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Glassholes 4.0 - who would have thought that this is the usecase for these devices.
https://www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-wore-meta-smart-glasses-to-an-immigration-raid-in-los-angeles/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

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Properties of associated Legendre conical functions
Daniel A. Norman, Philip D. Mannheim, Tianye Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01804 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Properties of associated Legendre conical functions
We present some new properties of associated Legendre conical functions of the first and second kind, $P^{-1/2-K}_{-1/2+i τ}(χ)$ and $Q^{-1/2-K}_{-1/2+i τ}(χ)$. In particular we show that with the $τ$-independent $\mathcal{R}^{K}_{n}(χ)=(2π)^{-3/2}\tanh^{-K}χ\sinh^{-1/2}χ[Γ(1+K)]^{-1}\int_{0}^{2π} dω\left (1-\cos ω/\coshχ\right)^{K}e^{inω}$ for any general $K$, we can set $P^{-1/2-K}_{-1/2+i τ}(χ)=2\sum_{n}\mathcal{R}^{K}_{n}(χ)\sin[(τ-in)χ)]/(τ-in)$, where $n$ ranges from …

Good Morning #Canada
More like good afternoon.... sorry, but I had a busy morning. Welcome to the late edition of Day #4 of The Dirt on Canadian Farming.
Today, we leap west to British Columbia since it's still early morning there. B.C. has a wide variety of farm produce spread across the province, and most Canadians recognize it for fruits, nuts, vegetables, and wine. That last one doesn't grow on trees, BTW. Likely, the most recognizable region would be the Okanagan Valley. The valley is roughly 200 km long and 20 km wide and lies between the Columbia and Cascade mountain ranges, providing a unique warm and sunny climate with semi-arid conditions. This area is famous for its world-renowned wine and fruit industries, stunning natural landscapes with lakes and mountains, its farm-to-table food culture, and the legendary Ogopogo monster of Okanagan Lake.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Agriculture
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/agriculture-seafood/agricultural-land-and-environment/agricultural-regions

TeO2-BaO-Bi2O3 tellurite optical glasses II. -- Linear and non-linear optical and magneto-optical properties
Jan Hrabovsk\'y, Jaden R. Love, Luk\'a\v{s} St\v{r}i\v{z}\'ik, Takayuki Ishibashi, Stefan Zollner, Martin Veis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01258

TeO2-BaO-Bi2O3 tellurite optical glasses II. -- Linear and non-linear optical and magneto-optical properties
The present study investigates the linear and non-linear optical and magneto-optical properties of TeO$_2$-BaO-Bi$_2$O$_3$ (TeBaBi) glasses prepared by the conventional melt-quenching technique at 900 °C. Prepared glass composition ranges across the whole glass-forming-ability (GFA) region focusing on mutual substitution trends of constituent oxides, where TeO$_2$: 55-85 mol.%, BaO: 10-35 mol.%, Bi$_2$O$_3$: 5-15 mol.%. Studied glasses exhibit high values of linear ($n_{632} \approx$ 1.922-2.0…

At #IAHR2025, Mustafa Kamal reported challenges of studying Urdu-language data on atheist discourses in Pakistan using LLMs (in a broad sense, from BERTopic to GenAI). This ranges from issues in video transcription to lack of pre-trained models for Urdu, to censorship in LLMs (“I cannot answer this as it would be considered blasphemous”). I wonder how many of these problems are rooted in our curren…

'I'd talk to the Devil himself' — Belarus' opposition torn on whether to reengage with dictator Lukashenko to save political prisoners: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/id-talk-to-the-devil.html

Howe duality over finite fields II: explicit stable computation
Sophie Kriz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22983 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Howe duality over finite fields II: explicit stable computation
In this second paper of a series dedicated to type I Howe duality for finite fields, we explicitly decompose the restriction of an oscillator representation of a finite symplectic group to the product of a symplectic and an orthogonal subgroup which are each other's centralizers in terms of G. Lusztig's classification of irreducible representations of finite groups of Lie type in the two so-called stable ranges.

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