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I'll be in Edinburgh next week, mainly for the Fringe, but I'll also give a talk at LFS/U Edinburgh on Tuesday:
https://informatics.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/lfcs-seminar-tuesday-5th-august-michael-sperber

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Steel Fringe:
🎵 I Wanna Live
#SteelFringe
https://curation-records.bandcamp.com/track/i-wanna-live
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qrMqy8UNEPNGF7JInFvy4

Electrostatic toroidal bender and its fringe fields
Rick Baartman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21365 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21365

Electrostatic toroidal bender and its fringe fields
I describe the COSY-Infinity code GES that we have developed and used in various forms in the past 30 years to calculate maps to third order through electrostatic bend elements. It has been a mystery that COSY's in-built procedures ES, ESP and ECL disagreed with our own code. This note is intended to clarify the issue.

5 Fringe Cowboys who could be traded during training camp before roster cuts https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/23/5-cowboys-who-could-be-traded-before-roster-cutdowns/8…

Under Trump, the government mobilizes in response to fringe theories (Naftali Bendavid/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/14/under-trump-government-mobilizes-response-fringe-theories/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p5#a250714p5

One week to go until our Fringe premiere of Heiner Müller's "Quartet".
Join us in the bunker Aug 4-9 19:05 at Paradise in Augustines!
https://www.theater-u34.de/quartet/

Phase-adaptive cooling of fringe-trapped nanoparticles at room temperature in hollow-core photonic crystal fiber
Soumya Chakraborty, Gordon K. L. Wong, Pardeep Kumar, Hyunjun Nam, Claudiu Genes, Nicolas Y. Joly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17601

Phase-adaptive cooling of fringe-trapped nanoparticles at room temperature in hollow-core photonic crystal fiber
Active feedback cooling of levitated dielectric particles is a pivotal technique for creating ultrasensitive sensors and probing fundamental physics. Here we demonstrate phase-adaptive feedback cooling of silica nanoparticles optically trapped in standing-wave potential formed by two co-linearly polarized counterpropagating diffraction-free guided modes in a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber at room temperature. Unlike standard laser intensity- or Coulomb force-based feedback, our approach mod…

🤠 Overconfident conspiracy theorists: Many unaware their beliefs are on the fringe
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-overconfident-conspiracy-theorists-unaware-beliefs.html

Overconfident conspiracy theorists: Many unaware their beliefs are on the fringe
Overconfidence is a hallmark trait of people who believe in conspiracies, and they also significantly overestimate how much others agree with them, Cornell psychology researchers have found. The study indicates that belief in conspiracies may be less about a person's needs and motivations and more about their failure to recognize that they might be wrong.

In its December 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI, The New York Times produced dozens of examples where GPT-4 exactly reproduced significant passages from Times stories.
In its response, OpenAI described this as a “fringe behavior” and a “problem that researchers at OpenAI and elsewhere work hard to address.”
But is it actually a fringe behavior?
And have leading AI companies addressed it? 
New research—focusing on books rather than newspaper articles and on different compa…

Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book
The research could have big implications for generative AI copyright lawsuits.

Comparison of Magnetic Field Characteristics among 3 Tesla MRI Scanners: An Experimental Measurement Study
Francesco Girardello, Maria Antonietta D'Avanzo, Massimo Mattozzi, Victorian Michele Ferro, Giuseppe Acri, Valentina Hartwig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20818

Comparison of Magnetic Field Characteristics among 3 Tesla MRI Scanners: An Experimental Measurement Study
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners have advanced significantly, with a growing use of highfield 3 T systems. This evolution gives rise to safety concerns for healthcare personnel working in proximity to MRI equipment. While manufacturers provide theoretical Gauss line projections, these are typically derived under ideal open-environment conditions and may not reflect real-world installations. For this reason, identical MRI models can produce markedly different fringe field distributions …

One of my takeaways from reading _War and Peace_ last year was that Napoleon, whose warmongering killed millions across Europe, was basically a buffoon, a clown. Many of the most destructive men in history were ridiculous and laughable, and it just added insult to injury for contemporaries watching them come to power. There's nothing new under the sun.

Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/metas-llama-31-can-recall-42-perc…

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI.

Letter from the House Democrats to the new interim #NASA administrator observing "a fringe, extremist ideology emanating from the White House Office of Management and Budget" and expressing "nothing but contempt for its goal of dismantling our nation’s space agency": https://democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/SST RM Lofgren and Foushee - Letter to Interim Administrator Duffy - FY 25 Impoundments - 7.16.25.pdf

Today, cherry oat muffins, egg bacon tea coffee. More fringe tonight, and then a wild ride culminating in a week away for work starting Sunday. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/TTToGZHVGkidU3MJ8

WTF? Sheriffs now!
#Australia …

Inside the fringe groups fighting a 'quasi civil war' with self-styled sheriffs and their own court
Wary of being labelled a cult, this 'sovereign citizen' group has never spoken to mainstream media. It made an exception for Four Corners.

