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Agent's Take: What extensions could look like for Garrett Wilson, Aidan Hutchinson, other 2022 first-rounders

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/…

Hybridizing Expressive Rendering: Stroke-Based Rendering with Classic and Neural Methods
Kapil Dev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00870 https://

Hybridizing Expressive Rendering: Stroke-Based Rendering with Classic and Neural Methods
Non-Photorealistic Rendering (NPR) has long been used to create artistic visualizations that prioritize style over realism, enabling the depiction of a wide range of aesthetic effects, from hand-drawn sketches to painterly renderings. While classical NPR methods, such as edge detection, toon shading, and geometric abstraction, have been well-established in both research and practice, with a particular focus on stroke-based rendering, the recent rise of deep learning represents a paradigm shift.…

#Sonnenstürme verkürzen die Lebensdauer von #Starlink-Satelliten und lassen sie schneller zur Erde zurückkehren.
Durch erhöhte #Atmosphärendichte steigt der Luftwiderstan…

Tracking Reentries of Starlink Satellites During the Rising Phase of Solar Cycle 25
The exponential increase of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites in the past 5 years has brought into intense focus the need for reliable monitoring and reentry prediction to safeguard from space collisions and ground debris impacts. However, LEO satellites fly within the upper atmosphere region that exerts significant drag forces to their orbits, reducing their lifetimes, and increasing collision risks during dynamic events, like geomagnetic storms. Such conditions can become more severe during ge…

Zukunftstechnologie https://www.zeit.de/news/2025-06/30/frankreich-faehrt-akw-wegen-hitzewelle-runter

A reentrancy of motility-induced phase separation in overdamped active Brownian particles
Hiroya Yamamoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01553 https://

A reentrancy of motility-induced phase separation in overdamped active Brownian particles
In a system of Self-Propelled Particles (SPPs), the combination of self-propulsion and excluded volume effects can result in a phase separation called Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). Previous studies reported that MIPS is one of the phenomena so-called "reentrant phase separation" ,i.e., MIPS is suppressed when the Péclet number $Pe$ (dimensionless self-propelled speed) is sufficiently large. We used a fundamental model of SPPs, i.e., overdamped Active Brownian Partcles (ABPs), to in…

Globally Consistent RGB-D SLAM with 2D Gaussian Splatting
Xingguang Zhong, Yue Pan, Liren Jin, Marija Popovi\'c, Jens Behley, Cyrill Stachniss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00970

Globally Consistent RGB-D SLAM with 2D Gaussian Splatting
Recently, 3D Gaussian splatting-based RGB-D SLAM displays remarkable performance of high-fidelity 3D reconstruction. However, the lack of depth rendering consistency and efficient loop closure limits the quality of its geometric reconstructions and its ability to perform globally consistent mapping online. In this paper, we present 2DGS-SLAM, an RGB-D SLAM system using 2D Gaussian splatting as the map representation. By leveraging the depth-consistent rendering property of the 2D variant, we pr…

Does anyone have suggested spacing guidelines for Molex PicoBlade connectors oriented in a row so that the cables run over each other?
Obviously the three shown here are too close.
But how far apart is far enough?

A LoD of Gaussians: Unified Training and Rendering for Ultra-Large Scale Reconstruction with External Memory
Felix Windisch, Lukas Radl, Thomas K\"ohler, Michael Steiner, Dieter Schmalstieg, Markus Steinberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01110

A LoD of Gaussians: Unified Training and Rendering for Ultra-Large Scale Reconstruction with External Memory
Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a high-performance technique for novel view synthesis, enabling real-time rendering and high-quality reconstruction of small scenes. However, scaling to larger environments has so far relied on partitioning the scene into chunks -- a strategy that introduces artifacts at chunk boundaries, complicates training across varying scales, and is poorly suited to unstructured scenarios such as city-scale flyovers combined with street-level views. Moreover, rendering re…

Saquon Barkley isn't the top fantasy football pick and shouldn't even be a first-rounder https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6205812/2025/06/03/saquon-barkley-fantasy-football-draft-madden/

Finished initial rough floorplanning of the switch engine board. Definitely not final but I have the major subsystems spread out vaguely near where they're going to go.
The power inlet jack has to move since it's an in-chassis connection.