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As the world moves toward digital artificiality, Airbnb's redesign and Apple's Liquid Glass UI bring back skeuomorphism and dimensionality to digital interfaces (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

Lightning is no joke with this storm

The US Army Reserve launches Detachment 201, an innovation corps with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar and Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth serving as lieutenant colonels (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/army-reserve-tech-ex…

Using Language and Road Manuals to Inform Map Reconstruction for Autonomous Driving
Akshar Tumu, Henrik I. Christensen, Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte, Chikao Tsuchiya, Dhaval Bhanderi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10317

Using Language and Road Manuals to Inform Map Reconstruction for Autonomous Driving
Lane-topology prediction is a critical component of safe and reliable autonomous navigation. An accurate understanding of the road environment aids this task. We observe that this information often follows conventions encoded in natural language, through design codes that reflect the road structure and road names that capture the road functionality. We augment this information in a lightweight manner to SMERF, a map-prior-based online lane-topology prediction model, by combining structured road…

The iOS 26 Camera icon looks so much more skeumorphic than the rest of the icons and it looks so good I really hope they don’t change it. If anything, I hope they make the other icons more skeumorphic too
#wwdc

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00408 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Old Quantum Mechanics by Bohr and Sommerfeld from a Modern Perspective
We review Bohr's atomic model and its extension by Sommerfeld from a mathematical perspective of wave mechanics. The derivation of quantization rules and energy levels is revisited using semiclassical methods. Sommerfeld-type integrals are evaluated by elementary techniques, and connections with the Schrödinger and Dirac equations are established. Historical developments and key transitions from classical to quantum theory are discussed to clarify the structure and significance of the old quan…

Boom! ⚡️

I will try to make it - it is today:
https://mas.wrong.tools/@crystalvisits/114593299739628516

Crystal Huff (they/them) (@crystalvisits@wrong.tools)
Attached: 1 image I'm looking forward to this book talk next week! Copaganda: how the police and media manipulate our news. Wednesday, 6/4 at 6:30 pm at Connexion in Somerville, MA. #MApoli #Somerpoli #policing #politics #SomervilleMA

Me: starting a walk before it gets too hot
Siri: it’s 79% humidity
Me: this was a mistake

Me: I want to make a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich but I don’t have any mayonnaise.
Literally two minutes later, I have made some excellent mayo. People should make more mayo at home. Kenji’s method is practically fool proof.
https://www.seriouseats.com/two-minute-mayonnaise

Two-Minute Mayonnaise Recipe
Using an immersion blender, you end up with a cup full of creamy, perfectly emulsified, real-deal, better-than-anything-you-can-buy mayonnaise.