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Raiders rookie Dont'e Thornton Jr.'s size, speed made him the 'Al Davis pick' of 2025 NFL Draft

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

Raiders ‘Unicorn’ With Blazing 4.3 Speed Draws Rave Reviews https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/donte-thornton-jr-unicorn-blazing-speed/?adt_ei=[email]

Hey #GenX. Remember when calling a BBS in a nearby area code resulted in $100s in long distance charges - giving rise to carriers like Sprint & MCI?
I once called a #BBS in my own area code thinking it was local & my Dad got a $500

Bulletin Board Systems (BBS): the "internet" before the internet — Paul McLellan
Before you could connect to the internet with high speed cable modems, you were limited to connecting to localized networks through a telephone-based modem at a very, very low speed. 

High-Speed Thermal Imaging of Disk-shaped Firebrands in a Wind Tunnel
Charles Callahan, Erick Gatica, Sean Coburn, Sam Simons-Wellin, Luke Heinzen, Laura Shannon, John Farnsworth, Peter E. Hamlington, Gregory B. Rieker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15891

High-Speed Thermal Imaging of Disk-shaped Firebrands in a Wind Tunnel
The transport and temperature-time history of disk-shaped firebrands was studied with high-speed thermal imaging in a wind tunnel. One millimeter diameter wooden disks were ignited using a novel firebrand generator. The firebrands dropped vertically into a wind tunnel crossflow. Optical images of the firebrands were recorded at 960 frames/second during their transport in the wind tunnel test section at three different wind speeds. The resulting high speed color videos were processed using a par…

I think I almost got a full ICE colour 🌈 bingo today! I guess the only thing missing is the Schwarz-Rot-Gold striping?

from my link log —
Fixing the traffic jam in the science of technology safety.
https://citizensandtech.org/2025/04/fixing-science-tech-safety/
saved 2025-05-15

Fixing the Traffic Jam in the Science of Technology Safety
Why does it take so long for science to spot harmful technology products and support the search for safer alternatives? And how can we speed it up?

High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta
Tony L. Farnham (University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy), Jessica M. Sunshine (University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, Department of Geology), Masatoshi Hirabayashi (Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology), Carolyn M. Ernst (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), R. Terik Daly (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory), …

High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta
On 26 September 2022 the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos, the moon of the near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos, in a full-scale demonstration of a kinetic impactor concept. The companion LICIACube spacecraft documented the aftermath, capturing images of the expansion and evolution of the ejecta from 29 to 243 s after the impact. We present results from our analyses of these observations, including an improved reduction of the data and new absolute calibra…

Raiders WR Dont'e Thornton brings 'unique' potential with size, speed: 'The Al Davis pick of this draft' https://www.nfl.com/news/raiders-wr-dont-e-thornton-brings-unique-potential-with-size-…

Check out my new health related blog post: “Inspired by George Couros”
#health

Took this bad boy to Madrid. ❤️🇪🇸
#trains #publictransport #Spain

Finished the WiFi setup for the #jsail #unconference. Got a "small" improvement over the last year.

Gulf States Caught Off Guard by Speed of Israel's Iran Attack (Sam Dagher/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-19/gulf-states-caught-off-guard-by-speed-of-israel-s-iran-attack
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p7#a250619p7

Raiders WR Dont'e Thornton brings 'unique' potential with size, speed: 'The Al Davis pick of this draft' https://www.nfl.com/news/raiders-wr-dont-e-thornton-brings-unique-potential-with-size-…

Grenfell survivor urges government to speed up firms’ contract ban ahead of eighth anniversary | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/grenfell-survivor-urges-government-speed-firms-contract…

(Bicycle) Speed and safety
For years I've heard people talking about how motor-assisted bicycles "are safer" because they can "match traffic speed", but I think this is mistaken.  Here's three reasons why. For me the most compelling reason comes from a 2007 paper by Laurie F. Beck, Ann M. Dellinger, and Mary E. O’Neil in the American Journal of Epidemiology, "Motor Vehicle Crash Injury Rates by Mode of Travel, United States: Using Exposure-Based Methods…

(Bicycle) Speed and safety
For years I’ve heard people talking about how motor-assisted bicycles “are safer” because they can “match traffic speed”, but I think this is mistaken.  Here’s t…

Summer toys arrived. Beyond excited to try the speed boat on the lake.
Not convinced about the high-trail cars but I guess it’s not so rocky and hilly here.

Revisiting Varying Speed of Light in Cosmology: Insights from the Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker Metric
Seokcheon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15838

Revisiting Varying Speed of Light in Cosmology: Insights from the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker Metric
In the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric, a varying speed of light (VSL) reflects a change in the clock rate across hypersurfaces, described by the lapse function. This variation is not a dynamical field evolution but a consequence of coordinate choice, as the cosmic time coincides with the proper time of comoving observers due to the Weyl postulate. From an action principle including $\tc$, we derive that $\tc$ does not have its dynamics but imposes a constraint on the scale factor $…

need a quickie
try speed dating

Certified randomness from quantum speed limits
Caroline L. Jones, Albert Aloy, Gerard Higgins, Markus P. Mueller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14526 https://

Certified randomness from quantum speed limits
Quantum speed limits are usually regarded as fundamental restrictions, constraining the amount of computation that can be achieved within some given time and energy. Complementary to this intuition, here we show that these limitations are also of operational value: they enable the secure generation of certified randomness. We consider a prepare-and-measure scenario with some (experimentally determined or promised) upper bound on the energy uncertainty of the average prepared quantum state, but …

Apple adds a 3x playback option for podcasts in iOS26, an Enhance Dialogue tool to hear speech more clearly, and a puzzle game for Apple News Plus subscribers (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684708/apple-podcasts-speed-news-emoji-game…

Apple turns up the speed on Podcasts and adds a new emoji game to News
Apple will let users listen to podcasts at up to 3x speed in the Podcast app, and Apple News Plus subscribers will be able to play a new Emoji Game.

