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Is a small Alpaca called Alpacino? 🤔
Just wondered when we saw some on our cycling loop.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Alabaster dePlume:
🎵 Whisky Story Time
#AlabasterdePlume
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/whisky-story-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZBxqoho42uvFAJB6d2RdS

A profile of Chess.com, which has popularized online chess among pro athletes, as CEO Erik Allebest says the site has over $100M in annual revenue and 35M MAUs (Ira Boudway/Bloomberg)

ALPaca: The ALP Automatic Computing Algorithm
Jorge Alda, Marta Fuentes Zamoro, Luca Merlo, Xavier Ponce D\'iaz, Stefano Rigolin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08354 https://

ALPaca: The ALP Automatic Computing Algorithm
The ALP Automatic Computing Algorithm, ALPaca, is an open source Python library devoted to studying the phenomenology of Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) with masses in the ranges $m_a \in [0.01 - 10]$ GeV. ALPaca provides a flexible and comprehensive framework to define ALP couplings at arbitrary energy scales, perform Renormalisation Group evolution and matching down to the desired low energy scale, and compute a large variety of ALP observables, with particular care to the meson decay sector. The…

Ukraine’s military said on Sunday it had attacked a Russian drone factory about 1099 kilometers from Ukraine
-- in the city of Yelabuga in Russia’s Tatarstan region.
The Ukrainian military general staff said the factory produced, tested, and launched drones at Ukraine,
in particular against energy and civil infrastructure.
Videos on social media showed an explosion said to be at the factory in Yelabuga, also known as Alabuga,
which builds Iranian-design…

On a planté un albizia il y a plus de 6 ans au centre du jardin. D'année en année, on l'a vu grand... Rapetisser, au gré des gels tardifs. Cette année, il a enfin dépassé sa taille initiale, affichant une taille impressionnante... D'1,20 m. Mais cette année, pour la première fois, il arbore ses premières fleurs. On atteindra encore un peu pour manger sous son ombre, mais le voir fleurir, ça n'a pas de prix...

Investigating oxides by electrochemical projection of the oxygen off-stoichiometry diagram onto a single sample
Alexander Stangl (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LMGP, Grenoble, France), Alexander Schmid (Institute of Chemical Technologies, Analytics, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria), Adeel Riaz (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LMGP, Grenoble, France), Martin Krammer (Institute of Chemical Technologies, Analytics, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria), Andreas Nenning (Institute of Ch…

Investigating oxides by electrochemical projection of the oxygen off-stoichiometry diagram onto a single sample
The oxygen stoichiometry is an essential key to tune functional properties of advanced oxide materials and thus has motivated numerous studies of the oxygen off-stoichiometry diagram, with the aim to determine and control structural, electronic, ionic, electrochemical and optical properties, as well as thermodynamic quantities such as the oxygen storage capacity, among others. Here, a novel approach is developed, which allows to project a broad range of oxygen chemical potentials onto a single …

Beyond Random Sampling: Instance Quality-Based Data Partitioning via Item Response Theory
Lucas Cardoso, Vitor Santos, Jos\'e Ribeiro Filho, Ricardo Prud\^encio, Regiane Kawasaki, Ronnie Alves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10628

Beyond Random Sampling: Instance Quality-Based Data Partitioning via Item Response Theory
Robust validation of Machine Learning (ML) models is essential, but traditional data partitioning approaches often ignore the intrinsic quality of each instance. This study proposes the use of Item Response Theory (IRT) parameters to characterize and guide the partitioning of datasets in the model validation stage. The impact of IRT-informed partitioning strategies on the performance of several ML models in four tabular datasets was evaluated. The results obtained demonstrate that IRT reveals a…

I took this photo pretty close after the last that I posted. I just turned around to see what's behind me. I assumed just the bushes and the trail.
But obviously I was high enough that I already got some nice view into the distance.
If you're wondering why it's so flat in the distance: I am directly at the northern end of the #alps. To the south, there are

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Pink Floyd:
🎵 Fearless
#PinkFloyd
https://jamallbufford.bandcamp.com/track/pink-floyd-fearless
https://open.spotify.com/track/7AalBKBoLDR4UmRYRJpdbj