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Browns' Carson Schwesinger's path from walk-on to rookie star https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47386414/cleveland-browns-carson-schwesinger-path-walk-2025-rookie-star

Robot Conga: A Leader-Follower Walking Approach to Sequential Path Following in Multi-Agent Systems
Pranav Tiwari, Soumyodipta Nath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16482 https://

Robot Conga: A Leader-Follower Walking Approach to Sequential Path Following in Multi-Agent Systems
Coordinated path following in multi-agent systems is a key challenge in robotics, with applications in automated logistics, surveillance, and collaborative exploration. Traditional formation control techniques often rely on time-parameterized trajectories and path integrals, which can result in synchronization issues and rigid behavior. In this work, we address the problem of sequential path following, where agents maintain fixed spatial separation along a common trajectory, guided by a leader …

On the solution of Euclidean path integrals with neural networks
Gabor Balassa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16953 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16953

On the solution of Euclidean path integrals with neural networks
This paper proposes a numerical method using neural networks to solve the path integral problem in quantum mechanics for arbitrary potentials. The method is based on a radial basis function expansion of the interaction term that appears in the Euclidean path integral formalism. By constructing a corresponding multi-layered perceptron-type neural network with exponential nonlinearities in the hidden layer, the original path integral can be approximated by a linear combination of Gaussian path in…

Line-width and path-width
Tung Nguyen, Alex Scott, Paul Seymour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16786 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16786

Line-width and path-width
For finite graphs, path-width is an interesting and useful concept, but if we extend it to infinite graphs in the most obvious way (by making the indexing path infinite), it does not work nicely. The simplest extension that works nicely is to allow the indexing set to be any totally-ordered set, and then the corresponding decomposition is called a ``line-decomposition'', and the maximum bag size needed is called ``line-width''. In particular, the indexing set need not be a well-order; but the…

Nice new accessible trail in #McLarenPark from Mansell Promenade to John F. Shelley Promenade. No more need to loop around up a steep hill on Shelley to get to the part with the great views west.

A note on non-crossing path partitions in the plane
Javier Tejel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17485 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17485

A note on non-crossing path partitions in the plane
In the paper ``Lower bounds on the number of crossing-free subgraphs of $K_N$'' (Computational Geometry 16 (2000), 211-221), it is shown that a double chain of $n$ points in the plane admits at least $Ω(4.642126305^n)$ polygonizations, and it is claimed that it admits at most $O(5.61^n)$ polygonizations. In this note, we provide a proof of this last result. The proof is based on counting non-crossing path partitions for points in the plane in convex position, where a non-crossing path partitio…

Hey all, there are some photos from a hike in the #schwarzwald
Actually we thought that it would just take us less than an hour - but it wasn't simply a straight walk :-D
It was raining from time to time - which was indeed pretty cool. A) there was noone around except us and B) the colors were often just insane. Fully saturated green, the brown from the wood - and sometimes…

Guinea returns to the path of democracy. By Jürgen Klute.
#Guinea

Guinea returns to the path of democracy - Europa Blog
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Raiders' struggles prove they chose the wrong path this past offseason https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/10/21/raiders-struggles-prove-they-chose-the-wrong-path-…

Adam Mosseri says "maybe we'll need" premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/21/2025

Exclusive: Instagram’s Adam Mosseri on how to beat TikTok — on your phone and in your living room
Mosseri laid out Instagram’s vision for its role on television and the path for its next several years of growth.

Ahead of elections, Moldova’s president warns of Kremlin interference, urges citizens to defend European path: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/23/ahead-of-elections-moldovas-president.html

#WinterWonderland arrived early this year...
(From our #EveningWalk in the Ammergau Alps last night... 25-30cm fresh powder everywhere, -7℃, no people, but lots of animal tracks)
#SilentSunday

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/

There is only 1 path left for the Cowboys to make the postseason https://insidethestar.com/there-is-only-1-path-left-for-the-cowboys-to-make-the-postseason

Thune meets with GOP senators on post-shutdown path:
The group discussed health care ideas, including expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/22/congress/shutdown-thune-meeting-health-care-00619013

Modeling Interfacial Electron Transfer using Path Integral Molecular Dynamics
Yoonjae Park, Adam P. Willard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17347 https://arxiv.…

Modeling Interfacial Electron Transfer using Path Integral Molecular Dynamics
Outer sphere electron transfer rates can be calculated from simulation data by sampling the equilibrium statistics of the canonical reaction coordinate -- the vertical energy gap. For these calculations, electron transfer is typically represented by an instantaneous change in the atomic partial charges. In this manuscript, we present an implementation of this procedure that utilizes an explicit path-integral representation of the transferring electron. We demonstrate our methodology by combinin…

Thune meets with GOP senators on post-shutdown path (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/22/congress/shutdown-thune-meeting-health-care-00619013
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p122#a251022p122

Thirteen years ago, a Brooklyn man’s child molestation conviction pierced a veil of silence in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community,
where many people who dared to report sexual abuse were shunned, expelled from schools and had businesses ruined.
Now the man, Nechemya Weberman, an unlicensed therapist who was sentenced to 103 years in prison, could be on a path to freedom.
Mr. Weberman, 67, is scheduled to appear in court next month, with a judge set to decide whether to comm…

Orthodox Jewish Man Sentenced to 103 Years for Sex Abuse May Go Free
Nechemya Weberman, convicted of molesting a 12-year-old girl in a politically charged case, is seeking a new, shorter sentence with the Brooklyn district attorney’s support.

B2B travel trade magazine TTG closes its print edition after 72 years to focus on digital and events, which it says account for 45% and 40% of its revenue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Travel magazine TTG closes print title to focus on digital and events growth
B2B travel trade magazine title TTG is closing in print after 72 years but CEO sets out "clear growth path".

Neural Network and ANFIS based auto-adaptive MPC for path tracking in autonomous vehicles
Yassine Kebbati, Naima Ait-Oufroukh, Vincent Vigneron, Dalil Ichala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17213

Neural Network and ANFIS based auto-adaptive MPC for path tracking in autonomous vehicles
Self-driving cars operate in constantly changing environments and are exposed to a variety of uncertainties and disturbances. These factors render classical controllers ineffective, especially for lateral control. Therefore, an adaptive MPC controller is designed in this paper for the path tracking task, tuned by an improved particle swarm optimization algorithm. Online parameter adaptation is performed using Neural Networks and ANFIS. The designed controller showed promising results compared t…

BROKEN PATH!!!!
(it's /Applications with an s)

Another film, another unattributed use of #OpenStreetMap. This is the fourth movie I’ve seen this year commit this sin and the latest culprit is this Netflix Christmas romcom titled Champagne Problems.
Their travesty is now immortalized on the OSM Wiki: https…

It wasn’t the best day for photos with lots of low cloud but it was really lovely out on the Bogong High Plains today. Spotted a nankeen kestrel and a gang gang cockatoo. A handful of hikers and 3 other runners out there, otherwise had the place to myself. #trailrunning #bogonghighplains

Planar induced paths via a decomposition into non-crossing ordered graphs
Julien Duron, Hugo Jacob
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17835 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Planar induced paths via a decomposition into non-crossing ordered graphs
In any graph, the maximum size of an induced path is bounded by the maximum size of a path. However, in the general case, one cannot find a converse bound, even up to an arbitrary function, as evidenced by the case of cliques. Galvin, Rival and Sands proved in 1982 that, when restricted to weakly sparse graphs, such a converse property actually holds. In this paper, we consider the maximal function $f$ such that any planar graph (and in general, any graph of bounded genus) containing a path o…

Guinea returns to the path of democracy. By Jürgen Klute.
https://europa.blog/en/guinea-returns-to-the-path-of-democracy/

Early winter this years #coldswim season. Water at about 4,5°C while the air was about -3°C. Swam for about 4min #Uckermark

Anyone out there able to help Nadeen out at the last minute so she can pay her (and her sister’s) tuition to continue their studies? You would be gifting the world two new dentists for the low price of $2,000.
The last day for them to register is tomorrow.
Please share donate if you can.
💕
#academia

Taking The Red Carpet Path.
(Not often that I find myself in a place exuding such intense natural positive/friendly energy [and beautiful scents]...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography

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.

Call for HEI Partners/Academic Supervisors to supervise a PhD with BL European collections curators on 'Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South' - includes support from us in @…

Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South
Learn how Yugoslavia forged a unique path between East and West.

FUN-SSL: Full-band Layer Followed by U-Net with Narrow-band Layers for Multiple Moving Sound Source Localization
Yuseon Choi, Hyeonseung Kim, Jewoo Jun, Jong Won Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17490

FUN-SSL: Full-band Layer Followed by U-Net with Narrow-band Layers for Multiple Moving Sound Source Localization
Dual-path processing along the temporal and spectral dimensions has shown to be effective in various speech processing applications. While the sound source localization (SSL) models utilizing dual-path processing such as the FN-SSL and IPDnet demonstrated impressive performances in localizing multiple moving sources, they require significant amount of computation. In this paper, we propose an architecture for SSL which introduces a U-Net to perform narrow-band processing in multiple resolutions…

Adam Mosseri says "maybe we'll need" premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/21/2025

Exclusive: Instagram’s Adam Mosseri on how to beat TikTok — on your phone and in your living room
Mosseri laid out Instagram’s vision for its role on television and the path for its next several years of growth.

Deep in the primeval forest of, um, Burnaby, BC.
#Photography

On the Secrecy Performance of Pinching-Antenna Systems
Nianzu Li, Weidong Mei, Lipeng Zhu, Peiran Wu, Boyu Ning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16854 https://ar…

On the Secrecy Performance of Pinching-Antenna Systems
Pinching-antenna systems have recently gained significant attention as a novel reconfigurable-antenna technology due to its exceptional capability of mitigating signal-propagation path loss. In this letter, we investigate the secrecy performance of a pinching-antenna system in the presence of an eavesdropper. In particular, we derive an approximate expression of the system's secrecy outage probability (SOP) with respect to the random locations of the legitimate user and eavesdropper and analyze…

Optimized adaptive MPC for lateral control of autonomous vehicles
Yassine Kebbati, Vicen\c{c} Puig, Naima Ait-Oufroukh, Vincent Vigneron, Dalil Ichalal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17215

Optimized adaptive MPC for lateral control of autonomous vehicles
Autonomous vehicles are the upcoming solution to most transportation problems such as safety, comfort and efficiency. The steering control is one of the main important tasks in achieving autonomous driving. Model predictive control (MPC) is among the fittest controllers for this task due to its optimal performance and ability to handle constraints. This paper proposes an adaptive MPC controller (AMPC) for the path tracking task, and an improved PSO algorithm for optimising the AMPC parameters. …

System Relaxation for Interpretable and Adaptive Network Control
Zhiyuan Ren, Zhiliang Shuai, Wenchi Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16984 https://arxiv.o…

System Relaxation for Interpretable and Adaptive Network Control
Prevailing network control strategies, which rely on static shortest-path logic, suffer from catastrophic "stress concentration" on critical nodes. This paper introduces the System Relaxation Algorithm (SRA), a new control paradigm inspired by physical relaxation that guides a network toward an emergent equilibrium of load balance. SRA is an interpretable, 'white-box' dynamical system whose behavior is profoundly topology-dependent: in heterogeneous networks, it acts as a proactive performance …

If going along with the fascists stops seeming like the easiest path, then the fascists are done for.
What good does it do to just incessantly annoy the crap out of CBP and ICE and their ilk? My friends, it changes the whole landscape.

Computation of Graph Polynomials via Tree Decomposition: Theory, Algorithms, and Python Implementation
Mehul Bafna, Shaghik Amirian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16816 https://

Computation of Graph Polynomials via Tree Decomposition: Theory, Algorithms, and Python Implementation
Graph polynomials encode fundamental combinatorial invariants of graphs. Their computation is investigated using tree and path decomposition frameworks, with formal definitions of treewidth, k-trees, and pathwidth establishing the structural basis for algorithmic efficiency. Explicit algorithms are constructed for each polynomial, leveraging decomposition order and state transformation mappings to enable tractable computation on graphs of bounded treewidth. Python implementations validate the m…

🥫 Artificial proteins offer new path for fast, sustainable and biocompatible energy storage devices
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-artificial-proteins-path-fast-sustainable.html

Artificial proteins offer new path for fast, sustainable and biocompatible energy storage devices
Researchers have managed to modify a class of proteins to give them the ability to transport and store electricity. These proteins can be used to create sustainable, efficient and biocompatible conducting materials. These materials are highly stable and easy to process, which means they can be incorporated into industrial processes.

Coxeter-Dynkin algebras of canonical type
Daniel Perniok
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17887 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17887…

Coxeter-Dynkin algebras of canonical type
We propose a definition of Coxeter-Dynkin algebras of canonical type generalising the definition as a path algebra of a quiver. Moreover, we construct two tilting objects over the squid algebra - one via generalised APR-tilting and one via one-point-extensions and reflection functors - and identify their endomorphism algebras with the Coxeter-Dynkin algebra. This shows that our definition gives another representative in the derived equivalence class of the squid algebra, and hence of the corres…

Today I Learned that Google Docs is very insistent that a/path/to/anything/whatever.json.gz should be rendered as "a/path/to/anything/whatever.json.gz" — turning the literal "whatever.json.gz" at the end of the path into a link to a fake TLD. I'm having to do a lot of "break link" extra clicks while working on a document today and it's quite the waste of my time.
I feel like I must

SMART-3D: Three-Dimensional Self-Morphing Adaptive Replanning Tree
Priyanshu Agrawal, Shalabh Gupta, Zongyuan Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16812 https://

SMART-3D: Three-Dimensional Self-Morphing Adaptive Replanning Tree
This paper presents SMART-3D, an extension of the SMART algorithm to 3D environments. SMART-3D is a tree-based adaptive replanning algorithm for dynamic environments with fast moving obstacles. SMART-3D morphs the underlying tree to find a new path in real-time whenever the current path is blocked by obstacles. SMART-3D removed the grid decomposition requirement of the SMART algorithm by replacing the concept of hot-spots with that of hot-nodes, thus making it computationally efficient and scal…

#EveningWalk, two hours ago...
(Photo credit: @…)

Congress plots path for Russia sanctions bill with Trump's blessing (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/19/congress/congress-plots-path-forward-on-russia-sanctions-bill-with-trumps-blessing-00660067
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p133#a251119p133

It\^o formula for reduced rough paths
Nannan Li, Xing Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17342 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17342

Itô formula for reduced rough paths
The Itô formula, also known as the change-of-variables formula, is a cornerstone of Itô stochastic calculus. Over time, this formula has been extended to apply to random processes for which classical calculus is insufficient. Since every random process exhibits some degree of regularity, rough path theory provides a natural framework for treating them uniformly. In this paper, we extend the Itô formula for reduced rough paths, broadening the range of roughness from the previously known case …

Thermal History Asymmetry and Dissipation in Dense Colloidal Microgel Glasses
Sonali Vasant Kawale, Yogesh M Joshi, Ranjini Bandyopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16697 https:…

Thermal History Asymmetry and Dissipation in Dense Colloidal Microgel Glasses
Microstructurally arrested matter, from molecular glasses to soft glassy materials, can retain a memory of their thermal or mechanical (shear) histories. Their history-dependent and nonlinear microstructural recoveries have been studied within the Kovacs framework. Here, we applied the temperature ramps of varying magnitudes to dense colloidal suspensions of thermoresponsive, deformable and compressible microgel particles should serve as an effective strategy to probe the nonlinear path-depende…

Let's give this RX 7800 XT a run for its money. Can it path trace? ->
Cyberpunk 2077 - FSR 4 - INT8 - Path Tracing - RX 7800 XT
#gaming

Jerry Jones outlines 'realistic' path to Cowboys trade at NFL deadline https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/21/jerry-jones-cowboys-trade-deadline-plans/86817560007/

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115746730662598273
FLOSS needs fewer corporations and more structures where the public (not only developers) can actually determine the path into the future.
FLOSS only means more than "Amazon and Microsoft ca…

