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Can Lions still make playoffs? How Detroit can rally for postseason berth after wild loss to Steelers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/lions-nfl-playoff-path-wild-loss-to-steelers/

As I said previously, I do, do ❤️ ridges... This was six days ago, on almost the last day of autumn (meanwhile it's all white)...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Hiking

Nooooo :(
Riding through the park along Elliott Bay for the first time in a while and there's lamp posts going up along what used to be an unlit bike path.
This used to be one of my favorite urban night rides: well paved, completely car free, great views of the distant city lights, but no lights in the park itself.
Now it's ruined.

That's how our hike at the #mummelsee started ... and how it was when we were up there. - But the walk was quite okay.
We checked the rain radar and decided to go back down rather quickly. We leveraged our rain gear and it did not disappoint us! 🙂
So we didn't see the area atop - the so called

Moody Urbanity - Inclination ↖️
情绪化城市 - 傾斜 ↖️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

The rather famous view up Libe Slope towards Uris Library with Willard Straight Hall unseen towards the right
#photo #photography #landscape

After TNF loss, Cowboys have just one path to the playoffs https://insidethestar.com/after-tnf-loss-cowboys-have-just-1-path-to-the-playoffs

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
VILA: Dayna. Dayna. [follows the path Dayna has taken. He leaves Orac and the binoculars on the ground in the snow.] Dayna.
[Planet Terminal. Exterior. Avon finds Tarrant lying face down in the snow, unconscious. Avon walks over and nudges Tarrant with his boot. Tarrant stirs.]
https://blake.torpidi…

Utility-Scale Quantum State Preparation: Classical Training using Pauli Path Simulation
Cheng-Ju Lin, Hrant Gharibyan, Vincent P. Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02428 https://

Utility-Scale Quantum State Preparation: Classical Training using Pauli Path Simulation
We use Pauli Path simulation to variationally obtain parametrized circuits for preparing ground states of various quantum many-body Hamiltonians. These include the quantum Ising model in one dimension, in two dimensions on square and heavy-hex lattices, and the Kitaev honeycomb model, all at system sizes of one hundred qubits or more, beyond the reach of exact state-vector simulation, thereby reaching utility scale. We benchmark the Pauli Path simulation results against exact ground-state energ…

Agent-Based Simulation of a Financial Market with Large Language Models
Ryuji Hashimoto, Takehiro Takayanagi, Masahiro Suzuki, Kiyoshi Izumi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12189 htt…

Agent-Based Simulation of a Financial Market with Large Language Models
In real-world stock markets, certain chart patterns -- such as price declines near historical highs -- cannot be fully explained by fundamentals alone. These phenomena suggest the presence of path dependence in price formation, where investor decisions are influenced not only by current market conditions but also by the trajectory of prices leading up to the present. Path dependence has drawn attention in behavioral finance as a key mechanism behind such anomalies. One plausible driver of path …

RT: Seth Harp @sethharpesq
Nov 1
The biggest capital outlay ever, for a product that no one will pay for.
OpenAI loses ten billion dollars a quarter. There is no path to profitability for subprime AI. These absurd data centers will stand sentinel over the ruins of our fake economy like moai on Easter Island.

Self-attention enabled quantum path analysis of high-harmonic generation in solids
Cong Zhao, Xiaozhou Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12443 https://arxiv.o…

Self-attention enabled quantum path analysis of high-harmonic generation in solids
High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids provides a powerful platform to probe ultrafast electron dynamics and interband--intraband coupling. However, disentangling the complex many-body contributions in the HHG spectrum remains challenging. Here we introduce a machine-learning approach based on a Transformer encoder to analyze and reconstruct HHG signals computed from a one-dimensional Kronig--Penney model. The self-attention mechanism inherently highlights correlations between temporal dipole…

Parameterized Complexity of Temporal Connected Components: Treewidth and k-Path Graphs
Argyrios Deligkas, Michelle D\"oring, Eduard Eiben, Tiger-Lily Goldsmith, George Skretas, Georg Tennigkeit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05806

Parameterized Complexity of Temporal Connected Components: Treewidth and k-Path Graphs
We study the parameterized complexity of maximum temporal connected components (tccs) in temporal graphs, i.e., graphs that deterministically change over time. In a tcc, any pair of vertices must be able to reach each other via a time-respecting path. We consider both problems of maximum open tccs (openTCC), which allow temporal paths through vertices outside the component, and closed tccs (closedTCC) which require at least one temporal path entirely within the component for every pair. We focu…

We rush through days counting minutes. But what if we're using the wrong kind of time?
The Greeks knew two types: Chronos (clock time) and Kairos (soul time). One measures. One reveals openings.
When we stop racing, something shifts. Endings become doorways. Crisis becomes life reorganizing itself.
What if the future isn't running out but circling back?
Read more about relearning the rhythms of change:

Why Time Isn’t Running Out: Finding Kairos in an Age of Collapse
What if time isn’t running out but ripening? Learn how Chronos and Kairos reveal a new path through urgency, collapse, and renewal.

He filmed himself killing a man,
and the case ends in mistrial
An Orange County man who recorded himself fatally shooting a homeless man he said was blocking his path remained free this week after a jury deadlocked in his manslaughter trial.
Craig Sumner Elliott, 70, of Garden Grove was charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter for the 2023 shooting of Antonio Garcia Avalos.
According to prosecutors, Elliott and Avalos got into a confrontation on Sept. 29, 2…

Some leftists have criticized #NoKingsDay2 as useless. Though it was the largest protest in US history, it didn't change anything. I would go further to say that protests like these generally won't change anything. Dictators aren't forced to step down by 2% of the population coming out for one day. If they're forced to step down by protests, those protests are sustained. They are every single day. They are accompanied by general strikes.
We've been watching that happen all over the world. Portland in 2020 gave us a taste of that in the US. The George Floyd Rebellion was the type of resistance that actually brings down dictators like Trump. Occasional protests, no matter how large, can simply be ignored. That is precisely the reason the US developed a militarized police force in the first place. You need more, more than the largest protests in US history, more than Occupy, more than the resistance of the 60's and 70's, more than, and different from, anything we've seen in our lives.
And yet... Each protest has grown, and grown bolder. Some have grown more persistent. If you think of protest as the path to achieve change, you will lose. It is not. But it is a path to escalate. Some people, some otherwise comfortable white folks, came out for their first time. Some people got pepper sprayed for the first time. Some people questioned authority, stood up for the first time, and have had an experience that will radicalize them for the rest of their lives.
Protest is not useful in and of itself. It is training. It's making connections. Authoritarian regimes rely on the illusion of compliance, so visual resistance does actually undermine their power.
Liberals like to teach that non-violence is all about staying peaceful no matter what, that there's some way that morality simply overwhelms an enemy. I remember reading Langston Hughes' A Dream Deferred in high school. I said it was a threat. My teacher said, "you're wrong, he was a pacifist." Pacifism is a threat. If you can spit at me, beat me, shoot me, and I will not move, if I have the strength to absorb violence without flinching, without even rising to violence, what will happen when you push me too far?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
For peaceful resistance to work, there must be ambiguity. It must not be clear if or when the resistance will stop being peaceful. Peaceful resistance with no possibility of escalation is just cowardice.
My critique then is not so harsh as some other anarchists. If you think that protest alone will work, you're probably going to lose. If you are prepared to escalate, if you are prepared to absorb violence without flinching, then it could be possible for protest alone to topple the dictator. The cracks are already beginning to show.
And then what?
The problems that lead to the George Floyd uprising were never resolved. The problems that lead to Occupy where never resolve. The DAPL was built, protesters were maimed, it leaked multiple times (exactly as predicted). Segregation never went away, it only changed forms. The fact that immigrants have different courts and different rights means that anyone can be arbitrarily kidnaped and renditioned to an arbitrary country. We never did anything about the torture black site. FFS, people can still be stripped of their voting rights and slavery is still legal in the US. The people who control both parties in the US are killing our children and grand children with oil wars and climate change.
Toppling the dictator does nothing to resolve all of the problems that existed before him.
No, #NoKingsDay was absolutely not useless. #NoKings and related protests are extremely useful but they aren't sufficient. But, I think we still need to challenge the movement on two points:
How do you escalate after you're ignored or brutalized?
What do you demand after you win?
#USPol

Restarting #Running, take 37 🎬
Busyness and niggling knee pain derailed me from my last efforts. Then inertia set in and everything becomes harder.
But, here we start anew. One foot in front of the other.

