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Just finished "Captivated, by You" by Yama Wayama. An excellent "funny off-beat highschool vignettes" manga with a focus on social interactions between weird boys. Thought I'd be getting a romance from the cover, but couldn't be more satisfied with the unexpected actuality. Great examples of non-toxic masculinity.
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In einer Woche zweimal mit der Bahn den Polarkreis gekreuzt, ha!

Amortized In-Context Mixed Effect Transformer Models: A Zero-Shot Approach for Pharmacokinetics
C\'esar Ali Ojeda Marin, Wilhelm Huisinga, Purity Kavwele, Niklas Hartung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15659

Amortized In-Context Mixed Effect Transformer Models: A Zero-Shot Approach for Pharmacokinetics
Accurate dose-response forecasting under sparse sampling is central to precision pharmacotherapy. We present the Amortized In-Context Mixed-Effect Transformer (AICMET) model, a transformer-based latent-variable framework that unifies mechanistic compartmental priors with amortized in-context Bayesian inference. AICMET is pre-trained on hundreds of thousands of synthetic pharmacokinetic trajectories with Ornstein-Uhlenbeck priors over the parameters of compartment models, endowing the model with…

Exact Conditional Score-Guided Generative Modeling for Amortized Inference in Uncertainty Quantification
Zezhong Zhang, Caroline Tatsuoka, Dongbin Xiu, Guannan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18227

Exact Conditional Score-Guided Generative Modeling for Amortized Inference in Uncertainty Quantification
We propose an efficient framework for amortized conditional inference by leveraging exact conditional score-guided diffusion models to train a non-reversible neural network as a conditional generative model. Traditional normalizing flow methods require reversible architectures, which can limit their expressiveness and efficiency. Although diffusion models offer greater flexibility, they often suffer from high computational costs during inference. To combine the strengths of both approaches, we …

Indirect CW: religious abuse, divorce
Just finished "Visitations" by Corey Egbert, a really powerful fictionalized graphic autobiography about a kid growing up in a cult-adjacent situation. It's more about his specific parent than the Mormon Church, but of course his mom's problems are symbiotic with and amplified through faith.
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Has a positive ending, thank goodness.
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Wenn es so ist, dass Pixelfed problematisch ist, weil der Entwickler problematisch ist.. gibt's eine Alternative?

Just finished "The Courageous Princess" by Rod Espinosa. It's... bad. I was really looking forward to it because I recently read "Castle Waiting" by Linda Medley, and it seemed from the cover like it might be from a similar epoch in comics and/or have similar vibes, but it's both a very bland story, and extremely into royalty apologetics, which is the opposite of Castle Waiting and which galls me immensely. It breaks exactly one genre convention (the princess gets fed up with waiting for a prince and rescues herself) but doesn't systematize that into even an ounce of feminism.
"Dealing With Dragon"s by Patricia Wrede is the actually amazing version of this story, although it's not a graphic novel.
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Tja.
https://newsie.social/@altpapier/114737479765334799

Just finished "Barda" by Ngozu Ukadi. I don't normally grab classic comics or their modern successors from the library, and this exception to that rule has reminded me why I prefer to stick with other stuff, especially indie graphic novels: the stories are just so blocky & uninspired. I don't say "childish" since there are plenty of great books in the kids graphic novel section that I've enjoyed. It's also true that *some* of the classic stuff is deeper than the rest. But the average "comic" is not going to be very high on my list of stuff I enjoy, and this, while passable, was no exception to that generalization.
Still might look for other stuff by this author, since I'm pretty sure a lot of the issues with mainline comics can be publisher-dictated.
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Wäre für eine neue #Unteilbar Demo zu haben.
Um zu zeigen, wie viele wir sind, die diesen Rechtsdrift ablehnen, wenn sich viele Redaktionen schon nicht mehr trauen, uns zu erwähnen, aus Angst vor rechten Kampagnen. Oder Überzeugung.