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(To the tune of "Rock me Amadeus")
Chamomile, chamomile, chamomile,
Chamomile, chamomile, chamomile,
Chamomile, chamomile, oh, oh, oh chamomile.
Come and calm me chamomile.

Those CunninLynguists put out The Heartstring Theory [Part 1] in 2024, and [Part 2] comes out next week.
And of course this first preview track is 🔥
https://cunninlynguists.bandcamp.com/album/the-heartstring-theory-part-two

SDLC stands for Software Delivery Lithuanian Commonwealth

karate: Zachary Karate Club
Network of friendships among members of a university karate club. Includes metadata for faction membership after a social partition. Note: there are two versions of this network, one with 77 edges and one with 78, due to an ambiguous typo in the original study. (The most commonly used is the one with 78 edges.).
This network has 34 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted

I learned about Repair Cafe by the news its funding is discontinued. But more cities need to support this type of events. In a world of planned obsolescence, the environmental bill is being paid by communal waste collection services. A targeted analysis of which repairs could be most cost-effective for waste management could help justify funding of such initiatives with volunteer-based repairs.

Repair Café - SPEC
SPEC brings together repair volunteers and community members at Repair Cafés in Metro Vancouver to fix household items and divert waste.

🦠 Microbes may remove more than half of groundwater methane, curbing global emissions
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-microbes-groundwater-methane-curbing-global.html

Microbes may remove more than half of groundwater methane, curbing global emissions
Groundwater commonly contains methane, but the amount of this important greenhouse gas that can escape to surface waters or the atmosphere is highly uncertain. A team from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and University of Jena has shown that microbes in groundwater significantly reduce methane emissions, as revealed in a study published in PNAS.

Learning Mixtures of Linear Dynamical Systems (MoLDS) via Hybrid Tensor-EM Method
Lulu Gong, Shreya Saxena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06091 https://arxiv.o…

Learning Mixtures of Linear Dynamical Systems (MoLDS) via Hybrid Tensor-EM Method
Mixtures of linear dynamical systems (MoLDS) provide a path to model time-series data that exhibit diverse temporal dynamics across trajectories. However, its application remains challenging in complex and noisy settings, limiting its effectiveness for neural data analysis. Tensor-based moment methods can provide global identifiability guarantees for MoLDS, but their performance degrades under noise and complexity. Commonly used expectation-maximization (EM) methods offer flexibility in fitting…

Decade-long Emission Forecasting with an Ensemble Model in Taiwan
Gordon Hung, Salinna Abdullah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05548 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Decade-long Emission Forecasting with an Ensemble Model in Taiwan
Taiwan's high population and heavy dependence on fossil fuels have led to severe air pollution, with the most prevalent greenhouse gas being carbon dioxide (CO2). There-fore, this study presents a reproducible and comprehensive case study comparing 21 of the most commonly employed time series models in forecasting emissions, analyzing both univariate and multivariate approaches. Among these, Feedforward Neural Network (FFNN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Random Forest Regressor (RFR) achie…

Several species of fish are claimed to produce hallucinogenic effects when consumed,
a condition known as ichthyoallyeinotoxism.
For example, Sarpa salpa, a species of sea bream referred to as the "dream-fish", is commonly claimed to be hallucinogenic.
These widely distributed coastal fish are normally found in the Mediterranean and around the Iberian Peninsula,
west to the Azores and along the west and south coasts of Africa.
Occasionally they are fo…

Hallucinogenic fish - Wikipedia

karate: Zachary Karate Club
Network of friendships among members of a university karate club. Includes metadata for faction membership after a social partition. Note: there are two versions of this network, one with 77 edges and one with 78, due to an ambiguous typo in the original study. (The most commonly used is the one with 78 edges.).
This network has 34 nodes and 77 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted