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Nine current and ex-Apple staffers accuse Apple VP of Fitness Tech Jay Blahnik of creating a toxic work environment; Apple settled a sexual harassment complaint (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/technology/apple-fitness-jay-blahnik.…

Apple Fitness Chief Accused of Toxic Workplace Culture and Harassment
Workers say the executive was volatile and retaliated when they cooperated with an investigation. Apple denies the claims.

#running slow is hard but my fitness is such that it requires a rebuild of the foundation. Trying to stay in HR2 means a decent amount of walking interspersed. I don’t love it, but it’s necessary.
I have a much more open schedule now, so I should be able to get out and run regularly. The trick will be staying patient and trusting the process.

Guten Morgen,
gestern stand eine wenig Landshut auf dem Programm. Stadt, Herbstdult, Steckerlfisch....
Heute nach dem Fitness zuhause faulen 🙂
Schönen Sonntag :coffeepot: 🙂

ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/ice-recruits-fitness-test-t…

ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits
Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

Optimizing quantum sensing networks via genetic algorithms and deep learning
Asghar Ullah, \"Ozg\"ur E. M\"ustecapl{\i}o\u{g}lu, Matteo G. A. Paris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17460

Optimizing quantum sensing networks via genetic algorithms and deep learning
We investigate the optimization of graph topologies for quantum sensing networks designed to estimate weak magnetic fields. The sensors are modeled as spin systems governed by a transverse-field Ising Hamiltonian in thermal equilibrium at low temperatures. Using a genetic algorithm (GA), we evolve network topologies to maximize a perturbative spectral sensitivity measure, which serves as the fitness function for the GA. For the best-performing graphs, we compute the corresponding quantum Fisher…

Google unveils a new Gemini-powered personal health coach for Fitbit, rolling out as a preview in October for Fitbit Premium users in the redesigned Fitbit app (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/google-an…

Google announces new AI-powered personal health and fitness coach for Fitbit | TechCrunch
At its Made by Google event on Wednesday, the company announced a new AI-powered personal health coach built with Gemini that's coming to Fitbit. The tech

Android makes it hard to run background processes, but one hack to work around it is to display a notification. So my entire phone's notifications screen is now filled with notifications that allow background jobs to run. GPS tracker, fitness tracker, web messages access, syncthing, doze stopper (itself to fix another Android bug). This is a very bad user experience.

Die Hamm-Klinik Nahetal bekommt im Erfahrungsbericht von Frank eine gute Bewertung: "Ich empfehle die Klinik sehr gerne weiter. Für mich war es keine Klinik im engeren Sinne, sondern ein sehr angenehmes Hotel mit Freizeit, Fitness-, Wellness- und Behandlungsangeboten."
Bewertung und Fazit Hamm Klinik Nahetal - derschreibende #Reha

Schon schade, dass selbst unter #iOS26 das AppIcon der Fitness App nicht dynamisch deine tatsächlichen Ringe anzeigt. 😔 Wäre ein super Mini-Widget

102 at 69: pushin' through, it feels just fine! youtu.be/zT6K-fiTQZk
#calisthenics #pushups #seniorfitness

Gawd, adding a new assignment to my intro course and my brain decided to wake up at 3:19am because it just *had* to know whether the combinatorics of it was going to work out so I had to spend the next two hours coding. My fitness tracker is going WTF.

‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity, ahead of his meeting with Putin.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/donald-trump-mental-fitness?CMP=Shar…

On the Fitness Landscape in the $NK$ Model
Wei-Kuo Chen, Si Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12464 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12464

On the Fitness Landscape in the $NK$ Model
The $NK$ model, introduced by Kauffman, Levin, and Weinberger, is a random field used to describe the fitness landscape of certain species with $N$ genetic loci, each interacting with $K$ others. The model has wide applications in understanding evolutionary and natural selection as it captures ruggedness feature of the fitness landscape. Earlier literature has been focused on the case $K$ being a fixed positive integer and used tools from Ergodic and Markov theory. In this paper, by viewing it …

Sustaining Research Software: A Fitness Function Approach
Philipp Zech, Irdin Pekaric
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10085 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10085

Sustaining Research Software: A Fitness Function Approach
The long-term sustainability of research software is a critical challenge, as it usually suffers from poor maintainability, lack of adaptability, and eventual obsolescence. This paper proposes a novel approach to addressing this issue by leveraging the concept of fitness functions from evolutionary architecture. Fitness functions are automated, continuously evaluated metrics designed to ensure that software systems meet desired non-functional, architectural qualities over time. We define a set …

Inclusive Fitness as a Key Step Towards More Advanced Social Behaviors in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Settings
Andries Rosseau, Rapha\"el Avalos, Ann Now\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12555

Inclusive Fitness as a Key Step Towards More Advanced Social Behaviors in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Settings
The competitive and cooperative forces of natural selection have driven the evolution of intelligence for millions of years, culminating in nature's vast biodiversity and the complexity of human minds. Inspired by this process, we propose a novel multi-agent reinforcement learning framework where each agent is assigned a genotype and where reward functions are modelled after the concept of inclusive fitness. An agent's genetic material may be shared with other agents, and our inclusive reward f…

Sites using #aws reported as down.
Snapchat
Ring
Roblox
Substack
My Fitness Pal
Life360
Amazon
Xero
Clash Royale
Canva
Fortnite
Clash of Clans
Wordle
Blink
HMRC
Xbox
PlayStation Network
Duolingo
Halifax
Lloyds Bank
S…

Nach NYT-Bericht: Apple sieht keinen "toxischen Arbeitsplatz" bei Fitness
Eine Ex-Apple-Mitarbeiterin hat den Konzern verklagt, weil sie Fitness -Chef Jay Blahnik "Bullying" vorwirft. Apple sieht das nach einer Prüfung anders.

Looks like No Kings Day in Savannah will be contained to one park that undoubtedly won't be big enough.
If we're not marching how am I supposed to get my steps in?
#fitness

💣 Air Force rolls out sex and age-neutral fitness test for EOD techs
#airforce

Air Force rolls out age- and sex-neutral fitness test for EOD techs
The new fitness test is meant to simulate the taxing physical conditions that Explosive Ordnance Disposal airmen face.

Effective decoupling of mutations and the resulting loss of biodiversity caused by environmental change
Ruixi Huang, David Waxman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17913 https://

Effective decoupling of mutations and the resulting loss of biodiversity caused by environmental change
Many biological populations exhibit diversity in their strategy for survival and reproduction in a given environment, and microbes are an example. We explore the fate of different strategies under sustained environmental change by considering a mathematical model for a large population of asexual organisms. Fitness is a bimodal function of a quantitative trait, with two local optima, separated by a local minimum, i.e., a mixture of stabilising and disruptive selection. The optima represent two …

Sources: smart ring maker Oura is raising an $875M Series E at a $10.9B valuation, up from $5B in November 2024, and has sold ~3M rings over the past year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/oura-ri…

Oura Ring Maker to Become $11 Billion Company with Latest Raise
Oura Health Oy, the maker of the popular Oura health and fitness ring, is closing in on a roughly $11 billion valuation after selling about 3 million rings over the past year.

Tua: Appointment to sports council 'an honor' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45914771/tua-calls-appointment-sports-fitness-council-honor

Evolutionary Profiles for Protein Fitness Prediction
Jigang Fan, Xiaoran Jiao, Shengdong Lin, Zhanming Liang, Weian Mao, Chenchen Jing, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07286

Evolutionary Profiles for Protein Fitness Prediction
Predicting the fitness impact of mutations is central to protein engineering but constrained by limited assays relative to the size of sequence space. Protein language models (pLMs) trained with masked language modeling (MLM) exhibit strong zero-shot fitness prediction; we provide a unifying view by interpreting natural evolution as implicit reward maximization and MLM as inverse reinforcement learning (IRL), in which extant sequences act as expert demonstrations and pLM log-odds serve as fitne…

The Hybrid Code – A Hybrid Fitness & Hyrox Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-hybrid-code-a-hybrid-fitness-hyrox-podcast/

Trump revives the Presidential Fitness Test, a rite of passage for schoolchildren for decades https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/trump-revives-the-presidential-fitness-test-a-rite-of-passage-for-schoolchildren-…

Enhancing Fitness Movement Recognition with Attention Mechanism and Pre-Trained Feature Extractors
Shanjid Hasan Nishat, Srabonti Deb, Mohiuddin Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02511

Enhancing Fitness Movement Recognition with Attention Mechanism and Pre-Trained Feature Extractors
Fitness movement recognition, a focused subdomain of human activity recognition (HAR), plays a vital role in health monitoring, rehabilitation, and personalized fitness training by enabling automated exercise classification from video data. However, many existing deep learning approaches rely on computationally intensive 3D models, limiting their feasibility in real-time or resource-constrained settings. In this paper, we present a lightweight and effective framework that integrates pre-trained…

"It's too scary to ride a bike on our roads, that's why I just ride an exercise bike at the gym"
https://www.nj.com/union/2025/08/man-killed-several-injured-when-a-car-goes-into-a-nj-planet-fitness-offi…

Man killed, several injured when a car goes into a N.J. Planet Fitness, officials say
Three other people inside the building were injured, investigators said.

An Efficient Application of Goal Programming to Tackle Multiobjective Problems with Recurring Fitness Landscapes
Rodrigo Lankaites Pinheiro, Dario Landa-Silva, Wasakorn Laesanklang, Ademir Aparecido Constantino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08297

An Efficient Application of Goal Programming to Tackle Multiobjective Problems with Recurring Fitness Landscapes
Many real-world applications require decision-makers to assess the quality of solutions while considering multiple conflicting objectives. Obtaining good approximation sets for highly constrained many-objective problems is often a difficult task even for modern multiobjective algorithms. In some cases, multiple instances of the problem scenario present similarities in their fitness landscapes. That is, there are recurring features in the fitness landscapes when searching for solutions to differ…

Trump plans to revive the Presidential Fitness Test for American schoolchildren (Michelle L. Price/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-presidential-fitness-test-schoolchildren-1e0b667df467f767df1cd1388ea29f1c
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p68#a250731p68

Hat Bello sein Bewegungsziel erreicht?
Nach Kindern sind die Haustiere dran!
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/gps-tracker-haustiere-fitness-apps-uebersicht-sinnvoll-li.3305272

Fitness-Tracker für Tiere liegen im Trend: Wie sinnvoll sind die Geräte?
Das Geschäft mit Haustiertrackern boomt. Die Geräte liefern Gesundheitswerte wie Ruhepuls, Schlaftiefe oder Schrittzahl. Braucht’s das?

#goodmorning! We just decided to do a morning loop as it will very likely be too hot after work.
Tomorrow is a bank holiday. So it's the end of the week already
#cycling #BikeTooter

Nach Abgang von Jeff Williams: Apple baut Management um
Einem Bericht zufolge gibt es Veränderungen in Apples Dienstebereich. Fitness und Gesundheit werden in einem neuen Bereich angesiedelt.
https://www.

A Popular Allergy Pill Is Linked to Higher Dementia Risk https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/popular-allergy-pill-linked…

106 for a fitness fix! Way to redline 69
A new p.r. today in set one: 106 reps at the current level (35-cm offset at the feet; parallettes for full range of motion). The middle section here is sped up to 9x speed for your entertainment and viewing ease. I will do a second set in the evening. My goal is to hit two sets of 100 or more in a day. I hope to hit that by my 70th birthday in nine weeks.
#calisthenics

🏃‍♀️ Air Force announces new force-wide fitness test: 2-mile run, twice per year
#airforce

Air Force announces new force-wide fitness test: 2-mile run, twice per year
Airmen will also undergo a body composition analysis as part of the test that measures their waist circumference against their height.

Polar Loop: Displayfreies Wearable ohne Abo als mögliche Alternative zu Whoop
Der finnische Sportuhrenhersteller Polar hat mit dem Loop sein erstes Wearable ohne Display auf den Markt gebracht. Im Unterschied zu Whoop kommt es ohne Abo.

Patient Perspectives on Telemonitoring during Colorectal Cancer Surgery Prehabilitation
Irina Bianca Serban (Eindhoven University of Technology), Dimitra Dritsa (Eindhoven University of Technology), David ten Cate (M\'axima Medical Centre Veldhoven), Loes Janssen (M\'axima Medical Centre Veldhoven), Margot Heijmans (M\'axima Medical Centre Veldhoven), Sara Colombo (Delft University of Technology), Aarnout Brombacher (Eindhoven University of Technology), Steven Houben (Eindh…

Patient Perspectives on Telemonitoring during Colorectal Cancer Surgery Prehabilitation
Multimodal prehabilitation for colorectal cancer (CRC) surgery aims to optimize patient fitness and reduce postoperative complications. While telemonitoring's clinical value in supporting decision-making is recognized, patient perspectives on its use in prehabilitation remain underexplored, particularly compared to its related clinical context, rehabilitation. To address this gap, we conducted interviews with five patients who completed a four-week CRC prehabilitation program incorporating cont…

Improving MSA Estimation through Adaptive Weight Vectors in MOEA/D
Saem Hasan, Muhammad Ali Nayeem, M. Sohel Rahman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12133 https://

Improving MSA Estimation through Adaptive Weight Vectors in MOEA/D
Accurate phylogenetic inference from biological sequences depends critically on the quality of multiple sequence alignments, yet optimal alignment for many sequences is computationally intractable and sensitive to scoring choices. In this work we introduce MOEA/D-ADF, a novel variant of MOEA/D that adaptively adjusts subproblem weight vectors based on fitness variance to improve the exploration-exploitation trade-off. We combine MOEA/D-ADF with PMAO (PASTA with many application-aware optimizati…

Wir haben ihn getestet - Reformer Pilates: Das kann der neue Fitness-Hype #News #Nachrichten

KAN-HAR: A Human activity recognition based on Kolmogorov-Arnold Network
Mohammad Alikhani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11186 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1118…

KAN-HAR: A Human activity recognition based on Kolmogorov-Arnold Network
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a critical role in numerous applications, including healthcare monitoring, fitness tracking, and smart environments. Traditional deep learning (DL) approaches, while effective, often require extensive parameter tuning and may lack interpretability. In this work, we investigate the use of a single three-axis accelerometer and the Kolmogorov--Arnold Network (KAN) for HAR tasks, leveraging its ability to model complex nonlinear relationships with improved int…

President Trump, flanked by sports stars, signs executive order to bring back Presidential Fitness Test https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6528412/2025/07/31/trump-executive-order-presidential-fitness-test/

I bought a cheap fitness tracker watch. And it has all these incredibly abusive upsells. Here they are offering me a discount because they like how I am sleeping. This is so unethical. How did anyone do this?

A Self-Organized Tower of Babel: Diversification through Competition
Riz Fernando Noronha, Kunihiko Kaneko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11522 https://arxiv.o…

A Self-Organized Tower of Babel: Diversification through Competition
We introduce a minimal evolutionary model to show how local cooperation and global competition can create a transition to the diversity of communities such as linguistic groups. By using a lattice model with high-dimensional state agents and evolution under a fitness that depends on an agent's local neighborhood and global dissimilarity, clusters of diverse communities with different fitness are organized by equalizing the finesses on the boundaries, where their numbers and sizes are robust to …

Generalized Quasispecies Model with Time Delays and Periodic Fluctuations in Replication
Nolbert Morales, Edward A. Turner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12424 https://

Generalized Quasispecies Model with Time Delays and Periodic Fluctuations in Replication
In this research, we present a generalized quasispecies model in which population growth is governed by an arbitrary nonlinear function incorporating time delays. We begin by demonstrating that, under the constant population constraint, the dynamics of the system with time delays remain confined to the invariant manifold for both forward and backward time evolution. Furthermore, we establish that in this modified quasispecies model, defined on a single-peak fitness landscape, in the presence of…

Mic Drop or Data Flop? Evaluating the Fitness for Purpose of AI Voice Interviewers for Data Collection within Quantitative & Qualitative Research Contexts
Shreyas Tirumala, Nishant Jain, Danny D. Leybzon, Trent D. Buskirk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01814

Mic Drop or Data Flop? Evaluating the Fitness for Purpose of AI Voice Interviewers for Data Collection within Quantitative & Qualitative Research Contexts
Transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) have paved the way for "AI interviewers" that can administer voice-based surveys with respondents in real-time. This position paper reviews emerging evidence to understand when such AI interviewing systems are fit for purpose for collecting data within quantitative and qualitative research contexts. We evaluate the capabilities of AI interviewers as well as current Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems across two dimensions: input/output perform…

Mental Fitness Conversations
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

A Hamilton-Jacobi approach for the evolutionary dynamics of a model with gene transfer: characterizing monomorphic dynamics for non-concave fitness functions
Alejandro G\'arriz (UGR), Sepideh Mirrahimi (IMT)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07886

A Hamilton-Jacobi approach for the evolutionary dynamics of a model with gene transfer: characterizing monomorphic dynamics for non-concave fitness functions
We study the asymptotic behavior of an integro-dierential equation describing the evolutionary adaptation of a population structured by a phenotypic trait. The model takes into account mutation, selection, horizontal gene transfer and competition. Previous works, based on the numerical studies or theoretical study of the corresponding stationary problem, have shown that the dynamics of the solutions are rich and we may expect several qualitative outcomes. In this article, we characterize the dy…

I remember as a kid taking the #presidential #fitness #test.
Once I knew it wasn't for any school grade, I did just 1 of whatever we were testing and stopped.
For the mile run…

Very good take on this topic. I was about to say nuanced, but it's not really. It’s pretty plain, just not a POV you hear all that much.
Also, props to @… for the boost. I absolutely would not have seen this toot without the boost from Allison, and I’m so glad I did.

$1/f$ noise in extremal dynamics
Rahul Chhimpa, Abha Singh, Avinash Chand Yadav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01327 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01327

$1/f$ noise in extremal dynamics
The Bak-Sneppen (BS) evolution model remains a well-studied example of self-organized criticality (SOC). We propose a simple variant of the BS model, where the global fitness fluctuations show $1/f^α$ noise with a spectral exponent nearly equal to 1 (pink noise). To further corroborate, we compute the two-time autocorrelation function that decays logarithmically. The $1/f$ noise in the global fitness is robust and hyper-universal. We identify the dominance of non-trivial local fitness cross-po…

Standing up at desk, leaving office, never returning #health

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back
ROCHESTER, MN—In an effort to help working individuals improve their fitness and well-being, experts at the Mayo Clinic issued a new set of health guidelines Thursday recommending that Americans stand up at their desk, leave their office, and never return. “Many Americans spend a minimum of eight hours per day sitting in an office, but we observed significant physical and mental health benefits in subjects after just one instance of standing up, walking out the door, and never coming back t…

for the fitness-nag study, I dusted off the ps4 and played Beat Saber for the first time in years. no stamina, but I can still do Pop/Stars on Expert. haven't retried anything Expert yet. *puddle*

The invariance and non-decreasing expectation of an evolutionary path characteristic under weak selection
Yun-Yun Yu, Cang Hui, Tian-Jiao Feng, Cong Li, Chao Wang, Yi Tao, Rui-Wu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11221

The invariance and non-decreasing expectation of an evolutionary path characteristic under weak selection
Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection states that the rate of change in a population's mean fitness equals its additive genetic variance in fitness. This implies that mean fitness should not decline in a constant environment, thereby positioning it as an indicator of evolutionary progression. However, this theorem has been shown to lack universality. Here, we derive the Fokker-Planck equation that describes the stochastic frequency dynamics of two phenotypes in a large population un…

Some cool stuff coming here: https://athletechnews.com/apple-watchos-26-public-beta-fitness-upgrades/?utm_source=Athletech Media Group LLC&utm_campaign=929c7ecf86-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_09_01_11_00_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-717047a094-604853391

101 redux: solid form's the real crux. I'm 69; I feel just fine!
#calisthenics #fitness #seniorfitness

Clearly a work in progress. Lots of promise, but very disjointed while chemistry is built, fitness is gained, and adaptations to a faster and more physical league are happening. It's a lot of roster changes.
The defense look shaky, but often they were put in bad positions by turnovers with too many players committed. Outside backs and midfielders.
Thrilled for Chiesa to get one. Happy for Mo to continue the opening day streak.
Ekitike is my MOTM. He already looks comfor…

As Fat Nixon stuffs his face with McDonald's & Diet Coke...
☑️ Trump, 79, Orders Everyone But Him to Get Fit Again
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-orders-everyone-but-him-to-get-fit-again/

Trump, 79, Orders Everyone But Him to Get Fit Again
The announcement comes after the president’s health and fitness came under the spotlight this month.

A Grover-Based Quantum Algorithm for Solving Perfect Mazes via Fitness-Guided Search
Michelle L. Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21937 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

A Grover-Based Quantum Algorithm for Solving Perfect Mazes via Fitness-Guided Search
We present a quantum algorithm for solving perfect mazes by casting the pathfinding task as a structured search problem. Building on Grover's amplitude amplification, the algorithm encodes all candidate paths in superposition and evaluates their proximity to the goal using a reversible fitness operator based on quantum arithmetic. A Grover-compatible oracle marks high-fitness states, and an adaptive cutoff strategy refines the search iteratively. We provide formal definitions, unitary construct…

Sources: Apple plans health and fitness teams reorg under Eddy Cue, watchOS under Craig Federighi, and Watch hardware under John Ternus, as Jeff Williams exits (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Det finns tyvärr en hel del influensers med PhDs som jag skulle tro har den här typen av avhandlingar. Vill man ha en PhD för marknadsföring och bara marknadsföring så finns det sätt att få det uppenbarligen.
Mike Israetel's PhD: The Biggest Academic Sham in Fitness? https://youtube.com/watch?v=elLI9PR…

You know, they needed that, because they needed to see exactly how pathetic he is.
Hegseth Lectures Military Brass on ‘Woke’ Leaders, Fitness and Grooming - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/RBkfO

'He has trouble completing a thought': bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump's mental acuity (Adam Gabbatt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/donald-trump-mental-fitness
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p31#a250803p31

⚡ Vagus nerve stimulation could help people get more exercise
#exercise

Vagus nerve stimulation could help people get more exercise
An experimental device that stimulates a key nerve connecting the heart and brain can improve fitness and exercise tolerance, according to research published in the European Heart Journal.

Spectra of random graphs with discrete scale invariance
Alessio Catanzaro, Rajat Subhra Hazra, Diego Garlaschelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12407 https://…

Spectra of random graphs with discrete scale invariance
Random graphs defined by an occurrence probability that is invariant under node aggregation have been identified recently in the context of network renormalization. The invariance property requires that edges are drawn with a specific probability that, in the annealed case, depends on a necessarily infinite-mean node fitness. The diverging mean determines many properties that are uncommon in models with independent edges, but at the same time widespread in real-world networks. Here we focus on …

FLEET: Formal Language-Grounded Scheduling for Heterogeneous Robot Teams
Corban Rivera, Grayson Byrd, Meghan Booker, Bethany Kemp, Allison Gaines, Emma Holmes, James Uplinger, Celso M de Melo, David Handelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07417

