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"The day will come when all these skirmishes & battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority & then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege."
"Remember this: Try."
▶️ Nemik's Manifesto, #ANDOR

Economic denialism - we've heard bogus arguments for years (thanks, Prof. Nordhouse, for your enabling work on this) -
Now it has a name.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/28/andre-correa-do-lago-cop30…

Economic denialism - we've heard bogus arguments for years (thanks, Prof. Nordhouse, for your enabling work on this) -
Now it has a name.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/28/andre-correa-do-lago-cop30…

Eliciting User Requirements for AI-Enhanced Learning Environments using a Participatory Approach
Bibeg Limbu, Irene-Angelica Chounta, Vilma Sukacke, Andromachi Filippidi, Chara Spyropoulou, Marianna Anagnostopoulou, Eleftheria Tsourlidaki, Nikos Karacapilidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21088

Eliciting User Requirements for AI-Enhanced Learning Environments using a Participatory Approach
This paper explores the needs \& expectations of educational stakeholders for AI (Artificial Intelligence)-enhanced learning environments. Data was collected following two-phased participatory workshops. The first workshop outlined stakeholders' profiles in terms of technical and pedagogical characteristics. The qualitative data collected was analysed using deductive thematic analysis with Activity Theory, explicating the user needs. The second workshop articulated expectations related to the i…

Softness and Hydrodynamic Interactions Regulate Lipoprotein Transport in Crowded Yolk Environments
Nimmi Das Anthuparambil, Michelle Dargasz, Sonja Timmermann, Anita Girelli, Sebastian Retzbach, Johannes M\"oller, Wonhyuk Jo, Agha Mohammad Raza, Aliaksandr Leonau, James Wrigley, Frederik Unger, Maddalena Bin, Prince Prabhu Rajaiah, Iason Andronis, William Ch\`evremont, J\"org Hallmann, Angel Rodriguez-Fernandez, Jan-Etienne Pudell, Felix Brausse, Ulrike Boesenberg, Mohamed Yo…

Softness and Hydrodynamic Interactions Regulate Lipoprotein Transport in Crowded Yolk Environments
Low-density lipoproteins (LDLs) serve as nutrient reservoirs in egg yolk for embryonic development and as promising drug carriers. Both roles critically depend on their mobility in densely crowded biological environments. Under these crowded conditions, diffusion is hindered by transient confinement within dynamic cages formed by neighboring particles, driven by solvent-mediated hydrodynamic interactions and memory effects -- phenomena that have remained challenging to characterize computationa…

Empirical structure physicalism and realism, Hempel's dilemma, and an optimistic meta-induction
Balazs Gyenis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19834 https://…

Empirical structure physicalism and realism, Hempel's dilemma, and an optimistic meta-induction
Motivated by a generalization of Hempel's dilemma, I introduce a novel notion of empirical structure, as well as theory supervenience as a new reductive relationship between theories. One theory supervenes on another theory if the empirical structure of the latter theory refines the empirical structure of the former theory. I then argue that (1) empirical structure physicalism, the thesis that the current special sciences supervene both on current and on future physics, avoids both horns of Hem…

Quantum-Classical Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo with Matchgate Shadows on Trapped Ion Quantum Computers
Luning Zhao, Joshua J. Goings, Willie Aboumrad, Andrew Arrasmith, Lazaro Calderin, Spencer Churchill, Dor Gabay, Thea Harvey-Brown, Melanie Hiles, Magda Kaja, Matthew Keesan, Karolina Kulesz, Andrii Maksymov, Mei Maruo, Mauricio Mu\~noz, Bas Nijholt, Rebekah Schiller, Yvette de Sereville, Amy Smidutz, Felix Tripier, Grace Yao, Trishal Zaveri, Coleman Collins, Martin Roetteler, …

Quantum-Classical Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo with Matchgate Shadows on Trapped Ion Quantum Computers
We demonstrate an end-to-end workflow to model chemical reaction barriers with the quantum-classical auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (QC-AFQMC) algorithm with quantum tomography using matchgate shadows. The workflow operates within an accelerated quantum supercomputing environment with the IonQ Forte quantum computer and NVIDIA GPUs on Amazon Web Services. We present several algorithmic innovations and an efficient GPU-accelerated execution, which achieves a several orders of magnitude spee…

A Design Space for Visualization Transitions of 3D Spatial Data in Hybrid AR-Desktop Environments
Yucheng Lu, Tobias Rau, Benjamin Lee, Andreas K\"ohn, Michael Sedlmair, Christian Sandor, Tobias Isenberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22250

A Design Space for Visualization Transitions of 3D Spatial Data in Hybrid AR-Desktop Environments
We present a design space for animated transitions of the appearance of 3D spatial datasets in a hybrid Augmented Reality (AR)-desktop context. Such hybrid interfaces combine both traditional and immersive displays to facilitate the exploration of 2D and 3D data representations in the environment in which they are best displayed. One key aspect is to introduce transitional animations that change between the different dimensionalities to illustrate the connection between the different representa…

TV SERIES WATCHING/WATCHED:
3/4/25 Daredevil: Born Again S1 (DISNEY )
4/13/25 Last of Us S2 (MAX)
4/22/25 Star Wars: Andor (DISNEY )
5/4/25 Tales from the Empire (DISNEY )
5/15/25 Welcome to Wrexham (HULU)

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17490 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

AMEX: Android Multi-annotation Expo Dataset for Mobile GUI Agents
AI agents have drawn increasing attention mostly on their ability to perceive environments, understand tasks, and autonomously achieve goals. To advance research on AI agents in mobile scenarios, we introduce the Android Multi-annotation EXpo (AMEX), a comprehensive, large-scale dataset designed for generalist mobile GUI-control agents which are capable of completing tasks by directly interacting with the graphical user interface (GUI) on mobile devices. AMEX comprises over 104K high-resolution…