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Cowboys might’ve already crushed rookie’s motivation on Day 1 of training camp https://fansided.com/nfl/cowboys-might-ve-already-crushed-rookie-s-motivation-on-day-1-of-training-camp

'I want to try to get to heaven,' Trump cites divine motivation for Ukraine peace: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/i-want-to-try-to.html

M-$LLM^3$REC: A Motivation-Aware User-Item Interaction Framework for Enhancing Recommendation Accuracy with LLMs
Lining Chen, Qingwen Zeng, Huaming Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15262

M-$LLM^3$REC: A Motivation-Aware User-Item Interaction Framework for Enhancing Recommendation Accuracy with LLMs
Recommendation systems have been essential for both user experience and platform efficiency by alleviating information overload and supporting decision-making. Traditional methods, i.e., content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, and deep learning, have achieved impressive results in recommendation systems. However, the cold-start and sparse-data scenarios are still challenging to deal with. Existing solutions either generate pseudo-interaction sequence, which often introduces redundant …

What motivation would there be for #Google to be honest? Their claims are just advertising, just like their claims about “productivity,” “creativity,” or, for that matter, “intelligence.”
https://mastodon.social/@verge/11506…

What motivation would there be for #Google to be honest? Their claims are just advertising, just like their claims about “productivity,” “creativity,” or, for that matter, “intelligence.”
https://mastodon.social/@verge/11506…

I haven't registered quite yet, but I intend to do a half marathon in October this year unless things drastically change health-wise. Part of my motivation is that I fear my health will only allow me so many more running days, seeing the darkness at the end of the light, so to speak.
That said, more runs will be happening to try and prepare for that. The weather is getting a little cooler finally, so I'm outdoors as much as possible.
Saw a few other people in the park tod…

Marcus Mariota Sends Strong Message to Raiders After Commanders Win https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/marcus-mariota-message-commanders-win/?adt_ei=[email]

Creative Doldrums - Don't Let Them Fool You
#creativity #motivation
https://muz4now.com/2021/c…

Creative Doldrums - Don't Let Them Fool You
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Andreas #Scheuer greift also bei Facebook den Staatsanwalt persönlich an, der Anklage gegen ihn wegen Falschaussage eingereicht hat. Er unterstellt ihm ohne Beleg eine politische Motivation.
@… "Wenn es immer normaler wird, der unabhängigen Justi…

Studying Optimal Designs for Multivariate Crossover Trials
Shubham Niphadkar, Siuli Mukhopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16076 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Studying Optimal Designs for Multivariate Crossover Trials
This article discusses $A$-, $D$- and $E$-optimality results for multivariate crossover designs, where more than one response is measured from every period for each subject. The motivation for these multivariate designs comes from a $3 \times 3$ crossover trial that investigates how an oral drug affects biomarkers of mucosal inflammation, by analyzing the various gene profiles from each participant. A multivariate response crossover model with fixed effects including direct and carryover effect…

When motivation can be more than a message: designing agents to boost physical activity
Alessandro Silacci, Maurizio Caon, Mauro Cherubini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12388 https…

When motivation can be more than a message: designing agents to boost physical activity
Virtual agents are commonly used in physical activity interventions to support behavior change, often taking the role of coaches that deliver encouragement and feedback. While effective for compliance, this role typically lacks relational depth. This pilot study explores how such agents might be perceived not just as instructors, but as co-participants: entities that appear to exert effort alongside users. Drawing on thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 12 participants from a pr…

Spectral Analysis of Node- and Cell-Centered Higher-Order Compact Schemes for Fully Discrete One and Two-Dimensional Convection-Dispersion Equation
Lavanya V Salian, Vivek S Yadav, Rathan Samala, Rakesh Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14692

Spectral Analysis of Node- and Cell-Centered Higher-Order Compact Schemes for Fully Discrete One and Two-Dimensional Convection-Dispersion Equation
In this study, we present a comprehensive global spectral analysis of the convection dispersion equation, which is also referred to in specific contexts as the Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation, to investigate the behaviour of high order numerical schemes across a wide range of nondimensional parameters. The motivation for this analysis stems from the equation's importance in modeling wave propagation and transport phenomena, where accurate resolution of dispersive effects is critical, and tradi…

Patrick Mahomes: Painful Super Bowl losses provide 'a little extra' motivation to get better https://www.nfl.com/news/patrick-mahomes-painful-super-bowl-losses-provide-a-little-extra-motivation-to-get-better

@… I think the motivation will strike when my kid starts coming home from school and asking me to help with homework. 😜

@… were you able to ascertain its motivation for doing so?

<< On Friday, Mace said that Kirk “would want us to pray for such an evil and lost individual like Tyler Robinson to find Jesus Christ”.
“We will try to do the same,” she wrote.
She later doubled down on the death penalty, saying: “Some crimes are so evil, the only just punishment is the death penalty.” >>
Jesus Christ was a supporter of the death penalty after all; preferably crucifixion.

Finding subdigraphs in digraphs of bounded directed treewidth
Raul Lopes, Ignasi Sau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13830 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13830

Finding subdigraphs in digraphs of bounded directed treewidth
It is well known that directed treewidth does not enjoy the nice algorithmic properties of its undirected counterpart. There exist, however, some positive results that, essentially, present XP algorithms for the problem of finding, in a given digraph $D$, a subdigraph isomorphic to a digraph $H$ that can be formed by the union of $k$ directed paths (with some extra properties), parameterized by $k$ and the directed treewidth of $D$. Our motivation is to tackle the following question: Are there …

"Warum machen wir die Pläne für diesen Lautsprecher nicht Open Source?"
- "DAS HAT DIR DER TEUFEL GESAGT!"
https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Die-E…

Teufel-Entwickler: "Es tut nicht weh, den Schaltplan zu veröffentlichen"
Der Lautsprecherhersteller Teufel hat die Baupläne für einen Lautsprecher unter eine Open-Source-Lizenz gestellt. Wir sprechen über Motivation und Hindernisse.

