Tootfinder

McCarthy set for on-field work, Wentz hurting https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46514877/vikings-mccarthy-set-field-work-wentz-being-examined

ACA premiums set to spike (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/5440172-aca-premiums-set-to-spike/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p139#a250806p139

Which 10 NFL Rookies Are Set To Make an Impact During The 2025 Season? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/which-10-nfl-rookies-set-make-impact-during-2025-season

A driver going 283 mph while trying to set a land speed record at a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats
-- died on Sunday
-- after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon.
Driver Chris Raschke lost control about two and a half miles into a run
and was treated by medical professionals at the scene,
but died from his injuries,

Heute 6.9.25 ab 14 Uhr findet das #HowTo - Festival in #Zürich statt:
https://www.k-set.net
Ort: Brünnel…

dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Set Block Decoding is a Language Model Inference Accelerator
Itai Gat, Heli Ben-Hamu, Marton Havasi, Daniel Haziza, Jeremy Reizenstein, Gabriel Synnaeve, David Lopez-Paz, Brian Karrer, Yaron Lipman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04185

Set Block Decoding is a Language Model Inference Accelerator
Autoregressive next token prediction language models offer powerful capabilities but face significant challenges in practical deployment due to the high computational and memory costs of inference, particularly during the decoding stage. We introduce Set Block Decoding (SBD), a simple and flexible paradigm that accelerates generation by integrating standard next token prediction (NTP) and masked token prediction (MATP) within a single architecture. SBD allows the model to sample multiple, not n…

EoH-S: Evolution of Heuristic Set using LLMs for Automated Heuristic Design
Fei Liu, Yilu Liu, Qingfu Zhang, Xialiang Tong, Mingxuan Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03082 https:…

EoH-S: Evolution of Heuristic Set using LLMs for Automated Heuristic Design
Automated Heuristic Design (AHD) using Large Language Models (LLMs) has achieved notable success in recent years. Despite the effectiveness of existing approaches, they only design a single heuristic to serve all problem instances, often inducing poor generalization across different distributions or settings. To address this issue, we propose Automated Heuristic Set Design (AHSD), a new formulation for LLM-driven AHD. The aim of AHSD is to automatically generate a small-sized complementary heur…

On $d$-distance $p$-packing domination number in strong products
Csilla Bujt\'as, Vesna Ir\v{s}i\v{c} Chenoweth, Sandi Klav\v{z}ar, Gang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02749

On $d$-distance $p$-packing domination number in strong products
The $d$-distance $p$-packing domination number $γ_d^p(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the cardinality of a smallest set of vertices of $G$ which is both a $d$-distance dominating set and a $p$-packing. If no such set exists, then we set $γ_d^p(G) = \infty$. For an arbitrary strong product $G\boxtimes H$ it is proved that $γ_d^p(G\boxtimes H) \le γ_d^p(G) γ_d^p(H)$. By proving that $γ_d^p(P_m \boxtimes P_n) = \left \lceil \frac{m}{2d+1} \right \rceil \left \lceil \frac{n}{2d+1} \right \rceil$, and t…

Beyond Cons: Purely Relational Data Structures
Rafaello Sanna, William E. Byrd, Nada Amin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03170 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03170…

Beyond Cons: Purely Relational Data Structures
We present {Kanren} (read: set-Kanren), an extension to miniKanren with constraints for reasoning about sets and association lists. {Kanren} includes first-class set objects, a functionally complete family of set-theoretic constraints (including membership, union, and disjointedness), and new constraints for reasoning about association lists with shadowing and scoped lookup. These additions allow programmers to describe collections declaratively and lazily, without relying on structural encodin…

🌝 Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo
http://www.righto.com/2025/07/reverse-engineering-mysterious-up-data.html
#electronics

Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo
Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era communications equipment. A box with NASA-st...

The garden festival / Landesgartenschau was not just about #gardening. There were also events etc. (Which we didn't attend)
One place was about #floristry with really beautifully decorated arrangements. I'm always a bit jealous of such things. They look really beautiful, and requir…

My wife: “Wow, you can get over $100 for just the box, with nothing I it!”
Me: “I’m pretty sure you can get 3-5 in the federal pen if you have the full set.”
Wife: *cackles*
(Yes she keeps me around cos I make her laugh 😂)
And yes, we have a full Jarts set.

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
ZEN: Confirmed. Main drive standing by. The ship is now in free space. Main drive activated.
TARRANT: Zen, standard by eight. Put the rear scanner on the main screen.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/304/377 B7B3

Browns set to keep four QBs in 2025: Building the perfect starter using best skills of each Cleveland option

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/browns-…

Explicit formulae and topological descriptions of action-minimizing sets for 2-locally potentials of the XY model
Yuika Kajihara, Shoya Motonaga, Mao Shinoda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02678

Explicit formulae and topological descriptions of action-minimizing sets for 2-locally potentials of the XY model
We consider ergodic optimization of a symbolic dynamics with uncountable alphabet $[0,1]$ for 2-locally constant potentials with the twist condition, and give explicit formulae of the associated Mather set and the Aubry set. Moreover, we investigate the total disconnectedness of the (quotient) Aubry set, in which case the differentiability of the potential function makes a remarkable difference. Although these results imply that the (quotient) Aubry set is small enough, we give a complete chara…

Source: xAI is set to spend $18B to acquire ~300K more Nvidia chips for its Colossus 2 project in Memphis; Elon Musk said in July it would have 550K chips (Alexander Saeedy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-xai-mem

Construction of the Complete Set of Maximally Entangled Basis Vectors for N-Qubit Systems
Chi-Chuan Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02685 https://arxiv.or…

Construction of the Complete Set of Maximally Entangled Basis Vectors for N-Qubit Systems
In this study, we first use a three-qubit system as an example to demonstrate the construction of quantum circuits for the eight maximally entangled basis vectors, subsequently extending the approach to N-qubit systems. We employ a random-number approach to generate maximally entangled basis vectors and their corresponding circuits, while also detailing the required number of single-qubit and CNOT gates. This approach not only provides a solid theoretical foundation but also establishes a pract…

This is amaxing: THe @… have produced a beatuful set of easy to access tools for using with their satellite data products.
Some great quick start notebooks and tonnes and tonnes of lovely #EarthSytsem climate data.
(Our PISCO project will also be steadily adding stuff to this as well over the next year and a half)
https://climate.esa.int/en/data/toolbox/

Simplicial Perspectives on (Pseudo) Effect Algebras
Dominik Lachman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02748 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02748

Simplicial Perspectives on (Pseudo) Effect Algebras
The study of Frobenius algebras in the category $\mathbf{Rel}$ via their nerve functor into simplicial sets has been introduced recently. In this article, we focus on the particular case of effect algebras and pseudo effect algebras and investigate these using tools from combinatorial topology. To each (pseudo) effect algebra $E$, we associate a simplicial set with edge marking $N(E)$, called an $ε$-simplicial set, and analyze its structural properties. In particular, we provide certain charac…

»Minimal files config for a PWA:
This is the minimal set of files for a "progressive web app" to be installable on Android and iOS.«
Cool min example to develop PWA apps. This means that native tools for developing apps as smartphones are now also available under Firefox & Co.
🧑‍💻 https://github.com/chr15m/minima…

GitHub - chr15m/minimal-pwa: Minimal files + config for a PWA
Minimal files + config for a PWA. Contribute to chr15m/minimal-pwa development by creating an account on GitHub.

Full album available on FB: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=eric.gallager&set=a.10161351732176297

Nichts hat mit nichts zu tun https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-violence/

arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003)
Citations among papers posted on arxiv.org under the hep-ph and hep-th categories, between 1993 and 2003. This time begins a few months after axiv was launched. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) These data were originally released as part of the 2003 KDD Cup.
This network has 27770 nodes and 352807 edges.
Tags: Informational,…

If you always have all your digital stuff set to English you may not be aware of how often those of us who use multi-lingual interfaces come across bad auto-translation that force us to do a double-take. (worst case they can of course be very dangerous).

This is from an email log in Gmail today.

The label "Delstat" is presumable from "State" in English, meaning what condition/status the email is in.

But delstat in Swedish essentially refers to U.S.…

Unravelling the Probabilistic Forest: Arbitrage in Prediction Markets
Oriol Saguillo, Vahid Ghafouri, Lucianna Kiffer, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03474 h…

Unravelling the Probabilistic Forest: Arbitrage in Prediction Markets
Polymarket is a prediction market platform where users can speculate on future events by trading shares tied to specific outcomes, known as conditions. Each market is associated with a set of one or more such conditions. To ensure proper market resolution, the condition set must be exhaustive -- collectively accounting for all possible outcomes -- and mutually exclusive -- only one condition may resolve as true. Thus, the collective prices of all related outcomes should be \$1, representing a c…

Logical Dependence of Physical Determinism on Set-theoretic Metatheory
Justin Clarke-Doane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02567 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0256…

Logical Dependence of Physical Determinism on Set-theoretic Metatheory
Baroque questions of set-theoretic foundations are widely assumed to be irrelevant to physics. In this article, I challenge this assumption. I argue that even the fundamental physical question of whether a theory is deterministic - whether it fixes a unique future given the present - can depend on choice of set-theoretic axiom candidates over which there is deep disagreement. Suppose, as is customary, that a deterministic theory is one whose mathematical formulation yields a unique solution to …

The sun's out again in Ōtautahi! The local skink community is taking full advantage!
#biodiversity #nativeSkinks #lizardarium

Also, it's always interesting to see how things are designed and go together.
Both of these have a mechanism where when you slide the electronics into the cylinder that putting the set screw in place pushes the PCB up so the button goes into the hold of the cylinder.
I thought that was a clever design choice!
One of them is really nice and the other is really cheap. (The good one is a SNV4 PRO.)

CrossSet: Unveiling the Complex Interplay of Two Set-typed Dimensions in Multivariate Data
Kresimir Matkovic, Rainer Splechtna, Denis Gracanin, Helwig Hauser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00424

CrossSet: Unveiling the Complex Interplay of Two Set-typed Dimensions in Multivariate Data
The interactive visual analysis of set-typed data, i.e., data with attributes that are of type set, is a rewarding area of research and applications. Valuable prior work has contributed solutions that enable the study of such data with individual set-typed dimensions. In this paper, we present CrossSet, a novel method for the joint study of two set-typed dimensions and their interplay. Based on a task analysis, we describe a new, multi-scale approach to the interactive visual exploration and an…

Here's a nice melodic set for you to chill out to #Music

Good morning to everyone except the people who set ticket prices for rail travel in the UK.

The harsh reality is that the Rule of Law is dead in the USA.
#usa

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US
The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

Estimation of Algebraic Sets: Extending PCA Beyond Linearity
Alberto Gonz\'alez-Sanz, Gilles Mordant, \'Alvaro Samperio, Bodhisattva Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01976

Estimation of Algebraic Sets: Extending PCA Beyond Linearity
An algebraic set is defined as the zero locus of a system of real polynomial equations. In this paper we address the problem of recovering an unknown algebraic set $\mathcal{A}$ from noisy observations of latent points lying on $\mathcal{A}$ -- a task that extends principal component analysis, which corresponds to the purely linear case. Our procedure consists of three steps: (i) constructing the {\it moment matrix} from the Vandermonde matrix associated with the data set and the degree of the …

People in Every US Congressional District Set to Be Harmed by Trump-GOP Attack on Healthcare | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-beautiful-bill-healthcare

40 years ago today, the #GratefulDead at red rocks, the middle of 3 afternoon gigs. one of the shortest 2-set dead gigs, barely 2 hours of music. late summer ’85, show #7.
soundboard: https://archive.org/…

Aaron Judge set to return to Yankees' lineup; no timeline on Caitlin Clark to return to Fever

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/aaron-j

BAFTA changes its rules to let all 6,000 members vote in the international TV category; the 2026 TV awards are set for May 10, and the craft awards for April 26 (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/bafta-voting-rules-internat…

BAFTA Tweaks Voting Rules For International TV Category & Reveals 2026 Awards Dates
BAFTA has unveiled the dates for the 2026 TV Awards and tweaked the international voting category.

Coalition graphs of connected domination partitions in subcubic graphs
Andrey A. Dobrynin, Aleksey N. Glebov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04204 https://arxiv…

Coalition graphs of connected domination partitions in subcubic graphs
A graph is subcubic if it is connected and its maximum vertex degree does not exceed 3. Two disjoint vertex subsets of a graph $G$ form a connected coalition in $G$ if neither of them is a connected dominating set but their union is a connected dominating set. A connected coalition partition of $G$ is a partition of its vertices $π(G) = \{V_1, V_2,..., V_k \}$, such that each $V_i$ is either a connected dominating set consisting of a single vertex or forms a coalition with some set of $π(G)$.…

Leighton house, a successful 19th century artist and bachelor. The house is opulently decorated as a set piece to further his career as an aesthete.

Pennsylvania settlement sets US precedent for plastic pellet control. Landmark agreement highlights threat of plastic pollution to human health and environment. Important step towards reducing impact on waterways and climate. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Pennsylvania Settlement Could Set US Precedent for Control of Plastic Pellets
"A Pennsylvania plastics manufacturer will pay $2.6 million for allegedly violating the federal Clean Water Act and will ensure that no more of its plastic pellets leak into waterways, under a proposed settlement with two environmental groups."

5 handstand push-ups, set 2. (Ties my record.) Wednesdays are usually my handstand and pike day.
#seniorfitness #nogym #calisthenics

Optimization of Radar Search Patterns for Multiple Scanning Missions in Localized Clutter
Yann Briheche (LS2N, LS2N - \'equipe ReV), Fr\'ed\'eric Barbaresco (LS2N, LS2N - \'equipe ReV), Fouad Bennis (LS2N, LS2N - \'equipe ReV), Damien Chablat (LS2N, LS2N - \'equipe RoMas)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02081

Optimization of Radar Search Patterns for Multiple Scanning Missions in Localized Clutter
Electronic Phased-Array Radars offer new possibilities for Optimization of Radar Search Pattern by using bi-dimensional beam forming and beam steering, along both elevation and azimuth axes. The minimization of the Time-Budget required for multiple Radar scanning missions in localized clutter, under constraints of range and detection probability, can be approximated as a Set Cover Problem. We present a Set Cover Problem approximation for Time-Budget minimization of the Radar Search Pattern, and…

Flat bands, Dirac cones, and higher-order band crossings in twisted multilayer graphene
Bryan Li, Mengxuan Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02011 https://ar…

Flat bands, Dirac cones, and higher-order band crossings in twisted multilayer graphene
For the chiral limit of two sheets of $n$-layer Bernal-stacked graphene established in the Physical Review Letters arXiv:2109.10325 and arXiv:2109.11514, we prove a trichotomy: depending on the twisting angle, we have either (1) generically, the band crossing of the first two bands is of order $n$; or (2) at a discrete set of magic angles, the first two bands are completely flat; or (3) for another discrete set of twisting parameters, the bands exhibit Dirac cones. This new mathematical discove…

Optimized Degree Realization: Minimum Dominating Set & Maximum Matching
Amotz Bar-Noy, Igor Kalinichev, David Peleg, Dror Rawitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03176 https://

Optimized Degree Realization: Minimum Dominating Set & Maximum Matching
The Degree Realization problem requires, given a sequence $d$ of $n$ positive integers, to decide whether there exists a graph whose degrees correspond to $d$, and to construct such a graph if it exists. A more challenging variant of the problem arises when $d$ has many different realizations, and some of them may be more desirable than others. We study \emph{optimized realization} problems in which the goal is to compute a realization that optimizes some quality measure. Efficient algorithms a…

On the diameter and girth of zero-divisor graphs of inverse semigroups
Yanhui Wang, Xinyi Zhu, Pei Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03632 https://arxiv.org/p…

On the diameter and girth of zero-divisor graphs of inverse semigroups
Let $S$ be an inverse semigroup with zero and let $Z(S)^\times$ be its set of non-zero divisors with respect to the natural partial order $\le $ on $S$, that is, $a \in Z(S)^\times $ if there exists $b\in S\setminus\{0\}$ with $ω(a, b) = \{c \in S: c \leq a\ \mbox{and}\ c \leq b\}=\{0\}$. The set $Z(S)^\times$ makes up the vertices of the corresponding {\it zero-divisor graph} $Γ(S)$, with two distinct vertices $a, b$ forming an edge if $ω(a, b)=\{0\}$. We characterize {\it zero-divisor grap…

On the number of components of folds of image simple fold maps
O. Saeki, R. Sadykov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03878 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03878