What a story….
#measles

How measles tore through a remote West Texas city
Anti-vaccine activists seized on a measles outbreak in Seminole, Texas, and turned the small Mennonite city into a battleground between fringe doctors and mainstream medicine.

Laura Loomer's White House access erases the line between the fringe and mainstream (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/laura-loomers-white-house-access-erases-line-fringe-mainstream-rcna210863
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p51#a250604p51

Hazel Brugger: erster Auftritt in Schweden
Die Schweizer Comedienne tritt beim Stockholm Fringe Festival erstmals mit ihrem Programm auf Englisch auf.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-11.08.2025-hazel-brugger.htm
Fotografin @no_e_ll_e Guidon

A novel approach for the direct estimation of the instantaneous Earth rotation velocity
Oleg Titov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04643 https://

A novel approach for the direct estimation of the instantaneous Earth rotation velocity
Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) measures two standard observables: group delay and fringe frequency (delay rate). While group delay is widely used to estimate a broad range of geodetic and astrometric parameters, fringe frequency has, to date, been largely ignored. Here, we show that the fringe frequency is a unique tool for direct estimation of the instantaneous Earth angular rotation velocity, which is not accessible with the group delay alone. We estimate the magnitude of the Earth …

Cowboys 53-man pre-training camp projection: Does Diggs make it? 2nd rounder cut? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/23/cowboys-53-man-pre-training-camp-projec…

A new angle on stacking faults: Breaking the edge-on limit in high-resolution defect analysis
Nicolas Karpstein, Lukas M\"uller, Andreas Bezold, Steffen Neumeier, Erdmann Spiecker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15510

A new angle on stacking faults: Breaking the edge-on limit in high-resolution defect analysis
The nature of stacking faults - whether intrinsic or extrinsic - plays a pivotal role in defect-mediated processes in crystalline materials. Yet, current electron microscopy techniques for their reliable analysis remain limited to either conventional fringe-contrast imaging of inclined faults or atomic-resolution imaging of edge-on configurations. Here, we overcome this dichotomy by introducing a high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (HRSTEM) method that enables full structu…

Did I forget in yesterday’s rush to share Marie’s biscuits, egg bacon tea and coffee? Yes! Did we go to Fringe fest last night? Also yes! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/XZKzuBT6doHWY3Wc9

Velocity-modulated drag-trapping of nanoparticles by moving fringe pattern in hollow-core fiber
Soumya Chakraborty, Gordon K. L. Wong, Philip St. J. Russell, Nicolas Y. Joly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04770

Velocity-modulated drag-trapping of nanoparticles by moving fringe pattern in hollow-core fiber
We report optical trapping and transport at atmospheric pressure of nanoparticles in a moving interference pattern in hollow-core photonic crystal fiber. Unlike in previous work at low pressure, when the viscous drag forces are weak and the particles travel at the fringe velocity, competition between trapping and drag forces causes the particle velocity to oscillate as it is momentarily captured and accelerated by each passing fringe, followed by release and deceleration by viscous forces. As a…

An analysis of 96K public ChatGPT transcripts finds 100 lengthy chats, of which dozens exhibited delusional traits where ChatGPT reinforced users' fringe ideas (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/i-feel-like…

Once Champions of Fringe Causes, Now in a ‘Trap of Their Own Making’
Top leaders at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. are struggling to fulfill Trump campaign promises often rooted in misinformation and conspiracy theories.
h…

Law Enforcement Officials Struggle to Fulfill Trump Promises Rooted in Conspiracy Theories
Top leaders at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. are struggling to fulfill Trump campaign promises often rooted in misinformation and conspiracy theories.

Evaluating interventions for Plasmodium vivax forest malaria using a three-scale mathematical model
Shoshana Elgart, Mark B. Flegg, Jennifer A. Flegg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10040

Evaluating interventions for Plasmodium vivax forest malaria using a three-scale mathematical model
The rising proportion of Plasmodium vivax cases concentrated in forest-fringe areas across the Greater Mekong Subregion highlights the importance of pharmaceutical and mosquito control techniques specifically targeted towards forest-going populations. To mathematically assess best-possible antimalarial interventions in the context of hypnozoite reactivation and seasonal forest migration, we extend a previously developed three-scale integro-differential equations model of P. vivax transmission. …

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.CO/new
[1/1]:
- A demonstration of the effect of fringe-rate filtering in the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Arra...
Hugh Garsden, et al.

