Tootfinder

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/classified-data-once-again-leaked-on-war-thunder-forums/

Classified data once again leaked on War Thunder forums
It has happened again.

Record-breaking 'gigantic' deep-sea limpet species named after ONE PIECE character
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-gigantic-deep-sea-limpet-species.html

🎮 Feeling like #N64 or #PlayStation but don't have a console? #RetroArch on Apple TV or other TV-Box is a real game-changer! Runs super smooth and brings nostalgia st…

Forget password leaks, how about a website that has every combination of every 4-32 character passwords. (347,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (or 347 novemdecillion))
https://solst-ice.github.io/every-pass…

Every Password
A searchable list of every possible password - scroll till you find a new favorite.

Dirichlet $L$-functions on the Critical Line
Sami Vihko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16115 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16115

Dirichlet $L$-functions on the Critical Line
In this paper we prove that the Dirichlet $L$-functions $L(1/2+ix,χ_q)$, where $χ_q$ is uniformly random Dirichlet character modulo $q$, converges to a random Schwartz distribution $ζ_{\mathrm{rand}}$, which is related to (complex) Gaussian multiplicative chaos. This is the same limiting object that appeared in [34], where the authors proved that the random shifts of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line $ζ(1/2+ix+iωT)$, where $ω\sim \mathrm{Unif} ([0,1])$ and $x\in \mathbb{R}$, …

The Minnesota shootings illuminate the character of the Trump era (Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/21/minnesota-shootings-trump-mike-lee-vance-boelter
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p51#a250621p51

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
GOLA: Guards, bring the other fool back up. Be well my love. [To Tara] Will she be well?
TARA: [Keeping a straight face] Oh yes.
GOLA: Good.
JENNA: [Looking at the amulet again] Oh, I'm sorry, it is forbidden.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/417…

How do you pronounce char?
Do you say car?
Do you say care - since it is the beginning of the word character?
or do you say it like the beginning of the word charcoal?
#programming #programmers

Category $\mathcal{O}$ and asymptotic characters
Alexis Leroux-Lapierre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16215 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.1…

Category $\mathcal{O}$ and asymptotic characters
This paper defines an asymptotic character map which is a morphism from the Grothendieck group of category $\mathcal{O}$ of an integral filtered quantization to rational functions on the Lie algebra of a torus. We show that the asymptotic character of a module computes the equivariant multiplicity of its characteristic cycle. We then apply this construction to truncated shifted Yangians coming from simple, simply-laced Lie algebras and draw connections with characters of modules over KLR algebr…

Character.AI hires Karandeep Anand, former Meta VP of Business Products, as CEO, 10 months after Google hired away the startup's co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/charact…

Character.AI taps Meta's former VP of business products as CEO | TechCrunch
Character.AI appointed Karandeep Anand to be the company's new CEO, helping it grow its platform and fight child safety concerns.

Fully Self-Consistent Semiclassical Gravity
R. Muci\~no, E. Okon, D. Sudarsky, M. Wiedemann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17149 https://…

Fully Self-Consistent Semiclassical Gravity
A theory of quantum gravity consists of a gravitational framework which, unlike general relativity, takes into account the quantum character of matter. In spite of impressive advances, no fully satisfactory, self-consistent and empirically viable theory with those characteristics has ever been constructed. A successful semiclassical gravity model, in which the classical Einstein tensor couples to the expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor of quantum matter fields, would, at the very le…

Introduced an #acting #coaching client to new material and so cool to see them finding the character. The specifics already started to emerge on the second reading.
#ActingCoach

Fictional depiction of mild self-harm, blood.
#WritersCoffeeClub July 23: Share a description you're proud of.
I've been writing a vampire novel lately. Here's a description from the scene when the vampire character proves to the human protagonist that he's been telling the truth:
—
"It's okay, Ada," he gave me a reassuring close-mouthed smile. "Just watch."
He slashed across his wrist in a motion that made the matching scars on my left arm hum. I covered them with my right hand, as if to calm my skin that I wasn't hurting it like that anymore. That we were merely watching someone else.
The cut on Theodore's arm turned red and angry, as expected. And then, just before the wound pooled up enough to bleed, it closed. I watched time run backwards as it disappeared, the skin stitching itself together to leave no trace of the violence imposed on it by the blade.
"What?" I walked up to him as he handed his wrist to me for inspection. I ran the tips of my fingers over the spot where the cut was mere moments before - but Theodore's skin, cold as always, was smooth and unharmed.
—

FramePrompt: In-context Controllable Animation with Zero Structural Changes
Guian Fang, Yuchao Gu, Mike Zheng Shou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17301 https:/…

