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Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
TRAVIS: You could have the secret by then, it has to be one of those two, the chief or his sister. Don't you trust me?
SERVALAN: No, of course not.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/212/155 B7B2

Edtech startup Physics Wallah closed up 44% in its Indian IPO, giving it a ~$5B market cap; it was last valued at $2.8B in 2024 when it raised a $210M Series B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/phys

Physics Wallah enjoys a rosy IPO day, bucking the broader slowdown in Indian edtech | TechCrunch
The Indian edtech startup ended its first day as a public company on a high, with its shares closing 44% higher than they were listed for, indicating that the country's edtech sector may still recover after years of gloom.

corporate_directors: Global corporate directors (2016)
Bipartite network of directors and the companies on whose boards they sit, spanning 54 countries worldwide, constructed from data collected by the Financial Times (c. Sept. 2016). Person nodes are annotated with age and gender. Company nodes are annotated with their country, sector, industry, and number of employees.
This network has 356638 nodes and 377060 edges.
Tags: Economic, Governance, Unweighted, Metadata

Supporting Socially Constrained Private Communications with SecureWhispers
Vinod Khandkar, Kieron Ivy Turk, Ehsan Toreini, Nishanth Sastry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12870 https…

Supporting Socially Constrained Private Communications with SecureWhispers
Rapidly changing social norms and national, legal, and political conditions socially constrain people from discussing sensitive topics such as sexuality or religion. Such constrained, vulnerable minorities are often worried about inadvertent information disclosure and may be unsure about the extent to which their communications are being monitored in public or semi-public spaces like workplaces or cafes. Personal devices extend trust to the digital domain, making it desirable to have strictly p…

Pleasant conditions out: sunny and windy, cool but not cold. So I ducked out of the office for an afternoon runabout on the greenway.
Followed it up with a walkabout while talking to my sister on the phone.
#Running

Prospects for $P$ and $C\!P$ violation in $\Lambda_{c}^{ }$ decays with polarized beam at Super Tau-Charm Facility
Hong-Jian Wang, Cheng Wang, Hao Sun, Pei-Rong Li, Xiao-Rui Lyu, Rong-Gang Ping
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12217

Prospects for $P$ and $C\!P$ violation in $Λ_{c}^{+}$ decays with polarized beam at Super Tau-Charm Facility
Weak decays of the charmed baryons offer an ideal platform to study parity ($P$) and charge conjugation-parity ($C\!P$) violation in quark sector, to stringently test the Standard Model and search for new physics. It is a key goal in the next-generation positron-electron collider, such as the Super Tau-Charm Facility (STCF). Thanks to the quantum-entangled pair production with super high luminosity and the possibility of beam polarization, STCF provides a unique environment to probe such symmet…

A look at China's brain-computer interface industry as startups like BrainCo grow with state support; CCID says the sector is worth $450M, growing 20% annually (Bloomberg)

The boy is home this weekend for fall break. ❤️
Took him to vote, then picked up his sister from school and got their flu shot and COVID boosters done.
#Vote #COVID

Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu have raised $5B via bonds this month for AI and digital infra; with JD.com, their combined 2025 AI capex is projected to top $32B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-17…

China’s AI Funding Spree: Why Alibaba, Baidu Are Tapping Bond Markets
Companies in China’s technology sector have been raising billions in capital to advance their artificial intelligence capabilities and other digital infrastructure.