RS-Coded Adaptive Dynamic Network for Reliable Long-Term Information Transmission in Disturbed Multimode Fiber
Yang Hu, Minyu Fan, Kun Liu, Songsong Zhu, Nan Jiang, Sha Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16859

RS-Coded Adaptive Dynamic Network for Reliable Long-Term Information Transmission in Disturbed Multimode Fiber
Multimode fiber (MMF), due to its large core diameter and high mode capacity, holds potential in high-speed communications. However, inherent modal dispersion causes output speckle distortion, and transmission characteristics are sensitive to environmental disturbances, limiting its reliable application. Conventional transmission matrix (TM) methods face challenges such as complex calibration and environmental sensitivity. Although current deep learning approaches demonstrate reconstruction pot…

Cowboys leak reveals Sam Williams' crazy max speed coming off torn ACL https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-leak-reveals-sam-williams-crazy-max-speed-coming-off-torn-acl

Synthesizer: Synthetic Observables For Modern Astronomy
Will J. Roper, Christopher Lovell, Aswin Vijayan, Stephen Wilkins, Hollis Akins, Sabrina Berger, Connor Sant Fournier, Thomas Harvey, Kartheik Iyer, Marco Leonardi, Sophie Newman, Borja Pautasso, Ashley Perry, Louise Seeyave, Laura Sommovigo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15811…

Synthesizer: Synthetic Observables For Modern Astronomy
Synthesizer is a fast, flexible, modular, and extensible Python package that empowers astronomers to turn theoretical galaxy models into realistic synthetic observations - including spectra, photometry, images, and spectral cubes - with a focus on interchangeable modelling assumptions. By offloading computationally intensive tasks to threaded C++ extensions, Synthesizer delivers both simplicity and speed, enabling rapid forward-modelling workflows without requiring users to manage low-level dat…

‘c’: More Than Just Fast as We Unpack the Universe’s Master Constant
Let's dive into the universe's ultimate speed limit: the speed of light. It's a concept so fundamental that it underpins much of modern physics, yet so mind-bogglingly fast that, as you say, human intuition struggles to truly grasp it. We call it 'c', and its value in a vacuum is precisely 299,792,458 meters per second. That's not just an estimate; since 1983, the meter has been precisely defin…

Skew-Induced Insertion Loss Deviation (SILD) and FOM_SILD: Metrics for Quantifying P/N Skew Effects in High-Speed Channels
David Nozadze, Zurab Kiguradze, Amendra Koul, Mike Sapozhnikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15105

Skew-Induced Insertion Loss Deviation (SILD) and FOM_SILD: Metrics for Quantifying P/N Skew Effects in High-Speed Channels
The rise of AI workloads and growing data center demands have driven the need for ultra-high-speed interconnects exceeding 200 Gb/s. As unit intervals (UI) shrink, even a few picoseconds of P/N skew can degrade serializer-deserializer (SerDes) performance. Traditional methods for quantifying skew fall short in capturing its impact. We introduce two new metrics: 1) Skew-Induced Insertion Loss Deviation (SILD) and 2) its complementary Figure of Merit (FOM_SILD), analytically developed to assess P…

Since I did not get to take part in the Oslo Enhjulssykkelrunde (Unicycle Tour of Oslo) this year (I was busy with the kids), I decided to do my own little varient of it as part of my commute on the way into work today.
Distance 23.91km [14.86 miles], moving time 1h36m, 175m [574ft] elevation gain, average speed 14.9km/h [9.3mph]
FWIW, I actually only live about 5km [3.1 miles] from my office 🤷 😆

Deep Dive into #uv #Dockerfiles by #Astral: Image Size, Performance & Best Practices

A Kinematic Constraint on Pedestrian Walking: Power-law Scaling between Critical Angular Velocity and Speed
Jinghui Wang, Wei Lv, Chao Li, Yufei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15321

A Kinematic Constraint on Pedestrian Walking: Power-law Scaling between Critical Angular Velocity and Speed
This paper presents a statistical analysis of speed and angular velocity obtained from pedestrian experiments across nine distinct datasets. Experimental scenarios included crossing motion, unidirectional/bidirectional flows, bidirectional/four-directional crossing flows, pedestrian-vehicle interactions, unidirectional flow in a circular corridor, and circle antipode configurations. We applied filtering methods to reduce noise and analyzed the data at different sampling frequencies. The results…

A continuous-time model to interpolate between speed and function value restart in accelerated first order methods
Juan Jos\'e Maul\'en, Huiyuan Guo, Juan Peypouquet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11267

A continuous-time model to interpolate between speed and function value restart in accelerated first order methods
We introduce a new restarting scheme for a continuous inertial dynamics with Hessian driven-damping, and establish a linear convergence rate for the function values along the restarted trajectories. The proposed routine is a generalization of existing speed restart schemes, and interpolates between speed and function value restarts, considerably delaying the restarting time, while preserving the function value decrease. Numerical experiments show an improvement in the convergence rates for both…

Reminder to people who drive motor vehicles on streets in the city. Street driving is generally allowed, except where signs give notice it is prohibited. But it must be done with due caution and reasonable speed, and the motorist must yield to all other traffic, including pedestrians, cyclists, and trams, and must give an audible signal before overtaking and passing. Learn more in our 90-second training seminar, "DRIVING ON STREETS, Being A Polite Guest".
#BikeTooter #FootTooter

NR Cell Identity-based Handover Decision-making Algorithm for High-speed Scenario within Dual Connectivity
Zhiyi Zhu, Eiji Takimoto, Patrick Finnertyn, Junjun Zheng, Shoma Suzuki, Chikara Ohta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12461

NR Cell Identity-based Handover Decision-making Algorithm for High-speed Scenario within Dual Connectivity
The dense deployment of 5G heterogeneous networks (HetNets) has improved network capacity. However, it also brings frequent and unnecessary handover challenges to high-speed mobile user equipment (UE), resulting in unstable communication and degraded quality of service. Traditional handovers ignore the type of target next-generation Node B (gNB), resulting in high-speed UEs being able to be handed over to any gNB. This paper proposes a NR cell identity (NCI)-based handover decision-making algor…

JD.com founder Richard Liu calls the past five years the company's "darkest period" and vows to speed up overseas expansion and challenge Meituan in new areas (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Effects of BHF-corrected effective mass on sound speed, conformality and observables of dark matter admixed neutron stars
Arijit Das, Prashanth Jaikumar, Adarsh Karekkat, Tanumoy Mandal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15328

Effects of BHF-corrected effective mass on sound speed, conformality and observables of dark matter admixed neutron stars
We construct an equation of state describing cold and dense matter in the core of neutron stars which includes an admixture of fermionic dark matter and incorporates nucleon effective masses derived from the relativistic Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (BHF) many-body approach within a relativistic mean-field model. Such a BHF-informed mixed-model approach increases stellar compactness, with mass-radius configurations which are consistent with smaller, lighter pulsars. The model displays the expected no…

The Trump administration found
“no viable path” forward
to complete California’s high-speed rail project
following a nearly four-month investigation that jeopardizes
$4 billion in federal funding.
In a 310-page compliance review released Wednesday,
the Department of Transportation cited budget shortfalls,
missed deadlines and a misleading projected ridership to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles via fast rail.
The review targets federal gran…

Trump administration moves to pull funding on high-speed rail
The Trump administration could pull $4 billion in federal funding from California's high-speed rail project within 37 days, following a Department of Transportation compliance review.

RapFlow-TTS: Rapid and High-Fidelity Text-to-Speech with Improved Consistency Flow Matching
Hyun Joon Park, Jeongmin Liu, Jin Sob Kim, Jeong Yeol Yang, Sung Won Han, Eunwoo Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16741

RapFlow-TTS: Rapid and High-Fidelity Text-to-Speech with Improved Consistency Flow Matching
We introduce RapFlow-TTS, a rapid and high-fidelity TTS acoustic model that leverages velocity consistency constraints in flow matching (FM) training. Although ordinary differential equation (ODE)-based TTS generation achieves natural-quality speech, it typically requires a large number of generation steps, resulting in a trade-off between quality and inference speed. To address this challenge, RapFlow-TTS enforces consistency in the velocity field along the FM-straightened ODE trajectory, enab…

Once again: #FuckEricAdams
Unbelievable how he's managed to avoid jailtime breaking federal/state laws while City Council allows him to continue to break _their_laws as well.

https://…

No to 15 mph e-bike speed limit, yes to real safety! - Transportation Alternatives
A ridiculous 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes won't work. Tell Mayor Adams and City Council: We need effective, data-driven policies that protect everyone, and accountability for the corporations fueling chaos on our streets — not the cyclists surviving it.

Maximal Speed of Glucose Change Significantly Distinguishes Prediabetes from Diabetes
Dandan Wang, Xiaoyan Chen, Jingxiang Lin, Teng Zhang, Lianyi Huang, Dongliang Leng, Xiaohua Douglas Zhang, Gang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12567

Maximal Speed of Glucose Change Significantly Distinguishes Prediabetes from Diabetes
Rapid changes in blood glucose levels can have severe and immediate health consequences, leading to the need to develop indices for assessing these rapid changes based on continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data. We proposed a CGM index, maxSpeed, that represents the maximum of speed of glucose change (SGC) in a subject, respectively, and conducted a clinical study to investigate this index along with SGC mean (meanSpeed) and SGC standard deviation (sdSpeed), coefficient of variation (CV), stan…

I'm not one for the conspiracies, but how does somebody go from having the White House medical team on speed dial to 'oopsie, looks like I have Stage V metastatic prostate cancer! UwU' in five months?

Uni-Traveling-Carrier Photodiode Based on MoS2/GaN van der Waals Heterojunction for High-Speed Visible-Light Detection
Takuya Kadowaki, Takahiro Serikawa, Akihide Ichikawa, Yuji Ohmaki, Koji Usami, Yoichi Kawakami, Yoshihiro Iwasa, Hisashi Ogawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11488

Uni-Traveling-Carrier Photodiode Based on MoS2/GaN van der Waals Heterojunction for High-Speed Visible-Light Detection
Uni-traveling-carrier photodiodes (UTC-PDs), which utilize only electrons as the active carriers, have become indispensable in high-speed optoelectronics due to their unique capabilities, such as high saturation power and broad bandwidth. However, extending the operating wavelengths into the visible region for wider applications is challenging due to the lack of suitable wide-bandgap III-V semiconductor combinations with the necessary band alignment and lattice matching. Here, we show that a UT…

Cowboys leak reveals Sam Williams' crazy max speed coming off torn ACL https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-leak-reveals-sam-williams-crazy-max-speed-coming-off-torn-acl

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Chicks On Speed:
🎵 Wordy Rappinghood
#NowPlaying #ChicksOnSpeed
https://thetechnobutcher.bandcamp.com/track/wordy-rappinghood-experiment-tobias-schmidt-x-chicks-on-speed
https://open.spotify.com/track/4OHG25qtSq9E6EIT03NNCb

@… Got an email this morning telling me I could log in and download my HESTA statement so I could complete my HCC renewal. Estimated completion 16-23 July. Current HCC expires 12 July. I'm hoping ruefully that the notes on my account (from 2023) after might speed it up a little especially as I have been known to contact the minister after it too…

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
VILA: Maximum. Can we hold together at that speed?
AVON: We won't have to.
VILA: What do you mean?
BLAKE: Running at full power will drain the energy banks in - what?
AVON: Two hours at the most.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/133

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Dan Quinn impressed with Deebo Samuel's speed: 'I was easily reminded, he's one of the fastest players on the team' https://www.nfl.com/news/dan-quinn-impressed-with-deebo-samuel-s-s…

Sonnet 050 - L
How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
As if by some instinct the wretch did know
His rider lov'd not speed being made from thee.
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on,
That sometimes a…

A model of heat transfer from a cylinder in high-speed slip flow and determination of temperature jump coefficients using hot-wires
Diogo C. Barros, Lionel Larchev\^eque, Pierre Dupont
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14000

A model of heat transfer from a cylinder in high-speed slip flow and determination of temperature jump coefficients using hot-wires
In small-scale, low-density or high-speed flows, the mean free path of the gas and its molecular interaction with a solid interface are key properties for the analysis of heat transfer mechanisms occurring in many flow processes ranging from micro-scale to aerospace applications. Here, we specifically examine the effects of temperature jump at the gas-solid interface on the convection from a cylinder in the high-speed slip flow regime. By employing the classical Smoluchowski temperature jump co…

Adaptive criterion and modification of wave-particle decomposition in UGKWP method for high-speed flow simulation
Junzhe Cao, Yufeng Wei, Wenpei Long, Chengwen Zhong, Kun Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12722

Adaptive criterion and modification of wave-particle decomposition in UGKWP method for high-speed flow simulation
Benefitting from the direct modeling of physical laws in a discretized space and the automatic decomposition of hydrodynamic waves and particles, the unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method offers notable advantages in various multiscale physics, such as hypersonic flow, plasma transport and radiation transport. Aiming at achieving a more suitable and efficient wave-particle decomposition in high-speed flow simulation and enhancing the performance in the drastic scale variation region,…

US Sees No Viable Path for California High-Speed Rail Project, May Rescind $4 Billion |Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/california-high-speed-rail-trump-admin/2025/06/04/id/1213585/

The AfricaConnect3 Impact Report is here!
As we look ahead to the next chapter of the project, this report reflects on an incredible 5 years of progress—and the powerful role that NRENs have played in transforming digital access for Africa’s R&E communities.
Co-funded by the EU, AC3 has enabled over 3,000 institutions and more than 9 million users to benefit from high-speed, affordable, and secure connectivity.
📥 Read the full report: africaconnect3.net/resources (in …

First crack at the SFP28 breakout/carrier module. Power and I2C are carried by the PicoBlade connector, high speed over the ARF6.
Single 4-40 mounting screw in the back for attaching to a standoff in the chassis, front side will be held by the front panel.

DDS-NAS: Dynamic Data Selection within Neural Architecture Search via On-line Hard Example Mining applied to Image Classification
Matt Poyser, Toby P. Breckon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14667

DDS-NAS: Dynamic Data Selection within Neural Architecture Search via On-line Hard Example Mining applied to Image Classification
In order to address the scalability challenge within Neural Architecture Search (NAS), we speed up NAS training via dynamic hard example mining within a curriculum learning framework. By utilizing an autoencoder that enforces an image similarity embedding in latent space, we construct an efficient kd-tree structure to order images by furthest neighbour dissimilarity in a low-dimensional embedding. From a given query image from our subsample dataset, we can identify the most dissimilar image wit…

High-speed control and navigation for quadrupedal robots on complex and discrete terrain
Hyeongjun Kim, Hyunsik Oh, Jeongsoo Park, Yunho Kim, Donghoon Youm, Moonkyu Jung, Minho Lee, Jemin Hwangbo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02835

High-speed control and navigation for quadrupedal robots on complex and discrete terrain
High-speed legged navigation in discrete and geometrically complex environments is a challenging task because of the high-degree-of-freedom dynamics and long-horizon, nonconvex nature of the optimization problem. In this work, we propose a hierarchical navigation pipeline for legged robots that can traverse such environments at high speed. The proposed pipeline consists of a planner and tracker module. The planner module finds physically feasible foothold plans by sampling-based optimization wi…

Glad to see this...
LibreQoS Bufferbloat Test
Some of my company (IWL) products can create bufferbloat situations, but testing how the end-point protocols react is a separate concern.
I've written in the past about the inadequacy of "speed test" tool and how things like "iperf" can easily be (and often are) mis-interpreted. (I'll add some links).

Here's the article. It's a fun piece of history. Lots of well-known names.
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/17/business/business-technology-harnessing-hundreds-computers-improve-speed-efficiency.html
https://social.v.st/@th/114437577349237616

Dan Quinn shuts down questions about Deebo Samuel's speed: 'He's one of the fastest players on the team'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl…

all cities should allow community traffic calming if they're not going to do it themselves
"‘Absolutely terrifying’: Oakland residents decry city’s removal of DIY speed bumps as sideshows surge"

FPGA-Based Multiplier with a New Approximate Full Adder for Error-Resilient Applications
Ali Ranjbar, Elham Esmaeili, Roghayeh Rafieisangari, Nabiollah Shiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09596

FPGA-Based Multiplier with a New Approximate Full Adder for Error-Resilient Applications
Electronic devices primarily aim to offer low power consumption, high speed, and a compact area. The performance of very large-scale integration (VLSI) devices is influenced by arithmetic operations, where multiplication is a crucial operation. Therefore, a high-speed multiplier is essential for developing any signal-processing module. Numerous multipliers have been reviewed in existing literature, and their speed is largely determined by how partial products (PPs) are accumulated. To enhance t…

Capacity Matters: a Proof-of-Concept for Transformer Memorization on Real-World Data
Anton Changalidis, Aki H\"arm\"a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14704

Capacity Matters: a Proof-of-Concept for Transformer Memorization on Real-World Data
This paper studies how the model architecture and data configurations influence the empirical memorization capacity of generative transformers. The models are trained using synthetic text datasets derived from the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) knowledge graph: triplets, representing static connections, and sequences, simulating complex relation patterns. The results show that embedding size is the primary determinant of learning speed and capacity, while additional layers provi…

Shoutout to DxO PhotoLab. Got it earlier this year with ViewPoint & FilmPack. Very impressed with the speed, quality, interface, and capabilities. Some pro tips:
1. I also got PureRAW, but this year they brought their latest DeepPRIME 3 demosaicing & denoising solution to PhotoLab at no extra cost

Trump admin tells immigration judges to dismiss cases in tactic to speed up arrests (Julia Ainsley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-admin-tells-immigration-judges-dismiss-cases-tactic-speed-arrest-rcna212138
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p23#a250611p23

Kinematic Confirmation of a Remarkable Linear Trail of Galaxies in the NGC 1052 Field, Consistent with Formation in a High-Speed Bullet Dwarf Collision
Michael A. Keim, Pieter van Dokkum, Zili Shen, Harrison Souchereau, Imad Pasha, Shany Danieli, Roberto Abraham, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Yimeng Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10220

Kinematic Confirmation of a Remarkable Linear Trail of Galaxies in the NGC 1052 Field, Consistent with Formation in a High-Speed Bullet Dwarf Collision
A unique linear trail of diffuse galaxies was recently identified in the NGC 1052 field. This trail includes the remarkable, ultra-diffuse galaxies DF2 and DF4 which lack dark matter and host unusually luminous globular clusters. It has been proposed that the trail formed via a high-speed collision between two gas-rich dwarf galaxies. This scenario predicts that the trail galaxies are kinematically connected and follow a specific trend in radial velocity as a function of position, based on the …

Statistical post-processing of operational dual-resolution wind-speed ensemble forecasts
S\'andor Baran, M\'aria Lakatos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15578

Statistical post-processing of operational dual-resolution wind-speed ensemble forecasts
Weather forecasting presents several challenges, including the chaotic nature of the atmosphere and the high computational demands of numerical weather prediction models. To achieve the most accurate predictions, the ideal scenario involves the lowest possible horizontal resolution and the largest ensemble size. This study provides a detailed comparative analysis of the forecast skill of the raw and post-processed medium- and extended-range wind-speed ensemble forecasts of the European Centre f…

Check out my new blog post: Better Video Audio with Auphonic
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/05/18/better-video-audio-with-auphonic/
Featuring my new video: Spring Cleaning My RecTeq RT-700 Bull Smoker: Tips & Tricks!

Asymptotic behavior of the fundamental solution of space-time fractional equations with a reaction term
Luciano Abad\'ias, Claudio Carrasco, Juan C. Pozo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11296

Asymptotic behavior of the fundamental solution of space-time fractional equations with a reaction term
In this paper, we consider a space-time fractional partial differential equation with a reactive term. We describe the speed of invasion of its fundamental solution, extending recent results in this topic, which had been proved for the one dimensional spatial setting and some fractional parameters involved in the equation. The key tool to achieve these results in a wide range of cases (any spatial dimension, any time and spatial fractional differential parameters, and any polynomial speed of in…

Rocky Mountain Straphanger
How the Town of Banff (pop. 8,000) Built one of Alberta's Most Successful Transit Networks
Taras Grescoe
https://www.highspeed.blog/rocky-mountain-straphanger/?ref=high-speed-newsletter

Rocky Mountain Straphanger
How the Town of Banff (pop. 8,000) Built one of Alberta's Most Successful Transit Networks

High-speed and high-connectivity two-qubit gates in long chains of trapped ions
Isabelle Savill-Brown, Joseph J. Hope, Alexander K. Ratcliffe, Varun D. Vaidya, Haonan Liu, Simon A. Haine, C. Ricardo Viteri, Zain Mehdi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11385

High-speed and high-connectivity two-qubit gates in long chains of trapped ions
We present a theoretical study of fast all-to-all entangling gates in trapped-ion quantum processors, based on impulsive excitation of spin-dependent motion with broadband laser pulses. Previous studies have shown that such fast gate schemes are highly scalable and naturally performant outside the Lamb-Dicke regime, however are limited to nearest-neighbour operations. Here we demonstrate that impulsive spin-dependent excitation can be used to perform high-fidelity non-local entangling operation…

Fast automated adjoints for spectral PDE solvers
Calum S. Skene, Keaton J. Burns
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14792 https://arxiv.org/p…

Fast automated adjoints for spectral PDE solvers
We present a general and automated approach for computing model gradients for PDE solvers built on sparse spectral methods, and implement this capability in the widely used open-source Dedalus framework. We apply reverse-mode automatic differentiation to symbolic graph representations of PDEs, efficiently constructing adjoint solvers that retain the speed and memory efficiency of this important class of modern numerical methods. This approach enables users to compute gradients and perform optim…

Dataset combining EEG, eye-tracking, and high-speed video for ocular activity analysis across BCI paradigms
E. Guttmann-Flury, X. Sheng, X. Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07488

Dataset combining EEG, eye-tracking, and high-speed video for ocular activity analysis across BCI paradigms
In Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) research, the detailed study of blinks is crucial. They can be considered as noise, affecting the efficiency and accuracy of decoding users' cognitive states and intentions, or as potential features, providing valuable insights into users' behavior and interaction patterns. We introduce a large dataset capturing electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, eye-tracking, high-speed camera recordings, as well as subjects' mental states and characteristics, to provide a mu…

Somehow we made this part of the Queensboro Bridge worse. This is a 3-4ft wide two-way bike lane. There's so much wrong with this, from the metal manhole cover taking up almost the entire width of the bike lane, to the MUTCD-violating usage of sharrows, to those shitty rumble strip/speed bump things THAT ARE LOOSE.
Wtaf! #bikeNYC
@…

AI is just another productivity tool and the productivity gains will be limited; for lasting economic expansion, AI must catalyze new industries and initiatives (Carl Benedikt Frey/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/55bc5876-254a-4daa-86f8-2cd0d939a866

AI alone cannot solve the productivity puzzle
Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed

Speed-dependent Threshold for Electron Injection into Diffusive Shock Acceleration
Siddhartha Gupta, Damiano Caprioli, Anatoly Spitkovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09134

Speed-dependent Threshold for Electron Injection into Diffusive Shock Acceleration
Finding the injection threshold for diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) of electrons in collisionless shocks has been a longstanding unsolved problem. Using first-principles kinetic simulations, we identify the conditions for electron injection into DSA and quantify the evolution of the nonthermal tail in self-generated electromagnetic turbulence. By analyzing electron trajectories and their momentum gain during shock-recrossing cycles, we demonstrate that electrons start participating in DSA wh…

Under Randy Clarke, WMATA has cut the end-to-end travel time on the Metro Red Line by 8 minutes. This is a 68 minute trip, so it's a gain in efficiency of over 10% on top of faster trips for riders.
This is a combination of automated train operation (with doors closing sooner), raising the speed limit back to the original design of 75 mph, and I imagine other fixes.

WMATA | Metro to launch Automatic Train Operation on the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines on June 15
Metro news and service information for the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia region.

"White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally. To achieve that, he says the administration is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus, . ."

Trump team mulls suspending habeas corpus to speed deportations. Can it?
Top White House aide Stephen Miller says the Trump administration is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally. To achieve that, he says President Donald Trump’s team is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional right for people to legally challenge their detention by the government. Such a move would be aimed at migrants as part of the Republican president’s broader crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border. …

I wonder if AI’s effectiveness will speed up the inevitable death of some ecosystems.
If folks want the “best” (and I mean least shit) Agentic AI experience, they will probably gravitate towards more populated communities where the training data can produce a semblance of “working”.
This will likely flat-line some communities since many devs want something that works.

