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For some reason the combination of 160K and my Mitutoyo 100x/0.90 objective means that as the last bits of ILD begin to etch away, substrate features become *less* visible.
I expected to see strong contrast at edges of substrate features when the ILD was etched away despite poly, STI trenches, and diffusion areas all being the same material (silicon).
But that's not what I'm seeing.
Going back to my archives, though, most of my good full die 100x shots are with the …

A profile of Aaron Parnas, a news influencer with 4.3M followers on TikTok and 600K subscribers on Substack, whose audience is valuable for top Democrats (Liz Skalka/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/aaron…

Aaron Parnas, the top “news” Substacker, is making his own journalism rules—and taking dark money.
Aaron Parnas, a twenty-six-year-old with a larger TikTok audience than some mainstream outlets and the most popular “news” Substack, is making his own journalism rules—and taking dark money.

Kokat orgeatsirap (mandelmjölk, bittermandel och strösocker) med ungen idag men blev på tok för mycket. Ideer på vad man kan göra med det annars? #drinkklubben

The spectral Tur\'{a}n problem: Characterizing spectral-consistent graphs
Longfei Fang, Huiqiu Lin, Mingqing Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12070 https://

The spectral Turán problem: Characterizing spectral-consistent graphs
Let ${\rm EX}(n,H)$ and ${\rm SPEX}(n,H)$ denote the families of $n$-vertex $H$-free graphs with the maximum size and the maximum spectral radius, respectively. A graph $H$ is said to be spectral-consistent if ${\rm SPEX}(n,H)\subseteq {\rm EX}(n,H)$ for sufficiently large $n$. A fundamental problem in spectral extremal graph theory is to determine which graphs are spectral-consistent. Cioabă, Desai and Tait [European J. Combin. 99 (2022) 103420] proposed the following conjecture: Let $H$ be…

„Würde das Alltägliche so viel Aufmerksamkeit bekommen wie das Spektakel, wären wir an einem anderen Punkt. Wie hat Walter Benjamin gesagt? Dass es so weitergeht, ist die Katastrophe.“ - Lukas Hermsmeier in der aktuellen @… zur Debatte über politische Gewalt nach dem Mord an Charlie Kirk

@… https://robynhitchcock.substack.com/

Robyn Hitchcock | Substack
Surrealist rock ‘n’ roller, troubadour, guitarist, poet, painter, and performer. 1967: How I Got There And Why I Never Left is out now on Little, Brown (UK) and Akashic Books (USA)

Data-Efficient Spectral Classification of Hyperspectral Data Using MiniROCKET and HDC-MiniROCKET
Nick Theisen, Kenny Schlegel, Dietrich Paulus, Peer Neubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13809

Data-Efficient Spectral Classification of Hyperspectral Data Using MiniROCKET and HDC-MiniROCKET
The classification of pixel spectra of hyperspectral images, i.e. spectral classification, is used in many fields ranging from agricultural, over medical to remote sensing applications and is currently also expanding to areas such as autonomous driving. Even though for full hyperspectral images the best-performing methods exploit spatial-spectral information, performing classification solely on spectral information has its own advantages, e.g. smaller model size and thus less data required for …

Generalize across Homophily and Heterophily: Hybrid Spectral Graph Pre-Training and Prompt Tuning
Haitong Luo, Suhang Wang, Weiyao Zhang, Ruiqi Meng, Xuying Meng, Yujun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11328

Generalize across Homophily and Heterophily: Hybrid Spectral Graph Pre-Training and Prompt Tuning
Graph ``pre-training and prompt-tuning'' aligns downstream tasks with pre-trained objectives to enable efficient knowledge transfer under limited supervision. However, existing methods rely on homophily-based low-frequency knowledge, failing to handle diverse spectral distributions in real-world graphs with varying homophily. Our theoretical analysis reveals a spectral specificity principle: optimal knowledge transfer requires alignment between pre-trained spectral filters and the intrinsic spe…

Le problème, ce sont les médias qui offrent une plateforme pour des propos complètement hurluberlus et ridicules. Les guignols dans le flux normal des actualités. Faudrait faire un content warning comme chez Mastodon.

Eric Ciotti, patron de l'Union des droites, propose un contre-budget à Sébastien Lecornu pour économiser 120 m
Ces économies seraient réalisées sur l'immigration, la politique sociale ou encore la contribution de la France au budget de l'Union européenne.

One of my Nepali students shared this article with me, "A primer for what is happening in Nepal", which was more informative than anything else I've read about the situation in Nepal.
https://kalamweekly.substack.com/p/a-primer-for-what-is-happening-in

A primer for what is happening in Nepal
On the recent protests that changed the face of modern Nepal