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Today's SCOTUS ruling on the maximum scope of district and circuit (appellate) court rulings is going to create a hierarchy of zones in the US.
These zones will align with the boundaries of the Federal courts (and thus may be altered by Congress).
Some of these zones will have more freedom - such as those in California - and some will will have less - such as those in Texas.
We are slowing moving the US away from the Constitution and back towards the failed Articles of …

Archaea Exchange review https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/archaea-exchange?u…

I did some experiments measuring propagation delay in a simple chain of 3 digital inverters (NOT gates) (74LS04).
I'm honestly not sure my entry-level scope is fast enough to accurately measure this, but it's fun to try.
It's also interesting to watch the signals completely freak out when you change the input voltage too slowly, but I didn't make a screenshot of that.
#electronics

Same Data, Different Audiences: Using Personas to Scope a Supercomputing Job Queue Visualization
Connor Scully-Allison, Kevin Menear, Kristin Potter, Andrew McNutt, Katherine E. Isaacs, Dmitry Duplyakin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17898

Same Data, Different Audiences: Using Personas to Scope a Supercomputing Job Queue Visualization
Domain-specific visualizations sometimes focus on narrow, albeit important, tasks for one group of users. This focus limits the utility of a visualization to other groups working with the same data. While tasks elicited from other groups can present a design pitfall if not disambiguated, they also present a design opportunity -- development of visualizations that support multiple groups. This development choice presents a trade off of broadening the scope but limiting support for the more narro…

Fuzzy scope 3 emissions https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325004992 @…

Hackers stole data on 2.2 million people in cyberattack affecting American grocery chains https://therecord.media/hackers-cyberattack-grocery-chain

Sonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…

A bibliometric study on mathematical oncology: interdisciplinarity, internationality, collaboration and trending topics
Kira Pugh, Linn\'ea Gyllingberg, Stanislav Stratiev, Sara Hamis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20684

A bibliometric study on mathematical oncology: interdisciplinarity, internationality, collaboration and trending topics
Mathematical oncology is an interdisciplinary research field where mathematics meets cancer research. The field's intention to study cancer makes it dynamic, as practicing researchers are incentivised to quickly adapt to both technical and medical research advances. Determining the scope of mathematical oncology is therefore not straightforward; however, it is important for purposes related to funding allocation, education, scientific communication, and community organisation. To address this i…


Three House Democratic committee leaders have introduced a
⭐️War Powers Resolution
that would limit Donald Trump from escalating a conflict with Iran without congressional approval.

The Democratic resolution
— led by Reps. Gregory W. Meeks (D-New York), ranking Democrat of the House Foreign Affairs,
Adam Smith (D-Washington) of House Armed Services
and Jim Himes (D-Connecticut) of the House Select Committee on Intelligence
— would direct the preside…

Israel-Iran live updates: Qatar closes airspace; IDF expands scope of strikes
Iran reiterated its right to self-defense as President Donald Trump repeated his claim that U.S. strikes caused “monumental damage” to Iranian nuclear sites.

SCOPE for Hexapod Gait Generation
Jim O'Connor, Jay B. Nash, Derin Gezgin, Gary B. Parker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13539 https://

SCOPE for Hexapod Gait Generation
Evolutionary methods have previously been shown to be an effective learning method for walking gaits on hexapod robots. However, the ability of these algorithms to evolve an effective policy rapidly degrades as the input space becomes more complex. This degradation is due to the exponential growth of the solution space, resulting from an increasing parameter count to handle a more complex input. In order to address this challenge, we introduce Sparse Cosine Optimized Policy Evolution (SCOPE). S…

Tonight's quick ngscopeclient dev fix: GPU accelerating the demo scope.
It now runs quite a few times faster than before (and is faster to process subsequent filter blocks on, since the input data is now GPU resident).
Not super critical but a nice quality-of-life fix since I use the demo scope as a data source for development pretty often.

The Composition of Digital Twins for Systems-of-Systems: a Systematic Literature Review
Mennatullah T. Khedr, John S. Fitzgerald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20435

The Composition of Digital Twins for Systems-of-Systems: a Systematic Literature Review
Digital Twins (DTs) are increasingly used to model complex systems, especially in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and System-of-Systems (SoS), where effective integration is key. This systematic literature review investigates DT composition and verification and validation (V&V) methodologies. Analyzing 21 studies from 2022-2024, we examined composition mechanisms, SoS characteristics, and V&V formality, scope, and challenges. While composition is discussed, formalization is limited. V&V approaches…

The Commission has issued guidelines to clarify the scope of the obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models under the AI Act. These obligations enter into application on 2 August 2025.
#eu #ai #aiact

Hundreds of Newly-Found Structures Reveal True Scope of Hidden Pre-Incan Civilization https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/hundreds-of-newly-found-structures-reveal-the-true-scope-of-this-little-known-pre-i…

Hundreds of Newly-Found Structures Reveal True Scope of Hidden Pre-Incan Civilization
Gran Pajatén is located high in the northeastern Peruvian Andes, and was likely the center of the Chachapoya civilization.

Scott Logic Lead Developer Darren Smith shares a report of carbon emission measuring software tools in 2025, their scope, and reviews these in the context of principal cloud service providers' offerings, including Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon AWS.
"Tools for measuring Cloud Carbon Emissions (updated for 2025)"

Tools for measuring Cloud Carbon Emissions (updated for 2025)
In this post I'll discuss ways of estimating the emissions caused by your Cloud workloads as a first step towards reaching your organisation's Net Zero goals.

»Over 100,000 WordPress Sites Exposed to Privilege Escalation via MCP AI Engine:
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified a severe security flaw in the AI Engine plugin, a widely used tool installed on over 100,000 WordPress websites.«
This is not surprising, especially since WordPress is very popular. However, the fact that it affects this scope should generally draw our attention to it on the web.
😬

Over 100,000 WordPress Sites Exposed to Privilege Escalation via MCP AI Engine
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified a severe security flaw in the AI Engine plugin, a widely used tool installed.

Notes from the bulk
Erica Bertolini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16744 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.16744

Notes from the bulk
The scope of this Ph.D thesis is to study the effects of the presence of a boundary from a Quantum Field Theoretical perspective, searching for new physics and explanations of observed phenomena. In particular, thanks to the formal QFT setting, the issue of the existence of local, accelerated, edge modes in Hall systems is analyzed and understood in terms of the bulk-to-boundary approach as related to a curved background in topological QFTs with boundary. Within this formalism the induced metri…

Trump plans to tour Texas flood damage as disaster tests his pledge to shutter FEMA (Will Weissert/Associated Press)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-plans-tour-texas-flood-damage-scope-disaster-123666823
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p37#a250711p37

AI labeling reduces the perceived accuracy of online content but has limited broader effects
Chuyao Wang, Patrick Sturgis, Daniel de Kadt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16202

AI labeling reduces the perceived accuracy of online content but has limited broader effects
Explicit labeling of online content produced by artificial intelligence (AI) is a widely mooted policy for ensuring transparency and promoting public confidence. Yet little is known about the scope of AI labeling effects on public assessments of labeled content. We contribute new evidence on this question from a survey experiment using a high-quality nationally representative probability sample (n = 3,861). First, we demonstrate that explicit AI labeling of a news article about a proposed publi…

A tissue and cell-level annotated H&E and PD-L1 histopathology image dataset in non-small cell lung cancer
Joey Spronck, Leander van Eekelen, Dominique van Midden, Joep Bogaerts, Leslie Tessier, Valerie Dechering, Muradije Demirel-Andishmand, Gabriel Silva de Souza, Roland Nemeth, Enrico Munari, Giuseppe Bogina, Ilaria Girolami, Albino Eccher, Balazs Acs, Ceren Boyaci, Natalie Klubickova, Monika Looijen-Salamon, Shoko Vos, Francesco Ciompi

A tissue and cell-level annotated H&E and PD-L1 histopathology image dataset in non-small cell lung cancer
The tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) histopathology contains morphological and molecular characteristics predictive of immunotherapy response. Computational quantification of TIME characteristics, such as cell detection and tissue segmentation, can support biomarker development. However, currently available digital pathology datasets of NSCLC for the development of cell detection or tissue segmentation algorithms are limited in scope, lack annotations o…

Meta's Scale AI deal dwarfs rivals' "reverse acquihires" in scope and ambition, showing that its fear of lagging in AI outweighs fears of regulatory backlash (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters…

Reading LeGuin's "Four Ways to Forgiveness" and she's excellent as usual; this is my first time reading anything set on Hain, which is kind of exciting. I love this line, which happens while describing Havzhiva's education among the Historians and his initial reaction to seeing these gulf in belief systems and knowledge scope between his upbringing and there Historians' perspective:
"They are childish, irrational beliefs! he said. They looked at him, and he knew he had said something childish and irrational."
Definitely jives with my position as an agnostic :)
#AmReading

Fibring structures of ideals in Roe algebras and their $K$-theories
Zhijie Wang, Benyin Fu, Jiawen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17105 https://

Fibring structures of ideals in Roe algebras and their $K$-theories
In this paper, we investigate the ideal structure of Roe algebras for metric spaces beyond the scope of Yu's property A. Using the tool of rank distributions, we establish fibring structures for the lattice of ideals in Roe algebras and draw the border of each fibre by introducing the so-called ghostly ideals together with geometric ideals. We also provide coarse geometric criteria to ensure the coincidence of geometric and ghostly ideals and calculate their $K$-theories, which can be helpful t…

Constraining parameters of spinor field dark energy: An alternative to $\Lambda$CDM model under the spherically symmetric FLRW space-time
Bijan Saha, Mahendra Goray
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16323

Constraining parameters of spinor field dark energy: An alternative to $Λ$CDM model under the spherically symmetric FLRW space-time
This study constrains the cosmological parameters within the scope of a spherically symmetric FLRW cosmological model, the role of a nonlinear spinor field in the universe's evolution. To test this approach, we incorporate the recent Cosmic chronometers, Supernova, and Sloan Digital Sky Survey data. It is found that if spherical coordinates give the FLRW model, the energy-momentum tensor (EMT) of the spinor field possesses nontrivial non-diagonal components. These non-diagonal components of EMT…

A lot of the design work that goes into programming languages and tools is about prompting developers to •think about meaning•: tests, types, scope, compile errors, runtime errors — all about •preventing code from running• in the presence of an expectation/reality mismatch.
I’m always on high alert for tools that promise to speed development by letting developers skip the thinking.
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On the relation between perspective-neutral, algebraic, and effective quantum reference frames
Philipp A. Hoehn, Julian De Vuyst, Artur Tsobanjan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14131 …

On the relation between perspective-neutral, algebraic, and effective quantum reference frames
The framework of internal quantum reference frames (QRFs) constitutes a universal toolset for dealing with symmetries in quantum theory and has led to new revelations in quantum gravity, gauge theories and foundational physics. Multiple approaches have emerged, sometimes differing in scope and the way symmetries are implemented, raising the question as to their relation. Here, we investigate the relation between three approaches to QRFs for gauge symmetries, namely the effective semiclassical, …

And this is why ngscopeclient development is a pain sometimes...
https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal/issues/975#issuecomment-3071989479

Rigol MSO5000 BIN file import issues · Issue #975 · ngscopeclient/scopehal
I've generated a .bin waveform recording using a Rigol MSO5074 containing a 20ms span of the scope's calibration signal on channel 1 and an open input on channel 2, with 1k memory depth at 50kSa/s....

#WhoFi: It is now possible to track people based on how their bodies (without devices!) block wifi signals
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/whofi_wifi_identifier/…

LOOM-Scope: a comprehensive and efficient LOng-cOntext Model evaluation framework
Zecheng Tang, Haitian Wang, Quantong Qiu, Baibei Ji, Ruoxi Sun, Keyan Zhou, Juntao Li, Min Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04723

LOOM-Scope: a comprehensive and efficient LOng-cOntext Model evaluation framework
Long-context processing has become a fundamental capability for large language models~(LLMs). To assess model's long-context performance, numerous long-context evaluation benchmarks have been proposed. However, variations in evaluation settings across these benchmarks lead to inconsistent results, making it difficult to draw reliable comparisons. Besides, the high computational cost of long-context evaluation poses a significant barrier for the community to conduct comprehensive assessments of …

Domain-randomized deep learning for neuroimage analysis
Malte Hoffmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13458 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13…

Domain-randomized deep learning for neuroimage analysis
Deep learning has revolutionized neuroimage analysis by delivering unprecedented speed and accuracy. However, the narrow scope of many training datasets constrains model robustness and generalizability. This challenge is particularly acute in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), where image appearance varies widely across pulse sequences and scanner hardware. A recent domain-randomization strategy addresses the generalization problem by training deep neural networks on synthetic images with random…

Predictive Analytics for Collaborators Answers, Code Quality, and Dropout on Stack Overflow
Elijah Zolduoarrati, Sherlock A. Licorish, Nigel Stanger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18329

Predictive Analytics for Collaborators Answers, Code Quality, and Dropout on Stack Overflow
Previous studies that used data from Stack Overflow to develop predictive models often employed limited benchmarks of 3-5 models or adopted arbitrary selection methods. Despite being insightful, their limited scope suggests the need to benchmark more models to avoid overlooking untested algorithms. Our study evaluates 21 algorithms across three tasks: predicting the number of question a user is likely to answer, their code quality violations, and their dropout status. We employed normalisation,…

Expansive Natural Neural Gradient Flows for Energy Minimization
Wolfgang Dahmen, Wuchen Li, Yuankai Teng, Zhu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13475 https:/…

Expansive Natural Neural Gradient Flows for Energy Minimization
This paper develops expansive gradient dynamics in deep neural network-induced mapping spaces. Specifically, we generate tools and concepts for minimizing a class of energy functionals in an abstract Hilbert space setting covering a wide scope of applications such as PDEs-based inverse problems and supervised learning. The approach hinges on a Hilbert space metric in the full diffeomorphism mapping space, which could be viewed as a generalized Wasserstein-2 metric. We then study a projection gr…

From its outset, Trump 2.0 has been grounded on systemic illegality and unilateral executive actions,
a course of (mis)conduct the administration has succeeded in pursuing because of pliant GOP majorities in Congress the Supreme Court.
It’s all but certain that the administration’s authoritarian conduct will grow in scope and intensity over the succeeding months,
in no small part because the GOP reconciliation bill will hand over a staggering $170 billion to the Department…

The emerging coup
Lawless authoritarian regimes don't give up power willingly.

Illuminating the Three Dogmas of Reinforcement Learning under Evolutionary Light
Mani Hamidi, Terrence W. Deacon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11482 https://

Illuminating the Three Dogmas of Reinforcement Learning under Evolutionary Light
Three core tenets of reinforcement learning (RL)--concerning the definition of agency, the objective of learning, and the scope of the reward hypothesis--have been highlighted as key targets for conceptual revision, with major implications for theory and application. We propose a framework, inspired by open-ended evolutionary theory, to reconsider these three "dogmas." We revisit each assumption and address related concerns raised alongside them. To make our arguments relevant to RL as a model …

exhibit A / exhibit B
am i delirious or does this PHY just... not comply with the RMII spec??

Approximation Fixpoint Theory as a Unifying Framework for Fuzzy Logic Programming Semantics (Extended Version)
Pascal Kettmann, Jesse Heyninck, Hannes Strass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11961

Approximation Fixpoint Theory as a Unifying Framework for Fuzzy Logic Programming Semantics (Extended Version)
Fuzzy logic programming is an established approach for reasoning under uncertainty. Several semantics from classical, two-valued logic programming have been generalized to the case of fuzzy logic programs. In this paper, we show that two of the most prominent classical semantics, namely the stable model and the well-founded semantics, can be reconstructed within the general framework of approximation fixpoint theory (AFT). This not only widens the scope of AFT from two- to many-valued logics, b…

Mariners' Cal Raleigh first catcher to win Home Run Derby; Jets sign Garrett Wilson to $130M extension

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mariner

Superconducting order parameter manifested in quasicrystals
Sougata Biswas, Debika Debnath, Paramita Dutta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14671 https://…

Superconducting order parameter manifested in quasicrystals
Recent discovery of the superconducting ground state in Quasicrystals (QCs) has opened up an exciting new avenue for superconductivity based on QCs. However, theoretical studies to date have largely focused on a limited subset of quasiperiodic structures. In this work, we broaden the scope by theoretically investigating the behavior of the superconducting order parameter (OP) across a wide class of aperiodic systems, including both generalized Fibonacci and non-Fibonacci QCs based on the attrac…

LLM-Based Bot Broadens the Range of Arguments in Online Discussions, Even When Transparently Disclosed as AI
Valeria Vuk, Cristina Sarasua, Fabrizio Gilardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17073

LLM-Based Bot Broadens the Range of Arguments in Online Discussions, Even When Transparently Disclosed as AI
A wide range of participation is essential for democracy, as it helps prevent the dominance of extreme views, erosion of legitimacy, and political polarization. However, engagement in online political discussions often features a limited spectrum of views due to high levels of self-selection and the tendency of online platforms to facilitate exchanges primarily among like-minded individuals. This study examines whether an LLM-based bot can widen the scope of perspectives expressed by participan…

Sonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…

Unmodulated Visible Light Positioning: A Deep Dive into Techniques, Studies, and Future Prospects
Morteza Alijani, Wout Joseph, David Plets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13080

Unmodulated Visible Light Positioning: A Deep Dive into Techniques, Studies, and Future Prospects
Visible Light Positioning (VLP) has emerged as a promising technology for next-generation indoor positioning systems (IPS), particularly within the scope of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. Its attractiveness stems from leveraging existing lighting infrastructures equipped with light-emitting diodes (LEDs), enabling cost-efficient deployments and achieving high-precision positioning accuracy in the centimeter-todecimeter range. However, widespread adoption of traditional VLP solutions f…

Hyper pattern matching
Masaki Waga, \'Etienne Andr\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12102 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12102

