
2025-06-10 07:22:51
#ndwgoecountdown
ESA’s space probe #BepiColombo has reached its destination! Not #Mercury, but
#ndwgoecountdown
ESA’s space probe #BepiColombo has reached its destination! Not #Mercury, but
Immersive Visualization of Flat Surfaces Using Ray Marching
Fabian Lander, Diaaeldin Taha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07558 https://ar…
Does the US have the capacity to negotiate trade agreements with 140 countries simultaneously? Alright, call it 110 because the EU covers 28 states in one go. But still. That's a lot of meeting rooms, a lot of coffee, and lot of PowerPoint. And a lot of trade wonks, they'll be pulling kids in off the streets and telling them they're now in charge of talks with, say, Chile, or Thailand, or the UAE.
And who'd want to be a trade wonk working for an embecile who doesn'…
On the Performance of Pinching-Antenna Systems (PASS) with Orthogonal and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
Yanyu Cheng, Chongjun Ouyang, Yuanwei Liu, George K. Karagiannidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02420
There’s a new museum on Naoshima Island! This NYT article also describes the many other museums and exhibits installed there.
This is the “art island” that Lynn and I visited a couple months ago. Looks like we’ll have to go back! This time we’ll know to book rooms way in advance (and to stay longer than two nights).
🎁 link
"Good process improvement practices include:
- standardized improvement process (pdsa, or whatever)
- Going to the gemba – improvement is done where the work is done. You must go to the where the action is. Sitting in meeting rooms, or offices, reading reports and making decisions is not the way to improve effectively.
- evidence based decision making..."