DeliverC: Teaching Pointers through GenAI-Powered Game-Based Learning
Wyatt Petula, Anushcka Joshi, Peggy Tu, Amrutha Somasundar, Suman Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14496 htt…

DeliverC: Teaching Pointers through GenAI-Powered Game-Based Learning
While game-based learning is widely used in programming education, few tools offer adaptive, real-time support for complex topics, such as C pointers. We present DeliverC, a GenAI-enhanced game that integrates GPT-4-mini to provide personalized hints and generate pointer-related challenges on the fly. In a pilot study involving 25 undergraduate students, we investigated the impact of the system on learning through gameplay data and a 15-item survey that covered constructs such as motivation, se…

"Buttplug Gnome" steht für des westlichen Konsumverhalten.
Rotterdam

Nucleation-free independent graphs with implied nonedges
Jialong Cheng, Meera Sitharam, Ileana Streinu, William Sims
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12417 https://

Nucleation-free independent graphs with implied nonedges
We give inductive constructions of independent graphs that contain implied nonedges but do not contain any non-trivial rigid subgraphs, or \emph{nucleations}: some of the constructions and proofs apply to 3-dimensional abstract rigidity matroids with their respective definitions of nucleations and implied nonedges. The first motivation for the inductive constructions of this paper, which generate an especially intractable class of flexible circuits, is to illuminate further obstacles to settlin…

Äußerst aufschlussreiche und höchst bedenkliche Einblicke in die Gedankenwelt und Motivation von #PeterThiel von einem philosophischen Austauschpartner #WolfgangPalaver im #Falter 37/25.
Der will ni…

State transfer analysis for linear spin chains with non-uniform on-site energies
Chad C. Nelmes, Irene D'Amico, Timothy P. Spiller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13261

State transfer analysis for linear spin chains with non-uniform on-site energies
High fidelity state transfer is an important ingredient of distributed quantum information processing. We present and analyse results on perfect and quasi-perfect state transfer with linear spin chains incorporating non-uniform on-site energies. The motivation is maintenance of coupling uniformity, which could be beneficial for some physical implementations. We relate this coupling uniformity to a particle in a discrete potential analogue. Our analysis further considers the statistical variatio…

From Paranoia to Compliance: The Bumpy Road of System Hardening Practices on Stack Exchange
Niklas Busch (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Philip Klostermeyer (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Jan H. Klemmer (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Yasemin Acar (Paderborn University), Sascha Fahl (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)

From Paranoia to Compliance: The Bumpy Road of System Hardening Practices on Stack Exchange
Hardening computer systems against cyberattacks is crucial for security. However, past incidents illustrated, that many system operators struggle with effective system hardening. Hence, many computer systems and applications remain insecure. So far, the research community lacks an in-depth understanding of system operators motivation, practices, and challenges around system hardening. With a focus on practices and challenges, we qualitatively analyzed 316 Stack Exchange (SE) posts related to sy…

The Dark Energy Bedrock All-Sky Supernova Program: Motivation, Design, Implementation, and Preliminary Data Release
Nora F. Sherman, Maria Acevedo, Dillon Brout, Bailey Martin, Daniel Scolnic, Dingyuan Cao, Christopher Lidman, Noor Ali, Patrick Armstrong, K. Auchett, Rebecca C. Chen, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Peter S. Ferguson, Kenneth Herner, Gautham Narayan, Erik R. Peterson, Liana Rauf, Armin Rest, Adam G. Riess, Masao Sako, Brian Schmidt, Xianzhe TZ Tang, Brad E. Tucker

The Dark Energy Bedrock All-Sky Supernova Program: Motivation, Design, Implementation, and Preliminary Data Release
Precise measurements of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at low redshifts ($z$) serve as one of the most viable keys to unlocking our understanding of cosmic expansion, isotropy, and growth of structure. The Dark Energy Bedrock All-Sky Supernovae (DEBASS) program will deliver the largest uniformly calibrated low-$z$ SN Ia data set in the southern hemisphere to date. DEBASS utilizes the Dark Energy Camera to image supernovae in conjunction with the Wide-Field Spectrograph (WiFeS) to gather comprehens…

Micromanaget eure Mitarbeiter*innen, Kolleg*innen, Freund*innen, Partner*innen, Kinder… einfach so sehr bis in jedes oder auch nur jedes zweite Detail und ihr bekommt ganz sicher absolut null Kreativität, killt jede Motivation selbst Verantwortung zu übernehmen und am Ende verliert ihr diese Leute wahrscheinlich auch noch. Ihr bekommt damit nicht mal bessere Ergebnisse.
Macht es doch einfach gleich alleine. Wäre doch mal ein Tipp.

eHealth: TI-Monitoring-Alternative zeigt Live-Status & Historie von TI-Störungen
Ein Open-Source-Tool schafft mehr Transparenz bei technischen Störungen im digitalen Gesundheitswesen. Im Gespräch erklärt der Entwickler seine Motivation.

J.K. Dobbins hopes to 'touch 100' rushing yards vs. former team in Broncos-Chargers https://www.nfl.com/news/jk-dobbins-touch-100-rushing-yards-broncos-chargers

Generalized Jensen's inequality motivated from thermodynamics
Gourav Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12206 https://arxiv.org/…

Generalized Jensen's inequality motivated from thermodynamics
In this paper, we generalize the work of P.T.Landsberg\cite{web1,web2} and S.S.Sidhu\cite{web3} by providing an inequality that has its main motivation from the laws of thermodynamics, in the form of a theorem which is quite useful in generating different inequalities such as the weighted AM-GM-HM inequality, the p-th power inequality , Jensen's inequality and many other inequalities.In this paper, we have not only given the thermodynamic motivation behind the inequality but we have given the r…

Entanglement Entropy in Jackiw-Teitelboim de Sitter gravity with Timelike Boundaries
Timofei Rusalev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12975 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Entanglement Entropy in Jackiw-Teitelboim de Sitter gravity with Timelike Boundaries
The consideration of timelike boundaries in de Sitter static patches has a broad motivation, such as the formulation of a well-defined canonical ensemble and the realization of a natural framework for static patch holography. In this work we study Jackiw-Teitelboim de Sitter gravity with symmetric timelike reflecting boundaries, which, in the presence of both cosmological and "black hole" horizons, naturally separate the spacetime into a "black hole system" and a "cosmological system". We apply…

Can Contextualized Physics Problems Enhance Student Motivation? Uncovering a Student-Teacher Perception Gap through a Large-Scale Survey
Yajun Wei, Xinting Peng, Yi Zhong, Feipeng Pi, Yanfang Zhai, Lei Bao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05586