Hyper pattern matching
In runtime verification, pattern matching, which searches for occurrences of a specific pattern within a word, provides more information than a simple violation detection of the monitored property, by locating concrete evidence of the violation. However, witnessing violations of some properties, particularly hyperproperties, requires evidence across multiple input words or different parts of the same word, which goes beyond the scope of conventional pattern matching. We propose here hyper patte…

CubeSat Orbit Insertion Maneuvering Using J2 Perturbation
M. Amin Alandihallaj, M. Reza Emami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13017 https://

CubeSat Orbit Insertion Maneuvering Using J2 Perturbation
The precise insertion of CubeSats into designated orbits is a complex task, primarily due to the limited propulsion capabilities and constrained fuel reserves onboard, which severely restrict the scope for large orbital corrections. This limitation necessitates the development of more efficient maneuvering techniques to ensure mission success. In this paper, we propose a maneuvering sequence that exploits the natural J2 perturbation caused by the Earth's oblateness. By utilizing the secular eff…

Will do a more proper demo of this later on, with a cleaner bench (right now I just want to update some screenshots for the ngscopeclient website).
But I'm throwing together a quick demo of multiple-scope sync operation using ngscopeclient and the trigger crossbar.

Wow. Yes. From a California district court:
“At this early stage of the proceedings, the Court must determine whether the President followed the congressionally mandated procedure for his actions. He did not. His actions were illegal—both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.” https://journa.host/@chrisgeidner/114673375048335011

A Generalized Framework for Approximate Co-Sufficient Sampling
Jie Xie, Dongming Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12334 https://arxiv…

A Generalized Framework for Approximate Co-Sufficient Sampling
Approximate co-sufficient sampling (aCSS) offers a principled route to hypothesis testing when null distributions are unknown, yet current implementations are confined to maximum likelihood estimators with smooth or linear regularization and provide little theoretical insight into power. We present a generalized framework that widens the scope of the aCSS method to embrace nonlinear regularization, such as group lasso and nonconvex penalties, as well as robust and nonparametric estimators. More…

BreastSegNet: Multi-label Segmentation of Breast MRI
Qihang Li, Jichen Yang, Yaqian Chen, Yuwen Chen, Hanxue Gu, Lars J. Grimm, Maciej A. Mazurowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13604

BreastSegNet: Multi-label Segmentation of Breast MRI
Breast MRI provides high-resolution imaging critical for breast cancer screening and preoperative staging. However, existing segmentation methods for breast MRI remain limited in scope, often focusing on only a few anatomical structures, such as fibroglandular tissue or tumors, and do not cover the full range of tissues seen in scans. This narrows their utility for quantitative analysis. In this study, we present BreastSegNet, a multi-label segmentation algorithm for breast MRI that covers nine…

LevelSetPy: A GPU-Accelerated Package for Hyperbolic Hamilton-Jacobi Partial Differential Equations
Lekan Molu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11542 https://

LevelSetPy: A GPU-Accelerated Package for Hyperbolic Hamilton-Jacobi Partial Differential Equations
This article introduces a software package release for geometrically reasoning about the \textit{safety} desiderata of (complex) dynamical systems via level set methods. In emphasis, safety is analyzed with Hamilton-Jacobi equations. In scope, we provide implementations of numerical algorithms for the resolution of Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs equations: the spatial derivatives of the associated value function via upwinding, the Hamiltonian via Lax-Friedrichs schemes, and the integration of the Hamil…

A variationally consistent and asymptotically convergent phase-field model for solute precipitation and dissolution
Andrea Lamperti, Laura De Lorenzis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13270

A variationally consistent and asymptotically convergent phase-field model for solute precipitation and dissolution
We propose a novel phase-field model for solute precipitation and dissolution in liquid solutions. Unlike in previous studies with similar scope, in our model the two non-linear coupled governing equations of the problem, which deliver the solute ion concentration and the phase-field variable, are derived in a variationally consistent way starting from a free energy functional of Modica-Mortola type. The phase-field variable is assumed to follow the non-conservative Allen-Cahn evolution law, wh…

Our pick this week is a melancholic, atmospheric track from Steven Wilson. Epic in scope but perfect to kick off a slow, reflective weekend - this one’s worth sinking into.
Give it a spin, check out our thoughts, and let it set the tone.
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The Origin of the Gauge Theories of Glassy Systems
Son L. D., Vasin M. G
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09589 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.…

The Origin of the Gauge Theories of Glassy Systems
The analytical model of a glass-forming system is formulated within the formalism analogous to gauge theory constructions in quantum field theory. This work explores the scope of the proposed approach and investigates the equilibrium behavior of the model under the mean-field approximation. The analysis reveals three possible equilibrium scenarios, only one of which exhibits strong glass-forming ability. Additionally, an upper limit for the initial temperature is identified, beyond which quench…

Vermont and Nebraska: Diverging Experiments in State Age-Appropriate Design Codes
https://fpf.org/blog/vermont-and-nebraska-diverging-experiments-in-state-age-appropriate-design-codes/
@…

Simplifications are Absolutists: How Simplified Language Reduces Word Sense Awareness in LLM-Generated Definitions
Lukas Ellinger, Miriam Ansch\"utz, Georg Groh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11981

Simplifications are Absolutists: How Simplified Language Reduces Word Sense Awareness in LLM-Generated Definitions
Large Language Models (LLMs) can provide accurate word definitions and explanations for any context. However, the scope of the definition changes for different target groups, like children or language learners. This is especially relevant for homonyms, words with multiple meanings, where oversimplification might risk information loss by omitting key senses, potentially misleading users who trust LLM outputs. We investigate how simplification impacts homonym definition quality across three targe…

Stability and Extension of Steady and Ranging Persistence
Yann-Situ Gazull
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07911 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Stability and Extension of Steady and Ranging Persistence
Persistent homology is a topological data analysis tool that has been widely generalized, extending its scope outside the field of topology. Among its extensions, steady and ranging persistence was developed to study a wide variety of graph properties. Precisely, given a feature of interest on graphs, it is possible to build two types of persistence (steady and ranging persistence) that follow the evolution of the feature along graph filtrations. This study extends steady and ranging persistenc…

