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Bengals kicker has wild proposal for NFL rule change that would add scoring to kickoffs

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Bengals kicker has wild proposal for NFL rule change that would add scoring to kickoffs
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Thoughtful Things: Building Human-Centric Smart Devices with Small Language Models
Evan King, Haoxiang Yu, Sahil Vartak, Jenna Jacob, Sangsu Lee, Christine Julien
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03821

Thoughtful Things: Building Human-Centric Smart Devices with Small Language Models
Everyday devices like light bulbs and kitchen appliances are now embedded with so many features and automated behaviors that they have become complicated to actually use. While such "smart" capabilities can better support users' goals, the task of learning the "ins and outs" of different devices is daunting. Voice assistants aim to solve this problem by providing a natural language interface to devices, yet such assistants cannot understand loosely-constrained commands, they lack the ability to…

Chemo-dynamical Evolution of Simulated Satellites for a Milky Way-like Galaxy
Yutaka Hirai, Evan N. Kirby, Masashi Chiba, Kohei Hayashi, Borja Anguiano, Takayuki R. Saitoh, Miho N. Ishigaki, Timothy C. Beers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05330

Chemo-dynamical Evolution of Simulated Satellites for a Milky Way-like Galaxy
The chemical abundances of Milky Way's satellites reflect their star formation histories (SFHs), yet, due to the difficulty of determining the ages of old stars, the SFHs of most satellites are poorly measured. Ongoing and upcoming surveys will obtain around ten times more medium-resolution spectra for stars in satellites than are currently available. To correctly extract SFHs from large samples of chemical abundances, the relationship between chemical abundances and SFHs needs to be clarified.…

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Resisting high-energy impact events through gap engineering in superconducting qubit arrays
Matt McEwen, Kevin C. Miao, Juan Atalaya, Alex Bilmes, Alex Crook, Jenna Bovaird, John Mark Kreikebaum, Nicholas Zobrist, Evan Jeffrey, Bicheng Ying, Andreas Bengtsson, Hung-Shen Chang, Andrew Dunsworth, Julian Kelly, Yaxing Zhang, Ebrahim Forati, Rajeev Acharya, Justin Iveland, Wayne Liu, Seon Kim, Brian Burkett, Anthony Megrant, Yu Chen, Charles Neill, Daniel Sank, Michel Devoret, Alex Opremca…

Resisting high-energy impact events through gap engineering in superconducting qubit arrays
Quantum error correction (QEC) provides a practical path to fault-tolerant quantum computing through scaling to large qubit numbers, assuming that physical errors are sufficiently uncorrelated in time and space. In superconducting qubit arrays, high-energy impact events produce correlated errors, violating this key assumption. Following such an event, phonons with energy above the superconducting gap propagate throughout the device substrate, which in turn generate a temporary surge in quasipar…

LAMOST J1010 2358 is not a Pair-Instability Supernova Relic
Pierre N. Thibodeaux, Alexander P. Ji, William Cerny, Evan N. Kirby, Joshua D. Simon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17078 <…

LAMOST J1010+2358 is not a Pair-Instability Supernova Relic
The discovery of a star formed out of pair-instability supernova ejecta would have massive implications for the Population III star initial mass function and the existence of stars over 100 Msun, but none have yet been found. Recently, the star LAMOST J1010+2358 was claimed to be a star that formed out of gas enriched by a pair-instability supernova. We present a non-LTE abundance analysis of a new high-resolution Keck/HIRES spectrum of J1010+2358. We determined the carbon and aluminum abundanc…

Aptly: Making Mobile Apps from Natural Language
Evan W. Patton, David Y. J. Kim, Ashley Granquist, Robin Liu, Arianna Scott, Jennet Zamanova, Harold Abelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00229

Aptly: Making Mobile Apps from Natural Language
We present Aptly, an extension of the MIT App Inventor platform enabling mobile app development via natural language powered by code-generating large language models (LLMs). Aptly complements App Inventor's block language with a text language designed to allow visual code generation via text-based LLMs. We detail the technical aspects of how the Aptly server integrates LLMs with a realtime collaboration function to facilitate the automated creation and editing of mobile apps given user instruct…

Resisting high-energy impact events through gap engineering in superconducting qubit arrays
Matt McEwen, Kevin C. Miao, Juan Atalaya, Alex Bilmes, Alex Crook, Jenna Bovaird, John Mark Kreikebaum, Nicholas Zobrist, Evan Jeffrey, Bicheng Ying, Andreas Bengtsson, Hung-Shen Chang, Andrew Dunsworth, Julian Kelly, Yaxing Zhang, Ebrahim Forati, Rajeev Acharya, Justin Iveland, Wayne Liu, Seon Kim, Brian Burkett, Anthony Megrant, Yu Chen, Charles Neill, Daniel Sank, Michel Devoret, Alex Opremca…

Resisting high-energy impact events through gap engineering in superconducting qubit arrays
Quantum error correction (QEC) provides a practical path to fault-tolerant quantum computing through scaling to large qubit numbers, assuming that physical errors are sufficiently uncorrelated in time and space. In superconducting qubit arrays, high-energy impact events produce correlated errors, violating this key assumption. Following such an event, phonons with energy above the superconducting gap propagate throughout the device substrate, which in turn generate a temporary surge in quasipar…

Kinematic and metallicity of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Andromeda XVIII
Kateryna Kvasova, Evan N. Kirby, Rachael L. Beaton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11804

Kinematic and metallicity of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Andromeda XVIII
Andromeda XVIII is an isolated dwarf galaxy 579 kpc away from the nearest large galaxy, M31. It is a candidate ``backsplash galaxy'' that might have been affected by a close passage to M31. We present new Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy of Andromeda XVIII to assess the likelihood that it is a backsplash galaxy. We estimated the velocities, metallicities ([Fe/H]), and $α$-enhancements ([$α$/Fe]) for 56 probable members. We estimated Andromeda XVIII's mean heliocentric velocity, rotation velocity, pos…

Detection of a Spatially Extended Stellar Population in M33: A Shallow Stellar Halo?
Itsuki Ogami, Yutaka Komiyama, Masashi Chiba, Mikito Tanaka, Puragra Guhathakurta, Evan N. Kirby, Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Carrie Filion, Takanobu Kirihara, Miho N. Ishigaki, Kohei Hayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14234

Detection of a Spatially Extended Stellar Population in M33: A Shallow Stellar Halo?
We analyze the outer regions of M33, beyond 15 kpc in projected distance from its center using Subaru/HSC multi-color imaging. We identify Red Giant Branch (RGB) stars and Red Clump (RC) stars using the surface gravity sensitive $NB515$ filter for the RGB sample, and a multi-color selection for both samples. We construct the radial surface density profile of these RGB and RC stars, and find that M33 has an extended stellar population with a shallow power-law index of $α> -3$. This result repre…