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"Declining property values and home prices are understood as a sign of impending doom, rather than a cause for celebration, and so the system aims to keep prices on an upward slope."
Housing can't be a good investment and affordable
https://jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamd

Zohran Mamdani Vs. the Real Estate State
Can the mayor-elect overcome the snares being set for his affordable housing agenda?

InfiniHuman: Infinite 3D Human Creation with Precise Control
Yuxuan Xue, Xianghui Xie, Margaret Kostyrko, Gerard Pons-Moll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11650 https://

InfiniHuman: Infinite 3D Human Creation with Precise Control
Generating realistic and controllable 3D human avatars is a long-standing challenge, particularly when covering broad attribute ranges such as ethnicity, age, clothing styles, and detailed body shapes. Capturing and annotating large-scale human datasets for training generative models is prohibitively expensive and limited in scale and diversity. The central question we address in this paper is: Can existing foundation models be distilled to generate theoretically unbounded, richly annotated 3D …

MonochromeEvolutionaryBioDigitalCellularAutomataSimulation
Unlike the recently shared[1] multi-cellular struggles, these here are some selected research stills (handpicked from tens of thousands) of only single CA configurations (aka mono-cultures) which I found interesting/promising and which were then used as raw ingredients/candidates for my infinitely evolving C-SCAPE project[2]...
Each of these cellular automata is 1.5D, meaning each pixel row is one generation, but I allowe…

I hate that every time I consider using an @… product I need to consider how often their products go out of stock.
Especially if I plan to use them in a product/project for someone. Like, will it be available if I need more? How long of a lead time will there be? Do I need to stock up on inventory just in case?

Samples are here and Andrew's Back Room IC FA Lab has a new project: a large lot of HMCAD1520s from the ThunderScope project.
My lab assistant helped me catalog them and we got 30 in inventory before having to pause for dinner and bath time, which should be more than enough to get started. She had lots of fun picking up the parts, putting them in labeled tubes, and putting the tubes into the correct location on the sample tray.
For somebody who loves stickers as much as most …

On the coming down from infinity of continuous-state branching processes with drift-interaction
F\'elix Rebotier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05958 https://

On the coming down from infinity of continuous-state branching processes with drift-interaction
We study the phenomenon of coming down from infinity - that is, when the process starts from infinity and never returns to it - for continuous-state branching processes with generalized drift. We provide sufficient conditions on the drift term and the branching mechanism to ensure both non-explosion and coming down from infinity, without requiring the associated jump measure to have a finite first moment. Assuming the process comes down from infinity and the drift satisfies a one-sided Lipschit…

Cowboys urged to re-sign projected $153 million impending free agent before offseason https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-re-sign-projected-153-million-impending-free-a…

2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.

StreamingVLM: Real-Time Understanding for Infinite Video Streams
Ruyi Xu, Guangxuan Xiao, Yukang Chen, Liuning He, Kelly Peng, Yao Lu, Song Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09608 …

StreamingVLM: Real-Time Understanding for Infinite Video Streams
Vision-language models (VLMs) could power real-time assistants and autonomous agents, but they face a critical challenge: understanding near-infinite video streams without escalating latency and memory usage. Processing entire videos with full attention leads to quadratic computational costs and poor performance on long videos. Meanwhile, simple sliding window methods are also flawed, as they either break coherence or suffer from high latency due to redundant recomputation. In this paper, we in…