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Uff finally I wrote the blogpost for a hike I did in May (and you've probably seen the video of it already). But I haven't shared the #photos ans some more background story from it.
I don't know why but this time I found it really hard to write. Maybe I'm a bit out of practice or I just didn't find the right mood for it - I'm not sure.
Anyways, I hope you enjoy…

Patrick Mahomes increases sense of urgency amid Chiefs' 0-2 start, embraces challenge: 'What an opportunity'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/p…

"Traditionally…country that illegally invades another country & carries out war crimes is held responsible legally & financially for these actions. Trying war criminals & requiring aggressor states to pay reparations are…traditional…is expected…countries return their armed forces to within…own borders…entirely normal…for Ukraine’s allies to station troops on Ukrainian territory…entirely traditional measures…not startling new developments."

Common Sense about Negotiations
For Americans about Ukraine

The Impact of Automation on Risk-Taking: The Role of Sense of Agency
Yang Chen, Zhijun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12794 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12…

The Impact of Automation on Risk-Taking: The Role of Sense of Agency
Automation significantly alters human behavior, particularly risk-taking. Previous researches have paid limited attention to the underlying characteristics of automation and their mechanisms of influence on risk-taking. This study investigated how automation affects risk-taking and examined the role of sense of agency therein. By quantifying sense of agency through subjective ratings, this research explored the impact of automation level and reliability level on risk-taking. The results of thre…

This works, right? I mean, sure the numbers are reversed but the time makes sense to most people this way!
And yes you are looking at a backwards clock through a mirror in my bathroom.

Years ago someone told me that most lab glassware that breaks does so during cleaning, not during actual experimental usage.
It makes some level of intuitive sense, given the amount of handling involved in cleaning. But has this ever been seriously studied?

Canceling The Late Show With Stephen Colbert makes sense from a business perspective as the show costs $100M per year to produce while losing $40M per year (Matthew Belloni/Puck)
https://puck.news/was-colberts-cancellation-really-economic-for-cbs/

@… Oh, I guess at this point you have multiple fluent languages, so it makes sense. Perhaps “one of the languages I’m fluent in” would work better than “my native language”.
Either way, thanks for the clarification!

@… @… the keccak / random oracle thing i couldn’t remember was that it doesn’t make sense to compare a function with variable sized output against a random oracle, because in that model longer output implies better security…

This is a court order is a clear violation of the 1st amendment.
If the case were about misrepresentation than it makes no sense to order that the $$ not be sent out of state, but that those same $$ can be used within the state of Texas.
"Judge restrains Beto O’Rourke’s group from sending funds to Democrats outside Texas"

Uncommon sense https://www.nzoptics.co.nz/live-articles/uncommon-sense/

Uncommon sense + ' - NZ Optics for all eye health professionals'
This is a trade publication for the Ophthalmic community

📏 Learning from punishment: Model makes sense of the cognitive processes humans use
#psychology

Learning from punishment: Model makes sense of the cognitive processes humans use
From toddlers' timeouts to criminals' prison sentences, punishment reinforces social norms, making it known that an offender has done something unacceptable. At least, that is usually the intent—but the strategy can backfire. When a punishment is perceived as too harsh, observers can be left with the impression that an authority figure is motivated by something other than justice.

In short: I’ve spent over 500 hours watching the Moomins, and it’s still my favorite series of all time.
I truly love the world of the Moomins from the 90s. It is not only a way for me to escape today's shit. but a place that feels alive inside me, where friends cook together, wander through the woods, and make each other laugh in the sunshine. It gives me a sense of direction whenever the outside world feels too shit and broken.
I love it because life in the valley shows tha…

After doing some digging on the CMPTR 25-pin interface, I think I'm gonna change the design of the CMPTR adapter. The IBM Luma pin and HSync pins kinda scream CGA (e.g. IBM 5151) so I'm gonna rip out two of the BNC connectors and run RGB CSync on one side via 2x2 connectors. Beside those will be a DB9 connector running RGB, IBM Luma, H/VSync which makes a lot more sense.
#electronics

If an album is in the Recently Added in #Music row, it only makes sense that you may want to go to that Artist's screen.
So I added Go To Artist to the option menu in #jellyfin for #Roku.…

SENSE models: an open source solution for multilingual and multimodal semantic-based tasks
Salima Mdhaffar, Haroun Elleuch, Chaimae Chellaf, Ha Nguyen, Yannick Est\`eve
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12093

SENSE models: an open source solution for multilingual and multimodal semantic-based tasks
This paper introduces SENSE (Shared Embedding for N-lingual Speech and tExt), an open-source solution inspired by the SAMU-XLSR framework and conceptually similar to Meta AI's SONAR models. These approaches rely on a teacher-student framework to align a self-supervised speech encoder with the language-agnostic continuous representations of a text encoder at the utterance level. We describe how the original SAMU-XLSR method has been updated by selecting a stronger teacher text model and a better…

No one has ever convinced anyone with "data" and "facts." A stakeholder will always have more confidence in their existing assumptions than in your findings.
The only way to change minds is through gradual influence that nurtures a sense of ownership.
#AI tools promise to accelerate the pace of research, but they do so only by skipping this process of sense-making. Res…

Research is a leadership skill; don't cede it to AI
The role of UX is not only to change the behaviors of users, but also to influence the behaviors of stakeholders. Adding AI tools to this process only undermines alignment.

