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Packers rookie OT Anthony Belton after five-penalty performance vs. Colts: 'I've just got to grow up' https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-rookie-ot-anthony-belton-after-five-penalty-performance-vs-colts-i-ve-just-g…

Firestorm Labs, which has contracts with the US DOD for its 3D printed drones, raised a $47M Series A and plans to grow its fleet of airliftable xCell factories (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/16/firestorm-hp-3d-printing-funding

Exclusive: Drone-printer Firestorm eyes expansion after $47 million round
"We're building out the decentralized factory of the future," Firestorm CEO Dan Magy told Axios.

First time I like what I see from an AI video.
*This video summary was created by AI from the original DW script. It was edited by a journalist before publication.
How hackers could take down Europe’s power supply
https://www.dw.com/en/how-hackers-could-ta

How hackers could take down Europe’s power supply – DW – 07/17/2025
Hackers can hijack solar energy installations and disrupt the grid. As threats grow, can attacks from China, Russia, or elsewhere be prevented?

McKinsey expects the European demand-side flexibility market to grow to €12 billion by 2030, with a €2 billion residential portion.
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/electric-power-and-natural-…

How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netflix in Southeast Asia through original productions and free, ad-supported services (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/media-entertainment/china-s-s…

China's streaming companies gain on Netflix in Southeast Asia
Platforms iQiyi, Tencent grow market shares with low fees and localized content

Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)

If America doesn't want its children to grow up confused about gender-appropriate clothing, they should replace all depictions of Jesus, or indeed any biblical male, with versions in which they are wearing long-trousers.
Should be doable with AI, I'm assured.

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-…

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

Mitigating the sign problem by quantum computing
Kwai-Kong Ng, Min-Fong Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13017 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13017

Mitigating the sign problem by quantum computing
The notorious sign problem severely limits the applicability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, as statistical errors grow exponentially with system size and inverse temperature. A recent proposal of a quantum-computing stochastic series expansion (qc-SSE) method suggested that the problem could be avoided by introducing constant energy shifts into the Hamiltonian. Here we critically examine this framework and show that it does not strictly resolve the sign problem for Hamiltonians with …

CoNav Chair: Development and Evaluation of a Shared Control based Wheelchair for the Built Environment
Yifan Xu, Qianwei Wang, Jordan Lillie, Vineet Kamat, Carol Menassa, Clive D'Souza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11716

CoNav Chair: Development and Evaluation of a Shared Control based Wheelchair for the Built Environment
As the global population of people with disabilities (PWD) continues to grow, so will the need for mobility solutions that promote independent living and social integration. Wheelchairs are vital for the mobility of PWD in both indoor and outdoor environments. The current SOTA in powered wheelchairs is based on either manually controlled or fully autonomous modes of operation, offering limited flexibility and often proving difficult to navigate in spatially constrained environments. Moreover, r…

Fears of brain drain grow as Trump cuts take a toll on UCLA
Research that was years in the making
— into diabetes, cancer, heart disease, strokes, PTSD and fighting antibiotic-resistant infections
— is on pause at UCLA, nearly a month after UCLA saw around $500 million in federal grants suspended.
While a federal judge ordered the restorationof 114 National Science Foundation grants in early August, grants from the National Institutes of Health remain suspended.
S…

Fears of brain drain grow as Trump cuts take a toll on UCLA
Several UCLA scientists tell LAist that their experiments on cancer, heart disease and other ailments are imperiled, but they’re more worried that young academics will abandon the field and that humanity will be worse off for it.

Ready for the iOS 26 release 😊 (I'll post this on the TelemetryDeck account later) https://dashboard.telemetrydeck.com/notebooks/9EEFEBBC-2722-42DC-B6FD-DDB13B8CACF0

"This convening is not an isolated event. It’s the first step in scaling a movement that reimagines how values-driven open science organisations can grow together, share resources, and strengthen the ecosystem we collectively serve. By working together, we can ensure that the future of open science is not only innovative, but also equitable, sustainable, and resilient."
https://www.carpentries.org/blog/2025/09/convening-to-reclaim-and-sustain-open-science-communities/
Great to see this forward looking collaborative work being done by @… @… @… @… and OLS

Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-…

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

'A lot to grow from' for Dak Prescott, Cowboys offense following Week 1 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/a-lot-to-grow-from-for-dak-prescott-cowboys-offense-following-week-1

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/

About three-quarters of fungi are “dark taxa” – species known only by their DNA sequence, as physical specimens have not been found.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/15/biology-mycorrhizal-fungi-map-restoring-world-fore…

Asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues of large rank perturbations of large random matrices
Ievgenii Afanasiev, Leonid Berlyand, Mariia Kiyashko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12182

Asymptotic behavior of eigenvalues of large rank perturbations of large random matrices
The paper is concerned with deformed Wigner random matrices. These matrices are closely connected with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs): weight matrices of trained DNNs could be represented in the form $R + S$, where $R$ is random and $S$ is highly correlated. The spectrum of such matrices plays a key role in rigorous underpinning of the novel pruning technique based on Random Matrix Theory. Mathematics has been done only for finite-rank matrix $S$. However, in practice rank may grow. In this paper …

Doctronic, which uses generative AI for health guidance and offers video visits with licensed doctors, raised a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners (PYMNTS.com)
https://www.pymnts.com/healthcare/2025/doctronic-raise…

Doctronic Raises $20 Million for AI-Powered Health Guidance Platform
Doctronic raised $20 million in a Series A funding round to expand its services and grow the adoption of its artificial intelligence-native platform

Simulations of Tidal Disruption of Supernova in Galaxy Nuclear Region: A Novel Model for Ambiguous Nuclear Transients
Xiangli Lei, Qingwen Wu, Ya-Ping Li, Wei-Hua Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11186

Simulations of Tidal Disruption of Supernova in Galaxy Nuclear Region: A Novel Model for Ambiguous Nuclear Transients
An increasing number of ambiguous nuclear transients, including some extreme nuclear transients, have been reported, which cannot be simply explained by the tidal disruption event (TDE) due to their high energy and/or overmassive black holes. Stars that form in or are captured by AGN disks will grow and migrate inward, potentially exploding as supernovae once the inner cold accretion disk disappears during the phase of AGN decay. We propose that tidal disruption of a supernova (TDS) by a superm…

Off-center black hole seed formation? Implications for high and low redshift massive black holes
David Izquierdo-Villalba, Daniele Spinoso, Marta Volonteri, Monica Colpi, Alberto Sesana, Silvia Bonoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12306

Off-center black hole seed formation? Implications for high and low redshift massive black holes
Recent studies show that light seeds of black holes, which grow into massive black holes (MBHs) over time, often struggle to remain at the centers of their birthplaces in high-redshift galaxies, limiting their ability to accrete gas and merge with other black holes. In this work, we investigate how off-center formation of the first seeds affects the evolution of the MBH and massive black hole binary (MBHB) populations over cosmic history. To this end, we use the $\texttt{L-Galaxies}{\it BH}$ se…

A Proliferating Nematic That Collectively Senses an Anisotropic Substrate
Toshi Parmar, Fridtjof Brauns, Yimin Luo, M. Cristina Marchetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11754

A Proliferating Nematic That Collectively Senses an Anisotropic Substrate
Motivated by recent experiments on growing fibroblasts, we examine the development of nematic order in a colony of elongated cells proliferating on a nematic elastomer substrate. After sparse seeding, the cells divide and grow into locally ordered, but randomly oriented, domains that then interact with each other and the substrate. Global alignment with the substrate is only achieved above a critical density, suggesting a collective mechanism for the sensing of substrate anisotropy. The system …

🌾 Scientists show how to grow more nutritious rice that uses less fertilizer
#rice

Scientists show how to grow more nutritious rice that uses less fertilizer
The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 billion people around the world—comes with extremely high environmental, climate and economic costs.

all the rimworld odyssey playthroughs that grow tons of rice from "oxygen" makes me want to grab the youtuber by the shoulder and shake while yelling into their mic "AND WHERE DOES THE CARBON COME FROM, MOTHERFUCKER"

The @… meetup is now on YouTube!
As a community, we're committed to sharing knowledge and expertise in PHP development. Our channel will feature recordings of our meetup sessions, so you can learn from the best and stay up-to-date on the latest industry trends. Help us grow our community by sharing this post with your network and subscribing to our channe…

Amazon debuts a chatbot-style assistant to help advertisers use AI to make ads, which can run across Amazon's ad inventory and platforms that have Amazon deals (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-aims-t

Scaling Up without Fading Out: Goal-Aware Sparse GNN for RL-based Generalized Planning
Sangwoo Jeon, Juchul Shin, Gyeong-Tae Kim, YeonJe Cho, Seongwoo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10747

Scaling Up without Fading Out: Goal-Aware Sparse GNN for RL-based Generalized Planning
Generalized planning using deep reinforcement learning (RL) combined with graph neural networks (GNNs) has shown promising results in various symbolic planning domains described by PDDL. However, existing approaches typically represent planning states as fully connected graphs, leading to a combinatorial explosion in edge information and substantial sparsity as problem scales grow, especially evident in large grid-based environments. This dense representation results in diluted node-level infor…

Mad science.
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/10/04/0729235/scientists-grow-mini-human-brains-to-power-computers
>Scientists Grow Mini Human Brains To Power Computers

Amazon debuts a chatbot-style assistant to help advertisers use AI to make ads, which can run across Amazon's ad inventory and platforms that have Amazon deals (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-aims-t

I’ve always felt a deep resentment toward the wealthy, not just for their excessive privilege, but for how they hoard resources that could ease so much human suffering. It infuriates me that their fortunes grow while people sleep on the streets and struggle to survive another day.
I believe everyone deserves the fundamentals that make life dignified, secure housing, nourishment, healthcare, education, and fair social support. No one should have to beg for what should already belong to …

Targeted Test Selection Approach in Continuous Integration
Pavel Plyusnin, Aleksey Antonov, Vasilii Ermakov, Aleksandr Khaybriev, Margarita Kikot, Ilseyar Alimova, Stanislav Moiseev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10279

Targeted Test Selection Approach in Continuous Integration
In modern software development change-based testing plays a crucial role. However, as codebases expand and test suites grow, efficiently managing the testing process becomes increasingly challenging, especially given the high frequency of daily code commits. We propose Targeted Test Selection (T-TS), a machine learning approach for industrial test selection. Our key innovation is a data representation that represent commits as Bags-of-Words of changed files, incorporates cross-file and addition…

Observation of quantum-field-theory dynamics on a spin-phonon quantum computer
Anton T. Than, Saurabh V. Kadam, Vinay Vikramaditya, Nhung H. Nguyen, Xingxin Liu, Zohreh Davoudi, Alaina M. Green, Norbert M. Linke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11477

Observation of quantum-field-theory dynamics on a spin-phonon quantum computer
Simulating out-of-equilibrium dynamics of quantum field theories in nature is challenging with classical methods, but is a promising application for quantum computers. Unfortunately, simulating interacting bosonic fields involves a high boson-to-qubit encoding overhead. Furthermore, when mapping to qubits, the infinite-dimensional Hilbert space of bosons is necessarily truncated, with truncation errors that grow with energy and time. A qubit-based quantum computer, augmented with an active boso…

How To Grow Your Own Shiitake Mushrooms #mushrooms

How To Grow Your Own Shiitake Mushrooms
Learn how to grow shiitake mushrooms at home with this step-by-step guide from homesteader Crystal Schmidt.

Sparse Polyak: an adaptive step size rule for high-dimensional M-estimation
Tianqi Qiao, Marie Maros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09802 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Sparse Polyak: an adaptive step size rule for high-dimensional M-estimation
We propose and study Sparse Polyak, a variant of Polyak's adaptive step size, designed to solve high-dimensional statistical estimation problems where the problem dimension is allowed to grow much faster than the sample size. In such settings, the standard Polyak step size performs poorly, requiring an increasing number of iterations to achieve optimal statistical precision-even when, the problem remains well conditioned and/or the achievable precision itself does not degrade with problem size.…

Training Camp Notebook 8/5: Chemistry between Brock Bowers and Geno Smith continues to grow https://www.raiders.com/news/training-camp-notebook-8-5-chemistry-between-brock-bowers-and-geno-smith-continues-to-grow

Lossless Derandomization for Undirected Single-Source Shortest Paths and Approximate Distance Oracles
Shuyi Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12598 https://ar…

Lossless Derandomization for Undirected Single-Source Shortest Paths and Approximate Distance Oracles
A common step in algorithms related to shortest paths in undirected graphs is that, we select a subset of vertices as centers, then grow a ball around each vertex until a center is reached. We want the balls to be as small as possible. A randomized algorithm can uniformly sample $r$ centers to achieve the optimal (expected) ball size of $Θ(n/r)$. A folklore derandomization is to use the $O(\log n)$ approximation for the set cover problem in the hitting set version where we want to hit all the …

Fascinating article, from the island of Seil:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/15/biology-mycorrhizal-fungi-map-restoring-world-forests

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds:
🎵 Where the Wild Roses Grow (feat. Kylie Minogue)
#NickCave #theBadSeeds
https://thehellmask.bandcamp.com/track/where-the-wild-roses-grow-feat-thais-constan-nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/4LK8kGGY0FGSGIAk2GwI30

Born Dry or Born Wet? A Palette of Water Growth Histories in TRAPPIST-1 Analogs and Compact Planetary Systems
Howard Chen, Matthew S. Clement, Le-Chris Wang, Jesse T. Gu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12794

Born Dry or Born Wet? A Palette of Water Growth Histories in TRAPPIST-1 Analogs and Compact Planetary Systems
It is still unclear whether exoplanets in compact multiplanet systems such as TRAPPIST-1 are able to accrete large quantities of volatiles, grow to sufficient mass, and maintain robust atmospheres and hydrospheres. Previous estimates of water content in M-dwarf systems have largely relied on population synthesis or atmosphere-interior evolution models, often treating impacts and atmospheric loss in isolation. In this work, we couple impact delivery, impact erosion, and mantle-atmosphere exchang…

Music Production: How to Grow a Listener Base with Your Music 📡
https://www.levelsmusicproduction.com/blog/music-production-how-to-grow-a-listener-base-with-your-music?utm_sourc…

Music Production: How to Grow a Listener Base with Your Music
Want to grow a real listener base for your music? Learn how to cut through the noise, connect with fans, and build systems that turn attention into lasting community — with tips, tactics, and a comparison chart.

Belarus launches military readiness check as security concerns grow: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/11/belarus-launches-military-readiness-check.html

UK economy saw zero growth in July
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c203edl1zq3o
"Faced with economic stagnation the elites are panicking. Wild eyed in the control room, they thrash around seeking to fix the unfixable, pushing all the buttons, pulling all the levers, to n…

UK economy saw zero growth in July
The economy failed to grow following the biggest contraction in manufacturing output for a year.

24 years ago today, America fell.
It took a while to finish happening, but in the end, bin Ladin won.
Not because of the attack itself. But because of our reaction. It galvanized all the wrong people: Nationalists, neocons, Christian fundamentalists hell bent on starting religious wars... All had been working to grow for years, but the attack kicked the all into high gear.
bin Ladin didn't destroy America. He made Americans destroy America.
The question is, can we…

Patriots' Robert Kraft: NFL-ESPN deal aims to expand league's reach, 'grow our audience globally' https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-robert-kraft-nfl-espn-deal-aims-to-expand-league-s-reach-grow-our-audience-globa…

"Illinois farmers find that sheep and solar arrays go well together"
#US #USA #America #Energy

Illinois farmers find that sheep and solar arrays go well together
The agrivoltaics practice of raising sheep under solar panels is a win-win for Illinois farmers — but first the market for lamb meat needs to grow.

AI-Agents for Culturally Diverse Online Higher Education Environments
Fuze Sun, Paul Craig, Lingyu Li, Shixiangyue Meng, Chuxi Nan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10520 https://

AI-Agents for Culturally Diverse Online Higher Education Environments
As the global reach of online higher education continues to grow, universities are increasingly accommodating students from diverse cultural backgrounds \parencite{tereshko2024culturally}. This can present a number of challenges including linguistic barriers \parencite{ullah2021linguistic}, cultural differences in learning style \parencite{omidvar2012cultural}, cultural sensitivity in course design \parencite{nguyen2022cultural} and perceived isolation when students feel their perspectives or e…

Using orthogonal projectors in multigrid multilevel Monte Carlo for trace estimation in lattice QCD
Andreas Frommer, Jose Jimenez-Merchan, Francesco Knechtli, Tomasz Korzec, Gustavo Ramirez-Hidalgo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11424

Using orthogonal projectors in multigrid multilevel Monte Carlo for trace estimation in lattice QCD
We introduce a multigrid multilevel Monte Carlo method for stochastic trace estimation in lattice QCD based on orthogonal projections. This formulation extends the previously proposed oblique decomposition and it is assessed on three representative problems: the connected pseudoscalar correlator, the trace of the full Dirac operator's inverse $\mathrm{tr}(D^{-1})$, and disconnected fermion loops. For the connected correlator, variance reductions grow systematically with the time separation and …

The @… meetup is now on YouTube!
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Fractal growth of higher-order topological insulators
Yutaro Tanaka, Shuai Zhang, Tiantian Zhang, Shuichi Murakami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09875 https://

