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Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
CHESIL: Done to who?
DORAN: My pal, that's who. What have they done to my pal?
CHESIL: Your pal? I don't know who you mean.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/496 B7B2

Helium-burning blue large-amplitude pulsators: A Population Study with BPASS
Zhengyang Zhang, Conor M. Byrne, Chengyuan Wu, Bo Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21784 https://

Helium-burning blue large-amplitude pulsators: A Population Study with BPASS
Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) are a class of radially pulsating stars with effective temperatures ranging from 20,000 to 35,000 K and pulsation periods between 7 and 75 minutes. This study utilizes the Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis (BPASS) code to investigate helium-burning stars as a formation channel for BLAPs in the Milky Way. The progenitor stars have initial masses of 3-6 $M_{\odot}$, resulting in BLAPs with final masses of 0.5-1.2 $M_{\odot}$. Based on a constant star …

Galactic Super-Accreting X-ray Binaries as Super-PeVatron Accelerators
Jieshuang Wang, Brian Reville, Felix Aharonian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21048 https://

Galactic Super-Accreting X-ray Binaries as Super-PeVatron Accelerators
The extension of the cosmic-ray (CR) spectrum well beyond 1~PeV necessitates the existence of a population of accelerators in the Milky Way, which we refer to as Super PeVatrons. Identifying the nature of these sources remains a challenge to the paradigm of galactic CRs. Galactic super-accreting X-ray binaries, where the compact object accretes at a rate near or above the Eddington limit, can meet the energy requirement to supply the high-energy population of galactic CRs. We demonstrate that t…

Spannend dazu ist die Zusammensetzung Des Stadtrats in Borna. Von linksgrüner Verbotspolitik kann hier nämlich keine Rede sein, denn bei nur 2 Gegenstimmen haben Mind. 8/10 AfDer und CDUler zugestimmt.
https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen/lei

Localized five-dimensional rotating brane-world black hole Analytically Connected to an to an AdS$_5$ boundary
Milko Estrada, Francisco Tello-Ortiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18435

Giants' Malik Nabers explains animated interaction with Brian Daboll wasn't about targets: 'I got an NBF' https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-malik-nabers-brian-daboll-interaction-not-about-targets-nbf

New book on the history of McGill University - written and edited by historians, not the university's comms department. I wrote a chapter on how Indigenous dispossession and colonial politicians saved McGill when it was in danger of going broke. Others cover McGill's ties to chattel slavery, Japanese exclusion, research of various sorts, student lives, queer experiences, and more.
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Enhancing Semantic Segmentation with Continual Self-Supervised Pre-training
Brown Ebouky, Ajad Chhatkuli, Cristiano Malossi, Christoph Studer, Roy Assaf, Andrea Bartezzaghi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17816

Enhancing Semantic Segmentation with Continual Self-Supervised Pre-training
Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a central paradigm for training foundation models by leveraging large-scale unlabeled datasets, often producing representations with strong generalization capabilities. These models are typically pre-trained on general-purpose datasets such as ImageNet and subsequently adapted to various downstream tasks through finetuning. While recent advances have explored parameter-efficient strategies for adapting pre-trained models, extending SSL pre-training …

Nearly Optimal Chaotic Desynchronization of Neural Oscillators
Jeff Moehlis, Michael Zimet, Faranak Rajabi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19531 https://arxiv.o…

Nearly Optimal Chaotic Desynchronization of Neural Oscillators
Motivated by deep brain stimulation treatment of neural disorders such as Parkinson's disease, it has been proposed that desynchronization of neural oscillators can be achieved by maximizing the Lyapunov exponent of the phase difference between pairs of oscillators. Here we consider two approximations to optimal stimuli for chaotic desynchronization of neural oscillators. These approximations are based on the oscillators' phase response curve, and unlike previous approaches do not require numer…

There's a small Japanese-French bakery in our hood run by a mother-daughter team (the best bakery in Toronto, IMHO). Everything they sell is mind-blowing. The milk bread may be my fav, though their French translation (pain de mie) entirely fails to give it the credit it deserves. Their milk bread is to even the best sandwich bread what handmade Swiss chocolate is to Hershey's.