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It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of
oligarchy-facilitating rule
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Beyond Seamless: Unexpected Defective Merging in Single-Orientation Graphene
Zhien Wang, Jiangtao Wang, Diego Exposito, Andrey Krayev, Shih-Ming He, Xudong Zheng, Zachariah Hennighausen, Ivan Brihuega, Se-Young Jeong, Jing Kong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21908

Beyond Seamless: Unexpected Defective Merging in Single-Orientation Graphene
Single-orientation stitching of graphene has emerged as the predominant method for growth of large-area, high-quality graphene films. Particularly noteworthy is graphene grown on single-crystalline Cu(111)/sapphire substrates, which exhibits exceptionally planar oriented stitching due to the atomically smooth substrate, facilitating the formation of continuous, high-quality graphene monolayer. These single-orientation stitches have conventionally been regarded as seamless with negligible defect…

I donated to Develop Africa to support students in Sierra Leone.
https://www.developafrica.org/about-develop-africa
"we provide education, child sponsorship, leadership development, workforce empowerment, and more to poverty-stricken African communities. We aid in br…

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0aea27d8-89a8-4f33-8bfa-2441a16f2b4d
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p129#a251124p129

I've been railing about the need to restructure SCOTUS for rather a while now. (I've added a couple of URLs after the Guardian opinion link.)
Here is an opinion piece that says something similar.
It adds something that I missed - that SCOTUS and Congress are filled with people who think that if El Cheato goes away that his mess will also go away.
I don't think so. The maga-klan is too deeply embedded into our judiciary and administrative agencies. It's go…

How OpenSea reinvented itself from an NFT marketplace to a crypto trading aggregator, facilitating $1.6B in trades in the first two weeks of October (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2

OpenSea Is Remaking Itself Into A Crypto Trading Aggregator
The crash of the NFT market led OpenSea to fire more than half of its staff. But the startup has reinvented itself into a place for buying and selling all tokens, especially memecoins, and trading volume is surging once again.

"Life after death: How earthworms keep facilitating carbon capture"
#Worms #Environment
https://

Life after death: How earthworms keep facilitating carbon capture
Earthworms don't stop shaping soil processes when they die. A new study shows they can still help store carbon in the soil, even after death. "This is quite surprising," says lead author Tullia Calogiuri. "Most of our knowledge about earthworms comes from their activity while alive, such as burrowing, feeding, and producing feces. Finding that they also play a role after death is exciting."

«an ineffectual "open source revolution" that maintains the status quo of our modern day hellscape by facilitating an upwards transfer of wealth and power, amassed by the hyperscalers who are now entering their final, fascistic form. Open source "won" by aiding and abetting the already dominant owner-class.»
Quite a long read, but the core issue of where FLOSS is failing feels about right to me.
https://blog.muni.town/open-source-power/

from my link log —
MPTCP / multipath TCP for Linux.
https://www.mptcp.dev/
saved 2025-10-14 https://dotat.at/:/0CAFI.html…

Facilitating Cognitive Accessibility with LLMs: A Multi-Task Approach to Easy-to-Read Text Generation
Fran\c{c}ois Ledoyen, Ga\"el Dias, Jeremie Pantin, Alexis Lechervy, Fabrice Maurel, Youssef Chahir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00662

Facilitating Cognitive Accessibility with LLMs: A Multi-Task Approach to Easy-to-Read Text Generation
Simplifying complex texts is essential for ensuring equitable access to information, especially for individuals with cognitive impairments. The Easy-to-Read (ETR) initiative offers a framework for making content accessible to the neurodivergent population, but the manual creation of such texts remains time-consuming and resource-intensive. In this work, we investigate the potential of large language models (LLMs) to automate the generation of ETR content. To address the scarcity of aligned corp…

Hamish McKenzie says Substack is starting to test native sponsorships with some writers but won't take a cut for now (Emily Sundberg/Feed Me)
https://www.readfeedme.com/p/substack-is-launching-native-sponsorships

Substack is launching native sponsorships.
"During the pilot, Substack is simply facilitating payments and is not taking a cut."

CHUCKLE -- When Humans Teach AI To Learn Emotions The Easy Way
Ankush Pratap Singh, Houwei Cao, Yong Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09382 https://arxiv.org…

CHUCKLE -- When Humans Teach AI To Learn Emotions The Easy Way
Curriculum learning (CL) structures training from simple to complex samples, facilitating progressive learning. However, existing CL approaches for emotion recognition often rely on heuristic, data-driven, or model-based definitions of sample difficulty, neglecting the difficulty for human perception, a critical factor in subjective tasks like emotion recognition. We propose CHUCKLE (Crowdsourced Human Understanding Curriculum for Knowledge Led Emotion Recognition), a perception-driven CL frame…

This is abominable.
By law, immigration detention is not supposed to be about meting out punishment or retribution.
It’s supposed to be about facilitating people’s removal.
Yet as the ruling details, the administration,
by refusing to send Ábrego García to Costa Rica despite having that option,
did “not appear to have held him to fulfill that purpose.”
That’s polite legalese for a bombshell:
Trump officials held Ábrego García in detention for mont…

Fiasco for Trump as Judge Issues Harsh Rebuke in Ábrego García Case
Judge Paula Xinis’s ruling temporarily freed Kilmar Ábrego García from custody. It also savagely indicted Trump’s lawless handling of this whole affair from start to finish.

Hamish McKenzie says Substack is starting to test native sponsorships with some writers but won't take a cut for now (Emily Sundberg/Feed Me)
https://www.readfeedme.com/p/substack-is-launching-native-sponsorships

Substack is launching native sponsorships.
"During the pilot, Substack is simply facilitating payments and is not taking a cut."

Federated Data Analytics for Cancer Immunotherapy: A Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Platform for Patient Management
Mira Raheem, Michael Papazoglou, Bernd Kr\"amer, Neamat El-Tazi, Amal Elgammal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09155

Federated Data Analytics for Cancer Immunotherapy: A Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Platform for Patient Management
Connected health is a multidisciplinary approach focused on health management, prioritizing pa-tient needs in the creation of tools, services, and treatments. This paradigm ensures proactive and efficient care by facilitating the timely exchange of accurate patient information among all stake-holders in the care continuum. The rise of digital technologies and process innovations promises to enhance connected health by integrating various healthcare data sources. This integration aims to persona…

Back in the office for 7:45am this morning, to get through a pile of project work. Recording a client video on resilience, facilitating a webinar on conversations at work, running a lunchtime webinar on coaching and leadership development, then recording a podcast on self-care this afternoon.
Whew!

VeriCite: Towards Reliable Citations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Rigorous Verification
Haosheng Qian, Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Ruqing Zhang, Qi Chen, Dawei Yin, Xueqi Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11394

VeriCite: Towards Reliable Citations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Rigorous Verification
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a crucial approach for enhancing the responses of large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge sources. Despite the impressive performance in complex question-answering tasks, RAG still struggles with hallucinations. Attributing RAG-generated content through in-line citations has demonstrated potential in reducing hallucinations and facilitating human verification. Existing citation generation methods primarily rely on either fine-tuni…

Replaced article(s) found for quant-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/quant-ph/new
[2/4]:
- Pre-Floquet states facilitating coherent subharmonic response of periodically driven many-body sy...
Steffen Seligmann, Hamed Koochaki Kelardeh, Martin Holthaus

An Energy-Efficient Edge Coprocessor for Neural Rendering with Explicit Data Reuse Strategies
Binzhe Yuan, Xiangyu Zhang, Zeyu Zheng, Yuefeng Zhang, Haochuan Wan, Zhechen Yuan, Junsheng Chen, Yunxiang He, Junran Ding, Xiaoming Zhang, Chaolin Rao, Wenyan Su, Pingqiang Zhou, Jingyi Yu, Xin Lou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07667

An Energy-Efficient Edge Coprocessor for Neural Rendering with Explicit Data Reuse Strategies
Neural radiance fields (NeRF) have transformed 3D reconstruction and rendering, facilitating photorealistic image synthesis from sparse viewpoints. This work introduces an explicit data reuse neural rendering (EDR-NR) architecture, which reduces frequent external memory accesses (EMAs) and cache misses by exploiting the spatial locality from three phases, including rays, ray packets (RPs), and samples. The EDR-NR architecture features a four-stage scheduler that clusters rays on the basis of Z-…

AI-Enabled Capabilities to Facilitate Next-Generation Rover Surface Operations
Cristina Luna, Robert Field, Steven Kay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05985 https://

AI-Enabled Capabilities to Facilitate Next-Generation Rover Surface Operations
Current planetary rovers operate at traverse speeds of approximately 10 cm/s, fundamentally limiting exploration efficiency. This work presents integrated AI systems which significantly improve autonomy through three components: (i) the FASTNAV Far Obstacle Detector (FOD), capable of facilitating sustained 1.0 m/s speeds via computer vision-based obstacle detection; (ii) CISRU, a multi-robot coordination framework enabling human-robot collaboration for in-situ resource utilisation; and (iii) th…

Argus: JAX state-space filtering for gravitational wave detection with a pulsar timing array
Tom Kimpson, Nicholas J. O'Neill, Patrick M. Meyers, Andrew Melatos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11077

Argus: JAX state-space filtering for gravitational wave detection with a pulsar timing array
Argus is a high-performance Python package for detecting and characterising nanohertz gravitational waves in pulsar timing array data. The package provides a complete Bayesian inference framework based on state-space models, using Kalman filtering for efficient likelihood evaluation. Argus leverages JAX for just-in-time compilation, GPU acceleration, and automatic differentiation, facilitating rapid Bayesian inference with gradient-based samplers. The state-space approach provides a computation…

What Do We Mean When We Talk About Data Storytelling?
Leni Yang, Zezhong Wang, Xingyu Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04761 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04761…

What Do We Mean When We Talk About Data Storytelling?
We have witnessed rapid growth in data storytelling research. Scholars from multiple disciplines have contributed new theories and techniques surrounding data storytelling. However, with this prolific development, a fuzzy boundary of data storytelling comes. We argue that understanding how "data storytelling" has been defined and interpreted by academia is crucial for facilitating communication between researchers, encouraging the consistent use of concepts and measures, assisting newcomers in …

Multi-hop Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding with Deep Hash Distillation for Semantically Aligned Image Retrieval
Didrik Bergstr\"om, Deniz G\"und\"uz, Onur G\"unl\"u
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06868

Multi-hop Deep Joint Source-Channel Coding with Deep Hash Distillation for Semantically Aligned Image Retrieval
We consider image transmission via deep joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) over multi-hop additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels by training a DeepJSCC encoder-decoder pair with a pre-trained deep hash distillation (DHD) module to semantically cluster images, facilitating security-oriented applications through enhanced semantic consistency and improving the perceptual reconstruction quality. We train the DeepJSCC module to both reduce mean square error (MSE) and minimize cosine dista…

LLM-Specific Utility: A New Perspective for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Hengran Zhang, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo, Jiaming Zhang, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin, Xueqi Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11358

LLM-Specific Utility: A New Perspective for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by incorporating external knowledge. While traditional retrieval focuses on relevance, RAG's effectiveness depends on the utility of retrieved passages, i.e., the usefulness in facilitating the generation of an accurate and comprehensive answer. Existing studies often treat utility as a generic attribute, ignoring the fact that different LLMs may benefit differently from the same passage due to variations in internal kno…

Balancing Compliance and Privacy in Offline CBDC Transactions Using a Secure Element-based System
Panagiotis Michalopoulos, Anthony Mack, Cameron Clark, Linus Chen, Johannes Sedlmeir, Andreas Veneris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25469

Balancing Compliance and Privacy in Offline CBDC Transactions Using a Secure Element-based System
Blockchain technology has spawned a vast ecosystem of digital currencies with Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) -- digital forms of fiat currency -- being one of them. An important feature of digital currencies is facilitating transactions without network connectivity, which can enhance the scalability of cryptocurrencies and the privacy of CBDC users. However, in the case of CBDCs, this characteristic also introduces new regulatory challenges, particularly when it comes to applying estab…

Large Language Model Prompt Datasets: An In-depth Analysis and Insights
Yuanming Zhang, Yan Lin, Arijit Khan, Huaiyu Wan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09316 https://

Large Language Model Prompt Datasets: An In-depth Analysis and Insights
A prompt is a natural language instruction that defines a specific task for a large language model (LLM) and serves as the primary interface for human-LLM interaction. With the growing deployment of LLMs, diverse prompt datasets are emerging from platforms such as GitHub and social media. These datasets span a wide array of applications and content types, facilitating both broader LLM utilization and improved prompt engineering. In this work, we--for the first time--have compiled an extensive l…

Twisted bi-layer magnetic photonic crystals
You-Ming Liu, Shi-Kai Lin, Pei-Shi Li, Yi-Ran Hao, Biao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07714 https://arxiv.org…

Twisted bi-layer magnetic photonic crystals
In photonics, twisted bi-layer systems have demonstrated unprecedented control over light-matter interactions, primarily through the modulation of photonic band structures and the formation of Moiré patterns. Meanwhile, magnetic photonic crystals have served as cornerstone platforms for manipulating light propagation, facilitating key applications such as Faraday rotation-based isolators and non-reciprocal devices. Nevertheless, the synergistic integration of twist engineering and magneto-opti…

Back in the office for 7:45am this morning, to get through a pile of project work. Recording a client video on resilience, facilitating a webinar on conversations at work, running a lunchtime webinar on coaching and leadership development, then recording a podcast on self-care this afternoon.
Whew!

An Approach for Restoring Magnetic Field Uniformity in Openable BIPM-Type Kibble Balance Magnets
Nanjia Li, Weibo Liu, Yongchao Ma, Wei Zhao, Songling Huang, Shisong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04729

An Approach for Restoring Magnetic Field Uniformity in Openable BIPM-Type Kibble Balance Magnets
The Kibble balance realizes the kilogram by linking mechanical and electrical quantities via a magnet system. In an improved BIPM-type magnet design by Tsinghua University, an open/close surface was incorporated, facilitating operation. However, an unavoidable mechanical air gap at the splitting plane introduces asymmetry in the magnetic flux density profile, degrading field uniformity. This study proposes a two-step yoke compensation method to restore symmetry by adjusting the upper outer yoke…

EEG-Based Framework for Reflexive and Perceptual Assessment in CLIS: Preliminary Study in Healthy Volunteers
Nicoli Leal, Rute Bettencourt, Urbano J. Nunes, Gabriel Pires
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23524

EEG-Based Framework for Reflexive and Perceptual Assessment in CLIS: Preliminary Study in Healthy Volunteers
Despite the general assumption that completely locked-in state (CLIS) patients remain conscious and aware of their environment, the effectiveness of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) in facilitating communication has been limited, as reported both in the literature and in our own findings. This limitation is likely attributable to impairments in executive functions, working memory, and vigilance, which appear to hinder the establishment of reliable BCI-based communication. The main goal of this …

Online automatic code generation for robot swarms: LLMs and self-organizing hierarchy
Weixu Zhu, Marco Dorigo, Mary Katherine Heinrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04774 https://

Online automatic code generation for robot swarms: LLMs and self-organizing hierarchy
Our recently introduced self-organizing nervous system (SoNS) provides robot swarms with 1) ease of behavior design and 2) global estimation of the swarm configuration and its collective environment, facilitating the implementation of online automatic code generation for robot swarms. In a demonstration with 6 real robots and simulation trials with >30 robots, we show that when a SoNS-enhanced robot swarm gets stuck, it can automatically solicit and run code generated by an external LLM on the …

Band Gap Engineering of Nitrogen-Doped Monolayer WSe$_2$ Superlattice and its application to Field Effect Transistor
Yi-Cheng Lo, Liao Jia Wang, Yu-Chang Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01917

Band Gap Engineering of Nitrogen-Doped Monolayer WSe$_2$ Superlattice and its application to Field Effect Transistor
We systematically investigate the electronic structures of pristine monolayer WSe$_2$ and WSe$_2$ superlattices with periodic nitrogen substitution. Unlike random doping, which often introduces in-gap impurity states, periodic nitrogen doping primarily modulates the band gap, thereby facilitating effective band gap engineering for electronic and optoelectronic applications. The gap narrows monotonically with increasing dopant density (pristine $>$ 8-row $>$ 6-row $>$ 4-row), directly influencin…

Mobile Gamer Lifetime Value Prediction via Objective Decomposition and Reconstruction
Tianwei Li, Yu Zhao, Yunze Li, Sheng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08281 https://

Mobile Gamer Lifetime Value Prediction via Objective Decomposition and Reconstruction
For Internet platforms operating real-time bidding (RTB) advertising service, a comprehensive understanding of user lifetime value (LTV) plays a pivotal role in optimizing advertisement allocation efficiency and maximizing the return on investment (ROI) for advertisement sponsors, thereby facilitating growth of commercialization revenue for the platform. However, the inherent complexity of user LTV distributions induces significant challenges in accurate LTV prediction. Existing state-of-the-ar…

Dark-fringe interferometer with dynamic phase control for M\"ossbauer science
Miriam Gerharz, Dominik Lentrodt, Lars Bocklage, Kai Schulze, Christian Ott, Ren\'e Steinbr\"ugge, Olaf Leupold, Ilya Sergeev, Gerhard G. Paulus, Christoph H. Keitel, Ralf R\"ohlsberger, Thomas Pfeifer, J\"org Evers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2…

Dark-fringe interferometer with dynamic phase control for Mössbauer science
Interference is a powerful tool for measuring and control. In Mössbauer science, interference effects are essential to most applications, due to the coherent scattering nature. However, Mössbauer interferometry remains challenging, due to stability requirements imposed by the short x-ray wavelength. Here, we put forward a ``dark fringe'' interferometer with vanishing transmission in the empty state, thereby facilitating sensitive measurements. The relative interferometer phase can dynamically…

A physics-informed neural network approach to the point defect model for electrochemical oxide film growth
Mohid Farooqi, Ingmar B\"osing, Conrad G. Tetsassi Feugmo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02872

A physics-informed neural network approach to the point defect model for electrochemical oxide film growth
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) offer a novel AI-driven framework for integrating physical laws directly into neural network models, facilitating the solution of complex multiphysics problems in materials engineering. This study systematically explores the application of PINNs to simulate oxide film layer growth in halide-free solutions using the point defect model (PDM). We identify and analyze four key failure modes in this context: imbalanced loss components across different physica…

Items Proxy Bridging: Enabling Frictionless Critiquing in Knowledge Graph Recommendations
Huanyu Zhang, Xiaoxuan Shen, Yu Lei, Baolin Yi, Jianfang Liu, Yinao xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26107

Items Proxy Bridging: Enabling Frictionless Critiquing in Knowledge Graph Recommendations
Modern recommender systems place great inclination towards facilitating user experience, as more applications enabling users to critique and then refine recommendations immediately. Considering the real-time requirements, critique-able recommender systems typically straight modify the model parameters and update the recommend list through analyzing the user critiquing keyphrases in the inference phase. Current critiquing methods require first constructing a specially designated model which esta…