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TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678779/tiktok-for-you-feed-manage-…

TikTok gives everyone more control over what’s on their For You page
TikTok is rolling out Manage Topics globally, a feature that lets you control how often you see certain kinds of videos in your For You feed, such as those related to sports, travel, humor, or dance.

The "says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you're 'not committed to winning'."
But it al depends on which "game" is one interested in winning.
https://fortune.co…

LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’
Reid Hoffman, the visionary behind LinkedIn, says he even expects employees at startups to constantly be working—with the exception of dinner time

Optical spectroscopic signatures of the red giant evolutionary state
Ella Xi Wang, Melissa Ness, Thomas Nordlander, Andrew R. Casey, Sarah Martell, Marc Pinsonneault, Xiaoting Fu, Dennis Stello, Claudia Reyes, Marc Hon, Madeleine McKenzie, Mingjie Jian, Jie Yu, Sven Buder, Karin Lind, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Daniel B. Zucker, Pradosh Barun Das, Richard de Grijs, Michael Hayden

Optical spectroscopic signatures of the red giant evolutionary state
Modern spectroscopic surveys output large data volumes. Theoretical models provide a means to transform the information encoded in these data to measurements of physical stellar properties. However, in detail the models are incomplete and simplified, and prohibit interpretation of the fine details in spectra. Instead, the available data provide an opportunity to use data-driven, differential analysis techniques, as a means towards understanding spectral signatures. We deploy such an analysis to…

Standing Tall: Robust Fall Prediction for Bipedal Robots
Gokul Prabhakaran, Jessy W. Grizzle, M. Eva Mungai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01141 https://

Standing Tall: Robust Fall Prediction for Bipedal Robots
This paper extends the fall prediction algorithm from Mungai et al.(2024) to a real-time/online setting, implemented in both hardware and simulation. This yields results comparable to the offline version, maintaining a zero false positive rate, sufficient lead time, and accurate lead time prediction. Additionally, it achieves a high recovery rate. The paper also evaluates the fall prediction algorithm against omnidirectional faults and introduces an improved algorithm capable of reliably predic…

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and, 50 years ago today, following the dead session at ace’s, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders in #berkeley with a mystery drummer, presumably the same as the previous show. bob menke/louis falenga audience tape:

Observation of universal topological magnetoelectric switching in multiferroic GdMn2O5
Haowen Wang, Fan Wang, Ming Yang, Yuting Chang, Mengyi Shi, Liang Li, Jun-Ming Liu, Junfeng Wang, Shuai Dong, Chengliang Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00902

Observation of universal topological magnetoelectric switching in multiferroic GdMn2O5
Topological magnetoelectricity was recently revealed as an emergent topic, which opens a unique route to precisely control magnetoelectric functionality. Here we report the synchronous magnetic-electric-cycle operation of topological magnetoelectric switching in GdMn2O5. Compared with pure magnetic-cycle operation, this topological winding can be accessed in a much broader parameter space, i.e. orientation of magnetic field is not limited to the magic angle and the effect can persist up to the …

Biased rate estimates in bump-hunt searches
William Murray, "Matt O'Neill", "Finn O'Gara"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01505 http…

Biased rate estimates in bump-hunt searches
The cleanest way to discover a new particle is generally the "bump-hunt" methodology: looking for a localised excess in a mass (or related) distribution. However, if the mass of the particle being discovered is not known the procedure of quoting the most significant excess seen is "greedy", and random fluctuations from the background can be merged with the signal. This means that an observed 3σ evidence probably has the rate over-estimated by of order 10% and the mass uncertainty underestimate…

Aus irgendeinem Grund ist gerade die Sonos-Radio-Station "The Lighthouse", über die Brian Eno jede Menge unveröffentlichte Tracks abspielen läßt, gratis (man braucht halt ein Sonos-Gerät dazu), und ich höre mich da nun etwas durch.
DJ Food hat das ein paar Monate lang gemacht übrigens, und mitgeschrieben (Stand 2023):
ht…

Brian Eno – The Lighthouse, what’s on it?
I’ve been compiling this, off and on, all year, while listening to the 340+ unreleased tracks on Brian Eno‘s Sonos HD radio station, The Lighthouse. If I had the phone nearby I’d check what’s playing, make a note of the track number and year and write a short description. I was intrigued to see how often tracks repeated (not very often), how long it would take me to hear all of them (over 6 months) and what the ratio of good to average to bad was. It became quite addictive as I’d fill…

Sum Rate Maximization for Wireless Powered Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS)
Yixuan Li, Ji Wang, Ming Zeng, Yuanwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00355 http…

Sum Rate Maximization for Wireless Powered Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS)
In this letter, we investigate a novel wireless powered communication network (WPCN) enabled by a pinching-antenna system (PASS), in which multiple pinching antennas (PAs) are activated on a waveguide to establish strong line-of-sight (LoS) links with multiple devices. In this system, time division multiple access (TDMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) protocols are adopted to fully explore the potential of the wireless information transmission. To maximize the sum rate of the PASS-WP…