Tootfinder

Monday 3rd November: experiment with alternative Mastodon clients.
3rd—7th November: experience amazement at the inexplicable surge in activity from accounts that I follow.
7th November, mid-afternoon: discover that I have been accidentally watching a live feed from all servers.
Now I don't know whether to laugh, or cry, because I don't know how to regain my previous view of things in the advanced web interface, but one thing's for certain:
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Good Morning #Canada
We are almost at the end of our #CanadianCapitals series and today's post is about the sunniest city in Canada. Yellowknife and its surrounding water bodies were named after a local Dene tribe, who were known as the "Copper Indians" or "Yellowknife Indians", because they traded tools made from copper deposits near the Arctic Coast. Yellowknife is a relatively new capital becoming the seat of Government for the Northwest Territories in 1967. The settlement was founded in 1934 with the discovery of gold and became a centre of economic activity in the NWT. As gold production began to decrease, Yellowknife shifted from being a mining town to a centre of government services in the 1980s but a new mining boom started with the discovery of diamonds north of the city in 1991. Established on the shore of the world's 9th largest lake, Yellowknife is a popular tourist destination for watching the Northern Lights.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History #Geography
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/yellowknife-nwt

A wren (Bewick's, I think, Thryomanes bewickii) in Seattle's Discovery Park this summer
#naturalist

Now I'm trying out The Hoarder from 2015, it has Mischa Barton. It's like I'm watching the O.C. all over again 😂 Hadn't heard of this one. Tubi is so great, it has all this weird shit 😂🤣
#horror

The Hoarder (2015)
Ella discovers a terrifying secret when she becomes trapped in an underground storage facility. To survive she must join forces with a group of strangers, each with something to hide.

@… binge watching 🦀🦀
https://youtube.com/@oxidizeconf 👀

Oxidize Conference
The Oxidize Conference is the event for applied Rust. We don't just talk about how to use Rust, but we're looking at where Rust is being used. From embedded technology in IoT medical devices to critical safety applications to vehicular dashboards written in Ferrocene – our speakers and workshops are about taking Rust to new levels.

NGTS-EB-8: A double-lined eclipsing M M binary discovered by citizen scientists
Sean M. O'Brien, Megan E. Schwamb, Christopher A. Watson, Louise D. Nielsen, Edward M. Bryant, Sarah L. Casewell, Matthew R. Burleigh, Lucy Fortson, Samuel Gill, Chris J. Lintott, Katlyn L. Hobbs, Ioannis Apergis, Daniel Bayliss, Jorge Fern\'andez Fern\'andez, Maximilian N. G\"unther, Faith Hawthorn, James S. Jenkins, Alicia Kendall, James McCormac, Ernst J. W. de Mooij, Toby Rodel, Suman S…

NGTS-EB-8: A double-lined eclipsing M+M binary discovered by citizen scientists
We report the identification and characterization of a new binary system composed of two near-equal mass M-dwarfs. The binary NGTS-EB-8 was identified as a planet candidate in data from the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) by citizen scientists participating in the Planet Hunters NGTS project. High-resolution spectroscopic observations reveal the system to be a double-lined binary. By modeling the photometric and radial velocity observations, we determine an orbital period of 4.2 days and …

Efficient Estimation of Unfactorizable Systematic Uncertainties
Alexis Romero, Kyle Cranmer, Daniel Whiteson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15500 https://arxiv…

Efficient Estimation of Unfactorizable Systematic Uncertainties
Accurate assessment of systematic uncertainties is an increasingly vital task in physics studies, where large, high-dimensional datasets, like those collected at the Large Hadron Collider, hold the key to new discoveries. Common approaches to assessing systematic uncertainties rely on simplifications, such as assuming that the impact of the various sources of uncertainty factorizes. In this paper, we provide realistic example scenarios in which this assumption fails. We introduce an algorithm t…

THYME XIII: Two young Neptunes orbiting a 75-Myr star in the Alpha Persei Cluster
Anne Dattilo, Andrew M. Vanderburg, Madyson G. Barber, Andrew W. Mann, Ronan Kerr, Adam L. Kraus, Joseph R. Livesey, Cristilyn Watkins, Karen A. Collins, Juliana Garc\'ia-Mej\'ia, Patrick Tamburo, Juliette Becker, Annelies Mortier, Thomas Wilson, Nicholas Scarsdale, Emily A. Gilbert, Alex S. Polanski, Steve B. Howell, Ian Crossfield, Allyson Bieryla, David R. Ciardi, Thomas Barclay, David Charbonn…

THYME XIII: Two young Neptunes orbiting a 75-Myr star in the Alpha Persei Cluster
Young planets with mass measurements are particularly valuable in studying atmospheric mass-loss processes, but these planets are rare and their masses difficult to measure due to stellar activity. We report the discovery of a planetary system around TOI-6109, a young, 75 Myr-old Sun-like star in the Alpha Persei cluster. It hosts at least two transiting Neptune-like planets. Using three TESS sectors, 30 CHEOPS orbits, and photometric follow-up observations from the ground, we confirm the signa…

Another regression discovered after watching a GaryHTech video …
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@garyhtech/115378728998179410
I can't see a match in Bugzilla or src, <…

Finding Unexpected Non-Helical Tracks
Levi Condren, Daniel Whiteson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08878 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08878

Finding Unexpected Non-Helical Tracks
Many theories of physics beyond the Standard Model predict particles with non-helical trajectories in a uniform magnetic field, but standard tracking algorithms assume helical paths and so are incapable of discovering non-helical tracks. While alternative algorithms have been developed for specific trajectories, unforeseen physics could lead to unanticipated behavior, and such unexpected tracks are largely invisible to current algorithms, despite being potentially striking to the naked eye. A m…