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Logical accreditation: a framework for efficient certification of fault-tolerant computations
James Mills, Adithya Sireesh, Dominik Leichtle, Joschka Roffe, Elham Kashefi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05523

Logical accreditation: a framework for efficient certification of fault-tolerant computations
As fault-tolerant quantum computers scale, certifying the accuracy of computations performed with encoded logical qubits will soon become classically intractable. This creates a critical need for scalable, device-independent certification methods. In this work, we introduce logical accreditation, a framework for efficiently certifying quantum computations performed on logical qubits. Our protocol is robust against general noise models, far beyond those typically considered in performance analys…

Galois Groups of Symmetric Cubic Surfaces
Eric Pichon-Pharabod, Simon Telen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06785 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06785

Galois Groups of Symmetric Cubic Surfaces
The Galois group of a family of cubic surfaces is the monodromy group of the 27 lines of its generic fibre. We describe a method to compute this group for linear systems of cubic surfaces using certified numerical computations. Applying this to all families which are invariant under the action of a subgroup of $S_5$, we find that the Galois group is often much smaller than the Weyl group $W(E_6)$. As a byproduct, we compute the discriminants of these~families. Our method allows to compute the m…

Musician Harrison Patrick Smith (The Dare) on being part of a scene – #creativity https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/musician-har…

Musician Harrison Patrick Smith (The Dare) on being part of a scene – The Creative Independent
Musician The Dare discusses competition as a motivator, taking time off to refresh his approach, and the right kind of provocation.

In This Thread: denizens of debian-user mailing list who refuse to accept that there are people who do creative work without wanting to use email.
Apparently it is only "kids" who "don't understand what is important", who "have a mobile phone glued to their hand" and "don't care about their computer as long as it plays their games."

Hedge fund billionaire
Ken Griffin has warned that Trump’s pressure on the Fed and dismissal of officials
risk eroding U.S. institutional credibility and driving up long-term borrowing costs.
He cautioned that once confidence is lost
—as seen in past crises from Nixon’s Fed battles to Liz Truss’s meltdown in the U.K.
—it is costly to rebuild.

Ken Griffin lays down the law on why Trump needs to back off the Fed, saying his meddling could prompt a national debt crisis
Ken Griffin warns Trump’s pressure on Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve risks eroding U.S. institutional credibility.

Teaching Sustainable Creative Technologies
Chelsea Thompto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05320 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05320

Teaching Sustainable Creative Technologies
Artists and especially new media artists contribute to public perceptions and adoption of new technologies through their own use of emerging media technologies such as augmented and virtual reality, generative image systems, and high-resolution displays in the production of their work. In this way, art and media production can be understood as part of the larger issue of unsustainable computational consumption. As such, it is critical for artists to develop, share, and promote new and more sust…

Certifying the Nonexistence of Feasible Path Between Power System Operating Points
Mohammad Rasoul Narimani, Katherine R. Davis, Daniel K. Molzahn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05935

Certifying the Nonexistence of Feasible Path Between Power System Operating Points
By providing the optimal operating point that satisfies both the power flow equations and engineering limits, the optimal power flow (OPF) problem is central to the operation of electric power systems. While extensive research efforts have focused on reliably computing high-quality OPF solutions, assessing the feasibility of transitioning between operating points remains challenging since the feasible spaces of OPF problems may consist of multiple disconnected components. It is not possible to …

All the premises (axioms?) of Liquid Glass design are weird and wrong.
Especially the basic premise of "content is more important than the user interface".
Not even going into how the moniker "content" devalues creative human work—the real problem about this is that it's simply bullshit.
In human-computer interaction content and the user interface to interact with it are normally equally important—with the interaction elements becoming _more important_ while an interaction is either imminent or taking place.
The most basic thing is to make buttons look like buttons and not change how they look like depending on what's behind them, as well as not make them move around so you can easily recognize, find and tap or click them.

A Survey of Pun Generation: Datasets, Evaluations and Methodologies
Yuchen Su, Yonghua Zhu, Ruofan Wang, Zijian Huang, Diana Benavides-Prado, Michael Witbrock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04793

A Survey of Pun Generation: Datasets, Evaluations and Methodologies
Pun generation seeks to creatively modify linguistic elements in text to produce humour or evoke double meanings. It also aims to preserve coherence and contextual appropriateness, making it useful in creative writing and entertainment across various media and contexts. Although pun generation has received considerable attention in computational linguistics, there is currently no dedicated survey that systematically reviews this specific area. To bridge this gap, this paper provides a comprehen…