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A woman in Los Angeles was swept nine miles down San Jose Creek in the mid-afternoon on Wednesday, Dec. 24

The woman was initially spotted in the creek near near Fullerton Road around 1:50 p.m. local time and was rescued by first responders at Workman Mill Road and taken to the hospital

This comes amid severe weather conditions in California, which has prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency in southern California counties

Woman Rescued After Being Swept at Least 9 Miles Down Creek During Christmas Eve Calif. Storm
A woman in Los Angeles was rescued after being swept nine miles down San Jose Creek in the mid-afternoon on Wednesday, Dec. 24, amid severe weather conditions in California.

The Bonfire team have met their first “maintenance” fundraising goal. The next stretch goal is designing and shipping federated groups.
There is lots of good writing in this post about the needs of different types of groups.
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/why-<…

Why Community Matters: Groups as the Next Step for the Fediverse
Federated groups in Bonfire will be spaces where communities gather to organise, care, and coordinate across the fediverse. They'll live next to your personal feed, but each group having a specific purpose: a study circle, a lab team, an activist collective, a local mutual aid crew, a project team. Inside you’ll find posts, conversations, calendars, shared resources, and more. Crucially, groups will be portable and interoperable.

Not the first thought that comes to mind, but this is an #environmental problem, not just about skiing or a local economy:
"Ropes once used to mark out the piste hang in tatters and bits of plastic are falling off a pylon. The old sheds at each end of the ski lifts often still contain transformers, asbestos, motor oils and greases. Over time, these substances seep into the soil and…

Was in Japan übrigens so nebenbei zum Thema gemacht wird:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqy86IAJPZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially operate with support from Japanese staff and are expected to work independently after several months. Industry leaders hope the move will stabilize bus services and ensure passenger safety. Public understanding and continued training will be important as Japan adapts to workforce shortages in essential public services. @YAHOO"
85 likes, 11 comments - japandaily_jp on December 24, 2025: "For the first time in Japan, foreign nationals have begun driving local bus routes under the Specified Skilled Worker program to address severe labor shortages. Tokyo Bus launched the initiative on December 23 in Tokyo and Okinawa, hiring five drivers from the Philippines after long-term training. The company says even higher wages have not attracted enough domestic drivers, making outside talent necessary. New drivers initially ope…

Day 4: Adiba Jaigirdar
Thought I'd mix things up a bit in terms of intensity & genre. Jaigirdar has written several lovely sapphic teen romances that grapple with parental acceptance in Muslim Bengali immigrant culture, along with racism and other aspects of second generation immigrant life in Dublin.
I've discovered a few other Southeast Asian authors at my local library who will appear on this list, but I'm putting Jaigirdar first because of just how enjoyable her books are, and because I generally find queer romance to be more engaging than non-queer romance. Jaigirdar's characters are sympathetic and convincing, and their problems are both dramatic and a little funny. "Hani & Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating" is probably my favorite by Jaigirdar, but I also enjoyed "The Henna Wars" and "Rani Choudhury Must Die." "A Million to One" is a bit of a departure from her other books, as historical fiction with a heist plot, but it still engages with Irish culture, immigrants, and queer romance.
#20WomenAuthors

As anarchists, when we were organizing against Trump, in the lead up to and early in his last term, we recognized the potential for repression. Radicals have always been targeted, but now he's going after moderate liberals. This is going to keep escalating, so it would be a good idea for liberals to *listen to anarchists* since we've been doing this for years.
Anarchists have been kidnapped and held without charges for months at a tim (check out https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_grand_jury_resisters. Only for those folks, they were kidnapped and held without trial under Obama.) Radicals have been doing this for years. It's worth your time to listen so you know how to prepare.
We had a bail fund set up. Support your local bail fund and don't try to start your own (liberals in Seattle did that last time). We focused on basic survival for our members. When the regime cracks down it will be random (since they can't get everyone). How are you going to support folks? Bail funds are a nice first step, but the whole process can take a long time. People can (and often do) lose their jobs, even if they aren't convicted of anything. Are you going to make sure targeted people are able to pay rent and get food? Are you going to make sure families are taken care of when a parent is kidnapped?
Resistence is only a threat if it's sustainable, otherwise they can just overpower and wait. You have to be able to wait longer. Occupations are *extremely* expensive. If you can support each other through an occupation, you can win.
So what is your plan? How are you going to make sure that those who fight can keep fighting? The best time to think about that question was under Biden. The second best time is now.

After a few intense weeks — first at #icfpsplash25 in Singapore, then four days of interviewing candidates for tenure-track positions as part of the faculty appointment committee (Lärarförslagsnämnd) at the University of Gothenburg — I’m now in Budapest for (mostly) vacation.
Tomorrow (2025-10-27) I’ll give a talk at the local Type Theory Seminar (invited by Ambrus Kaposi). Looking f…

When Trump began his second term, conventional wisdom held that the resistance was moribund.
If that was ever true, it’s certainly not anymore.
This year has seen some of the largest street protests in American history.
Amanda Litman, a founder of Run for Something, a group that trains young progressives to seek local office, told me that since the 2024 election, it has seen more sign-ups than in all of Trump’s first four years.
Just this month, the Republican-domi…

Opinion | Trump Is Getting Weaker, and the Resistance Is Getting Stronger
It’s become easier to imagine the moment when Trump’s mystique finally evaporates.

»Keyhive: Local-first access control«
I will have to read this online article carefully this weekend. Do any of you have any other tips to inform me about Local-First web?
📓 https://www.inkandswitch.com/keyhive/notebook/

Keyhive: Local-first access control
Keyhive is a project exploring local-first access control. It aims to provide a firm basis for secure collaboration, similar to the guarantees of private chat but for any local-first application.

Today is the anniversary of America's time zones. Before the railways forced standardization, every town had local time, more or less based on solar time. That was chaos.
England actually had railway time decades earlier.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-histor<…

The UK announces a £100M plan to support local AI hardware startups via guaranteed "first customer" payments, and estimates its AI market to be worth over £72B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d4d9d091-5fd7-4c20-a3ca-f68f580f7d6b

UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in £100mn growth push
Liz Kendall unveils plan to offer guaranteed payments for British start-ups making AI hardware

This is a really good question from @…. The first thing I keep telling everyone in other cities who wonders how they can help, what they can do:
Get organized NOW. Meet your neighbors NOW. Get your neighbors set up with secure messaging NOW. Form multiple hyper-local neighborhood social groups NOW. Organize a block picnic or community craft night or repair workshop or whatever NOW. Get contact info for the human beings who physically show up for neighborhood events NOW.
Form all those local connections ASAP, so that they’re there when you need them. The hardest lines of communication to establish will be the ones with the people closest to you. If you get local lines open in advance, you’ll be in a far, far better place.
https://infosec.exchange/@mathaetaes/115731104851949153

Since the last Android release @… allows using a custom server from which to download map files.
This decreases reliance on CoMaps-run infrastructure but is also great for people who live in places with limited internet connectivity, as you can now serve maps from local networks.
To make it easier, I wrote a small CLI tool over the weekend that downloads maps of interest & then serves them locally. A first alpha release for testing is on Codeberg:
#OpenStreetMap

Convergence Guarantees for Federated SARSA with Local Training and Heterogeneous Agents
Paul Mangold, Elo\"ise Berthier, Eric Moulines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17688 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17688 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17688
arXiv:2512.17688v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a novel theoretical analysis of Federated SARSA (FedSARSA) with linear function approximation and local training. We establish convergence guarantees for FedSARSA in the presence of heterogeneity, both in local transitions and rewards, providing the first sample and communication complexity bounds in this setting. At the core of our analysis is a new, exact multi-step error expansion for single-agent SARSA, which is of independent interest. Our analysis precisely quantifies the impact of heterogeneity, demonstrating the convergence of FedSARSA with multiple local updates. Crucially, we show that FedSARSA achieves linear speed-up with respect to the number of agents, up to higher-order terms due to Markovian sampling. Numerical experiments support our theoretical findings.
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I'm sitting outside doing my first stint in this year's Aussie Bird Count. It's hot and very windy. I'm beginning to think that all the local birds have scarpered down to the lake.
#AussieBirdCount #Canberra

Fresh chapter as archives gain accredited status https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/fresh-chapter-as-archives-gain-accredited-status/

Fresh chapter as archives gain accredited status - The National Archives
Six contrasting archives from different parts of Britain have won accredited status for the first time. They range from records about one of the grandest religious buildings in England, York Minster, to the local history of Hackney Borough, whose earliest document dates from 1356. Bradford’s National Science and Media Museum archives, which charts exciting developments […]

I am working on my next article, and so far its title is, “The Case for Local Law Enforcement to Arrest Feds.”
You can read it first by subscribing (for free) to my ghost at: https://stuff.davidaugust.com/
Thank you in advance!

David August
Stories, serious articles, satire, tech trends, how to guides and ideas from David August. Actor. Writer. Acting coach.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DSbtXuCCe9Y/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "Marty Friedman, an American musician based in Japan, visited a junior high school in Chiba at an event organized by local police to promote coexistence with foreigners. Speaking to first-year students, he said that 99.9% of foreigners who come to Japan are not dangerous and are often eager to communicate with Japanese people. He encouraged students to learn foreign languages and approach others without fear. Friedman also shared a personal story about forgetting his wallet in Japan, highlighting the country’s honesty. The event aimed to help young people understand cultural differences as foreign visitors and workers increase. Learning with empathy can reduce tension and improve everyday interactions. Source:TOKYO NP"
2,062 likes, 113 comments - japandaily_jp on December 18, 2025: "Marty Friedman, an American musician based in Japan, visited a junior high school in Chiba at an event organized by local police to promote coexistence with foreigners. Speaking to first-year students, he said that 99.9% of foreigners who come to Japan are not dangerous and are often eager to communicate with Japanese people. He encouraged students to learn foreign languages and approach others without fear. Friedman also shar…

Disney and CJ ENM's Tving partner to offer bundles that combine access to Disney , Tving, and South Korean streamer Wavve at discounted rates in South Korea (Patrick Brzeski/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

Disney+ and CJ ENM’s TVING Launch Landmark Streaming Partnership in Korea
The new collaboration — Disney’s first with a local OTT service in Korea — follows the company’s recent deal bringing TVING dramas to Disney+ in Japan.

Spectral analysis of hierarchical continuous-time quantum walks
Jir\^o Akahori, Yusuke Ide, Tomoki Kato, Norio Konno, Shuhei Mano, Akihiro Narimatsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12043

Spectral analysis of hierarchical continuous-time quantum walks
In this paper, we introduce hierarchical random walks at first. In this model, we use two types of random walkers, {global and local} walkers. The global walker chooses a local walker at every step, then the chosen local walker moves a single step. After that we construct the corresponding continuous-time quantum walks and discuss its spectral structures. Then we define multi-dimensional continuous-time quantum walk by taking a marginal distribution respect to the global walker.

Final talk of the day, Adam Wiggins Local-first software: pragmatism vs idealism #SyncConf

Local connections first. Then: eyes out for local groups who are doing observer trainings, giving out whistles, giving our “know your rights” cards, that sort of thing. Whatever they’re doing, join in.
@…

I must say... :)
Meetily is the bees knees for transcribing online meetings where you cannot use the native transcription
https://meetily.ai/

Calm local optimality for couple-constrained minimax problems
Xiaoxiao Ma, Jane Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03861 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03861…

Calm local optimality for couple-constrained minimax problems
Recently, a new local optimality concept for minimax problems, termed calm local minimax points, has been introduced. In this paper, we extend this concept to a general class of nonsmooth, nonconvex nonconcave minimax problems with coupled constraints, where the inner feasible set depends on the outer variable. We derive comprehensive first-order and second-order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for calm local minimax points in the setting of nonsmooth, nonconvex nonconcave minima…

Trump's FBI appointee Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws
https://apnews.com/article/kash-patel-guns-new-zealand-fbi-d5747377f957d61645d47324bfaa1114

FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws
On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed. The plastic 3D-printed replica pistols were presented during Patel's visit in July to open the FBI’s first standalone field office in New Zealand. The country's law enforcement agencies told The Associated Press about the gifts and why they were illegal to possess Tuesday. New Zealand law treats ino…

So, on a lighter note, there might’ve been karaoke at the local pub yesterday and I might’ve have sung a few songs… including (for the first time ever) a song in Turkish (Şımarık by Tarkan) and one of my favourite songs from one of my favorite musicals: Pity the Child from Chess.
Sound quality: typical pub karaoke quality :)
https://vimeo.com…

Wondering if this would be useful?
(I messed up while screen recording this & accidentally mentioned everyone 😂 — now deleted, sorry 🙇‍♂️)
#PhanpySocialDev (still on my local, not on dev site)
#Design

I liked the Fox Bay and still mourn it's passing but it's nice to see something opening in that space. I'll be checking it out.
"The venue's first public event on Dec. 5 will feature local artists Chris Haise Band and Zach Pietrini, as well as Nashville-based alt-pop trio VEAUX. This event also serves as a fundraiser, with profits given back to local Milwaukee music programs, according to a Nov. 5 news release announcing the opening."
#WhitefishBay #Milwaukee #TheArgo

Fine dissipative properties of Euler solutions with measure first derivatives
Marco Inversi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10704 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.107…

Fine dissipative properties of Euler solutions with measure first derivatives
We study fine properties of bounded weak solutions to the incompressible Euler equations whose first derivatives, or only some combinations of them, are Radon measures. As consequences we obtain elementary proofs of the local energy conservation for solutions in BV and BD, without relying on the freedom in choosing the convolution kernel appearing in the approximation of the dissipation. The argument heavily exploits the form of the Euler nonlinearity and it does not apply to the linear transpo…

Computational Certified Deletion Property of Magic Square Game and its Application to Classical Secure Key Leasing
Yuki Takeuchi, Duo Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04529 https:/…

Computational Certified Deletion Property of Magic Square Game and its Application to Classical Secure Key Leasing
We present the first construction of a computational Certified Deletion Property (CDP) achievable with classical communication, derived from the compilation of the non-local Magic Square Game (MSG). We leverage the KLVY compiler to transform the non-local MSG into a 2-round interactive protocol, rigorously demonstrating that this compilation preserves the game-specific CDP. Previously, the quantum value and rigidity of the compiled game were investigated. We emphasize that we are the first to i…

According to #ForestHills #Indivisible, ICE raided my local fruit stand yesterday. This is the first I'm hearing about it, I don't have any details other than what's in the email. #FuckICE

#SouthernCalifornia residents stunned to hear a #BayArea tech company had acquired their local municipal owned #airport from city without any advance knowledge.
A press release was first indicator that the

Local aggregate multiscale processes: A scalable, machine-learning-compatible spatial model
Daisuke Murakami, Alexis Comber, Takahiro Yoshida, Narumasa Tsutsumida, Chris Brunsdon, Tomoki Nakaya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00968

Local aggregate multiscale processes: A scalable, machine-learning-compatible spatial model
This study develops the Local Aggregate Multiscale Process (LAMP), a scalable and machine-learning-compatible alternative to conventional spatial Gaussian processes (GPs, or kriging). Unlike conventional covariance-based spatial models, LAMP represents spatial processes by a multiscale ensemble of local models, inspired by geographically weighted regression. To ensure stable model training, larger-scale patterns that are easier to learn are modeled first, followed by smaller-scale patterns, wit…

"Atlas Renewable Energy energizes 201 MW solar park in Colombia"
#Colombia #Energy #SolarPower #Renewables

Atlas Renewable Energy energizes 201 MW solar park in Colombia
Atlas Renewable Energy says its 201 MW solar project in Ibagué represents the company’s first utility-scale installation in Colombia and is supported by financing from multilateral and local lenders.

Deformation Theory of Galois Representations and the Taylor--Wiles Method
Ehsan Shahoseini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12202 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.1220…

Deformation Theory of Galois Representations and the Taylor--Wiles Method
In this chapter, we want to have an overview of the Taylor--Wiles patching method. For this purpose, at the first, we recall Mazur's theory of deforming Galois representations and study both local and global deformation problems. Then, we go through the subject of Taylor-Wiles primes and examine the role that they play on the Galois side and the modular (automorphic) side. At the end, we arrive at the Taylor-Wiles patching method and use it to prove $R=\mathbb{T}$ in both minimal and non-minima…

Local vertices, quadratic propagators and double-copy structure of one-loop integrands from forward limits
Chongsi Xie, Yi-Jian Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25632 https://

Local vertices, quadratic propagators and double-copy structure of one-loop integrands from forward limits
By worldsheet approach, $n$-point one-loop integrand can be expressed as a combination of $(n+2)$-point tree-level bi-adjoint scalar (BS) amplitudes under forward limit. The integrands constructed by this approach have two closely related features that are different from conventional Feynman diagrams. First, the denominators of loop propagators are linear functions of the loop momentum. Second, the local vertex expression is not manifest. In our previous work, a systematic approach was proposed…

The Guided Local Hamiltonian Problem for Stoquastic Hamiltonians
Gabriel Waite
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25829 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25829

The Guided Local Hamiltonian Problem for Stoquastic Hamiltonians
We show that the Guided Local Hamiltonian problem for stoquastic Hamiltonians is (promise) BPP-hard. The Guided Local Hamiltonian problem is a variant of the Local Hamiltonian problem that incorporates an additional input known as a guiding state, which is promised to overlap with the ground state. For a range of local Hamiltonian families, this problem is (promise) BQP-hard, though for stoquastic Hamiltonians, the complexity was previously unknown. Our results are achieved by first reducing fr…

Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

Asymptotic behaviour of the weak inverse anisotropic mean curvature flow
Chaoqun Gao, Yong Wei, Rong Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08168 https://arxiv.or…

Asymptotic behaviour of the weak inverse anisotropic mean curvature flow
We first establish a local gradient estimate for anisotropic $p$-harmonic functions. A key feature of our estimate is that the constant remains bounded as $p\to 1$; consequently, in the limit $p\to 1$, this estimate yields the local gradient estimate for weak solutions of the inverse anisotropic mean curvature flow (IAMCF). As an application, we show that the weak IAMCF is asymptotic to the expanding Wulff shape solution at the infinity, thereby extending the result of Huisken and Ilmanen in [7…

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 12:
The next three will be local Edinburgh writers, all of whom I have had the pleasure of meeting, and hearing them read from their work.
First up:
➡️ Catriona Child
I loved her "Trackman" - it was so cool to recognise the various places in the book and I loved her typographical experiments. She has written 4 novels to date.

Still in shock over recent events. We lived in Blair Street in the mid 80s and my daughter's first school was the local p.s. by the beach. My heart goes out to everyone impacted by this tragic act of hatred.
#Australia

Ergodicity and error estimate of laws for a random splitting Langevin Monte Carlo
Lei Li, Chen Wang, Mengchao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07676 https://

Ergodicity and error estimate of laws for a random splitting Langevin Monte Carlo
The random splitting Langevin Monte Carlo could mitigate the first order bias in Langevin Monte Carlo with little extra work compared other high order schemes. We develop in this work an analysis framework for the sampling error under Wasserstein distance regarding the random splitting Langevin Monte Carlo. First, the sharp local truncation error is obtained by the relative entropy approach together with the explicit formulas for the commutator of related semi-groups. The necessary pointwise es…

Edge inducibility via local directed graphs
Ting-Wei Chao, Asaf Cohen Antonir, Anqi Li, Hung-Hsun Hans Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24064 https://arxiv.or…

Edge inducibility via local directed graphs
In this paper we introduce the edge inducibility problem. This is a common refinement of both the well known Kruskal--Katona theorem and the inducibility question introduced by Pippenger and Golumbic. Our first result is a hardness result. It shows that for any graph $G$, there is a related graph $G'$ whose edge inducibility determines the vertex inducibility of $G$. Moreover, we determine the edge inducibility of every $G$ with at most $4$ vertices, and make some progress on the cases $G=C_5…

Selecting Clusters and Protoclusters via Stellar Mass Density: I. Method and tests on Mock HSC-SSP catalogs
Marcelo C. Vicentin, Pablo Araya-Araya, Laerte Sodr\'e Jr., Michael A. Strauss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10735

Selecting Clusters and Protoclusters via Stellar Mass Density: I. Method and tests on Mock HSC-SSP catalogs
We present an algorithm designed to identify galaxy (proto)clusters in wide-area photometric surveys by first selecting their dominant galaxy-i.e., the Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG) or protoBCG-through the local stellar mass density traced by massive galaxies. We focus on its application to the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP) Wide Survey to detect candidates up to $\rm z \sim 2$. In this work, we apply the method to mock galaxy catalogs that replicate the observational con…

Right; mail server upgraded to #debian Trixie; I did it by recreating it in a local VM first; package install to match, and then tested a restore from my encrypted backups - which was a good exercise in its self. Then a dist-upgrade; fixing up Dovecot was the hairiest bit - they've randomly changed the name of a bunch of options. mail_location is now mail_driver/home/path/inbox_path and t…

A first-order method for constrained nonconvex--nonconcave minimax problems under a local Kurdyka-{\L}ojasiewicz condition
Zhaosong Lu, Xiangyuan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01168

A first-order method for constrained nonconvex--nonconcave minimax problems under a local Kurdyka-Łojasiewicz condition
We study a class of constrained nonconvex--nonconcave minimax problems in which the inner maximization involves potentially complex constraints. Under the assumption that the inner problem of a novel lifted minimax problem satisfies a local Kurdyka-Łojasiewicz (KL) condition, we show that the maximal function of the original problem enjoys a local Hölder smoothness property. We also propose a sequential convex programming (SCP) method for solving constrained optimization problems and establis…

A Faster Randomized Algorithm for Vertex Cover: An Automated Approach
Katie Clinch, Serge Gaspers, Tao Zixu He, Simon Mackenzie, Tiankuang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09027

A Faster Randomized Algorithm for Vertex Cover: An Automated Approach
This work introduces two techniques for the design and analysis of branching algorithms, illustrated through the case study of the Vertex Cover problem. First, we present a method for automatically generating branching rules through a systematic case analysis of local structures. Second, we develop a new technique for analyzing randomized branching algorithms using the Measure & Conquer method, offering greater flexibility in formulating branching rules. By combining these innovations with addi…

Targeted perturbations reveal brain-like local coding axes in robustified, but not standard, ANN-based brain models
Nikolas McNeal, N. Apurva Ratan Murty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23333

Targeted perturbations reveal brain-like local coding axes in robustified, but not standard, ANN-based brain models
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have become the de facto standard for modeling the human visual system, primarily due to their success in predicting neural responses. However, with many models now achieving similar predictive accuracy, we need a stronger criterion. Here, we use small-scale adversarial probes to characterize the local representational geometry of many highly predictive ANN-based brain models. We report four key findings. First, we show that most contemporary ANN-based brain mo…

Analysis of Local Samples of Paracetamol at Bamako by Reflectance Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
Aminata Sow, Issiaka Traore, Tidiane Diallo, Abdramane Ba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01071

Analysis of Local Samples of Paracetamol at Bamako by Reflectance Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
The approach of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) together with Chemometric techniques are used in order to analyze sixty (60) tablets of paracetamol of different batch numbers in the local markets in Bamako. The primary objective is to model these samples by doing multivariate regression computation. Prior to this, various statistical pretreatment methods such as second derivative (SD) correction, first derivative correction (FD), multiple scattering correction (MSC), smoothing the spectra (sm…

Canadian police department becomes first to trial body cameras equipped with facial recognition technology https://therecord.media/canadian-police-department-trials-facial-recognition-body-cameras

First GNSS-deployed optical clock for local time scale upgrade
Yi Yuan, Jian Cao, Jinbo Yuan, Dehao Wang, Pengcheng Fang, Qunfeng Chen, Shiying Cao, Xuanjian Wang, Sijia Chao, Hualin Shu, Guojun Li, Jinfeng Xu, Guitao Fu, Yuting Yang, Run Zhao, Fengfeng Shi, Xueren Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12454

First order equation on random measures as superposition of weak solutions to the McKean-Vlasov equation
Alessandro Pinzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07542 https://

First order equation on random measures as superposition of weak solutions to the McKean-Vlasov equation
The goal of this paper is to define an evolution equation for a curve of random probability measures $(M_t)_{t\in[0,T]}\subset \mathcal{P}(\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{R}^d))$ associated to a non-local drift $b:[0,T]\times\mathbb{R}^d \times \mathcal{P}(\mathbb{R}^d) \to \mathbb{R}^d$ and a non-local diffusion term $a:[0,T]\times \mathbb{R}^d \times \mathcal{P}(\mathbb{R}^d) \to \operatorname{Sym}_+(\mathbb{R}^{d\times d})$. Then, we show that any solution to that equation can be lifted to a superpositi…

Characteristic polynomials of non-Hermitian random band matrices
Mariya Shcherbina, Tatyana Shcherbina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04255 https://arxiv.org/p…

Characteristic polynomials of non-Hermitian random band matrices
We consider the asymptotic local behavior of the second correlation functions of the characteristic polynomials of a certain class of Gaussian $N\times N$ non-Hermitian random band matrices with a bandwidth $W$. Given $W,N\to\infty$, we show that this behavior near the point in the bulk of the spectrum exhibits the crossover at $W\sim \sqrt{N}$: it coincides with those for Ginibre ensemble for $W\gg \sqrt{N}$, and factorized as $1\ll W\ll \sqrt{N}$. The result is the first step toward the proof…

The local supermarket was running a game where if you were the first person to arrive at a given point in the store after it was called over th intercom, you got a free product from the bakery. I'm not saying it was super difficult to win, but it was no cakewalk.

"Great British Energy plans 15 GW clean energy investment"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

Great British Energy plans 15 GW clean energy investment
UK government-owned energy company’s first strategic plan sets GBP 15 billion private finance target and commits to support for more than 1,000 local and community energy generation projects.

Abundance of strontium in the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tuc
E. Kolomiecas, A. Ku\v{c}inskas, J. Klevas, V. Dobrovolskas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04722 https://

Abundance of strontium in the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tuc
Aims. We have determined Sr abundance in a sample of 31 red giant branch stars located in the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tuc with the aim to identify potential differences in the Sr abundance between first population (1P, Na-poor) and second population (2P, Na-rich) stars. Methods. We derived the Na and Sr abundances from the archival spectra obtained with the UVES spectrograph. To do this, we used 1D ATLAS9 model atmospheres and a 1D local thermodynamic equilibrium spectral synthesis method.…

Non-local edge mode hybridization in the long-range interacting Kitaev chain
David Haink, Andreas A. Buchheit, Benedikt Fauseweh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26447 https://…

Non-local edge mode hybridization in the long-range interacting Kitaev chain
In one-dimensional p-wave superconductors with short-range interactions, topologically protected Majorana modes emerge, whose mass decays exponentially with system size, as first shown by Kitaev. In this work, we extend this prototypical model by including power law long-range interactions within a self-consistent framework, leading to the self-consistent long-range Kitaev chain (seco-LRKC). In this model, the gap matrix acquires a rich structure where short-range superconducting correlations c…

Modeling the Equilibrium Vacancy Concentration in Multi-Principal Element Alloys from First-Principles
Damien K. J. Lee, Yann L. M\"uller, Anirudh Raju Natarajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21944

Modeling the Equilibrium Vacancy Concentration in Multi-Principal Element Alloys from First-Principles
Multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs), also known as high-entropy alloys, have garnered significant interest across many applications due to their exceptional properties. Equilibrium vacancy concentrations in MPEAs influence diffusion and microstructural stability in these alloys. However, computing vacancy concentrations from ab-initio methods is computationally challenging due to the vast compositional space of MPEAs and the complexity of the local environment around each vacancy. In this wo…

X2Video: Adapting Diffusion Models for Multimodal Controllable Neural Video Rendering
Zhitong Huang, Mohan Zhang, Renhan Wang, Rui Tang, Hao Zhu, Jing Liao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08530

X2Video: Adapting Diffusion Models for Multimodal Controllable Neural Video Rendering
We present X2Video, the first diffusion model for rendering photorealistic videos guided by intrinsic channels including albedo, normal, roughness, metallicity, and irradiance, while supporting intuitive multi-modal controls with reference images and text prompts for both global and local regions. The intrinsic guidance allows accurate manipulation of color, material, geometry, and lighting, while reference images and text prompts provide intuitive adjustments in the absence of intrinsic inform…

November was the first month the Hospitality House gallery on Market St & 6th in #SanFrancisco owned its own building and it is now making a difference in the lives of its in-house low income local #artists . The Community Arts Program offers tea and snacks to the people who walk through its doors — but also pat…

‘A Creator’s Dream’: Inside the SF Studio Building a Hub for Low-Income Artists
Hospitality House has purchased a mid-Market building that contains the nonprofit’s fine art studio — securing its future forever.

Zero-Waiting Load Balancing with Heterogeneous Servers in Heavy Traffic
Xin Liu, Lei Ying
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23918 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23918…

Zero-Waiting Load Balancing with Heterogeneous Servers in Heavy Traffic
We study the steady-state delay performance of load balancing in large-scale systems with heterogeneous servers in the heavy-traffic regimes. The system consists of $N$ servers, each with a local buffer of size $b-1$, serving jobs in the first-in-first-out (FIFO) order. Jobs arrive according to a Poisson process with rate $λN$, where $λ= 1 - N^{-α}$ for any $α\in (0,1)$. Service times are assumed to be exponentially distributed with fully heterogeneous rates, where the service rate of each …

Discontinuous Epitope Fragments as Sufficient Target Templates for Efficient Binder Design
Zhenfeng Deng, Ruijie Hou, Ningrui Xie, Mike Tyers, Micha{\l} Koziarski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25479

Discontinuous Epitope Fragments as Sufficient Target Templates for Efficient Binder Design
Recent advances in structure-based protein design have accelerated de novo binder generation, yet interfaces on large domains or spanning multiple domains remain challenging due to high computational cost and declining success with increasing target size. We hypothesized that protein folding neural networks (PFNNs) operate in a ``local-first'' manner, prioritizing local interactions while displaying limited sensitivity to global foldability.Guided by this hypothesis, we propose an epitope-only …

Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be
“no more prayer”
in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility,
in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/0

Feds Tell Faith Leaders ‘No More Prayer’ Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after faith leaders were denied entry to the building for the third time on Friday.

The Salt Lake Tribune launches The Southern Utah Tribune, a free monthly newspaper, its latest local news product after a Cache Valley newsletter and Moab paper (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/t…

The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah
“We believe that the first thing we have to do is build something that people want.”

On convergence of normal form transformations
Valery G. Romanovski, Sebastian Walcher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00925 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00925

On convergence of normal form transformations
We discuss various aspects concerning transformations of local analytic, or formal, vector fields to Poincare-Dulac normal form, and the convergence of such transformations. We first review A.D. Bruno's approach to formal normalization, as well as convergence results in presence of certain (simplified) versions of Bruno's ``Condition A'', and along the way we also identify a large class of systems that satisfy Bruno's diophantine ``Condition omega''. We retrace the proof steps in Bruno's work, …

EFT of Non-Markovian $U(1)_X$ Breaking: Dark Matter and Gravitational Waves
Arnab Chaudhuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22293 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.222…

EFT of Non-Markovian $U(1)_X$ Breaking: Dark Matter and Gravitational Waves
We develop an effective field theory (EFT) framework for $U(1)_X$ gauge symmetry breaking in which the dynamics of the order parameter acquire non-local-in-time (``memory'') corrections from a heavy dark sector. Integrating out metastable or slowly equilibrating fields generates temporal kernels in the EFT, yielding a history-dependent effective potential for the $U(1)_X$ scalar. These non-Markovian terms qualitatively alter first-order phase transition dynamics by modifying bubble nucleation, …

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.optics. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.optics/new
[1/1]:
- First GNSS-deployed optical clock for local time scale upgrade
Yuan, Cao, Yuan, Wang, Fang, Chen, Cao, Wang, Chao, Shu, Li, Xu, Fu, Yang, Zhao, Shi, Huang

New Classes of Non-monotone Variational Inequality Problems Solvable via Proximal Gradient on Smooth Gap Functions
Lei Zhao, Daoli Zhu, Shuzhong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12105

New Classes of Non-monotone Variational Inequality Problems Solvable via Proximal Gradient on Smooth Gap Functions
In this paper, we study the local linear convergence behavior of proximal-gradient (PG) descent algorithm on a parameterized gap-function reformulation of a smooth but non-monotone variational inequality problem (VIP). The aim is to solve the non-monotone VI problem without assuming the existence of a Minty-type solution. We first introduce and study various error bound conditions for the gap functions in relation to the VI model. In particular, we show that uniform type error bounds imply leve…

Sinc Basis set for molecular orbitals calculation of cavity in 1D
Xueyuan Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24464 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24464

Sinc Basis set for molecular orbitals calculation of cavity in 1D
We develop a numerical approach based on the sinc basis set for first-principles electronic structure calculations in one-dimensional systems. The method exploits the inherent accuracy and non-local character of the sinc functions to handle long-range couplings effectively. As a proof of principle, we provide a computational study of a molecule in an optical cavity, with our code directly calculating the emergence of the energy level splitting in the spectrum.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to
👉 dismantle protections for trans and intersex people
in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities,
according to a government memo obtained by Prism. 
The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s first-day executive order that,
among other things, targeted protec…

Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, memo says
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order

Dual Optimistic Ascent (PI Control) is the Augmented Lagrangian Method in Disguise
Juan Ramirez, Simon Lacoste-Julien
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22500 https://

Dual Optimistic Ascent (PI Control) is the Augmented Lagrangian Method in Disguise
Constrained optimization is a powerful framework for enforcing requirements on neural networks. These constrained deep learning problems are typically solved using first-order methods on their min-max Lagrangian formulation, but such approaches often suffer from oscillations and can fail to find all local solutions. While the Augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) addresses these issues, practitioners often favor dual optimistic ascent schemes (PI control) on the standard Lagrangian, which perform w…

This is absolutely on brand for Ellis Ross. He was a known ____ when he was a BC Liberal MLA for the same area.
The BC Liberals were also well known for their boosting of the trophy hunting industry, so OF COURSE he's going to go to the local Rod and Gun club before he calls the Nation that was devastated by the Grizzly attack.
A good reminder that not all First Nation "leaders" are environmentally, or socially, conscious.
What an ass.
#CanPoli #BC #Grizzly #FirstNation #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/grizzlies-bella-coola-ellis-ross-9.7012997

Integrated Local Energy Decay for Waves with Time-Dependent Damping
Perry Kleinhenz, Michael McNulty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00179 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Integrated Local Energy Decay for Waves with Time-Dependent Damping
We prove integrated local energy decay for solutions of the damped wave equation with time-dependent damping satisfying an appropriate generalization of the geometric control condition on asymptotically flat, stationary space-times. We first obtain a high frequency estimate, which we prove via a positive commutator estimate using an escape function explicitly constructed in terms of the damping around individual space-time trajectories. We combine the high frequency estimate with low and medium…

Adaptive Conditional Gradient Descent
Abbas Khademi, Antonio Silveti-Falls
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11440 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11440

Adaptive Conditional Gradient Descent
Selecting an effective step-size is a fundamental challenge in first-order optimization, especially for problems with non-Euclidean geometries. This paper presents a novel adaptive step-size strategy for optimization algorithms that rely on linear minimization oracles, as used in the Conditional Gradient or non-Euclidean Normalized Steepest Descent algorithms. Using a simple heuristic to estimate a local Lipschitz constant for the gradient, we can determine step-sizes that guarantee sufficient …

Towards a Taub-Bolt to Taub-NUT via Ricci flow with surgery
John Hughes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23257 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23257

Towards a Taub-Bolt to Taub-NUT via Ricci flow with surgery
This paper shows for the first time the existence of a Ricci flow with surgery with local topology change \mathbb{CP}^2\setminus\{ \mathrm{pt}\} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^4. The post surgery flow converges to the Taub-NUT metric on \mathbb{R}^4 in infinite time.

On ill-posedness for the Gabitov--Turitsyn equation
Matthew Kowalski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11887 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11887

On ill-posedness for the Gabitov--Turitsyn equation
We investigate the well- and ill-posedness theory for the Gabitov--Turitsyn equation, which models the long-time dynamics of pulses in dispersion-managed optical fibers. We identify two critical regularities, corresponding to two scaling pseudo-symmetries, that demarcate regimes of ill-posedness. First, we identify $s_m = \tfrac{d}{2} - \tfrac{2}{p},$ coinciding with the monomial NLS. For $s \geq \max(s_m,0)$, local well-posedness is known to hold in $H^s$, while for $s < s_m$, we show that the…

Observation of Crystalline Nonlocal Volume Plasmon Waves
Sathwik Bharadwaj, Makoto Schreiber, Jungho Mun, Sam Ruttiman, Pronoy Das, Misa Hayashida, Marek Malac, Peter Nordlander, Zubin Jacob
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07612

Observation of Crystalline Nonlocal Volume Plasmon Waves
In plasmonics, nonlocal effects arise when the material response to optical excitations is strongly dependent on the spatial correlations of the excitation. It is well known that a classical free electron gas system supports local Drude volume plasmon waves. Whereas a compressible quantum electron gas system sustains hydrodynamic volume plasmons with nonlocal dispersion isotropic across all high-symmetry directions. Here, distinct from Drude and Hydrodynamic plasmon waves, we present the first …

Noncollinear Magnetic Multipoles in Collinear Altermagnets
Luca Buiarelli, Rafael M. Fernandes, Turan Birol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23117 https://arxiv.…

Noncollinear Magnetic Multipoles in Collinear Altermagnets
Altermagnets host an array of magnetic multipoles, which are often visualized and studied in the reciprocal space. In the real space, the relative phase of the multipoles of the spin-density around atoms determines whether a system is an altermagnet or a conventional antiferromagnet. In this study, we approach these real space multipoles in altermagnets using a combination of first principles calculations and group theory. We show that even in collinear magnets, the local spin density is necess…

Locally Lipschitz Path Dependent FBSDEs with Unbounded Terminal Conditions in Brownian and L{\'e}vy Settings
Hannah Geiss (JYU), C\'eline Labart (LAMA), Adrien Richou (IMB), Alexander Steinicke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26423

Locally Lipschitz Path Dependent FBSDEs with Unbounded Terminal Conditions in Brownian and L{é}vy Settings
This paper is dedicated to the analysis of forward backward stochastic differential equations driven by a L{é}vy process. We assume that the generator and the terminal condition are path-dependent and satisfy a local Lipschitz condition. We study solvability and Malliavin differentiability of such BSDEs. The proof of the existence and uniqueness is done in three steps. First of all, we truncate and localize the terminal condition and the generator. Then we use an iteration argument to get boun…

Convergence analysis of inexact MBA method for constrained upper-$\mathcal{C}^2$ optimization problems
Ruyu Liu, Shaohua Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09940 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.09940
arXiv:2511.09940v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper concerns a class of constrained optimization problems in which, the objective and constraint functions are both upper-$\mathcal{C}^2$. For such nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problems, we develop an inexact moving balls approximation (MBA) method by a workable inexactness criterion for the solving of subproblems. By leveraging a global error bound for the strongly convex program associated with parametric optimization problems, we establish the full convergence of the iterate sequence under the partial bounded multiplier property (BMP) and the Kurdyka-{\L}ojasiewicz (KL) property of the constructed potential function, and achieve the local convergence rate of the iterate and objective value sequences if the potential function satisfies the KL property of exponent $q\in[1/2,1)$. A verifiable condition is also provided to check whether the potential function satisfies the KL property of exponent $q\in[1/2,1)$ at the given critical point. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first implementable inexact MBA method with a full convergence certificate for the constrained nonconvex and nonsmooth optimization problem.
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Verification of Sequential Convex Programming for Parametric Non-convex Optimization
Rajiv Sambharya, Nikolai Matni, George Pappas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10622 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10622 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10622
arXiv:2511.10622v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce a verification framework to exactly verify the worst-case performance of sequential convex programming (SCP) algorithms for parametric non-convex optimization. The verification problem is formulated as an optimization problem that maximizes a performance metric (e.g., the suboptimality after a given number of iterations) over parameters constrained to be in a parameter set and iterate sequences consistent with the SCP update rules. Our framework is general, extending the notion of SCP to include both conventional variants such as trust-region, convex-concave, and prox-linear methods, and algorithms that combine convex subproblems with rounding steps, as in relaxing and rounding schemes. Unlike existing analyses that may only provide local guarantees under limited conditions, our framework delivers global worst-case guarantees--quantifying how well an SCP algorithm performs across all problem instances in the specified family. Applications in control, signal processing, and operations research demonstrate that our framework provides, for the first time, global worst-case guarantees for SCP algorithms in the parametric setting.
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Fascism has arrived in the US. Here's a video of a (liberal) lawyer just straight up saying the courts won't save you.
The system only speaks two languages now: money and violence. If you want a chance to avoid the second, now is the time to use the first. #MassBlackout is a #Boycott of the American corporations that support the dictatorship. By showing that people have the power to shut down the economy if elites don't listen, we can hit them where it actually hurts.
From now until December 2nd, do as many of these things as you can:
- Stop online or in-store shopping (except for small businesses)
- Stop work
- Stop streaming, cancel subscriptions, no digital purchases
This is one of the few times that boosting stuff on social media and doing nothing else actually *can* make a difference. Boost posts tagged with #WeAintBuyingIt, #MassBlackout, and #BlackOutTheSystem. Make sure everyone you know knows about it. Hold each other accountable to keep from spending. You may already not be spending because.... well,.. #Trump has already made everything too expensive. The thing is that elites can't actually tell the difference. Spreading word, making the protest seem as big and impactful as possible is all that's really needed to fracture elites and turn them against each other. Boost, write your own post, make these tags trend on every platform you can, then do nothing.
Don't buy things, don't work. Just stop. Refuse to participate in capitalism. This is the ultimate "fuck you, make me" because they absolutely can't make you. This is the ultimate reminder of where power actually comes from.
If you're outside the US, (continue to) boycott American products (if the tariffs haven't already taken care of that) until the regime falls. Cancel all American streaming services, and any other American tech you can. If you're stuck on American tech, spend some time to look for local alternatives.
It turns out the world is more interconnected than capitalists would like you to believe, and we all actually have the power to change things. It's time to prove it.
#USPol