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Got a new keyboard with a different layout... thought it would be a good idea. And yeah, I never used that number pad anyway... but damn, the change has slowed me down... give me a minute to develop some new muscle memory...

Oneplus Pad 3: Dünnes Android-Tablet mit schnellem Chip
OnePlus hat sein neues OnePlus Pad 3 mit Qualcomms stärkstem Prozessor und einem größeren Display, aber auch zu einem höheren Preis angekündigt.
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OnePlus launches five products: the midrange €449 Nord 5 smartphone, the €349 Nord CE 5, a smaller €299 Watch 3 wearable, the €119 Buds 4, and the €229 Pad Lite (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/700339/oneplus-watch-3-4…

OnePlus launches five new products, including Buds 4 and smaller Watch 3 for the US
The Nord 5 and Nord CE 5 phones and Pad Lite tablet are all headed to Europe and India.

State constrained stochastic optimal control of a PV system with battery storage via Fokker-Planck and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations
Alfredo Berm\'udez, Iago Pad\'in
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11765

State constrained stochastic optimal control of a PV system with battery storage via Fokker-Planck and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations
With the growing global emphasis on sustainability and the implementation of contemporary environmental policies, the penetration of renewable energy sources has significantly increased --primarily due to their inexhaustible nature. In this context, integrating photovoltaic (PV) modules with energy storage systems offers a means to mitigate the inherent variability of solar energy. This paper proposes an optimal methodology for power management and market bidding strategies tailored to PV power…

FiDTouch: A 3D Wearable Haptic Display for the Finger Pad
Daria Trinitatova, Dzmitry Tsetserukou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07661 https://

FiDTouch: A 3D Wearable Haptic Display for the Finger Pad
The applications of fingertip haptic devices have spread to various fields from revolutionizing virtual reality and medical training simulations to facilitating remote robotic operations, proposing great potential for enhancing user experiences, improving training outcomes, and new forms of interaction. In this work, we present FiDTouch, a 3D wearable haptic device that delivers cutaneous stimuli to the finger pad, such as contact, pressure, encounter, skin stretch, and vibrotactile feedback. T…

#ListeningClub Their early singles were well-ahead of the Space Age Bachelor Pad and Esquivel craze of the 1990s, leaning toward lounge jazz with a pop sensibility.

The optimal Pad\'{e} polynomial for reconstruction of luminosity distance based on 10-fold cross-validation
Bo Yu, Wenhu Liu, XiaoFeng Yang, Tong-Jie zhang, Yanke Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08695

The optimal Padé polynomial for reconstruction of luminosity distance based on 10-fold cross-validation
The cosmography known as the Padé polynomials has been widely used in the reconstruction of luminosity distance, and the orders of Padé polynomials influence the reconstructed result derived from Padé approximation. In this paper, we present a more general scheme of selecting optimal Padé polynomial for reconstruction of luminosity distance based on 10-fold cross-validation. Then the proposed scheme is applied to Pantheon+ dataset. The numerical results clearly indicate that the proposed pr…

Launch pad.
(Not really, but that part of the Saalfelder Weg very much makes me feel like wanting to take off... Höhengefühle!)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

> fifties era Rocketship Republicanism … come back to earth to find the Overton window has moved the landing pad and it's gotta set down somewhere
— @… can turn a phrase, y'all
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Repair time! Industrial HMI with a damaged USB port (ripped off the board and lifted a pad)

OnePlus unveils the $700 OnePlus Pad 3, a 13.2-inch Android tablet with a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, a <6mm thick body, 17 hours of battery life, and LCD display (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
George Frideric Handel, Nóra Ducza, Alíz Ballabšs, József Csapó, Attila Sebők, Szabolcs Hšmori, Hungarian Radio Chorus, Budapest, Zoltšn Pad, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Budapest & Všclav Luks:
🎵 Dixit Dominus in G minor, HWV.232

1983 ad for Frogger 🐸 on Intellivision
#Intellivision #Frogger #80s #gaming

What if I went through life without questioning my every move? Without making myself smaller?
Without having my lived experience doubted, ignored, if not outright denied?
What if I didn't have to expend so much energy justifying my own existence?
What if I could #write, #create,…

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"Trojice teenagerů vytvořila chladicí jednotku, kterš využívš rozpouštění solí k dosažení nízkých teplot."
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"Cílem bylo vyřešit problém uchovšvšní vakcín a zdravotnického materišlu ve venkovských oblastech bez přístupu k elektrické síti."
WOW! To je dobrý nšpad!👍

ISI-Aware Code Design: A Linear Approach Towards Reliable Molecular Communication
Tamoghno Nath, Krishna Gopal Benerjee, Adrish Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23787

ISI-Aware Code Design: A Linear Approach Towards Reliable Molecular Communication
Intersymbol Interference (ISI) is a major bottleneck in Molecular Communication via Diffusion (MCvD), degrading system performance. This paper introduces two families of linear channel codes to mitigate ISI: Zero Pad Zero Start (ZPZS) and Zero Pad (ZP) codes, ensuring that each codeword avoids consecutive bit-1s. The ZPZS and ZP codes are then combined to form a binary ZP code, offering a higher code rate than linear ZP codes and allowing simple decoding via the Majority Location Rule (MLR). Ad…

Re4MPC: Reactive Nonlinear MPC for Multi-model Motion Planning via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Ne\c{s}et \"Unver Akmandor, Sarvesh Prajapati, Mark Zolotas, Ta\c{s}k{\i}n Pad{\i}r
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08344

Re4MPC: Reactive Nonlinear MPC for Multi-model Motion Planning via Deep Reinforcement Learning
Traditional motion planning methods for robots with many degrees-of-freedom, such as mobile manipulators, are often computationally prohibitive for real-world settings. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-model motion planning pipeline, termed Re4MPC, which computes trajectories using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC). Re4MPC generates trajectories in a computationally efficient manner by reactively selecting the model, cost, and constraints of the NMPC problem depending on the comp…

1976 Chevy Malibu seen at my local gas station #cars #photo #photography #classiccars

Yeah, I won't be playing tennis tonight, despite wonderful weather.
On the plus side, I've managed to retain both lungs, and my throat now only feels like a brillo pad rather than a cheese grater.
Feeling much better thanks 🙂

Finished the short story, “The Answer is No” by Fredrik Backman, the story of a man without any attachments who just wants to be left alone to eat pad thai & play video games. The neighbors in his apartment keep intruding upon his privacy in ludicrously farcical ways.
Great writer & some great moments, but the whole thing felt like a collection of tropes. Had there been a laugh track on the audiobook, I’d not have been surprised.
3/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

The Answer Is No
In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestsell…

Lower exposure video shows the detonation more clearly
and also shows a r ank farm (visible on the right.)
https://bsky.app/profile/punkey.org/post/3lrwqx6iznk2l

I'm pretty happy with the top side Samtec ARF6 launch simulations now.
S11:
* Red: No cutout, -12 dB at 10 GHz, -7 at 20 GHz, -4.8 at 30 GHz
* Blue: Rectangular ground cutout the size of the pad, -22.5 at 10 GHz, -16.4 at 20 GHz, -11.7 at 30 GHz
* Green: 30um larger than the pad on all sides (1.06 x 0.41 mm), -30.5 at 10 GHz, -22 at 20, -15 at 30.
With the oversized cutout it's more than good enough for QSGMII and 25Gbase-R.
TDR:
* Red: No cutou…

Gisteren leerden we dat er een tweede Mont Saint Michel bestaat, compleet met schiereiland.
Mount Sint Michael in Cornwall, inclusief pad dat alleen bij laag water belopen kan worden.
Binnen hoorden we dat
a. De monniken uit Frankrijk geholpen hebben bij het bouwen van dit kasteel op de berg op het eiland.
b. Er op een lijn vanuit ierland tot in Israël een lijn van st. Michel kloosters liggen.
Nu hebben we missie.

Hybrid Explicit-Implicit Predictor-Corrector Exponential Time-Differencing Multistep Pad\'{e} Schemes for Semilinear Parabolic Equations with Time-Delay
Haishen Dai, Huan Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22664

Hybrid Explicit-Implicit Predictor-Corrector Exponential Time-Differencing Multistep Padé Schemes for Semilinear Parabolic Equations with Time-Delay
In this paper, we propose and analyze ETD-Multistep-Padé (ETD-MS-Padé) and ETD Implicit Multistep-Padé (ETD-IMS-Padé) for semilinear parabolic delay differential equations with smooth solutions. In our previous work [15], we proposed ETD-RK-Padé scheme to compute high-order numerical solutions for nonlinear parabolic reaction-diffusion equation with constant time delay. However, the based ETD-RK numerical scheme in [15] is very complex and the corresponding calculation program is also very…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20624 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXi…

Spatial verification of global precipitation forecasts
Verification of global high-resolution precipitation forecasts is challenging. Spatial verification techniques address some shortcomings of traditional verification. However most existing methods do not account for the non-planar geometry of a global domain, or their computational complexity is too large for global assessments. We present an adaptation of the recently developed Precipitation Attribution Distance (PAD) metric, designed for verifying precipitation, enabling its use on the Earth's…

The full frequency sweep won't finish before I leave for REcon but I think I've finally got the ARF6 launch dialed in: better than -20 dB return loss from DC to 11.9 GHz, and better than -15.8 dB from DC to 30 GHz.
* Shrink vias from 0.45 pad / 0.25 drill to 0.35 / 0.15
* Use round vias for the signal lines as coupling seemed to be significant vs the square ones I tried to use to simplify meshing
* Keep non-functional via pads
* Single large ground plane cutout o…

Borel-Pad\'e exponential asymptotics for the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger model with next-to-nearest neighbour interactions
Christopher J. Lustri, In\^es Aniceto, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21120

Borel-Padé exponential asymptotics for the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger model with next-to-nearest neighbour interactions
In the present work we study discrete nonlinear Schr{ö}dinger models combining nearest (NN) and next-nearest (NNN) neighbor interactions, motivated by experiments in waveguide arrays. While we consider the more experimentally accessible case of positive ratio $μ$ of NNN to NN interactions, we focus on the intriguing case of competing such interactions $(μ<0)$, where stationary states can exist only for $-1/4 < μ< 0$. We analyze the key eigenvalues for the stability of the pulse-like station…

Perfect Secrecy in the Wild: A Characterization
Costas Cavounidis, Massimiliano Furlan, Alkis Georgiadis-Harris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12416 https://…

Perfect Secrecy in the Wild: A Characterization
Alice wishes to reveal the state $X$ to Bob, if he knows some other information $Y$ also known to her. If Bob does not, she wishes to reveal nothing about $X$ at all. When can Alice accomplish this? We provide a simple necessary and sufficient condition on the joint distribution of $X$ and $Y$. Shannon's result on the perfect secrecy of the one-time pad follows as a special case.