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A United States Army veteran who was forced to self-deport to South Korea has told Newsweek he will only return once President Donald Trump leaves office.
Purple Heart veteran Sae Joon Park, who has lived in the U.S. for 48 years, was told by immigration authorities that he had three weeks to leave the country.
"President Trump sucks. I will try to come back after Trump leaves," Park told Newsweek in a statement.

Purple Heart Veteran Forced to Deport After Green Card Revoked
"President Trump sucks. I will try to come back after Trump leaves," Purple Heart vet Sae Joon Park told Newsweek in a statement.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Adrian Younge:
🎵 Shot Me In the Heart
#AdrianYounge
https://adrianyounge.bandcamp.com/track/shot-me-in-the-heart-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Go7cwraGp7oMNtdOFOnDo

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: R.E.M. (36) Heart (30) Screaming Trees (27) Garbage (25) Pulp (23). #myweekcounted 429 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

Rest in peace, Sammy - my little fur nose... You are unforgotten and above all: irreplaceable!
My heart is full of pain and sadness...😢 😭
Sam "Unixdog" - Sept. 8, 2008 - May 23, 2025
#dogs #dogsofmastodon

As #PrideMonth comes to an end, I wanted to share some AI-generated images created by my friend. 🏳️‍🌈
Although I’m generally skeptical of AI, I found this extremely queer! 🏳️‍🌈
#Pride #LGBTQIA

Sonnet 109 - CIX
O! never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify,
As easy might I from my self depart
As from my soul which in thy breast doth lie:
That is my home of love: if I have ranged,
Like him that travels, I return again;
Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,
So that myself bring water for my stain.
Never believe though in my nature reigned,
All frailties that besiege all kinds …

i'm finna hike up to the used record store and see if i can sell some records
Machine-generated ALT: three photos showcase a collection of 12 diverse vinyl records, spanning genres such as rock, soul, jazz, Christmas music, and contemporary pop, featuring artists like Lucinda Williams, Frank Sinatra, Chick Corea, Ramsey Lewis, Lana Del Rey, Mavis Staples, and Hugh Masekela.

Readwise würfelte mir heute dieses Zitat in die Wiedervorlage und ich musste direkt nachsehen, wann der Artikel geschrieben wurde. 2014. Wer hätte gedacht, dass sich 6 Jahre später alles noch viel schlimmer entwickeln würde?
https://www.theawl.com/2014/10/shot-through-the-…

How to use quantum computers for biomolecular free energies
Jakob G\"unther, Thomas Weymuth, Moritz Bensberg, Freek Witteveen, Matthew S. Teynor, F. Emil Thomasen, Valentina Sora, William Bro-J{\o}rgensen, Raphael T. Husistein, Mihael Erakovic, Marek Miller, Leah Weisburn, Minsik Cho, Marco Eckhoff, Aram W. Harrow, Anders Krogh, Troy Van Voorhis, Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, Gemma Solomon, Markus Reiher, Matthias Christandl

How to use quantum computers for biomolecular free energies
Free energy calculations are at the heart of physics-based analyses of biochemical processes. They allow us to quantify molecular recognition mechanisms, which determine a wide range of biological phenomena from how cells send and receive signals to how pharmaceutical compounds can be used to treat diseases. Quantitative and predictive free energy calculations require computational models that accurately capture both the varied and intricate electronic interactions between molecules as well as …

Longitudinal analysis of heart rate variability as it pertains to anxiety and readiness
Tucker Paron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19128 https://

Longitudinal analysis of heart rate variability as it pertains to anxiety and readiness
The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between lifestyle choices, subjective experiences and objective biometric data in a single individual. The participant, at the time a male in his twenties, used the EliteHRV app to perform Heart Rate Variability Readings across twenty-six months accompanied by logs about the previous days activity as well as current emotional and physical state. The study will use a mixed-methods approach to analyze the data, including quantitative analysis o…

"Deep down in his heart, I believe Trump knows he’s an incompetent a**hole."
Dear Mr King. You are incorrect about the Heart ❤️ part

The writing is on the wall.
When partitioning a disk I know by heart that the EFI system partition is of the type ef00.
The amount of totally irrelevant information stored in my grey matter is staggering.

Peering into the heart of darkness with VLBA : Radio Quiet AGN in the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field
Payaswini Saikia, Ramon Wrzosek, Joseph Gelfand, Walter Brisken, William Cotton, S. P. Willner, Hansung B. Gim, Rogier A. Windhorst, Vicente Estrada-Carpenter, Ivan Yu. Katkov, Ingyin Zaw, Michael Rosenthal, Hanaan Shafi, Kenneth Kellermann, James Condon, Anton M. Koekemoer, Christopher J. Conselice, Rafael Ortiz III, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Brenda Frye, Norman A. Grogin,…

Peering into the heart of darkness with VLBA : Radio Quiet AGN in the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field
We present initial results from the 4.8 GHz Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field (TDF). From 106 radio sources found in the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array observations in the TDF, we detected 12 sources (11% detection rate) at 3.3 $μ$Jy rms sensitivity and 4 mas resolution. Most detections exhibit pc-scale emission (less than 40 pc) with high VLBA/VLA flux density ratios and brightness temperatures exceeding 10$^5$ K, confirming non-thermal …

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Deee-Lite:
🎵 Groove Is In The Heart
#NowPlaying #DeeeLite
https://djexxt.bandcamp.com/album/deee-lite-groove-is-in-the-heart-2-versions
https://open.spotify.com/track/2He3NOyqtLNE3RQPpeDdSb

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Double Wish:
🎵 Tattooed Heart
#DoubleWish
https://doublewish.bandcamp.com/track/tattooed-heart
https://open.spotify.com/track/7a5cKrhnl0LBgzfQQq2HCe

Beyond utility: incorporating eye-tracking, skin conductance and heart rate data into cognitive and econometric travel behaviour models
Thomas O. Hancock, Stephane Hess, Charisma F. Choudhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18068

Beyond utility: incorporating eye-tracking, skin conductance and heart rate data into cognitive and econometric travel behaviour models
Choice models for large-scale applications have historically relied on economic theories (e.g. utility maximisation) that establish relationships between the choices of individuals, their characteristics, and the attributes of the alternatives. In a parallel stream, choice models in cognitive psychology have focused on modelling the decision-making process, but typically in controlled scenarios. Recent research developments have attempted to bridge the modelling paradigms, with choice models th…

“The theories of textuality, discourse, and visuality at the heart of cultural theory remain largely unresponsive to the sonic, failing to confront the powerful, asignifying materiality that characterizes so much experimental work with sound.”

Lions legend Barry Sanders opens up about heart attack, hopes to educate in new documentary https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6423192/2025/06/13/lions-barry-sanders-heart-attack-documentary/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12485 has been replaced.
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A Reduced-Order CFD Approach for Intermediate grade Coronary Arterial Clinical Parameter Assessment A Reduced-Order CFD Approach for Intermediate grade Coronary Arterial Clinical Parameter Assessment
Coronary heart disease (CHD) remains a top reason of mortality worldwide. This study introduces a novel approach by integrating patient-specific Multi-slice CT scans into CAD models and employing a one-dimensional numerical framework to assess varying degrees of stenosis. The computational analysis encompasses the entire arterial tree, with a particular focus on stenosed coronary arteries modelled using an analytical equation. One-dimensional characteristic equations, utilizing forward and back…

Chocy Milk Life Hack

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.TO. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.TO/new
[1/1]:
- A minimal electrical model of the human heart
Jo\~ao Ol\'ivia, Rui Dil\~ao

Oh man, I'm so glad that my wife convinced me to join her on an evening #cycling loop.
I just was soooo tired. But some physical activity helps to get the circulation going again.
#getoutside

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03737 has been replaced.
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Vormittags noch arbeiten, ab Mittag geht’s zum #bcfl25 😊
Schon viele tolle Leute auf der Gästeliste gesehen. :rainbow_heart:

Sonnet 141 - CXLI
In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote.
Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted;
Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone,
Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited
To any sensual feast with thee alone:
But my five wits nor my five senses can
Dissuade one foo…

I'm taking a mental health day and I am working on installing #Watchtower on the home server while drinking a fucking lovely v60. I guess this is what the heart wants?

