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Seeing a lot of people getting into tiled and scrolling window managers.
I actually like my desktop with overlapping windows and being a bit in a chaotic state and slightly different all the time.
My brain needs some variety and breaks from orderly processes, because I'm a human being and I've evolved to work best in semi-chaotic circumstances.
Obviously you do you but I'm considering this trend at least to some degree productivity wankery.

Your semi-regular reminder that the British Library's Research Repository has stacks of open datasets from collections, and research by Library staff e.g. https://bl.iro.bl.uk/catalog?f[human_r

Updated my workshop Mac mini to #Tahoe and wow. Either I’m getting old or this is really bad UI design. (…or both 😁) I’m not talking about the weird alignment of elements and rounded corners that are all over the place, although that’s surprising to see as well. More the hard to read text on semi-transparent, blurry elements that also lack contrast. This really trips me up as someone with regular …

You know how I always say picolibc isn't a Linux C library because it doesn't do all of the fancy Linux stuff? Well, it turns out you don't need much to get a semi-functioning system.
$ size test-hello-picolibc test-hello-glibc
text data bss dec hex filename
3632 144 4656 8432 20f0 test-hello-picolibc
645697 23704 22576 691977 a8f09 test-hello-glibc
I blame Kees Cook for nerd-sniping me on this one.

Some City Some Nature V 🏙️🪾
一些城一些自然 V 🏙️🪾
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Goop yoni egg controversy was so funny. We had medical experts being like “please don’t put semi precious stones in your coochie.”

🚲 How a NASA Engineer Discovered a World of Semi Truck Aerodynamics by Accident
https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-a-nasa-engineer-discovered-a-world-of-semi-truck-aerodynamics-by-accident

Watch the video below with your own eyes.⤵️
Note: DHS had earlier come out claiming, "an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun."
Does DHS mean?
"approached" = came toward with a camera?
"with" = on his person while filming?
https://

Acoustic Signatures of Pinch-Off Cavities During Water-Entry
Zirui Liu, Tongtong Ding, Mingyue Kuang, Zimeng Li, Junyi Zhao, A-Man Zhang, Shuai Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22761 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22761 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22761
arXiv:2602.22761v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study experimentally, numerically, and theoretically investigates the cavity/bubble dynamics and radiated acoustics during the water entry of a centimeter-scale cylindrical projectile with a conical nose. Experiments were conducted in a laboratory tank, employing synchronized high-speed imaging and hydrophone measurements to characterize the cavity closure modes and their resultant acoustic signatures across a range of Froude numbers. The acoustic signal features a weak radiated signal upon impact, followed by significant pressure oscillations spanning more than 20 cycles in the flow field after cavity elongation and pinch-off. A numerical model based on the Finite Volume Method (FVM) successfully captures these physical processes. Subsequently, a semi-theoretical model that incorporates the projectile's boundary effect is developed from potential flow theory. The model not only yields a dominant cavity oscillation frequency that agrees well with experimental data, but also reveals that the boundary effect leads to a cavity oscillation frequency markedly higher than the Minnaert frequency of an equivalent-volume ellipsoidal bubble containing an internal rigid core. The dominant cavity frequency falls nearly linearly with Fr, governed by nose geometry and projectile inertia. This study clarifies the underlying physics connecting cavity dynamics during water entry to underwater acoustic radiation.
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Für iPhone & Co.: Semi-Solid-State-Batterien mit Qi2.2 und bis zu 10.000 mAh
Zens hat zwei neue externe Batterien für Smartphones im Programm, die dank Semi-Solid-State-Technik weniger auftragen sollen.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[1/6]:
- Towards Attributions of Input Variables in a Coalition
Xinhao Zheng, Huiqi Deng, Quanshi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13411
- Knee or ROC
Veronica Wendt, Jacob Steiner, Byunggu Yu, Caleb Kelly, Justin Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07390
- Rethinking Disentanglement under Dependent Factors of Variation
Antonio Almud\'evar, Alfonso Ortega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07016 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112959235461894530
- Minibatch Optimal Transport and Perplexity Bound Estimation in Discrete Flow Matching
Etrit Haxholli, Yeti Z. Gurbuz, Ogul Can, Eli Waxman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00759 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113423933393275133
- Predicting Subway Passenger Flows under Incident Situation with Causality
Xiannan Huang, Shuhan Qiu, Quan Yuan, Chao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06871 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113632934357523592
- Characterizing LLM Inference Energy-Performance Tradeoffs across Workloads and GPU Scaling
Paul Joe Maliakel, Shashikant Ilager, Ivona Brandic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08219 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113831081884570770
- Universality of Benign Overfitting in Binary Linear Classification
Ichiro Hashimoto, Stanislav Volgushev, Piotr Zwiernik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10538 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113872351652969955
- Safe Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Engine Control
Julian Bedei, Lucas Koch, Kevin Badalian, Alexander Winkler, Patrick Schaber, Jakob Andert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16613 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113910356206562660
- A Statistical Learning Perspective on Semi-dual Adversarial Neural Optimal Transport Solvers
Roman Tarasov, Petr Mokrov, Milena Gazdieva, Evgeny Burnaev, Alexander Korotin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01310
- Improving the Convergence of Private Shuffled Gradient Methods with Public Data
Shuli Jiang, Pranay Sharma, Zhiwei Steven Wu, Gauri Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03652 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113961314098841096
- Using the Path of Least Resistance to Explain Deep Networks
Sina Salek, Joseph Enguehard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12108 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114023706252106865
- Distributional Vision-Language Alignment by Cauchy-Schwarz Divergence
Wenzhe Yin, Zehao Xiao, Pan Zhou, Shujian Yu, Jiayi Shen, Jan-Jakob Sonke, Efstratios Gavves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17028 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114063477202397951
- Armijo Line-search Can Make (Stochastic) Gradient Descent Provably Faster
Sharan Vaswani, Reza Babanezhad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00229 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114103018985567633
- Semantic Parallelism: Redefining Efficient MoE Inference via Model-Data Co-Scheduling
Yan Li, Zhenyu Zhang, Zhengang Wang, Pengfei Chen, Pengfei Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04398 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114120014622063602
- A Survey on Federated Fine-tuning of Large Language Models
Wu, Tian, Li, Sun, Tam, Zhou, Liao, Xiong, Guo, Li, Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12016 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114182234054681647
- Towards Trustworthy GUI Agents: A Survey
Yucheng Shi, Wenhao Yu, Jingyuan Huang, Wenlin Yao, Wenhu Chen, Ninghao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23434 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114263024618476521
- CONTINA: Confidence Interval for Traffic Demand Prediction with Coverage Guarantee
Chao Yang, Xiannan Huang, Shuhan Qiu, Yan Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13961 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114380404041503229
- Regularity and Stability Properties of Selective SSMs with Discontinuous Gating
Nikola Zubi\'c, Davide Scaramuzza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11602 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114538965060456498
- RECON: Robust symmetry discovery via Explicit Canonical Orientation Normalization
Alonso Urbano, David W. Romero, Max Zimmer, Sebastian Pokutta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13289 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114539124884913788
- RefLoRA: Refactored Low-Rank Adaptation for Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Models
Yilang Zhang, Bingcong Li, Georgios B. Giannakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18877 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114578778213033886
- SuperMAN: Interpretable and Expressive Networks over Temporally Sparse Heterogeneous Data
Bechler-Speicher, Zerio, Huri, Vestergaard, Gilad-Bachrach, Jess, Bhatt, Sazonovs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19193 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114578790124778172
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Dus een of andere dikke demente Amerikaan vliegt met zijn semi-privé-vliegtuig naar Klöten en dan met zijn semi-privé-helikopter naar Davos om ons te vertellen dat hij en zijn vrindjes zien dat we hier ten onder gaan aan massa-emigratie? Zak nou FF gouw in jeeigen stront!

Historic Glacial Confluence
This is the site of confluence of the former glaciers Vernagtferner and Hintereisferner, two of the most (and longest) studied glaciers in the world. It is the site (at ~2200m) where several times over the past thousand years the ice of the Vernagtferner would pile up to form a massive dam, 150-200m tall, which caused a semi-permanent ice lake to form in the Rofen/Hintereis valley above (the one visible from ~7 seconds). Many times this lake would get up to …

I am ashamed to admit that I turned off the Canada - Finland semi-final game early. It was 2-0 for Finland late in the 2nd so I decided to finish some chores that I had put off. I didn't want to watch a Canada loss 2 days in a row. I apologize for having so little faith. Please It forgive me. It won't happen again.
#TeamCanada #OlympicHockey

Sheaves on Graphs and their Differential Calculi
Rita Fioresi, Angelica Simonetti, Ferdinando Zanchetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21176 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21176 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21176
arXiv:2602.21176v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper we explore the link between the theory of sheaves on graphs and noncommutative geometry showing that many concepts and constructions in the latter can be generalized and enhanced using methods coming from the former. They include notions such as Laplacians and connections, important in the theory of discrete noncommutative geometry, that are here explored with sheaf theoretic methods and using the language of (semi)simplicial sets.
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Some City Some Nature III 🏙️🪾
一些城一些自然 III 🏙️🪾
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Just finished "You and Me on Repeat" by Mary Shyne. A really sweet graphic novel about graduating high school (and all that entails socially and romantically) set in a semi-stable time loop (in small-town Illinois).
It's got a very comfortably loose fourth wall, excellent art, some really interesting plot twists, and it includes a healthy and subtle treatment of subtler racisms in highschool social and academic life.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Those who know me well know that my interest in curling is above average—and so I was very pleased the Norwegian mens team was able to defeat Canada in the final round robin game and clinch third place and a spot in the semi finals.
Which will be tonight—against Canada.
#Curling #Olympics

I always wonder why public charging tenders in Germany are so contested yet useless. While in other mature markets, such as the Netherlands and Belgium, public tenders help to create a dense network with significantly lower prices for users, in Germany the process merely distributes semi-monopolies without offering any benefits to users.

Well «Neverwinter Nights» OC finished so far. aww... It was a wonderful journey and gave me 2/3 months of gameplay. The best chapters was 2 and 3 in my opinion, well 3 > 2 better.
I will start with a new character for sure. Probably a Semi-Orc Barbarian with a great axe :).
For now I will take a rest from it and resume the 2 DLC's until Autumn Season I guess.
#neverwinter_nights

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Scotland Rocks
Kenneth Steven explores the history of this semi-precious stone and reflects in poetry on his finds. The first stone he found was serpentine from the beaches of the island of Iona.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0024mff

ProxyFL: A Proxy-Guided Framework for Federated Semi-Supervised Learning
Duowen Chen, Yan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21078 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21078 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21078
arXiv:2602.21078v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Federated Semi-Supervised Learning (FSSL) aims to collaboratively train a global model across clients by leveraging partially-annotated local data in a privacy-preserving manner. In FSSL, data heterogeneity is a challenging issue, which exists both across clients and within clients. External heterogeneity refers to the data distribution discrepancy across different clients, while internal heterogeneity represents the mismatch between labeled and unlabeled data within clients. Most FSSL methods typically design fixed or dynamic parameter aggregation strategies to collect client knowledge on the server (external) and / or filter out low-confidence unlabeled samples to reduce mistakes in local client (internal). But, the former is hard to precisely fit the ideal global distribution via direct weights, and the latter results in fewer data participation into FL training. To this end, we propose a proxy-guided framework called ProxyFL that focuses on simultaneously mitigating external and internal heterogeneity via a unified proxy. I.e., we consider the learnable weights of classifier as proxy to simulate the category distribution both locally and globally. For external, we explicitly optimize global proxy against outliers instead of direct weights; for internal, we re-include the discarded samples into training by a positive-negative proxy pool to mitigate the impact of potentially-incorrect pseudo-labels. Insight experiments & theoretical analysis show our significant performance and convergence in FSSL.
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First weekend of spring, but dreaming of autumn...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

AMD: Bereit für eine neue Xbox im Jahr 2027
AMD-Chefin Lisa Su höchstpersönlich spricht über Microsofts nächste Xbox-Konsole. Der Semi-Custom-Prozessor ist nächstes Jahr fertig.
https://www.heise.d…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Arctic Monkeys:
🎵 Teddy Picker
#ArcticMonkeys
https://modbm3.bandcamp.com/track/easy-arctic-monkeys-teddy-picker-semi-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5kxVyCgEUND7E2QKG7JmoF

Semi-truck driver held on ICE detainer after 4 killed in head-on crash (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/semi-truck-driver-held-ice-detainer-after-4-killed-head-on-crash
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p3#a260206p3

Been driving a truck (without trailer) for almost a year now.
Just had my first week on the tractor-trailer (or semi-truck as some call it).
Feel free to ask me anything. : >
#askfedi

We have a vegetarian haggis for #BurnsNight supper tonight. Not for any squeamish reason about eating offal, but simply because when looking at the nutrition information panel, that version was significantly lower in sat. fats and other bad stuff than the normal haggis.
Of all the things that as a young man I might have expected middle age to bring upon me, voluntary semi-vegetarianism was not one of them!

I am developing
a strong trust issue
with corporations
People around me
respected professionals
one by one falling under the AI spell
learning to worship it daily
despite it eating up their lives
in front of their eyes
The orange man
in a semi bulldozed
shiny White House
at the top of the hill
halfway across the world
bragging about his non-war
shrugging off 165 girls murdered
aged between 7 and 12
as the …

It was also interesting to see Albert Dock before the gentrification/renovation.
My mum's home town, I can just remember the thriving docks, seen from the Birkenhead ferry, one of three highlights, the others being the Green Goddess trams and the swings in the playground near my grandparents' Corporation semi.

CES 2026: self-driving truck company Kodiak partners with Bosch to develop a hardware and software system to turn standard semi-trucks into autonomous vehicles (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/kodiak-taps-bosch-to-scale-…

#totp Jason's got a semi.
Acoustic

California Regulators Force Verizon To Do “Woke” Stuff Like Make Sure Broadband Is Semi-Affordable To Poor People | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/29/california-regulators-force-verizon-to-do-woke-stuff-like-make-sure-broadband-is-semi-affordable-to-poor-people/

Nap time (hopefully WITHOUT semi-lucid nightmare elements this time) :neocat_flop__w_:

Since we had temperatures of -15/-13℃ (5℉) the past few nights, I was planning to go on an early morning shoot of one of my favorite waterfalls, but decided against it due to severe black ice warnings and likely ensuing road chaos today... Hope there will be more cold nights this winter...
So instead, some close-up detail shots of ice structures at the same waterfall from exactly 364 morning ago. Enjoy!

Hmm. Ordered some extras alongside my C64 Ultimate. Since the homepage says they use semi-local warehouses, I felt pretty good about it. For some reason they send the three extras one by one, and I received the first one from Europe. Being a bit surprised by the delivery time for the next one, I decided to track it, and it’s coming from the US :-S. I sure hope this doesn’t mean additional import fees.

I’m at a Celebration of Life in honor of the late President Emeritus James J. Duderstadt.
There’s a lot of emeritus faculty here.

No fim, hoje trabalhei o equivalente a umas três horas. Não foi tão ruim para uma situação de semi-férias.

@… https://xandermarro.substack.com/

"Diskette" refers to the complete medium, aka the floppy disk inside the shell.
It's using a dimuitive because when IBM introduced 8" diskettes in the 1970s they were substantially smaller than hard disks at the time. (Note that hard disks back then often were removable and semi-portable, often 14" in size).

Australian Open 2026
Carlos Alcaraz beats Alexander Zverev in epic five-set semi-final – as it happened
Alcaraz fought through a leg issue to deliver a classic win over Zverev and reach his first Australian Open final
https://www.

@… Not a seattleite, but I have been taking the train up for work semi-regularly lately:
I really enjoyed Chengdu Taste, and Maneki as sit down restaurants, Salumi, and the Uwajimaya food court for a quick bite.
13 coins is fine for like a middle of the road Americana, but I’d rather try some of the local stuff :)

Nej, jag orkar inte sitta uppe och titta på den andra semi-finalen. Jag hoppas, lite, att Tjeckien vinner.
Men klart att Kanada vinner på hemmaplan.
Grattis, Juniorkronorna. #JVM

Linear Memory (2024)
A prototype version of my piece Linear Memory running inside a https://thi.ng/genart-api sandbox on a Motorola phone, connected to a custom early prototype Layer square screen...
The animation consists of dozens of layers of semi-random multi-scale pixel patterns, slowly scrolling in…

I still think Wirtz was offside and hearing the commentators say that the semi-automated offsides technology is not in the same room as VAR and that they have to relay back and forth the assisting player and scoring player's numbers... is bananas!
Different company because of partnership constraints, but the SAOT at other major tournaments is instantaneous. Now we eventually get an image, but not vision of the ball at the moment the image purports to represent. PGMOL incompetence👏 …

@…

Indeed.

What the USA is currently doing in Venezuela looks very much like a semi-hostile takeover of one criminal organization by a more powerful one.

If there's any "rationality" it only exists in relation to the interests of shockingly small circles of power, in either country.

I mean what?
What?
I don't have any idea how you'd embed 7 tablet screens into a semi-circular pine table, let alone also have some kind of telescopic central column?
Even if I knew how I don't have the money for seven individual in-console embedded tabled place-settings.
This is madness. I should be asleep.

What'cha lookin' at?
Felt silly, put eye emoji on a photo of a drink with ice semi-spheres and a straw.

I applied the three finger salute to the two pieces of software that is not responsive after two hours. We used to have semi-decent software, but lately the piss-poor upgrades and AI SLOP has infected the "productivity" software. I could update 5 documents, generate PDF for each and rebuild the release folder index in one day or a day and a half if the VPN was slow. All I got done (day 2 of frustration) was three of the smallest documents, on the midsize document it choked and I…

Semi-regular query to see if anyone else remembers CBC Vancouver's "The Dog and Trombone", written by Jurgen Gothe and Bill Phillips; and, more to the point, if they've got recordings of it, especially episode 5 featuring Hap Hafner's cousin Hugo?
#CBCRadio #JurgenGothe

Simple repair policies and decompositions for semi-coherent systems with simultaneous failures
Guido Lagos, Jorge Navarro, Hector Olivero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08786 https:…

How to watch Oregon vs. Indiana: Game time, TV channel, streaming https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/09/oregon-football-indiana-peach-bowl-col…

On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's next-gen Xbox "is progressing well to support a launch in 2027" and will feature an AMD semi-custom SoC (Tom Warren/The Verge)

& Up & Down II 😵
又上又下 II 😵
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

Transeverse-Momentum Subtraction for Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering
Jun Gao, Hai Tao Li, Hua Xing Zhu, Yu Jiao Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06364 https://

Grok's AI Sexual Abuse Didn't Come Out of Nowhere https://www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexual-abuse-imagery-twitter/

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in eugene, a kesey family joint promoted by the springfield creamery. there’s a fine line between touring & local gigs, but to me that line is whether or not the gear went back to front street afterwards. spring ’76, show #1. only 2nd set survives on semi-decent audience tape:

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DS. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DS/new
[1/1]:
- Language Generation in the Limit: Noise, Loss, and Feedback
Yannan Bai, Debmalya Panigrahi, Ian Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15319 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/114896208560390692
- Online Firefighting on Cactus Graphs
Max Hugen, Bob Krekelberg, Alison Hsiang-Hsuan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22277 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115286656155128312
- Improved Extended Regular Expression Matching
Philip Bille, Inge Li G{\o}rtz, Rikke Schjeldrup Jessen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09311 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115365884736976741
- Robust Algorithms for Finding Cliques in Random Intersection Graphs via Sum-of-Squares
Andreas G\"obel, Janosch Ruff, Leon Schiller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20376 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115614988823215273
- Analysis of Shuffling Beyond Pure Local Differential Privacy
Shun Takagi, Seng Pei Liew
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19154 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115971701218309765
- Exact (n 2) Comparison Complexity for the N-Repeated Element Problem
Andrew Au
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21202 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115982906572495225
- A Multi-Token Coordinate Descent Method for Semi-Decentralized Vertical Federated Learning
Pedro Valdeira, Yuejie Chi, Cl\'audia Soares, Jo\~ao Xavier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09977
- Optimal Sequential Flows
Hugo Gimbert, Corto Mascle, Patrick Totzke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13806 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathOC_bot/115575399809016779
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Alguns especialistas dizem que você não deve guardar seus livros em prateleiras fechadas, pois o livro precisa "respirar". Mas eu não estou nem um pouco arrependido de ter comprado uma estante com vidros semi-transparentes. Não só pela proteção adicional contra a luz, mas principalmente pela proteção contra a sujeira. Por morar em frente a uma rua muito movimentada, numa região com um nível anormal de poeira, para mim a proteção contra pó precisa ser prioridade em relação Š "r…

Last year we reported how Verizon executives
agreed to be more racist and sexist
in exchange for Trump DOJ and FCC approval of their $20 billion merger with telecom giant Frontier Communications.
Verizon embarrassingly said they’d cull race and gender equality initiatives,
and try harder moving forward to protect downtrodden white people from the scary monster that is diversity.
But California regulators have thrown a few wrinkles into the mix for Verizon.

Hummm.
So I was thinking about how with a couple of caster-boards and straps, the bed could be upturned and stowed in the studio. Probably? I should have figured for a fold-away really.
Still. Could work...
Then, without a bed in there, the place could turn into a dining room.
I was thinking about a shape of a table for a dinner party in there.
Oh my god.
This semi-circle table curve of wood and attachable table-legs and fold-able stools might just fit, like, under the bed normally?
Looks perfect for a card-game or a Dungeon Master setup.
Could that table and it's legs and it's chairs all fit under the bed? Probably not at it's current height. But I want to raise it a bit anyway.
🤔
Oh my god, look at this though. The projector is pointed at the wall behind the throne surrounded by the seats for the council of seven.
This could be built.
Not right away, but eventually?

Just returned from a wonderful 11km Friday afternoon walk along the boundary between the seasons...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Gloom & Bloom III ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 III ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Mesh Splatting for End-to-end Multiview Surface Reconstruction
Ruiqi Zhang, Jiacheng Wu, Jie Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21400 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.21400 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.21400
arXiv:2601.21400v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Surfaces are typically represented as meshes, which can be extracted from volumetric fields via meshing or optimized directly as surface parameterizations. Volumetric representations occupy 3D space and have a large effective receptive field along rays, enabling stable and efficient optimization via volumetric rendering; however, subsequent meshing often produces overly dense meshes and introduces accumulated errors. In contrast, pure surface methods avoid meshing but capture only boundary geometry with a single-layer receptive field, making it difficult to learn intricate geometric details and increasing reliance on priors (e.g., shading or normals). We bridge this gap by differentiably turning a surface representation into a volumetric one, enabling end-to-end surface reconstruction via volumetric rendering to model complex geometries. Specifically, we soften a mesh into multiple semi-transparent layers that remain differentiable with respect to the base mesh, endowing it with a controllable 3D receptive field. Combined with a splatting-based renderer and a topology-control strategy, our method can be optimized in about 20 minutes to achieve accurate surface reconstruction while substantially improving mesh quality.
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Crossing over, near Rossgundscharte.
(Picture from June 2025. Ahead lies the upper end of Rappenalptal, Germany's southernmost valley, and the Lechtal Alps in Tyrol further in the distance)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

Urban Texture IV 🧩
城市质地 IV 🧩
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
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Monumental 🪦
纪念 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
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Different Corners V ▶️
不同的角落 V ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
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Another great hour of fun and excitement watching incredibly fit young people work really really hard while I sit here on the sofa. Looking forward to the semi-finals next week. #Gladiators

Good Morning #Canada
It's a brisk -23°C this morning but the infallible #Weather app is telling me that we will be -5°C or warmer over the next few weeks. Break out the shorts, Spring has arrived.
In preparation for the big thaw, I think we need a semi-regular series on the top 25 rivers in Canada. Why top 25? Hey, it's my account, my nonsensical rules. We'll count down to #1 in terms of length because size matters.
Today an honourable mention, the St. Lawrence River, commonly referred to as the St. Lawrence Seaway. Although one of the most recognizable rivers in eastern Canada, and one that drains the largest watershed on the planet, it doesn't make it into the top 50 longest rivers in the country.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Geography #CanadaRivers
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