GraphCogent: Overcoming LLMs' Working Memory Constraints via Multi-Agent Collaboration in Complex Graph Understanding
Rongzheng Wang, Qizhi Chen, Yihong Huang, Yizhuo Ma, Muquan Li, Jiakai Li, Ke Qin, Guangchun Luo, Shuang Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12379

GraphCogent: Overcoming LLMs' Working Memory Constraints via Multi-Agent Collaboration in Complex Graph Understanding
Large language models (LLMs) show promising performance on small-scale graph reasoning tasks but fail when handling real-world graphs with complex queries. This phenomenon stems from LLMs' inability to effectively process complex graph topology and perform multi-step reasoning simultaneously. To address these limitations, we propose GraphCogent, a collaborative agent framework inspired by human Working Memory Model that decomposes graph reasoning into specialized cognitive processes: sense, buf…

Fantasy football 2025: Hype train or smoke screen? Making sense of NFL preseason news https://www.nfl.com/news/fantasy-football-2025-hype-train-or-smoke-screen-making-sense-of-nfl-preseason-news

Compensating connectivity restrictions in quantum annealers via splitting and linearization techniques
Marcel Seelbach Benkner, Zorah L\"ahner, Vladislav Golyanik, Martin Kliesch, Michael Moeller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12536

Compensating connectivity restrictions in quantum annealers via splitting and linearization techniques
Current quantum annealing experiments often suffer from restrictions in connectivity in the sense that only certain qubits can be coupled to each other. The most common strategy to overcome connectivity restrictions so far is by combining multiple physical qubits into a logical qubit with higher connectivity, which is achieved by adding terms to the Hamiltonian. Practically, this strategy is implemented by finding a so-called minor embedding, which is in itself an NP-hard problem. In this work,…

On Paper, the Raiders Make Sense for This Veteran https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/terry-mclaughlin-jack-bech-donte-thornton-jr-nfl-draft-chip-kelly

Extended Mittag--Leffler Stability Results for Fuzzy Fractional Systems
Es-said En-naoui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13350 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13350

Extended Mittag--Leffler Stability Results for Fuzzy Fractional Systems
We extend Lyapunov--type Mittag--Leffler stability analysis for fuzzy nonlinear fractional differential equations (Caputo sense) and introduce a family of stronger, broadly applicable stability results. In particular, we develop (i) uniform Mittag--Leffler stability for variable-order Caputo derivatives, (ii) input-to-state stability (ISS) in the Mittag--Leffler sense and explicit robustness/ultimate bound estimates, (iii) a converse Mittag--Leffler Lyapunov theorem, (iv) a fractional LaSalle i…

I've only just remembered about mastowall! Here's a handy way to get a sense of posts, comments, pictures and links from #DH2025 https://rstockm.github.io/mastowall/?h

NFL insider envisions Packers attempting to trade for Cowboys' Micah Parsons https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/nfl-insider-envisions-packers-attempting-to-trade-for-cowboys-micah-parsons

Why are there no fans at this game? Makes no sense.
#nwsl

On the universal Casimir spectrum
R. L. Mkrtchyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13707 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13707…

On the universal Casimir spectrum
We conjecture the connection between $su$ and $so$ members of universal, in Vogel's sense, multiplets. The key element is the notion of the {\it vertical componentwise sum} $\oplus_v$ of Young diagrams. Representations in the decomposition of the power of the adjoint representation of $su(N)$ algebra can be parameterized by a couple of $N$-independent Young diagrams $λ$ and $τ$, with equal area. We assume that the $so(N)$ member of the universal (Casimir) multiplet of a given $su(N)$ repres…

Good electoral reforms. But it's VERY disappointing that Labour clings to first-past-the-post. Not only does FPTP make no sense when there are more than 2 parties, but, most importantly, change to PR could be the only way to prevent a far-right majority in 2029. Wake up!
https:…

16 year olds to be given right to vote through seismic government election reforms
Sixteen year olds will be given the right to vote in all UK elections as part of seismic changes to modernise UK democracy

Optimal regularity up to the boundary for Plateau-quasi-minimizers
Eve Machefert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13189 https://arxiv.org/p…

Optimal regularity up to the boundary for Plateau-quasi-minimizers
We study the regularity of quasi-minimal sets (in the sense of David and Semmes) with a boundary condition, which can be interpreted as quasi-minimizers of Plateau's problem in co-dimension one. For these Plateau-quasi-minimizers, we establish the optimal regularity, which is a characterization by bi-John domains with Ahlfors regular boundaries. This requires to investigate the Ahlfors regularity and also the uniform rectifiability of those sets, up to the boundary.

"So this isn't something that goes away," she continued. "I don't love Donald Trump just in the political sense. I love Donald Trump as a human being. But I cannot stand down on this. I can't. And I think that's the way a lot of MAGA feels."
'Can't fit it in my brain': MAGA hosts implode as Trump calls them 'bad people' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/maga-epstein-bad-people/

How Classroom Rituals Help Create Community https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_classroom_rituals_help_create_community?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_co…

How Classroom Rituals Help Create Community
Small practices, repeated regularly and with intentionality, can help students feel a sense of belonging at school.

Hahahaha, @… found an even more fucked up furniture "#AI" slob.
Poe's "a dream within a dream" was yesterday, today it's "a desk within a desk", where absolutely nothing makes sense.

Profinite rigidity of crystallographic groups arising from Lie theory
Davide Carolillo, Gianluca Paolini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15494 https://

Profinite rigidity of crystallographic groups arising from Lie theory
We prove that every finite direct product of crystallographic groups arising from an irreducible root system (in the sense of Lie theory) is profinitely rigid (equiv. first-order rigid). This is a generalization of recent proofs of profinite rigidity of affine Coxeter groups [1, 7, 22]. Our proof uses model theory.

Sources: OpenAI is recruiting people to work on humanoid robots and is training AI algorithms that are better able to make sense of the physical world (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ramps-up-robotics-work-in-race-toward-agi/

OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI
The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids.

FoleySpace: Vision-Aligned Binaural Spatial Audio Generation
Lei Zhao, Rujin Chen, Chi Zhang, Xiao-Lei Zhang, Xuelong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12918 https://

FoleySpace: Vision-Aligned Binaural Spatial Audio Generation
Recently, with the advancement of AIGC, deep learning-based video-to-audio (V2A) technology has garnered significant attention. However, existing research mostly focuses on mono audio generation that lacks spatial perception, while the exploration of binaural spatial audio generation technologies, which can provide a stronger sense of immersion, remains insufficient. To solve this problem, we propose FoleySpace, a framework for video-to-binaural audio generation that produces immersive and spat…

Dignan analysiert: Apples KI-Rückstand ist so gravierend wie Microsofts „Mobile-Fail“. Perplexity als Allheilmittel? Kaum. Aber Tim Cook braucht dringend eine Story für den Kapitalmarkt—zur Not für 20 Mrd. Dollar. #TechDebatte #Apple

Why Apple should buy Perplexity and possibly keep going
Apple needs to jump start its AI strategy and the only way it's going to get there is through acquisitions. Here's why a purchase of Perplexity makes sense and why Apple may want to keep shopping. Bloomberg reported last month that Apple was discussing a purchase of the AI search startup. Let's look at why an Apple purchase of Perplexity, reportedly valued at about $14 billion or so, would make sense. Apple needs an AI strategy and story. Let's state the obvious: Apple is an AI laggard. Apple's…

Opinion: The Real Problem (and Solution) With Redistricting Is Simple: The Maps Don’t Make Sense - El Paso News https://elpasonews.org/2025/08/28/opinion-the-real-problem-and-solution-with-redistricting-is-simple-the-ma…

Opinion: The Real Problem (and Solution) With Redistricting Is Simple: The Maps Don’t Make Sense - El Paso News
el paso, texas, el paso news, el paso politics, political news, elections

Path-Oblivious Entanglement Swapping for the Quantum Internet
Vincent Mutolo, Rhea Parekh, Dan Rubenstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13993 https://arxiv.or…

Path-Oblivious Entanglement Swapping for the Quantum Internet
Proposed Bell pair swapping protocols, an essential component of the Quantum Internet, are planned-path: specific, structured, routing paths are reserved prior to the execution of the swapping process. This makes sense when one assumes the state used in the swapping process is expensive, fragile, and unstable. However, lessons from classical networking have shown that while reservations seem promising in concept, flexible, reservation-light or free approaches often outperform their more restric…

Gamma-convergence as $s\to1^-$ of anisotropic nonlocal fractional perimeter functionals
Alberto Fanizza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13823 https://arxiv.org/…

Gamma-convergence as $s\to1^-$ of anisotropic nonlocal fractional perimeter functionals
We investigate the asymptotic behavior in the sense of $Γ(L^1_{loc})$-convergence as $s\to1^-$ of anisotropic non local $s$-fractional perimeters defined with respect to general anisotropic integration kernels $k_s(\cdot)$, under the hypothesis of pointwise convergence of such kernels. In particular, we prove the $Γ(L^1_{loc})$-convergence as $s\to1^-$ of the rescaled anisotropic nonlocal $s$-fractional perimeters defined with respect to the kernels $k_s(\cdot)$ to a suitable anisotropic peri…

