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I heard the police chief on the radio say "This sort of violence doesn't happen here."
Yes. It does. It did. Get your head out of wherever it is hidden and accept reality. https://mastodon.social/@0xYumeko/115289032518876808

""La Russie et l'influence russe ? Non merci !" Tel est le message clair envoyé par une majorité inattendue d'électeurs lors des élections législatives de dimanche en République de Moldavie."
#Moldavie #UE

On GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity vs Record Wind (2012-09) - Does wind power actually help decarbonise the GB grid in practice? Examination of public data says yes. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-grid-CO2-intensity-vs-WIND-records-Sep-2012.…

On GB Grid Electricity CO2 Intensity vs Record Wind (2012-09)
Does wind power actually help decarbonise the GB grid in practice? Examination of public data says yes.

Scaling Laws and Spectra of Shallow Neural Networks in the Feature Learning Regime
Leonardo Defilippis, Yizhou Xu, Julius Girardin, Emanuele Troiani, Vittorio Erba, Lenka Zdeborov\'a, Bruno Loureiro, Florent Krzakala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24882

Scaling Laws and Spectra of Shallow Neural Networks in the Feature Learning Regime
Neural scaling laws underlie many of the recent advances in deep learning, yet their theoretical understanding remains largely confined to linear models. In this work, we present a systematic analysis of scaling laws for quadratic and diagonal neural networks in the feature learning regime. Leveraging connections with matrix compressed sensing and LASSO, we derive a detailed phase diagram for the scaling exponents of the excess risk as a function of sample complexity and weight decay. This anal…

Simultaneous probe of the charm and bottom quark Yukawa couplings using ttH events
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22535 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Simultaneous probe of the charm and bottom quark Yukawa couplings using ttH events
A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to a charm quark-antiquark pair, H $\to$ $\mathrm{c\bar{c}}$, produced in association with a top quark-antiquark pair ($\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$H) is presented. The search is performed with data from proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$. Advanced machine learning techniques are employed for jet flavor identification and event classification. The Higgs boson decay to a bottom qua…

Multi-frequency observations of PDS 70c: Radio emission mechanisms in the circum-planetary environment
Oriana Dominguez-Jamett, Simon Casassus, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Yuhiko Aoyama, Miguel Carcamo, Philipp Weber, Ondrej Chrenko, Gabriel-Dominique Marleau, Barbara Ercolano, Judit Szulagyi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21970

Multi-frequency observations of PDS 70c: Radio emission mechanisms in the circum-planetary environment
PDS 70c is a source of Ha emission and variable sub-mm signal. Understanding its emission mechanisms may enable observations of accretion rates and physical conditions in the circum-planetary environment. We report ALMA observations of PDS 70 at 145 GHz (Band 4), 343.5 GHz (Band 7) and 671 GHz (Band 9) and compare with data at 97.5 GHz (Band 3), taken within two months. The radio spectrum (SED) is analyzed with analytic circumplanetary disk (CPD). In a novel approach we include the free-free co…

Cation accumulation drives the preferential partitioning of DNA in an aqueous two-phase system
Hiroki Sakuta, Yuki Akamine, Akari Kamo, Hao Gong, Norikazu Ichihashi, Arash Nikoubashman, Miho Yanagisawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24641

Cation accumulation drives the preferential partitioning of DNA in an aqueous two-phase system
Mixtures of polyethylene glycol (PEG) and dextran (Dex) represent a widely used class of aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS), with applications ranging from the purification of various biomolecules such as nucleic acids to the synthesis of protocells. A key feature underlying these applications is the selective accumulation of biomolecules within Dex-rich droplets in an aqueous PEG phase, but the physical origin of this partitioning remains unclear. Depletion interactions were long assumed to be t…

DX Engineering invited John Robert Stratton N5AUS, ARRL West Gulf Director, to give more details about why this new attempt to give #HamRadio similar rights already given for broadcast antennas (the FCC's Over-the-Air Reception Devices, or "OTARD", rule) has a real chance to pass this time.
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CHRONOS: Cryogenic sub-Hz cROss torsion bar detector with quantum NOn-demolition Speed meter
Yuki Inoue, Hsiang-Chieh Hsu, Hsiang-Yu Huang, M. Afif Ismail, Vivek Kumar, Miftahul Ma'arif, Avani Patel, Daiki Tanabe, Henry Tsz-King Wong, Da-Chun Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23172

CHRONOS: Cryogenic sub-Hz cROss torsion bar detector with quantum NOn-demolition Speed meter
We propose a next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave detector, the Cryogenic sub-Hz cROss torsion-bar detector with quantum NOn-demolition Speed meter (CHRONOS), optimized for the unexplored 0.1-10Hz band bridging the gap between the space-based LISA and future ground-based detectors such as Cosmic Explorer and the Einstein Telescope. CHRONOS combines a ring-cavity Sagnac interferometer with torsion-bar test masses to realize the first quantum nondemolition (QND) measurement of angular …

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen