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"…give a formerly flat character some _single defining trait_, obsession, or problem to deal with. Just this one weird-yet-relatable thing. And suddenly, this character and the scenes they were in would come alive."
- Tony Tost
https://practical.substack.com/p/the-m

The Mark of the One-Note Character
not everyone should be well-rounded

marvel_partnerships: Marvel character partnerships (2018)
A network of partnerships among characters in the Marvel comic book universe. Nodes are either heroes or villains, and edges represent partnerships between such characters. The partnership network was extracted from Wikipedia pages of these characters, which indicate partnership relations with other such pages.
This network has 350 nodes and 346 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Unweighted

"Many Christians can’t identify with the word Christian anymore. No wonder the New Testament mentions 'Christian' just three times, as if reluctant to endorse a term that would become so easily exploited or distorted."
—Reflections editor Ray Waddle on the question "Is Christianity Losing its Religion?"

How to feel inadequate: TIL that Michael Holding — Whispering Death — preferred being a computer programmer to a professional cricketer, and worked as one well into his career. (This is from an article about the 1976 Oval match.) #Cricket

zum Glück gibt es einen Ticker
https://www.stern.de/panorama/verbrechen/block-prozess--gerhard-delling-und-christina-block-am-gericht-eingetroffen-35867508.html

Block-Prozess: Gerhard Delling und Christina Block am Gericht eingetroffen
Hat Christina Block ihre eigenen Kinder entführen lassen? Der Prozess in Hamburg soll das klären. Der stern-Newsblog zum eskalierten Sorgerechtstreit in d...

Niners' Kyle Juszczyk expects RB Christian McCaffrey to return to form in 2025: 'He looks incredible' https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-kyle-juszczyk-expects-rb-christian-mccaffrey-to-return-to-form-in-2025-he-loo…

Qymera: Simulating Quantum Circuits using RDBMS
Tim Littau, Rihan Hai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08759 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.087…

Qymera: Simulating Quantum Circuits using RDBMS
Quantum circuit simulation is crucial for quantum computing such as validating quantum algorithms. We present Qymera, a system that repurposes relational database management systems (RDBMSs) for simulation by translating circuits into SQL queries, allowing quantum operations to run natively within an RDBMS. Qymera supports a wide range of quantum circuits, offering a graphical circuit builder and code-based interfaces to input circuits. With a benchmarking framework, Qymera facilitates comparis…

Yes, the only video game I play is #Warframe!
MR 26 – Wisp Is Love, Wisp Is Live
Ballas is dead, Margulis’s mercy, Lotus’s final kiss.
But Kaya Velasco? She is eternal.
Ballas gone, but she outlives sentient beings.
BALLAS DEAD, NOT KAYA! 😘 💋
I don’t care if she’s code and pixels, my heart’s got no patch notes!
They can’t stop me from loving a digital …

Crude AM detector demodulates 1kHz signal (blue) from 1MHz carrier (yellow). The output is not great quality, but the circuit is so basic I'm surprised it works. One diode, one resistor, and two capacitors. Similar to the early crystal radio sets, where the crystal served as a the diode.

Scaling Portfolio Diversification with Quantum Circuit Cutting Techniques
Vicente P. Soloviev, Antonio M\'arquez Romero, Josh Kirsopp, Michal Krompiec
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08947

Scaling Portfolio Diversification with Quantum Circuit Cutting Techniques
Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithms (QAOA) have demonstrated a strong potential in addressing graph-based optimization problems. However, the execution of large-scale quantum circuits remains constrained by the limitations of current quantum hardware. In this work, we introduce QuantCut, an automatic framework for circuit cutting that enables efficient execution of large quantum circuits by decomposing entangling two-qubit gates into manageable sub-circuits. Specifically, we focus on ga…