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VBARE / versioned BARE: A simple alternative to Protobuf & Cap'n Proto for schema evolution.
https://www.rivet.dev/blog/2025-09-24-vbare-simple-schema-evolution-with-maximum-performance
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VBARE: A simple alternative to Protobuf & Cap'n Proto for schema evolution
At Rivet, we're building an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Durable Objects — a tool for running stateful compute workloads. VBARE is a small but crucial component in meeting the demanding performance requirements of Rivet Actors.

Two new NERDS papers: Algorithmic bias, street network simplification
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/11/03/two-new-nerds-papers-algorithmic-bias-street-network-simplification/

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Swampland: The Cosmologist's Handbook to the string-theoretical Swampland Programme
Kay Lehnert (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02632

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Swampland: The Cosmologist's Handbook to the string-theoretical Swampland Programme
String theory has strong implications for cosmology: it tells us that we cannot have a cosmological constant, that single-field slow-roll inflation is ruled out, and that black holes decay. We elucidate the origin of these statements within the string-theoretical swampland programme. The swampland programme is generating a growing body of insights that have yet to be incorporated into cosmological models. Taking a cosmologist's perspective, we highlight the relevance of swampland conjectures to…

Unified boson sampling
Luca Bianchi, Carlo Marconi, Laura Ares, Davide Bacco, Jan Sperling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02058 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0205…

Unified boson sampling
Boson sampling is a key candidate for demonstrating quantum advantage, and has already yielded significant advances in quantum simulation, machine learning, and graph theory. In this work, a unification and extension of distinct forms of boson sampling is developed. The devised protocol merges discrete-variable scattershot boson sampling with continuous-variable Gaussian boson sampling. Thereby, it is rendered possible to harness the complexity of more interesting states, such as squeezed photo…

Simple, an AI-powered health coaching app to help users lose weight, raised a $35M Series B led by Kevin Hart's HartBeat Ventures (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/kevin-harts-vc-firm-leads-35m-series-…

Kevin Hart’s VC firm leads $35M Series B for weight-loss app Simple | TechCrunch
Simple is an AI-powered health coaching app that helps people lose weight.

Zufallsfund: im @… liegen alle 49 Jahrgänge der Satire-Zeitschrift "Simplicissimus" (1896-1944). Darin zu blättern ist gar großartig: https://

Simplicissimus magazine : Langen, Albert, 1869-1909 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Simplicissimus was a literary, illustrated satirical German weekly magazine started by Albert Langen in April 1896. The last issue appeared on September 13,...

Sampling as Bandits: Evaluation-Efficient Design for Black-Box Densities
Takuo Matsubara, Andrew Duncan, Simon Cotter, Konstantinos Zygalakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01437 ht…

Sampling as Bandits: Evaluation-Efficient Design for Black-Box Densities
We introduce bandit importance sampling (BIS), a new class of importance sampling methods designed for settings where the target density is expensive to evaluate. In contrast to adaptive importance sampling, which optimises a proposal distribution, BIS directly designs the samples through a sequential strategy that combines space-filling designs with multi-armed bandits. Our method leverages Gaussian process surrogates to guide sample selection, enabling efficient exploration of the parameter s…

House approves symbolic signal of support for Oversight's Epstein investigation (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/03/congress/house-approves-symbolic-epstein-measure-investigation-house-oversight-00541827
http://www.memeorandum.com/250903/p166#a250903p166

I haven’t added an example of how you implement migrations with Kitten’s¹ built-in JSDB database² yet but here’s one that I just used when renaming a field (property) in a table (JavaScript object) from “account” to “data” that illustrates the general granular approach you should take within persisted instances of JavaScript classes.
This is, of course, an advanced use case of the built-in JavaScript database that all Kitten apps have.
Kitten is simple for simple use cases. So ch…

Augmented Intelligence, which is building neuro-symbolic AI models, raised $20M in a bridge SAFE round at a $750M valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$60M (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-beginning-of-the-end…