Tootfinder

The Falcons won, and now the NFC South champion could be complicated https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6928097/2025/12/29/buccaneers-panthers-nfc-south-complicated-falcons/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Leela James:
🎵 Complicated
#LeelaJames
https://leelajames.bandcamp.com/track/complicated
https://open.spotify.com/track/2edcWiLjs3sbsbpafP8KFo

“This is the most complicated thing that you could possibly imagine,” said Mike Williams, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“In fact, you can’t even imagine how complicated it is.”
The proton is a quantum mechanical object that exists as a haze of probabilities until an experiment forces it to take a concrete form.
And its forms differ drastically depending on how researchers set up their experiment.
Connecting the particle’s many faces has …

»Just use HTML — JavaScript is…
- Slower to load
- Slower to run
- More prone to breaking
- Harder to read and reason about
- Doesn’t actually look like the final output«
Don't use JavaScript for the design, because CSS as well as SVG images can create a lot of animation and the ability to create a dynamic web interface.
🧑‍💻

Just use HTML
I’ve worked on so many projects recently that were more complicated than they needed to be because they used JavaScript to generate HTML. JavaScript is… Slower to load Slower to run More prone to breaking Harder to read and reason about Doesn’t actually look like the final output It’s inferior to just using HTML in nearly every way. I’m not saying never use JavaScript, though. I think JS is great at augmenting and enhancing what’s already there, and adding interactivity that canno…

Cowboys Star Says Chiefs Did Nothing ‘Too Complicated’ in Dallas Win https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/chiefs-nothing-too-complicated-dallas-win/?adt_ei=[email]

🗿 A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil: What companies owe the Indigenous people they studied
https://theconversation.com/a-billion-dollar-drug-was-found-in-easter-i…

A billion-dollar drug was found in Easter Island soil – what scientists and companies owe the Indigenous people they studied
Cancer. Diabetes. Aging itself. Rapamycin’s potential to treat an array of diseases has been a source of scientific fascination. But many aren’t aware of its origins – and its complicated legacy.

Is The Comey Case Barred By The Statute Of Limitations? It's Complicated! (But Also Yes.) - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/11/is-the-comey-case-barred-by-the-statute-of-limitations-its-complicated-but-also-yes/

Efficient Difference-in-Differences Estimation when Outcomes are Missing at Random
Lorenzo Testa, Edward H. Kennedy, Matthew Reimherr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25009 https://…

Efficient Difference-in-Differences Estimation when Outcomes are Missing at Random
The Difference-in-Differences (DiD) method is a fundamental tool for causal inference, yet its application is often complicated by missing data. Although recent work has developed robust DiD estimators for complex settings like staggered treatment adoption, these methods typically assume complete data and fail to address the critical challenge of outcomes that are missing at random (MAR) -- a common problem that invalidates standard estimators. We develop a rigorous framework, rooted in semipar…

"Numbers are not that complicated"
"Really? Then how many numbers are there?"
"At least three"

At the end of a long and complicated tender process with some fiendishly complicated requirements, the response we have got is
"You are the only supplier to fulfill all the complicated requirements we asked for. Unfortunately meeting all the requirements we demanded made the system too complicated for us, so we're going with someone who can't meet our requirements but is simpler."
I can't even.
We could have presented a simple setup! They just had to …

Teaching students simple #WebScraping was always quite rewarding. It opens up numerous relevant, real-world data sources that are the foundation for any further analysis. Things already got more complicated with dynamic content loading, but now bot-exclusion-mechanisms make it almost impossible in many cases. Is web scraping for the

Trump promised farmers help. It's complicated. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/trump-promised-farmers-help-its-complicated-00610757
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p18#a251016p18

X-ray astronomers often look at
X-ray binaries,
which consist of a black hole or a neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a normal star.
Material from that star is accreted onto the black hole or neutron star, producing X-rays.
The companion star is quite often a massive star with very strong stellar winds, and X-ray astronomers looking at these winds tend to think:
“Oh my god, it’s so complicated: there’s all this additional absorption, it’s super annoyi…

Victoria Grinberg: the astrophysicist sharing her love for science – Physics World
X-ray astronomer Victoria Grinberg talks about spreading her passion for science

Thinking about giving to folk in #Gaza; quite complicated feelings. Firstly, we do *have* to give, and give personally, because conventional charities are not effectively getting relief to Gaza -- presumably because they are being blocked by #Israel -- and because our governments are doing nothing.
Bu…

As OpenAI commits to spending $1.4T, creating a mesh of complicated deals, the startup does not disclose its auditor, and there is little information online (Louis Ashworth/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3cff198e-25e5-481a-bd34-e26941e1d12d

thinking of vibe-coding a microwave oven. that seems like the right level of complexity. toaster is too simple, car is too complicated.

Why the Jakobi Meyers Trade is More Complicated Than You Think https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-jakobi-meyers-trade-complicated

20 WEIRD Facts About THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) You Didn't Know: #KlaatuBaradaNikto

There •is• definitely debate about LLMs among folks who have both tech expertise and a level head, and that debate is mostly between:
(1) “If only we could have reasonable conversations about what if anything this tech is actually good for! It could be useful! Curse this hype! Curse this bubble!”
and
(2) “This technology is so toxic we shouldn’t even be considering •any• uses for it”
That’s a •continuum•, and folks (including me) fall in all kinds of complicated places along it. Just note the continuum’s endpoints.
@…

Parenting With Ngala
All parents want to do their best, but there's so much contradictory, confusing and complicated info it's hard to know what best even means...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/parenting-with-ngala/

🐨 Do animals fall for optical illusions? It’s complicated.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/do-animals-fall-for-optical-illusions-its-complicated/

Do animals fall for optical illusions? It’s complicated.
Guppies are highly susceptible to the Ebbinghaus illusion. Ring doves? Not so much.

Why doesn’t Cards Against Humanity print its game in the US? It’s complicated. - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/10/why-doesnt-cards-against-humanity-print-its-game-in-the-us-its-complicated/

That’s the key problem. People have very vague ideas that can easily and accurately be expressed in natural language and LLMs operate in the vagueness. A programmer will demand specificity before starting to code anything, which is a real nuisance to people with vague ideas about wanting some sort of app. https://in…

Yesterday: Icelandair booking website while I’m trying a complicated but not out of the ordinary booking: “unknown error”
Me: “I’ll deal with it tomorrow”
Today: Cloudflare: “LOL”

Just finished "Kirby's Lessons for Falling (In Love)" by Laura Gao. I'd previously read her autobiographical graphic novel "Messy Roots" which was excellent, and this book continues that trend. Yet another complicated look at a Chinese-American immigrant experience, wrapped into a queer romance with a dose of spirituality in there as well. I think the background metaphor of falling is really strong, and gets used in so many senses it's beautiful.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Mallard making waves on a pond. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. December, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 90mm F3.5 Macro. #descansogardens #duck #mallard

With all my KDE, dwm, MangoWC, NixOS, Gentoo, FreeBSD, Wayland, immutably complicated stuff it is very refreshing to just download an MX Linux iso, install it in under 10 minutes and have evrything you might want up and running in no time.
Well curated, well styled, great tools, you name it. Documentation excellent.
What a great distro! A gem.
#mxlinux

District heating is one of the solutions for low-emission heating in cities. It's not easy due to high upfront, non-socialized investments and the complicated agreements needed.
But in Delft, a project for 6,000 homes is under construction, with geothermal heat!
htt…

Buis van 180 meter gaat meters diep de grond in voor Delfts warmtenet
8-10-2025 13:57 Door Joey Hut Een 180 meter lange warmteleiding verdwijnt aan de E. du Perronlaan onder de grond. Elf hijskranen tillen de buis op de juiste hoogte, zodat het 45 centimeter dikke gevaarte 16 meter de grond...

I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many — opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. https://www.…

Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Theory: ATProto is pointless and it just hit me why.
It's too complicated. Ok, so then your response will be "then we can educate and hold hands and explain and gain trust"
You do THAT and *boom* you ALREADY just solved the problem with humans that you were just trying to solve with complex tech.
At that point just point them to, or become, a good Mastodon server.
#socialmedia

Did Trump's crime crackdown in Washington work? It's complicated. (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/did-trumps-crime-crackdown-washington-work-its-complicated-2025-10-04/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p21#a251004p21

Folks, @… from Gaza is doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) about Gaza:
https://mastodon.social/@AhmedOuda/115305232117184704
“Life here in …

Ekitike continues to loudly make the case that he should be starting. Whether that's on a side or in the center, I don't care. He simply must start.
Isak opened brightly, but the low block dried up the service for his runs.
I would like to see Salah get some time in the second half. When Klopp didn't start him, it often fueled his return to form. Everything is complicated, but I believe in Salah's fire and competitiveness to win out.

What is #auth? It's more complicated than you probably thought, even though #software #developers sling the word around all the time.
🎅 Since it's the holiday season, give yourself an eas…

Security Lingo Explained: Auth
Learn and understand the key difference between Authentication (AuthN) and Authorization (AuthZ)

lose yourself in the mix notes for "anthem of the sun" (and/or listen along like a score), via @… https://gratefuldocumen…

It's really depressing to see so many people and/or job ads talking about how they're using React so heavily for things that don't need React.
Why are we so committed to making things more complicated, and harder to learn, and having fewer skilled people?
And if you're talking about migrating JS frameworks on the front-end, at least *think* about HTMX/etc. for server-controlled rendering. Don't replace one bloat with another.

Sources: Paramount's Gulf sovereign funding, accounting for ~30% of the deal's value, and potential political scrutiny led WBD to reject Paramount's initial bid (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/08/2025

Paramount’s Mideast financing doomed Warner Bros. Discovery auction bid
WBD’s board grew uneasy with how complicated Paramount’s offer became.

there's something very amusing to me in how the `go` keyword is among the least essential parts of the Go language
it could've been a part of the standard library, like every other language does it, and absolutely nothing of value would be lost
(`select` is a different and much more complicated story)

from my link log —
Build system tradeoffs.
https://jyn.dev/build-system-tradeoffs
saved 2025-11-02 https://dotat.at/:/5ZUHD.html

Zero-Shot CFC: Fast Real-World Image Denoising based on Cross-Frequency Consistency
Yanlin Jiang, Yuchen Liu, Mingren Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12646 https://

Zero-Shot CFC: Fast Real-World Image Denoising based on Cross-Frequency Consistency
Zero-shot denoisers address the dataset dependency of deep-learning-based denoisers, enabling the denoising of unseen single images. Nonetheless, existing zero-shot methods suffer from long training times and rely on the assumption of noise independence and a zero-mean property, limiting their effectiveness in real-world denoising scenarios where noise characteristics are more complicated. This paper proposes an efficient and effective method for real-world denoising, the Zero-Shot denoiser bas…

Was telling my father about my NAS and he was mildly interested. But it's too complicated for him to set up his own.
I'm surprised there is not some more consumer friendly way to just load up DVDs and bluerays on to set top box with several terabytes of storage and then just select what media to play from there.

Never thought about this. Use the good ol' image maps to provide alt text for possibly more complicated images https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/imagemap/
The `href` attribute for `<area>` may be omitted too

It's a rough day when you make the compiler crash… so deep into complicated code that you can't reasonably distill it to a reportable case. )-:

People bitch about C being complicated and unwieldy, and then need more than 30 lines of code to implement insertion sort because finding from a predicate in reverse is not implemented and neither is rotate

OpenAI's blockbuster deals with Nvidia and AMD add a new layer to its complicated ownership structure and will dilute existing shareholders like Microsoft (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens and Berlin's Olympiastadion: The complicated history of an NFL venue https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5559958/2025/11/07/nfl-falcons-colts-olympiastadion-final-berlin-history/

"documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency."
‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/S1p87#selection-521.58-521.206

QGraphLIME - Explaining Quantum Graph Neural Networks
Haribandhu Jena, Jyotirmaya Shivottam, Subhankar Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05683 https://arxi…

QGraphLIME - Explaining Quantum Graph Neural Networks
Quantum graph neural networks offer a powerful paradigm for learning on graph-structured data, yet their explainability is complicated by measurement-induced stochasticity and the combinatorial nature of graph structure. In this paper, we introduce QuantumGraphLIME (QGraphLIME), a model-agnostic, post-hoc framework that treats model explanations as distributions over local surrogates fit on structure-preserving perturbations of a graph. By aggregating surrogate attributions together with their …

Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form. Typo catches and clarifying questions welcome.
#USPol

My complicated relationship with carbon footprints...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G75zN6GQghQ

"Let us return to 2000: a few days before Joel Spolsky published his Test, Mark Lucovsky gave a talk titled “Windows: A Software-Engineering Odyssey” at the 4th USENIX Windows System Symposium in Seattle, Washington. He was a member of the original Windows NT team from 1988 to the mid-2000s. The PowerPoint slides of the talk are still available online, and I seriously recommend you take a look at them.
Because part of the “odyssey” was, you guessed it, source control."
…

Twenty Years Is Nothing
In a previous edition of this magazine, we argued that English was so pervasive in our industry, nobody even questioned its use anymore. The same can be said of Git. It is difficult to imagine that merely twenty years ago, the landscape of source control tools was more diverse, and the choice of one such tool was much more complicated than today. Actually, Git was not even on the map yet. Before debating whether the hegemony of Git is good or bad, let us go back in time for a little while.

Targeted Sequential Pattern Mining with High Average Utility
Kai Cao, Yucong Duan, Wensheng Gan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10115 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Targeted Sequential Pattern Mining with High Average Utility
Incorporating utility into targeted pattern mining can address the practical limitations of traditional frequency-based approaches. However, utility-based methods often suffer from generating a large number of long and complicated sequences. To improve pattern relevance and interpretability, average utility provides a more balanced metric by considering both utility and sequence length. Moreover, incorporating user-defined query targets into the mining process enhances usability and interactivi…

During Thursday's two-hour phone call, Trump agreed to meet with Putin in Hungary in two weeks' time,
at a summit hosted by the country's far-right leader Viktor Orban in Budapest.
Trump said it would most likely be a "double meeting" between him and Putin, but that Mr Zelensky would be "in touch."
The summit will mark the 💥 first time Putin has set foot on EU soil 💥since the start of the war
- and is further complicated by him being ba…

Donald Trump makes weird comment about Volodymyr Zelensky's clothes at White House meeting
President Zelensky arrived for talks with Trump with high hopes of a breakthrough that could end the war in Ukraine

Some people like to go on and on about corruption in Ukraine, but it is often more complicated than these people say.
The USA has had its tendrils in the Ukrainian corruption for a long time. The FBI even has an agent with their own office in one of the corruption agencies.
Giorgio is a hero reporting from the trenches of democracy in Ukraine. He share the friend link so the world has a better chance of discovering the truth.
Please support Ukraine and Giorgio's work by…

Space-time singularities in spatially-chirped Laguerre-Gaussian beams of any order
Spencer W. Jolly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11161 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Space-time singularities in spatially-chirped Laguerre-Gaussian beams of any order
The electric field distributions and space-time singularity curves are computed for ultrashort pulsed Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams having spatial chirp. Due to the breaking of cylindrical symmetry by the spatial chirp, the singularities trace complicated curves in space-time, which also vary for different combinations of radial and vortical orders. Analytical solutions are mostly presented along with a recipe for numerically calculating higher orders. The behavior of the singularities upon pro…

Day 20: bell hooks.
Despite having decided to continue to 30, number 20 feels important, and hooks gets the spot in part because I haven't yet included a non-fiction feminist author, which feels like an obvious thing to include on such a list. The one category of author being bumped out of the first 20 here is anime writers, but I'll follow up with one of them, along with more academics and mangaka who I've been itching to include.
In any case, hooks is absolutely legendary as a feminist writer for good reason, and as a teacher I've especially appreciated her writing on pedagogy like "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" and "Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom". These have challenged me to teach at a higher level, and while I'm not sure I've completely succeeded, they're important to me. They also pair well with Paolo Friere's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", but hooks always seems to be focused on very practical advice and it's incredibly direct in her writing, even though her advice isn't always straightforward to implement. In fact, that's one of the things I value about her writing: when the truth is complicated or the real work is messy interpersonal relationships that need to be negotiated with each student, she's not afraid to say so and give good advice for navigating those waters instead of trying to dispense simple-seeming platitudes or formulas for success that paper over the deeper issues. Her concern has always been truth, rather than simplicity or audience comfort and the popularity it might seem to entail, which I think is part of why her legacy endures so well.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen

Optimal Regularization Under Uncertainty: Distributional Robustness and Convexity Constraints
Oscar Leong, Eliza O'Reilly, Yong Sheng Soh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03464 ht…

Optimal Regularization Under Uncertainty: Distributional Robustness and Convexity Constraints
Regularization is a central tool for addressing ill-posedness in inverse problems and statistical estimation, with the choice of a suitable penalty often determining the reliability and interpretability of downstream solutions. While recent work has characterized optimal regularizers for well-specified data distributions, practical deployments are often complicated by distributional uncertainty and the need to enforce structural constraints such as convexity. In this paper, we introduce a frame…

Source: the 60 Minutes interview with Trump on November 2 drew 13.2M viewers, according to early Nielsen data, the highest-rated episode since January 2021 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/trump-60-minutes-cbs-interview-ratings-vie…

Scoop: Trump's "60 Minutes" interview draws roughly 13M viewers
The interview itself was a huge get for CBS, considering the network's complicated history with President Trump.

Amid rising threats, NATO holds its largest-ever cyberdefense exercise https://therecord.media/nato-holds-largest-ever-cyberdefense-exercise-estonia

Computational Crystal Plasticity Homogenization using Empirically Corrected Cluster Cubature (E3C) Hyper-Reduction
Stephan Wulfinghoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11187 https://

Computational Crystal Plasticity Homogenization using Empirically Corrected Cluster Cubature (E3C) Hyper-Reduction
The computational homogenization of elastoplastic polycrystals is a challenging task due to the huge number of grains required, their complicated interactions and due to the complexity of crystal plasticity models per se. Despite a few successes of reduced order models, mean field and simplified homogenization approaches often remain the preferred choice. In this work, a recently proposed hyper-reduction method (called E3C) for projection-based Reduced Order Models (pROMs) is applied to the pro…

The Feynman propagator for massive Klein-Gordon fields on radiative asymptotically flat spacetimes
Mikhail Molodyk, Andr\'as Vasy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04308 https://…

The Feynman propagator for massive Klein-Gordon fields on radiative asymptotically flat spacetimes
On a large class of asymptotically flat spacetimes which includes radiative perturbations of Minkowski space, we define a distinguished global Feynman propagator for massive Klein-Gordon fields by means of the microlocal approach to non-elliptic Fredholm theory, working in the de,sc-pseudodifferential algebra due to Sussman. We extend the limiting absorption principle (the "$i\varepsilon$ prescription" for the Feynman propagator) to this setting. Motivated by the complicated Hamilton flow struc…

from my link log —
LIGO can detect daylight savings time.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11849
saved 2025-09-29 https://dotat.at/:/TJ9D3.html

Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?
Yes, it can. Catalogs produced by networks of Gravitational-wave interferometers are subject to complicated selection effects, and the gold-standard remains direct measurements of the detection probability through large injection campaigns. I leverage public data products from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations' 3rd and 4th observing runs to show that there are non-trivial temporal variations within the detection probability that are well-described by a weekly cycle. There are clear differen…

Connecting orbits for delay differential equations with unimodal feedback
G\'abor Benedek, Tibor Krisztin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04505 https://arxi…

Connecting orbits for delay differential equations with unimodal feedback
This paper considers a class of delay differential equations with unimodal feedback and describes the structure of certain unstable sets of stationary points and periodic orbits. These unstable sets consist of heteroclinic connections from stationary points and periodic orbits to stable stationary points, stable periodic orbits and some more complicated compact invariant sets. A prototype example is the Mackey--Glass type equation $y'(t)=-ay(t)+b \frac{y^2(t-1)}{1+y^n(t-1)}$ having three stat…

The conservative majority on the Supreme Court has repeatedly signaled that it plans to adopt the
“unitary executive theory,”
which says the original understanding of the Constitution demands letting the president remove executive branch officials as he sees fit.
But a new article, from a leading originalist law professor, has complicated and perhaps upended the conventional wisdom.
The legal academy treated the development like breaking news.
“Bombshell!” Willi…

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials
As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent.

NGGAN: Noise Generation GAN Based on the Practical Measurement Dataset for Narrowband Powerline Communications
Ying-Ren Chien, Po-Heng Chou, You-Jie Peng, Chun-Yuan Huang, Hen-Wai Tsao, Yu Tsao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01850

NGGAN: Noise Generation GAN Based on the Practical Measurement Dataset for Narrowband Powerline Communications
Capturing comprehensive statistics of nonperiodic asynchronous impulsive noise is a critical issue in enhancing impulse noise processing for narrowband powerline communication (NB-PLC) transceivers. However, existing mathematical noise generative models capture only some of the characteristics of additive noise. Therefore, we propose a generative adversarial network (GAN), called the noise-generation GAN (NGGAN), that learns the complicated characteristics of practically measured noise samples …

There's no need to make things overly complicated.

Variational and field-theoretical approach to exciton-exciton interactions and biexcitons in semiconductors
Peter A. Noordman, Lucas Maisel Licer\'an, Henk T. C. Stoof
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05242

Variational and field-theoretical approach to exciton-exciton interactions and biexcitons in semiconductors
Bound electron-hole pairs in semiconductors known as excitons are the subject of intense research due to their potential for optoelectronic devices and applications, especially in the realm of two-dimensional materials. While the properties of free excitons in these systems are well understood, a general description of their interactions is complicated due to their composite nature, which leads to exchange between the identical fermions of different excitons. In this work we employ a variationa…

Stereo observations of CTA 1 with SST-1M
Bastien Lacave
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26068 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26068

Stereo observations of CTA 1 with SST-1M
CTA~1 is a composite supernova remnant featuring a shell structure and an inner Pulsar Wind Nebula. The shell is visible in the radio band, while Fermi has detected the radio-quiet pulsar PSR J0007+7303 at its core. Gamma-ray detectors such as LHAASO and VERITAS have detected TeV emission in the vicinity of the pulsar. However, the derived SEDs from LHAASO WCDA and VERITAS show significant discrepancies, which could be due to a complicated energy-dependent morphology not accounted for in the sp…

On the joint observability of flow fields and particle properties from Lagrangian trajectories: evidence from neural data assimilation
Ke Zhou, Samuel J. Grauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00479

On the joint observability of flow fields and particle properties from Lagrangian trajectories: evidence from neural data assimilation
We numerically investigate the joint observability of flow states and unknown particle properties from Lagrangian particle tracking (LPT) data. LPT offers time-resolved, volumetric measurements of particle trajectories, but experimental tracks are spatially sparse, potentially noisy, and may be further complicated by inertial transport, raising the question of whether both Eulerian fields and particle characteristics can be reliably inferred. To address this, we develop a data assimilation fram…

Just finished "Roller Girl" by Victoria Jamieson, a graphic novel about navigating preteen social changes, dyeing your hair, and of course, roller derby! It's got a great subplot about dealing with complicated feelings, and I like that it doesn't tie things up neatly with a bow at the end.
I actually know the rules of roller derby now.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

A Near-Infrared Extinction and Reddening Map Towards the Galactic Bulge Using UKIRT
Aiden S. Zelakiewicz, Samson A. Johnson, B. Scott Gaudi, Geoffrey Bryden, David M. Nataf, Yossi Shvartzvald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25440

A Near-Infrared Extinction and Reddening Map Towards the Galactic Bulge Using UKIRT
The Galactic bulge is one of the most information-dense regions to study resolved stellar populations, variables, and transients, such as microlensing events. Studies toward the Galactic bulge are complicated by the large and variable extinction along the line of sight. We measure the near-infrared $A_{K_S}$ extinction and $E(H-K_S)$ reddening in this region using $H$- and $K$-band photometry obtained with the 2017 UKIRT microlensing survey. We fit the apparent magnitude and color distribution …

Range of optimal values in absolute value linear programming with interval data
Milan Hlad\'ik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04604 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Range of optimal values in absolute value linear programming with interval data
Absolute value linear programming problems is quite a new area of optimization problems, involving linear functions and absolute values in the description of the model. In this paper, we consider interval uncertainty of the input coefficients. Our goal is to determine the best and the worst case optimal values. For the former, we derive an explicit formula, reducing the problem to a certain optimization problem. However, the latter is more complicated, and we propose a lower and upper bound app…

Day 16: Mayra Cuevas & Marie Marquardt
Okay so this is cheating, but they're co-authors of multiple books together, and there's no way for me to separate their contributions... I've already got too many authors I'd like to list, so why not?
I read their book "Does My Body Offend You?" and absolutely loved it; it's a celebration of teen activism while also being a deep exploration of feminist issues through practical situations that bring out the complicated side of things, which the authors refuse to reduce back to a simple formulaic answer. It has a supporting cast of appropriately-complex male characters that help in exploring the nuances of issues like the line between female empowerment & male gratification, and it brings race and macho culture into the conversion as well.
CW for sexual harassment & deep discussion of the resultant trauma.
I'll cheat again here to sneak in mention of two male authors whose work resonates with theirs: Mark Oshiro's "Anger is a Gift" has a more pessimistic/complex take on teen activism along with a gay romance (CW for racist cop murder), while Jeremy Whitley's graphic novel "Navigating With You" deals with queer romance & disability, while having a main character pairing that echoes those from "Does My Body Offend You?" in a lot of ways. Another connection (to non-men authors this time) is with "Go With the Flow" by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann. Their graphic novel about teen activism and periods is a bit more didactic and has a much lighter tone, but it does necessarily have some overlapping themes.
To bring it back to Cuevas & Marquhardt, their writing is great and their ability to discuss such complex topics with such nuance, all wrapped up in a story that feels completely natural, is amazing to me, and makes their book feel like one of the most valuable to recommend to others.
In writing this I've realized a grave oversight in the list so far that I'll have to correct tomorrow, but I'm quickly running out of days. The didn't-quite-make-it list is going to be full of more excellent authors, and I'm honestly starting to wonder whether it might actually be harder to name 20 male authors I respect now that I've found the sense to be mostly somewhere between disgusted and disappointed with so many of the male authors I enjoyed as a teen.
#20AuthorsNoMen (cheating a bit)

Re-stacking AFC contenders: Bills, Chiefs still favorites? Who else is dangerous? — Pick Six https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6770739/2025/11/03/bills-chiefs-nfl-super-bowl-odds-afc-pick-six/

Chase Orbits, not Time: A Scalable Paradigm for Long-Duration Eccentric Gravitational-Wave Surrogates
Akash Maurya, Prayush Kumar, Scott E. Field, Chandra Kant Mishra, Peter James Nee, Kaushik Paul, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Adhrit Ravichandran, Vijay Varma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00116

Chase Orbits, not Time: A Scalable Paradigm for Long-Duration Eccentric Gravitational-Wave Surrogates
Surrogate modeling of eccentric binary black hole waveforms has remained challenging. The complicated morphology of these waveforms due to the eccentric orbital timescale variations makes it difficult to construct accurate and efficient surrogate models, especially for waveforms long enough to cover the sensitivity band of the current ground-based gravitational wave detectors. We present a novel and scalable surrogate building technique which makes surrogate modeling of long-duration eccentric …

Now at the end of his eighth decade, Donald Trump and the people around him still talk about him as if he is the Energizer Bunny of presidential politics.
The reality is more complicated:
Trump, 79, is the oldest person to be elected to the presidency,
and he is aging.
https://www.

Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
President Trump has always used his stamina and energy as a political strength. But that image is getting harder for him to sustain.

A poor man's theory of circular dichroism in single-wall carbon nanotubes
S. V. Goupalov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00385 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00…

A poor man's theory of circular dichroism in single-wall carbon nanotubes
The theory of circular dichroism in single-wall carbon nanotubes derived within the tight-binding method by a complicated approach in previous work is rederived in a straightforward way using the multipolar expansion of the light-matter interaction.

After a complicated and one good sighting of #comet #Lemmon from #Bochum, Germany, on 20 and 24 October - see the thread https://mastodon.social/@PlanetariumBochum/115430462668539532 - more cloudy evenings followed ... but here is the comet again on 30 October, picked blindly out of a suuuuper-crappy sky with 4 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 1600, right above 9 Herculis. Detection #3 ... and there would be one more today (see the following boost).