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

#Vancouver News
How a quick trip to B.C. landed a woman and her child in a Texas detention facility
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/h

How a quick trip to B.C. landed a woman and her child in a Texas detention facility
A woman who made what she thought would be a quick trip across the border between B.C. and Washington state was picked up by ICE and has spent the last three weeks in an immigration detention facility with her six-year-old son.

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi 2 as Off-grid Server (2015) - Read how I set up my solar-powered RPi2 (previously a Model B then a B ) to take on load from servers elsewhere on the Internet... #RPi #frugal #offGrid

On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi 2 as Off-grid Server (2015)
Read how I set up my solar-powered RPi2 (previously a Model B then a B+) to take on load from servers elsewhere on the Internet... #RPi #frugal #offGrid

Today's ride to work on the borrowed ebike. Took a route I really don't like due to flooding of the Menomonee River, but it was okay. Made it under 24 minutes. (My car commute is typically 15 minutes, so that's pretty good!)
Brought a spare shirt to work since I have to wear a backpack to carry things. Also, 6.66 miles? Epic.
#biking

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Lady Wray:
🎵 Be A Witness
#LadyWray
https://ladywray.bandcamp.com/album/be-a-witness-b-w-best-for-us
https://open.spotify.com/track/7jKb1Vsof8n5Bg3JF9MPcr

Unify, which offers AI-powered tools to boost revenue pipelines, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, valuing it at $260M, following a $12M Series A (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/unify-ai-gtm-pipeline-40-million-raise

Unify, AI Startup Boosting Sales At Cursor And Perplexity, Raises $40 Million
Unify's Series B funding round values it at $260 million as revenue grows 17% month over month past $5 million. But a clash with GTM darling Clay may be coming up.

Generation of a CW anti-bunched photon field from a thin-film PPLN waveguide by two-photon interference with a weak coherent state
Yue Li, Haochuan Li, Yuhang Lei, Xiaoting Li, Jianmin Wang, Xuan Tang, Mu Ku Chen, E. Y. B. Pun, Cheng Wang, Z. Y. Ou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10135

Generation of a CW anti-bunched photon field from a thin-film PPLN waveguide by two-photon interference with a weak coherent state
An anti-bunched photon field is produced from a thin-film ppln waveguide by mixing the on-chip two-photon state with a weak but matched coherent state. This is achieved by taking out the two-photon part of the coherent state via a destructive two-photon interference with the on-chip two-photon state. We achieve a photon rate of 100 kHz with a g2-value of 0.35. This anti-bunched light field will have applications in high-resolution quantum imaging such as long baseline quantum telescopy for enha…

rest in paint 🕯️ https://criminalmindedartist.neocities.org/rip

TIL (#Arm things):
> There are no equivalent instructions to BX and BLX to change between AArch32 and AArch64 state. The only way to change execution state is by a change of exception level.
https://

Integral Cayley graphs over a nonabelian group of order $8n$
Bei Ye, Xiaogang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10653 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10653

Integral Cayley graphs over a nonabelian group of order $8n$
A graph is called an integral graph when all eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix are integers. We study which Cayley graphs over a nonabelian group $$ T_{8n}=\left\langle a,b\mid a^{2n}=b^8=e,a^n=b^4,b^{-1}ab=a^{-1} \right \rangle $$ are integral graphs. Based on the group representation theory, we first give the irreducible matrix representations and characters of $T_{8n}$. Then we give necessary and sufficient conditions for which Cayley graphs over $T_{8n}$ are integral graphs. As applicatio…

This week's #ThursdayFiveList is @…'s #MusicOfTheMountains:
1. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, “Man on the Silver Mountain”—

💸 Heir Ball: How the Cost of Youth Sports Is Changing the N.B.A.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/30/heir-ball-how-the-cost-of-youth-sports-is-changing-the-nba
🆓

Heir Ball: How the Cost of Youth Sports Is Changing the N.B.A.
Jay Caspian Kang talks to Jermaine O’Neal, Luka Dončić, Steve Nash, and others around the N.B.A. about how the professionalization of youth sports is changing the landscape of pro basketball.

There are a few reasons to do this:
A) Less light leaking downstairs
B) To block cats from getting on it and chewing on cables
C) Because it looks better, it will look amazing once I'm done with full making a scene of this part
#LEGO #Kubernetes

On The Road - To Xi’An/Before & After 🌬️
在路上 - 去西安/之前之后🌬️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

YouTuber Ejay B breaks a Mario Kart Wii world record by getting stuck in the ground 😂 Gotta love these wacky speedrunners. #Wii

@… Imma leave this here.
https://oslo.town/@3rik/114852489190235610

I'm not a robot (@3rik@oslo.town)
Attached: 1 image M.S.B.R. / Kengo Luchi – 壱 [One] Kengo Luchi was a "noise-folk performer" about whom not much information is available. This release, in which he teamed up with MSBR is probably the easiest to find cheap. He sounds like a more primal version of Kazuki Tomokawa or Kan Mikami. A lot of agony and screams. Very nice, both with MSBR and in a band setting with other musicians. MSBR, of course, adds more noise, and a rather loosely structured solo track. #MSBR #KengoLuchi #noi…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SundayMorning
George Frideric Handel, Sir John Eliot Gardiner & English Baroque Soloists:
🎵 Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op 3 No 2 (2nd mvt)
#GeorgeFridericHandel
https://open.spotify.com/track/31HdLivjyBtVySUOEA28c7

KAN-SR: A Kolmogorov-Arnold Network Guided Symbolic Regression Framework
Marco Andrea B\"uhler, Gonzalo Guill\'en-Gos\'albez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10089 https:…

KAN-SR: A Kolmogorov-Arnold Network Guided Symbolic Regression Framework
We introduce a novel symbolic regression framework, namely KAN-SR, built on Kolmogorov Arnold Networks (KANs) which follows a divide-and-conquer approach. Symbolic regression searches for mathematical equations that best fit a given dataset and is commonly solved with genetic programming approaches. We show that by using deep learning techniques, more specific KANs, and combining them with simplification strategies such as translational symmetries and separabilities, we are able to recover grou…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The B-52's:
🎵 Love Shack
#NowPlaying #TheB52s
https://juancardoni.bandcamp.com/track/the-b-52-love-shack
https://open.spotify.com/track/4W4wYHtsrgDiivRASVOINL

“By the time I graduated high school, I had decided to be a minister,” Scott ’62 B.D. says. “At that time, to me, serving God was the number one thing in life.”
https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2025-09-04-a-season-for-eve…

Computing optimal trajectories for a tethered pursuer
Aurelio Barrera-Vicent, Jos\'e Miguel D\'iaz-B\'a\~nez, Fabio Rodr\'iguez, Vanesa S\'anchez-Canales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08724

Computing optimal trajectories for a tethered pursuer
In this paper, we introduce a trajectory planning problem for a marsupial robotics system consisting of a ground robot, a drone, and a taut tether of bounded length connecting the two robots. This problem can be framed within the context of a pursuit-evasion game. Using a geometric modeling approach, we present an optimal algorithm to compute a minimum-link path for the pursuer (ground robot), given the known path of the evader (drone). Furthermore, we address and solve three related geometric …

Confluent hypergeometric kernel determinant on multiple large intervals
Taiyang Xu, Lun Zhang, Zhengyang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10463 https://arxi…

Confluent hypergeometric kernel determinant on multiple large intervals
The confluent hypergeometric point process represents a universality class which arises in a variety of different but related areas. It particularly describes the local statistics of eigenvalues in the bulk of spectrum near a Fisher-Hartwig singular point for a broad class of unitary ensembles. It is the aim of this work to investigate large gap asymptotics of this process over a union of disjoint intervals $\cup_{j=0}^{n}(sa_j,sb_j)$, where $a_0

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
KOMMISSAR: [O.O.V.] Your companions are still alive.
CALLY: I feel it. You killed him. You killed him because he would not obey you.
KOMMISSAR: What is she talking about?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/416 B7B3

On Middle Grounds for Preference Statements
Anne-Marie George, Ana Ozaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09553 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09553

On Middle Grounds for Preference Statements
In group decisions or deliberations, stakeholders are often confronted with conflicting opinions. We investigate a logic-based way of expressing such opinions and a formal general notion of a middle ground between stakeholders. Inspired by the literature on preferences with hierarchical and lexicographic models, we instantiate our general framework to the case where stakeholders express their opinions using preference statements of the form I prefer 'a' to 'b', where 'a' and 'b' are alternative…

Towards Understanding Visual Grounding in Visual Language Models
Georgios Pantazopoulos, Eda B. \"Ozyi\u{g}it
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10345 https://

Towards Understanding Visual Grounding in Visual Language Models
Visual grounding refers to the ability of a model to identify a region within some visual input that matches a textual description. Consequently, a model equipped with visual grounding capabilities can target a wide range of applications in various domains, including referring expression comprehension, answering questions pertinent to fine-grained details in images or videos, caption visual context by explicitly referring to entities, as well as low and high-level control in simulated and real …

Das ist kein B-Movie, oder? Ist das schon E oder F?
"Arctic Armageddon"
"Im #Nordatlantik setzen geologische Prozesse am #Meeresgrund eine globale #Klimakatastrophe

Ich werde meine letzten Stop-forcing-AI-into-fucking-everything-Aufkleber zum #FediCamp mitbringen.
Eins kann ja immer neue machen, z.B. bei Flyeralarm. Die Grafikdateien, Übersetzungen und einen Link zu einer T-Shirt-Bestellmöglichkeit beim Originalkünstler sammle ich hier:

Imagine having the institutional power to be like, "okay city/county, you will run your bus route through our campus in a loop"? #Seattle #KCMetro

Die ePetition 182387 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Außenpolitik mit dem Titel
Sofortiger Stopp aller Waffenexporte durch Deutschland
kann bis zum Dienstag 26. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird der sofortige Stopp aller Waffenexporte durch Deutschland gefordert - für eine …

Die ePetition 182527 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Wahlrecht mit dem Titel
Verbesserung des Verfahrens zur Stimmabgabe im Ausland lebender Deutscher bei Bundestagswahlen.
kann bis zum Montag 25. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, das Verfahren zur Stimmabgabe im…

Save bees from deadly pesticides #environment

Im #Frühjahr ist das #Grünflächenamt über diese Fläche gegangen und hat alles abgesäbelt. Bis knapp über dem Boden.
Jetzt stehen wieder überall Robinientriebe. Keine Ahnung, wieso die da nicht ein paar

That Backyard Property Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Evaluation of Black-Box XAI Approaches for Predictors of Values of Boolean Formulae
Stav Armoni-Friedmann, Hana Chockler, David A. Kelly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09982 https:/…

Evaluation of Black-Box XAI Approaches for Predictors of Values of Boolean Formulae
Evaluating explainable AI (XAI) approaches is a challenging task in general, due to the subjectivity of explanations. In this paper, we focus on tabular data and the specific use case of AI models predicting the values of Boolean functions. We extend the previous work in this domain by proposing a formal and precise measure of importance of variables based on actual causality, and we evaluate state-of-the-art XAI tools against this measure. We also present a novel XAI tool B-ReX, based on the e…

Counting points on a family of degree one del Pezzo surfaces
Katharine Woo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09391 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09391

Counting points on a family of degree one del Pezzo surfaces
We study rational points on the elliptic surface given by the equation: $$y^2 = x^3 + AxQ(u,v)^2 + BQ(u,v)^3,$$ where $A,B\in \mathbb{Z}$ satisfy that $4A^3-27B^2\neq 0$ and $Q(u,v)$ is a positive-definite quadratic form. We prove asymptotics for a special subset of the rational points, specifically those that are integral with respect to the singularity. This method utilizes Mordell's parameterization of integral points on quadratic twists on elliptic curves, which is based on a syzygy for…

Additional JWST/NIRSpec Transits of the Rocky M Dwarf Exoplanet GJ 1132 b Reveal a Featureless Spectrum
Katherine A. Bennett, Ryan J. MacDonald, Sarah Peacock, Junellie Perez, E. M. May, Sarah E. Moran, Lili Alderson, Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, Hannah R. Wakeford, David K. Sing, Kevin B. Stevenson, Natasha E. Batalha, Mercedes L\'opez-Morales, Munazza K. Alam, Joshua D. Lothringer, Guangwei Fu, James Kirk, Jeff A. Valenti, L. C. Mayorga, Kristin S. Sotzen

Additional JWST/NIRSpec Transits of the Rocky M Dwarf Exoplanet GJ 1132 b Reveal a Featureless Spectrum
As an archetypal M-dwarf rocky exoplanet, GJ 1132 b has a varied history of atmospheric measurements. At 1.13 $\rm R_{\oplus}$, 1.66 $\rm M_{\oplus}$, and 580 K, it orbits a bright, slowly rotating M dwarf in a 1.6-day period, making it a prime target for characterization. In this study, we combine two JWST NIRSpec/G395H transits previously reported by May and MacDonald et al. 2023 with two new NIRSpec/G395M transits to constrain the presence of an atmosphere. This marks the first time the G395…

The virtual contributions from $K^*$ in the $B \to K^*\pi h$ and $B \to K\rho h$ decays
Ai-Jun Ma, Wen-Fei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09578 https://ar…

The virtual contributions from $K^*$ in the $B \to K^*πh$ and $B \to Kρh$ decays
Inspired by the significant virtual contributions of the subprocesses $D^{*}/B^{*}\to Dπ$ and $ ρ\toωπ/K\bar{K}$ in the three-body hadronic $B$ meson decays, we study the off-shell effects of the resonance $K^*$ decaying into the $K^*π$ or $Kρ$ system in the decays $B \to K^*πh$ and $B \to Kρh$ (with $h=π, K$) within the perturbative QCD approach. The strong coupling constants $g_{K^*K^*π}$ and $g_{K^*Kρ}$ involved in this work are derived from the coupling constant $g_{ρωπ}$ unde…

TbPt6Al3: A rare-earth-based g-wave altermagnet with a honeycomb structure
R. Oishi, T. Taniguchi, D. T. Adroja, M. D. Le, M. Aouane, T. Onimaru, K. Umeo, I. Ishii, T. Takabatake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09909

TbPt6Al3: A rare-earth-based g-wave altermagnet with a honeycomb structure
The magnetic properties of the Tb-honeycomb lattice compound TbPt6Al3, which crystallizes in the NdPt6Al3-type trigonal structure, have been studied by the measurements of electrical resistivity, magnetization M(T, B), and specific heat on single-crystalline samples. The magnetic susceptibility, M(T)/B, for B || c = 0.1 T shows a cusp at TN = 3.5 K, which temperature decreases with increasing the magnitude of B || c, while M(T)/B for B || a = 0.1 T remains constant…

Woods Mattress – Hypertension
#AllRightsReserved

Pregunta para entendidos: ¿forgejo soporta federación para trabajar entre distintas instancias? Por ejemplo si hago un fork de un proyecto desde un servidor a mi cuenta en otro, ¿Puedo hacer un pull request al servidor original para que se incluyan mis cambios en el código?
Aclaro que sé muy poco de como utilizar git. Lo uso de manera bien bšsica.
#Forgejo

Guardian interview with Joshua Aaron, developer of the Ice Block app. His wife, who had worked for DOJ for 10 years, was fired after Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi complained about his app.
You can easily bypass the subscription request.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

A novel approach to determining the age of stellar clusters: application to NGC 188
K. Yakut, B. Kalomeni, S. Rappaport
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09255 https://

A novel approach to determining the age of stellar clusters: application to NGC 188
We present a new independent determination for the age of one of the oldest open clusters, NGC 188: $6.41 \pm 0.33$ Gyr. We utilize a novel approach where we jointly fit the radial velocities (RVs) and spectral energy distributions (SED) of six binary star systems in the cluster. The joint fit has 21 free parameters: 12 stellar masses, 6 orbital inclination angles, as well as a common cluster age, distance, and extinction, $A_V$. The fit to the SEDs utilizes MIST stellar isochrones, and the fit…

Meromorphic solution of a certain type of algebraic differential equation
Junfeng Xu, Sujoy Majumder, Nabadwip Sarkar, Lata Mahato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10113 https://

Meromorphic solution of a certain type of algebraic differential equation
In the paper, we use the idea of normal family to find out the possible solution of the following special case of algebraic differential equation \[P_k\big(z,f,f^{(1)},\ldots, f^{(k)}\big)=f^{(1)}(f-\mathscr{L}_k(f))-φ(f-a)(f-b)=0,\] where $\mathscr{L}_k(f)=\sideset{}{_{i=0}^k}{\sum} a_i f^{(i)}$ and $φ$ is an entire function, $a_i\in\mathbb{C}\;(i=0,1,\ldots, k)$ such that $a_k=1$ and $a, b\in\mathbb{C}$ such that $a\neq b$. The obtained results improve and generalise the results of Li and Y…

Beyond Token Limits: Assessing Language Model Performance on Long Text Classification
Mikl\'os Seb\H{o}k, Viktor Kov\'acs, Martin B\'an\'oczy, Daniel M{\o}ller Eriksen, Nathalie Neptune, Philippe Roussille
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10199

Beyond Token Limits: Assessing Language Model Performance on Long Text Classification
The most widely used large language models in the social sciences (such as BERT, and its derivatives, e.g. RoBERTa) have a limitation on the input text length that they can process to produce predictions. This is a particularly pressing issue for some classification tasks, where the aim is to handle long input texts. One such area deals with laws and draft laws (bills), which can have a length of multiple hundred pages and, therefore, are not particularly amenable for processing with models tha…

Exploring cortical connectivity of visual prosthesis users: resting-state study https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/81/1/20 "This study reveals significant changes in cortical connectivity before UEA [Utah Electrode Array] implantation and after its explantation."

Get Excited About #Postgres 18
https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/get-excited-about-postgres-18

Ich glaub ich hab ein DéjŠ-vu...
#fahrradalltag
P.S.: Wieder ein Einheimischer.
https://dresden.network/@der_raDDler/114978210411125359

The Interstellar Medium in IZw18 seen with JWST/MIRI: I. Highly Ionized Gas
L. K. Hunt, A. Aloisi, M. G. Navarro, R. J. Rickards Vaught, B. T. Draine, A. Adamo, F. Annibali, D. Calzetti, S. Hernandez, B. L. James, M. Mingozzi, R. Schneider, M. Tosi, B. Brandl, M. G. del Valle-Espinosa, F. Donnan, A. S. Hirschauer, M. Meixner, D. Rigopoulou, C. T. Richardson, J. M. Levanti, A. R. Basu-Zych

The Interstellar Medium in IZw18 seen with JWST/MIRI: I. Highly Ionized Gas
We present JWST/MIRI spectra from the Medium-Resolution Spectrometer of IZw18, a nearby dwarf galaxy with a metallicity of $\sim$3% Solar. Its proximity enables a detailed study of highly ionized gas that can be interpreted in the context of newly discovered high-redshift dwarf galaxies. We derive aperture spectra centered on eleven regions of interest; the spectra show very low extinction, A_V $\lesssim 0.1$, consistent with optical determinations. The gas is highly ionized; we have detected 1…

A New Primes-Generating Sequence
Mohammed Bouras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09745 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09745

A New Primes-Generating Sequence
For the sequence defined by \[ a(n) = \frac{n^2 - n - 1}{\gcd\big(n^2 - n - 1,\, b(n-3) + n\,b(n-4)\big)} \] Where $b(n) = (n+2)\big(b(n-1) - b(n-2)\big),$ with initial conditions $b(-1) = 0$ and $b(0) = 1$, we find that $a(n)$ contains only $1$'s and primes, and can be represented as a finite continued fraction. It is more efficient for generating prime numbers than the Rowland sequence.

A Semi-Lagrangian scheme on embedded manifolds using generalized local polynomial reproductions
Thomas Hangelbroek, Christian Rieger, Grady B. Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10344

A Semi-Lagrangian scheme on embedded manifolds using generalized local polynomial reproductions
We analyze rates of uniform convergence for a class of high-order semi-Lagrangian schemes for first-order, time-dependent partial differential equations on embedded submanifolds of $\mathbb{R}^d$ (including advection equations on surfaces) by extending the error analysis of Falcone and Ferretti. A central requirement in our analysis is a remapping operator that achieves both high approximation orders and strong stability, a combination that is challenging to obtain and of independent interest. …

Experimental study of turbulent mixing in a T-shaped mixer
Huixin Li, Mohammad Mehdi Zamani Asl, Bastian B\"auerlein, Kerstin Avila, Duo Xu, Marc Avila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10264

Experimental study of turbulent mixing in a T-shaped mixer
One of the most widespread canonical devices for fluid mixing is the T-shaped mixer, in which two opposing miscible liquid streams meet at a junction and then mix along a main channel. Laminar steady and time-periodic flows in T-shaped mixers have been thoroughly studied, but turbulent flows have received much less scrutiny despite their prevalence in applications. We here introduce a novel experimental setup with a hydraulic diameter of four centimetres that enables the optical study of turbul…

Trump Is Winning the Battle to Undermine Democracy (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opinion/trump-authoritarianism-republican-party-democracy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p118#a250715p118

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Death Valley Girls:
🎵 Fire and Brimstone
#DeathValleyGirls
https://deathvalleygirls.bandcamp.com/album/sisters-of-the-moon-b-w-fire-and-brimstone
https://open.spotify.com/track/4jRq49pjTXmk5QOd6tHmxl

Discovering Flow Separation Control Strategies in 3D Wings via Deep Reinforcement Learning
R. Montal\`a, B. Font, P. Su\'arez, J. Rabault, O. Lehmkuhl, R. Vinuesa, I. Rodriguez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10185

Discovering Flow Separation Control Strategies in 3D Wings via Deep Reinforcement Learning
In this work, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is applied to active flow control (AFC) over a threedimensional SD7003 wing at a Reynolds number of Re = 60,000 and angle of attack of AoA = 14 degrees. In the uncontrolled baseline case, the flow exhibits massive separation and a fully turbulent wake. Using a GPU-accelerated CFD solver and multi-agent training, DRL discovers control strategies that enhance lift (79%), reduce drag (65%), and improve aerodynamic efficiency (408%). Flow visualizatio…

Bayesian inference of antibody evolutionary dynamics using multitype branching processes
Athanasios G. Bakis, Ashni A. Vora, Tatsuya Araki, Tongqiu Jia, Jared G. Galloway, Chris Jennings-Shaffer, Gabriel D. Victora, Yun S. Song, William S. DeWitt, Frederick A. Matsen IV, Volodymyr M. Minin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09519

Bayesian inference of antibody evolutionary dynamics using multitype branching processes
When our immune system encounters foreign antigens (i.e., from pathogens), the B cells that produce our antibodies undergo a cyclic process of proliferation, mutation, and selection, improving their ability to bind to the specific antigen. Immunologists have recently developed powerful experimental techniques to investigate this process in mouse models. In one such experiment, mice are engineered with a monoclonal B-cell precursor and immunized with a model antigen. B cells are sampled from sac…

Aspora, which makes financial tools like remittance services for the Indian diaspora, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Sequoia and Greylock at a $500M valuation (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/15/aspora-ge…

Aspora gets $50M from Sequoia to build remittance and banking solutions for Indian diaspora | TechCrunch
Aspora (formerly Vance) is trying to build a verticalized financial experience for the Indian diaspora by keeping convenience at the center.

💋 Budget Car Buyers Want Automakers to K.I.S.S.
#cars

Budget Car Buyers Want Automakers to K.I.S.S.
At a time when budgets matter a whole lot, potential new car buyers are pleading with manufacturers: "Keep it simple, stupid."

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Antonio Vivaldi, Meyrick Alexander, London Chamber Orchestra & Christopher Warren‐Green:
🎵 Bassoon Concerto in B-Flat Major, RV 502: I. Allegro
#AntonioVivaldi
https://open.spotify.com/track/7yds0K6qs4FSlcg3rGgIEy

What's the opposite of a snowbird? I'm going to start summering in Montreal. Or even further north..
https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-8mMvqdG0TBu8rLQV9dpBmg:a:3807498986-/0

Heavy storms, possible flooding expected for NYC area Monday amid ‘tropical-like’ air
A “tropical-like” air mass could yield heavy showers, thunderstorms and wind gusts Monday across the New York City region, the National Weather …

In #Ulm entsteht südlich des Berliner Rings ein 8-Megawatt-#Solarpark auf einer ehemaligen Baufläche.
Das Gemeinschaftsprojekt von Donau Energie und Energiewerk setzt auf #Bürgerbeteiligung

Neuer Solarpark in Ulm: Donau-Energie und Energiewerk setzen auf Bürgerbeteiligung
Der Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien in Ulm bekommt neuen Schwung: Südlich des Berliner Rings entsteht ein Solarpark, der nicht nur klimafreundlichen Strom …

Quantum-Guided Cluster Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization
Peter J. Eder, Aron Kerschbaumer, Jernej Rudi Fin\v{z}gar, Raimel A. Medina, Martin J. A. Schuetz, Helmut G. Katzgraber, Sarah Braun, Christian B. Mendl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10656

Quantum-Guided Cluster Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization
Finding the ground state of Ising spin glasses is notoriously difficult due to disorder and frustration. Often, this challenge is framed as a combinatorial optimization problem, for which a common strategy employs simulated annealing, a Monte Carlo (MC)-based algorithm that updates spins one at a time. Yet, these localized updates can cause the system to become trapped in local minima. Cluster algorithms (CAs) were developed to address this limitation and have demonstrated considerable success …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kevin Morby:
🎵 Gift Horse
#NowPlaying #KevinMorby
https://kevinmorby.bandcamp.com/album/gift-horse-b-w-i-was-on-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/3aFxLF3ghZGFDo4YBC72aC

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
VILA: [On communicator] Avon.
AVON: Well?
VILA: [On communicator] There's no response. What's going on, where are they?
AVON: Inside. It must be shielded.
VILA: [On communicator] Do you want to come up?
AVON: No.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/285

Die ePetition 182891 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Notare mit dem Titel
Anwesenheit beider Parteien bei der Vorbereitung einer notariellen Urkunde
kann bis zum Dienstag 26. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, das Beurkundungsgesetz (BeurkG) dahingehend zu ändern,…

Die ePetition 182415 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Führerscheinwesen mit dem Titel
Abschaffung der MPU ausschließlich für Menschen bei Alkohol- und Drogendelikten bei Nachweis der Abstinenz durch eine Klinik
kann bis zum Montag 25. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird die Ab…

Primordial planet spin driven by boundary layer effects in a decretion disc
Rebecca G. Martin, Stephen H. Lubow, David Vallet, Madeline Overton, Stephen Lepp, Zhaohuan Zhu, Shunquan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09273

Primordial planet spin driven by boundary layer effects in a decretion disc
Accretion of material from a protoplanetary disc on to a forming giant planet can spin the planet up to close to its breakup rate, $Ω_{\rm b}=(G M_{\rm p}/R_{\rm p}^3)$, where $M_{\rm p}$ is the mass and $R_{\rm p}$ is the radius of the planet. After the protoplanetary disc dissipates, the rapidly rotating planet may eject a decretion (outflowing) disc in a similar way to a Be star. Boundary layer effects in a hydrodynamic disc allow for decretion disc formation at spin rates below the breakup…

In den Radionachrichten höre ich heute von der »Initiative für einen handlungsfähigen Staat«. Leider wendet sich diese Initiative nicht gegen die Sabotage der Verfassungsrichter:innenwahl durch AfD & Union, sondern gegen #Datenschutz und andere Regulierungen, also all das, was von interessierter Seite gern als

