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from my link log —
NIST F4 caesium fountain atomic clock joins elite group that keeps the world on time.
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/04/new-atomic-fountain-clock-joins-elite-group-keeps-world-time

New Atomic Fountain Clock Joins Elite Group That Keeps the World on Time
NIST scientists have published results establishing a new atomic clock, NIST-F4, as one of the world’s most accurate timekeepers

Azerbaijan talks about aiding Ukraine #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/azerbaijan-talks-about-aiding-ukraine.html

https://bsky.app/profile/adamjschwarz.bsky.social/post/3lwi24xbi4c26

Ebenfalls kein Erdzwilling: Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1d ohne erdähnliche Atmosphäre
Das Planetensystem von TRAPPIST-1 gehört mit sieben Gesteinsplaneten zu den spannendsten überhaupt. Nun hat sich ein weiterer als nicht erdähnlich erwiesen.

Thats a new one: "Ein Quallenschwarm hat das Atomkraftwerk Gravelines im Norden Frankreichs lahmgelegt. In den Filtertrommeln…seien zahlreiche Quallen festgestellt worden…Drei Reaktoren seien am späten Sonntagabend aus Sicherheitsgründen automatisch heruntergefahren…ein vierter…am Montagmorgen"
"Wegen der…erwarteten Hitzewelle [können] mehrere Atomkraftwerke voraussichtlich nur mit reduzierter Kapazität laufen"

I have some more #photos from the lake from the previous post 😄
For these I went on another side of the lake where there were quite some heather around. - While my wife was taking a small snack, I walked around and searched for nice foregrounds with which I could play and make an appealing memory
And even though I'd also have taken a small rest, I'm more than happy that I spe…

From Autoencoders to CycleGAN: Robust Unpaired Face Manipulation via Adversarial Learning
Collin Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12176 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

From Autoencoders to CycleGAN: Robust Unpaired Face Manipulation via Adversarial Learning
Human face synthesis and manipulation are increasingly important in entertainment and AI, with a growing demand for highly realistic, identity-preserving images even when only unpaired, unaligned datasets are available. We study unpaired face manipulation via adversarial learning, moving from autoencoder baselines to a robust, guided CycleGAN framework. While autoencoders capture coarse identity, they often miss fine details. Our approach integrates spectral normalization for stable training, i…

Snap announces Snap OS 2.0 for its Spectacles glasses, updating first-party apps and adding new features like Travel Mode and support for WebXR (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/snap-os-2-0-spectacles-specs-consumer-ar/

Snap OS 2.0 Brings The AR Glasses Closer To Consumer-Ready
Snap OS 2.0 is out now, adding and improving first-party apps like Browser, Gallery, and Spotlight to bring the AR platform closer to being ready for consumers.

Engineering atomic superradiance scaling in cavity QED system with collective and individual emission channels
Ruijin Sun, Xiang Guo, Andreas Ruschhaupt, Zhihai Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12086

Engineering atomic superradiance scaling in cavity QED system with collective and individual emission channels
The coherent emission of multiple atoms gives rise to superradiance, a cornerstone phenomenon in quantum optics with wide-ranging applications in quantum information processing and precision metrology. Despite its importance, how the superradiant scaling with respect to the number of participating atoms can be effectively controlled remains largely unexplored. In this work, we investigate a cavity-QED system and demonstrate that atom-photon coupling can significantly alter the emission behavior…

An Empirical Study of Multi-Agent RAG for Real-World University Admissions Counseling
Anh Nguyen-Duc, Chien Vu Manh, Bao Anh Tran, Viet Phuong Ngo, Luan Le Chi, Anh Quang Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11272

An Empirical Study of Multi-Agent RAG for Real-World University Admissions Counseling
This paper presents MARAUS (Multi-Agent and Retrieval-Augmented University Admission System), a real-world deployment of a conversational AI platform for higher education admissions counseling in Vietnam. While large language models (LLMs) offer potential for automating advisory tasks, most existing solutions remain limited to prototypes or synthetic benchmarks. MARAUS addresses this gap by combining hybrid retrieval, multi-agent orchestration, and LLM-based generation into a system tailored fo…