Reed-Muller Codes for Quantum Pauli and Multiple Access Channels
Dina Abdelhadi, Colin Sandon, Emmanuel Abbe, Ruediger Urbanke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08651

Reed-Muller Codes for Quantum Pauli and Multiple Access Channels
Reed-Muller (RM) codes have undergone significant analytical advancements over the past decade, particularly for binary memoryless symmetric (BMS) channels. We extend the scope of RM codes development and analysis to multiple-access channels (MACs) and quantum Pauli channels, leveraging a unified approach. Specifically, we first derive the achievable rate region for RM codes on so-called Q-MACs, a class of MACs with additive correlated noise. This is achieved via a generalization of the bending…

Exciting news! Just tagged ngscopeclient v0.1-rc1!
There are now only three known release blocking issues:
* MacOS binary packaging (https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps/issues/743)
* Removing use of one deprecated ImGui function that I t…

Packaging: ngscopeclient packaging and (eventually) CPack and the Windows and MacOS equivalent · Issue #743 · ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps
Intro We need to make our linux build outputs CPackable so we can generate distro-specific packages that pull in external dependencies automagically. Afterwards we need to fix Windows MSYS DLLs + i...

LISTEN: Lightweight Industrial Sound-representable Transformer for Edge Notification
Changheon Han, Yun Seok Kang, Yuseop Sim, Martin Byung-Guk Jun, Hyung Wook Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07879

LISTEN: Lightweight Industrial Sound-representable Transformer for Edge Notification
Deep learning-based machine listening is broadening the scope of industrial acoustic analysis for applications like anomaly detection and predictive maintenance, thereby improving manufacturing efficiency and reliability. Nevertheless, its reliance on large, task-specific annotated datasets for every new task limits widespread implementation on shop floors. While emerging sound foundation models aim to alleviate data dependency, they are too large and computationally expensive, requiring cloud …

I have been trialling Substack as a supplement to my blog. Substack has a large community of people interested in local and social history, so it's a good fit for me. I'm not planning to stop blogging, and some posts may appear in both places, but it allows me scope to write on a wider range of topics. https://

Newspapers and Research
The Norwood Review and Sir Archur Conan Doyle

"""
Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
"""
(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)

EMBER2024 -- A Benchmark Dataset for Holistic Evaluation of Malware Classifiers
Robert J. Joyce, Gideon Miller, Phil Roth, Richard Zak, Elliott Zaresky-Williams, Hyrum Anderson, Edward Raff, James Holt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05074

EMBER2024 -- A Benchmark Dataset for Holistic Evaluation of Malware Classifiers
A lack of accessible data has historically restricted malware analysis research, and practitioners have relied heavily on datasets provided by industry sources to advance. Existing public datasets are limited by narrow scope - most include files targeting a single platform, have labels supporting just one type of malware classification task, and make no effort to capture the evasive files that make malware detection difficult in practice. We present EMBER2024, a new dataset that enables holisti…

Scope Meets Screen: Lessons Learned in Designing Composite Visualizations for Marksmanship Training Across Skill Levels
Emin Zerman, Jonas Carlsson, M{\aa}rten Sj\"ostr\"om
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00333

Scope Meets Screen: Lessons Learned in Designing Composite Visualizations for Marksmanship Training Across Skill Levels
Marksmanship practices are required in various professions, including police, military personnel, hunters, as well as sports shooters, such as Olympic shooting, biathlon, and modern pentathlon. The current form of training and coaching is mostly based on repetition, where the coach does not see through the eyes of the shooter, and analysis is limited to stance and accuracy post-session. In this study, we present a shooting visualization system and evaluate its perceived effectiveness for both n…

Trump's deportation program nets positive approval amid contrasting views over its scope, CBS News poll finds (Anthony Salvanto/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deportation-immigration-opinion-poll/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p26#a250608p26

CMI-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Music Instruction Following
Yinghao Ma, Siyou Li, Juntao Yu, Emmanouil Benetos, Akira Maezawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12285 …

CMI-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Music Instruction Following
Recent advances in audio-text large language models (LLMs) have opened new possibilities for music understanding and generation. However, existing benchmarks are limited in scope, often relying on simplified tasks or multi-choice evaluations that fail to reflect the complexity of real-world music analysis. We reinterpret a broad range of traditional MIR annotations as instruction-following formats and introduce CMI-Bench, a comprehensive music instruction following benchmark designed to evaluat…

Report: Swiss deep tech startups have created over $100B in total enterprise value, with 60% of VC funding in Switzerland from 2019 to 2025 going to deep tech (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/26/switzerlands-100b-deeptech-engine-comes-…

Switzerland’s $100B deeptech engine comes Into focus
Today, the launch of The Swiss Deep Tech Report 2025 spotlights how Switzerland has quietly become one of the world’s most advanced and efficient deeptech ecosystems. Curated in close collaboration with Dealroom.co, Startupticker and venture capital firms Founderful and Kickfund, the report is the first of its kind to map the full scope of Switzerland’s deeptech performance - from research institutions and patents to venture activity and late-stage outcomes. With over 1500 Swiss deeptech …

At various times Trump has invoked, and lost, both presidential immunity and Westfall immunity.
The Westfall Act says that the US is responsible for any govt employee’s tort within the scope of his/her employment.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:v

Downscaling with AI reveals the large role of internal variability in fine-scale projections of climate extremes
Neelesh Rampal, Peter B. Gibson, Steven C. Sherwood, Laura E. Queen, Hamish Lewis, Gab Abramowitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06527

Downscaling with AI reveals the large role of internal variability in fine-scale projections of climate extremes
The computational cost of dynamical downscaling limits ensemble sizes in regional downscaling efforts. We present a newly developed generative-AI approach to greatly expand the scope of such downscaling, enabling fine-scale future changes to be characterised including rare extremes that cannot be addressed by traditional approaches. We test this approach for New Zealand, where strong regional effects are anticipated. At fine scales, the forced (predictable) component of precipitation and temper…

Skip a Layer or Loop it? Test-Time Depth Adaptation of Pretrained LLMs
Ziyue Li, Yang Li, Tianyi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07996 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07996 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.07996
arXiv:2507.07996v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Can a pretrained neural network adapt its architecture to different inputs without any finetuning? Do we need all layers for simple tasks, and are they adequate for challenging tasks? We found that the layers of a pretrained large language model (LLM) can be manipulated as separate modules to build a better and even shallower model customized for each test sample. In particular, each layer from the pretrained model can be skipped/pruned or repeated multiple times as recurrent neural networks (RNN), and stacked with others in arbitrary orders, yielding a chain-of-layers (CoLa) per sample. This compositional space greatly expands the scope of existing works on looped/recurrent pretrained modules, layer pruning, or early-exit networks. We develop a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) protocol to explore and identify the optimal CoLa for each sample from math and commonsense reasoning benchmarks. Compared to a static model of a fixed depth, CoLa allows shortcut paths (fast thinking), recurrence of the same layer(s) (slow thinking), and combining both, offering more flexible, dynamic architectures for different inputs. We conduct an extensive analysis of the MCTS-optimized CoLa, which leads to two key findings: (1) For >75% of samples with correct predictions by the original LLM, we can find shorter CoLa, suggesting a large space for improving inference efficiency; (2) For >60% of samples with originally incorrect predictions, we can identify CoLa achieving correct predictions, suggesting a large space of performance enhancement. Our results highlight the shortcomings of using a fixed architecture of pre-trained LLMs for inference on different samples and pave the way to unlock the generalization power of test-time depth adaptation.
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Orbital Stability of Plane Waves in the Klein-Gordon Equation against Localized Perturbations
Emile Bukieda, Louis Gar\'enaux, Bj\"orn de Rijk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06029

Orbital Stability of Plane Waves in the Klein-Gordon Equation against Localized Perturbations
We investigate the stability and long-term behavior of spatially periodic plane waves in the complex Klein-Gordon equation under localized perturbations. Such perturbations render the wave neither localized nor periodic, placing its stability analysis outside the scope of the classical orbital stability theory for Hamiltonian systems developed by Grillakis, Shatah, and Strauss. Inspired by Zhidkov's work on the stability of time-periodic, spatially homogeneous states in the nonlinear Schröding…

Search for the rare decay D$^0$ $\to$ $\mu^ \mu^-$ in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06152 …

Search for the rare decay D$^0$ $\to$ $μ^+μ^-$ in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV
A search for the rare decay D$^0$ $\to$ $μ^+μ^-$ is reported using proton-proton collision events at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV collected by the CMS detector in 2022$-$2023, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 64.5 fb$^{-1}$. This is the first analysis to use a newly developed inclusive dimuon trigger, expanding the scope of the CMS flavor physics program. The search uses D$^0$ mesons obtained from D$^{*+}$ $\to$ D$^0π^+$ decays. No significant excess is observed. A limit on the branchin…

Understanding Everything as Code: A Taxonomy and Conceptual Model
Haoran Wei, Nazim Madhavji, John Steinbacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05100 https://

Understanding Everything as Code: A Taxonomy and Conceptual Model
Background: Everything as Code (EaC) is an emerging paradigm aiming to codify all aspects of modern software systems. Despite its growing popularity, comprehensive industry standards and peer-reviewed research clarifying its scope and guiding its adoption remain scarce. Aims: This study systematically analyzes existing knowledge and perceptions of EaC, clarifies its scope and boundaries, and provides structured guidance for researchers and practitioners. Method: We conducted a large-scale multi…

Measurement of radionuclide production probabilities in negative muon nuclear capture and validation of Monte Carlo simulation model
Y. Yamaguchi, M. Niikura, R. Mizuno, M. Tampo, M. Harada, N. Kawamura, I. Umegaki, S. Takeshita, K. Haga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08301

Measurement of radionuclide production probabilities in negative muon nuclear capture and validation of Monte Carlo simulation model
As part of the development of a sample radioactivity calculation program, we have measured radionuclide production probabilities in negative muon nuclear capture to update experimental data and to validate a calculation dataset obtained by a Monte Carlo simulation code. The probabilities have been obtained by an activation experiment on $^{27}$Al, $^\mathrm{nat}$Si, $^{59}$Co, and $^\mathrm{nat}$Ta targets. The obtained probabilities expand the validation scope to the radionuclide production pr…

Turns out the reason that the GPU accelerated level detector made the CDR slower is that I was working on test data loaded from a file, and not moving the data from CPU to GPU before starting the filter graph. So of *course* it was slower, due to the unnecessary data movement.
But that's unrealistic since on a real high-performance scope driver (e.g. thunderscope) the first thing we typically do is push data from CPU to GPU to do the int-float conversion there.
Time to repea…

A causal evaluation of Bogota's cable car illustrates the transformative potential of mobile phone data for policy analysis
Elena Lutz, Sam Heroy, David Kaufmann, Neave O'Clery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09311

A causal evaluation of Bogota's cable car illustrates the transformative potential of mobile phone data for policy analysis
Transport infrastructure is vital to the functioning of cities. However, assessing the impact of transport policies on urban mobility and behaviour is often costly and time-consuming, particularly in low-data environments. We demonstrate how GPS location data derived from smartphones, available at high spatial granularity and in near real time, can be used to conduct causal impact evaluation, capturing broad mobility and interaction patterns beyond the scope of traditional sources such as surve…

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BroadGen: A Framework for Generating Effective and Efficient Advertiser Broad Match Keyphrase Recommendations
In the domain of sponsored search advertising, the focus of Keyphrase recommendation has largely been on exact match types, which pose issues such as high management expenses, limited targeting scope, and evolving search query patterns. Alternatives like Broad match types can alleviate certain drawbacks of exact matches but present challenges like poor targeting accuracy and minimal supervisory signals owing to limited advertiser usage. This research defines the criteria for an ideal broad matc…

Here it is in action numerically solving the Lorenz Attractor differential equations.
#electronics

Lorenz system - Wikipedia

Sonnet 029 - XXIX
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Haply …

Classifying Emergence in Robot Swarms: An Observer-Dependent Approach
Ricardo Vega, Cameron Nowzari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07315 https://

Classifying Emergence in Robot Swarms: An Observer-Dependent Approach
Emergence and swarms are widely discussed topics, yet no consensus exists on their formal definitions. This lack of agreement makes it difficult not only for new researchers to grasp these concepts, but also for experts who may use the same terms to mean different things. Many attempts have been made to objectively define 'swarm' or 'emergence,' with recent work highlighting the role of the external observer. Still, several researchers argue that once an observer's vantage point (e.g., scope, r…

Day 8
TL;DR: Yesterday I took a break. Today I’m back – and permissions are under control :)
Spent the day designing a fine-grained permission model.
I now support 96 distinct permissions across 8 modules, 4 CRUD operations, and 3 scopes: self, group, global.
Three system roles bind these into meaningful sets:
admin: full global access (32 permissions)
supervisor: read self full group scope (32)
employee: read/update self only (16)
That's 80 rol…

Day#8 📊 Designing a Scalable Permission Model
Yesterday I took a break. Today I’m back – and permissions are under control, I hope. I’ve implemented a structured permission model tha...

Trump’s appeal of EJ Carroll’s $83.3 million defamation verdict against him is set for oral argument June 24
Trump & DOJ have jointly moved to postpone
This case involves alleged defamations in 2019, when Trump was president.
At various times Trump has invoked, and lost,
both presidential immunity and "Westfall immunity".
The Westfall Act says that the US is responsible for any govt employee’s tort within the scope of his/her employment

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Pruning in Snowflake: Working Smarter, Not Harder
Modern cloud-based data analytics systems must efficiently process petabytes of data residing on cloud storage. A key optimization technique in state-of-the-art systems like Snowflake is partition pruning - skipping chunks of data that do not contain relevant information for computing query results. While partition pruning based on query predicates is a well-established technique, we present new pruning techniques that extend the scope of partition pruning to LIMIT, top-k, and JOIN operations…

Protein folding classes - High-dimensional geometry of amino acid composition space revisited
Boryeu Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01857 https://

Protein folding classes - High-dimensional geometry of amino acid composition space revisited
In this study, the distributions of protein folding classes of experimentally determined structures from a legacy dataset and a comprehensive database SCOPe are modeled with precise geometric objects as convex polytopes in the high-dimensional amino acid composition space. This is a follow-up of a previous non-statistical, geometry-motivated modeling of protein classes with ellipsoidal models, which are superseded presently in three important respects: (1) as a paradigm shift descriptive 'distr…

Nonlinear projection-based model order reduction with machine learning regression for closure error modeling in the latent space
S. Ares de Parga, Radek Tezaur, Carlos G. Hern\'andez, Charbel Farhat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00634

Nonlinear projection-based model order reduction with machine learning regression for closure error modeling in the latent space
A significant advancement in nonlinear projection-based model order reduction (PMOR) is presented through a highly effective methodology. This methodology employs Gaussian process regression (GPR) and radial basis function (RBF) interpolation for closure error modeling in the latent space, offering notable gains in efficiency and expanding the scope of PMOR. Moving beyond the limitations of deep artificial neural networks (ANNs), previously used for this task, this approach provides crucial adv…

Supreme Court to review scope of states' immunity after a pair of bus accidents (Ry Rivard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/03/supreme-court-nj-transit-accidents-00439417
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p102#a250703p102

An Online A/B Testing Decision Support System for Web Usability Assessment Based on a Linguistic Decision-making Methodology: Case of Study a Virtual Learning Environment
Noe Zerme\~no, Cristina Zuheros, Lucas Daniel Del Rosso Calache, Francisco Herrera, Rosana Montes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12118

An Online A/B Testing Decision Support System for Web Usability Assessment Based on a Linguistic Decision-making Methodology: Case of Study a Virtual Learning Environment
In recent years, attention has increasingly focused on enhancing user satisfaction with user interfaces, spanning both mobile applications and websites. One fundamental aspect of human-machine interaction is the concept of web usability. In order to assess web usability, the A/B testing technique enables the comparison of data between two designs. Expanding the scope of tests to include the designs being evaluated, in conjunction with the involvement of both real and fictional users, presents a…

A Survey on Autonomy-Induced Security Risks in Large Model-Based Agents
Hang Su, Jun Luo, Chang Liu, Xiao Yang, Yichi Zhang, Yinpeng Dong, Jun Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23844

A Survey on Autonomy-Induced Security Risks in Large Model-Based Agents
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have catalyzed the rise of autonomous AI agents capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting in dynamic, open-ended environments. These large-model agents mark a paradigm shift from static inference systems to interactive, memory-augmented entities. While these capabilities significantly expand the functional scope of AI, they also introduce qualitatively novel security risks - such as memory poisoning, tool misuse, reward hacking, and emergent mi…

Attention Fedora users: ngscopeclient is now building Fedora packages in GitHub Actions CI (most recent build as of this post at https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps/actions/runs/16252224927).
Can anyone try installing these and verify …

Merge pull request #859 from Gherkin/master · ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps@39988c1
ngscopeclient and other client applications for libscopehal. - Merge pull request #859 from Gherkin/master · ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps@39988c1

CyberGym: Evaluating AI Agents' Cybersecurity Capabilities with Real-World Vulnerabilities at Scale
Zhun Wang, Tianneng Shi, Jingxuan He, Matthew Cai, Jialin Zhang, Dawn Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02548

CyberGym: Evaluating AI Agents' Cybersecurity Capabilities with Real-World Vulnerabilities at Scale
Large language model (LLM) agents are becoming increasingly skilled at handling cybersecurity tasks autonomously. Thoroughly assessing their cybersecurity capabilities is critical and urgent, given the high stakes in this domain. However, existing benchmarks fall short, often failing to capture real-world scenarios or being limited in scope. To address this gap, we introduce CyberGym, a large-scale and high-quality cybersecurity evaluation framework featuring 1,507 real-world vulnerabilities fo…

Understanding and Improving Data Repurposing
J. Parsons, R. Lukyanenko, B. Greenwood, C. Cooper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09073 https://

