Tootfinder

Haley Cavinder battles Dallas Cowboys boyfriend Jake Ferguson on the golf course https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/fashion/news/haley-cavinder-battles-dallas-cowboys-boyfriend-j…

Why do these people never have any inkling to look beyond their immediate fields of study?
Why do they find it good and proper if one of their members behaves in an absolutely unacceptable fashion, antithetical to your organization, repeatedly?
I'm not even talking Hitler salutes here. Musk was leading an organization that actively worked on dismantling scientific research and space exploration.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/aug/01/royal-society-elon-musk-astronomer-royal-michele-dougherty

#NowPlaying - more wakeup music with energy, new EP 'obsgay uleray' by Olympia, Washington's the gobs. Four really fast, catchy, great, ripping songs in true gobs fashion.
https://thegobs.bandcamp.com/album/ob…

Teachers’ Windrush Workshop. Free online event Sunday, 7 September 2025, 7 pm to 9 pm BST. The event isn't exclusive to teachers, but is also open to anyone who would like to learn how to share the truth about Windrush with others. #Windrush

"""
Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
"""
(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)

The clothes that never die: How fast fashion is burying Africa in plastic https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/the-clothes-that-never-die-how-fast-fashion-is-burying-africa-in-plastic/

The clothes that never die: How fast fashion is burying Africa in plastic
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Mountains of smoking waste sprawl across the Dandora dump in Nairobi, Kenya. The acrid stench clings to the air; marabou storks pick over scraps alongside people searching for plastic bottles or bones. Interspersed among the refuse are scraps […]

Fashion Unfiltered
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
GAN: That doesn't sound very promising. Someone must have made an attack on the base.
VILA: Who'd be stupid enough to do that?
AVON: [Snaps his fingers] Justify "stupid."
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/112 B7B2

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Good Morning #Canada
Conservationists who focus on restoration of wetlands are increasingly "Leaving It To Beaver." Beavers are considered the ultimate Keystone Species because they area they re-engineer offer benefits to many other species, and an entire ecosystem can collapse if a Beaver is removed. A Beaver dam doesn't just hold and conserve water. Beavers increase the population of frogs, fish, insects, birds, and small mammals and extend the range of larger mammals like moose, deer, and bears. The quantity and variety of vegetation are increased. Water is filtered and saturates the land, refilling artesian wells. It's unbelievable that we almost lost this amazing creature because of a hat fashion trend.
#CanadaIsAwesome #BeaverWeek
https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2021/01/01/leave-it-to-beavers-keystone-species-provides-nature-based-restoration/

Happy Birthday Hellen Mirren!
https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/national/25297007.dame-helen-mirrens-life-fashion-actor-turns-80

Dame Helen Mirren’s life in fashion as the actor turns 80
As she heads towards her 80th birthday (July 26) we look back at some of Dame Helen Mirren’s greatest fashion moments…

Reliance Retail launches Ajio Rush, a four-hour fashion delivery service live in six Indian cities, to take on Myntra and other fashion quick commerce startups (The Economic Times)
https://ec…

Reliance rolls out Ajio Rush to take on Myntra, Newme, Slikk and other fashion quick commerce startups
Reliance Retail has launched Ajio Rush, a four-hour fashion delivery service now live in six cities. It follows Myntra and others exploring ultra-fast delivery. While some startups like Blip have shut down, investor interest remains strong. Experts say the future lies in hybrid models combining online ease with offline trust.

Transfer entropy and O-information to detect grokking in tensor network multi-class classification problems
Domenico Pomarico, Roberto Cilli, Alfonso Monaco, Loredana Bellantuono, Marianna La Rocca, Tommaso Maggipinto, Giuseppe Magnifico, Marlis Ontivero Ortega, Ester Pantaleo, Sabina Tangaro, Sebastiano Stramaglia, Roberto Bellotti, Nicola Amoroso
https://

Transfer entropy and O-information to detect grokking in tensor network multi-class classification problems
Quantum-enhanced machine learning, encompassing both quantum algorithms and quantum-inspired classical methods such as tensor networks, offers promising tools for extracting structure from complex, high-dimensional data. In this work, we study the training dynamics of Matrix Product State (MPS) classifiers applied to three-class problems, using both fashion MNIST and hyper-spectral satellite imagery as representative datasets. We investigate the phenomenon of grokking, where generalization emer…

