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from my link log —
Adding lookbehinds to Rust’s regex crate.
https://systemf.epfl.ch/blog/rust-regex-lookbehinds/
saved 2025-07-15

Adding lookbehinds to rust-lang/regex – SYSTEMF @ EPFL
An annotated guide to adding captureless lookbehinds to the Rust linear-time regex engine.

Uff finally I wrote the blogpost for a hike I did in May (and you've probably seen the video of it already). But I haven't shared the #photos ans some more background story from it.
I don't know why but this time I found it really hard to write. Maybe I'm a bit out of practice or I just didn't find the right mood for it - I'm not sure.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy…

DeepSeek releases V3.1, adding a longer context window, with few other details; Chinese local media blames CEO Liang Wenfeng's perfectionism for R2's delay (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-19…

How about having a new /.aibots.txt (or maybe just /.ai.txt)?
All AI-focused crawlers expected to read it.
Start off with the exact same syntax as /.robots.txt - then there’s scope for adding genAI-specific stuff like iP claims and optimized paths and so on.
#genAI

Improving the efficiency of quantum engineering of SCSs by adding two demultiplexed input photons
Mikhail S. Podoshvedov, Sergey A. Podoshvedov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14625 …

Improving the efficiency of quantum engineering of SCSs by adding two demultiplexed input photons
Conditional addition and subtraction of photons is a powerful tool for quantum engineering of continuous variable (CV) states that forms the fundamental building blocks of advanced photonic technologies. For high fidelity information processing, precise control of quantum engineering of CV states is highly demanded. We propose a scheme for measurement induced quantum engineering of even/odd superposition of coherent states (SCSs) of amplitude>2.5 and with fidelity exceeding>0.99. It includes si…

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Geometry 📐
在路上 - 去西安/ 几何 📐
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

"New technologies, when introduced, are typically given names that overstate their capabilities, usually by equating them with existing familiar systems or technological artefacts. For example the first computers in the 1940s and 1950s, often little more than glorified electric adding machines, were nevertheless described as “electronic brains”. More recently, large language models (LLMs) have been touted as “artificial intelligence”, and complex physics experiments have been touted as …

Did run into an issue with `jellyfin` starting a bit too fast and somehow trying to read the metadata directory _before_ it's available. I added a delay to the `/etc/systemd/system/jellyfin.service.d/jellyfin.service.conf` by adding a line to the `[Service]`:
```
[Service]
ExecStartPre=bash -c "while [ ! -d /opt/jellyfin/metadata ]; do sleep 1; done"
```
This fixes the issue and now the service comes up after reboot without restarting the service man…

I keep adding lore to this one character of mine that I really like the concept of but I... haven't even designed it yet. All I know is that she's a bird :neofox_laugh_sweat:

Eagles acquire John Metchie III from Texans, adding depth at WR: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6559051/2025/08/17/eagles-john-metchie-texans-trade/

"G'day, mate"

Oh for fuck sake. Twenty projects just lost their editor configuration, just by updating intellij to a MINOR point release.
Thanks for nothing @… Adding useless AI and break things is just a chefs kiss.
Fuck, fuck, fuck

Nvidia's app gets global DLSS override and more control panel features, including anisotropic filtering, anti-aliasing, and ambient occlusion (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/760488/nvidia-app-dlss-override-control-panel-features…

Nvidia’s app gets global DLSS override and more control panel features
Nvidia is adding more features to its latest PC app. A new global DLSS override feature is coming, alongside more legacy control panel features.

Just updated Tvmarks to 3.0 as I finally transition it to typescript.
I avoided typescript before as Postmarks was not and Glitch really struggled with the build step needed for typescript.
Typescript will only make adding new features easier as adding bugs will be harder.
I continue to love Tvmarks and I use it every day!
https://

> "Like banks, the agency should focus on behavioural insights, monitoring device use, behavioural patterns, and anomalies across the lifecycle of a company, to detect suspicious activity without adding friction for genuine users."
Suggestion here that Companies House should be monitoring "device use"?

A humanitarian nightmare is occurring within the borders of the United States.
ICE is ramping up — from 20,000 to 30,000 agents — and adding many more detention camps.
It’s tearing up families,
uprooting communities,
taking our neighbors.
Over 70 percent of those now being detained have no criminal records.
Many have been hardworking members of our communities for decades.
ICE is now detaining at least 60,000 people.
That’s almost 45 perc…

Los Vecinos
The vicious uprooting of our communities

What Wilkins’ Addition to PUP List Means for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/news/what-wilkins-addition-to-pup-list-means-for-the-raiders-01k084e9mhd9

Parallel Simulation of Contact and Actuation for Soft Growing Robots
Yitian Gao, Lucas Chen, Priyanka Bhovad, Sicheng Wang, Zachary Kingston, Laura H. Blumenschein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15180

Parallel Simulation of Contact and Actuation for Soft Growing Robots
Soft growing robots, commonly referred to as vine robots, have demonstrated remarkable ability to interact safely and robustly with unstructured and dynamic environments. It is therefore natural to exploit contact with the environment for planning and design optimization tasks. Previous research has focused on planning under contact for passively deforming robots with pre-formed bends. However, adding active steering to these soft growing robots is necessary for successful navigation in more co…

Die #Gastfreundschaft in deutschen Bahnhöfen
von @… https://mstdn.social/@W_Lucht/1152239…

Wolfgang Lucht (@W_Lucht@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Wow. For the first time ever I was made to explicitly decline adding a tip before being allowed the simple act of paying for an overpriced sandwich to go. In Berlin.

From: @…
https://c.im/@darren/115223068992665266

@… I won't have access to my Publii app until tomorrow, but I would recommend adding more details in the GitHub Discussion post: steps of what you've tried, screenshots of your post/page editor showing the shorthands you used, and (even better, if possible) a link to a live demo of the issue. It'll make it easier for other people to diagnose th…

A novel approach to generate distributions
Subhankar Dutta, Roberto Vila, Terezinha K. A. Ribeiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11861 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

A novel approach to generate distributions
A novel approach to adding two additional parameters to a family of distributions for better adaptability has been put forth. This approach yields a versatile class of distributions supported on the positive real line. We proceed to analyze its mathematical characteristics, such as critical points, modality, stochastic representation, identifiability, quantiles, moments, and truncated moments. We present a new regression model for unimodal continuous data based on a submodel of the newly propos…

Add some swag to your ggplots, with fontawesome symbols and colors: #rstats

Adding social media icons to charts with {ggplot2} – Nicola Rennie
Adding social media icons to your data visualisation is a great, concise way to put your name on your work, and make it easy for people to find your profile from your work. This blog post explains how to add social media icons to {ggplot2} charts.

TransLink adding extra service for Celebration of Light nights
https://link.etranslink.ca/v/443/61496305bc86358cdce5f10a83e634a424b98893a48c639a23f1f694ea285081

Discovery Prospects for the $Y=0$ Scalar Triplet at Future $e^ e^-$ Colliders
Siddharth P. Maharathy, Phodiso Maroeshe, Paballo Ndhlovu, Srimoy Bhattacharya, Andreas Crivellin, Mukesh Kumar, Rachid Mazini, Bruce Mellado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14378

Discovery Prospects for the $Y=0$ Scalar Triplet at Future $e^+e^-$ Colliders
The Real Higgs Triplet model, known as the $Δ$SM, is a minimal extension of the Standard Model (SM) obtained by adding a hypercharge 0 triplet ($Δ$). This simple model is motivated by the multi-lepton anomalies and excesses in di-photon, $Zγ$, and $WW$ spectra at $\approx152\,\text{GeV}$. The model contains, in addition to the SM particle content, a $CP$-even neutral Higgs ($Δ^0$) and a charged state ($Δ^\pm$), which are quasi-degenerate in mass. Observing the charged scalar at the LHC and…

