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Range of optimal values in absolute value linear programming with interval data
Milan Hlad\'ik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04604 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Range of optimal values in absolute value linear programming with interval data
Absolute value linear programming problems is quite a new area of optimization problems, involving linear functions and absolute values in the description of the model. In this paper, we consider interval uncertainty of the input coefficients. Our goal is to determine the best and the worst case optimal values. For the former, we derive an explicit formula, reducing the problem to a certain optimization problem. However, the latter is more complicated, and we propose a lower and upper bound app…

Determination of the absolute energy scale of the DAMPE calorimeter with the geomagnetic rigidity cutoff method
JingJing Zang, Chuan Yue, Qiang Yuan, Wei Jiang, Xiang Li, Yunlong Zhang, Cong Zhao, Fabio Gargano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03854

Determination of the absolute energy scale of the DAMPE calorimeter with the geomagnetic rigidity cutoff method
The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a satellite-borne detector designed to detect high-energy cosmic ray particles with its core component being a BGO calorimeter capable of measuring energies from $\sim$GeV to $O(100)$ TeV. The 32 radiation lengths thickness of the calorimeter is designed to ensure full containment of showers produced by cosmic ray electrons and positrons (CREs) and $γ$-rays at energies below tens of TeV, providing high resolution in energy measurements. The absolute…

The Terribly Tragic, Totally Avoidable, Absolute Collapse Of The Gaming Industry
Acerola
#gaming

Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So
Economy loses jobs for August
Donald Trump understands better than anyone else alive that his hold on his supporters
—and on plenty of swing voters, too
—depends on the mere perception that he’s strong, wins everywhere, always acts boldly, and wields absolute mastery over his eternally feckless, disoriented enemies.
Last month, after an anemic July jobs report, Trump fired the steward of jobs data,

Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So
It’s possible for Trump to be an inept buffoon—but still extremely dangerous. And it shouldn’t be so hard to make that case.

ICE Is Sending People to a Prison in Africa's Only Absolute Monarchy (Noah Lanard/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ice-third-country-deportation-monarchy-eswatini-legal-black-hole-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p102#a251008p102

Never thought I'd ever say the words, "BURN IT DOWN, BERNIE! ABSOLUTE SCORCHED EARTH!" but here we are.
▶️ ‘Democrats Are Last Line Of Defense’: Bernie Sanders Roaring Speech In US Senate on Shutdown
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zxbAPHeiivI&si=CxtDxB_2…

i'm excited bc i found this absolute classic LP at the record store across the street ...and i bargained a little to get the price down by a third
no skips so far!
#nowplaying #vinyl #vinylrecords

Now, for any person with a shred of moral dignity, there's some time during US history where you would have to admit that an insurrection or rebellion was necessary. Only complete scum bag fascists would try to argue that a slave revolt wasn't an absolute good, and that it was a bad thing when those revolts were crushed. Anyone with a shred of moral decency has to admit that there is at least one point in US history where the nation was doing something so incredibly evil, that it would have been good if people would have rose up and stopped it.
Today we're talking about the displacement and genocide of people in Gaza. We can look at any number of genocide on US soil carried out by the US government. Who, with any moral clarity, wouldn't point to those and want to believe that they would have resisted, violently if necessary, against those slaughters. Who, that today condemns slavery, could look at John Brown and not wish to have the moral integrity to fight and die along side of him?
Every liberal who actually believes in justice, who isn't just virtue signaling out of guilt, should be able to point to a time in history where they would absolutely agree with the most militant resistance. For those folks, I always wonder, when did that evil end? Where is your line? Have you thought about that?

My wife runs linux, but she keeps a windows 10 VM around for exactly one thing: MS Office 2016. She needs it to ensure that grants from her lab sent to governments are formatted exactly right, something that libreoffice unfortunately still doesn't get right.
But man, even windows 10 has so much absolute garbage running in the background. It's probably time for a windows reinstall, or to see if wine will run it successfully (or something like linoffice:

Installing Microsoft Office in Linux
Installing Microsoft Office in Linux. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Is there a #UNIX style tool with which I can do any or all of (some are equivalent when combined with other tools):
* Turn absolute symlinks into relative ones or vice versa
* Increase or decrease the number of `../` segments in symlinks during/after copying/moving them
* Get me all a tree's symlinks in a text file so I can edit/sed them and turn them back into symlinks
* Full…

To appear unconditioned, sometimes even absolute, yet floating in a sea of conditioning, a web of interdependence. Is this noble, or deeply foolish. Who's the fool?

PolyGraph Discrepancy: a classifier-based metric for graph generation
Markus Krimmel, Philip Hartout, Karsten Borgwardt, Dexiong Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06122 https://…

PolyGraph Discrepancy: a classifier-based metric for graph generation
Existing methods for evaluating graph generative models primarily rely on Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) metrics based on graph descriptors. While these metrics can rank generative models, they do not provide an absolute measure of performance. Their values are also highly sensitive to extrinsic parameters, namely kernel and descriptor parametrization, making them incomparable across different graph descriptors. We introduce PolyGraph Discrepancy (PGD), a new evaluation framework that addresses…

HoPE: Hyperbolic Rotary Positional Encoding for Stable Long-Range Dependency Modeling in Large Language Models
Chang Dai, Hongyu Shan, Mingyang Song, Di Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05218

HoPE: Hyperbolic Rotary Positional Encoding for Stable Long-Range Dependency Modeling in Large Language Models
Positional encoding mechanisms enable Transformers to model sequential structure and long-range dependencies in text. While absolute positional encodings struggle with extrapolation to longer sequences due to fixed positional representations, and relative approaches like Alibi exhibit performance degradation on extremely long contexts, the widely-used Rotary Positional Encoding (RoPE) introduces oscillatory attention patterns that hinder stable long-distance dependency modelling. We address the…

Rasnik 3-point alignment system: algorithm, control framework, and its applications
Anoop Nagesh Koushik, Harry van der Graaf, Kevin Ravensberg, Rene M. Wanders, Sena N. Gomashie, Nick van Remortel, Joris van Heijningen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03539

Rasnik 3-point alignment system: algorithm, control framework, and its applications
Rasnik is a three-point optical displacement sensor originally developed for particle detector alignment in high-energy physics experiments, including the muon chambers of L3 at LEP and ATLAS at the LHC. The system has evolved from four-quadrant photodiodes to CMOS pixel sensors with custom ChessField coded masks, enabling absolute position measurement with no cumulative drift due to absolute value coded. Key advantages include electromagnetic immunity through purely optical measurement princip…

Wave Packet Sizes in Quantum Mechanical Scatterings: New Perspective
Kenzo Ishikawa, Osamu Jinnouchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04539 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Wave Packet Sizes in Quantum Mechanical Scatterings: New Perspective
Normalized wave packets express particles in nature. Their sizes are determined by their interactions with matter, and depend on environments. Nevertheless, these characterize scatterings processes in realistic situations, and govern the absolute values of transition probabilities. This paper studies the wave packet sizes and their implications.

Quantum walks on finite and bounded infinite graphs
Chris Godsil, Steve Kirkland, Sarojini Mohapatra, Hermie Monterde, Hiranmoy Pal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05306 https://

Quantum walks on finite and bounded infinite graphs
A weighted graph $G$ with countable vertex set is bounded if there is an upper bound on the maximum of the sum of absolute values of all edge weights incident to a vertex in $G$. In this paper, we prove a fundamental result on equitable partitions of bounded weighted graphs with twin subgraphs and use this fact to construct finite and bounded infinite graphs with pair and plus state transfer with the adjacency matrix as a Hamiltonian. We show that for each $k \ge 3$, (i) there are infinitely ma…

'Don't even consider' Microsoft?
To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity. A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling.
[…] Probably the single most common argument against switching to Linux is the absolute non-negotiable requirement of many organizations to have Microsoft Exchange. […]
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To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity
Comment: A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling

Fiberwise Gromov-Witten theory, quantum spectra of flag bundles, and prime factorization of integers
Giordano Cotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05500 https://

Fiberwise Gromov-Witten theory, quantum spectra of flag bundles, and prime factorization of integers
This work investigates the vertical quantum cohomology and quantum spectra of flag bundles, uncovering new links between the Gromov-Witten theory of homogeneous fibrations and analytic number theory. Building on previous constructions by Astashkevich and Sadov (arXiv:hep-th/9401103) and by Biswas, Das, Oh, and Paul (arXiv:2408.06616), we establish functorial and inductive properties of vertical quantum cohomology, and relate the vertical and absolute quantum spectra. We show that the degeneracy…

An efficient hybrid approach of quantile and expectile regression
Abdellah Atanane, Abdallah Mkhadri, Karim Oualkacha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05268 https://

An efficient hybrid approach of quantile and expectile regression
Quantiles and expectiles are determined by different loss functions: asymmetric least absolute deviation for quantiles and asymmetric squared loss for expectiles. This distinction ensures that quantile regression methods are robust to outliers but somewhat less effective than expectile regression, especially for normally distributed data. However, expectile regression is vulnerable to lack of robustness, especially for heavy-tailed distributions. To address this trade-off between robustness and…

The IACOB project XV. Updated calibrations of fundamental parameters of Galactic O-type stars
G. Holgado, S. Sim\'on-D\'iaz, A. Herrero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05233 …

