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Scouting Drew Allar: Penn State quarterback similar to Joe Flacco https://www.nfl.com/news/scouting-drew-allar-penn-state-quarterback-similar-to-joe-flacco

Just picked up this #Salter Improved Family Scale to gift a friend who's getting married and is into old-fashioned stuff and British stuff.
But, it doesn't quite sit at 0. Does anyone have any experience on how to tare a machine like this? There's no knob as far as I can see. The plate on top also doesn't seem like it can be removed without force.
More pictures below. …

Toward Understanding Similarity of Visualization Techniques
Abdulhaq Adetunji Salako, Christian Tominski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17032 https://

Toward Understanding Similarity of Visualization Techniques
The literature describes many visualization techniques for different types of data, tasks, and application contexts, and new techniques are proposed on a regular basis. Visualization surveys try to capture the immense space of techniques and structure it with meaningful categorizations. Yet, it remains difficult to understand the similarity of visualization techniques in general. We approach this open research question from two angles. First, we follow a model-driven approach that is based on d…

On the passage times of self-similar Gaussian processes on curved boundaries
Davar Khoshnevisan, Cheuk Yin Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15949 https://

On the passage times of self-similar Gaussian processes on curved boundaries
Let $T_{c,β}$ denote the smallest $t\ge1$ that a continuous, self-similar Gaussian process with self-similarity index $α>0$ moves at least $\pm c t^β$ units. We prove that: (i) If $β>α$, then $T_{c,β}=\infty$ with positive probability; (ii) If $β<α$ then $T_{c,β}$ has moments of all order; and (iii) If $β=α$ and $X$ is strongly locally nondeterministic in the sense of Pitt (1978), then there exists a continuous, strictly decreasing function $λ:(0\,,\infty)\to(0\,,\infty)$ such that …

foodweb_baywet: Florida cypress wetlands food web (1998)
Networks of carbon exchanges among species in the cypress wetlands of South Florida. One network covers the wet and the other the dry season. Each node represents a taxon (similar to a species), and a directed edge indicates that one taxon uses another as food.
This network has 128 nodes and 2106 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted

Youth Who Fought the Climate Crisis in Court Are Now Targeting Trump
Many of the young plaintiffs have taken part in similar lawsuits before
-- and won key victories in Montana and Hawaii.
https://grist.org/justice/youth-climate-activis…

Youth climate activists won lawsuits in Montana and Hawai‘i. Now they’re targeting Trump.
Per the plaintiffs, “Trump’s fossil fuel orders are a death sentence for my generation."

Claude Plays Pokemon has restarted with Claude 4.
So far (~24 hours in) it seems pretty similar to the old one; it's currently wandering around Viridian Forest. But supposedly, internal tests showed it doing somewhat better. I don't know how much of that is due to the model and how much is the improved harness.
Improved harness info:

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21000 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Well-posed Self-Similarity in Incompressible Standard Flows
This article reviews the properties of the self-similar solutions of the Navier-Stokes equation for incompressible fluids. Since any smooth solution can be embedded into a self-similar solution at the identity scale, it follows that under standard flow conditions, the initial solution will remain smooth for all time as long as the self-similar solution is selected to have certain isobaric weight.

A Quaternionic Integration Similar to the Complex One
Michael Parfenov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16239 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16…

A Quaternionic Integration Similar to the Complex One
The conception of C- and H-representations of any holomorphic function is further extended to the notions, definitions, lemmas and theorems of the complex integration. On this basis and the introduced notion of a H-plane, generalising the notion of a number complex plane, the theory of the quaternionic integration similar to the complex one is built. The complex Taylor Theorem, Cauchy's Theorem, Cauchy's Integral Formula, Laurent's series, Laurent's theorem, and Cauchy's Residue Theorem are dir…

SEP-GCN: Leveraging Similar Edge Pairs with Temporal and Spatial Contexts for Location-Based Recommender Systems
Tan Loc Nguyen, Tin T. Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16003

SEP-GCN: Leveraging Similar Edge Pairs with Temporal and Spatial Contexts for Location-Based Recommender Systems
Recommender systems play a crucial role in enabling personalized content delivery amidst the challenges of information overload and human mobility. Although conventional methods often rely on interaction matrices or graph-based retrieval, recent approaches have sought to exploit contextual signals such as time and location. However, most existing models focus on node-level representation or isolated edge attributes, underutilizing the relational structure between interactions. We propose SEP-GC…