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arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 16706 nodes and 121251 edges.
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Run #AIagents safely in local sandboxes
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«“If I was going to design a facility to grow algae, I would probably design a facility that had a lot of surface area and was very shallow, so you have sunlight down to the bottom. And put a lot of nutrients in it. And that’s pretty much what the Reflecting Pool is. It’s just a perfect facility for growing algae.” The decision to paint the bottom a deep shade of blue, scientists have told me, raised the water temperature and accelerated the growth.»
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Real-time quantum jump in sound observed for first time
https://phys.org/news/2026-09-real-quantum.html

Real-time quantum jump in sound observed for first time
A Stanford team has documented the first direct observation of quantum jumps of sound in a mechanical resonator, completing an arc of scientific exploration that started more than 100 years ago.

TIL " #Python, for example, is a popular programming language that is famously smooth at handling integers of any size. If you peek into Python's underlying source code (search “Karatsuba” here)"

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers
A 23-year-old student overturned an ancient conjecture about one of math’s simplest operations

After a summer of sandbox escapes and other newsworthy and confidence-shaking incidents involving its AI models,
in a Wednesday blog post OpenAI disclosed a collection of six new alignment snafus from the past six months.
The models did things like tell future instances of themselves to lie, make up a fake citation, and access and attempt to use an exposed API key.
These disclosures were released alongside a new framework for disclosing additional incidents like these.

'Be Transparent Only If Asked': OpenAI Models Acted Out in Six Newly Disclosed Ways
The stories were published as part of OpenAI's new effort to disclose more such incidents.

Summary of the measures relating to EVs in the EU's Electrification Action Plan (and related initiatives), alongside the general adjustments to network tariffs, connection conditions and taxation
https://energy.ec.europa.eu/publications/co…

As this thread is slowing down (but feel free to keep the questions coming), this is also a great time to plug the public "Linguistics of Emojis" Zotero library, which we maintain. Over 300 scientific works on the linguistics of emojis - check it out! 🤓 #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay https://www.zotero.org/groups/2613859/linguistics_of_emojis/library

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 8361 nodes and 15751 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration…

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 31163 nodes and 120029 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaborati…