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One-on-One with Alex Austin | Patriots Unfiltered on TV https://www.patriots.com/video/one-on-one-with-alex-austin-patriots-unfiltered-on-tv

Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually,
a startling amount that appears to be the highest for any public school superintendent in Texas and among the top in the nation.
Valere Public Schools Superintendent Salvador Cavazos’ compensation to run three campuses in Austin, Corpus Christi and Brownsville
exceeds the less than $450,000 that New York City’s chancellor makes …

This charter school superintendent makes $870,000. He leads a district with 1,000 students.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.

One-third of Sun-like stars are born with misaligned planet-forming disks
Lauren I. Biddle (The University of Texas at Austin), Brendan P. Bowler (University of California Santa Barbara), Marvin Morgan (The University of Texas at Austin, University of California Santa Barbara), Quang H. Tran (Yale University), Ya-Lin Wu (Taiwan Normal University)
https://

One-third of Sun-like stars are born with misaligned planet-forming disks
Exoplanets are organized in a broad array of orbital configurations that reflect their formation along with billions of years of dynamical processing through gravitational interactions. This history is encoded in the angular momentum architecture of planetary systems--the relation between the rotational properties of the central star and the orbital geometry of planets. A primary observable is the alignment (or misalignment) between the rotational axis of the star and the orbital plane of its p…

NFL Week 2 best bets: Buying early-season Packers stock plus some unpopular unders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6620263/2025/09/11/nfl-best-bets-week-2-packers/

Austin-based Routefusion, whose API for financial institutions lets them embed accounts, payments, currency conversion, and compliance, raised a $26.7M Series A (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/fintech-startup-routefusion-…

Exclusive: Payments Tech Startup Routefusion Raises $26.7M Series A 
Routefusion says it will use its new funding to help grow its engineering product and compliance teams, and expand its go-to-market efforts.

Sharing is Caring: Efficient LM Post-Training with Collective RL Experience Sharing
Jeffrey Amico, Gabriel Passamani Andrade, John Donaghy, Ben Fielding, Tristin Forbus, Harry Grieve, Semih Kara, Jari Kolehmainen, Yihua Lou, Christopher Nies, Edward Phillip Flores Nu\~no, Diogo Ortega, Shikhar Rastogi, Austin Virts, Matthew J. Wright
https://

Sharing is Caring: Efficient LM Post-Training with Collective RL Experience Sharing
Post-training language models (LMs) with reinforcement learning (RL) can enhance their complex reasoning capabilities without supervised fine-tuning, as demonstrated by DeepSeek-R1-Zero. However, effectively utilizing RL for LMs requires significant parallelization to scale-up inference, which introduces non-trivial technical challenges (e.g. latency, memory, and reliability) alongside ever-growing financial costs. We present Swarm sAmpling Policy Optimization (SAPO), a fully decentralized and …

EinHops: Einsum Notation for Expressive Homomorphic Operations on RNS-CKKS Tensors
Karthik Garimella, Austin Ebel, Brandon Reagen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07972

EinHops: Einsum Notation for Expressive Homomorphic Operations on RNS-CKKS Tensors
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is an encryption scheme that allows for computation to be performed directly on encrypted data, effectively closing the loop on secure and outsourced computing. Data is encrypted not only during rest and transit, but also during processing. However, FHE provides a limited instruction set: SIMD addition, SIMD multiplication, and cyclic rotation of 1-D vectors. This restriction makes performing multi-dimensional tensor operations challenging. Practitioners must …

The Prevalence of Bursty Star Formation in Low-Mass Galaxies at z=1-7 from H{\alpha}-to-UV Diagnostics
Marissa N. Perry (The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Astronomy), Anthony J. Taylor (The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Astronomy), Oscar A. Chavez Ortiz (The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Astronomy), Steven L. Finkelstein (The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Astronomy), Gene C. K. Leung (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and S…

The Prevalence of Bursty Star Formation in Low-Mass Galaxies at z=1-7 from Hα-to-UV Diagnostics
We present an analysis of bursty star-formation histories (SFHs) of 346 star-forming galaxies at $1\lesssim z<7$, selected from JWST/NIRSpec G395M and PRISM spectroscopy provided by the CEERS and RUBIES surveys. We analyze the correlation of star-formation rate vs. stellar mass (the star-forming main sequence, SFMS) for our sample and find no significant difference between the intrinsic scatter in the H$α$-based SFMS and the UV-continuum-based SFMS. However, the diagnostic power of the SFMS is…

AV-EMO-Reasoning: Benchmarking Emotional Reasoning Capabilities in Omni-modal LLMS with Audio-visual Cues
Krish Patel, Dingkun Zhou, Ajay Kankipati, Akshaj Gupta, Zeyi Austin Li, Mohul Shukla, Vibhor Narang, Sara Kofman, Zongli Ye, Grace Wang, Xiaoyu Shi, Tingle Li, Guan-Ting Lin, Kan Jen Cheng, Huang-Cheng Chou, Jiachen Lian, Gopala Anumanchipalli
https://

AV-EMO-Reasoning: Benchmarking Emotional Reasoning Capabilities in Omni-modal LLMS with Audio-visual Cues
Emotions conveyed through voice and face shape engagement and context in human-AI interaction. Despite rapid progress in omni-modal large language models (LLMs), the holistic evaluation of emotional reasoning with audiovisual cues remains limited. To address this gap, we introduce AV-EMO-Reasoning, a benchmark designed to systematically assess emotional coherence in LLMs. The framework leverages a curated, single- and multi-turn synthetic audiovisual corpus with a real-world set and is assessed…

NFL Week 6 projected scores: Model predicts point spreads and totals for Sunday, Monday games https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6704342/2025/10/10/nfl-week-6-projected-scores-model-predicts-point-spread…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.PF. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PF/new
[1/1]:
- A Theory of Inference Compute Scaling: Reasoning through Directed Stochastic Skill Search
Austin R. Ellis-Mohr, Anuj K. Nayak, Lav R. Varshney

Exploring Human-AI Collaboration Using Mental Models of Early Adopters of Multi-Agent Generative AI Tools
Suchismita Naik, Austin L. Toombs, Amanda Snellinger, Scott Saponas, Amanda K. Hall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06224

Exploring Human-AI Collaboration Using Mental Models of Early Adopters of Multi-Agent Generative AI Tools
With recent advancements in multi-agent generative AI (Gen AI), technology organizations like Microsoft are adopting these complex tools, redefining AI agents as active collaborators in complex workflows rather than as passive tools. In this study, we investigated how early adopters and developers conceptualize multi-agent Gen AI tools, focusing on how they understand human-AI collaboration mechanisms, general collaboration dynamics, and transparency in the context of AI tools. We conducted sem…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sam Austin:
🎵 pretend friend
#SamAustin
https://open.spotify.com/track/42hPDiwTOSPAPUL51FRNhp

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- Exploring Human-AI Collaboration Using Mental Models of Early Adopters of Multi-Agent Generative ...
Suchismita Naik, Austin L. Toombs, Amanda Snellinger, Scott Saponas, Amanda K. Hall

TelecomTS: A Multi-Modal Observability Dataset for Time Series and Language Analysis
Austin Feng, Andreas Varvarigos, Ioannis Panitsas, Daniela Fernandez, Jinbiao Wei, Yuwei Guo, Jialin Chen, Ali Maatouk, Leandros Tassiulas, Rex Ying
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06063

TelecomTS: A Multi-Modal Observability Dataset for Time Series and Language Analysis
Modern enterprises generate vast streams of time series metrics when monitoring complex systems, known as observability data. Unlike conventional time series from domains such as weather, observability data are zero-inflated, highly stochastic, and exhibit minimal temporal structure. Despite their importance, observability datasets are underrepresented in public benchmarks due to proprietary restrictions. Existing datasets are often anonymized and normalized, removing scale information and limi…

A Preview of HoloOcean 2.0
Blake Romrell, Abigail Austin, Braden Meyers, Ryan Anderson, Carter Noh, Joshua G. Mangelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06160 https://

A Preview of HoloOcean 2.0
Marine robotics simulators play a fundamental role in the development of marine robotic systems. With increased focus on the marine robotics field in recent years, there has been significant interest in developing higher fidelitysimulation of marine sensors, physics, and visual rendering capabilities to support autonomous marine robot development and validation. HoloOcean 2.0, the next major release of HoloOcean, brings state-of-the-art features under a general marine simulator capable of suppo…

The Optical and Mechanical Design of POEMMA Balloon with Radio
Eric Mayotte (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Austin Cummings (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Paul Degarate (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Neville DeWitt Pierrat (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Johannes Eser (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), William Finch (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Julia Burton-Heibges (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Tobias Heibges (for the JEM-EUSO Collaboration), Eric Mentzell (for the JE…

The Optical and Mechanical Design of POEMMA Balloon with Radio
POEMMA Balloon with Radio (PBR) is a NASA super-pressure balloon mission building toward the proposed Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) dual satellite mission. In its planned 2027 launch, PBR will study Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays, Neutrinos, and High-Altitude Horizontal Airshowers from 33 km above the Earth. By operating at balloon altitudes, PBR will provide a novel vantage point to study air-shower physics while offering competitive instantaneous exposure to neutrinos …

Interviews with over 70 people detail the 13-year search for Austin Tice, the American journalist who was kidnapped near Damascus in August 2012 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/13/austin-tice-syria-assad-s…

Inside the 13-year search for Austin Tice, the journalist who disappeared
Austin Tice disappeared in Syria in 2012. To reconstruct the 13-year search for the journalist, The Post spoke with more than 70 people, uncovering new information about his imprisonment and the effort to free him.

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead’s last ever show in #austin. their final appearance at manor downs, established by dead family members frances carr & sam cutler, though only carr was probably still there in ’85. late summer ’85, show #3. audience tapes only:

Seitenhieb auf #Telsa: #Waymo vergrößert Servicegebiet in Austin
https://www.

The #GOP scheme: redraw the Texas map mid‑decade to wipe out Democratic districts, esp. ones w/ Black & Latino majorities, & create 5 more GOP‑friendly seats for #Trump.
But #Democrats aren’t …

Fighting Fire With Fire
From Austin to Albany, This Is the Counterpunch We’ve Been Waiting For

It Is Not Enough for States to Abolish the Death Penalty by Statute or Judicial Decree; They Must Make It Unconstitutional | Austin Sarat | Verdict | Legal Analysis and Commentary from Justia
https://verdict.justia.com/2025/08/06/it-is-not-enough-for-states-to-abolish-the-death-penalty-by-statute-or-judicial-decree-they-must-make-it-unconstitutional

Rarest Monkeys Now Number Close to 2,000 Thanks to One Man’s Jane Goodall-like Passion https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/once-the-rarest-monkeys-in-hubei-now-numbering-close-to-2000-thanks-to-mans-jane-austin-like-…

Rarest Monkeys Now Number Close to 2,000 Thanks to One Man's Jane Goodall-like Passion
For Professor Yang, the golden snub-nosed monkey was like Jane Austin with her chimpanzees, he lived with them and learned their ways.

Austin-based Hello Patient, whose AI agents let healthcare organizations handle patient communications, raised a $22.5M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners (Marissa Plescia/MedCity News)
https://medcitynews.com/2025/09/hello-patient-conversational-ai/

Hello Patient Secures $22.5M for Conversational AI Solution
Hello Patient's Series A round was led by Scale Venture Partners and included participation from 8VC, Bling Capital, Max Ventures, Remus Capital and FirstLook Partners.

It is an ever-loving mystery that Tesla's stock remains so high: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2025/09/18/tesla-robotaxi-reports-3-crashes-in-austin-on-july-1-details-hidden/

Tesla Robotaxi Reports 3 Crashes In Austin On July 1, Details Hidden
One of the crashes was with a static object with minor injuries and the Tesla towed away. And a 4th crash was not reported. This does not look good.

A Microstructure Analysis of Coupling in CFMMs
Althea Sterrett, Austin Adams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06095 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06095

A Microstructure Analysis of Coupling in CFMMs
The programmable and composable nature of smart contract protocols has enabled the emergence of novel market structures and asset classes that are architecturally frictional to implement in traditional financial paradigms. This fluidity has produced an understudied class of market dynamics, particularly in coupled markets where one market serves as an oracle for the other. In such market structures, purchases or liquidations through the intermediate asset create coupled price action between the…

Fins' Jackson 'stepped on,' to miss a few weeks https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45891127/dolphins-austin-jackson-miss-weeks-lower-leg-injury

Monday jam: The San Pedro Allstars | Spoonful | #blues

Spoonful by The San Pedro Allstars, Reed Turchi, Austin White, Marlon Patton & Eric Burns
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

meanwhile, in "robotaxi" land https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2025/09/18/tesla-robotaxi-reports-3-crashes-in-austin-on-july-1-details-hidden/

Sources: Samsung to produce image sensors for iPhone 18 in Austin, Texas; an expert says Apple picked Samsung as a supplier because Sony doesn't have US plants (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/aff9b9ce-956d-4716-99da-8fc25f4b878b

