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The Department of Justice estimates that American police officers shoot 10,000 pet dogs in the line of duty each year.
It is impossible to ascertain a reliable number, however, because most law enforcement agencies do not maintain accurate records of animal killings.
The tally may be substantially higher, and some suggest it could reach six figures.

Genomic prediction of traits is less accurate when predictions are made in one population based on genetic associations in a second population, and less accurate when those two populations are less closely related
https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf202

biblically accurate conditional soup

@… look what you made me do

Rapid insights for malware analysts, by Marc Rivero (@…).
Talk about r2inspect "a framework for static malware analysis built on top of radare2 and r2pipe, providing accurate detection of obfuscated strings, cryptographic signatures, exploit mitigation analysis, and more".

“In 1976, #BuckminsterFuller stated that “it’ll take 50 years [to 2026!] for us to realize that our institutions are rooted in an inaccurate understanding of the world. And they will become so dysfunctional in 50 years that we cannot fix them… They will disintegrate before our very eyes, every single institution of humanity. And that’s when we will need to reinvent, recreate institutions for the human family that are rooted in the truth of the more accurate understanding of the world, the context of sufficiency.” (Reported by Lynne Twist who attended this lecture at Marin Civic Center in 1976.)”
BFI #TrimTab Vol. 30 No. 1 January 2026
https://mailchi.mp/bfi.org/bfi-trimtab-vol-27-no-11-november-13868896

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@kamatahvel/115858276277705068
Biblically accurate toe beans :paw:

Want answers 10X faster and 10X more accurate than LLMs? Use the DuckDuckGo CLI. I'm using that today to study for a cert. I had been using a number of LLMs but they are sooooo sloooooow.
#llm

GitHub - jarun/ddgr: :duck: DuckDuckGo from the terminal
:duck: DuckDuckGo from the terminal. Contribute to jarun/ddgr development by creating an account on GitHub.

I'm with the auditors on this one! Companies deploying AI need more expert human auditing, not less, at least until fundamental flaws in 'AI' are addressed and it's reliably accurate
'KPMG gets money off its own audit by arguing AI makes accounting cheaper'

from my link log —
System time, clocks, and their syncing in macOS.
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/05/21/system-time-clocks-and-their-syncing-in-macos/
saved 2026-02-07

System time, clocks and their syncing in macOS
How to ensure your Mac’s clock and time is as accurate as possible, what can cause problems, and how it works using the timed daemon, as revealed in the log.

Growing up, I considered becoming a medical illustrator due to its combination of scientific and artistic rigor. Neither is on display in this derivative AI image shared by a surgeon too lazy to find the real thing.
https://www.

Thermal one-loop self-energy correction for hydrogen-like systems: relativistic approach
M. Reiter, D. Solovyev, A. Bobylev, D. Glazov, T. Zalialiutdinov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06828 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.06828 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.06828
arXiv:2512.06828v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Within a fully relativistic framework, the one-loop self-energy correction for a bound electron is derived and extended to incorporate the effects of external thermal radiation. In a series of previous works, it was shown that in quantum electrodynamics at finite temperature (QED), the description of effects caused by blackbody radiation can be reduced to using the thermal part of the photon propagator. As a consequence of the non-relativistic approximation in the calculation of the thermal one-loop self-energy correction, well-known quantum-mechanical (QM) phenomena emerge at successive orders: the Stark effect arises at leading order in $\alpha Z$, the Zeeman effect appears in the next-to-leading non-relativistic correction, accompanied by diamagnetic contributions and their relativistic refinements, among other perturbative corrections. The fully relativistic approach used in this work for calculating the SE contribution allows for accurate calculations of the thermal shift of atomic levels, in which all these effects are automatically taken into account. The hydrogen atom serves as the basis for testing a fully relativistic approach to such calculations. Additionally, an analysis is presented of the behavior of the thermal shift caused by the thermal one-loop correction to the self-energy of a bound electron for hydrogen-like ions with an arbitrary nuclear charge $Z$. The significance of these calculations lies in their relevance to contemporary high-precision experiments, where thermal radiation constitutes one of the major contributions to the overall uncertainty budget.
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Unqualified, unelected drunkard "censures" a NASA hero U.S. senator for constitutionally protected, accurate speech.

