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Design, Modelling and Analysis of a Bio-inspired Spiking Temperature Regulator
J. M. Rosito, E. Petri, E. Steur, W. P. M. H. Heemels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01300 https://

Design, Modelling and Analysis of a Bio-inspired Spiking Temperature Regulator
In biology, homeostasis is the process of maintaining a stable internal environment, which is crucial for optimal functioning of organisms. One of the key homeostatic mechanisms is thermoregulation that allows the organism to maintain its core temperature within tight bounds despite being exposed to a wide range of varying external temperatures. Instrumental in thermoregulation is the presence of thermosensitive neurons at multiple places throughout the body, including muscles, the spinal cord,…

To celebrate my fourth anniversary of working for #NFDI, I'm treating myself to something extra special!
#nfdirocks #donaldduck

I'm trying to avoid Amazon, but it's hard when you want to try out something like: https://www.amazon.com/CABOCASA-Ultra-Thin-Concealer-Universal-Appliances/dp/B0D3D3KC7G?th=1
Any suggestions on how to get something like this a…

Now *thats* a medical announcement worth making a big deal about!!
https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/115248780757355899

The current "bike to work" carry is a milk crate zip tied to a rear rack. I gave it a nice paint job and did a little cutout right behind the seat. There's a piece of foam in the bottom to prevent rattling (I toss my lock back there) and the bungee holds my backpack in place securely.
#biking #bikeTooter

A cord on the hood of my (~4-year-old) #JackWolfskin jacket has broken. I went to the store today to see if they could repair it; I would also buy a new hood if necessary.
“No, we'll repair it—it won't cost you anything, even though it's outside the warranty period. Our aim is to throw away as little as possible. But please give us 2-3 weeks.”
Um - okay. Thanks!

Dug up from Kang Shin’s lab
#shindig
I’ll bet @… has an interesting lab, too

added the single twist cord style, which is what I was aiming for. Saw this at other basket makers, will add to my baskets. #openscad #3dprinting

@… #HC43S I've published several 3D printable designs for #HamRadio, all designed with

Detection of Autonomic Dysreflexia in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury Using Multimodal Wearable Sensors
Bertram Fuchs, Mehdi Ejtehadi, Ana Cisnal, J\"urgen Pannek, Anke Scheel-Sailer, Robert Riener, Inge Eriks-Hoogland, Diego Paez-Granados
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03715

Detection of Autonomic Dysreflexia in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury Using Multimodal Wearable Sensors
Autonomic Dysreflexia (AD) is a potentially life-threatening condition characterized by sudden, severe blood pressure (BP) spikes in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Early, accurate detection is essential to prevent cardiovascular complications, yet current monitoring methods are either invasive or rely on subjective symptom reporting, limiting applicability in daily file. This study presents a non-invasive, explainable machine learning framework for detecting AD using multimodal wear…

The company you work for spends millions on cybersecurity. You set up protocols, firewalls, preventive measures... And then the new girl in the office writes down her work passwords on a sticky note stuck to her laptop.
If I were an IT security professional, I'd be in jail by now after strangling someone like that girl with a power cord.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Necrot:
🎵 Cut the Cord
#Necrot
https://necrot.bandcamp.com/track/cut-the-cord
https://open.spotify.com/track/0S1KbLQ5R6bRA0MquaPnQl

One reason I cord- and gear-hoard to some degree is that my father in law lives down the street, and sometimes he calls me outta nowhere and is like 'we're moving our furniture around and broke the DSL cable, do you have one of those?' And even though I don't use DSL anymore and haven't for years, I absolutely still have several of those.

I kinda want one of these so that I can do my morning conference calls while walking around the neighborhood with this cord going into my hoodie or bag. Shame my work phone is still on a lightning connector!
https://www.nativeunion.com/products/pop-phone

POP Phone

On his two-year anniversary as CNN CEO, Mark Thompson talks about the core value proposition of CNN, cable news, CNN's alleged left-leaning bias, and more (Colby Hall/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/exclusive-one-on-one-wit…

EXCLUSIVE: One-on-One With Mark Thompson — The Man Hired to Save CNN
Mark Thompson reflects on two years at CNN, tackling streaming, cord-cutting, ratings, and the future of news in a shifting media landscape.

On the Application of Diffusion Models for Simultaneous Denoising and Dereverberation
Adrian Meise, Tobias Cord-Landwehr, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18833 h…

On the Application of Diffusion Models for Simultaneous Denoising and Dereverberation
Diffusion models have been shown to achieve natural-sounding enhancement of speech degraded by noise or reverberation. However, their simultaneous denoising and dereverberation capability has so far not been studied much, although this is arguably the most common scenario in a practical application. In this work, we investigate different approaches to enhance noisy and/or reverberant speech. We examine the cascaded application of models, each trained on only one of the distortions, and compare …

Operation Kitty Katch, night 1… wish me luck!

Restructured #Paramount under Larry Ellison's control announces end of remaining #MTV #MusicVideo channels across globe

MTV is Shutting Down Its Last Music Channels, Marking the End of an Era | Cord Cutters News
Paramount Global has delivered a devastating blow to music fans worldwide, announcing the permanent shutdown of five iconic MTV music channels by December 31, 2025 according to the BBC. For 44 years, MTV has been a cultural juggernaut, shaping youth culture, launching musical careers, and defining how generations consumed music, fashion, and pop culture. The […]

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[3/3]:
- Analyzing Finetuning Representation Shift for Multimodal LLMs Steering
Pegah Khayatan, Mustafa Shukor, Jayneel Parekh, Arnaud Dapogny, Matthieu Cord

I spent a relaxing afternoon rewiring our light fixture for the dining room that was not yet installed after our move. Our new dining room is over 2 feet taller, which necessitated a new longer lamp cord and chain. Tomorrow, I might hang it... or I might not. Gotta pace myself.
#Retirement #DIY

SSDD: Single-Step Diffusion Decoder for Efficient Image Tokenization
Th\'eophane Vallaeys, Jakob Verbeek, Matthieu Cord
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04961 https://

SSDD: Single-Step Diffusion Decoder for Efficient Image Tokenization
Tokenizers are a key component of state-of-the-art generative image models, extracting the most important features from the signal while reducing data dimension and redundancy. Most current tokenizers are based on KL-regularized variational autoencoders (KL-VAE), trained with reconstruction, perceptual and adversarial losses. Diffusion decoders have been proposed as a more principled alternative to model the distribution over images conditioned on the latent. However, matching the performance o…

IPA: An Information-Preserving Input Projection Framework for Efficient Foundation Model Adaptation
Yuan Yin, Shashanka Venkataramanan, Tuan-Hung Vu, Andrei Bursuc, Matthieu Cord
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04398

IPA: An Information-Preserving Input Projection Framework for Efficient Foundation Model Adaptation
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, such as LoRA, reduce adaptation cost by injecting low-rank updates into pretrained weights. However, LoRA's down-projection is randomly initialized and data-agnostic, discarding potentially useful information. Prior analyses show that this projection changes little during training, while the up-projection carries most of the adaptation, making the random input compression a performance bottleneck. We propose IPA, a feature-aware projection framewo…

The ThinkPad P14s Gen5 AMD has about 2.1 hours of battery life in Linux with the most conservative power profile selected. Bring a long extension cord if you're leaving the house.

spherical helix as single twist coord #openscad #3dprinting

Replaced article(s) found for physics.bio-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.bio-ph/new
[1/1]:
- A functional exchange shunt in the umbilical cord: the role of coiling in solute and heat transfer
Tianran Wan, Edward D. Johnstone, Shier Nee Saw, Oliver E. Jensen, Igor L. Che…

First test of the pump! Just turned the first pump on to make sure everything works. The regulator works! 100% power seems to draw about 160W. 50% was around 70W. Can't take a reliable picture of the display unfortunately.
I will have to cut the main wire and extend it with a good extension cord so it can reach where I need it to. At least to the little grey shed for now. The controller has to stay dry and in reasonable temperatures.
Not really looking forward to that job. I have cut/spliced/shrinkwrapped wire before but not on a $600 pump. 😬
Today though I will concentrate on hooking up the pipe to the filter to set up a circulation and figure out a temporary situation for the pump controller.
edit: btw the pumps are both Jecod 20,000L/hr varieties. I am hoping (and calculated) that they are oversized so I can run them at 50-75% most of the time.
#poolpond #backyardProject #DIY #electronics

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.TO. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.TO/new
[1/1]:
- A functional exchange shunt in the umbilical cord: the role of coiling in solute and heat transfer
Tianran Wan, Edward D. Johnstone, Shier Nee Saw, Oliver E. Jensen, Igor L. Chernyavsky

single twist cord trefoil knot #3d #model #openscad #code