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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.

(Bruce) Sterling's Corollary to Clarke's Law:
Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic.

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…

"Giggle grass, bong weed, power flower, magic cabbage, Lucifer's lettuce, smokeydokey, whizzlebizzle & checking in at the Blitz Carlton."
And that's how they kick off the episode about the dreaded #BariWeiss.
▶️ Bari Weiss: #LastWeekTonight with

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…

𒁃 How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short Introduction
https://www.openculture.com/2025/09/how-to-write-in-cuneiform-the-oldest-writing-system.html

How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short Introduction
Teaching child visitors how to write their names using an unfamiliar or antique alphabet is a favorite activity of museum educators, but Dr. Irving Finkel, a cuneiform expert who specializes in ancient Mesopotamian medicine and magic, has grander designs.

NFL Week 6 odds, predictions, expert picks: Can Mayfield, Bucs keep late-game magic alive?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-6-picks-…

Two-dimensional flat-bands in Moire-diamonds
Yalan Wei, Shifang Li, Yuke Song, Chaoyu He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10908 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10908

Two-dimensional flat-bands in Moire-diamonds
The discovery of flat-bands in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene has underscored the potential of moire engineering for correlated states, but such phases are notoriously difficult to realize and highly fragile against perturbations. Here, we propose an alternative route to flat-bands by introducing sp3 hybridization in twisted graphite. Instead of relying on fine-tuned magic angles, our approach identifies flat-band states at relatively large twist angles with short moire periods. In this r…

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…

“security” is not a magic word that suspends the Constitution.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/locking-down-the-pentagon-press-is-dangerous

Locking Down the Pentagon Press Is Dangerous
Pete Hegseth’s proposed restrictions would harm the people whom both the military and the press are meant to serve.

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

> I remember talking to a designer who had left Avalanche to work somewhere else, and hearing his appreciation that the new place challenged him, really, to explain why an idea would be fun. I remember hearing the description for a mission in a weekly demo of new features, and all I could think was “but why is this interesting?”
Design is too often considered a form of magic where iteration will eventually lead to something good.

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

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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.

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 …

The Amphora of Great Intelligence
https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/018.html

18. The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) - Pepper&Carrot
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.

He’s such an amateur. Everybody knows if you want the Nobel Peace Prize:
1) invade Norway,
2) get bogged down at airport immigration when your SecDef accidentally shoots himself to death because he’s drunk,
3) sue for peace,
4) magic,
5) they give you the prize. Duh.

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.

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 I feel today at work after some newby boss tries to tell me how things work around here.

With my Apple Magic Mouse charging, I think @… keyboard shortcuts and accessibility are pretty good. Still able to open links, read articles, and send this too.

heise | Knicken und tippen: Logitech Flip Folio fürs iPad im Test
Der Zubehörspezialist bringt eine herausnehmbare Tastatur in einer iPad-Hülle unter. Taugt sie etwas im Vergleich zum Magic Keyboard?
https://www…

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)

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…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#OperaOn3
- Mozart's The Magic Flute
Mozart's The Magic Flute from the Royal Opera, starring Lucy Crowe as Pamina, Amitai Pati as Tamino and Huw Montague Rendall as the lovable bird catcher Papageno.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lnk8

Mixed Reality Guidance of a Surgical Scalpel Using Magic Leap: Evaluation on a 3D-Printed Liver Phantom
Alice Yang, Michael Beasley, Catherine Taylor, Hu Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03617

Mixed Reality Guidance of a Surgical Scalpel Using Magic Leap: Evaluation on a 3D-Printed Liver Phantom
Augmented and mixed reality (MR) systems have the potential to improve surgical precision by overlaying digital guidance directly onto the operative field. This paper presents a novel MR guidance system using the Magic Leap head-mounted display to assist surgeons in executing precise scalpel movements during liver surgery. The system projects holographic cues onto a patient-specific 3D-printed liver phantom, guiding resection along a predetermined path. We describe the system design, including …

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…

An Algebraic Proof of the Nonexistence of $3\times3$ Magic Squares of Square Integers
Oscar Hill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08286 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

An Algebraic Proof of the Nonexistence of $3\times3$ Magic Squares of Square Integers
We explore some of the properties of consecutive arithmetic progressions of odd numbers with equal sums, particularly their offsets and said sums, before using them to prove that a $3\times3$ magic square of distinct square integers does not exist.

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

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

My #GOG account is public: https://www.gog.com/u/p.marg
Heroes of Might and Magic III Complete edition should appear under my games in the next couple of days, since I just purchased it.
Also, if you insta…

Our Bochum crowd finished yet another sweet RUSTlab annual retreat. We focused on writing and reviewing texts, sprinkled some organising magic on top—and donkey meditation! 🫏
Stay tuned for our winter lectures, and the stsing 2026 conference, of course 🤓
https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/

MAGIC-MASK: Multi-Agent Guided Inter-Agent Collaboration with Mask-Based Explainability for Reinforcement Learning
Maisha Maliha, Dean Hougen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00274 ht…

MAGIC-MASK: Multi-Agent Guided Inter-Agent Collaboration with Mask-Based Explainability for Reinforcement Learning
Understanding the decision-making process of Deep Reinforcement Learning agents remains a key challenge for deploying these systems in safety-critical and multi-agent environments. While prior explainability methods like StateMask, have advanced the identification of critical states, they remain limited by computational cost, exploration coverage, and lack of adaptation to multi-agent settings. To overcome these limitations, we propose a mathematically grounded framework, MAGIC-MASK (Multi-Agen…

Non-monotonic band flattening near the magic angle of twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$
Yujun Deng, William Holtzmann, Ziyan Zhu, Timothy Zaklama, Paulina Majchrzak, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Makoto Hashimoto, Donghui Lu, Chris Jozwiak, Aaron Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, Liang Fu, Thomas P. Devereaux, Xiaodong Xu, Zhi-Xun Shen
https://arxiv.or…

Non-monotonic band flattening near the magic angle of twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$
Twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ (tMoTe$_2$) is an emergent platform for exploring exotic quantum phases driven by the interplay between nontrivial band topology and strong electron correlations. Direct experimental access to its momentum-resolved electronic structure is essential for uncovering the microscopic origins of the correlated topological phases therein. Here, we report angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements of tMoTe$_2$, revealing pronounced twist-angle-dependent band…

NFL Week 6 odds, predictions, expert picks: Can Mayfield, Bucs keep late-game magic alive? Will Packers cover?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee

My favourite tool on Linux (and macOS) recently: magic-wormhole
#cli #linux

Ah. Now there's the motion picture studio ligitiousness & just-desserts I know so well.
Warner vs Alcon. Y'all deserve each other.
✅ Matrix, Practical Magic, Ocean's Sequels: Warner Bros. Forced Into Deal
https://www.…

Warner Bros. Forced Into Shotgun Wedding for ‘Matrix,’ ‘Practical Magic’ and ‘Ocean’s 11’ Sequels
A bankruptcy court awarded Alcon the derivative rights to Village Roadshow's film library after Warners' higher bid was rebuffed. The studio is considering an appeal.

No wizards needed, my Linux rig just works its magic for a buttery-smooth stream. Join me for some Lord of the Rings Online tonight! #Linux #Gaming #LOTR

Good lord, this new Rosalía album is powerful magic.
#music

Supersolidity induced flux magnetism with magnetic atoms in an anti-magic wavelength optical lattice
Michele Miotto, Pietro Lombardi, Giovanni Ferioli, Joana Fraxanet, Maciej Lewenstein, Luca Tanzi, Luca Barbiero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05058

Supersolidity induced flux magnetism with magnetic atoms in an anti-magic wavelength optical lattice
Supersolidity and magnetism are fundamental phenomena characterizing strongly correlated states of matter. Here, we unveil a mechanism that establishes a direct connection between these quantum regimes and can be experimentally accessed in ultracold atomic systems. Specifically, we exploit the distinctive properties of ultracold magnetic lanthanide atoms trapped in a one dimensional anti-magic wavelength optical lattice. This allows us to design a realistic implementation of a triangular Bose-H…

SIMPLETON: Yes, this will crash the economy because wrong math = lost money
EXPERT: No, this won’t crash the economy because people screw up even without AI, business operations are already riddled with ridiculous errors, and human systems have grown resilient to pervasive local failure
WISE SAGE: Yes, this will crash the economy because the economy is currently propped up by gullible investors •believing• this BS is real actual magic, and if they find out it it sucks like normal, the bubble pops
From @…: https://social.coop/@eb/115328355039744280

Kekul\'e Superconductivity in Twisted Magic Angle Bilayer Graphene
Ke Wang, K. Levin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06451 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06451

Kekulé Superconductivity in Twisted Magic Angle Bilayer Graphene
Motivated by recent scanning tunneling microscopy experiments which report Kekulé ordering in the twisted graphene family, we develop a microscopic theory of superconductivity, specifically for the bi-layer case. This involves an intra-valley, finite-momentum pair-density wave (PDW) which naturally incorporates a Kekulé distortion into the superconducting phase. The PDW state displays three central features: (i) it spontaneously breaks $C_3$ rotational symmetry, producing nematic order, and (…

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…

Who are going to be the five D senators who chicken out and sign a blank check to the trumpies?
These wimpy-D's are willing to give away what little power we have left to obtain magic beans - which are worthless promises that the R's will allow a vote on ACA subsidies. A vote? We know that the R's will roll over that vote, that el-cheato won't sign, and that even if enacted, will simply become a bag of cash that el-cheato will use for whatever purpose he wants.
…

Republicans try to end shutdown without health care fix
Senate Republicans are trying to end the government shutdown by preparing a bipartisan package of spending bills that they hope will win new Democratic votes. It's unclear whether their plan will work. Democrats have voted 14 times not to reopen the government as they demand an extension of health care subsidies, which aren't expected to be part of the legislation. Many say they will continue to hold out until President Donald Trump and Republican leaders negotiate with them on an extension. A …

Raiders Linked to Star QB as Geno Smith Replacement https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/kyler-murray-geno-smith-trade/?adt_ei=[email]

"If there is one magic ingredient for Switzerland’s enduring economic success, I found, it is that its businesses often combine blue-collar know-how with white-collar innovation. Switzerland, like Germany, built its 20th-century industrial economy on training and valuing all types of workers—those that work with their hands and those that work at a desk."

'Lessons in Magic and Disaster' von Charlie Jane Anders ausgelesen Ein eher introvertiertes Buch mit einem Hauch von Magie (und viel [queerer] familiärer Dynamik, Biografie und mit Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts). Ungewöhnlich auf jeden Fall, großartig geschrieben auch.

Help requested.
The new MacOS update makes the DVD player (the thing for SuperDrives - surprised they aren't Magic Drives, now that I think about it) janky as hell. This is a well-known issue, according to my perfunctory web searches. Drops to something like 5FPS. Works fine otherwise, but annoying.
Two questions: Does anyone know if this is this likely to be fixed? And if not, and also while we wait, is there a DVD player someone can recommend? VLC needs Rosetta and its UI has always been borderline unusable anyway. Yes, I tried it again, but it switched randomly from German to Spanish and had no navigation menu for the disk itself. I'm looking for something that can read the disk and works like the native DVD player, minus the jank. But maybe the jank is fundamental. That's really what I'm trying to find out.
For now, I'll use a non-updated Mac but I will want to update it at some point. Ironists need not remind me about my recent rant regarding updates.
Thanks all.

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.

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…

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.

@… Ok awesome, so clearly more than I'm estimating to deal with. Will have a look at the Devolo Magic 2. Thanks!

Ctrl-Shift-Esc is the magic shortcut to open Taskman.
▶️ I Wrote Task Manager — 30 Years Later, the Secrets You Never Knew - Dave's Garage
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yQykvrAR_po&si=5y9-CGiCd-kto7D1

a world you can fully understand and hold in your head and hand. being the snowman in his globe rather than on yours. where's the water come from? the rain, these tanks. where's the power generated? those solar panels and batteries. you know the limits and work with them. self-sufficient. a fantasy irl, but one of the most universal magic cores you can imbue a fantasy with. no man is an island, no man isn't offputtingly hard to grasp.

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.

Large scale shell model calculation for collectivity in nuclei beyond 78Ni
N. Chen, J. G. Li, H. H. Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07711 https://arxiv.org/p…

Large scale shell model calculation for collectivity in nuclei beyond 78Ni
A shell model effective interaction for nuclei beyond the double magic nucleus 78Ni is constructed. First, the single-particle evolutions for valence neutrons above the double magic 78Ni are systematically explored in the N = 51 isotones using the large scale shell model (LSSM) calculations based on the constructed effective interaction. Subsequently, we calculate the excitation energies of 2+1 states and reduced electric quadrupole transition probabilities B(E2; 2+ to 0+) for N = 52 isotones. …

Local-Antisymmetric Flat Band and Coexisting Correlated stripe charge orders in WSe2-Modulated Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Chi Zhang, Shihao Zhang, Mengmeng Zhang, Lin He, Qi Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11088

Local-Antisymmetric Flat Band and Coexisting Correlated stripe charge orders in WSe2-Modulated Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Insulating, atomically flat transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) like WSe2 are ideal substrates for probing intrinsic graphene properties. Conventionally, their influence on graphene's band structure is assumed negligible, particularly when small moire patterns form. Combining scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy and theoretical analysis, we reveal that the atomic registry in graphene/WSe2 heterostructures profoundly modulates the electronic structure of magic-angle twisted bilayer gra…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Fleetwood Mac:
🎵 Black Magic Woman
#FleetwoodMac
https://forevermaybe.bandcamp.com/track/fleetwood-mac-black-magic-woman
https://open.spotify.com/track/2SL0h7FKhJ1O5DcvmvPqU5

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…

Four Moir\'e materials at One Magic Angle in Helical Quadrilayer Graphene
Manato Fujimoto, Naoto Nakatsuji, Ashvin Vishwanath, Patrick Ledwith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02444

Four Moiré materials at One Magic Angle in Helical Quadrilayer Graphene
We introduce helical twisted quadrilayer graphene (HTQG), four graphene sheets rotated by the same small angle, as a versatile and experimentally accessible platform for correlated topological matter. HTQG consists of three moiré lattices, formed by interference between adjacent graphene layers, that are twisted relative to each other. Lattice relaxation produces four types of large-scale commensurate domains. The domains are characterized by the stacking of the three moiré lattices and come …

Time-Dependent Modeling of the Sub-Hour Spectral Evolution During the 2013 Outburst of Mrk 421
MAGIC Collaboration, K. Abe, S. Abe, J. Abhir, A. Abhishek, A. Aguasca-Cabot, I. Agudo, T. Aniello, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli, A. Arbet Engels, C. Arcaro, T. T. H. Arnesen, A. Babi\'c, C. Bakshi, U. Barres de Almeida, J. A. Barrio, L. Barrios-Jim\'enez, I. Batkovi\'c, J. Baxter, J. Becerra Gonz\'alez, W. Bednarek, E. Bernardini, J. Bernete, A. Berti, C. Bigongiari, A. Biland…

Time-Dependent Modeling of the Sub-Hour Spectral Evolution During the 2013 Outburst of Mrk 421
In April 2013, the TeV blazar Markarian~421 underwent one of its most powerful emission outbursts to date. An extensive multi-instrument campaign featuring MAGIC, VERITAS, and \textit{NuSTAR} provided comprehensive very-high-energy (VHE; $E > 100$\,GeV) and X-ray coverage over nine consecutive days. In this work, we perform a detailed spectral analysis of the X-ray and VHE emissions on sub-hour timescales throughout the flare. We identify several clockwise spectral hysteresis loops in the X-ray…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- The Meaning and Magic of Music
How does music convey meaning to the listener? Catherine Coldstream examines this question in the context of classical music and religious faith.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029pvm

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…

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…

What we learned in NFL Week 5: More Buccaneers late-game magic, Jets hit new low https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6692670/2025/10/06/nfl-week-5-takeaways-baker-mayfield-buccaneers/

✍️ New post: CSS :is() :where() the Magic Happens
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#blogtober #css #css #css

CSS :is() :where() the Magic Happens · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- The Meaning and Magic of Music
Catherine Coldstream spent 12 years as a Carmelite nun. After 25 years outside the order she asks what is the nature of the powerful connection between music and the soul.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0029pt3

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Fleetwood Mac:
🎵 Black Magic Woman
#FleetwoodMac
https://forevermaybe.bandcamp.com/track/fleetwood-mac-black-magic-woman
https://open.spotify.com/track/2SL0h7FKhJ1O5DcvmvPqU5

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 $X$, $…

Heck yeah... one of my FAVORITE MOVIES. So glad The Perfect Mix reacted to this...
If you're a fan of magic, you gotta see Now You See Me 1 & 2!
▶️ We Finally Watched **NOW YOU SEE ME** - The Perfect Mix
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MTTiMKwHk5U&si=U4Lyu…

Ben Johnson is officially a Chicago Bears coach after disastrous opener https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6612333/2025/09/09/bears-vikings-ben-johnson-debut-monday-night-loss/

Recent observations of PKS 2155-304 with MAGIC and LST-1 in a multi-wavelength context
Lisa Nikoli\'c, Gaia Verna, Marina Manganaro, Giacomo Bonnoli, Ivan Agudo, Giuseppe Silvestri, Davide Cerasole, Francesco Schiavone, Franjo Podobnik, Jorge Otero-Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04803

Recent observations of PKS 2155-304 with MAGIC and LST-1 in a multi-wavelength context
PKS 2155-304 is a well-known high-frequency peaked BL Lac (HBL) at redshift z=0.116, which has been extensively studied across the electromagnetic spectrum due to its rapid and large-amplitude variability. Several violent outbursts in X-rays and $γ$-rays have been observed in the past, with intra-night variability in very-high-energy $γ$-rays (VHE; E > 100 GeV) detected down to the minute timescale. The alternation of quiescent and enhanced states, observed with a tentative quasi-periodicity …

Fold-transversal surface code cultivation
Kaavya Sahay, Pei-Kai Tsai, Kathleen Chang, Qile Su, Thomas B. Smith, Shraddha Singh, Shruti Puri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05212 http…

Fold-transversal surface code cultivation
Magic state cultivation is a state-of-the-art protocol to prepare ultra-high fidelity non-Clifford resource states for universal quantum computation. It offers a significant reduction in spacetime overhead compared to traditional magic state distillation techniques. Cultivation protocols involve measuring a transversal logical Clifford operator on an initial small-distance code and then rapidly growing to a larger-distance code. In this work, we present a new cultivation scheme in which we meas…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Huw Montague Rendall, Marie Jacquot & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden:
🎵 Aria: "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" from The Magic Flute, K.620 - Act 2:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2h5m3xD7UOwSX59nOU4gJc

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #OperaOn3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lucy Crowe, Amitai Pati, Huw Montague Rendall, Kathryn Lewek, Soloman Howard, Gerhard Siegel, Marianna Hovanisyan, Hannah Edmunds, Ellen Pearson, Emma Carrington, Matthew Rose, Harry Nicoll, Wyn Pencarreg, Nigel Cliffe, Stuart Jackson & Graeme Broadbent:
🎵 The Magic Flute, K.620 - Act 2

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 …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #OperaOn3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lucy Crowe, Amitai Pati, Huw Montague Rendall, Kathryn Lewek, Soloman Howard, Gerhard Siegel, Marianna Hovanisyan, Hannah Edmunds, Ellen Pearson, Emma Carrington, Matthew Rose, Harry Nicoll, Wyn Pencarreg, Nigel Cliffe, Stuart Jackson & Graeme Broadbent:
🎵 The Magic Flute, K.620 - Act 1

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Jule Styne, Stella Cole, Fraser Urquhart & Sammy Cahn:
🎵 It's Magic
#JuleStyne #StellaCole #FraserUrquhart #SammyCahn

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…

Cultivating T states on the surface code with only two-qubit gates
Jahan Claes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05232 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05232

Cultivating T states on the surface code with only two-qubit gates
High-fidelity T magic states are a key requirement for fault-tolerant quantum computing in 2D. It has generally been assumed that preparing high-fidelity T states requires noisy injection of T states followed by lengthy distillation routines. This assumption has been recently challenged by the introduction of cultivation, in which careful state injection and postselection alone are used to prepare T states close to the fidelity required for quantum algorithms. Cultivation was originally propose…