Data-driven analyses and model-independent fits for present $b\to s \ell \ell$ results
T. Hurth, F. Mahmoudi, Y. Monceaux, S. Neshatpour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09986 https:/…

Data-driven analyses and model-independent fits for present $b\to s \ell \ell$ results
We present a critical assessment of the present $B$ anomalies in the exclusive $b \to s \ell\ell$ mode based on the QCD factorisation approach (QCDf). In particular, we analyse the impact of different local form factor calculations and of the largest bin in the low-$q^2$ region. We also present a model-independent analysis of the new results of the CMS experiment on the $B \to K^* μ^+μ^-$ angular observables and compare them with the corresponding LHCb data. In addition, we update the globa…

And she fucking needs it, because she's been terrible so far. The Mamdani endorsement is a tiny bright blip.
https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-sHmgYv0uTrSfJu1qBmy-8g:a:3807498986-/0

Gov. Hochul’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani as much about her political future as his
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor could help her in next year’s gubernatorial election as much as it helps …

A Galactic Interloper: A Study of the Cam OB1 Association's Clusters and its Visitor from the Perseus Arm
Joseph Mullen, Amanda Mast, Marina Kounkel, Keivan Stassun, Alexandre Roman-Lopes, Jonathan Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09393

A Galactic Interloper: A Study of the Cam OB1 Association's Clusters and its Visitor from the Perseus Arm
Within the molecular clouds of the Camelopardis OB1 association exists a region previously noted as one subgroup. However, bulk clustering from Gaia astrometry has recently shown three distinctive kinematically coherent groups, all found in a similar location in the sky ($137 \lessapprox l\lessapprox145$ and $-2\lessapprox b \lessapprox5$) and at a similar distance ($\sim$1kpc). In this work, we derive from first principles the three proposed clusters in this region, refine the membership list …

Witt Groups and Bulk-Boundary Correspondence for Stabilizer States
B{\l}a\.zej Ruba, Bowen Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10418 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Witt Groups and Bulk-Boundary Correspondence for Stabilizer States
We establish a bulk--boundary correspondence for translation-invariant stabilizer states in arbitrary spatial dimension, formulated in the framework of modules over Laurent polynomial rings. To each stabilizer state restricted to half-space geometry we associate a boundary operator module. Boundary operator modules provide examples of quasi-symplectic modules, which are objects of independent mathematical interest. In their study, we use ideas from algebraic L-theory in a setting involving non-…

Saudi Arabia-based Hala, which offers payment services to more than 142,000 SMBs in the Gulf region, raised a $157M Series B, source says at a ~$900M valuation (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
ZEN: Confirmed, battle computers are online.
JENNA: Give me maximum available range on the detectors.
[Scene - inside Star One]
CALLY: What do you think is going on?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/213/357 B7B4

Die ePetition 182527 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Wahlrecht mit dem Titel
Verbesserung des Verfahrens zur Stimmabgabe im Ausland lebender Deutscher bei Bundestagswahlen.
kann bis zum Montag 25. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, das Verfahren zur Stimmabgabe im…

NetBox Labs, whose open-source tools help manage networks and are used by CoreWeave, ARM, Cisco, JP Morgan, and Riot Games, raised a $35M Series B (Marcus Schuler/implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/netbox-labs-secures-35-milli…

NetBox Labs Raises $35M Series B as AI Drives Network Demand
NetBox Labs raised $35M as companies scramble to manage complex networks. The AI boom creates massive infrastructure demand, and legacy tools can't keep up. The open-source platform now serves Fortune 500 firms.

Efficient Quantum Information-Inspired Ansatz for Variational Quantum Eigensolver Algorithm: Applications to Atomic Systems
Abdul Kalam, Prasenjit Deb, Akitada Sakurai, B. K. Sahoo, V. S. Prasannaa, B. P. Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10593

Efficient Quantum Information-Inspired Ansatz for Variational Quantum Eigensolver Algorithm: Applications to Atomic Systems
We present a quantum information-inspired ansatz for the variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) and demonstrate its efficacy in calculating ground-state energies of atomic systems. Instead of adopting a heuristic approach, we start with an approximate multi-qubit target state and utilize two quantum information-theoretic quantities, i.e., von Neumann entropy and quantum mutual information, to construct our ansatz. The quantum information encoded in the target state helps us to design unique bloc…

Die ePetition 182887 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Umgangs- und Sorgerecht der Eltern mit dem Titel
Entziehung des Sorgerechts bei nachgewiesener häuslicher Gewalt
kann bis zum Dienstag 26. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, dass Elternteilen, die häusliche Gewa…

An Earth-Sized Planet in a 5.4h Orbit Around a Nearby K dwarf
Kaya Han Ta\c{s}, Gudmundur Stefansson, Syarief N. M. Fariz, Esha Garg, Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal, Elise Koo, David Bruijne, Jacob Luhn, Eric B. Ford, Suvrath Mahadevan, Sarah E. Logsdon, Caleb I. Ca\~nas, Te Han, Mark E. Everett, Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes, Cullen Blake, William D. Cochran, Jiayin Dong, Rachel B. Fernandes, Mark R. Giovinazzi, Samuel Halverson, Shubham Kanodia, Daniel Krolikowski, Michael McElwain, Joe Ninan, …

An Earth-Sized Planet in a 5.4h Orbit Around a Nearby K dwarf
We present the discovery and confirmation of the ultra-short period (USP) planet TOI-2431 b orbiting a nearby ($d\sim36$ pc) late K star ($T_{\mathrm{eff}}$ = $4109 \pm 28 \, {\rm K}$) using observations from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), precise radial velocities with the NEID and the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF) spectrographs, as well as ground-based high contrast imaging from NESSI. TOI-2431 b has a period of 5 hours and 22 minutes, making it one of the shortest-per…

#Hamburg zählt rund 1,8 Millionen #Bäume, die im Sommer ein Viertel der Stadtfläche beschatten, kühlen und #CO2 binden.
Doch

Hamburg-Podcast "Elbvertiefung": Hamburgs Rezept für schattige Plätzchen
1,8 Millionen Bäume machen Hamburg zu einer der grünsten Großstädte Deutschlands. Wie es ihnen in Zeiten des Klimawandels geht – und was es braucht, um sie zu erhalten.

A superpower that you can gain as you get older is to take a pause and realize when someone is actually talking about themselves when making statements. Obviously there's the "every accusation is a confession" of republicans, but often there's much more subtle things going on with people around you. Like, someone's cranky about how you've done something? Maybe it's because they're actually cranky about something else, like how *they've* done something.…

A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social)
“Klein’s interest here isn’t honesty but flattery. It shows Klein isn’t writing about Kirk at all. He’s writing about himself and saying, ‘I’m doing politics the right way because I’m lauding someone who disagrees with me.’” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
JENNA: He's a hard man to rescue when he doesn't want to be rescued.
AVON: More to the point, are you yourself?
BLAKE: What happened? Why aren't we at Del Ten? What's going on, Avon.

Die ePetition 182415 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Führerscheinwesen mit dem Titel
Abschaffung der MPU ausschließlich für Menschen bei Alkohol- und Drogendelikten bei Nachweis der Abstinenz durch eine Klinik
kann bis zum Montag 25. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird die Ab…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
JENNA: We're below horizon now.
GAN: Then she's lost!
AVON: Only us. She got what she really wanted.
VILA: I thought that was us.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/510…

Fossil fuels are stupid.
https://bsky.app/profile/davidrvetter.bsky.social/post/3ltubfjws2s2h
Note that highways are built using fossil fuels (both the building equipment used to create them, as well as asphalt which is made using bitumen, a b…

LA-based MarqVision, which uses AI to monitor marketplaces for counterfeits, raised a $48M Series B led by Peak XV Partners, bringing its total funding to ~$90M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/harvard-law-to-ai-marqvisi…

Harvard Law to AI: MarqVision lands $48M to combat brand abuse | TechCrunch
This LA-based startup raised $48M to tackle brand abuse

Die ePetition 183371 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Einkommensteuer mit dem Titel
Reform des Einkommensteuergesetzes im Hinblick auf die steuerliche Gleichbehandlung für alle wirtschaftlich verbundenen Partnerschaften
kann bis zum Dienstag 26. August 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Hiermit ersuche i…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
COSER: I should have known better. A labor-grade slave. You're pathetic.
[Reception chamber]
SERVALAN: Travis, you are pathetic.
TRAVIS: If you say so.
SERVALAN: Of all the cripple-brained idiots.

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Lyft co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer step down as board chair and vice chair, convert their Class B stock to Class A, completing the succession plan (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bu…

echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears https://mastodon.social/@plaguepoems/114854228767889943

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
VILA: What? I don't ...
GOLA: [To henchman] and Master of the Duel - you!
TARA: It is written he will kill you.
GOLA: You called him back, didn't you?
TARA: Yes I did.
GOLA: Why?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/479 B7B…

Have you heard the good news of #BanCars? 🙏
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/114859290311941794

I had no idea Alan Tudyk was in #Andor, but it's so obvious now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz8oWXfmdD0

lmao https://theonion.com/white-house-evacuated-after-trans-alarm-goes-off-2/

White House Evacuated After Trans Alarm Goes Off

He wanted so badly to be a real boy. https://bsky.app/profile/coreyatad.com/post/3ltx2j5bjas2p

This is so frustrating. Fucking AI assholes! https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115033796075422170