Towards Automatic Evaluation and High-Quality Pseudo-Parallel Dataset Construction for Audio Editing: A Human-in-the-Loop Method
Yuhang Jia, Hui Wang, Xin Nie, Yujie Guo, Lianru Gao, Yong Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11966

Towards Automatic Evaluation and High-Quality Pseudo-Parallel Dataset Construction for Audio Editing: A Human-in-the-Loop Method
Audio editing aims to manipulate audio content based on textual descriptions, supporting tasks such as adding, removing, or replacing audio events. Despite recent progress, the lack of high-quality benchmark datasets and comprehensive evaluation metrics remains a major challenge for both assessing audio editing quality and improving the task itself. In this work, we propose a novel approach for audio editing task by incorporating expert knowledge into both the evaluation and dataset constructio…

Well, then. I see VW is off the table when it comes time to trade in our car. No way in hell am I paying for a car, and then adding a subscription to unlock the features that are built in to it.
VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62weyp4

VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power
The German car-maker says its "optional power upgrade" is designed to give customers more choice.

Nvidia announces a new feature called "Install-to-Play" for GeForce Now, letting users install select games without waiting for Nvidia to formally curate them (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/760219/nvidia-geforce-now-rtx-5080-c…

Nvidia’s GeForce Now is upgrading to RTX 5080 GPUs and opening a floodgate of new games
This September, Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service is adding Blackwell GPUs, renting out what’s effectively an RTX 5080 in the cloud.

A Nonlinear Scaling-based Design of Control Lyapunov-barrier Function for Relative Degree 2 Case and its Application to Safe Feedback Linearization
Haechan Pyon, Gyunghoon Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15071

A Nonlinear Scaling-based Design of Control Lyapunov-barrier Function for Relative Degree 2 Case and its Application to Safe Feedback Linearization
In this paper we address the problem of control Lyapunov-barrier function (CLBF)-based safe stabilization for a class of nonlinear control-affine systems. A difficulty may arise for the case when a constraint has the relative degree larger than 1, at which computing a proper CLBF is not straightforward. Instead of adding an (possibly non-existent) control barrier function (CBF) to a control Lyapunov function (CLF), our key idea is to simply scale the value of the CLF on the unsafe set, by utili…

Impacts of Blade Camber on Cross-Flow Turbine Performance and Loading
Ari Athair, Caelan Consing, Jennifer A. Franck, Owen Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14416 https://

Impacts of Blade Camber on Cross-Flow Turbine Performance and Loading
Cross-flow turbines show promise for renewable energy generation from wind and tidal sources. The rotating reference frame of cross-flow turbine blades results in virtual camber and incidence due to streamline curvature, altering the lift, drag and pitching moment of the blades. Adding geometric camber is therefore likely to alter performance and loading, however there is little consensus regarding the direction of camber that might be most favorable. This study compares 2% concave-in and conca…

A generative model of function growth explains hidden self-similarities across biological and social systems
James Holehouse, S. Redner, Vicky Chuqiao Yang, P. L. Krapivsky, Jose Ignacio Arroyo, Geoffrey B West, Chris Kempes, Hyejin Youn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14468

A generative model of function growth explains hidden self-similarities across biological and social systems
From genomes and ecosystems to bureaucracies and cities, the growth of complex systems occurs by adding new types of functions and expanding existing ones. We present a simple generative model that generalizes the Yule-Simon process by including: (i) a size-dependent probability of introducing new functions, and (ii) a generalized preferential attachment mechanism for expanding existing ones. We uncover a shared underlying structure that helps explain how function diversity evolves in empirical…

Mullvad VPN adding QUIC obfuscation for WireGuard to help users get around firewalls and censorship #censorship

Introducing QUIC Obfuscation for WireGuard
We are excited to add QUIC obfuscation for WireGuard, aimed at helping users bypass firewalls and censorship. This new obfuscation method is now available on all desktop platforms.