3 veterans on fringe of Cowboys' roster could benefit from Kavontae Turpin arrest https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/07/kavontae-turpins-arrest…

Sagnac and Mashhoon effects in graphene
Yu. V. Shtanov, T. -H. O. Pokalchuk, S. G. Sharapov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07718 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.077…

Sagnac and Mashhoon effects in graphene
We investigate the Sagnac and Mashhoon effects in graphene, taking into account both the pseudospin and intrinsic spin of electrons, within a simplified model of a rotating nanotube or infinitesimally narrow ring. Based on considerations of the relativistic phase of the wave function and employing the effective Larmor theorem, we demonstrate that the Sagnac fringe shift retains a form analogous to that for free electrons, governed by the electron's vacuum mass. In the case of a narrow ring, an …

Traveling supersolid stripe patterns in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
G. I. Martone, G. V. Shlyapnikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07322 http…

Traveling supersolid stripe patterns in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
We consider a traveling supersolid stripe pattern in a spin-orbit-coupled Bose gas. This configuration is associated with an unequal occupation of the two single-particle energy minima, giving rise to a chemical potential difference that sets the fringe velocity. Unlike stationary stripes, the moving pattern is spin-polarized, with decreasing contrast as momentum increases, eventually leading to stripe melting and transition to the uniform plane-wave phase. The Bogoliubov spectrum of the moving…

Cowboys 53-man roster projection sees former 1st-round pick with fully guaranteed deal cut https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/20/cowboys-53-man-roster-sees-former-1st-ro…

Only two nights to go - if you're in Edinburgh, see us at the Fringe at Paradise in Augustines today or tomorrow at 19:05!
https://www.theater-u34.de/quartet/

Alloharmonics in Burst Intensification by Singularity Emitting Radiation
K. Ogura, M. S. Pirozhkova, A. Sagisaka, T. Zh. Esirkepov, A. Ya. Faenov, T. A. Pikuz, H. Kotaki, Y. Hayashi, Y. Fukuda, J. K. Koga, S. V. Bulanov, H. Daido, N. Hasegawa, M. Ishino, M. Nishikino, M. Koike, T. Kawachi, H. Kiriyama, M. Kando, D. Neely, A. S. Pirozhkov
https://

Alloharmonics in Burst Intensification by Singularity Emitting Radiation
Burst Intensification by Singularity Emitting Radiation (BISER) in underdense relativistic laser plasma is a bright source of coherent extreme ultraviolet (XUV) and x-ray radiation. In contrast to all harmonic generation mechanisms, high-resolution experimental BISER spectra in the XUV region contain spectral fringes with separation much finer (down to 0.12 eV) than the initial driving laser frequency (~1.5 eV). We show that these fringe separations result from two main factors: laser frequency…

BBC bias on Israel
From Jonathan Cook. (Substack link, sorry.)
"In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel's destruction of Gaza"
For example,
"... the distinguished Israeli historian Avi Shlaim lives in the UK and teaches at Oxford University. ... Shlaim is both knowledgeable about the history of Israeli colonisation of Palestine and truly independent. He is in a position to dispassionately provide the context BBC audiences need to make judgments about what is going on and who is responsible for it.
"And yet extraordinarily, Shlaim has never been invited on by the BBC. ... He is one of the prominent Israelis we are never allowed to hear from, because they are likely to make more credible and mainstream a narrative the BBC wishes to present as fringe, loopy and antisemitic."
Plus some media analysis stats such as:
"The BBC mentioned “occupation” – the essential context for understanding the relationship between Israel and Palestinians – only 14 times in news articles when providing context to the events of 7 October 2023. That amounted to 0.3% of articles. Additional context – decades of Israeli apartheid rule and Israel’s 17-year blockade of Gaza — were entirely missing from the coverage."
#Israel #Palestine #history #Gaza #media #BBC #JonathanCook

Arrived in Edinburgh - hello Fringe!

Today in Edinburgh, talk at LFCS, then performance at Edinburgh Fringe.
https://informatics.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/lfcs-seminar-tuesday-5th-august-michael-sperber

fftvis: A Non-Uniform Fast Fourier Transform Based Interferometric Visibility Simulator
Tyler A. Cox, Steven G. Murray, Aaron R. Parsons, Joshua S. Dillon, Kartik Mandar, Zachary E. Martinot, Robert Pascua, Piyanat Kittiwisit, James E. Aguirre
#toXiv_bot_toot

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…

Look-Up Table-Correction for Beam Hardening-Induced Signal of Clinical Dark-Field Chest Radiographs
Maximilian E. Lochschmidt (Chair of Biomedical Physics, Department of Physics, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany), Theresa Urban (Chair of Biomedical Physics, Department of Physics, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany), Lennard Kaster (Chair of Biomedical Physics, Department of Physics, TUM Scho…

Look-Up Table-Correction for Beam Hardening-Induced Signal of Clinical Dark-Field Chest Radiographs
Background: Material structures at the micrometer scale cause ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering, e.g., seen in lung tissue or plastic foams. In grating-based X-ray imaging, this causes a reduction of the fringe visibility, forming a dark-field signal. Polychromatic beam hardening also changes visibility, adding a false dark-field signal due to attenuation, even in homogeneous, non-scattering materials. Purpose: The objective of this study is to develop a fast, simple, and robust method to corr…