Can Contextualized Physics Problems Enhance Student Motivation? Uncovering a Student-Teacher Perception Gap through a Large-Scale Survey
Embedding physics problems unreal-world settings, here termed contextualized physics problems (CPP), is widely believed to foster students' interest, motivation, and learning. However, firm evidence for this claim remains scarce. To explore this issue, we surveyed 868 secondary students and 154 teachers to examine their attitudes toward CPP and investigate whether students and teachers perceive these problems as promoting student interest and motivation in learning physics. The findings reveal …

@… I think it’s partially a question of motivation for me. Everyone around me speaks English, so learning German is… low on the list.
I hope to take more classes, and learn more, and eventually become proficient. But I think fluency, or thinking in German, is probably never going to happen for me.
I’m OK with that, most days. 🙃

Wow, I assumed that this shooting was different but actually it's probably basically the same.
Edit: I'm actually a little surprised, because this would (hypothetically) be the same or almost the same motivation as the previous Trump assassination attempt and a large number of school shootings...
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/09/12/charlie-kirk-suspect-is-a-gun-loving-trump-supporter/

Heute Infoabend. Ich habe keine Motivation, möchte aber auch nicht skippen, weil ich sonst am Sonntag überrascht sein könnte, was andere meinen, dass korrekt ist. #beifunk #KommunalwahlNRW

I believe I have "mild” (relative to others I've heard about) Long COVID and my symptoms include, fatigue, memory loss, loss of focus, loss of motivation, worse sleep.
It's real folks.
https://mastodon.social/@augieray/114841505817793827

#PhantastikPrompts 13.9.: Hast du einen Rat für Nachwuchs-Autor*innen?
Anfangen. Mit Motivation, Spaß und möglichst wenig Ahnung! Die Theorie darf sich später auch noch angelesen werden und läuft nicht weg.
Im Gegenteil. Bücher, Kurse und Social-Media-Inhalte damit gibt es wie Sand am Meer.
Junge Menschen verkopfen sich heutzutage oftmals mit "Wie mache ich das ri…

MIDOG 2025 Track 2: A Deep Learning Model for Classification of Atypical and Normal Mitotic Figures under Class and Hardness Imbalances
Sujatha Kotte, Vangala Govindakrishnan Saipradeep, Vidushi Walia, Dhandapani Nandagopal, Thomas Joseph, Naveen Sivadasan, Bhagat Singh Lali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10502…

MIDOG 2025 Track 2: A Deep Learning Model for Classification of Atypical and Normal Mitotic Figures under Class and Hardness Imbalances
Motivation: Accurate classification of mitotic figures into normal and atypical types is crucial for tumor prognostication in digital pathology. However, developing robust deep learning models for this task is challenging due to the subtle morphological differences, as well as significant class and hardness imbalances in real-world histopathology datasets. Methods: We propose a novel deep learning approach based on a ResNet backbone with specialized classification heads. Our architecture unique…

Minimmit: Fast Finality with Even Faster Blocks
Brendan Kobayashi Chou, Andrew Lewis-Pye, Patrick O'Grady
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10862 https://arxi…

Minimmit: Fast Finality with Even Faster Blocks
Minimmit is a new protocol for State-Machine-Replication (SMR) that extends the '2-round finality' approach of protocols such as Alpenglow to further reduce latency, by allowing for faster progression through 'views'. This preliminary draft provides motivation and pseudocode, together with proofs of consistency and liveness. An updated draft with a proof of optimistic responsiveness, suggested optimizations, and experiments, is to follow.

Sometimes I wonder why I do agency work. Then we speak with a phenomenal client and I feel all the warm fuzzies of connection and excitement and motivation. That’s why.
Freaking love working with people!

How motivation actually works
https://preview.redd.it/ofbg50li0bx71.png?auto=webp&s=ba65c023fc1be48de012c670b1d310e2b06bfd42

Evolution of Programmers' Trust in Generative AI Programming Assistants
Anshul Shah, Thomas Rexin, Elena Tomson, Leo Porter, William G. Griswold, Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13253

Evolution of Programmers' Trust in Generative AI Programming Assistants
Motivation. Trust in generative AI programming assistants is a vital attitude that impacts how programmers use those programming assistants. Programmers that are over-trusting may be too reliant on their tools, leading to incorrect or vulnerable code; programmers that are under-trusting may avoid using tools that can improve their productivity and well-being. Methods. Since trust is a dynamic attitude that may change over time, this study aims to understand programmers' evolution of trust aft…

diese woche endlich mal zum lesen gekommen:
"Über die Bedeutung des Spaßfaktors in Forschungsprojekten – Ein Erfahrungsbericht" von Jutta Bertram
https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2023-0060
– ein erfreulich offener rückblick auf ein forschungssemester, das nicht so gelaufen war wie gep…

IntrEx: A Dataset for Modeling Engagement in Educational Conversations
Xingwei Tan, Mahathi Parvatham, Chiara Gambi, Gabriele Pergola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06652 https://…

IntrEx: A Dataset for Modeling Engagement in Educational Conversations
Engagement and motivation are crucial for second-language acquisition, yet maintaining learner interest in educational conversations remains a challenge. While prior research has explored what makes educational texts interesting, still little is known about the linguistic features that drive engagement in conversations. To address this gap, we introduce IntrEx, the first large dataset annotated for interestingness and expected interestingness in teacher-student interactions. Built upon the Teac…

How popular media gets love wrong
Now a bit of background about why I have this "engineered" model of love:
First, I'm a white straight cis man. I've got a few traits that might work against my relationship chances (e.g., neurodivergence; I generally fit pretty well into the "weird geek" stereotype), but as I was recently reminded, it's possible my experience derives more from luck than other factors, and since things are tilted more in my favor than most people on the planet, my advice could be worse than useless if it leads people towards strategies that would only have worked for someone like me. I don't *think* that's the case, but it's worth mentioning explicitly.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
When I first started dating my now-wife, we were both in graduate school. I was 26, and had exactly zero dating/romantic experience though that point in my life. In other words, a pretty stereotypical "incel" although I definitely didn't subscribe to incel ideology at all. I felt lonely, and vaguely wanted a romantic relationship (I'm neither aromantic nor asexual), but had never felt socially comfortable enough to pursue one before. I don't drink and dislike most social gatherings like parties or bars; I mostly hung around the fringes of the few college parties I attended, and although I had a reasonable college social life in terms of friends, I didn't really do anything to pursue romance, feeling too awkward to know where to start. I had the beginnings of crushes in both high school and college, but never developed a really strong crush, probably correlated with not putting myself in many social situations outside of close all-male friend gatherings. I never felt remotely comfortable enough to act on any of the proto-crushes I did have. I did watch porn and masturbate, so one motivation for pursuing a relationship was physical intimacy, but loneliness was as much of a motivating factor, and of course the social pressure to date was a factor too, even though I'm quite contrarian.
I'm lucky in that I had some mixed-gender social circles already like intramural soccer and a graduate-student housing potluck. Graduate school makes a *lot* more of these social spaces accessible, so I recognize that those not in school of some sort have a harder time of things, especially if like me they don't feel like they fit in in typical adult social spaces like bars.
However, at one point I just decided that my desire for a relationship would need action on my part and so I'd try to build a relationship and see what happened. I worked up my courage and asked one of the people in my potluck if she'd like to go for a hike (pretty much clearly a date but not explicitly one; in retrospect not the best first-date modality in a lot of ways, but it made a little more sense in our setting where we could go for a hike from our front door). To emphasize this point: I was not in love with (or even infatuated with) my now-wife at that point. I made a decision to be open to building a relationship, but didn't follow the typical romance story formula beyond that. Now of course, in real life as opposed to popular media, this isn't anything special. People ask each other out all the time just because they're lonely, and some of those relationships turn out fine (although many do not).
I was lucky in that some aspects of who I am and what I do happened to be naturally comforting to my wife (natural advantage in the "appeal" model of love) but of course there are some aspects of me that annoy my wife, and we negotiate that. In the other direction, there's some things I instantly liked about my wife, and other things that still annoy me. We've figured out how to accept a little, change a little, and overall be happy with each other (though we do still have arguments; it's not like the operation/construction/maintenance of the "love mechanism" is always perfectly smooth). In particular though, I approached the relationship with the attitude of "I want to try to build a relationship with this person," at first just because of my own desires for *any* relationship, and then gradually more and more through my desire to build *this specific* relationship as I enjoyed the rewards of companionship.
So for example, while I think my wife is objectively beautiful, she's also *subjectively* very beautiful *to me* because having decided to build a relationship with her, I actively tried to see her as beautiful, rather than trying to judge whether I wanted a relationship with her based on her beauty. In other words, our relationship is more causative of her beauty-to-me than her beauty-to-me is causative of our relationship. This is the biggest way I think the "engineered" model of love differs from the "fire" and "appeal" models: you can just decide to build love independent of factors we typically think of as engendering love (NOT independent of your partner's willingness to participate, of course), and then all of those things like "thinking your partner is beautiful" can be a result of the relationship you're building. For sure those factors might affect who is willing to try building a relationship with you in the first place, but if more people were willing to jump into relationship building (not necessarily with full commitment from the start) without worrying about those other factors, they might find that those factors can come out of the relationship instead of being prerequisites for it. I think this is the biggest failure of the "appeal" model in particular: yes you *do* need to do things that appeal to your partner, but it's not just "make myself lovable" it's also: is your partner putting in the effort to see the ways that you are beautiful/lovable/etc., or are they just expecting you to become exactly some perfect person they've imagined (and/or been told to desire by society)? The former is perfectly possible, and no less satisfying than the latter.
To cut off my rambling a bit here, I'll just add that in our progress from dating through marriage through staying-married, my wife and I have both talked at times explicitly about commitment, and especially when deciding to get married, I told her that I knew I couldn't live up to the perfect model of a husband that I'd want to be, but that if she wanted to deepen our commitment, I was happy to do that, and so we did. I also rearranged my priorities at that point, deciding that I knew I wanted to prioritize this relationship above things like my career or my research interests, and while I've not always been perfect at that in my little decisions, I've been good at holding to that in my big decisions at least. In the end, *once we had built a somewhat-committed relationship*, we had something that we both recognized was worth more than most other things in life, and that let us commit even more, thus getting even more out of it in the long term. Obviously you can't start the first date with an expectation of life-long commitment, and you need to synchronize your increasing commitment to a relationship so that it doesn't become lopsided, which is hard. But if you take the commitment as an active decision and as the *precursor* to things like infatuation, attraction, etc., you can build up to something that's incredibly strong and rewarding.
I'll follow this up with one more post trying to distill some advice from my ramblings.
#relationships #love

Robust anomaly triggers with \textsc{DecADe}
Noah Clarke Hall, Nikolaos Konstantinidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10224 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10224

Robust anomaly triggers with \textsc{DecADe}
At the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the rate of proton-proton collisions far exceeds the rate at which data can be recorded. A real-time event selection process, or "trigger", is needed to ensure that the data recorded contains the highest possible discovery potential. In the absence of hoped-for anomalies that would lead to the discovery of new physics, there is increasing motivation to develop dedicated, model-agnostic, anomaly detection triggers. A common approa…

On the Diminished Sombor Index of Fixed-Order Molecular Graphs With Cyclomatic Number at Least 3
Abdulaziz Mutlaq Alotaibi, Abdulaziz M. Alanazi, Taher S. Hassan, Akbar Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12294

On the Diminished Sombor Index of Fixed-Order Molecular Graphs With Cyclomatic Number at Least 3
For a graph $G$ with edge set $E$, let $d(u)$ denote the degree of a vertex $u$ in $G$. The diminished Sombor (DSO) index of $G$ is defined as $DSO(G)=\sum_{uv\in E}\sqrt{(d(u))^2+(d(v))^2}(d(u)+d(v))^{-1}$. The cyclomatic number of a graph is the smallest number of edges whose removal makes the graph acyclic. A connected graph of maximum degree at most $4$ is known as a molecular graph. The primary motivation of the present study comes from a conjecture concerning the minimum DSO index of fixe…

doing creativity for praise is ego suicide
#creativity #motivation
https://muz4now.com/2016/creati…

doing creativity for praise is ego suicide
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Multi-Qubit Golden Gates
Rahul Dalal, Shai Evra, Ori Parzanchevski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09047 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09047

Multi-Qubit Golden Gates
Our goal in this paper is to construct optimal topological generators for compact unitary Lie groups, extending the work of a letter of Sarnak and arXiv:1704.02106 on golden and super-golden gates to higher dimensions. To do so we consider a variant of the Sarnak--Xue Density Hypotheses in the weight aspect for definite projective unitary groups and prove it using the endoscopic classification of automorphic representations. Our main motivation is to construct efficient multi-qubit universal …

Unavailability of experimental 3D structural data on protein folding dynamics and necessity for a new generation of structure prediction methods in this context
Aydin Wells, Khalique Newaz, Jennifer Morones, Jianlin Cheng, Tijana Milenkovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08188

Unavailability of experimental 3D structural data on protein folding dynamics and necessity for a new generation of structure prediction methods in this context
Motivation: Protein folding is a dynamic process during which a protein's amino acid sequence undergoes a series of 3-dimensional (3D) conformational changes en route to reaching a native 3D structure; the resulting 3D structural conformations are called folding intermediates. While data on native 3D structures are abundant, data on 3D structures of non-native intermediates remain sparse, due to limitations of current technologies for experimental determination of 3D structures. Yet, analyzing …

Standardized Evaluation of Fetal Phonocardiography Processing Methods
Krist\'of M\"uller, Janka Hatvani, M\'arton \'Aron Goda, Mikl\'os Koller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10783

Standardized Evaluation of Fetal Phonocardiography Processing Methods
Motivation. Phonocardiography can give access to the fetal heart rate as well as direct heart sound data, and is entirely passive, using no radiation of any kind. Approach. We discuss the currently available methods for fetal heart sound detection and heart rate estimation and compare them using a common benchmarking platform and a pre-selected testing dataset. Compared to previous reviews, we evaluated the discussed methods in a standardized manner for a fair comparison. Our tests included tol…

Students' Perception of LLM Use in Requirements Engineering Education: An Empirical Study Across Two Universities
Sharon Guardado, Risha Parveen, Zheying Zhang, Maruf Rayhan, Nirnaya Tripathi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05995

Students' Perception of LLM Use in Requirements Engineering Education: An Empirical Study Across Two Universities
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Requirements Engineering (RE) education is reshaping pedagogical approaches, seeking to enhance student engagement and motivation while providing practical tools to support their professional future. This study empirically evaluates the impact of integrating LLMs in RE coursework. We examined how the guided use of LLMs influenced students' learning experiences, and what benefits and challenges they perceived in using LLMs in RE practices. The s…

Multi-RIS Deployment Optimization for mmWave ISAC Systems in Real-World Environments
Yueheng Li, Xueyun Long, Mario Pauli, Suheng Tian, Xiang Wan, Benjamin Nuss, Tiejun Cui, Haixia Zhang, Thomas Zwick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07226

Multi-RIS Deployment Optimization for mmWave ISAC Systems in Real-World Environments
Reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted integrated sensing and communication (RIS-ISAC) presents a promising system architecture to leverage the wide bandwidth available at millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies, while mitigating severe signal propagation losses and reducing infrastructure costs. To enhance ISAC functionalities in the future air-ground integrated network applications, RIS deployment must be carefully designed and evaluated, which forms the core motivation of this paper. To en…

Großartige Linkvorschau in :signal: #Signal für die #TaxTheRich Petition in Deutschland 😁
https://

Befürchtungen, bei digitalcourage.social könnte es sich um eine Free-Speech-Instanz handeln, haben sich als unbegründet erwiesen.
#Antizionismus

Why Saquon Barkley is using Tiger Woods as motivation to become first consecutive 2,000-yard rusher

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-saq

Hobbys anfangen und nicht dran bleiben ist frustrierend. Projekte mit anderen starten und dann die Motivation verlieren führt zu enormen Stress. Für euch ausprobiert. Und wie werde ich jetzt den Schriftführerposten wieder los und finde jemanden, die das Netzwerk verwaltet? Kann man sich vom Wahlzettel streichen lassen? Wie stößt man Open Source Projekte ab? /halbernst #adhs

On Efficient Bayesian Exploration in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Alberto Caron, Chris Hicks, Vasilios Mavroudis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02639 htt…

On Efficient Bayesian Exploration in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
In this work, we address the challenge of data-efficient exploration in reinforcement learning by examining existing principled, information-theoretic approaches to intrinsic motivation. Specifically, we focus on a class of exploration bonuses that targets epistemic uncertainty rather than the aleatoric noise inherent in the environment. We prove that these bonuses naturally signal epistemic information gains and converge to zero once the agent becomes sufficiently certain about the environment…

Columbia University trustees removed control of the student disciplinary process from the University Senate,
with the trustees taking control themselves of the process through the provost’s office.
The intent was to make sure that any student guilty of violating university regulations during an anti-genocide protest would be severely punished.
One goal is to make sure that students engaged in such protest are removed from the university and can’t do it again.
Anot…

The Situation at Columbia XVIII
When I first started writing here about what was going on at Columbia, part of the motivation was that I didn’t understand myself a lot of what was happening, especially the actions of the tr…

Linear time encodable binary code achieving GV bound with linear time encodable dual achieving GV bound
Martijn Brehm, Nicolas Resch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07639 https://

Linear time encodable binary code achieving GV bound with linear time encodable dual achieving GV bound
We initiate the study of what we term ``fast good codes'' with ``fast good duals.'' Specifically, we consider the task of constructing a binary linear code $C \leq \mathcal{F}_2^n$ such that both it and its dual $C^\perp :=\{x \in \mathcal{F}_2^n:\forall c \in C, \langle x,c\rangle=0\}$ are asymptotically good (in fact, have rate-distance tradeoff approaching the GV bound), and are encodable in $O(n)$ time. While we believe such codes should find applications more broadly, as motivation we desc…

The Scintillator Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07762 https://

The Scintillator Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Data collected so far by the Pierre Auger Observatory have enabled major advances in ultra-high energy cosmic ray physics and demonstrated that improved determination of masses of primary cosmic-ray particles, preferably on an event-by-event basis, is necessary for understanding their origin and nature. Improvement in primary mass measurements was the main motivation for the upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory, called AugerPrime. As part of this upgrade, scintillator detectors are added to …

Lately I've felt my creativity and motivation returning. I'm excited to resume and explore bigger #coding projects again. I'm so excited to be excited :) #mentalhealth

Boiling After the Dust Settles: Constraining First-Order Phase Transitions During Dark Energy Domination
Seth Koren, Yuhsin Tsai, Runqing Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07076 h…

Boiling After the Dust Settles: Constraining First-Order Phase Transitions During Dark Energy Domination
A first-order phase transition could occur in the late universe when vacuum energy begins dominating the energy density ($z \lesssim 0.3$) and convert some latent heat into other forms such as invisible radiation. This generic possibility also has concrete motivation in particle physics models which invoke a multitude of vacua to address theoretical puzzles. The naïve constraint on such an event comes from measurements of the Hubble expansion rate, but this can only probe transitions involving…

