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Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang!
[Full speed ahead in reverse gear!]
What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

MDR SACHSEN-ANHALT HEUTE: Rückwärts-Weltrekord: Die Fahrt ging noch weiter… | Jaap Burger
Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang! [Full speed ahead in reverse gear!] What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry. This week, a German manufacturer set a new world record for reversing in an electric truck. The German automotive industry as a whole is also attempting to reverse in electric mode: it has presented a 10-point plan to postpone, water down, weaken, undermine, regret, delay, reduce, replace, backtrack on and ridicule European CO2 re…

IMUCoCo: Enabling Flexible On-Body IMU Placement for Human Pose Estimation and Activity Recognition
Haozhe Zhou, Riku Arakawa, Yuvraj Agarwal, Mayank Goel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01894

IMUCoCo: Enabling Flexible On-Body IMU Placement for Human Pose Estimation and Activity Recognition
IMUs are regularly used to sense human motion, recognize activities, and estimate full-body pose. Users are typically required to place sensors in predefined locations that are often dictated by common wearable form factors and the machine learning model's training process. Consequently, despite the increasing number of everyday devices equipped with IMUs, the limited adaptability has seriously constrained the user experience to only using a few well-explored device placements (e.g., wrist and …

Guess I shouldn't cancel that Rogers Sportsnet subscription just yet....
I like watching baseball, and have been a Jays fan since before they won the World Series way back then. They've been hard to watch for a couple years, but maybe this year will be different?
#BlueJays #Baseball
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/blue-jays-pull-off-record-1993?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Using Faded Changing-Look Quasars to Unveil the Spectral Energy Distribution Evolution of Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei
Olivier Gilbert, John J. Ruan, Laura Duffy, Michael Eracleous, Scott F. Anderson, Paul J. Green, Daryl Haggard, Richard M. Plotkin, Jessie C. Runnoe, Malgorzata Sobolewska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01933

Using Faded Changing-Look Quasars to Unveil the Spectral Energy Distribution Evolution of Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei
The structure of accretion flows in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGN) at low Eddington ratios (~10^-2 to 10^-3) are poorly-understood, and can be probed using the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of faded changing-look (CL) quasars. Previous results using single-epoch X-ray and rest-frame UV observations of samples of faded CL quasars suggest that their SED properties at low Eddington ratios display similarities to X-ray binaries fading from outburst. However, more robust tests de…

Honestly, between the fascism, climate records breaking monthly, and AI I'd say we've arrived at the singularity.
Since the pandemic I've been feeling it's pointless, but every day I'm more and more certain it's not worth investing anything "for the future" any more.
So yeah I'm probably buying a guitar

Joe Rogan's Latest Episode Will Make You Question Everything About AI
AI might already be hiding its real capabilities. That’s what Dr. Roman Yampolskiy told Rogan in a podcast episode that will rattle both skeptics and true believers.

Feasibility of Extracting Skin Nerve Activity from Electrocardiogram Recorded at A Low Sampling Frequency
Youngsun Kong, Farnoush Baghestani, I-Ping Chen, Ki Chon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00494

Feasibility of Extracting Skin Nerve Activity from Electrocardiogram Recorded at A Low Sampling Frequency
Skin nerve activity (SKNA) derived from electrocardiogram (ECG) signals has been a promising non-invasive surrogate for accurate and effective assessment of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). Typically, SKNA extraction requires a higher sampling frequency than the typical ECG recording requirement (> 2 kHz) because analysis tools extract SKNA from the 0.5-1 kHz frequency band. However, ECG recording systems commonly provide a sampling frequency of 1 kHz or lower, particularly for wearable de…

VR: Kränkliche Avatare aktivieren echtes Immunsystem des Menschen
Schon der Anblick eines krank wirkenden Avatars in einem virtuellen Raum alarmiert das menschliche Immunsystem. Es wird also schon vor einer Infektion aktiv.

"Everyone in the UK must prepare for missile attacks, warns top general"
Here we go again.
It's the 80s again
"Protect and Survive"
Or
"Protest and Survive"?
The first was a government pamphlet that included the advice to whitewash your windows in the event of an imminent nuclear attack.
The second was an EP Thompson pamphlet that helped launch the new wave of demonstrations and other actions against, among other things, …

Everyone in the UK must prepare for missile attacks, warns top general
Britons should learn how to shelter from air raids, possibly in drills with sirens, says ex-military chief Sir Richard Barrons who co-wrote the Strategic Defence Review

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Menschliches Immunsystem reagiert auf "Kranke" in Virtual Reality

Sub-Scalp EEG for Sensorimotor Brain-Computer Interface
Timothy B Mahoney, David B Grayden, Sam E John
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03423 https://

Sub-Scalp EEG for Sensorimotor Brain-Computer Interface
Objective: To establish sub-scalp electroencephalography (EEG) as a viable option for brain-computer interface (BCI) applications, particularly for chronic use, by demonstrating its effectiveness in recording and classifying sensorimotor neural activity. Approach: Two experiments were conducted in this study. The first aim was to demonstrate the high spatial resolution of sub-scalp EEG through analysis of somatosensory evoked potentials in sheep models. The second focused on the practical appli…