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Liberals often struggle against these populist narratives because the polar opposite of populism is elitism, which carries much less appeal. Here are some of the narratives that work to create the software of autocracy.
— The Folksy Outsider. Pushing against the boundaries of written and unwritten norms is a standard performative element in the populist toolbox, establishing the populist leader as a folksy outsider disrespected by liberal elites.
We can expect Trump to continue …

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Liberals often struggle against populist narratives because the polar opposite of populism is elitism,
-- which carries much less appeal.
Here are some of the narratives that work to create the software of autocracy
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/202

Reconstrucion of oriented matroids from Varchenko-Gelfand algebras
Yukino Yagi, Masahiko Yoshinaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19905 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Reconstrucion of oriented matroids from Varchenko-Gelfand algebras
The algebra of $R$-valued functions on the set of chambers of a real hyperplane arrangement is called the Varchenko-Gelfand (VG) algebra. This algebra carries a natural filtration by the degree with respect to Heaviside functions, giving rise to the associated graded VG algebra. When the coefficient ring $R$ is an integral domain of characteristic $2$, the graded VG algebra is known to be isomorphic to the Orlik-Solomon algebra. In this paper, we study VG algebras over coefficient rings of ch…

The Detection of Teraelectronvolt Radiation from a Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar
Vaidehi S. Paliya, Markus Bottcher, Kiran Wani, P. N. Naseef Mohammed, C. S. Stalin, S. Sahayanathan, D. J. Saikia, S. Muneer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17659

The Detection of Teraelectronvolt Radiation from a Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar
The very high-energy (VHE; $>$100 GeV) radiation carries the signatures of the matter-energy interaction in some of the most extreme astrophysical environments. Considering broad emission line blazars, i.e., flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), the dense photon fields surrounding the relativistic jet can prohibit the particle population from accelerating to very high energies and producing VHE radiation. They can also possibly make the environment opaque for the VHE $γ$ rays due to $γγ$ pair…

Coordinated UAV Beamforming and Control for Directional Jamming and Nulling
Filippos Fotiadis, Brian M. Sadler, Ufuk Topcu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17433 https://

Coordinated UAV Beamforming and Control for Directional Jamming and Nulling
Efficient mobile jamming against eavesdroppers in wireless networks necessitates accurate coordination between mobility and antenna beamforming. We study the coordinated beamforming and control problem for a UAV that carries two omnidirectional antennas, and which uses them to jam an eavesdropper while leaving a friendly client unaffected. The UAV can shape its jamming beampattern by controlling its position, its antennas' orientation, and the phases of the antennas' interference signals. We de…

Modulated categories and their representations via higher categories
Fei Xu, Maoyin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20426 https://ar…

Modulated categories and their representations via higher categories
We consider the 3-category $2\mathfrak{C}at$ whose objects are 2-categories, 1-morphisms are lax functors, 2-morphisms are lax transformations and 3-morphisms are modifications. The aim is to show that it carries interesting representation-theoretic information. Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a small 1-category and $\mathfrak{B}im_k$ be the 2-category of bimodules over $k$-algebras, where $k$ is a commutative ring with identity. We call a covariant (resp. contravariant) pseudofunctor from $\mathcal{C}$…

Rugby Team Carries Wheelchair-bound Dad up Snowdon Peak – Fulfilling His Lifelong Dream (LOOK) https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/rugby-team-carries-wheelchair-bound-dad-up-snowdon-peak-fulfilling-his-lifelong-dream-look/

Rugby Team Carries Wheelchair-bound Dad up Snowdon Peak – Fulfilling His Lifelong Dream (LOOK)
This is the touching moment a rugby team carried a wheelchair-bound dad to the summit of Snowdon—helping to fulfill his lifelong dream. Members of Bangor Rugby Club helped Phil Thompson to the Welsh mountain’s 3650-foot peak earlier this month. The 66-year-old has always wanted to reach the top of Snowdon but thought it would be […]

Dolphins' Mike McDaniel impressed with Ollie Gordon in start vs. Jaguars: 'It didn't look too big for him' https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-mike-mcdaniel-impressed-with-ollie-gordon-in-start-vs-jaguars-…

A D-brane fantasy on noncommutative mirror symmetry, prelude: Noncommutative ringed spaces from local noncommutative crepant resolutions of a singular Calabi-Yau space, dynamical D-branes thereupon, and questions beyond
Chien-Hao Liu, Shing-Tung Yau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19211

The UK says it wants to change the law to ensure public service media content appears prominently on major video sharing platforms, implicitly targeting YouTube (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/lisa-nandy-youtube-ofcom-1236544787/

UK Government Ready To Change Law So YouTube Carries Public Service Content Prominently
UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy has said that she is prepared to change legislation to ensure that YouTube carries public service content prominently.

Raiders Offensive Line Called Out Amid Ashton Jeanty Struggles https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/offensive-line-ashton-jeanty-struggles/?adt_ei=[email]

Dallas Cowboys' contract extension strategy carries risks in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/dallas-cowboys-contract-extension-strategy-carries-risks-in-2025

One year of ASPEX-SWIS operation -- Characteristic features, observations and science potential
Abhishek Kumar, Shivam Parashar, Prashant Kumar, Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Bhas Bapat, Aveek Sarkar, Manan S. Shah, Hiteshkumar L. Adalja, Arpit R. Patel, Pranav R. Adhyaru, M. Shanmugam, Swaroop B. Banerjee, K. P. Subramaniam, Tinkal Ladiya, Jacob Sebastian, Bijoy Dalal, Aakash Gupta, M. B. Dadhania, Santosh V. Vadawale, Shiv Kumar Goyal, Neeraj Kumar Tiwari, Aaditya Sarda, Sushil Kumar, Nishan…

One year of ASPEX-SWIS operation -- Characteristic features, observations and science potential
The Aditya-L1 mission, India's first dedicated solar observatory positioned at the first Lagrange point (L1) of the Sun-Earth system, carries the Solar Wind Ion Spectrometer (SWIS) as part of the ASPEX payload suite. Even before settling into its Halo orbit, SWIS has been providing nearly continuous in-situ measurements of solar wind ion spectra. Moments of the velocity distribution functions (VDFs) have been calculated to derive key solar wind parameters such as density, bulk speed, and temper…

Variant effects on protein-protein interactions: methods, models and diseases
Sven Larsen-Ledet, Aleksandra Panfilova, Amelie Stein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17446 https://

Variant effects on protein-protein interactions: methods, models and diseases
Advances in sequencing have revealed that each individual carries about 10,000 missense variants. For the vast majority, we do not know what the functional consequences - if any - will be. Further, mechanistic insight, such as structural details, would be immensely helpful in development of therapeutic approaches. Here we review recent developments in experimental and computational techniques aimed to assess the impact of variants on protein-protein interactions, including limitations and upcom…

CITE: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Heterogeneous Text-Attributed Graphs on Catalytic Materials
Chenghao Zhang, Qingqing Long, Ludi Wang, Wenjuan Cui, Jianjun Yu, Yi Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15392

CITE: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Heterogeneous Text-Attributed Graphs on Catalytic Materials
Text-attributed graphs(TAGs) are pervasive in real-world systems,where each node carries its own textual features. In many cases these graphs are inherently heterogeneous, containing multiple node types and diverse edge types. Despite the ubiquity of such heterogeneous TAGs, there remains a lack of large-scale benchmark datasets. This shortage has become a critical bottleneck, hindering the development and fair comparison of representation learning methods on heterogeneous text-attributed graph…

Ukrainian company unveils new 'Darts' twin-engine strike drone: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/ukrainian-company-unveils-new-darts.html

"Traditionally…country that illegally invades another country & carries out war crimes is held responsible legally & financially for these actions. Trying war criminals & requiring aggressor states to pay reparations are…traditional…is expected…countries return their armed forces to within…own borders…entirely normal…for Ukraine’s allies to station troops on Ukrainian territory…entirely traditional measures…not startling new developments."

Common Sense about Negotiations
For Americans about Ukraine

SETrLUSI: Stochastic Ensemble Multi-Source Transfer Learning Using Statistical Invariant
Chunna Li, Yiwei Song, Yuanhai Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15593 https://

SETrLUSI: Stochastic Ensemble Multi-Source Transfer Learning Using Statistical Invariant
In transfer learning, a source domain often carries diverse knowledge, and different domains usually emphasize different types of knowledge. Different from handling only a single type of knowledge from all domains in traditional transfer learning methods, we introduce an ensemble learning framework with a weak mode of convergence in the form of Statistical Invariant (SI) for multi-source transfer learning, formulated as Stochastic Ensemble Multi-Source Transfer Learning Using Statistical Invari…

UK will recognise Palestine state after end of Trump state visit
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/britain-recognise-palestine-state-9fz0pvq87
Gisteren was nog een goeie dag voor Trump. T moment dat ie hoort dat het VK de Pa…

The Battle 4 Vegas: Brock Bowers Carries Las Vegas Raiders To Victory https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/14/battle-4-vegas-brock-bowers-carries-las-vegas-raiders-victory/

Massive spin 3 and Metric-Affine Gravity
Roberto Percacci, Ergin Sezgin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14211 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14211

Massive spin 3 and Metric-Affine Gravity
Symmetric Metric-Affine Gravity is a theory of gravity with an independent non-metric connection, and zero torsion. It can be thought of as ordinary metric gravity coupled to a rank-three tensor Q, symmetric in one pair of indices. This field carries a spin-three degree of freedom. We find that, in contrast to the totally symmetric case, it is possible to arrange the parameters in the Lagrangian, so that, at the linearized level, the spin-three state, either alone or in combination with a spin-…

Zohran Mamdani Took Down Andrew Cuomo and Carries the Name of an African Revolutionary—Here’s What to Know About the Progressive Upstart Shaking Up NYC Politics
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/27/zohran-mamdani-took-down-andrew-cuomo-carries-name-african-revolutionary-heres-what-to-know-about-the-progressive-upstart-shaking-up-nyc-politics/

KaVontae Turpin turns heads at practice as RB; could be wild card in Cowboys backfield https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/23/cowboys-kavontae-turpin-turns-heads-wi…

Zak Phase Dislocations in Trimer Lattices
Tileubek Uakhitov, Abdybek Urmanov, Serik E. Kumekov, Anton S. Desyatnikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15894 https://

Zak Phase Dislocations in Trimer Lattices
Wave propagation in periodic media is governed by energy-momentum relation and geometric phases characterizing band topology, such as Zak phase in one-dimensional lattices. We demonstrate that in the off-diagonal trimer lattices Zak phase carries quantized screw-type dislocations winding around degeneracies in parameter space. If the lattice evolves in time periodically, as in adiabatic Thouless pump, corresponding closed trajectory in parameter space is characterized by a Chern number equal th…

Incredible...
"The White House says it was informed of the operation, almost certainly because of the proximity of the huge US airbase at al-Udeid, just outside Doha.
But this means that Donald Trump had a chance to say no to Israel but chose to give a green light instead.
Israeli media says the operation involved 15 Israeli fighter jets, firing 10 munitions against a single target."

Israel carries out strike on senior Hamas leaders in Qatari capital
Qatar says the strike is a "blatant violation" of international law, while Hamas says its negotiating team was targeted in the attack.

Ashton Jeanty Offers Raiders Stern Reminder After Lackluster Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/ashton-jeanty-carries-stats-response/?adt_ei=[email]

IMVHO the most misunderstood part of the GoF Design Patterns book is that the good part is actually Chapter 2 ”A Case Study: Designing a Document Editor” which carries great design advice (it told us to favor composition in 1994!) & the patterns that follow are mostly a reflection of the state of C at that time.
If you skip the good part and start reading the patterns like a laundry list, it must be very confusing as to why anyone would like that book.

Agentic JWT: A Secure Delegation Protocol for Autonomous AI Agents
Abhishek Goswami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13597 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13597

Agentic JWT: A Secure Delegation Protocol for Autonomous AI Agents
Autonomous LLM agents can issue thousands of API calls per hour without human oversight. OAuth 2.0 assumes deterministic clients, but in agentic settings stochastic reasoning, prompt injection, or multi-agent orchestration can silently expand privileges. We introduce Agentic JWT (A-JWT), a dual-faceted intent token that binds each agent's action to verifiable user intent and, optionally, to a specific workflow step. A-JWT carries an agent's identity as a one-way checksum hash derived from its…

Magnetically Guided Endothelial BioBots: A Next-Generation Strategy for Treating Complex Cerebral Aneurysms
Duong Le (Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17854

Magnetically Guided Endothelial BioBots: A Next-Generation Strategy for Treating Complex Cerebral Aneurysms
Cerebral aneurysms affect three to five percent of the population, and rupture remains a major cause of stroke-related death and disability. Current therapies, surgical clipping, endovascular coiling, and flow diversion, have improved outcomes but each carries limitations. Clipping is invasive and often unsuitable for deep or posterior lesions. Coiling is prone to recurrence from compaction or incomplete occlusion, particularly in wide-neck or fusiform aneurysms. Flow diverters offer improved d…

Integrable systems from Poisson reductions of generalized Hamiltonian torus actions
L. Feher, M. Fairon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12051 https://

Integrable systems from Poisson reductions of generalized Hamiltonian torus actions
We develop a set of sufficient conditions for guaranteeing that an integrable system with a symmetry group $K$ on a manifold $M$ descends to an integrable system on a dense open subset of the quotient Poisson space $M/K$. The higher dimensional phase space $M$ carries a bivector $P_M$ yielding a bracket on $C^\infty(M)$ such that $C^\infty(M)^K$ is a Poisson algebra. The unreduced system on $M$ is supposed to possess `action variables' that generate a proper, effective action of a group of the …

A Pressure-Based Diffusion Model for Influence Maximization on Social Networks
Curt Stutsman, Eliot W. Robson, Abhishek K. Umrawal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12822 https://

A Pressure-Based Diffusion Model for Influence Maximization on Social Networks
In many real-world scenarios, an individual's local social network carries significant influence over the opinions they form and subsequently propagate to others. In this paper, we propose a novel diffusion model -- the Pressure Threshold model (PT) -- for dynamically simulating the spread of influence through a social network. This new model extends the popular Linear Threshold Model (LT) by adjusting a node's outgoing influence proportional to the influence it receives from its activated neig…

"Whenever anyone asks me for advice, I tell them: we don’t realize how deeply the nine-to-five fractures us. The weekends, the holidays, the fixed friend group—whatever rigidness exists in your behavior will exist in your perception, and it will exist in your ability to think critically."
Victoria Brugger, "Last Words of an Ego on Death Row"

Last Words of an Ego on Death Row
Hello.I don’t know who you are. But I hope we meet in the next pages—across whichever dimension I had to cross to embody these feelings.This is not a book. It is not a journal.It is the autopsy of an ego and the birth certificate of the woman I am today.It carries the blueprints I bled for: how to build something from nothing, how to love yourself when the mirror is a battlefield, how to decode the nature of existence and drag purpose out of the dark.But more than all of that—this is my b…

Explainable AI-Enhanced Supervisory Control for High-Precision Spacecraft Formation
Reza Pirayeshshirazinezhad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13331 https://arx…

Explainable AI-Enhanced Supervisory Control for High-Precision Spacecraft Formation
We use artificial intelligence (AI) and supervisory adaptive control systems to plan and optimize the mission of precise spacecraft formation. Machine learning and robust control enhance the efficiency of spacecraft precision formation of the Virtual Telescope for X-ray Observation (VTXO) space mission. VTXO is a precise formation of two separate spacecraft making a virtual telescope with a one-kilometer focal length. One spacecraft carries the lens and the other spacecraft holds the camera to …

- Don’t overlook how misogyny amplifies the harm of this breach: user base is mostly female, and one can’t understand how this release of photos personal info home addresses carries threats of harassment, assault, and violence without understanding how our society targets women. In a very concrete sense, you need gender theory to understand the practical security implications here.
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Depth-Sequence Transformer (DST) for Segment-Specific ICA Calcification Mapping on Non-Contrast CT
Xiangjian Hou, Ebru Yaman Akcicek, Xin Wang, Kazem Hashemizadeh, Scott Mcnally, Chun Yuan, Xiaodong Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08214

Depth-Sequence Transformer (DST) for Segment-Specific ICA Calcification Mapping on Non-Contrast CT
While total intracranial carotid artery calcification (ICAC) volume is an established stroke biomarker, growing evidence shows this aggregate metric ignores the critical influence of plaque location, since calcification in different segments carries distinct prognostic and procedural risks. However, a finer-grained, segment-specific quantification has remained technically infeasible. Conventional 3D models are forced to process downsampled volumes or isolated patches, sacrificing the global con…

A Statistical Test for Comparing the Linkage and Admixture Model Based on Central Limit Theorems
Carola Sophia Heinzel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12734 https://

A Statistical Test for Comparing the Linkage and Admixture Model Based on Central Limit Theorems
In the Admixture Model, the probability that an individual carries a certain allele at a specific marker depends on the allele frequencies in $K$ ancestral populations and the proportion of the individual's genome originating from these populations. The markers are assumed to be independent. The Linkage Model is a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) that extends the Admixture Model by incorporating linkage between neighboring loci. This study investigates the consistency and central limit behavior of m…

Explaining the Reputational Risks of AI-Mediated Communication: Messages Labeled as AI-Assisted Are Viewed as Less Diagnostic of the Sender's Moral Character
Pranav Khadpe, Kimi Wenzel, George Loewenstein, Geoff Kaufman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09645

Explaining the Reputational Risks of AI-Mediated Communication: Messages Labeled as AI-Assisted Are Viewed as Less Diagnostic of the Sender's Moral Character
When someone sends us a thoughtful message, we naturally form judgments about their character. But what happens when that message carries a label indicating it was written with the help of AI? This paper investigates how the appearance of AI assistance affects our perceptions of message senders. Adding nuance to previous research, through two studies (N=399) featuring vignette scenarios, we find that AI-assistance labels don't necessarily make people view senders negatively. Rather, they dampen…

How will the Vikings split carries? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45842987/nfl-minnesota-vikings-aaron-jones-jordan-mason-backfield

Kinematical Lie algebras and symplectic symmetric spaces I: Lie algebraic aspects
Pierre Bieliavsky, Nicolas Boulanger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10565 https://

Kinematical Lie algebras and symplectic symmetric spaces I: Lie algebraic aspects
We generalize the notion of kinematical Lie algebra introduced in physics for the classification of the various possible relativity algebras an isotropic spacetime can accommodate. We first give an elementary proof of the fact that such a generalized kinematical Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ always carries a canonical structure of symplectic involutive Lie algebra (shortly ``siLa''). In other words, if $G$ is a connected Lie group admitting $\mathfrak{g}$ as Lie algebra, there always exists a Li…

Raiders’ Pete Carroll Offers Blunt Answer to Ashton Jeanty Usage https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/pete-carroll-blunt-ashton-jeanty-usage/?adt_ei=[email]

They appeared in plain clothes outside a San Diego hotel,
wore camouflage as they raided a Los Angeles factory 
and arrived with military gear at a Ventura County farm.
The presence of thousands of hard-to-identify federal agents is a new fact of life in Southern California this summer-- as the Trump administration carries out the president’s promised deportations.
Many residents may assume these masked agents are officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE…

Behind the masks: Who are the people rounding up immigrants in California?
The presence of masked federal agents is an unnerving part of life in Southern California this summer. Here’s a look at who’s carrying out the immigration raids.

I've just noticed that my railway pass no longer carries an explicit "valid (…) in any class" annotation. It still has an "X" in the "class" field, but that's not that cool.
(Explanation: many years ago, there used to be a few "RegioExpress" trains with first class seats. Of course, barely anybody cared about that, and I doubt people actually bought first class tickets. Alas, these are long gone.)
#rail

A Highly Predictive Neutrino Model: The Step Toward Precision
Pralay Chakraborty, Sagar Tirtha Goswami, Subhankar Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07837 https://

A Highly Predictive Neutrino Model: The Step Toward Precision
A highly predictive neutrino mass matrix texture is proposed. The texture is minimal and carries two interesting correlations. It gives precise and unambiguous answers to almost all the current issues related to observable parameters in neutrino phenomenology. The texture is developed in a framework of type-I + type-II seesaw mechanisms with an extended group structure of $SU(2)_L \times U(1)_Y \times A_4 \times Z_{10} \times Z_{7} \times Z_{3}$.

Having not written anything about my #tricycle project in months, I've now written two posts in two days. Here's the first:
#BikeTooter
Rethinking the tricycle drive train

Rethinking the tricycle drive train
I've been rereading my posts on design of a tricycle, and especially this one; and I've been looking again at this picture, of Seventy Seven's removable front subframe which carries its front wheel, steering, and transmission systems; and I've been thinking. This will be a short post documenting my thoughts.

Temporal coding carries more stable cortical visual representations than firing rate over time https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62069-2 A decent Neuralink Blindsight, Revision Implant or Phosphoenix brain implant will require more than a basic pixel-to-electrode stimulation…

The Production Mechanism of the High-energy Emission Line in the Brightest Cosmic Burst
Jieying Liu, Jirong Mao, Shao-Lin Xiong, Yan-Qiu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14715 h…

The Production Mechanism of the High-energy Emission Line in the Brightest Cosmic Burst
As a characteristic feature of the spectrum, the emission line carries critical information on the underlying physics of the radiation. After extensive efforts in decades, the first high-significant detection of a series of emission lines evolving from 37 MeV to 6 MeV has been detected in the ever-bright gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A. However, the physical mechanism of the entire evolutionary trend of the lines remains elusive. To provide a self-consistent interpretation, we propose a novel scena…

👋 Hello! I’m Łukasz. Thirty-something, living in Warsaw, Poland. On fedi since 2021 or so. Right now, I'm merging my two accounts into one and giving this profile a fresh new start.
I live a few parallel lives.
Most of the time I’m a web developer. I work with TypeScript, React and all that jazz. But I still enjoy static site generators and good ol’ HTML/CSS.
In another life, I’m a documentary photographer and photojournalist. I’m interested in activism, art and culture, politics, and pretty much anything interesting happening on city streets. A big part of my photography journey involves documenting protests and demonstrations in Poland, especially those related to human rights and social issues. I’m also drawn to street art, particularly when it carries strong messages.
I occasionally blog and translate. Many years ago I wrote two books about WordPress. However, these days I’m more likely to go outside and touch grass than spend even more time in front of a screen.
Outside of that, expect me to post about mental health and politics. I promise to use CWs when appropriate.
I post in both English and Polish, depending on the topic.
Aaaand that’s it. Nice to meet you! ☺️
#introduction

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
GROVANE: Well, I didn't see Mandrian die either, but I know he's dead.
AVON: I've just spent the last ten minutes in the filter plant looking for something that should be there but isn't. The cable that was damaged carries a high energy charge. In order to cut it, he would need a laser knife or an insulated saw. Ne…

Optimal Planning for Multi-Robot Simultaneous Area and Line Coverage Using Hierarchical Cyclic Merging Regulation
Tianyuan Zheng, Jingang Yi, Kaiyan Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04981

Optimal Planning for Multi-Robot Simultaneous Area and Line Coverage Using Hierarchical Cyclic Merging Regulation
The double coverage problem focuses on determining efficient, collision-free routes for multiple robots to simultaneously cover linear features (e.g., surface cracks or road routes) and survey areas (e.g., parking lots or local regions) in known environments. In these problems, each robot carries two functional roles: service (linear feature footprint coverage) and exploration (complete area coverage). Service has a smaller operational footprint but incurs higher costs (e.g., time) compared to …

Gerstenhaber type structures on Davydov-Yetter cohomology with coefficients
Mamta Balodi, Abhishek Banerjee, Surjeet Kour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02285 https://

Gerstenhaber type structures on Davydov-Yetter cohomology with coefficients
We obtain Gerstenhaber type structures on Davydov-Yetter cohomology with coefficients in half-braidings for a monoidal functor. Our approach uses a formal analogy between half-braidings of a monoidal functor and the entwining of a coalgebra with an algebra. We show that the Davydov-Yetter complex with coefficients carries the structure of a weak comp algebra. In particular, it is equipped with two distinct cup product structures $\cup$ and $\sqcup$ which are related in a manner that replaces gr…

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Signs 💚
在路上 - 去西安/ 表象 💚
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Colts Star Gives Raiders’ Ashton Jeanty Blunt Advice https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jonathan-taylor-colts-advice-ashton-jeanty/?adt_ei=[email]

Pok\'eAI: A Goal-Generating, Battle-Optimizing Multi-agent System for Pokemon Red
Zihao Liu, Xinhang Sui, Yueran Song, Siwen Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23689

PokéAI: A Goal-Generating, Battle-Optimizing Multi-agent System for Pokemon Red
We introduce PokéAI, the first text-based, multi-agent large language model (LLM) framework designed to autonomously play and progress through Pokémon Red. Our system consists of three specialized agents-Planning, Execution, and Critique-each with its own memory bank, role, and skill set. The Planning Agent functions as the central brain, generating tasks to progress through the game. These tasks are then delegated to the Execution Agent, which carries them out within the game environment. Up…

Booker on his Cowboys debut: 'A dream come true' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/booker-on-his-cowboys-debut-a-dream-come-true

Low-power Wireless Network with Real-Time Guarantees for Edge-Cloud Applications
Don Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03317 https://arx…

Low-power Wireless Network with Real-Time Guarantees for Edge-Cloud Applications
The goal of this project is to explore the feasibility of building a scalable & easy-to-deploy real-time LoRa testbed, made from multiple units of Raspberry Pi (RPI), where each RPI manages its own set of LoRa radios. This project is motivated by the lack of concrete large-scale LoRa testbeds that effectively integrate LoRa communications into the real-time world. The paper introduces how the idea of using RPI came about and why it should work in theory. The paper then carries out experiments o…

Triplet Exciton-driven Topological Mott insulator at Finite Temperature
Peizhi Mai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07178 https://arxiv.org…

Triplet Exciton-driven Topological Mott insulator at Finite Temperature
Motivated by experiments in which the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) charge gap greatly exceeds the Curie temperature, we apply determinantal quantum Monte Carlo to two complementary lattice models with different geometries: the checkerboard quantum-spin-Hall-Hubbard model and the generalized Kane-Mele-Hubbard model. In both cases an incompressible QAH phase with total Chern number $C=\pm 1$ emerges at quarter filling well above the Curie temperature. Each spin channel carries its own nonquantize…

Conv4Rec: A 1-by-1 Convolutional AutoEncoder for User Profiling through Joint Analysis of Implicit and Explicit Feedbacks
Antoine Ledent, Petr Kasalick\'y, Rodrigo Alves, Hady W. Lauw
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07499

