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Sources: Atticus, a stealthy stablecoin banking startup, is in advanced talks to raise new funding led by Palmer Luckey at a valuation of between $1.5B and $2B (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2025/05/30/andurils-palmer-…

Scoop: Anduril's Palmer Luckey to invest in stealthy stablecoin startup
The new funding would value Atticus at between $1.5 billion and $2 billion.

Today's solar activity - #Sun

G.O.P. Bill Adds Surprise Tax That Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power (Brad Plumer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/climate/gop-bill-adds-surprise-tax-that-could-cripple-wind-and-solar-power.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p48#a250629p48

This also points at the likely answer to the headscratcher of where some ancient people of the region found the water they needed. https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/114773151081694915

Evaluating Pointing Gestures for Target Selection in Human-Robot Collaboration
Noora Sassali, Roel Pieters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22116 https://…

Evaluating Pointing Gestures for Target Selection in Human-Robot Collaboration
Pointing gestures are a common interaction method used in Human-Robot Collaboration for various tasks, ranging from selecting targets to guiding industrial processes. This study introduces a method for localizing pointed targets within a planar workspace. The approach employs pose estimation, and a simple geometric model based on shoulder-wrist extension to extract gesturing data from an RGB-D stream. The study proposes a rigorous methodology and comprehensive analysis for evaluating pointing g…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03431 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Compactifications of phylogenetic systems and species of electrical networks
We describe new spaces and maps. Our graphical map is a visual and numerical correspondence between spaces of circular electrical networks and circular planar split systems. When restricted to the planar circular electrical case, this graphical map finds the split system uniquely associated with the Kalmanson resistance distance of the dual network, matching the induced split system familiar from phylogenetics. This correspondence is extended to compactifications of the respective spaces, takin…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21801 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDB_…

Query, Don't Train: Privacy-Preserving Tabular Prediction from EHR Data via SQL Queries
Electronic health records (EHRs) contain richly structured, longitudinal data essential for predictive modeling, yet stringent privacy regulations (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR) often restrict access to individual-level records. We introduce Query, Don't Train (QDT): a structured-data foundation-model interface enabling tabular inference via LLM-generated SQL over EHRs. Instead of training on or accessing individual-level examples, QDT uses a large language model (LLM) as a schema-aware query planner to g…

Sanierung gesichert - Wäschekonzern Palmers bekommt neuen Eigentümer #News #Nachrichten

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Laura Palmer's Death Parade:
🎵 I'm the Only One
#LauraPalmersDeathParade
https://halfshellrecords.bandcamp.com/track/im-the-only-one
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Im6dDvyqBC1e1NqA6xbNj

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20713 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

A new class of aesthetic curves based on the self-affinity in equiaffine geometry
In this paper, we consider planar curves in equiaffine geometry and present a family of planar curves characterized by a symmetry called the extendable self-affinity (ESA). The ESA has been recognized through the investigation of the symmetry of the log-aesthetic curve (LAC), which has been studied as a reference for designing aesthetic shapes in CAGD and regarded as an analog of Euler's elastica in similarity geometry. Our new class, characterized by the ESA, includes the quadratic curve and t…