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https://mastodon.design/@salomemacquet/115145094338479305

Salomé Macquet (@salomemacquet@mastodon.design)
Attached: 1 image It was so fun to design this honey label for the private and very first honey production of Lucie Pichon with one of her drawing. I had the chance to help her and learn how to harvest and extract honey.

Feral By Design
A podcast stealing nature's smartest strategies for our everyday chaos...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/feral-by-design/

This app for exploring SwiftUI UI elements is adorable!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sixd-swiftui-x-design/id6448773500

‎SixD: SwiftUI x Design
‎SixD (SwiftUI & Interaction Design). Designed and developed by Haolun Yang. Awarded by Apple WWDC23 Swift Student Challenge. SixD creates a bridge between designers and developers. It empowers people to design and prototype with SwiftUI and develop apps with great design. In SixD, you can: • Learn…

Donnerstag: Britischer IT-Angriff auf Jaguar Land Rover, Kritik am Google-Urteil
Bekannte Angreifer in neuer Gruppe Ruf nach strengerem Wettbewerbsrecht Sammelklage wegen Amazon-Marketplace Design-Update für Pixel-Handys #heiseshow

Drill a hole in that thing and it might make a good washer for when you need to use a longer bolt to fasten down the toilet.
"Yes, it’s real": Treasury confirms draft design for $1 Trump coin - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/04/yes-its-real-treasury-confirms-draft-design-for-1-trump-coin/

Sources: chip design workers at ByteDance, many based in Beijing or Shanghai, unexpectedly discovered last week that they are part of a Singapore unit (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/bytedance-chip…

I’ve seen a lot of bullshit about “AI” but this might just be be the bullshittiest thing yet
https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/

Are We SOLID Yet? An Empirical Study on Prompting LLMs to Detect Design Principle Violations
Fatih Pehlivan, Ar\c{c}in \"Ulk\"u Erg\"uzen, Sahand Moslemi Yengejeh, Mayasah Lami, Anil Koyuncu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03093

Are We SOLID Yet? An Empirical Study on Prompting LLMs to Detect Design Principle Violations
Traditional static analysis methods struggle to detect semantic design flaws, such as violations of the SOLID principles, which require a strong understanding of object-oriented design patterns and principles. Existing solutions typically focus on individual SOLID principles or specific programming languages, leaving a gap in the ability to detect violations across all five principles in multi-language codebases. This paper presents a new approach: a methodology that leverages tailored prompt e…

INGRID: Intelligent Generative Robotic Design Using Large Language Models
Guanglu Jia, Ceng Zhang, Gregory S. Chirikjian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03842 https://

INGRID: Intelligent Generative Robotic Design Using Large Language Models
The integration of large language models (LLMs) into robotic systems has accelerated progress in embodied artificial intelligence, yet current approaches remain constrained by existing robotic architectures, particularly serial mechanisms. This hardware dependency fundamentally limits the scope of robotic intelligence. Here, we present INGRID (Intelligent Generative Robotic Design), a framework that enables the automated design of parallel robotic mechanisms through deep integration with recipr…

In case you missed my post from day 3 of #blogtober: It’s about a legendary piece of gear that shaped the sound of Abbey Road studios – and what it all has to do with building for the #Web. 🤓

Tweaking the Circuits · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

Exploring the Design Space of Fair Tree Learning Algorithms
Kiara Stempel, Mattia Cerrato, Stefan Kramer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03204 https://arxiv.org…

Exploring the Design Space of Fair Tree Learning Algorithms
Decision trees have been studied extensively in the context of fairness, aiming to maximize prediction performance while ensuring non-discrimination against different groups. Techniques in this space usually focus on imposing constraints at training time, constraining the search space so that solutions which display unacceptable values of relevant metrics are not considered, discarded, or discouraged. If we assume one target variable y and one sensitive attribute s, the design space of tree lea…

Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei announces cuts affecting 19 people on its product, tech and design teams (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://x.com/benmullin/status/1986150910385442899

Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) on X
Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei announces cuts affecting 19 individuals on the product, tech and design teams, per note. “This is a difficult, but necessary, move to meet our evolving tech strategy.”

Machine-interpretable Engineering Design Standards for Valve Specification
Anders Gjerver, Rune Frostad, Vedrana Barisic, Melinda Hodkiewicz, Caitlin Woods, Mihaly Fekete, Arild Braathen Torjusen, Johan Wilhelm Kluwer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01736

Machine-interpretable Engineering Design Standards for Valve Specification
Engineering design processes use technical specifications and must comply with standards. Product specifications, product type data sheets, and design standards are still mainly document-centric despite the ambition to digitalize industrial work. In this paper, we demonstrate how to transform information held in engineering design standards into modular, reusable, machine-interpretable ontologies and use the ontologies in quality assurance of the plant design and equipment selection process. We…

Hidden Convexity in Active Learning: A Convexified Online Input Design for ARX Systems
Nicolas Chatzikiriakos, Bowen Song, Philipp Rank, Andrea Iannelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03257

Hidden Convexity in Active Learning: A Convexified Online Input Design for ARX Systems
The goal of this work is to accelerate the identification of an unknown ARX system from trajectory data through online input design. Specifically, we present an active learning algorithm that sequentially selects the input to excite the system according to an experiment design criterion using the past measured data. The adopted criterion yields a non-convex optimization problem, but we provide an exact convex reformulation allowing to find the global optimizer in a computationally tractable way…

New Tourism Buildings Designed to Seamlessly Blend in at Famous Rocky Geopark https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/design-firm-blends-new-tourist-infrastructure-into-the-very-rock-of-this-famous-taiwan-geopark/…

Design Firm Blends New Tourist Infrastructure into the Very Rock of this Famous Taiwan Geopark
Jialeshui is a well-known scenic area in the southernmost part of Taiwan, known for its remarkable rock formations shaped by wind and water

Beyond Divergence: Characterizing Co-exploration Patterns in Collaborative Design Processes
Xinhui Ye, Joep Frens, Jun Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01188 https://

Beyond Divergence: Characterizing Co-exploration Patterns in Collaborative Design Processes
Exploration is crucial in the design process and is known for its essential role in fostering creativity and enhancing design outcomes. Within design teams, exploration evolves into co-exploration, a collaborative and dynamic practice that this study aims to unpack. To investigate this experience, we conducted a longitudinal observational study with 61 students across 16 design teams. Over five months of weekly diary-interviews, we uncovered the intricate dynamics of co-exploration. Our main co…

PoolPy: Flexible Group Testing Design for Large-Scale Screening
Lorenzo Talamanca, Julian Trouillon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03481 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

PoolPy: Flexible Group Testing Design for Large-Scale Screening
In large screening campaigns, group testing can greatly reduce the number of tests needed when compared to testing each sample individually. However, choosing and applying an appropriate group testing method remains challenging due to the wide variety in design and performance across methods, and the lack of accessible tools. Here, we present PoolPy, a unified framework for designing and selecting optimal group testing strategies across ten different methods according to user-defined constraint…

Neuer Hüllenleak: "Clear Case" für das iPhone 17 Pro mit verändertem Design
Apple bastelt weiter an seinen lukrativen iPhone-Hüllen. Nun ist wohl ein weiteres Modell durchgesickert: die Klarplastik-Variante, die ganz anders aussieht.

I like the stories behind beautiful design...
#design

Santa Cruz Logo: How Design Shaped Skateboarding History - Indieground Design
Santa Cruz's amazing logo and graphic design choices are the key ingredients to their huge success, propelling a small brand to worldwide fame!

An emergent principle of UI design is that the popup that explains how to fill in the box hides the box to be filled in, thus guaranteeing one cannot read what to do while doing it. An important side effect is that the popup can also steal focus if timed just right.

Rafael Viñoly will forever be remembered as the guy who designed two buildings, one in Las Vegas and the other in London, that use a special shape that turns sunlight into a death ray. When confronted about this by The Guardian, he gave the best interview possible:
“I knew this was going to happen [...] When it was spotted on a second design iteration, we judged the temperature was going to be about 36 degrees, but it's turned out to be more like 72 degrees. They are callin…

Design of the wavy wall in a partially heated channel using CFD simulations and human-assisted Bayesian optimization
Piotr Kami\'nski, Karol Wawrzak, Yiqing Li, Bernd R. Noack, Artur Tyliszczak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04030

Design of the wavy wall in a partially heated channel using CFD simulations and human-assisted Bayesian optimization
This study explores heated wavy wall shape design in channel flow using machine learning, aiming to minimize temperature variation ($σ_T$) while limiting pressure loss ($Δp$). A cost function $J$ defined as a product of $σ_T$ and $Δp$ balances these competing objectives. Optimization is performed via Bayesian optimization (BO) coupled with Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) computations in an active learning loop involving up to 1000 subsequent iterations. Two shaping strategies are con…

Optical design and polarimetric performance of a SmallSat UV polarimeter to study interstellar dust: PUFFINS
Ramya M Anche, Hyukmo Kang, Kyle Van Gorkom, Dan Vargas, Haeun Chung, Ellie Spitzer, Meredith Kupinski, B-G Andersson, Geoff Clayton, Ewan S. Douglas, Luca Fossati, Victor Gasho, Sreejith Aickara Gopinathan, Erika Hamden, Thiem Hoang, Marcus Klupar, Ryan Lau, Alexandre Lazarian, Tram N Le, Joanna Rosenbluth, Ambily Suresh, Carlos J. Vargas

Optical design and polarimetric performance of a SmallSat UV polarimeter to study interstellar dust: PUFFINS
The Polarimetry in the Ultraviolet to Find Features in INterStellar dust (PUFFINS) is a SmallSat mission concept designed to obtain ultraviolet (UV) spectropolarimetric observations to probe the interstellar dust grain properties and to understand wavelength-dependent extinction and star formation. PUFFINS plans to observe 70 UV bright target stars at varying distances within a 180-320 nm wavelength range with 0.02% polarimetric accuracy. PUFFINS uses a simple telescope design with all reflecti…

AutoPBO: LLM-powered Optimization for Local Search PBO Solvers
Jinyuan Li, Yi Chu, Yiwen Sun, Mengchuan Zou, Shaowei Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04007 https://

AutoPBO: LLM-powered Optimization for Local Search PBO Solvers
Pseudo-Boolean Optimization (PBO) provides a powerful framework for modeling combinatorial problems through pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints. Local search solvers have shown excellent performance in PBO solving, and their efficiency is highly dependent on their internal heuristics to guide the search. Still, their design often requires significant expert effort and manual tuning in practice. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated potential in automating algorithm design, their appl…

Verbose, rich live regions are a sign an author has not tested with browsers, screen readers, and users. This post has an example that I see too often in the wild.
“On ARIA and Experiential Design”
https://jamesscholes.com/2025/10/31/on-aria-and-experiential-design…

Design review thread. I'm going to be looking at https://git.sr.ht/~mxsparks/ceres-hardware/ by @… from mostly a SI/PI viewpoint.
This boar…

3 Things To Prove: Cowboys' pass rush design, new offense unveiled in Wk 1 test vs Eagles https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/04/pass-rush-motion-pass-protection-cowboys-2025-wk1/8…

"Good design is intuitive" is so ingrained into the way we think and talk about the work that we often forget to ask the key question - *to whom?*
Any interface is "intuitive" to someone who is already familiar with the design patterns and the interaction techniques that it uses. Similarly, any interface is "unintuitive" when it introduces the user to new interaction techniques.
🧵 short thread 🧵

from my link log —
Everything I know about good HTTP API design.
https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-design/
saved 2025-08-25 https://

Idag har jag avslutat den 3-veckors kurs i Etik inom design som jag håller varje år på Nackademin sedan sju år tillbaka. Jag har fått så många personliga meddelanden från elever skickade till mig under eftermiddag och kväll om vilken ögonöppnare kursen varit för dem. Jag är så jäkla rörd. Och tacksam. Att få chansen att undervisa i det man brinner för är en så'n otrolig ynnest. Människor är fan fantastiska när de får chansen och möjligheten att hjälpa andra. Det är bara galet att så många i…

FastCaps: A Design Methodology for Accelerating Capsule Network on Field Programmable Gate Arrays
Abdul Rahoof, Vivek Chaturvedi, Muhammad Shafique
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03103

FastCaps: A Design Methodology for Accelerating Capsule Network on Field Programmable Gate Arrays
Capsule Network (CapsNet) has shown significant improvement in understanding the variation in images along with better generalization ability compared to traditional Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). CapsNet preserves spatial relationship among extracted features and apply dynamic routing to efficiently learn the internal connections between capsules. However, due to the capsule structure and the complexity of the routing mechanism, it is non-trivial to accelerate CapsNet performance in its o…

Online Complexity Estimation for Repetitive Scenario Design
Guillaume O. Berger, Rapha\"el M. Jungers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02103 https://arxiv.o…

Online Complexity Estimation for Repetitive Scenario Design
We consider the problem of repetitive scenario design where one has to solve repeatedly a scenario design problem and can adjust the sample size (number of scenarios) to obtain a desired level of risk (constraint violation probability). We propose an approach to learn on the fly the optimal sample size based on observed data consisting in previous scenario solutions and their risk level. Our approach consists in learning a function that represents the pdf (probability density function) of the r…

„In den kommenden Jahren wird die Nostalgie-Nomenklatur durch die ganze Modellpalette gezogen. Denn wer ID.Polo sagt, muss im kommenden Jahr auch ID.Tiguan sagen statt wie bisher ID.4. Der ID.1, dessen Design Schäfer im März präsentiert hat, wird nach dieser Logik ab 2027 wohl ID.Up heißen, der heutige ID.7 wird in der nächsten Generation voraussichtlich zum ID.Passat. Der ID.3, das ist schon sicher, muss in einigen Jahren dem ID.Golf weichen.“
IMHO guter Kompromiss.

Neue E-Autos: Darum setzt VW wieder auf den Polo
VW will mit bewährtem Namen und Design an vergangene Erfolge anknüpfen. Der ID.Polo wird sogar wieder mehr Bedienknöpfe haben.

"How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing"
https://doi.org/10.1146/katina-102825-1
"Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive…

Design of Experiment for Discovering Directed Mixed Graph
Haijie Xu, Chen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01887 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01887

Design of Experiment for Discovering Directed Mixed Graph
We study the problem of experimental design for accurately identifying the causal graph structure of a simple structural causal model (SCM), where the underlying graph may include both cycles and bidirected edges induced by latent confounders. The presence of cycles renders it impossible to recover the graph skeleton using observational data alone, while confounding can further invalidate traditional conditional independence (CI) tests in certain scenarios. To address these challenges, we estab…

So, let me understand this. The brand "Loewe" sells a headset called "Leo" and hires… Mbappé for the ad campaign? 🤔
https://www.loewe.tv/ch/de/loewe/audio/leo

Design and Development of a Web Platform for Blood Donation Management
Fatima Zulfiqar Ali, Atrooba Ilyas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04423 https://arxiv.or…

Design and Development of a Web Platform for Blood Donation Management
Blood donation is a critical component of healthcare, yet locating suitable donors in emergencies often presents significant challenges. This paper presents the design and development of a Blood Donation Web Platform, a web-based system that connects patients, donors, and administrators within a centralized digital space. The platform allows interested donors to register their personal information, including blood group, contact details, and availability. Patients can search for donors based on…

Harnessing Information in Incentive Design
Raj Kiriti Velicheti, Subhonmesh Bose, Tamer Ba\c{s}ar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02493 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Harnessing Information in Incentive Design
Incentive design deals with interaction between a principal and an agent where the former can shape the latter's utility through a policy commitment. It is well known that the principal faces an information rent when dealing with an agent that has informational advantage. In this work, we embark on a systematic study of the effect of information asymmetry in incentive design games. Specifically, we first demonstrate that it is in principal's interest to decrease this information asymmetry. To m…

Smithsonian Responds to Trump's Demand for a Review of Its Exhibits (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/arts/design/smithsonian-bunch-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p187#a250903p187

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

Release the Epstein files!
Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/03/treasury-department-trump-dollar-coin-00593368

Object: Stories Of Design And Craft
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods …

Everything I know about good #API #design
https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-api-design/

Physically Interpretable Descriptors Drive the Materials Design of Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage
Seong-Hoon Jang, Di Zhang, Hung Ba Tran, Xue Jia, Kiyoe Konno, Ryuhei Sato, Shin-ichi Orimo, and Hao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04039

Physically Interpretable Descriptors Drive the Materials Design of Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage
Designing metal hydrides for hydrogen storage remains a longstanding challenge due to the vast compositional space and complex structure-property relationships. Herein, for the first time, we present physically interpretable models for predicting two key performance metrics, gravimetric hydrogen density $w$ and equilibrium pressure $P_{\rm eq,RT}$ at room temperature, based on a minimal set of chemically meaningful descriptors. Using a rigorously curated dataset of $5,089$ metal hydride composi…

Je suis en train de faire ma première vraie application web et j'essaie de respecter toutes les recommandations en matière d'accessibilité. C'est moi ou rien n'est fait pour que ce soit facile de respecter les recommandations ?
Genre, je fais un responsive design (i.e. la page se présente bien quelque soit la taille de l'écran, quelque soit la taille des caractères), ce qui fait que sur un écran étroit, je plie mon menu pour qu'il soit caché jusqu'Š ce qu…

Sustainable restoration of intermittent streams: Integrating ecological design and urban resilience
Parinaz Baradaran Anaraki, Shiva Manshour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03051 ht…

Sustainable restoration of intermittent streams: Integrating ecological design and urban resilience
The sustainable restoration of intermittent streams has become a critical priority in contemporary urban planning, particularly as cities confront the dual challenges of ecological degradation and climate change. In Tehran, decades of rapid urbanization and poor management practices have confined natural streams into rigid concrete channels, eroding their ecological value and disconnecting them from community life. This paper introduces an ecological and sustainability-oriented framework for th…

Games for Degrowth - participative workshop
Events | Steady State Manchester https://steadystatemanchester.net/what-we-are-doing-2/
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Events
______________________________________________________________ SSM events   Come to our AGM, help design games, and learn about our work Steady State Manchester Notice of Annual General Meetin…

On the role of the design phase in a linear regression
Junho Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01861 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01861

On the role of the design phase in a linear regression
The "design phase" refers to a stage in observational studies, during which a researcher constructs a subsample that achieves a better balance in covariate distributions between the treated and untreated units. In this paper, we study the role of this preliminary phase in the context of linear regression, offering a justification for its utility. To that end, we first formalize the design phase as a process of estimand adjustment via selecting a subsample. Then, we show that covariate balance o…

Hierarchical Low-Altitude Wireless Network Empowered Air Traffic Management
Ziye Jia, Jia He, Yuanhao Cui, Qiuming Zhu, Ligang Yuan, Fuhui Zhou, Qihui Wu, Dusit Niyato, Zhu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03386

Hierarchical Low-Altitude Wireless Network Empowered Air Traffic Management
As the increasing development of low-altitude aircrafts, the rational design of low-altitude networks directly impacts the aerial safety and resource utilization. To address the challenges of environmental complexity and aircraft diversity in the traffic management, we propose a hierarchical low-altitude wireless network (HLWN) framework. Empowered by the threedimensional spatial discretization and integrated wireless monitoring mechanisms in HLWN, we design low-altitude air corridors to guaran…

Thermodynamic Basis of Sugar-Dependent Polymer Stabilization: Informing Biologic Formulation Design
Praveen Muralikrishnan, Jonathan W. P. Zajac, Caryn L. Heldt, Sarah L. Perry, Sapna Sarupria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04301

Thermodynamic Basis of Sugar-Dependent Polymer Stabilization: Informing Biologic Formulation Design
The stabilization of macromolecules is fundamental to developing biological formulations, such as vaccines and protein therapeutics. In this study, we employ coarse grained polymer models to investigate the impact of four sugars: α-glucose, β-fructose, trehalose, and sucrose on macromolecule stability. Free energy decomposition and preferential interaction analysis indicate that polymer-sugar interactions favor folding at low concentrations while driving unfolding at higher concentrations. In…

i continue to play records i don't particularly like in order to make room on the shelf
obtw, i found that sonny rollins LP i was looking for the other night ... in the trade-in bin lol
#nowplaying #jazz #vinyl

Enhancing Optical Performance of Liquid Crystal Lens Arrays via Electrode Design Optimization
Rui Ding, Li-Lan Tian, Yi Zheng, Yu-Meng Zeng, Fan Zou, Yue Niu, Rong-Fu Liu, Ji-Wei Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03861

Enhancing Optical Performance of Liquid Crystal Lens Arrays via Electrode Design Optimization
A liquid crystal (LC) lens array based on double-layer composite electrodes, characterized by a large aperture, short focal length, and low operating voltage is demonstrated. The lens array consists of an LC layer, a top common electrode, a bottom double-layer composite electrode layer, and an oxide layer. The bottom double-layer composite electrode layer comprises the pixel electrodes and the auxiliary electrode. In focusing mode, the pixel electrodes receive operational voltage to establish t…

An ode to internal cable routing - Liam Mercer at road.cc
#cycling

Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
TARRANT: Wait a minute, Orac-
ORAC: Disconnect. [The glasses tumble off the tray which begins to swoop around in the air.]
DAYNA: I don't believe that.
VILA: Try and convince me, will you? Please?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/228 …

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Südafrikanischer Ingenieur baut reine Solardrohne
https://www.

Sometimes I understand why people design new standards or formats when the existing ones can’t be extended (whether due to practical constraints, authority, or bureaucracy) or simply aren’t flexible enough to evolve. I think the XKCD comic doesn’t include that aspect.
And yes, maybe new standards will appear.
#nocontext

Seeing the design that's gonna be on your body soon for the first time is always very exhilarating.

Design of a Josephson diode based on double magnetic impurities
Yu-Fei Sun, Yue Mao, Qing-Feng Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03984 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Design of a Josephson diode based on double magnetic impurities
We theoretically propose a universal superconducting diode device based on double magnetic impurities which are coupled to the connection region of the Josephson junction. The positive and negative currents flowing across the junction can generate opposite magnetic fields, flipping the magnetic moment of the side magnetic impurity to the opposite directions, and in turn, the two impurities will have different impacts on the opposite currents. This results in the phenomenon that the positive and…

So gut ich die bisherigen Trikots fand, so wenig beeindruckt mich das #Wiesntrikot des #tsv1860
https://w…

Unser Wiesn-Trikot 2025: Tradition trifft Nachhaltigkeit.
Pünktlich zur Wiesn 2025 präsentieren wir gemeinsam mit unserem Ausrüster JOMA das neue Wiesn-Trikot – ein echtes limitiertes Highlight für Fans und Sammler. Das diesjährige Shirt besteht zu 100 % aus recyceltem Polyester und vereint modernes Design mit nachhaltigen Materialien wie atmungsaktivem Mesh und Rib-Gewebe.

An adaptive design for optimizing treatment assignment in randomized clinical trials
Wei Zhang, Zhiwei Zhang, Aiyi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00429 https://

An adaptive design for optimizing treatment assignment in randomized clinical trials
The treatment assignment mechanism in a randomized clinical trial can be optimized for statistical efficiency within a specified class of randomization mechanisms. Optimal designs of this type have been characterized in terms of the variances of potential outcomes conditional on baseline covariates. Approximating these optimal designs requires information about the conditional variance functions, which is often unavailable or unreliable at the design stage. As a practical solution to this dilem…

The ASPIICS solar coronagraph aboard the Proba-3 formation flying mission. Scientific objectives and instrument design
A. N. Zhukov, C. Thizy, D. Galano, B. Bourgoignie, L. Dolla, C. Jean, B. Nicula, S. Shestov, C. Galy, R. Rougeot, J. Versluys, J. Zender, P. Lamy, S. Fineschi, S. Gunar, B. Inhester, M. Mierla, P. Rudawy, K. Tsinganos, S. Koutchmy, R. Howard, H. Peter, S. Vives, L. Abbo, C. Aime, K. Aleksiejuk, J. Baran, U. Bak-Steslicka, A. Bemporad, D. Berghmans, D. Besliu-Ionescu, S…

The ASPIICS solar coronagraph aboard the Proba-3 formation flying mission. Scientific objectives and instrument design
We describe the scientific objectives and instrument design of the ASPIICS coronagraph launched aboard the Proba-3 mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) on 5 December 2024. Proba-3 consists of two spacecraft in a highly elliptical orbit around the Earth. One spacecraft carries the telescope, and the external occulter is mounted on the second spacecraft. The two spacecraft fly in a precise formation during 6 hours out of 19.63 hour orbit, together forming a giant solar coronagraph called AS…

Doubly-Dispersive Continuous MIMO Systems: Channel Modeling and Beamforming Design
Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe, Zhaolin Wang, Hyeon Seok Rou, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, Emil Bj\"ornson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00964

Doubly-Dispersive Continuous MIMO Systems: Channel Modeling and Beamforming Design
We address the modeling and optimal beamforming (BF) design for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) continuous aperture array (CAPA) systems operating over doubly-dispersive (DD) channels. First, a comprehensive DD continuous MIMO (DDC MIMO) channel model that incorporates CAPAs at both the transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) is derived, which is used to obtain explicit input-output (I/O) relations for various waveforms well suited to integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) and robust to …

Actual UI that Apple has shipped in a production operating system.
Apple calls this a "beautiful new software design that makes apps and system experiences more expressive and delightful"

What to expect from Apple's September 9 event: major design upgrades for the iPhone, an ultrathin iPhone 17 Air, three Apple Watch models, and AirPods Pro 3 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Design of RIS-UAV-Assisted LEO Satellite Constellation Communication
Wenfei Yao, Xiaoming Chen, Qi Wang, Xingyu Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04136 https://

Design of RIS-UAV-Assisted LEO Satellite Constellation Communication
Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations play a pivotal role in sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks by providing global coverage, massive connections, and huge capacity. In this paper, we present a novel LEO satellite constellation communication framework, where a reconfigurable intelligent surface-mounted unmanned aerial vehicle (RIS-UAV) is deployed to improve the communication quality of multiple terrestrial user equipments (UEs) under the condition of long distance between satelli…

Just wasted like an hour trying to get a simple bidirectional bus to work on a Trion. ILA was reading garbage on a design that had previously been working.
Eventually I gave up. Blew away the Efinity project, recreated it from scratch on the same RTL and constraints. Now it works.
I have no idea what happened.
In general the unified flow seems to be *very* buggy wrt making any changes to the RTL and not propagating properly to the interface constraints.

Impact of Passive Element Technological Limits on CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier Design
J. L. Gonz\'alez, R. L. Moreno, D. V\'azquez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01770 https://

Impact of Passive Element Technological Limits on CMOS Low-Noise Amplifier Design
This paper investigates the impact of technological constraints on passive elements in the design of inductively degenerated CMOS low-noise amplifiers (LNAs). A theoretical analysis is combined with circuit simulations in a 130-nm CMOS process at 2.45~GHz to explore how the available inductance and capacitance values limit key design objectives such as maximum gain, minimum power consumption, and transistor sizing. Results show that these limits significantly restrict the achievable design spac…

Designing Gaze Analytics for ELA Instruction: A User-Centered Dashboard with Conversational AI Support
Eduardo Davalos, Yike Zhang, Shruti Jain, Namrata Srivastava, Trieu Truong, Nafees-ul Haque, Tristan Van, Jorge Salas, Sara McFadden, Sun-Joo Cho, Gautam Biswas, Amanda Goodwin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03741

Designing Gaze Analytics for ELA Instruction: A User-Centered Dashboard with Conversational AI Support
Eye-tracking offers rich insights into student cognition and engagement, but remains underutilized in classroom-facing educational technology due to challenges in data interpretation and accessibility. In this paper, we present the iterative design and evaluation of a gaze-based learning analytics dashboard for English Language Arts (ELA), developed through five studies involving teachers and students. Guided by user-centered design and data storytelling principles, we explored how gaze data ca…

Android 16: Google verteilt Pixel-Update mit Material 3 Expressive
Google verteilt das erste Android-16-Update. Damit erhalten Pixel 6 und aktueller das neue Material-3-Expressive-Design.
https://www.

Lipschitz-Guided Design of Interpolation Schedules in Generative Models
Yifan Chen, Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Jiawei Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01629 https://

Lipschitz-Guided Design of Interpolation Schedules in Generative Models
We study the design of interpolation schedules in the stochastic interpolants framework for flow and diffusion-based generative models. We show that while all scalar interpolation schedules achieve identical statistical efficiency under Kullback-Leibler divergence in path space after optimal diffusion coefficient tuning, their numerical efficiency can differ substantially. This observation motivates focusing on numerical properties of the resulting drift fields rather than statistical criteria …

Sources detail Musk's time at xAI after he left DOGE: he oversaw the design of the racy chatbot Ani, employees turned over biometric data to train avatars, more (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/musk-tesla-compens…

Systematic Evaluation of Trade-Offs in Motion Planning Algorithms for Optimal Industrial Robotic Work Cell Design
G. de Mathelin, C. Hartl-Nesic, A. Kugi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02146

Systematic Evaluation of Trade-Offs in Motion Planning Algorithms for Optimal Industrial Robotic Work Cell Design
The performance of industrial robotic work cells depends on optimizing various hyperparameters referring to the cell layout, such as robot base placement, tool placement, and kinematic design. Achieving this requires a bilevel optimization approach, where the high-level optimization adjusts these hyperparameters, and the low-level optimization computes robot motions. However, computing the optimal robot motion is computationally infeasible, introducing trade-offs in motion planning to make the …

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 7. design, fabrication, and first light for a self-coherent camera
Kevin Derby, Kian Milani, Grace C. Hathaway, Joshua Liberman, Kyle Van Gorkom, Ramya Anche, Adam Schilperoort, Corey Fucetola, Brandon Chalifoux, Kuravi Hewawasam, Christopher Mendillo, Sebastiaan Y. Haffert, Ewan S. Douglas
https://

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 7. design, fabrication, and first light for a self-coherent camera
The 2020 Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics tasked future space observatories with the goal of detecting and characterizing a large sample of Earth-like exoplanets. To achieve this, these observatories will require coronagraphs and wavefront control algorithms in order to achieve $10^{-10}$ or better starlight suppression. The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB) is a vacuum compatible testbed at the University of Arizona which aims to advance and mature starlight suppression techn…

✍️ New post: Tweaking the Circuits
#blogtober #web #design #engineering

Tweaking the Circuits · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

IMO the reason why people yearn for tools that generate code is that programming is broken—everything now is giant layer cakes of huge, complex and intransparent frameworks designed by and for large teams in giant tech companies.
The same tech companies that flooded programming with overly complex tools, endless toolchains, new programming languages du jour every few years, required backwards-compatibility breaking updates and mandatory design overhauls are now selling you “AI” to generate code for the mess they made.

The co-founder of landlord app Airbnb is now Chief Design Officer of the USA. And the UX commentariat cheers, because the vibes of a "seat at the table" play better than the reality: the same government that appointed Joe Gebbia has just demolished 18F, an actual design studio that did actual UX work for the USA, rather than meaningless posturing.
This is not the first time UX has made this bargain: have a seat at the table, only if you can pledge to do nothing with it.

The aesthetics of success come at the cost of failure
It's easy to get a seat at the table. Just agree to become part of the problem.

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: If they've any left.
ATLAN: Oh yes, they have, but not for long. How soon can this be fitted to our space choppers?
PLAXTON: Napier. [Napier exits.]
ATLAN: Well?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/304 B7B5

"Dumb homes" are the latest design trend
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/01/smart-home-analog-design

LHS in LHS: A new expansion strategy for Latin hypercube sampling in simulation design
Matteo Boschini, Davide Gerosa, Alessandro Crespi, Matteo Falcone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00159

LHS in LHS: A new expansion strategy for Latin hypercube sampling in simulation design
Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) is a prominent tool in simulation design, with a variety of applications in high-dimensional and computationally expensive problems. LHS allows for various optimization strategies, most notably to ensure space-filling properties. However, LHS is a single-stage algorithm that requires a priori knowledge of the targeted sample size. In this work, we present LHS in LHS, a new expansion algorithm for LHS that enables the addition of new samples to an existing LHS-dist…

Laplacian Flows in Complex-valued Directed Networks: Analysis, Design, and Consensus
Aditi Saxena, Twinkle Tripathy, Rajasekhar Anguluri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04196 https:/…

Laplacian Flows in Complex-valued Directed Networks: Analysis, Design, and Consensus
In the interdisciplinary field of network science, a complex-valued network, with edges assigned complex weights, provides a more nuanced representation of relationships by capturing both the magnitude and phase of interactions. Additionally, an important application of this setting arises in distribution power grids. Motivated by the richer framework, we study the necessary and sufficient conditions for achieving consensus in both strongly and weakly connected digraphs. The paper establishes t…

Two-Timescale Sum-Rate Maximization for Movable Antenna Enhanced Systems
Xintai Chen, Biqian Feng, Yongpeng Wu, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Robert Schober
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04062

Two-Timescale Sum-Rate Maximization for Movable Antenna Enhanced Systems
This paper studies a novel movable antenna (MA)-enhanced multiuser multiple-input multiple-output downlink system designed to improve wireless communication performance. We aim to maximize the average achievable sum rate through two-timescale optimization exploiting instantaneous channel state information at the receiver (I-CSIR) for receive antenna position vector (APV) design and statistical channel state information at the transmitter (S-CSIT) for transmit APV and covariance matrix design. W…

Better Than "Better Than Nothing": Design Strategies for Enculturated Empathetic AI Robot Companions for Older Adults
Isabel Pedersen, Andrea Slane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01192

Better Than "Better Than Nothing": Design Strategies for Enculturated Empathetic AI Robot Companions for Older Adults
The paper asserts that emulating empathy in human-robot interaction is a key component to achieve satisfying social, trustworthy, and ethical robot interaction with older people. Following comments from older adult study participants, the paper identifies a gap. Despite the acceptance of robot care scenarios, participants expressed the poor quality of the social aspect. Current human-robot designs, to a certain extent, neglect to include empathy as a theorized design pathway. Using rhetorical t…

Canva launches a foundational design model that generates editable layered designs, expands Canva AI, makes Affinity free for all users, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/30/canva-launches-its-own-desig…

Canva launches its own design model, adds new AI features to the platform | TechCrunch
Canva is launching new features like Forms and email design, and it makes Affinity free for all users.

Approximation of differential entropy in Bayesian optimal experimental design
Chuntao Chen, Tapio Helin, Nuutti Hyv\"onen, Yuya Suzuki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00734 http…

Approximation of differential entropy in Bayesian optimal experimental design
Bayesian optimal experimental design provides a principled framework for selecting experimental settings that maximize obtained information. In this work, we focus on estimating the expected information gain in the setting where the differential entropy of the likelihood is either independent of the design or can be evaluated explicitly. This reduces the problem to maximum entropy estimation, alleviating several challenges inherent in expected information gain computation. Our study is motiva…

National Design Studio: Airbnb-Gründer wird Trump-Berater
Statt DOGE: Das National Design Studio soll Effizienz in die Webseitengestaltung von US-Bundesbehörden bringen.
https://www.…

✍️ New post: Age Quod Agis
#blogtober
https://matthiasott.com/notes/age-quod-agis

Age Quod Agis · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
CALIPH: Welcome to Krandor, my friends. An artificial planet, which is the palace of the Lord Thaarn, Master of the Universe. I am the Caliph of Krandor. Among other things, it is my duty as the Lord Thaarn's chief executive, to negotiate a purchase price for your ship. We, uh, usually use this for rounding up runaway slaves. Oh, quite inappropriate in this instance, but it was nearest at the time. I do hope you understand.
TARRANT: We…

Globally Asymptotically Stable Trajectory Tracking of Underactuated UAVs using Geometric Algebra
Ignacio Rubio Scola, Omar Alejandro Garcia Alcantara, Steven Sandoval, Eduardo Steed Espinoza Quesada, Hernan Haimovich, Luis Rodolfo Garcia Carrillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03484

Globally Asymptotically Stable Trajectory Tracking of Underactuated UAVs using Geometric Algebra
This paper employs Geometric Algebra (GA) tools to model the dynamics of objects in 3-dimensional space, serving as a proof of concept to facilitate control design for trajectory tracking in underactuated systems. For control purposes, the model is structured as a cascade system, where a rotational subsystem drives a translational one. The rotational subsystem is linear, while the translational subsystem follows a linear-plus-perturbation form, thereby reducing the complexity of control design.…

Amazon überarbeitet seinen Cloud-Gaming-Dienst Luna und setzt auf Partyspiele
Das Prime-Angebot von Amazon wird erweitert. Luna bekommt ein neues Design und mehr Partyspiele, etwa mit Snoop Dogg. Für gemeinsames Spielen kommt GameNight.

QoS-Driven Satellite Constellation Design for LEO Satellite Internet of Things
Ming Ying, Xiaoming Chen, Qiao Qi, Zhaoyang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00345 https://…

QoS-Driven Satellite Constellation Design for LEO Satellite Internet of Things
Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite Internet of Things (IoT) has been identified as one of the important components of the sixth-generation (6G) non-terrestrial networks (NTN) to provide ubiquitous connectivity. Due to the low orbit altitude and high mobility, a massive number of satellites are required to form a global continuous coverage constellation, leading to a high construction cost. To this end, this paper proposes a LEO satellite IoT constellation design algorithm with the goal of minimizi…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
BLAKE: The service history of that ship you've got in the landing bay. I sent you a warning about it earlier.
BELLFRIAR: Where did this come from?
BLAKE: Central Registry.
BELLFRIAR: Seven hundred years old?

Microsoft researchers say AI models can be used to design toxins that evade biosecurity systems used to screen DNA orders for potential biothreats (Antonio Regalado/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/0…

Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology
Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.

Steam: Shop bekommt frisches Design
Valve hat das neue Design des Steam-Shops für alle Nutzer veröffentlicht. Zu den Features gehören eine neue Struktur und eine verbesserte Suchfunktion.
https://www.heise…

Design of an Efficient Three-Level Buck-Boost Converter in PSIM
Justin London
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01975 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01975

Design of an Efficient Three-Level Buck-Boost Converter in PSIM
Compared to conventional converters, a three-level buck-boost (3L-BB) converter offers higher efficiency, reduced switching losses, and increased power density. We design a 3L-BB converter given certain voltage and current specifications in PSIM. We simulate the circuit in PSIM and analyze the power, voltage, and current waveforms by comparing the observed simulated values in PSIM with their mathematically driven theoretical values. We examine its power efficiencies and determine if the circuit…

A05 - The Web
SAYMON: None. If our life support should fail, they would simply wither away. Thanks to you and your energy cells that will not occur.
BLAKE: So that all I have spoken to them about, all they have told me, that was you talking not them.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/440…

An interview with Mauro Porcini, who became Samsung's first Chief Design Officer in April, about creating a "consistent experience" across devices, and more (Verity Burns/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-pepsi-man-is-coming-to-save-…

The Pepsi Man Is Coming to Save Samsung From Boring Design
Mauro Porcini is, amazingly, Samsung's first ever chief design officer. He's got a hell of a job ahead of him.

A Robust Neural Control Design for Multi-drone Slung Payload Manipulation with Control Contraction Metrics
Xinyuan Liang, Longhao Qian, Yi Lok Lo, Hugh H. T. Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01489

A Robust Neural Control Design for Multi-drone Slung Payload Manipulation with Control Contraction Metrics
This paper presents a robust neural control design for a three-drone slung payload transportation system to track a reference path under external disturbances. The control contraction metric (CCM) is used to generate a neural exponentially converging baseline controller while complying with control input saturation constraints. We also incorporate the uncertainty and disturbance estimator (UDE) technique to dynamically compensate for persistent disturbances. The proposed framework yields a modu…

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
JARRIERE: Then, ma'am, we are likely to get the corpse.
SERVALAN: Yes.
JARRIERE: After Krantor has learned the answer to that question.
SERVALAN: Exactly.
[Outside the bars, Blake, Cally and Jenna are walking.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/159