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Game math: precise control over numeric springing.
https://allenchou.net/2015/04/game-math-precise-control-over-numeric-springing/
saved 2025-05-21

Game Math: Precise Control over Numeric Springing | Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou | 周明倫
[latexpage] This post is part of my Game Math Series. Source files are on GitHub Check out this post if you want to see more visual examples of numeric springing. Numeric springing is a very powerful tool for procedural animation. You specify the initial value, initial velocity, target value, and some spring-related parameters; the result

Over the past few months, we have seen the Trump administration engage not only in medical misinformation, but in active censorship of scientific discourse.
Since he took the helm at HHS, Kennedy’s unscientific views on vaccines and some other medical matters
-- coupled with the agency’s widespread research and staff cuts,
-- have prompted protests from scientists inside and outside HHS plus lawsuits.
Medical experts say Kennedy’s policies are helping “sow distrust in …

As a former Rubyist and admirer of many people in that community… holy shit. Ruby Central power-play land grab over Ruby Gems (maybe for good reasons but nobody knows) and DHH writing love letters to Tommy Robinson.
Tough to know what to link to, I think some people are hiding truths. Anyhow, https://www.

Sources: Meta considers downsizing its AI division, with some executives expected to leave, and is exploring using third-party models for its AI products (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html

Zuckerberg Again Overhauls Meta’s A.I. Efforts
Meta internally announced a new restructuring of its artificial intelligence division amid internal tensions over the technology, people with knowledge of the matter said.

One of the best podcasts out there, Never Post, is doing a membership drive currently to become sustainable till the end of the year.
Those are some of the best 4 bucks a month you can spend on media.
Head over to https://www.neverpo.st/ and click "Become a member".
Really. The podcast is _…

Never Post
A Podcast About and For the Internet

Homotopy types of S^{2k-1}-bundles over S^{2k}
Zhongjian Zhu, Jianzhong Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13800 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13800

Homotopy types of S^{2k-1}-bundles over S^{2k}
In this paper, we give the new necessary and sufficient conditions on the attaching map $f$ of the top cell of a CW-complex having the homotopy type of the total space of $S^{2k-1}$-fibration over $S^{2k}$ for any $k\geq 2$. As an application, we give the homotopy classification of the $S^{2k-1}$-bundles over $S^{2k}$ for some specific numbers $k\geq 2$ in our subsequent paper.

How do they do this?
They don’t just slap some guides online and call it a day.
They run trainings. They hold conferences. They get people talking. They do an •unimaginable• amount of work building relationships, talking to people, learning about needs, learning about successes, sharing, trying to make what works reproducible.
It is significant ongoing human labor. That’s something we software folks (especially in OSS) have been tragically dismissive of, allergic too. We’ve got to get over it.
/end?

On certain sums over primes and the Riesz function
Alexander E. Patkowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13449 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13449

On certain sums over primes and the Riesz function
We offer some comments on series involving the M$\ddot{o}$bius function which approximate sums over primes. To accomplish this, we utilize the derivative of the Gram series by applying Riemann-Stieltjes integration. We offer a new formula connecting the derivative of the Gram series to the Riesz function, which we then use to obtain general integral relationships.

After reading some of the Epstein/Trump news I am getting the impression that when Trump hovered over and followed Hillary Clinton during the debates that that hovering/following was one of Trump's long-time, well practiced moves to intimidate women.
https://www.

One nice thing about Switzerland is that you can mispronounce every word in your shitty German and people just assume you’re from some place over the mountain.

I drove my son to the train station earlier, but he got the time wrong and missed it. There's another at 3, and Ill drive him again, but for now I'm just idling.
I have all the facilities to do some work, a whole 90m, but I just _can't_. When I get into the zone/flow/whatever the kids call it, I can be quite productive, but I find it impossible to get myself into the work mindset when I have an impending distraction/obligation/interruption just hanging over me.
Any…

Tomorrow people from all over the world are sharing their ideas on constructionism in education. From China, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, UK, Austria, United States and Germany (and maybe some others 😉). Some of them in real life at the LocHal, some others remote.
#turtlestitch10 #arts

I saw that I have just passed a million total #OpenStreetMap map changes according to HDYC! 🎉🗺️
While this might seem a lot, this is still less than some of my OSM friends that have over 2 or 3 million changes.

Ryan Clark Facing Backlash Over Comments About Raiders RB Ashton Jeanty https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/ashton-jeanty-ryan-clark-espn/?adt_ei=[email]

Morning fedi!

Stable amalgamation over a predicate and the Gaifman property
Saharon Shelah, Alexander Usvyatsov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12631 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Stable amalgamation over a predicate and the Gaifman property
We consider the following property of a first order theory T with a distinguished unary predicate P: every model of the theory of P occurs as the P-part of some model of T. We call this property the Gaifman property. Gaifman conjectured that if T is relatively categorical over P, then it has the Gaifman property. We propose a generalized version of this conjecture: if T fails the Gaifman property, then it exhibits non-structure over P, i.e., has many non-isomorphic models over P in many cardina…

Here's my physics professor and friend Carl Franck and family after the Forest Frolic in James Kennedy State Forest on a rainy summer day
#photo #photography #ForestFriday

I'm going to do some longer post on our new #data jobs at the City of #CapeTown over the next day or two. I would greatly appreciate it if you could read, and share with anyone that you think has the right stuff! And also just boost for general reach.
Something that we really prioritise, other t…

Efficient Importance Sampling for Wrong Exit Probabilities over Combinatorially Many Rare Regions
Yanglei Song, Georgios Fellouris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14596 https://

Efficient Importance Sampling for Wrong Exit Probabilities over Combinatorially Many Rare Regions
We consider importance sampling for estimating the probability that a light-tailed $d$-dimensional random walk exits through one of many disjoint rare-event regions before reaching an anticipated target. This problem arises in sequential multiple hypothesis testing, where the number of such regions may grow combinatorially and in some cases exponentially with the dimension. While mixtures over all associated exponential tilts are asymptotically efficient, they become computationally infeasible …

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
TARRANT: Hmm, smells lovely.
VILA: No, it doesn't. It's disgusting.
AVON: Well, somebody has to go down and you are the one with the delicate touch, Vila.
TARRANT: Magic hands. You've often said so yourself.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/140

Some Results in Spectral Synthesis Over ${\mathbb Z}_N^d$
P. Bhowmik, S. Deodhar, A. Iosevich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12194 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1…

Some Results in Spectral Synthesis Over ${\mathbb Z}_N^d$
A classical result due to Agranovsky and Narayanan (\cite{AN04}) says that if the support of the Fourier transform of $f: {\mathbb R}^n \to {\mathbb C}$ is carried by a smooth measure on a $d$-dimensional manifold $M$, and $f \in L^p({\mathbb R}^d)$ for $p \leq \frac{2n}{d}$, then $f$ is identically equal to $0$. In this paper, we investigate an analogous problem for functions $f: {\mathbb Z}_N^d \to {\mathbb C}$. Bourgain's celebrated result on $Λ_p$ sets (\cite{Bou89}), random constructions …

Steelers All-Quarter Century Team: Several current and future Hall of Famers headline legendary roster

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

SIS setting up some equivalent of SecureDrop (Tor).
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/mi6_darkweb_portal_upgrade/

MI6 reveals 'Silent Courier' dark web portal upgrade it hopes will help it recruit new spies
: YouTube vids explain digital tradecraft to reach spooks over Tor or VPN without blowing your cover

Kimmel, on his show: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
Trump regime: We may sue ABC for that.
Walt Disney's ABC: Wait, wait, we're firing him already.

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
Mr. Kimmel faced criticism from the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission for remarks about the politics of the man who is accused of killing Mr. Kirk, the conservative activist.

SEDEG:Sequential Enhancement of Decoder and Encoder's Generality for Class Incremental Learning with Small Memory
Hongyang Chen, Shaoling Pu, Lingyu Zheng, Zhongwu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12932

SEDEG:Sequential Enhancement of Decoder and Encoder's Generality for Class Incremental Learning with Small Memory
In incremental learning, enhancing the generality of knowledge is crucial for adapting to dynamic data inputs. It can develop generalized representations or more balanced decision boundaries, preventing the degradation of long-term knowledge over time and thus mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Some emerging incremental learning methods adopt an encoder-decoder architecture and have achieved promising results. In the encoder-decoder achitecture, improving the generalization capabilities of bot…

Amplitude maximization in stable systems, Schur positivity, and some conjectures on polynomial interpolation
Dmitrii M. Ostrovskii, Pavel S. Shcherbakov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13554

Amplitude maximization in stable systems, Schur positivity, and some conjectures on polynomial interpolation
For $r > 0$ and integers $t \ge n > 0$, we consider the following ``amplitude maximization'' problem: maximize the quantity $|x_t|$ over the set of complex solutions $x = (x_0, x_1, \dots)$ of all homogeneous linear difference equations of order $n$ with the roots of characteristic polynomial in the disc $\{z \in \mathbb{C}: |z| \le r\}$, and with initial values $x_0, \dots, x_{n-1}$ in the unit disc. We find that for any $t,n,r$, the maximum is attained in the case of coinc…

Imagine you're president, and someone in prison awaiting trial had dirt on you, dies suspiciously. Then ~6 years later people clamor for info you'd kill to suppress to be released anyway.
Might make you post: people should "not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about."
Rough Tuesday for Dopey McGropey.
His post from 3 days ago:

Donald J. Trump: "What’s going on with my “boys” and, in some cases, “gals?” They’re all going...
What’s going on with my “boys” and, in some cases, “gals?” They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening. We have a PERFECT Administration, THE TALK OF THE WORLD, and “selfish people” are trying to hurt it, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. For years, it’s Epstein, over and over again. Why are we giving publicity to Files written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, …

Department of Homeland Security agents arrested 70 New Yorkers outside 26 Federal Plaza on Thursday afternoon,
with an additional 12 elected officials arrested upstairs,
after they had attempted to enter the building to assess the living conditions of immigrants detained there.
Some of the electeds had made it past the doors, and came upstairs
— only to be handcuffed moments later. 
Among the officials arrested include New York City Comptroller Brad Lander,

‘ICE Out of NY’: Dozens Arrested at Federal Plaza as Fight Over ICE Escalates
The arrests came a day after Judge Lewis A. Kaplan extended court oversight of the detention facility’s conditions.

Oh my, over the weekend, my old laptop had a crash. That seems to have caused some disk damage. That happens. The not so fun part: Apparently the #Nextcloud client thought it would be a good idea to sync up a few 0KB files, including in shared folders. So now it turns out I accidentally deleted a few colleagues’ work. 🫣 I do have a backup from last Wednesday, but anything after that might be lost.…

Over the last few days, I've watched some really nice documentaries that I want to recommend, being the origin stories of:
Node.js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB8KwiiUGy0
Python

Last night, while it was still twilight
#aurora #iceland #northernlights

Dynamical degrees of affine-triangular automorphisms in dimension four
Enbo Shao, Xiaosong Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14584 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Dynamical degrees of affine-triangular automorphisms in dimension four
In this paper, let k be the affine n-space over an arbitrary field k. We show that dynamical degrees of affine-triangular automorphisms in dimension 4 are algebraic integers of degree not larger than 4. As a consequence, if char(k) is not equal to 2, then dynamical degrees of quadratic automorphisms in dimension 4 are algebraic integers of degree not larger than 4. We also explore some results in higher dimensions. These results partially give the affirmative answer to the Conjecture in DF21

#Spearhead's #MichaelFranti played a concert last night at #SDSU as online rumblings grew about allegations from a female artist casting some unusually dark shadows over the positive vibes associated with ex-

The actions of the cheeto-king's government ministers are making me reconsider my opposition to the death penalty.
If - and to me it is a big "if" - the US can recover from our present era of facism - we will need something akin to what was called "De-Baathification" in Iraq, "Denazification" in post WW-II Germany, etc. Under those programs some people were executed after being found guilty at trials.
The ministers of our present government - pa…

Former Nazi camp guard, now 100, can face trial, German court rules
A former Nazi SS guard, accused of aiding and abetting over 3,300 murders at Sachsenhausen camp during World War II, could face trial.

Accelerating LLM Inference via Dynamic KV Cache Placement in Heterogeneous Memory System
Yunhua Fang, Rui Xie, Asad Ul Haq, Linsen Ma, Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Naigang Wang, Meng Wang, Liu Liu, Tong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13231

Accelerating LLM Inference via Dynamic KV Cache Placement in Heterogeneous Memory System
Large Language Model (LLM) inference is increasingly constrained by memory bandwidth, with frequent access to the key-value (KV) cache dominating data movement. While attention sparsity reduces some memory traffic, the relevance of past tokens varies over time, requiring the full KV cache to remain accessible and sustaining pressure on both bandwidth and capacity. With advances in interconnects such as NVLink and LPDDR5X, modern AI hardware now integrates high-bandwidth memory (HBM) with high-s…

Eggplant season is almost over in this hemisphere so let’s indulge a bit.
#food

An early morning alone on the banks of the (still young) Isar river some weeks ago... Really more "flow" rather than #WaterfallWednesday, but I just absolutely cherish places and moments like this & feeling so privileged being able to experience these after decades of living in large cities... (each time also a reminder how much we stand to lose...)

"In theory, AI model makers could eliminate hallucinations by using a dataset that contains no errors."
I think someone has fundamentally misunderstood the technology. Developing a model using a 100% correct training dataset does not mean that the resulting AI will be able to correctly answer questions that were not in the training data.
Over-fitting is a thing.

OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance
: Even a wrong answer is right some of the time

Insalata di rucola e parmigiano
When mixed simply with Parmesan and some kind of dressing, rocket is the perfect accompaniment to steak. The recipe given here is our own where we mix handfuls of rocket with shaved Parmesan, and drizzle over olive oil and balsamic vinegar in the classic 3:1 proportions of a French vinaigrette (some say 1:1). It is important to use the best olive oil you can find, and the shave the Parmesan with a speed peeler or potato peeler rather than grating it.

Could you toss the plunger up here? Toilet's starting to overflow.
Uh... You might want to hurry. 😬

I am now following the person who is mentioned in contacts over at
https://tootfinder.ch/
I think Tootfinder showed some of my recent toots and that helped an llm with search functionality(thank you duck.ai!) to find more info about a user named "shoppingtonz", oh wait that's me!
Yes, pl…

Rare events algorithm study of extreme double jet summers and their connection to heatwaves over Eurasia
Valeria Mascolo, Francesco Ragone, Nili Harnik, Freddy Bouchet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13101

Rare events algorithm study of extreme double jet summers and their connection to heatwaves over Eurasia
Several large scale circulation patterns have been identified in relation to extreme Northern Hemisphere summer heatwaves. Three main ones are a double jet over Eurasia, a positive phase of the summer northern annular mode, and a quasi-wave-3 geopotential height anomaly. While there is some evidence suggesting these patterns are related to each other, the explicit nature of their relation, as well as the explicit mechanisms by which they are related to extreme heatwaves is still not known. The …

Joseph Stiglitz, one of Columbia University’s most renowned professors, denounced the institution where he has taught for more than two decades over its recent capitulations to the Trump administration.
After Donald Trump withdrew some $400 million in federal funding from the university and issued a list of demands, Columbia entered negotiations that concluded with the school caving to pressure from the White House.
Among other concessions, the school made concessions about facult…

We walked 2km in the forest, uphill with a ladder and some tools in order to install this Seeed Solar Node on a dead tree.
I have a good signal from home - 12km throu forest and the coverage seems to be good too.
I'll let it be here over the winter month :)
#meshtastic #lora

Sunset in Bochum, Germany, today, with some sunspots (see https://x.com/joe_stalder/status/1945915214794211795 for daytime views) - with the falling declination the sunset point has moved so much to the left that the Sun ist hard to get from my roof top right now; I have to bend over with a vengeance to the left or right to shoot past a big obstruction. Astronomy athletics ...

A Scalable Formula for the Moments of a Family of Self-Normalized Statistics
Haolin Zou, Heyuan Yao, Victor de la Pe\~na
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14428 https://

A Scalable Formula for the Moments of a Family of Self-Normalized Statistics
Following the student t-statistic, normalization has been a widely used method in statistic and other disciplines including economics, ecology and machine learning. We focus on statistics taking the form of a ratio over (some power of) the sample mean, the probabilistic features of which remain unknown. We develop a unified formula for the moments of these self-normalized statistics with non-negative observations, yielding closed-form expressions for several important cases. Moreover, the compl…

The team and I at @… are very excited to announce we're one of the teams for the IndieDev 2025 fund working on our game 'Valley of the Lost Abbey'.
Looking forward to sharing our dev progress over the next few months.

IndieDev 2025: 8 Teams Announced for Second Year of Games Prototype Fund | Ardán

Skew-symmetric super-biderivations of the special Lie superalgebra S(m, n; t)
Da Xu, Xiaoning Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12064 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Skew-symmetric super-biderivations of the special Lie superalgebra S(m, n; t)
This paper aims to study the skew-symmetric super-biderivations of the special Lie superalgebra S(m, n; t). Let S denote the special Lie superalgebra S(m, n; t) over a field of characteristic p > 2.Utilizing the abelian subalgebra TS and the weight space decomposition of S with respect to TS ,we show the action of a skew-symmetric super-biderivation on the elements of TS and some specific elements of S. Moreover, we prove that all skew-symmetric super-biderivations of S are inner.

#NowPlaying the new LP 'Rooco Ruine' by Authentically Plastic (a Ugandan DJ and producer). This is some great instrumental electronica that really has catchy bits and bloops, just great stuff all over this one. Melody, beats, polyrhythms, all that good shit. @…

Analysis: nearly 70 Trump administration officials and nominees held crypto or investments in blockchain or digital-asset firms at the time of their selection (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/…

1 in 5 top Trump picks held crypto, some worth millions, Post finds
Over 1 in 5 top Trump appointees reported investments in crypto and other digital assets, far more than previous administrations, a Post analysis found.

I know it's hopelessly naive of me (and it's going to go over like a lead balloon on here), but I often think that AI can kind of reset the scales on Brandolini's law.
You see some of this dynamic with Grok already, where despite Musk's best efforts, the poor bot just keeps outputting consensus reality.
What's more, the hardcore X crowd is more than happy to ask Grok to fact check any single tweet. There is real appetite for a quick, automated fact checker.

Invariant Modeling for Joint Distributions
Christopher P. Chambers, Yusufcan Masatlioglu, Ruodu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15165 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Invariant Modeling for Joint Distributions
A common theme underlying many problems in statistics and economics involves the determination of a systematic method of selecting a joint distribution consistent with a specified list of categorical marginals, some of which have an ordinal structure. We propose guidance in narrowing down the set of possible methods by introducing Invariant Aggregation (IA), a natural property that requires merging adjacent categories in one marginal not to alter the joint distribution over unaffected values. W…

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Urban Spots 🟤
在路上 - 去西安/ 城市的点 🟤
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Truly a wizard. Getting bromelain and pectin to play well together is difficult, even with magic. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:op2cif7ntriczcmdabnltyvt/post/3lyzhv6hrdd2j

a wizard (@towerwizard.bsky.social)
The little cat steps on the wizard's hand, waking him up. He goes to make waffles with pineapple jam and put some fish out for the little cat. As he makes tea, the air fills with the smell of huckleberry. He opens the packages and letters the dragon brought over breakfast.

Generalizations of the Crossing Lemma
Geza Toth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14074 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14074…

Generalizations of the Crossing Lemma
The crossing number of a graph is the minimum number of crossings over all of its drawings on the plane. The Crossing Lemma, proved more than 40 years ago, is a tight lower bound on the crossing number of a graph in terms of the number of vertices and edges. It is definitely the most important inequality on crossing numbers. We review some generalizations and applications of the Crossing Lemma.

Subconvex $L^p$-sets, Weyl's inequality, and equidistribution
Trevor D. Wooley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13384 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13384…

Subconvex $L^p$-sets, Weyl's inequality, and equidistribution
We examine sets $\mathscr A$ of natural numbers having the property that for some real number $p\in (0,2)$, one has the subconvex bound $$\int_0^1 \Bigl| \sum_{n\in \mathscr A\cap [1,N]}e(nα)\Bigr|^p\, {\rm d}α\ll N^{-1}|\mathscr A\cap [1,N]|^p.$$ We show that exponential sums over such sets satisfy inequalities analogous to Weyl's inequality, and in many circumstances of the same strength as classical versions of Weyl's bound. We also examine equidistribution of polynomia…

Mubi's founder and CEO responds to criticism of Mubi's acceptance of Sequoia funding, after some directors criticized it over Sequoia's ties to Israeli military (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/mubi-ceo-re…

Mubi CEO Responds to Backlash Over Sequoia Investment
Mubi's Efe Cakarel has issued a letter detailing its relationship with Sequoia, and unveiled the creation of a watchdog body and fund for artists.

New York's Zohran Mamdani wins over some of the city's business elite (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f172fc63-422f-4016-a0b7-ac155eb50f81
http://www.memeorandum.com/250716/p86#a250716p86

Why does your graph neural network fail on some graphs? Insights from exact generalisation error
Nil Ayday, Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam, Debarghya Ghoshdastidar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10337

Why does your graph neural network fail on some graphs? Insights from exact generalisation error
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used in learning on graph-structured data, yet a principled understanding of why they succeed or fail remains elusive. While prior works have examined architectural limitations such as over-smoothing and over-squashing, these do not explain what enables GNNs to extract meaningful representations or why performance varies drastically between similar architectures. These questions are related to the role of generalisation: the ability of a model to make acc…

Ashton Jeanty runs over 49ers defenders, scores first NFL touchdown https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/ashton-jeanty-runs-over-49ers-defenders-scores-first-nfl-touchdown/6…

Look, I give a fuck, because freedom isn't some abstract idea or lip service paid to "choice" while real decisions are made over your head.
Freedom is collective, it's when everyone gets to shape the community together, no more of this top-down bullshit where rules drop from above and you’re told to accept it or leave. Anarcho-syndicalism is not theory to me, it’s my fucking life story now, because I want to actually live this principle where people, not bosses, run t…

After so many years of syncing, saving and importing bookmarks I finally spend some time on floccus. Sync it over my git repo. Worth my donation after further trial.
Amazing tool!
#floccus #bookmarksync

Not necessarily an IV for input. Sometimes they just need to do the blood draw from my hand because I have terrible veins. Usually results in some bruising
I don’t bother trying to cover up when that happens to me… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Week 1 NFL best bets to make before lines move: Projecting the trendy picks the market will soon be all over

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/week-1-…

Saw some wild messaging from Apple in the Software Update app on an old MacBook — in fact the system was *not* up-to-date. Surfaced via a Google Chrome EOL message.
Got them switched over to the latest version of Firefox just fine 👀
The web should be for everyone (and not just on new hardware)

Just download some RAM
https://www.servethehome.com/kyocera-pegatron-and-smart-show-cxl-over-optics-at-computex-2025/

Tulip UFOs hovering at dusk in spring
#photography #bloomScrolling #tulips #pink

just tried my first Pixelfed story (which only works over web-ui yet) - but there was no chance to tag @… (with your pixelfed account) at all...
that story thing needs some love @… too

Using #Orgmode for so many years, I just recently stumbled over the Elisp function "org-copy-visible" which is practical as hell: it copies the currently visible characters.
So you can collapse/expand, mark a region and then copy only the visible parts of it.
Particular helpful when you paste into non-Emacs or non-orgdown situations. Or to manually generate some table of conten…