FLEET: Formal Language-Grounded Scheduling for Heterogeneous Robot Teams
Coordinating heterogeneous robot teams from free-form natural-language instructions is hard. Language-only planners struggle with long-horizon coordination and hallucination, while purely formal methods require closed-world models. We present FLEET, a hybrid decentralized framework that turns language into optimized multi-robot schedules. An LLM front-end produces (i) a task graph with durations and precedence and (ii) a capability-aware robot--task fitness matrix; a formal back-end solves a ma…

Use of a genetic algorithm to find solutions to introductory physics problems
Tom Bensky, Justin Kopcinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10920 https://arxiv.o…

Use of a genetic algorithm to find solutions to introductory physics problems
In this work, we show how a genetic algorithm (GA) can be used to find step-by-step solutions to introductory physics problems. Our perspective is that the underlying task for this is one of finding a sequence of equations that will lead to the needed answer. Here a GA is used to find an appropriate equation sequence by minimizing a fitness function that measures the difference between the number of unknowns versus knowns in a set of equations. Information about knowns comes from the GA posing …

Just did a nice #mountainbike loop nearby. My wife wanted to test her strength and endurance, especially with her new bike.
Well, it was a great ride! She did super well and I was surprised about how well it was for me, too!
Ohh and despite being doupt full at the start, I was super happy that I brought my water filter to refill my bottle during the ride!

75 reps in set 1 today at the new offset of 35 cm. Another best!
#calisthenics #fitness #seniorfitness
75 decline push-ups, 35-cm offset. I'm 69

Apple AirPods Pro 3 review: significantly better fit, sound quality, noise cancellation, and battery life, but heart-rate monitoring is buried in fitness apps (David Carnoy/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/my-apple-airpods-pro-…

My Apple AirPods Pro 3 Review: Big Improvements, Same Price, No Compromises
They cost the same at a hefty $249, but Apple's third-generation noise-canceling earbuds have improved in all the key areas, including fit, noise cancellation, sound quality and battery life.

R.B. And I hiked the Taughannock Falls Rim Trail this morning. So beautiful.
#hiking #nature #seenonmydogwwalk

The Mind Movement Health Podcast
Kate, a Nutritionist and Movement Specialist with over 15yrs experience in the health and fitness industry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mind-movement-health/

BigTokDetect: A Clinically-Informed Vision-Language Model Framework for Detecting Pro-Bigorexia Videos on TikTok
Minh Duc Chu, Kshitij Pawar, Zihao He, Roxanna Sharifi, Ross Sonnenblick, Magdalayna Curry, Laura D'Adamo, Lindsay Young, Stuart B Murray, Kristina Lerman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06515

BigTokDetect: A Clinically-Informed Vision-Language Model Framework for Detecting Pro-Bigorexia Videos on TikTok
Social media platforms increasingly struggle to detect harmful content that promotes muscle dysmorphic behaviors, particularly pro-bigorexia content that disproportionately affects adolescent males. Unlike traditional eating disorder detection focused on the "thin ideal," pro-bigorexia material masquerades as legitimate fitness content through complex multimodal combinations of visual displays, coded language, and motivational messaging that evade text-based detection systems. We address this c…

Extending a Phylogeny-based Method for Detecting Signatures of Multi-level Selection for Applications in Artificial Life
Matthew Andres Moreno, Sanaz Hasanzadeh Fard, Luis Zaman, Emily Dolson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14232

Extending a Phylogeny-based Method for Detecting Signatures of Multi-level Selection for Applications in Artificial Life
Multilevel selection occurs when short-term individual-level reproductive interests conflict with longer-term group-level fitness effects. Detecting and quantifying this phenomenon is key to understanding evolution of traits ranging from multicellularity to pathogen virulence. Multilevel selection is particularly important in artificial life research due to its connection to major evolutionary transitions, a hallmark of open-ended evolution. Bonetti Franceschi & Volz (2024) proposed to detect m…

Unveiling Many Faces of Surrogate Models for Configuration Tuning: A Fitness Landscape Analysis Perspective
Pengzhou Chen, Hongyuan Liang, Tao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21945

Unveiling Many Faces of Surrogate Models for Configuration Tuning: A Fitness Landscape Analysis Perspective
To efficiently tune configuration for better system performance (e.g., latency), many tuners have leveraged a surrogate model to expedite the process instead of solely relying on the profoundly expensive system measurement. As such, it is naturally believed that we need more accurate models. However, the fact of accuracy can lie-a somewhat surprising finding from prior work-has left us many unanswered questions regarding what role the surrogate model plays in configuration tuning. This paper pr…

Combinatorial optimization enhanced by shallow quantum circuits with 104 superconducting qubits
Xuhao Zhu, Zuoheng Zou, Feitong Jin, Pavel Mosharev, Maolin Luo, Yaozu Wu, Jiachen Chen, Chuanyu Zhang, Yu Gao, Ning Wang, Yiren Zou, Aosai Zhang, Fanhao Shen, Zehang Bao, Zitian Zhu, Jiarun Zhong, Zhengyi Cui, Yihang Han, Yiyang He, Han Wang, Jia-Nan Yang, Yanzhe Wang, Jiayuan Shen, Gongyu Liu, Zixuan Song, Jinfeng Deng, Hang Dong, Pengfei Zhang, Chao Song, Zhen Wang, Hekang Li, Qiujiang Gu…

Combinatorial optimization enhanced by shallow quantum circuits with 104 superconducting qubits
A pivotal task for quantum computing is to speed up solving problems that are both classically intractable and practically valuable. Among these, combinatorial optimization problems have attracted tremendous attention due to their broad applicability and natural fitness to Ising Hamiltonians. Here we propose a quantum sampling strategy, based on which we design an algorithm for accelerating solving the ground states of Ising model, a class of NP-hard problems in combinatorial optimization. The …

I got in a nice 7km run tonight, feeling better after having had a cold. Did the first 30 min or so in HR zone 2, then got irritated with the pace and decided to go a little faster for the last half hour. That might be the plan going forward. I believe in the expanded fitness levels that zone 2 builds, but it suuuucks!
Dedicating this run to my friend @…, wishing hi…

Polar launches the $199 Polar Loop, a screen-free fitness band to track activity, sleep, and more without a subscription, in three colors, shipping September 10 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

These men's fitness groups are hives of white supremacist rage - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/active-club/

Peloton unveils its Cross Training Series, including a $1,695 Bike and $6,695 Tread Plus, and AI-based Peloton IQ to track workouts on new and old machines (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/789282/peloton-cross-training-…

Peloton ushers in a new era with revamped hardware and AI
Peloton just announced a complete product lineup refresh, adding swivel displays, upgraded specs, and the Peloton IQ AI into every model.

DeepGo: Predictive Directed Greybox Fuzzing
Peihong Lin, Pengfei Wang, Xu Zhou, Wei Xie, Gen Zhang, Kai Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21952 https://arxiv.o…

DeepGo: Predictive Directed Greybox Fuzzing
The state-of-the-art DGF techniques redefine and optimize the fitness metric to reach the target sites precisely and quickly. However, optimizations for fitness metrics are mainly based on heuristic algorithms, which usually rely on historical execution information and lack foresight on paths that have not been exercised yet. Thus, those hard-to-execute paths with complex constraints would hinder DGF from reaching the targets, making DGF less efficient. In this paper, we propose DeepGo, a predi…

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Learning Unified Representations from Heterogeneous Data for Robust Heart Rate Modeling
Peng Yang, Zhengdong Huang, Zicheng Xie, Wentao Tian, Jingyu Liu, Lunhong Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21785

Learning Unified Representations from Heterogeneous Data for Robust Heart Rate Modeling
Heart rate prediction is vital for personalized health monitoring and fitness, while it frequently faces a critical challenge when deploying in real-world: data heterogeneity. We classify it in two key dimensions: source heterogeneity from fragmented device markets with varying feature sets, and user heterogeneity reflecting distinct physiological patterns across individuals and activities. Existing methods either discard device-specific information, or fail to model user-specific differences, …

Understanding the invader-driven replicator dynamics
Thi Minh Thao Le, Marina Garcia-Romero, Joao Duarte \^Alcantara Galvao, Sten Madec, Erida Gjini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08412

Understanding the invader-driven replicator dynamics
In this paper, we study a special case of the invasion fitness matrix in a replicator equation: the invader-driven case. In this replicator, each species is defined by its unique active invasiveness potential (initial growth rate when rare), upon invading any other species, independently of the partner. We derive explicit expressions and theorems to fully characterize the steady-states of this system, including its unique interior coexistence regime, reached for positive species traits, or alte…

Hegseth Lectures Military Brass on 'Woke' Leaders, Fitness and Grooming (Greg Jaffe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/us/politics/hegseth-military-officers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p08.uavs.cDGI3I55ddqY&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250930/p142#a250930p142

Why Evolve When You Can Adapt? Post-Evolution Adaptation of Genetic Memory for On-the-Fly Control
Hamze Hammami, Eva Denisa Barbulescu, Talal Shaikh, Mouayad Aldada, Muhammad Saad Munawar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03600

Why Evolve When You Can Adapt? Post-Evolution Adaptation of Genetic Memory for On-the-Fly Control
Imagine a robot controller with the ability to adapt like human synapses, dynamically rewiring itself to overcome unforeseen challenges in real time. This paper proposes a novel zero-shot adaptation mechanism for evolutionary robotics, merging a standard Genetic Algorithm (GA) controller with online Hebbian plasticity. Inspired by biological systems, the method separates learning and memory, with the genotype acting as memory and Hebbian updates handling learning. In our approach, the fitness f…

SmartPoser: Arm Pose Estimation with a Smartphone and Smartwatch Using UWB and IMU Data
Nathan DeVrio, Vimal Mollyn, Chris Harrison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03451 https://

SmartPoser: Arm Pose Estimation with a Smartphone and Smartwatch Using UWB and IMU Data
The ability to track a user's arm pose could be valuable in a wide range of applications, including fitness, rehabilitation, augmented reality input, life logging, and context-aware assistants. Unfortunately, this capability is not readily available to consumers. Systems either require cameras, which carry privacy issues, or utilize multiple worn IMUs or markers. In this work, we describe how an off-the-shelf smartphone and smartwatch can work together to accurately estimate arm pose. Moving be…

I'm 69. Today I did 108 decline push-ups before brunch. Here they are! Counter included. Middle seven minutes are sped up 7x for your viewing ease. I started this journey in 2020. It's been a life-changing gift! Don't look back. Thanks for your encouragement!
#fitness #calisthenics

'Shocked' Saquon declined Trump sports council https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45899838/eagles-saquon-barkley-shocked-trump-sports-council-mention

Information and fitness in two-state systems: self-replicating individuals in a fluctuating environment
Poulami Chatterjee, Cesar Nieto, Juan Manuel Pedraza, Abhyudai Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00150

Information and fitness in two-state systems: self-replicating individuals in a fluctuating environment
A population of individuals with the same genes can present heterogeneous traits (phenotypes). The prevalence of this heterogeneity can be explained as a bet-hedging strategy that improves the population proliferation rate (fitness) in fluctuating environments. The phenotype distribution is influenced by factors such as competition between phenotypes, the duration of environmental states, and the rate of phenotype-switching. We illustrate these effects in a system where both the environment and…

100 calf raises at 69, also with some shoulder mobility work. #calisthenics #fitness

Use of a genetic algorithm in university scheduling for equitable and efficient determination of teaching assignments
Tom Bensky, Karl Saunders
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06981 …

Use of a genetic algorithm in university scheduling for equitable and efficient determination of teaching assignments
Here a genetic algorithm (GA) is presented that creates a teaching schedule for a university physics department by algorithmically assigning ${\sim}200$ classes to ${\sim}50$ professors for each of three academic terms per year. The algorithm is driven by chromosomes of the GA that encode proposed pairings between enumerated lists of professors and classes. The fitness of the pairings is measured by considering both contractual work constraints and individual teaching preferences. The algorithm…

EvoGraph: Hybrid Directed Graph Evolution toward Software 3.0
Igor Costa, Christopher Baran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05199 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.051…

EvoGraph: Hybrid Directed Graph Evolution toward Software 3.0
We introduce **EvoGraph**, a framework that enables software systems to evolve their own source code, build pipelines, documentation, and tickets. EvoGraph represents every artefact in a typed directed graph, applies learned mutation operators driven by specialized small language models (SLMs), and selects survivors with a multi-objective fitness. On three benchmarks, EvoGraph fixes 83% of known security vulnerabilities, translates COBOL to Java with 93% functional equivalence (test verified), …

Puttering around in zone 2 again. 🐢 🐢 🐢
Fitness building. Patience testing.
#Running

Strava sues Garmin for allegedly infringing two patents related to its segments and heatmap features and violating a 2015 agreement between the companies (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/strava-sues-garmin-demands-stop-sell…

Strava Just Sued Garmin: Demands Garmin Stop Selling Devices
 Strava has sued Garmin, an act that I very much did not have on my bingo card for 2025. In doing so, they are demanding that Garmin cease selling effectively all of their fitness/outdoor watches, as well as cycling

Fitness and Overfitness: Implicit Regularization in Evolutionary Dynamics
Hagai Rappeport, Mor Nitzan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03187 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Fitness and Overfitness: Implicit Regularization in Evolutionary Dynamics
A common assumption in evolutionary thought is that adaptation drives an increase in biological complexity. However, the rules governing evolution of complexity appear more nuanced. Evolution is deeply connected to learning, where complexity is much better understood, with established results on optimal complexity appropriate for a given learning task. In this work, we suggest a mathematical framework for studying the relationship between evolved organismal complexity and enviroenmntal complexi…

5 handstand push-ups, set 2. (Ties my record.) Wednesdays are usually my handstand and pike day.
#seniorfitness #nogym #calisthenics