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Travel Regrets: 10 European Destinations I Won't Ever Visit Again & Where To Go Instead https://www.wanderluststorytellers.com/tra

Travel Regrets: 10 European Destinations I Won't Ever Visit Again & Where To Go Instead
Read our honest take on 10 European destinations that didn't live up to the hype – and the nearby alternatives that stole our hearts.

Veraltete Disketten: Das New-Jersey-State-Gefängnis arbeitet noch mit ihnen
In Deutschland sind Disketten schon lange abgeschrieben. Für Gefängnisinsassen in New Jersey sind sie noch gang und gäbe.

Comment des partenaires de Pierre-Edouard Stérin mettent le milliardaire Š distance : « Il est devenu radioactif »
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2025…

Comment des partenaires de Pierre-Edouard Stérin mettent le milliardaire à distance : « Il est devenu radioactif »
Les engagements politiques à l’extrême droite de l’entrepreneur et de son numéro deux, François Durvye, conseiller du Rassemblement national, commencent à ternir l’image du groupe, en proie à des difficultés financières.

GUARD: Glocal Uncertainty-Aware Robust Decoding for Effective and Efficient Open-Ended Text Generation
Yuanhao Ding, Esteban Garces Arias, Meimingwei Li, Julian Rodemann, Matthias A{\ss}enmacher, Danlu Chen, Gaojuan Fan, Christian Heumann, Chongsheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20757

GUARD: Glocal Uncertainty-Aware Robust Decoding for Effective and Efficient Open-Ended Text Generation
Open-ended text generation faces a critical challenge: balancing coherence with diversity in LLM outputs. While contrastive search-based decoding strategies have emerged to address this trade-off, their practical utility is often limited by hyperparameter dependence and high computational costs. We introduce GUARD, a self-adaptive decoding method that effectively balances these competing objectives through a novel "Glocal" uncertainty-driven framework. GUARD combines global entropy estimates wi…

foldoc: FOLDOC entries (2002)
A network of hyperlinks among entries in the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC, www.foldoc.org), an online dictionary of acronyms and technical terms for computers. An edge points from i to j if the term j is referred to in the entry for term i. Edge weight denotes number of uses of the same term.
This network has 13356 nodes and 120238 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Weighted

Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances to NGC 1316, NGC 1380, NGC 1404, & NGC 4457: A Pilot Study of a Parallel Distance Ladder Using Type Ia Supernovae in Early-Type Host Galaxies
Max J. B. Newman, Conor Larison, Saurabh W. Jha, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Evan D. Skillman, Andrew E. Dolphin, Mi Dai, D. Andrew Howell, Curtis McCully, K. Azalee Bostroem, Daichi Hiramatsu, Craig Pellegrino, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez

Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distances to NGC 1316, NGC 1380, NGC 1404, & NGC 4457: A Pilot Study of a Parallel Distance Ladder Using Type Ia Supernovae in Early-Type Host Galaxies
Though type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are found in all types of galaxies, recent local Hubble constant measurements have disfavored using SNe Ia in early-type or quiescent galaxies, aiming instead for better consistency with SNe Ia in star-forming, late-type host galaxies calibrated by Cepheid distances. Here we investigate the feasibility of a parallel distance ladder using SNe Ia exclusively in quiescent, massive ($\log M_*/M_{\odot} \geq 10$) host galaxies, calibrated by tip of the red giant br…

Equivariant homotopic distance
Navnath Daundkar, J. M. Garc\'ia-Calcines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20485 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20485

Equivariant homotopic distance
In this paper, we introduce and investigate the equivariant homotopic distance between G-maps, an equivariant homotopy invariant that extends the notion of homotopic distance to the setting of spaces equipped with a continuous action of a topological group. This new invariant provides a unifying framework that generalizes both the equivariant Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and the equivariant topological complexity. We establish fundamental properties of the equivariant homotopic distance, inc…

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Neko Case:
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https://nekocaseofficial.bandcamp.com/track/destination
https://open.spotify.com/track/5BlGwkHjJHXa7ssaElVmYt

Precoded Polar Product Decoder Based on Soft-Output SCL Decoding and Maximization of Generalized Mutual Information
Nicol\'as Alvarez Prado, Andreas Stra{\ss}hofer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20580 …

Precoded Polar Product Decoder Based on Soft-Output SCL Decoding and Maximization of Generalized Mutual Information
We combine two approaches to optimize the iterative decoding of product codes with precoded polar component codes. On one side, we generate bitwise soft messages based on the codebook probability, an approximation of an auxiliary quantity that considers all valid decoding paths of a successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder. On the other side, we scale the soft information during message passing with offline-computed coefficients, which maximize the generalized mutual information (GMI) between…

Fast Estimation of Wasserstein Distances via Regression on Sliced Wasserstein Distances
Khai Nguyen, Hai Nguyen, Nhat Ho
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20508 https://

Fast Estimation of Wasserstein Distances via Regression on Sliced Wasserstein Distances
We address the problem of efficiently computing Wasserstein distances for multiple pairs of distributions drawn from a meta-distribution. To this end, we propose a fast estimation method based on regressing Wasserstein distance on sliced Wasserstein (SW) distances. Specifically, we leverage both standard SW distances, which provide lower bounds, and lifted SW distances, which provide upper bounds, as predictors of the true Wasserstein distance. To ensure parsimony, we introduce two linear model…