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Big Tech's AI data center plans, which are set to need an estimated 44GW of additional capacity by 2028, face a power crunch that could deflate the AI "bubble" (Financial Times)
https://ig.ft.com/ai-power/

Factorization of power GCD matrices and power LCM matrices on certain gcd-closed sets
Guangyan Zhu, Yuanyuan Luo, Jixiang Wan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05595 https://

Factorization of power GCD matrices and power LCM matrices on certain gcd-closed sets
For integers $x$ and $y$, $(x, y)$ and $[x, y]$ stand for the greatest common divisor and the least common multiple of $x$ and $y$ respectively. Denote by $|T|$ the number of elements of a finite set $T$. Let $a,b$ and $n$ be positive integers and let $S=\{x_1, \cdots, x_n\}$ be a set of $n$ distinct positive integers. We denote by $(S^a)$ (resp. $[S^a]$) the $n\times n$ matrix having the $a$th power of $(x_i,x_j)$ (resp. $[x_i,x_j]$) as its $(i,j)$-entry. For any $x\in S$, define $G_…

The US supreme court on Monday appeared poised to support the Trump administration’s argument that the president should be able to fire independent board members
-- dismissing a precedent that for nearly a century they have been protected from presidential interference.
The case gives the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority,
an opportunity to overturn a New Deal era supreme court precedent in a case called
"Humphrey’s Executor v United States"
…

Fairness in Token Delegation: Mitigating Voting Power Concentration in DAOs
Johnnatan Messias, Ayae Ide
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05830 https://arxiv.org/…

Fairness in Token Delegation: Mitigating Voting Power Concentration in DAOs
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) aim to enable participatory governance, but in practice face challenges of voter apathy, concentration of voting power, and misaligned delegation. Existing delegation mechanisms often reinforce visibility biases, where a small set of highly ranked delegates accumulate disproportionate influence regardless of their alignment with the broader community. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study of delegation in DAO governance, combining on-chain da…

Geometry of dyadic polygons I: the structure of dyadic triangles
A. Mu\'cka, A. Romanowska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05467 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.…

Geometry of dyadic polygons I: the structure of dyadic triangles
Dyadic rationals are rationals whose denominator is a power of 2. A dyadic n-dimensional convex set is defined as the intersection with n-dimensional dyadic space of an n-dimensional real convex set. Such a dyadic convex set is said to be a dyadic n-dimensional polytope if the real convex set is a polytope whose vertices lie in the dyadic space. Dyadic convex sets are described as subalgebras of reducts of faithful affine spaces over the ring of dyadic numbers, or equivalently as commutative, e…

A Dense and Efficient Instruction Set Architecture Encoding
Emad Jacob Maroun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04158 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04158

A Dense and Efficient Instruction Set Architecture Encoding
Instruction density and encoding efficiency are some of the few things directly affected by an instruction set architecture's design. In contrast, a processor's implementation often significantly influences performance, power efficiency, and area usage. Therefore, a major goal of instruction set design should be maximizing instruction density and encoding efficiency. This paper introduces the design elements of the Scry instruction set architecture that most significantly affect instruction den…

Divisibility among power GCD and power LCM matrices on certain gcd-closed sets
Jixiang Wan, Guangyan Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04799 https://arxiv.org…

Divisibility among power GCD and power LCM matrices on certain gcd-closed sets
Let $(x, y)$ and $[x, y]$ denote the greatest common divisor and the least common multiple of the integers $x$ and $y$ respectively. We denote by $|T|$ the number of elements of a finite set $T$. Let $a,b$ and $n$ be positive integers and let $S=\{x_1, ..., x_n\}$ be a set of $n$ distinct positive integers. We denote by $(S^a)$ (resp. $[S^a]$) the $n\times n$ matrix whose $(i,j)$-entry is the $a$th power of $(x_i,x_j)$ (resp. $[x_i,x_j]$). For any $x\in S$, define $G_{S}(x):=\{d\in S:…

Admissible set and squarefree-power-like function with applications to squarefree symbolic powers
Trung Chau, Kanoy Kumar Das, Amit Roy, Kamalesh Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01366

Admissible set and squarefree-power-like function with applications to squarefree symbolic powers
We introduce the abstract notion of squarefree-power-like functions, which unify the sequences of squarefree ordinary and symbolic powers of squarefree monomial ideals. By employing the Tor-vanishing criteria for mixed sums of ideals, we establish sharp lower bounds for their Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity in terms of what we call the admissible set of the associated hypergraph. As an application, we derive the first general combinatorial lower bound for the regularity of squarefree symbolic po…

Source: xAI is set to spend $18B to acquire ~300K more Nvidia chips for its Colossus 2 project in Memphis; Elon Musk said in July it would have 550K chips (Alexander Saeedy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-xai-mem

Series D, Episode 02 - Power
PELLA: I shall. You follow. [exits]
[Gunn Sar's room. He is lying on a table while Nina massages him.]
CATO: [Enters] Sir, we have the intruder. His equipment and gun. [Hands them to Gunn Sar.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/402/56 B7B3

The government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, is coming in a few days,
offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming.
The sales are a signature piece of Trump’s ambitions for companies to dig more coal from federal lands and burn it for electricity.
Yet most power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal altogether within 10 years, an Associated Press data analysis shows.
Three other mines po…

Trump wants to mine more coal from public lands as appetite for it lags
U.S. officials in coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade. About 600 million tons of the fuel will be auctioned from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. Data analyzed by The Associated Press shows most of the power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal altogether within 10 years. The sales are a signature piece of President Donald Trump’s ambitions to dig and burn more coal from federal lands. The…

Guyana brings solar power to Indigenous village, part of larger plan to prioritize Amerindian communities in national development. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Guyana commissions solar grid for Indigenous village
A remote village in western Guyana is set to benefit from round the clock power following the commissioning of a solar grid with a combined capacity of 217.4 kW.

I know that many people here pay attention to branding. So you might want to have a look at this, about the well-underway “transformation of politics into branding, and of the nation into a stage set for performance.”
nytimes.com -

Opinion | The East Wing Ballroom is Trump’s Raw Display of Power
The president is refashioning his residence into a palace. Our democracy is now a members-only club.

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

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On Local Bytes Power Monitoring Smart Plug: Review
Learn how I set up and used this device preflashed with Tasmota! #powerMeter #cutCarbon #frugal

“As we consider these three risks, we don’t have to speculate about how AI data centers might affect Massachusetts. Consider Ireland, a country with a similar population size, where AI has driven a data center boom. Warehouses full of servers are on pace to use one-third of Ireland’s electricity, drawing from fossil-fuel power plants and wind farms alike. That keeps old, dirty plants on the grid, sucks up renewable energy that otherwise would help replace fossil fuels, and drives up costs fo…

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
JENNA: Gan, the aliens have linked their ship to our power source. I'm getting a very heavy power loss. I'll have to disconnect. You'll be all right, won't you?
GAN: [Nods] Yes.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/454 B7B6

Republicans hold a 219-213 majority in the House,
but they could lock in more seats if reapportionments go their way
Normally, redistricting only occurs after the US census counts residents in each state every 10 years.
But a demand from Donald Trump to lock in more Republican-leaning districts in Congress,
together with a changing legal landscape around partisan gerrymandering,
set off a chain of mid-decade reapportionments.
Republicans and Democrats have…

Who is responsible? Social Identity, Robot Errors and Blame Attribution
Samantha Stedtler, Marianna Leventi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01862 https://arxiv.…

Who is responsible? Social Identity, Robot Errors and Blame Attribution
This paper argues that conventional blame practices fall short of capturing the complexity of moral experiences, neglecting power dynamics and discriminatory social practices. It is evident that robots, embodying roles linked to specific social groups, pose a risk of reinforcing stereotypes of how these groups behave or should behave, so they set a normative and descriptive standard. In addition, we argue that faulty robots might create expectations of who is supposed to compensate and repair a…

Advantage for Discrete Variational Quantum Algorithms in Circuit Recompilation
Oleksandr Kyriienko, Chukwudubem Umeano, Zo\"e Holmes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01154 https:…

Advantage for Discrete Variational Quantum Algorithms in Circuit Recompilation
The relative power of quantum algorithms, using an adaptive access to quantum devices, versus classical post-processing methods that rely only on an initial quantum data set, remains the subject of active debate. Here, we present evidence for an exponential separation between adaptive and non-adaptive strategies in a quantum circuit recompilation task. Our construction features compilation problems with loss landscapes for discrete optimization that are unimodal yet non-separable, a structure k…

Optimal placement of wind farms via quantile constraint learning
Wenxiu Feng, Antonio Alc\'antara, Carlos Ruiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01093 https://

Optimal placement of wind farms via quantile constraint learning
Wind farm placement arranges the size and the location of multiple wind farms within a given region. The power output is highly related to the wind speed on spatial and temporal levels, which can be modeled by advanced data-driven approaches. To this end, we use a probabilistic neural network as a surrogate that accounts for the spatiotemporal correlations of wind speed. This neural network uses ReLU activation functions so that it can be reformulated as mixed-integer linear set of constraints …

Digital Domination: A Case for Republican Liberty in Artificial Intelligence
Matthew David Hamilton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00312 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Digital Domination: A Case for Republican Liberty in Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is set to revolutionize social and political life in unpredictable ways, raising questions about the principles that ought to guide its development and regulation. By examining digital advertising and social media algorithms, this article highlights how artificial intelligence already poses a significant threat to the republican conception of liberty -- or freedom from unaccountable power -- and thereby highlights the necessity of protecting republican liberty when integ…

Differentially-Private Decentralized Learning in Heterogeneous Multicast Networks
Amir Ziaeddini, Yauhen Yakimenka, J\"org Kliewer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21688 https://…

Differentially-Private Decentralized Learning in Heterogeneous Multicast Networks
We propose a power-controlled differentially private decentralized learning algorithm designed for a set of clients aiming to collaboratively train a common learning model. The network is characterized by a row-stochastic adjacency matrix, which reflects different channel gains between the clients. In our privacy-preserving approach, both the transmit power for model updates and the level of injected Gaussian noise are jointly controlled to satisfy a given privacy and energy budget. We show tha…

"In Malawi, a rural community shines bright with 100% solar power milestone"
#Malawi #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

In Malawi, a rural community shines bright with 100% solar power milestone
LILONGWE — Four years ago, a U.K.-based charity, SolarAid, set out to provide solar-powered electricity to every home in Kasakula, a village around 90 kilometers, or 56 miles, from Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. The project was aimed at demonstrating the potential for distributing and maintaining renewable energy in rural Africa. Today, SolarAid says it has installed […]

Our #prediction series is announced, Mattering Press 2025 👋.
There is power in prediction. In the first volume of the Predictions series, a set of #sts authors makes a case for engaging with practices and cultures of prediction. From speculative ethnography to sci-fi.

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 02 - Power
PELLA: Nina -
AVON: Pella!
NINA: Now please. I have my duties to attend to.
PELLA: I feel sorry for you, Nina. You were a Seska, but more than that, you were a great Seska.
https://

So I'm walking Ruh 🐱 out. She stops at her favorite corner of the wooden garden box to scratch it. I've noticed that His Ekscellence 🐈 is already running around, and sneaking up from the other side of the box. He stops at the other corner and starts looking around it. She also looks around her corner. She starts scratching her corner, he scratches his. Both set themselves in the position to jump out. Ek starts running towards her, she only screams at him once, and midway he changes direction and runs away.
That's the true #cat power.

