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Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech to cloud providers and AI companies, raised a $100M Series B at a $3.1B valuation (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/07/decart-raises-10…

Decart raises $100M on $3.1B valuation to grow real-time AI video platform - SiliconANGLE
Decart raises $100M on $3.1B valuation to grow real-time AI video platform - SiliconANGLE

Now, one thing i truly hate about #GrapheneOS updates is the Microsoft-like approach where you can't "just" disable automatic updates.
Yeah, I get it. The updates are important. The updates have been rock solid so far. And anyway, I need to reboot manually for them to actually start applying.
Still, it's so damn disrespectful for developers to make this decision for me, and have the phone start automatically updating just as I'm about to leave for the whole day, and turn my phone into a potential time bomb where a reboot could leave me without a working phone until I can get home and reflash it.
Yes, there's a bunch of options to disable updates based on Internet connection type, battery state and whether the phone is charging. Still, why should I need to explain myself to my phone?! Really, this isn't what we dumped Microsoft for.

Escape May Be An Option – Ritual Escape
- on "facing the music" -
https://muz4now.com/2025/escape-may-be-an-option-ritual-escape/

Escape May Be An Option - Ritual Escape
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

carps: A Framework for Comparing N Hyperparameter Optimizers on M Benchmarks
Carolin Benjamins, Helena Graf, Sarah Segel, Difan Deng, Tim Ruhkopf, Leona Hennig, Soham Basu, Neeratyoy Mallik, Edward Bergman, Deyao Chen, Fran\c{c}ois Cl\'ement, Matthias Feurer, Katharina Eggensperger, Frank Hutter, Carola Doerr, Marius Lindauer
https://

carps: A Framework for Comparing N Hyperparameter Optimizers on M Benchmarks
Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) is crucial to develop well-performing machine learning models. In order to ease prototyping and benchmarking of HPO methods, we propose carps, a benchmark framework for Comprehensive Automated Research Performance Studies allowing to evaluate N optimizers on M benchmark tasks. In this first release of carps, we focus on the four most important types of HPO task types: blackbox, multi-fidelity, multi-objective and multi-fidelity-multi-objective. With 3 336 tasks…

All this brings me back to some text I was writing yesterday for my students, on which I’d appreciate any thoughtful feedback:
❝You can let the computer do the typing for you, but never let it do the thinking for you.
This is doubly true in the current era of AI hype. If the AI optimists are correct (the credible ones, anyway), software development will consist of humans critically evaluating, shaping, and correcting the output of LLMs. If the AI skeptics are correct, then the future will bring mountains of AI slop to decode, disentangle, fix, and/or rewrite. Either way, it is •understanding• and •critically evaluating• code — not merely •generating• it — that will be the truly essential ability. Always has been; will be even more so. •That• is what you are learning here.❞
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Energy Efficiency Optimization for Movable Antenna-Aided Communication Systems
Jingze Ding, Zijian Zhou, Yuping Zhao, Bingli Jiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05033 https://

Energy Efficiency Optimization for Movable Antenna-Aided Communication Systems
This paper investigates the energy efficiency optimization for movable antenna (MA) systems by considering the time delay and energy consumption introduced by MA movement. We first derive the upper bound on energy efficiency for a single-user downlink communication system, where the user is equipped with a single MA. Then, the energy efficiency maximization problem is formulated to optimize the MA position, and an efficient algorithm based on successive convex approximation is proposed to solve…

I tried going for a 1km run this morning, first time out since tearing my calf back at the end of July.
After a few minutes walking, I started running slowly, only to make it a few hundred metres before feeling a weird "ping" in my leg that suggested I was maybe being over optimistic.
I walked the rest of the way, with no problems, but I'm a bit sad that I'm not quite ready to get back on the roads yet, to say nothing of the tennis court 😕

Remarks on multi-period martingale optimal transport
Brendan Pass, Joshua Hiew
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05505 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Remarks on multi-period martingale optimal transport
We study the structural properties of multi-period martingale optimal transport (MOT). We develop new tools to address these problems, and use them to prove several uniqueness and structural results on three-period martingale optimal transport. More precisely, we establish lemmas on how and when two-period martingale couplings may be glued together to obtain multi-period martingales and which among these glueings are optimal for particular MOT problems. We use these optimality results to study …

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"[…] Wanting a man got me into awful troubles more than once. But wanting to get married, never! No, no. None of that for me."
"Why not?" Tenar demanded.
Taken aback, Moss said simply, "Why, what man'd marry a witch?" And then, with a sidelong chewing motion of her jaw, like a sheep shifting its cud, “And what witch’d marry a man?"
They split rushes.
"What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously.
As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I’ve thought on it. Often I’ve thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man’s in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. “It’s hard and strong, that shell, and it’s all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that’s all. That’s all there is. It’s all him and nothing else, inside."
Tenar pondered awhile and finally asked, "But if he's a wizard—"
"Then it's all his power, inside. His power’s himself, see. That’s how it is with him. And that’s all. When his power goes, he’s gone. Empty." She cracked the unseen walnut and tossed the shells away. “Nothing."
"And a woman, then?"
"Oh, well, dearie, a woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark." Moss’s eyes shone with a weird brightness in their red rims and her voice sang like an instrument. “I go back into the dark! Before the moon I was. No one knows, no one knows, no one can say what I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who’ll ask the dark its name?"
"""
(Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu)

Lower Bounds for Error Coefficients of Griesmer Optimal Linear Codes via Iteration
Chaofeng Guan, Shitao Li, Gaojun Luo, Zhi Ma, Hong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05567

Lower Bounds for Error Coefficients of Griesmer Optimal Linear Codes via Iteration
The error coefficient of a linear code is defined as the number of minimum-weight codewords. In an additive white Gaussian noise channel, optimal linear codes with the smallest error coefficients achieve the best possible asymptotic frame error rate (AFER) among all optimal linear codes under maximum likelihood decoding. Such codes are referred to as AFER-optimal linear codes. The Griesmer bound is essential for determining the optimality of linear codes. However, establishing tight lower bou…