The IACOB project XV. Updated calibrations of fundamental parameters of Galactic O-type stars
Modern spectroscopic surveys combined with Gaia distances are enabling reliable estimates of fundamental parameters for hundreds of Galactic O-type stars and the full range of spectral types and luminosity classes. Here we provide updated, statistically robust empirical calibrations of the fundamental parameters of Galactic O-type stars, as well as of their absolute visual magnitudes (Mv) and bolometric corrections (BC), based on high-quality observational data. We perform a homogeneous analysi…

Did I mention IC reversing is absolute crack for AuDHD brains?
I should probably put down the EEPROM, at least for a while, and move on to other stuff. But I'm having too much fun.
This is the dangerous part, and the part I have the most trouble with... the problem is so big you'll *never* be done (especially doing it manually without any automation, figuring out what each cell is by hand, etc).
There's always more to discover. Nerd sniping to the 20th power.

nbd just #StephenMiller saying his president has #plenary authority (“complete power over a particular area with no limitations”). Cold comfort is knowing he realized publicly that he'd fucked up by saying the quiet part out loud.

What is plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking during CNN interview
Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in awkward interview moment

A Universal Moments-Only Bound for Cumulants
Jiechen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05739 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05739…

A Universal Moments-Only Bound for Cumulants
We establish a simple, universal inequality that bounds the $n$-th cumulant of a real-valued random variable using only its $n$-th (absolute or central) moment. Specifically, for any integer $n \ge 1$, the $n$-th cumulant $κ_n(X)$ satisfies \[ \lvert κ_n(X) \rvert \;\le\; C_n\, \mathbb{E}\lvert X-\mathbb{E}X\rvert^{\,n}, \] with an alternative bound in terms of $\mathbb{E}\lvert X\rvert^{\,n}$ in the uncentered form. The coefficient $C_n$ is derived from the combinatorial structure of the mom…

@… is absolute gold and you cannot convince me otherwise
https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/…

Boston Dynamics Dog Rushed to Vet After Getting Into a Bag of Unattended Flash Drives
BOSTON — A serious medical emergency occurred this past weekend after a Boston Dynamics robotic dog named Spot got into an unattended Ziplock baggie of…

@… is absolute gold and you cannot convince me otherwise
https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/…

Boston Dynamics Dog Rushed to Vet After Getting Into a Bag of Unattended Flash Drives
BOSTON — A serious medical emergency occurred this past weekend after a Boston Dynamics robotic dog named Spot got into an unattended Ziplock baggie of…

Memory behavior of a randomly driven model glass
Roni Chatterjee, Smarajit Karmakar, Muhittin Mungan, Damien Vandembroucq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05537 https://

Memory behavior of a randomly driven model glass
We investigate by atomistic simulations the memory behavior a model glass subjected to random driving protocols. The training consists of a random walk of forward and/or backward shearing sequences bounded by a maximal shear strain of absolute value γT . We show that such a stochastic training protocol is able to record the training amplitude. Different read-out protocols are also tested and are shown to be able to retrieve the training amplitude. We then emphasize the ten- sorial character of…

The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment-2: An Intensity Mapping Optimized Sounding-rocket Payload to Understand the Near-IR Extragalactic Background Light
Michael Zemcov, James J. Bock, Asantha Cooray, Shuji Matsuura, Dae-Hee Lee, Candice Fazar, Richard M. Feder, Grigory Heaton, Ryo Hashimoto, Phillip Korngut, Toshio Matsumoto, Chi H. Nguyen, Kazuma Noda, Won-Kee Park, Kei Sano, Kohji Takimoto, Toshiaki Arai, Seung-Cheol Bang, Priyadarshini Bangale, Masaki Furutani, Viktor Hristov, Y…

The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment-2: An Intensity Mapping Optimized Sounding-rocket Payload to Understand the Near-IR Extragalactic Background Light
The background light produced by emission from all sources over cosmic history is a powerful diagnostic of structure formation and evolution. At near-infrared wavelengths, this extragalactic background light (EBL) is comprised of emission from galaxies stretching all the way back to the first-light objects present during the Epoch of Reionization. The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment 2 (CIBER-2) is a sounding-rocket experiment designed to measure both the absolute photometric brightness of…

CFP: Process Philosophy in Under-Explored Traditions in Philosophical History: An online Conference, May 19-29, 2026
https://ift.tt/2ZqgJcV
Hill on Baranski, 'The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution' …
via Input 4 RELCFP

#NowPlaying the absolute banger from 2000, dead prez' genius LP 'Let's Get Free'. Damn, I listened to a lot of this one back then. Like visiting an old friend
https://youtu…

🎵 Dead Prez - Lets Get Free (2000)
Dead Prez - Lets Get Free (2000) 01. Dead Prez - Wolves 2:17 02. Dead Prez - I'm A African 3:20 03. Dead Prez - 'They' Schools 5:07 04. Dead Prez - Hip-Hop 3...

Lost the will to live with Shopify.
I have the code to a custom app that is already running in a store, just trying to replicate it on a new dev account and new store and it's like landing a fucking space shuttle. Absolute insanity.

I wonder where we went wrong? Was it that horrible so-called "Advanced UI" that soured people forever on the Fediverse?

Mean and quantile regression in the copula setting: properties, sharp bounds and a note on estimation
Henrik Kaiser, Wolfgang Trutschnig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03804 https:/…

Mean and quantile regression in the copula setting: properties, sharp bounds and a note on estimation
Driven by the interest on how uniformity of marginal distributions propa\-gates to properties of regression functions, in this contribution we tackle the following questions: Given a $(d-1)$-dimensional random vector $\textbf{X}$ and a random variable $Y$ such that all univariate marginals of $(\textbf{X},Y)$ are uniformly distributed on $[0,1]$, how large can the average absolute deviation of the mean and the quantile regression function of $Y$ given $\textbf{X}$ from the value $\frac{1}{2}$ b…

Graney: Maxx Crosby was at his absolute best in another Raiders loss https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-maxx-crosby-was-at-his-absolute-best-in-another-raiders-loss-3467037/…

Economic relativity: a cut rule for perimeter valuation in equity ownership networks
Omar Di Marzio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04520 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Economic relativity: a cut rule for perimeter valuation in equity ownership networks
We introduce the Cut-Based Valuation (CBV), a unified framework for consolidated value in equity/flow networks. The central idea is that economic value is never absolute: it is always defined relative to an observer Omega, which fixes perimeter, measurement basis, units/FX/PPP, discounting, informational regime, and control rules. Given Omega, the Cut Theorem shows that the consolidated value of a perimeter P depends only on boundary quantities across the cut P -> O, while internal reconnection…

Got the modded PS1 (SCPH-5501) connected to the PVM via a gwscart switch using RGB (CSYNC). The switch doesn't seem to have any issues with the signal coming in from the PS1, and the Retro Gaming Cables cable (EuroSCART -> RGB Sync Audio) is absolute quality. If it weren't for Silksong at the moment, I'd be jumping into some retro games.
#retrogaming

My dog is an absolute character.
I was so depressed when my former pal passed away but I genuinely believe the spirit of all my previous #dogs lives on in Waldo cuz he's an amalgamation of all their personality traits.
Folks, please #AdoptDontShop. There's someone out there wa…

Fucking Anthony Taylor. My god, what an absolute hack!
#LFC

European "socialism" is a compromise wherein the population gets services and, in exchange, the rich are allowed to continue to exist. This compromise developed to save capitalism from the threat of the working class just rising up and just doing it all themselves. Revolutions, it turns out, can be dangerous and may be subverted. It's generally safer, so Europe's working class decided, to accept some exploitation in exchange for not taking that chance.
The the strategy of "point guns at everyone until they comply" was a sustainable strategy, all of Europe would still be absolute monarchies, feudalism would still be the dominant economic system globally, and England would still control most of the land on Earth. Recognizing that this *isn't* the state of the world should give some clues as to how well Yarvin's ideas continue will play out in the real world.
#USPol

📏 Optical frequency comb integration transforms absolute distance measurement precision
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-optical-frequency-absolute-distance-precision.html

Optical frequency comb integration transforms absolute distance measurement precision
The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully developed a length measurement system that achieves a level of precision approaching the theoretical limit allowed by quantum physics.

@… @… I know you’re both right… but damn, I STILL can’t imagine who on earth these people are who would support shit like this. Is the world really this full of heinous monsters? What absolute shit.

On Euclidean Algorithms for oriented linear Grassmanians
Arnold Maxim, Karpenkov Oleg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01733 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01733

On Euclidean Algorithms for oriented linear Grassmanians
In this paper we study Euclidean algorithms and the corresponding continued fractions for oriented linear Grassmanians $G(k,n)$. We propose two algorithms: Maximal Element Elimination algorithm and Minimal Element Elimination algorithm. The first algorithm reduces the absolute maximal value of the Plücker coordinates; the algorithm works only in $G(2,n)$. The second algorithm eliminates the Plücker coordinate with the smallest absolute values, while all other coordinates may increase; the alg…

I'm working from the office today and there's some absolute maniac in the kitchen who pours the milk into their mug before taking the tea bag out. We are all agog and aghast. #tea #VeryBritishProblems

How two elephants can learn from each other
Rafik Aguech, Shuo Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04862 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04862

How two elephants can learn from each other
We consider a two-elephant walking model in which the elephants interact dynamically. At each time step, each elephant determines its next move randomly based on its partner's past movements. We show that the asymptotic behavior of the elephants mainly depends on the sign and the absolute value of the product of their reinforcement parameters. In various regimes, we establish the law of large numbers and the central limit theorem. Our proofs are based on a connection to the random recursive tre…

CFP: Process Philosophy in Under-Explored Traditions in Philosophical History: An online Conference, May 19-29, 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20127313/call-papers-process-philosophy-under-explored-…

It's absolute insanity that the recruiting arm of the US army is just the violence of poverty.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
絕對純潔 (Absolute Purity):
🎵 Absolute Pure
#絕對純潔AbsolutePurity
https://rubyeyesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/absolute-pure

Higher genus Angel surfaces
Rivu Bardhan, Indranil Biswas, Shoichi Fujimori, Pradip Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03925 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03925…

Higher genus Angel surfaces
We prove the existence of complete minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ of arbitrary genus $p\, \ge\, 1$ and least total absolute curvature with precisely two ends -- one catenoidal and one Enneper-type -- thereby solving, affirmatively, a problem posed by Fujimori and Shoda. These surfaces, which are called \emph{Angel surfaces}, generalize some examples numerically constructed earlier by Weber. The construction of these minimal surfaces involves extending the orthodisk method developed by Weber…

My God. The greatest thing I've seen all week. Absolute genius marketing. @… https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@whoisryosuke/11530028…

SN 2019hnl: A Type IIP Supernova with a Partially Stripped, Low Mass Progenitor
Aidan Martas, Stefano Valenti, Aravind P. Ravi, Yize Dong, K. Azalee Bostroem, Jeniveve Pearson, Manisha Shrestha, Jennifer E. Andrews, David J. Sand, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Michael Lundquist, Emily Hoang, Darshana Mehta, Nicolas Meza Retamal, Saurabh W. Jha, Daryl Janzen, D. Andrew Howell, Curtis McCully, Daichi Hiramatsu, Craig Pellegrino

SN 2019hnl: A Type IIP Supernova with a Partially Stripped, Low Mass Progenitor
We present optical photometry and spectroscopy of SN 2019hnl. Discovered within ~26 hr of explosion by the ATLAS survey, SN 2019hnl is a typical Type IIP supernova with a peak absolute V band magnitude of -16.7+-0.1 mag, a plateau length of ~107 days, and an early decline rate of 0.0086+-0.0006 mag (50 days)^-1. We use nebular spectroscopy and hydrodynamic modeling with the SNEC, MESA, and STELLA codes to infer that the progenitor of SN 2019hnl was a M_ZAMS ~ 11M_solar red supergiant which prod…

just saw the absolute worst miss of all time and the commentators just kept saying like "your eyes aren't deceiving you, that really was the worst miss you've ever seen" "what an embarrassment to the fella"
lmao I can't wait to see the villareal highlights
#fedifc

From small eigenvalues to large cuts, and Chowla's cosine problem
Zhihan Jin, Aleksa Milojevi\'c, Istv\'an Tomon, Shengtong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03490 ht…

From small eigenvalues to large cuts, and Chowla's cosine problem
We show that there exists an absolute constant $γ>0$ such that for every $A\subseteq \mathbb{Z}_{>0}$ we have \[\min_{x\in [0, 2π]}\sum_{a\in A}\cos(ax)\leq -Ω(|A|^γ).\] This gives the first polynomial bound for Chowla's cosine problem from 1965. To show this, we prove structural statements about graphs whose smallest eigenvalue is small in absolute value. As another application, we show that any graph $G$ with $m$ edges and no clique of size $m^{1/2-δ}$ has a cut of size least…

i have this webpage where all the images are position:absolute and on one computer they're like 32 pixels over to the left. how do i make postion:absolute more absolute

On the geometric properties of multi-operator two-phase elliptic measure
Max Goering, Anna Skorobogatova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04189 https://arxiv.org…

On the geometric properties of multi-operator two-phase elliptic measure
We provide a structural characterization of a given boundary using two-phase elliptic measure in a multi-operator setting, extending to this novel setting results of Kenig, Preiss & Toro, Toro & Zhao and Azzam & Mourgoglou, including a partial answer to Bishop's question regarding the validity of Oksendal's conjecture under the assumption of mutual absolute continuity of the elliptic measures. Our techniques rely on a reduction to a multi-operator two-phase free-boundary problem combined with a…

Automated Workflow for Absolute Binding Free Energy Calculations with Implicit Solvent and Double Decoupling
Steven Ayoub, Michael Barton, David A. Case, Tyler Luchko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21808

Automated Workflow for Absolute Binding Free Energy Calculations with Implicit Solvent and Double Decoupling
Accurate absolute binding free energy (ABFE) calculations can reduce the time and cost of identifying drug candidates from a diverse pool of molecules that may have been overlooked experimentally. These calculations typically employ explicit solvents; however these models can be computationally demanding and challenging to implement due to the difficulties in sampling waters and managing changes in net charge. To address these challenges, we introduce an automated parallel Python workflow that …

#NowPlaying For #Saturdoom, a relentless pummeling cassette from Unmaking. https://unmaking.bandcamp.com/album/ab…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Absolute Beginner feat. Samy Deluxe:
🎵 Füchse (ohne Outro)
#NowPlaying #AbsoluteBeginner #SamyDeluxe
https://boombaptized.bandcamp.com/track/absolute-beginner-feat-samy-deluxe-f-chse-3412er-rmx

Normalized Ensemble-Averaged OAM Spectrum in Disordered Statistical Q-Plates
Netzer Moriya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03920 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0392…

Normalized Ensemble-Averaged OAM Spectrum in Disordered Statistical Q-Plates
This work presents an exact, analytical derivation of the ensemble-averaged orbital angular momentum (OAM) power spectrum for a circularly polarized Gaussian beam traversing a statistical Q-plate with Gaussian spatial disorder. Utilizing the Gaussian moment theorem, a new closed-form expression for the averaged mutual coherence is obtained. This coherence function is then rigorously projected onto OAM modes, yielding an exactly normalized series representation whose absolute convergence is form…

Absolute stunner of a day

Addiction (Speculatve)
Kind of a fucked-up metaphor, but I was thinking yesterday that parenting is a lot like addiction. If you separate me from my child, I'll take completely irrational and desperate actions to get them back, driven by a deep instinct that goes well beyond "love." I'll also make self-disadvantageous long-term decisions like forgoing sleep, working an extra job, or quitting a job to do some combination of providing for and/or being present with my child.
Even in parenting situations where love is absent, and beyond, I think, the possessiveness that sometimes festers in those situations, there's often (although not always) a craving for simple presence of the child.
In a healthy relationship, there's a whole lot more than this, but it's interesting to me that the same obsessive craving and absolute priority that we think of as diseased and/or monstrous in someone addicted to a hard drug can be healthy in the right context (that is, when it doesn't contribute to abusive or twisted parental relationships but instead exists alongside a healthy amount of love and respect).
Makes me wonder if there are ways to have a truly healthy drug addiction, although I recognize the answer might well be "no" and that even if it's "technically/theoretically yes" it might still be harmful to hype up or even merely discuss that possibility since it might help addicted people in harmful addictions more easily justify inaction. At minimum I think any "yes" answer here involves assuming utopian-level differences from our current society.
#Parenting #Addiction

Reading the description for a talk in which the speaker proclaims that it will be “filled with truth bombs” and I know with absolute certainty that I would never attend willingly. Peddle that snake oil elsewhere.

EZ-Sort: Efficient Pairwise Comparison via Zero-Shot CLIP-Based Pre-Ordering and Human-in-the-Loop Sorting
Yujin Park, Haejun Chung, Ikbeom Jang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21550

EZ-Sort: Efficient Pairwise Comparison via Zero-Shot CLIP-Based Pre-Ordering and Human-in-the-Loop Sorting
Pairwise comparison is often favored over absolute rating or ordinal classification in subjective or difficult annotation tasks due to its improved reliability. However, exhaustive comparisons require a massive number of annotations (O(n^2)). Recent work has greatly reduced the annotation burden (O(n log n)) by actively sampling pairwise comparisons using a sorting algorithm. We further improve annotation efficiency by (1) roughly pre-ordering items using the Contrastive Language-Image Pre-trai…

""La Russie et l'influence russe ? Non merci !" Tel est le message clair envoyé par une majorité inattendue d'électeurs lors des élections législatives de dimanche en République de Moldavie."
#Moldavie #UE

Nuttig overzichtje van de belangen van politieke ‘duiders’. Door Kim van Keken.
https://petjeaf.com/kimvankeken/posts/de-belangen-van-de-duider

De belangen van de duider - Bureau van Keken
Met de stembusgang in het zicht is er in elk geval één absolute winnaar van deze campagne aan te wij...

Some absolute dildo started a second Ruby Discord for people with "differing opinions"

Absolute genius title from @…

Heute das Spiel „Death's Door“ auf dem Steam Deck mit ca. 24 Stunden Spielzeit durchgespielt und kann es wärmstens weiterempfehlen!
Als „Soulslike“ ist es stellenweise nicht leicht, aber machbar. Die Grafik ist sehr schick, das Kampfsystem ist einfach, aber spaßig und es gibt nette Rätselelemente.
Aktuell gibt es „Death's Door“ für 3,90 € im Angebot auf Steam – absolute Kaufempfehlung!

Remember back in 2022, when people all across the Fediverse lost their absolute minds at the idea of someone building a search index of public posts, and took down several reasonable attempts at it?
I wonder how many of those people are storming the offices of MS, OpenAI, Grok, etc. about all the copyright infringing hoovering they're doing.
Oh, none? Thought so. So much easier to beat up on the solo developer trying to be useful.

The president thinks his rule is absolute.
But in America, we don’t have kings,
and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty.
Grow our movement and join us.
📍 Where: Alameda Park,
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
When: 12 Noon, October 18, 2025
The rally at Alameda Park will be followed by a march to De La Guerra Plaza.
More details on the rally and march will follow.

NO KINGS Santa Barbara · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down…

it could happen to you: just had my first experience receiving a document that seemed useful at first glance but, on closer read, turned out to be absolute AI slop that's completely untrustworthy.

from my link log —
Hedy: textual programming made easy for absolute beginners.
https://www.hedy.org/
saved 2025-08-26 https://dotat.at/:/01WDJ.html

Cory @… Doctorow in a must-read on Apple, the EU, privacy and the absolute need to get rid of facist-adjacent (or fully fascist) tech infrastructure.
https://…

Which region is well-equipped for 2035 with a well-educated people and proper institutions for a flourishing #society?
Check out following #blog post:

The absolute scale of the Cologne Cathedral is impossible to convey in pictures. There's not many buildings in the world that have filled me with such awe.

Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Absolute Monotonicity of Functions Related to Gaussian Hypergeometric Functions
Tiehong Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18199 https://

Environmental Rate Manipulation Attacks on Power Grid Security
Yonatan Gizachew Achamyeleh, Yang Xiang, Yun-Ping Hsiao, Yasamin Moghaddas, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25476 …

Environmental Rate Manipulation Attacks on Power Grid Security
The growing complexity of global supply chains has made hardware Trojans a significant threat in sensor-based power electronics. Traditional Trojan designs depend on digital triggers or fixed threshold conditions that can be detected during standard testing. In contrast, we introduce Environmental Rate Manipulation (ERM), a novel Trojan triggering mechanism that activates by monitoring the rate of change in environmental parameters rather than their absolute values. This approach allows the Tro…

It's been a day with a lot of input. The absolute opposite of this where I was completely alone.
#FootpathFriday #photography #nature

What They're Saying: Commanders' Dan Quinn sees 'an absolute savage of a player' in Maxx Crosby https://www.raiders.com/news/what-they-re-saying-commanders-dan-quinn-sees-an-absolute-savage-of-a-player-in-maxx…

Chaos on Peano continua
Kl\'ara Karasov\'a, Benjamin Vejnar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01340 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01340

Chaos on Peano continua
Generalizing the result of Agronsky and Ceder (1991), we prove that every Peano continuum admits a continuous transformation that is exact Devaney chaotic; that is, it has a dense set of periodic points, and every nonempty open set covers the entire space in finitely many iterations. We identify a natural class of Peano continua, containing all one-dimensional continua and all absolute neighborhood retracts, which allows us to create locally small perturbations. Using this method, we prove that…

Dallas Cowboys' Offensive MVP for September was under-the-radar NFL free agency addition https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-javonte-williams-proves-doubters-wrong-after-september-mvp-performance

Legende schlägt Alarm - Klartext von Herzog: „Die absolute Qualität fehlt“ #News #Nachrichten

⚙️ Easy Integration: Requires #NodeJS 18 , npm, and #CodexCLI on PATH with straightforward configuration via absolute paths in config files
🧪 Development Ready: Complete build system with lint, test, and E2E demo capabilities requiring OPENAI_API_KEY for automated verification
🌐

@… @… #Alt4You:
Two screenshots of a Toy Story movie, labelled "This was the absolute pinnacle of comedy when I was a ch…

got cauliflowers to spite @… who was being an absolute hater earlier and im having a great time
don't get me wrong im also suffering bc I have 0 spice tolerance but it hurts so good

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Rectifying Regression in Reinforcement Learning
Alex Ayoub, David Szepesv\'ari, Alireza Baktiari, Csaba Szepesv\'ari, Dale Schuurmans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00885 ht…

Rectifying Regression in Reinforcement Learning
This paper investigates the impact of the loss function in value-based methods for reinforcement learning through an analysis of underlying prediction objectives. We theoretically show that mean absolute error is a better prediction objective than the traditional mean squared error for controlling the learned policy's suboptimality gap. Furthermore, we present results that different loss functions are better aligned with these different regression objectives: binary and categorical cross-entrop…

Learning Generalizable Shape Completion with SIM(3) Equivariance
Yuqing Wang, Zhaiyu Chen, Xiao Xiang Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26631 https://arxiv.or…

Learning Generalizable Shape Completion with SIM(3) Equivariance
3D shape completion methods typically assume scans are pre-aligned to a canonical frame. This leaks pose and scale cues that networks may exploit to memorize absolute positions rather than inferring intrinsic geometry. When such alignment is absent in real data, performance collapses. We argue that robust generalization demands architectural equivariance to the similarity group, SIM(3), so the model remains agnostic to pose and scale. Following this principle, we introduce the first SIM(3)-equi…

What They're Saying: Commanders' Dan Quinn sees 'an absolute savage of a player' in Maxx Crosby https://www.raiders.com/news/what-they-re-saying-commanders-dan-quinn-sees-an-absolute-savage-of-a-player-in-maxx…

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It's also easy to imagine that Trump is sending his military to Portland. People forget that the military is actually really big and pretty complex.
Most people join the military because they want to get out of poverty. Some people join because they believe in it. A lot of people are just too young to have any kind of politics, but some of them do develop politics in the military... and some of those folks become anarchists.
There are Nazis in the military. It's a big problem. But there are also anarchists who signed up before they developed a critique of the state, and now they're kind of stuck for a few years until they can get out.
It's also worth recognizing that a lot of people join after they graduate. Basic training is like 22 weeks. So, assuming a random selection, there really aren't a lot of folks who would be deploying to PDX who would have joined under Trump. That's just assuming a random selection, and there may be other things at play that I'm not aware of, but the majority of the types of folks who would get deployed now would have joined under Biden.
The troops who will deploy (if they do deploy) may very much not want to be there. These are also not monsters wanting to kill (like Trump wishes them to be). They're kids from nearby towns. That's not awesome, most of Oregon has absolute shit politics. But joining the National Guard doesn't necessarily mean that a person has any politics at all. All of this is worth remembering.

The Euler characteristic of $\ell$-adic local systems on $\mathcal{A}_n$
Olivier Ta\"ibi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00656 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0…

The Euler characteristic of $\ell$-adic local systems on $\mathcal{A}_n$
We study the Euler characteristic of $\ell$-adic local systems on the moduli stack $\mathcal{a}_n$ of principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension $n$ associated to algebraic representations of $\mathbf{GSp}_{2n}$, as virtual representations of the absolute Galois group of $\mathbb{Q}$ and the unramified Hecke algebra of $\mathbf{GSp}_{2n}$. To this end we take the last steps of the Ihara-Langlands-Kottwitz method to compute the intersection cohomology of minimal compactifications of Si…

Detection of non-absolute separability in quantum states and channels through moments
Bivas Mallick, Saheli Mukherjee, Nirman Ganguly, A. S. Majumdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15700

Detection of non-absolute separability in quantum states and channels through moments
In quantum information and computation, generation of entanglement through unitary gates remains a significant and active area of research. However, there are states termed as absolutely separable, from which entanglement cannot be created through any non-local unitary action. Thus, from a resource-theoretic perspective, non-absolutely separable states are useful as they can be turned into entangled states using some appropriate unitary gates. In this work, we propose an efficient method to det…

œx is one of my absolute favorite restaurants anywhere. If you’re lucky enough to be able to go, you should. I had dinner there on Thursday and it was an event.
We started the evening in Amma Don, their speakeasy, with some cocktails and amusé

'Absolute violence and worse is the only thing that should happen': How social media drove the Citywest riots (Conor Lally/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2025/10/25/amplified-hateful-content-how-online-anger-was-stoked-into-rioting-at-citywest/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p18#a251025p18

Stephen Miller suggested Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard,
before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment
While plenary authority suggests absolute power,
the U.S. system of separation of powers uses checks and balances to ensure that no branch, including the president, can exercise complete control.
Just before Miller turned silent,
he referred to “Title 10 of the U.S. code”,
which sets out the co…

What is plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking during CNN interview
Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in awkward interview moment

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Definition: DESPOT
noun ['despət,ˈdesˌpät]:
a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way
"acting illegally would give the despot an excuse to justify his criminality"
See:
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Absolute continuity of finite-dimensional distributions of Hermite processes via Malliavin calculus
Laurent Loosveldt, Yassine Nachit, Ivan Nourdin, Ciprian Tudor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21169

Absolute continuity of finite-dimensional distributions of Hermite processes via Malliavin calculus
We investigate the existence of densities for finite-dimensional distributions of Hermite processes of order \(q \ge 1\) and self-similarity parameter \(H\in(\frac12,1)\). Whereas the Gaussian case \(q=1\) (fractional Brownian motion) is well understood, the non-Gaussian situation has not yet been settled. In this work, we extend the classical three-step approach used in the Gaussian case: factorization of the determinant into conditional terms, strong local nondeterminism, and non-degeneracy. …

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