An experimental approach: Converting verbal expressions to numerical scales
Zsombor Sz\'adoczki, S\'andor Boz\'oki, L\'aszl\'o Sipos, Zs\'ofia Galambosi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04539

An experimental approach: Converting verbal expressions to numerical scales
One of the key issues in decision problems is the selection and use of the appropriate response scale. In this paper verbal expressions are converted into numerical scales for a subjective problem instance. The main motivation for our research was that verbal values in decision tasks are often mechanically converted into numbers, which thus typically do not fully represent the respondent's true evaluation. In our experiment, we conducted a color selection test with 462 subjects by testing six c…

Wie ein Haufen komplett verkaterter, schlafberaubter, möglicherweise teils restalkoholisierter Trolle nach 5 Tagen Dauerstress noch immer mehr Motivation beim Aufräumen an den Tag legen, als man von vielen Leuten, die sich selbst gerne als "das Rückgrat der Deutschen Wirtschaft" bezeichnen, je sehen wird. Die gegenseitige Solidarität und Bereitschaft miteinander Lösungen zu suchen hilft sehr dabei den von vielen anderen Seiten stark strapazierten "Menschheit ist noch zu retten…

$H^\infty$-calculus for the Dirichlet Laplacian on angular domains
Petru A. Cioica-Licht, Emiel Lorist, P. Tobias Werner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09519 https://

$H^\infty$-calculus for the Dirichlet Laplacian on angular domains
We establish boundedness of the $H^\infty$-calculus for the Dirichlet Laplacian on angular domains in $\R^2$ and corresponding wedges on $L^p$-spaces with mixed weights. The weights are based on both the distance to the boundary and the distance to the tip of the underlying domain. Our main motivation comes from the study of stochastic partial differential equations and associated degenerate deterministic parabolic equations on non-smooth domains. As a consequence of our analysis, we also obtai…

eHealth: TI-Monitoring-Alternative zeigt Live-Status & Historie von TI-Störungen
Ein Open-Source-Tool schafft mehr Transparenz bei technischen Störungen im digitalen Gesundheitswesen. Im Gespräch erklärt der Entwickler seine Motivation.

Micah Parsons Reveals What's Motivated Him Most Since Cowboys Traded Him to Packers https://www.si.com/nfl/micah-parsons-whats-motivated-him-most-since-cowboys-traded-him-to-packers

Particle manipulation by hydrodynamic effects in vortical Stokes flow
Xuchen Liu, Sascha Hilgenfeldt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03894 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Particle manipulation by hydrodynamic effects in vortical Stokes flow
The main motivation of this work is the quantitative prediction and description of particle manipulation (displacement across streamlines) in microfluidic flow. Much attention has been paid recently to placing particles in fast oscillatory flow fields, usually driven by microbubbles actuated by low-frequency ultrasound, where particle inertia leads to deterministic displacements. However, such devices invariably set up simultaneous streaming flows that are interpretable as driven Stokes flows. …

Synchronization of velocities in pipline flow of blended gas
Martin Gugat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06742 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06742

Synchronization of velocities in pipline flow of blended gas
We consider the pipeline flow of blended gas. The flow is governed by a coupled system where for each component we have the isothermal Euler equations with an additional velocity coupling term that couples the velocities of the different components. Our motivation is hydrogen blending in natural gas pipelines, which will play a role in the transition to renewable energies. We show that with suitable boundary conditions the velocities of the gas components synchronize exponentially fast, as long…

Ok, I am REALLY having trouble swinging into this semester. I am having motivation issues with work, teaching, and taking classes myself and of course all 3 are on my schedule. A few months ago? Excited for all of it? Now? I just feel like its a slog. About the only thing on my calendar I'm excited for is the local BSdies meeting is coming up. Everything else just feels so 'meh'. I did spend the say watching SPSS videos, so that probably isn't helping. Speaking of work, anyon…

Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment: motivation, scientific purposes and status
Xiaoyu Hong, Weiren Wu, Qinghui Liu, Dengyun Yu, Chi Wang, Tao Shuai, Weiye Zhong, Renjie Zhu, Yonghui Xie, Lihua Zhang, Liang Xiong, Yuhua Tang, Yongliao Zou, Haitao Li, Guangli Wang, Jianfeng Xie, Changbin Xue, Hao Geng, Juan Zhang, Xiaojing Wu, Yong Huang, Weimin Zheng, Lei Liu, Fang Wu, Xiuzhong Zhang, Tao An, Xiaolong Yang, Fengxian Tong, Leonid I. Gurvits, Yong Zheng, Minfeng Gu, Xiaofei Ma, Liang Li, Peiji…

Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment: motivation, scientific purposes and status
The Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment (LOVEX) is a scientific component of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Project (CLEP) Chang'E-7. The spaceborne component of LOVEX is implemented onboard the relay satellite QueQiao-2, which was launched on 2024 March 20, and later placed into an elliptical selenocentric orbit. The LOVEX-specific payload consists of an X-band cryogenic receiver, a hydrogen maser frequency standard, and VLBI data formatting and acquisition electronics. Several components of the QueQ…

Final Drive: Ravens Don't Want a Week 2 Repeat https://www.baltimoreravens.com/video/ravens-week-2-repeat-browns-raiders-kyle-hamilton-upset-2025

Spectral moduli problems for level structures and an integral Jacquet-Langlands dual of Morava E-theory
Xuecai Ma, Yifei Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00690 https://

Spectral moduli problems for level structures and an integral Jacquet-Langlands dual of Morava E-theory
Given an E-infinity ring spectrum R, with motivation from chromatic homotopy theory, we define relative effective Cartier divisors for a spectral Deligne-Mumford stack over Spet(R) and prove that, as a functor from connective R-algebras to topological spaces, it is representable. This enables us to solve various moduli problems of level structures on spectral abelian varieties, overcoming difficulty at primes dividing the level. In particular, we obtain higher-homotopical refinement for finite …

Utilitarian or Quantile-Welfare Evaluation of Health Policy?
Charles F. Manski, John Mullahy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05529 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05…

