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Twilio Q2: revenue up 13% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.19B est., 349K active customer accounts, and Q3 earnings forecast below est.; TWLO falls 10% after hours (Brandon Evans/Seeking Alpha)
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4481722-twilio-sinks…

Twilio sinks as Q3 earnings forecast comes in weaker than expected
Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) shares sank more than 10% during early post-market trading Thursday after its second quarter fiscal 2025 financial results featured a third quarter earnings per share forecast that was weaker than the market expected.

Sources: TikTok plans to launch a new version of its app in the US on September 5, ahead of the Sept. 17 deadline for the US to enforce the divest-or-ban law (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-building-n…

TikTok Building New Version of App Ahead of Expected U.S. Sale
TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the U.S. ahead of a planned sale of the app to a group of investors. The company has developed a plan to launch the new TikTok app, known internally as “M2,” to U.S. app stores on September 5, according to two people with knowledge of the ...

Sources: TikTok plans to launch a new version of its app in the US on September 5, ahead of the Sept. 17 deadline for the US to enforce the divest-or-ban law (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-building-n…

TikTok Building New Version of App Ahead of Expected U.S. Sale
TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the U.S. ahead of a planned sale of the app to a group of investors. The company has developed a plan to launch the new TikTok app, known internally as “M2,” to U.S. app stores on September 5, according to two people with knowledge of the ...

Sources: QB Bridgewater to sign with Bucs https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45906262/qb-teddy-bridgewater-expected-sign-buccaneers

First of many Hospitals to close.
Rural southwest Nebraska clinic closes, blaming expected Medicaid cuts
https://www.klkntv.com/rural-southwest-nebraska-clinic-closes-blaming-expected-medicaid-cuts/

Somehow despite the current situation I am still expected to go to work today.

A New Approach to Compiling Exoatmospheric Target Lists And Quantifying the Ground-Based Resources Needed to Vet Them
Jennifer A. Burt, Robert T. Zellem, David R. Ciardi, Shubham Kanodia, Geoffrey Bryden, Tiffany Kataria, Kyle A. Pearson, Jessie L. Christiansen, Charles Beichman, B. J. Fulton, Mark Swain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03801

A New Approach to Compiling Exoatmospheric Target Lists And Quantifying the Ground-Based Resources Needed to Vet Them
Transiting exoplanet atmospheric characterization is currently in a golden age as dozens of exoplanet atmospheres are being studied by NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes. This trend is expected to continue with NASA's Pandora Smallsat and Roman Space Telescope and ESA's Ariel mission (all expected to launch within this decade) and NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory (expected to launch in the early 2040s) all of which are centered around studying the atmospheres of exoplanets. Here w…

A list is a #monad
https://alexyorke.github.io//2025/06/29/a-list-is-a-monad/

Unfortunately & conversely, this (below) is the same framing tech bros (and parts of the population) are finding so attractive to anthropomorphize LLMs: These are not machines, and them making mistakes is normal and expected... At the same time, the other card being played (by politics, military & law enforcement) is that AI-driven insights and decision making are _already_ considered superior, infallible and unchallengeable... in the middle of this two pronged rhetoric is the fate o…

Trump tariffs expected to hit Thursday (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5439633-trump-reciprocal-tariffs-deadline/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p120#a250806p120

US national parks staff in
‘survival mode’ to keep parks open amid Trump cuts
Park bosses say they’re running visitor centers and even cleaning bathrooms
as remaining staff try to keep sites open
“It’s nearly impossible to do the leadership role expected of me,”
said one superintendent who heads a park in the western US
who didn’t want to be named for fear of retribution from the administration.
“I’m doing everything now.
That means I regularly…

As expected, the #kde discussion forum is tone - policing my contribution. First there are violent changes introducing a dozen bugs. And then, they expect that you unpack the violin to report nicely the dozen bugs instead of just asking them to revert that shit they produced.
#kde currently turns into perma-alpha …

"Enel inagurates 10 MWh second-life battery project at Italian airport"
#Italy #Batteries #Energy

Enel inagurates 10 MWh second-life battery project at Italian airport
Enel’s Pioneer project is expected to last 10 to 15 years and has been integrated with Rome-Fiumicino airport’s Solar Farm, self-consumption PV system.

Browns' Shedeur Sanders expected to start preseason opener vs. Panthers, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/browns-shedeur-sanders-exp…

Replaced the garbage #disposal last night. It's one of those jobs like redoing the guts of a toilet; seemed intimidating but it was far easier than I expected. (Replacing with the same model helps.) #insinkerator #diy

Spain and Portugal battle wildfires as temperatures are expected to rise further #Spain…

Spain and Portugal battle wildfires as temperatures are expected to rise further
Thousands of firefighters in Spain and Portugal battled several wildfires Thursday ahead of an expected rise in temperatures that could worsen the situation on the Iberian Peninsula.

P-Aligner: Enabling Pre-Alignment of Language Models via Principled Instruction Synthesis
Feifan Song, Bofei Gao, Yifan Song, Yi Liu, Weimin Xiong, Yuyang Song, Tianyu Liu, Guoyin Wang, Houfeng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04626

P-Aligner: Enabling Pre-Alignment of Language Models via Principled Instruction Synthesis
Large Language Models (LLMs) are expected to produce safe, helpful, and honest content during interaction with human users, but they frequently fail to align with such values when given flawed instructions, e.g., missing context, ambiguous directives, or inappropriate tone, leaving substantial room for improvement along multiple dimensions. A cost-effective yet high-impact way is to pre-align instructions before the model begins decoding. Existing approaches either rely on prohibitive test-time…

translating 'md5: mismatch sector in range 399351160-399351168' to the name(s) of affected files is significantly harder than I ever expected it to be!

Trump cyber nominees expected to testify next week, people familiar say
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/05/trump-cyber-nominees-expected-testify-next-week-people-familiar-say/405644/

Trump cyber nominees expected to testify next week, people familiar say
An unreleased telecom vulnerabilities report is being used as leverage to block one of the nominees from full confirmation in the Senate.

Shares of Circle jumped 124%, opening at $69.50 on the NYSE, after the stablecoin company raised almost $1.1B in an IPO (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/stablecoin-issuer-circle-soars-in-…

Stablecoin issuer Circle soars 124% in NYSE debut after pricing IPO above expected range
Circle joins Coinbase, Mara Holdings and Riot Platforms as one of the few pure-play crypto companies to list in the U.S. 

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Adversarial bandit optimization for approximately linear functions
We consider a bandit optimization problem for nonconvex and non-smooth functions, where in each trial the loss function is the sum of a linear function and a small but arbitrary perturbation chosen after observing the player's choice. We give both expected and high probability regret bounds for the problem. Our result also implies an improved high-probability regret bound for the bandit linear optimization, a special case with no perturbation. We also give a lower bound on the expected regret.

Well those #bash and #awk scripts that I wrote to check to see if the SFTP server has files for us worked in detecting that files didn't arrive in our expected window.
I wish the team responsible would have a tool to monitor when the server has issues... Wait, silly me! They are using a…

This took longer than expected. Pretty cool that it works.
Post featured in video: #PhanpySocialDev

📉 Ancient trees are dying faster than expected in Eastern Oregon
#trees

Ancient trees are dying faster than expected in Eastern Oregon
Eastern Oregon's Malheur National Forest boasts some of the state's oldest trees, including pine and larch that live more than 500 years. But many of those ancient trees are dying at an alarming rate, a new analysis shows.

Dynamic Solutions for Hybrid Quantum-HPC Resource Allocation
Roberto Rocco, Simone Rizzo, Matteo Barbieri, Gabriella Bettonte, Elisabetta Boella, Fulvio Ganz, Sergio Iserte, Antonio J. Pe\~na, Petter Sand\r{a}s, Alberto Scionti, Olivier Terzo, Chiara Vercellino, Giacomo Vitali, Paolo Viviani, Jonathan Frassineti, Sara Marzella, Daniele Ottaviani, Iacopo Colonnelli, Daniele Gregori

Dynamic Solutions for Hybrid Quantum-HPC Resource Allocation
The integration of quantum computers within classical High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures is receiving increasing attention, with the former expected to serve as accelerators for specific computational tasks. However, combining HPC and quantum computers presents significant technical challenges, including resource allocation. This paper presents a novel malleability-based approach, alongside a workflow-based strategy, to optimize resource utilization in hybrid HPC-quantum workloads…

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
-Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

SenseCrypt: Sensitivity-guided Selective Homomorphic Encryption for Joint Federated Learning in Cross-Device Scenarios
Borui Li, Li Yan, Junhao Han, Jianmin Liu, Lei Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04100

SenseCrypt: Sensitivity-guided Selective Homomorphic Encryption for Joint Federated Learning in Cross-Device Scenarios
Homomorphic Encryption (HE) prevails in securing Federated Learning (FL), but suffers from high overhead and adaptation cost. Selective HE methods, which partially encrypt model parameters by a global mask, are expected to protect privacy with reduced overhead and easy adaptation. However, in cross-device scenarios with heterogeneous data and system capabilities, traditional Selective HE methods deteriorate client straggling, and suffer from degraded HE overhead reduction performance. According…

Taiwan has issued a land warning as Typhoon Danas approaches from the southwest, bringing the threat of heavy rain and strong winds. The storm is expected to peak from Sunday afternoon through Monday morning, affecting 18 counties and cities across the island.
https://youtu.be/DmtZ4TGKqN0

Hedging with memory: shallow and deep learning with signatures
Eduardo Abi Jaber, Louis-Amand G\'erard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02759 https://arxiv.o…

Hedging with memory: shallow and deep learning with signatures
We investigate the use of path signatures in a machine learning context for hedging exotic derivatives under non-Markovian stochastic volatility models. In a deep learning setting, we use signatures as features in feedforward neural networks and show that they outperform LSTMs in most cases, with orders of magnitude less training compute. In a shallow learning setting, we compare two regression approaches: the first directly learns the hedging strategy from the expected signature of the price p…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15398 has been replaced.
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Separation of variables for higher rank integrable models: review of recent progress
Separation of variables (SoV) is a powerful method expected to be applicable for a wide range of quantum integrable systems, from models in condensed matter physics to gauge and string theories. Yet its full implementation for many higher rank examples, such as SU(N) spin chains with N>2, has remained elusive for a long time. In this pedagogical review we discuss the major progress achieved recently in understanding SoV for models of this type. In particular, for rational SU(N) spin chains we d…

U.S. payrolls increased 139,000 in May, more than expected; unemployment at 4.2% (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/jobs-report-may-2025.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p50#a250606p50

The canonical form, scissors congruence and adjoint degrees of polytopes
Tom Baumbach, Ansgar Freyer, Julian Weigert, Martin Winter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04275 https://

The canonical form, scissors congruence and adjoint degrees of polytopes
We study the canonical form $Ω$ as a valuation in the context of scissors congruence for polytopes. We identify the degree of its numerator - the adjoint polynomial $\operatorname{adj}_P$ - as an important invariant in this context. More precisely, for a polytope $P$ we define the degree drop that measures how much smaller than expected the degree of the adjoint polynomial of $P$ is. We show that this drop behaves well under various operations, such as decompositions, restrictions to faces, pr…

Veteran QB Teddy Bridgewater expected to sign with Buccaneers in NFL return, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/veteran-qb-teddy-bri…

"In conclusion, we have investigated our own actions and discovered nothing untoward..."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-fbi-review-finds-jeffrey-epstein-client-list/story?id=123526125

DOJ, FBI review finds no Jeffrey Epstein 'client list,' confirms suicide: Memo 
No further charges are expected with the investigation into Epstein.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04406 has been replaced.
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Rényi divergence guarantees for hashing with linear codes
We consider the problem of distilling uniform random bits from an unknown source with a given $p$-entropy using linear hashing. As our main result, we estimate the expected $p$-divergence from the uniform distribution over the ensemble of random linear codes for all integer $p\ge 2$. The proof relies on analyzing how additive noise, determined by a random element of the code from the ensemble, acts on the source distribution. This action leads to the transformation of the source distribution in…

Asymptotics of the real eigenvalue distribution for the real spherical ensemble
Peter J. Forrester
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04139 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Asymptotics of the real eigenvalue distribution for the real spherical ensemble
The real Ginibre spherical ensemble consists of random matrices of the form $A B^{-1}$, where $A,B$ are independent standard real Gaussian $N \times N$ matrices. The expected number of real eigenvalues is known to be of order $\sqrt{N}$. We consider the probability $p_{N.M}^{\rm r}$ that there are $M$ real eigenvalues in various regimes. These are when $M$ is proportional to $N$ (large deviations), when $N$ is proportional to $\sqrt{N}$ (intermediate deviations), and when $M$ is in the neighbou…

Attenuation of the ultra-high-energy neutrino flux by dark matter scatterings
Ivan Esteban, Alejandro Ibarra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02869 https://arxiv…

Attenuation of the ultra-high-energy neutrino flux by dark matter scatterings
A flux of ultra-high-energy (UHE) neutrinos is generally expected to be produced by astrophysical sources at cosmological distances and to reach Earth. In this paper, we investigate the impact of neutrino scattering with dark matter (DM) particles in both the intergalactic medium and the Milky Way on the total flux, energy spectrum, and arrival directions of UHE neutrinos. We emphasize the complementarity of neutrino detectors at different latitudes to probe the anisotropy in the flux at Earth …

Utilizing Maximum Variability to Discern TDE Emission from AGN Flares
Samaresh Mondal, K. Decker French
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03889 https://arxiv.org/…

Utilizing Maximum Variability to Discern TDE Emission from AGN Flares
X-ray emission arising from active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity may potentially mimic the expected emission of Tidal disruption events (TDEs). Ongoing and upcoming wide-field X-ray surveys will detect thousands of TDE-like sources, and classifying them securely as TDEs or AGNs is a challenging task. To this aim, we measure the average X-ray variability of AGNs and derive a threshold of maximum variation as a function of time separating the TDEs from AGN flares. For the comparison between TDE…

Are Inherently Interpretable Models More Robust? A Study In Music Emotion Recognition
Katharina Hoedt, Arthur Flexer, Gerhard Widmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03780 https://

Are Inherently Interpretable Models More Robust? A Study In Music Emotion Recognition
One of the desired key properties of deep learning models is the ability to generalise to unseen samples. When provided with new samples that are (perceptually) similar to one or more training samples, deep learning models are expected to produce correspondingly similar outputs. Models that succeed in predicting similar outputs for similar inputs are often called robust. Deep learning models, on the other hand, have been shown to be highly vulnerable to minor (adversarial) perturbations of the …

Kompany really has Bayern playing well, much better than I expected if I’m honest. They’re giving PSG all they can handle and could be ahead, if not for a correctly judged offside decision.
Entertaining match so far and probably even. I really enjoy watching Kvaratshkelia play. Such pace and creativity, combined with the willingness to track back. Rare breed. He just about scored on a blisteringly direct attack. Neuer made a couple of fine saves.

#WaPo: Reagan National Airport expected to close for up to several hours on June 14 for military flyovers,...
As loyal subject, I happily volunteer this sacrifice for my king's birthday. 🙄
But won't tolerate the extra "up to" in the report.
#uspol #parade

That is…terrifying. Beyond terrifying. I’m sure I would not have prepared for this, or expected it, or even imagined it if I were staying there.
We are going to have to reset a whole lot of our expectations about what kind of weather is probable, pretty much everywhere on Earth. And we’re going to have to •keep• resetting them for as long as we keep changing the climate.
https://mastodon.world/@weathermatrix/114796979505937177

Dallas Cowboys' major NFL offseason change could be 'better fit' than expected https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-major-nfl-offseason-change-could-be-better-fit-than-expected

She Went On a Vacation to Iran: ‘It was Nothing Like I Expected’ https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/she-went-on-a-vacation-to-iran-it-was-nothing-like-i-expected/

She Went on a Vacation to Iran: ‘It was Nothing Like I Expected’
A woman who went to Iran as a tourist just weeks before the country fell into war says it was a much different culture than she expected.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15483 has been replaced.
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Strategy Complexity of Büchi Objectives in Concurrent Stochastic Games
We study 2-player zero-sum concurrent (i.e., simultaneous move) stochastic Büchi games and Transience games on countable graphs. Two players, Max and Min, seek respectively to maximize and minimize the probability of satisfying the game objective. The Büchi objective is to visit a given set of target states infinitely often. This can be seen as a special case of maximizing the expected $\limsup$ of the daily rewards, where all daily rewards are in $\{0,1\}$. The Transience objective is to vis…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13257 has been replaced.
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Predictive control for nonlinear stochastic systems: Closed-loop guarantees with unbounded noise
We present a stochastic model predictive control framework for nonlinear systems subject to unbounded process noise with closed-loop guarantees. First, we provide a conceptual shrinking-horizon framework that utilizes general probabilistic reachable sets and minimizes the expected cost. Then, we provide a tractable receding-horizon formulation that uses a nominal state to minimize a deterministic quadratic cost and satisfy tightened constraints. Our theoretical analysis demonstrates recursive f…

> Sex chromosomes usually determine whether you are female or male. Women are XX. Men are XY. However, genetically, a few women are actually men. They grow up as women with a woman’s body, and most only discover well into puberty that they are different.
https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/n…

Improved limits on the 21cm signal at z=6.5-7.0 with the MWA using Gaussian information
Cathryn M. Trott, C. D. Nunhokee, D. Null, N. Barry, Y. Qin, R. B. Wayth, J. L. B. Line, C. H. Jordan, B. Pindor, J. H. Cook, J. Bowman, A. Chokshi, J. Ducharme, K. Elder, Q. Guo, B. J. Hazelton, W. Hidayat, T. Ito, D. Jacobs, E. Jong, M. Kolopanis, T. Kunicki, E. Lilleskov, M. F. Morales, J. Pober, A. Selvaraj, R. Shi, K. Takahashi, S. J. Tingay, R. L. Webster, S. Yoshiura, Q. Zheng

Improved limits on the 21cm signal at z=6.5-7.0 with the MWA using Gaussian information
We explore the properties of interferometric data from high-redshift 21~cm measurements using the Murchison Widefield Array. These data contain redshifted 21~cm signal, contamination from continuum foreground sources, and radiometric noise. The 21~cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization is expected to be highly-Gaussian, which motivates the use of the power spectrum as an effective statistical tool for extracting astrophysical information. We find that foreground contamination introduces non-G…

I solved my issue with my flatpak app Mindustry, not being able to access it!
I installed it again(even though I expected it to be already installed)
That made me gain access to it.
Oh my DataGod!
#SteamDeck #SteamDeckDesktopMode

Finally finished the VSC8512 writeup! Ended up being just a biiiit longer than I had expected but there was a lot to talk about.
I still want to refactor my code a bit to be cleaner and more OO, what I have now is a bit quick-and-dirty, but it works.
https://serd.es/2025/07/04/Switch-proj

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07103 has been replaced.
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On a connection between total positivity and Bernoulli stopping problems
Consider the optimal stopping problem of maximising the expected payoff in a game where a nonnegative reward is granted upon stopping on a success in a sequence of independent Bernoulli trials. These Bernoulli stopping problems are characterised by a recurrence relation connecting the stopping and continuation payoffs. This recurrence is used to establish optimality of the myopic strategy under unimodal continuation payoffs. Further, by embedding the success epochs of the trials into a Markov c…

Will Howard injury: Steelers QB hurts hand, expected to miss at least three weeks, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/will-howar…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10613 has been replaced.
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Function recovery and optimal sampling in the presence of nonuniform evaluation costs
We consider recovering a function $f : D \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$ in an $n$-dimensional linear subspace $\mathcal{P}$ from i.i.d. pointwise samples via (weighted) least-squares estimators. Different from most works, we assume the cost of evaluating $f$ is potentially nonuniform, and governed by a cost function $c : D \rightarrow (0,\infty)$ which may blow up at certain points. We therefore strive to choose the sampling measure in a way that minimizes the expected total cost. We provide a recover…

Spatial mixing of stellar populations in globular clusters via binary-single star scattering
V\'aclav Pavl\'ik, Melvyn B. Davies, Ellen I. Leitinger, Holger Baumgardt, Alexey Bobrick, Ivan Cabrera-Ziri, Michael Hilker, Andrew J. Winter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03322

Spatial mixing of stellar populations in globular clusters via binary-single star scattering
The majority of Galactic globular star clusters (GCs) have been reported to contain at least two populations of stars (we use P1 for the primordial and P2 for the chemically-enriched population). Recent observational studies found that dynamically-old GCs have P1 and P2 spatially mixed due to relaxation processes. However, in dynamically-young GCs, where P2 is expected to be more centrally concentrated from birth, the spatial distributions of P1 and P2 are sometimes very different from system t…

Sources: German AI startup n8n is expected to raise hundreds of millions of euros led by Accel at a pre-money valuation of $2.3B, up from ~$350M four months ago (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-07/a…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03428 has been replaced.
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Propagation of ultrashort voltage pulses through a small quantum dot
The coherent transport of time-resolved ultrafast excitations in nanoelectronic interferometers is expected to exhibit an interesting interplay between the interferences and the time-dependent drive. However, the typical frequencies required to unlock this physics are in the THz range, making its observation challenging. In this work, we consider the propagation of the excitation generated by ultrashort voltage pulses through a small quantum dot, a system which we argue can display similar phys…

Trump's Attack on Wind, Solar Cuts Deeper Than Industry Expected (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-07/trump-s-attack-on-wind-and-solar-energy-is-exceeding-industries-worst-fears
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p53#a250807p53

A Survey on Integrating Quantum Computers into High Performance Computing Systems
Philip D\"obler, Manpreet Singh Jattana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03540

A Survey on Integrating Quantum Computers into High Performance Computing Systems
Quantum computers use quantum mechanical phenomena to perform conventionally intractable calculations for specific problems. Despite being universal machines, quantum computers are not expected to replace classical computers, but rather, to complement them and form hybrid systems. This makes integrating quantum computers into high performance computing (HPC) systems an increasingly relevant topic. We present a structured literature review on the integration aspect. We methodologically search li…

With every month that passes, it becomes more clear that quitting that cursed place was the right call:
«Peter Kyle said it was clear further action was needed to ensure the government-backed Alan Turing Institute met its full potential. […] Making clear that the Turing 2.0 strategy did not meet government requirements, Kyle indicated that he expected leadership changes at ATI.» 🍿
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/04/minister-demands-overhaul-of-uks-leading-ai-institute-alan-turing

"Today, over two and a half million websites have chosen to completely disallow AI training through our managed robots.txt feature or our managed rule blocking AI Crawlers. Every Cloudflare customer is now able to selectively decide which declared AI crawlers are able to access their content in accordance with their business objectives.
We expected a change in bot and crawler behavior based on these new features, and we expect that the techniques bot operators use to evade detecti…

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

Texans safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson’s knee injury not expected to be season-ending: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6540655/2025/08/07/houston-texans-cj-gardner-johnson-injury/

The rate of descent did not slow as much as expected,
and the spacecraft probably made a hard landing.
The laser instrument that measured how high Resilience was above the surface was slow in making its measurements,
which may have contributed to the problem.
“At this point, we do not know clearly about the cause,”
Takeshi Hakamada, the chief executive of Ispace, said in translated remarks.
The loss of the second mission could lead NASA to rethink its pla…

Ispace of Japan’s Moon Lander Resilience Has Crashed
The loss of the Resilience spacecraft by Ispace repeated a crash into the moon in 2023 of the company’s first robotic lunar landing mission.

Smart Car Privacy: Survey of Attacks and Privacy Issues
Akshay Madhav Deshmukh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03413 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03413

Smart Car Privacy: Survey of Attacks and Privacy Issues
Automobiles are becoming increasingly important in our day to day life. Modern automobiles are highly computerized and hence potentially vulnerable to attack. Providing many wireless connectivity for vehicles enables a bridge between vehicles and their external environments. Such a connected vehicle solution is expected to be the next frontier for automotive revolution and the key to the evolution to next generation intelligent transportation systems. Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) are emer…

Sources: the UK has delayed proposals to regulate AI, with plans to introduce an AI bill in 2026 to address concerns about issues like safety and copyright (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12633 has been replaced.
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Arborescences of Random Covering Graphs
A rooted arborescence of a directed graph is a spanning tree directed towards a particular vertex. A recent work of Chepuri et al. showed that the arborescences of a covering graph of a directed graph G are closely related to the arborescences of G. In this paper, we study the weighted sum of arborescences of a random covering graph and give a formula for the expected value, resolving a conjecture of Chepuri et al.

Block reports Q2 gross profit up 14% YoY to $2.54B, vs. $2.46B est., GPV up 10% to $64.25B, raises FY gross profit forecast to $10.17B; XYZ up 10% after hours (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/block-xyz-q2-2025-earnings-report.html

Block shares pop 11% on full-year guidance boost
Block reported weaker-than-expected earnings for the second quarter but increased its full-year guidance.

Cosmic Axion Background Detection Using Resonant Cavity Arrays
Soobeom Chung, Jeff A. Dror
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03797 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.0379…

Cosmic Axion Background Detection Using Resonant Cavity Arrays
The axion is a well-motivated and generic extension of the Standard Model. If produced in the early universe, axions may still be relativistic today, forming a Cosmic Axion Background (C$a$B) potentially detectable in direct detection experiments. A key challenge, however, is that the C$a$B is expected to have a broad energy spectrum, limiting the effectiveness of resonant cavity experiments designed for narrowband searches. We propose a new strategy using multi-cavity arrays to distinguish sig…

The role of migration traps in the formation of binary black holes in AGN disks
Maria Paola Vaccaro, Yannick Seif, Michela Mapelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03637 https://

The role of migration traps in the formation of binary black holes in AGN disks
Binary black holes (BBHs) forming in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) represent a promising channel for gravitational-wave production. BBHs are typically expected to originate at migration traps, i.e. radial locations where the Type I migration of embedded stellar-mass black holes (BHs) transitions from outwards to inwards. In this work, we test this assumption by explicitly simulating the radial migration of BH pairs in AGN disks under different torque prescriptions, includ…

A Search for Transiting Exocomets in TESS Sectors 1-26
Azib Norazman, Grant M. Kennedy, Ann Marie Cody, Daniel Giles, Samuel Gill, Ethan Kruse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04673 h…

A Search for Transiting Exocomets in TESS Sectors 1-26
We present a search for single photometric exocomet transits using a magnitude-limited sample of stars observed by the TESS primary mission. These events are asymmetric, with a sharp ingress and more gradual egress expected because the comet tail trails behind the coma. Our goals are to estimate the occurrence rate of exocomet transits, and given sufficient numbers comment on whether the host stars are biased towards being A/F spectral types, as suggested by a previous survey with Kepler data. …

"If any of the work, that any of us do, contributes to the stretching of culture, the stretching of boundaries of empathy that’s expected of an audience… that’s the holy grail."
-Riz Ahmed
#acting #coaching

Teddy Bridgewater returning to NFL, expected to sign with Buccaneers after visit https://www.nfl.com/news/teddy-bridgewater-buccaneers-visit-signing-nfl-return

DocuSign reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $764M, subscription revenue up 8% to $746.2M, net income up 113% to $72.1M, and cuts FY 2026 forecast; DOCU falls 18% (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/06/docusign-stock-billings-earnings.html

DocuSign stock tanks 18% after company cuts billings outlook
The downbeat forecast overshadowed the company's better-than-expected earnings and revenue results.

Dozens of Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives are heading to Illinois to deny a necessary quorum for the GOP to move forward with redistricting efforts.
Roughly 30 Democrats are expected to stay for the week in a plan brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

Texas Democrats head to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting
Dozens of Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives are heading to Illinois to deny a necessary quorum for the GOP to move forward with redistricting efforts. The roughly 30 Democrats are expected to stay for the week in a plan brokered with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Former Attorney General Eric Holder joins MSNBC's Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss the move.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03218 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Limit theorems for the number of crossings and stress in projections of the random geometric graph
We consider the number of edge crossings in a random graph drawing generated by projecting a random geometric graph on some compact convex set $W\subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 3$, onto a plane. The positions of these crossings form the support of a point process. We show that if the expected number of crossings converges to a positive but finite value, this point process converges to a Poisson point process in the Kantorovich-Rubinstein distance. We further show a multivariate central limit theo…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20734 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Adversarial bandit optimization for approximately linear functions
We consider a bandit optimization problem for nonconvex and non-smooth functions, where in each trial the loss function is the sum of a linear function and a small but arbitrary perturbation chosen after observing the player's choice. We give both expected and high probability regret bounds for the problem. Our result also implies an improved high-probability regret bound for the bandit linear optimization, a special case with no perturbation. We also give a lower bound on the expected regret.

QCD sum rule study of topped mesons within heavy quark effective theory
Shu-Wei Zhang, Xuan Luo, Hui-Min Yang, Hua-Xing Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03422 https://

QCD sum rule study of topped mesons within heavy quark effective theory
Motivated by the recent CMS observation of a near-threshold enhancement in top-quark pair production, we investigate a novel class of hadronic systems containing a single top quark: the topped mesons ($t\bar{q}$, with $\bar q = \bar u, \bar d, \bar s$). In contrast to the extensively studied toponium ($t\bar{t}$) system, analyzed primarily within perturbative QCD, topped mesons offer a complementary nonperturbative probe of QCD dynamics in the heavy-quark limit. These states are expected to exh…

On the Efficiency of Producing Gamma-Ray Bursts from Isolated Population III Stars
Gibran Morales-Rivera, Ramandeep Gill, S. Jane Arthur, Paz Beniamini, Jonathan Granot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03689

On the Efficiency of Producing Gamma-Ray Bursts from Isolated Population III Stars
The rate of long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from isolated Pop III stars is not well known, as it depends on our poor understanding of their initial mass function (IMF), rotation rates, stellar evolution, and mass loss. A sub-population of massive ($M_{\rm ZAMS}\gtrsim20M_\odot$) Pop III stars is expected to suffer core-collapse and launch a relativistic jet that would power a GRB. In the collapsar scenario, a key requirement is that the pre-supernova star imparts sufficient angular moment…

Towards a Banach Space Chernoff Bound for Markov Chains via Chaining Arguments
Shravas Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02955 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.0295…

Towards a Banach Space Chernoff Bound for Markov Chains via Chaining Arguments
Let $\{Y_i\}_{i=1}^{\infty}$ be a stationary reversible Markov chain with state space $[N]$, let $(X, \| \cdot \|)$ be a real-valued Banach space and let $f_1, \ldots, f_n: [N] \rightarrow X$ be functions with mean $0$ such that $\|f_i(v)\| \leq 1$ for all $i$ and $v$. We prove bounds on the expected value of and deviation bounds for the random variable $\|f_1(Y_1)+\cdots+f_n(Y_n)\|$. For large enough $n$ that depends on the Banach space (and not $N$), these bounds…

Steelers not expected to trade for Jonnu Smith, per report, agent says TE wants to remain with Dolphins

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler…

Figma priced its US IPO at $33 per share, above its expected range of $30 to $32, raising $1.2B in the offering and valuing the company at $19.3B (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/figma-prices-ipo-at-33-above-expected-range.html

Figma prices IPO at $33, above expected range
Software developer Figma is poised to debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, becoming the latest high-profile tech company to go public.

Browns rookie QB Shedeur Sanders expected to start preseason opener vs. Panthers: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6537264/2025/08/05/browns-shedeur-sanders-start-preseason-panthers/

#GiffordFire
Today is expected to be another active day,
particularly as the fire aligns with topographical features
along grass and brush-covered hillsides.
The main priorities for today include improving containment
lines on the northern flank to prevent the fire from progressing toward the Manchaca Wilderness,
continuing efforts in Cuyama Valley to keep the fire on…

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U.S. payrolls increased by 147,000 in June, more than expected (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/jobs-report-june-2025.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p3#a250704p3

Phase Transitions in a Particle Model for the Self-Adaptive Response to Cancer Dynamics
Christian Kuehn, Quirin Vogel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03577 https://

Phase Transitions in a Particle Model for the Self-Adaptive Response to Cancer Dynamics
In this paper, we present a probabilistic analysis of a dynamical particle model for the self-adaptive immune response to cancer, as proposed by the first author in a previous work. The model is motivated by the interplay between immune surveillance and cancer evolution. We rigorously confirm the sharp phase transition in immune system learning predicted in the original work. Additionally, we compute the expected amount of information acquired by the immune system about cancer cells over time. …

NFC South 2025 preview, plus https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6478575/2025/07/07/nfl-preview-2025-nfc-south-panthers-buccaneers-saints-falcons-scoop-city/

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act expands Qualified Small Business Stock benefits for VCs, founders, and startup staff, raising tax-free gains from $10M to $15M (Robert Frank/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/trump-big-beautiful-…

Top five tax changes for the wealthy in Trump's 'big beautiful bill'
Taxpayers earning $1 million or more are expected to see a boost in after-tax income of about 3% under Trump's megabill.

Earth's rotation is randomly speeding up,
and nobody is quite sure why.
These speedups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven't had any effect on daily life,
but they also haven't gone unnoticed by science.
Tuesday, Aug. 5 is the next date when Earth's rotation is expected to speed up, shortening the day by between 1.25 and 1.51 milliseconds. 
On Aug. 5, 2025, the moon will be quite a bit further south than the equato…

Earth Is Spinning Weirdly Faster, Making This Tuesday One of the Shortest Days Ever
The Earth will complete its daily rotation between 1.25 and 1.51 milliseconds faster than usual, and scientists aren't quite sure why.

Is the NFL moving to an 18-game schedule? Negotiations not expected to begin any time soon, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/is-the-

Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 48% YoY to $1B, vs. $940M expected, and boosts full-year outlook guidance to $4.14B-$4.15B, up from $3.89B-$3.90B (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/palantir-pltr-q2-earnings-2025.html

Palantir tops $1 billion in revenue for the first time, boosts guidance
Palantir surpassed Wall Street's estimates and lifted its full-year outlook.

Apple incurred ~$800M in tariff-related costs in Q3, $100M less than expected, and expects a jump to $1.1B in Q4 if current rates and policies remain in place (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/0

Apple staring down $2 billion in Tariff costs in total before end of September
Apple's bill for Trump's tariffs in the third quarter was a little less than first expected, but Tim Cook has cautioned that it will be considerably more in the next quarter, totaling about $2 billion across just two quarters.

Shedeur will start preseason opener, sources say https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45909479/sources-browns-start-shedeur-sanders-preseason-opener

Mock draft: QBs selected with five of first eight picks of 12-team PPR superflex https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45898744/2025-fantasy-football-mock-draft-superflex-ppr

SAP plans to acquire HR software company SmartRecruiters, with the deal expected to close in Q4; SmartRecruiters was valued at $1.5B in a 2021 funding round (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Packers' Hobbs (knee) out rest of camp https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45906633/sources-packers-cb-hobbs-knee-scoped-rest-camp

Derek Carr said retiring, giving up $30 million Saints salary was 'the right thing to do' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6405385/2025/06/05/derek-carr-retirement-saints-money/

The F1 movie gives Apple its first box office hit, opening to $144M worldwide and $55.6M in the US; it was pushed on Apple Music, Podcasts, Fitness , and Wallet (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/box-office-f1-megan-2-0-1236444277/

‘F1’ Zooms To $10M Previews, An Apple Original Films Record; ‘M3GAN 2.0’ $1.5M – Friday AM Box Office
F1' the Brad Pitt Apple Original Films is expected to deliver an opening north of $40M-$50M while Universal/Blumhouse's 'M3GAN 2.0' is expected to crash. Previews of $10M were a record for Apple Original Films.

Steelers QB3 Howard hurts hand, to be evaluated https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45909701/steelers-qb3-howard-injures-hand-needs-further-evaluation

Cowboys remain patient in Micah Parsons contract negotiations as camp nears, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-r…

Geno Smith on Raiders' doubters: 'Let them sleep. I don't want them to see us coming' https://www.nfl.com/news/geno-smith-on-raiders-doubters-let-them-sleep-i-don-t-want-them-to-see-us-coming