Fractal growth of higher-order topological insulators
Understanding crystal growth and morphology is a fundamental issue in condensed matter physics. In this work, we reveal the fractal morphology of growing crystals of higher-order topological insulators and show that the corners of the crystals grow preferentially compared to the edges in the presence of the corner states. We further demonstrate that when we compare the crystal shape of the higher-order topological insulator with that of the trivial insulator with the same value of the fractal d…

You know, she has not uttered a word against, much less helped resolve the effectively permanent family separations - children who will grow up never knowing the parents that were taken away by her "husband".
As they say charity is best done close to home. It's pretty clear that this "charity" is merely a pretentious facade - or as they call it in Russia, a Ptomkin Village.
"Melania Trump reveals she's worked with Putin for months to reunite Ukra…

Growing Reservoirs with Developmental Graph Cellular Automata
Matias Barandiaran, James Stovold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08091 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508…

Growing Reservoirs with Developmental Graph Cellular Automata
Developmental Graph Cellular Automata (DGCA) are a novel model for morphogenesis, capable of growing directed graphs from single-node seeds. In this paper, we show that DGCAs can be trained to grow reservoirs. Reservoirs are grown with two types of targets: task-driven (using the NARMA family of tasks) and task-independent (using reservoir metrics). Results show that DGCAs are able to grow into a variety of specialized, life-like structures capable of effectively solving benchmark tasks, stat…

Complex Logical Instruction Generation
Mian Zhang, Shujian Liu, Sixun Dong, Ming Yin, Yebowen Hu, Xun Wang, Steven Ma, Song Wang, Sathish Reddy Indurthi, Haoyun Deng, Zhiyu Zoey Chen, Kaiqiang Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09125

Complex Logical Instruction Generation
Instruction following has catalyzed the recent era of Large Language Models (LLMs) and is the foundational skill underpinning more advanced capabilities such as reasoning and agentic behaviors. As tasks grow more challenging, the logic structures embedded in natural language instructions becomes increasingly intricate. However, how well LLMs perform on such logic-rich instructions remains under-explored. We propose LogicIFGen and LogicIFEval. LogicIFGen is a scalable, automated framework for ge…

Sub-THz Power Amplifiers: Measurements, Behavioral Modeling and Predistortion Algorithms
Lutfi Samara, Simon Haussmann, Erind Tufa, Antonio Alberto D'Amico, Tommaso Zugno, Ingmar Kallfass, Thomas K\"urner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09545

Sub-THz Power Amplifiers: Measurements, Behavioral Modeling and Predistortion Algorithms
With global IMT traffic expected to grow 10-100 times from 2020 to 20301, the Terahertz (THz) spectrum offers a promising solution to satisfy such forecasts. However, occupying the THz spectrum comes with its own challenges, an important one being impairments caused by broadband RF components in THz transceivers. Nonlinearities in power amplifiers (PAs) complicate meeting link budget requirements, with amplitude and phase distortions degrading the system's performance, especially when adopting …

We have raspberries growing. When we lived in Seattle we grew kale and picked wild blackberries. All were so much better than anything you get in a grocery store.
I don't eat a lot of fruit these days because its so disappointing to take a bite out of a bland or bitter berry from a plastic carton..
https://m…

If You Know You Grow
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Image selective encryption analysis using mutual information in CNN based embedding space
Ikram Messadi, Giulia Cervia, Vincent Itier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08832 https://…

Image selective encryption analysis using mutual information in CNN based embedding space
As digital data transmission continues to scale, concerns about privacy grow increasingly urgent - yet privacy remains a socially constructed and ambiguously defined concept, lacking a universally accepted quantitative measure. This work examines information leakage in image data, a domain where information-theoretic guarantees are still underexplored. At the intersection of deep learning, information theory, and cryptography, we investigate the use of mutual information (MI) estimators - in pa…

Achieving Meaningful Collaboration: Worker-centered Design of a Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Blending Task
Nicky Mol, Luka Peternel, Alessandro Ianniello, Denis Zatyagov, Auke Nachenius, Stephan Balvert, J. Micah Prendergast, Sara Muscolo, Olger Siebinga, Eva Verhoef, Deborah Forster, David A. Abbink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12340

Achieving Meaningful Collaboration: Worker-centered Design of a Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Blending Task
The use of robots in industrial settings continues to grow, driven by the need to address complex societal challenges such as labor shortages, aging populations, and ever-increasing production demands. In this abstract, we advocate for (and demonstrate) a transdisciplinary approach when considering robotics in the workplace. Transdisciplinarity emphasizes the integration of academic research with pragmatic expertise and embodied experiential knowledge, that prioritize values such as worker well…

Dutch drought resumes. The season's precipitation deficit (evaporation minus rainfall) has been hovering around 200 mm for a while, a high value already. But now, it is starting to grow again, in line with the top 5% driest years in the 1906-2025 record.
#ClimateChange #drought

The Turd Reich, by Grow Up Art
https://mcusercontent.com/bd36014b9888db9081d204e78/files/4bd4265d-d050-c94b-d38b-311ec25db977/the_turd_reich_A0_.01.pdf

That’s almost certainly the better strategy for them, even if the cynical view is true and they really are an investment org and not an educational institution at heart. We know that caving to bullies just marks you as a target. We know that, as @… said, those who resist grow in stature, and those who capitulate emerge as shadows of themselves (https://www.theindex.media/p/donald-trump-can-t-make-cowards-of-us-all). If Harvard is a brand, well….
But investment is a fear-driven world, and there’s a lot of fear circulating.
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Morphogenetic mechanical metamaterials: Emerging tensor properties from self-organized structures
Thomas Froment\`eze, Philippe Michaud, Ali Hassny, Vincent Pateloup
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10277

Morphogenetic mechanical metamaterials: Emerging tensor properties from self-organized structures
Understanding how living organisms spontaneously develop complex functional structures inspires innovative approaches in engineering design. Here, we introduce a decentralized generative model based on morphogenesis to autonomously grow mechanical structures with controlled tensorial properties. By adapting Turing's reaction-diffusion concept through anisotropic diffusion, our approach enables the local emergence of microstructures exhibiting tailored stiffness and anisotropy, achieving target …

VisPile: A Visual Analytics System for Analyzing Multiple Text Documents With Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs
Adam Coscia, Alex Endert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09605

VisPile: A Visual Analytics System for Analyzing Multiple Text Documents With Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs
Intelligence analysts perform sensemaking over collections of documents using various visual and analytic techniques to gain insights from large amounts of text. As data scales grow, our work explores how to leverage two AI technologies, large language models (LLMs) and knowledge graphs (KGs), in a visual text analysis tool, enhancing sensemaking and helping analysts keep pace. Collaborating with intelligence community experts, we developed a visual analytics system called VisPile. VisPile inte…

Adaptive Bayesian computation for efficient biobank-scale genomic inference
Yiran Li, John Whittaker, Sylvia Richardson, Helene Ruffieux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10736 https:/…

Adaptive Bayesian computation for efficient biobank-scale genomic inference
Motivation: Modern biobanks, with unprecedented sample sizes and phenotypic diversity, have become foundational resources for genomic studies, enabling powerful cross-phenotype and population-scale analyses. As studies grow in complexity, Bayesian hierarchical models offer a principled framework for jointly modeling multiple units such as cells, traits, and experimental conditions, increasing statistical power through information sharing. However, adoption of Bayesian hierarchical models in bio…

Foxconn's AI server business surged 60% YoY in Q2, surpassing revenue from Apple-related products for the first time, and is projected to grow 170% YoY in Q3 (Lauly Li/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology…

Foxconn's AI server revenue tops its Apple earnings for first time
Milestone reached as uncertainty over tariffs clouds consumer electronics segment

Training Camp Notebook 8/5: Chemistry between Brock Bowers and Geno Smith continues to grow https://www.raiders.com/news/training-camp-notebook-8-5-chemistry-between-brock-bowers-and-geno-smith-continues-to-grow

Steve would be Zagging.
OR: he would have been lost to a chatbot he built to emulate himself.
#IWeep6Colors https://mastodon.social/@Sarahp/114950004109834073

2025 NFL Week 2 early odds: Eagles favored in Super Bowl rematch vs. Chiefs; Packers line continues to grow

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nf

Analyzing and Internalizing Complex Policy Documents for LLM Agents
Jiateng Liu, Zhenhailong Wang, Xiaojiang Huang, Yingjie Li, Xing Fan, Xiang Li, Chenlei Guo, Ruhi Sarikaya, Heng Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11588

Analyzing and Internalizing Complex Policy Documents for LLM Agents
Large Language Model (LLM)-based agentic systems rely on in-context policy documents encoding diverse business rules. As requirements grow, these documents expand rapidly, causing high computational overhead. This motivates developing internalization methods that embed policy documents into model priors while preserving performance. Prior prompt compression work targets generic prompts, but agentic policy documents span multiple complexity levels and require deeper reasoning, making internaliza…