About morbid thriftiness (Autism Spectrum Condition)
As you may have noticed, I am morbidly thrifty. Usually I don't buy stuff that I don't need — and if I decide that I actually need something, I am going to ponder about it for a while, look for value products, and for the best price. And with some luck, I'm going to decide I don't need it that bad after all.
One reason for that is probably how I was raised. My parents taught me to be thrifty, so I have to be. It doesn't matter that, from retrospective, I see that their thriftiness was applied rather arbitrarily to some spendings and not others, or that perhaps they were greedy — spending less on individual things so that they could buy more. Well, I can't delude myself like that, so I have to be thrifty for real. And when I fail, when I pay too much, when I get cheated — I feel quite bad about it.
The other reason is that I keep worrying about my future. It doesn't matter how rich I may end up — I'll keep worrying that I'll run out of money in the future. Perhaps I'll lose a job and won't be able to find anything for a long time, Perhaps something terrible will happen and I'm going to need to pay a lot suddenly.
Another thing is that I easily get attached to objects. Well, it's easier to be thrifty when you really don't want to replace stuff. Over time you also learn to avoid getting new stuff at all, since the more stuff you have, the more stuff may break and need to be thrown away.
Finally, there's my environmental responsibility. I admit that I don't do enough — but at least the things I can do, I do.
[EDIT: and yes, I feel bad about how expensive my new phone was, even though it's of much higher quality than the last one. Also, I got a worse deal because I waited too long.]
#ActuallyAutistic

Definability of some $k$-ary Relations Over Second Order kinds of Logics
Simone Costa, Marco Dalai, Stefano Della Fiore, Anita Pasotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13063 https://

Definability of some $k$-ary Relations Over Second Order kinds of Logics
We consider the exprissibility in monadic second order logic of certain relations of importance in computer science. For integers $n\geq 1$ and $k\leq b$, a $k$-tuple of sequences in $\{0,1,\ldots, b-1\}^n$ are said to be $k$-hashed if there is a coordinate where they all differ. A set $\mathcal{C}$ of sequences is said to be a $k$-hash code if any $k$ distinct elements are $k$-hashed. Testing whether a code is $k$-hashing and determining the largest size of $k$-hash codes is an important probl…

Anyone who follows me has probably gathered that I've become a fan of Discourse after running a few Discourse instances. They are currently requesting feedback.
I was pleased to see that they used a survey vendor that appears to have meaningful a11y — I didn't look for aria labels so I won't speak to that, but what I did notice is that there is explicitly-labeled support for keyboard-only interaction on every page, and I really appreciated that thoughtfulness.

Semi-simple partition algebras as centralizers of representations for rook monoids
Volodymyr Mazorchuk, Shraddha Srivastava
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14044 https://

Semi-simple partition algebras as centralizers of representations for rook monoids
Let $\mathcal{P}_k(δ)$, where $k$ is a positive integer and $δ$ some complex parameter, be the classical partition algebra over the complex numbers. In the case when $δ=n$, it is well-known that the algebra $\mathcal{P}_k(δ)$ is the centralizer of the symmetric group $S_n$ acting on the $k$-fold tensor space of the natural representation of $S_n$, for $n\geq 2k$. The algebra $\mathcal{P}_k(δ)$ is semi-simple for generic values of $δ$. In this paper, we show that semi-simple partition alge…

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
NAGU: To sustain the flame of liberty.
AVON: Some hope of that.
NAGU: Ah, but there is my friend, as never before.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/346 B7B5

As someone who was part of the badge team for last years @… cyberpunk badge, seeing the problems and drama around the #why2025 badge is quite sad.

2/2 I continued blogging Alberniweather and on FB and Twitter but I gradually removed my personal self from Facebook and eventually during the Pandemic, I decided the Facebook environment was just too toxic even for weather stuff and I shut down my page and left Facebook completely.
The impact on traffic to Alberniweather.ca and its prominence in the community was, and still is, significant.
I have diehard followers, many who have become friends over the years, I still get the odd call from media, or even the public about random weather things.
I have good connections with a few folks at Environment Canada (though their staff have become thinner and more transient :(
and major events still get spikes of local traffic but I since about 2022, and after I removed myself from Twitter that year, I don’t blog nearly as much. I would do a few posts in a week, and then go months without posting. I just got out of the habit I guess.
But I am still interested in the weather. I still feel like Alberniweather is a useful service for people in my community. I still feel a willing obligation to inform people about the weather and I believe I am trusted to do so by the public and local leaders. I’ve never made any money at it, I sold ad space on the website for a few years but it wasn’t worth the hassle and I didn’t feel comfortable taking the money when I was councillor. I have had some generous spontaneous donations at times.
But mainly I do it because it’s interesting, and I hope it is useful for people especially when people are looking for information during a major event.
The highest traffic I have ever had on Alberniweather pre-FB exit was the local Dog Mountain forest fire in 2015.
post-FB exit: the #underwoodfire
People want easy access to reliable local, trusted, information.
Large media orgs have mostly given up on this.
I am grateful we still have an active local newspaper and radio and that both trust me and I trust them.
@… @…

Giants Hangout | Prep for the Home Opener https://www.giants.com/video/giants-hangout-prep-for-the-home-opener

4 out of 5 US troops surveyed understand duty to disobey illegal orders:
"'…moral injuries of this operation, I think, will be enduring,'…National Guard member…deployed to quell public unrest over immigration arrests in Los Angeles told The New York Times. 'This is not what…military of our country was designed to do, at all.'"
"…when some troops disobey – even indirectly – others can more easily find…courage to do the same."

Why "AI" Models for Predicting Soil Liquefaction have been Ignored, Plus Some that Shouldn't Be
Brett W. Maurer, Morgan D. Sanger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10966 …

Why "AI" Models for Predicting Soil Liquefaction have been Ignored, Plus Some that Shouldn't Be
Soil liquefaction remains an important and interesting problem that has attracted the development of enumerable prediction models. Increasingly, these models are utilizing algorithmic learning, or "artificial intelligence" (AI). The rapid growth of AI in the liquefaction literature is unsurprising, given its ease of implementation and potential advantages over traditional statistical methods. However, AI liquefaction models have been widely ignored by practitioners and researchers alike; the ob…

Geometry of linearly stable coherent systems over curves
Abel Castorena, George H. Hitching
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11244 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.112…

Geometry of linearly stable coherent systems over curves
Let $E$ be a vector bundle over a smooth curve $C$, and $V$ a generating space of sections of $E$. We characterise Mumford linear stability of the associated projective model of $\mathbb{P} E^\vee$ in $\mathbb{P} V^\vee$ in terms of geometric and cohomological properties of the coherent system $(E, V)$, and give some applications. We show that any $\mathbb{P}^{r-1}$-bundle over $C$ has a linearly stable model in $\mathbb{P}^{n-1}$ for any $n \ge r+2$. Furthermore; linear stability of $(E, V)$ i…

Local constancy of reduction type and related invariants for curves in $p$-adic families
Jakab Schrettner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12329 https://arxiv.or…

Local constancy of reduction type and related invariants for curves in $p$-adic families
We investigate the behaviour of the reduction type and related invariants of curves in families of curves over a discretely valued field. By a family, we will mean a set of curves obtained by perturbing the coefficients of the defining equations. We will show that the reduction type in these families is locally constant in the topology induced by the valuation. We also derive local constancy results for some related invariants, such as the Tamagawa number, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer 'fudge f…

Skew-symmetric super-biderivations of the Hamiltonian superalgebra H(m, n; t)
Da Xu, Xiaoning Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12067 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Skew-symmetric super-biderivations of the Hamiltonian superalgebra H(m, n; t)
This paper aims to study the skew-symmetric super-biderivations of the Hamiltonian superalgebra H(m, n; t). Let H denote the Hamiltonian Lie superalgebra H(m, n; t) over a field of characteristic p > 2. Utilizing the abelian subalgebra TH and the weight space decomposition of H with respect to TH , we show the action of a skew-symmetric super-biderivation on the elements of TH and some specific elements of H. Moreover, we prove that all skew-symmetric super-biderivations of H are inner.

With the browser being such a core part of our digital reality and how we access it I find it incomprehensible to move my life and workflows over to a closed source browser by some money burning "AI" startup that might not be there in a year.

A big question will be how to regulate national scale things. Like our central bank, the Federal Reserve, or our military. We have (or had) a reasonable system over those, and those systems should be retained.
I think the idea that states cover disasters in other states is going to need to be revisited. Some states, like California, are recognizing and beginning to self-address things like earthquakes and fires - For instance my home insurance has increased several fold. But why sh…

Sources: some Trump administration officials are holding up finalizing a deal for the UAE to buy Nvidia AI chips over concerns that China could access the chips (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politi…

How many more memorials to remember and warn of the horrors of war? Lessons learned, when? Ever? The same patterns repeating, over and over...
(This memorial is to remember the Italo/Austrian "White War", part of the WW1 frontline in the Dolomites at 2300m...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Nikki Haley’s campaign manager warned influential donors Tuesday that the GOP would lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives
if Donald Trump is the party’s presidential nominee,
leaning into concerns about down-ballot races
as some anti-Trump Republicans view the fight over Congress as a better investment than the presidential race.

Haley camp seeks to convince top donors that Trump would cost GOP the House
The move marked the latest effort by a campaign many Republicans have written off to hit back against the overwhelming GOP favorite.

