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I am not an expert on this; I have no special knowledge whatever.
Nevertheless, it's my opinion that the future of drone warfare cannot be first-person-view drones, because such drones require near-continuous real-time comms, and any channel over which comms can be transmitted can be jammed or hacked by the enemy.
So future drones will need to be, essentially, sealed boxes, with their target's identifying characteristics and general location set before launch.
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ON NAPRAWDĘ TO ZROBIŁ XDDDDDD
#SierraEcho zaplanował dziś audycję LAJW nr 593... i pół 😮
Wszystko po to aby LAJW nr 600 wypadło na ŁOŚ-ia 😂
BTW czy nie miało być dziś wcześniej? Andrzej ostatnio dowiedział się o zawodach SPAC, m.in. w 1. wtorki miesiąca od 19:00 na 2m, i miał do nich podejść jak do testów łączności, na wzór tych Planu Awaryjnego.
A zamiast tego robi &qu…

Cops —> Barney Miller
#NoEffort #SitcomRealityShows #HashTagGames

Nevertheless #Wordle desisted.
#Wordle1446 6/6*
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Feliz Cinco de Cuatro!!!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Tommy Newport:
🎵 Tangerine
#TommyNewport
https://open.spotify.com/track/3hFLVHNSDszA8lBvhokoH1

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05322 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Direct-search methods in the year 2025: Theoretical guarantees and algorithmic paradigms
Optimizing a function without using derivatives is a challenging paradigm, that precludes from using classical algorithms from nonlinear optimization, and may thus seem intractable other than by using heuristics. Nevertheless, the field of derivative-free optimization has succeeded in producing algorithms that do not rely on derivatives and yet are endowed with convergence guarantees. One class of such methods, called direct-search methods, is particularly popular thanks to its simplicity of im…

Hilarious and nevertheless a bit unpleasant new video of The Slow Mo Guys, but at least something completely different than their common weapons, explosions or balloons motives:
"High-Speed Hair-Plucking Machine in Macro"
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp_k_hiP9r

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12483 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Beta function without UV divergences
In this paper, we construct the beta function in the functorial formulation of two-dimensional quantum field theories (FQFT). A key feature of this approach is the absence of ultraviolet divergences. We show that, nevertheless, in the FQFT perturbation theory, the local observables of deformed theories acquire logarithmic dimension, leading to a conformal anomaly. The beta function arises in the functorial approach as an infinitesimal transformation of the partition function under the variation…

Michael Wessel has created the MIDI/80, a soundcard and MIDI interface for the Radio Shack TRS-80 #TRS80

It’s MIDI For The TRS-80!
The Radio Shack TRS-80 was a much-loved machine across America. However, one thing it lacked was MIDI. That’s not so strange given the era it was released in, of course. Nevertheless, [Michae…