Testing the nature of compact objects in the lower mass gap using gravitational wave observations
N. V. Krishnendu, Frank Ohme, K. G. Arun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10420 https…

Testing the nature of compact objects in the lower mass gap using gravitational wave observations
As the compact binary catalog continues to grow rapidly, developing and refining tests to probe the nature of compact objects is essential for a comprehensive understanding of both the observed data and the underlying astrophysics of the binary population. We investigate the effectiveness of spin-induced multipole moments (SIQM) and tidal deformability measurements in distinguishing lower mass-gap black hole (BH) binaries from non-BH binaries with different mass and spin configurations. We perf…

📉 Why the Left Should Care About Population Decline
#population

Why the Left Should Care About Population Decline
Population decline is not just about human extinction. Before it ends, human civilization will grow increasingly unpleasant — and communal ideals associated with left-wing politics will become increasingly difficult to sustain.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds:
🎵 Where the Wild Roses Grow (feat. Kylie Minogue)
#NickCave #theBadSeeds
https://thehellmask.bandcamp.com/track/where-the-wild-roses-grow-feat-thais-constan-nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/4LK8kGGY0FGSGIAk2GwI30

The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that
“the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.”

“Unless the Department acts immediately to provide a source of stable and lawful labor, this threat will grow,” the Labor Department said

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices
U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech to cloud providers and AI companies, raised a $100M Series B at a $3.1B valuation (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/07/decart-raises-10…

Decart raises $100M on $3.1B valuation to grow real-time AI video platform - SiliconANGLE
Decart raises $100M on $3.1B valuation to grow real-time AI video platform - SiliconANGLE

I believe the dismantling of capitalism and the state must come through direct action and self-organization by the working class, united in democratic, federated, and recallable unions. Power must grow from the bottom, from the workplaces and communities of ordinary people, instead of being handed to parties or leaders who claim to act on our behalf. Emancipation will only be achieved when workers collectively take control of production, end exploitation, and organize society through free co…

Filing: Netflix UK distribution arm reports revenue of £1.85B for 2024, up 11% from 2023, and an 11% growth in average paid memberships (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-uk-revenue-surges-2-billion-profits-grow…

Netflix U.K. Revenue Surges to $2.4 Billion, Profits Grow
Netflix's U.K. arm delivered a strong performance in 2024, with revenue climbing 11% to $2.48 billion as the streaming giant continued its expansion.

Literate Tracing
Matthew Sotoudeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09073 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09073

Literate Tracing
As computer systems grow ever larger and more complex, a crucial task in software development is for one person (the system expert) to communicate to another (the system novice) how a certain program works. This paper reports on the author's experiences with a paradigm for program documentation that we call literate tracing. A literate trace explains a software system using annotated, concrete execution traces of the system. Literate traces complement both in-code comments (which often lack glo…

"World’s top fossil fuel producers set to grow despite Paris targets"
#France #Paris #FossilFuels #Climate

World’s top fossil fuel producers set to grow despite Paris targets
The world’s 20 largest fossil fuel producing countries are on track to produce more than twice the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than would be consistent with the global goal to limit warming to 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit), according to the new Production Gap Report 2025. The 2025 report updates an earlier […]

Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.

The dark matter wake of a galactic bar revealed by multichannel Singular Spectral Analysis
Jason A. S. Hunt, Michael S. Petersen, Martin D. Weinberg, Kathryn V. Johnston, Marcel Bernet, Kathryne J. Daniel, S\'oley \'O. Hyman, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Arpit Arora, the EXP Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09751

The dark matter wake of a galactic bar revealed by multichannel Singular Spectral Analysis
The Milky Way is known to contain a stellar bar, as are a significant fraction of disc galaxies across the universe. Our understanding of bar evolution, both theoretically and through analysis of simulations indicates that bars both grow in amplitude and slow down over time through interaction and angular momentum exchange with the galaxy's dark matter halo. Understanding the physical mechanisms underlying this coupling requires modelling of the structural deformations to the potential that are…

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott refuses to take MVP debate bait as fan chants grow https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/06/dak-prescott-ignores-mvp-hype-keeps-eyes-on-championship/865459…

The Grow It Local Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

It is a strange kind of irony to grow up with divorced parents and discover that the two sides of my family could not be more different. My mom is voting for fascists, and it shows in the way she tries to dictate every part of me, how I should look, how my hair should be, and the choices I never wanted to make but was pushed toward. Her world feels like control, a constant pressure to fit into something I do not belong to.
My dad, on the other hand, is voting for socialists, but more t…

Evidence of scaling advantage on an NP-Complete problem with enhanced quantum solvers
Quanfeng Lu, Shijie Wei, Keren Li, Pan Gao, Bao Yan, Muxi Zheng, Haoran Zhang, Jinfeng Zeng, Gui-Lu Long
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08869

Evidence of scaling advantage on an NP-Complete problem with enhanced quantum solvers
Achieving quantum advantage remains a key milestone in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum era. Without rigorous complexity proofs, scaling advantage-where quantum resource requirements grow more slowly than their classical counterparts-serves as the primary indicator. However, direct applications of quantum optimization algorithms to classically intractable problems have yet to demonstrate this advantage. To address this challenge, we develop enhanced quantum solvers for the NP-complete one-i…

"Climate crisis will increase frequency of lightning-sparked wildfires, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Wildfires

The next question after Turing's question: Introducing the Grow-AI test
Alexandru Tugui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16277 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.162…

The next question after Turing's question: Introducing the Grow-AI test
This study aims to extend the framework for assessing artificial intelligence, called GROW-AI (Growth and Realization of Autonomous Wisdom), designed to answer the question "Can machines grow up?" -- a natural successor to the Turing Test. The methodology applied is based on a system of six primary criteria (C1-C6), each assessed through a specific "game", divided into four arenas that explore both the human dimension and its transposition into AI. All decisions and actions of the entity are re…

A Grown Up's Gap Year
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Trump’s tariffs will raise prices on importers,
and those importers will pass those prices on to consumers.
Products from Brazil, India, and countless other countries will grow more expensive.
American consumers should expect more lies and business confrontations from this administration while prices everywhere rise. 

Scott Bessent Finally Admits the Truth About Trump’s Tariff Costs
Trump’s treasury secretary knows exactly who’s paying for his sweeping tariffs.

"Repurposing gemstone polishing waste to create smart cement"
#Gemstones #Cement
https://…

Repurposing gemstone polishing waste to create smart cement
Cement is one of the most-used materials in the world, and one of the highest emitters of global CO2 emissions. As demand for cement continues to grow, researchers are looking for alternatives to help reduce its environmental impacts.

The next question after Turing's question: Introducing the Grow-AI test
Alexandru Tugui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16277 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.162…

The next question after Turing's question: Introducing the Grow-AI test
This study aims to extend the framework for assessing artificial intelligence, called GROW-AI (Growth and Realization of Autonomous Wisdom), designed to answer the question "Can machines grow up?" -- a natural successor to the Turing Test. The methodology applied is based on a system of six primary criteria (C1-C6), each assessed through a specific "game", divided into four arenas that explore both the human dimension and its transposition into AI. All decisions and actions of the entity are re…

Commanders training camp: McLaurin's hold-in allowing Daniels-Samuel rapport to grow https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45703886/2025-nfl-training-camp-washington-commanders-updates-buzz-intel-position-battles

Lina Khan cites Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny, saying letting startups grow independently, rather than be acquired, can generate "enormous value" (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/02/lina-khan-point…

Lina Khan points to Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny | TechCrunch
A surprising figure is celebrating Figma’s successful IPO: Lina Khan, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, who said the offering demonstrates the value of "letting startups grow into independently successful businesses."

Grow Your Clinic
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Roblox's average DAUs grew 41% YoY to 111.8M in Q2 and hours engaged rose 58% YoY to 27.4B, driven by the success of tycoon-style farming game Grow a Garden (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Austin-based Routefusion, whose API for financial institutions lets them embed accounts, payments, currency conversion, and compliance, raised a $26.7M Series A (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/fintech-startup-routefusion-…

Exclusive: Payments Tech Startup Routefusion Raises $26.7M Series A 
Routefusion says it will use its new funding to help grow its engineering product and compliance teams, and expand its go-to-market efforts.

Dell says it now expects annual revenue to grow between 7% and 9%, up from its prior forecast of 3% to 4%, citing demand for AI infrastructure (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/dell-stock-revenue-growth.html

Dell stock pops as company ups long-term revenue growth expectations
Dell stock popped after the company raised its long-term revenue and profit growth forecasts.

Keychain, which makes AI-powered software to help manufacturers manage their product cycles, raised a $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/cpg-startup-keychain-snags-…

CPG startup Keychain snags $30M to build in India, grow in the U.S. | TechCrunch
Keychain doesn't have a single customer in India — but the team helping it scale across North America and beyond is entirely based in Gurugram, a suburb of New Delhi.