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Dungeon Full Dive: Deutscher Pen-&-Paper-Baukasten wird bald kostenlos
Das Düsseldorfer Entwicklerstudio TxK Gaming muss schließen und macht den unvollendeten TTRPG-Baukasten Dungeon Full Dive kostenlos verfügbar.

Salesloft says hackers stole OAuth tokens from its Drift chat agent integration to conduct a Salesforce data theft campaign between August 8 and August 18 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Today's ride on Hampton Avenue was much better! I just need to time it right. Wait for the light to turn green, wait until all the cars go through, then bike after them. I only need a gap of a few minutes to get past the gnarly part of the road.
The other tricky part is crossing Mayfair on the Menomonee Parkway. I actually get off the bike and walk it across there. No signals, not even for pedestrians so it's a rough one.

"We can conclude that the brain has the capacity to distinguish virtual infectious patterns,
become activated,
and link this activation to a downstream response,
⭐️ resulting in systemic immunity,"
wrote Camilla Jandus, co-author of the study paper
https://www.

Human immune system reacts to the mere sight of infection
Researchers monitored brain activity when people were shown images of sick-looking avatars via VR. The brain appeared to spark an immune response.

#WoodyGuthrie recorded some stuff while suffering from ALS that’s never been released. Now it has been.
#giftArticle https://wapo.st/44Z5SBz

The Woody Guthrie tapes you weren’t supposed to hear
“Woody at Home,” a new CD of some of Woody Guthrie’s last recordings, shows the effect of Huntington’s disease on the “This Land Is Your Land” and “Deportee” singer.

Bijna afgelopen op BBCFour, maar wie wil genieten.... (Zal wel na 01:30 worden, want ze lopen achter)
"Andi Oliver is tonight’s guide to an evening of musical glamour, as singing sensation Samara Joy makes her Proms debut with timeless classics from Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra and Sun Ra.'

Calm In The Middle of Huge Changes
#Resilience #change
https://muz4now.com/2020/calm-in-the-m

Calm In The Middle of Huge Changes
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Typisch €DU: Kein Geld für Kultur und Soziales wegen angespannter Haushaltslage, aber von 3 Mio. € für zusätzliche Überwachung und sinnlose Law-and-Order Symbolpolitik träumen.
https://www.saechsische.de/lokales/dresden

Wie Dresden den „Kampf gegen Graffiti gewinnen“ will
Gesprühte Kunst wird in Dresden nun mit Laserstrahlen entfernt. Damit will die Stadt Sprayer abschrecken. Aber das kostet viel Geld.

from my link log —
Parsing protobuf like never before.
https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/07/16/hyperpb/
saved 2025-07-24 https://

‼️Gern boosten für mehr Antworten‼️
😃Seit September 2023 immer falsch geraten. 😛
In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im Mai 2025 über den #Klimawandel und dessen Drumherum sowie den

Klimawandel im Fokus: Analyse der Berichterstattung im öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen 2025
Wird der Klimawandel im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk ausreichend thematisiert? Eine umfassende Analyse zeigt Zahlen und Trends in der Berichterstattung.

Es sollte ein außenpolitisches Thema Deutschlands und der EU sein, dass der Privatmann Peter Thiel in der Lage ist Uran anzureichern.
Es darf nicht sein, dass US-amerikanische Innenpolitik die Weltsicherheitslage bestimmt:
https://bildung.social/deck/@denisedwh

Golden bluffs, from a Sea Ranch peninsula
…
#vitaminsea #photography
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Golden bluffs, from a Sea Ranch peninsula
Scot Hacker on Glass

Scientists revive ancient gene to target #gout and fatty #liver disease. https://phys.org/news/2025-08-scientis

Scientists revive ancient gene to target gout and fatty liver disease
Gout, a form of arthritis caused by crystals that build up in joints and cause swelling and pain, is one of humanity's oldest diseases. Scientists at Georgia State University may have found an ancient solution to treat it.

About Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows - Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving -

About Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows
Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving

Sort of bewildering - it's as if there was a strong-minded 2-year old who has terrorized the parents doing whatever he wants with no idea and no care of what actually will happen. Nothing beyond "I want" matters.
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/calif

Sort of bewildering - it's as if there was a strong-minded 2-year old who has terrorized the parents doing whatever he wants with no idea and no care of what actually will happen. Nothing beyond "I want" matters.
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/calif

Ist. Das. Ekelhaft., wie #Blome hier den schwarzen Peter der #SPD zuschiebt.

Richterinnenstreit: Die Klügere gibt nach, und das wäre diesmal die SPD
Es gibt einen Weg aus der verfahrenen Lage um die Besetzung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts. Die Sozialdemokraten können beweisen, dass sie die besseren Bürgerlichen sind.