Improving photovoltaics by adding extra terminals to extract hot carriers
Bruno Bertin-Johannet, Thibaut Thu\'egaz, Janine Splettstoesser, Robert S. Whitney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13279

Improving photovoltaics by adding extra terminals to extract hot carriers
Photovoltaic cells usually have two terminals, one collecting electrons and the other collecting holes. Can more terminals improve such solar cells? Energy-filtering terminals could collect "hot" carriers (electrons or holes not yet relaxed to the band edge), with other terminals for low-energy carriers. For collection faster than carrier-phonon relaxation, we predict four-terminal cells with higher power output than optimal two-terminal cells -- more than 40% higher for fast carrier collection…

Eagles receive Super Bowl LIX championship rings https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-receive-super-bowl-lix-championship-rings

Logics with the axiom of convergence: complexity with a small number of variables in the language (extended version)
M. Rybakov, M. Shcherbakov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12343 …

Logics with the axiom of convergence: complexity with a small number of variables in the language (extended version)
It is known that many modal and superintuitionistic logics are PSPACE-hard in languages with a small number of variables; however, questions about the complexity of similar fragments of many logics obtained by adding various axioms to "standard" ones remain unexplored. We investigate the complexity of fragments of modal logics obtained by adding an axiom requiring the convergence of the accessibility relation in Kripke frames: S4.2, K4.2, Grz.2, and GL.2. The main result is that S4.2 and Grz.2 …

President Trump signs a proclamation requiring companies to pay an annual $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, a move that could significantly impact the tech industry (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tele…

Crash Report Enhancement with Large Language Models: An Empirical Study
S M Farah Al Fahim (Peter), Md Nakhla Rafi (Peter), Zeyang Ma (Peter), Dong Jae Kim (Peter), Tse-Hsun (Peter), Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13535

Crash Report Enhancement with Large Language Models: An Empirical Study
Crash reports are central to software maintenance, yet many lack the diagnostic detail developers need to debug efficiently. We examine whether large language models can enhance crash reports by adding fault locations, root-cause explanations, and repair suggestions. We study two enhancement strategies: Direct-LLM, a single-shot approach that uses stack-trace context, and Agentic-LLM, an iterative approach that explores the repository for additional evidence. On a dataset of 492 real-world cras…

Sarrus' Quilt: A Novel Way to Compute Determinants
Jorge Garcia, Jasmine Torres, Thomas Crawford, Miles Obrien, Alexander D. Bonilla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11642 https:/…

Sarrus' Quilt: A Novel Way to Compute Determinants
After analyzing the 4x4 determinant of a matrix, a shortcut was obtained to find such a determinant. Similarly to the Sarrus method for 2x2 or 3x3 determinants, the method consists of laying 19 columns of size 4 each and adding and subtracting some diagonal multiplications. There is a symmetry in the arrangement of these columns. A very symmetric pattern emerged for the 5x5 determinant which was also found. A cyclic pattern was observed for the diagonals of larger determinants when applying thi…

3 backup QB options Dallas Cowboys should consider amid Joe Milton struggles https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/3-backup-qb-options-dallas-cowboys-should-consider-amid-joe-milton-struggles

🍋‍🟩 Adding limestone to farmland boosts carbon capture and crop yields, study finds
#limestone

Adding limestone to farmland boosts carbon capture and crop yields, study finds
Adding crushed calcium carbonate—limestone—to agricultural fields can remove tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year while improving crop yields, a Yale-led study published in Nature Water found.

Trump says he and Putin ‘largely agreed’ on land swaps, security guarantees for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/trump-says-he-and-putin.html

What Wilkins' Addition to PUP List Means for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/news/what-wilkins-addition-to-pup-list-means-for-the-raiders-01k084e9mhd9

How to Resolve Envy by Adding Goods
Matthias Bentert, Robert Bredereck, Eva Deltl, Pallavi Jain, Leon Kellerhals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08682 https://a…

How to Resolve Envy by Adding Goods
We consider the problem of resolving the envy of a given initial allocation by adding elements from a pool of goods. We give a characterization of the instances where envy can be resolved by adding an arbitrary number of copies of the items in the pool. From this characterization, we derive a polynomial-time algorithm returning a respective solution if it exists. If the number of copies or the total number of added items are bounded, the problem becomes computationally intractable even in vario…

Urban Living IV - Greens 🟢
都市生活 IV - 绿色 🟢
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yiding Cao Geld mit PayPal.Me senden
Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new rules for Live creators, including a requirement that commercial content must be disclosed (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/15/tiktoks-new-guideli…

TikTok's new guidelines add subtle changes for LIVE creators, AI content, and more | TechCrunch
TikTok is preparing an update to its Community Guidelines, which dictate the rules for participating on the social video platform as well as what standards the company uses to determine the videos that make it onto its For You feed.

Or the unstoppable push to fix the world's problems caused by too much technology ruining the planet by adding more technology.
https://graeber.social/@DGI/114851811908059173

putting some tapes in the mail before heading to ossineke for a couple weeks
#cassette

GulliVR: A Walking-Oriented Technique for Navigation in Virtual Reality Games Based on Virtual Body Resizing
Andrey Krekhov, Sebastian Cmentowski, Katharina Emmerich, Maic Masuch, Jens Kr\"uger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11304

GulliVR: A Walking-Oriented Technique for Navigation in Virtual Reality Games Based on Virtual Body Resizing
Virtual reality games are often centered around our feeling of "being there". That presence can be significantly enhanced by supporting physical walking. Although modern virtual reality systems enable room-scale motions, the size of our living rooms is not enough to explore vast virtual environments. Developers bypass that limitation by adding virtual navigation such as teleportation. Although such techniques are intended (or designed) to extend but not replace natural walking, what we often ob…

And here are the last two #photos from my bike&hike recently. the one shows one of the (in my point of view) interesting geological parts of the hike. And in the second I tried to get some more foreground into the photo
I hope you enjoy the view as much as I enjoyed the hike up there 🙂
And I wonder if we could see the home area of @…

Alright, next step in my #OTEL adventure for @… was to add react/cache|dns|socket so I can trace any potential connection issues. Not sure yet what to do next:
* Event loop
* react/stream
* Just add tests to what you have before adding more

from my link log —
Renewable energy unambiguously reduces UK wholesale power prices.
https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2025/8/18/renewables-do-unambiguously-reduce-wholesale-power-prices
saved 2025-08-20

Renewables do unambiguously reduce wholesale power prices | Carbon Commentary
We still hear assertions that adding renewables to the grid has increased the UK’s electricity costs. I looked at two sources of data and plotted one against the other to test whether there’s any truth in this. 1,      The ‘next day’ electricity price fo

Binomial maps: stochastically evolving iterated integer maps for finite population
Snehal M. Shekatkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11974 https://arxiv.org/p…

Binomial maps: stochastically evolving iterated integer maps for finite population
Deterministic nature of iterated map models of population dynamics is justifiable for infinite-sized populations, as the stochastic fluctuations are negligible in this limit. However, they are ill-suited for finite-population systems where finite-size effects like demographic noise and extinction cannot be ignored. Adding noise to the equations cannot model the demographic noise as it can only represent environmental stochasticity. An approach, sometimes used in ecological literature, but surpr…

No one has ever convinced anyone with "data" and "facts." A stakeholder will always have more confidence in their existing assumptions than in your findings.
The only way to change minds is through gradual influence that nurtures a sense of ownership.
#AI tools promise to accelerate the pace of research, but they do so only by skipping this process of sense-making. Res…

Research is a leadership skill; don't cede it to AI
The role of UX is not only to change the behaviors of users, but also to influence the behaviors of stakeholders. Adding AI tools to this process only undermines alignment.