@… accurate but also terrible

While any of the specifics of these predictions from @… might or might not turn out to be on the mark, the general •spirit• of them sure seems accurate to me.
Not a war. A coup.
https://mastodon.social/@Phosphenes/115832592326945620

Good Morning #Canada
B.C. is full of hipsters, Alberta is oil obsessed, Ontario has a superiority complex, PEI prays to potatoes, and all Newfies drink Screech at breakfast. Every Province and Territory is known for their unique habits, culture, and views of the world. And we all hold expectations and misconceptions of our neighbours across internal borders. Hey, it's a long winter and we need some gossip to get us to the end of it.
The attached video provides a detailed rundown of stereotypes for each Province and Territory, and some of the content is accurate, like Toronto being the centre of the universe. It's a bit long but you can select a chapter to check out your Province, or one that you dislike. My favourite is Albertans pouring oil on their cereal.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Stereotypes
https://youtu.be/tFEar1K_Y6w

Manipulating voters:
"AI models needn’t be more powerful, more personalized, or more skilled in advanced rhetorical techniques to be more convincing. Instead, chatbots were most effective when they threw fact-like claims at the user; the most persuasive AI models were those that provided the most “evidence” in support of their argument, regardless of whether that evidence had any bearing on reality. In fact, the most persuasive chatbots were also the least accurate."

Snap blocked 415K Australian accounts as of January to comply with the under-16 social media ban and warns of "technical limitations" in the implementation (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.

Analyses of the Ancient Chinese Report on the Total #SolarEclipse in 709 BCE - Implications for the Contemporaneous Earth’s Rotation Speed and Solar Cycles: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0461 -> Humanity’s earliest datable record for a total solar eclipse allows scientists to derive accurate measurements of Earth’s ancient rotation speed and provides independent validation of solar cycle reconstruction in the 8th century BCE: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/articles/historical-geography-helps-researchers-solve-2700-year-old-eclipse-mystery/

An Honest and Accurate Look at Where the Raiders Stand https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-honest-and-accurate-look

The NFL's best at everything: Picking the top players at 109 different skills https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47166741/best-nfl-players-109-different-skills-top-traits-stats-2025

“Media Offenders” – this term should not refer to journalists who anger Trump with their reporting, but to the Darth #Trump administration itself.
It constantly attacks #media coverage, disparages and threatens media professionals.
Trump and his accomplices are the real “Media Offenders.”
There is…

Media Offenders
Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay informed, stay accurate.

There is a massive disparity between:
▫️how accurate people think they are
▫️and how accurate they actually are
(Explains Trump voter over-confidence, doesn't it?)
▶️ Why People Are So Confident When They're Wrong - Veritasium
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9M_QK4stCJ

Paperless-NGX has become the true successor to #DEVONthink 3 for me, which now focuses on AI and changed its payment model. The automatic document classification is impressively accurate. Container hosting makes self-hosting straightforward. If you want modern, intelligent document management that works cross-platform with full control,

I'm with the auditors on this one! Companies deploying AI need more expert human auditing, not less, at least until fundamental flaws in 'AI' are addressed and it's reliably accurate
'KPMG gets money off its own audit by arguing AI makes accounting cheaper'

Voice authentication???
I would not trust the basic competence of any org doing that. Facial recognition is bad enough.
Part of this is that I’m whatever the voice equivalent is to face-blindness. I don’t believe that such a thing as a “voice print” can exist. I can tell the difference between Neil Young and Bob Dylan, but any more similar and I’m lost.

Congratulations to @…! 🎉 Robert, who became the 2025 Wikimedian of the Year earlier this year, is now a finalist for the Singaporean of the Year 2025! 🇸🇬

Singaporean of the Year finalist: Meet the internet’s janitor whose fingerprints are all over Wikipedia
Volunteers like Mr Robert Sim keep the online encyclopedia Wikipedia alive and accurate. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

@… Point taken, my comment about it being the stylesheet wasn't necessarily meant to be technically accurate.
Here's a fun comparison, desktop Safari vs. the Simulator. *Something* is different about Safari running on iOS it would seem.

"Scientists detect new climate pattern in the tropics"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://ph…

Scientists detect new climate pattern in the tropics
Tropical cyclones can unleash extensive devastation, as recent storms that swept over Jamaica and the Philippines made unmistakably clear. Accurate weather forecasts that buy more time to prepare are crucial for saving lives and are rooted in a deeper understanding of climate systems.

I don't envy "vibe coders". I mean, let's for a minute assume that their vision is not a pipe dream, but an accurate prediction of the future.
For a start, what's their plan for life? Driving a tool whose primary selling point is that anyone can use it. And I'm not even talking about all the inside competition. I'm talking of people realizing that they can cut the middleperson and do the coding themselves.
The way I see it, vibe coders are a bit like typists (with no offense to typists). Their profession is a product of a novelty. And just like typists largely disappeared when typewriters and then computers became commonplace, so are vibe coders bound to disappear when vibe coding becomes commonplace.
And are true programmers going to become obsolete? Well, let me ask you: did the proliferation of cars and corresponding self-service skills render car mechanics obsolete? On the contrary. The way I see it, the proliferation of slopcode will only make competent programmers ever the more necessary.
What vibe coders are saying is basically this: "This new automated self-service kit makes car maintenance so easy. Car mechanics will become obsolete now. Everyone's just going to hire *me* to run this kit instead."
#AI #LLM #VibeCoding

The design and reconstructible history of the Mayan eclipse table of the Dresden Codex: #Maya eclipse tables: #eclipse tables in the #DresdenCodex were based on lunar tables and adjusted for slippage over time.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/newsis-consumer-gpus-to-increase-in-price-next-year-rtx-5090-to-increase-from-2000-to-5000.1394815/ I bought my ASRock AMD RX 9070 XT not long after it launched, for fea…

“Babysitter” is such a weird word. Is it only for babies? Does the job involve sitting on them?? No, the job is to supervise young children of various ages: play with them and make sure they sleep when it’s time to sleep. A more accurate word would be “kidnapper.”

@… @… @…

Senator Chris Van Hollen: “I think it’s very possible there was a war crime committed"
Senator Mark Kelly: “We’re going to have a public hearing.
We’re going to put these folks under oath.
And we’re going to find out what happened.
And then, there needs to be accountability.”
He also told CNN: “If what has been reported is accurate,
I have got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line
that they should never ste…

RE: https://mstdn.social/@grickle/115945484004017641
Quite certain that this is an accurate portrait of my next-door neighbour.

„Media Offenders“ - dazu sollten nicht jene JournalistInnen, die Trump wegen ihrer Berichterstattung erzürnen, stehen, sondern die Darth #Trump Andministration selbst.
Sie attackiert in einem fort die #Medienberichterstattung, verunglimpft und bedroht Medienschaffende.
Trump und seine…

Media Offenders
Explore the Media Bias Tracker that fact checks and holds Fake News accountable. False claims debunked, Hall of Shame for serial offenders, Leaderboard of networks ranked by Repeated Lies. Stay informed, stay accurate.

Weekend Reads
* IRR data quality
https://labs.ripe.net/author/tobias-striffler/the-irr-landscape-data-quality-the-good-the-bad-and-the-outdated/
* Roy Arends on DNSSEC

The IRR Landscape: Data Quality - the Good, the Bad, and the Outdated
In the second of our IRR landscape series, we focus squarely on data quality: how accurate, current, and usable IRR routing data really is. Using freshness, DFZ alignment and RPKI conflicts, we spotlight where third-party IRRs drift and why cleanup matters.

Maintaining accurate timing in virtual machines has always been a challenge. Especially on hosts with many VMs.
Here's a clever solution, hopefully coming soon to a hypervisor or OS near you.
https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/vmclock/

I'm a little surprised Britney Spears is as late as 1999.
My daughter's just said "oh, I hadn't realised how accurate the Glee version of the video was" 🤦‍♀️
#TOTP

AI is transforming how we predict hurricanes. NOAA is now using machine learning to analyze billions of data points, making forecasts more accurate than ever.
The results? Better rapid intensification predictions and stronger decision support for coastal communities at risk. As hurricane season wraps, this tech could be a game-changer for saving lives.

NOAA chief plugs AI in forecasting as hurricane season wraps
While no hurricanes struck the U.S., Hurricane Melissa left behind devastation in the Caribbean.

For more accurate results, replace zodiac sign with Linux distro.

Kargo, which uses cameras and sensors to inspect pallets in a warehouse and provide accurate inventory data, raised a $42M Series B led by Avenir (Colin Campbell/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-deals/2025/12/22/warehouse-tech-kargo-42m-…

Warehouse industry tech firm Kargo raises $42M Series B
The sub-sector has become increasingly popular with investors.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@resistor/115727302941246253
This is 💯% accurate!

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
SOOLIN: His personality, then.
ORAC: A better definition, but still not quite accurate.
AVON: Would it know how the booby traps on the orbiter are programed?
ORAC: As yet, I don't have enough data to answer that question.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/287

Here is a White House website falsely asserting that military personnel CANNOT refuse illegal orders
And falsely accusing Democrats of asserting Trump has issued illegal orders -- in a video which doesn't mention Trump
The felon doth protest too much
https://www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/

Media Offenders
Uncover Media Bias & Hold Fake News Accountable. False claims debunked, serial offenders immortalized in the Hall of Fame, networks ranked on the Leaderboard of Repeat Lies. Stay informed, stay accurate.

Welp, from my PoV, all sides are wrong.
There is a difference between bug reports generated by AI to spam curl devs and AI generated bug reports sent by Google to FFmpeg devs that are accurate. Calling them slop is hardly true.
"We would rather not know there is a vulnerability in our software" is a terrible take.
Also, I would like to say that maybe it is unreasonable for a software with so little funding to want to support all codecs that were ever invented becaus…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cond-mat.mtrl-sci. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.mtrl-sci/new
[1/1]:
- LLMs-Powered Accurate Extraction, Querying and Intelligent Management of Literature derived 2D Ma...
Shang, Yu, Kang, Zhou, Gao, Xiang, Liu, Dai, Guo, Sun

I think I now know where to draw the line between "good" and "bad" #GenAI, and possibly (or rather obviously) the same for #machineLearning. It's simply whether the input data has been constructed rigorously. Put this way it's the most obvious statement ever, but somehow

The People’s Consultation on AI is a collaborative civil society initiative meant to:
1. Help [share] insights, experiences, and comments to inform a “national strategy” on AI that is truly in the public interest;
2. [Be] a more accurate representation of the range of views and concerns about AI that are present across Canada; and
3. Provide […] a wider range of affected communities, with a genuine opportunity to have a voice in AI issues and policy.

RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115873573589781754
Kaiserreich has some based ideas, but it's hardly historically accurate; speaking syndicalist theory.

🍆 A Hermetic, Transparent Soft Growing Vine Robot System for Pipe Inspection
#robots #machine

A Hermetic, Transparent Soft Growing Vine Robot System for Pipe Inspection
Rehabilitation of aging pipes requires accurate condition assessment and mapping far into the pipe interiors. Soft growing vine robot systems are particularly promising for navigating confined, sinuous paths such as in pipes, but are currently limited by complex subsystems and a lack of validation in real-world industrial settings. In this paper, we introduce the concept and implementation of a hermetic and transparent vine robot system for visual condition assessment and mapping within non-bra…

Mesh Splatting for End-to-end Multiview Surface Reconstruction
Ruiqi Zhang, Jiacheng Wu, Jie Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21400 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.21400 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.21400
arXiv:2601.21400v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Surfaces are typically represented as meshes, which can be extracted from volumetric fields via meshing or optimized directly as surface parameterizations. Volumetric representations occupy 3D space and have a large effective receptive field along rays, enabling stable and efficient optimization via volumetric rendering; however, subsequent meshing often produces overly dense meshes and introduces accumulated errors. In contrast, pure surface methods avoid meshing but capture only boundary geometry with a single-layer receptive field, making it difficult to learn intricate geometric details and increasing reliance on priors (e.g., shading or normals). We bridge this gap by differentiably turning a surface representation into a volumetric one, enabling end-to-end surface reconstruction via volumetric rendering to model complex geometries. Specifically, we soften a mesh into multiple semi-transparent layers that remain differentiable with respect to the base mesh, endowing it with a controllable 3D receptive field. Combined with a splatting-based renderer and a topology-control strategy, our method can be optimized in about 20 minutes to achieve accurate surface reconstruction while substantially improving mesh quality.
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🔍 Schema-aware query intelligence through secure introspection understands your database structure for accurate query generation
🔌 Multi-model flexibility: supports #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #Gemini

"The other study from Science looked at why those chatbots were so persuasive to begin with. It concluded that the more persuasive a chatbot was, the least factually accurate it was."
Nothing to worry about. Ignore the Cambridge Analytica history. Don't worry about GROK. #NothingToWorryAbout
New studies show that AI can influence voters more than campaign ads…

"The other study from Science looked at why those chatbots were so persuasive to begin with. It concluded that the more persuasive a chatbot was, the least factually accurate it was."
Nothing to worry about. Ignore the Cambridge Analytica history. Don't worry about GROK. #NothingToWorryAbout
New studies show that AI can influence voters more than campaign ads…

Would it be accurate to describe a darkened optics laboratory as a "black Lab"?

Time and time again, so-called "journalists" repeat the Kremlin talking points and weaken Ukraine's negotiating stance.
Time and time again, Giorgio reports truth from the front lines that counters the myths told from corrupt stooges scrolling through Twitter from a hotel bar.
Time and time again, Giorgio is revealed as accurate, on-point, and defiantly verifiable. He shares the friend link so the world can see the truth Russia tries so hard to hide.
Please su…

I’ve had this contingent of the language police show up in my replies a few times now over the word “cosplay,” and look…
OK, I get it, I get the instinct to say “Don’t drag me into this!” and I applaud the effort to push fascists out of communities, yes to all that…
…and also we need to recognize that what ICE is doing absolutely •is• cosplay. The word means “costume play.” It refers to assembling and wearing costumes that are not necessarily functional, but show affinity for a particular subculture by reproducing characters from that subculture’s popular narratives.
ICE are cosplaying Call of Duty. That is an accurate description of what’s happening. (Listen to “Gear.”)
I make software and I make music. I don’t think either one of those things •should• be about violence. I don’t •want• them to be about violence. But both are used in the service of violence, like it or not. I shout the violence out whenever it shows up. But would be ridiculous for me to point at what Palantir does and say “That’s not software!” Unfortunately, it •is• software. To deny that would be beyond self-defeating; it would be irresponsible.
ICE •is• doing cosplay, and we hate it. It’s an insult to the cosplay subculture. It is an insult to the whole of humanity. Fascism creeps into all of our spheres, into every beloved craft and community, and the response is never to pretend it’s not there. The response is to drive it out.
@…
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wildrikku/115956545807535535

Google announces Gemini 3, its "most intelligent" and "factually accurate" model yet, with improvements across coding, reasoning, and less "flattery" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/822977/gemini-3-google-ai-model-launch<…

Google is launching Gemini 3, its ‘most intelligent’ AI model yet
Google is launching Gemini 3, the latest version of its flagship AI model, which offers better coding capabilities that allow it to embed visualizations directly inside its answer.

https://www.biostasis.com/scientists-open-letter-on-cryonics/
Good lord, how out of touch do you have to--
> Nick Bostrom
Nevermind

Regularized Random Fourier Features and Finite Element Reconstruction for Operator Learning in Sobolev Space
Xinyue Yu, Hayden Schaeffer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17884 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17884 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17884
arXiv:2512.17884v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Operator learning is a data-driven approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, such as the solution operators of partial differential equations. Kernel-based operator learning can offer accurate, theoretically justified approximations that require less training than standard methods. However, they can become computationally prohibitive for large training sets and can be sensitive to noise. We propose a regularized random Fourier feature (RRFF) approach, coupled with a finite element reconstruction map (RRFF-FEM), for learning operators from noisy data. The method uses random features drawn from multivariate Student's $t$ distributions, together with frequency-weighted Tikhonov regularization that suppresses high-frequency noise. We establish high-probability bounds on the extreme singular values of the associated random feature matrix and show that when the number of features $N$ scales like $m \log m$ with the number of training samples $m$, the system is well-conditioned, which yields estimation and generalization guarantees. Detailed numerical experiments on benchmark PDE problems, including advection, Burgers', Darcy flow, Helmholtz, Navier-Stokes, and structural mechanics, demonstrate that RRFF and RRFF-FEM are robust to noise and achieve improved performance with reduced training time compared to the unregularized random feature model, while maintaining competitive accuracy relative to kernel and neural operator tests.
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Should I buy an ATI Radeon HD 4870 GPU to build a period accurate Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Linux gaming PC?
#Radeon #Intel #Linux #Gaming

Forecasters at the US National Hurricane Center are increasingly leaning on Google's new DeepMind prediction model, though questions about its methods remain (Eric Holthaus/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/16/google-deepm…

A Generalized Formulation for Accurate and Robust Determination of Soil Shear Strength from Triaxial Tests
Altamirano-Mu\~niz Emilio Fernando
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13985 ht…

Highly accurate semiclassical strong-field Herman-Kluk propagator method for high-harmonic generation
Phi-Hung Tran, Hao Quan Truong, R. Esteban Goetz, Anh-Thu Le
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17164

Really hard to tell how large because it was spread out along the length of the street.
Most accurate crowd estimate I’ve heard so far is “goodness that was a lot of people.”

PAColorHolo: A Perceptually-Aware Color Management Framework for Holographic Displays
Chun Chen, Minseok Chae, Seung-Woo Nam, Myeong-Ho Choi, Minseong Kim, Eunbi Lee, Yoonchan Jeong, Jae-Hyeung Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14766 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.14766 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.14766
arXiv:2601.14766v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Holographic displays offer significant potential for augmented and virtual reality applications by reconstructing wavefronts that enable continuous depth cues and natural parallax without vergence-accommodation conflict. However, despite advances in pixel-level image quality, current systems struggle to achieve perceptually accurate color reproduction--an essential component of visual realism. These challenges arise from complex system-level distortions caused by coherent laser illumination, spatial light modulator imperfections, chromatic aberrations, and camera-induced color biases. In this work, we propose a perceptually-aware color management framework for holographic displays that jointly addresses input-output color inconsistencies through color space transformation, adaptive illumination control, and neural network-based perceptual modeling of the camera's color response. We validate the effectiveness of our approach through numerical simulations, optical experiments, and a controlled user study. The results demonstrate substantial improvements in perceptual color fidelity, laying the groundwork for perceptually driven holographic rendering in future systems.
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A fast and accurate method for simulating Bragg atom interferometers
Jack Roth, Andrew Christensen, Madeline Bernstein, Yuno Iwasaki, Holger Mueller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17236

#Snowmageddon has forced me to enjoy more coffee, relax in my sunroom, and binge on some YouTube content. This got injected into my feed, and because I was born in 1956, it's absolutely accurate. OK... it's bullshit since every generation has endured tough times. I mean, my parents grew up in the depression and survived #WWII. But if you were born in this time period - 1950 to 1969 - use this as proof of your emotional and physical superiority. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need a nap.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Toughness
https://youtu.be/cJFWGg-LQhY?si=JWLsqaGffl-qkPat

"Trump claims China doesn’t use wind power - but the world’s largest wind farm is there"
#China #Energy #US #USA…

Trump ‘can’t find’ any wind farms in China. Is he looking hard enough?
Trump used the WEF in Davos to double-down on his attacks against renewable energy. But was anything he said accurate?

Proc3D: Procedural 3D Generation and Parametric Editing of 3D Shapes with Large Language Models
Fadlullah Raji, Stefano Petrangeli, Matheus Gadelha, Yu Shen, Uttaran Bhattacharya, Gang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12234 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.12234 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.12234
arXiv:2601.12234v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Generating 3D models has traditionally been a complex task requiring specialized expertise. While recent advances in generative AI have sought to automate this process, existing methods produce non-editable representation, such as meshes or point clouds, limiting their adaptability for iterative design. In this paper, we introduce Proc3D, a system designed to generate editable 3D models while enabling real-time modifications. At its core, Proc3D introduces procedural compact graph (PCG), a graph representation of 3D models, that encodes the algorithmic rules and structures necessary for generating the model. This representation exposes key parameters, allowing intuitive manual adjustments via sliders and checkboxes, as well as real-time, automated modifications through natural language prompts using Large Language Models (LLMs). We demonstrate Proc3D's capabilities using two generative approaches: GPT-4o with in-context learning (ICL) and a fine-tuned LLAMA-3 model. Experimental results show that Proc3D outperforms existing methods in editing efficiency, achieving more than 400x speedup over conventional approaches that require full regeneration for each modification. Additionally, Proc3D improves ULIP scores by 28%, a metric that evaluates the alignment between generated 3D models and text prompts. By enabling text-aligned 3D model generation along with precise, real-time parametric edits, Proc3D facilitates highly accurate text-based image editing applications.
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