Utilitarian or Quantile-Welfare Evaluation of Health Policy?
This paper considers quantile-welfare evaluation of health policy as an alternative to utilitarian evaluation. Manski (1988) originally proposed and studied maximization of quantile utility as a model of individual decision making under uncertainty, juxtaposing it with maximization of expected utility. That paper's primary motivation was to exploit the fact that maximization of quantile utility requires only an ordinal formalization of utility, not a cardinal one. This paper transfers these ide…

ShortCake: An integrated platform for efficient and reproducible single-cell analysis
Ryuichiro Nakato, Luis Augusto Eijy Nagai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08014 https://

ShortCake: An integrated platform for efficient and reproducible single-cell analysis
Motivation: Recent advances in single-cell analysis have introduced new computational challenges. Researchers often need to use multiple analysis tools written in different programming languages while managing version conflicts between related packages within a single workflow. For the research community, minimizing the time spent on environment setup and installation issues is essential. Results: We present ShortCake, a containerized platform that integrates a suite of single-cell analysis too…

The hyperbolically symmetric black hole
L. Herrera, L. Witten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02621 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02621

The hyperbolically symmetric black hole
We describe some properties of the hyperbolically symmetric black hole (hereafter referred to as the $HSBH$) proposed a few years ago. We start by explaining the main motivation behind such an idea, and we determine the main differences between this scenario and the classical black hole (hereafter referred to as the $CBH$) scenario. Particularly important are the facts that, in the $HSBH$ scenario, (i) test particles in the region inside the horizon experience a repulsive force that prevents th…

Adaptive Bayesian computation for efficient biobank-scale genomic inference
Yiran Li, John Whittaker, Sylvia Richardson, Helene Ruffieux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10736 https:/…

Adaptive Bayesian computation for efficient biobank-scale genomic inference
Motivation: Modern biobanks, with unprecedented sample sizes and phenotypic diversity, have become foundational resources for genomic studies, enabling powerful cross-phenotype and population-scale analyses. As studies grow in complexity, Bayesian hierarchical models offer a principled framework for jointly modeling multiple units such as cells, traits, and experimental conditions, increasing statistical power through information sharing. However, adoption of Bayesian hierarchical models in bio…

Emergent Social Dynamics of LLM Agents in the El Farol Bar Problem
Ryosuke Takata, Atsushi Masumori, Takashi Ikegammi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04537 https://

Emergent Social Dynamics of LLM Agents in the El Farol Bar Problem
We investigate the emergent social dynamics of Large Language Model (LLM) agents in a spatially extended El Farol Bar problem, observing how they autonomously navigate this classic social dilemma. As a result, the LLM agents generated a spontaneous motivation to go to the bar and changed their decision making by becoming a collective. We also observed that the LLM agents did not solve the problem completely, but rather behaved more like humans. These findings reveal a complex interplay between …

Completions of complexes of differential modules on singular schemes
Bruno Bori\'c, Dalton A R Sakthivadivel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21596 https://a…

Completions of complexes of differential modules on singular schemes
Spencer cohomology is a cohomology theory consisting of a chain complex of modules over the ring of differential operators of a smooth analytic space. In this paper we give a generalisation of Spencer cohomology suitable for singular schemes of finite type over a field. Our motivation was a conjecture of Vinogradov concerning the homological properties of differential operators on singular affine varieties; namely that certain complexes of such operators are acyclic if and only if the variety i…

MHD Macroscopic ball analysis: An Open Toolkit for Analyzing Magnetic Particle Rotation in Viscous Media
Roberts Treize
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03701 https://

MHD Macroscopic ball analysis: An Open Toolkit for Analyzing Magnetic Particle Rotation in Viscous Media
This paper presents MHD_Macroscopic_ball_analysis, an open-source Python toolkit developed to study the rotational dynamics of magnetized spherical particles immersed in viscous media under externally applied rotating magnetic fields. The toolkit extracts the orientation of the magnetic moment from grayscale video frames using image processing and enables detailed comparisons with synchronized magnetic field vector data. We outline the motivation, core algorithms, implementation, and validation…

Sense of Belonging and Intent to Persist: Mediating Role of Motivation and Moderating Role of Gender in Physics and Astronomy Graduate Students
Swagata Sarkar, N. Sanjay Rebello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20948

Sense of Belonging and Intent to Persist: Mediating Role of Motivation and Moderating Role of Gender in Physics and Astronomy Graduate Students
This study investigates how graduate students' sense of belonging (SB) influences their intent to persist (IP) in physics and astronomy programs, and how this relationship is shaped by the basic psychological needs that drive motivation-autonomy, competence, and relatedness-as well as gender. Grounded in self-determination theory, the analysis treats these three needs as mediators and gender as a moderator. A quantitative survey was administered to graduate students in the Department of Physics…

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

Bei Bewerbungsschreiben, egal ob Brief, Mail oder sonst was: wovon ich ganz am Anfang erfahren will sind die Fähigkeiten und Erfahrungen, die jemand einbringen will. Wenn ich das schnell finde, habe ich auch schnell Lust weiterzulesen. Dann interessieren mich die Eignung fürs Team, das Miteinander, die Motivation.

ResearchPulse: Building Method-Experiment Chains through Multi-Document Scientific Inference
Qi Chen, Jingxuan Wei, Zhuoya Yao, Haiguang Wang, Gaowei Wu, Bihui Yu, Siyuan Li, Cheng Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03565

ResearchPulse: Building Method-Experiment Chains through Multi-Document Scientific Inference
Understanding how scientific ideas evolve requires more than summarizing individual papers-it demands structured, cross-document reasoning over thematically related research. In this work, we formalize multi-document scientific inference, a new task that extracts and aligns motivation, methodology, and experimental results across related papers to reconstruct research development chains. This task introduces key challenges, including temporally aligning loosely structured methods and standardiz…

Constraints on transition redshift utilizing the latest H(z) measurements and comments on the Hubble tension
Jianping Hu, Xuandong Jia, DaoHong Gao, Jiaze Gao, Baoquan Gao, Fayin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05389

Constraints on transition redshift utilizing the latest H(z) measurements and comments on the Hubble tension
The motivation of this paper is to obtain reliable constraints of transition redshift ($z_{ztr}$) and, in combination with the evolution of the Hubble constant ($H_{0}$) that could alleviate the Hubble tension, discuss the possible origin of the tension. Utilizing the latest H(z) measurements and different methods ($Λ$CDM model, Cosmography, and Gaussian process method), we investigated the impact of methodology and dataset on $z_{ztr}$ constraints, and find that the choice of method has a gre…

Enhancing Satellite Quantum Key Distribution with Dual Band Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Muhammad Khalil, Ke Wang, Jinho Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03246

Enhancing Satellite Quantum Key Distribution with Dual Band Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
This paper presents a novel system architecture for hybrid satellite communications, integrating quantum key distribution (QKD) and classical radio frequency (RF) data transmission using a dual-band reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The motivation is to address the growing need for global, secure, and reliable communications by leveraging the security of quantum optical links and the robustness of classical RF channels within a unified framework. By employing a frequency-selective RIS, …

Brian Schottenheimer on first game as a head coach, areas to improve https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-on-first-game-as-a-head-coach-areas-to-improve

One of the things it stressed is that we really don't know the motivation at this point. I think we're closer to "extremely online and weird" but we can't really say "he's a Groyper." I think this is pretty likely, but we should be honest that we don't actually know.
This is where I think it's important to realize we're operating in two spaces: reality and the meme space. The right now longer has a separation between the two. The meme they want to spread to attack the left is that it was some how associated with leftists (especially trans folks), so this is the meme they believe.
It's useful, on a memetic level, to disrupt this. The Groyper meme is a pretty solid response. But, at least as far as I'm aware, we're still not sure that's true. But we don't have to collapse meme space and reality. We have absurdism.
We don't know if he's a Groyper, or even a far right troll, for sure anyway. But we do know that #JeffryEpstein killed #CharlieKirk. #TheTruthIsOutThere #ReleaseTheFiles! #FreeLuigi

Breaking the Plane: Exploring Real-Time Visualization of 3D Surfaces in Augmented Reality with Handwritten Input
Liam Franco Esparraguera, Kristoffer Selberg, Brian Lou, Jenny Sun, Beza Desta, Andr\'es Monroy-Hern\'andez, Parastoo Abtahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05616

Breaking the Plane: Exploring Real-Time Visualization of 3D Surfaces in Augmented Reality with Handwritten Input
We introduce Breaking the Plane, an augmented reality (AR) application built for AR headsets that enables users to visualize 3D mathematical functions using handwritten input. Researchers have demonstrated overlaying 3D visualizations of mathematical concepts through AR enhances learning motivation and comprehension, and equation parsing makes the authoring of teaching materials more time-efficient for instructors. Previous works have developed AR systems that separately employ equation parsing…

Travis Kelce on Chiefs' Super Bowl LIX loss: 'I've thrown that thing in the trash' https://www.nfl.com/news/travis-kelce-chiefs-super-bowl-lix-loss-ive-thrown-that-thing-in-trash

Brian Schottenheimer on first game as a head coach, areas to improve https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-on-first-game-as-a-head-coach-areas-to-improve

Risk In Context: Benchmarking Privacy Leakage of Foundation Models in Synthetic Tabular Data Generation
Jessup Byun, Xiaofeng Lin, Joshua Ward, Guang Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17066

Risk In Context: Benchmarking Privacy Leakage of Foundation Models in Synthetic Tabular Data Generation
Synthetic tabular data is essential for machine learning workflows, especially for expanding small or imbalanced datasets and enabling privacy-preserving data sharing. However, state-of-the-art generative models (GANs, VAEs, diffusion models) rely on large datasets with thousands of examples. In low-data settings, often the primary motivation for synthetic data, these models can overfit, leak sensitive records, and require frequent retraining. Recent work uses large pre-trained transformers to …

Proof-of-Behavior: Behavior-Driven Consensus for Trustworthy Decentralized Finance
Ailiya Borjigin, Wei Zhou, Cong He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22171 http…

Proof-of-Behavior: Behavior-Driven Consensus for Trustworthy Decentralized Finance
Current blockchain protocols (e.g., Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake) secure the ledger yet cannot measure validator trustworthiness, allowing subtle misconduct that is especially damaging in decentralized-finance (DeFi) settings. We introduce Proof-of-Behavior (PoB), a consensus model that (i) gives each action a layered utility score -- covering motivation and outcome, (ii) adapts validator weights using recent scores, and (iii) applies decentralized verification with proportional slashing. T…

Finding low-complexity DNA sequences with longdust
Heng Li, Brian Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07357 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07357

Finding low-complexity DNA sequences with longdust
Motivation: Low-complexity (LC) DNA sequences are compositionally repetitive sequences that are often associated with increased variant density and variant calling artifacts. While algorithms for identifying LC sequences exist, they either lack rigorous mathematical foundation or are inefficient with long context windows. Results: Longdust is a new algorithm that efficiently identifies long LC sequences including centromeric satellite and tandem repeats with moderately long motifs. It defines…

Numerical Techniques for the Maximum Likelihood Toeplitz Covariance Matrix Estimation: Part I. Symmetric Toeplitz Matrices
Yuri Abramovich, Victor Abramovich, Tanit Pongsiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01230

Numerical Techniques for the Maximum Likelihood Toeplitz Covariance Matrix Estimation: Part I. Symmetric Toeplitz Matrices
In several applications, one must estimate a real-valued (symmetric) Toeplitz covariance matrix, typically shifted by the conjugated diagonal matrices of phase progression and phase "calibration" errors. Unlike the Hermitian Toeplitz covariance matrices, these symmetric matrices have a unique potential capability of being estimated regardless of these beam-steering phase progression and/or phase "calibration" errors. This unique capability is the primary motivation of this paper.

Cowboys rookie RB Jaydon Blue, fueled by criticism of work ethic, earns first-team reps at camp https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-rookie-rb-jaydon-blue-criticism-work-ethic-first-team-reps-camp

Schema-Guided Response Generation using Multi-Frame Dialogue State for Motivational Interviewing Systems
Jie Zeng, Yukiko I. Nakano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20635 https://

Schema-Guided Response Generation using Multi-Frame Dialogue State for Motivational Interviewing Systems
The primary goal of Motivational Interviewing (MI) is to help clients build their own motivation for behavioral change. To support this in dialogue systems, it is essential to guide large language models (LLMs) to generate counselor responses aligned with MI principles. By employing a schema-guided approach, this study proposes a method for updating multi-frame dialogue states and a strategy decision mechanism that dynamically determines the response focus in a manner grounded in MI principles.…

Jerry Jones reportedly had a historic reason to make Micah Parsons' blockbuster trade between Dallas Cowboys and Packers https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/nfl-news-jerry-jones-reportedly-had-a-histori…