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Just read this long post on "the current state of Cara" https://cara.app/post/2e0d29d3-a57a-4b70-b0d0-9cefc15176ca
🤔 "Not having an algorithmically recommended feed is the biggest reason why people dropped off from Cara after we went viral. In a chronolog…

Jingna Zhang (@zemotion) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform
About the current state of Cara— Hi all, I’d like to address some users' concerns about Cara’s stability, algorithms and reach, and why we don’t actively promote Cara and recruit new users. I have touched on most of these before through other posts, but I’ll like to go over the main points and put them in one place since they often come up as recurring questions: — Cara’s longevity/stability > "A few weeks ago, after learning how much Jingna was struggling with her personal l…

Quasi-static shape control of soft, morphing structures
Eszter Feh\'er, Andr\'as \'Arp\'ad Sipos, P\'eter V\'arkonyi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12916 htt…

Quasi-static shape control of soft, morphing structures
Inspired by biological systems, we introduce a general framework for quasi-static shape control of human-scale structures under slowly varying external actions or requirements. In this setting, shape control aims to traverse the stable sub-manifolds of the equilibrium set to meet some predefined requirements or optimization criteria. As finite deformations are allowed, the equilibrium set may have a non-trivial topology. This paper explores the implications of large shape changes and high compl…

DVDP: An End-to-End Policy for Mobile Robot Visual Docking with RGB-D Perception
Haohan Min, Zhoujian Li, Yu Yang, Jinyu Chen, Shenghai Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13024 htt…

DVDP: An End-to-End Policy for Mobile Robot Visual Docking with RGB-D Perception
Automatic docking has long been a significant challenge in the field of mobile robotics. Compared to other automatic docking methods, visual docking methods offer higher precision and lower deployment costs, making them an efficient and promising choice for this task. However, visual docking methods impose strict requirements on the robot's initial position at the start of the docking process. To overcome the limitations of current vision-based methods, we propose an innovative end-to-end visua…

The design of the data acquisition system for SPD experiment
L. Afanasyev, A. Berngardt, A. Boikov, V. Borshch, A. Boykov, D. Cherepkov, D. Erofeev, V. Frolov, K. Gritsay, A. Isupov, K. Kotov, D. Kozyrev, A. Kulikov, O. Mamoutova, N. Reshetikhin, D. Ryabikov, S. Tereshchenko, V. Tereshchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12790

The design of the data acquisition system for SPD experiment
The Spin Physics Detector (SPD) experiment at the NICA collider in JINR aims to investigate the spin structure of nucleons and spin-related phenomena. The combination of the number of background processes, the event rate and conditions for event selection makes the use of a classical trigger system impractical, requiring a triggerless data acquisition (DAQ) system. The DAQ system is designed to ensure precise time synchronization, efficient data collection, and high-throughput processing. Its a…

Towards Universal Quantum Tamper Detection
Anne Broadbent, Upendra Kapshikar, Denis Rochette
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12986 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12…

Towards Universal Quantum Tamper Detection
Tamper-resilient cryptography studies how to protect data against adversaries who can physically manipulate codewords before they are decoded. The notion of tamper detection codes formalizes this goal, requiring that any unauthorized modification be detected with high probability. Classical results, starting from Jafargholi and Wichs (TCC 2015), established the existence of such codes against very large families of tampering functions, subject to structural restrictions ruling out identity and …

DPCheatSheet: Using Worked and Erroneous LLM-usage Examples to Scaffold Differential Privacy Implementation
Shao-Yu Chu, Yuhe Tian, Yu-Xiang Wang, Haojian Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12590

DPCheatSheet: Using Worked and Erroneous LLM-usage Examples to Scaffold Differential Privacy Implementation
This paper explores how programmers without specialized expertise in differential privacy (DP) (i.e., novices) can leverage LLMs to implement DP programs with minimal training. We first conducted a need-finding study with 6 novices and 3 experts to understand how they utilize LLMs in DP implementation. While DP experts can implement correct DP analyses through a few prompts, novices struggle to articulate their requirements in prompts and lack the skills to verify the correctness of the generat…

Fully mixed virtual element schemes for steady-state poroelastic stress-assisted diffusion
Isaac Bermudez, Bryan Gomez-Vargas, Andres E. Rubiano, Ricardo Ruiz-Baier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12307

Fully mixed virtual element schemes for steady-state poroelastic stress-assisted diffusion
We propose a fully mixed virtual element method for the numerical approximation of the coupling between stress-altered diffusion and linear elasticity equations with strong symmetry of total poroelastic stress (using the Hellinger--Reissner principle). A novelty of this work is that we introduce a less restrictive assumption on the stress-assisted diffusion coefficient, requiring an analysis of the perturbed diffusion equation using Banach spaces. The solvability of the continuous and discrete …

Tycho supernova exploded inside a planetary nebula (SNIP)
Noam Soker (Technion, Israel)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12674 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12674…

Tycho supernova exploded inside a planetary nebula (SNIP)
I examine recent observations of the type Ia supernova remnant (SNR Ia) Tycho and conclude that Tycho is an SN Ia inside a planetary nebula (SNIP). The observations reveal two opposite protrusions, termed ears, projected on the main shell of Tycho. The pair of ear structures resembles that of the SNRs Ia Kepler, SNR G299-2.9, and SNR G1.9+0.3, which earlier studies considered as SNIPs. The requirement that the explosion occurs within hundreds of thousands of years after the formation of the pla…

CARVQ: Corrective Adaptor with Group Residual Vector Quantization for LLM Embedding Compression
Dayin Gou, Sanghyun Byun, Nilesh Malpeddi, Gabrielle De Micheli, Prathamesh Vaste, Jacob Song, Woo Seong Chung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12721

CARVQ: Corrective Adaptor with Group Residual Vector Quantization for LLM Embedding Compression
Large Language Models (LLMs) typically rely on a large number of parameters for token embedding, leading to substantial storage requirements and memory footprints. In particular, LLMs deployed on edge devices are memory-bound, and reducing the memory footprint by compressing the embedding layer not only frees up the memory bandwidth but also speeds up inference. To address this, we introduce CARVQ, a post-training novel Corrective Adaptor combined with group Residual Vector Quantization. CARVQ …

Weyl symmetry without the traceless condition
Israel Quiros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09957 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09957

Weyl symmetry without the traceless condition
We show that the requirement that the trace of the stress-energy tensor of matter must vanish if invariance under Weyl rescalings is a symmetry of a given gravitational theory, is not a general result but depends on the gravitational theory and on whether the matter action is form-invariant under Weyl rescalings or not. We focus on conformal general relativity with a Weyl form-invariant matter action. In this case, a linear dependence of the variations of the metric and of the Brans-Dicke scala…