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Determining the impact of post-main-sequence stellar evolution on the transiting giant planet population: #planets: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/ageing-stars-may-be-destroying-their-closest-planets

Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County (Ashton Pittman/Mississippi Free Press)
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-johnny-dupree-flips-republican-held-mississippi-senate-district-in-forrest-county/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p173#a251104p173

My daughter took these in Washington Square Park tonight. 🦉

Anti-Jamming Modulation for OFDM Systems under Jamming Attacks
Jaewon Yun, Joohyuk Park, Yo-Seb Jeon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02640 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Anti-Jamming Modulation for OFDM Systems under Jamming Attacks
In this paper, we propose an anti-jamming communication framework for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems under jamming attacks. To this end, we first develop an anti-jamming modulation scheme that uses a spreading matrix to distribute each symbol across multiple subcarriers, enhancing robustness against jamming. For optimal demodulation at a receiver, we devise a maximum likelihood detection (MLD) method and its low-complexity variant tailored to our anti-jamming modulati…

Managed charging of EVs (called 'smart charging' in Europe) could save California $5 - 18 billion on distribution grid upgrades by 2040. Increased electrification (transport, buildings) offsets increased infrastructure costs by -0.2-4.5¢/kWh for all.
https://www.

Sad Bovino.
A key figure in the unlawful ice violence and the disappearances of people, gregory bovino is sad.
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#satire #USpol #ice

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[…] Paradoxically, the more a population grew, the more precious it became, as it offered a supply of cheap labour, and by lowering costs allowed a greater expansion of production and trade. In this infinitely open labour market, the ‘fundamental price’, which for Turgot meant a subsistence level for workers, and the price determined by supply and demand ended up as the same thing. A country was all the more commercially competitive for having at its disposal the virtual wealth that a large population represented.
Confinement was therefore a clumsy error, and an economic one at that: there was no sense in trying to suppress poverty by taking it out of the economic circuit and providing for a poor population by charitable means. To do that was merely to hide poverty, and suppress an important section of the population, which was always a given wealth. Rather than helping the poor escape their provisionally indigent situation, charity condemned them to it, and dangerously so, by putting a brake on the labour market in a period of crisis. What was required was to palliate the high cost of products with cheaper labour, and to make up for their scarcity by a new industrial and agricultural effort. The only reasonable remedy was to reinsert the population in the circuit of production, being sure to place labour in areas where manpower was most scarce. The use of paupers, vagabonds, exiles and émigrés of any description was one of the secrets of wealth in the competition between nations. […]
Confinement was to be criticised because of the effects it had on the labour market, but also because like all other traditional forms of charity, it constituted a dangerous form of finance. As had been the case in the Middle Ages, the classical era had constantly attempted to look after the needs of the poor by a system of foundations. This implied that a section of the land capital and revenues were out of circulation. In a definitive manner too, as the concern was to avoid the commercialisation of assistance to the poor, so judicial measures had been taken to ensure that this wealth never went back into circulation. But as time passed, their usefulness diminished: the economic situation changed, and so did the nature of poverty.
«Society does not always have the same needs. The nature and distribution of property, the divisions between the different orders of the people, opinions, customs, the occupations of the majority of the population, the climate itself, diseases and all the other accidents of human life are in constant change. New needs come into being, and old ones disappear.» [Turgot, Encyclopédie]
The definitive character of a foundation was in contradiction with the variable and changing nature of the accidental needs to which it was designed to respond. The wealth that it immobilised was never put back into circulation, but more wealth was to be created as new needs appeared. The result was that the proportion of funds and revenues removed from circulation constantly increased, while that of production fell in consequence. The only possible result was increased poverty, and a need for more foundations. The process could continue indefinitely, and the fear was that one day ‘the ever increasing number of foundations might absorb all private funds and all private property’. When closely examined, classical forms of assistance were a cause of poverty, bringing a progressive immobilisation that was like the slow death of productive wealth:
«If all the men who have ever lived had been given a tomb, sooner or later some of those sterile monuments would have been dug up in order to find land to cultivate, and it would have become necessary to stir the ashes of the dead in order to feed the living.» [Turgot, Lettre Š Trudaine sur le Limousin]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

The Pixel's Android 16 is the most distressingly buggy shit I've ever had foisted on me by a phone manufacturer. It's like using a beta. I have to restart 1-2x per day when parts of the shell just suddenly fail. Statusbar disappears, system gets stuck on the lock screen, back button stops working, space bar starts inserting double-taps with each press-- the list goes on. The only thing worse is having to use iOS.

Temporal Score Rescaling for Temperature Sampling in Diffusion and Flow Models
Yanbo Xu, Yu Wu, Sungjae Park, Zhizhuo Zhou, Shubham Tulsiani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01184 htt…

Temporal Score Rescaling for Temperature Sampling in Diffusion and Flow Models
We present a mechanism to steer the sampling diversity of denoising diffusion and flow matching models, allowing users to sample from a sharper or broader distribution than the training distribution. We build on the observation that these models leverage (learned) score functions of noisy data distributions for sampling and show that rescaling these allows one to effectively control a `local' sampling temperature. Notably, this approach does not require any finetuning or alterations to training…

"Pourquoi le train est toujours plus cher que l’avion"
"notamment parce que l’aérien bénéficie d’un coût artificiellement bas grâce Š des exonérations fiscales."
Ce qui est complètement aberrant dans la crise écologique actuelle.. Ce devrait être l'inverse! 🤦
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Pourquoi le train est toujours plus cher que l’avion
Si voyager sur rails se révèle être structurellement plus cher que par les airs, c’est notamment parce que l’aérien bénéficie d’un coût artificiellement bas grâce à des exonérations fiscales.