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Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former Ukrainian defence minister, said “an acceptable armistice may never formally arrive” and that Kyiv should formulate “a revised theory of victory” – which accepts that the Kremlin considers itself engaged in a forever war against its smaller neighbour.
The former minister describes the new approach as “strategic neutralisation”, a permanent and dynamic military effort to ensure that Russia’s forces cannot advance and that Moscow becomes “operationally incapab…

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
AVON: The explosion in the planet's atmosphere would have provided the rest.
BLAKE: Yes, I hadn't thought of that.
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Zelensky describes phone call with Trump as 'best conversation in all this time': https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/zelensky-describes-phone-call-with.html

Coherent states of finite-level systems
A. I. Breev, D. M. Gitman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10668 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10668…

Coherent states of finite-level systems
A method for constructing coherent states (CS) of finite-level systems with a given angular momentum is proposed. To this end we generalize the known spin equation (SE) to an infinite-dimensional Fock space. The equation describes a special quadratic system in the latter space. Its projections on $d$-dimensional subspaces, represent analogs of SE for $d$-dimensional systems in an external electromagnetic field which describe $d$-dimensional systems with a given angular moment. Using a modificat…

There has been an increase of arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since Trump began his second term,
with reports of raids across the country.
-- Yet the majority of people currently detained by ICE have no criminal convictions.
Of those who do, relatively few have been convicted of high-level crimes
— a stark contrast to the chilling nightmare Trump describes to support his border security agenda.
“There’s a deep disconnect between the rhetoric …

Trump says he's deporting 'worst of the worst.' Data tells a different story
President Donald Trump has pledged to target "the worst of the worst" as he moves to deport millions of people from the U.S. But government data contradicts this narrative. As of June 29, 71.7% of people detained by ICE had no criminal convictions, and only a small fraction were classified as high-level threats. Research has consistently shown that immigrants, including those who have entered the country illegally, are less likely to be incarcerated than native-born citizens and that immigratio…

Supporting Intel(r) SGX on Multi-Package Platforms
Simon Johnson, Raghunandan Makaram, Amy Santoni, Vinnie Scarlata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08190 https:…

Supporting Intel(r) SGX on Multi-Package Platforms
Intel(r) Software Guard Extensions (SGX) was originally released on client platforms and later extended to single socket server platforms. As developers have become familiar with the capabilities of the technology, the applicability of this capability in the cloud has been tested. Various Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) are demonstrating the value of using SGX based Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) to create a new paradigm of Confidential Cloud Computing. This paper describes the additional …

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
JARRIERE: Even if he cannot be trusted?
SERVALAN: Oh, he can be trusted to do anything for money. He'll deliver Travis.
JARRIERE: And Docholli?
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"Devastating": Mahmoud Khalil describes missing the birth of his son in new legal filings | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/05/devastating-mahmoud-khalil-describes-missing-the-birth-of-his-son-in-new-legal-filings/

Quanta Magazine's Stephen Ornes describes a novel algorithm that can factor large numbers using only one qubit. The technique relies on quantum oscillation, and although it has a catch (the larger the number being factored the more energy the oscillators expend), the work points to new ways to perform quantum computing.
"New Quantum Algorithm Factors Numbers With One Qubit
-The catch: It would require the energy of a few medium-size stars."

A co-deployed dust-logging instrument for the IceCube Upgrade and IceCube-Gen2
Anna Eimer (for the IceCube Collaboration), Martin Rongen (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08430

A co-deployed dust-logging instrument for the IceCube Upgrade and IceCube-Gen2
A precise understanding of the optical properties of the instrumented Antarctic ice sheet is crucial to the performance of optical Cherenkov telescopes such as the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and its planned successor, IceCube-Gen2. One complication arising from the large envisioned footprint of IceCube-Gen2 is the larger impact of the so-called ice tilt. It describes the undulation of ice layers of constant optical properties within the detector. In this contribution, we will describe the pro…

Riding around with Kid1 last night, I remarked that many of the drivers, who seemed more agitated than normal, were "ornery." I explained what the word meant and he said, "I think 'hornery' better describes it." We now have a term for a specific form of dangerous driving.
#BikeTooter #cycling

Theory of bound magnetic polarons in cubic and uniaxial antiferromagnets
Dawid Bugajewski, Carmine Autieri, Tomasz Dietl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10208 h…

Theory of bound magnetic polarons in cubic and uniaxial antiferromagnets
Motivated by a recent debate about the origin of remanent magnetization and the corresponding anomalous Hall effect in antiferromagnets and their subclass, altermagnets, a theory of bound magnetic polarons (BMPs) in anisotropic antiferromagnetic semiconductors is developed. The theory describes quantitatively the experimentally observed magnitude of excess magnetization and its dependence on the magnetic field in cubic antiferromagnetic EuTe. In contrast to the cubic case, our theory predicts t…

Reversing adiabatic state preparation
L. Romanato, N. Eshaqi-Sani, L. Lepori, T. Kirova, E. Arimondo, S. Wimberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08439 https:/…

Reversing adiabatic state preparation
We present a detailed study of an adiabatic state preparation in an effective three-level quantum system. States can be prepared with high speed and fidelity by adding a counterdiabatic quantum control protocol. As a second step, we invert the preparation protocol to get back to the initial state. This describes an overall cyclic evolution in state space. Using counterdiabatic terms, the resulting composed fast evolution can be repeated many times. We then analyze the control of Berry's phase a…

Strain dependent viscous response describes the mechanics of cohesionless soft granular materials
Chandan Shakya, Luca Placidi, Anil Misra, Lars Kool, Anke Lindner, Jasper van der Gucht, Joshua A. Dijksman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08855

Strain dependent viscous response describes the mechanics of cohesionless soft granular materials
Granular materials are ubiquitous in nature and are used extensively in daily life and in industry. The modeling of these materials remains challenging; therefore, finding models with acceptable predictive accuracy that at the same time also reflect the complexity of the granular dynamics is a central research theme in the field. Soft particle packings present additional modeling challenges, as it has become clear that soft particles also have particle-level relaxation timescales that affect th…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
DEETA: So, you have an answer for the Summons to Justification. Like what? Surely not a Blood Feud? [rises to face her] I can't have killed someone who's close kin to both of you. Particularly not as your friend here is a citizen of the Vandor Confederacy. As I assume you are. [drops a metal ID card at her feet]
KARLA: [Picks it …

Most #RESTful #APIs aren't really RESTful
https://florian-krae…

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
JENNA: You're suggesting that we go into the Forbidden Zone and attack Control?
BLAKE: Yes, that is what I am suggesting.
CALLY: Do we know where this computer complex is?
JENNA: Most Earth people have heard of it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/49

The FAST Globular Cluster Pulsar Survey (GC FANS)
Yujie Lian, Zhichen Pan, Haiyan Zhang, Shuo Cao, P. C. C. Freire, Lei Qian, Ralph P. Eatough, Lijing Shao, Scott M. Ransom, Duncan R. Lorimer, Dejiang Yin, Yinfeng Dai, Kuo Liu, Lin Wang, Yujie Wang, Zhongli Zhang, Zhonghua Feng, Baoda Li, Minghui Li, Tong Liu, Yaowei Li, Bo Peng, Yu Pan, Yuxiao Wu, Liyun Zhang, Xingnan Zhang, Peng Jiang

The FAST Globular Cluster Pulsar Survey (GC FANS)
By January 2025, 60 pulsars were discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope globular cluster (GC) pulsar survey (GC FANS), with spin periods spanning 1.98 ms to 3960.72 ms. Of these, 55 are millisecond pulsars (MSPs; $P<30$ ms), while 34 are binaries with orbital periods spanning 0.12 days to 466.47 days. This paper describes GC FANS, a deep, thorough search for pulsars in 41 GCs in the FAST sky ($-14^\circ < δ< 65^\circ$) and describes new discoveries in 14 of the…

Ricardo Mendes, born and raised within the Buddhist cult-like community Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC), describes in his testimony how this community, initially founded on ideals of spirituality, communal living, and alternatives to Western society, gradually became a sectarian organization

"Here is the thing: the video describes, at an excruciatingly slow pace (at least by the standards of our generation’s TikTok-formatted brains), with the terms and phraseology of 1968, and during no less than one and a half hours, the very computer you are using to read this article. Yes, the one on your lap or on your desk."
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Doug Engelbart
As in any human group, there are certain pilgrimages, certain rites of passage that all software developers apparently must go through. They are various and equally anecdotical: to compile and boot their own Linux kernel; to read "The Art of Computer Programming" in its entirety (and then send their CV to Bill Gates); to give a presentation in a conference; and finally, to sit through the whole duration of "The Mother of All Demos", the recording of the unavoidable presentation made by Douglas …

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
DAYNA: Shut up! Be quiet! [Sound of engines approaching] What is it?
VILA: How should I know? [Two Space Rats approach on three-wheeled ATV's.]
DAYNA: What are they?
VILA: THEY are the Space Rats.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/209 B7…

Drama, Delusional, Bold: One Word That Describes Every NFL Team's Offseason https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/one-word-describes-every-nfl-teams-offseason

Formalization of the AADL Run-Time Services with Time
Brian R Larson, Ehsan Ahmad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06881 https://arxiv.org/…

Formalization of the AADL Run-Time Services with Time
The Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL) is an architecture description language for design of cyber-physical systems--machines controlled by software. The AADL standard, SAE International AS5506D, describes Run-Time Services (RTS) to be provided to execute AADL models in accordance with semantics defined by the standard. The RTS of primary concern are transport services and timing services. Although, the study presented in [1] sets a foundation for the formal semantics of AADL, but w…

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
VILA: Now I want to show you a little trick here. Right, Gan. You know this one.
DAINER: Now, I'll watch carefully this time.
VILA: Right, now watch carefully, watch the old piece of cloth, right... And a one...

Drama, Delusional, Bold: One Word That Describes Every NFL Team's Offseason https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/one-word-describes-every-nfl-teams-offseason

"Researchers identify 22 key areas for protecting struggling giant otters"
#Otters #Animals #Conservation

Researchers identify 22 key areas for protecting struggling giant otters
“They’re big, like an overweight Peruvian dog,” is how photographer Santiago Romaní describes giant otters (Pteronura brasiliensis). In 2022, on his trip to the Imiría Regional Conservation Area, a protected area in the Ucayali region of Peru’s east-central Amazon, he observed the aquatic river giants. That same year, the area’s administration confirmed the presence of […]

Emergent Holographic Spacetime from Quantum Information
Tadashi Takayanagi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06595 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Emergent Holographic Spacetime from Quantum Information
Holographic duality describes gravitational theories in terms of quantum many-body systems. In holography, quantum information theory provides a crucial tool that directly connects microscopic structures of these systems to the geometries of gravitational spacetimes. One manifestation is that the entanglement entropy in quantum many-body systems can be calculated from the area of an extremal surface in the corresponding gravitational spacetime. This implies that a gravitational spacetime can em…

Woman denied entry at JFK describes ‘nightmare’ stay at New Jersey ICE facility
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5393847-jfk-new-jersey-ice-facility-immigration-crackdown/

Mass conservation and gelation for the Smoluchowski coagulation equation: a generalized moment approach
Masato Kimura, Hisanori Miyata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08017

Mass conservation and gelation for the Smoluchowski coagulation equation: a generalized moment approach
The Smoluchowski coagulation equation (SCE) is a population balance model that describes the time evolution of cluster size distributions resulting from particle aggregation. Although it is formally a mass-conserving system, solutions may exhibit a gelation phenomenon-a sudden loss of mass-when the coagulation kernel grows superlinearly. In this paper, we rigorously analyze mass conservation and gelation for weak solutions to the SCE with inhomogeneous coagulation kernels. By introducing a gene…

A symmetric LWE-based Multi-Recipient Cryptosystem
Saikat Gope, Srinivasan Krishnaswamy, Chayan Bhawal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05711 https://

A symmetric LWE-based Multi-Recipient Cryptosystem
This article describes a post-quantum multirecipient symmetric cryptosystem whose security is based on the hardness of the LWE problem. In this scheme a single sender encrypts multiple messages for multiple recipients generating a single ciphertext which is broadcast to the recipients. Each recipient decrypts the ciphertext with her secret key to recover the message intended for her. In this process, the recipient cannot efficiently extract any information about the other messages. This scheme …

A BBC journalist describes being detained and held at gunpoint with five other journalists and a cameraman by the Israel Defense Forces in Syria on May 9 (Feras Kilani/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4grldkeyv5o

Held at gunpoint: BBC team detained by Israeli forces in southern Syria
BBC Arabic's Feras Kilani and his colleagues were held at gunpoint, bound and strip-searched while filming in the Golan Heights.

Picosecond resolution photoelectron emission lifetime detection system
V. Kakoyan (A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory), S. Zhamkochyan (A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory), S. Abrahamyan (A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory), A. Aprahamian (A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA), 5 H. Elbakyan (A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory), A. Ghalumyan (A.I. Alikhan…

Picosecond resolution photoelectron emission lifetime detection system
This paper describes a new photoelectron emission lifetime detection system. It is based on a recently developed Radio Frequency Timing technique of keV electrons and a 40 MHz, ultrafast pulsed laser. The photoelectron emission lifetimes from gold, monolayer MoS$_2$ and monolayer graphene were measured. As expected, we do not observe delayed electrons from gold, and the time distribution of the produced photoelectrons represents the time resolution of the device, which is $\sim$12~ps. From the …

On the Existence of Unbiased Hypothesis Tests: An Algebraic Approach
Andrew McCormack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08259 https://arxiv.…

On the Existence of Unbiased Hypothesis Tests: An Algebraic Approach
In hypothesis testing problems the property of strict unbiasedness describes whether a test is able to discriminate, in the sense of a difference in power, between any distribution in the null hypothesis space and any distribution in the alternative hypothesis space. In this work we examine conditions under which unbiased tests exist for discrete statistical models. It is shown that the existence of an unbiased test can be reduced to an algebraic criterion; an unbiased test exists if and only i…

#PennedPossibilities 692 — Share a song that either describes your current feelings about your story or your MC in general.
The first time I heard this song, I immediately thought of my poor MC. The lyrics felt honest, and fit the dark hour of his soul.
“Cause out here in the darkness,
and out of the light,
if you get to me too late,
just know that I tried”

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
PINDER: Egrorian? Egrorian? They're here! Come and see. [Egrorian enters. He slaps Pinder away from the monitor. They look at the monitor and laugh hysterically.]
[Back on Scorpio]
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US citizen arrested during Ice raid in what family describes as ‘kidnapping’;
Andrea Velez, 32, a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona, had just been dropped off at work by her mother and sister
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/26/immigration-ice-raid…

Sharkovsky's Ordering in the Mandelbrot Set
Reila Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06163 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06163

Sharkovsky's Ordering in the Mandelbrot Set
Sharkovsky's ordering describes orbit forcing of interval maps, and generalizations of Sharkovsky's ordering exist for maps of trees. In this paper I will describe Sharkovsky's ordering and analogous orderings for trees, and their occurrence on the Mandelbrot set.

Data-Driven Einstein-Dilaton Model for Pure Yang-Mills Thermodynamics and Glueball Spectrum
Xun Chen, Yidian Chen, Kai Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06729

Data-Driven Einstein-Dilaton Model for Pure Yang-Mills Thermodynamics and Glueball Spectrum
We develop a machine learning assisted holographic model that consistently describes both the equation of state and glueball spectrum of pure Yang-Mills theory, achieved through neural network reconstruction of Einstein-dilaton gravity. Our framework incorporates key non-perturbative constraints of lattice QCD data: the ground ($0^{++}$) and first-excited ($0^{++*}$) scalar glueball masses pins down the infrared (IR) geometry, while entropy density data anchors the ultraviolet (UV) behavior of …

Real-time Optimization of Transport Chains for Single Wagon Load Railway Transport
Carsten Moldenhauer, Philipp Germann, Cedric Heimhofer, Caroline Spieckermann, Andreas Andresen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06621

Real-time Optimization of Transport Chains for Single Wagon Load Railway Transport
The freight branch of the Swiss national railways, SBB Cargo, offers customers to ship single or few wagons within its wagon load transportation system (WLV). In this system, wagons travel along a transport chain which is a sequence of consecutive trains. Recently, SBB Cargo redesigned its IT systems and renewed the computation of these transport chains. This paper describes the main design decisions and technical details: data structures, search algorithms, mathematical optimization of through…

Wow, this blog post describes exactly what's in my mind these days. Actually, I prepared a presentation a few days ago, for an event I'll participate to in 10 days, that says about the same
https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-think…

Retain or Reframe? A Computational Framework for the Analysis of Framing in News Articles and Reader Comments
Matteo Guida, Yulia Otmakhova, Eduard Hovy, Lea Frermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04612

Retain or Reframe? A Computational Framework for the Analysis of Framing in News Articles and Reader Comments
When a news article describes immigration as an "economic burden" or a "humanitarian crisis," it selectively emphasizes certain aspects of the issue. Although \textit{framing} shapes how the public interprets such issues, audiences do not absorb frames passively but actively reorganize the presented information. While this relationship between source content and audience response is well-documented in the social sciences, NLP approaches often ignore it, detecting frames in articles and response…

A 40.68-MHz, 200-ns-Settling Active Rectifier and TX-Side Load Monitoring for Minimizing Radiated Power in Biomedical Implants
Ronald Wijermars, Yi-Han Ou-Yang, Sijun Du, Dante Gabriel Muratore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07710

A 40.68-MHz, 200-ns-Settling Active Rectifier and TX-Side Load Monitoring for Minimizing Radiated Power in Biomedical Implants
This letter describes a 40.68 MHz wireless power transfer receiver for implantable applications focused on minimizing tissue heating. The system features a novel power radiated efficiency optimization strategy and a fast-settling active rectifier that maintains high efficiency during load and link variations required for downlink communication. The power radiated efficiency optimization explicitly reduces tissue heating while enabling transmitter-side load monitoring for closed-loop control. Th…

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Unified Origin of Curvature Perturbation and Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe
We propose a unified framework that describes both the curvaton mechanism for generating primordial density fluctuations and the Affleck-Dine (AD) mechanism for baryogenesis. By introducing a complex scalar field (AD field) carrying a baryon/lepton number and its potential consisting of quadratic and quartic terms with a small baryon/lepton-number-violating mass term, we investigate the evolution of the scalar field during the radiation-dominated era following inflation. We set the initial cond…

Vulnerability and Defence: A Case for Stackelberg Game Dynamics
Azhar Iqbal, Ishan Honhaga, Eyoel Teffera, Anthony Perry, Robin Baker, Glenn Pearce, Claudia Szabo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07316

Vulnerability and Defence: A Case for Stackelberg Game Dynamics
This paper examines the tactical interaction between drones and tanks in modern warfare through game theory, particularly focusing on Stackelberg equilibrium and backward induction. It describes a high-stakes conflict between two teams: one using advanced drones for attack, and the other defending using tanks. The paper conceptualizes this as a sequential game, illustrating the complex strategic dynamics similar to Stackelberg competition, where moves and countermoves are carefully analyzed and…

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
SERVALAN: What?
JARVIK: I made it look convincing.
SERVALAN: Oh, it was convincing all right. It convinced me. Three Mark Tens and fifteen years' supply of Kairopan.
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Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: We'll just have to take the chance.
JENNA: Thanks.
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Generic Chiral Anomaly and Planar Hall Effect in a Non-Weyl System
Yongjian Wang, Alexander Wowchik, Thomas Boemerich, A. A. Taskin, Achim Rosch, Yoichi Ando
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09756

Generic Chiral Anomaly and Planar Hall Effect in a Non-Weyl System
The condensed-matter version of the chiral anomaly describes how electrons are pumped from a Weyl node with negative chirality to a Weyl node with positive chirality using parallel electric and magnetic fields. Key experimental signatures are a negative longitudinal magnetoresistance (LMR) and the planar Hall effect (PHE), both of which have been experimentally observed. Here, we show that the chiral anomaly explains key features of magnetotransport in the nodal-line semimetal ZrTe$_5$ despite …

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
[Space Command]
SERVALAN: How did that happen?
JARVIK: They fired through their own force shield.
SERVALAN: Don't be absurd.
JARVIK: You asked, I told you.
[Liberator flight deck]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/294

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Simulating sparse SYK model with a randomized algorithm on a trapped-ion quantum computer
Etienne Granet, Yuta Kikuchi, Henrik Dreyer, Enrico Rinaldi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07530

Simulating sparse SYK model with a randomized algorithm on a trapped-ion quantum computer
The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model describes a strongly correlated quantum system that shows a strong signature of quantum chaos. Due to its chaotic nature, the simulation of real-time dynamics becomes quickly intractable by means of classical numerics, and thus, quantum simulation is deemed to be an attractive alternative. Nevertheless, quantum simulations of the SYK model on noisy quantum processors are severely limited by the complexity of its Hamiltonian. In this work, we simulate the real-t…

MLOps with Microservices: A Case Study on the Maritime Domain
Renato Cordeiro Ferreira (Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Technical University of Eindhoven, Tilburg University), Rowanne Trapmann (Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Technical University of Eindhoven, Tilburg University), Willem-Jan van den Heuvel (Jheronimus Academy of Data Science, Technical University of Eindhoven, Tilburg University)

MLOps with Microservices: A Case Study on the Maritime Domain
This case study describes challenges and lessons learned on building Ocean Guard: a Machine Learning-Enabled System (MLES) for anomaly detection in the maritime domain. First, the paper presents the system's specification, and architecture. Ocean Guard was designed with a microservices' architecture to enable multiple teams to work on the project in parallel. Then, the paper discusses how the developers adapted contract-based design to MLOps for achieving that goal. As a MLES, Ocean Guard emplo…

There’s something deeply wrong with a society that watches people get snatched by masked men in unmarked cars & looks the other way.
Rep @kamlager-dove.house.gov, describes an alarming system of relocating detainees, making it nearly impossible for their families to find them or get legal counsel.
https://

FuzzFeed: An Automatic Approach to Weakest Precondition Generation using LLMs and Fuzzing
Daragh King, Vasileios Koutavas, Laura Kovacs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05272

FuzzFeed: An Automatic Approach to Weakest Precondition Generation using LLMs and Fuzzing
The weakest precondition (WP) of a program describes the largest set of initial states from which all terminating executions of the program satisfy a given postcondition. The generation of WPs is an important task with practical applications in areas ranging from verification to run-time error checking. This paper proposes the combination of Large Language Models (LLMs) and fuzz testing for generating WPs. In pursuit of this goal, we introduce Fuzzing Guidance (FG); FG acts as a means of dire…

Non-Gaussian Phase Transition and Cascade of Instabilities in the Dissipative Quantum Rabi Model
Mingyu Kang, Yikang Zhang, Kenneth R. Brown, Thomas Barthel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07092

Non-Gaussian Phase Transition and Cascade of Instabilities in the Dissipative Quantum Rabi Model
The open quantum Rabi model describes a two-level system coupled to a harmonic oscillator. A Gaussian phase transition for the nonequilibrium steady states has been predicted when the bosonic mode is soft and subject to damping. We show that oscillator dephasing is a relevant perturbation, which leads to a non-Gaussian phase transition and an intriguing cascade of instabilities for $k$-th order bosonic operators. For the soft-mode limit, the equations of motion form a closed hierarchy and spect…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
SERVALAN: I was watching Samor. What Travis said bothered him!
THANIA: You were watching?
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Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
KASABI: You think so?
SERVALAN: Oh, yes, we think so.
TRAVIS: You could spare yourself a lot of pain.
KASABI: No doubt.
TRAVIS: You are a very intelligent woman.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/152 B7B3

Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
TYNUS: [Entering with food packages] I've got one for each of you. Hydrolyzed protein.
VILA: Thanks.
TYNUS: I've got to put it in the oven first.
AVON: Don't bother.
VILA: Lost our appetites suddenly.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/506

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“Being in the United States is a great risk for anyone -- not just for Venezuelans,”
Diosdado Cabello, the interior minister in Caracas, said after the announcement
“They persecute our countrymen, our people, for no reason.”
https://www.

Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
ROD: Brother - I will not call you Charl.
GOLA: Then I shall make you. [Blake enters]
JENNA: Blake!
BLAKE: Shhh!
GOLA: Who is this?
ROD: This is my second.
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Wigner's friend scenarios: on what to condition and how to verify the predictions
Wigner's friend experiment and its modern extensions display the ambiguity of the quantum mechanical description regarding the assignment of quantum states. While the friend applies the state-update rule to the system upon observing an outcome of her measurement in a quantum system, Wigner describes the friend's measurement as a unitary evolution, resulting in an entangled state for the composite system of the friend and the system. In this respect, Wigner is often referred to as a "superobserv…

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
BLAKE: Seen any sign of Travis?
JENNA: Have you?
BLAKE: No. We'd better make ourselves some weapons.
[LATER - Blake is sharpening two stakes into spears with his machete]
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Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: I have to think.
FOSTER: Of course. We'll talk after the meeting.
BLAKE: Hmm.
DEV TARRANT: What do you think?
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Quantum tunneling in the time periodic double well potential
Vladimir Dubinko, Oleksandr Mazmanishvili
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Quantum tunneling in the time periodic double well potential
We present the mathematical model and numerical calculation results for the tunneling of the wave function in a time-periodic double-well potential. The bi-quadratic potential of a double-well form is used. Based on a mathematical model of the time evolution of the wave function, a numerical algorithm has been developed and a program has been created for solving the Schrödinger equation, which describes the time evolution of the particle's wave function. As a result of numerical modeling, modu…

Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
SLAVE: Er, slipping, Master.
AVON: Soolin, take over.
SOOLIN: Give me manual control, Slave. [Goes to the flight controls]
SLAVE: With great relief, Madam. I am somewhat disorien- disor- confused.
VILA: Sounds drunk to me.
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Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
TARRANT: Ten seconds.
AVON: Main drives running true.
TARRANT: All drives on. Lift you scruffy bag of bolts. Lift.
[Planet Scorpio. Exterior. Scorpio lifts off.]
TARRANT: Orbital booster fired.
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Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
BLAKE: All right, Zen, you know what to do.
ZEN: Confirmed. [Blake exits as Jenna enters from a different passage.]
JENNA: Blake? [Blake continues out without reacting.] It's getting worse for him, isn't it?
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Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
GAN: As long as the door doesn't break.
VILA: Did you see? They killed Arco.
BLAKE: I don't understand. There's no response from the ship.
VILA: Perhaps these bracelets don't work any more.
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Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
AVON: Our hero lives.
TARRANT: At least he didn't try to get into a spacesuit.
AVON: I look upon self-interest as my great strength. Vila.
TARRANT: One day, Avon, I may have to kill you.
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B02 - Shadow
BEK: What's in it for you?
BLAKE: You can help me with one of my crew. His name's Vila and he's suffering from a bad attack of alcoholic remorse. [Into bracelet] All right, Cally. [To them] He wants to make a necklace of his teeth.
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#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: No. Must be brain warp. Think I'll just go off and die somewhere. [starts to exit]
TARRANT: Vila.
VILA: What?
TARRANT: The door.
VILA: Which door?
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Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
PRACTOR: A live target general?
GENERAL: Sleer's people picked up a rebel who'd been sent on an intelligence mission. He was adapted, given a tracer to swallow and sent back to rejoin his friends. When he reached their base, my missile commander just pressed the button.
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Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
GEELA: [Touches Avon's hand with her weapon. She releases his hand.] Minimum power. A full charge would cut you in half.
NOVARA: Understand. Your lives are totally unimportant to us.
BLAKE: All right.
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Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
AVALON: Who betrayed us?
TRAVIS: [To mutoids] Take her.
MUTOID: [Indicating homing beacon] Shall I smash it?
TRAVIS: No. Give Blake his homing beacon - make it easier for him. Finish it.
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Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
GAMBRILL: They just started to act strangely, vague, wandering about, then they went into convulsions. They're in the sick bay now.
BELLFRIAR: That could be a space contamination, you'd better get me the sick bay at once.
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#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
AVON: Good. Moving to line up. Right lateral, minimum power.
VILA: Too much. You're overshooting.
AVON: Left lateral. That's enough. Hold.
VILA: Square on.
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Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
CLONE 2: Is there anything for us here?
RASHEL: Yes. We're free.
CLONE 2: Can we survive - alone?
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Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
CALLY: Scan.
ZEN: Gun ship. It is manoeuvering for attack position.
CALLY: Warn them off.
ZEN: Warning ignored.
CALLY: Compute coordinates, range blasters.
ZEN: Blasters ranged.
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Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
SOOLIN: Yes. Not too easy, at this range.
TARRANT: Yeah, well don't lose him. We need to get a precise fix on Egrorian's base.
DAYNA: Why? You think we might have to drop in on him?
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Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
CALLY: [V.O.] Blake.
BLAKE: Yes, Cally.
CALLY: Has anyone found Orac yet?
BLAKE: [V.O.] No, I think we'll have to wait for Vila.
CALLY: Well, there may not be time for that.
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#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
JENNA: Look, we've been on the Liberator for a long time. The computers have never turned against us before. Why now?
AVON: That's what I was trying to find out when you sent for me. There's something else I'd like to try. [Burbles and gargles in two tones from Zen]

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#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: What's the matter with your main drive?
TARRANT: It's a museum piece.
PLAXTON: Standard fiber optic control connections?
AVON: Very standard.
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Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
TRAVIS: Come on, come on. Where were you to rendezvous with Blake?
KASABI: You can rot, Travis. I'll tell you nothing, nothing. [Kasabi spits on Travis. Travis crosses to Servalan.]
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Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
SERVALAN: What has gone wrong?
COMMANDER: [On viewscreen] Liberator is still firing. I'm retreating out of range. All ships take evasion course. I repeat, all ships disengage.
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Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
BERSHAR: We do not come to the surface any more than we have to. The air is not very pleasant.
TARRANT: I've noticed. [Troopers come out of hiding, guns drawn.]
DAYNA: [Looks as Bershar] You?
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#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: Hideaway? Avon, if I got my hands on that kind of money, I'd have gone somewhere I could enjoy it. What is the point of having money if you have to exist on a hole like that!
AVON: You are forgetting, there is a big difference between you and Egrorian. HE has a brain.

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Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
AVON: [V.O.] Scorpio, come in Scorpio.
TARRANT: Avon, what's happening?
AVON: [V.O.] Never mind what's happening. Just get me up as quickly as you can. [Cut to Domo]
NEBROX: You promised! You promised! [Back to Scorpio]
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Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
SERVALAN: Your work and the animals.
JUSTIN: My work is destroyed.
SERVALAN: Then you die. Both of you.
DAYNA: It's in his head. He said so.
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#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
AVON: Have you considered amputation?
[Blake and Cally meet in a corridor]
BLAKE: How's Jenna?
CALLY: Just shaken. She'll be back in the teleport as soon as she's recovered.
BLAKE: Good. Help Avon with Zen.

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Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
VILA: Minefield, what minefield?
AVON: Perhaps the intergalactic drive has been developed. Question is, by whom.
BLAKE: A defence zone to keep mankind in, or something else out.
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Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
CALLY: [V.O. telepathy] Avon, listen. The enemy are on board. Avon.
AVON: Are they maintaining formation?
ZEN: Affirmative.
AVON: When will they be in range?
ZEN: They have been in range for one minute, eight seconds.
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Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
[Flight deck]
BLAKE: Orac, why won't you give us the background to that prediction?
ORAC: Because that would invalidate the prediction.
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Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
CALLY: I'm sure.
[Scene: Gan is in a cabin. We see him listen to the following conversation over the intercom.]
BLAKE: [O.S.] Our only hope is if they have a supply on Aristo.
VILA: [O.S.] But if they don't?
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#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 02 - Power
VILA: A sort of academy, when I was a boy. They chose me as technical advisor for the escape.
PELLA: Escape? From an academy?
VILA: Perhaps academy was the wrong word.
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Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
ALTA TWO: [To guard] Stop! [To slaves and guards] March on.
[Control room. Alta Two enters and she and Alta One touch the silver dots on their foreheads. The pedestal dome beeps, Alta Two places her hands on it, and it gargles. Blake is pushed into the room and Alta One motions him to a chair across from hers]

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Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
JENNA: A missile?
BLAKE: No, it can't be. They can't have spotted Liberator. We've got the blind down. [launch appears on screen]
JENNA: There it is, look, just leaving the ionosphere.
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Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
AVON: Approximately six million. It was colonized in the last century of the Old Calendar. At first they resisted political affiliation, but then they joined the Federation, and they have remained unswervingly loyal.
VILA: Then they're not likely to welcome us with open arms.
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Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
ALTA TWO: Sustained. Level five. [Guard uses prod on Blake again] Release. You were warned. A third time and I will command destruction level. Move.
[Exterior shot of Spaceworld]
[Jenna and Avon in a cell]
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Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: We might save the other three.
RAIKER: Right. At least we'll have tried.
LEYLAN: Right. Get them equipped and bring 'em down here...
[Artix studies the controls, and heads for the communicator.]
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#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
BLAKE: Look at me, Jenna. Concentrate. The whole idea is - is to disorientate you.
JENNA: It doesn't seem to help.
BLAKE: When they ask questions, pretend you're dizzy.
JENNA: I AM dizzy.

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Series B, Episode 13 - Star One
DURKIM: Not computers. Computer. Singular. Very singular indeed. Our unbeatable control and coordination centre.
SERVALAN: No!
DURKIM: Servalan, by design or accident Star One is failing.
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Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
DAINER: You drink it first.
[Avon crawls through the service channel. He reaches the hatch leading into the computer room. He quietly opens the hatch, sees the technician, and closes the hatch again. The technician doesn't see this, and continues to check the computer. Avon waits for a bit, and opens the hatch again.]

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