Big Tech is neoliberalism's wet dream!
There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path
to a post-American internet
by @…
https://

I needed to move a bunch of PVs off Longhorn and onto local-path, and I didn't want to mess with backup and restore, so I recuited a coding agent and banged out this little thing. It was good enough for my one-time use case. Use with care! https://github.com/stblassitude/migrate-pv

Urban Adventure 🏞️
城市探险 🏞️
📷Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

ConPoSe: LLM-Guided Contact Point Selection for Scalable Cooperative Object Pushing
Noah Steinkr\"uger, Nisarga Nilavadi, Wolfram Burgard, Tanja Katharina Kaiser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08705

ConPoSe: LLM-Guided Contact Point Selection for Scalable Cooperative Object Pushing
Object transportation in cluttered environments is a fundamental task in various domains, including domestic service and warehouse logistics. In cooperative object transport, multiple robots must coordinate to move objects that are too large for a single robot. One transport strategy is pushing, which only requires simple robots. However, careful selection of robot-object contact points is necessary to push the object along a preplanned path. Although this selection can be solved analytically, …

Frank Gehry, legendary architect of some of world’s most iconic buildings, dies at 96
Gehry defined his own idiosyncratic path in Toronto, Los Angeles and around the world
one of the greats!

This was a weird one for me. Not hard, just took a strange path to it. #Wordle
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How the Jaguars' Loss Showed Us Raiders' Newest Offensive Path https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-michael-mayer-pete-carroll-brock-bowers

People often imagine unicycles as quite small but one built for distance is fairly big. 🤷
#Unicycle #UnicycleLife

ARMOR: High-Performance Semi-Structured Pruning via Adaptive Matrix Factorization
Lawrence Liu, Alexander Liu, Mengdi Wang, Tuo Zhao, Lin F. Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05528

ARMOR: High-Performance Semi-Structured Pruning via Adaptive Matrix Factorization
Large language models (LLMs) present significant deployment challenges due to their immense computational and memory requirements. While semi-structured pruning, particularly 2:4 sparsity, offers a path to practical hardware acceleration, existing methods often incur substantial performance degradation. To bridge this gap, we introduce ARMOR: (Adaptive Representation with Matrix-factORization), a novel one-shot post-training pruning algorithm. Instead of directly pruning weights, ARMOR factoriz…

Burning games on strong path products
Sally Ambrose, Evan Angelone, Jacob Chen, Daniel Ma, Arturo Ortiz San Miguel, Wraven Watanabe, Stephen Whitcomb, Shanghao Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20572

Burning games on strong path products
Burning and cooling are diffusion processes on graphs in which burned (or cooled) vertices spread to their neighbors with a new source picked at discrete time steps. In burning, the one tries to burn the graph as fast as possible, while in cooling one wants to delay cooling as long as possible. We consider $d$-fold strong products of paths, which generalize king graphs. The propagation of these graphs is radial, and models local spread of contagion in an arbitrary number of dimensions. We red…

One more photo stop that we did after quite a rain pour in the #schwarzwald.
We came up this path when I turned around and saw the sun beams through the canopy. At first I was really stunned to be honest as I hardly *ever* see such scenes!
Strangely I took ways less photos than might have been appropriate, but those two I found worth sharing.
Some more story about them:

An efficient grey theory-driven path selection for energy efficiency control in the Internet of Things using fog and cloud computing
Mohammad Reza Akbari, Hamid Barati, Ali Barati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03533

An efficient grey theory-driven path selection for energy efficiency control in the Internet of Things using fog and cloud computing
Due to the big data exchange on the Internet of Things, proper routing and selecting the best routes for fast data transmission improve network performance. There are major challenges, like high delay, when cloud computing is used. Therefore, one solution is to use other schemes, such as fog computing. In fog computing, all data is not sent to the cloud and the fog nodes close to objects are used for data processing. This reduces the network delay. In this paper, we propose an overlapping clust…

👀Great, hopeful review on one avenue to increase #crop yield 🌿🧪.
Context - we'll need 35-50% more food globally by 2050 but there are few signs that we're getting there. Yes, many issues in this space.
But photosynthesis is now one of the plant metabolic pathways where we have really good understanding, sufficient to see meaningful improvements of yield in the field, in #rice, #potato, #soybean. This is detailed in the review ➡️ #PlantSci #FoodSecurity

Not Even Wrong: On the Limits of Prediction as Explanation in Cognitive Science
Mark Orr, Drew Cranford, Ken Ford, Kevin Gluck, Will Hancock, Christian Lebiere, Pete Pirolli, Frank Ritter, Andrea Stocco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03311

Not Even Wrong: On the Limits of Prediction as Explanation in Cognitive Science
We offer a comment on the Centaur (Binz et al., 2025) transformer-based model of human behavior. In particular, Centaur was cast as a path towards unified theories of cognition. We offer a counter claim with supporting argument: Centaur is a path divergent from unified theories of cognition, one that moves towards a unified model of behavior sans cognition.

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Many aquatic animals are described as "filter feeders" but this is not functionally correct since it would require water forced through a mesh. Instead, most zooplankton, including copepods, are suspension feeders. They create feeding current gyres using appendages, and use spiny modified ones (maxillae) to intercept individual algal particles and move …

Square-Domain Area-Preserving Parameterization for Genus-Zero and Genus-One Closed Surfaces
Shu-Yung Liu, Mei-Heng Yueh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22269 https://

Square-Domain Area-Preserving Parameterization for Genus-Zero and Genus-One Closed Surfaces
The parameterization of closed surfaces typically requires either multiple charts or a non-planar domain to achieve a seamless global mapping. In this paper, we propose a numerical framework for the seamless parameterization of genus-zero and genus-one closed simplicial surfaces onto a unit square domain. The process begins by slicing the surface with either the shortest-path or the Reeb graph method. The sliced surface is then mapped onto the unit square using a globally convergent algorithm t…

Learning about this flute was what put me on the path of considering how closely intertwined the creation of art is with our very humanity (and our closest evolutionary relatives like Neandertals). I have come to the conclusion that that the drive to create art is one of the defining characteristics of being human, and the drive to create also drives our technological advances.
#ArtsPedagogy

Open Culture (Official) (@openculture@toot.community)
Attached: 1 image Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years https://www.openculture.com/2025/06/hear-the-worlds-oldest-instrument-the-neanderthal-flute-dating-back-over-43000-years.html

Over nearly nine months,
the lawsuit challenging Trump’s attempt to slash foreign aid funding
has ricocheted around the federal judiciary
but still has not reached a final resolution.
It has been reviewed by 21 judges,
spawned thousands of pages of filings
and lumbered forward
even after the administration dissolved the U.S. Agency for International Development,
the government office responsible for disbursing much of the contested funding.

The Monthslong Legal Battle to Save Foreign Aid
One lawsuit, underway since February, has sought to compel President Trump to honor Congress’s vision for foreign aid. It still has a long way to go.

A Phase Synthesizer for Decorrelation to Improve Acoustic Feedback Cancellation
Klaus Linhard, Philipp Bulling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12377 https://arx…

A Phase Synthesizer for Decorrelation to Improve Acoustic Feedback Cancellation
Undesired acoustic feedback is a known issue in communication systems, such as speech in-car communication, public address systems, or hearing aids. Without additional precautions, there is a high risk that the adaptive filter - intended to cancel the feedback path - also suppresses parts of the desired signal. One solution is to decorrelate the loudspeaker and microphone signals. In this work, we combine the two decorrelation approaches frequency shifting and phase modulation in a unified fram…

Airy Resonances in Photonic Crystal Superpotentials
Zeyu Zhang, Brian Gould, Maria Barsukova, Mikael C. Rechtsman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07522 https://…

Airy Resonances in Photonic Crystal Superpotentials
Airy wavefunctions are associated with one of the simplest scenarios in wave mechanics: a quantum bouncing ball. In other words, they are the eigenstates of the time-independent Schrodinger equation with a linear potential. In the domain of optics, laser beams that are spatially shaped as Airy functions (`Airy beams') have been shown to exhibit a prominent lobe that follows a curved path, rather than propagating in a straight line, and which has self-healing properties in the presence of obstac…

Hey all. Just wanted to post the other two #photos from my recent blog post https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2025/a-familiar-mountain-never-gets-old/
It's one o…

Frank Gehry, legendary architect of some of world’s most iconic buildings, dies at 96
Gehry defined his own idiosyncratic path in Toronto, Los Angeles and around the world
one of the greats!

Indirect method for nuclear reactions and the role of the self energy
Gregory Potel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09140 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09140

Indirect method for nuclear reactions and the role of the self energy
When a nuclear species (e.g., a nucleon or a deuteron nucleus) propagating freely is made to collide with a target nucleus, its trajectory is modified by exchanging variable amounts of energy, mass, linear and angular momentum with the target, according to its interaction with the nuclear medium. By addressing this perturbation away from the free path, one hopes to learn something about the nature of the medium through which our probe propagates. This is the essence of the experimental use of n…

Urbanity - Urbana Composita 🌆
城市化 - 建构城市 🌆
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Incredible light and detail in this oil painting...
Hans Gude, Fjordlandskap fra Balestrand, 1848
(Norway Nasjonalmuseet)
#Art #Painting #Landscape

Foremost, Fastest, Shortest: Temporal Graph Realization under Various Path Metrics
Justine Cauvi (ENS de Lyon, ARGO), Nils Morawietz (LaBRI), Laurent Viennot (DI-ENS, ARGO)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01702

Foremost, Fastest, Shortest: Temporal Graph Realization under Various Path Metrics
In this work, we follow the current trend on temporal graph realization, where one is given a property P and the goal is to determine whether there is a temporal graph, that is, a graph where the edge set changes over time, with property P . We consider the problems where as property P , we are given a prescribed matrix for the duration, length, or earliest arrival time of pairwise temporal paths. That is, we are given a matrix D and ask whether there is a temporal graph such that for any order…

Strong hub cover pebbling number
Runze Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05170 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05170

Strong hub cover pebbling number
In a graph $G$, we define a set of vertices to be a \emph{strong hub set} if for any two vertices in $G$, we can find a path between them whose internal vertices are all in this set. We define the \emph{strong hub cover pebbling number} of $G$, denoted by $h_s^*(G)$, to be the smallest $t$ such that for any initial configuration with $t$ pebbles on $G$, we can make some pebbling moves (a pebbling move consists of removing two pebbles from a vertex $v$ and adding one pebble to another vertex adj…

OpenAI has already committed to spending $1.4 trillion on infrastructure for AI, Sam Altman said during a livestreamed event on Tuesday, and he expects to continue moving aggressively on that front.
To finance that, OpenAI will need to raise unprecedented amounts of capital through venture funding, debt and an eventual public offering, the last of which Altman said remains the most likely path for the company.
SoftBank, one of OpenAI’s biggest backers, had reserved the right to pu…

One reason why we chose #Baiersbronn for our last vacation was the #Landesgartenschau (#Garden show?).
It would have been a gem for flower and garden

QSearchNet: A Quantum Walk Search Framework for Link Prediction
Priyank Dubey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00325 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00325

QSearchNet: A Quantum Walk Search Framework for Link Prediction
Link prediction is one of the fundamental problems in graph theory, critical for understanding and forecasting the evolution of complex systems like social and biological networks. While classical heuristics capture certain aspects of graph topology, they often struggle to optimally integrate local and global structural information or adapt to complex dependencies. Quantum computing offers a powerful alternative by leveraging superposition for simultaneous multi-path exploration and interferenc…

$H$-based Quivers with potentials and their representations
Xiaoyue Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19782 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19782

$H$-based Quivers with potentials and their representations
We generalize Derksen-Weyman-Zelevinsky's theory of quivers with potentials (QPs) to an $H$-based setting by considering quivers with exactly one loop at each vertex, asking the loops to be nilpotent and so attaching a truncated polynomial ring $H_i$ to each vertex. The algebra is then defined by taking the quotient of the complete path algebra by relations arising from analogs of the Jacobian ideals of a given potential. We develop the mutation theory for such $H$-based QPs and their decorated…

Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0,
we took the wrong path.
We’re now at a new crossroads,
one where we must decide if AI will be used for the betterment or to the detriment of society.
How can we learn from the mistakes of the past?
First of all, we must ensure policymakers do not end up playing the same decade-long game of catchup they have done over social media.
The time to decide the go…

Concrete Jungle II 🏗️
水泥丛林 II 🏗️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Concrete Jungle III 🏗️
水泥丛林 III 🏗️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Bounds on the equation of state of cold nuclear matter from imaginary chemical potentials
Thomas D. Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07124 https://arxiv.or…

Bounds on the equation of state of cold nuclear matter from imaginary chemical potentials
The sign problem in numerical calculations of the QCD Euclidean space path integral of QCD with a chemical potential vanishes if the chemical potential is imaginary and calculations of the partition function with an imaginary chemical potentials are equivalent to calculations with Lagrange multipliers enforcing the current density. At zero temperature, Lorentz boosts allows one to deduce properties of systems with both number density and and current density from properties of systems with a cur…

Moody Urbanity - Beings 🔶
情绪化城市 - 灵 🔶
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite