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Planning Considerations Related to Contamination Control for the Return and Analysis of Martian Samples: #MarsSampleReturnMission

Audeering-Chefin zum AI Act: "Wir brauchen Vertrauen statt Überregulierung"
Audeering analysiert stimmliche Merkmale, um Rückschlüsse auf Emotionen und sogar psychische Zustände zu ziehen. Den AI Act hält das Unternehmen für zu streng.

I finished marking on Friday.
Co-pilot is integratrd into Matlab; some students made use of it (with permission).
LLMs cannot interpret graphs; at all. Their attempts to do so make abundantly clear that no analysis or interpretation takes place.
Most students using LLMs did so effectively, generating outputs in a few lines of code that could have been done with one function call, but nevertheless working.
Those who relied on it for analysis? Ouch! ~20% mark. So much…

Morgen ist wieder Stammtisch!
Thema ist diesmal:
Gemeinschaftsgetragene Krisenvorsorge
Beim #Stammtisch am 3. Mittwoch treffen sich jeden Monat Netzwerk-Mitglieder online zum kollegialen Austausch und diskutieren #Solawi-Anliegen. Eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich.
Es i…

Word of the day: AI-washing
"Where management wants to cut labor costs a la Amazon, shift to cheaper contract labor a la Klarna, or execute layoffs for ideological reasons, a la DOGE, “AI” is an extremely potent justification. Some business professors and analysts have taken to calling this practice “AI-washing.””
From Brian Merchants excellent Blood in the Machine newsletter/substack.

Cowboys enfrentan una dura realidad tras quedar fuera de los playoffs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-enfrentan-una-dura-realidad-tras-quedar-fuera-de-los-playoffs

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.

Die digitale Welt ändert sich genauso wie die analoge. Das geht nicht spurlos an unserer gewohnten Umgebung vorbei. Funktioniert die Idee der Freien Software noch? Schwierig.
Wer ein @… Digital-Abo hat, kann meine Kolumne jetzt schon lesen, sonst morgen.
Und das ND braucht dringend Abos, damit es auch nächstes Jahr noch diese linke Zeitung gibt. Ab 15€…

Interesting corollary to the #Perseverance discovery in the Bright Angel formation on #Mars making headlines 1 1/2 months ago: at a public talk in Bochum as part of a mathematics outreach event - #Life Detection scale #MarsSampleReturnMission the rating could jump up to 5 or 6 after lab analysis.
Green also remarked that the sample tubes dropped by Percy are up for grabs for *any* spacefaring nation capable of doing a MSRM - including China though they don't plan to go after the Percy samples with their upcoming #Tianwen3 mission (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianwen-3) as far as he has heard. And regardless of where they'll get their own samples they could advance the case for life, perhaps even extant, on Mars a lot - which Green feels has been all but made in the past decades of Mars research anyway. Oh, and he also thinks terraforming Mars is quite viable ...

Network-Optimised Spiking Neural Network (NOS) Scheduling for 6G O-RAN: Spectral Margin and Delay-Tail Control
Muhammad Bilal, Xiaolong Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11291 https…

Network-Optimised Spiking Neural Network (NOS) Scheduling for 6G O-RAN: Spectral Margin and Delay-Tail Control
This work presents a Network-Optimised Spiking (NOS) delay-aware scheduler for 6G radio access. The scheme couples a bounded two-state kernel to a clique-feasible proportional-fair (PF) grant head: the excitability state acts as a finite-buffer proxy, the recovery state suppresses repeated grants, and neighbour pressure is injected along the interference graph via delayed spikes. A small-signal analysis yields a delay-dependent threshold $k_\star(Δ)$ and a spectral margin $δ= k_\star(Δ) - gH…