TIL YouTube's restriction on adding videos to playlists if they're tagged as being made for children is only implemented on the video page and you can do it via the history page
this discovery brought to you by wanting to add a mistagged conference talk to Watch Later

Steelers rookie Will Howard embracing mentorship from Aaron Rodgers: 'He's been so awesome to me' https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-rookie-qb-will-howard-embracing-mentorship-from-aaron-rodgers-he-s-b…

Jeez!
Mona is the best client for Mastodon.
Their tech support (at thespringsapp@gmail.com) got back to me IMMEDIATELY. Jonny suggested that I'd accidentally added something to my Mute Items tab.
I had. I'd added the word "the". That cut down on the messages I see...
But next time I need a rest, I'll try adding some letters, "e" or "s".
DUH!
#Mona

Did I spend 90 minutes today adding random trips to my @… account? Perhaps.
Will I get a cool #rail coverage map tomorrow? I surely hope so!
But this one is cool too.

MSNBC fires analyst Matthew Dowd over Charlie Kirk shooting remarks.
“Hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions,” Dowd said, adding: “You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and then not expect awful actions to take place.”

@… @… Adding it to the backlog, thanks!

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Quiescence ➰
在路上 - 去西安/ 静止 ➰
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Kodak Double-X 5222
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

I watched the Disney, two season, series on the risk of Industrial Light and Magic (ILM).
It was interesting.
And last night I watched a Studio Ghibli film.
I am active in live theatre - living actors on a stage before a live audience.
It struck me that movie making a la ILM tends to glorify the scenery without necessarily adding to the impact of the story.
I can understand how filmmakers want to immerse the audience in a different reality. But I don't thin…

Adding on to the thread to say this:
If you want to argue that political violence is bad, please don’t go driveling out some “here’s why we should respect Charlie Kirk” fartfest (looking at you, Ezra Klein). That •completely undermines• your argument.
A/1

Planar Tur\'an number of quasi-double stars
Huiqing Liu, Tian Xie, Qin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11860 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Planar Turán number of quasi-double stars
Given a graph H, we call a graph $\textit{H-free}$ if it does not contain H as a subgraph. The planar Turán number of a graph H, denoted by $ex_{\mathcal{P}}(n, H)$, is the maximum number of edges in a planar H-free graph on n vertices. A (h,k)-quasi-double star $W_{h,k}$, obtained from a path $P_3=v_1v_2v_3$ by adding h leaves and k leaves to the vertices $v_1$ and $v_3$, respectively, is a subclass of caterpillars. In this paper, we study $ex_{\mathcal{P}}(n,W_{h,k})$ for all $1\le h\le 2\le…

Hi! I’m an anarcho-syndicalist, gender-fluid, bisexual, and autistic individual living in Bergen, Norway, and I love Debian and GrapheneOS, and I wanted to reintroduce myself for all the new followers I’ve gotten in the past few weeks.
I like to be clear and specific, so here’s a structured list:
- Activism: Syndicalist (Anarcho-syndicalism)
- Gender: Fluid (changes, not fixed)
- Sexuality: Bisexual (attracted to more than one gender)
- Neurotype: Autistic (diagnos…

We’re closing in on this month’s release of OmniFocus 4.7, with planned dates, mutually-exclusive tags, and improved repeats!
Updated test builds are now available, adding new settings for Forecast counts and summary dots, adding support for keyboard modifiers when using drag-and-drop in Forecast on iPad and visionOS (bringing parity with the support already on Mac), and making other improvements and bug fixes.

Compensating connectivity restrictions in quantum annealers via splitting and linearization techniques
Marcel Seelbach Benkner, Zorah L\"ahner, Vladislav Golyanik, Martin Kliesch, Michael Moeller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12536

Compensating connectivity restrictions in quantum annealers via splitting and linearization techniques
Current quantum annealing experiments often suffer from restrictions in connectivity in the sense that only certain qubits can be coupled to each other. The most common strategy to overcome connectivity restrictions so far is by combining multiple physical qubits into a logical qubit with higher connectivity, which is achieved by adding terms to the Hamiltonian. Practically, this strategy is implemented by finding a so-called minor embedding, which is in itself an NP-hard problem. In this work,…

Eagles adding Malcolm Jenkins, captain of Philadelphia's first Super Bowl winner, to team's Hall of Fame

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-

Fox CEO of DTC Pete Distad says Fox will consider bundling Fox One with other streamers and adding podcasts, and that profit projections are "aggressive" (Stephen Battaglio/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-a…

Fox's $20-a-month news and sports streamer launches next week. Here's what's on it
Fox's news and sports content will be available to stream for $19.99 a month.

