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DMA: EU-Kommission prüft mögliche Mediendiskriminierung durch Google
Die EU-Kommission geht dem Verdacht nach, dass Google beim Ranking von Webseiten legitime Inhalte abwertet. Das soll unter anderem Medienangebote betreffen.

The 1990 Total Recall is one of my favorite movies, and I didn't know David Cronenberg was the original director for it and created the character of Kuato and all the mutants (although it makes perfect sense). The puppet itself was created by Rob Bottin.
How Kuato the mutant was created for Total Recall without any CGI:

How Total Recall Created Sci-Fi Mutant Kuato Without An Ounce Of CGI - SlashFilm
Total Recall's mutant rebel Kuato is one of many impressive non-CGI effects that Rob Bottin provided for Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi film.

It's always lovely to have the doubters get their asses academically kicked when it comes to Ada Lovelace's actual mathematical capabilities, but at the same time, I am so, so, so tired. Just so very tired. From an open access 2017 Historia Mathematica article debunking the idea that Lovelace was not a competent mathematician.

CodePlot-CoT: Mathematical Visual Reasoning by Thinking with Code-Driven Images
Chengqi Duan, Kaiyue Sun, Rongyao Fang, Manyuan Zhang, Yan Feng, Ying Luo, Yufang Liu, Ke Wang, Peng Pei, Xunliang Cai, Hongsheng Li, Yi Ma, Xihui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11718

CodePlot-CoT: Mathematical Visual Reasoning by Thinking with Code-Driven Images
Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown significant progress in mathematical reasoning, yet they still face a critical bottleneck with problems requiring visual assistance, such as drawing auxiliary lines or plotting functions to solve the problems. Most LLMs and VLMs are constrained to text-only reasoning chains, while multimodal unified models that can generate interleaved text and images lack the necessary precision and controllability for…

New Epstein emails mentioning Trump don't appear to interest Fox News (Matt Gertz/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/new-epstein-emails-mentioning-trump-dont-appear-interest-fox-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p68#a251112p68

The Ethical and Sustainable Concerns Triangle: A Framework for Navigating Discourses in Mathematics and Its Education
Dennis M\"uller, Maurice Chiodo, Michael Meyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11327

The Ethical and Sustainable Concerns Triangle: A Framework for Navigating Discourses in Mathematics and Its Education
The literature on ethics and sustainability in mathematics and its education is increasingly complex and fragmented, potentially leading to communication breakdowns between different scholarly traditions. To address this, the paper introduces the "Ethical and Sustainable Concerns Triangle," a framework that maps discourses based on their relative concern for three areas (represented as three vertices in the triangle): "Mathematics", "Community", and "Society/Planet". By integrating a systems th…

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A Mathematics-Guided Approach to Floating-Point Error Detection
Youshuai Tan, Zhanwei Zhang, Zishuo Ding, Lianyu Zheng, Jinfu Chen, Weiyi Shang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10081 …

A Mathematics-Guided Approach to Floating-Point Error Detection
Floating-point program errors can lead to severe consequences, particularly in critical domains such as military applications. Only a small subset of inputs may induce substantial floating-point errors, prompting researchers to develop methods for identifying these error-inducing inputs. Although existing approaches have achieved some success, they still suffer from two major limitations: (1) High computational cost: The evaluation of error magnitude for candidate inputs relies on high-precisio…

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Mathematical Modeling of Networks in Strength of Materials
Ioannis Dassios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10132 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10132

Mathematical Modeling of Networks in Strength of Materials
We study a material modeled as a network of nodes connected by edges. Using a discrete approach, we build a nonlinear algebraic system that connects applied forces to internal forces and node positions. The model can describe elasticity, plasticity, and possibly cracking. The goal is to solve this system and understand how the material responds. Students are asked to start with a simple triangle example and then apply the method to larger structures. The final aim is to solve the full system an…