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Zuckerberg says superintelligence is in sight, and, when personal superintelligence comes, context-aware devices like glasses will become our primary computers (Mark Zuckerberg/Meta)
https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/

Refugees, intergenerational trauma, child death, abusive family
Also just finished "The Best We Could Do" by Thi Bui, which is the second memoir I've stumbled upon recently that deals with the Vietnamese exodus after the end of the war (House Without Walls by Ching Yeung Russel is the other one, which is written in verse, not illustrated). Bui traces more of the political landscape and history of Vietnam through the stories of both of her parents, and also unpacks a lot of intergenerational trauma, but has less focus on the boat trip out and refugee camp experience, presumably because hers were easier than Russel's.
My thoughts after reading this return repeatedly to all of the impacts that patriarchy and toxic masculinity had on her father, from setting up his father and grandfather to be abusive towards him and the women in their lives, to pushing him deep into depression when he feels unable to fulfill the role of a protective husband, ironically leaving his wife to pick up the slack and ultimately ruining their relationship, to how it teaches him to despise and shirk the caregiver role he's left with, ultimately passing on some measure of trauma to his children. For sure war, abusive family, and child death can happen in the absence of patriarchy and those are in some ways perhaps bigger factors here, but at the same time, Bui's mom copes with most of the same factors in healthier ways.
#AmReading

FlipWalker: Jacob's Ladder toy-inspired robot for locomotion across diverse, complex terrain
Diancheng Li, Nia Ralston, Bastiaan Hagen, Phoebe Tan, Matthew A. Robertson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19380

FlipWalker: Jacob's Ladder toy-inspired robot for locomotion across diverse, complex terrain
This paper introduces FlipWalker, a novel underactuated robot locomotion system inspired by Jacob's Ladder illusion toy, designed to traverse challenging terrains where wheeled robots often struggle. Like the Jacob's Ladder toy, FlipWalker features two interconnected segments joined by flexible cables, enabling it to pivot and flip around singularities in a manner reminiscent of the toy's cascading motion. Actuation is provided by motor-driven legs within each segment that push off either the g…

A reader reports that when the patient died, the attending doctor
recorded the following on the patient's chart: "Patient failed to fulfill
his wellness potential."
Another doctor reports that in a recent issue of the *American Journal
of Family Practice* fleas were called "hematophagous arthropod vectors."
A reader reports that the Army calls them "vertically deployed anti-
personnel devices." You probably call them bombs.

Solitons, chaos, and quantum phenomena: a deterministic approach to the Schr\"odinger equation
Dami\`a Gomila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22868 https://

Solitons, chaos, and quantum phenomena: a deterministic approach to the Schrödinger equation
We show that the Schrödinger equation describes the ensemble mean dynamics of solitons in a Galilean invariant field theory where we interpret solitons as particles. On a zero background, solitons move classically, following Newton`s second law, however, on a non-zero amplitude chaotic background, their momentum and position fluctuate fulfilling an exact uncertainty relation, which give rise to the emergence of quantum phenomena. The Schrodinger equation for the ensemble of solitons is obtaine…

Examining the sentiment and emotional differences in product and service reviews: The moderating role of culture
Vinh Truong (RMIT University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21057 h…

Examining the sentiment and emotional differences in product and service reviews: The moderating role of culture
This study explores how emotions and sentiments differ in customer reviews of products and services on e-commerce platforms. Unlike earlier research that treats all reviews uniformly, this study distinguishes between reviews of products, typically fulfilling basic, functional needs, and services, which often cater to experiential and emotional desires. The findings reveal clear differences in emotional expression and sentiment between the two. Product reviews frequently focus on practicality, s…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Full Flower Moon Band ft.Gustaf:
🎵 Scene
#FullFlowerMoonBandftGustaf
https://fullflowermoonband.bandcamp.com/track/scene-ft-gustaf
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Yt5ZJVP0q4haEzcmVdGfM

Runaway Growth of Planetesimals Revisited: Presenting Criteria Required for Realistic Modeling of Planetesimal Growth
Nader Haghighipour, Luciano A. Darriba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21390

Runaway Growth of Planetesimals Revisited: Presenting Criteria Required for Realistic Modeling of Planetesimal Growth
We have initiated a large project on identifying the requirements for developing a realistic and ground-up approach to simulating the formation of terrestrial planets in our solar system. As the first phase of this project, we present here the criteria that any model of planetesimal growth needs to fulfill in order to be self-consistent and produce reliable results. We demonstrate how these criteria emerge by revisiting runaway growth and carrying out a thorough analysis of its results. As our …

The Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent
A. Ali Heydari, Ken Gu, Vidya Srinivas, Hong Yu, Zhihan Zhang, Yuwei Zhang, Akshay Paruchuri, Qian He, Hamid Palangi, Nova Hammerquist, Ahmed A. Metwally, Brent Winslow, Yubin Kim, Kumar Ayush, Yuzhe Yang, Girish Narayanswamy, Maxwell A. Xu, Jake Garrison, Amy Aremnto Lee, Jenny Vafeiadou, Ben Graef, Isaac R. Galatzer-Levy, Erik Schenck, Andrew Barakat, Javier Perez, Jacqueline Shreibati, John Hernandez, Anthony Z. Faranesh, Javier L. Prieto, Conn…

The Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent
Health is a fundamental pillar of human wellness, and the rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) have driven the development of a new generation of health agents. However, the application of health agents to fulfill the diverse needs of individuals in daily non-clinical settings is underexplored. In this work, we aim to build a comprehensive personal health agent that is able to reason about multimodal data from everyday consumer wellness devices and common personal health records, …