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Cool. So we all pay 5% more for Japanese goods, and you get $550 billion to hand out to your grifting son of a bitch donors https://flipboard.com/@petapixel/petapixel-t8l3kt33z/-/a-8x7h5-h1S_OrhO4ytSOUXQ:a:1814180069-/0

A crazy picture of the #occultation of the #Pleiades by the #Moon right now ... shot with a handheld camera through a window and a hole in the clouds from Bochum, Germany. See https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid0VgrVTvLkmkn7SjUGXRKTYTNsxUFs8kyPZXN9TbHsLiuUeb2xCY5p7SDQ6QzBsiWVl for more pictures: the cluster stars came and went and were never all at once in the clear. But hey, I kinda got it. ;-)

Analyzing PDFs like Binaries: Adversarially Robust PDF Malware Analysis via Intermediate Representation and Language Model
Side Liu, Jiang Ming, Guodong Zhou, Xinyi Liu, Jianming Fu, Guojun Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17162

Analyzing PDFs like Binaries: Adversarially Robust PDF Malware Analysis via Intermediate Representation and Language Model
Malicious PDF files have emerged as a persistent threat and become a popular attack vector in web-based attacks. While machine learning-based PDF malware classifiers have shown promise, these classifiers are often susceptible to adversarial attacks, undermining their reliability. To address this issue, recent studies have aimed to enhance the robustness of PDF classifiers. Despite these efforts, the feature engineering underlying these studies remains outdated. Consequently, even with the appli…

Happy that 28 out of 33 talk submissions for Alpaca (https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/) opted to use markdown rather than PDF. I expected half-and-half, this is really great! PDFs are an awful format - inaccessible, practically unmodifiable (so _not_ open access), with no capacity for embedd…

https://petapixel.com/2025/06/20/once-in-a-lifetime-photo-of-iss-crossing-the-sun-as-solar-flare-erupts/

‘Once in a Lifetime’ Photo of ISS Crossing the Sun as Solar Flare Erupts
Solar flares simply cannot be planned for.

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:librewolf: #LibreWolf's obsession with preventing everything HTML canvas is gettin on my nerves... It even ruins pasting images into the built-in #PDFjs PDF viewer, but you only realize that AFTER you're done and open it in another viewer, to realize that the image is all f*cked up. 🙄

A linear PDF model for Bayesian inference
Mark N. Costantini, Luca Mantani, James M. Moore, Maria Ubiali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16913 https://

A linear PDF model for Bayesian inference
A robust uncertainty estimate in global analyses of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) is essential at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), especially in view of the high-precision data anticipated by experimentalists in the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC. A Bayesian framework to determine PDFs provides a rigorous treatment of uncertainties and full control on the prior, though its practical implementation can be computationally demanding. To address these challenges, we introduce a novel appro…

Statistical conservation laws for scalar model problems: Hierarchical evolution equations
Qian Huang, Christian Rohde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15359 https://

Statistical conservation laws for scalar model problems: Hierarchical evolution equations
The probability density functions (PDFs) for the solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation can be represented by a hierarchy of linear equations. This article develops new hierarchical evolution equations for PDFs of a scalar conservation law with random initial data as a model problem. Two frameworks are developed, including multi-point PDFs and single-point higher-order derivative PDFs. These hierarchies capture statistical correlations and guide closure strategies.

Defects at Play: Shaping the Photophysics and Photochemistry of Ice
Marta Monti, Yu Jin, Gonzalo D\'iaz Mir\'on, Arpan Kundu, Marco Govoni, Giulia Galli, Ali Hassanali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16568

Defects at Play: Shaping the Photophysics and Photochemistry of Ice
The mechanisms by which light interacts with ice and the impact of photo-induced reactions are central to our understanding of environmental, atmospheric and astrophysical processes. However, a microscopic description of the photoproducts originating from UV absorption and emission processes has remained elusive. Here we explore the photochemistry of ice using time-dependent hybrid density functional theory on various models of pristine and defective ice Ih. Our investigation of the excited sta…