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UKRAINIAN #SWARM DRONES: #RUSSIA AIR DEFENCE DESTROYED IN CRIMEA Vlog 1087: War in

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MOCHA: Discovering Multi-Order Dynamic Causality in Temporal Point Processes
Yunyang Cao, Juekai Lin, Wenhao Li, Bo Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18873 https://

MOCHA: Discovering Multi-Order Dynamic Causality in Temporal Point Processes
Discovering complex causal dependencies in temporal point processes (TPPs) is critical for modeling real-world event sequences. Existing methods typically rely on static or first-order causal structures, overlooking the multi-order and time-varying nature of causal relationships. In this paper, we propose MOCHA, a novel framework for discovering multi-order dynamic causality in TPPs. MOCHA characterizes multi-order influences as multi-hop causal paths over a latent time-evolving graph. To model…

Beyond flattening: a geometrically principled positional encoding for vision transformers with Weierstrass elliptic functions
Zhihang Xin, Xitong Hu, Rui Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19167

Beyond flattening: a geometrically principled positional encoding for vision transformers with Weierstrass elliptic functions
Vision Transformers have demonstrated remarkable success in computer vision tasks, yet their reliance on learnable one-dimensional positional embeddings fundamentally disrupts the inherent two-dimensional spatial structure of images through patch flattening procedures. Traditional positional encoding approaches lack geometric constraints and fail to establish monotonic correspondence between Euclidean spatial distances and sequential index distances, thereby limiting the model's capacity to lev…

StepWiser: Stepwise Generative Judges for Wiser Reasoning
Wei Xiong, Wenting Zhao, Weizhe Yuan, Olga Golovneva, Tong Zhang, Jason Weston, Sainbayar Sukhbaatar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19229

StepWiser: Stepwise Generative Judges for Wiser Reasoning
As models increasingly leverage multi-step reasoning strategies to solve complex problems, supervising the logical validity of these intermediate steps has become a critical research challenge. Process reward models address this by providing step-by-step feedback, but current approaches have two major drawbacks: they typically function as classifiers without providing explanations, and their reliance on supervised fine-tuning with static datasets limits generalization. Inspired by recent advanc…

NFL football knockout, survivor pool picks, advice, best strategy for Week 1, 2025: Avoid the Cardinals

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-foo

LLM-based Contrastive Self-Supervised AMR Learning with Masked Graph Autoencoders for Fake News Detection
Shubham Gupta, Shraban Kumar Chatterjee, Suman Kundu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18819

LLM-based Contrastive Self-Supervised AMR Learning with Masked Graph Autoencoders for Fake News Detection
The proliferation of misinformation in the digital age has led to significant societal challenges. Existing approaches often struggle with capturing long-range dependencies, complex semantic relations, and the social dynamics influencing news dissemination. Furthermore, these methods require extensive labelled datasets, making their deployment resource-intensive. In this study, we propose a novel self-supervised misinformation detection framework that integrates both complex semantic relations …

Found a bunch of BSides with fediverse accounts I wasn't following. I should probably update my fediverse #BSides index... 😅
Bsides & InfoSec Cons by Region
📌⁠ https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/111

Quantum thermal state preparation for near-term quantum processors
Jerome Lloyd, Dmitry A. Abanin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21318 https://

Quantum thermal state preparation for near-term quantum processors
Preparation of quantum thermal states of many-body systems is a key computational challenge for quantum processors, with applications in physics, chemistry, and classical optimization. We provide a simple and efficient algorithm for thermal state preparation, combining engineered bath resetting and modulated system-bath coupling to derive a quantum channel approximately satisfying quantum detailed balance relations. We show that the fixed point $\hatσ$ of the channel approximates the Gibbs sta…

HuBE: Cross-Embodiment Human-like Behavior Execution for Humanoid Robots
Shipeng Lyu, Fangyuan Wang, Weiwei Lin, Luhao Zhu, David Navarro-Alarcon, Guodong Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19002

HuBE: Cross-Embodiment Human-like Behavior Execution for Humanoid Robots
Achieving both behavioral similarity and appropriateness in human-like motion generation for humanoid robot remains an open challenge, further compounded by the lack of cross-embodiment adaptability. To address this problem, we propose HuBE, a bi-level closed-loop framework that integrates robot state, goal poses, and contextual situations to generate human-like behaviors, ensuring both behavioral similarity and appropriateness, and eliminating structural mismatches between motion generation an…

Exploring the Use of LLMs for Requirements Specification in an IT Consulting Company
Liliana Pasquale, Azzurra Ragone, Emanuele Piemontese, Armin Amiri Darban
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19113

Exploring the Use of LLMs for Requirements Specification in an IT Consulting Company
In practice, requirements specification remains a critical challenge. The knowledge necessary to generate a specification can often be fragmented across diverse sources (e.g., meeting minutes, emails, and high-level product descriptions), making the process cumbersome and time-consuming. In this paper, we report our experience using large language models (LLMs) in an IT consulting company to automate the requirements specification process. In this company, requirements are specified using a Fun…

"She was useful, but a bit too optimistic": Augmenting Design with Interactive Virtual Personas
Paluck Deep, Monica Bharadhidasan, A. Baki Kocaballi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19463

"She was useful, but a bit too optimistic": Augmenting Design with Interactive Virtual Personas
Personas have been widely used to understand and communicate user needs in human-centred design. Despite their utility, they may fail to meet the demands of iterative workflows due to their static nature, limited engagement, and inability to adapt to evolving design needs. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) pave the way for more engaging and adaptive approaches to user representation. This paper introduces Interactive Virtual Personas (IVPs): multimodal, LLM-driven, conversational …

Roux schemes which carry association schemes locally
Alexander L. Gavrilyuk, Jesse Lansdown, Akihiro Munemasa, Sho Suda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18960 https://

Roux schemes which carry association schemes locally
A roux scheme is an association scheme formed from a special "roux" matrix and the regular permutation representation of an associated group. They were introduced by Iverson and Mixon for their connection to equiangular tight frames and doubly transitive lines. We show how roux matrices can be produced from association schemes and characterise roux schemes for which the neighbourhood of a vertex induces an association scheme possessing the same number of relations as the thin radical. An import…

Generalizations of Euler's $\varphi$-function with respect to systems of polynomials of several variables
Norbert Csizmazia, L\'aszl\'o T\'oth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19103

Generalizations of Euler's $φ$-function with respect to systems of polynomials of several variables
We introduce a new generalization of Euler's $φ$-function associated with a system of polynomials of several variables. We reprove by a short direct approach certain known related identities, and study some other special cases that do not appear in the literature. We also discuss the unitary analogues of these functions.

