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"Massive fungus from India is newly described species"
#India #Mushroom #Fungus

Massive fungus from India is newly described species
From the forests of northeast India’s Arunachal Pradesh state, researchers have described a new-to-science species of fungus with “exceptionally large” fruiting bodies that can hold the weight of a person. The species is named Bridgeoporus kanadii in honor of Indian mycologist Kanad Das for his contributions to Indian macrofungi. The researchers led by Arvind Parihar, […]

Good Morning #Canada
It's a slow historical news day, except for Walter Gretzky's birthday, so time for another post on provincial governmental cities. Today, we present some history on Ottawa, which is not a provincial capital but somehow was lucky enough to be chosen as the capital of Canada. In the 1800s, Upper Canada moved their capital like a traveling circus, so in the 1850s a competition arose between Quebec City, Montreal, Kingston, Toronto, and some muddy lumber town that until recently was named Bytown. An unbiased expert on Canadian geography and regional governments was selected to choose the permanent capital of Upper Canada - Queen Victoria. There was no chance that a French speaking city was going to be chosen by the British monarch, and Kingston and Toronto were too close to those pesky Americans who liked to invade us every decade or so. So Ottawa, in the middle of nowhere, was the obvious choice.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ottawa-ont

BridgeScope: A Universal Toolkit for Bridging Large Language Models and Databases
Lianggui Weng, Dandan Liu, Rong Zhu, Bolin Ding, Jingren Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04031 …

BridgeScope: A Universal Toolkit for Bridging Large Language Models and Databases
As large language models (LLMs) demonstrate increasingly powerful reasoning and orchestration capabilities, LLM-based agents are rapidly proliferating for complex data-related tasks. Despite this progress, the current design of how LLMs interact with databases exhibits critical limitations in usability, security, privilege management, and data transmission efficiency. To resolve these challenges, we introduce BridgeScope, a universal toolkit bridging LLMs and databases through three key innovat…

Transforming Noise Distributions with Histogram Matching: Towards a Single Denoiser for All
Sheng Fu, Junchao Zhang, Kailun Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06757 https://…

Transforming Noise Distributions with Histogram Matching: Towards a Single Denoiser for All
Supervised Gaussian denoisers exhibit limited generalization when confronted with out-of-distribution noise, due to the diverse distributional characteristics of different noise types. To bridge this gap, we propose a histogram matching approach that transforms arbitrary noise towards a target Gaussian distribution with known intensity. Moreover, a mutually reinforcing cycle is established between noise transformation and subsequent denoising. This cycle progressively refines the noise to be co…

On internal wave whispering gallery modes in channels and critical-slope wave attractors
Nimrod Bratspiess, Eyal Heifetz, Leo R. M. Maas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07218 https:/…

On internal wave whispering gallery modes in channels and critical-slope wave attractors
Internal waves are an important feature of stratified fluids, both in oceanic and lake basins and in other settings. Many works have been published on the generic feature of internal wave trapping onto planar wave attractors and super-attractors in 2\&3D and the exceptional class of standing global internal wave modes. However, most of these works did not deal with waves that escape trapping. By using continuous symmetries we analytically prove the existence of internal wave Whispering Gallery …

On Rota--Baxter operators on finite simple groups of Lie type
Alexey Galt, Vsevolod Gubarev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04961 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.049…

On Rota--Baxter operators on finite simple groups of Lie type
Rota--Baxter operators on groups were introduced by L. Guo, H. Lang, Yu. Sheng in 2020. In 2023, V. Bardakov and the second author showed that all Rota--Baxter operators on simple sporadic groups are splitting, i.\,e. they correspond to exact factorizations of groups. In 2024, the authors of the current paper described all non-splitting Rota--Baxter operators on alternating groups. Now we describe Rota--Baxter operators on finite simple exceptional groups of Lie type and projective special li…

British Museum today. First the obligatory Egyptian Greek stuff.

Two arrested in Egypt as authorities take down Streameast sports piracy platform https://therecord.media/streameast-sports-piracy-site-takedown-arrests-egypt

4 Oct is the feast of St Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order. He's the patron saint of animals, the environment, and ecologists - so it's also #WorldAnimalDay.
🎨 #LuttrellPsalter f60v (East Anglia c.1325-35)

VChain: Chain-of-Visual-Thought for Reasoning in Video Generation
Ziqi Huang, Ning Yu, Gordon Chen, Haonan Qiu, Paul Debevec, Ziwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05094 https://…

VChain: Chain-of-Visual-Thought for Reasoning in Video Generation
Recent video generation models can produce smooth and visually appealing clips, but they often struggle to synthesize complex dynamics with a coherent chain of consequences. Accurately modeling visual outcomes and state transitions over time remains a core challenge. In contrast, large language and multimodal models (e.g., GPT-4o) exhibit strong visual state reasoning and future prediction capabilities. To bridge these strengths, we introduce VChain, a novel inference-time chain-of-visual-thoug…