It was a bit gray yesterday
#iceland

Skew-symmetric super-biderivations of the special odd Hamiltonian superalgebra SHO(n, n; t)
Da Xu, Xiaoning Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12069 https://arx…

Skew-symmetric super-biderivations of the special odd Hamiltonian superalgebra SHO(n, n; t)
This paper aims to study the skew-symmetric super-biderivations of the special odd Hamiltonian superalgebra SHO(n, n; t). Let HO denote the odd Hamiltonian Lie superalgebra HO(n, n; t) and SHO the special odd Hamiltonian Lie superalgebra SHO(n, n; t) over a field of characteristic p > 2.Utilizing the abelian subalgebra TSHO and the weight space decomposition of HO with respect to TSHO , we show the action of a skew-symmetric super-biderivation on the elements of TSHO and some specific elements …

Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
BENOS: One moment, gentlemen. A late addition. Perhaps you'd like to send back a few details to your clients, especially the ladies. Now I know he looks soft, and he talks soft, too, but you can tell the ladies he's strong enough to work all day and still have plenty of energy left over for any little chores you might have for him in the evenings. [laughter] Now, what am I bid?
TOK: Valeria of Prim bids a hundred... [1/2] B7B5

We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies.
The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain
“intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/…

Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public
We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

OpenAI projects that it will reduce the revenue share it pays to Microsoft from 20% this year to ~8% by 2030, potentially retaining over $50B more in revenue (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-gain-50-billi…

OpenAI to Gain $50 Billion From Cutting Revenue Share with Microsoft, Partners
As OpenAI irons out new terms of a partnership with Microsoft, it has told some shareholders that the percentage of revenue it will hand over to Microsoft will drop considerably in the coming years. As part of their original partnership agreement, Microsoft is entitled to 20% of the startup’s ...

Sections of Jacobian fibrations over lines
J\'anos Koll\'ar, Giulia Sacc\`a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09819 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09819

Sections of Jacobian fibrations over lines
Let $|H|$ be a linear system on a smooth surface $S$. We study the cohomology classes of sections of the universal Jacobian over lines in $|H|$. When $S$ is a K3 surface, the universal compactified Jacobian is a hyperkähler manifold, and we do not see how to reconcile our results with some of the steps in [BKV25].

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem, whose department oversees FEMA’s work,
issued a new agency rule this year requiring all contracts and grants costing over $100,000 to be personally approved by her.
As floodwaters were rising in Texas, Noem failed to respond to such requests over the weekend,
taking four days to approve the spending that could have saved lives.
As of Wednesday evening, 120 people in Texas have been killed by the massive flo…

DHS Head Kristi Noem Prioritized Instagram Pics Over FEMA Requests for Response to Texas Floods
It took Noem four days to respond to requests from FEMA, delaying access to some search and rescue tools.

Effective Artin-Schreier-Witt theory for curves
Christophe Levrat, Rub\'en Mu\~noz--Bertrand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10633 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Effective Artin-Schreier-Witt theory for curves
We present an algorithm which, given a connected smooth projective curve $X$ over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p>0$ and its Hasse--Witt matrix, as well as a positive integer $n$, computes all étale Galois covers of $X$ with group $\mathbb{Z}/p^n\mathbb{Z}$. We compute the complexity of this algorithm when $X$ is defined over a finite field, and provide a complete implementation in SageMath, as well as some explicit examples. We then apply this algorithm to the computation o…

Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/florida-sues-huge-porn-sites-including-xvideos-and-bang-…

Florida Sues Huge Porn Sites Including XVideos and Bang Bros Over Age Verification Law
The lawsuit alleges XVideos, Bang Bros, XNXX, Girls Gone Wild and TrafficFactory are in violation of Florida's law that requires adult platforms to verify visitors are over 18.

Here’s a mind-blowing experiment that you can try at home:
Gather some children’s blocks and place them on a table.
Take one block and slowly push it over the table’s edge, inch by inch, until it’s on the brink of falling.
If you possess patience and a steady hand, you should be able to balance it so that exactly half of it hangs off the edge.
Nudge it any farther, and gravity wins.
Now take two blocks and start over.
Stacking one on top of the other, how…

This Block-Stacking Math Problem Has a Preposterous Solution You Need to See to Believe — Scientific American
In principle, this impossible math allows for a glue-free bridge of stacked blocks that can stretch across the Grand Canyon—and into infinity Amanda Montañez Math Here’s a mind-blowing experiment that you can try at home: Gather some children’s blocks and place them on a table. Take one block and slowly push it over the table’s edge, inch by inch, until it’s on the brink of falling. If you possess patience and a steady hand, you should be able to balance it so that exactly half of it…

The U.S. Department of Education has pulled funding for programs in eight states
aimed at supporting students who have both hearing and vision loss,
a move that could affect some of the country’s most vulnerable students.
The programs are considered vital in those states but represent only a little over $1 million a year in federal money.
Nonetheless, they got caught in the Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion,
with an Education Dep…

Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”