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Adaptive Deception Framework with Behavioral Analysis for Enhanced Cybersecurity Defense
Basil Abdullah AL-Zahrani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02424 https://

Adaptive Deception Framework with Behavioral Analysis for Enhanced Cybersecurity Defense
This paper presents CADL (Cognitive-Adaptive Deception Layer), an adaptive deception framework achieving 99.88% detection rate with 0.13% false positive rate on the CICIDS2017 dataset. The framework employs ensemble machine learning (Random Forest, XGBoost, Neural Networks) combined with behavioral profiling to identify and adapt responses to network intrusions. Through a coordinated signal bus architecture, security components share real-time intelligence, enabling collective decision-making. …

Cthulhu's ABCs: A Heavy Metal Muppet Parody Song about the Alphabet
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cKTFaaF4T7Y&si=hyLrtV1j0mhscY2v
"What would happen if the muppets formed a heavy metal band and started worshipping Cthulhu, but they still wanted to …

My wife OIivia stands next to her friend Danielle where Danielle rode in a costume class as a hat witch at the Maine Mavericks horse show
#photo #photography #horses

An Iterative Approach for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Route Planning with Resource Transportation Uncertainty and Temporal Logic Goals
Gustavo A. Cardona, Kaier Liang, Cristian-Ioan Vasile
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19429

An Iterative Approach for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Route Planning with Resource Transportation Uncertainty and Temporal Logic Goals
This paper presents an iterative approach for heterogeneous multi-agent route planning in environments with unknown resource distributions. We focus on a team of robots with diverse capabilities tasked with executing missions specified using Capability Temporal Logic (CaTL), a formal framework built on Signal Temporal Logic to handle spatial, temporal, capability, and resource constraints. The key challenge arises from the uncertainty in the initial distribution and quantity of resources in the…

Today has been mainly about stripping down my favourite mountain bike for repainting and renovation.
#BikeTooter

Aerodynamic performance and robustness of a nature-inspired concept for a micro-scale wind turbine
J. M. Catal\'an, G. Arranz, M. Moriche, M. Guerrero-Hurtado, M. Garc\'ia-Villalba, O. Flores
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24998

Aerodynamic performance and robustness of a nature-inspired concept for a micro-scale wind turbine
We present direct numerical simulations of a novel concept for a micro-scale wind turbine, inspired in the mechanics of the auto-rotation of winged seeds. In this nature-inspired concept the turbine blades have two degrees of freedom: the pitch and the elevation (or coning) angles. These allow the blade to vary its attitude with respect to the incoming velocity seen by the blade (i.e., the tip-speed ratio, $λ$). In order to validate this new concept, we perform numerical simulations of the cou…

Red alert: Millions of "homeless" publications in Scopus should be resettled
Weishu Liu, Haifeng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18146 https://ar…

Red alert: Millions of "homeless" publications in Scopus should be resettled
Scopus is increasingly regarded as a high-quality and reliable data source for research and evaluation of scientific and scholarly activity. However, a puzzling phenomenon has been discovered occasionally: millions of records with author affiliation information collected in Scopus are oddly labeled as "country-undefined" by Scopus which is rarely to be detected in its counterpart Web of Science. This huge number of "homeless" records in Scopus is unacceptable for a widely used high-quality bibl…

Good Morning #Canada
Summer may be over, at least emotionally, but there's lots of nice weather as we enter Fall Fair season in Canada. Canada has incredible agricultural potential in every province - and maybe we need a series of posts on that - and fall is when rural communities celebrate the harvest with demonstrations and competitions. But city folk are invited and encouraged to visit your local event and get acquainted with plowing matches, the price of a new tractor, cattle judging, and who has the biggest watermelons. Here's a small list of some of the most prominent Fall Fairs out of the hundreds that take place annually.
BTW - In my only plant submission to one of these festivals (Erin Fall Fair), I got 3rd place for the tallest sunflower. Rookie mistake, I cut my plant at ground level, and it was 11.5 feet high. The winners ahead of me dug out the roots and submitted the entire plant. I was robbed!
#CanadaIsAwesome #FallFairs #Farming
https://www.mapquest.com/travel/the-12-best-fall-fairs-in-canada/

New book on the history of McGill University - written and edited by historians, not the university's comms department. I wrote a chapter on how Indigenous dispossession and colonial politicians saved McGill when it was in danger of going broke. Others cover McGill's ties to chattel slavery, Japanese exclusion, research of various sorts, student lives, queer experiences, and more.
Check it out:

Dynamicasome: a molecular dynamics-guided and AI-driven pathogenicity prediction catalogue for all genetic mutations
Naeyma N Islam, Mathew A Coban, Jessica M Fuller, Caleb Weber, Rohit Chitale, Benjamin Jussila, Trisha J. Brock, Cui Tao, Thomas R Caulfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19766

Dynamicasome: a molecular dynamics-guided and AI-driven pathogenicity prediction catalogue for all genetic mutations
Advances in genomic medicine accelerate the identi cation of mutations in disease-associated genes, but the pathogenicity of many mutations remains unknown, hindering their use in diagnostics and clinical decision-making. Predictive AI models are generated to combat this issue, but current tools display low accuracy when tested against functionally validated datasets. We show that integrating detailed conformational data extracted from molecular dynamics simulations (MDS) into advanced AI-based…