Whil I'm editing photos from our vacation I quickly share this from last year for #WaterfallWednesday .
Enjoy!
#photography #nature

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.

@… @… I’m solving it by adding type parameters everywhere, which is kind of nice from the perspective of safety (I can’t do as much), but it does make the code uglier.
I have considered .hs-boot files but as I said, I’ve never been …

So today, to start hiding the absolute stellar cable management, I started adding another wall behind it:

City Features III 🌆
城市特征 III 🌆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

One reason I love winter so much? It’s peak cozy cuddle season. Only downside, no one to cuddle with. Bi/pan and blanket-wrapped, just waiting for the right human. 💖💜💙💛😔
#Pansexual #Bisexual #Cuddle

And there I was close to the summit. Finally!
I was happy to get a snack and relax my legs a bit. I wasn't alone up there but it wasn't crowded. Well it was just great to be there again.
I think it was just the second time in a decade that I was up there. Even though I can see the summit from my home 🙂
A bit more Context and the video:

NFL news roundup: Bengals adding Dave Lapham, Lemar Parrish to team's Ring of Honor in 2025 https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-wednesday-july-16

OpenAI says it will use the Google Cloud Platform for ChatGPT and its API, adding it to a list of suppliers that also includes Microsoft, CoreWeave, and Oracle (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/openai-googles-cloud-chatgpt.html

OpenAI says it will use Google's cloud for ChatGPT
Having faced supply shortages, OpenAI will now be drawing on computing resources from CoreWeave, Google, Microsoft and Oracle.

Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/following-youtu…

Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on 'unoriginal' Facebook content | TechCrunch
Like YouTube, Meta says it won't penalize users who are engaging with other people's content, doing things like making reaction videos, joining a trend, or adding their own takes.

Philadelphia Eagles put NFL on notice after adding Las Vegas Raiders star cornerback https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/philadelphia-eagles/news/philadelphia-eagles-nfl-notice-adding-las-…

Filing: Intel is laying off 5,000 employees across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona; California cuts affect 1,935, more than double the initial estimates (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)
https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/int

Intel layoffs exceed 5,000 across US
The chipmaker more than doubled its anticipated job cuts in California, adding to its overall downsizing across four states.

Beyond Ground States: Physics-Inspired Optimization of Excited States of Classical Hamiltonians
Erik Altelarrea-Ferr\'e, J\'ulia Barber\`a-Rodr\'iguez, David Jansen, Antonio Ac\'in
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12394

Beyond Ground States: Physics-Inspired Optimization of Excited States of Classical Hamiltonians
We introduce excited local quantum annealing (ExcLQA), a classical, physics-inspired algorithm that extends local quantum annealing (LQA) to identify excited states of classical Ising Hamiltonians. LQA simulates quantum annealing while constraining the quantum state to remain in a product state and uses a gradient-based approach to find approximate solutions to large-scale quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problems. ExcLQA extends this framework by adding a penalty term in the cost fu…

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Mordern Relics
在路上 - 去西安/ 现代遗风
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

#FotoVorschlag "Bänke" (benches)
I took this photo in beautiful #scotland in #cawdor castle when we were there on holidays.
It's been a beautiful visit there and we lov…

Steelers to sign Jabrill Peppers: Pittsburgh reportedly adding veteran former Patriots DB, first round pick

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new rules for Live creators, including a requirement that commercial content must be disclosed (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/15/tiktoks-new-guideli…

TikTok's new guidelines add subtle changes for LIVE creators, AI content, and more | TechCrunch
TikTok is preparing an update to its Community Guidelines, which dictate the rules for participating on the social video platform as well as what standards the company uses to determine the videos that make it onto its For You feed.

Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/notebooklm-ad…

NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic and others | TechCrunch
Google is adding notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits to its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant NotebookLM.

xAI's Grok is rated for kids age 12 and up in the iOS App Store, despite adding "companions"; one includes an NSFW "Bad Rudy" mode and the other becomes NSFW (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/grok-ani-app-store-rating-nsfw-…

Grok's new porn companion is rated for kids 12+ in the App Store
AI companions are arriving faster than platforms can build guardrails around them. Parents need to pay attention

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Urban Spots 🟤
在路上 - 去西安/ 城市的点 🟤
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Apple seems to be working on adding CUDA support to open-source ML framework MLX, which may mean that code developed using MLX would work with CUDA (Malcolm Owen/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/0

Apple Silicon machine learning code may become more easily portable to Nvidia hardware
A project is trying to cut the cost of making machine learning applications for Nvidia hardware, by developing on an Apple Silicon Mac and exporting it to CUDA.

We are not always discovering high mountains - sometimes we also go below earth. 😄
Here we went ~55m below the surface to see what the world below our feet looks like. And yes, the stairs were as steep as they appear on the #photo! The whole walk took us about an hour.
more about it:

Chargers adding 'Hitman' Harrison to team HOF https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45619309/chargers-adding-ex-safety-rodney-harrison-team-hall-fame

Anthropic updates Claude usage policy, adding stricter cybersecurity rules and explicitly banning the development of WMDs, and loosens political content rules (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/760080/anthropic-updated-usage-policy-…

Anthropic has new rules for a more dangerous AI landscape
Anthropic has updated its usage policy to ban people from using its AI chatbot to help develop biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear weapons.

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Signs 💚
在路上 - 去西安/ 表象 💚
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

WhatsApp launches optional Meta AI-generated summaries of unread messages in the US; Meta can't read the messages and summaries are hidden from other chat users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/meta-is-adding-ai-power…

Meta is adding AI-powered summaries to WhatsApp | TechCrunch
Meta announced on Wednesday that it's adding an AI-powered summaries feature to WhatsApp. The optional new feature uses Meta AI to summarize unread

Nextdoor unveils new features like an interactive neighborhood map called Alerts, partners with 3,500 local news outlets, and more, to revitalize its app (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/706618/nextdoor-redesign-ai-reco…

Can Nextdoor overhaul itself to be useful?
Neighborhood app Nextdoor is adding local news content, an AI-powered recommendations chatbot, and a map of emergency events.

Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/following-youtu…

Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on 'unoriginal' Facebook content | TechCrunch
Like YouTube, Meta says it won't penalize users who are engaging with other people's content, doing things like making reaction videos, joining a trend, or adding their own takes.

Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/notebooklm-ad…

NotebookLM adds featured notebooks from The Economist, The Atlantic, and others | TechCrunch
Google is adding notebooks from various authors, publications, researchers, and nonprofits to its popular AI-powered research and note-taking assistant NotebookLM.

OpenAI is adding Connectors for Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts in ChatGPT for Pro users, with Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu plans to follow (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/arti

YouTube gives Shorts creators access to new generative AI features powered by Veo 2, including an image-to-video tool and new effects (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/youtube-shorts-is-adding-an-image-to-video-ai-…

YouTube Shorts is adding an image-to-video AI tool, new AI effects | TechCrunch
The image to video feature lets creators turn a picture from their camera roll into a a six-second video.

Google launches Preferred Sources in the US and India, allowing users to personalize the news in Search's "top stories" section by selecting favorite outlets (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/757979/google-search-preferr…

Google is adding a new way to personalize the news you see
Google is rolling out a new “preferred sources” feature that lets you choose which outlets you want to see the most in Search’s “top stories” section.