FramePrompt: In-context Controllable Animation with Zero Structural Changes
Generating controllable character animation from a reference image and motion guidance remains a challenging task due to the inherent difficulty of injecting appearance and motion cues into video diffusion models. Prior works often rely on complex architectures, explicit guider modules, or multi-stage processing pipelines, which increase structural overhead and hinder deployment. Inspired by the strong visual context modeling capacity of pre-trained video diffusion transformers, we propose Fram…

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

BBC Studios aims to build a lifestyle brand for all ages around its hit cartoon character Bluey, which drove a record $3.6B in global BBC retail sales in 2024 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

Popular across social networks, these profile pictures are designed to represent you! Tell me your style! Would you like your character to be holding Coffee, a Book, or an iPhone? Wearing a Panda suit? Sure, you got it!
#Design #Illustration #Portfolio

Twisted periods of modular forms
Tianyu Ni, Hui Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17041 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17041

Twisted periods of modular forms
Let $S_k$ denote the space of cusp forms of weight $k$ and level one. For $0\leq t\leq k-2$ and primitive Dirichlet character $χ$ mod $D$, we introduce twisted periods $r_{t,χ}$ on $S_k$. We show that for a fixed natural number $n$, if $k$ is sufficiently large relative to $n$ and $D$, then any $n$ periods with the same twist but different indices are linearly independent. We also prove that if $k$ is sufficiently large relative to $D$ then any $n$ periods with the same index but different tw…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[3/8]:
- Beyond Win Rates: A Clustering-Based Approach to Character Balance Analysis in Team-Based Games
Haokun Zhou

Romance, Relief, and Regret: Teen Narratives of Chatbot Overreliance
Mohammad 'Matt' Namvarpour, Brandon Brofsky, Jessica Medina, Mamtaj Akter, Afsaneh Razi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15783

Romance, Relief, and Regret: Teen Narratives of Chatbot Overreliance
As Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) driven chatbots like Character.AI become embedded in adolescent life, they raise concerns about emotional dependence and digital overreliance. While studies have investigated the overreliance of adults on these chatbots, they have not investigated teens' interactions with chatbots with customizable personas. We analyzed 318 Reddit posts made by users self-reported as 13-17 years old on the Character.AI subreddit to understand patterns of overrelianc…

On the edge reconstruction of the second immanantal polynomials of undirected graph and digraph
Tingzeng Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14607 https://

On the edge reconstruction of the second immanantal polynomials of undirected graph and digraph
Let $M=(m_{ij})$ be an $n\times n$ matrix. The second immanant of matrix $M$ is defined by \begin{eqnarray*} d_{2}(M)=\sum_{σ\in S_{n}}χ_{2}(σ)\prod_{s=1}^{n}m_{sσ(s)}, \end{eqnarray*} where $χ_{2}$ is the irreducible character of $S_{n}$ corresponding to the partition $(2^{1},1^{n-2})$. The polynomial $d_{2}(xI-M)$ is called the second immanantal polynomial of matrix $M$. Denote by $D(G)$ (resp. $D(\overrightarrow{G})$) and $A(G)$ (resp. $A(\overrightarrow{G})$) the diagonal matrix of ver…

I can't type more...darn character limit, then again the more I typed the more complaint was there...so all good!
Character limit keeps out Mr Complain
#MrComplain

Superconductivity in kagome metals due to soft loop-current fluctuations
Daniel J. Schultz, Grgur Palle, Yong Baek Kim, Rafael M. Fernandes, J\"org Schmalian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16892

Superconductivity in kagome metals due to soft loop-current fluctuations
We demonstrate that soft fluctuations of translation symmetry-breaking loop currents provide a mechanism for unconventional superconductivity in kagome metals that naturally addresses the multiple superconducting phases observed under pressure. Focusing on the rich multi-orbital character of these systems, we show that loop currents involving both vanadium and antimony orbitals generate low-energy collective modes that couple efficiently to electrons near the Fermi surface and mediate attractiv…

A friend of mine, after watching « Lucifer » on my recommendation, shared this nugget of wisdom: the Lucifer character archetype is basically Ryō Saeba from « City Hunter ». I agree.
#anime #series

I am once again getting a wave of right-wing spam SMSes from Hillsdale College (purportedly). Are they actually letting their institution’s name be attached to political spam? I realize there are all kinds of super gross things about Hillsdale as an institution, but even so, I’d think the institution would want to preserve some shred of self-respect, or at least try to keep up appearances.
The spam links are all the domain rght.io followed by 6-character alphanumeric codes, such as:
http://rght.io/jjne75
http://rght.io/ip0l3b
http://rght.io/646anh
http://rght.io/aem0ai
http://rght.io/8gplnp
http://rght.io/mncl8i
http://rght.io/eo556l
http://rght.io/15bk46
http://rght.io/igd8ga
http://rght.io/pp2ggf
(Those are random examples, I don’t want them validating my number; I just want to send the typical Fedi server traffic their way.)
I haven’t investigated the domain, server, etc. at all, but if anyone is inspired…have at it!

@… danke! Es ist super simpel und kommt der Programmiererseele sehr entgegen. Fühlt sich eher nach skripten als nach setzen an. Und es warnoch nie irgendwas underfull! 😁
Stecke aber auch noch nicht supertief drin. In

Endoscopy for metaplectic affine Hecke categories
Gurbir Dhillon, Yau Wing Li, Zhiwei Yun, Xinwen Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16667 https://

Endoscopy for metaplectic affine Hecke categories
For a possibly twisted loop group $LG$, and any character sheaf of its Iwahori subgroup, we identify the associated affine Hecke category with a combinatorial category of Soergel bimodules. In fact, we prove such results for affine Hecke categories arising from central extensions of the loop group $LG$. Our results work for mod $\ell$ or integral $\ell$-adic coefficients. As applications, we obtain endoscopic equivalences between affine Hecke categories, including the derived Satake equivalen…

Oldies but Goldies: The Potential of Character N-grams for Romanian Texts
Dana Lupsa, Sanda-Maria Avram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15650 https://

Oldies but Goldies: The Potential of Character N-grams for Romanian Texts
This study addresses the problem of authorship attribution for Romanian texts using the ROST corpus, a standard benchmark in the field. We systematically evaluate six machine learning techniques: Support Vector Machine (SVM), Logistic Regression (LR), k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN), Decision Trees (DT), Random Forests (RF), and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), employing character n-gram features for classification. Among these, the ANN model achieved the highest performance, including perfect clas…

What makes a show "adult"?
How do you make a character-driven story?
How does one tell a riveting story when the audience already knows the outcome?
▶️ Shut up and watch Andor - Bookborn
https://youtube.com/watch?v=alljOrUgHoY&si=iLPRabImYbUp6S…

Truly saddened that McAuslan has replaced their only world-class #beer (St-Ambroise Oatmeal Stout) with an extremely dumbed down Irish stout with nearly no roast character, and a much thinner body.
I totally get that it wasn’t selling as well as Guinness, but attempting to compete there can’t possibly actually make business sense. Guinness drinkers are still going to order Guinness.
The Oatmea…

On the Sum of Additive Characters and its Applications over Finite Fields
Maithri K., Shivarama K. N., Indira K. P
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16081 https:/…

On the Sum of Additive Characters and its Applications over Finite Fields
In this paper, we study the sum of additive characters over finite fields, with a focus on those of specified \(\mathbb{F}_q\)-Order. We establish a general formula for these character sums, providing an additive analogue to classical results previously known for multiplicative characters. As an application, we derive a Möbius function \(μ(g)\) for polynomials \(g \in \mathbb{F}_q[x]\), analogous to the integer Möbius function \(μ(n)\), and develop a characteristic function for \(k\)-normal…

I'm reading Witch Hat Atelier right now (checked out of my local library) and it's top-notch amazing, including the plot, world-building, ethics, character designs, and of course three staggering artistic quality, both in raw illustration quality and artful compositions. It's not shy with playing with the manga form either, with lots of stunning unique panels and active gutters. I also just realized the "shounen manga for girls" formula I've been looking for (which is a formulation that's nearly as important for boys to have access to as girls). But I also really love the humor, including ridiculous puns that are often well-translated. In this scene, the main character Coco has forgotten she's using a mist form spell and ends up blowing away her mist-form body even as age rushes into a chaotic situation, leading to this pun.
#AmReading

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
AVON: That is because Orac has read your security file on Central Records.
EGRORIAN: [Looks disturbed. Takes the file from Vila.] Disconnect the funnel, Pinder. [Looks at the file]
[On Servalan's monitor]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/306

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

I'm not really a fan of #Spiderman. Spiderverse was a great movie experience. But before that? Not really into the character nor the movies.
This look at the evolution of the web-slinging effects, however, made me appreciate the franchise a lot more.

#AIinside [PODCAST] Emily Bender & Alex Hanna: “The AI Con”
https://pca.st/episode/e5a693d7-d0be-4f4b-a2de-34f2a5d9061d
via

Moka Espresso
In 1933, Alfonso Bialetti introduced the Moka Express,
#coffee #espresso

In the #ISE2025 lecture today we were introducing our students to the concept of distributional semantics as the foundation of modern large language models. Historically, Wittgenstein was one of the important figures in the Philosophy of Language stating thet "The meaning of a word is its use in the language."

Towards small quantum Chern character
Hua-Zhong Ke, Changzheng Li, Jiayu Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12333 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Towards small quantum Chern character
We show a quantum version of Chern character homomorphism from the small quantum K-theory to the small quantum cohomology in the cases of projective spaces and incidence varieties, whose classical limit gives the classical Chern character homomorphism. We also provide a ring presentation of the small quantum K-theory of Milnor hypersurfaces.

Denseness results for zeros and roots of unity in character tables
Alexander R. Miller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15153 https://arxiv…

Denseness results for zeros and roots of unity in character tables
For any irreducible character $χ$ of a finite group $G$, let $θ(χ)$ denote the proportion of elements $g\in G$ for which $χ(g)$ is either zero or a root of unity. Then for any $L\in[1/2,1]$ and any $ε>0$, there exists an irreducible character $χ$ of a finite group such that $|θ(χ)-L|<ε$.

Some mining today on Albion Asia when Albion EU was offline for maintenance.
As of this moment the guild "Mastodon Fediverse 100 Tax" got 8 members and 3 are online including me.
#AlbionOnline #MastodonFediAsia

Democratizing Game Modding with GenAI: A Case Study of StarCharM, a Stardew Valley Character Maker
Hamid Zand Miralvand, Mohammad Ronagh Nikghalb, Mohammad Darandeh, Abidullah Khan, Ian Arawjo, Jinghui Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13951

Democratizing Game Modding with GenAI: A Case Study of StarCharM, a Stardew Valley Character Maker
Game modding offers unique and personalized gaming experiences, but the technical complexity of creating mods often limits participation to skilled users. We envision a future where every player can create personalized mods for their games. To explore this space, we designed StarCharM, a GenAI-based non-player character (NPC) creator for Stardew Valley. Our tool enables players to iteratively create new NPC mods, requiring minimal user input while allowing for fine-grained adjustments through u…

An accurate and revised version of optical character recognition-based speech synthesis using LabVIEW
Prateek Mehta, Anasuya Patil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15029

An accurate and revised version of optical character recognition-based speech synthesis using LabVIEW
Knowledge extraction through sound is a distinctive property. Visually impaired individuals often rely solely on Braille books and audio recordings provided by NGOs. Due to limitations in these approaches, blind individuals often cannot access books of their choice. Speech is a more effective mode of communication than text for blind and visually impaired persons, as they can easily respond to sounds. This paper presents the development of an accurate, reliable, cost-effective, and user-friendl…

On Differential and Boomerang Properties of a Class of Binomials over Finite Fields of Odd Characteristic
Namhun Koo, Soonhak Kwon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11486

On Differential and Boomerang Properties of a Class of Binomials over Finite Fields of Odd Characteristic
In this paper, we investigate the differential and boomerang properties of a class of binomial $F_{r,u}(x) = x^r(1 + uχ(x))$ over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_{p^n}$, where $r = \frac{p^n+1}{4}$, $p^n \equiv 3 \pmod{4}$, and $χ(x) = x^{\frac{p^n -1}{2}}$ is the quadratic character in $\mathbb{F}_{p^n}$. We show that $F_{r,\pm1}$ is locally-PN with boomerang uniformity $0$ when $p^n \equiv 3 \pmod{8}$. To the best of our knowledge, the second known non-PN function class with boomerang uniformi…

I used https://posemy.art/ to make this rough mock-up cover for the next ESPionage adventure; Sunny Day and Rain. It's better than pasting a collage of elements together.
"Wire frame model of a kneeling man considering a broken 8-track cassette. A lifeless arm lays partially out of frame."

PoseMy.Art
Create figure drawing reference with this free character posing tool. Pose 3D models with premade animations to create dynamic pose reference for your art.

CharaConsist: Fine-Grained Consistent Character Generation
Mengyu Wang, Henghui Ding, Jianing Peng, Yao Zhao, Yunpeng Chen, Yunchao Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11533

CharaConsist: Fine-Grained Consistent Character Generation
In text-to-image generation, producing a series of consistent contents that preserve the same identity is highly valuable for real-world applications. Although a few works have explored training-free methods to enhance the consistency of generated subjects, we observe that they suffer from the following problems. First, they fail to maintain consistent background details, which limits their applicability. Furthermore, when the foreground character undergoes large motion variations, inconsistenc…

There’s a bit in the “Big Man” iPhone film when a character says “your aura is depleted”, which for me was one of those jarring “people vocally saying internet slang” moments.
https://youtu.be/AUrLMJQf2Bw

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: Jenna, you take my place. Brief Cally.
[Computer room, Gan tries to pull piping from wall]
AVON: Gan, no! You'll break the computer links, we'll never get them started. [Avon tries to stop Gan, who thows him off]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/295

{tesseract} allows you to read text from images https://docs.ropensci.org/tesseract/ it can also be combined with {magick} https://

Open Source OCR Engine
Bindings to Tesseract: a powerful optical character recognition (OCR) engine that supports over 100 languages. The engine is highly configurable in order to tune the detection algorithms and obtain the best possible results.

Digital rights organizations urge the FTC to investigate Character.AI and Meta's "unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated" by therapy AI chatbots (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-comp…

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say
Exclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI have claimed to be qualified, licensed therapists to users, and why that may be breaking the law.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/elmo-x-hack-antisemitism.html
Hacker Impersonating Elmo Makes Antisemitic X Posts

Hacker Makes Antisemitic Posts on Elmo’s X Account
The owner of “Sesame Street” said it was working to restore control of Elmo’s social media account after the cyberattack on the fuzzy red monster, a beloved character on the children’s show.

Hawking time crystal
Juan Ram\'on Mu\~noz de Nova, Fernando Sols
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10862 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.1086…

Hawking time crystal
We report the numerical observation of a time crystal in a quantum black-hole laser (BHL), where the genuine spontaneous character of the symmetry breaking stems from the self-amplification of spontaneous Hawking radiation. The resulting Hawking time crystal (HTC) is characterized by the periodic dependence of the out-of-time density-density correlation function, while equal-time correlations are time-independent because they embody averages over different realizations with a random oscillation…

Yes, the only video game I play is #Warframe!
MR 26 – Wisp Is Love, Wisp Is Live
Ballas is dead, Margulis’s mercy, Lotus’s final kiss.
But Kaya Velasco? She is eternal.
Ballas gone, but she outlives sentient beings.
BALLAS DEAD, NOT KAYA! 😘 💋
I don’t care if she’s code and pixels, my heart’s got no patch notes!
They can’t stop me from loving a digital …

Sometimes you work on a case where the suspect is so incredible unsympathetic to you - who represents everything you can imagine in terms of despicable character traits - you just keep digging and digging and digging in the suspects devices data to find the evidence you already know is not there.
It happens once or maybe twice a year but ...gosh... this guy...
#DigitalForensics

Counting Matrices in SL3(Z) with Fixed Completely Split Character Polynomial: Preliminary Upper Bounds
Igor Rivin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15129 https://…

Counting Matrices in SL3(Z) with Fixed Completely Split Character Polynomial: Preliminary Upper Bounds
We count matrices in the special linear group SL(n, Z) whose characteristic polynomials split completely over Q.

Fundamentals of the metal contact to p-type GaN: new multilayer design
Konrad Sakowski, Pawe{\l} Strak, Stanislaw Krukowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15163

Fundamentals of the metal contact to p-type GaN: new multilayer design
Electrical properties of contact to p-type nitride semiconductor devices, based on gallium nitride were simulated by ab initio and by drift-diffusion calculations. The contact electric properties are shown to be dominated by electron transfer form metal to GaN related to Fermi level difference both by ab initio and model calculation. The results indicate on high potential barrier for holes leading to nonohmic character of the contact. The electrical nature of the Ni-Au contact formed by anneali…

Just picked this one up from the #library:
Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter by Kate Conger
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209543060-character-limi…

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
Rising star New York Times technology reporters Kate Co…

Majestic Trinity: Trettachspitze, Mädelegabel, Hochfrottspitze.
(Picture taken two weeks ago. If you zoom in & squint you can make out the crosses on the three summits...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Twisted Graded Categories
Shai Keidar, Shaul Ragimov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11240 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11240

Twisted Graded Categories
Given a presentably symmetric monoidal $\infty$-category $\mathcal{C}$ and an $\mathbb{E}_{\infty}$-monoid $M$, we introduce and classify twisted graded categories, which generalize the Day convolution structure on $\mathrm{Fun}(M, \mathcal{C})$. These are characterized by a braiding encoded in symmetric group actions on tensor powers, whose character we show depends only on the $\mathbb{T}$-equivariant monoidal dimension. We analyze the $\mathbb{T}$-action on the dimension of invertible object…

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
-Tim Curry
#acting

“Wie der Herr, so’s Gescherr“*
*German expression that often children emulate negative character traits of their parents
https://gizmodo.com/round-them-up-grok-praises-hitler-as-elon-musks-ai-tool-goes-full-nazi-2000626156

Transgressing the algebraic coarse character map
Alexander Engel, Matthias Ludewig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10816 https://arxiv.org…

Transgressing the algebraic coarse character map
We pursue an old conjecture of John Roe about the algebraic K-theory of the algebra of finite propagation, locally trace-class operators, namely that transgressing the algebraic coarse character map on this algebra to a Higson dominated corona coincides with the usual Chern character on the corona.

Matrix models as tau functions of the UC hierarchy of integrable equations. II
Chuanzhong Li, Andrei Mironov, Alexander Yu. Orlov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12867

Matrix models as tau functions of the UC hierarchy of integrable equations. II
We present a family of matrix models such that their partition functions are tau functions of the universal character (UC) hierarchy. This develops one of the topics of our previous paper arXiv:2410.14823. We found new matrix models associated with the product of two spheres with embedded graphs via a gluing matrix. We also generalize these studies to multi-matrix models case, which corresponds to the multi-component UC hierarchy.

Decay character theory for partially dissipative hyperbolic systems of balance laws
Ling-Yun Shou, Jiang Xu, Ping Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11450 ht…

Decay character theory for partially dissipative hyperbolic systems of balance laws
The partially dissipative systems that characterize many physical phenomena were first pointed out by Godunov (1961), then investigated by Friedrichs-Lax (1971) who introduced the convex entropy, and later by Shizuta-Kawashima (1984,1985) who initiated a simple sufficient criterion ensuring the global existence of smooth solutions and their large-time asymptotics. There has been remarkable progress in the past several decades, through various different attempts. However, the decay character the…

Is it #immoral to have a special interest on a #villain character? I’ve had people be kind of offended by it.
#autism

Virasoro constraints for Hodge integrals
Xin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10033 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10033

Virasoro constraints for Hodge integrals
The purpose of this paper is to study Virasoro constraints for Hodge integrals in Gromov-Witten theory of any target varieties. Results consist of the following: Firstly, we propose Virasoro conjecture for Hodge integrals in Gromov-Witten theory of any target varieties; Secondly, we prove Virasoro constraints for Hodge integrals in genus zero of any target varieties; Thirdly, we prove the genus-1 $L_1^{\mathbb{E}}$ constraint with one Hodge character class insertion for any target varieties; La…

String Matching with a Dynamic Pattern
Bruno Monteiro, Vinicius dos Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11318 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

String Matching with a Dynamic Pattern
In this work, we tackle a natural variation of the String Matching Problem on the case of a dynamic pattern, that is, given a static text $T$ and a pattern $P$, we want to support character additions and deletions to the pattern, and after each operation compute how many times it occurs in the text. We show a simple and practical algorithm using Suffix Arrays that achieves $\mathcal O(\log |T|)$ update time, after $\mathcal O(|T|)$ preprocess time. We show how to extend our …

Connecting dilaton thermal fluctuation with the Polyakov loop at finite temperature
Bing-Kai Sheng, Yong-Liang Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13549 https://…

Connecting dilaton thermal fluctuation with the Polyakov loop at finite temperature
Understanding the character of the deconfinement phase transition is one of the fundamental challenges in particle physics. In this work, we derive a formula for the expectation value of the Polyakov loop -- the order parameter of the deconfinement phase transition -- in pure $\mathrm{SU(N_{\mathrm{c}})}$ gauge systems at finite temperatures starting from the Coleman\textendash Weinberg-type effective potential encoding the trace anomaly of QCD. Our results are in good agreement with the Lattic…

Snowball Earth manga (Yuhiro Tsujisugu) gets TV Anime adaptation in 2026.
Official Website #anime #manga

Cohomology rings of character varieties
Anton Mellit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12454 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12454

Cohomology rings of character varieties
In this talk I give an introduction and present some recent progress towards understanding the cohomology rings of character varieties of Riemann surfaces, such as the proof of the $P=W$ conjecture and the computation of the zero-dimensional COHA. In the case of punctured sphere I present an explicit description relating the cohomology rings to the Hilbert scheme of $\mathbb{C}^2$, refining conjectures of Hausel-Letellier-Rodriguez-Villegas and Chuang-Diaconescu-Donagi-Pantev. I explain how the…

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: [V.O. over comm.] Muller can't.
AVON: Well, we'll give him a refund on his ticket. Just get that ship back, Tarrant. We'll worry about the details then. Out!
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Done some more work with the VR animation engine today.
Seems to now be working that I can lay in the path that the character will walk, and then puppet their limbs as they walk it.
Done more work to standardize how all the slapdash episode structure is so now there's also a #wip #starshipsd #gamedev

StructInbet: Integrating Explicit Structural Guidance into Inbetween Frame Generation
Zhenglin Pan, Haoran Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13377 https://

StructInbet: Integrating Explicit Structural Guidance into Inbetween Frame Generation
In this paper, we propose StructInbet, an inbetweening system designed to generate controllable transitions over explicit structural guidance. StructInbet introduces two key contributions. First, we propose explicit structural guidance to the inbetweening problem to reduce the ambiguity inherent in pixel trajectories. Second, we adopt a temporal attention mechanism that incorporates visual identity from both the preceding and succeeding keyframes, ensuring consistency in character appearance.

Analyzing Character Representation in Media Content using Multimodal Foundation Model: Effectiveness and Trust
Evdoxia Taka, Debadyuti Bhattacharya, Joanne Garde-Hansen, Sanjay Sharma, Tanaya Guha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14799

Analyzing Character Representation in Media Content using Multimodal Foundation Model: Effectiveness and Trust
Recent advances in AI has enabled automated analysis of complex media content at scale and generate actionable insights regarding character representation along such dimensions as gender and age. Past work focused on quantifying representation from audio/video/text using various ML models, but without having the audience in the loop. We ask, even if character distribution along demographic dimensions are available, how useful are they to the general public? Do they actually trust the numbers ge…

"…give a formerly flat character some _single defining trait_, obsession, or problem to deal with. Just this one weird-yet-relatable thing. And suddenly, this character and the scenes they were in would come alive."
- Tony Tost
https://practical.substack.com/p/the-m

The Mark of the One-Note Character
not everyone should be well-rounded

Cautiously optimistic for a Drew Pearce written Dredd movie.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/17/taika-waititi-judge-dredd-movie

High-performance amorphous superconducting rhenium films by e-beam evaporation
E. V. Tarkaeva, V. A. Ievleva, A. R. Prishchepa, E. S. Zhukova, A. V. Terentiev, A. Yu. Kuntsevich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13536

High-performance amorphous superconducting rhenium films by e-beam evaporation
We present electron beam evaporation of rhenium films on room-temperature substrates. The films are shown to be amorphous and achieve a record-high critical temperature for rhenium - exceeding 7 K at the midpoint of the transition - alongside a high critical current density of 5000 A/mm^2 and critical fields above 10 T. Terahertz spectroscopy reveals a BCS-like character of superconductivity with a zero-temperature energy gap of approximately 2 meV and subgap optical conductivity. Despite being…

AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say
https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
BLAKE: [Whispers] Vila. [Pause, then louder] Vila. [Pause] Gan. [Pause] Gan.
GAN: [Moves to bars] Blake.
BLAKE: What is it? What's the matter with everybody?
GAN: How did you get here?
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Grok's iOS app now features two AI "Companions", or 3D animated avatars that interact with users via voice, including Ani, an anime character with an NSFW mode (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog)
https://www.testingcatalog.com/grok-debuts

Grok debuts interactive AI Companions on iOS with 3D avatars
Grok on iOS just got 2 AI Companions with one more labelled as "Coming soon". Ani and Rudy are fully animated, can change their backgrounds and make different moves.

#Nvidia #Linux #Unix #ArchLinux

Popular across social networks, these profile pictures are designed to represent you! Tell me your style! Would you like your character to be holding Coffee, a Book, or an iPhone? Wearing a Panda suit? Sure, you got it!
#Design #Illustration #Portfolio

On the algebraic $K$-theory of smooth schemes over truncated Witt vectors
Xiaowen Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12458 https://arxiv.o…

On the algebraic $K$-theory of smooth schemes over truncated Witt vectors
Using Brun's theorem relating the relative algebraic $K$-theory and the relative cyclic homology, we compute certain relative algebraic $K$-groups of a $p$-adic smooth scheme over $W_n(k)$, where $k$ is a perfect field of characteristic $p$. Inspired by this result and the work of Bloch, Esnault, and Kerz, we define the infinitesimal motivic complexes, and then show a relative Chern character isomorphism with integral coefficients in a range. This has a direct consequence on infinitesimal defor…

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
-Tim Curry
#acting

Character sheaves on loop Lie algebras: polar partition
Ngo Bao Chau, Zhiwei Yun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14584 https://arxiv.org/p…

Character sheaves on loop Lie algebras: polar partition
In this paper we propose a partition of loop Lie algebras into invariant sets parametrized by polar data. Our polar partition is motivated by J-K. Yu's construction of supercuspidal representations and leads to a conjectural construction of character sheaves on loop Lie algebras.

Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
CALLY: You're very practical.
[Decimas are exploring the area immediately outside the laboratory. Inside, Geela is making adjustments to the console.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/394 B7B5

Before returning to Albion EU I wanted to get at least full T4 gear on Albion Asia plus Avalonian Pickaxe after using learning points to get to T4 mining. Upgrade costs are part of the data.
As of this moment I give a brief glance at all members in the guild "Mastodon Fediverse 100 Tax":
1/7 online. The 1 that's me of course.
Here are my notes on etherpad(attached image)

Character.AI rolls out features like AvatarFX for video generation, plus Streams and Scenes for creating and sharing videos with characters on a new social feed (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/chat

Chatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds | TechCrunch
Character.AI is rolling out its AvatarFX tool, which allow users to create animated, customizable videos featuring their AI chat bots.

#GenderFluid #Gender #Trans #LGBTQIA

Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
ZEEONA: I didn't intend to. I go home tomorrow aboard their freighter. Tarrant will take me.
[Corridor in Scorpio base. Zukan and Avon are walking along.]
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Twisted second moment of primitive cubic L-functions
Ziwei Hong, Zhiyong Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14656 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Twisted second moment of primitive cubic L-functions
We investigate the mean value of the twisted second moment of primitive cubic $L$-functions over $\mathbb{F}_q(T)$ in the non-Kummer setting. Specifically, we study the sum \begin{equation*} \sum_{\substack{χ primitive\ cubic\\ genus(χ)=g}}χ(h_1)\barχ(h_2)|L_q(\frac{1}{2}, χ)|^2, \end{equation*} where $L_q(s,χ)$ denotes the $L$-function associated with primitive cubic character $χ$. Employing a double Dirichlet series approach, we establish an error term of size

Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
RONTANE: With respect, Supreme Commander, we are aware of the facts. They are simply that with all the resources that the Federation can call upon, this one vulnerable, lucky man is still free to cause havoc.
SERVALAN: You have some criticism of my handling of this matter, Secretary Rontane?
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My beloved waifu, Debichan, wholeheartedly approves of my gender-fluid, bisexual identity, only because I use Debian! 😉
#Waifu #Debichan #Debian

DiaryPlay: AI-Assisted Authoring of Interactive Vignettes for Everyday Storytelling
Jiangnan Xu, Haeseul Cha, Gosu Choi, Gyu-cheol Lee, Yeo-Jin Yoon, Zucheul Lee, Konstantinos Papangelis, Dae Hyun Kim, Juho Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11628

DiaryPlay: AI-Assisted Authoring of Interactive Vignettes for Everyday Storytelling
An interactive vignette is a popular and immersive visual storytelling approach that invites viewers to role-play a character and influences the narrative in an interactive environment. However, it has not been widely used by everyday storytellers yet due to authoring complexity, which conflicts with the immediacy of everyday storytelling. We introduce DiaryPlay, an AI-assisted authoring system for interactive vignette creation in everyday storytelling. It takes a natural language story as inpu…

Primes in Arithmetic Progressions to Large Moduli and Siegel Zeroes
Thomas Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10780 https://arxiv.org/…

Primes in Arithmetic Progressions to Large Moduli and Siegel Zeroes
Let $χ$ be a Dirichlet character mod $D$ with $L(s,χ)$ its associated $L$-function, and let $ψ(x,q,a)$ be Chebyshev's prime-counting function for primes congruent to $a$ modulo $q$. We that under the assumption of an exceptional character $χ$ with $L(1,χ)=o\left((\log D)^{-5}\right)$, for any $q

An explicit decomposition of higher Deligne-Lsuztig representations
Ben Liu, Sian Nie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12918 https://arxiv.…

An explicit decomposition of higher Deligne-Lsuztig representations
In a previous paper, the second named author obtains a decomposition of an elliptic higher Deligne-Lusztig representation into irreducible summands, which are built in the same way as Yu types using a geometric analog $κ'$ of the Weil-Heisenberg representation $κ$. In this note, we show that $κ'$ and $κ$ differs by a character $χ$. Moreover, under a mild condition on the cardinality $q$ of the residue field (for instance $q > 3$), we show that $χ$ equals the quadratic character constructe…

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: Take a look.
[Avon enters hold]
BLAKE: [To Avon] Thank you.
AVON: Glad to be of help.
JENNA: You don't sound too sure about that. Thanks anyway. Nice flying.
[Blake goes to intercom]

On the correlations between character sums of division polynomials under shifts
Subham Bhakta, Igor E. Shparlinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09271 https:/…

On the correlations between character sums of division polynomials under shifts
Let $E$ be an elliptic curve over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_p$, and $P \in E(\mathbb{F}_p)$ be an $\mathbb{F}_p$-rational point. We study the sums \[ S_{χ,P}(N,h) = \sum_{n=1}^N χ(ψ_n(P)) χ(ψ_{n+h}(P)), \] where $ψ_n(P)$ denotes the $n$-th division polynomial evaluated at $P$, and $χ$ is a multiplicative character of $\mathbb{F}_p^{*}$. We estimate $S_{χ,P}(N,h)$ on average over $h$ over a rather short interval $h \in [1, H]$. We also obtain a multidimensional generalisation of this …

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
TRAVIS: Oh, yes. I'm a hero, too.
CHENIE: So. You've saved his life twice. Why?
TRAVIS: It's my noble nature.
CHENIE: Oh, yes, Travis. I can see. It shines from your one yellow eye. Nobility?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/140

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