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Civility & common sense has truly gone to hell: Obnoxious audacity has become the norm worldwide.
And you can thank all the societal leeches that live by the philosophy of, "If you don't ask, you don't get".
☑️ Starbucks asks customers in South Korea to stop bringing printers and desktop computers into stores as workers transform cafes into remote offices | Fortune

Starbucks asks customers in South Korea to stop bringing printers and desktop computers into stores as workers transform cafés into remote offices
“You can just go and have a cup of coffee, work there—but people are taking it a little bit to the extreme nowadays,” one Korean studies professor said.

Arm launches four Lumex compute subsystem CPU architectures to improve on-device AI on smartphones, PCs, and wearables, and unveils the new Mali G1-Ultra GPU (Ben Funk/HotHardware)
https://hothardware.com/news/arm-lumex-compute-subsystem-on-device-ai

Arm Unveils Lumex Compute Subsystem For Powerful, Efficient On-Device AI
Arm's new Lumex compute subsystem brings a big boost to on-device AI, graphics, and general compute tasks to flagship smartphones

NFL longshot picks, Week 2 2025 odds, top props: This NFL parlay brings a huge $6,000 return on a $10 bet

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-lon

The Realization of 3D Topological Spaces Branched Over Graphs
Christopher L Duston
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09026 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09026…

The Realization of 3D Topological Spaces Branched Over Graphs
In this paper we present an implementation of a computer algorithm that automatically determines the topological structure of spacetime, using a branched covering space representation. This algorithm is applied to a few simple examples in dimension 3, and a complete set of the topological spaces branched over several graphs are found. We also include some new visualizations of the branched covering construction, in order to aid and clarify the understanding of how these structures can be used i…

An efficient branch-and-cut approach for the sequential competitive facility location problem under partially binary rule
Yu-Qi Guo, Yan-Ru Wang, Wei-Kun Chen, Yu-Hong Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08135

An efficient branch-and-cut approach for the sequential competitive facility location problem under partially binary rule
We investigate the sequential competitive facility location problem (SCFLP) under partially binary rule where two companies sequentially open a limited number of facilities to maximize their market shares, requiring customers to patronize, for each company, the facility with the highest utility. The SCFLP is a bilevel mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem and can be rewritten as a single-level MINLP problem, where each nonlinear constraint corresponds to a hypograph of a multiple …

USEANet: Ultrasound-Specific Edge-Aware Multi-Branch Network for Lightweight Medical Image Segmentation
Jingyi Gao, Di Wu, Baha lhnaini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08860 https://…

USEANet: Ultrasound-Specific Edge-Aware Multi-Branch Network for Lightweight Medical Image Segmentation
Ultrasound image segmentation faces unique challenges including speckle noise, low contrast, and ambiguous boundaries, while clinical deployment demands computationally efficient models. We propose USEANet, an ultrasound-specific edge-aware multi-branch network that achieves optimal performance-efficiency balance through four key innovations: (1) ultrasound-specific multi-branch processing with specialized modules for noise reduction, edge enhancement, and contrast improvement; (2) edge-aware a…

Site Frequency Spectrum in stationary branching populations
Romain Abraham (IDP), Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Delmas (CERMICS), Patrick Hoscheit (MaIAGE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07906 …

Site Frequency Spectrum in stationary branching populations
This paper explores the Site Frequency Spectrum (SFS) in stationary branching populations. We derive estimates for the SFS associated with a sample from a continuous-state branching process conditioned to never go extinct, utilizing a quadratic branching mechanism. The genealogy of such processes is represented by a real tree with a semi-infinite branch, and we compute the expectation of the SFS under the infinitely-many-sites assumption as the sample size approaches infinity. Additionally, we …

Compatibility of quantum trace and UV-IR maps
Samuel Panitch, Sunghyuk Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09100 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09100

Compatibility of quantum trace and UV-IR maps
This paper studies the connection between the quantum trace map -- which maps the $\mathfrak{sl}_2$-skein module to the quantum Teichmüller space for surfaces and to the quantum gluing module for 3-manifolds -- and the quantum UV-IR map -- which maps the $\mathfrak{gl}_2$-skein module to the $\mathfrak{gl}_1$-skein module of the branched double cover. We show that the two maps are compatible in a precise sense, and that the compatibility map is natural under changes of triangulation; for surfa…

Nine-year-old Ukrainian Oleksandra (Sasha) Paskal has won gold and bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup." : r/ukraine
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1o4rhni/nineyearold_ukrainian_oleksandra_sasha_paskal_has/

Overreactions from Week 1 of preseason: Jaxson Dart Giants' passing leader? QB competition for Browns?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/overrea