Conv4Rec: A 1-by-1 Convolutional AutoEncoder for User Profiling through Joint Analysis of Implicit and Explicit Feedbacks
We introduce a new convolutional AutoEncoder architecture for user modelling and recommendation tasks with several improvements over the state of the art. Firstly, our model has the flexibility to learn a set of associations and combinations between different interaction types in a way that carries over to each user and item. Secondly, our model is able to learn jointly from both the explicit ratings and the implicit information in the sampling pattern (which we refer to as `implicit feedback')…

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Neural Energy Landscapes Predict Working Memory Decline After Brain Tumor Resection
Triet M. Tran, Sina Khanmohammadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23057 https://

Neural Energy Landscapes Predict Working Memory Decline After Brain Tumor Resection
Surgical resection is the primary treatment option for brain tumor patients, but it carries the risk of postoperative cognitive dysfunction. This study investigates how tumor-induced alterations in presurgical neural dynamics relate to postoperative working memory decline. We analyzed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of brain tumor patients before surgery and extracted energy landscapes of high-order brain interactions. We then examined the relation between these energy features and…

Super Kawaii Vocalics: Amplifying the "Cute" Factor in Computer Voice
Yuto Mandai, Katie Seaborn, Tomoyasu Nakano, Xin Sun, Yijia Wang, Jun Kato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06235

Super Kawaii Vocalics: Amplifying the "Cute" Factor in Computer Voice
"Kawaii" is the Japanese concept of cute, which carries sociocultural connotations related to social identities and emotional responses. Yet, virtually all work to date has focused on the visual side of kawaii, including in studies of computer agents and social robots. In pursuit of formalizing the new science of kawaii vocalics, we explored what elements of voice relate to kawaii and how they might be manipulated, manually and automatically. We conducted a four-phase study (grand N = 512) with…

The complexity of Ford domains of $\Gamma_0(N)$
Pengcheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18511 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18511

The complexity of Ford domains of $Γ_0(N)$
For each integer $N>1$, we define a notion of complexity $c(N)$, which is a nonnegative integer and carries some information on the shape of the Ford fundamental domain of the congruence subgroup $Γ_0(N)$. The property that $c(N)=0$ first appeared as a technical assumption in a paper by Anke Pohl, which is closely related to a conjecture of Don Zagier on the "reduction theory" of $Γ_0(N)$. In this paper, we give a complete classification of integers $N>1$ with $c(N)=0$, and we also show that …

Extension of Spatial k-Anonymity: New Metrics for Assessing the Anonymity of Geomasked Data Considering Realistic Attack Scenarios
Simon Cremer, Lydia Jehmlich, Rainer Lenz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07505

Extension of Spatial k-Anonymity: New Metrics for Assessing the Anonymity of Geomasked Data Considering Realistic Attack Scenarios
Spatial data are gaining increasing importance in many areas of research. Particularly spatial health data are becoming increasingly important for medical research, for example, to better understand relationships between environmental factors and disease patterns. However, their use is often restricted by legal data protection regulations, since georeferenced personal information carries a high risk of re-identification of individuals. To address this issue, what are called geomasking methods a…

First constraints on the local ionization topology in front of two quasars at z ~ 7.5
Timo Kist, Joseph F. Hennawi, Frederick B. Davies, Eduardo Ba\~nados, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Zheng Cai, Anna-Christina Eilers, Xiaohui Fan, Zolt\'an Haiman, Hyunsung D. Jun, Yichen Liu, Jinyi Yang, Feige Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21818

First constraints on the local ionization topology in front of two quasars at z ~ 7.5
Thus far, Lyman-$α$ damping wings towards quasars have been used to probe the \textit{global} ionization state of the foreground intergalactic medium (IGM). A new parameterization has demonstrated that the damping wing signature also carries \textit{local} information about the distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) in front of the quasar before it started shining. Leveraging a recently introduced Bayesian \texttt{JAX}-based Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) inference framework, we derive constrain…

Ashton Jeanty odds: Is Raiders tailback still NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year favorite after quiet debut?

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Uncertainty Estimation for Novel Views in Gaussian Splatting from Primitive-Based Representations of Error and Visibility
Thomas Gottwald, Edgar Heinert, Matthias Rottmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02443

Uncertainty Estimation for Novel Views in Gaussian Splatting from Primitive-Based Representations of Error and Visibility
In this work, we present a novel method for uncertainty estimation (UE) in Gaussian Splatting. UE is crucial for using Gaussian Splatting in critical applications such as robotics and medicine. Previous methods typically estimate the variance of Gaussian primitives and use the rendering process to obtain pixel-wise uncertainties. Our method establishes primitive representations of error and visibility of trainings views, which carries meaningful uncertainty information. This representation is o…

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Using Large Eddy Simulations to Study How Climate Change Influences Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
Hongwei Sun, Peter Blossey, Robert Wood, Ehsan Erfani, Sarah Doherty, Je-Yun Chun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01319

Using Large Eddy Simulations to Study How Climate Change Influences Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
Because aerosol-cloud interactions are the most uncertain climate forcing in the Earth system, it is important to better understand the aerosol-cloud interactions, especially how they will change with climate. This study carries out large eddy simulations (LES) of a 3-day stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition (SCT) along an airmass-following trajectory in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. By perturbing aerosol concentrations within the marine boundary layer (MBL) in the SCT simulations, we evaluate ae…

Spheres with parallel mean curvature in $\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{H}^2$
Giel Stas, Joeri Van der Veken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08581 https://arxiv.or…

Spheres with parallel mean curvature in $\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{H}^2$
It is known that a surface with parallel mean curvature vector field in a Riemannian product of two surfaces of constant Gaussian curvature carries a holomorphic quadratic differential. In this paper we consider the Riemannian product of a sphere and a hyperbolic plane of opposite Gaussian curvatures and study the parallel mean curvature surfaces for which the differential vanishes. In particular, we classify all parallel mean curvature spheres, for which the differential vanishes for topologic…

WMAS: A Multi-Agent System Towards Intelligent and Customized Wireless Networks
Jingchen Peng, Dingli Yuan, Boxiang Ren, Jie Fan, Hao Wu, Lu Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00280

WMAS: A Multi-Agent System Towards Intelligent and Customized Wireless Networks
The fast development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents provides a promising way for the realization of intelligent and customized wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a Wireless Multi-Agent System (WMAS), which can provide intelligent and customized services for different user equipment (UEs). Note that orchestrating multiple agents carries the risk of malfunction, and multi-agent conversations may fall into infinite loops. It is thus crucial to design a conversation topology for W…

Monophotons from Scalar Portal Dark Matter at Neutrino Experiments
Bhaskar Dutta, Debopam Goswami, Aparajitha Karthikeyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07936 …

Monophotons from Scalar Portal Dark Matter at Neutrino Experiments
In this work, we investigate monophoton signatures arising from dark matter via a $2\to 3$ scattering process $χ+ N \to χ+ N + γ$ that is mediated by a virtual scalar and a Standard Model photon. Since the final-state photon carries a large fraction of the initial dark matter's energy, this process offers a compelling handle for probing scalar portal dark matter scenarios. Their distinctive energy, angular, and timing distributions allow for effective separation of signal from neutrino-induc…

Symmetry Packaging I: Irreducible Representation Blocks, Superselection, and Packaged Entanglement in Quantum Field Theory
Rongchao Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05356 https://

Symmetry Packaging I: Irreducible Representation Blocks, Superselection, and Packaged Entanglement in Quantum Field Theory
We introduce the concept of symmetry packaging for quantum field excitations: in a quantum field theory with a gauge group $G$, every local creation operator carries its full set of internal quantum numbers (IQNs) as a single irreducible $G$-block and forbids any partial factorization. We elevate this observation to a symmetry packaging principle, which asserts that packets of IQNs remain intact throughout all physical processes. We analyze a quantum-field excitation in six successive stages: (…

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The giant policy bill muscled through Congress by Republicans is poised to
remake American energy
by slashing tax breaks for wind and solar power and electric cars
while maintaining some federal support for sources like nuclear reactors and geothermal plants.
The legislation, which carries Trump’s domestic policy agenda, provides a boost to fossil fuels
and dismantles many of the biggest actions the federal government has ever taken to fight climate change,

How the G.O.P. Bill Will Reshape America’s Energy Landscape
Here’s a rundown on the winners and losers in the legislation muscled through Congress.

RoboInspector: Unveiling the Unreliability of Policy Code for LLM-enabled Robotic Manipulation
Chenduo Ying, Linkang Du, Peng Cheng, Yuanchao Shu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21378

RoboInspector: Unveiling the Unreliability of Policy Code for LLM-enabled Robotic Manipulation
Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in reasoning and code generation, enabling robotic manipulation to be initiated with just a single instruction. The LLM carries out various tasks by generating policy code required to control the robot. Despite advances in LLMs, achieving reliable policy code generation remains a significant challenge due to the diverse requirements of real-world tasks and the inherent complexity of user instructions. In practice, different users …

A special class of prime ideals for infinite symmetric group algebras
Kevin Coulembier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03309 https://arxiv…

A special class of prime ideals for infinite symmetric group algebras
We identify an interesting special class of prime ideals in the finitary infinite symmetric group algebra. We show that the set of such ideals carries a semiring structure. Over the complex numbers, we establish a connection with spherical representations of (the Gelfand pair corresponding to) the infinite symmetric group. In positive characteristic, we investigate a close connection with the structure theory of symmetric tensor categories.

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IPA: An Information-Preserving Input Projection Framework for Efficient Foundation Model Adaptation
Yuan Yin, Shashanka Venkataramanan, Tuan-Hung Vu, Andrei Bursuc, Matthieu Cord
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04398

IPA: An Information-Preserving Input Projection Framework for Efficient Foundation Model Adaptation
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, such as LoRA, reduce adaptation cost by injecting low-rank updates into pretrained weights. However, LoRA's down-projection is randomly initialized and data-agnostic, discarding potentially useful information. Prior analyses show that this projection changes little during training, while the up-projection carries most of the adaptation, making the random input compression a performance bottleneck. We propose IPA, a feature-aware projection framewo…

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The ASPIICS solar coronagraph aboard the Proba-3 formation flying mission. Scientific objectives and instrument design
A. N. Zhukov, C. Thizy, D. Galano, B. Bourgoignie, L. Dolla, C. Jean, B. Nicula, S. Shestov, C. Galy, R. Rougeot, J. Versluys, J. Zender, P. Lamy, S. Fineschi, S. Gunar, B. Inhester, M. Mierla, P. Rudawy, K. Tsinganos, S. Koutchmy, R. Howard, H. Peter, S. Vives, L. Abbo, C. Aime, K. Aleksiejuk, J. Baran, U. Bak-Steslicka, A. Bemporad, D. Berghmans, D. Besliu-Ionescu, S…

The ASPIICS solar coronagraph aboard the Proba-3 formation flying mission. Scientific objectives and instrument design
We describe the scientific objectives and instrument design of the ASPIICS coronagraph launched aboard the Proba-3 mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) on 5 December 2024. Proba-3 consists of two spacecraft in a highly elliptical orbit around the Earth. One spacecraft carries the telescope, and the external occulter is mounted on the second spacecraft. The two spacecraft fly in a precise formation during 6 hours out of 19.63 hour orbit, together forming a giant solar coronagraph called AS…

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Geometric realizations of the Lie superalgebra D(2,1;a)
Anna Escofet, Boris Kruglikov, Dennis The
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03418 https://

Geometric realizations of the Lie superalgebra D(2,1;a)
For every parabolic subgroup $P$ of a Lie supergroup $G$, the homogeneous superspace $G/P$ carries a $G$-invariant supergeometry. We address the question whether $\mathfrak{g}=\text{Lie}(G)$ is the maximal supersymmetry of this supergeometry in the case of the exceptional Lie superalgebra $D(2,1;a)$. For each choice of parabolic $\mathfrak{p}\subset\mathfrak{g}$, we consider the corresponding negatively graded Lie subalgebra $\mathfrak{m}\subset\mathfrak{g}$, and compute its Tanaka--Weisfeiler …

Tank Bigsby traded to Eagles: Reigning Super Bowl champions add RB depth behind Saquon Barkley, per report

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E-PhishGen: Unlocking Novel Research in Phishing Email Detection
Luca Pajola, Eugenio Caripoti, Simeone Pizzi, Mauro Conti, Stefan Banzer, Giovanni Apruzzese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01791

E-PhishGen: Unlocking Novel Research in Phishing Email Detection
Every day, our inboxes are flooded with unsolicited emails, ranging between annoying spam to more subtle phishing scams. Unfortunately, despite abundant prior efforts proposing solutions achieving near-perfect accuracy, the reality is that countering malicious emails still remains an unsolved dilemma. This "open problem" paper carries out a critical assessment of scientific works in the context of phishing email detection. First, we focus on the benchmark datasets that have been used to asses…

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Brian Schottenheimer Reveals Why Cowboys Rookie RB Jaydon Blue Was Inactive https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jaydon-blue-inactive-week-1-schottenheimer/?adt_ei=[email]

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Multimodal Generative Flows for LHC Jets
Darius A. Faroughy, Manfred Opper, Cesar Ojeda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01736 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01736…

Multimodal Generative Flows for LHC Jets
Generative modeling of high-energy collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) offers a data-driven route to simulations, anomaly detection, among other applications. A central challenge lies in the hybrid nature of particle-cloud data: each particle carries continuous kinematic features and discrete quantum numbers such as charge and flavor. We introduce a transformer-based multimodal flow that extends flow-matching with a continuous-time Markov jump bridge to jointly model LHC jets with bot…

Group schemes and their Lie algebras over a symmetric tensor category
Dave Benson, Julia Pevtsova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02031 https://

Group schemes and their Lie algebras over a symmetric tensor category
We investigate the theory of affine group schemes over a symmetric tensor category, with particular attention to the tangent space at the identity. We show that this carries the structure of a restricted Lie algebra, and can be viewed as the degree one distributions on the group scheme, or as the right invariant derivations on the coordinate ring. In the second half of the paper, we illustrate the theory in the particular case of the symmetric tensor category $\mathsf{Ver}_4^+$ in characteristi…

An Extended Soliton's Zero Modes
Jarah Evslin, Hui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18922 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18922…

An Extended Soliton's Zero Modes
Quantum field theory in the presence of localized solitons is more complicated than vacuum sector quantum field theory, largely as a result of the soliton's zero modes. In the present work, we try to understand to what extent this situation carries over to extended solitons. To this end, we explicitly construct the quantum state corresponding to a domain wall string or membrane, treating the zero modes carefully. This is done both for compact and also infinitely extended solitons. As an applica…

Optimal decay constant for complete manifolds of positive scalar curvature with quadratic decay
Shuli Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04173 https://arxiv.o…

Optimal decay constant for complete manifolds of positive scalar curvature with quadratic decay
We prove that if an orientable 3-manifold $M$ admits a complete Riemannian metric whose scalar curvature is positive and has at most $C$-quadratic decay at infinity for some $C > \frac{2}{3}$, then it decomposes as a (possibly infinite) connected sum of spherical manifolds and $\mathbb{S}^2\times \mathbb{S}^1$ summands. Consequently, $M$ carries a complete Riemannian metric of uniformly positive scalar curvature. The decay constant $\frac{2}{3}$ is sharp, as demonstrated by metrics on $\mathbb{…

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Ashton Jeanty shakes off early injury scare, dominates vs. 49ers in bounce-back performance https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/ashton-jeanty-injury-stats-highlights-raiders-49ers/45624c4…

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Raiders’ Ashton Jeanty Shares Blunt Opinion on Offensive Struggles https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/ashton-jeanty-opinion-on-offensive-struggles/?adt_ei=[email]

Raiders’ Ashton Jeanty Gets Candid Take From Derwin James Jr. https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/derwin-james-chargers-ashton-jeanty-take/?adt_ei=[email]

Raiders’ Ashton Jeanty Gets Strong Advice From Raheem Mostert https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/ashton-jeanty-raheem-mostert-las-vegas/?adt_ei=[email]