On the number of components of folds of image simple fold maps
A smooth map between manifolds is said to be \emph{image simple} if its restriction to its singular point set is a topological embedding. We study the parity of the number of connected components of the singular point set for image simple fold maps from a closed manifold of dimension $\ge 2$ to a surface. It is known that this parity is a homotopy invariant when the source manifold is of even dimension and the target surface is orientable. In this paper we show that for an arbitrary image simpl…

Urge FIFA to Help Stop the Slaughter of Cats and Dogs in Morocco! #AnimalRights

Urge FIFA to Stop the Slaughter of Cats and Dogs in Morocco!
Homeless animals are being shot, poisoned, or set on fire in Morocco as the country prepares to co-host the 2030 FIFA World Cup – urge FIFA to intervene.

The 82nd edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we look at hits and misses (mostly misses, let us be honest) in our long tradition of predicting the future; in the Library section, we review "The Dream Machine" by M. Mitchell Waldrop and famous papers authored by J. C. R. Licklider; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch "The Mother of all Demos" by Doug Engelbart.

Issue 082: Futurism
Welcome to the 82nd issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about Futurism. In this edition, we look at hits and misses (mostly misses, let us be honest) in our long tradition of predicting the future; in the Library section, we review "The Dream Machine" by M. Mitchell Waldrop and famous papers authored by J. C. R. Licklider; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch "The Mother of all Demos" by Doug Engelbart.

Flavour Invariants of Multi Higgs Models
Jo\~ao C. Belas, Jo\~ao P. Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02465 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02465

Flavour Invariants of Multi Higgs Models
In this work, a systematic way of analyzing the N Higgs Doublet Models flavor sector will be developed. We introduce a complete set of mixing matrices describing the rotation between certain suitably defined bases, akin to the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix, which describes the relation between the up-quark and down-quark mass bases. We point out the crucial importance played by the charged Higgs basis. It is also introduced for the first time a complete set of weak basis transformation invar…

I was reminded of a line in an episode from this Goonish Spike Milligan radio series,
The Omar Khayyam Show, by the resignation of the French Prime Minister after a month. "Can I speak to the Prime Minister please?" "Which one, we change them every month; it keeps them fresher".
My introduction to Milligan, heard on a crystal set I built in the last year of primary school. 1963.
I heard of the Kennedy assassination on the same kit.
Wikipedia

PM to skip general debate at UN session in US, S Jaishankar to represent India (India Today)
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/pm-modi-to-skip-un-session-in-us-this-month-will-be-replaced-by-s-jaishankar-trump-is-set-to-address-event-2782837-2025-09-06
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p40#a250906p40

If anyone needs something great to watch, I humbly submit Landman.
Written by Taylor Sheridan (best known for Yellowstone), it is spectacularly good—great dialogue, interesting characters, beautifully shot, instantly immersive. Just like Yellowstone. He somehow manages to capture a sense of America that I remember growing up looking in from the outside.
TS is creating some of the very best stuff for grown-ups.

Landman
Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West-Texas and a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs, the series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires that are fueling a boom so big it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.

Spectroscopic ages for 4 million main-sequence dwarf stars from LAMOST DR10 estimated with data-driven approach
Jia-Hui Wang, Maosheng Xiang, Meng Zhang, Jiwei Xie, Jian Ge, Jinghua Zhang, Lanya Mou, Jifeng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03019

Spectroscopic ages for 4 million main-sequence dwarf stars from LAMOST DR10 estimated with data-driven approach
Stellar age determination for large samples of stars opens new avenues for a broad range of astronomical sciences. While precise stellar ages for evolved stars have been derived from large ground- and space-based stellar surveys, reliable age determination for cool main-sequence dwarf stars remains a challenge. In this work, we set out to estimate the age of dwarf stars from the LAMOST spectra with a data-driven approach. We build a training set by using wide binaries that the primary component…

Uitstekend idee van Pauline, alleen: het is er al
En, nog best lastig: dan moeten alle uitvoeringen die mannen wèl zouden willen kopen verboden worden

I would like to proudly announce that I fixed the noise coming from my right crank or pedal.
I took the crank set apart, applied some grease, and applied a lot of Loctite.
Let's see how long this lasts.
#biketooter #FahrradBubble

@… In theory, I agree. In practice… I’ve interacted with so many systems where the answer is simply “We aren’t set up to handle that case” with no further steps towards resolution.

Purportedly - RockStar games is the latest organization looking to integrate age verification
https://in.ign.com/grand-theft-auto-online/238083/news/gta-online-rockstar-games-reported…

From David Suzuki
Petro-politicians are stuck in the polluting past
What is it with politicians who are dead set against any kind of progress? It’s clear that digging up, processing, transporting and wastefully burning gas, oil and coal is polluting land, water and air, heating the planet to critical levels and driving inflation. Renewable energy causes far less damage, is more efficient and less expensive, creates good jobs and doesn’t heat the planet.

Petro-politicians are stuck in the polluting past
It appears these politicians are governing for the benefit of a single industry — certainly not for the people they were elected to represent.

It’s amusing to me that the only times I’ve ever seen a FreeBSD graphical login screen has been @… screenshots. 30 years as a user and sysadmin and it has never been a thing I have thought to set up.
#Sysadminnery

Just finished "Leap" by Simina Popescu. A really wonderful queer teen graphic novel that weaves romantic and platonic relationships together into a beautiful and hopeful story. The way Popescu captures choreography on an illustrated page is kinda magical, and since the whole book is set in a ballet school, we get to see plenty of it.
#AmReading

"Former UN climate chief urges Australia to set ‘prosperity’ target of cutting emissions by 75% by 2035"
#UN #UnitedNations #Australia

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
CALLY: [V.O. faintly] Calling Liberator.
AVON: Be quiet, Vila.
CALLY: [V.O. signal is distorted and weak] I don't know where I am.
VILA: That's Cally's voice.
https://

Zac Taylor details 'better' performances from Joe Burrow as Bengals set sights on AFC North

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/zac-tay

Taiwan says TSMC will not have to pay 100% tariffs on US chip imports, as it has set up US plants; UMC may see reduced impact through its cooperation with Intel (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The date is set for the next big protest.
Saturday, October 18th.
https://NoKings.org
Comment your events.
https://

No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

Partitioning set $[n] = \{1, \dots, n\}$ into subsets of size at most $m$ such that all sums are powers of $m$
Vladimir Gurvich, Mariya Naumova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00946 …

Partitioning set $[n] = \{1, \dots, n\}$ into subsets of size at most $m$ such that all sums are powers of $m$
Given integer $n > 0$ and $m > 1$, we call a partition of set $[n] = \{1, \dots, n\}$ {\em $m$-good} if each of the partitioning sets is of size at most $m$ and the sum of numbers in it is a power of $m$, that is, $m^t$ for some $t \geq 0$. It is easily seen that a unique 2-good partition exists for each $n$ and, in contrast, for each fixed $m>3$, for infinitely many $n$, no $m$-good partition exists. Case $m=3$ is more difficult. We conjecture that 3-good partitions exist for each $n$ and pr…

Finally decided on a name for my newsletter and set up a landing page for it.

It's still the same newsletter (or newsletters) I've always had, just with a name that resonates with me. :)

My Next Heartbeat
https://heartbeat.email

A free two-generated left distributive algebra of elementary embeddings
Andrew D. Brooke-Taylor, Scott Cramer, Sheila K. Miller Edwards
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02244 https://…

A free two-generated left distributive algebra of elementary embeddings
The set-theoretic large cardinal axiom known as I3 posits the existence of a non-trivial rank-to-rank embedding from an initial segment of the universe of sets into itself. Laver showed that the algebra generated by a single such embedding under the operation of application is in fact the free left distributive (LD) algebra on one generator. This and associated theorems using the set-theoretic structure of the embeddings yielded numerous results about general LD algebras under the assumption of…

How YouTube prepared to stream, for free, the Brazil NFL game globally: it partnered with NBC for production, ran multiple tests, and set up backup plans (Janko Roettgers/Lowpass)
https://www.lowpass.cc/p/youtube-nfl-livestream-bts-brazil-tech

The story behind YouTube’s NFL livestream
YouTube is for the first time streaming an NFL game for free to everyone. Here's how the service is pulling it off, from fiber links to hardware transcoders.