Source Separation for A Cappella Music
Luca A. Lanzend\"orfer, Constantin Pinkl, Florian Gr\"otschla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26580 https://arx…

Source Separation for A Cappella Music
In this work, we study the task of multi-singer separation in a cappella music, where the number of active singers varies across mixtures. To address this, we use a power set-based data augmentation strategy that expands limited multi-singer datasets into exponentially more training samples. To separate singers, we introduce SepACap, an adaptation of SepReformer, a state-of-the-art speaker separation model architecture. We adapt the model with periodic activations and a composite loss function …

"The understanding that the total supremacy of the “data” discourse was always a problematic, neoliberal way of seeing and structuring the world, of legitimizing violence according to the needs of those in power."
(Original title: The “Data” Narrative eats itself)
https://tante.cc/2025/09/15/…

The "Data" Narrative eats itself
“The first model fakes the data, then the second model trains on the fake data. Any problems in the synthetic data set are amplified further. Then the second model — based on fake data — is used to treat real patients. This is, of course, all fine.” Today I want to take David Gerard’s recent […]

The NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set: Improved Timing Precision With VLBI Astrometric Priors
Sofia V. Sosa Fiscella, Michael T. Lam, Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald, Zaven Arzoumanian, Paul T. Baker, Paul R. Brook, H. Thankful Cromartie, Kathryn Crowter, Maria Silvina De Biasi, Megan E. DeCesar, Paul B. Demorest, Timothy Dolch, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, William Fiore, Emmanuel Fonseca, Gabriel E. Freedman, Nate Garver-Daniels, Peter A. Gentile, Joseph Glaser, Deborah C. Go…

The NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set: Improved Timing Precision With VLBI Astrometric Priors
Accurate pulsar astrometric estimates play an essential role in almost all high-precision pulsar timing experiments. Traditional pulsar timing techniques refine these estimates by including them as free parameters when fitting a model to observed pulse time-of-arrival measurements. However, reliable sub-milliarcsecond astrometric estimations require years of observations and, even then, power from red noise can be inadvertently absorbed into astrometric parameter fits, biasing the resulting est…

Acquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US.
But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans,
with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream.
Balcony solar panels are now widespread in countries such as Germany
– where more than 1m homes have them
– but have until now been stymied in the US by state regulations.
This is set to change, wit…

ExpFace: Exponential Angular Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognition
Jinhui Zheng, Xueyuan Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19753 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1…

ExpFace: Exponential Angular Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognition
Face recognition is an open-set problem requiring high discriminative power to ensure that intra-class distances remain smaller than inter-class distances. Margin-based softmax losses, such as SphereFace, CosFace, and ArcFace, have been widely adopted to enhance intra-class compactness and inter-class separability, yet they overlook the impact of noisy samples. By examining the distribution of samples in the angular space, we observe that clean samples predominantly cluster in the center region…

Constraining inhomogeneous energy injection from annihilating dark matter and primordial black holes with 21-cm cosmology
Yitian Sun, Joshua W. Foster, Julian B. Mu\~noz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22772

Constraining inhomogeneous energy injection from annihilating dark matter and primordial black holes with 21-cm cosmology
The cosmic dawn 21-cm signal is a highly sensitive probe of any process which injects energy into the intergalactic medium, enabling novel searches for anomalous energy injection by through dark matter interactions. In addition to modifying the global 21-cm signal, these processes would leave distinct imprints on the frequency-resolved 21-cm power spectrum with a morphology jointly set by the time- and spatial-dependence of energy emission and absorption. In this work, we extend the DM21cm code…

Busy little spider! A female Spiny Orb Weaver has set up house between the oak tree and the neighbors palms which are about 35 feet away. It is also attached to the power into the house and the ground. I marked about where it is in an attempt to not knock it down when I cut the front grass tomorrow. Figure after that much work she deserves to enjoy all the hopefully mosquitos that she snares.

I live by the conviction that anarchism is not a fixed goal to be reached, nor a perfect order to be imposed upon life. Every system that claims finality becomes a prison, and every so‑called final solution turns into domination over human beings. Anarchism, for me, stands in opposition to this tendency, it is the refusal to accept limits set by authority, dogma, or any power that seeks to bind the living stream of human development.
To me, anarchism is not the end of history, but the …

An algebraic approach to Latin squares of prime power order by local permutation polynomials
Ra\'ul M. Falc\'on, Jaime Guti\'errez, Jorge Jim\'enez Urroz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09086

An algebraic approach to Latin squares of prime power order by local permutation polynomials
Every Latin square of prime power order $q$ is uniquely described by a local permutation polynomial (LPP) in the polynomial ring $\mathbb{F}_q[x,y]$. Despite this equivalence, one may find in the literature only some preliminary results on the relationship among Latin squares and LPPs. This paper delves into this topic by showing how the coefficients of any LPP are identified with the zeros of an algebraic set over $\mathbb{F}_q$. This allows for an algebraic description of all Latin squares of…

The company you work for spends millions on cybersecurity. You set up protocols, firewalls, preventive measures... And then the new girl in the office writes down her work passwords on a sticky note stuck to her laptop.
If I were an IT security professional, I'd be in jail by now after strangling someone like that girl with a power cord.

About 40 to 50 Pentagon reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon rather than agree to new US government-imposed restrictions on their work (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-press-a…

Journalists exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power. The refusal was near-unanimous, from trade publications, wire services, television networks and newspapers, and included outlets that appeal largely to conservatives like Fox News Channel and Newsmax. Many of the reporters chose to turn in their badges together at the 4 p.m. deadline set by the Defense Departm…

Pleasant conditions out: sunny and windy, cool but not cold. So I ducked out of the office for an afternoon runabout on the greenway.
Followed it up with a walkabout while talking to my sister on the phone.
#Running

An Optimal Control Interpretation of Augmented Distributed Optimization Algorithms
Liam Hallinan, Ioannis Lestas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17785 https://a…

An Optimal Control Interpretation of Augmented Distributed Optimization Algorithms
Distributed optimization algorithms are used in a wide variety of problems involving complex network systems where the goal is for a set of agents in the network to solve a network-wide optimization problem via distributed update rules. In many applications, such as communication networks and power systems, transient performance of the algorithms is just as critical as convergence, as the algorithms link to physical processes which must behave well. Primal-dual algorithms have a long history in…

Hierarchical Retrieval: The Geometry and a Pretrain-Finetune Recipe
Chong You, Rajesh Jayaram, Ananda Theertha Suresh, Robin Nittka, Felix Yu, Sanjiv Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16411

Hierarchical Retrieval: The Geometry and a Pretrain-Finetune Recipe
Dual encoder (DE) models, where a pair of matching query and document are embedded into similar vector representations, are widely used in information retrieval due to their simplicity and scalability. However, the Euclidean geometry of the embedding space limits the expressive power of DEs, which may compromise their quality. This paper investigates such limitations in the context of hierarchical retrieval (HR), where the document set has a hierarchical structure and the matching documents for…

Just finished "Beasts Made of Night" by Tochi Onyebuchi...
Indirect CW for fantasy police state violence.
So I very much enjoyed Onyebuchi's "Riot Baby," and when I grabbed this at the library, I was certain it would be excellent. But having finished it, I'm not sure I like it that much overall?
The first maybe third is excellent, including the world-building, which is fascinating. I feel like Onyebuchi must have played "Shadow of the Colossus" at some point. Onyebuchi certainly does know how to make me care for his characters.
Some spoilers from here on out...
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I felt like it stumbles towards the middle, with Bo's reactions neither making sense in the immediate context, nor in retrospect by the end when we've learned more. Things are a bit floaty in the middle with an unclear picture of what exactly is going on politics-wise and what the motivations are. Here I think there were some nuances that didn't make it to the page, or perhaps I'm just a bit thick and not getting stuff I should be? More is of course revealed by the end, but I still wasn't satisfied with the explanations of things. For example, (spoilers) I don't feel I understand clearly what kind of power the army of aki was supposed to represent within the city? Perhaps necessary to wield the threat of offensive inisisia use? In that case, a single scene somewhere of Izu's faction deploying that tactic would have been helpful I think.
Then towards the end, for me things really started to jumble, with unclear motivations, revelations that didn't feel well-paced or -structured, and a finale where both the action & collapsing concerns felt stilted and disjointed. Particularly the mechanics/ethics of the most important death that set the finale in motion bothered me, and the unexplained mechanism by which that led to what came next? I can read a couple of possible interesting morals into the whole denouement, but didn't feel that any of them were sufficiently explored. Especially if we're supposed to see some personal failing in the protagonist's actions, I don't think it's made clear enough what that is, since I feel his reasons to reject each faction are pretty solid, and if we're meant to either pity or abjure his indecision, I don't think the message lands clearly enough.
There *is* a sequel, which honestly I wasn't sure of after the last page, and which I now very interested in. Beasts is Onyebuchi's debut, which maybe makes sense of me feeling that Riot Baby didn't have the same plotting issues. It also maybe means that Onyebuchi couldn't be sure a sequel would make it to publication in terms of setting up the ending.
Overall I really enjoyed at least 80% of this, but was expecting even better (especially politically) given Onyebuchi's other work, and I didn't feel like I found it.
#AmReading

Strongly chirped dissipative solitons in normal and anomalous dispersion regimes
V. L. Kalashnikov, A. Rudenkov, E. Sorokin, I. T. Sorokina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22806 http…

Strongly chirped dissipative solitons in normal and anomalous dispersion regimes
We develop an adiabatic theory for strongly chirped dissipative solitons governed by the cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation and analyze their existence regions in both normal and anomalous dispersion regimes. Closed-form expressions for the frequency cut-off and peak power yield two physical branches whose admissibility is set by a compact dimensionless parameterization. The analysis reveals that dissipative-soliton resonance (chirp-driven temporal stretching with bounded peak power…

"One quiet change is about to let you export much more solar"
#Australia #Energy #SolarPower #Renewables

One quiet change is about to let you export much more solar
It doesn’t sound big. But this humble new set of rules will make it possible for many Australian households to export a lot more solar – and help the power grid .

Solar power in Texas breaks records, stabilizes grid during peak times. Transition to renewables crucial for meeting demand and reducing reliance on fossil fuels. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in Texas
Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

Symbolic Reduction of Multi-loop Feynman Integrals via Generating Functions
Bo Feng, Xiang Li, Yuanche Liu, Yan-Qing Ma, Yang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21769 https://

Symbolic Reduction of Multi-loop Feynman Integrals via Generating Functions
We introduce a novel, systematic method for the complete symbolic reduction of multi-loop Feynman integrals, leveraging the power of generating functions. The differential equations governing these generating functions naturally yield symbolic recurrence relations. We develop an efficient algorithm that utilizes these recurrences to reduce integrals to a minimal set of master integrals. This approach circumvents the exponential growth of traditional Integration-by-Parts relations, enabling the …

Replaced article(s) found for math.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/math.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Notes on the equiconsistency of ZFC without the Power Set axiom and second order PA
Vladimir Kanovei, Vassily Lyubetsky

On Korovkin-type theorems including exponential test functions on infinite intervals through power series convergence
Dilek S\"oylemez, Mehmet \"Unver
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12568

On Korovkin-type theorems including exponential test functions on infinite intervals through power series convergence
Approximation theory has long been concerned with the development of positive linear operators that effectively approximate classes of functions. Among the most well-known results in this area are Korovkin-type approximation theorems, which provide simple and elegant criteria for convergence by testing only on a small set of functions. Motivated by these classical results and their extensions, we focus on versions that preserve exponential functions and incorporate modern summability techniques…

Predicting Credit Spreads and Ratings with Machine Learning: The Role of Non-Financial Data
Yanran Wu, Xinlei Zhang, Quanyi Xu, Qianxin Yang, Chao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19042

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
VILA: Who?
AVON: The power to move objects by thought alone. That seems unlikely.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/614 B7B3

Decentralized Local Voltage Control for Active Distribution Networks
Diana Vieira Fernandes, Soummya Kar, Carlos Santos Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09048 https://

Decentralized Local Voltage Control for Active Distribution Networks
Distribution networks face challenges from the increasing deployment of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and the emergence of bidirectional power flows. We propose a decentralized Volt/VAr control method based on a saddle-point reformulation and consensus+innovation (C+I) updates. Each agent at a controllable bus computes and enforces its own set-points using only neighbor communication. Our method embeds passive buses directly, preserves network physics through a linearized Jacobian model, …

Efficiently Computing Equilibria in Budget-Aggregation Games
Patrick Becker, Alexander Fries, Matthias Greger, Erel Segal-Halevi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08767 https://…

Efficiently Computing Equilibria in Budget-Aggregation Games
Budget aggregation deals with the social choice problem of distributing an exogenously given budget among a set of public projects, given agents' preferences. Taking a game-theoretic perspective, we initialize the study of \emph{budget-aggregation games} where each agent has virtual decision power over some fraction of the budget. This paper investigates the structure and shows efficient computability of Nash equilibria in this setting for various preference models. In particular, we show that …

On generalized disc-polygons in plane convex bodies with a higher degree of smoothness
Ferenc Fodor, D\'aniel I. Papv\'ari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11702 https://

On generalized disc-polygons in plane convex bodies with a higher degree of smoothness
We prove power series expansions for the expectations of the number of vertices and missed area of random $L$-convex polygons in planar convex bodies with sufficiently smooth boundaries. Random $L$-convex polygons arise as the intersection of all translates of a fixed convex set $L$ that contain i.i.d. uniform random points from a suitable plane convex body $K$. Our results extend the asymptotic formulas proved in Fodor, Papvári and Vígh (2020) and Fodor and Montenegro (2024), and have conseq…

Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
BLAKE: Blake.
[Flight deck of the Liberator.]
CALLY: Cally.
BLAKE: [V.O.] Tell Avon I need two fully charged flutonic power cells.
CALLY: I will tell him.
[In the laboratory complex.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/365 B7B2

Texas solar and batteries break records, stabilize grid during high-demand periods. Renewable energy sources prove cost-effective and reliable compared to gas power plants. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in Texas
Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
SERVALAN: Manual only, I'm afraid.
PILOT FOUR-ZERO: I'll manage.
DERAL: With reduced power?
PILOT FOUR-ZERO: Auron isn't so far off. Can you supply me with the course coordinates.?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/48 B7B4…

Persuasion with Verifiable Information
Maria Titova, Kun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08251 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08251

Persuasion with Verifiable Information
This paper studies a game in which an informed sender with state-independent preferences uses verifiable messages to convince a receiver to choose an action from a finite set. We characterize the equilibrium outcomes of the game and compare them with commitment outcomes in information design. We provide conditions under which a commitment outcome is an equilibrium outcome and identify environments in which the sender does not benefit from commitment power. Our findings offer insights into the i…

Replaced article(s) found for math.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/math.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Notes on the equiconsistency of ZFC without the Power Set axiom and second order PA
Vladimir Kanovei, Vassily Lyubetsky

Pleasantly Surprised!!
"Cryptocurrency mining – another sector with large electricity demands – would be banned.”
Unfortunately unsurprised:
"starting next year, the province will open up bidding for artificial intelligence and data centres that will be capped at a total of 400 megawatts of power over a two-year period. Prices will be set by regulation.”
#BCPoli #Energy #Electricity #AI #bubble
https://archive.ph/TJ6sy#selection-2589.0-2589.88

"Solar and batteries break records, stabilize Texas grid through scorching summer"
#US #USA #America #Texas

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in Texas
Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.