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SRE Weekly Issue #484 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-484/

Stabilizer R\'enyi Entropy for Translation-Invariant Matrix Product States
Lei-Yi-Nan Liu, Su Yi, Jian Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03534 https://arx…

Stabilizer Rényi Entropy for Translation-Invariant Matrix Product States
Magic, capturing the deviation of a quantum state from the stabilizer formalism, is a key resource underpinning the quantum advantage. The recently introduced stabilizer Rényi entropy (SRE) offers a tractable measure of magic, avoiding the complexity of conventional methods. We study SRE in translation-invariant matrix product states (MPS), deriving exact expressions for representative states and introducing a numerically stable algorithm, named bond-DMRG, to compute the SRE density in infinit…

SRE Weekly Issue #488 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-488/

SRE Weekly Issue #492 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-492/

CL-UZH submission to the NIST SRE 2024 Speaker Recognition Evaluation
Aref Farhadipour, Shiran Liu, Masoumeh Chapariniya, Valeriia Perepelytsia, Srikanth Madikeri, Teodora Vukovic, Volker Dellwo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00952

CL-UZH submission to the NIST SRE 2024 Speaker Recognition Evaluation
The CL-UZH team submitted one system each for the fixed and open conditions of the NIST SRE 2024 challenge. For the closed-set condition, results for the audio-only trials were achieved using the X-vector system developed with Kaldi. For the audio-visual results we used only models developed for the visual modality. Two sets of results were submitted for the open-set and closed-set conditions, one based on a pretrained model using the VoxBlink2 and VoxCeleb2 datasets. An Xvector-based model was…

SRE Weekly Issue #487 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-487/

Heute vor 66 Jahren: Am 26. Juli 1959 wurde im Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE), dem ersten kommerziellen #Kernkraftwerk der #USA, ein beschädigtes Brennelement entdeckt. Nach erhöhten Strahlenwerten wurde der Reaktor im Santa Susana Field Laboratory heruntergefahren.

SRE Weekly Issue #491 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-491/

OH on slack: I think we've all seen enough to say that computers are a cryparty. it's just very rarely they're tears of joy; most often they're tears of sorrow or rage or shock.
#sre #devoops @… @…

Working on a project that‘s still in development (creative development) and today I wrote up my recommendations for where it might register its domain names, since the project may not be to the current US presidential administration’s liking.
It is odd that that’s a reasonable concern.
Without a massive (and expensive) site reliability engineering (SRE) team, figuring out what might make things more resilient affordably is a nice way to try to find some control amid the chaos. …

Rectified Decoupled Dataset Distillation: A Closer Look for Fair and Comprehensive Evaluation
Xinhao Zhong, Shuoyang Sun, Xulin Gu, Chenyang Zhu, Bin Chen, Yaowei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19743 …

Rectified Decoupled Dataset Distillation: A Closer Look for Fair and Comprehensive Evaluation
Dataset distillation aims to generate compact synthetic datasets that enable models trained on them to achieve performance comparable to those trained on full real datasets, while substantially reducing storage and computational costs. Early bi-level optimization methods (e.g., MTT) have shown promising results on small-scale datasets, but their scalability is limited by high computational overhead. To address this limitation, recent decoupled dataset distillation methods (e.g., SRe$^2$L) separ…

SRE Weekly Issue #486 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-486/

Evaluating satellite and reanalysis rainfall estimates for climate services in agriculture: a comprehensive methodology
Danny Parsons, David Stern, Denis Ndanguza, Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla, James Musyoka, John Bagiliko, Graham Clarkson, Peter Dorward
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20471

Evaluating satellite and reanalysis rainfall estimates for climate services in agriculture: a comprehensive methodology
High-resolution rainfall estimates from satellite and reanalysis data sources (SRE) could play a major role in improving climate services for agriculture. This is particularly relevant in regions that predominantly rely on rain-fed farming but lack a dense network of ground-based measurements to provide localised historical climate information, as in most of the Global South. However, there is a need for a framework which practitioners can use to determine the suitability of these estimated dat…

SRE Weekly Issue #490 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-490/

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SRE Weekly Issue #485 is out! https://sreweekly.com/sre-weekly-issue-485/

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OH on slack
User Story
As Overloaded Olivia, the backend engineer,
I want clear, actionable requirements with business context, so that I can implement the correct solution without burning half a day in meetings or wild guessing.
Acceptance Criteria
1. The story includes functional requirements (not just vibes).
2. Success/failure states are defined happy path edge cases).
3. Any dependencies or blockers are identified.
Bonus: PM/Designer reviewed this and it’s not just a draft in disguise.
#swe #sre #devops #devoops @… @…

Vibe coding and imposter syndrome:
#vibecoding #ai #swe #sre @… #devoops #devops