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FLARE: Flying Learning Agents for Resource Efficiency in Next-Gen UAV Networks
Xuli Cai, Poonam Lohan, Burak Kantarci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12307 https://

FLARE: Flying Learning Agents for Resource Efficiency in Next-Gen UAV Networks
This letter addresses a critical challenge in the context of 6G and beyond wireless networks, the joint optimization of power and bandwidth resource allocation for aerial intelligent platforms, specifically uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs), operating in highly dynamic environments with mobile ground user equipment (UEs). We introduce FLARE (Flying Learning Agents for Resource Efficiency), a learning-enabled aerial intelligence framework that jointly optimizes UAV positioning, altitude, transmit …

Arguably, this guy got on the cover of the very best Pink Floyd album.
(although sometimes I think it's Animals. And sometimes The Dark Side of the Moon. And often I just can't choose one amongst those three)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05e0z9lj3mo

Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd cover dies aged 88
Ronnie Rondell Jr's decades-long career saw him appear in films and TV including Baywatch, Spartacus and The Matrix Reloaded.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Nacirema people is their insistence that they do not participate in practices of which they clearly do. Equally unusual is the fact that, unlike other sacrificial cultures who raid neighboring tribes for victims, both slaves and victims for human sacrifice are only taken from within the society. In fact, there is a very strong cultural taboo against sacrificing or enslaving those from other tribes.
They are aware of the rituals of human sacrifice in other tribes, but claim such rituals to be inconsistent with their society. Yet their human sacrifice rituals are some of the most elaborate in the world. These rituals are so important that there is a whole part of Nacirema society dedicated specifically to arguing about who should and should not be sacrificed, restraining and feeding the potential victims for the years during which these arguments take place, and ultimately preparing and administering the ritual poison.
This is strangely similar to their approach to slavery. Both human sacrifice and slavery were once a much larger part of Nacirema society. Their human sacrifice rituals now take far longer and happen far less often, but at no point have they ever recognized these ritual sacrifices as such. Meanwhile, the Nacirema do acknowledge that slavery was part of their culture once. During the time when they did recognize their practice of slavery, they did raid other tribes for slaves. Now they follow the same complex ritual for slavery as they do for human sacrifice.
It is strange that, by following this ritual and only choosing victims from within their society, they seem to become incapable of seeing their behavior for what it is.

A Nonparallel Support Tensor Machine for Binary Classification based Large Margin Distribution and Iterative Optimization
Zhuolin Du, Yisheng Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13012

A Nonparallel Support Tensor Machine for Binary Classification based Large Margin Distribution and Iterative Optimization
Based on the tensor-based large margin distribution and the nonparallel support tensor machine, we establish a novel classifier for binary classification problem in this paper, termed the Large Margin Distribution based NonParallel Support Tensor Machine (LDM-NPSTM). The proposed classifier has the following advantages: First, it utilizes tensor data as training samples, which helps to comprehensively preserve the inherent structural information of high-dimensional data, thereby improving class…

LTA-thinker: Latent Thought-Augmented Training Framework for Large Language Models on Complex Reasoning
Jiaqi Wang, Binquan Ji, Haibo Luo, Yiyang Qi, Ruiting Li, Huiyan Wang, Yuantao Han, Cangyi Yang, jiaxu Zhang, Feiliang Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12875

LTA-thinker: Latent Thought-Augmented Training Framework for Large Language Models on Complex Reasoning
Complex Reasoning in Large Language Models can be dynamically optimized using Test-Time Scaling (TTS) to mitigate Overthinking. Methods such as Coconut, SoftCoT and its variant are effective in continuous latent space inference, the core bottleneck still lies in the efficient generation and utilization of high-quality Latent Thought. Drawing from the theory of SoftCoT++ that a larger variance in the generated Latent Thought distribution more closely approximates the golden truth distribution, w…

GulliVR: A Walking-Oriented Technique for Navigation in Virtual Reality Games Based on Virtual Body Resizing
Andrey Krekhov, Sebastian Cmentowski, Katharina Emmerich, Maic Masuch, Jens Kr\"uger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11304

GulliVR: A Walking-Oriented Technique for Navigation in Virtual Reality Games Based on Virtual Body Resizing
Virtual reality games are often centered around our feeling of "being there". That presence can be significantly enhanced by supporting physical walking. Although modern virtual reality systems enable room-scale motions, the size of our living rooms is not enough to explore vast virtual environments. Developers bypass that limitation by adding virtual navigation such as teleportation. Although such techniques are intended (or designed) to extend but not replace natural walking, what we often ob…

1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/

Parsons rants on one-sided officiating, tush push https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46618625/packers-micah-parsons-rants-one-sided-officiating-tush-push

Efficient Algorithms for Partitioning Circulant Graphs with Optimal Spectral Approximation
Surya Teja Gavva, Peng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11382 https://

Efficient Algorithms for Partitioning Circulant Graphs with Optimal Spectral Approximation
The Marcus-Spielman-Srivastava theorem (Annals of Mathematics, 2015) for the Kadison-Singer conjecture implies the following result in spectral graph theory: For any undirected graph $G = (V,E)$ with a maximum edge effective resistance at most $α$, there exists a partition of its edge set $E$ into $E_1 \cup E_2$ such that the two edge-induced subgraphs of $G$ spectrally approximates $(1/2)G$ with a relative error $O(\sqrtα)$. However, the proof of this theorem is non-constructive. It remains …

Inclusion Arena: An Open Platform for Evaluating Large Foundation Models with Real-World Apps
Kangyu Wang, Hongliang He, Lin Liu, Ruiqi Liang, Zhenzhong Lan, Jianguo Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11452

Inclusion Arena: An Open Platform for Evaluating Large Foundation Models with Real-World Apps
Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have ushered in a new era of AI capabilities, demonstrating near-human-level performance across diverse scenarios. While numerous benchmarks (e.g., MMLU) and leaderboards (e.g., Chatbot Arena) have been proposed to help evolve the development of LLMs and MLLMs, most rely on static datasets or crowdsourced general-domain prompts, often falling short of reflecting performance in real-world applications. To bridge this criti…