Understanding and Improving Data Repurposing
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunities to use existing data for tasks not anticipated when those data were collected, resulting in widespread data repurposing. This commentary defines and maps the scope of data repurposing to highlight its importance for organizations and society and the need to study data repurposing as a frontier of data management. We explain how repurposing differs from original data use and data reuse and then develop a framework for data repurposing consisting o…

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SCOPE: Stochastic Cartographic Occupancy Prediction Engine for Uncertainty-Aware Dynamic Navigation
This article presents a family of Stochastic Cartographic Occupancy Prediction Engines (SCOPEs) that enable mobile robots to predict the future states of complex dynamic environments. They do this by accounting for the motion of the robot itself, the motion of dynamic objects, and the geometry of static objects in the scene, and they generate a range of possible future states of the environment. These prediction engines are software-optimized for real-time performance for navigation in crowded …

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Fast Two-photon Microscopy by Neuroimaging with Oblong Random Acquisition (NORA)
Advances in neural imaging have enabled neuroscientists to study how large neural populations conspire to produce perception, behavior and cognition. Despite many advances in optical methods, there exists a fundamental tradeoff between imaging speed, field of view, and resolution that limits the scope of neural imaging, especially for the raster-scanning multi-photon imaging needed to image deeper into the brain. One approach to overcoming this trade-off is computational imaging: the co-develop…

Cleaning up my lab after removing a piece of client hardware from a $dayjob project.
Durng that project I was using *every single one* of the 12 RJ45 gig-e drops on the west wall of my lab:
* Siglent load
* MultiLane BERT
* 4 GHz LeCroy scope
* R&S DMM
* R&S PSU
* Work laptop on sandbox vlan
* 2x Siglent AWG for ThunderScope testing
* Windows laptop for ThunderScope testing
* Siglent PSU on bench with client device
* Two NICs on…

Sonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…

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New constraints on cosmic ray-boosted dark matter from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment
While dual-phase xenon time projection chambers (TPCs) have driven the sensitivity towards weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) at the GeV/c^2 to TeV/c^2 mass scale, the scope for sub-GeV/c^2 dark matter particles is hindered by a limited nuclear recoil energy detection threshold. One approach to probe for lighter candidates is to consider cases where they have been boosted by collisions with cosmic rays in the Milky Way, such that the additional kinetic energy lifts their induced signa…

The Feasibility of MBSs as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Timothy Dombrowski, V. Carlos Slawson Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05439 https://…

The Feasibility of MBSs as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Can the general structure of a mortgage-backed security (MBS) contract be programmatically represented through the use of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)? Such an approach could allow for the portfolio of loans to be managed by investors in a trustless and transparent way. The focus and scope of this paper is to explore the potential for applying the tools of modern fintech, such as asset tokenization, smart contracts, and DAOs, to reconstruct traditional structured products that …

A New Deep-learning-Based Approach For mRNA Optimization: High Fidelity, Computation Efficiency, and Multiple Optimization Factors
Zheng Gong, Ziyi Jiang, Weihao Gao, Deng Zhuo, Lan Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23862

A New Deep-learning-Based Approach For mRNA Optimization: High Fidelity, Computation Efficiency, and Multiple Optimization Factors
The mRNA optimization is critical for therapeutic and biotechnological applications, since sequence features directly govern protein expression levels and efficacy. However, current methods face significant challenges in simultaneously achieving three key objectives: (1) fidelity (preventing unintended amino acid changes), (2) computational efficiency (speed and scalability), and (3) the scope of optimization variables considered (multi-objective capability). Furthermore, existing methods often…

Advocacy for Physics and for Physicists: Results of an Informal Survey of American Physical Society Members in 2025
Michael B. Bennett (for the Physics Advocacy Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24043

Advocacy for Physics and for Physicists: Results of an Informal Survey of American Physical Society Members in 2025
In the wake of a rash of executive orders and administrative actions aimed at shaping the scale, scope, and focus of the scientific enterprise in the United States during the second Trump Presidency, we have undertaken a survey of members of the American Physical Society, the country's pre-eminent physics professional society to investigate their needs, interests, and priorities, and how their interests may differ from organizational leadership's priorities. This report provides detail on the c…

Immersive Technologies and Elderly Users: Current use, Limitations and Future Perspectives
Zoe Anastasiadou, Andreas Lanitis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22932

Immersive Technologies and Elderly Users: Current use, Limitations and Future Perspectives
The increase of the percentage of elderly population in modern societies dictates the use of emerging technologies as a means of supporting elder members of the society. Within this scope, Extended Reality (XR) technologies pose as a promising technology for improving the daily lives of the elderly population. This paper presents a literature review that describes the most common characteristics of the physical and mental state of the elderly, allowing readers, and specifically XR developers, t…

An Accurate and Efficient Vulnerability Propagation Analysis Framework
Bonan Ruan, Zhiwei Lin, Jiahao Liu, Chuqi Zhang, Kaihang Ji, Zhenkai Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01342 …

An Accurate and Efficient Vulnerability Propagation Analysis Framework
Identifying the impact scope and scale is critical for software supply chain vulnerability assessment. However, existing studies face substantial limitations. First, prior studies either work at coarse package-level granularity, producing many false positives, or fail to accomplish whole-ecosystem vulnerability propagation analysis. Second, although vulnerability assessment indicators like CVSS characterize individual vulnerabilities, no metric exists to specifically quantify the dynamic impact…

Sonnet 061 - LXI
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open
My heavy eyelids to the weary night?
Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,
While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?
Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee
So far from home into my deeds to pry,
To find out shames and idle hours in me,
The scope and tenor of thy jealousy?
O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great:
It is my love that keeps mine eye …

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The Invisible Hand: Unveiling Provider Bias in Large Language Models for Code Generation
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as the new recommendation engines, surpassing traditional methods in both capability and scope, particularly in code generation. In this paper, we reveal a novel provider bias in LLMs: without explicit directives, these models show systematic preferences for services from specific providers in their recommendations (e.g., favoring Google Cloud over Microsoft Azure). To systematically investigate this bias, we develop an automated pipeline to construct t…