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Yes, even in Manchester.
Blackberrying from July, early grapes and huge crop in what was a marginal location, apples ripe at least a month early.
Early ripening of berries in UK shows nature is under stress, say experts | UK weather | The Guardian
https://archive.ph/xiNn5

Graybox characterization and calibration with finite-shot estimation on superconducting-qubit experiments
Poramet Pathumsoot, Areeya Chantasri, Michal Hajdu\v{s}ek, Rodney Van Meter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12822

Graybox characterization and calibration with finite-shot estimation on superconducting-qubit experiments
Characterization and calibration of quantum devices are necessary steps to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computing. As quantum devices become more sophisticated, it is increasingly essential to rely not only on physics-based models, but also on predictive models with open-loop optimization. Therefore, we choose the Graybox approach, which is composed of an explicit (whitebox) model describing the known dynamics and an implicit (blackbox) model describing the noisy dynamics in the form of a dee…

ChatGPT on the Road: Leveraging Large Language Model-Powered In-vehicle Conversational Agents for Safer and More Enjoyable Driving Experience
Yeana Lee Bond (Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA), Mungyeong Choe (Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA), Baker Kasim Hasan (Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA), Arsh Siddiqui (Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA), Myounghoon Jeon (Com…

ChatGPT on the Road: Leveraging Large Language Model-Powered In-vehicle Conversational Agents for Safer and More Enjoyable Driving Experience
Studies on in-vehicle conversational agents have traditionally relied on pre-scripted prompts or limited voice commands, constraining natural driver-agent interaction. To resolve this issue, the present study explored the potential of a ChatGPT-based in-vehicle agent capable of carrying continuous, multi-turn dialogues. Forty drivers participated in our experiment using a motion-based driving simulator, comparing three conditions (No agent, Pre-scripted agent, and ChatGPT-based agent) as a with…

[Nimer's blog] The symphony and the static: When sound design makes or breaks the experience https://nimerblogs.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-symphony-and-static-when-sound.html Personal blog by Nimer Jaber, accessibility analyst at Google

...I didn't realize until I was an adult having parents who loved you and made it obvious they did day to day is so valuable...
A parent that loves their work also provides huge benefits, in my experience...
https://curiouscatlinks.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-was-lucky-…

I was a Lucky Kid
 Comments on: Work travel: it’s required for my role and business, but brutal for my heart. My 5-year-old is really struggling with me trave...

Wilders wil aandacht en ophef creëren, toch vind ik dat we verontwaardigd moeten blijven over dit soort puur fascistische uitingen.
#politiek #wilders #fascisme

Updated line list for the principal isotopologue of carbon monoxide
Vladimir G. Ushakov, Emile S. Medvedev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12216 https://…

Updated line list for the principal isotopologue of carbon monoxide
The line list for the principal isotopologue of CO calculated earlier by the present authors [1, 2] with the irregular dipole-moment function (DMF) is updated with use of the recent high-precision measurements in the 3-0 [3, 4] (Bielska et al. 2022, Hodges et al. 2025) and 7-0 [5] (Balashov et al. 2023) bands. The new data came in contradiction with the experimental data on the 1-0 band [6, 7]. Therefore, we performed fitting several model DMFs to the modified original data set of Meshkov et al…

Revised $B(E2; 2^{ }_{1} \rightarrow 0^{ }_{1})$ value in the semi-magic nucleus $^{210}$Pb
C. M. Nickel, V. Werner, G. Rainovski, P. R. John, M. Beckers, D. Bittner, A. Blazhev, A. Esmaylzadeh, C. Fransen, J. Garbe, L. Gerhard, K. Geusen, K. Gladnishki, A. Goldkuhle, K. E. Ide, J. Jolie, V. Karayonchev, R. Kern, E. Kleis, L. Kl\"ockner, D. Kocheva, M. Ley, H. Mayr, N. Pietralla, F. von Spee, M. Steffan, T. Stetz, J. Wiederhold

Revised $B(E2; 2^{+}_{1} \rightarrow 0^{+}_{1})$ value in the semi-magic nucleus $^{210}$Pb
The lifetime of the $2^+_1$ state of $^{210}$Pb was measured in the $^{208}$Pb($^{18}$O, $^{16}$O)$^{210}$Pb two-neutron transfer reaction by $γ$-ray spectroscopy employing the recoil-distance Doppler-shift method. The extracted absolute $B(E2)$$\downarrow$ value of ${119\;^{+\;9}_{-\;8}\;\hspace{-0pt}\,\text{e}^2\text{fm}^4}$ is consistent with previously reported measurements, but with significantly improved precision. The available experimental data for the $2^+_1$-$4^+_1$-$6^+_1$-$8^+_1$ m…

Wie ein Forscher ChatGPT mit einem einfachen Trick dazu bringt, Windows-Keys herauszurücken #chatGPT #windows #keys

Ich gebe auf: Wie ein Forscher ChatGPT mit einem einfachen Trick dazu bringt, Windows-Keys herauszurücken | t3n
Ein Security-Forscher täuschte ChatGPT mit einem simplen Ratespiel – und erntete gültige Windows-Seriennummern, darunter sogar einen Schlüssel der Wells-Fargo-Bank. In einem kürzlich veröffentlichten Blogpost beschreibt Marco Figueroa, Technical Product Manager bei 0DIN GenAI Bug Bounty, wie ein Security-Experte ChatGPT 4 via Jailbreak dazu brachte, real existierende Windows-Seriennummern preiszugeben, darunter sogar eine private Nummer von Wells Fargo. Der […]

Theory uncertainties in predictions of strong-field QED
T. G. Blackburn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03975 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03975

Theory uncertainties in predictions of strong-field QED
Experiments using high-power lasers and relativistic electron beams will soon be capable of precision testing of the theory of strong-field quantum electrodynamics. The comparison between experiment and theory always occurs via numerical simulations, but the lack of quantitative uncertainty bounds for the latter means that the origin of any discrepancies cannot be identified conclusively. Here I present a simulation framework that can place meaningful bounds on the theory uncertainties inherent…