Can We Tell if ChatGPT is a Parasite? Studying Human-AI Symbiosis with Game Theory
Jiejun Hu-Bolz, James Stovold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11359 https://a…

Can We Tell if ChatGPT is a Parasite? Studying Human-AI Symbiosis with Game Theory
This work asks whether a human interacting with a generative AI system can merge into a single individual through iterative, information-driven interactions. We model the interactions between a human, a generative AI system, and the human's wider environment as a three-player stochastic game. We use information-theoretic measures (entropy, mutual information, and transfer entropy) to show that our modelled human and generative AI are able to form an aggregate individual in the sense of Krakauer…

On two notions of torsion and metric compatibility of connections in noncommutative geometry
Jyotishman Bhowmick, Bappa Ghosh, Satyajit Guin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11888 htt…

On two notions of torsion and metric compatibility of connections in noncommutative geometry
We compare the notions of metric-compatibility and torsion of a connection in the frameworks of Beggs-Majid and Mesland-Rennie. It follows that for $\ast$-preserving connections, compatibility with a real metric in the sense of Beggs-Majid corresponds to Hermitian connections in the sense of Mesland-Rennie. If the calculus is quasi-tame, the torsion zero conditions are equivalent. A combination of these results proves the existence and uniqueness of Levi-Civita connections in the sense of Mesla…

As a survivor of the type of stochastic terrorism that people like Charlie Kirk carry out, and also a survivor of gun violence, I've had a bit to think about.
I still understand the anger, the frustration, that leads someone to snap. I'll always have compassion, if also paired with some frustration, for the person who shot me and her husband. That makes sense to me. I refused to testify because it never made sense to punish a tool who acted out of ignorance.
What doesn't make as much sense to me are the upper class grifters, the stochastic terrorists, who turn a profit of off setting people like that up to kill. I always wanted to see people like that, people who were clearly profiting off of bringing evil into the world, held accountable.
But the way I always want to see them held accountable, is by being forced to live in a world where everyone is free. Charlie Kirk got out easy, and that is a bit sad. He should have had to suffer through our victory. He should have had to watch the fall of Western Civilization, the collapse of all the things he held dear, all the things he tried to uphold. I wish that he had lived long enough to understand the suffering he inflicted on the world. He should have lived long enough to have to do real work, to have to figure out how to feed himself, house himself, in a world that has no market for the hate that he brings.
As much as I had rather that he starved, I would never shed a tear for the opening of a new public urinal.
Rest in piss. Charlie Kirk.

The Geometry of Motion, Vol. I: Mechanics as Geometries
Patrick Iglesias-Zemmour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12810 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12810

The Geometry of Motion, Vol. I: Mechanics as Geometries
This work presents a group-theoretic interpretation of the historical evolution of mechanics, proposing that each fundamental theory of motion corresponds to a distinct geometry in the sense of Felix Klein. The character of each geometry is uniquely determined by its Inertia Group-the group of spacetime transformations that preserves its privileged class of inertial motions. We trace the three major epistemological ruptures in the history of mechanics by translating foundational physical princi…

Unraveling Self-Similar Energy Transfer Dynamics: a Case Study for 1D Burgers System
Pritpal Matharu, Bartosz Protas, Tsuyoshi Yoneda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12764

Unraveling Self-Similar Energy Transfer Dynamics: a Case Study for 1D Burgers System
In this work we consider the problem of constructing flow evolutions leading to a self-similar energy cascade consistent with Kolmogorov's statistical theory of turbulence. As a first step in this direction, we focus on the one-dimensional viscous Burgers equation as a toy model. Its solutions exhibiting self-similar behavior, in a precisely-defined sense, are found by framing this problems in terms of PDE-constrained optimization. The main physical parameters are the time window over which sel…

Analysis of Langevin midpoint methods using an anticipative Girsanov theorem
Matthew S. Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12791 https://

Analysis of Langevin midpoint methods using an anticipative Girsanov theorem
We introduce a new method for analyzing midpoint discretizations of stochastic differential equations (SDEs), which are frequently used in Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for sampling from a target measure $π\propto \exp(-V)$. Borrowing techniques from Malliavin calculus, we compute estimates for the Radon-Nikodym derivative for processes on $L^2([0, T); \mathbb{R}^d)$ which may anticipate the Brownian motion, in the sense that they may not be adapted to the filtration at the same time…

The n-total graph of a commutative ring
Djamila AitElhadi, Ayman Badawi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11361 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11361

The n-total graph of a commutative ring
Let $R$ be a commutative ring with $1\not = 0$, $Z(R)$ be the set of all zero-divisors of $R$, and $n \geq 1$. This paper introduces the $n$-total graph of a commutative ring $R$. The $n$-total graph of a commutative ring $R$, denoted by $n-T(R)$, is an undirected simple graph with vertex set $R$, such that two vertices $x, y$ in $R$ are connected by an edge if $x^n + y^n$ in $Z(R)$. Note that if $n =1$, then the $1$-total graph of $R$ is the total graph of $R$ in the sense of Anderson-Badawi's…

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在空中 - 窗外 ✈️ ☁️
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#filmphotography

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…

Maybe Nothing Ever Really Changes
Concept: Donald Trump makes perfect sense if you realize that sometime around 2012, he was captured by a foreign intelligence service and programmed to suddenly believe...
https://blaisehartley.com/2025/07/15/maybe-nothing-ever-rea…

Maybe Nothing Ever Really Changes
Concept: Donald Trump makes perfect sense if you realize that sometime around 2012, he was captured by a foreign intelligence service and programmed to suddenly believe that he could never be truly…

The Leibenson process
Viorel Barbu, Sebastian Grube, Marco Rehmeier, Michael R\"ockner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12979 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.129…

The Leibenson process
Consider the Leibenson equation \begin{equation*} \partial_t u = Δ_p u^q, \end{equation*} where $Δ_p f = div(|\nabla f|^{p-2}\nabla f)$ for $p>1$ and $q>0$, which is a simultaneous generalization of the porous media and the $p$-Laplace equation. In this paper we identify the Leibenson equation as a nonlinear Fokker--Planck equation and prove that it has a nonlinear Markov process in the sense of McKean as its probabilistic counterpart. More precisely, we obtain a probabilistic repre…

Where that understanding goes wrong is that humans have perception and experience and common sense. And yes, people are foolish and fallible — but ultimately humans are the adaptable element of complex systems[1], and when we design processes involving humans, we always, always lean on that adaptability.
If we say “walk out the door,” humans generally will not just walk face first into the wall just because the door is behind it.
Code will — unless you tell it not to.
[1] https://how.complexsystems.fail/#12
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A sense of apprehension hung over Los Angeles this week
in the wake of a supreme court ruling that paved the way for federal agents to conduct warrantless raids
and target people based on their skin color, accent or job.
Immigrant communities have been on edge for months amid sweeping raids that have rounded up thousands of people.
In July, a judge issued a temporary restraining order that barred agents from racially profiling people in southern and central California…

#Spahnferkel
Geklaut bei Thomas @thomasralf.bsky.social€

“I’m so sorry for involving you by texting you but have no other reason to text you but to create a paper trail of my confession to you that makes no sense and serves no goal I could possibly have.”
Bondi and Patel are not good at things.
#USpol

Rational Bubbles on Dividend-Paying Assets: A Comment on Tirole (1985)
Ngoc-Sang Pham, Alexis Akira Toda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12477 https://

Rational Bubbles on Dividend-Paying Assets: A Comment on Tirole (1985)
Tirole (1985) studied an overlapping generations model with capital accumulation and showed that the emergence of asset bubbles solves the capital over-accumulation problem. His Proposition 1(c) claims that if the dividend growth rate is above the bubbleless interest rate (the steady-state interest rate in the Diamond economy without bubbles) but below the population growth rate, then bubbles are necessary in the sense that there exists no bubbleless equilibrium but there exists a unique bubbly…

Cowboys Trade Pitch Lands Browns Star to Strengthen Defense https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dallas-trade-pitch-cleveland-browns-star/?adt_ei=[email]

Hamilton decompositions of regular tripartite tournaments
Francesco Di Braccio, Joanna Lada, Viresh Patel, Yani Pehova, Jozef Skokan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12460

Hamilton decompositions of regular tripartite tournaments
Kühn and Osthus conjectured in 2013 that regular tripartite tournaments are decomposable into Hamilton cycles. Somewhat surprisingly, Granet gave a simple counterexample to this conjecture almost 10 years later. In this paper, we show that the conjecture of Kühn and Osthus nevertheless holds in an approximate sense, by proving that every regular tripartite tournament admits an approximate decomposition into Hamilton cycles. We also study Hamilton cycle packings of directed graphs in the same …

An introduction to real oriented blowups in toric, toroidal and logarithmic geometries
Patrick Popescu-Pampu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11982 https://

An introduction to real oriented blowups in toric, toroidal and logarithmic geometries
This text is an introduction to the applications of rounding of complex log spaces (also known as Kato-Nakayama or Betti realization) to singularity theory. Log spaces in the sense of Fontaine and Illusie were first described in print by Kato, in a 1988 paper. Rounding of complex log spaces was introduced in a 1999 paper by Kato and Nakayama and is a functorial generalization of A'Campo's 1975 notion of a real oriented blowup. It allows to cut canonically any complex toroidal variety $X$ along …

Raiders insider: Las Vegas could be in trade market for two different positions https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-insider-las-vegas-trade-market-two-different-positio…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/26/a-day-with-the-revenge-porn-helpline-you-can-sense-the-callers-desperation
A day with the Revenge Porn Helpline: ‘You can sense the callers’ desperatio…