Ann Wilson, líder y vocalista de Heart estš de cumpleaños hoy. Una de las pioneras en el mundo del hard dueña de una gran voz. Nació el 19 de junio de 1950. ¡Feliz Cumpleaños para la querida y admirada Ann!🥳🎂🎤🎸
#AnnWilson #Heart

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
The Futureheads:
🎵 Radio Heart
#TheFutureheads
https://thefutureheads.bandcamp.com/track/radio-heart
https://open.spotify.com/track/4JIB0GDCs0IBHgLwyT6PYK

I found a Bluesky page that is posting old-school 3D renders.
https://bsky.app/profile/oldschool3d.bsky.social
I'll be spending the afternoon looking for the name of a particular old-school 3D artist whose artwork I remember from back in the day. It was mostl…

Startling Health Risk: “Normal” Sodium Levels Linked to Heart Failure
https://scitechdaily.com/startling-health-risk-normal-sodium-levels-linked-to-heart-failure/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09619 has been replaced.
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Predictive Models for Chronic Heart Failure
The management of chronic Heart Failure (HF) presents significant challenges in modern healthcare, requiring continuous monitoring, early detection of exacerbations, and personalized treatment strategies. In this paper, we present a predictive model founded on Machine Learning (ML) techniques to identify patients at HF risk. This model is an ensemble learning approach, a modified stacking technique, that uses two specialized models leveraging clinical and echocardiographic features and then a m…

I do love the 'Nanas with all my heart, but god help us all they went to Stock Aitken & Waterman with Venus and said "do for this what you did for Dead Or Alive".
And SAW did what they were asked to, and thus the SAW Doom Years began. #TOTP

:heart_trans: #TransRightsAreHumanRights :heart_trans:

I’d say lemmings off a cliff but it’s unfair to lemmings who don’t actually commit suicide by jumping off cliffs, much less by first building the cliff themselves. https://mastodon.social/@bruces/114691439094389816

This is the header from a german book seller's website. Notice, that the sorta *wishlist* heart icon badge maxes out at single digit 9 !
Is that the real world, where people only have like nine items that they save? Is this just for “design aesthetics”? My wishlist contains 107!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
SPELLLING:
🎵 Portrait of My Heart
#SPELLLING
https://spellling.bandcamp.com/album/portrait-of-my-heart
https://open.spotify.com/track/2EDBjvlWHKWNyHHWMWPx1j

Non-Euclidean Enriched Contraction Theory for Monotone Operators and Monotone Dynamical Systems
Diego Deplano, Sergio Grammatico, Mauro Franceschelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17990

Non-Euclidean Enriched Contraction Theory for Monotone Operators and Monotone Dynamical Systems
We adopt an operator-theoretic perspective to analyze a class of nonlinear fixed-point iterations and discrete-time dynamical systems. Specifically, we study the Krasnoselskij iteration - at the heart of countless algorithmic schemes and underpinning the stability analysis of numerous dynamical models - by focusing on a non-Euclidean vector space equipped with the diagonally weighted supremum norm. By extending the state of the art, we introduce the notion of enriched weak contractivity, which …

Resolving space-time singularities in spherically symmetric black holes: geodesic completeness, curvature scalars, and tidal forces
Haroldo C. D. Lima Junior, Renan B. Magalh\~aes, Gonzalo J. Olmo, Diego Rubiera-Garcia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17918

Resolving space-time singularities in spherically symmetric black holes: geodesic completeness, curvature scalars, and tidal forces
The existence of black holes in the Universe is nowadays established on the grounds of a blench of astrophysical observations, most notably those of gravitational waves from binary mergers and the imaging of supermassive objects at the heart of M87 and Milky Way galaxies. However, this success of Einstein's General Relativity~(GR) to connect theory of black holes with observations is also the source of its doom, since Penrose's theorem proves that, under physically sensible conditions, the deve…

I'm loving loving loving this book. I had the earlier version years ago and know my favourite recipes from it off by heart. But either there's a lot more in this edition or I never properly explored the old one. #RecipeBooks

Last night (Fri night / Sat morning)I awoke at 01:30  with severe chest pains. I was convinced it must be a heart attack even though I’ve never had one and therefore really didn’t know.  I called 911 and woke Collette. EMTs and ambulance arrived within 5 min. Severe pain and severe shortness of breath. EKG was pretty normal.

I love that particular kind of keen student who insists on reproducing historical typography. It always breaks my heart a little to have to tell them that, even when directly quoting, we write "business" these days instead of "buſineſs."

Chargers' Jim Harbaugh provides positive health update after offseason heart procedure, hip replacement

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/charg…

A Vision for Trustworthy, Fair, and Efficient Socio-Technical Control using Karma Economies
Ezzat Elokda, Andrea Censi, Emilio Frazzoli, Florian D\"orfler, Saverio Bolognani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17115

A Vision for Trustworthy, Fair, and Efficient Socio-Technical Control using Karma Economies
Control systems will play a pivotal role in addressing societal-scale challenges as they drive the development of sustainable future smart cities. At the heart of these challenges is the trustworthy, fair, and efficient allocation of scarce public resources, including renewable energy, transportation, data, computation, etc.. Historical evidence suggests that monetary control -- the prototypical mechanism for managing resource scarcity -- is not always well-accepted in socio-technical resource …

Trump is a fucking moron, bless his heart.

Lagrangian analysis of turbulent blood flow in the human left heart
Fabio Guglietta, Martino Andrea Scarpolini, Francesco Viola, Luca Biferale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09708

Lagrangian analysis of turbulent blood flow in the human left heart
We present a Lagrangian analysis of turbulent blood flow in the human left heart using high-fidelity simulations based on a patient-specific anatomical model. Leveraging a fully coupled fluid-structure-electrophysiology interaction (FSEI) framework, we track the motion of Lagrangian (passive) tracers to investigate the multiscale statistical properties of velocity fluctuations over more than four decades. Our analysis reveals strong Lagrangian intermittency throughout the left heart, reflecting…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Moby:
🎵 Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad
#NowPlaying #Moby
https://octave1.bandcamp.com/track/moby-why-does-my-heart-feel-so-bad-octave-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/7siMHyJyxIwMQkHc7EPi9D

Aktueller Titel: The Mary Onettes – Hurricane Heart
#DunkleEchos – jetzt live bei https://www.mixcloud.com/live/thopan

THOPAN on Mixcloud Live
Broadcast live to your community of fans and tune in direct to creators from every genre

Calamus 36 Earth! my likeness!
Woah! This poem is such a strong statement of queer love I want to jump right to it
an athlete is enamoured of me—and I of him.
But toward him there is something fierce and terrible in me, eligible to burst forth,
I dare not tell it in words—not even in these songs.
A same-sex love, bursting, terrible. A secret he must keep even from his poems. My heart aches for his suppressed passion.
I don't want to overlook the rest of the poem: Whitman compares his love for the athlete to the Earth. The Earth which also has something terrible ready to break forth. It's really quite grandiose and apocalyptic.
(The Live Oak draft is worth comparing because it's even more direct. "an athlete loves me, and I him").

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Mint Condition:
🎵 Breakin' My Heart (Album Version)
#MintCondition
https://1djhelix.bandcamp.com/track/mint-condition-breakin-my-heart-helix-re-rub
https://open.spotify.com/track/0NKTnbQQolgvk0FOIkiibI

The Braided Prairie: Six Nebraskan Literary Voices on Land, Life, and Legacy
The American Great Plains have produced a literary tradition as vast and complex as the landscape itself. Nebraska, with its braided rivers and endless horizons, stands at the heart of this tradition, having shaped some of the nation's most distinctive literary voices. From the rolling Sandhills to the fossil-rich badlands, from pioneer settlements to Native American territories, the state's…

Blind Source Separation in Biomedical Signals Using Variational Methods
Yasaman Torabi, Shahram Shirani, James P. Reilly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18281 h…

Blind Source Separation in Biomedical Signals Using Variational Methods
This study introduces a novel unsupervised approach for separating overlapping heart and lung sounds using variational autoencoders (VAEs). In clinical settings, these sounds often interfere with each other, making manual separation difficult and error-prone. The proposed model learns to encode mixed signals into a structured latent space and reconstructs the individual components using a probabilistic decoder, all without requiring labeled data or prior knowledge of source characteristics. We …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SundayMorning
George Frideric Handel, The Sixteen, Symphony of Harmony and Invention & Harry Christophers:
🎵 Coronation Anthem, 'My Heart is Inditing', HWV261 (1st mvt, 'My heart is inditing')
https://open.spotify.com/track/42jpIfkUP8Wxk1GYwHHXSl

:heart_trans: #TransRightsAreHumanRights :heart_trans:

Mostly posting on Bluesky now but thought I'd share some spring colour here.
Dog violets in the local cemetery and the woods awakening (Crab Wood near Winchester)
#Spring #Wildflowers #woodland

Day 2:
Not for the faint of heart. A special banh mi.
Wikipedia:
Phš lấu (Chinese:拍滷; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phah-ló̍) is a Vietnamese dish from Ho Chi Minh City, made from pork meat and offal that is braised in a spiced stock of five-spice powder (with curry powder sometimes added).
I was not blown away tbh.
#photography #30daysofIRL

#linktipp
#Pakistan is home to one of the largest concentrations of sellers on Alibaba.com
https://restofworld…

Texans' Nick Chubb pens emotional farewell to Browns, says Cleveland will 'always have a piece of my heart'

https://www.cbssports.com/…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Saint Etienne:
🎵 Heart Failed (In The Back Of A Taxi)
#NowPlaying #SaintEtienne
https://thelovertonesx.bandcamp.com/track/saint-etienne-heart-failed-in-the-back-of-a-taxi
https://open.spotify.com/track/3EFUJF9xf5lRnwMbZI3LU6

This is the vision of computing that still lives closest to my heart, and one I try against all odds to keep alive in my own various spheres of work.

Predicting Short-Term Mortality in Elderly ICU Patients with Diabetes and Heart Failure: A Distributional Inference Framework
Junyi Fan, Shuheng Chen, Li Sun, Yong Si, Elham Pishgar, Kamiar Alaei, Greg Placencia, Maryam Pishgar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15058

Predicting Short-Term Mortality in Elderly ICU Patients with Diabetes and Heart Failure: A Distributional Inference Framework
Elderly ICU patients with coexisting diabetes mellitus and heart failure experience markedly elevated short-term mortality, yet few predictive models are tailored to this high-risk group. Diabetes mellitus affects nearly 30% of U.S. adults over 65, and significantly increases the risk of heart failure. When combined, these conditions worsen frailty, renal dysfunction, and hospitalization risk, leading to one-year mortality rates of up to 40%. Despite their clinical burden and complexity, no est…

Went to bed with a case of food poisoning and woke up to my phone telling me my heart rate and breathing rate were higher than normal. (Which, of course, since I didn’t sleep well, but it’s wild to see the numbers immediately like that)

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19746 has been replaced.
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Improving Heart Rejection Detection in XPCI Images Using Synthetic Data Augmentation
Accurate identification of acute cellular rejection (ACR) in endomyocardial biopsies is essential for effective management of heart transplant patients. However, the rarity of high-grade rejection cases (3R) presents a significant challenge for training robust deep learning models. This work addresses the class imbalance problem by leveraging synthetic data generation using StyleGAN to augment the limited number of real 3R images. Prior to GAN training, histogram equalization was applied to sta…

The “evidence-based” messaging of this bus-shelter ad in #ColeValley #SanFrancisco near #UCSF, one of the U.S.’s premier medical research institutions, shows how other countries are eager to scoop up students …

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Self-Supervised Autoencoder Network for Robust Heart Rate Extraction from Noisy Photoplethysmogram: Applying Blind Source Separation to Biosignal Analysis
Biosignals can be viewed as mixtures measuring particular physiological events, and blind source separation (BSS) aims to extract underlying source signals from mixtures. This paper proposes a self-supervised multi-encoder autoencoder (MEAE) to separate heartbeat-related source signals from photoplethysmogram (PPG), enhancing heart rate (HR) detection in noisy PPG data. The MEAE is trained on PPG signals from a large open polysomnography database without any pre-processing or data selection. Th…

To Heart 2が未履修なので、卒業認定でません（？）

"Don't worry, you didn't actually break my heart". #totp

Has anyone seen a pattern for a cadeseus quilt? I've found fabric with the symbol but I was thinking like a big paper pieced pattern made from different colors. I'm not that good with applique. Or any suggestions for a different medical related? Specifically a cardiologist, so an anatomical heart would also be pretty rad! (but might be beyond my skills!) #sewing

The remarkable story of Dr. James Mackness — a 19th-century village doctor whose quiet compassion and tireless service touched lives from Wellingborough, Turvey and Northampton to Hastings. A life of duty, resilience, and heart. https://edintone.com/james-mackness/

A Life of Quiet Duty: The Story of Dr. James Mackness (1804–1851) - Miscellanea Edintone
The remarkable story of Dr. James Mackness — a 19th-century village doctor whose quiet compassion and tireless service touched lives from Wellingborough, Turvey and Northampton to Hastings. A life of duty, resilience, and heart.

El segundo disco de estudio de la joven figura del pop Benson Boone fue publicado hoy.
«American Heart»
#BensonBoone

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13825 has been replaced.
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A personalized time-resolved 3D mesh generative model for unveiling normal heart dynamics
Understanding the structure and motion of the heart is crucial for diagnosing and managing cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of global death. There is wide variation in cardiac shape and motion patterns, influenced by demographic, anthropometric and disease factors. Unravelling normal patterns of shape and motion, and understanding how each individual deviates from the norm, would facilitate accurate diagnosis and personalised treatment strategies. To this end, we developed a condition…

The full formula for the probability of "success" is:
p = {
1/(2^(-n 1)) if n is negative, or
1 - (1/(2^(n 1))) if n is zero or positive
}
(Both branches have the same value when n is 0, so the behavior is smooth around the origin.)
How can we tweak this?
First, we can introduce fixed success and/or failure chances unaffected by level, with this formula only taking effect if those don't apply. For example, you could do 10% failure, 80% by formula, and 10% success to keep things from being too sure either way even when levels are very high or low. On the other hand, this flattening makes the benefit of extra advantage levels even less exciting.
Second, we could allow for gradations of success/failure, and treat the coin pools I used to explain that math like dice pools a bit. An in-between could require linearly more success flips to achieve the next higher grade of success at each grade. For example, simple success on a crit role might mean dealing 1.5x damage, but if you succeed on 2 of your flips, you get 9/4 damage, or on 4 flips 27/8, or on 7 flips 81/16. In this world, stacking crit levels might be a viable build, and just giving up on armor would be super dangerous. In the particular case I was using this for just now, I can't easily do gradations of success (that's the reason I turned to probabilities in the first place) but I think I'd favor this approach when feasible.
The main innovation here over simple dice pools is how to handle situations where the number of dice should be negative. I'm almost certain it's not a truly novel innovation though, and some RPG fan can point out which system already does this (please actually do this, I'm an RPG nerd too at heart).
I'll leave this with one more tweak we could do: what if the number 2 in the probability equation were 3, or 2/3? I think this has a similar effect to just scaling all the modifiers a bit, but the algebra escapes me in this moment and I'm a bit lazy. In any case, reducing the base of the probability exponent should let you get a few more gradations near 50%, which is probably a good thing, since the default goes from 25% straight to 50% and then to 75% with no integer stops in between.

Micah Parsons’ Change of Heart Grabs Attention Amid Cowboys Rumors https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/micah-parsons-news-rumors-holdout-contract/?adt_ei=[email]

"despite the law being very clear, actually, a few very determined transphobes have crawled their way to the heart of the law like maggots in an apple. A system that has been working perfectly well since 2010 has now been unnecessarily tampered with – and Starmer has capitulated because he’s spineless"
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Juno Dawson: I had gender reassignment surgery – then the Supreme Court said I wasn’t a woman
I have the same choices over my life and body that I would want for every single person on earth. I’m not trying to make a statement about what a woman is, I just want to be one, writes Juno Dawson – who appears on The Independent’s Pride list 2025

[Beat-to-beat AV nodal assessment] ECG-based beat-to-beat assessment of AV node conduction properties during AF
Mattias Karlsson, Felix Plappert, Pyotr G Platonov, Sten \"Ostenson, Mikael Wallman, Frida Sandberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19427

[Beat-to-beat AV nodal assessment] ECG-based beat-to-beat assessment of AV node conduction properties during AF
The refractory period and conduction delay of the atrioventricular (AV) node play a crucial role in regulating the heart rate during atrial fibrillation (AF). Beat-to-beat variations in these properties are known to be induced by the autonomic nervous system (ANS) but have previously not been assessable during AF. Assessing these could provide novel information for improved diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment on an individual basis. To estimate AV nodal conduction properties with beat-to-beat…

Multiple Republican lawmakers appeared split as the feud between Trump and Musk escalated into an all-out social media war on Thursday.
At the heart of the breakup is their disagreement over Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which Musk has called a “disgusting abomination.”
https://www.

Team Trump vs. Team Musk: Republicans torn as billionaire bromance ends
At the heart of the breakup is the pair's disagreement over President Donald Trump's “big, beautiful bill,” which Elon Musk has called a “disgusting abomination."

NFL legend Barry Sanders opens up about recent health scare, reveals he suffered a heart attack

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-leg

For #TuneTuesday, this week's the theme is #ClipClopMusic. How about a broken-heart track by a fantastic group from #Québec (their albums are great and their shows are even better)?
« Elle est partie hier …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Perfume Genius:
🎵 Clean Heart
#PerfumeGenius
https://perfumegenius.bandcamp.com/track/clean-heart
https://open.spotify.com/track/1lppreanVHIEN8yW2LtdPx

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03737 has been replaced.
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Predictive Models for Chronic Heart Failure
Pietro Cassieri, Aiman Faiz, Anna Maria De Roberto, Claudio Pascarelli, Gianvito Mitrano, Gianluca Fimiani, Marina Garofano, Christiancarmine Esposito, Genoveffa Tortora, Alessia Bramanti, Giuseppe Scanniello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09619

Predictive Models for Chronic Heart Failure
The management of chronic Heart Failure (HF) presents significant challenges in modern healthcare, requiring continuous monitoring, early detection of exacerbations, and personalized treatment strategies. In this paper, we present a predictive model founded on Machine Learning (ML) techniques to identify patients at HF risk. This model is an ensemble learning approach, a modified stacking technique, that uses two specialized models leveraging clinical and echocardiographic features and then a m…

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Margo Thunder:
🎵 Expessway To Your Heart
#MargoThunder
https://theloneliesthunk.bandcamp.com/track/margo-thunder-expressway-to-your-heart-the-loneliest-hunk-rework
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Sonnet 119 - CXIX
What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distilled from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!
What wretched errors hath my heart committed,
Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!
How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted,
In the distraction of this madding fever!
O benefit of ill! now I find true
That better is by evil s…

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Nilüfer Yanya:
🎵 Cold Heart
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https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/track/cold-heart
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WRdonm8caliL2JA6fT2fL

In my heart I believe . . .

Donald Trump admitted on Truth Social that his mass deportations are hurting farmers and the economy.
Those removals are “taking very good, longtime workers away” from farms and hotels, Trump declared,
adding that those workers are proving “impossible to replace.”
To be clear, Trump was talking about his own immigration policies.
That’s a stunning acknowledgment that Trump’s forced mass removals are targeting hard-working folks and that those undocumented immigrants…

Trump Accidentally Reveals a Dark MAGA Truth—and Hands Dems an Opening
A little-noticed letter from vulnerable House Republicans acknowledges the flaw at the heart of Trump’s mass deportations. Democrats: Seize on this!

Peering into the heart of 3CR radio galaxies. A very long baseline interferometry perspective on optical-radio classifications at parsec scales
P. Grandi, G. Giovannini, E. Torresi, B. Boccardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07589

Peering into the heart of 3CR radio galaxies. A very long baseline interferometry perspective on optical-radio classifications at parsec scales
Historically, luminous edge-brightened Fanaroff-Riley type II (FRII) radio galaxies have been associated with radiatively efficient cold accretion disks. In contrast, faint edge-darkened Fanaroff-Riley Type Is (FRIs) are sustained by hot, inefficient accretion flows. However, several sources deviate from this paradigm, showing FRII morphologies and radiatively inefficient accretion. Three hypotheses have been proposed to explain the observations: (1) The evolutionary scenario: initially strong …

A Two-stage Optimization Method for Wide-range Single-electron Quantum Magnetic Sensing
Shiqian Guo, Jianqing Liu, Thinh Le, Huaiyu Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13469

A Two-stage Optimization Method for Wide-range Single-electron Quantum Magnetic Sensing
Quantum magnetic sensing based on spin systems has emerged as a new paradigm for detecting ultra-weak magnetic fields with unprecedented sensitivity, revitalizing applications in navigation, geo-localization, biology, and beyond. At the heart of quantum magnetic sensing, from the protocol perspective, lies the design of optimal sensing parameters to manifest and then estimate the underlying signals of interest (SoI). Existing studies on this front mainly rely on adaptive algorithms based on bla…

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Predictive Models for Chronic Heart Failure
The management of chronic Heart Failure (HF) presents significant challenges in modern healthcare, requiring continuous monitoring, early detection of exacerbations, and personalized treatment strategies. In this paper, we present a predictive model founded on Machine Learning (ML) techniques to identify patients at HF risk. This model is an ensemble learning approach, a modified stacking technique, that uses two specialized models leveraging clinical and echocardiographic features and then a m…

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Kacey Musgraves:
🎵 Sounds from the Heart of the Woods
#KaceyMusgraves
https://open.spotify.com/track/4pMh4kNH7W3oTCBT5QdaD9

Sonnet 133 - CXXXIII
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan
For that deep wound it gives my friend and me!
Is't not enough to torture me alone,
But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?
Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken,
And my next self thou harder hast engrossed:
Of him, myself, and thee I am forsaken;
A torment thrice three-fold thus to be crossed.
Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward,
But t…

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Bing Austria & The Flippin' Soul Stompers:
🎵 Ruined Heart (Rocksteady)
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Elisapie:
🎵 Uummati Attanarsimat (Heart of Glass)
#Elisapie
https://elisapie.bandcamp.com/track/uummati-attanarsimat-heart-of-glass
https://open.spotify.com/track/0l8BYYuprmQO8f24aNWxSC

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The Rifles:
🎵 Wall Around Your Heart
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https://therifles.bandcamp.com/track/wall-around-your-heart
https://open.spotify.com/track/2pkO2dQsVg2Wb3qywWTguo

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Blondie:
🎵 Heart of Glass
#Blondie
https://zambianco.bandcamp.com/track/blondie-heart-of-glass
https://open.spotify.com/track/4v2rkl1mC3zVAz0nXMx9r4

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Nilüfer Yanya:
🎵 Cold Heart
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https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/track/cold-heart
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WRdonm8caliL2JA6fT2fL

What, my family actually expects me to act "normal"? What kind of backwards sorcery is that? I’m an anarchist at heart and a syndicalist by choice, no apologies, no compromises.
https://nsf-iaa.org

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Dusty Springfield:
🎵 Take Another Piece of My Heart
#DustySpringfield
https://open.spotify.com/track/0E4UBpsUOZ6Ic4SCxrXz1L

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Double Wish:
🎵 Tattooed Heart
#DoubleWish
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://doublewish.bandcamp.com/track/tattooed-heart
https://open.spotify.com/track/7a5cKrhnl0LBgzfQQq2HCe