KiseKloset: Comprehensive System For Outfit Retrieval, Recommendation, And Try-On
Thanh-Tung Phan-Nguyen, Khoi-Nguyen Nguyen-Ngoc, Tam V. Nguyen, Minh-Triet Tran, Trung-Nghia Le
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23471

KiseKloset: Comprehensive System For Outfit Retrieval, Recommendation, And Try-On
The global fashion e-commerce industry has become integral to people's daily lives, leveraging technological advancements to offer personalized shopping experiences, primarily through recommendation systems that enhance customer engagement through personalized suggestions. To improve customers' experience in online shopping, we propose a novel comprehensive KiseKloset system for outfit retrieval, recommendation, and try-on. We explore two approaches for outfit retrieval: similar item retrieval …

Peak fashion is matching your purse with your cat

Why are people so stupid? What is it about our brains that makes us susceptible to the whole influencer schtick? They’re just the metastized manifestation of behaviors we’ve had probably in some fashion or another for 100s of 1000s of years. The game has always been, whoever talks to and persuades the most people wins. But now, a single voice can be heard (or read) by millions, within minutes. How can this be evolutionarily advantageous?

Fast Fashion = Plastic Pollution #environment…

Using a google form (I know), I'm wondering why a few people have said they have submitted forms when nothing has come through.
Looking at it, I have questions
- why is there a purpose-free 'clear form' link? I thought those went out of fashion in the 90's
- why is it bottom right, where the submit button would probably more often be?

Colorful 60-year-old #fashion #retail chain restructuring decades after peak, #CEO steps down, closing 500 stores, ditching hundreds of employees and past production sites in

Weaving the Future: Generative AI and the Reimagining of Fashion Design
Pierre-Marie Chauvin (IFM, AHP-PReST), Ang\`ele Merlin (IFM, AHP-PReST), Xavier Fresquet (IFM, AHP-PReST), Hugo Caselles-Dupr\'e (IFM, AHP-PReST), Benjamin Simmenauer (IFM, AHP-PReST), Mathieu de Fayet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17758…

Weaving the Future: Generative AI and the Reimagining of Fashion Design
This paper explores the integration of generative AI into the fashion design process. Drawing on insights from the January 2025 seminar ``Tisser le futur,'' it investigates how AI reshapes creative workflows, from ideation to prototyping, while interrogating the ethical, aesthetic, and labor implications. The paper highlights co-creative dynamics between humans and machines, the potential for aesthetic innovation, and the environmental and cultural challenges of algorithmic design.

Good Morning #Canada
We should thank Prince Albert for helping to save the Beaver. His choice of wearing a silk tophat in the mid 1800s has been cited as one of the reasons fashion moved away from Beaver hats and thereby saved them after almost 3 centuries of trapping. And silk hats were easier and cheaper to make. Whatever the reasons fashion almost made the Beaver extinct, first in Europe and then in North America. When fashion trends shifted, the Beaver was saved.
#CanadaIsAwesome #BeaverWeek #MadHatter
https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/nwc/history/01.htm

MPC-EVM: Enabling MPC Execution by Smart Contracts In An Asynchronous Manner
Yichen Zhou, Chenxing Li, Fan Long
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20554 https://ar…

MPC-EVM: Enabling MPC Execution by Smart Contracts In An Asynchronous Manner
This paper presents MPC-EVM, the first blockchain prototype that extends the EVM to enable asynchronous MPC invocations by smart contracts during transaction executions without compromising consistency or throughput. MPC-EVM uses an asynchronous execution model to process MPC-invoking transactions in a non-blocking fashion, saving the transaction's progress when it enters an MPC and resuming its execution upon MPC's completion. Additionally, it employs an access control mechanism that prevents …

In mineralogy, a #polycrystal
(or polycrystalline material)
refers to a solid composed of multiple small, intergrown crystals (crystallites) of the same or different minerals,
arranged in a random or oriented fashion.
Unlike a single crystal, which has a continuous and unbroken atomic lattice,
a polycrystal consists of many smaller crystalline grains separated by grain bo…

Polycrystals
Mineral Matters #767

Sources: Shein plans to file confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO; filing confidentially remains relatively rare in Hong Kong (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/chin…

FashionPose: Text to Pose to Relight Image Generation for Personalized Fashion Visualization
Chuancheng Shi, Yixiang Chen, Burong Lei, Jichao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13311

FashionPose: Text to Pose to Relight Image Generation for Personalized Fashion Visualization
Realistic and controllable garment visualization is critical for fashion e-commerce, where users expect personalized previews under diverse poses and lighting conditions. Existing methods often rely on predefined poses, limiting semantic flexibility and illumination adaptability. To address this, we introduce FashionPose, the first unified text-to-pose-to-relighting generation framework. Given a natural language description, our method first predicts a 2D human pose, then employs a diffusion mo…

Mailbag: Will we see more RB screen passes? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-will-we-see-more-rb-screen-passes

Is it a new LinkedIn fashion to have a large portrait of the author accompanying any post?

Riemannian Change Point Detection on Manifolds with Robust Centroid Estimation
Xiuheng Wang, Ricardo Borsoi, Arnaud Breloy, C\'edric Richard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18045

Riemannian Change Point Detection on Manifolds with Robust Centroid Estimation
Non-parametric change-point detection in streaming time series data is a long-standing challenge in signal processing. Recent advancements in statistics and machine learning have increasingly addressed this problem for data residing on Riemannian manifolds. One prominent strategy involves monitoring abrupt changes in the center of mass of the time series. Implemented in a streaming fashion, this strategy, however, requires careful step size tuning when computing the updates of the center of mas…

this has been sitting in my bookmarks forever, but i finally read this essay from leah tigers, who wrote the essay about the history of how noisy trans women music tends to be i posted a bunch like 3 years ago, about the history of trans women and fashion this time. recommend.
https://trickymothernature.com/postrev…

Single pion-production and pion propagation in Achilles
Joshua Isaacson, William Jay, Alessandro Lovato, Pedro Machado, Alexis Nikolakopoulos, Noemi Rocco, Noah Steinberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19213

Single pion-production and pion propagation in Achilles
We extend the applicability of Achilles (A CHIcagoLand Lepton Event Simulator) by incorporating the single-pion production mechanism in a fully exclusive fashion. The electroweak interaction vertex is modeled by combining the state-of-the-art Dynamical Coupled-Channels approach with realistic hole spectral functions, which account for correlations in both the initial target state and the residual spectator system. Final-state interactions are treated using a semi-classical intranuclear cascade …

Fashion-AlterEval: A Dataset for Improved Evaluation of Conversational Recommendation Systems with Alternative Relevant Items
Maria Vlachou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18017 http…

Fashion-AlterEval: A Dataset for Improved Evaluation of Conversational Recommendation Systems with Alternative Relevant Items
In Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRS), a user provides feedback on recommended items at each turn, leading the CRS towards improved recommendations. Due to the need for a large amount of data, a user simulator is employed for both training and evaluation. Such user simulators critique the current retrieved item based on knowledge of a single target item. However, system evaluation in offline settings with simulators is limited by the focus on a single target item and their unlimited pa…

Anyone participating in protests in Los Angeles or anywhere else, please cover up and be careful (see https://crimethinc.com/2008/10/11/fashion-tips-for-the-brave).
Also check this 'activist checklist' site for digital security and more while protes…

Fashion Tips for the Brave
Nowadays, entirely apart from the question of whether you’re engaging in illegal activity, it can be important to protect your privacy while participating in public protests. Local and federal law ...

Cowboys cheerleader stuns playing hot new sport in tiny 2-piece fit https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/fashion/news/dallas-cowboys-cheerleader-abby-summers-stuns-playing-hot-new-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
David Bowie:
🎵 Fashion
#DavidBowie
https://theblackstars.bandcamp.com/track/david-bowie-fashion-cover-and-experiment
https://open.spotify.com/track/6oAcTpX4qhQBiCo3apGdpo

Daydream, which raised a $50M seed in June 2024 to build a generative AI shopping agent for fashion, launches in beta, with an app expected later this summer (Hilary Milnes/Vogue Business)
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/techno

Is Daydream’s AI platform the answer to fashion’s discovery problem?
Founder Julie Bornstein raised $50 million last year to create the ultimate AI shopping experience. Today, it launches in beta.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
David Bowie:
🎵 Fashion
#DavidBowie
https://open.spotify.com/track/6oAcTpX4qhQBiCo3apGdpo

Cartier and NorthFace have become the latest fashion brands to suffer a data breach.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/security/cartier-and-northface-latest-brands-to-be-breached

Cartier and NorthFace latest brands to be breached
Cartier and NorthFace have become the latest fashion brands to suffer a data breach.

Oh! #Tumblr is on a purge again, likely all these new age restrictions or such, because I've been warned against mentions of mathematics, showing chrome toggle switches being fondled on vintage computers or perhaps early 60s academic fashion, I don't know, I've requested clarification.

Learn how data analytics are revolutionizing the fashion industry's approach to reducing waste and promoting sustainability. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

A data-driven approach to addressing fashion waste
The global fashion industry produces over 2.5 billion excess items each year. But while companies have compelling sustainability and business reasons to address the problem, where do they start?

A comparison principle for variational problems : with an application to optimal transport
Flavien L\'eger, Maxime Sylvestre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18884

A comparison principle for variational problems : with an application to optimal transport
We study variational problems on Banach spaces which involve submodular energies. We extend the notion of exchangeability to this infinite dimensional setting and show that it is in duality with submodularity. These two notions allow us to derive comparison principle in an abstract fashion. We apply our results to the optimal transport and entropic optimal transport problems. We then derive comparison principles on the Kantorovich and Schrödinger potentials. We also prove comparison principles…

LOL!
Mal posso esperar para ver aí na rua gajas vestidas de careto.
😂
https://masto.pt/@sapopt/114790248687408428

On the Power of Spatial Locality on Online Routing Problems
Swapnil Guragain, Gokarna Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17517 https://

On the Power of Spatial Locality on Online Routing Problems
We consider the online versions of two fundamental routing problems, traveling salesman (TSP) and dial-a-ride (DARP), which have a variety of relevant applications in logistics and robotics. The online versions of these problems concern with efficiently serving a sequence of requests presented in a real-time on-line fashion located at points of a metric space by servers (salesmen/vehicles/robots). In this paper, motivated from real-world applications, such as Uber/Lyft rides, where some limited…

Systematic Improvement of Hamiltonian Truncation Effective Theory
Ekrem Demiray, Kara Farnsworth, Rachel Houtz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15941 https://

Systematic Improvement of Hamiltonian Truncation Effective Theory
Hamiltonian Truncation Effective Theory is a framework that aims to improve the results of Hamiltonian truncation in a systematic, order-by-order fashion using Effective Field Theory methodology. The result is a truncated effective Hamiltonian with corrections that result from a matching procedure. We establish the rigor of this method by calculating nontrival next-to-leading order corrections in a $1/E_{\rm max}$ expansion, where $E_{\rm max}$ is our effective theory cutoff. We illustrate this…

This channel is an unofficial mirror of Bernadette Banner’s YouTube content. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bernadette Banner and may be removed if she requests.
She is one of my favorite creators on YouTube, so I’ve synchronized and published her videos on PeerTube, while the rest is currently being transcoded and should be available by tomorrow!

Changing fashions

Evaluating Attribute Confusion in Fashion Text-to-Image Generation
Ziyue Liu, Federico Girella, Yiming Wang, Davide Talon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07079 …

Evaluating Attribute Confusion in Fashion Text-to-Image Generation
Despite the rapid advances in Text-to-Image (T2I) generation models, their evaluation remains challenging in domains like fashion, involving complex compositional generation. Recent automated T2I evaluation methods leverage pre-trained vision-language models to measure cross-modal alignment. However, our preliminary study reveals that they are still limited in assessing rich entity-attribute semantics, facing challenges in attribute confusion, i.e., when attributes are correctly depicted but as…

Unraveling Global Threads: Pandemic, Geopolitical Conflict, and Resilience in Fashion and Textile Supply Chain
Md. Al-Amin, Muneeb Tahir, Amit Talukder, Abdullah Al Mamun, Md Tanjim Hossain, Nigar Sultana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00207

Unraveling Global Threads: Pandemic, Geopolitical Conflict, and Resilience in Fashion and Textile Supply Chain
Several noteworthy scenarios emerged in the global textile and fashion supply chains during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The destabilizing influences of a global pandemic and a geographically localized conflict are being acutely noticed in the worldwide fashion and textile supply chains. This work examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukraine conflict, Israel-Palestine conflict, and Indo-Pak conflict on supply chains within the textile and fashion industry. This research e…

LENS-DF: Deepfake Detection and Temporal Localization for Long-Form Noisy Speech
Xuechen Liu, Wanying Ge, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16220

LENS-DF: Deepfake Detection and Temporal Localization for Long-Form Noisy Speech
This study introduces LENS-DF, a novel and comprehensive recipe for training and evaluating audio deepfake detection and temporal localization under complicated and realistic audio conditions. The generation part of the recipe outputs audios from the input dataset with several critical characteristics, such as longer duration, noisy conditions, and containing multiple speakers, in a controllable fashion. The corresponding detection and localization protocol uses models. We conduct experiments b…

Clothing inventory monetization startup CaaStle's ex-CEO Christine Hunsicker is charged with defrauding investors of more than $300M over the past six years (Larry Neumeister/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/fashion-hunsicker-caastl…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Pa Salieu:
🎵 Style & Fashion (feat. Obongjayar)
#PaSalieu
https://chrisbessy.bandcamp.com/track/adriatique-x-pa-salieu-style-fashion-chris-bessy-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3BhgQ0PWWyy7xaSd3ZjwWw

This fashion look isn't limited to GenAI. You too can sport extra body parts as accessories!

An interview with Judd Legum about his Substack Popular Information, which has three reporting staff and 20K paying subs, with an estimated $1M annual revenue (Matt Smith/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/substack-ju…

Substacker Judd Legum on doing journalism that 'went out of fashion'
Popular Information has four staff and turns over around $1m per year.

Cowboys cheerleader stuns in lacy lingerie for Italian photoshoot https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/fashion/news/dallas-cowboys-cheerleader-marissa-phillips-stuns-lacy-…

Kevin Smith tells more great Kevin Smith stories & an episode of "Smithbusters": GenX vs GenZ!
▶️ Kevin Smith Talks Dogma, Matt Damon & Ben Affleck, 90s Fashion, and Satanic Coffee Shops
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qpyn2xaD9dY&si=ZQR2sBbMo0_GnBww…

can we start a trend of California native plant inspired baby names?
Yarrow
Clarkia
Vervain
Quercus
Lupine
Gilia
Horkelia
Aster
Cypress
Penstemon
and bring back in fashion: Sage, Laurel, Myrtle

Semi-discrete Active Flux as a Petrov-Galerkin method
Wasilij Barsukow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15017 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15017

Semi-discrete Active Flux as a Petrov-Galerkin method
Active Flux (AF) is a recent numerical method for hyperbolic conservation laws, whose degrees of freedom are averages/moments and (shared) point values at cell interfaces. It has been noted previously in a heuristic fashion that it thus combines ideas from Finite Volume/Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods with a continuous approximation common in continuous Finite Element (CG) methods. This work shows that the semi-discrete Active Flux method on Cartesian meshes can be obtained from a variation…

A study of a family of self-referential sequences
Benoit Cloitre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18103 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18103

A study of a family of self-referential sequences
We introduce and analyze a three-parameter family of self-referential integer sequences $S(x,y,z)$: starting from $a(1)=x$, each term advances by $y$ when the index $k$ has already appeared as a value and by $z$ otherwise. This simple rule generates a surprising zoo of behaviors, many of which are catalogued -- albeit in a rather unstructured fashion -- in the OEIS. Whenever $y>z>0$, we prove that the density $a(k)/k$ converges to the positive root of $r^2 - z r - (y - z) = 0$. Two subfamilies,…

90s Fashion :-D
#DavidHasselhoff
Baywatch Nights 1x02 - Bad Blades
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx

Real-time and personalized product recommendations for large e-commerce platforms
Matteo Tolloso, Davide Bacciu, Shahab Mokarizadeh, Marco Varesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21368 …

Real-time and personalized product recommendations for large e-commerce platforms
We present a methodology to provide real-time and personalized product recommendations for large e-commerce platforms, specifically focusing on fashion retail. Our approach aims to achieve accurate and scalable recommendations with minimal response times, ensuring user satisfaction, leveraging Graph Neural Networks and parsimonious learning methodologies. Extensive experimentation with datasets from one of the largest e-commerce platforms demonstrates the effectiveness of our approach in foreca…

Trump and Musk's Relationship Melts Down in Spectacular Fashion (Shawn McCreesh/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/politics/trump-elon-musk-fight.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p148#a250605p148

The Phase-Space Way To Electronic Structure Theory and Subsequently Chemical Dynamics
Xuezhi Bian, Titouan Duston, Nadine Bradbury, Zhen Tao, Mansi Bhati, Tian Qiu, Xinchun Wu, Yanze Wu, Joseph E. Subotnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15994

The Phase-Space Way To Electronic Structure Theory and Subsequently Chemical Dynamics
Phase-space electronic structure theory offers up a new and powerful approach for tackling problems with coupled nuclear-electronic dynamics in a fashion that goes beyond Born-Oppenheimer (BO) theory. Whereas BO theory stipulates that we consider electronic states parameterized by nuclear position $X$ only, i.e. molecular orbitals are functions of nuclear positions but not nuclear velocities, phase-space (PS) theory allows for electronic states to be parameterized by both nuclear position X and…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
AVON: When the planet was on the screen, did anyone notice Cally's reaction?
VILA: I didn't.
AVON: You were too busy teaching Orac nursery rhymes.
VILA: Riddles.
https://

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Yep, seems like different parts of the Fosstodon mod team just keep doubling down on "we are apolitical" – as if that was a real thing and not just reinforcing the existing power and abuse…
And in true fashion for FOSS priorities, the admin can't seem to get a statement out as it's more important to first pick a blogging platform.
This could fit into a FOSS-centric reboot of that Silicon Valley comedy show if it wasn't so sad 😅
#fosstodon

Poutine: Vision-Language-Trajectory Pre-Training and Reinforcement Learning Post-Training Enable Robust End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Luke Rowe, Rodrigue de Schaetzen, Roger Girgis, Christopher Pal, Liam Paull
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11234

Poutine: Vision-Language-Trajectory Pre-Training and Reinforcement Learning Post-Training Enable Robust End-to-End Autonomous Driving
We present Poutine, a 3B-parameter vision-language model (VLM) tailored for end-to-end autonomous driving in long-tail driving scenarios. Poutine is trained in two stages. To obtain strong base driving capabilities, we train Poutine-Base in a self-supervised vision-language-trajectory (VLT) next-token prediction fashion on 83 hours of CoVLA nominal driving and 11 hours of Waymo long-tail driving. Accompanying language annotations are auto-generated with a 72B-parameter VLM. Poutine is obtained …

I’ve been kicking around the joke idea that AI is the Crocs of computing (cheap garbage marketed as high fashion to children and super trendy for no lasting reason), but now I saw this cross my feed and I’m a little worried that they’re in my thoughts.
https://www.theverge.com/mi…

Microsoft’s Windows XP Crocs are no joke
Microsoft has created limited edition Windows XP-themed Crocs. The Crocs even come with a Clippy shoe charm.

"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of the second-most translated book of all time, colorfully explained (also in French) the importance of dress in our society through a simple anecdote: the planet of the Little Prince had been discovered in 1909 by a Turkish astronomer that nobody took seriously because of his traditional clothes. Repeating his conference in 1920, this time in suit and tie after a reform in his country, he had been applauded at length."

Standard posets and integral weight bases for symmetric powers of minuscule representations
Michael C. Strayer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13572 https://

Standard posets and integral weight bases for symmetric powers of minuscule representations
This paper extends our earlier work where we constructed ``minuscule'' representations of Kac--Moody algebras from colored posets in a way that maintains key properties of the well-known minuscule representations of simple Lie algebras. In this paper we work only with finite posets. We define standard posets here as ones that can be used to construct weight bases of $m^\text{th}$ symmetric powers ($m \ge 1$) of these minuscule Kac--Moody representations over the integers in a certain fashion. O…

Data Depth as a Risk
Arturo Castellanos, Pavlo Mozharovskyi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08518 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.08518

Data Depth as a Risk
Data depths are score functions that quantify in an unsupervised fashion how central is a point inside a distribution, with numerous applications such as anomaly detection, multivariate or functional data analysis, arising across various fields. The halfspace depth was the first depth to aim at generalising the notion of quantile beyond the univariate case. Among the existing variety of depth definitions, it remains one of the most used notions of data depth. Taking a different angle from the q…

Shedeur Sanders, Jaxson Dart, Travis Hunter make impressive debuts; Brewers remain atop MLB Power Rankings

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/shedeur

Tensor Manipulation Unit (TMU): Reconfigurable, Near-Memory Tensor Manipulation for High-Throughput AI SoC
Weiyu Zhou, Zheng Wang, Chao Chen, Yike Li, Yongkui Yang, Zhuoyu Wu, Anupam Chattopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14364

Tensor Manipulation Unit (TMU): Reconfigurable, Near-Memory Tensor Manipulation for High-Throughput AI SoC
While recent advances in AI SoC design have focused heavily on accelerating tensor computation, the equally critical task of tensor manipulation, centered on high,volume data movement with minimal computation, remains underexplored. This work addresses that gap by introducing the Tensor Manipulation Unit (TMU), a reconfigurable, near-memory hardware block designed to efficiently execute data-movement-intensive operators. TMU manipulates long datastreams in a memory-to-memory fashion using a RIS…

Shy DCC Netflix star flaunts dancer's legs in tiny dress, clear heels in rare sexy pic https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/fashion/news/shy-dallas-cowboys-cheer…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Nilsson:
🎵 Without You
#Nilsson
https://dusten.bandcamp.com/track/without-you-nilsson-fashion
https://open.spotify.com/track/6MrILERJLA3Jcq0E9poZsp

Universality in the Anticoncentration of Noisy Quantum Circuits at Finite Depths
Arman Sauliere, Guglielmo Lami, Corentin Boyer, Jacopo De Nardis, Andrea De Luca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14975

Universality in the Anticoncentration of Noisy Quantum Circuits at Finite Depths
We study the anticoncentration properties of quantum circuits in the presence of different sources of noise. In the \textit{weak-noise regime}, we show that different types of noise act in a similar fashion, leading to a universal distribution for the probability of a given bit-string, largely independent of the specific noise channel or circuit architecture. In addition, we can identify three distinct depth-dependent regimes, each signaled by a different scaling of cross-entropy benchmarking (…

Urge Chanel to Stop Using Ostrich Feathers in Their Designs https://www.speciesunite.com/urge-chanel-to-stop-using-ostrich-feathers-in-their-designs?utm_source=Mastodon

Urge Chanel to Stop Using Ostrich Feathers in Their Designs | Advocate for Ethical Fashion — Species Unite
Join us in urging Chanel to end the use of ostrich feathers, supporting compassionate, cruelty-free fashion alternatives. Act now for animal welfare.

03:35—Good night #Fediverse! 😴💤
- https://pixelfed.social/p/midtsveen/839638250579307406
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ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning
Chi-Pin Huang, Yueh-Hua Wu, Min-Hung Chen, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Fu-En Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16815

ThinkAct: Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Reinforced Visual Latent Planning
Vision-language-action (VLA) reasoning tasks require agents to interpret multimodal instructions, perform long-horizon planning, and act adaptively in dynamic environments. Existing approaches typically train VLA models in an end-to-end fashion, directly mapping inputs to actions without explicit reasoning, which hinders their ability to plan over multiple steps or adapt to complex task variations. In this paper, we propose ThinkAct, a dual-system framework that bridges high-level reasoning wit…

Kind of amazing that you can dot a couple of messages like this around the internet https://post.lurk.org/@yaxu/114188134015638878
and then end up with ~40 lovely people hanging out with their computers in the middle of nowhere, what a great thing

Honest question: Is there anyone besides Trump that believes this aesthetic is tasteful?
Like for someone who was (is?) so desperate to be “accepted” by the social elites
Trump’s (and his fam’s) fashion and design sense is really atrocious and surprising
-- Asha Rangappa
https://bsk…

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes.bsky.social)
What happened to that door?

Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the attempted extradition by the US of an alleged Chinese hacker of vaccine secrets who was arrested in Italy last week, and fast-fashion ecommerce company Shein’s plans to go public
https://www.

Accused Chinese hacker claims mistaken identity - Asian Tech Roundup
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the attempted extradition by the US of an alleged Chinese ...

Improved Online Sorting
Jubayer Nirjhor, Nicole Wein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14361 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14361

Improved Online Sorting
We study the online sorting problem, where $n$ real numbers arrive in an online fashion, and the algorithm must immediately place each number into an array of size $(1+\varepsilon) n$ before seeing the next number. After all $n$ numbers are placed into the array, the cost is defined as the sum over the absolute differences of all $n-1$ pairs of adjacent numbers in the array, ignoring empty array cells. Aamand, Abrahamsen, Beretta, and Kleist introduced the problem and obtained a deterministic a…

How Shein is leveraging its Reliance Retail partnership in its return to India, as fashion now accounts for 27% of India's online sales, up from 16% in 2020 (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/reliance-shein

Why India's Retail King Needs Shein
India's fast-fashion segment grew 30-40% in the year through March

On Exact Solutions to the Linear Bellman Equation
David Ohlin, Richard Pates, Murat Arcak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15527 https://ar…

On Exact Solutions to the Linear Bellman Equation
This paper presents sufficient conditions for optimal control of systems with dynamics given by a linear operator, in order to obtain an explicit solution to the Bellman equation that can be calculated in a distributed fashion. Further, the class of Linearly Solvable MDP is reformulated as a continuous-state optimal control problem. It is shown that this class naturally satisfies the conditions for explicit solution of the Bellman equation, motivating the extension of previous results to semili…

I’ve been kicking around the joke idea that AI is the Crocs of computing (cheap garbage marketed as high fashion to children and super trendy for no lasting reason), but now I saw this cross my feed and I’m a little worried that they’re in my thoughts.
https://www.theverge.com/mi…

Cowboys cheerleader’s risky ‘Thunderstruck’ dance in strapless, short dress https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/fashion/news/dallas-cowboys-cheerleader-risky-thunderstruck-perfor…

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
TRAVIS: Oh, yes. I'm a hero, too.
CHENIE: So. You've saved his life twice. Why?
TRAVIS: It's my noble nature.
CHENIE: Oh, yes, Travis. I can see. It shines from your one yellow eye. Nobility?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/140

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Bidirectional Temporal Information Propagation for Moving Infrared Small Target Detection
Dengyan Luo, Yanping Xiang, Hu Wang, Luping Ji. Shuai Li, Mao Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15415

Bidirectional Temporal Information Propagation for Moving Infrared Small Target Detection
Moving infrared small target detection is broadly adopted in infrared search and track systems, and has attracted considerable research focus in recent years. The existing learning-based multi-frame methods mainly aggregate the information of adjacent frames in a sliding window fashion to assist the detection of the current frame. However, the sliding-window-based methods do not consider joint optimization of the entire video clip and ignore the global temporal information outside the sliding w…

"The RDBMS field is so young, we can actually see it grow through the pages of computer magazines of the 1980s. BYTE Magazine had its first issue dedicated to databases in November 1981, and then another one in October 1984. Dr. Dobb’s Journal did not feature an article about databases until 1984 and did not have many more throughout the decade; actually most of them were authored by Gene Head, and talk about dBASE."

Filing: Shein reports 2024 UK sales up 32.3% YoY to £2.05B, making the UK its third largest market after the US and Germany, as it works toward a Hong Kong IPO (Helen Reid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

eSASRec: Enhancing Transformer-based Recommendations in a Modular Fashion
Daria Tikhonovich, Nikita Zelinskiy, Aleksandr V. Petrov, Mayya Spirina, Andrei Semenov, Andrey V. Savchenko, Sergei Kuliev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06450

eSASRec: Enhancing Transformer-based Recommendations in a Modular Fashion
Since their introduction, Transformer-based models, such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, have become common baselines for sequential recommendations, surpassing earlier neural and non-neural methods. A number of following publications have shown that the effectiveness of these models can be improved by, for example, slightly updating the architecture of the Transformer layers, using better training objectives, and employing improved loss functions. However, the additivity of these modular improvements …

Cowboys cheerleader flaunts tiny waist in first pic back in uniform https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/fashion/news/cowboys-cheerleader-kylie-dickson-flaunts-tiny-waist-first-pic-back-uni…

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
JENNA: You're suggesting that we go into the Forbidden Zone and attack Control?
BLAKE: Yes, that is what I am suggesting.
CALLY: Do we know where this computer complex is?
JENNA: Most Earth people have heard of it.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/49

UK retailer M&S begins accepting online orders again, seven weeks after disclosing a sustained cyberattack that cost it up to £300M in this financial year (Laura Onita/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/82861589-ea5c-44f1-a1ce-cb3907e84eee

Marks and Spencer resumes online orders as it recovers from cyber attack
Retailer says it will take ‘weeks’ to restore some online services as fashion ranges return

Sam Williams comes full circle with camp finisher https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/sam-williams-comes-full-circle-with-camp-finisher