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#WordWeavers 5/6: What would your first chapter smell like?
I quote chapter 1, page 1, 3 paragraph:
" It felt like the smells of the city clung to him – all rotten and filthy – and they were so thick it felt like they were coating his tongue. This spring was unusually hot, making the smells even more rancid."
He just ran past a sewer 😃

Facial Appearance Capture at Home with Patch-Level Reflectance Prior
Yuxuan Han, Junfeng Lyu, Kuan Sheng, Minghao Que, Qixuan Zhang, Lan Xu, Feng Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03478

Facial Appearance Capture at Home with Patch-Level Reflectance Prior
Existing facial appearance capture methods can reconstruct plausible facial reflectance from smartphone-recorded videos. However, the reconstruction quality is still far behind the ones based on studio recordings. This paper fills the gap by developing a novel daily-used solution with a co-located smartphone and flashlight video capture setting in a dim room. To enhance the quality, our key observation is to solve facial reflectance maps within the data distribution of studio-scanned ones. Spec…

*has personally ordered satellite imagery to be captured and delivered voice* you know you don't need to be a nation state to get satellite imagery right? it starts at six hundred bucks. you, dear reader, can buy some

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17797 has been replaced.
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Enhancing Fourier Neural Operators with Local Spatial Features
Partial Differential Equation (PDE) problems often exhibit strong local spatial structures, and effectively capturing these structures is critical for approximating their solutions. Recently, the Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) has emerged as an efficient approach for solving these PDE problems. By using parametrization in the frequency domain, FNOs can efficiently capture global patterns. However, this approach inherently overlooks the critical role of local spatial features, as frequency-domain…

Just got to chapter 5 in Xenoblade 2 and also I think I also finally understand the battle system.
#videogames

Scientists Capture Sharpest Images Ever of Sun's Corona | PetaPixel https://petapixel.com/2025/05/30/scientists-capture-sharpest-images-ever-of-suns-corona/
There's video in there you might want to full-screen.

Scientists Capture Sharpest Images Ever of Sun's Corona
You've never seen the Sun like this.

Logic Pro: Update speichert Musikideen automatisch
Apple hat die Mac- und iPad-Varianten seiner Profi-Musiksuite erweitert. Es gibt einen neuen Stem Splitter plus "Flashback Capture" für Vergessliche.

White House boasts family of suspect in Boulder attack 'could be deported as early as tonight'
The White House is boasting on its official social media accounts about the arrests of
the wife and five children of
Mohamed Sabry Soliman,
the suspected Boulder attacker, who were taken into custody on Tuesday.
Soliman’s six family members,
“have been captured and are now in ICE custody for expedited removal”,
a White House post says.
It adds…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20459 has been replaced.
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Holographic Timelike c-function
The integration of high-energy degrees of freedom along the renormalization group (RG) flow in Poincaré-invariant theories can be captured by a monotonic c-function. For such theories, holographic monotonic c-functions have been constructed using entanglement entropy. However, in theories with broken Lorentz invariance, such constructions generally fail, reflecting both the violation of the entanglement RG monotonicity and its limitations in capturing certain properties of non-relativistic RG …

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NNN: Next-Generation Neural Networks for Marketing Measurement
We present NNN, an experimental Transformer-based neural network approach to marketing measurement. Unlike Marketing Mix Models (MMMs) which rely on scalar inputs and parametric decay functions, NNN uses rich embeddings to capture both quantitative and qualitative aspects of marketing and organic channels (e.g., search queries, ad creatives). This, combined with its attention mechanism, potentially enables NNN to model complex interactions, capture long-term effects, and improve sales attributi…