Semantic Subtyping for Maps in Erlang
Erdem Yildirim, Albert Schimpf, Stefan Wehr, Annette Bieniusa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00482 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Semantic Subtyping for Maps in Erlang
In this paper we will construct a set-theoretic model of types featuring type variables, base types, set-theoretic types and map types. Syntax of map types spans all the map types available in Erlang. The model of types is used to define a semantic subtyping relation based on set containment. The novelty of this work is the definition of subtyping over parameteric map types.

A live blog of OpenAI DevDay 2025, where the company is expected to announce a visual agent builder and other developer updates (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/06/open-ai-devday-live-updates-altman-jony-ive.html

OpenAI DevDay live: Sam Altman set to give opening keynote
Fresh off an AI chip deal with AMD, OpenAI makes its case to developers about the latest in research, product and engineering.

fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 49 nodes and 110 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata

Democratic state Rep. James Talarico is set to announce his Senate bid on Tuesday, according to three people familiar with the plans.
The state legislator has been considered a rising star in Texas,
conducting dozens of national media interviews after he and his fellow Democrats left the state to hold up a Trump-led plan aimed at netting more Republican-leaning seats.
He also secured a spot on Joe Rogan’s enormously popular podcastthis spring.
Former Rep. Colin Allre…

Apple is investing another $100 billion in the US, Trump set to announce (Lisa Eadicicco/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/06/business/apple-investment-us-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p59#a250806p59

The Trump administration is warning states that they risk losing access to broadband funds if they set price caps on low-cost ISP plans (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/trump-admin-warns-states-don…

Trump admin warns states: Don’t try to lower broadband prices
ISPs getting grants must offer “low-cost” plan, but they get to pick the price.

The set of distances in a Polish metric space
John D. Clemens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01027 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01027

The set of distances in a Polish metric space
We show that a set of non-negative reals is the distance set of a separable complete metric space if and only if it is either countable or is an analytic set which has 0 as a limit point. We also consider spaces with simpler distance sets.

wiki_rfa: Wikipedia RfA voting network (2013)
The set of all votes on Requests for Adminships (RfA), from 2003 to May 2013, represented as a directed, signed network in which nodes represent Wikipedia members and edges represent votes.
This network has 11381 nodes and 198275 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Signed
https://

Ads during the Chargers-Chiefs NFL game on YouTube on September 5 will cost ~$30 for every 1,000 viewers, more than double what YouTube usually gets (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/technology/youtube-nfl-live-sports.html

YouTube’s NFL Broadcast Will Test Platform’s Ability to Handle Live Sports
YouTube’s live broadcast on Friday night of the Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers game is set to be a major test of the platform’s programming ambitions.

Vikings' J.J. McCarthy to play in preseason opener: Minnesota QB set to return a year after knee injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/vikings

The world continues to dawdle politically in its response to the climate crisis
but clean energy is booming,
-- responsible for almost all new energy capacity and drawing double the investment of fossil fuels globally. The market has shifted.
Most starkly, though, Trump has become the planet’s foremost advocate of fossil fuels,
throwing the might of the US presidency into a rearguard battle to keep the world mired in the era of combusted carbon.
There is now no …

The paired construction for Boolean functions on the slice
Michael Kiermaier, Jonathan Mannaert, Alfred Wassermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02804 https://

The paired construction for Boolean functions on the slice
Let $V$ be a finite set of size $n$. We consider real functions on the "slice" $\binom{V}{k}$, which are also known as functions in the Johnson scheme. For $I \subseteq J \subseteq V$, the characteristic function of the set of all $K\in\binom{V}{k}$ with $I \subseteq K \subseteq J$ is called "basic". In this article, we investigate a construction arising as the sum of two "opposite" basic functions. In essentially all cases, these "paired" functions are Boolean. Our main result is the determi…

Sources: Microsoft is set to avoid a potentially hefty EU antitrust fine by agreeing to sell Teams separately from its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 packages (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

polblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…

Scarsdale High School grad released after being detained by ICE for several days (Joe Torres/abc7NY)
https://abc7ny.com/post/scarsdale-high-school-grad-yeonsoo-go-detained-ice-rally-prayer-vigil-set-thursday/17431965/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p126#a250804p126

White House official: President Trump plans to announce today that Apple will commit to spending another $100B on US manufacturing; Tim Cook is set to attend (Hadriana Lowenkron/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Classification of polyhedral graphs by numbers of common neighbours
Riccardo W. Maffucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01349 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01349

Classification of polyhedral graphs by numbers of common neighbours
We propose a classification of polyhedra (planar, $3$-connected graphs) according to their type i.e., their set of quantities of common neighbours for each pair of distinct vertices. For every (finite) set of non-negative integers, we either classify all the polyhedra of that type, or construct infinitely many polyhedra of that type, or prove that none exist. This problem is related to the theory of strongly regular and Deza graphs, distances in graphs, and degree sequences. There is potent…

Commanders QB Jayden Daniels (knee) set to start vs. Chargers https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-qb-jayden-daniels-knee-set-to-start-vs-chargers

Netanyahu Pushes for Full Israeli Occupation of Gaza
Doing so would appease the prime minister’s far-right coalition partners at a time when his grip on power remains fragile.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened with senior security officials on Tuesday to set a new strategy for the Israel-Hamas war, which has been ongoing for 22 months.
The meeting included Defense Minister Israel Katz, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, military chief of staff Eyal Zam…

Netanyahu Pushes for Full Israeli Occupation of Gaza
Doing so would appease the prime minister’s far-right coalition partners at a time when his grip on power remains fragile.

citeseer: CiteSeer citations (2014)
Citations among papers indexed by the CiteSeer digital library. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present.
This network has 384413 nodes and 1751463 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/06/openai-launche…

OpenAI launches AgentKit to help developers build and ship AI agents  | TechCrunch
“AgentKit is a complete set of building blocks available in the open AI platform designed to help you take agents from prototype to production, it is everything you need to build, deploy and optimize agent workflows with way less friction,” Sam Altman said Monday at OpenAI's Dev Day.  

A note on multiset reconstruction from sum and pairwise products
Stella Jiahui Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00971 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00971

A note on multiset reconstruction from sum and pairwise products
Ballantine, Beck, and Merca defined a map $\mathrm{pre}_2$, which sends an integer partition $λ= (λ_1, \dots, λ_{\ell})$ to the set $\{λ_iλ_j : 1 \leq i < j \leq \ell\}$ consisting of the pairwise products of parts of $λ$. The same three authors and Sagan conjectured that for each $n$, the map $\mathrm{pre}_2$ is injective on the set of integer partitions of $n$. In this note, we prove their conjecture.

citeseer: CiteSeer citations (2014)
Citations among papers indexed by the CiteSeer digital library. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present.
This network has 384413 nodes and 1751463 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

On Saturday, the Oakland Ballers manager Aaron Miles will cede his decision-making duties to an AI.
It is believed to be the first time a professional sports team will be managed by an AI in a regular-season game.
The AI will determine most of the regular in-game decisions a typical manager would make.
It isn’t choosing the starting pitcher since the Ballers are on a set rotation,
but the AI will create the starting lineup, decide when pitchers need to be replaced and …

Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports, far exceeding its public disclosure of 12,522 reports (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/uber-sexual-assault.html

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem
The company has tested tools that make rides safer, court records show. Measures to stem the violence have been set aside in favor of protecting the company’s business.

dblp_cite: DBLP citations (2014)
Citations among papers contained in the DBLP computer science bibliography. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. This snapshot from May 2014.
This network has 12590 nodes and 49759 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Cowboys RB Jaydon Blue set for NFL debut after 'questionable decision' on fashionable cleats causes blisters

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/co…

Edge open packing: further characterizations
Arti Pandey, Kamal Santra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01935 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01935

Edge open packing: further characterizations
Let $G=(V, E)$ be a graph where $V(G)$ and $E(G)$ are the vertex and edge sets, respectively. In a graph $G$, two edges $e_1, e_2\in E(G)$ are said to have \emph{common edge} $e\neq e_1, e_2$ if $e$ joins an endpoint of $e_1$ to an endpoint of $e_2$ in $G$. A subset $D\subseteq E(G)$ is called an \emph{edge open packing set} in $G$ if no two edges in $D$ share a common edge in $G$, and the largest size of such a set in $G$ is known as \emph{edge open packing number}, represented by $ρ_{e}^o(G)…

caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 25696 nodes and 105332 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 332 nodes and 18613039 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata