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Raiders Mailbag: How can rookies see more playing time down the stretch? https://www.raiders.com/news/mailbag/raiders-mailbag-how-can-rookies-see-more-playing-time-down-the-stretch

Cerrion, which develops AI video agents that detect and resolve production line issues in real time, raised an $18M Series A led by Creandum (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/25/cerrion-raises-18m-to-reduce-factory-downtime-wi…

Cerrion raises $18M to reduce factory downtime with AI video agents
Cerrion, the Swiss-founded AI video agent platform that detects and resolves production line issues in real time, has raised $18 million in Series A funding to further expand and scale operations in the US and Europe. The round was led by Creandum, with participation from existing investors Y Combinator, Goat Capital, 10x Founders and Session VC, alongside prominent angels including Harry Stebbings (20VC), Oskar Hjertonsson, Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face) and Garret Langley (Flock Safety).Fa…

Raiders Mailbag: How can rookies see more playing time down the stretch? https://www.raiders.com/news/mailbag/raiders-mailbag-how-can-rookies-see-more-playing-time-down-the-stretch

What happens when you pair solar panels with mini nuclear reactors? Chinese researchers just cracked the code.
Their new microgrid framework combines photovoltaics with small modular reactors, using AI to balance both in real time. The results are striking: 18.7% lower costs, 37.1% fewer emissions, and 98% reliability.
The secret? Smart coordination between battery storage and hydrogen production that adapts on the fly.

When solar meets next-gen nuclear
Scientists in China have proposed a novel scheduling framework for microgrids based on hybrid PV and a small modular nuclear reactors. The framework uses multi-objective distributionally robust optimization with a real-time reinforcement learning mechanism and is reportedly able to reduce operational costs by 18.7%.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
SERVALAN: [To Travis] Project Avalon has failed totally. There will be a full inquiry. Until that time you are relieved of your command.
TRAVIS: [To himself] If it takes all my life, I will destroy you, Blake. I will destroy you. I will destroy you.

Harjeet Singh of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation, said: “Cop30 will go down in history as the deadliest talkshow ever produced.”
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/cop-30-its-no-joke/

COP 30: it’s no joke
The usual joke about the United Nations Climate Change Conferences (COPs) is that each one is a ‘cop-out’.  Each time there is a failure to agree on ending fossil fuel production as the source…

Contraction and entropy production in continuous-time Sinkhorn dynamics
Anand Srinivasan, Jean-Jacques Slotine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12639 https://arx…

Contraction and entropy production in continuous-time Sinkhorn dynamics
Recently, the vanishing-step-size limit of the Sinkhorn algorithm at finite regularization parameter $\varepsilon$ was shown to be a mirror descent in the space of probability measures. We give $L^2$ contraction criteria in two time-dependent metrics induced by the mirror Hessian, which reduce to the coercivity of certain conditional expectation operators. We then give an exact identity for the entropy production rate of the Sinkhorn flow, which was previously known only to be nonpositive. Exam…

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
AVON: Cally. [Grasps her by the arms]
TARRANT: [Enters] Is this the time or the place? That thing has warped your reason, Avon. It's even warped your notorious instinct for looking after number one. We are in danger, can't you understand that?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/3…

Big news for the energy transition!
And a nice little 'told you so' moment for yours truly :)
In the first half of this year, renewables produced more electricity globally than coal, for the first time.
And 2025 is the date I predicted for this to happen, back in 2016, in a blog post for Ecofys! The score was 23%-40% at the time, with most of the renewables share still coming from hydro, and the prediction was less than obvious.

HotBugs.jar: A Benchmark of Hot Fixes for Time-Critical Bugs
Carol Hanna, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman, Justyna Petke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07529 https://

HotBugs.jar: A Benchmark of Hot Fixes for Time-Critical Bugs
Hot fixes are urgent, unplanned changes deployed to production systems to address time-critical issues. Despite their importance, no existing evaluation benchmark focuses specifically on hot fixes. We present HotBugs.jar, the first dataset dedicated to real-world hot fixes. From an initial mining of 10 active Apache projects totaling over 190K commits and 150K issue reports, we identified 746 software patches that met our hot-fix criteria. After manual evaluation, 679 were confirmed as genuine …

Search for dark matter production in association with bottom quarks and a lepton pair in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12396

Search for dark matter production in association with bottom quarks and a lepton pair in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
A search is performed for dark matter produced in association with bottom quarks and a pair of electrons or muons in data collected with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponding to 138 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. For the first time at the LHC, the associated production of a bottom quark-antiquark pair and a new heavy neutral Higgs boson (H) that subsequently decays into a leptonically decaying Z boson and a pseudoscalar …

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[…] Paradoxically, the more a population grew, the more precious it became, as it offered a supply of cheap labour, and by lowering costs allowed a greater expansion of production and trade. In this infinitely open labour market, the ‘fundamental price’, which for Turgot meant a subsistence level for workers, and the price determined by supply and demand ended up as the same thing. A country was all the more commercially competitive for having at its disposal the virtual wealth that a large population represented.
Confinement was therefore a clumsy error, and an economic one at that: there was no sense in trying to suppress poverty by taking it out of the economic circuit and providing for a poor population by charitable means. To do that was merely to hide poverty, and suppress an important section of the population, which was always a given wealth. Rather than helping the poor escape their provisionally indigent situation, charity condemned them to it, and dangerously so, by putting a brake on the labour market in a period of crisis. What was required was to palliate the high cost of products with cheaper labour, and to make up for their scarcity by a new industrial and agricultural effort. The only reasonable remedy was to reinsert the population in the circuit of production, being sure to place labour in areas where manpower was most scarce. The use of paupers, vagabonds, exiles and émigrés of any description was one of the secrets of wealth in the competition between nations. […]
Confinement was to be criticised because of the effects it had on the labour market, but also because like all other traditional forms of charity, it constituted a dangerous form of finance. As had been the case in the Middle Ages, the classical era had constantly attempted to look after the needs of the poor by a system of foundations. This implied that a section of the land capital and revenues were out of circulation. In a definitive manner too, as the concern was to avoid the commercialisation of assistance to the poor, so judicial measures had been taken to ensure that this wealth never went back into circulation. But as time passed, their usefulness diminished: the economic situation changed, and so did the nature of poverty.
«Society does not always have the same needs. The nature and distribution of property, the divisions between the different orders of the people, opinions, customs, the occupations of the majority of the population, the climate itself, diseases and all the other accidents of human life are in constant change. New needs come into being, and old ones disappear.» [Turgot, Encyclopédie]
The definitive character of a foundation was in contradiction with the variable and changing nature of the accidental needs to which it was designed to respond. The wealth that it immobilised was never put back into circulation, but more wealth was to be created as new needs appeared. The result was that the proportion of funds and revenues removed from circulation constantly increased, while that of production fell in consequence. The only possible result was increased poverty, and a need for more foundations. The process could continue indefinitely, and the fear was that one day ‘the ever increasing number of foundations might absorb all private funds and all private property’. When closely examined, classical forms of assistance were a cause of poverty, bringing a progressive immobilisation that was like the slow death of productive wealth:
«If all the men who have ever lived had been given a tomb, sooner or later some of those sterile monuments would have been dug up in order to find land to cultivate, and it would have become necessary to stir the ashes of the dead in order to feed the living.» [Turgot, Lettre Š Trudaine sur le Limousin]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: [Laughs slightly] More interesting is where it was going and why. Let's see if Avon's got any ideas.
[Interior. Alien projectile]
BLAKE: [To Avon] What do you Think?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/227 B7B5

"What has not changed in 50 years is the fact we are still using centralized architectures, prone to government intrusion and privacy leaks. Maybe it is time to think about a “Post Cloud” era where information is distributed instead of centralized. Of course this raises questions of trust, cryptography, security and collaboration, but the technology to build such systems already exists. It is more of a question of policy and education than of technology."

Somebody Else's Computer As A Service
On November 12, 1990, a 35 year-old Bill Gates introduced his "Information at your Fingertips" concept during his keynote at COMDEX. The PC, he said, would become "more personal," integrating "fax, voice and electronic mail," and providing "easy access to a broad range of information." More or less at the same time, Tim Berners-Lee was giving the final touches to the first web browser and web server software ever put in production. Bill Gates was right; as any Internet user can easily confirm 3…

imagine spinning a little jet engine capable of supersonic flight next time you prompt your favorite LLM / genAI...
naturally, there are companies producing gas turbines for data centers, but like with RAM memory and SSD, the unexpected growth of data centers caused shortages, hence repurposing of jet engines for energy production...

i talked about this demo in the pub on weds and this toot just reappeared in my feed :-)
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tbo4hkau3p2itkar2vsnb3gp/post/3lihqadxsu225

Thomas (@thomasfuchs.at)
This is my all-time favorite demoscene production. You need to watch from the beginning, the introduction is important. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zprSxCMlECA

Space-time geometry of small and large collision systems at LHC energies
Thomas A. Trainor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05314 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0531…

Space-time geometry of small and large collision systems at LHC energies
Identified-hadron (PID) spectra from 2.76 TeV Pb-Pb and $p$-$p$ collisions are analyzed via a two-component (soft + hard) model (TCM) of hadron production in high-energy nuclear collisions. The Pb-Pb TCM is adopted with minor changes from a recent analysis of PID hadron spectra from 5 TeV $p$-Pb collisions. The object of study is evidence for jet suppression in small and large collision systems as indicating quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formation there. Conventional methods have included Pb-Pb cent…

Panicked message from the boss. Looks like one of the documentation files is corrupted. We haven't had the time to cross train that process. Too many manual steps to extract the information from the repository, download to the network work folder, import into Word format, locate specific items and run the macro to format those, export to PDF and then reindex the production doc folder with the change.

Clapshot: open source browser-based media review like frame.io
https://cinelinux.com/en/2025/10/04/clapshot-a-alternativa-open-source-ao-frame-io-para-revisao-de-videos/
Haven't tested it yet, but the review seem…

Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Configuration Allocation in Pre-Production Testing
Yu Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05147 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Configuration Allocation in Pre-Production Testing
Ensuring reliability in modern software systems requires rigorous pre-production testing across highly heterogeneous and evolving environments. Because exhaustive evaluation is infeasible, practitioners must decide how to allocate limited testing resources across configurations where failure probabilities may drift over time. Existing combinatorial optimization approaches are static, ad hoc, and poorly suited to such non-stationary settings. We introduce a novel reinforcement learning (RL) fram…

A Multimodal GUI Architecture for Interfacing with LLM-Based Conversational Assistants
Hans G. W. van Dam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06223 https://arxiv.or…

A Multimodal GUI Architecture for Interfacing with LLM-Based Conversational Assistants
Advances in large language models (LLMs) and real-time speech recognition now make it possible to issue any graphical user interface (GUI) action through natural language and receive the corresponding system response directly through the GUI. Most production applications were never designed with speech in mind. This article provides a concrete architecture that enables GUIs to interface with LLM-based speech-enabled assistants. The architecture makes an application's navigation graph and sema…

Thinkquel: A Model Dedicated to Text-to-dbt Using Synthetic Data and a Span-Aware Objective
Anni Li, Aria Attar, Paul Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00186 https://

Thinkquel: A Model Dedicated to Text-to-dbt Using Synthetic Data and a Span-Aware Objective
Transforming natural-language requests into reliable, production-ready data transformations remains challenging: correctness depends on precise schema linking and warehouse-specific SQL dialects, while the strongest supervision available during training--execution success and result matching--are provided only at the sequence level. At the same time, assembling large, execution-validated corpora is costly, and token-level objectives misalign with these global signals, yielding unstable optimiza…

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: Has anyone been down to see our guests lately?
JENNA: Vila went down a little while ago.
BLAKE: And?
VILA: Thawing nicely. Couple of hours, we should be able to talk to them.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/250 B7B3

Multi-View Camera System for Variant-Aware Autonomous Vehicle Inspection and Defect Detection
Yash Kulkarni, Raman Jha, Renu Kachhoria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26454 https://

Multi-View Camera System for Variant-Aware Autonomous Vehicle Inspection and Defect Detection
Ensuring that every vehicle leaving a modern production line is built to the correct \emph{variant} specification and is free from visible defects is an increasingly complex challenge. We present the \textbf{Automated Vehicle Inspection (AVI)} platform, an end-to-end, \emph{multi-view} perception system that couples deep-learning detectors with a semantic rule engine to deliver \emph{variant-aware} quality control in real time. Eleven synchronized cameras capture a full 360° sweep of each vehi…

Constraining Inflationary Particle Production with CMB Polarization
Luca H. Abu El-Haj, Oliver H. E. Philcox, J. Colin Hill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23123 https://

Constraining Inflationary Particle Production with CMB Polarization
Inflation generates correlated temperature ($T$) and polarization ($E$-mode) fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which differ only by their transfer functions. Following Philcox et al. (2025), we investigate a scenario with a massive partner to the inflaton ($\mathcal{O}(100)$ times the inflationary Hubble scale), in which particles are produced during a narrow time period, leaving characteristic hot- or cold-spots in the CMB. Using tools developed for thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dov…

An analysis of government subsidy policies in vaccine supply chain: Innovation, Production, or Consumption?
Ran Gu, Enhui Ding, Shigui Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03661 https:…

An analysis of government subsidy policies in vaccine supply chain: Innovation, Production, or Consumption?
Vaccines play a crucial role in the prevention and control of infectious diseases. However, the vaccine supply chain faces numerous challenges that hinder its efficiency. To address these challenges and enhance public health outcomes, many governments provide subsidies to support the vaccine supply chain. This study analyzes a government-subsidized, three-tier vaccine supply chain within a continuous-time differential game framework. The model incorporates dynamic system equations that account …

High-energy variability of the gravitationally lensed blazar PKS 1830-211
Sarah M. Wagner, Jeffrey D. Scargle, Greg Madejski, Andrea Gokus, Krzysztof Nalewajko, Patrick G\"unther, Karl Mannheim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07220

High-energy variability of the gravitationally lensed blazar PKS 1830-211
The production site and process responsible for the highly variable high-energy emission observed from blazar jets are still debated. Gravitational lenses can be used as microscopes to investigate the nature of such sources. We study the broad-band spectral properties and the high-energy variability of the gravitationally-lensed blazar PKS 1830-211, for which radio observations have revealed two images, to put constraints on the jet physics and the existence of a gravitationally-induced time de…

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Traditional politics of assistance and the repression of unemployment were now called into question. The need for reform became urgent.
Poverty was gradually separated from the old moral confusions. Economic crises had shown that unemployment could not be confused with indolence, as indigence and enforced idleness spread throughout the countryside, to precisely the places that had previously been considered home to the purest and most immediate forms of moral life. This demonstrated that poverty did not solely fall under the order of the fault: ‘Begging is the fruit of poverty, which in turn is the consequence of accidents in the production of the earth or in the output of factories, of a rise in the price of basic foodstuffs, or of growth of the population, etc.’ Indigence became a matter of economics.
But it was not contingent, nor was it destined to be suppressed forever. There would always be a certain quantity of poverty that could never be effaced, a sort of fatal indigence that would accompany all forms of society until the end of time, even in places where all the idle were employed: ‘The only paupers in a well governed state must be those born in indigence, or those who fall into it by accident.’ This backdrop of poverty was somehow inalienable: whether by birth or accident, it formed an inevitable part of society. The state of lack was so firmly entrenched in the destiny of man and the structure of society that for a long time the idea of a state without paupers remained inconceivable: in the thought of philosophers, property, work and indigence were terms linked right up until the nineteenth century.
This portion of poverty was necessary because it could not be suppressed; but it was equally necessary in that it made wealth possible. Because they worked but consumed little, a class of people in need allowed a nation to become rich, to release the value of its fields, colonies and mines, making products that could be sold throughout the world. An impoverished people, in short, was a people that had no poor. Indigence became an indispensable element in the state. It hid the secret but most real life of society. The poor were the seat and the glory of nations. And their noble misery, for which there was no cure, was to be exalted:
«My intention is solely to invite the authorities to turn part of their vigilant attention to considering the portion of the People who suffer … the assistance that we owe them is linked to the honour and prosperity of the Empire, of which the Poor are the firmest bulwark, for no sovereign can maintain and extend his domain without favouring the population, and cultivating the Land, Commerce and the Arts; and the Poor are the necessary agents for the great powers that reveal the true force of a People.»
What we see here is a moral rehabilitation of the figure of the Pauper, bringing about the fundamental economic and social reintegration of his person. Paupers had no place in a mercantilist economy, as they were neither producers nor consumers, and they were idle, vagabond or unemployed, deserving nothing better than confinement, a measure that extracted and exiled them from society. But with the arrival of the industrial economy and its thirst for manpower, paupers were once again a part of the body of the nation.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation from uncertain data
Sarah Fields, Norman Christ
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12136 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12136

Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation from uncertain data
The calculation of inclusive processes that involve the production of many particles is a challenge for lattice QCD, a Euclidean-space method that is far removed from real-time, multiparticle production. A new approach to this problem based on Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation has been proposed by Bergamaschi et al. Here we extend their method by exploring the propagation of the statistical and systematic errors that accompany a lattice QCD calculation through this interpolation process. A simplifi…

Amazon have a comedy movie about an armed hostage situation at a wedding, "Bride Hard". And I thought "oh, was this one of those instances where two movies with the same premise somehow went into production at the same time?".
But no, this was announced after the release of "Shotgun Wedding" like they expect it to become a genre.

Optimal Computation from Fluctuation Responses
Jinghao Lyu, Kyle J. Ray, James P. Crutchfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03900 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0…

Optimal Computation from Fluctuation Responses
The energy cost of computation has emerged as a central challenge at the intersection of physics and computer science. Recent advances in statistical physics -- particularly in stochastic thermodynamics -- enable precise characterizations of work, heat, and entropy production in information-processing systems driven far from equilibrium by time-dependent control protocols. A key open question is then how to design protocols that minimize thermodynamic cost while ensur- ing correct outcomes. To …

GyroSwin: 5D Surrogates for Gyrokinetic Plasma Turbulence Simulations
Fabian Paischer, Gianluca Galletti, William Hornsby, Paul Setinek, Lorenzo Zanisi, Naomi Carey, Stanislas Pamela, Johannes Brandstetter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07314

GyroSwin: 5D Surrogates for Gyrokinetic Plasma Turbulence Simulations
Nuclear fusion plays a pivotal role in the quest for reliable and sustainable energy production. A major roadblock to viable fusion power is understanding plasma turbulence, which significantly impairs plasma confinement, and is vital for next-generation reactor design. Plasma turbulence is governed by the nonlinear gyrokinetic equation, which evolves a 5D distribution function over time. Due to its high computational cost, reduced-order models are often employed in practice to approximate turb…

Integrating Weather and Land Cover Data into Geospatial Impact Evaluations
Elinor Benami, Mike Cecil, Anna Josephson, Gina Maskell, Jeffrey D. Michler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05108

Integrating Weather and Land Cover Data into Geospatial Impact Evaluations
Integrating gridded weather and earth observation data into impact evaluations holds great promise. It allows researchers to capture environmental context, external shocks, and even to measure outcomes (e.g., land cover change, agricultural production) that surveys might miss due to spatial or temporal data collection constraints. However, with great power comes great responsibility: the increasing ease of extracting time series from these datasets belies potentially complex geospatial and meas…

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: How long has it been registering?
JENNA: Couple of minutes. Signal's getting stronger.
BLAKE: Zen, visual detector scan and computer analysis on grid one one five, please.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/48 B7B2

Temporal-Aware Iterative Speech Model for Dementia Detection
Chukwuemeka Ugwu, Oluwafemi Oyeleke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00030 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

Temporal-Aware Iterative Speech Model for Dementia Detection
Deep learning systems often struggle with processing long sequences, where computational complexity can become a bottleneck. Current methods for automated dementia detection using speech frequently rely on static, time-agnostic features or aggregated linguistic content, lacking the flexibility to model the subtle, progressive deterioration inherent in speech production. These approaches often miss the dynamic temporal patterns that are critical early indicators of cognitive decline. In this pap…

Gluon splitting at small $x$: a unified derivation for the JIMWLK, DGLAP and CSS equations
Paul Caucal, Edmond Iancu, Farid Salazar, Feng Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08454 h…

Gluon splitting at small $x$: a unified derivation for the JIMWLK, DGLAP and CSS equations
We revisit the calculation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections to dijet production in electron-ion collisions at small $x$. We focus on the back-to-back configuration where the relative transverse momentum $P_\perp$ of the measured jets is much larger than both their momentum imbalance $K_\perp$ and the target saturation momentum $Q_s(x,A)$. In this regime, we present for the first time a complete calculation of the real NLO corrections at leading power in $1/P_\perp$. Our result exh…

Status and future directions for direct cross-section measurements of the 13C(a,n)16O reaction for astrophysics
L. Csedreki, Gy. Gy\"urky, D. Rapagnani, G. F. Ciani, M. Aliotta, C. Anannad, L. Barbieri, F. Barile, D. Bemmerer, A. Best, A. Boeltzig, C. Broggini, C. G. Bruno, A. Caciolli, F. Casaburom, F. Cavannak, P. Colombetti, A. Compagnucci, P. Corvisiero, T. Davinson, R. Depalo, A. Di Leva, Z. Elekes, F. Ferraro, A. Formicola, Zs. F\"ul\"opa, G. Gervino, A. Guglielmet…

Status and future directions for direct cross-section measurements of the 13C(a,n)16O reaction for astrophysics
The 13C(a,n)16O reaction is the main neutron source of the s-process taking place in thermally pulsing AGB stars and it is one of the main candidate sources of neutrons for the i-process in the astrophysical sites proposed so far. Therefore, its rate is crucial to understand the production of the nuclei heavier than iron in the Universe. For the first time, the LUNA collaboration was able to measure the 13C(a,n)16O cross section at Ec.m.=0.23-0.3 MeV drastically reducing the uncertainty of the …

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
JENNA: Zen, abort course for asteroid PK One One Eight and resume course for planet Del Ten. Confirm with arrival time.
ZEN: Arrival at planet Del Ten at zero four five plus one.
[Liberator turns in space]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/164

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A variational formulation of stochastic thermodynamics. Part I: Finite-dimensional systems
H\'ector Vaquero del Pino, Fran\c{c}ois Gay-Balmaz, Hiroaki Yoshimura, Lock Yue Chew
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01787

A variational formulation of stochastic thermodynamics. Part I: Finite-dimensional systems
In this paper, we develop a variational foundation for stochastic thermodynamics of finite-dimensional, continuous-time systems. Requiring the second law (non-negative average total entropy production) systematically yields a consistent thermodynamic structure, from which novel generalized fluctuation-dissipation relations emerge naturally, ensuring local detailed balance. This principle extends key results of stochastic thermodynamics including an individual trajectory level description of bot…

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
MUTOID: Yes, Supreme Commander. Time distort ten.
SERVALAN: Mutoids. Don't you ever question anything?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/384 B7B4

P371 Experiment at CERN -- quest for polarized antiprotons
M. Zielinski, D. Grzonka, G. Khatri, P. Kulessa, J. Ritman, T. Sefzick, J. Smyrski, V. Verhoeven, H. Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00825

P371 Experiment at CERN - quest for polarized antiprotons
Polarization effects in the production of antiprotons at the CERN PS beam line T11 at 3.5 GeV/c have been investigated within the P371 experiment. These effects, if found to be significant could provide a simple method to generate polarized antiproton beams with existing facilities. First precursor measurements were carried out by the P349 collaboration, though the available statistics were insufficient for a quantitative conclusion. With an upgraded detector setup and extended beam time, the e…

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
VILA: A limiter?
GAN: Something that stops him from helping us too much. Or maybe it's someone who stops him.
VILA: Gan, if you're trying to scare me, you're succeeding.
[Exterior. Liberator approaches the alien craft.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/91

Experimental overview of electromagnetic radiation in heavy-ion collisions
Sebastian Scheid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26456 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.264…

Experimental overview of electromagnetic radiation in heavy-ion collisions
Electromagnetic (EM) probes such as photons and dileptons provide direct insight into the space-time evolution of the hot and dense matter formed in heavy-ion collisions. Being unaffected by strong interactions, they serve as penetrating messengers from all collision stages, from pre-equilibrium dynamics to the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and hadronic phases. This contribution summarises recent experimental results on direct-photon and dilepton production from RHIC and LHC experiments, as well as …

Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
JENNA: Obviously not.
BLAKE: I hope we got that through to him in time.
[A-line room]
AVON: Keep an eye on the corridor.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/537 B7B3

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
MUTOID: They have not had time to get far.
TRAVIS: Couple of miles at the most, and without their teleport they're earthbound now.
MUTOID: I will call security.
TRAVIS: No!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/416 B7B3

Advancing the CMS Level-1 Trigger: Jet Tagging with DeepSets at the HL-LHC
Stella Schaefer, Christopher Brown, Duc Hoang, Sioni Summers, Sebastian Wuchterl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24371

Advancing the CMS Level-1 Trigger: Jet Tagging with DeepSets at the HL-LHC
At the High Luminosity LHC, selecting important physics processes such as (di-) Higgs production will be a high priority. The Phase-2 Upgrade of the CMS Level-1 Trigger will reconstruct particle candidates and use pileup mitigation for the 200 simultaneous proton-proton interactions. A fast cone algorithm will reconstruct jets from these particles, providing access to jet constituents for the first time. We introduce a new multi-class jet tagger with a small, quantized DeepSets neural network. …

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

Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: You really think things through, don't you, Avon? If we do need it, we won't have time to get it.
AVON: Well then, let's hope we don't need it. [Smiles]
[Scene: Scorpio]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/84 B7B2

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
GERREN: Told you, there was no time. Besides, from what I've heard, she might be more than a match for you.
AVON: Well now. Just who are they sending?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/87 B7B3