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Google Maps can’t explain why it falsely labeled German autobahns as closed - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/google-maps-cant-explain-why-it-falsely-labeled-german-aut…

Glitches far from transient gravitational-wave events do not bias inference
Sophie Hourihane, Katerina Chatziioannou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21869 https…

Glitches far from transient gravitational-wave events do not bias inference
Non-Gaussian noise in gravitational-wave detectors, known as "glitches," can bias the inferred parameters of transient signals when they occur nearby in time and frequency. These biases are addressed with a variety of methods that remove or otherwise mitigate the impact of the glitch. Given the computational cost and human effort required for glitch mitigation, we study the conditions under which it is strictly necessary. We consider simulated glitches and gravitational-wave signals in various …

Figured out what I was doing wrong in the curve25519 refactoring: the state signal I was using to dispatch register file reads also glitched high for one cycle (not sure if this is technically a glitch since it's synchronous but whatever) at the end of each main loop iteration.
This is harmless if you have combinatorial reads, but if you have synchronous reads with latency it leads to the "read data ready" signal being asserted an extra time and some extra math operation…

Mint Deluxe – Occident Accident
#byncnd

🕸️ A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data (https://theconversation.com/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-papers-and-we-traced-it-back-to-a-glitch-in-ai-training-data-254463).

@… hey, hope the Glitch changes mean you still have a home at Fastly 🤞

Normal Distribution of Crab Pulsar Glitch Activity from a Glitch Cluster Perspective
Pei-Xin Zhu, Xiao-Ping Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02925 https://…

Normal Distribution of Crab Pulsar Glitch Activity from a Glitch Cluster Perspective
As the most extensively and continuously monitored neutron star, the Crab pulsar serves as representative of the earliest evolutionary stage. Its unique and complex glitch phenomenology provides an unparalleled testing ground for theoretical models of neutron star interior dynamics. Within the self-organized criticality paradigm, Crab pulsar glitch sizes are modeled by a power-law distribution and waiting times by an exponential distribution. However, this framework is incompatible with neutron…

wait mastodon finally has the "followed by X people you know" thing on peoples profiles? unless that's a glitch or chuckya thing. i missed that feature from bluesky and twitter i'm happy it's there now

Haha, this was a rather fundamental misunderstanding (or more like brain glitch) of moment of inertia in Microsoft Flight Simulator, and only now they are fixing it. Well, better late than never. https://devsupport.flightsimulator.com/t/payload-moments-of-…

Identification of Noise-Associated Glitches in KAGRA O3GK with Hveto
T. Akutsu, M. Ando, M. Aoumi, A. Araya, Y. Aso, L. Baiotti, R. Bajpai, K. Cannon, A. H. -Y. Chen, D. Chen, H. Chen, A. Chiba, C. Chou, M. Eisenmann, K. Endo, T. Fujimori, S. Garg, D. Haba, S. Haino, R. Harada, H. Hayakawa, K. Hayama, S. Fujii, Y. Himemoto, N. Hirata, C. Hirose, H. -F. Hsieh, H. -Y. Hsieh, C. Hsiung, S. -H. Hsu, K. Ide, R. Iden, S. Ikeda, H. Imafuku, R. Ishikawa, Y. Itoh, M. Iwaya, H-B. Jin, K. Jung, T…

Identification of Noise-Associated Glitches in KAGRA O3GK with Hveto
Transient noise ("glitches") in gravitational wave detectors can mimic or obscure true signals, significantly reducing detection sensitivity. Identifying and excluding glitch-contaminated data segments is therefore crucial for enhancing the performance of gravitational-wave searches. We perform a noise analysis of the KAGRA data obtained during the O3GK observation. Our analysis is performed with hierarchical veto (Hveto) which identifies noises based on the statistical time correlation between…

This isn't meant dismissively toward those who use such tools for rhythmic manipulation - there are no rules, and you probably do it better than me - but every single "beat mangler" or "glitch" plugin I've ever used somehow sounds terrible.
In all these years, no releases have changed that view, and doing it by hand always seems preferable. (Obviously, I'm not talking about inputting or tools we use/build that generate note values; this is strictly about…

Was listening to a song from Paul Kalkbrenner this morning on Spotify. In the middle of the song the thing played an Audiobook Intro of about 30-40 seconds and then the song just continued.
Weird glitch in their matrix? Them preparing in song ads for payed accounts? We'll see. #enshittification continues

Specifically, if I break this server it's only myself that's affected. I don't think I'd like to follow the head of glitch commits quite so closely if I was running an instance that other people relied on.

Why things Feel “OFF” Lately — The GLITCH.
#NowWatching

Post-glitch Recovery and the Neutron Star Structure: The Vela Pulsar
Himanshu Grover, Erbil G\"ugercino\u{g}lu, Bhal Chandra Joshi, M. A. Krishnakumar, Shantanu Desai, P. Arumugam, Debades Bandyopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02100

Post-glitch Recovery and the Neutron Star Structure: The Vela Pulsar
Pulsar glitches, sudden changes in a neutron star's rotation, offer a unique window into the extreme physics governing these celestial bodies. The post-glitch recovery phase, characterized by a gradual recovery, reveals insights into the superfluid dynamics within the star. The post-glitch recovery phase probes the coupling mechanisms between different stellar components, sheds light on the properties of neutron star matter at supra-nuclear densities and even allows us to predict the time to th…

Happy Pride 2025 Y’all!
#Pride2025

Mastodon admins across Fedi prepare to upgrade to 4.4.0 over the next few days.
Meanwhile here on the bleeding edge:
4.5.0-alpha.1 glitch
(this is not necessarily a good thing)

G.Klimpa – Mixtum Compositum
#bass

Dark Matter Clumps as Sources of Gravitational-Wave Glitches in LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA data
Ezequiel Alvarez, Scott Perkins, Federico Ravanedo, Nicolas Yunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12227

Dark Matter Clumps as Sources of Gravitational-Wave Glitches in LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA data
We consider the hypothetical possibility that non-stationary glitch features in the noise of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors could be produced by small dark matter clumps that pass through the earth in the vicinity of gravitational-wave detectors. We first derive the gravitational-wave strain that would be generated by the passage of such a dark matter clump. We find that the strain is primarily sourced by the Newtonian gravitational acceleration of the mirrors toward the clump and by…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19441 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The anti-glitching gamma-ray pulsar PSR J1522-5735
Context. A small number of pulsar glitches have been identified as anti-glitches or spin-down glitches, where the overall contribution to the pulsar's rotation frequency is negative. A notable example of a spin-down glitch was observed in PSR 1522-5735, a radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar discovered by blind searches in the 3-year data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Aims. This work aims to search for PSR 1522-5735's glitches using Fermi-LAT data from over 15 years of observations. Method…