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Looking at my reflection, makes me smile again, recently

Heading for my first #ETSI meeting: on #DectNRPlus. After having contributed to many #IETF meetings in the last decade, how different can it be?
Well, I know they have better graphics and worse hyperlinks. Fo…

#WordWeavers Oct 14: If your MC could ask their future self one question, what would they ask?
Prefrontal Cortex watches their reflection in the mirror with unblinking concentration. 'One question only,' they say. 'Just one.'
The silence grows in the room until they put down the teacup, and look away from the strange mirror.
'From where you stand and to the be…

The benefits of suboptimality: https://dotproto.com/2026/08/14/the-benefits-of-suboptimality.html
The search for a retro digital camera elicits a reflection on analog photography and how friction can kindle intentionality.

Reflection unveils open-weight model Beam, saying it excels at coding and agentic tasks, uses 3x-4x less compute than comparable models, and nears Qwen 3.8-Max (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/05/2026/reflection-ai-unveils-an…

Reflection AI unveils an open-source Western answer to Chinese labs
Its new model, Beam, could give more options to Western companies and governments that don’t want to — or can’t — use Chinese models.

So I've been percolating on the Gruber take on X, and I thinking I've landed on that if you're cool with Nazis, I have to really evaluate what other value you're bringing to the table. Upon reflection I don't think he has added value to the conversation for a few years now, even though I generally am with him for some of his aesthetic takes.
I can understand his reasons: online author, etc, and the general bifurcation of the tech sphere around AI. (1/2)

The #eclipse from the north Devon coast, in Croyde.

We could avoid so many fights if we could just agree to disagree.
And - 🤔 maybe - a disagreement might even lead to some reflection and discussion later on. Maybe more than hardened fronts. Well at least in my case. But maybe I'm not representative for the majority of people..
Well... Just thinking.. Feel free to disagree - or agree - or not to take a position at all.

ResonaVis: Visualizing Interactive Music Data to Support Reflective Music Composition for Therapeutic Contexts
Abhishek Karwankar, Elise Ruggiero, Daniel Stevens, Matthew Louis Mauriello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10338 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10338 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10338
arXiv:2608.10338v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Designing music for therapeutic contexts requires navigating complex relationships between musical structure and listeners' sensory responses, yet composers often lack structured representations of these interactions, relying instead on intuition. We present ResonaVis, an interactive visualization system that helps composers analyze interaction and audio data from prior sessions with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), informing future compositions. ResonaVis integrates audio features and interaction logs to capture how children engage with layered musical compositions, representing this engagement through coordinated visualizations of temporal transitions, layer co-occurrence, rhythmic activity, and spectral characteristics. Rather than prescribing strategies or supporting therapy sessions directly, the system surfaces patterns in past session data to support data-informed reflection during composition. We evaluated ResonaVis through a mixed-methods study with eight music students and a follow-up case study with two experienced composers. Results demonstrate good usability (SUS = 72.23), exceeding benchmarks for early prototypes, and show that participants could identify interaction patterns, reason about layer relationships, and make informed compositional decisions with high perceived performance and low frustration. Confidence in interpreting interaction and acoustic data for ASD-focused composition increased significantly across multiple dimensions (p < 0.05), with qualitative findings suggesting a shift toward more adaptive, data-informed composition. This work contributes a visualization design space for therapeutic music interaction data, an integrated system for compositional reflection, and empirical evidence that visualization tools support analytical reasoning and confidence in data-informed creative practice. (Abstract shortened for arXiv.)
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Sources: several Western open-weight models are set to launch this month, including Reflection AI's first model, which will rival top Chinese open-weight models (Bradley Olson/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/04/reflection-open-weight-ai

Scoop: Powerful open model is set to shake up AI race
A new U.S. AI model is set to challenge China and the domestic AI giants.

The Organic Reflection Podcast
If you've ever felt like there's more to life than what you've been given, you'll feel at home here...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-organic-reflection/

After a bit of work, I think I've got a handle on getting this struct all JSON-ified. A bit of reflection in place and it's no longer very angry...also, the `inline` keyword is very damned important with respect to looping over the fields of the struct.
#zig #reflection

Oh my! By the blinding reflection of the Great Paperclip! It is Cirno day today! I have to draw little fairies on the whiteboards

Naxatras - Reflection (Death & Rebirth)

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Sources: Nvidia is in talks to acquire or invest more into US open-weights AI startup Reflection AI; the deal may be an acquihire to avoid antitrust scrutiny (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/052610c5-22b4-4dd4-932e-b7f9f0628b6a

Edge physics and the Casimir interaction in Maxwell--Chern--Simons theory on a strip
Nicola Maggiore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12622 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12622 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12622
arXiv:2608.12622v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study Maxwell--Chern--Simons theories on a strip $\mathcal M=\mathbb R^{1,1}\times[0,h]$ within the Symanzik framework for quantum field theory with boundaries. We add the most general local boundary functional within the quadratic one-tangential-derivative truncation adopted throughout the paper and derive the admissible boundary conditions from locality and the variational principle, with gauge symmetry implemented through boundary Ward identities. The strip supports two boundary $U(1)$ current algebras, with opposite levels fixed by the Chern--Simons coupling $\kappa$ and by boundary orientation, while edge velocities depend on local boundary couplings. They are equal and opposite on the flip-symmetric branch, which is the natural choice for a spatially symmetric strip. The same boundary data determine the reflection coefficients for bulk modes and yield a closed determinant (scattering) representation of the finite interaction energy. In the Maxwell limit ($\kappa=0$) the inter-edge interaction is long-ranged and produces a power-law Casimir force, whereas in Maxwell--Chern--Simons theory the topological mass $m=\kappa g^2$ generates Yukawa suppression at large separations $mh\gg1$. The determinant form also gives analytic control of the asymptotic regimes and separates topological boundary data (levels and anomaly inflow) from dynamical bulk effects (dispersion, boundary mixing and Casimir interaction).
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Countable Functionally Balanced Groups
Li-Hong Xie, Jiang Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12494 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12494 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12494
arXiv:2608.12494v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We prove that every countable Hausdorff functionally balanced topological group is balanced, answering Question~13 in the problem list of Bouziad and Troallic. The proof does not assume metrizability, first countability, sequentiality, or a non-Archimedean local base. Its non-locally-precompact part combines an infinite-fibre amplification, a simultaneous Bernoulli colouring lemma for countably many arbitrary self-maps, a McShane extension with respect to a continuous left-invariant pseudometric, and the Protasov--Saryev criterion. We also prove a countable-union form of Question~4: in an \(\FSIN\) group, every left uniformly discrete family whose union is countable is right uniformly discrete. Consequently, Questions~7 and~8 have positive answers for \(\aleph_0\)-bounded \(\FSIN\) groups. We reconstruct all thirteen questions and their logical relations. The original problem chapter states, without proof, that a positive answer to Question~13 would imply Question~4 for all \(\aleph_0\)-bounded groups. We isolate the ambient reflection principle needed for that transfer and explain why neither subgroup reduction nor the present colouring proof establishes it. Therefore Question~12 is \emph{not} claimed as solved here: the precise boundary between the proved countable theorem and the asserted \(\aleph_0\)-bounded transfer is recorded explicitly.
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Why is the new Ocarina of Time not as exciting to 39-year old me as the original was to 12-year old me?
Must be because Nintendo is a bad company, that's it. Maybe also new games bad. That seals the deal. Good thing I got to that conclusion, I almost had to do some self-reflection there.

reflection in the wye
#river #silentSunday

The Cook Report rates more than 40 House races as competitive.
Winning around half would hand Democrats a majority.
Across all key races, Democratic candidates have been campaigning on affordability,
at a time when the Trump administration’s actions in the Middle East have pushed up prices,
particularly for gasoline and diesel.
It is a reflection of just how concerned US voters are about the economy,
rating it as the most important issue in surveys, far ahe…

"Saving Tangible Media for Tomorrow: A Reflection from Natalie Nemes" @ The Signal
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/07/natalie-nemes/
"When I tell people that I intern at the Library of Congress reformatting obsolete media such as CDs, DVDs, and flopp…

oooohkay.... 🤨
#NYPol #NYState

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Mac Demarco:
🎵 Chamber of Reflection
#MacDemarco
https://ynsx.bandcamp.com/track/mac-demarco-chamber-of-reflection-ynsx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Snko28yJOihcRVXs9dAo9

Already at a satellite event of #icm2026 - #NotreDame #Math ☘️

From The Conversation
Today is Sept. 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — a day of remembrance and reflection. It is a day to honour residential school Survivors, their families and communities, and to mourn the children who never returned home. The day is also an opportunity to listen to Indigenous voices and learn from the histories that continue to shape Canada.
In the lead-up to this week, Métis scholars Yvonne Poitras Pratt, Madelaine McCracken and Melanie Gri…

Reflection on current behavior: when you put the USB-C connector of the stick in a 3.2 slot and are surprised the USB stick isn't recognized 😆

When the Interviewer Is a Bot: Behavior, Breakdowns, and Trust in MLLM-Led Interviews
He Zhang, Kambinachi Chukwuma, ChanMin Kim, John M. Carroll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10412 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10412 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10412
arXiv:2608.10412v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Semi-structured interviews are a cornerstone of qualitative research but remain labor-intensive. We report an empirical study of what actually happens when the interviewer is an off-the-shelf real-time multimodal LLM (MLLM). We built InterviewBot, a voice-based interviewing system that wraps a real-time MLLM with a researcher-authored outline, and deployed it not as a novel architecture but as a research instrument for observing default MLLM interviewing behavior. In a practice study (N=15), participants completed a bot-led semi-structured interview and then a human-led reflection session about that experience. We contribute (i) a turn-level behavioral analysis of an MLLM interviewer (N_turns=428) showing that it is acknowledgment-heavy but probe-light (deepening probes account for 4.9% of all turns), and that 28.7% of question-bearing turns pack multiple questions into one turn despite an explicit one-question-at-a-time instruction; (ii) an inductive catalogue of four data-collection breakdowns (information loss, premature termination, latency, and interruption) observed in a deployed rather than simulated system; and (iii) three social dynamics from participants' reflections: disclosure calibration, where reduced social pressure coincided with shallower elaboration; institutional legitimacy, where trust tracked perceived stakes and what delegation to AI signaled about the organizer rather than conversational competence; and conversational grounding, where content-grounded paraphrase, not generic social filler, was what participants read as listening. We conclude with design implications for depth control, transparent handoffs, and non-templated listening mechanisms in human-centered interview automation.
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#SilentSunday

Four more #dragonfly pictures. #photography #nature

Sources: Dallas-based Disruptive is targeting up to $10B for a late-stage fund, and has secured $7.5B; founded in 2012, it has backed Groq and Reflection AI (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/ve…

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Quantum transport in a non-Hermitian 1D synthetic lattice: from quantum Zeno reflection to near-p...
Mercado-Guti\'errez, Xu, Gvozdiovas, Pi\~neiro, Arg\"uello-Lu…

#Netcup Vienna DC has a total network outage for over half an hour now and no reflection of it on the @… status page... :blobcateyes: (but dozens of posts on the netcup forum)

Non-Blurry Figures 🧿
非-模糊的形象 🧿
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#SilentSunday
[via Kimber Johnson]

Newman’s Happy Index of ‘Morbid’ Surprising Bits – Improbable Research debunking Longevity Science
“I’m being asked to promote my book, so naturally, I am going to share the most dazzling part. The index. Just the Ls. I needed an index for the copyeditor and, like P.T. Barnum in a labcoat, it turned out to be a great reflection of modern aging science.”
https://improbable.com/2026/09/10/newmans-happy-index-of-morbid-surprising-bits/?amp=1

Leadership Matters: With Griffith Business School
Hosted by Professor Ruth McPhail from Griffith Business School, the podcast offers practical insight, reflection, and advice for current and emerging leaders...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/leader

A look at the US open-weight AI model ecosystem, as VCs question the revenue potential of open-weight startups like Arcee, Reflection AI, and Poolside (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-race-to-build-an-americ…

And from my hike in the Bluntautal yesterday
#Salzburg #Bluntau #nature #lake

Unscripted - The Nudgee College Podcast
This podcast is more than just conversations; it's a reflection on resilience, the pursuit of excellence, and what we can achieve when we come together...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/unscri

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Imaging of ultrasound specularity at cortical bone interfaces to detect unbalanced remodeling: A preliminary study
Amadou S. Dia, Salom\'e Vignat, Guillaume Renaud, Quentin Grimal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16791 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.16791 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.16791
arXiv:2607.16791v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The region near the interface between cortical bone and the medullary cavity (the endosteal surface) is of particular interest for the early detection of osteoporosis. This region is typically the first to exhibit signs of unbalanced remodeling (enlarged pores and increased surface roughness). In this study, we analyze ultrasound reflection at the endosteal surface to introduce a novel potential biomarker of cortical bone health based on specularity. Our hypothesis is that increased pore size and surface roughness enhance ultrasound scattering, thereby reducing specular reflection. We reconstruct maps of specularity by combining a signal processing technique initially designed to enhance specular reflectors in soft tissues with a beamforming technique that accounts for refraction at bone soft tissue interfaces. Specularity values (between 0 and 1) quantify the similarity between received signals and signals from an ideal specular reflector. Using numerical simulations and ex vivo measurements with a 2.5 MHz phased array we highlight a strong relationship between specularity and bone microstructure, as assessed by high-resolution micro-computed tomography. Among 12 regions of interest (ROI) in the femoral bone of three donors, 8 ROIs without large pores showed high specularity (>0.5) in over 50% of pixels, in contrast to 4 ROIs with signs of extensive remodeling. Both pore volume fraction and pore size were strongly associated with specularity. In simple linear regression analyses, each parameter individually explained 84% of the variability in specularity. These findings suggest that specularity reflects bone microstructure and may potentially serve as a sensitive marker for identifying cortical bone degradation near the endosteal surface.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SaturdayMorning
Michael Tilson Thomas & Yuja Wang:
🎵 You Come Here Often? (Upon Further Reflection)
#MichaelTilsonThomas #YujaWang
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ADHWFLByJ9rG9cR8BWptE

Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/…

American Open-Source Labs Think They Can Beat China’s Best AI Startups
Chinese open-source models like Kimi and Deepseek are now dominant AI tools. American startups like Thinking Machines, Reflection AI and now Poolside are trying to challenge that.

Rob Gonsalves
#art #surrealist #surrrealism #RobGonsalves #SurrealistArt

"In most languages, metaprogramming lives in a separate layer with its own representation of code like templates, reflection APIs, token streams, quasi-quoted ASTs. Some of those layers are crude and some are genuinely sophisticated, but each is a wall between code and data. In Elisp there was never a wall to tunnel through. Elisp enables metaprogramming, but it's the same language, and the same data structures, all the way down." - Charlie Holland
#lisp #elisp #emacslisp
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/824127274686234624?source=share

How MIT thinks about AI and education. An interesting report. Recommendations:
1. Adapt educational processes for an AI-aware world
2. Center people, community, and the residential experience
3. Build processes, teams and tools for continuous reflection, iteration, and improvement
#AI #Education #MIT
https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Erykah Badu:
🎵 Orange Moon
#ErykahBadu
https://kemetic7ntr.bandcamp.com/track/03-orange-moon-1-9-reflection-mix-erykah-badu-part-ii
https://open.spotify.com/track/5dlfvkyZOuBCFP1KbzRHUx

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TalkingMusic
- Dalia Stasevska
In a new interview series creating space for in-depth reflection, Kate Molleson’s first guest is conductor Dalia Stasevska, Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002z7sj

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Mac DeMarco:
🎵 Chamber Of Reflection
#MacDeMarco
https://ynsx.bandcamp.com/track/mac-demarco-chamber-of-reflection-ynsx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Snko28yJOihcRVXs9dAo9

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayMorning
- Two hours of classical sparkle
Join Sarah for a relaxed Sunday mix, with music inspired by summer travels, a reflective Choral Reflection, spine-tingling Bernstein and one of Schubert's best-loved symphonies.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002z7v1

Crossing the Mississippi this morning, there were times and angles when I couldn’t see the Short Line Bridge through the fog, but •could• see its reflection.
#Minneapolis #MSP #TwinCities #bicycling

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Erykah Badu:
🎵 Orange Moon
#ErykahBadu
https://kemetic7ntr.bandcamp.com/track/03-orange-moon-1-9-reflection-mix-erykah-badu-part-ii
https://open.spotify.com/track/5dlfvkyZOuBCFP1KbzRHUx

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
Frank Ferko, ORA & Suzi Digby:
🎵 Reflection on Thomas Tallis's 'If ye love me'
#FrankFerko #ORA #SuziDigby
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Ccv2D603Aw2y6YWe391yl

Glass bulb ornament reflects me and everything else
#photo #photography #freeville #ornament #glass #decoration #reflection #mirror

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TalkingMusic
- Jamie Barton
Ahead of her performance of Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde at the BBC Proms, mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton joins Kate Molleson for an in-depth reflection on her life and work.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m003026x

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames:
🎵 On Reflection
#BBCConcertOrchestra #RobertAmes

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Charlotte Bray, ORA & Suzi Digby:
🎵 Agnus Dei (a reflection on Byrd's Agnus Dei from the Mass for 5 voices)
#CharlotteBray #ORA #SuziDigby
https://open.spotify.com/track/3539YfcJbuyPXm8cN13mb6

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #BBCProms
BBC Concert Orchestra & Robert Ames:
🎵 On Reflection
#BBCConcertOrchestra #RobertAmes