Simulating the Angular Distribution of Cherenkov Radiation in Thick Media
Dmytro Minchenko, Juan Pablo Ya\~nez, Aksel Hallin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16283 https://

Simulating the Angular Distribution of Cherenkov Radiation in Thick Media
We present a study of the emission of Cherenkov radiation in thick media, explore the limitations of the simulation tools currently in use in particle and nuclear physics, and propose a method for overcoming these limitations. We start with a derivation of the Cherenkov power spectrum and its angular profile, accounting for interference of the radiation emitted, in contrast with commonly used tools that assume perfect coherence. We then study the impact that the path of electrons through a medi…

Increase Alpha: Performance and Risk of an AI-Driven Trading Framework
Sid Ghatak, Arman Khaledian, Navid Parvini, Nariman Khaledian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16707 https://

Increase Alpha: Performance and Risk of an AI-Driven Trading Framework
There are inefficiencies in financial markets, with unexploited patterns in price, volume, and cross-sectional relationships. While many approaches use large-scale transformers, we take a domain-focused path: feed-forward and recurrent networks with curated features to capture subtle regularities in noisy financial data. This smaller-footprint design is computationally lean and reliable under low signal-to-noise, crucial for daily production at scale. At Increase Alpha, we built a deep-learning…

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

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s updated path to the postseason ahead of Week 12 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/11/18/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

No, Jayden Daniels isn't on the path to becoming Washington's next RGIII https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6734044/2025/10/21/jayden-daniels-rgiii-commanders-injury/

⚡ Multiple modes: edit files in-place, encrypt/decrypt stdin/stdout, exec-env for secrets in environment variables
📋 Configuration via .sops.yaml with path-based rules for automatic key selection per environment (dev/prod)
🔗 Integrates with #HashiCorp Vault transit backend for enterprise key management
📊 Key rotation, auditing to PostgreSQL, and publishing to S3/GCS/Vault …

There is a cult of action at the heart of tech.
This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.
AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.
Doing what is easiest is only going to make things worse. The only helpful course of action is to fix the system.

"Just doing things" is not a path to value
Action for the sake of action feels good, but the path of least resistance leads you to surrender your own agency.

SS-DPPN: A self-supervised dual-path foundation model for the generalizable cardiac audio representation
Ummy Maria Muna, Md Mehedi Hasan Shawon, Md Jobayer, Sumaiya Akter, Md Rakibul Hasan, Md. Golam Rabiul Alam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10719

SS-DPPN: A self-supervised dual-path foundation model for the generalizable cardiac audio representation
The automated analysis of phonocardiograms is vital for the early diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, yet supervised deep learning is often constrained by the scarcity of expert-annotated data. In this paper, we propose the Self-Supervised Dual-Path Prototypical Network (SS-DPPN), a foundation model for cardiac audio representation and classification from unlabeled data. The framework introduces a dual-path contrastive learning based architecture that simultaneously processes 1D waveforms and …

A profile of Katherine Boyle, an a16z partner and a friend to JD Vance, as Silicon Valley increasingly adopts her views, including embracing defense tech (Julia Black/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/business/katherine-b…

The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly
Katherine Boyle, an influential venture capitalist who is a friend of the vice president, thinks the country’s path forward involves cultural conservatism and more weapons production.

It seems that @… was following me with his drone.
#Unicycle #Unicyclist

Plan S – Quo Vadis?
#openaccess
https://blog.scielo.org/en/2025/11/19/plan-s-quo-vadis/
(Versions in Portuguese and Spanish also available)

Plan S – quo vadis? | SciELO in Perspective
By late 2025, Open Access has become mainstream in rhetoric but fragmented in practice. The path forward likely lies not just in enforcing compliance but in diversifying infrastructures—combining global principles with networked regional, scholar-driven implementation.

Word2VecGD: Neural Graph Drawing with Cosine-Stress Optimization
Minglai Yang, Reyan Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17333 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1733…

Word2VecGD: Neural Graph Drawing with Cosine-Stress Optimization
We propose a novel graph visualization method leveraging random walk-based embeddings to replace costly graph-theoretical distance computations. Using word2vec-inspired embeddings, our approach captures both structural and semantic relationships efficiently. Instead of relying on exact shortest-path distances, we optimize layouts using cosine dissimilarities, significantly reducing computational overhead. Our framework integrates differentiable stress optimization with stochastic gradient desce…

NFL Week 16 top storylines: Bills' path to Super Bowl; 7 teams have clinching opportunities https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6900652/2025/12/21/nfl-week-16-storylines-bills-super-bowl-playoff-clinch/

Eccentricity spectral properties of $\mathcal{C}$-graphs
Anjitha Ashokan, Chithra A V
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16657 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16657

Eccentricity spectral properties of $\mathcal{C}$-graphs
A cograph is a simple graph that contains no induced path on four vertices. In this paper, we consider $\mathcal{C}$-graphs, which are a specific class of cographs, defined as $$\overline{\overline{\overline{K_{α_{1}}}\cup K_{α_{2}}}\cup \cdots \cup K_{α_{2k}}},$$ %\text{ where } k \geq 2, α_{2k}\geq 2,$$ where $k \geq 2$, $α_{2k} \geq 2$, and $K_{α_{i}}$ denotes the complete graph on $α_{i}$ vertices. We investigate the spectral properties of the eccentricity matrix of this particular…

Last photos from that day in the #schwarzwald . We were pretty surprised when we came to the part shown in the last photo. The #moss was so thick there - like a real carpet! I've never seen such before. I found it pretty hard to get a photo that pays the situation justice. I hope it works for …

Raiders’ Pete Carroll not concerned with draft implications from Sunday’s game https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-pete-carroll-not-concerned-with-draft-implications-from-sundays-game-3598967/

Ukraine sees its EU membership bid advancing before the end of this year
thanks to “creative solutions” to overcome Hungary’s opposition,
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Taras Kachka told POLITICO.
EU leaders could sign off on opening as many as six negotiating “clusters”
— legal steps on the path to membership in the bloc
— in December as “political momentum” builds
and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbšn faces growing pressure to remove his veto, he sa…

Ukraine’s EU membership bid set for breakthrough in December, says deputy PM
Taras Kachka believes “creative solutions” will overcome Hungary’s opposition to Kyiv’s joining the EU.

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s path to the postseason https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/10/17/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

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

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s updated path to the postseason ahead of Week 12 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/11/18/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

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

GPS Denied IBVS-Based Navigation and Collision Avoidance of UAV Using a Low-Cost RGB Camera
Xiaoyu Wang, Yan Rui Tan, William Leong, Sunan Huang, Rodney Teo, Cheng Xiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17435

GPS Denied IBVS-Based Navigation and Collision Avoidance of UAV Using a Low-Cost RGB Camera
This paper proposes an image-based visual servoing (IBVS) framework for UAV navigation and collision avoidance using only an RGB camera. While UAV navigation has been extensively studied, it remains challenging to apply IBVS in missions involving multiple visual targets and collision avoidance. The proposed method achieves navigation without explicit path planning, and collision avoidance is realized through AI-based monocular depth estimation from RGB images. Unlike approaches that rely on ste…

My contribution to #footpathFriday !
This was a really nice walk. Just as I like it: small paths along a nice mountain.
But I also remember that it was the time I was suffering from something called "frozen shoulder". It was a bit of a challenge to take off /on the backpack. As a wrong movement cause some REAL pain.
But this is over as well and I just try to rec…

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s updated path to the postseason ahead of Week 12 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/11/17/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

Existence, uniqueness and construction of locally most reliable two-terminal graphs
Pablo Romero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16514 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Existence, uniqueness and construction of locally most reliable two-terminal graphs
A two-terminal graph is a graph G equipped with two vertices in V(G) called terminals. Let T(n,m) be the set of two-terminal graphs on n vertices and m edges. Let G be in T(n,m) and let p be in [0,1]. The two-terminal reliability of G at p, denoted R_G(p), is the probability that G has a path joining its terminals after each of its edges is independently removed with probability 1 - p. We say G is a locally most reliable two-terminal graph (LMRTTG) if for each H in T(n,m) there exists a positiv…

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s updated path to the postseason ahead of Week 12 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/11/17/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

AERO-MPPI: Anchor-Guided Ensemble Trajectory Optimization for Agile Mapless Drone Navigation
Xin Chen, Rui Huang, Longbin Tang, Lin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17340 https:/…

AERO-MPPI: Anchor-Guided Ensemble Trajectory Optimization for Agile Mapless Drone Navigation
Agile mapless navigation in cluttered 3D environments poses significant challenges for autonomous drones. Conventional mapping-planning-control pipelines incur high computational cost and propagate estimation errors. We present AERO-MPPI, a fully GPU-accelerated framework that unifies perception and planning through an anchor-guided ensemble of Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) optimizers. Specifically, we design a multi-resolution LiDAR point-cloud representation that rapidly extracts spat…

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s updated path to the postseason ahead of Week 12 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/11/17/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s path to the postseason https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/10/17/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

Welcome back - been busy the last days with meeting friends etc 🙂
But I wanted to show some more #photos from the #Lotharsteig in the #nationalparkschwarzwald . Different from …

🚀 Powering a path to Mars with reactor test bed
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Powering a path to Mars with reactor test bed
Nuclear energy is a leading option to power space exploration, but its success depends on reactors that can operate autonomously rather than relying on human operators in space.

Don't bury the Bengals just yet: With Joe Flacco, there's a path to win the AFC North

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dont-bury-the-benga…

Mick Shots: Simple but hard path into playoffs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-simple-but-hard-path-into-playoffs

Morning hike in the Lechtal Alps (October 2024)
We seemingly had the valley all to ourselves, for the first few hours the valley floor still mostly frozen with crunchy hoarfrost until the sun was high enough in the sky. The cirque at the end of the valley already completely in deep winter. These transitions (often within just a few minutes) are so magical and unique to mountain regions...
#FootpathFriday

Good morning! For this #silentSunday I want to share this #foggy path with you.
I was on my way down and when I entered the fog, temperature really dropped. Actually I didn't want to stop or slow down in order to avoid cooling out.
But at this spot I had to take a quick break for…

2025 NFL Simulator: Updated playoff paths and projected draft order after Week 15 results https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/12/16/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

2025 NFL Simulator: Updated playoff paths and projected draft order after Week 15 results https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/12/16/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

Hey guys! two more #schwarzwald #photos! And I found them a perfect fit for #FootpathFriday as well.
This day's hike was so diverse. narrow trails, ferns and moss, a lake, some heat…

Almost reached the top!
(A wonderfully wild path along the cliff edge and glorious evening light on the way to Teufelstättkopf, with a view of the Wetterstein massif and Zugspitze in the distance...)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s path to the postseason after surprises in Week 10 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/11/11/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

2025 NFL Simulator: Updated playoff picture and projected draft order after Week 15 results https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/12/14/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

2025 NFL Simulator: Updated playoff picture and projected draft order after Week 15 results https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/12/14/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s path to the postseason after surprises in Week 10 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/11/09/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

hey! here are the last four #photos from our walk in the #schwarzwald . There were some pretty beautyful trails and - also a little blister-issue. But thanks to being prepared, it was easy to fix and we could enjoy the rest of the walk.
Some more photos and a short clip are on the blog:

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s path to the postseason after surprises in Week 10 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/11/09/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s path to the postseason after surprises in Week 10 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/11/10/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

Good morning!
Here are some photos from the #Mummelsee in the #Schwarzwald . We wanted to visit it last year already but somehow just managed to go there this time.
The lake itself is scenic and beautiful. But definitely a "hot spot". Luckily we were there at a day/time w…

2025 NFL Playoff Simulator: Each team’s path to the postseason with Week 10 underway https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/11/07/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/

Cowboys 'not deflated' by harder path to playoffs https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47208825/cowboys-not-deflated-loss-creates-harder-path-playoffs

2025 NFL Simulator: Updated playoff picture and projected draft order after Week 14 results https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6513952/2025/12/08/2025-nfl-playoff-simulator-path-postseason/