Tootfinder

Canales, Dowdle agree: Panthers need balance https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47112423/canales-dowdle-agree-panthers-need-more-balance-offense

Synchrony in firing rate neural networks with multiple delays: A harmonic balance approach
S Coombes, H G E Meijer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22495 https://

Synchrony in firing rate neural networks with multiple delays: A harmonic balance approach
Networks of neural mass nodes with delayed interactions are increasingly being used as models for large-scale brain activity. To complement the growing number of computational studies of such networks, it is timely to develop new mathematical studies of their solution structure and bifurcations. The analysis of steady states and their stability is relatively well developed, though that of time-periodic solutions is far less so. Here, we show how the method of harmonic balance is ideally suited …

Fed cuts rates for the second time this year, will end balance sheet run-off in December (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/fed-rate-decision-october-2025.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p89#a251029p89

3 keys to victory in Week 8: Cowboys’ balance, defending short game and more https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/26/3-keys-victory-week-8-cowboys-balance-defending-2025-bron…

"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy #Technology

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

At last a sensible note on the bond problem that underpins the tax rises in #Budget2025.
"Slowing quantitative tightening, having the Bank of England absorb its own losses on its balance sheet and reducing the amount of interest paid out on reserves all offer ways for the government to recoup these losses and invest in public services and infrastructure. "
Budget tax rises to…

Budget tax rises to be overshadowed by Bank of England bond sales and losses
Bank of England to make cumulative losses of £112bn until 2030/31, wiping out the £78bn in tax rises raised in today’s budget

Asymptotics of spherical dynamos exhibiting a small-scale MAC balance
Justin A. Nicoski, Andy Esseln, Chris Davies, Michael A. Calkins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21348 https://

Asymptotics of spherical dynamos exhibiting a small-scale MAC balance
Understanding the asymptotic behaviour of numerical dynamo models is critical for extrapolating results to the physical conditions that characterise terrestrial planetary cores. Here we investigate the behaviour of convection-driven dynamos reaching a MAC (magnetic-Archimedes-Coriolis) balance on the convective length scale and compare the results with non-magnetic convection cases. In particular, the dependence of physical quantities on the Ekman number, $Ek$, is studied in detail. The scaling…

yeah so the power company took the money they said they were gonna and I don't get paid til Friday so id super duper appreciate some help not getting hit with infinite overdraft fees!!! tank u!!!
venmo: @ianthe
paypal/zelle: ephydriad@gmail.com
#mutualaid

Voll der Luxus: tagsüber im Kino sitzen. Ich bin ein paar Tage in Wien und habe nun vier Filme bei der Viennale gesehen.
Elements of Balance ist eine etwas konzeptlose Naturdoku ohne roten Faden mit schönen Bildern und einigen Statements von Naturschützer:innen.
Magic Farm handelt von einer in Argentinien gestrandeten Filmcrew aus NYC. Sehr amüsant, guter Plot, coole Musik, klasse Schauspieler - empfehlenswert!

Generalizing Multi-Objective Search via Objective-Aggregation Functions
Hadar Peer, Eyal Weiss, Ron Alterovitz, Oren Salzman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22085 https://

Generalizing Multi-Objective Search via Objective-Aggregation Functions
Multi-objective search (MOS) has become essential in robotics, as real-world robotic systems need to simultaneously balance multiple, often conflicting objectives. Recent works explore complex interactions between objectives, leading to problem formulations that do not allow the usage of out-of-the-box state-of-the-art MOS algorithms. In this paper, we suggest a generalized problem formulation that optimizes solution objectives via aggregation functions of hidden (search) objectives. We show th…

Dynamic Dual-level Defense Routing for Continual Adversarial Training
Wenxuan Wang, Chenglei Wang, Xuelin Qian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21392 https://arx…

Dynamic Dual-level Defense Routing for Continual Adversarial Training
As adversarial attacks continue to evolve, defense models face the risk of recurrent vulnerabilities, underscoring the importance of continuous adversarial training (CAT). Existing CAT approaches typically balance decision boundaries by either data replay or optimization strategy to constrain shared model parameters. However, due to the diverse and aggressive nature of adversarial examples, these methods suffer from catastrophic forgetting of previous defense knowledge after continual learning.…

Milei's Free-Market Experiment Hangs in the Balance as Argentina Votes (Samantha Pearson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mileis-free-market-experiment-hangs-in-the-balance-as-argentina-votes-4af71570
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p9#a251026p9

Crosslisted article(s) found for astro-ph.SR. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.SR/new
[1/1]:
- Asymptotics of spherical dynamos exhibiting a small-scale MAC balance
Justin A. Nicoski, Andy Esseln, Chris Davies, Michael A. Calkins

If you're on your way out or into CCH right now, it's a good day to train your Tux-step.
Walk like a penguin to prevent slipping on the ice! 🐧
Wenn du auf dem Weg aus oder ins CCH bist, ist heute ein guter Tag denen Tux-Gang zu üben.
Watschel wie ein Pinguin um Ausrutschen zu vermeiden! 🐧
#blackice

one of my stupider pet-peeves:
"what's the meta"
not all strategy is *meta-game* strategy. "the meta" is only *possible* in a multiplayer game, where the balance of the characters is being continuously tweaked by upstream developers.
Choosing a tool just because it's known to be strong: *strategy*. that's strategy. you're describing *fucking strategy*. not meta-strategy.
Choosing a tool because *other players are known to be choosin…

Crosslisted article(s) found for astro-ph.EP. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.EP/new
[1/1]:
- Asymptotics of spherical dynamos exhibiting a small-scale MAC balance
Justin A. Nicoski, Andy Esseln, Chris Davies, Michael A. Calkins

Geometric decomposition of information flow: New insights into information thermodynamics
Yoh Maekawa, Ryuna Nagayama, Kohei Yoshimura, Sosuke Ito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21985

Geometric decomposition of information flow: New insights into information thermodynamics
We propose a decomposition of information flow into housekeeping and excess components for autonomous bipartite systems subject to Markov jump processes. We introduce this decomposition by using the geometric structure of probability currents and the conjugate thermodynamic forces. The housekeeping component arises from the cyclic modes caused by the detailed balance violations and maintains the correlations between the two subsystems. In contrast, the excess component, is a contribution of con…

Least-Dissipation Interfaces in Fully Miscible Fluids
Gyeong Min Choi, Heon Sang Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21335 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21335

Least-Dissipation Interfaces in Fully Miscible Fluids
Sharp interfaces in miscible fluids have long been observed, yet classical theory associates them only with phase coexistence and non-convex free energies. We present a minimal variational frame work where adding a Fermi-Dirac (FD) free energy to a convex bulk contribution preserves miscibility, while the convex term drops out in the gradient balance, leaving the FD part to set a logistic profile by the principle of least dissipation. After formation, the FD interface propagates diffusively and…

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Impact of Non-Classical Gravity-Wave Dynamics on Middle-Atmosphere Mean Flow and Solar Tides
Tobias K\"uhner, Georg Sebastian Voelker, Ulrich Achatz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21939

Impact of Non-Classical Gravity-Wave Dynamics on Middle-Atmosphere Mean Flow and Solar Tides
Conventional gravity-wave (GW) parameterizations neglect three aspects of GW dynamics. Instead of momentum and entropy fluxes they use Eliassen-Palm fluxes, thereby neglecting the possibility that resolved flow are not in geostrophic and hydrostatic balance. They neglect the transience of the GW field and of the resolved flow, by determining at every time step equilibrium profiles of GW fluxes that would result if the vertical GW propagation were instantaneous. Moreover, they also do not take i…

Critical dynamics and superconducting state preparation in the quenched Kitaev chain with pairing imbalance
Y. B. Shi, Y. X. Zhang, S. W. Liu, Z. Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21540

Critical dynamics and superconducting state preparation in the quenched Kitaev chain with pairing imbalance
The dynamical balance of the pairing term plays a crucial role in the emergence of topological superconductivity in the p-wave spinless Kitaev chain, particularly in the non-Hermitian regime. In this work, we systematically investigate the effects of non-Hermitian pairing terms on both equilibrium and nonequilibrium phenomena in the Kitaev chain. Our analysis focuses on two representative forms of pairing imbalance: uniform and staggered. We demonstrate that a uniform imbalance induces only min…

How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai-data-cent

AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions

i am assigned to two exam committees for january prelims, one on energy-efficient model training and the other on i/o-compute balance in GPU-based data analytics. yummy.

Everything that #Trump has devolved into is because he's had zero repercussions for his actions.
...because #Republicans own the House of Representatives which America voted for.
VOTE in the 2026 midterm

Highlight: Saquon Barkley flashes balance and agility on 17-yard gain https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/video/highlight-raiders-eagles-saquon-barkley-flashes-balance-and-agility-on-17-yard-gain

Mir persönlich sind alle Modelle immer noch viel zu chummy und ich kann diese Fake-Begeisterung/-Zustimmung genausowenig ab, wie bei zwischenmenschlichem Kontakt.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/12/19/openai-chatgpt-4o/

🏈 How name, image, and likeness policies boost college football's competitive balance
#sports

How name, image, and likeness policies boost college football's competitive balance
A study published in Management Science challenges conventional wisdom about name, image, and likeness (NIL) policies in college football, demonstrating they actively enhance competitive balance and broaden opportunities for athletes.

The only check-and-balance that actually matters (Garrett M. Graff/Doomsday Scenario)
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-check-and-balance-that-actually-matters
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p156#a251022p156

RE: https://twitter.com/GothamFC/status/1992636470159671600
I'm so picky about tshirt design which is hard to balance with event tshirts which have limited runs.

The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled new proposals to ease regulations on AI and data privacy.
The EU has for years sought to rein in tech companies on various issues,
but is also attempting to balance this with the need to compete with tech firms in the United States and East Asia.
"Europe has not so far reaped the full benefits of the digital revolution,"
EU economy commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said.
"And we cannot afford to pay the …

EU proposes softening AI and data privacy regulations
The EU is responding to calls by businesses and member states that have argued the bloc needs to keep up with tech innovation. Meanwhile, cookie consent pop-up banners are also set to be scaled back.

Endogenic heat at #Enceladus’ north pole: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx4338 -> The chances of life in frozen moon's ocean just got bigger, after scientists made a key discovery: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/enceladus-ocean-north-pole-energy-balance

Sources: Panthers eye other teams' 2-RB attack https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46643943/sources-panthers-study-other-teams-approach-2-rb-balance

The 2025 Chiefs May Be the Most Complete Team in the NFL https://insidethestar.com/the-2025-chiefs-may-be-the-most-complete-team-in-the-nfl/

Apple's DMA compliance isn't "malicious", but an effort to balance Apple's privacy focus with the EU's mandate, as iOS 26.2 iPhone/Watch Wi-Fi sync changes show (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/11/apple_eu_d…

Exploring, in Detail, Apple’s Compliance With the EU’s DMA Mandate Regarding Apple Watch, Third-Party Accessories, and the Syncing of Saved Wi-Fi Networks From iPhones to Which They’re Paired
The bottom line is that users setting up new Apple Watches in the EU will now get a somewhat slightly worse experience in the name of parity with accessories made by third-party companies. It remains to be seen whether users of third-party iPhone accessories and peripherals in the EU will see any benefit at all.

What happens when you pair solar panels with mini nuclear reactors? Chinese researchers just cracked the code.
Their new microgrid framework combines photovoltaics with small modular reactors, using AI to balance both in real time. The results are striking: 18.7% lower costs, 37.1% fewer emissions, and 98% reliability.
The secret? Smart coordination between battery storage and hydrogen production that adapts on the fly.

When solar meets next-gen nuclear
Scientists in China have proposed a novel scheduling framework for microgrids based on hybrid PV and a small modular nuclear reactors. The framework uses multi-objective distributionally robust optimization with a real-time reinforcement learning mechanism and is reportedly able to reduce operational costs by 18.7%.

"Macht vs. Gewalt" – Diskussion über die Rolle des Journalismus
Die Hannah Arendt Tage 2025 widmen sich Mechanismen des Machtmissbrauchs und Folgen einer aus der Balance geratenen Öffentlichkeit. Am 10. 10. lädt heise ein.

Datenschutz ist ein Grundrecht, kein Luxus. Die Balance zwischen Innovation und Datenschutz zu finden ist wichtig, aber sie darf nicht einseitig zulasten unserer Privatsphäre gehen.
Als Bürger können wir uns einmischen. Schreibt euren Europaabgeordneten, macht euch kundig, diskutiert mit. Der Digitale Omnibus wird kommen – aber wie er am Ende aussieht, ist noch nicht in Stein gemeißelt. - Jörg Schieb | #Datenschutz

#fedipower, #lazyweb: when renting out things (laptops in my case), I'd like to keep track of incoming payments and balance with liabilities and still aggregate for the #tax

Something happened today at the grocery store that hasn't happened to me since before the pandemic: I ran out of SNAP funds on my EBT card. This is entirely unrelated to the possibility that SNAP payments might not go out next month due to the shutdown, btw; this particular payment failure is entirely from my balance getting run down by the cuts Trump already did earlier:

RE: #DepecheMold

A first for Germany: a 37.4 MWp solar PV plant has been approved to deliver aFRR. This will help balance the grid by curtailing during periods of surplus supply, and by providing upwards power during periods of negative prices when the plant is already curtailed.
https://www.

Germany's first PV plant prequalified for secondary control power (aFRR) | Entelios - We are moving Energy
Entelios, Sunnic & 50Hertz prequalify Germany’s first PV plant for aFRR – milestone for flexible renewable grid stability.

Analysis: Oracle has moved $66B of debt for building AI data centers off its balance sheet using SPVs; Meta has moved $30B, xAI moved $20B, and CoreWeave $2.6B (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0ae9d6cd-6b94-4e22-a559-f047734bef83

I just checked my CD player to see if it had a ‘year in review’ feature and then I remembered I bought it before the turn of the century and the only reason the lid stays closed is because I balance a book on it.
I guess I could go by the CDs piled next to it.

And a nice balance; article archived on @… arguing " Against uncritical adoption of AI" https://zenodo.org/records/17065099

Determining nonlinear balance laws in product-type domains by a single local passive boundary observation
Chaohua Duan, Hongyu Liu, Qingle Meng, Li Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10571

Determining nonlinear balance laws in product-type domains by a single local passive boundary observation
This paper introduces an operator-theoretic paradigm for solving inverse problems in nonlinear balance laws, shifting the focus from identifying specific functional forms to recovering the input-output actions of the associated flux and source operators. It is established that a single local passive boundary observation suffices to uniquely determine realizations of these operators for systems posed on product-type domains. This framework, which encompasses dynamical regimes, reveals a holograp…

Learning Social Navigation from Positive and Negative Demonstrations and Rule-Based Specifications
Chanwoo Kim, Jihwan Yoon, Hyeonseong Kim, Taemoon Jeong, Changwoo Yoo, Seungbeen Lee, Soohwan Byeon, Hoon Chung, Matthew Pan, Jean Oh, Kyungjae Lee, Sungjoon Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12215

Learning Social Navigation from Positive and Negative Demonstrations and Rule-Based Specifications
Mobile robot navigation in dynamic human environments requires policies that balance adaptability to diverse behaviors with compliance to safety constraints. We hypothesize that integrating data-driven rewards with rule-based objectives enables navigation policies to achieve a more effective balance of adaptability and safety. To this end, we develop a framework that learns a density-based reward from positive and negative demonstrations and augments it with rule-based objectives for obstacle a…

While researching gift cards this morning I learned that fraud has increased significantly and that the card balance can be drained before your recipient gets a chance to spend it. It's still relatively rare but possible.
#FraudAwareness
https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/go-public-gift-cards-theft-organized-crime-1.7475283

"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy
https://e360.yale.edu/featur…

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

Went to quilt club today. Its amazing how a little bit of time being creative, with genuinely kind and nice people can really make you feel good. This quilt is being donated to a soup kitchen. Next month we are making lap quilts for hospice.

It feels so good to support a new manager in navigating management challenges and hard conversations, to hear their ideas and goals and values, and to show them how they can affirm their values in their management practices
I'm so glad to be able to help someone go from self-awareness of how they might fall into classic bad management traps, to building their toolkit of actions and techniques they can use to counter their tendencies and instead balance empathetic and accountable le…

On World Mental Health Day, Raiders share how they balance life and football https://www.raiders.com/news/world-mental-health-day-raiders-share-how-they-balance-life-and-football

One-shot variable-ratio matching with fine balance
Qian Meng, Chen Zhe, Bo Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04383 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04383

One-shot variable-ratio matching with fine balance
Variable-ratio matching is a flexible alternative to conventional $1$-to-$k$ matching for designing observational studies that emulate a target randomized controlled trial (RCT). To achieve fine balance -- that is, matching treated and control groups to have the same marginal distribution on selected covariates -- conventional approaches typically partition the data into strata based on estimated entire numbers and then perform a series of $1$-to-$k$ matches within each stratum, with $k$ determ…

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #15!! 💖🌊✨
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-15/?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social

Weekly Climate Solutions Digest
Welcome In the north, the morning light rests on frost like sugar on cedar needles. Far south, cicadas stitch a warm hum through eucalyptus shade. Nature holds its own quiet poise, and that balance is our theme this week. So many of these stories are about keeping what matters and

In talks with Xi and Takaichi, Trump looks to strike a delicate balance (Jesse Johnson/The Japan Times)
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/25/japan/trump-xi-taiwan-china-us-japan-analysis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p69#a251125p69

This is a tricky balance. Some level of skepticism and counter-culture is good and healthy, both for people and society. But when it goes too far, it always seems to end up in the same place.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2

@… Cool, much appreciated! I also fully get it that this has to carefully be considered with regards to balance

Escalating the friction between Washington and one of its closest allies in Latin America,
Donald Trump said Sunday, the United States will slash assistance to Colombia because its leader, Gustavo Petro,
“does nothing to stop” drug production"
The U.S. president warned that Petro “better close up” drug operations “or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”
Hours later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the latest U.S. strik…

Trump announces an end to US aid to Colombia
It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance. Trump says he'll slash U.S. assistance and enact tariffs because Colombia's leftist president “does nothing to stop” drug production and is an “illegal drug leader.” Petro is rejecting the accusations and defending his work to fight narcotics in Colombia, the world’s largest exporter of cocaine. Colombia …

Five Big Questions (and Zero Predictions) for the U.S. Privacy and AI Landscape in 2026
https://fpf.org/blog/five-big-questions-and-zero-predictions-for-the-u-s-privacy-and-ai-landscape-in-2026/

Stationarity preserving nodal Finite Element methods for multi-dimensional linear hyperbolic balance laws via a Global Flux quadrature formulation
Wasilij Barsukow, Mario Ricchiuto, Davide Torlo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02928

Stationarity preserving nodal Finite Element methods for multi-dimensional linear hyperbolic balance laws via a Global Flux quadrature formulation
We consider linear, hyperbolic systems of balance laws in several space dimensions. They possess non-trivial steady states, which result from the equilibrium between derivatives of the unknowns in different directions, and the sources. Standard numerical methods fail to account for this equilibrium, and include stabilization that destroys it. This manifests itself in a diffusion of states that are sup- posed to remain stationary. We derive new stabilized high-order Finite Element methods based …

Guardian: Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/27/face-transplant-patients-results-outcomes "negative data is often buried, driven by funding battles and inst…

Kelly defends play choices in wake of Carroll call https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46546178/raiders-chip-kelly-balance-game-plan-result-driven

Demystifying Hybrid Thinking: Can LLMs Truly Switch Between Think and No-Think?
Shouren Wang, Wang Yang, Xianxuan Long, Qifan Wang, Vipin Chaudhary, Xiaotian Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12680

Demystifying Hybrid Thinking: Can LLMs Truly Switch Between Think and No-Think?
Hybrid thinking enables LLMs to switch between reasoning and direct answering, offering a balance between efficiency and reasoning capability. Yet our experiments reveal that current hybrid thinking LLMs only achieve partial mode separation: reasoning behaviors often leak into the no-think mode. To understand and mitigate this, we analyze the factors influencing controllability and identify four that matter most: (1) larger data scale, (2) using think and no-think answers from different questio…

Currently sitting in a little park near the auto shop I've been going to for the better part of a decade. Which, definitely still a Protip: search out the best indie shop you can find in your area. Stay away from the chains. My credit card balance might be about to eat a fat bill (thank fuck I have the option even tho I hate it lol) but it's worth the money for the piece of mind knowing a real pro did the work.
Was an exciting short trip over here from home 😀 Basically 5mph un…

Craig Pawson really is one of the better referees. Despite calling a non-foul a foul by Gravenberch, he’s been otherwise quite good. Consistent and letting them play, with neither side benefiting. Difficult balance.
#LFC

An Approach for Restoring Magnetic Field Uniformity in Openable BIPM-Type Kibble Balance Magnets
Nanjia Li, Weibo Liu, Yongchao Ma, Wei Zhao, Songling Huang, Shisong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04729

An Approach for Restoring Magnetic Field Uniformity in Openable BIPM-Type Kibble Balance Magnets
The Kibble balance realizes the kilogram by linking mechanical and electrical quantities via a magnet system. In an improved BIPM-type magnet design by Tsinghua University, an open/close surface was incorporated, facilitating operation. However, an unavoidable mechanical air gap at the splitting plane introduces asymmetry in the magnetic flux density profile, degrading field uniformity. This study proposes a two-step yoke compensation method to restore symmetry by adjusting the upper outer yoke…

On World Mental Health Day, Raiders share how they balance life and football https://www.raiders.com/news/world-mental-health-day-raiders-share-how-they-balance-life-and-football

DPO-Tuned Large Language Models for Segmentation in Simultaneous Speech Translation
Zeyu Yang, Satoshi Nakamura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12195 https://ar…

DPO-Tuned Large Language Models for Segmentation in Simultaneous Speech Translation
Simultaneous speech translation requires accurate segmentation to balance translation quality and latency. Recent studies such as SHAS have introduced pretrained segmentation models, achieving stronger performance than heuristic rules. However, segmentation models such as SHAS, though pretrained and more robust than heuristic methods, are still constrained by supervised learning objectives and do not incorporate human preference alignment, which is crucial for natural real-time interpretation. …

😁 Disrupting bacterial 'chatter' could tip the balance for better oral health
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-disrupting-bacterial-chatter-oral-health.html

Disrupting bacterial 'chatter' could tip the balance for better oral health
Like all living things, bacteria adapt to survive. Over time, bacteria have been developing resistance to common antibiotics and disinfectants, which poses a growing problem for health care and sanitation. However, many species of bacteria are beneficial and even essential for human health. What if there was a way to change the behavior of bacteria in the body to prevent illness and poor health outcomes?

I slipped on mud. To regain balance, I stomped with my right sandal — straight into a puddle. Fortunately, the water splashed outwards and my socks are still dry.

Please help Nour and her kids, if you can.
They are stuck in North Gaza.
A message I got from her on Signal, just now: “The situation is getting worse. The tanks are approaching the checkpoint, and there are preparations to close the road. My family and I cannot evacuate due to lack of money, and our lives are hanging in the balance. Please help me and my daughters. We haven’t slept from the intense fear. Our lives are in danger every moment.”
Please help and share if you c…

Scammers are using a supposed 19-minute sex video to install banking malware and it's gone viral.
https://zeenews.india.com/viral/scam-alert-viral-19-minute-video-malware-link-bank-account-2991795.html

Viral 19-Minute Video Link Is Malware Designed To Steal Your Bank Balance | Heres How
Cyber criminals are using the trending 19-Minute Video link on Instagram and X to deploy malware and steal your banking credentials. 

"Nine members of Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party caucus are facing recall petitions — enough to potentially tip the balance of power in the legislature.”
Imagine... IMAGINE... if the a majority-government in Canada lost their majority through recalls. Epic.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #ABPoli #Democracy
https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/six-more-alberta-government-mlas-face-recall-petitions/

Restoring detailed balance in non-Hermitian Markov processes
Tim Van Wesemael, Gilberto Nakamura, Jan Baetens, Odemir M. Bruno, Alexandre S. Martinez, Christophe Deroulers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09467

Restoring detailed balance in non-Hermitian Markov processes
Stochastic processes out-of-equilibrium often involve asymmetric contributions that break detailed balance and lead to non-monotonic entropy production, limiting thermodynamic interpretations and inference techniques. Here we use Dyson maps to restore monotonic entropy growth in those processes, allowing the use of standard tools from statistical physics, providing a general and computationally tractable method applicable to a broad class of Markovian systems.

🟢 Was ist eigentlich #Greenwashing? Eine neue Übersichtsstudie hat 646 Definitionen ausgewertet.
Greenwashing bedeutet, dass Unternehmen sich „grüner“ darstellen, als sie wirklich sind – oft durch vage, irrelevante oder selektive Infos.
Das „Need for Balance“-Modell beschreibt auch das Gegenteil –

What is greenwashing- a scoping review of greenwashing definitions and development of the need-for- balance model - Journal of Sustainable Business
As organizations are under increasing pressure to demonstrate environmental responsibility, concerns about greenwashing have grown considerably. Despite its significance, there is no consensus on its definition, which complicates both research and mitigation efforts. To address this gap, we conducted a scoping review of 332 articles published across 174 journals, analyzing 646 definitions of greenwashing. While terminology varies, common themes emerge, and two main types of definitions can be d…

Model Predictive Control-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Implicit Balancing
Seyed Soroush Karimi Madahi, Kenneth Bruninx, Bert Claessens, Chris Develder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04868

Model Predictive Control-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Implicit Balancing
In Europe, profit-seeking balance responsible parties can deviate in real time from their day-ahead nominations to assist transmission system operators in maintaining the supply-demand balance. Model predictive control (MPC) strategies to exploit these implicit balancing strategies capture arbitrage opportunities, but fail to accurately capture the price-formation process in the European imbalance markets and face high computational costs. Model-free reinforcement learning (RL) methods are fast…

A strong union, and a strong commitment to healthy work-life balance, makes for a strong company. I encourage Kickstarter management to come back to the table and bargain with the workers @… immediately!

Global existence and asymptotic decay for small solutions of general quasilinear hyperbolic balance laws
Matthias Sroczinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09318 https://

Global existence and asymptotic decay for small solutions of general quasilinear hyperbolic balance laws
This paper establishes global existence and asymptotic decay for small solutions to quasilinear systems of hyperbolic balance laws, where, generalizing previous works, the hyperbolic operator does not need to admit an entropy nor does the source term need to satisfy any symmetry assumptions. Dissipative properties are characterized by three conditions corresponding to regimes of small, intermediate and large wave numbers in Fourier space and the fully non-linear system is treated by using metho…

A sore runner is a sad runner.

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

Brookfield Asset Management is targeting $10B for its new AI infrastructure fund and has already raised $5B from its balance sheet, Nvidia, and other investors (Miriam Gottfried/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/brookfield-is-

Because #accessibility is out of scope for Baseline, devs may not know how poorly supported a feature is and miss an opportunity to vote for things that are barriers to users and risks to orgs.
“Vote for the web features you want to see”
https://

"Allowing the sale of plug-in hybrids or range-extended
electric vehicles beyond 2035 would 1️⃣ cost users more, particularly the most modest ones driving older used vehicles, 2️⃣ lead to significantly higher greenhouse gas emissions, and 3️⃣ negatively impact the trade balance and national sovereignty."
https://…

Plug-in hybrid vehicles and the 2035 objective: analysis of the socio-economic and climate impacts of a prolonged authorization of sales in the name of ‘technological neutrality‘ - Iddri
Allowing the sale of plug-in hybrids or range-extended electric vehicles beyond 2035? The IMT shows that such a choice would (1) cost users more,

#Lilien-Trainer Florian Kohfeldt überträgt Tennis auf Fußball – mentale Stärke statt Taktik-Geschwurbel. Konzentration, Balance, Geduld. Darmstadt als Centre Court der Selbstbeherrschung? Eine unaufgeregte Vision in Zeiten von Dauer-Adrenalin an der Seitenlinie. #FAZ (€ Paywall)

Keir Starmer appoints 25 [right wing, I assume] Labour peers to strengthen support in House of Lords | House of Lords | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/10/keir-starmer-appoints-25-…

