo Soffitta, Da…

The multi-physics analysis, design and testing of CUSP, a CubeSat mission for space weather and solar flares x-ray polarimetry
The space-based CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission aims to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP is a project in the framework of the Alcor Program of the Italian Space Agency aimed at developing new CubeSat missions. As part of CUSP's Phase B study, which began in December 2024 and will last one year, we present the current development status of the design solutions adopted for the mission's most critical…

Hypergraph Splitting-Off via Element-Connectivity Preserving Reductions
Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran, Chandra Chekuri, Shubhang Kulkarni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18637 https://

Hypergraph Splitting-Off via Element-Connectivity Preserving Reductions
Bérczi, Chandrasekaran, Király, and Kulkarni (ICALP 2024) recently described a splitting-off procedure in hypergraphs that preserves local-connectivity and outlined some applications. In this note we give an alternative proof via element-connectivity preserving reduction operations in graphs.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Lynks:
🎵 USE IT OR LOSE IT (6 Music Session, 20 Feb 2024)
#Lynks
https://lynkslynkslynks.bandcamp.com/track/use-it-or-lose-it-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/72YhBiqyf312dbifU3yHbx

from my link log —
Development notes from xkcd's "Machine".
https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/
saved 2024-05-09 h…

Development notes from xkcd's "Machine"
How we designed xkcd's massive rube goldberg machine game in 3 weeks.

165 Millionen (!) Euro - Behandlungskosten für Häftlinge explodieren #News #Nachrichten

Healing Harp – plucking the strings of my heart #healing #inspiration #musicianresources #musiciantips

Healing Harp - plucking the strings of my heart
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Crosslisted article(s) found for stat.AP. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.AP/new
[1/1]:
- Does Extending Polling Hours Compensate for Bomb Threats? Evidence from the 2024 Election in Geor...
Sequoia Andrade, Philip Stark

Will Compute Bottlenecks Prevent an Intelligence Explosion?
Parker Whitfill, Cheryl Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23181 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23181

Will Compute Bottlenecks Prevent an Intelligence Explosion?
The possibility of a rapid, "software-only" intelligence explosion brought on by AI's recursive self-improvement (RSI) is a subject of intense debate within the AI community. This paper presents an economic model and an empirical estimation of the elasticity of substitution between research compute and cognitive labor at frontier AI firms to shed light on the possibility. We construct a novel panel dataset for four leading AI labs (OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic, and DeepSeek) from 2014 to 2024 an…

There’s Nothing Fluffy About This Audio #healing #inspiration #musicianresources #musiciantips

There's Nothing Fluffy About This Audio
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Morning Darkness – an #improv #poem #improv #poem

Morning Darkness - an #improv #poem
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The US Senate passes the Genius Act, which establishes a regulatory framework for stablecoins; the bill now heads to the House (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/genius-stablecoin-bill-crypto.html

Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill, giving crypto industry first major legislative win
This is the first legislative victory for the digital asset industry, which put around $250 million in the 2024 election cycle.

Healing Melodies #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Healing Melodies #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Healing Melodies – recovery and inspiration #healing #inspiration #music

Healing Melodies - recovery and inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

3rd of 3 – Next Generation #hardrock #idea #music #musicvideo

3rd of 3 - Next Generation
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Drifting #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Drifting #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Blue sky #blues – or how to embrace changes #clouds #inspiration #presentmoment

Blue sky #blues - or how to embrace changes
Stan Stewart - @muz4now