Towards 6G Intelligence: The Role of Generative AI in Future Wireless Networks
Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Junaid Ahmad, Muhammad Hamza Nawaz, Muhammad Ali Jamshed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19495

Towards 6G Intelligence: The Role of Generative AI in Future Wireless Networks
Ambient intelligence (AmI) is a computing paradigm in which physical environments are embedded with sensing, computation, and communication so they can perceive people and context, decide appropriate actions, and respond autonomously. Realizing AmI at global scale requires sixth generation (6G) wireless networks with capabilities for real time perception, reasoning, and action aligned with human behavior and mobility patterns. We argue that Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is the crea…

The GINN framework: a stochastic QED correspondence for stability and chaos in deep neural networks
Rodrigo Carmo Terin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18948 https://

The GINN framework: a stochastic QED correspondence for stability and chaos in deep neural networks
The development of a Euclidean stochastic field-theoretic approach that maps deep neural networks (DNNs) to quantum electrodynamics (QED) with local U(1) symmetry is presented. Neural activations and weights are represented by fermionic matter and gauge fields, with a fictitious Langevin time enabling covariant gauge fixing. This mapping identifies the gauge parameter with kernel design choices in wide DNNs, relating stability thresholds to gauge-dependent amplification factors. Finite-width fl…

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« The Israeli military never found proof that the Palestinian militant group had systematically stolen aid from the UN, the biggest supplier of emergency assistance to Gaza for most of the war, according to two senior Israeli military officials » https://www.

No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say
Israel has long restricted aid to Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a weapon of control over the population. On Saturday, the Israeli military announced new airdrops of aid.

Nagumo-Type Characterization of Forward Invariance for Constrained Systems
Olayo Reynaud, Mohamed Maghenem, Adnane Saoud, Sadek Belamfedel Alaoui, Ahmad Hably
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20045

Nagumo-Type Characterization of Forward Invariance for Constrained Systems
This paper proposes a Nagumo-type invariance condition for differential inclusions defined on closed constraint sets. More specifically, given a closed set to render forward invariant, the proposed condition restricts the system's dynamics, assumed to be locally Lipschitz, on the boundary of the set restricted to the interior of the constraint set. In particular, when the boundary of the set is entirely within the interior of the constraint set, the proposed condition reduces to the well-known …

Ich kenne inzwischen mehrere Unternehmen, die wegen #Cyberattacken beinahe in die Pleite gegangen wären. Inzwischen sind die Bedrohungen überall, weil Sicherheit schlampig oder zögerlich umgesetzt wird und mit Cyberangriffen und Erpressung viel Geld verdient wird.
Trotzdem bekommt es die Bundesregierung auch nach 3 Jahren nicht hin, die

Umsetzung der NIS-2-Richtlinie: Bundestag muss Gesetz zur Cybersicherheit nachbessern
Deutschland hat die EU-Richtlinie zur Cybersicherheit nicht umgesetzt, obwohl die Frist längst verstrichen ist. Vor zwei Wochen hat das Bundeskabinett ein Gesetz auf den Weg gebracht. Der Entwurf hat jedoch erheblichen Nachbesserungsbedarf, zum Beispiel beim staatlichen Umgang mit Sicherheitslücken.

Travelling-wave solutions and solitons of KdV, mKdV and NLS equations
Supriya Chatterjee, Pranab Sarkar, Benoy Talukdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18994 https://

Travelling-wave solutions and solitons of KdV, mKdV and NLS equations
We introduce the concept of soliton solutions of integrable nonlinear partial differential equations and point out that the inverse spectral method represents the rigorous mathematical formalism to construct such solutions. We work with the travelling waves of the KdV, mKdV and nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equations and derive a pedagogic method to find their soliton solutions. The travelling wave of the KdV equation leads directly to the well known bell type KdV soliton while the mKdV equation…

Liveblog vom Montag
US-Präsident Trump hat eigenen Angaben zufolge erneut mit Russlands Präsident Putin telefoniert. Zudem drängte er auf ein Treffen von Putin und Selenskyj. Norwegen will die Militärhilfe für die Ukraine auch 2026 aufrechterhalten. Der Liveblog vom Montag zum Nachlesen.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Trump berichtet von weiterem Putin-Telefonat ++
US-Präsident Trump hat eigenen Angaben zufolge erneut mit Russlands Präsident Putin telefoniert. Zudem drängte er auf ein Treffen von Putin und Selenskyj. Norwegen will die Militärhilfe für die Ukraine auch 2026 aufrechterhalten.

Semiconductor giant Intel has officially begun a new round of layoffs, following through on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's warning two months ago that job cuts were "inevitable" as part of a wider restructuring strategy.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/inte

Intel begins laying off 10,000 under CEO Lip-Bu Tan
Plus: Microsoft readies another wave of Xbox cuts

GET THE MAN ANOTHER ACADEMY AWARD, DAMMIT! 🤣

▶️ Morgan Freeman Re-Enacts The Shawshank Redemption | The Graham Norton Show

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IPXeiS1tzr4&si=1X9Nsezre9GFqEiQ

Adversarial Training: Enhancing Out-of-Distribution Generalization for Learning Wireless Resource Allocation
Shengjie Liu, Chenyang Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21208

Adversarial Training: Enhancing Out-of-Distribution Generalization for Learning Wireless Resource Allocation
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have widespread applications for optimizing resource allocation. Yet, their performance is vulnerable to distribution shifts between training and test data, say channels. In this letter, we resort to adversarial training (AT) for enhancing out-of-distribution (OOD) generalizability of DNNs trained in unsupervised manner. We reformulate AT to capture the OOD degradation, and propose a one-step gradient ascent method for AT. The proposed method is validated by optimizi…

Parametrizing some interesting knotted surfaces
Tumpa Mahato, Rama Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19448 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19448

Parametrizing some interesting knotted surfaces
We discuss methods to construct a polynomial parametrization of some interesting knotted surfaces (knotted spheres, knotted tori and knotted planes) and provide examples, which can potentially be used by material scientists and engineers.

Gravitational $ D$-Form Factor: The $\sigma$-Meson as a Dilaton confronted with Lattice Data
Roy Stegeman, Roman Zwicky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18537 https://

Gravitational $ D$-Form Factor: The $σ$-Meson as a Dilaton confronted with Lattice Data
We investigate the nucleon and pion gravitational $D$-form factors, by fitting a $σ/f_0(500)$-meson pole, together with a background term, to lattice data at $m_π\approx 170\text{MeV}$. We find that the fitted residues are compatible with predictions from dilaton effective theory. In this framework, the $σ$-meson takes on the role of the dilaton, the Goldstone boson of spontaneously broken scale symmetry. These results support the idea that QCD may be governed by an infrared fixed point and …

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
[1/1]:
- The Complexity of Symmetric Bimatrix Games with Common Payoffs
Abheek Ghosh, Alexandros Hollender

Close Hyperbolic Encounters In f(R) Gravity
Jenna Bruton, Peter Dunsby, Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20787 https://

Close Hyperbolic Encounters In f(R) Gravity
We explore the dynamics and gravitational-wave emission from black hole pairs on unbound orbits undergoing close hyperbolic encounters (CHEs) in dense astrophysical environments. While General Relativity predicts gravitational Bremsstrahlung radiation occurring at periastron, the contribution of the scalar gravitational-wave mode in fully general f(R) gravity remains largely unexplored. We characterize the f(R) scalar mode gravitational radiation for both non-precessing and precessing hyperboli…

Radio Map Assisted Routing and Predictive Resource Allocation over Dynamic Low Altitude Networks
Bowen Li, Junting Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19111 https://

Radio Map Assisted Routing and Predictive Resource Allocation over Dynamic Low Altitude Networks
Dynamic low altitude networks offer significant potential for efficient and reliable data transport via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) relays which usually operate with predetermined trajectories. However, it is challenging to optimize the data routing and resource allocation due to the time-varying topology and the need to control interference with terrestrial systems. Traditional schemes rely on time-expanded graphs with uniform and fine time subdivisions, making them impractical for interfe…

10 Innovative Ways To Use Tofu #plantbased

10 Innovative Ways To Use Tofu
These 10 innovative ways to use tofu will make using tofu more fun in the kitchen. From breakfast to dessert, there's a vegan recipe to try.

I find this map especially amusing in that in 1893, 238 colonists departed Australia (purportedly nonexistent) to found the New Australia colony in Paraguay (ditto).
Of course, Australia didn’t federate till 1901, so it could be argued that Australia didn’t *actually* exist at the time. And given Paraguay’s tremendous (but still hotly contested) losses in the 1864-70 Paraguayan War, the latter country was itself hanging on by a thread.

🪤 How We Became Captives Of Social Media
#media

Studying propagating turbulent structures in the near wake of a sphere using Hilbert proper orthogonal decomposition
Shaun Davey, Callum Atkinson, Julio Soria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19167

Studying propagating turbulent structures in the near wake of a sphere using Hilbert proper orthogonal decomposition
Turbulent flows, despite their apparent randomness, exhibit coherent structures that underpin their dynamics. Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) has been widely used to extract these structures from experimental data. While periodic features like vortex shedding can be identified using POD mode pairs when periodicity dominates the flow, detecting such structures in complex flows is more challenging. The Hilbert proper orthogonal decomposition (HPOD) addresses this by applying POD to the anal…

An appropriate term that might have broader usage: ‘kleptosomes’
"‘Solar-powered’ sea slugs (Elysia crispata) steal photosynthetic equipment from algae and stockpile it to use as an energy source on a rainy day. The slugs store these stolen tools, called chloroplasts, in specialized depots in their cells — dubbed ‘kleptosomes’."
from

‘Wildest thing’: solar-powered slug steals chloroplasts and stores them for emergencies
Marine creatures house contraband structures in special organelles, which the animal raids for food in times of need.

An appropriate term that might have broader usage: ‘kleptosomes’
"‘Solar-powered’ sea slugs (Elysia crispata) steal photosynthetic equipment from algae and stockpile it to use as an energy source on a rainy day. The slugs store these stolen tools, called chloroplasts, in specialized depots in their cells — dubbed ‘kleptosomes’."
from

‘Wildest thing’: solar-powered slug steals chloroplasts and stores them for emergencies
Marine creatures house contraband structures in special organelles, which the animal raids for food in times of need.

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
ULTRA 1: A most fascinating type of humanoid species, this girl Cally. One of the few telepaths we have encountered.
AVON: Have you encountered many species?
ULTRA 1: Millions.
[EXTERIOR. Liberator stationary in space]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/212

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Amortizing personalization in virtual brain twins
Nina Baldy, Marmaduke M Woodman, Viktor K Jirsa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21155 https://

Amortizing personalization in virtual brain twins
Virtual brain twins are personalized digital models of individual human subject or patient's brains, allowing for mechanistic interpretation of neuroimaging data features. Training and inference with these models however presents a pair of challenges: large shared infrastructure do not allow for use of personal data and inference in clinical applications should not require significant resources. We introduce "anonymized personalization" to address both by expanding model priors to include perso…

Scattering theory of the nonlinear wave equations on lattices
Jiajun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19160 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19160

Scattering theory of the nonlinear wave equations on lattices
In this paper, I will summarize the uniform decay estimates of the discrete wave equations (DW) established by the oscillatory integral theory in [Sch98, BCH23, BCH24], and combine the abstract framework of the scattering theory of the dispersive equations established in [Str81] to finally establish the scattering theory of the discrete nonlinear wave equations (DNLW), including the existence of the wave operators and the asymptotic completeness. In addition, I will establish the scattering the…

How Dust Models Shape High-z Galaxy Morphology: Insights from the NewCluster Simulation
Gyeong-Hwan Byun, J. K. Jang, Zachary P. Scofield, Eunmo Ahn, Maarten Baes, Yohan Dubois, San Han, Seyoung Jeon, Juhan Kim, Christophe Pichon, Jinsu Rhee, Francisco Rodr\'iguez Montero, Sukyoung K. Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18374

How Dust Models Shape High-z Galaxy Morphology: Insights from the NewCluster Simulation
Dust plays a pivotal role in shaping the observed morphology of galaxies. While traditional cosmological simulations often assume a fixed dust-to-gas (DTG) or dust-to-metal (DTM) mass ratio to model dust effects, recent advancements have enabled on-the-fly (OTF) dust modeling that captures the spatial and temporal evolution of dust. In this work, we investigate the impact of dust modeling on galaxy morphology using the NewCluster simulation, which implements a detailed OTF dust model. We genera…

Windows: KI-Suche Recall kommt nach Europa
Microsoft hat seine KI-Suche Recall an die Erfordernisse der europäischen Gesetzgebung angepasst. Mit dem Juli-Update ist sie nun für Copilot -PCs verfügbar.
https://www.

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This is a joke, not a threat: cancel the hit squad.
#satire #potus45

TiVy: Time Series Visual Summary for Scalable Visualization
Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan, Luis Gustavo Nonato, Themis Palpanas, Cl\'audio T. Silva, Juliana Freire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18972

TiVy: Time Series Visual Summary for Scalable Visualization
Visualizing multiple time series presents fundamental tradeoffs between scalability and visual clarity. Time series capture the behavior of many large-scale real-world processes, from stock market trends to urban activities. Users often gain insights by visualizing them as line charts, juxtaposing or superposing multiple time series to compare them and identify trends and patterns. However, existing representations struggle with scalability: when covering long time spans, leading to visual clut…

The Urn of Hill, Lane and Sudderth
Simone Franchini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20826 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20826

The Urn of Hill, Lane and Sudderth
We review some facts, properties and applications of the urn of Hill, Lane and Sudderth, a paradigmatic model of stochastic process with memory, where the urn evolution is as follows: consider an urn of given capacity, at each step a new ball, black or white, is added to the urn with probability that is function (urn function) of the fraction of black balls. The process runs until capacity is reached.

Viel Geld von Apple: Das macht Irland mit riesiger Steuernachzahlung
Gut 14 Milliarden Euro inklusive Zinsen bekommt die Republik Irland von Apple als Strafzahlung, aufgebrummt durch die EU. Das passiert mit dem Geld.

Alone[1] enjoying the peace & quiet at the end of the valley, in the cirque below The Great Wall (Grubenkarspitze, Karwendel)...
[1] Alone, apart from some adders in the grass...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

One-dimensional Discrete Models of Maximum Likelihood Degree One
Carlos Am\'endola, Viet Duc Nguyen, Janike Oldekop
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18686 https://

One-dimensional Discrete Models of Maximum Likelihood Degree One
We settle a conjecture by Bik and Marigliano stating that the degree of a one-dimensional discrete model with rational maximum likelihood estimator is bounded above by a linear function in the size of its support, therefore showing that there are only finitely many fundamental such models for any given number of states. We study these models from a combinatorial perspective with regard to their existence and enumeration. In particular, sharp models, those whose degree attains the maximal bound,…

Destructive Interference induced constraints in Floquet systems
Somsubhra Ghosh, Indranil Paul, K. Sengupta, Lev Vidmar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18368 https://

Destructive Interference induced constraints in Floquet systems
We introduce the paradigm of destructive many-body interference between quantum trajectories as a means to systematically generate prethermal kinetically constrained dynamics in Floquet systems driven at special frequencies. Depending on the processes that are suppressed by interference, the constraint may or may not be associated with an emergent global conservation; the latter kind having no mechanism of generation in time-independent settings. As an example, we construct an one-dimensional i…

As ever, white guy = "troubled mentally ill loner." And not, as this fuck was, an open Nazi.
THIS CHILD WAS MURDERED BY A WHITE SUPREMACIST.
If he'd been brown, the police have kicked in the doors of anyone he vaguely knew.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyrg6

Daniel Anjorin: Man guilty of murdering schoolboy in Hainault
Daniel Anjorin was attacked with a sword while he was on his way to school in north-east London.

Governance-as-a-Service: A Multi-Agent Framework for AI System Compliance and Policy Enforcement
Helen Pervez, Suyash Gaurav, Jukka Heikkonen, Jatin Chaudhary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18765

Governance-as-a-Service: A Multi-Agent Framework for AI System Compliance and Policy Enforcement
As AI systems evolve into distributed ecosystems with autonomous execution, asynchronous reasoning, and multi-agent coordination, the absence of scalable, decoupled governance poses a structural risk. Existing oversight mechanisms are reactive, brittle, and embedded within agent architectures, making them non-auditable and hard to generalize across heterogeneous deployments. We introduce Governance-as-a-Service (GaaS): a modular, policy-driven enforcement layer that regulates agent outputs at…

Observation of topological switch between Weyl semimetal and third-order topological insulator phases
Yu-Hong Han, Yi Li, Feng Mei, Liantuan Xiao, Suotang Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19531

Observation of topological switch between Weyl semimetal and third-order topological insulator phases
Weyl semimetals and higher-order topological insulators represent two fundamental yet distinct classes of topological matter. While both have been extensively studied in classical-wave systems, their coexistence and controllable transition within a single platform remain largely unexplored. Meanwhile, implementing three-dimensional spin-orbit couplings, which is crucial for realizing a broad class of higher-dimensional topological phases, continues to pose significant experimental challenges. H…

Trustworthy Agents for Electronic Health Records through Confidence Estimation
Yongwoo Song, Minbyul Jeong, Mujeen Sung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19096 https://

Trustworthy Agents for Electronic Health Records through Confidence Estimation
Large language models (LLMs) show promise for extracting information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) and supporting clinical decisions. However, deployment in clinical settings faces challenges due to hallucination risks. We propose Hallucination Controlled Accuracy at k% (HCAcc@k%), a novel metric quantifying the accuracy-reliability trade-off at varying confidence thresholds. We introduce TrustEHRAgent, a confidence-aware agent incorporating stepwise confidence estimation for clinical qu…

Free 2025 NFL picks, predictions, best futures bets, longshots, upsets: Back Saquon Barkley for NFL MVP

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/free-20

The AI Action Plan suggests Trump wants to inculcate a "try-first" culture through regulatory sandboxes for AI, which have already popped up in some US states (Aaron Mak/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digit

Crosslisted article(s) found for quant-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/quant-ph/new
[1/1]:
- On Quantum BSDE Solver for High-Dimensional Parabolic PDEs
Howard Su, Huan-Hsin Tseng

SignLoc: Robust Localization using Navigation Signs and Public Maps
Nicky Zimmerman, Joel Loo, Ayush Agrawal, David Hsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18606 https://

SignLoc: Robust Localization using Navigation Signs and Public Maps
Navigation signs and maps, such as floor plans and street maps, are widely available and serve as ubiquitous aids for way-finding in human environments. Yet, they are rarely used by robot systems. This paper presents SignLoc, a global localization method that leverages navigation signs to localize the robot on publicly available maps -- specifically floor plans and OpenStreetMap (OSM) graphs--without prior sensor-based mapping. SignLoc first extracts a navigation graph from the input map. It th…

Haptic Tracing: A new paradigm for spatialized Haptic rendering
Tom Roy, Yann Glemarec, Gurvan Lecuyer, Quentin Galvane, Philippe Guillotel, Ferran Argelaguet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19703

Haptic Tracing: A new paradigm for spatialized Haptic rendering
Haptic technology enhances interactive experiences by providing force and tactile feedback, improving user performance and immersion. However, despite advancements, creating tactile experiences still remains challenging due to device diversity and complexity. Most available haptic frameworks rely on trigger-based or event-based systems, and disregard the information of the 3D scene to render haptic information. This paper introduces Haptic Tracing, a novel method for spatial haptic rendering th…

New Crosscap States
Wataru Harada, Justin Kaidi, Yuya Kusuki, Yuefeng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18357 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18357

New Crosscap States
We investigate crosscap states in two-dimensional rational conformal field theories (RCFTs), with an emphasis on the role of non-invertible symmetries. In particular, we argue for the existence of crosscap states labelled by each Verlinde line in the RCFT, extending previous constructions involving simple currents. Evidence for the existence of these new states is obtained by deriving a generalized Cardy condition incorporating both crosscaps and topological defects, which we check in some conc…

Control and optimization for Neural Partial Differential Equations in Supervised Learning
Alain Bensoussan, Minh-Binh Tran, Bangjie Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20764

Control and optimization for Neural Partial Differential Equations in Supervised Learning
Although there is a substantial body of literature on control and optimization problems for parabolic and hyperbolic systems, the specific problem of controlling and optimizing the coefficients of the associated operators within such systems has not yet been thoroughly explored. In this work, we aim to initiate a line of research in control theory focused on optimizing and controlling the coefficients of these operators-a problem that naturally arises in the context of neural networks and super…

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Recursive spectral relations and the charge versus neutral gap in fractional quantum Hall systems
Marius Lemm, Bruno Nachtergaele, Simone Warzel, Amanda Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18814

Recursive spectral relations and the charge versus neutral gap in fractional quantum Hall systems
We consider quantum lattice Hamiltonians and derive recursive spectral relations bridging successive particle number sectors. One relation gives conditions under which the charge gap dominates the neutral gap. We verify these conditions under a triad of symmetries (translation-invariance, charge and dipole conservation) that are present, e.g., in periodic fractional quantum Hall systems. Thus, this gap domination, previously observed numerically, is a universal feature imposed by symmetry. A se…

New research has found that leading LLMs falter dramatically when exam questions are subtly reworded, raising doubts about whether these systems are truly capable of clinical reasoning.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/t

Top AI models struggle with medical questions in real-world scenarios, study finds
AI systems that boast near-perfect scores on medical licensing exams may not be as clever as they seem.

Transverse Spheres in Flag Manifolds
Parker Evans, J. Maxwell Riestenberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19306 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19306

Transverse Spheres in Flag Manifolds
For some partial flag manifolds of semisimple real Lie groups, including many full flag manifolds, transverse circles are known to be locally maximally transverse. We complete the classification of all partial flag manifolds of split real Lie groups with this property. As a consequence, $\{7\}$-Anosov subgroups of split $E_7$ are virtually free or surface groups. On the other hand, using spinors, we find transverse spheres of arbitrarily large dimension in certain full flag manifolds of Carta…

Instructional Agents: LLM Agents on Automated Course Material Generation for Teaching Faculties
Huaiyuan Yao, Wanpeng Xu, Justin Turnau, Nadia Kellam, Hua Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19611

Instructional Agents: LLM Agents on Automated Course Material Generation for Teaching Faculties
Preparing high-quality instructional materials remains a labor-intensive process that often requires extensive coordination among teaching faculty, instructional designers, and teaching assistants. In this work, we present Instructional Agents, a multi-agent large language model (LLM) framework designed to automate end-to-end course material generation, including syllabus creation, lecture scripts, LaTeX-based slides, and assessments. Unlike existing AI-assisted educational tools that focus on …

Court filing: Tesla rejected a $60M settlement offer in a lawsuit over a fatal 2019 crash of an Autopilot-equipped Model S, before losing a $243M verdict (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/t

Extendibility of Fermionic Gaussian States
Amir-Reza Negari, Farzin Salek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18532 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18532

Extendibility of Fermionic Gaussian States
We investigate $(k_1,k_2)$-extendibility of fermionic Gaussian states, a property central to quantum correlations and approximations of separability. We show that these states are $(k_1,k_2)$-extendible if and only if they admit a fermionic Gaussian extension, yielding a complete covariance-matrix characterization and a simple semidefinite program (SDP) whose size scales linearly with the number of modes. This provides necessary conditions for arbitrary fermionic states and is sufficient within…

Nonlocal singular problem and associated Sobolev type inequality with extremal in the Heisenberg group
Prashanta Garain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19811 https://

Nonlocal singular problem and associated Sobolev type inequality with extremal in the Heisenberg group
We study a fractional $p$-Laplace equation involving a variable exponent singular nonlinearity in the framework of the Heisenberg group. We first establish the existence and regularity of weak solutions. In the case of a constant singular exponent, we further prove the uniqueness of solutions and characterize the extremals of a related Sobolev-type inequality. Additionally, we demonstrate a connection between the solutions of the singular problem and these extremals. To the best of our knowledg…

Invisible Accretion: Ionized Envelopes of TNG50 HVCs can Sustain Star Formation
Scott Lucchini, Jiwon Jesse Han, Lars Hernquist, Charlie Conroy, Andrew J. Fox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18687

Invisible Accretion: Ionized Envelopes of TNG50 HVCs can Sustain Star Formation
Galactic high-velocity clouds (HVCs) are known to be complex, multiphase systems consisting of neutral and/or ionized gas moving at high velocities relative to the rotation of the disk. In this work, we investigate Milky Way-like galaxies from the TNG50 simulation to characterize the properties, morphology, and accretion rates of the warm and hot ionized material comoving with neutral HVCs visible in HI. We find that the ionized gas forms an envelope around the neutral material, and in most cas…

A Systematic Review of Human-AI Co-Creativity
Saloni Singh, Koen Hndriks, Drik Heylen, Kim Baraka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21333 https://

A Systematic Review of Human-AI Co-Creativity
The co creativity community is making significant progress in developing more sophisticated and tailored systems to support and enhance human creativity. Design considerations from prior work can serve as a valuable and efficient foundation for future systems. To support this effort, we conducted a systematic literature review of 62 papers on co-creative systems. These papers cover a diverse range of applications, including visual arts, design, and writing, where the AI acts not just as a tool …

Generative Blocks World: Moving Things Around in Pictures
Vaibhav Vavilala, Seemandhar Jain, Rahul Vasanth, D. A. Forsyth, Anand Bhattad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20703

Generative Blocks World: Moving Things Around in Pictures
We describe Generative Blocks World to interact with the scene of a generated image by manipulating simple geometric abstractions. Our method represents scenes as assemblies of convex 3D primitives, and the same scene can be represented by different numbers of primitives, allowing an editor to move either whole structures or small details. Once the scene geometry has been edited, the image is generated by a flow-based method which is conditioned on depth and a texture hint. Our texture hint tak…

Krylov-Veretennikov desomposition for measure-valued processes induced by SDEs with interaction on Riemannian manifolds
Andrey Dorogovtsev, Alexander Wei{\ss}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18995

Krylov-Veretennikov desomposition for measure-valued processes induced by SDEs with interaction on Riemannian manifolds
We introduce a framework for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with interaction on compact, connected, $d$-dimensional manifolds. For SDEs whose drift and diffusion coefficients may depend on both the state variable and the empirical distribution, we establish existence and uniqueness of strong solutions under general regularity assumptions. We study the associated measure valued process on the Wasserstein space over the manifold, deriving an explicit Itô Wiener decomposition. We prove …

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

Adaptive estimation for nonparametric circular regression with errors in variables
Tien Dat Nguyen, Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18581 https://

Adaptive estimation for nonparametric circular regression with errors in variables
This paper investigates the nonparametric estimation of a circular regression function in an errors-in-variables framework. Two settings are studied, depending on whether the covariates are circular or linear. Adaptive estimators are constructed and their theoretical performance is assessed through convergence rates over Sobolev and Hölder smoothness classes. Numerical experiments on simulated and real datasets illustrate the practical relevance of the methodology.

Magnetic Field Induced Nonlinear Transport in LaTiO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ Interfaces
Aidan Steineman, Maxim Khodas, Maxim Dzero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18854 https://

Magnetic Field Induced Nonlinear Transport in LaTiO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ Interfaces
Motivated by the recent experimental measurements of the nonlinear longitudinal resistance of the spin-orbit coupled electron gas in the (111) LaTiO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ interfaces under external in-plane magnetic field [G. Tuvia \emph{et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146301 (2024)], we formulate a theory of nonlinear electronic transport based on the analysis of the quantum kinetic equation for the Wigner distribution function. Specifically, we evaluate the magnetic field dependence of the second harmo…

Kayak VR: Mirage zeigt, was in der Playstation VR 2 steckt
Mit dem neuen DLC "Yucatšn" schöpft die Kajak-Simulation Kayak VR: Mirage das technische Potenzial der PSVR 2 aus. Wir haben das Paddel geschwungen.

A federal judge rejects a joint motion by Ripple Labs and the US SEC to approve a reduced $50M fine to settle a lawsuit over XRP sales, and chastises both sides (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/s

state-o-gram --A Novel 2D Visualization for Quantum States
Fritz Schinkel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18390 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18390

state-o-gram --A Novel 2D Visualization for Quantum States
Quantum computing is rapidly gaining popularity, necessitating intuitive visualization tools for complex quantum states. While the Bloch Sphere effectively visualizes single-qubit states, it fundamentally lacks scalability for multi-qubit systems. Existing multi-qubit visualization attempts, such as VENUS, have shown promise but often face limitations in scalability beyond a few qubits. This paper introduces state-o-gram, a novel 2D visualization approach designed to intuitively represent quant…

Balmer Decrement and IRX Break in Tracing Dust Attenuation at Scales of Individual Star-forming Regions in NGC 628
Man Qiao, Mingfeng Liu, Zongfei Lyu, Shuang Liu, Chao Yang, Dong Dong Shi, Fangxia An, Zhizheng Pan, Wenhao Liu, Binyang Liu, Run Wen, Yu Heng Zhang, Xian Zhong Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21026

Balmer Decrement and IRX Break in Tracing Dust Attenuation at Scales of Individual Star-forming Regions in NGC 628
We investigate the relationships between infrared excess (IRX=$L_{\rm IR}/L_{\rm UV}$) and Balmer decrement (${\rm H}α/{\rm H}β$) as indicators of dust attenuation for 609 ${\rm {H\,{\small II}}}$ regions at scales of $\sim 50-200$ pc in NGC 628, utilizing data from AstroSat, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE). Our findings indicate that about three fifths of the sample ${\rm {H\,{\small II}}}$ regions reside within the regime occupied by local star…

Optimal Cox regression under federated differential privacy: coefficients and cumulative hazards
Elly K. H. Hung, Yi Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19640 https://

Optimal Cox regression under federated differential privacy: coefficients and cumulative hazards
We study two foundational problems in distributed survival analysis: estimating Cox regression coefficients and cumulative hazard functions, under federated differential privacy constraints, allowing for heterogeneous per-sever sample sizes and privacy budgets. To quantify the fundamental cost of privacy, we derive minimax lower bounds along with matching (up to poly-logarithmic factors) upper bounds. In particular, to estimate the cumulative hazard function, we design a private tree-based algo…

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Imagen 4 is now available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, priced at $0.04 per image or $0.06 for "Ultra" mode that "precisely" follows user instructions (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/i

Imagen 4 is now available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio- Google Developers Blog
Explore Imagen 4, Google's advanced text-to-image model, now in paid preview via Gemini API and Google AI Studio, offering improved text generation.

Berichte: Microsoft plant weitere Kündigungswelle
Laut US-Medienberichten stehen noch im Juni umfangreiche Stellenstreichungen an. Im Spielebereich ist es die x-te in jüngster Zeit.
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Daydream, which raised a $50M seed in June 2024 to build a generative AI shopping agent for fashion, launches in beta, with an app expected later this summer (Hilary Milnes/Vogue Business)
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/techno

Is Daydream’s AI platform the answer to fashion’s discovery problem?
Founder Julie Bornstein raised $50 million last year to create the ultimate AI shopping experience. Today, it launches in beta.