(YouTube podcast) Tactile sensory substitution to regain vision and balance #haptics

Semi-Implicit Central scheme for Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws with Relaxed Source Term
Sudipta Sahu, Emanuele Macca, Rathan Samala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08134 https:/…

Semi-Implicit Central scheme for Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws with Relaxed Source Term
Quasi-linear hyperbolic systems with source terms introduce significant computational challenges due to the presence of a stiff source term. To address this, a finite volume Nessyahu-Tadmor (NT) central numerical scheme is explored and applied to benchmark models such as the Jin-Xin relaxation model, the shallow-water model, the Broadwell model, the Euler equations with heat transfer, and the Euler system with stiff friction to assess their effectiveness. The core part of this numerical scheme …

Gutierrez: From New Smyrna surf to NFL turf, Raheem Mostert’s balance powers his game https://www.raiders.com/news/from-new-smyrna-surf-to-nfl-turf-raheem-mostert-balance-powers-his-game

It would be a terrible mistake to see this cash call as merely a painful exercise in annual budgeting. Instead, it is a historic opportunity to shift the balance of power between Europe and Russia by exposing the Kremlin’s financial frailty... it is also a bargain
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/10/30/why-funding-ukraine-is-a-giant-opportunity-for-europe?giftId=MGZkNzE2NjYtY2M2YS00NWU1LWI3YTctOGU5ZDAxZTExOGE2&utm_campaign=gifted_article

How Trump's Saudi F-35 deal could alter Mideast balance of power (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5612954-trump-f35-saudi-arabia-deal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p96#a251119p96

In considering the extent and timing of additional adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate,
the Committee will carefully assess incoming data, the evolving outlook, and the balance of risks.
The Committee is strongly committed to supporting maximum employment and returning inflation to its 2 percent objective.

"France revises grid tariffs to spur smarter battery storage use"
#France #Energy #Batteries

France revises grid tariffs to spur smarter battery storage use
France’s updated TURPE 7 framework adds an annual injection-withdrawal charge to incentivize battery energy storage system (BESS) operators to balance grid loads during high demand or surplus generation periods.

Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPVs to raise tens of billions for AI data centers, letting them keep the debt off their balance sheets (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…

Beyond Resistance — #substack

Ikigai and Eudaimonia: Rethinking Activism as Purpose, Balance, and Lifelong Growth
Activism doesn’t have to be burnout. Drawing from Ikigai and Eudaimonia, this essay explores how purpose, alignment, and integrity can transform resistance into creation — turning social change into a sustainable path of meaning, balance, and flourishing.

Stochastic diffusive energy balance climate model with a multiplicative noise modeling the Solar variability
Gregorio D\'iaz, Jes\'us Ildefonso D\'iaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23153

Stochastic diffusive energy balance climate model with a multiplicative noise modeling the Solar variability
We prove the existence, uniqueness, and comparison of solutions for a nonlinear stochastic parabolic partial differential equation that includes the Solar variability in terms of a multiplicative Wiener cylindrical noise in the term of the absorbed radiative energy in a simplified diffusive one-dimensional Energy Balance Model. We introduce a hybrid co-albedo nonlinear term, which has the advantages of both the Sellers model, as it is a continuous function, and the Budyko model, as it has an in…

🛰️ GPS technology reveals that football practices can be up to 40% more demanding than games
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-gps-technology-reveals-football-demanding.html

GPS technology reveals that football practices can be up to 40% more demanding than games
Until recently, there has been little data available on how much effort football players exert in games versus practices, which position groups run the most or how to balance loads in practice to best meet the needs of game day. New research from the University of Kansas is using global positioning system technology to provide those answers to coaches and trainers.

When "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.

Here's how Browns QB Shedeur Sanders is making progress https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47280047/how-cleveland-browns-quarterback-rookie-shedeur-sanders-making-progress-offense

Raiders buscan mantener el impulso ante el reto de Mahomes en Kansas City https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-buscan-mantener-el-impulso-ante-el-reto-de-mahomes-en-kansas-city

Thailand launches airstrikes on Cambodia as Trump's peace agreement hangs in balance (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/07/asia/thailand-cambodia-border-clashes-december-intl-hnk
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p6#a251208p6