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Managing level of detail through head-tracked peripheral degradation: a model and resulting design principles
Benjamin Watson, Neff Walker, Larry F Hodges
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21456

Managing level of detail through head-tracked peripheral degradation: a model and resulting design principles
Previous work has demonstrated the utility of reductions in the level of detail (LOD) in the periphery of head-tracked, large field of view displays. This paper provides a psychophysically based model, centered around an eye/head movement tradeoff, that explains the effectiveness of peripheral degradation and suggests how peripherally degraded displays should be designed. An experiment evaluating the effect on search performance of the shape and area of the high detail central area (inset) in p…

Billionaire and radio host John Catsimatidis prefers Eric Adams over fellow Republican in mayor's race (Emily Ngo/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/27/billionaire-and-radio-host-john-catsimatidis-prefers-eric-adams-over-fellow-republican-in-mayors-race-00429886
http://www.memeorandum.com/250627/p163#a250627p163

"It's this brutal fragility of vector stacks — which are used by most modern computer languages — which makes software people so wary of fully exploiting the beauty and power of recursion, and I really think that's a shame"
#Lisp

A note on Automatic Baire property
Ludwig Staiger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.18626

A note on Automatic Baire property
Automatic Baire property is a variant of the usual Baire property which is fulfilled for subsets of the Cantor space accepted by finite automata. We consider the family $\mathcal{A}$ of subsets of the Cantor space having the Automatic Baire property. In particular we show that not all finite subsets have the Automatic Baire property, and that already a slight increase of the computational power of the accepting device may lead beyond the class $\mathcal{A}$.

Paraform, which operates a hiring marketplace with AI-powered candidate relationship management and other tools, raised a $20M Series A led by Felicis (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2025/06/paraform-raises-20m-in-series-a-funding.html

Paraform Raises $20M in Series A Funding
Paraform, a San Francisco, CA-based marketplace built for elite recruiters, raised $20M in Series A funding

Quantum thermal state preparation for near-term quantum processors
Jerome Lloyd, Dmitry A. Abanin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21318 https://

Quantum thermal state preparation for near-term quantum processors
Preparation of quantum thermal states of many-body systems is a key computational challenge for quantum processors, with applications in physics, chemistry, and classical optimization. We provide a simple and efficient algorithm for thermal state preparation, combining engineered bath resetting and modulated system-bath coupling to derive a quantum channel approximately satisfying quantum detailed balance relations. We show that the fixed point $\hatσ$ of the channel approximates the Gibbs sta…

Scalable GPU Performance Variability Analysis framework
Ankur Lahiry, Ayush Pokharel, Seth Ockerman, Amal Gueroudji, Line Pouchard, Tanzima Z. Islam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20674

Scalable GPU Performance Variability Analysis framework
Analyzing large-scale performance logs from GPU profilers often requires terabytes of memory and hours of runtime, even for basic summaries. These constraints prevent timely insight and hinder the integration of performance analytics into automated workflows. Existing analysis tools typically process data sequentially, making them ill-suited for HPC workflows with growing trace complexity and volume. We introduce a distributed data analysis framework that scales with dataset size and compute av…

SB LIX performer arrested for halftime protest https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45591753/sb-lix-performer-arrested-la-state-police-half-protest

An evaluation of level of detail degradation in head-mounted display peripheries
Benjamin Watson, Neff Walker, Larry F Hodges, Martin Reddy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21441

An evaluation of level of detail degradation in head-mounted display peripheries
A paradigm for the design of systems that manage level of detail in virtual environments is proposed. As an example of the prototyping step in this paradigm, a user study was performed to evaluate the effectiveness of high detail insets used with head-mounted displays. Ten subjects were given a simple search task that required the location and identification of a single target object. All subjects used seven different displays (the independent variable), varying in inset size and peripheral det…