Not necessarily a professional, because unlikely things do happen. They must. You have to suspect that they were a trained shooter to get that lucky at that distance but a LOT of people who are not professional assassins in any sense* have well-practiced shooting skills. In the narrow sense of the phrase, only a tiny fraction of the highly-skilled shooters have ever killed a person for pay in the private sector.
*: i.e. not even military or hunters

Stand With Chicago Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
Someone just explained to me that the shooter was a professional assassin on the grounds that they hit the carotid, in case you are worried that the fucking crazy is not being evenly distributed

Es gibt hier ein paar so Gestrüppecken, dafür hat meine Wiesensense ein zu langes und zu zartes Sensenblatt. Also kam heute noch ein österreichischer Holzworb nebst kürzerem und robusterem Sensenblatt ins Haus. Montage und Einstellung war mit dem beiliegenden, bebilderten Faltblatt easygoing. #garten #sense

Hey friends, sorry to be so silent again. Busy life - but nothing bad.
Just wanted to share this photo with you :
THIS was the narrowest passage ahead. It's just this and around the corner, after this it widens up again. And I can promise: it does not just look narrow - it really IS.
I admit that I thought "ohkay, I did NOT expect that and I hope it won't get worse".
(it didn't and it was fun after all)

Can the Chiefs get back on track? We stacked every Super Bowl loser that started the next season 0-2 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46283747/2025-kansas-city-chiefs-winless-0-2-super-bowl-losers-rank-nfl-history

I truly believe in anarcho-syndicalism. It’s not merely a political position I align with, it’s an emancipatory framework that speaks to me on a level deeper than ideology, a praxis that gives me a sense of meaning and direction I cannot turn away from.
I believe in it because it embodies the struggle against authoritarianism and the hierarchies of the capitalist state, because it affirms horizontalism, mutual aid, and collective power at the very core of life. It matters to me not a…

There’s no doubting the seriousness with which Braxton approaches his art – this is a major composer, who with his Tri-Axium writings, has developed a musico-philosophical system of cosmic complexity – but the sense of adventure and fun he brings to these enterprises is undeniable. Braxton describes himself as "a professional student of music" and his enthusiasm for new ideas and possibilities is inspiring.

Breaking Language Barriers: Equitable Performance in Multilingual Language Models
Tanay Nagar, Grigorii Khvatskii, Anna Sokol, Nitesh V. Chawla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12662 …

Breaking Language Barriers: Equitable Performance in Multilingual Language Models
Cutting-edge LLMs have emerged as powerful tools for multilingual communication and understanding. However, LLMs perform worse in Common Sense Reasoning (CSR) tasks when prompted in low-resource languages (LRLs) like Hindi or Swahili compared to high-resource languages (HRLs) like English. Equalizing this inconsistent access to quality LLM outputs is crucial to ensure fairness for speakers of LRLs and across diverse linguistic communities. In this paper, we propose an approach to bridge this ga…

Audio Flamingo Sound-CoT Technical Report: Improving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Sound Understanding
Zhifeng Kong, Arushi Goel, Joao Felipe Santos, Sreyan Ghosh, Rafael Valle, Wei Ping, Bryan Catanzaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11818

Audio Flamingo Sound-CoT Technical Report: Improving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Sound Understanding
Chain-of-thought reasoning has demonstrated significant improvements in large language models and vision language models, yet its potential for audio language models remains largely unexplored. In this technical report, we take a preliminary step towards closing this gap. For better assessment of sound reasoning, we propose AF-Reasoning-Eval, a benchmark targeting common-sense reasoning and the ability to discriminate among closely related choices. To prepare training corpus for sound reasoning…

On stablecoins, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon says, "We're going to be involved in both JPMorgan deposit coin and stablecoins to understand it, to be good at it" (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/15/jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-chase-stablecoins.htm…

Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan Chase will get involved in stablecoins as fintech threat looms
JPMorgan Chase is a juggernaut in the global payments industry, helping move nearly $10 trillion daily, so it makes sense that they would explore stablecoins.

Hilbert spaces admit no finitary discrete imaginaries
Ruiyuan Chen, Isabel Trindade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11321 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11321

Hilbert spaces admit no finitary discrete imaginaries
We prove that every functor from the category of Hilbert spaces and linear isometric embeddings to the category of sets which preserves directed colimits must be essentially constant on all infinite-dimensional spaces. In other words, every finitary set-valued imaginary over the theory of Hilbert spaces, in a broad signature-independent sense, must be essentially trivial. This extends a result and answers a question by Lieberman--Rosický--Vasey, who showed that no such functor on the supercate…

>I block someone
>everyone in the thread but them disappears
yeah that makes sense

Strong solutions for a class of stochastic thermo-magneto-hydrodynamic-type systems with multiplicative noise
Agus L. Soenjaya, Thanh Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14490 https…

Strong solutions for a class of stochastic thermo-magneto-hydrodynamic-type systems with multiplicative noise
We study the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions, in the sense of PDEs and probability, for a broad class of nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) on a bounded domain $\mathscr{O}\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ ($d\leq 3$), perturbed by spatially correlated multiplicative noise. Our framework applies to many physically relevant systems, including stochastic convective Brinkman--Forchheimer equations, stochastic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), stochastic Bénard convection in po…

“I’m so sorry for involving you by texting you but have no other reason to text you but to create a paper trail of my confession to you that makes no sense and serves no goal I could possibly have.”
Bondi and Patel are not good at things.
#USpol

🛫 Retelling near-death experiences helps aviators find meaning and purpose at work
#aviation

Retelling near-death experiences helps aviators find meaning and purpose at work
When aviators face a close brush with death, their harrowing experiences often become stories—told again and again in break rooms, over beers or in quiet conversations with trusted colleagues. But what effect do these stories have on the people telling them? Can the act of storytelling itself help them make sense of their work—and even find deeper meaning in it?

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Urban Spots 🟤
在路上 - 去西安/ 城市的点 🟤
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Do Large Language Models Understand Word Senses?
Domenico Meconi, Simone Stirpe, Federico Martelli, Leonardo Lavalle, Roberto Navigli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13905 https://…

Do Large Language Models Understand Word Senses?
Understanding the meaning of words in context is a fundamental capability for Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite extensive evaluation efforts, the extent to which LLMs show evidence that they truly grasp word senses remains underexplored. In this paper, we address this gap by evaluating both i) the Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) capabilities of instruction-tuned LLMs, comparing their performance to state-of-the-art systems specifically designed for the task, and ii) the ability of two top-p…

A short story about hypothetical #USPol. I wrote it a few times but every time I do the situation outpaces the narrative.
https://write.as/hexmhell/uncommon-sense

In a saner environment, we’d be having a reasonable conversation about that: in what ways, if any, can a machine that repeats contextual patterns with no sense of meaning augment humans thinking through tricky things? In ways can it mislead? When, if ever, is it worth the tradeoffs? the resource costs? etc etc.
Right now, the off-the-charts money and hype make that reasonable conversation impossible except perhaps in hushed corners. (Please do not have that argument in my replies. I am tired.)
7/

from my link log —
strlcpy and how CPUs can defy common sense.
https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/cpu-vs-common-sense
saved 2024-07-25

Rotating frames from quantum deformed spacetime
Du\v{s}an {\DJ}or{\dj}evi\'c, Dragoljub Go\v{c}anin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11637 https://

Rotating frames from quantum deformed spacetime
In a sense of deformation quantization, noncommutative (NC) geometry introduces a quantum structure of spacetime. Using the twist-deformation formalism, we show that the dynamical effects of spacetime noncommutativity can amount to a transition to a rotating frame of reference. In particular, we study the dynamics of charged matter (scalars and spinors) on the background of Melvin's electric universe in the framework of NC gauge field theory. Melvin's electric/magnetic universe is a static, axi…

Working on my new home (#blogging, I am realizing that unlike in the past, it might not make sense to use feedburner anymore.
M…

David August
Stories, serious articles, satire, tech trends, how to guides and ideas from David August. Actor. Writer. Acting coach.

Every criticism of Israel,
any sympathy for the Palestinians,
any pressure to end the war,
is seen today as a form of antisemitism
– even endorsement of Hamas.
Over 60% of Israelis, according to recent polls, believe “nobody in Gaza is innocent.”
Along with Israel’s sense of impunity, this popular notion explains how this war has turned into a genocide.
The core of Palestinian identity, most Israelis believe, is the physical destruction of their stat…

Nonlinear nonlocal equations in Reifenberg flat domains
Sun-Sig Byun, Kyeongbae Kim, Kyeong Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12595 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Nonlinear nonlocal equations in Reifenberg flat domains
We consider nonhomogeneous fractional $p$-Laplace equations defined on a bounded nonsmooth domain which goes beyond the Lipschitz category. Under a sufficient flatness assumption on the domain in the sense of Reifenberg, we establish several fine boundary regularity results for solutions, and their gradient, near the boundary. To the best of our knowledge, each of our results is new even in the linear case.

Why it makes sense for Cowboys to 'kick tires' on ex-No. 1 pick Jadeveon Clowney

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-it-makes-sense-for-cowboys-to-br…

Talk about a SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation - doomed for failure:
Of all of the "first ladies" (few would really voluntarily apply the word "lady" to Melanoma except in the anatomical sense) Melanoma is the only one who is, as seen in published photographs, truly a "pubic figure".

Finite approximation of free groups II: the Theorems of Ash, Herwig-Lascar and Ribes-Zalesskii -- revisited and strengthened
K. Auinger, J. Bitterlich, M. Otto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11685

Finite approximation of free groups II: the Theorems of Ash, Herwig-Lascar and Ribes-Zalesskii -- revisited and strengthened
Relations and interactions between the theorems of Ash, Herwig-Lascar and Ribes-Zalesskii are discussed and it is shown that these three theorems are equivalent in the sense that each of them can be derived from each other one. Some strengthening of these theorems that can be obtained by use of the groups provided by the third author's construction are also considered.

Apparently conductive materials can have a dielectric constant. How do you polarize a material if it has a non negligible current flowing through it? Doesn't make sense to me.

MusicSwarm: Biologically Inspired Intelligence for Music Composition
Markus J. Buehler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11973 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11973

MusicSwarm: Biologically Inspired Intelligence for Music Composition
We show that coherent, long-form musical composition can emerge from a decentralized swarm of identical, frozen foundation models that coordinate via stigmergic, peer-to-peer signals, without any weight updates. We compare a centralized multi-agent system with a global critic to a fully decentralized swarm in which bar-wise agents sense and deposit harmonic, rhythmic, and structural cues, adapt short-term memory, and reach consensus. Across symbolic, audio, and graph-theoretic analyses, the swa…

I wonder if I ever shared #photos from my #FrozenMajesties Collection - or at least it is a while since I last shared them.
Anyways, I took it during a winter hike in the #Karwendel and r…

City Features III 🌆
城市特征 III 🌆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Monotonicity properties of the Robin torsion function in a class of symmetric planar domains
Qinfeng Li, Juncheng Wei, Ruofei Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14648 https://

Monotonicity properties of the Robin torsion function in a class of symmetric planar domains
We prove the monotonicity property of the Robin torsion function in a smooth planar domain $Ω$ with a line of symmetry, provided that the Robin coefficient $β$ is greater than or equal to the negative of the boundary curvature $κ$ (i.e., $β\geq -κ$ on $\partialΩ$). We also show that this condition is, in a certain sense, sharp by constructing a counterexample.

Trump complained that domestic violence was being counted in the crime statistics,
which he claimed meant that the influence of his policy was not being seen as significant enough.
“They said, ‘Crime’s down 87%,’” the president claimed, not explaining who “they” were.
“I said, no, no, no. It’s more than 87%, virtually nothing.
And much lesser things, things that take place in the home they call crime.
You know, they’ll do anything they can to find something.

Emergent structures in open EFTs
Perseas Christodoulidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13284 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13284…

Emergent structures in open EFTs
Open effective field theories (EFTs) provide a systematic framework for describing systems coupled to an environment, where dissipation, noise, and modified conservation laws naturally arise. Working within the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism, we examine open extensions of well-studied theories describing a spontaneous symmetry breaking phase in the higher-form sense: the superfluid, Maxwell theory, and Einstein's gravity. We demonstrate that to leading order breaking advanced symmetries while pres…

from my link log —
Making sense of atomic acquire-release semantics.
https://davekilian.com/acquire-release.html
saved 2025-06-08 ht…

Discretization and Vanishing Discount Problems for First-order Mean Field Games
Renato Iturriaga, Cristian Mendico, Kaizhi Wang, Yuchen Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14541 https…

Discretization and Vanishing Discount Problems for First-order Mean Field Games
This article focuses two issues related to the first-order discounted mean field games system. The first is the time discretization problem. The time discretization approach enables us to prove the existence of solutions (u,m) of the system, where u is a viscosity solution of the discounted Hamilton-Jacobi equation and m is a projected minimizing measure satisfying the continuity equation in the sense of distributions. The second is the vanishing discount problems for both the discounted mean f…

And there I was close to the summit. Finally!
I was happy to get a snack and relax my legs a bit. I wasn't alone up there but it wasn't crowded. Well it was just great to be there again.
I think it was just the second time in a decade that I was up there. Even though I can see the summit from my home 🙂
A bit more Context and the video:

Overview of the Sensemaking Task at the ELOQUENT 2025 Lab: LLMs as Teachers, Students and Evaluators
Pavel \v{S}indel\'a\v{r}, Ond\v{r}ej Bojar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12143

Overview of the Sensemaking Task at the ELOQUENT 2025 Lab: LLMs as Teachers, Students and Evaluators
ELOQUENT is a set of shared tasks that aims to create easily testable high-level criteria for evaluating generative language models. Sensemaking is one such shared task. In Sensemaking, we try to assess how well generative models ``make sense out of a given text'' in three steps inspired by exams in a classroom setting: (1) Teacher systems should prepare a set of questions, (2) Student systems should answer these questions, and (3) Evaluator systems should score these answers, all adhering ra…

I missed one of everything while I was deployed to Afghanistan:
Birthdays. Holidays. Recitals. Soccer games.
I missed my husband. I missed our 5 kids even more.
After I returned to Colorado, we were driving home one day when my husband suggested we get two $5 pizzas from Little Caesar’s.
Sitting at the table, I felt an immense sense of gratitude to finally be together again,
just enjoying a simple meal.
"Wow," I told my husband. "This was …

Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher | Democrat for Congress
Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher, a candidate for Congress in Colorado’s 4th District, is on a new mission after a lifetime of service: Defeat Lauren Boebert.