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For the first time we got fruit (2!) on the Akebia quinata ('chocolate vine"). We planted a different clone last year for pollination and although the flowering time overlap is small, at least we got these.
Pleasant vanilla pulp (bitter seeds) a bit like cherimoya and relatives. Worth growing? A nice plant but hardly a viable fruit crop in Manchester.

Despite hype and optimistic projections, the humanoid robot industry faces hurdles, from battery life and design to limited demand for large-scale deployments (Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robot-scaling

Humanoid Robots: The Scaling Challenge
​It takes more than building a humanoid robot to build a humanoid robot product.

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Been playing around with openSUSE TW on a laptop for a few days and noticed the battery life was horrendous.
Apparently I forgot about installing the trusted old tlp. All is now well.
I did also notice that tuned seemed to be the default, which zypper demanded to be uninstalled in order for tlp to be installed instead. Admittedly I hardly know the difference.
#linux

'One hour a day for better moods, less anxiety and feeling closer to their friends and family, all of it achieved by something as enjoyable as play.
Perhaps by fall, a zest for outdoor fun with phones left indoors will become a habit.
... encouraging children to go swimming or play street hockey is hardly a horrible way to give such a boost to their physical and mental health.
Open the door. Go outside and play. Put down your phones. Summer is calling."

The (not so) lazy days of summer
Canadian children aren’t getting enough exercise, and smartphones are partly to blame. The remedy? It’s right outside your door

Quantifying the impact of detection bias from blended galaxies on cosmic shear surveys
Eray Genc, Peter Schneider, Sandra Unruh, Tim Schrabback
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01546

Quantifying the impact of detection bias from blended galaxies on cosmic shear surveys
Increasingly large areas in cosmic shear surveys lead to a reduction of statistical errors, necessitating to control systematic errors increasingly better. One of these systematic effects was initially studied by Hartlap et al. in 2011, namely that image overlap with (bright foreground) galaxies may prevent some distant (source) galaxies to remain undetected. Since this overlap is more likely to occur in regions of high foreground density -- which tend to be the regions in which the shear is la…