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Kasvinterveydellä on elintärkeä merkitys luonnon suojelussa – myös kotipuutarhureilla keskeinen rooli kasvinterveyden turvaamisessa https://www.ruokavirasto.fi/kasvit/uutiset

Kasvinterveydellä on elintärkeä merkitys luonnon suojelussa – myös kotipuutarhureilla keskeinen rooli kasvinterveyden turvaamisessa

Es gibt den Hashtag #ZeigtHerEureFächer !? Da muss ich natürlich zwei meiner inzwischen 20 Fächer zeigen. In jedem Raum befinden sich ein paar, taktisch verteilt, und ich gehe seit Jahren nirgendwo mehr ohne einen hin. Selbst bei milden Temperaturen ist mir oft vor allem in Innenräumen schnell zu warm.
Das sind zwei besonders hübsche Exemplare, das zweite Bild ist einer de…

SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics
Mustafa Shukor, Dana Aubakirova, Francesco Capuano, Pepijn Kooijmans, Steven Palma, Adil Zouitine, Michel Aractingi, Caroline Pascal, Martino Russi, Andres Marafioti, Simon Alibert, Matthieu Cord, Thomas Wolf, Remi Cadene
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.018…

SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics
Vision-language models (VLMs) pretrained on large-scale multimodal datasets encode rich visual and linguistic knowledge, making them a strong foundation for robotics. Rather than training robotic policies from scratch, recent approaches adapt VLMs into vision-language-action (VLA) models that enable natural language-driven perception and control. However, existing VLAs are typically massive--often with billions of parameters--leading to high training costs and limited real-world deployability. …

After decades in the U.S., Iranians arrested in Trump’s deportation drive
Mandonna “Donna” Kashanian lived in the United States for 47 years,
married a U.S. citizen and raised their daughter.
She was gardening in the yard of her New Orleans home when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers handcuffed and took her away, her family said.
Kashanian arrived in 1978 on a student visa and applied for asylum,
fearing retaliation for her father’s support of…

After decades in the U.S., Iranians arrested in Trump’s deportation drive
Some Iranians are getting arrested by immigration authorities after living decades in the United States. 'Who picks up a grandmother?' says the husband of a detained woman who has lived in the U.S. for 47 years.

"Ministeriö arvioi nyt ensimmäisen kerran yliopistoja muun muassa sen perusteella, kuinka suuri osa valmistuneista maistereista sijoittuu Uudellemaalle. Ministeriön ajattelussa yliopisto on sitä parempi, mitä suurempi osuus sieltä valmistuneista sijoittuu alueelle"
#yliopisto #koulutus …

Tapio Määttä: Ministeriö asetti yliopistot paremmuusjärjestykseen – yksi peruste on, kuinka suuri osa valmistuneista sijoittuu Uudellemaalle
Indikaattoreilla johtamisen keskeinen ongelma on, että sitä saa, mitä mitataan, kirjoittaa kolumnisti.

Leveraging machine learning features for linear optical interferometer control
Sergei S. Kuzmin, Ivan V. Dyakonov, Stanislav S. Straupe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24032

Leveraging machine learning features for linear optical interferometer control
We have developed an algorithm that constructs a model of a reconfigurable optical interferometer, independent of specific architectural constraints. The programming of unitary transformations on the interferometer's optical modes relies on either an analytical method for deriving the unitary matrix from a set of phase shifts or an optimization routine when such decomposition is not available. Our algorithm employs a supervised learning approach, aligning the interferometer model with a trainin…

Parity solves the Strong CP problem
Ravi Kuchimanchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01911 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.01911

Parity solves the Strong CP problem
A recent paper "What can solve the strong CP problem?" goes counter to conventional wisdom by arguing that the universe was in an initial state that combines different eigenstates of $θ$ (of the theta vacuum of QCD), and asserts that for such an initial state, axionless solutions to the Strong CP Problem based on P and CP symmetries will not work. We discuss the nature of the theta vacuum in light of this work, and find that the conventional framing and solutions based on P and CP symmetries a…

Crisis Response Networks: Wartime Civic Engagement in Ukraine’s Local Governments: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/crisis-response-networks-wartime-civic.html

Ghislaine Maxwell is quietly moved to cushy new Texas prison as she pushes for deal to tell all on Epstein, his associates (Ben Kochman/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/01/us-news/ghislaine-maxwell-quietly-moved-to-cushy-new-texas-prison-as-she-pushes-for-deal-to-tell-all-on-epstein-his-associates/?utm§source=nypost&utm§campaign=android§nyp&utm§medium=social
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p69#a250801p69

QCD antenna radiative spectrum in dense media: accounting for full jet-medium interactions
Matvey V. Kuzmin, Jo\~ao M. Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00143

QCD antenna radiative spectrum in dense media: accounting for full jet-medium interactions
We compute the double differential inclusive spectrum for the emission of a soft gluon from a color-singlet $q\bar q$ pair traversing a dense QCD medium. Our results extend the existing literature by simultaneously incorporating both single hard and multiple soft gluon exchanges between the jet and the medium -- an essential ingredient for a complete phenomenological description of jet quenching. Using the Improved Opacity Expansion framework, we provide an analytically tractable treatment, red…