Observation of undepleted phosphine in the atmosphere of a low-temperature brown dwarf
Adam J. Burgasser (UC San Diego), Eileen C. Gonzales (SFSU), Samuel A. Beiler (U. Toledo), Channon Visscher (Dordt U, Space Science Institute), Ben Burningham (U. Hertfordshire), Gregory N. Mace (U. Texas Austin), Jacqueline K. Faherty (AMNH), Zenghua Zhang (Nanjing U.), Clara Sousa-Silva (Bard College, Institute of Astrophysics,Space Sciences), Nicolas Lodieu (IAC, La Laguna U.), Stanimir A. Metchev…

Observation of undepleted phosphine in the atmosphere of a low-temperature brown dwarf
The atmospheres of low-temperature brown dwarfs and gas giant planets are expected to contain the phosphine molecule, PH$_3$ However, previous observations have shown much lower abundances of this molecule than predicted by atmospheric chemistry models. We report JWST spectroscopic observations of phosphine in the atmosphere of the brown dwarf Wolf 1130C. Multiple absorption lines due to phosphine are detected around 4.3 $μ$m, from which we calculate a phosphine abundance of 0.100$\pm$0.009 pa…

Cowboys UDFA could be on former star's trajectory https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-udfa-could-be-on-former-stars-trajectory

Austin Allen presents Eric Allen for enshrinement | 2025 Hall of Fame https://www.raiders.com/video/eric-allen-enshrinement-2025-hall-of-fame-nfl

Graph Neural Network Surrogates for Contacting Deformable Bodies with Necessary and Sufficient Contact Detection
Vijay K. Dubey (The University of Texas at Austin), Collin E. Haese (The University of Texas at Austin), Osman G\"ultekin (The University of Texas at Austin), David Dalton (University of Glasgow), Manuel K. Rausch (The University of Texas at Austin), Jan N. Fuhg (The University of Texas at Austin)

Graph Neural Network Surrogates for Contacting Deformable Bodies with Necessary and Sufficient Contact Detection
Surrogate models for the rapid inference of nonlinear boundary value problems in mechanics are helpful in a broad range of engineering applications. However, effective surrogate modeling of applications involving the contact of deformable bodies, especially in the context of varying geometries, is still an open issue. In particular, existing methods are confined to rigid body contact or, at best, contact between rigid and soft objects with well-defined contact planes. Furthermore, they employ c…

Incomplete Air Mixing Reduces the Efficiency of Commercial Buildings Behaving as Virtual Batteries
Austin J. Lin, Jacques A. de Chalendar, Johanna L. Mathieu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02933

Incomplete Air Mixing Reduces the Efficiency of Commercial Buildings Behaving as Virtual Batteries
Commercial building Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems can provide flexibility to the electricity grid. Some researchers have found it convenient to model HVAC systems as virtual batteries. These models also better align with models used by grid planners and operators. However, experiments have shown that HVAC load shifting can be inefficient, and virtual battery models do not capture this inefficiency well. While the models typically use the average room temperature as t…

Helping clean up from the #AustinDay #OpenStreet. #BikeNYC @…

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-fin.MF. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.MF/new
[1/1]:
- A Microstructure Analysis of Coupling in CFMMs
Althea Sterrett, Austin Adams

Call for Papers: 25th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, April 1st to 5th, 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20120949/call-papers-25th-annual-africa-conference-university-texas-a…

It's time for San Francisco to follow Austin's and Evanston's lead and end its Flock contract.
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/115273074215468855

kind of uncanny to hear a hi-fi recording of the ecstatic #austin #drone-#noise collective water damage & actually be able to pick out (some of) the different musicians, maybe even more beautiful.

Really enjoyed recording an episode of my podcast with Dr. Austin Tay this morning - where we explore the importance of intercultural understanding and awareness for organisational leaders.
I'll post a link to the episode as soon as it's published. Big thanks to Austin for his time!
#podcasting

Steelers' Calvin Austin being evaluated in Dublin hospital after suffering shoulder injury in win over Vikings

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/s…

Cryogenic Materials Repository: A Public Resource and New Measurements for Cryogenic Research Applications
Henry E. Nachman (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics, Texas Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Austin, TX, USA), Oorie Desai (Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics, Texas Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Austin, TX, USA), Nich…

Cryogenic Materials Repository: A Public Resource and New Measurements for Cryogenic Research Applications
Low-temperature systems play a vital role in a variety of scientific research applications, including the next generation of cosmology and astrophysics telescopes. More ambitious cryogenic applications require precise estimates of the thermal conductivity of materials and thermal joints to meet project goals. We present the development of the Cryogenic Material Repository (CMR), a public GitHub repository of cryogenic material properties data created to support and enable researchers across sci…

Phonon Dynamics in Spherically-Curved Analog-Gravity Bose-Einstein Condensates
J. Austin Chunn, Ruotong Zhai, Daniel E. Sheehy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03683 https://

Phonon Dynamics in Spherically-Curved Analog-Gravity Bose-Einstein Condensates
We study the low energy phonon dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with a density profile that is equivalent, via a coordinate transformation, to phonons traveling in a \lq\lq spherical\rq\rq\ curved spacetime that realizes the Friedman-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric. The metric of this BEC is characterized by its curvature $κ$ and a time-depdendent scale factor $a(t)$, with an increase in the latter corresponding to an expansion of the analog FLRW universe. We study the pro…

Convergence and Divergence of Language Models under Different Random Seeds
Finlay Fehlauer (ETH Zurich), Kyle Mahowald (University of Texas at Austin), Tiago Pimentel (ETH Zurich)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26643

Convergence and Divergence of Language Models under Different Random Seeds
In this paper, we investigate the convergence of language models (LMs) trained under different random seeds, measuring convergence as the expected per-token Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence across seeds. By comparing LM convergence as a function of model size and training checkpoint, we identify a four-phase convergence pattern: (i) an initial uniform phase, (ii) a sharp-convergence phase, (iii) a sharp-divergence phase, and (iv) a slow-reconvergence phase. Further, we observe that larger mode…

Structural Extrapolation in Regression Discontinuity Designs with an Application to School Expenditure Referenda
Austin Feng, Francesco Ruggieri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02658

Structural Extrapolation in Regression Discontinuity Designs with an Application to School Expenditure Referenda
We propose a structural approach to extrapolate average partial effects away from the cutoff in regression discontinuity designs (RDDs). Our focus is on applications that exploit closely contested school district referenda to estimate the effects of changes in education spending on local economic outcomes. We embed these outcomes in a spatial equilibrium model of local jurisdictions in which fiscal policy is determined by majority rule voting. This integration provides a microfoundation for the…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Austin TV:
🎵 De la Orquídea y la Avispa
#AustinTV
https://austin-tv.bandcamp.com/track/de-la-orqu-dea-y-la-avispa
https://open.spotify.com/track/1p6eu3AXhz8FgZZjFO5CgA

Guys I found a large quantity of Delta-9 in Texas who do I call

Liberals started leaving a while back, with the governor trying to override/annex the liberal cities, but now it seems the right has had enough as well.
‘Moving to Texas is over’: Podcasters who followed Joe Rogan to Austin rail against state https://www.alternet.org/joe-rogan-trump/

Steelers injuries: Jalen Ramsey, Calvin Austin III expected to miss multiple weeks

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-injuries-jalen-ramsey-…

Your Spending Needs Attention: Modeling Financial Habits with Transformers
D. T. Braithwaite, Misael Cavalcanti, R. Austin McEver, Hiroto Udagawa, Daniel Silva, Rohan Ramanath, Felipe Meneses, Arissa Yoshida, Evan Wingert, Matheus Ramos, Brian Zanfelice, Aman Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23267 …

Your Spending Needs Attention: Modeling Financial Habits with Transformers
Predictive models play a crucial role in the financial industry, enabling risk prediction, fraud detection, and personalized recommendations, where slight changes in core model performance can result in billions of dollars in revenue or losses. While financial institutions have access to enormous amounts of user data (e.g., bank transactions, in-app events, and customer support logs), leveraging this data effectively remains challenging due to its complexity and scale. Thus, in many financial i…

RV32I in ACL2
Carl Kwan (The University of Texas at Austin)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19009 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19009

RV32I in ACL2
We present a simple ACL2 simulator for the RISC-V 32-bit base instruction set architecture, written in the operational semantics style. Like many other ISA models, our RISC-V state object is a single-threaded object and we prove read-over-write, write-over-write, writing-the-read, and state well-formedness theorems. Unlike some other models, we separate the instruction decoding functions from their semantic counterparts. Accordingly, we verify encoding / decoding functions for each RV32I instru…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Joby Talbot, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Christopher Austin:
🎵 Alice's adventures in Wonderland - suite from the ballet: The Cheshire Cat
#JobyTalbot
https://open.spotify.com/track/29Q1JRb4JwNOE5e0GefRLc

Are you coming to Longhorn PHP in Austin this October?
You should, because I'll be blowing your mind about what PHP properties can do now. It's time to reimagine what PHP can do...
https://longhornphp.com/sessions#a-field-guide-to-phproperties
G…

ZKProphet: Understanding Performance of Zero-Knowledge Proofs on GPUs
Tarunesh Verma (Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, USA), Yichao Yuan (Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, USA), Nishil Talati (Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, USA), Todd Austin (Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, USA)

ZKProphet: Understanding Performance of Zero-Knowledge Proofs on GPUs
Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) are protocols which construct cryptographic proofs to demonstrate knowledge of a secret input in a computation without revealing any information about the secret. ZKPs enable novel applications in private and verifiable computing such as anonymized cryptocurrencies and blockchain scaling and have seen adoption in several real-world systems. Prior work has accelerated ZKPs on GPUs by leveraging the inherent parallelism in core computation kernels like Multi-Scalar Mul…

Improved lower bound for the worst case Pretty Good Measurement
Austin Pechan, Sergio Escobar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19085 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1…

Improved lower bound for the worst case Pretty Good Measurement
We derive a new lower bound on the success probability of the Pretty Good Measurement (PGM) for worst-case quantum state discrimination among $m$ pure states. Our bound is strictly tighter than the previously known Gram-matrix-based bound for $m\geq 4$. The proof adapts techniques from Barnum and Knill's analysis of the average-case PGM, applied here to the worst-case scenario. By comparing the PGM to the sequential measurement algorithm, we obtain a guarantee showing that, in the low-fidelity …

In June 2005, in the RDS Arena, Dublin, WWE held a non-televised Live Event.
One of the matches was John Cena vs Kurt Angle vs JBL in a Triple Threat match with Stone Cold Steve Austin as special guest referee.
#WWE #ProWrestling

Thousands gathered in cities and towns across 34 states on Saturday
for a national day of protest against Republican redistricting plans in Texas and elsewhere.
“Fight the Trump Takeover”
was anchored in Austin, Texas,
with other sites spread nationwide.
In Austin alone, more than 5,000 protestors gathered at the city’s capitol in a show of defiance.
Videos and photos on social media showed protestors holding various signs that read:
“Abbott is a vot…

Infinite BV, large $L^\infty$ solutions of conservation laws are H\"older-stable in $L^2$ in the class of front tracking limits
Geng Chen (University of Kansas), Cooper Faile (The University of Texas at Austin), Sam G. Krupa (\'Ecole normale sup\'erieure)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23645…

Infinite BV, large $L^\infty$ solutions of conservation laws are Hölder-stable in $L^2$ in the class of front tracking limits
We consider hyperbolic systems of conservation laws in one spatial dimension. For any limit of front tracking solutions $v$, and for a general weak solution $u\in L^\infty$ with no BV assumption, we prove the following Hölder-type stability estimate in $L^2$: $$||u(\cdot,τ)-v(\cdot,τ)||_{L^2} \leq K \sqrt{||u( \cdot,0)-v( \cdot,0)||_{L^2}}$$ for all $τ$ without smallness and for a universal constant $K$. Our result holds for all limits of front tr…

SCANS: A Soft Gripper with Curvature and Spectroscopy Sensors for In-Hand Material Differentiation
Nathaniel Hanson, Austin Allison, Charles DiMarzio, Ta\c{s}k{\i}n Pad{\i}r, Kristen L. Dorsey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02164

SCANS: A Soft Gripper with Curvature and Spectroscopy Sensors for In-Hand Material Differentiation
We introduce the soft curvature and spectroscopy (SCANS) system: a versatile, electronics-free, fluidically actuated soft manipulator capable of assessing the spectral properties of objects either in hand or through pre-touch caging. This platform offers a wider spectral sensing capability than previous soft robotic counterparts. We perform a material analysis to explore optimal soft substrates for spectral sensing, and evaluate both pre-touch and in-hand performance. Experiments demonstrate ex…

Call for Papers: 25th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, April 1st to 5th, 2026
https://ift.tt/4cpkaMJ
Pirino on Suzuki, 'Humanitarian Internationalism Under Empire: The Global Evolution of the Japanese…
via Input 4 RELCFP

John Hartford and the Dillards - "Orange Blossom Special" (Austin City Limits, 1978)
#TuneTuesday

Austin-based Ambiq Micro closed up ~61% in its NYSE debut, after raising $96M in an upsized IPO, giving the maker of ultra-low power chips a $680M market value (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

PBS North Carolina lays off 32 employees, after five people took buyouts, and cuts 16 vacant positions, after losing 15% of the network's budget to federal cuts (Austin Fuller/Current)
https://current.org/2025/09/pbs-north-carolina-lays-off-32-employees/

PBS North Carolina lays off 32 employees
Five employees also accepted buyouts, and 16 open jobs will not be filled.

NFL Week 6 best bets: Bears to cover at Commanders and big scores for Lions-Chiefs, Bills-Falcons https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6697492/2025/10/07/nfl-best-bets-week-6-bears-commanders/

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[4/9]:
- Ethical AI for Young Digital Citizens: A Call to Action on Privacy Governance
Austin Shouli, Ankur Barthwal, Molly Campbell, Ajay Kumar Shrestha

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CR/new
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- ZKProphet: Understanding Performance of Zero-Knowledge Proofs on GPUs
Tarunesh Verma, Yichao Yuan, Nishil Talati, Todd Austin

NFL Projection Model: How Micah Parsons blockbuster trade affects outlooks for Cowboys, Packers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6584222/2025/08/30/micah-parsons-trade-packers-cowboys-projection/

Diversity of Cold Worlds: Predicted Near- to Mid-infrared Spectral Signatures of a Cold Brown Dwarf with Potential Auroral Heating
Genaro Su\'arez (American Museum of Natural History), Jacqueline K. Faherty (American Museum of Natural History), Ben Burningham (University of Hertfordshire), Caroline V. Morley (University of Texas at Austin), Johanna M. Vos (Trinity College Dublin), Brianna Lacy (University of California Santa Cruz, NASA Ames Research Center), Melanie J. Rowland (Ame…

Diversity of Cold Worlds: Predicted Near- to Mid-infrared Spectral Signatures of a Cold Brown Dwarf with Potential Auroral Heating
Recent JWST/NIRSpec observations have revealed strong methane emission at 3.326 microns in the $\approx$482 K brown dwarf CWISEP J193518.59$-$154620.3 (W1935). Atmospheric modeling suggests the presence of a $\approx$300 K thermal inversion in its upper atmosphere, potentially driven by auroral activity. We present an extension of the retrieved spectra of W1935 with and without inversion spanning 1--20 microns, to identify thermal inversion-sensitive spectral features and explore the origin of …

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Depleted Panthers will place Hunt, Corbett on IR https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46272978/carolina-panthers-place-robert-hunt-austin-corbett-ir

A vapor-cavity-QED system for quantum computation and communication
Sharoon Austin, Dhruv Devulapalli, Khoi Hoang, Feng Zhou, Kartik Srinivasan, Alexey V. Gorshkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19432

A vapor-cavity-QED system for quantum computation and communication
In this work, we propose performing key operations in quantum computation and communication using room-temperature atoms moving across a grid of high-quality-factor, small-mode-volume cavities. These cavities enable high-cooperativity interactions with single atoms to be achieved with a characteristic timescale much shorter than the atomic transit time, allowing multiple coherent operations to take place. We study scenarios where we can drive a Raman transition to generate photons with specific…

Waymo plans to launch its robotaxi service in Dallas in 2026 with Avis as the fleet partner, a first after exclusively working with Uber in Austin and Atlanta (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-…

Waymo (GOOGL), Avis Plan Dallas Robotaxi Launch in Multiyear Deal
Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo plans to launch robotaxi service in Dallas next year in partnership with Avis Budget Group Inc., a push by the autonomous car company to diversify beyond its relationship with Uber Technologies Inc. to further expand across the US.

At a CPB meeting, CEO Patricia Harrison said CPB is doing "everything possible" to secure funding for FY26 while also preparing for a possible shutdown (Austin Fuller/Current)
https://current.org/2025/07/cpb-prepares-for-closeout-while-h…

Variation in Verification: Understanding Verification Dynamics in Large Language Models
Yefan Zhou, Austin Xu, Yilun Zhou, Janvijay Singh, Jiang Gui, Shafiq Joty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17995

Variation in Verification: Understanding Verification Dynamics in Large Language Models
Recent advances have shown that scaling test-time computation enables large language models (LLMs) to solve increasingly complex problems across diverse domains. One effective paradigm for test-time scaling (TTS) involves LLM generators producing multiple solution candidates, with LLM verifiers assessing the correctness of these candidates without reference answers. In this paper, we study generative verifiers, which perform verification by generating chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning followed b…

Lattice-enabled detection of spin-dependent three-body interactions
C. Binegar, J. O. Austin-Harris, S. E. Begg, P. Sigdel, T. Bilitewski, Y. Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01158

Lattice-enabled detection of spin-dependent three-body interactions
We present the experimental detection of coherent three-body interactions, often masked by stronger two-body effects, through nonequilibrium spin dynamics induced by controllably quenching lattice-confined spinor gases. Three-body interactions are characterized through both real-time and frequency domain analyses of the observed dynamics. Our results, well-described by an extended Bose-Hubbard model, further demonstrate the importance of three-body interactions for correctly determining atom di…

Call for Papers: 25th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, April 1st to 5th, 2026
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Fins' OL depth thins after RT Jackson hits IR https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46246728/dolphins-place-right-tackle-austin-jackson-ir

Commanders RB Austin Ekeler believed to have torn Achilles, will undergo MRI to confirm https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-rb-austin-ekeler-believed-to-have-torn-achilles-will-undergo-mri

Austin-based Overhaul, an in-transit supply chain risk management company, raised a $105M Series C led by Springcoast Partners and Edison Partners (Liz Young/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/supply-chain-

Thousands are expected to gather in cities and towns across 34 states on Saturday
for a national day of protest against Republican redistricting plans in Texas and elsewhere.
“Fight the Trump Takeover” will be anchored in Austin, Texas, with other sites spread nationwide.
“Texas House Democrats are blocking a redistricting vote in the Texas House right now to Stop the Trump Takeover,”
a website for the protests says.
“But Trump has made it clear that he’s not st…

Austin Ekeler injury: Commanders believe running back tore Achilles vs. Packers, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/austin-ekeler-…

Call for Papers: 25th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, April 1st to 5th, 2026
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Commanders RB Ekeler exits with Achilles injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46230290/commanders-austin-ekeler-sustains-non-contact-achilles-injury

NFL Week 1 best bets: Fading Matthew Stafford due to injury plus some early unders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6598391/2025/09/04/nfl-best-bets-week-1-bengals-texans-giants/

Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building a modular nuclear reactor and data center, set to finish construction in 2026, raised a $100M Series B led by Valor (Julia Hornstein/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/aalo-atomi

Aalo Atomics lands $100 million to launch nuclear reactors to power AI
Aalo Atomics raises $100 million to mass-produce nuclear reactors to power data centers amid the growing energy demand from AI.

Don't be surprised if Lawrence is top 10 at QB, Ekeler is the answer and Meyers shines https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/46155429/nfl-fantasy-football-rankings-predictions-surprises-week-1

Call for Papers: 25th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, April 1st to 5th, 2026
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Austin-based CertifID, which develops tech to prevent wire fraud in real estate transactions, raised a $47.5M Series C led by Centana Growth Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/07/15/certifid-47-million-real-estat…

Exclusive: CertifID raises $47.5 million to fight real estate wire fraud
Real estate wire fraud is surging, driven by increasingly sophisticated scams.

NFL Week 1 best bets: Fading Matthew Stafford due to injury plus some early unders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6598391/2025/09/04/nfl-best-bets-week-1-bengals-texans-giants/

NFL Week 5 projected scores: Model predicts point spreads and totals for every game https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6684060/2025/10/02/nfl-week-5-projected-scores-model-predicts-point-spreads-totals/

Hunt, Corbett injuries make Panthers' failed comeback sting even more https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46264207/nfl-carolina-panthers-bryce-young-austin-corbett-robert-hunt

Tesla is set to face a Florida federal jury to defend allegations that Autopilot was at fault in a fatal 2019 crash, as it tests autonomous robotaxis in Austin (Trisha Thadani/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/14/tesla-trial-…

As Elon Musk pushes Robotaxis, Tesla faces trial over fatal Autopilot crash
Tesla faces trial in Miami over a fatal 2019 crash involving a distracted driver using its Autopilot technology. A woman died and her boyfriend was gravely injured.

NFL Week 5 best bets: Fading Jaxson Dart and Bo Nix and showing belief in Jacksonville https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6676467/2025/09/30/nfl-best-bets-week-5-dart-nix/

Are 49ers, Chargers really Super Bowl contenders? NFL Projection Model ranks 3-0 teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6658645/2025/09/25/49ers-chargers-projection-rankings-super-bowl/

NFL Week 4 projected scores: Model predicts point spreads and totals for every game https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6662726/2025/09/25/nfl-week-4-projected-scores-model-point-spreads-totals/

NFL Week 4 best bets: Value with odds overreacting on Colts, Bears https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6662229/2025/09/25/nfl-week-4-best-bets-colts-bears/

2025 NFL win total projections for all 32 teams: Experts react to our model https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6572327/2025/08/25/nfl-2025-win-totals-projections-analysis/