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Probeless vs Probe-Based Variable-Strength Eavesdropping in Quantum Key Distribution
Yuval Idan, Tal Gofman, Ziv Abelson, Isabelle Cestier, Elad Mentovich, Eliahu Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25890

Probeless vs Probe-Based Variable-Strength Eavesdropping in Quantum Key Distribution
Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a provably secure way of generating a secret key, which can later be used for encoding and decoding information. In this paper we analyze the effects of an eavesdropper's variable-strength measurements on QKD. Two types of measurements have been considered: (i) a probe-based model, commonly referred to as a "weak measurement", in which each qubit is weakly coupled to a continuous variable probe which is later projectively measured (ii) a probeless model, usuall…

Es gibt wieder #Federweißer.
Der Alkopop für den gehobenen Trinker.
Ich besaufe mich jetzt. 🤪

Would it make sense to make my "Winnie the Coup and the Elongated Muskrat Bulldoze the Gubment" into an actual illustrated storybook?
"He brought his mini muskrats and they started going from place to place, tearing apart anything that might make Winnie the Coup more president than king."

Winnie the Coup and the Elongated Muskrat Bulldoze the Gubment
a fake children’s story I made up off the top of my head

Bootstrapping Learned Cost Models with Synthetic SQL Queries
Michael Nidd, Christoph Miksovic, Thomas Gschwind, Francesco Fusco, Andrea Giovannini, Ioana Giurgiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19807

Bootstrapping Learned Cost Models with Synthetic SQL Queries
Having access to realistic workloads for a given database instance is extremely important to enable stress and vulnerability testing, as well as to optimize for cost and performance. Recent advances in learned cost models have shown that when enough diverse SQL queries are available, one can effectively and efficiently predict the cost of running a given query against a specific database engine. In this paper, we describe our experience in exploiting modern synthetic data generation techniques,…

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Sandra Isabel:
🎵 Gewinner Verlierer
#NowPlaying #SandraIsabel
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FpPcO0gQ7BPPM1OMmx54I

Chiral charge density wave in 4Hb- and 1T-TaS$_2$: The Role of interlayer coupling
Roni Anna Gofman, Abigail Dishi, Hyeonhu Bae, Yuval Nitzav, Ilay Mangel, Nitzan Ragoler, Sajilesh K. P., Alex Louat, Matthew D. Watson, Cephise Cacho, Dmitry Marchenko, Andrei Varykhalov, Irena Feldman, Binghai Yan, Amit Kanigel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16…

Chiral charge density wave in 4Hb- and 1T-TaS$_2$: The Role of interlayer coupling
We use micro-angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (micro-ARPES) to investigate chiral charge density waves (CDWs) in 4Hb-TaS$_2$ with micron-scale spatial resolution. In the 1T layers of 4Hb-TaS$_2$, we uncover coexisting left- and right-handed CDW domains and resolve four distinct spectral patterns arising from the interplay of chirality and rotational stacking. In contrast, bulk 1T-TaS$_2$ exhibits a uniform chirality. In addition, 4Hb-TaS$_2$ shows negligible out-of-plane dispersion of …

Olha, Portugal ali em primeiro.
Curioso que quando nos ensinam na escola os descobrimentos nem sempre nos digam também que "descobrimentos" sempre implicaram imperialismo e colonialismo e o que deles vem.
Em grande medida, Portugal criou o mundo moderno. Com o que isso tem de bom E com o (muito) que tem de mau. Mas por cš raramente se fala do mau.

Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 (@bibliolater@qoto.org)
Attached: 1 image **European Overseas Colonies By Colonizer** _Bastian Becker (2023); Gapminder - Population v7 (2022) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Number of colonies” [dataset]. Bastian Becker, “Colonial Dates Dataset (COLDAT) 3.0”; Gapminder, “Population v7” [original data]._ 🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/european-overseas-colonies-by-colonizer. #Data #DataViz #History #Histodons #Europe #Colonialism #Imperialism @histodons@a.gup.pe

Towards Reliable and Interpretable Document Question Answering via VLMs
Alessio Chen, Simone Giovannini, Andrea Gemelli, Fabio Coppini, Simone Marinai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10129

Towards Reliable and Interpretable Document Question Answering via VLMs
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown strong capabilities in document understanding, particularly in identifying and extracting textual information from complex documents. Despite this, accurately localizing answers within documents remains a major challenge, limiting both interpretability and real-world applicability. To address this, we introduce \textit{DocExplainerV0}, a plug-and-play bounding-box prediction module that decouples answer generation from spatial localization. This design m…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
Antonio Vivaldi, Elena Russo, Paolo Beschi, Il Giardino Armonico & Giovanni Antonini:
🎵 Concerto for 2 Cellos in G Minor RV.531 (2nd mvt)
#AntonioVivaldi #ElenaRusso #PaoloBeschi #IlGiardinoArmonico #GiovanniAntonini

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Preservation & Gabe 'Nandez:
🎵 War (feat. billy woods)
#Preservation #GabeNandez
https://gabenandez.bandcamp.com/track/war-feat-billy-woods