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Are Linux users lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of
reliable, well-engineered commercial software?
-- Matt Welsh

Quenching, Fast and Slow: Breaking Kibble-Zurek Universal Scaling by Jumping along Geodesics
Thi Ha Kyaw, Guillermo Romero, Gaurav Saxena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08528 https:…

Quenching, Fast and Slow: Breaking Kibble-Zurek Universal Scaling by Jumping along Geodesics
A major drawback of adiabatic quantum computing (AQC) is fulfilling the energy gap constraint, which requires the total evolution time to scale inversely with the square of the minimum energy gap. Failure to satisfy this condition violates the adiabatic approximation, potentially undermining computational accuracy. Recently, several approaches have been proposed to circumvent this constraint. One promising approach is to use the family of adiabatic shortcut procedures to fast-forward AQC. One c…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Carolene Thompson:
🎵 Feel Like Jumping
#CaroleneThompson
https://peckingsrecords.com/track/feel-like-jumping

'I heard they stab people': Ja'Marr Chase hilariously explains why he won't be jumping into the Dawg Pound

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/i…

Self-Resetting Soft Ring Enables Autonomous and Continuous Leaping under Uniform Light
Fangjie Qi, Caizhi Zhou, Haitao Qing, Haoze Sun, Jie Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09529 …

Self-Resetting Soft Ring Enables Autonomous and Continuous Leaping under Uniform Light
Jumping is an efficient locomotion strategy to traverse cluttered, uneven, or unstable environments in nature, yet replicating continuous, autonomous leaping in soft robots remains challenging due to limited energy storage and reliance on human intervention or latches. Here, we report a millimeter-scale, self-resetting soft ring that achieves repeated vertical and stable horizontal leaps under uniform infrared illumination without external control. The ring-shaped liquid crystal elastomer body …

@… TIL:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark>
＂… a creative work or entity has evolved and reached a point in which it has exh…

A Co-Design Framework for Energy-Aware Monoped Jumping with Detailed Actuator Modeling
Aman Singh, Aastha Mishra, Deepak Kapa, Suryank Joshi, Shishir Kolathaya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05923

A Co-Design Framework for Energy-Aware Monoped Jumping with Detailed Actuator Modeling
A monoped's jump height and energy consumption depend on both, its mechanical design and control strategy. Existing co-design frameworks typically optimize for either maximum height or minimum energy, neglecting their trade-off. They also often omit gearbox parameter optimization and use oversimplified actuator mass models, producing designs difficult to replicate in practice. In this work, we introduce a novel three-stage co-design optimization framework that jointly maximizes jump height whil…

Does Silksong Seem Unreasonably Hard? You Probably Took a Wrong Turn https://www.404media.co/does-silksong-seem-unreasonably-hard-you-probably-took-a-wrong-turn/

i protect myself from jumping into relationships by simply having the most crumbs in my bed at all times. it is repellent and repugnant to all sensible people

One-dimensional particle clouds with elastic collisions
Mikhail Menshikov, Serguei Popov, Andrew Wade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08430 https://arxiv.org/pd…

One-dimensional particle clouds with elastic collisions
We study an interacting particle system of a finite number of labelled particles on the integer lattice, in which particles have intrinsic masses and left/right jump rates. If a particle is the minimal-label particle at its site when it tries to jump left, the jump is executed. If not, `momentum' is transferred to increase the rate of jumping left of the minimal-label particle. Similarly for jumps to the right. The collision rule is `elastic' in the sense that the net rate of flow of mass is in…

MIO: Multiverse Debugging in the Face of Input/Output -- Extended Version with Additional Appendices
Tom Lauwaerts, Maarten Steevens, Christophe Scholliers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06845

MIO: Multiverse Debugging in the Face of Input/Output -- Extended Version with Additional Appendices
Debugging non-deterministic programs on microcontrollers is notoriously challenging, especially when bugs manifest in unpredictable, input-dependent execution paths. A recent approach, called multiverse debugging, makes it easier to debug non-deterministic programs by allowing programmers to explore all potential execution paths. Current multiverse debuggers enable both forward and backward traversal of program paths, and some facilitate jumping to any previously visited states, potentially bra…

We went to see the Burghley cross-country day, yesterday. Always a fabulous day out, though the entry price is a bit eye-watering. It's a joy to watch the level of skill of the best horses and riders, where they make ridiculous jump combinations look effortless. They soar and flow over the fences. #sports #horses

US ICE in full military gear jumping out of unmarked vans to disappear protestors in Portland.
This is modern fascism.
This is Trump's dystopian America.
This is a disgusting, immoral, breach of the social contract.
This must be stopped.
https://www.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Cure:
🎵 Jumping Someone Else’s Train
#TheCure
https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/track/jumping-someone-elses-train
https://open.spotify.com/track/76XCLlTwCYYaqQ9aru4yLB

Progress! Got the STM32H750 test board to the point of being able to light up some LEDs on GPIOs before jumping into an infinite loop.
Next step will be all of the RCC and PWR config to get it operational at the desired VOS and clock configuration, at which point I can start thinking about bringing up a UART.
But that will probably have to wait till tomorrow given that it's 1 in the morning and I have work tomorrow.

Got the modded PS1 (SCPH-5501) connected to the PVM via a gwscart switch using RGB (CSYNC). The switch doesn't seem to have any issues with the signal coming in from the PS1, and the Retro Gaming Cables cable (EuroSCART -> RGB Sync Audio) is absolute quality. If it weren't for Silksong at the moment, I'd be jumping into some retro games.
#retrogaming

Derivation of the fourth-order DLSS equation with nonlinear mobility via chemical reactions
Alexander Mielke, Andr\'e Schlichting, Artur Stephan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07149

Derivation of the fourth-order DLSS equation with nonlinear mobility via chemical reactions
We provide a derivation of the fourth-order DLSS equation based on an interpretation as a chemical reaction network. We consider the rate equation on the discretized circle for a process in which pairs of particles occupying the same site simultaneously jump to the two neighboring sites; the reverse process involves pairs of particles at adjacent sites simultaneously jumping back to the site located between them. Depending on the rates, in the vanishing-mesh-size limit we obtain either the clas…

Good Morning #Canada
Day #8 of The Dirt on Canadian Farming takes us back east to New Brunswick, which is not that "new" BTW. If it seems like we're jumping around the country in this series, with no logic, well, congratulations, you're paying attention.
New Brunswick's agricultural and agri-food sector reached a record of $1.23 billion in farm cash receipts in 2023, with potatoes, blueberries, maple syrup, and dairy all key products. Within that number lies good and bad news. The province had one of the largest decreases in farm operators in the country, but profits per farm have increased. Blueberry farms increased, and the province is 2nd in Canada in production. In 2024, New Brunswick announced the Agricultural Sustainability Program to assist farmers with reducing tillage, maintaining ponds and wetlands, and protecting pollinator habitat, critical and marginal landscapes, trees, riparian areas and crop management.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Farming
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/95-640-x/2016001/article/14803-eng.htm

My local supermarket keeps changing how the product offers work...
Buy 4 for 3, cheapest item free
Buy 2 for some random reduced price
Buy 1 for some price that's reduced from whatever it was previously offered at.
Then there's loyalty card prices, which only apply to some items.
Why can't they just offer slightly lower prices across the range so everyone benefits without jumping through hoops?!

Fluffy kitty vs 7 very happy void puppies

Analysis of Harpy's Constrained Trotting and Jumping Maneuver
Prathima Ananda Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18139 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18139…

Analysis of Harpy's Constrained Trotting and Jumping Maneuver
This study presents an analysis of experimental data from Harpy, a thruster-assisted bipedal robot developed at Northeastern University. The study examines data sets from trotting and jumping experiments to understand the fundamental principles governing hybrid leg-thruster locomotion. Through data analysis across multiple locomotion modes, this research reveals that Harpy achieves stable locomotion with bounded trajectories and consistent foot placement through strategic leg-thruster synergy. …

Lynn realized that I had not eaten a thing today (the word she used is “hangry”) so we’re grabbing a bite at the old town. We got a window seat!
Downtown Ann Arbor is jumping on a Thursday night (as usual)!

Yeah, I'm gonna be busy for a little bit... #gaming #hollowknight #silksong

FBMS: An R Package for Flexible Bayesian Model Selection and Model Averaging
Florian Frommlet, Jon Lachmann, Geir Storvik, Aliaksandr Hubin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00753 http…

FBMS: An R Package for Flexible Bayesian Model Selection and Model Averaging
The FBMS R package facilitates Bayesian model selection and model averaging in complex regression settings by employing a variety of Monte Carlo model exploration methods. At its core, the package implements an efficient Mode Jumping Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MJMCMC) algorithm, designed to improve mixing in multi-modal posterior landscapes within Bayesian generalized linear models. In addition, it provides a genetically modified MJMCMC (GMJMCMC) algorithm that introduces nonlinear feature gener…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.FL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.FL/new
[1/1]:
- Quantitative Semantics for Jumping Automata
Shaull Almagor (Technion), Neta Dafni (Technion), Ishai Salgado (Technion)

Edison: Charlie Kirk's podcast, with his wife and others hosting, has surged in popularity, jumping 32 spots to enter the US top 20 podcasts for the first time (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Re-stacking AFC contenders: Bills, Chiefs still favorites? Who else is dangerous? — Pick Six https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6770739/2025/11/03/bills-chiefs-nfl-super-bowl-odds-afc-pick-six/

Integrating Trajectory Optimization and Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Jumping with Terrain-Adaptive Landing
Renjie Wang, Shangke Lyu, Xin Lang, Wei Xiao, Donglin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12776

Integrating Trajectory Optimization and Reinforcement Learning for Quadrupedal Jumping with Terrain-Adaptive Landing
Jumping constitutes an essential component of quadruped robots' locomotion capabilities, which includes dynamic take-off and adaptive landing. Existing quadrupedal jumping studies mainly focused on the stance and flight phase by assuming a flat landing ground, which is impractical in many real world cases. This work proposes a safe landing framework that achieves adaptive landing on rough terrains by combining Trajectory Optimization (TO) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) together. The RL agent l…

Upcoming beatemup 'John Fox' where you play as an anthropomorphic fox either solo or co-op is coming to PC and consoles next year in February. Pretty psyched to try this one. Very much my kind of thing.
Gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXt3QeftCmU

Why and when merging surface nanobubbles jump
Yixin Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang, Detlef Lohse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22934 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22934

Why and when merging surface nanobubbles jump
Gas bubble accumulation on substrates reduces the efficiency of many physicochemical processes, such as water electrolysis. For microbubbles, where buoyancy is negligible, coalescence-induced jumping driven by the release of surface energy provides an efficient pathway for their early detachment. At the nanoscale, however, gas compressibility breaks volume conservation during coalescence, suppressing surface energy release and seemingly disabling this detachment route. Using molecular dynamics …

Let's get the basics right for my laptop config:
- encryption during install, not jumping through hoops in partitioning
- wifi easily selected during install
- preferably non-systemd
- software not too outdated
Exactly where FreeBSD could shine, were it not for an unsupported wifi adapter 🤔

Why Bill Belichick, Frank Reich face unique task in jumping from NFL to college football https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6565143/2025/08/21/college-football-nfl-coaches-belichick-reich/

FIFA said quit being so fuckin gay
no🫵🏼

Earthquake modelling via Brownian motions on networks
Fausto Colantoni, Mirko D'Ovidio, Flavia Tavani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21851 https://arxiv.or…

Earthquake modelling via Brownian motions on networks
We provide a general model for Brownian motions on metric graphs with interactions. In a general setting, for (sticky) Brownian propagations on edges, our model provides a characterization of lifetimes and holding times on vertices in terms of (jumping) Brownian accumulation of energy associated with that vertices. Propagation and accumulation are given by drifted Brownian motions subjected to non-local (also dynamic) boundary conditions. As the continuous (sticky) process approaches a vertex, …

MARG: MAstering Risky Gap Terrains for Legged Robots with Elevation Mapping
Yinzhao Dong, Ji Ma, Liu Zhao, Wanyue Li, Peng Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20036 https://

MARG: MAstering Risky Gap Terrains for Legged Robots with Elevation Mapping
Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) controllers for quadrupedal locomotion have demonstrated impressive performance on challenging terrains, allowing robots to execute complex skills such as climbing, running, and jumping. However, existing blind locomotion controllers often struggle to ensure safety and efficient traversal through risky gap terrains, which are typically highly complex, requiring robots to perceive terrain information and select appropriate footholds during locomotion accurately.…

Chris Banjo knows the grind, now he’s rising as one of NFL’s top young coaches https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6567487/2025/08/22/chris-banjo-jets-special-teams-coordinator/