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NEW ART ALERT!
Hey Garden State Social! Thanks to everyone on the contributing to the cost of running the server I have commissioned more art for the server.
This new piece is by @… and be sure to boost and give them some huge thanks for this work!
This will be our new server header image and can be found on our about page here:

"Sir Keir’s reshuffle looks less like renewal than a coup by Labour’s “modernising” clique. Ian Murray’s sacking severs a bridge to Anas Sarwar’s Scottish Labour, which had been tacking leftwards, just as the Holyrood election looms, while Lucy Powell’s removal sidelines one of the few cabinet allies of Ed Miliband, the soft left’s champion" -- in other words, Labour is tacking even more violently towards the dark side.

Method of Weighted Words on Cylindric Partitions
Burcu Barsak\c{c}{\i}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02435 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02…

Method of Weighted Words on Cylindric Partitions
We study the generating functions of cylindric partitions having profile $c=(c_1, c_2, \ldots, c_r)$ with rank $2$ and levels $2, 3$ and $4$. As a result, we give expressions alternative to Borodin's formula for these generating functions. We use the method of weighted words which was first introduced by Alladi and Gordon, later was applied by Dousse in a new version to prove some partition identities and to get infinite products. We adopt the method to our subject with a more combinatorial app…

Quotes that have evolved over time to add a twist

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
The original first half is by Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think (1820).
The second half was made up by Twitter and then falsely attributed the entire quote to Oscar Wilde, it's still a great addition, I think.
Jack of all…

Outbuildings and St. Edmunds Church at Holme Pierrepont Hall, February 2025
#photography #ukphotographer #heritagephotography

Convergence of Momentum-Based Optimization Algorithms with Time-Varying Parameters
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11904 https://…

Convergence of Momentum-Based Optimization Algorithms with Time-Varying Parameters
In this paper, we present a unified algorithm for stochastic optimization that makes use of a "momentum" term; in other words, the stochastic gradient depends not only on the current true gradient of the objective function, but also on the true gradient at the previous iteration. Our formulation includes the Stochastic Heavy Ball (SHB) and the Stochastic Nesterov Accelerated Gradient (SNAG) algorithms as special cases. In addition, in our formulation, the momentum term is allowed to vary as a f…

"the additional expenditure on the NHS is not about improving our living standards, but about correcting the physical consequences of the appalling food that the neoliberal food supply industry is delivering to us, which is grossly detrimental to our health. We are not, in other words, better off as a consequence of this additional expenditure" -- @…

Neoliberalism is consuming our well-being
As The Guardian has noted: Britain is on track to become a “National Health State” where half of all public spending is allocated to the NHS and social care by the end of the decade, according to a leading thinktank. They added: As the chancellor came under pressure on Thursday to defend her...

Words fail me, Pixie.
#IfIFitsISits #CatsOfMastodon

I was a big Bucky fan as a kid.
Bring back the weirdest animated series of 1991
The fight against a hypercapitalist AI makes Bucky O’Hare still feel relevant today
https://share.google/G6KdAsfoScKPkydE8

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Benjamin Britten, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden & Benjamin Britten:
🎵 Peter Grimes (Prologue)
#BenjaminBritten #OrchestraoftheRoyalOperaHouse #CoventGarden