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KI-Brille mit Display: Google und Magic Leap zeigen Prototyp
Magic Leap liefert das Waveguide-Display für Smart Glasses auf Basis von Android XR. Es könnte der Meta Ray-Ban Display Konkurrenz machen.
https://www…

Ein großer Fan des Wurstelpraters in #Wien bin ich ja nicht unbedingt. Aber das #Theater #Magic World kann ich wärmstens empfehlen:

Pre-Distillation of Magic States via Composite Schemes
Muhammad Erew, Moshe Goldstein, Yaron Oz, Haim Suchowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00804 https://ar…

Pre-Distillation of Magic States via Composite Schemes
Magic state distillation (MSD) is a cornerstone of fault-tolerant quantum computing, enabling non-Clifford gates via state injection into stabilizer circuits. However, the substantial overhead of current MSD protocols remains a major obstacle to scalable implementations. We propose a general framework for pre-distillation, based on composite pulse sequences that suppress systematic errors in the generation of magic states. Unlike typical composite designs that target simple gates such as $X$, $…

this is a wild idea. I love the meme but also people will pay money for this?
ATLA Cabbage Merchant Is Getting a MAGIC: THE GATHERING Collection
https://nerdist.com/article/cabbage-merchant-secret-lair-drop-magic-th…

Review of Honor Magic V5, the world's thinnest foldable phone at 8.8mm thick when folded, as it launches in Europe for €1,999, following a July launch in China (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/phone-review/766712/honor-magic…

Honor’s Magic V5 is the thinnest foldable yet, but that’s not why it matters
Thin is in, but the big battery is the Honor Magic V5’s real magic trick.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Magic System:
🎵 Premier gaou
#MagicSystem
https://kwamzy.bandcamp.com/track/magic-system-premier-gaou-dj-kwamzy-amapiano-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ohqZJp2b7HRQ6SWmxnXzU

Magic Leap showcases AR expertise in glasses prototype, extends Google partnership https://www.magicleap.com/newsroom/magic-leap-showcases-ar-expertise-in-glasses-prototype-extends-google-partnership

Magic Leap Extends Partnership with Google
Magic Leap showcases AR expertise in glasses prototype and extends its collaboration with Google, advancing the future of augmented reality.

Advantage of utilizing nonlocal magic resource in Haar-random circuits
Xiao Huang, Guanhua Chen, Yao Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26342 https://arxiv.org…

Advantage of utilizing nonlocal magic resource in Haar-random circuits
In design and simulation of quantum circuits with multiple units, the computational ability is greatly limited by quickly increasing entanglement, and the ordinary sampling methods normally exhibit low efficiency. Herein, we uncover an intrinsic scaling law of the nonlocal magic resource and the bond dimension of matrix product states in Haar-random quantum circuits, that is, the nonlocal magic resource is converged on a bond dimension in logarithmic scale with the system size. It means, in the…

from my link log —
CHICKEN Scheme internals: the garbage collector.
https://www.more-magic.net/posts/internals-gc.html
saved 2025-08-08

Next-day observation processing for the LST-1 and MAGIC
A. Dinesh (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project,the MAGIC collaboration), M. L\'ainez (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project,the MAGIC collaboration), R. A. Cervi\~no (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project,the MAGIC collaboration), D. Morcuende (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project,the MAGIC collaboration), A. Moralejo (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project,the MAGIC collaboration), J. L. Contreras (on behalf of the CTAO-LST project,the MAGIC c…

Next-day observation processing for the LST-1 and MAGIC
The MAGIC and LST-1 telescopes, located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, operate dedicated On-Site Analysis (OSA) pipelines that provide rapid, automated processing of observational data. These systems produce high-level data products just a few hours after observations are completed, enabling quick-look analyses, next-day data quality assessments, and rapid-response science such as flare detection and Target of Opportunity follow-ups. OSA pipelines have been in continuous…

I think 3 is magic because it allows one adult to take care of the child, one to take care of the house, and one to relax.
Or, when the housework is done, two adults can actually have an adult conversation for a bit.

I finished Jim Butcher's The Olympian Affair this morning and very satisfying it is, an Airship Punk, Victorian aesthetic in a post-post-post-apocalyptic world, crystal magic and horrible beasties.
He orchestrates battles and one on one fights with wit, peril and purpose.
I hope it's not quite so long between the Second and Third of the Spires series as it was between the First and Second.

I refuse to read OOM errors as anything else but "Out of Mana".
Computers are magic, so it makes perfect sense they have a limited Mana pool.
Yes, I'm trouble shooting on the #HPC , why are you asking?

Is the Dallas Cowboys draft magic worn out? https://insidethestar.com/is-the-dallas-cowboys-draft-magic-worn-out

The magic you are looking for, is in the work you are avoiding.

Brownies to celebrate book release day! Good thing I'm better at writing than knitting socks. Now I just need to find a magic pen that would let me write fascism away. #bookstodon

Orchestrating multi-level magic state distillation: a dynamic pipeline architecture
Junshi Wang (University of Cambridge), Prakash Murali (University of Cambridge)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24402

Orchestrating multi-level magic state distillation: a dynamic pipeline architecture
Practical quantum computation requires high-fidelity instruction executions on qubits. Among them, Clifford instructions are relatively easy to perform, while non-Clifford instructions require the use of magic states. This makes magic state distillation a central procedure in fault-tolerant quantum computing. A magic state distillation factory consumes many low-fidelity input magic states and produces fewer, higher-fidelity states. To reach high fidelities, multiple distillation factories are t…

With all the books unpacked, I finally got to read through Kirsty Mackay's "The Magic Money Tree" about the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and poverty in the UK, and loved the prints that came with it.
As always, she does a great job in combining documentary photography, scrapbooking and relevant texts (e.g. from parliamentary debates). Well worth your time if you can get your hands on it!
#documentaryphotography

The #fediverse did it's magic today! :mastodance: :fediverse:
Nachdem ich gestern den Hashtag #Ferrara benutzt hatte, hat @… sich gemeldet und wir…

This is another photo I was able to take in the #schwarzwald . You might have seen it in my recent blog post. But I wanted to share it here as well.
What really surprises me is how it looked on location vs here now. On location there was a lot of forest around, lots of clutter. It was a challenge to find this view through the foreground so that I could single out this gem of a tree but…

Dissecting the radiation mechanism of short GRB~160821B through multi-wavelength modelling
Ankur Ghosh, Monica Barnard, Jagdish C. Joshi, Soebur Razzaque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00780

Dissecting the radiation mechanism of short GRB~160821B through multi-wavelength modelling
GRB~160821B is the only short GRB detected to date at very high energy (VHE, $\gtrsim 100$ GeV). At a redshift $z=0.161$, it was detected by MAGIC telescopes approximately four hours since the trigger. VHE dataset was complied with the datasets of other wavelengths in between the timescale of 1.7 to 4 hours to construct the broadband spectral energy distribution (SED). In previous studies of GRB~160821B, synchrotron and external Compton (EC) model could explain the VHE emission better than the …

Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association 2026, Feb. 25-28, Albuquerque, New Mexico
https://ift.tt/XCUetSq
updated: Monday, September 1, 2025 - 3:07pmfull name / name of organization: Southwest…
via Input 4 RELCFP

🤦🏽‍♀️ Overconfidence persists even where regular feedback should discourage it, chess study finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-overconfidence-persists-regular-feedback-discourage.html

Overconfidence persists even where regular feedback should discourage it, chess study finds
The late psychologist Daniel Kahneman once said if he could wave a magic wand and get rid of any bias, he would choose overconfidence. However, overconfidence is here to stay. In a recent study in Psychological Science, researchers examined this bias among tournament chess players, to investigate if overconfidence is prevalent in an environment that should discourage it.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Canadian Opera Company Orchestra & Richard Bradshaw:
🎵 Overture from Die Zauberflote [The Magic Flute] K.620
#WolfgangAmadeusMozart
https://open.spotify.com/track/3aHCqW7Usbfg4jdxkrX1rV

Trump posted an AI video of himself announcing magic medical beds using tech from space aliens, but on the other hand, Biden did that one debate with a really bad cold.

Magic Keyboard fürs iPad Air mit neuer Farbe
Es muss nicht immer ein iPad Pro sein: Wer ein Air besitzt, kann es nun mit einer optisch neuen Tastatur- und Trackpad-Kombi ausrüsten.
https://www.he…

Apparently, I am the 279ᵗʰ most followed person in the Mastodon. Cat propaganda works!!
🐱 https://most-followed-mastodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com/?page=6

There's magic trick that can make any #AI project successful. When the LLM's success rate is too low, just say "it's OK, we will have a human in the loop" and ship it anyway.
There's just one problem with this magic trick: most #LLM implementations don't have the thoughtfu…

"Human in the loop" is a thought-terminating cliche
Without thoughtful guard rails, asking people to clean up after machines doesn't make machines better — it makes people worse.

Fine-Grained Reasoning About Container-Internal Pointers with Logical Pinning
Yawen Guan, Cl\'ement Pit-Claudel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23229 https://

Fine-Grained Reasoning About Container-Internal Pointers with Logical Pinning
Most separation logics hide container-internal pointers for modularity. This makes it difficult to specify container APIs that temporarily expose those pointers to the outside, and to verify programs that use these APIs. We present logical pinning, a lightweight borrowing model for sequential programs that allows users to selectively track container-internal pointers at the logical level. Our model generalizes the magic-wand operator, making it easy to write and prove precise specifications, in…

MAGIC: Multi-task Gaussian process for joint imputation and classification in healthcare time series
Dohyun Ku, Catherine D. Chong, Visar Berisha, Todd J. Schwedt, Jing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19577

MAGIC: Multi-task Gaussian process for joint imputation and classification in healthcare time series
Time series analysis has emerged as an important tool for improving patient diagnosis and management in healthcare applications. However, these applications commonly face two critical challenges: time misalignment and data sparsity. Traditional approaches address these issues through a two-step process of imputation followed by prediction. We propose MAGIC (Multi-tAsk Gaussian Process for Imputation and Classification), a novel unified framework that simultaneously performs class-informed missi…

Okay, here's the promised follow-up with more authors I respect who didn't make it onto this list. I won't do deep dives but I'll list at least one work per author:
YA novelists:
- Randi Pink ("Girls Like Us")
- Louisa Onomé ("Twice as Perfect")
- Emery Lee ("Meet Cute Diary")
- Robin Benway ("Far from the Tree")
- Angela Velez ("Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity")
Children's book authors:
- Jacqueline Davies ("Bubbles Up")
- Freya Hartas ("Slow Down in the Park")
Novelists:
- Rimma Onoseta ("How You Grow Wings")
Graphic novelists:
- Linda Medley ("Castle Waiting")
- 🖋️Magsalene Visaggio 🖌️Paulina Ganucheau ("Girlmode")
- Ursula Vernon ("Digger")
- SJ Sindu ("Tall Water" w/ Dion MBD)
- Hope Larson ("Be That Way"; "Salt Magic" w/ Rebecca Mock)
- Lily Williams Karen Schneemann ("Go With the Flow")
- Maia Kobabe ("Gender Queer")
- Kay O'Neill ("Tea Dragon Society")
- Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis")
Mangaka:
- Kaoru Mori ("Young Bride's Stories")
- Ryoko Kui ("Delicious in Dungeon")
- Natsuki Takaya ("Fruits Basket")
Anime writers/directors and/or Japanese light/fantasy/SF novelists:
- Nahoko Uehashi ("Moribito")
- Sayo Yamamoto ("Michiko & Hatchin"; "Yuri!!! On Ice")
- Mari Okada ("Ano Hana: The Flower we Saw That Day"; "Toradora!")
Game designers/programmers:
(Upon review I was pretty remiss in skipping over a few of these people, some of whom I wasn't aware of but most of whom I just didn't remember when writing my short list. Subconscious misogyny in action. Short & Thorson probably would have squeezed out some of the YA authors I included, although I have no real regrets.)
- Junko Kawano ("Suikoden")
- Elizabeth LaPensée ("When Rivers Were Trails")
- Momo Pixel ("Hair Nah")
- Zoë Quinn ("Depression Quest"; narrative designer on "Solar Ash")
- Kellee Santiago ("Cloud"; "Flower")
- Tanya X. Short ("Moon Hunters")
- Kim Swift ("Portal")
- Maddy Thorson ("Celeste")
- Andi McClure @… ("Jumpman")
Note: I haven't included composers or artists here, but there's a deep bench.
Games journalists/steamers:
- Tanya DePass @… (#/INeedDiverseGames; twitch streams)
- Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)
Game/play scholars:
- Mary Flanagan ("Critical Play")
- Tracy Fullerton ("Game Design Workshop")
- Brenda Laurel ("Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System")
- Janet Murray ("Hamlet on the Holodeck"l
- Susana Tosca ("A Pragmatics of Links")
- Jichen Zhu ("Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design")
- Magy Seif El Nasr ("Design patterns to guide player movement in 3D games")
- Kate Compton ("Causal Creators"; also "Spore")
P.S. upon consideration I've decided not to include any authors who are men in this coda.
There are definitely others who probably deserve to be here that I'm forgetting...
#GsmeDesign #Authors

Spin versus Magic: Lessons from Gluon and Graviton Scattering
John Gargalionis, Nathan Moynihan, Sokratis Trifinopoulos, Ewan N. V. Wallace, Chris D. White, Martin J. White
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14967

Spin versus Magic: Lessons from Gluon and Graviton Scattering
The quantum property of non-stabiliserness, also known as magic, plays a key role in designing quantum computing systems. How to produce, manipulate and enhance magic remains mysterious, such that concrete examples of physical systems that manifest magic behaviour are sought after. In this paper, we study two-particle scattering of gluons and gravitons in Yang--Mills theory and General Relativity, as well as their supersymmetric extensions. This provides an interesting case of two-qubit systems…

Wie seriös #Microsoft ist, zeigt sich alleine daran, dass bei unserer elf Jahre alten Notebookmühle bis vor zwei oder drei Wochen angezeigt wurde, sie sei nicht Windows 11 kompatibel und jetzt plötzlich wurde sie es doch.
#magic

always at least a lil uncomfortable magic in watching people dance. a glimpse of some apex predator being stored under clothes carpets and flesh floorboards.

Xiaomi 17 Pro: Hersteller zeigt Rückseite mit "Magic Back Screen"
Xiaomi hat das Design des Xiaomi 17 Pro und Pro Max enthüllt. Auf der Rückseite prangt ein zweites Display, das die Kamera umschließt.

Sharing to save it for future reference. #SFF #Magic
https://reactormag.com/magic-doesnt-have-to…

Magic Doesn't Have to Make Sense - Reactor
In praise of fantasy that embraces rebellious, lawless, and delightfully un-rulebound magic.

A triptych on Starhawk, who developed some of the most poignantly insightful ideas in structural theories of power, among the many philosophers, sociologists, and psychologists who wrote about theories of power in the 20th century
Note that the second and third image come from the *same book*, in the first and second chapters
I…did not expect woo poetry on magic and sexuality in a book that's highly cited by writers on theories of power

Electromagnetic moments of ground and excited states calculated in heavy odd-N open-shell nuclei
J. Dobaczewski, A. E. Stuchbery, G. Danneaux, A. Nagpal, P. L. Sassarini, H. Wibowo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26549

Electromagnetic moments of ground and excited states calculated in heavy odd-N open-shell nuclei
Within nuclear DFT, we calculated spectroscopic magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole moments in various quasiparticle configurations of odd-$N$, even-$Z$, $83\leq{}N\leq125$ nuclei ranging from gadolinium to osmium. By tagging the blocked quasiparticles with single-particle states of semi-magic dysprosium isotope, we efficiently calculated 22 prolate and 22 oblate states in each of the 154 nuclei, and we tracked them across the entire major neutron shell. We compared this extensive set of th…

Bold Move Raiders Must Make — Even If Maxx Crosby Hates It https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-maxx-crosby-pete-carroll-mark-davis-darien-porter-michael-jordan-earrvin-magic-johnson

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Bent:
🎵 Magic Love
#NowPlaying #Bent
https://axelvicious.bandcamp.com/track/bent-magic-love-axel-vicious-afro-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/1rEjbK9xDZI36YNN6n4NwO

Musi-TiPP: Florence The Machine: Sympathy Magic
#Musik #Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDxN-lzy4O8

Honor unveils its flagships Magic8, with a 7,000mAh battery, and Magic8 Pro, with 7,200mAh, both featuring an AI button, launching in China for ~$630 and ~$800 (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799808/honor-magic-8-pro-launch-chi…

Honor’s Magic 8 phones have huge batteries and oodles of AI
The Honor Magic 8 Pro fits in a 7,200mAh battery, but only in its Chinese release, with smaller batteries for international markets.

i have made two realizations.
1) if i have a Wasm-hosted and Wasm-targeting LLVM, i can bootstrap to absolutely anything;
2) i can build LLVM using my Wasm-LLVM quite easily if i do a little cursed frontend magic

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Portishead:
🎵 Magic Doors
#Portishead
https://rutpups.bandcamp.com/track/magic-doors-portishead-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3D6t68V5WfxEIMbwcARLia

Week 8 betting guide: Will Broncos' magic carry over vs. Cowboys? Swift stays hot? https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/46687409/week-8-nfl-odds-spreads-lines-props-best-bets-sunday-football-games

A Quantum Computational Determination of the Weak Mixing Angle in the Standard Model
Qiaofeng Liu, Ian Low, Zhewei Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18251 https://

Not many know that I tried #android 1.0
It was running on a HTC Diamond2 of my uncle, with no call or sms support. And no on-screen keyboard.
First device (HTC Dream) with android came out with 1.1, still no on-screen keyboard. That came in later with android 1.5 and the HTC Magic and the HTC Hero.

Classical Simulations of Low Magic Quantum Dynamics
Kemal Aziz, Haining Pan, Michael J. Gullans, J. H. Pixley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20252 https://arxi…

Classical Simulations of Low Magic Quantum Dynamics
We develop classical simulation algorithms for adaptive quantum circuits that produce states with low levels of ``magic'' (i.e., non-stabilizerness). These algorithms are particularly well-suited to circuits with high rates of Pauli measurements, such as those encountered in quantum error correction and monitored quantum circuits. The measurements serve to limit the buildup of magic induced by non-Clifford operations arising from generic noise processes or unitary gates, respectively. Our algor…

Optical Signatures of Band Flatness and Anisotropic Quantum Geometry in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Pok Man Chiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18152 https://

Optical Signatures of Band Flatness and Anisotropic Quantum Geometry in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene
We study the degree of band flatness and the anisotropic quantum geometry in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene by varying the twist angle and the parameters of lattice relaxation using optical conductivity. We show that the degree of band flatness and its quantum geometry can be revealed through optical absorption and its resulting optical bounds, which are based on the trace condition in quantum geometry. More specifically, the narrow and isolated peak of optical absorption in the low-energ…

Three-dimensional Search for Annihilating Dark Matter in CBe dSph with the MAGIC Telescopes
Stefan Fr\"ose (for the MAGIC Collaboration), Dominik Martin El\"asser (for the MAGIC Collaboration), Hendrik Hildebrandt, Elisa Pueschel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18861

Three-dimensional Search for Annihilating Dark Matter in CBe dSph with the MAGIC Telescopes
Dark matter (DM) candidates, such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), can annihilate to Standard Model particles, subsequently producing gamma rays. In this work, we search for DM-induced gamma-ray signals from Coma Berenices dwarf spheroidal galaxy (CBe dSph) using approximately 25 hours of observations carried out by the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) Telescope, located at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Spain. Building upon preceding analyses in …

Voll der Luxus: tagsüber im Kino sitzen. Ich bin ein paar Tage in Wien und habe nun vier Filme bei der Viennale gesehen.
Elements of Balance ist eine etwas konzeptlose Naturdoku ohne roten Faden mir schönen Bildern und einigen Statements von Naturschützer:innen.
Magic Farm handelt von einer in Argentinien gestrandeten Filmcrew aus NYC. Sehr amüsant, guter Plot, coole Musil - empfehlenswert!

The Hidden Rules Behind Rust Functions & Closures
Demystifying fn, Fn, FnMut, and FnOnce from everyday usage to compiler magic under the hood
🦀 https://blog.cuongle.dev/p/the-hidden-rules-behind-rust-functions

The Hidden Rules Behind Rust Functions & Closures
Demystifying fn, Fn, FnMut, and FnOnce from everyday usage to compiler magic under the hood

»The research, based on a survey of 1,150 workers, is the latest analysis to suggest that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in some magic productivity boom and instead has just increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.”«
Read in the most recent @… newsletter. The researc…

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers. Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and colla…

TIL (HT @aaroneline) that Brown has one of the "finest private libraries" on magic and related content, the bequest of a collector who "put himself through Brown by giving magic performances". Libraries are amazing places.
https://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=…

Tracker to keep an eye on the Global Sumud Flotilla
#flotilla #gaza

A good solution takes time. Adding people ...or tools helps... but it's not a magic shortcut. #meme

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but magic doesn’t exist.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a strip mall psychic or a Silicon Valley bro trying to sell it to you.

Day 6: Kamome Shirahama
Before I wander much father afield, I'd be remiss not to include at least one Mangaka (I've got 8 on my planning list; if you think Manga is pushing it just wait until you see what the next few days have in store).
I'm currently following "Witch Hat Atelier," and it's absolutely amazing in several dimensions: first class world-building, deep philosophical themes, nuanced diverse cast, tightly-constructed interwoven plots, deep mysteries that keep everything churning and show up in unexpected places, absolutely stellar art both in terms of in-panel depictions and page layouts (some are Watchmen-quality), especially if you are sartorially inclined, and general kindness of its core messages. This is a series I wish every programmer would read, because it includes excellent advice about software design in multiple ways (did I mention there's an intricate and logical magic system within which the main character innovates in legible-to-the-reader-as-innovation ways?). Also, I bet I would have enjoyed this just a much as a 10-year-old as I'm enjoying it in my 30's, which is something that takes well-honed skill to pull off.
Shirahama is a master of her craft, and I'm honestly kinda surprised to see Witch Hat is only her second series. Definitely thinking how I can get my hands on her earlier work in English.
#20AuthorsNoMen

Magic Hexagon Formulas
Geoffrey B. Campbell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10961 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10961

Magic Hexagon Formulas
We give a variety of magic hexagons of Orders from 3 to 7, many of which are extensions of known results. We also give a theorem that their are an infinite number of magic hexagons of Order $n$ for any fixed positive integer $n$ for any arbitrary magic sum $M=m$ to be any desired integer $m$. We instigate theory and ideas associated with formula-based versions of the magic hexagons, which seem to be new.

Den Preis für "Kleines Budget" beim digAMus Award erhält der Podcast "Mummies & Magic - Altägypten in der Popkultur".
❓️Was hat es mit den Legenden um das alte Ägypten WIRKLICH auf sich?
❗️Hört es Euch selbst an!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch an die begeisterten, begeisternden und überraschten GewinnerInnen!
#digAMus

Earlier today I took a break form work and came out of the office, only to find my wife in full Braids, Cabal Minion cosplay in the living room.
Still kinda weirded-out. She's not _that_ into M:tG, so from my perspective it truly came out of left field. But it also kinda looks good on her, which says what about me exactly?

they do, i literally saw one in Menard's like a week ago lol
https://beige.party/@LibertyForward1/115337578719605775

Anyone figured out some magic defaults write command on #macOS #Tahoe #tahoe26 that can reduce the ridiculous large corner radius?

"On Working with Wizards: Verifying magic on the jagged frontier" by Ethan Mollick: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/on-working-with-wizards
"In my book, Co-Intelligence, I outlined a way that people could work with

Everybody in his administration bought stock on Friday when the market crashed.
Today there will be some magic good news pill that will take the market back up so they can sell and make more money.
Watch.
https://bsky.app/profile/jayfarrellarnold.bsky.so…

𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 (@jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social)
Everybody in his administration bought stock on Friday when the market crashed. Today there will be some magic good news pill that will take the market back up so they can sell and make more money. Watch.

Finally a useful magic quadrant
Thanks to @… for the discovery.
#cybersecurity #vulnerability

MAGIC-Enhanced Keyword Prompting for Zero-Shot Audio Captioning with CLIP Models
Vijay Govindarajan, Pratik Patel, Sahil Tripathi, Md Azizul Hoque, Gautam Siddharth Kashyap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12591

MAGIC-Enhanced Keyword Prompting for Zero-Shot Audio Captioning with CLIP Models
Automated Audio Captioning (AAC) generates captions for audio clips but faces challenges due to limited datasets compared to image captioning. To overcome this, we propose the zero-shot AAC system that leverages pre-trained models, eliminating the need for extensive training. Our approach uses a pre-trained audio CLIP model to extract auditory features and generate a structured prompt, which guides a Large Language Model (LLM) in caption generation. Unlike traditional greedy decoding, our metho…

@… *waves magic edit hands* 😅 (thanks!)

Magic Entropy in Hybrid Spin-Boson Systems
Samuel Crew, Ying-Lin Li, Heng-Hsi Li, Po-Yao Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06018 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

Magic Entropy in Hybrid Spin-Boson Systems
We introduce entropic measures to quantify non-classical resource in hybrid spin-boson systems. We discuss the stabilizer Rényi entropy in the framework of phase space quantisation and define an analogous hybrid magic entropy and a mutual magic entropy that capture the distribution of quantum magic across spin and bosonic subsystems. We use these entropic measures to demonstrate two key phenomena: the detection of the superradiant phase transition in the Dicke model and the dynamics of magic i…

Magnetic Ordering in Moir\'e Graphene Multilayers from a Continuum Hartree U Approach
Christopher T. S. Cheung, Valerio Vitale, Lennart Klebl, Ammon Fischer, Dante M. Kennes, Arash A. Mostofi, Johannes Lischner, Zachary A. H. Goodwin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18923

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[3/5]:
- MAGIC: Multi-task Gaussian process for joint imputation and classification in healthcare time series
Dohyun Ku, Catherine D. Chong, Visar Berisha, Todd J. Schwedt, Jing Li

And now, @… teaching us old dogs new CSS tricks at #smashingconf 🦮 – including magic!🤩🪄

Demystifying #AutomaticInstrumentation: How the Magic Actually Works
https://www.causely.ai/blog/demystifying-automatic-instrumentation

Can the AI bubble please burst next week at the latest?
I'm already done with faculty talk praising AI this and AI that and forcing teaching to fully go tech-bro-style. Next term starts September 15, I just don’t want to set up “AI-safe exams” and having students use AI for everything at the same time
Oh, and don’t be so negative, we’re all using X and Y and the newest Z, it’s awesome! It just hallucinate or lies a bit, but so friendly, the nice bot, don’t you see? Magic!

Google Pixel 10 Pro review: the best AI phone on the market with handy features like Magic Cue, with a great display and Qi2 charging but no design improvements (Max Buondonno/The Shortcut)
https://www.theshortcut.com/p/google-pixel-10-pro-xl-review

Google Pixel 10 Pro review: the best AI phone on the market
Google's latest smartphones hit all the right notes and offer a competitive AI edge

#PhantastikPrompts 9.10.: "Does your protagonist believe in magic or something similar?"
Although she is a hereditary priestess and avatar of the God, Selchae starts the narrative as a shallow and vain unbeliever. As she gradually comes to inhabit her role, this changes. The God is capable of 'things similar to magic', but I don't think that even by the end of…

A great 'thought for today' from A Word A Day https://wordsmith.org/awad -

Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone, / Kindness in another’s trouble, / Courage in your own. - Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (19 Oct 1833-1870)

Retro style fantasy fps Wizordum is coming to consoles September 23, and I'm psyched to grab it (when it goes on sale, as I usually wait for). Have to decide if I want it for Switch and/or Xbox. I played the demo on Steam a while back (it's here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1715…

Wizordum on Steam
Wizordum is a retro FPS that puts you in the role of a Mage on a quest to track down the source of Chaos. With a wide arsenal of spells and magic items, battle your way through the world of Terrabruma in this unique blend of classic 90s shooters and modern gaming elements.

The very high energy view of gamma-ray bursts with the MAGIC telescopes
Alessio Berti (on behalf of the MAGIC Collaboration), \v{Z}eljka Bo\v{s}njak (on behalf of the MAGIC Collaboration), Alberto Castro-Tirado (on behalf of the MAGIC Collaboration), Stefano Covino (on behalf of the MAGIC Collaboration), Susumu Inoue (on behalf of the MAGIC Collaboration), Francesco Longo (on behalf of the MAGIC Collaboration), Serena Loporchio (on behalf of the MAGIC Collaboration), Davide Miceli (on …

The very high energy view of gamma-ray bursts with the MAGIC telescopes
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the main targets for the observations of the MAGIC telescopes. As a result of the effort in improving the sensitivity of the instrument and the automatic follow-up strategy, MAGIC detected two GRBs in the very-high-energy (VHE, $E>100$ GeV) range, namely GRB 190114C and GRB 201216C. In GRB 190114C ($z=0.42$), the data collected by MAGIC revealed a new emission component at sub-TeV energies in the afterglow of the GRB. The very rich multi-wavelength dataset, sp…

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Emiliana Torrini:
🎵 Me And Armini (Mr. Dan's Magic Typewriter Remix)
#NowPlaying #EmilianaTorrini
https://novatns.bandcamp.com/track/me-and-armini

Google Pixel 10 review: justifies its price better than the Pixel 9 with upgrades like a triple camera system and Qi2 support, but it's not a gaming powerhouse (Derrek Lee/Android Central)
https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/google-pixel-10-review

The Google Pixel 10 is the upgrade I was hoping for
Google put more magic into the Pixel 10, and it's really starting to feel like AI is finding its moment.

Nonlocal Magic Generation and Information Scrambling in Noisy Clifford Circuits
Emanuel Dallas, Paolo Zanardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20566 https://arxi…

Nonlocal Magic Generation and Information Scrambling in Noisy Clifford Circuits
In this work, we investigate the average information scrambling and nonlocal magic generation properties of random Clifford encoding-decoding circuits perturbed by local noise. We quantify these with the bipartite algebraic out-of-time order correlator ($\mathcal{A}$-OTOC) and average Pauli-entangling power (APEP) respectively. Using recent advances in the representation theory of the Clifford group, we compute both quantities' averages in the limit that the circuits become infinitely large. We…

from my link log —
Magic namerefs in bash.
https://gist.github.com/izabera/e4717562e20eb6cfb6e05f8019883efb
saved 2025-06-06

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
De La Soul:
🎵 The Magic Number
#DeLaSoul
https://delasoul.bandcamp.com/track/the-magic-number
https://open.spotify.com/track/4hB8J06D2ZaGkWZDOMpYZB

NFC South preview: Just how much better are the Bucs than the rest of the division? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6577093/2025/08/27/nfc-south-predicted-standings-win-totals/

Combined dark matter search towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Fermi-LAT, HAWC, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS
LAT Collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20229 https…

Combined dark matter search towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Fermi-LAT, HAWC, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for indirect dark matter (DM) searches using gamma-ray telescopes because they are thought to have high DM content and a low astrophysical background. The sensitivity of these searches is improved by combining the observations of dSphs made by different gamma-ray telescopes. We present the results of a combined search by the most sensitive currently operating gamma-ray telescopes, namely: the satellite-borne Fermi-LAT telescope; the ground…

Learning magic in the Schwinger model
Samuel Crew, Hsueh Hao Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09640 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09640

Learning magic in the Schwinger model
We demonstrate the use of variational neural network quantum states to study non-stabilizerness in qubit-regularised quantum field theory. Applying the methodology recently introduced by Sinibaldi et al., we numerically compute the stabilizer Rényi entropy of ground states of the Schwinger model with a topological term. We examine how the magic content of these states depends on the separation between external probe charges, providing insight into the classical hardness of simulating gauge the…

Special Panel on Esotericism, Occultism, Magic, and Ecology at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb. 25-28, 2026, Albuquerque, New Mexico
https://ift.tt/9dRuT7Z
updated: Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:52amfull name / name of organization: Southwest…
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The conference in the hack.lu conference.
Call for Failure (CfF 0x1) - Over Fail the untold truth behind the magic of cybersecurity.
10-minute talks during hack.lu to present (the/your) biggest failure in cybersecurity you’ve ever experienced and what have you learned from it (or not).
@…

Call for Failure (CfF 0x1) - Over Fail the untold truth behind the magic of cybersecurity
10-minute talks during hack.lu to present (the/your) biggest failure in cybersecurity you’ve ever experienced and what have you learned from it (or not)

Exploring the Most Extreme Blazars: New Insights from MAGIC
L. Foffano (for the MAGIC Collaboration), C. Arcaro (for the MAGIC Collaboration), A. Arbet-Engels (for the MAGIC Collaboration), F. D'Ammando (for the MAGIC Collaboration), P. Da Vela (for the MAGIC Collaboration), J. Jormanainen (for the MAGIC Collaboration), D. Linder (for the MAGIC Collaboration), S. Menon (for the MAGIC Collaboration), E. Prandini (for the MAGIC Collaboration), S. Ventura (for the MAGIC Collaboration)…

Exploring the Most Extreme Blazars: New Insights from MAGIC
Extremely high-peaked BL Lac objects (or extreme blazars) are unique extragalactic laboratories where particle acceleration processes are pushed at their physical limits. In these blazars, synchrotron emission peaking above keV energies is reprocessed to very-high-energy (VHE, energies > 100 GeV) gamma rays, often resulting in very hard TeV spectra. Over the past two decades, they have attracted a growing interest from the scientific community, both experimentally and theoretically, as crucial …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Bob Dorough:
🎵 Three Is a Magic Number
#BobDorough
https://edmount.bandcamp.com/track/three-is-a-magic-number-bob-dorough

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

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De La Soul:
🎵 The Magic Number
#NowPlaying #DeLaSoul
https://delasoul.bandcamp.com/track/the-magic-number
https://open.spotify.com/track/2lPrtCVXwPvlOM96nrXO5c

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Turnstile:
🎵 MAGIC MAN
#Turnstile
https://lazuard12.bandcamp.com/track/magic-man
https://open.spotify.com/track/0QIjmMTKNYs0XYYUSkORGb

Analytic Tools for Harvesting Magic Resource in Curved Spacetime
Jiayue Yang, Dyuman Bhattacharya, Ming Zhang, Robert B. Mann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16466 https://

Analytic Tools for Harvesting Magic Resource in Curved Spacetime
The quantum vacuum is not really empty; it is a reservoir of operationally accessible non-classical resources. Understanding how to extract these resources to fuel information processing is a core objective in quantum technologies and lies at the heart of relativistic quantum information (RQI). While earlier studies of quantum resource harvesting protocols relied primarily on numerical methods, we present, for the first time, exact analytic results for the transition probability and coherence o…

Google's new AI features for Pixel include Magic Cue for contextual suggestions across apps, Voice Translate for calls, and Visual Overlays for the camera (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/google-doubles-down-on-ai-pho…

Google doubles down on 'AI phones' with its Pixel 10 series | TechCrunch
Google's updates to the Pixel 10 line allow it to showcase what its latest AI technology can do when enhanced by the Tensor G5 processor, an upgrade to the company's custom silicon designed for the AI experience.

Magic and communication complexity
Uma Girish, Alex May, Natalie Parham, Henry Yuen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07246 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07246

Magic and communication complexity
We establish novel connections between magic in quantum circuits and communication complexity. In particular, we show that functions computable with low magic have low communication cost. Our first result shows that the $\mathsf{D}\|$ (deterministic simultaneous message passing) cost of a Boolean function $f$ is at most the number of single-qubit magic gates in a quantum circuit computing $f$ with any quantum advice state. If we allow mid-circuit measurements and adaptive circuits, we ob…

How to simulate magic state cultivation with around $8$ Clifford terms on average
Kwok Ho Wan, Zhenghao Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08658 https://arxi…

How to simulate magic state cultivation with around $8$ Clifford terms on average
Building upon [arXiv:2509.01224], we present a sketch on how to simulate the non-Clifford $d=5$ magic state cultivation circuits [arXiv:2409.17595] with a sum of $\approx 8$ Clifford ZX-diagrams on average, at $0.1\%$ noise. Compared to a magic cat state stabiliser decomposition of all $53$ non-Clifford spiders ($6{,}377{,}292$ terms required), this is more than $7 \times 10^{5}$ times reduction in the number of terms. Our stabiliser decomposition has the advantage of representing the final non…

Magic for Hybrid Boson-Fermion Systems: A Grassmann Phase-Space Approach
Matthieu Sarkis, Pablo Martinez-Azcona, Alexandre Tkatchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05264 https://…

Magic for Hybrid Boson-Fermion Systems: A Grassmann Phase-Space Approach
Non-stabilizerness enables universality beyond Gaussian/Clifford dynamics, yet no resource theory exists for systems combining bosonic and fermionic modes. Using the Grassmann approach of Cahill and Glauber, we develop a phase-space framework defining hybrid magic via the $L_p$ norm of a hybrid Wigner function. We demonstrate it in the Holstein polaron, where phonon-electron coupling enhances magic growth, and in the fermionic Jaynes-Cummings model, examining dependence on atomic and cavity sta…

Magic States in the Asymmetric Quantum Rabi Model
A. Campos-Uscanga, E. Ben\'itez Rodr\'iguez, E. Piceno Mart\'inez, M. A. Bastarrachea-Magnani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00765

Magic States in the Asymmetric Quantum Rabi Model
Magic or non-stabilizerness is a resource for quantum computing that has been extensively studied in qudit networks. It describes the degree to which Clifford gates cannot generate a given state, capturing the advantage of quantum over classical computing. However, its definition in continuous variables and general composite systems remains an open issue. We study magic in a bipartite system, the Asymmetric Quantum Rabi model, a paradigmatic model from quantum optics. We explore the presence of…