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faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

Yes, Warframe is coming to Android this November! My Pixel9a is supported, and I can’t wait to try it out, especially to see if it even runs on GrapheneOS, my preferred alternative OS.
https://www.warframe.com/android

🍄 Mushrooms may have been part of early human diets: Primate study explores who eats what, and when
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-mushrooms-early-human-diets-primate.html

Mushrooms may have been part of early human diets: Primate study explores who eats what, and when
Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates—or our early human ancestors. We tend to think of fruits and green leaves as the preferred foods for monkeys and apes.

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize "top stories" in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-ro

Google rolling out Preferred Sources globally and announces Spotlighting subscriptions
Spotlighting subscriptions are coming to Gemini first and then AI Mode and AI Overviews within Google Search.

Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize "top stories" in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-ro

Google rolling out Preferred Sources globally and announces Spotlighting subscriptions
Spotlighting subscriptions are coming to Gemini first and then AI Mode and AI Overviews within Google Search.

“Sometimes the decision making criteria that the leadership uses to make a decision is different than the decision making criteria that might be reflected in scoring, but that really gets to the heart of it,” he said. 
That sounds a lot like #RFKJr's reasoning - Don't trust experts, I'm the one that knows what the right answer.

Lurie doubles down on S.F. permitting contract despite questions of deputy’s impropriety 
Lurie’s policy chief Ned Segal awarded contract to preferred firm despite report finding it "shouldn’t be considered."

“Sometimes the decision making criteria that the leadership uses to make a decision is different than the decision making criteria that might be reflected in scoring, but that really gets to the heart of it,” he said. 
That sounds a lot like #RFKJr's reasoning - Don't trust experts, I'm the one that knows what the right answer.

Lurie doubles down on S.F. permitting contract despite questions of deputy’s impropriety 
Lurie’s policy chief Ned Segal awarded contract to preferred firm despite report finding it "shouldn’t be considered."

Was war am 14. Oktober 1066 bei Hastings los?
Die FAZ zur Sendung "Geschichte in Zahlen" bei #arte
https://zeitung.faz.net/data/488/reade

Nothing here sounds criminal, but it also doesn't sound like good government. Rich white boys' club maintains its hold on power and we all get worse public services.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/15/san-francisco-daniel-…

SF mayor’s lieutenant steered contract to firm with ties to Daniel Lurie
Records show the mayor’s office chose the software company OpenGov over a cheaper vendor that a majority of city staff preferred.

This analysis 100% encapsulates my sentiment about the #StarWars Sequel trilogy with one key difference:
I really never preferred 'The Last Jedi' over 'The Rise of Skywalker'. Yes, choosing between two evils... but TLJ committed the unforgivable sin of not just being BAD but also being perpetually IRRITATING.
▶️ Revisiting the FAILURE of the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy…

We've been getting new Ladytron singles all year. There's another coming next Friday the 21st ('Kingdom Undersea', pre-save here: #Ladytron

Ladytron - Kingdom Undersea
Choose your preferred music service

Good Morning #Canada
December 15th, 1964, the Canadian House of Commons votes 163 to 78 to approve the red Maple Leaf flag. The vote put an end to years of conflict over the Liberals proposing a new flag, and gave Canada a new symbol for its upcoming 100th birthday celebration. In 1960, Lester B. Pearson, then Leader of the Opposition, declared that he was determined to solve what he called “the flag problem.” To Pearson, this issue was critical to defining Canada as a unified, independent country. As the newly elected Prime Minister in 1963, Pearson promised to resolve the question of a new national flag in time for Canada’s centennial celebrations in 1967. Traditionalists fought for their beloved Union Jack while a younger generation wanted a new modern design to represent Canada. Thousands of designs, some truly ugly, were considered and rejected, including Pearson's preferred flag. I think we did OK in the end.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://youtu.be/qTMdH9-kmDk?si=9G9ykcp7wpxihKQR

Starting the day hatin' on Windows is not my preferred way of living my life. If you submit to using it the way it's installed, all your troubles fade away and you find yourself in the warm embrace of inevitability.

from my link log —
Route 53 DNS: Amazon’s premier AWS database.
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/route-53-amazons-premier-database/
saved 2021-02-18

Route 53, Amazon’s Premier Database
I’ve periodically made reference in a bunch of places to Route 53 being my preferred database. But I’ve only really told the story in podcast and tweet

This story in The Onion from 1997 is now official policy of the Trump administration
https://theonion.com/u-s-offers-platinumplus-preferred-citizenship-1819564488/

U.S. Offers PlatinumPlus Preferred Citizenship
WASHINGTON, DC—In an 86-14 vote, the Senate approved legislation Monday establishing PlatinumPlus Preferred citizenship, an exciting new program offering special benefits and discounts to select members of the U.S.

What does it tell us that AI scrapers are ignoring the more intelligent way of scraping data despite all the indications towards it?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/stop-crawling-my-html-you-dickheads-use-the-api/
I don't think the answer is …

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

Soft-Decoding Reverse Reconciliation in Discrete-Modulation CV-QKD
Marco Origlia, Marco Secondini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10674 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Soft-Decoding Reverse Reconciliation in Discrete-Modulation CV-QKD
In continuous-variable quantum key distribution, information reconciliation is required to extract a shared secret key from correlated random variables obtained through the quantum channel. Reverse reconciliation (RR) is generally preferred, since the eavesdropper has less information about Bob's measurements than about Alice's transmitted symbols. When discrete modulation formats are employed, however, soft information is available only at Bob's side, while Alice has access only to hard inform…

An international group is organizing an observing campaign through the Citizen Science Working Group of the #LUMIO mission: LUMIO is an ESA space mission to observe lunar #impact flashes (LIFs) from space, on the lunar far side (#Geminid meteoroid stream, 13-15 Dec 2025. During the maximum of the stream, the number of visible impact flashes will be higher than during non-shower times, therefore there is a good chance of detecting at least some impact flashes.
Observations can be made using moderately-sized telescopes and a video camera. On the website https://lif.mi.imati.cnr.it/home_page.php there are now a recording of a thorough talk about the project and its slides at https://lif.mi.imati.cnr.it/open_item_page.php?item_idk=LDB-000000001 and slides about the preferred analysis software ALFI at https://lif.mi.imati.cnr.it/open_item_page.php?item_idk=LDB-000000002 -if you want to join in the LGC please sign on by 21 November.

Two points:
1. Mace is an a-hole of the first water.[*]
2. There is utterly no reason why Congress critters should get royal priority preferred treatments at airports when we citizens have to endure insult and degradation.
[*] - I've been abused by TSA. For instance they tried to send our luggage to /dev/null when we were boarding a flight to Paris because we stood in a public area and watched them handle our (and other's) bags. Their numbers (unnamed) supervisor th…

How TBPN's daily livestream became the preferred news show of tech insiders, as it taps into the "who's up, who's down" part of Silicon Valley culture (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/technology/tbpn-silicon-valley.ht…

How ‘TBPN’ Became Silicon Valley’s Newest Obsession
Silicon Valley is obsessed with “TBPN,” a streaming show on which no career move is too trivial to document.

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

When you don't know the gender of a person because he/she/they doesn't talk about it, what is the best/preferred approach in English?
1) Gender the person based on their appearance, based on the heuristic that most people are cisgender
I don't like this heuristic because it gives strength to stereotypes and the notion of "normality"
2) Use a neutral pronoun like the singular they
It feels more natural, but maybe some people will consider this som…

How TBPN's daily livestream became the preferred news show of tech insiders, as it taps into the "who's up, who's down" part of Silicon Valley culture (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/technology/tbpn-silicon-valley.ht…

How ‘TBPN’ Became Silicon Valley’s Newest Obsession
Silicon Valley is obsessed with “TBPN,” a streaming show on which no career move is too trivial to document.

Computational Crystal Plasticity Homogenization using Empirically Corrected Cluster Cubature (E3C) Hyper-Reduction
Stephan Wulfinghoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11187 https://

Computational Crystal Plasticity Homogenization using Empirically Corrected Cluster Cubature (E3C) Hyper-Reduction
The computational homogenization of elastoplastic polycrystals is a challenging task due to the huge number of grains required, their complicated interactions and due to the complexity of crystal plasticity models per se. Despite a few successes of reduced order models, mean field and simplified homogenization approaches often remain the preferred choice. In this work, a recently proposed hyper-reduction method (called E3C) for projection-based Reduced Order Models (pROMs) is applied to the pro…

Do you know what really hurts?
Seeing Aseel sad.
Aseel, alongside Joy, is helping us run Gaza Verified while being forced to endure Israel’s genocide.
Please watch her video, and, if you can, donate to her family.
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Donate to mohammed turk
Help support mohammed turk by donating or sharing with your friends.

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

Good Morning #Canada
Happy National Homemade Bread Day for all those with enough dough to celebrate. There's no data on how many of us make their own bread at home, but there are 1,321 bakery product manufacturing establishments and more than 1,406 retail bakeries in Canada. Canada annually ranks in the top 10 worldwide in wheat production, 6th or 7th, depending on the year, but we don't eat a lot of bread. #StatsCan says we consume approximately 30 kg per person yearly, which doesn't put us in the top 30 internationally - Turkey's citizens eat 6 times as much as us. We spend about 10% of our grocery bill on baked goods, and that has increased almost 30% over the past 5 years. Canada exports $5.2B in baked goods annually with $5B of that going to the U.S. market.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Sandwich
My favourite type of bread: Please boost for scientific significance.
Plain White (I leave my socks on too)
Bagels (Montreal preferred)
Sourdough (nothing to do with my personality)
French - loaf or baguette (I also support Bilingualism)
Italian - loaf, focaccia, calabrese (I'm also a pasta lover)

Viking, n.:
1. Daring Scandinavian seafarers, explorers, adventurers,
entrepreneurs world-famous for their aggressive, nautical import
business, highly leveraged takeovers and blue eyes.
2. Bloodthirsty sea pirates who ravaged northern Europe beginning
in the 9th century.
Hagar's note: The first definition is much preferred; the second is used
only by malcontents, the envious, and disgruntled owners of waterfront
property.

Patch-Based Diffusion for Data-Efficient, Radiologist-Preferred MRI Reconstruction
Rohan Sanda, Asad Aali, Andrew Johnston, Eduardo Reis, Jonathan Singh, Gordon Wetzstein, Sara Fridovich-Keil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21531

Patch-Based Diffusion for Data-Efficient, Radiologist-Preferred MRI Reconstruction
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) requires long acquisition times, raising costs, reducing accessibility, and making scans more susceptible to motion artifacts. Diffusion probabilistic models that learn data-driven priors can potentially assist in reducing acquisition time. However, they typically require large training datasets that can be prohibitively expensive to collect. Patch-based diffusion models have shown promise in learning effective data-driven priors over small real-valued datasets,…

Yeah! Last night, this morning and just now, I finished and uploaded the Blog post, the photos and a short video of our rain-walk in the #schwarzwald
I haven't written a LOT this time as I recorded more video than photos. But having the camera in the rain wasn't my preferred option that day ;)
But the motto of the day was:
We Fear No Rain!

Day 2 in the Schwarzwald / We Fear no Rain
Day three in the Black Forest brought a mix of misty mornings, challenging humidity, and expected rain on one of Baiersbronn’s certified Genießerpfade trails.

Null matter and the ultrarelativistic origin of hydrodynamics at zero temperature
Jay Armas, Emil Have, Gianbattista-Piero Nicosia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25320 https://

Null matter and the ultrarelativistic origin of hydrodynamics at zero temperature
We uncover a universal sector of relativistic fluid dynamics by taking a novel ultrarelativistic limit in which the temperature tends to zero while the flow simultaneously approaches the speed of light. In this regime, hydrodynamics becomes an effective theory of \emph{null matter}, characterised by a preferred null vector, a preferred scale, and their gradients. We show that this theory of null matter constitutes an example of a hydrodynamic theory that can be linearly stable and causal in an …

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

Four takeaways from Wednesday, from offensive "ownership" to happy returns as they prepare for Cowboys https://www.panthers.com/news/four-takeaways-from-wednesday-from-offensive-owner…

I use Teedy for document management on my Docker server. The downside is that this application does not allow you to set your preferred language; it chooses it itself based on your browser's language.
What a pain. The Spanish translation is so bad that I had to write a tutorial to figure out what each button does.
#selfhosting

Broncos take key step toward new stadium with submission of large-area review plan https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6781214/2025/11/05/broncos-new-stadium-large-area-review-plan/

TIL my preferred Browser @… actually supports JPEG-XL – and better than Safari, because it animates.
Shame that Firefox defaults to nope & Google/Chrome does evil…
https://caniuse.com/jpegxl

Effects of automotive microphone frequency response characteristics and noise conditions on speech and ASR quality -- an experimental evaluation
Michele Buccoli, Yu Du, Jacob Soendergaard, Simone Shawn Cazzaniga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09236

Effects of automotive microphone frequency response characteristics and noise conditions on speech and ASR quality -- an experimental evaluation
Upon choosing microphones for automotive hands-free communication or Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) applications, OEMs typically specify wideband, super wideband or even fullband requirements following established standard recommendations (e.g., ITU-P.1110, ITU-P.1120). In practice, it is often challenging to achieve the preferred bandwidth for an automotive microphone when considering limitations and constraints on microphone placement inside the cabin, and the automotive grade environment…

RE: #php

It's not unusual to run into people who live in Berlin but speak no German. Even when they work in bars, restaurants, at reception desks.
Just came across a person running an event including welcoming participants who replied "Not my preferred language though" when asked whether she speaks German.
Maybe not the best place to be then?

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

Emergence of mixed orientational ordering in quasi-one-dimensional superdisk and superball fluids
Sakineh Mizani, Martin Oettela, P\'eter Gurin, Szabolcs Varga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06918

Emergence of mixed orientational ordering in quasi-one-dimensional superdisk and superball fluids
We report the discovery of a mixed orientational structure in the quasi-one-dimensional fluid of hard non-spherical bodies with the exact calculation of the thermodynamic and structural quantities using the transfer operator method. The mixed arrangement, which is spatially uniform, but orientionally ordered, cannot be identified with conventional mesophases such as tetratic, cubatic and nematic. It is found that the particles form a mixed orientational arrangement with preferred parallel and p…

A reassessment of the role of high $x$ data on the MSHT global PDF fit
L. A. Harland-Lang, T. Cridge, M. Reader, R. S. Thorne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03753 https://

A reassessment of the role of high $x$ data on the MSHT global PDF fit
We present updates within the MSHT global PDF fit that focus on the high $x$ region, and on improving our understanding of the interplay of various theoretical contributions and experimental constraints here. We revisit the question of target mass and higher twist corrections, considering their impact for the first time at approximate N$^3$LO order in a global PDF analysis. Their inclusion is found to be moderate but not negligible on both the PDFs and preferred value of the strong coupling. In…

A reproducible comparative study of categorical kernels for Gaussian process regression, with new clustering-based nested kernels
Rapha\"el Carpintero Perez (CMAP), S\'ebastien Da Veiga (ENSAI, CREST, RT-UQ), Josselin Garnier (CMAP, ASCII)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01840

A reproducible comparative study of categorical kernels for Gaussian process regression, with new clustering-based nested kernels
Designing categorical kernels is a major challenge for Gaussian process regression with continuous and categorical inputs. Despite previous studies, it is difficult to identify a preferred method, either because the evaluation metrics, the optimization procedure, or the datasets change depending on the study. In particular, reproducible code is rarely available. The aim of this paper is to provide a reproducible comparative study of all existing categorical kernels on many of the test cases inv…

Since I rely on and use @… pretty much everyday as my preferred email provider, I donated €10, and will turn it to a monthly donation.
Support the projects, organizations, or initiatives you depend on the most. For me, that’s https://…

Broadband spectral mapping of photo-induced second-harmonic generation in silicon nitride microresonators
Ji Zhou, Marco Clementi, Samantha Sbarra, Ozan Yakar, Camille-Sophie Br\`es
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05636

Broadband spectral mapping of photo-induced second-harmonic generation in silicon nitride microresonators
By employing a pump-probe technique for enhanced spectral mapping of the dynamics in nonlinear frequency conversion, we demonstrate that photo-induced second-harmonic generation (SHG) in silicon nitride (Si3N4) microresonators can persist when transitioning from the preferred doubly resonant condition--where the resonances of the optical harmonics are required to be matched--to a highly detuned state where the generated second harmonic is significantly shifted away from its corresponding resona…

Second servo issue
lemonde.fr doesn't completely render · Issue #40053 · servo/servo
https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/40053

@… I've used Talon, but before I retired I used Dragon Professional on Windows, which I greatly preferred. Now that I'm retired, I don't need speech to text that much. I've only used the free version of Talon, not the "beta", which costs something like $25/month. I found Talon very hard to use, perhaps because I was used to the Dragon way of …

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

CoTune: Co-evolutionary Configuration Tuning
Gangda Xiong, Tao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24694 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24694

CoTune: Co-evolutionary Configuration Tuning
To automatically tune configurations for the best possible system performance (e.g., runtime or throughput), much work has been focused on designing intelligent heuristics in a tuner. However, existing tuner designs have mostly ignored the presence of complex performance requirements (e.g., the latency shall ideally be 2 seconds), but simply assume that better performance is always more preferred. This would not only waste valuable information in a requirement but might also consume extensive r…

TyphoonMLA: A Mixed Naive-Absorb MLA Kernel For Shared Prefix
Ahmet Caner Y\"uz\"ug\"uler, Ahmet \c{C}elik, Jiawei Zhuang, Lukas Cavigelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21081

TyphoonMLA: A Mixed Naive-Absorb MLA Kernel For Shared Prefix
Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) is a recent attention mechanism adopted in state-of-the-art LLMs such as DeepSeek-v3 and Kimi K2. Thanks to its novel formulation, MLA allows two functionally equivalent but computationally distinct kernel implementations: naive and absorb. While the naive kernels (e.g., FlashAttention) are typically preferred in training and prefill for their computational efficiency, existing decoding kernels (e.g., FlashMLA) rely on the absorb method to minimize HBM bandwidt…

An Ohba-like Result for Flexible List Coloring
Michael C. Bowdoin, Yanghong Chi, Christian B. Ellington, Bella Ives, Seoju Lee, Fennec Morrissette, Jeffrey A. Mudrock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24013

An Ohba-like Result for Flexible List Coloring
Chromatic-choosablility is a notion of fundamental importance in list coloring. A graph $G$ is chromatic-choosable when its chromatic number, $χ(G)$, is equal to its list chromatic number $χ_{\ell}(G)$. Flexible list coloring was introduced by Dvořák, Norin, and Postle in 2019 in order to address a situation in list coloring where we still seek a proper list coloring, but each vertex may have a preferred color assigned to it, and for those vertices we wish to color as many of them with thei…

Future Policy Aware Preference Learning for Mathematical Reasoning
Minjae Oh, Yunho Choi, Dongmin Choi, Yohan Jo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19893 https://a…

Future Policy Aware Preference Learning for Mathematical Reasoning
Preference learning methods such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) have become standard for Large Language Model (LLM) post-training, yet they are often ineffective for mathematical reasoning. A key challenge is the large token overlap between preferred and dispreferred trajectories; lowering the probability of dispreferred trajectories also reduces the probability of shared useful tokens, leading to over-penalization and overall performance collapse. As a mitigation, existing algorithms …

Testing Aurora, the KDE brother of Bluefin, briefly. Switched to the latest branch of course. Interesting and well executed. Too much for me, application wise, nevertheless very nicely done.
PS: Bazaar is a very nice appstore and the Curated section allows Aurora (and thus others) to show their preferred applications. Very neat.

Michael Saylor's Strategy creates a $1.44B cash reserve funded by stock sales after cutting full-year profit and BTC yield targets due to bitcoin price drops (Stephen Alpher/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/12/0

Michael Saylor and Strategy (MSTR) Raise Cash to Fund Preferred Dividends
Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company also added to its bitcoin holdings last week, bringing its total stack to 650,000 BTC.

EchoVLM: Dynamic Mixture-of-Experts Vision-Language Model for Universal Ultrasound Intelligence
Chaoyin She, Ruifang Lu, Lida Chen, Wei Wang, Qinghua Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14977

EchoVLM: Dynamic Mixture-of-Experts Vision-Language Model for Universal Ultrasound Intelligence
Ultrasound imaging has become the preferred imaging modality for early cancer screening due to its advantages of non-ionizing radiation, low cost, and real-time imaging capabilities. However, conventional ultrasound diagnosis heavily relies on physician expertise, presenting challenges of high subjectivity and low diagnostic efficiency. Vision-language models (VLMs) offer promising solutions for this issue, but existing general-purpose models demonstrate limited knowledge in ultrasound medical …

Convergence to a receding wave in a monostable free boundary problem
Hongkai Cao, Yihong Du, Wenjie Ni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00715 https://arxiv.org/p…

Convergence to a receding wave in a monostable free boundary problem
We study a monostable reaction-diffusion equation of the form $u_t=du_{xx}+f(u)$ over a semi-infinite spatial domain $[g(t),\infty)$, with $x=g(t)$ the free boundary whose evolution is governed by equations derived from a ``preferred population density'' principle, which postulates that the species with population density $u(t,x)$ and population range $[g(t),\infty)$ maintains a certain density $δ$ at the habitat edge $x=g(t)$. In the ``high-density'' regime, where $δ$ exceeds the carrying ca…

A Less Terrifying Universe? Mundanity as an Explanation for the Fermi Paradox
Robin H. D. Corbet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22878 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

A Less Terrifying Universe? Mundanity as an Explanation for the Fermi Paradox
Applying a principle of "radical mundanity", this paper examines explanations for the lack of strong evidence for the presence of technology-using extraterrestrial civilizations (ETCs) in the Galaxy - the Fermi paradox. With this principle, the prospect that the Galaxy contains a modest number of civilizations is preferred, where none have achieved technology levels sufficient to accomplish large-scale astro-engineering or lack the desire to do so. This consideration also leads to the expectati…

faa_routes: FAA Preferred Routes (2010)
A network of air traffic routes, from the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) National Flight Data Center (NFDC) preferred routes database (www.fly.faa.gov). Date of extraction is prior to 2010. Nodes represent airports or service centers, and a directed edge is the preferred route between airport i and airport j.
This network has 1226 nodes and 2615 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted

On efficient block Krylov-solvers for $\mathcal H^2$-matrices
Sven Christophersen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17257 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17257

On efficient block Krylov-solvers for $\mathcal H^2$-matrices
Hierarchical matrices provide a highly memory-efficient way of storing dense linear operators arising, for example, from boundary element methods, particularly when stored in the H^2 format. In such data-sparse representations, iterative solvers are preferred over direct ones due to the cost-efficient matrix-vector multiplications they enable. Solving multiple systems of linear equations with the same hierarchical matrix naturally leads to block methods, which in turn make heavy use of BLAS lev…

Unveiling the magnetic behavior of C$_{\rm3}$N$_{\rm4}$ 2D material by defect creation, defect passivation, and transition metal adsorption
Taoufik Sakhraoui, Franti\v{s}ek Karlick\'y
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20156

Unveiling the magnetic behavior of C$_{\rm3}$N$_{\rm4}$ 2D material by defect creation, defect passivation, and transition metal adsorption
Using the density functional tight binding method (DFTB) and the GFN1-xTB (Geometries, Frequencies, and Noncovalent interactions Tight Binding) Hamiltonian, we have investigated the structural, electronic and magnetic properties of vacancy defects, hydrogen and oxygen passivated defects, and Fe adsorption in two-dimensional (2D) graphitic carbon nitride (gt-C$_3$N$_4$) 2D material. The ring shape is the most preferred vacancy evolution path, with significant stability of the semicircle fourfold…

Towards Efficient Online Exploration for Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback
Gen Li, Yuling Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22633 https://arxiv.org/p…

Towards Efficient Online Exploration for Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback
Reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF), which learns a reward model from human preference data and then optimizes a policy to favor preferred responses, has emerged as a central paradigm for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. In this paper, we investigate exploration principles for online RLHF, where one seeks to adaptively collect new preference data to refine both the reward model and the policy in a data-efficient manner. By examining existing optimism-b…

Conditional Nearest Level Modulation for Improved Switching Dynamics in Asymmetric Multilevel Converters
Jinshui Zhang, Angel V Peterchev, Stefan M Goetz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14402

Conditional Nearest Level Modulation for Improved Switching Dynamics in Asymmetric Multilevel Converters
Modular multilevel converters have promising applications in clean energy, electric vehicles, and biomedical instrumentation, but need many modules to achieve fine output granularity, particularly of the voltage. Asymmetric multilevel circuits introduce differences in module voltages so that the quantity of output levels grows exponentially with the number of modules. Nearest-level modulation (NLM) is preferred over carrier-based methods in asymmetric circuits for its simplicity. However, the l…

BESPOKE: Benchmark for Search-Augmented Large Language Model Personalization via Diagnostic Feedback
Hyunseo Kim, Sangam Lee, Kwangwook Seo, Dongha Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21106

BESPOKE: Benchmark for Search-Augmented Large Language Model Personalization via Diagnostic Feedback
Search-augmented large language models (LLMs) have advanced information-seeking tasks by integrating retrieval into generation, reducing users' cognitive burden compared to traditional search systems. Yet they remain insufficient for fully addressing diverse user needs, which requires recognizing how the same query can reflect different intents across users and delivering information in preferred forms. While recent systems such as ChatGPT and Gemini attempt personalization by leveraging user h…

Holographic Brownian dynamics of a heavy particle in a boosted thermal plasma background
Anirban Roy Chowdhury, Ashis Saha, Sunandan Gangopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20889

Holographic Brownian dynamics of a heavy particle in a boosted thermal plasma background
In this work, we have performed a detailed holographic analysis of the stochastic dynamics of a heavy quark propagating through a strongly coupled plasma moving with a constant velocity along a fixed spatial direction. To model this scenario within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence, we consider a boosted AdS black brane geometry in the bulk. The boost corresponds to the uniform motion of the plasma on the boundary field theory side. The presence of this boost introduces a preferred di…

Higgs-like Resonances and Massive Neutrinos in a 3-3-1 Model
Richard H. Benavides, D. V. Forero, Eduardo Rojas, A. Tapia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15297 https://

Higgs-like Resonances and Massive Neutrinos in a 3-3-1 Model
Recent experimental results have reported mild deviations from Standard Model predictions in processes involving two photons in the final state, suggesting the possible presence of high-mass scalar resonances at the few-hundred-GeV scale. We investigate these anomalies within the framework of 3-3-1 models, a well-motivated class of extensions of the Standard Model. Focusing on the most relevant regions of parameter space, we determine the preferred scalar mass ranges and present the results in …

Eigenvalue distribution from bootstrap estimates
Samuel Kov\'a\v{c}ik, Katar\'ina Magdolenov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16005 https://arxiv.…

Eigenvalue distribution from bootstrap estimates
The bootstrap method has proven useful for a wide range of matrix models. Here, we show that the computed momenta can be used to reconstruct the underlying eigenvalue probability distribution, which in turn allows us to compute the free energy of the model, a necessary quantity for identifying the thermodynamically preferred solution. We verify the method on the well-studied quartic potential model and then apply it to a recently analysed asymmetric multi-trace model. We consider an extended cl…

Performance Enhancement of Medium-Temperature Baked Niobium SRF Cavity by Surface Contamination Removal
V. Chouhan (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA), D. Bice (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA), A. Cravatta (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA), A. Murthy (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA), A. Netepenko (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA), T. Ring…

Performance Enhancement of Medium-Temperature Baked Niobium SRF Cavity by Surface Contamination Removal
Medium temperature (mid-T) baking, typically conducted at 300 350 C, enhances the quality factor of niobium (Nb) superconducting radio frequency cavities. High vacuum furnace baking is commonly preferred for its practicality in large-scale processing. However, surface contamination, such as niobium carbide formed during vacuum furnace baking, can limit the quench field and degrade the quality factor of the cavity. To investigate this effect, a 1.3 GHz single-cell Nb cavity underwent mid-T bakin…

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Attached: 1 image Something happened to me recently, and I don't mean to be dramatic, but it's truly a shameful thing. Two days ago, I joined the writing platform #substack & even though @aral@mastodon.ar.al & @fabio@manganiello.eu told me it wasn't a good platform for me, being Palestinian, I decided to interact on it and post my poems there. I was subjected to awful abuse in all verbal forms by Zionists there. But I preferred to remain silent instead of arguing with any fools. Today, the pla…