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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/

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

💣 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.

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-…

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/

'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

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…

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…

Hype um Apple-Film: "F1" bei Fitness und McDonald's
Apple hat eine beispiellose Marketingkampagne für seinen "F1"-Film mit Brad Pitt losgetreten. In Brasilien gibt's sogar Fleisch.
h…

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…

CosinorAge: Unified Python and Web Platform for Biological Age Estimation from Wearable- and Smartwatch-Based Activity Rhythms
Jinjoo Shim, Jacob Hunecke, Elgar Fleisch, Filipe Barata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01089

CosinorAge: Unified Python and Web Platform for Biological Age Estimation from Wearable- and Smartwatch-Based Activity Rhythms
Every day, millions of people worldwide track their steps, sleep, and activity rhythms with smartwatches and fitness trackers. These continuously collected data streams present a remarkable opportunity to transform routine self-tracking into meaningful health insights that enable individuals to understand -- and potentially influence -- their biological aging. Yet most tools for analyzing wearable data remain fragmented, proprietary, and inaccessible, creating a major barrier between this vast …

"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.

Can the president pass the Presidential Fitness Test? 🤔
The question no one is asking.
#usa #health #fitness #test

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

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.

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, …

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

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

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

Learning by training: emergent return-point memory from cyclically tuning disordered sphere packings
Mengjie Zu, Carl P. Goodrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01296 https://

Learning by training: emergent return-point memory from cyclically tuning disordered sphere packings
Many living and artificial systems improve their fitness or performance by adapting to changing environments or diverse training data. However, it remains unclear how such environmental variation influences adaptation, what is learned in the process, and whether memory of past conditions is retained. In this work, we investigate these questions using athermal disordered systems that are subject to cyclic inverse design, enabling them to attain target elastic properties spanning a chosen range. …

Training ride. First in a couple of weeks. I was tired, but it felt good.
#seniorfitness #nogym #fitness #roadbike

Mental Fitness Conversations
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

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…

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.

The Genetic Code Paradox: Extreme Conservation Despite Demonstrated Flexibility
Marc Bara Iniesta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01139 https://

The Genetic Code Paradox: Extreme Conservation Despite Demonstrated Flexibility
The universal genetic code presents a fundamental paradox in molecular biology. Recent advances in synthetic biology have demonstrated that the code is remarkably flexible--organisms can survive with 61 codons instead of 64, natural variants have reassigned codons 38+ times, and fitness costs of recoding stem primarily from secondary mutations rather than code changes themselves. Yet despite billions of years of evolution and this proven flexibility, approximately 99% of life maintains an ident…

EHCube4P: Learning Epistatic Patterns Through Hypercube Graph Convolution Neural Network for Protein Fitness Function Estimation
Muhammad Daud, Philippe Charton, Cedric Damour, Jingbo Wang, Frederic Cadet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16921

EHCube4P: Learning Epistatic Patterns Through Hypercube Graph Convolution Neural Network for Protein Fitness Function Estimation
Understanding the relationship between protein sequences and their functions is fundamental to protein engineering, but this task is hindered by the combinatorially vast sequence space and the experimental noise inherent in fitness measurements. In this study, we present a novel framework that models the sequence landscape as a hypercube $H(k,2)$ and integrates wavelet-based signal denoising with a graph convolutional neural network (GCN) to predict protein fitness across rugged fitness landsca…

More Efficient Real-Valued Gray-Box Optimization through Incremental Distribution Estimation in RV-GOMEA
Renzo J. Scholman, Tanja Alderliesten, Peter A. N. Bosman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23738

More Efficient Real-Valued Gray-Box Optimization through Incremental Distribution Estimation in RV-GOMEA
The Gene-pool Optimal Mixing EA (GOMEA) family of EAs offers a specific means to exploit problem-specific knowledge through linkage learning, i.e., inter-variable dependency detection, expressed using subsets of variables, that should undergo joint variation. Such knowledge can be exploited if faster fitness evaluations are possible when only a few variables are changed in a solution, enabling large speed-ups. The recent-most version of Real-Valued GOMEA (RV-GOMEA) can learn a conditional linka…

On Zero-sum Game Representation for Replicator Dynamics
Haoyu Yin, Xudong Chen, Bruno Sinopoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21299 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

On Zero-sum Game Representation for Replicator Dynamics
Replicator dynamics have widely been used in evolutionary game theory to model how strategy frequencies evolve over time in large populations. The so-called payoff matrix encodes the pairwise fitness that each strategy obtains when interacting with every other strategy, and it solely determines the replicator dynamics. If the payoff matrix is unknown, we show in this paper that it cannot be inferred from observed strategy frequencies alone -- distinct payoff matrices can induce the same replica…

‘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…

You just need 20 minutes, a kettlebell and this metcon workout to help you build total body strength at home https://www.tomsguide.com/welln…

You just need 20 minutes, a kettlebell and this metcon workout to help you build total body strength at home
Build lean muscle and strength from your living room

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

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

Can you Primal/Asian/Deep squat?
#fitness
Yes
No
Wait, what’s that?

There’s a small difference between MacDonald and many other social media starlets.
She is 79.
“I was 70 when I started [working out],” MacDonald says on a video call from her home in Ontario,
white hair elegantly coiffed.
“I keep thinking I’m in my 30s.”
MacDonald’s workouts are intense,
whether you’re 30 or 70.
She does deadlifts, weighted planks and kettlebell swings,
and casually lifts dumbbells the size of fire extinguishers over her head.

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…

Cybroc: Cyborgizing Broccoli for Longevity
Ke Huang, Yue Zhou, Xi He, Weibo Chen, Botao Amber Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21064 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Cybroc: Cyborgizing Broccoli for Longevity
Cybroc is a series of kinetic art installations exploring the recent proliferating populist longevity activism through the satirical cyborgization of broccoli. The artwork augments the symbol of health food-broccoli-with prosthetic limbs to perform so-called longevity-enhancing exercises such as cold plunges, treadmill running, brachiation (arm-swinging), sled pushing, etc.-all simulations of primal human survival tasks reframed as modern fitness routines. Despite its mechanical augmentations, …

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

The Effect of Sporadic Dormancy on Adaptation under Natural Selection: A Formal Theory
Sasanka Sekhar Chanda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22758 https://

The Effect of Sporadic Dormancy on Adaptation under Natural Selection: A Formal Theory
Researchers puzzle over questions as to how rare species survive extinction, and why a significant proportion of microbial taxa are dormant. Computational simulation modeling by a genetic algorithm provides some answers. First, a weak/rare/lowly-adapted species can obtain significantly higher fitness by resorting to sporadic dormancy; thereby the probability of extinction is reduced. Second, the extent of fitness-gain is greater when a higher fraction of the population is dormant; thus, the pro…

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

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

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 …

Nonequilibrium Theory for Adaptive Systems in Varying Environments
Ying-Jen Yang, Charles D. Kocher, Ken A. Dill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19018 https://

Nonequilibrium Theory for Adaptive Systems in Varying Environments
Biological organisms thrive by adapting to their environments, which are often unpredictably changeable. We apply recent results from nonequilibrium physics to show that organisms' fitness parses into a static generalist component and a nonequilibrium tracking component. Our findings: (1) Environmental changes that are too fast or too small are not worth tracking. (2) Well-timed anticipatory tracking enhances fitness in coherent environments. (3) We compute and explain the optimal adaptive stra…

@… I really would love to try it.
Our family is fairly tied in to Apple services, unfortunately, so I can’t switch any time soon. We use iCloud for our shared documents, Apple Music for playing whatever random thing the kid wants to hear today, and we actually quite like Apple Fitness.

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

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

Live im Happel-Stadion - Iron Maiden: Metal-Spektakel samt Fitness-Revue #News #Nachrichten

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

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

Senate Republicans hold hearing on Biden's mental fitness as Democrats boycott (Joey Cappelletti/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/biden-age-senate-investigation-fitness-republicans-a39d86a556f0ffd862ae47e35dc5fb74
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p111#a250618p111

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

#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

B.C. cyclist's clever Strava drawings:
"Perfect intersection' of art, fitness and road rash
When B.C.'s Janine Strong got into road cycling in 2019, she had no idea it would lead her down the path of Strava art: the creation of massive GPS-tracked sketches around the world."
See Ya later Alligator
#stava

Democrats walk out of Senate Judiciary hearing probing Biden's mental fitness (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/18/congress/dems-boycott-hearing-probing-bidens-fitness-00412461
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p72#a250618p72

If you put an AI voice in the middle of my Fitness workout I’m cancelling my subscription and I’m not even joking.
#WWDC

Das war ein (entspannter) Lauf, der meiner Fitness gerade angemessener ist: 5km in einer 8:40er Pace.. #WeltenkreuzerLäuft

For more than a year Trump, 79, has exhibited odd behavior at campaign events, in interviews, in his spontaneous remarks and at press conferences.
The president repeatedly drifts off topic,
including during a cabinet meeting this month when he spent 15 minutes talking about decorating,
and appears to misremember simple facts about his government and his life.

Nogen har sat enorme googly eyes på disse meterhŸje plakater - jeg elsker det! Birmingham har altså lidt af hvert 😂

#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.

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…

Hinterlässt 5 Kinder - Fitness-Star stirbt kurz nach 41. Geburtstag #News #Nachrichten

Replaced article(s) found for cs.NE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.NE/new
[1/1]:
- Fitness Landscape of Large Language Model-Assisted Automated Algorithm Search
Fei Liu, Qingfu Zhang, Jialong Shi, Xialiang Tong, Kun Mao, Mingxuan Yuan

Me sentindo o fitness natureba só por estar comendo uma maçã como sobremesa hoje.

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.

17,000 steps today so far. I'm happy with that. #Steps #Exercise #Fitness

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?

Protriever: End-to-End Differentiable Protein Homology Search for Fitness Prediction
Ruben Weitzman, Peter M{\o}rch Groth, Lood Van Niekerk, Aoi Otani, Yarin Gal, Debora Marks, Pascal Notin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08954

Protriever: End-to-End Differentiable Protein Homology Search for Fitness Prediction
Retrieving homologous protein sequences is essential for a broad range of protein modeling tasks such as fitness prediction, protein design, structure modeling, and protein-protein interactions. Traditional workflows have relied on a two-step process: first retrieving homologs via Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSA), then training models on one or more of these alignments. However, MSA-based retrieval is computationally expensive, struggles with highly divergent sequences or complex insertions &…

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…

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…

Was wide awake at 4a. By 6, I figured I should go for a walk before it got too hot. I saw this baby bunny on the walk.
I needed a cold shower after that.

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…

WatchWitch: Interoperability, Privacy, and Autonomy for the Apple Watch
Nils Rollshausen, Alexander Heinrich, Matthias Hollick, Jiska Classen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07210

WatchWitch: Interoperability, Privacy, and Autonomy for the Apple Watch
Smartwatches such as the Apple Watch collect vast amounts of intimate health and fitness data as we wear them. Users have little choice regarding how this data is processed: The Apple Watch can only be used with Apple's iPhones, using their software and their cloud services. We are the first to publicly reverse-engineer the watch's wireless protocols, which led to discovering multiple security issues in Apple's proprietary implementation. With WatchWitch, our custom Android reimplementation, we…

watchOS 26: Wie Apples KI-Trainer Workout Buddy funktioniert
watchOS 26 soll neue Fitness-Fähigkeiten bekommen. So plant Apple die Umsetzung beim neuen Workout Buddy zur Sportmotivation.
https://www.

Adaptation to extreme stress under the growth-survival fitness trade-off
Nandita Chaturvedi, Charuhansini Tvishamayi, Shashi Thutupalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18710 https://…

Adaptation to extreme stress under the growth-survival fitness trade-off
Microbial adaptation to extreme stress, such as starvation, antimicrobial exposure, or freezing often reveals fundamental trade-offs between survival and proliferation. Understanding how populations navigate these trade-offs in fluctuating environments remains a central challenge. We develop a quantitative model to investigate the adaptation of populations of yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) subjected to cycles of growth and extreme freeze-thaw stress, focusing on the role of quiescence as a me…

⚡ 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.

Apple announces Workout Buddy, bringing Apple Intelligence to Apple Watch fitness workouts by providing personalized insights during exercise sessions (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/09/ai-powered-workout-buddy-coming…

Apple Unveils AI-Powered 'Workout Buddy' for Apple Watch at WWDC
Apple at WWDC just announced Workout Buddy, which brings Apple Intelligence to fitness workouts on Apple Watch for the first time. The new feature...

$1/f$ 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…

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

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

Replaced article(s) found for cs.NE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.NE/new
[1/1]:
- Octopus Inspired Optimization (OIO): A Hierarchical Framework for Navigating Protein Fitness Land...
Xu Wang, Yiquan Wang, Longji Xu, Yuhua Dong, Tin-Yeh Huang, Xiang Li, Jia Deng, Rui He

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

"I got rid of – just one I got rid of the other night, you buy a house, they have a faucet in the house, Joe, and the faucet the water doesn’t come out. They have a restrictor. You can’t – in areas where you have so much water they don’t know what to do with it. Uh, you have a shower head the shower doesn’t uh, the shower doesn’t, you think it’s not working. It is working. The water’s dripping out and that’s no good for me. I like this hair lace and [sic] – I like that hair nice and wet…

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…

SImpHAR: Advancing impedance-based human activity recognition using 3D simulation and text-to-motion models
Lala Shakti Swarup Ray, Mengxi Liu, Deepika Gurung, Bo Zhou, Sungho Suh, Paul Lukowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06405

SImpHAR: Advancing impedance-based human activity recognition using 3D simulation and text-to-motion models
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with wearable sensors is essential for applications in healthcare, fitness, and human-computer interaction. Bio-impedance sensing offers unique advantages for fine-grained motion capture but remains underutilized due to the scarcity of labeled data. We introduce SImpHAR, a novel framework addressing this limitation through two core contributions. First, we propose a simulation pipeline that generates realistic bio-impedance signals from 3D human meshes using sho…

A Durrett-Remenik particle system in $\mathbb{R}^d$
Rami Atar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13990 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13990

A Durrett-Remenik particle system in $\mathbb{R}^d$
This paper studies a branching-selection model of motionless particles in $\mathbb{R}^d$, with nonlocal branching, introduced by Durrett and Remenik in dimension $1$. The assumptions on the fitness function, $F$, and on the inhomogeneous branching distribution, are mild. The evolution equation for the macroscopic density is given by an integro-differential free boundary problem in $\mathbb{R}^d$, in which the free boundary represents the least $F$-value in the population. The main result is the…

A look at Neon Coat, an app that offers models and influencers free restaurant meals, fitness classes, and other experiences in exchange for social media posts (Lane Florsheim/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/style/neon-coat-app-in

Biden hits back at Trump over autopen investigation (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/biden-trump-autopen-investigation-mental-fitness
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p2#a250605p2

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…

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…

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), …

It's tempting to do everything as fast as possible:
listen to podcasts on double speed,
work in email-free sprints,
or train at lung-bursting intensity in the gaps between your morning meditation and the school run.
But evidence is piling up that the last one might not be as beneficial as it seems
– and that, in fact, just introducing a lot more ultra-low-intensity movement into your schedule can improve your fitness as well as your quality of life,
…

Too little sleep, too hot, stagnant air with no breeze, and definitely rudely humid. When it became clear what a struggle this would be, I opted to run for HR zones instead. This included several walking breaks to bring my HR back down. My fitness needs the work.
#Running

Comparing lifetime and annual fitness measures reveals differences in selection outcomes
F. Stephen Dobson (IPHC), Claire Saraux (IPHC), David W. Coltman (IPHC), Shirley Raveh (IPHC), Vincent A. Viblanc (IPHC)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04763

Comparing lifetime and annual fitness measures reveals differences in selection outcomes
Selection analyses of long-term field data frequently use annual comparisons from longlived species with overlapping generations to measure fitness differences with respect to phenotypic characteristics, such as annual phenological timing. An alternative approach applies lifetime estimates of fitness that encompass several annual events. We studied selection on emergence date from hibernation in male and female Columbian ground squirrels, Urocitellus columbianus (Ord 1915). From 32 years of rec…

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

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…

Biden's doctor failed to properly assess fitness for office, Obama's doctor says (Paige Winfield Cunningham/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/07/biden-obama-trump-cognitive-test/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p39#a250607p39

Well, the good news is that it’s over. Run/walk staying in HR zone 2 and I think I was walking more than running. My fitness is 💩 right now. The humidity about killed me, even at 0730. I should have gone out earlier.
I’m at my in-laws place in Tennessee for the holiday weekend, of which this beautiful neighborhood has so few mature trees. As such, the sun gleefully poured out its angry menace upon me the entire time and I suffered. I am meant for cold weather.

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

Understanding the rift between update rules in Evolutionary Graph Theory: The intrinsic death rate drives star graphs from amplifying to suppressing natural selection
Max Dew, Christopher E. Overton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15528

Understanding the rift between update rules in Evolutionary Graph Theory: The intrinsic death rate drives star graphs from amplifying to suppressing natural selection
Evolutionary graph theory is the study of evolutionary dynamics in structured populations. A well-known problem in evolutionary graph theory is that the spread of mutation (measured by fixation probability) is impacted by the graph type chosen and the update rule. For example, the star graph is an amplifier of natural selection under the birth-death with fitness on birth (Bd) update rule but a suppressor of natural selection under the death-birth with fitness on birth (dB) update rule. A contin…

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 …

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…