DTHA: A Digital Twin-Assisted Handover Authentication Scheme for 5G and Beyond
Guanjie Li, Tom H. Luan, Chengzhe Lai, Jinkai Zheng, Rongxing Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11669

DTHA: A Digital Twin-Assisted Handover Authentication Scheme for 5G and Beyond
With the rapid development and extensive deployment of the fifth-generation wireless system (5G), it has achieved ubiquitous high-speed connectivity and improved overall communication performance. Additionally, as one of the promising technologies for integration beyond 5G, digital twin in cyberspace can interact with the core network, transmit essential information, and further enhance the wireless communication quality of the corresponding mobile device (MD). However, the utilization of milli…

Data warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, and more – our choices significantly affect operational costs and development speed. Join Lars Albertsson at Berlin Buzzwords to explore how different data processing paradigms impact deployment, failure handling, and data quality. Learn strategies to minimise costs and latency, bridge between paradigms, and enhance development iteration and operational efficiency.
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I was installing Arch in a vm and suddenly it hit me: vague memories of speed running the installation over and over because I screwed up something.
But that must have happened at least 15 or 20 years ago 😭

On PHEX Chelsea Plumbing and Heating Exhibition (2018) - Getting up to speed with domestic realities at a trade event for heating and plumbing professionals in London. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-PHEX-Chelsea-2018.html

On PHEX Chelsea Plumbing and Heating Exhibition (2018)
Getting up to speed with domestic realities at a trade event for heating and plumbing professionals in London.

Discrimination of metric theories
F. J. Lobo, M. Rivera-Tapia, G. Rubilar, O. Jim\'enez, A. Delgado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12243 https://

Discrimination of metric theories
We study the possibility of discriminating between metric theories within the Parametrized Post-Newtonian formalism. In this approach, the two-dimensional quantum state of a massive quantum clock becomes, after propagating at low speed and in a weak gravitational field, a function of the post-Newtonian parameters and thus a signature of a metric theory. To discriminate among metric theories, we resort to quantum-state discrimination strategies such as minimum error and unambiguous state discrim…

Joint Spectrum Sensing and Resource Allocation for OFDMA-based Underwater Acoustic Communications
Minwoo Kim, Youngchol Choi, Yeongjun Kim, Eojin Seo, Hyun Jong Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13008

Joint Spectrum Sensing and Resource Allocation for OFDMA-based Underwater Acoustic Communications
Underwater acoustic (UWA) communications generally rely on cognitive radio (CR)-based ad-hoc networks due to challenges such as long propagation delay, limited channel resources, and high attenuation. To address the constraints of limited frequency resources, UWA communications have recently incorporated orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), significantly enhancing spectral efficiency (SE) through multiplexing gains. Still, {the} low propagation speed of UWA signals, combined w…

Study of $\langle p_{\rm T} \rangle$ and its higher moments, and extraction of the speed of sound in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE
ALICE Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10394

Study of $\langle p_{\rm T} \rangle$ and its higher moments, and extraction of the speed of sound in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE
Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions create a quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a hot and dense state of strongly interacting QCD matter. In ultracentral collisions, the QGP volume remains nearly constant event-by-event, while its total entropy can fluctuate due to quantum effects, leading to temperature variations. These features allow the correlation between the mean transverse momentum $(\langle p_{\mathrm{T}} \rangle)$ of charged hadrons and their multiplicity to serve as a probe of the QGP's spe…

Check out and share my latest blog post, “Hijacked Minds and Broken Trust”
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/06/19/hijacked-minds-and-broken-trust/
(btw I blogged this on my iPad, which I’m trying to use more for media creation and sharing)

Somehow I managed 9.54 miles today in 48 minutes with an average speed of 12mph... I guess I made up for yesterday when I only did 4 indoor miles.
#biking #bikeTooter #mke

When a WhatsApp message says "Forwarded many times", in India it often means the message has been forwarded (tens/hundreds of) millions of times. 😳
The speed and scale are both just mind numbing.
#technology #information

Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang!
[Full speed ahead in reverse gear!]
What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

MDR SACHSEN-ANHALT HEUTE: Rückwärts-Weltrekord: Die Fahrt ging noch weiter… | Jaap Burger
Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang! [Full speed ahead in reverse gear!] What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry. This week, a German manufacturer set a new world record for reversing in an electric truck. The German automotive industry as a whole is also attempting to reverse in electric mode: it has presented a 10-point plan to postpone, water down, weaken, undermine, regret, delay, reduce, replace, backtrack on and ridicule European CO2 re…

Under Randy Clarke, WMATA has cut the end-to-end travel time on the Metro Red Line by 8 minutes. This is a 68 minute trip, so it's a gain in efficiency of over 10% on top of faster trips for riders.
This is a combination of automated train operation (with doors closing sooner), raising the speed limit back to the original design of 75 mph, and I imagine other fixes.

SAIL: Faster-than-Demonstration Execution of Imitation Learning Policies
Nadun Ranawaka Arachchige, Zhenyang Chen, Wonsuhk Jung, Woo Chul Shin, Rohan Bansal, Pierre Barroso, Yu Hang He, Yingyang Celine Lin, Benjamin Joffe, Shreyas Kousik, Danfei Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11948

SAIL: Faster-than-Demonstration Execution of Imitation Learning Policies
Offline Imitation Learning (IL) methods such as Behavior Cloning are effective at acquiring complex robotic manipulation skills. However, existing IL-trained policies are confined to executing the task at the same speed as shown in demonstration data. This limits the task throughput of a robotic system, a critical requirement for applications such as industrial automation. In this paper, we introduce and formalize the novel problem of enabling faster-than-demonstration execution of visuomotor p…

Using Model Predictive Control To Reduce Traffic Emissions on Urban Freeways
Alexander Hammerl, Ravi Seshadri, Thomas Kj{\ae}r Rasmussen, Otto Anker Nielsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13393

Using Model Predictive Control To Reduce Traffic Emissions on Urban Freeways
Urban traffic congestion significantly impacts regional air quality and contributes substantially to pollutant emissions. Suburban freeway corridors are a major source of traffic-related emissions, particularly nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2). This paper proposes a Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework aimed at emission reduction on peripheral freeway corridors. Emission rates on freeways exhibit high sensitivity to speed fluctuations and congestion recovery processes. To addr…

Just finished another round of my ongoing "fix the general lack of good signal integrity and high speed digital info on wikipedia" effort.
Today's focus was making some examples for the article on emphasis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphasis_(telecommu…

Emphasis (telecommunications) - Wikipedia

Cost-Efficient Design for 5G-Enabled MEC Servers under Uncertain User Demands
Yunyi Wu (University of Tsukuba), Yongbing Zhang (University of Tsukuba)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13003

Cost-Efficient Design for 5G-Enabled MEC Servers under Uncertain User Demands
Mobile edge computing (MEC) enhances the performance of 5G networks by enabling low-latency, high-speed services through deploying data units of the base station on edge servers located near mobile users. However, determining the optimal capacity of these servers while dynamically offloading tasks and allocating computing resources to meet uncertain user demands presents significant challenges. This paper focuses on the design and planning of edge servers with the dual objectives of minimizing …

Titans WR Treylon Burks out to 'prove myself right' in comeback from torn ACL https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-wr-treylon-burks-out-to-prove-myself-right-in-comeback-from-torn-acl

Memo: Google appoints a new chief AI architect, DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu, who will coordinate future AI-powered product development (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/11/2025/google-names-new-ch…

Google names new chief AI architect to advance developments
DeepMind’s tech chief, Koray Kavukcuoglu, was named to the newly created position, where he will work alongside Sundar Pichai to help speed up production.

FPGA-Based Material Testing Machine Controller
Arev Hambardzumyan, Rafayel Ghasabyan, Vahagn Tamazyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07139 https://

FPGA-Based Material Testing Machine Controller
In the realm of contemporary materials testing, the demand for scalability, adaptability, parallelism, and speed has surged due to the proliferation of diverse materials and testing standards. Traditional controller-based systems often fall short in meeting these requirements, resulting in adaptability and processing speed limitations. Conversely, FPGA-based controllers present a multifaceted, high-performance solution. Key advantages of FPGA-based controllers in materials testing encompass rec…

FieldFormer: Self-supervised Reconstruction of Physical Fields via Tensor Attention Prior
Panqi Chen, Siyuan Li, Lei Cheng, Xiao Fu, Yik-Chung Wu, Sergios Theodoridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11629

FieldFormer: Self-supervised Reconstruction of Physical Fields via Tensor Attention Prior
Reconstructing physical field tensors from \textit{in situ} observations, such as radio maps and ocean sound speed fields, is crucial for enabling environment-aware decision making in various applications, e.g., wireless communications and underwater acoustics. Field data reconstruction is often challenging, due to the limited and noisy nature of the observations, necessitating the incorporation of prior information to aid the reconstruction process. Deep neural network-based data-driven struct…

Superluminal Quantum Reference Frames
Amrapali Sen, Matthias Salzger, {\L}ukasz Rudnicki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11787 https://arx…

Superluminal Quantum Reference Frames
While particles cannot travel faster than the speed of light, nor can information, this assumption has over the years been frequently questioned. Most recently, it has been argued [New J. Phys. 22, 033038 (2020)] that in a world with superluminal observers local determinism is impossible, linking the two pillars of physics-quantum theory and relativity-suggesting that the latter serves as the foundation for the former. Motivated by this approach, in this work, we extend the framework of quantum…

Cowboys' Sam Williams nearly back at full speed after ACL tear -- just in time for a bigger role on defense

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

Qualcomm agrees to acquire UK-listed Alphawave, which makes high-speed chip and connectivity tech for data centers, for $2.4B in cash, set to close in Q1 2026 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Effects of thrust, tip-speed ratio, and time variations on wind-turbine wakes at high Reynolds numbers
Nathaniel J. Wei, Adina Y. Fleisher, John W. Kurelek, Marcus N. Hultmark
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22788

Effects of thrust, tip-speed ratio, and time variations on wind-turbine wakes at high Reynolds numbers
The evolution of rotor wakes is an important problem for a wide range of wind-energy and aerodynamic applications, and is of particular relevance to dynamic wake control strategies for wind farms. This study aims to clarify the influence of turbine thrust and tip-speed ratio on tip-vortex breakdown and the evolution of the near wake. Scaling arguments show that these parameters contribute to the wake dynamics in distinct ways, and that neither thrust nor tip-speed ratio are alone sufficient to …

Mailbag: With wealth at DE, move Parsons to LB? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-with-wealth-at-de-move-parsons-to-lb