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Post-leave burnout recovery, week 2:
Lots of mixed feelings in returning to work. I really missed my team and my job. Work and the work schedule are each somewhat helpful for recovery. 1:1s with reports and partnerships are a strong highlight of my week!
Motivation while recovering from the tail end of burnout is hard for some types of work as a manager. Burnout makes motivation hard as it is, and lack of context on what's going on makes that harder, and both of those exacerba…

not sure if this counts but:
“Does anyone know how to set up an email filter for, say, ‘how do you type with boxing gloves on’? I asked The Cheat, but he lost me at the part where I had to do not-typing.”
#HashTagGames #FilmCharactersViralPost (strong bad isn’t exact…

not sure if this counts but:
“Does anyone know how to set up an email filter for, say, ‘how do you type with boxing gloves on’? I asked The Cheat, but he lost me at the part where I had to do not-typing.”
#HashTagGames #FilmCharactersViralPost (strong bad isn’t exact…

MultiWikiQA: A Reading Comprehension Benchmark in 300 Languages
Dan Saattrup Smart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04111 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04111

MultiWikiQA: A Reading Comprehension Benchmark in 300+ Languages
We introduce a new reading comprehension dataset, dubbed MultiWikiQA, which covers 306 languages. The context data comes from Wikipedia articles, with questions generated by an LLM and the answers appearing verbatim in the Wikipedia articles. We conduct a crowdsourced human evaluation of the fluency of the generated questions across 30 of the languages, providing evidence that the questions are of good quality. We evaluate 6 different language models, both decoder and encoder models of varying …

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…

Parabolic-elliptic and indirect-direct simplifications in chemotaxis systems driven by indirect signalling
Le Trong Thanh Bui, Thi Kim Loan Huynh, Bao Quoc Tang, Bao-Ngoc Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01436

Parabolic-elliptic and indirect-direct simplifications in chemotaxis systems driven by indirect signalling
Under relevant biological situations of the signalling process on a much faster time scale compared to the species diffusion and all interactions, we study two singular limits corresponding to $\varepsilon\to 0^+$ with a fixed $τ>0$, and $(\varepsilon,τ)\to (0^+,0^+)$ arising in the following indirect signalling chemotaxis system with no-flux accross the boundary \begin{align*} \left\{\begin{array}{lllllll} \partial_t n=Δn-\nabla\cdot(n\nabla c)&\text{in }Ω\times(0,\infty),\\ \varepsilon\pa…

Selective disruption of reach-related saccade timing following a middle-cerebral artery stroke
Mahya Beheshti, Todd E Hudson, Rajvardhan Gadde, Glenn Alvarez Arias, Karis Huh, Robert L Sainburg, JR Rizzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03076

Selective disruption of reach-related saccade timing following a middle-cerebral artery stroke
Background: Coordinated control of eye and hand movements is critical for nearly all goal-directed actions, underpinning tasks ranging from simple object manipulation to complex tool use. This coordination relies on temporal coupling between reach and saccade. Stroke disrupts this process at several levels. Methods: We conducted a comparative eye-tracking study on patients with history of stroke vs. control performing various tasks. We used the Kinereach motion-tracking system with integrated e…

Starting today, the Swiss Post sells a special stamp to commemorate the granting of the patent for the toilet cleaner with the special duck design 45 years ago to Swiss inventor Walter Düring-Orlob.
And yes, it smells like the citrus version of the cleaner.
#philately #stamps

A JWST/MIRI view of k Andromedae b: Refining its mass, age, and physical parameters
N. Godoy, E. Choquet, E. Serabyn, M. Malin, P. Tremblin, C. Danielski, P. O. Lagage, A. Boccaletti, B. Charnay, M. E. Ressler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03624

A JWST/MIRI view of k Andromedae b: Refining its mass, age, and physical parameters
Context. kAndb is a substellar companion near the planet-brown dwarf boundary, orbiting a B9IV star at 50-100 au. Estimates of its age and mass vary, fueling a decade-long debate. Atmospheric parameters (Teff 1650-2050 K, log(g) 3.5-5.5) remain poorly constrained due to model differences and heterogeneous datasets. Aims. We refine the characterization of kAndb using mid-infrared data to capture its bolometric emission. Combined with NIR measurements, we constrain Teff, log(g), and radius to red…

"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
-Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration