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Penn State University plans to "wind down" public media station WPSU by June 2026 after a university board declined to transfer ownership to Philadelphia's WHYY (Carmen Russell-Sluchansky/WHYY)
https://whyy.org/articles/penn-state-wpsu-whyy/

Penn State to wind down WPSU after board of trustees declines transfer to WHYY
In voting down a proposal to transfer the station to WHYY, trustees expressed concern over a $17 million subsidy and wanted a commitment to hire staff.

The “Neural Data” Goldilocks Problem: Defining “Neural Data” in U.S. State Privacy Laws
https://fpf.org/blog/the-neural-data-goldilocks-problem-defining-neural-data-in-u-s-state-privacy-laws/
@…

Quanutm-State Texture as a Resource: Measures and Nonclassical Interdependencies
Yuntao Cui, Zhaobing Fan, Sunho Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07481 https://

Quanutm-State Texture as a Resource: Measures and Nonclassical Interdependencies
Quantum-state texture is a newly recognized quantum resource that has garnered attention with the advancement of quantum theory. In this work, we discuss several main tasks concerning quantum-state texture resource theory, including quantum-state texture measure, quantum state transformation under free operations, and relations between quantum resources. We first provide two new quantum-state texture measures and propose specific form of function for constructing quantum-state texture measures …

Oklahoma State AD Chad Weiberg's contract will be 'addressed in due time,' school official says https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/college/cowboys/2025/09/12/oklahoma-state-at…

"UK to recognise Palestine as a state in September - unless Israel meets conditions"
29 July 2925
Israel has not met the UK government conditions. In fact quite the reverse.
So what is holding things up?
https://news.sky.com/st…

First-order State Space Model for Lightweight Image Super-resolution
Yujie Zhu, Xinyi Zhang, Yekai Lu, Guang Yang, Faming Fang, Guixu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08458 http…

First-order State Space Model for Lightweight Image Super-resolution
State space models (SSMs), particularly Mamba, have shown promise in NLP tasks and are increasingly applied to vision tasks. However, most Mamba-based vision models focus on network architecture and scan paths, with little attention to the SSM module. In order to explore the potential of SSMs, we modified the calculation process of SSM without increasing the number of parameters to improve the performance on lightweight super-resolution tasks. In this paper, we introduce the First-order State S…

School district bans trans athletes in defiance of state policy - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/school-district-bans-trans-athletes-in-defiance-of-state-policy/

Terrorist Designation of The Majeed Brigade (Marco Rubio/United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/2025/08/terrorist-designation-of-the-majeed-brigade/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p126#a250811p126

State of the software engineering #jobsmarket, 2025: what hiring managers see
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech-market-in-2…

California SB 243, which would mandate safety protocols for AI companion chatbots, has passed the State Assembly and Senate and now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/a-ca

A California bill that would regulate AI companion chatbots is close to becoming law | TechCrunch
SB 243 passed the California Senate on Thursday and heads to Gov. Newsom's desk. If SB 243 is enacted, California would become the first state to require operators to implement safety protocols for AI companions and hold companies legally accountable if their chatbots fail to meet those standards.

The 2025 State of CSS Survey results are out:
https://2025.stateofcss.com/
Unexpectedly, I’m named in the people / resource list:
https://

State of CSS 2025

Stochastic dynamics learning with state-space systems
Juan-Pablo Ortega, Florian Rossmannek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07876 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.078…

Stochastic dynamics learning with state-space systems
This work advances the theoretical foundations of reservoir computing (RC) by providing a unified treatment of fading memory and the echo state property (ESP) in both deterministic and stochastic settings. We investigate state-space systems, a central model class in time series learning, and establish that fading memory and solution stability hold generically -- even in the absence of the ESP -- offering a robust explanation for the empirical success of RC models without strict contractivity co…

Weather tracker: Hawaii declares state of emergency as Hurricane Kiko looms https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/08/weather-tracker-hawaii-declares-state-of-emergency-hurricane-kiko

“If ‘state capitalism’ were proposed by Democrats or progressives, it would be considered socialism or communism. Done by a neofascist president — as chronicled by the The Wall Street Journal — it’s simply considered inefficient (as the Journal concludes).” - @…

Trump’s “State Capitalism”
It would be communism under any other dictator

#California legislature votes new #Law in to ban feline declawing
https://www.mer…

California bans cat declawing under new state law
Leading veterinary organization opposed the bill, animal welfare groups said practice is painful and cruel

Elijah Sarratt's NFL Draft potential, Ty Simpson shines again, more Week 7 reactions https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6709611/2025/10/12/nfl-draft-2026-sarratt-simpson-penn-state/

Nonequilibrium steady state in Lindblad dynamics for infinite quantum spin systems
Kenji Shimomura, Nagisa Hara, Seiichiro Kusuoka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07448 https://

Nonequilibrium steady state in Lindblad dynamics for infinite quantum spin systems
We consider Lindblad dynamics of quantum spin systems on infinite lattices and define a nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) and a time-averaged nonequilibrium steady state (TANESS) on the basis of $C^*$-algebraic formalism. Generically, the NESS on an infinite system does not equal the thermodynamic limit of NESSs on finite systems. We give a sufficient condition that they coincide with each other, in terms of both a condition number, which quantifies the normality of a Liouvillian, and some spe…

Linear-Quadratic Mean Field Games with Common Noise: A Direct Approach
Wenyu Cong, Jingtao Shi, Bingchang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07271 https://arx…

Linear-Quadratic Mean Field Games with Common Noise: A Direct Approach
This paper investigates a linear-quadratic mean field games problem with common noise, where the drift term and diffusion term of individual state equations are coupled with both the state, control, and mean field terms of the state, and we adopt the direct approach to tackle this problem. Compared with addressing the corresponding mean field teams problem, the mean field games problem with state coupling presents greater challenges. This is not only reflected in the explosive increase in the n…

Expanding a 4-qubit Dicke State a to 5-qubit Dicke State with Limited Qubit Access
Bibhuti Thapa, Oberon Moran, Duc-Kha Vu, Fatih Ozaydin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07977 https:…

Expanding a 4-qubit Dicke State a to 5-qubit Dicke State with Limited Qubit Access
In scenarios where full access to all qubits of a multipartite quantum system is available and global operations can be implemented, the preparation of arbitrary entangled states - including multipartite Dicke states - is theoretically straightforward. However, practical constraints often limit direct control over all qubits. In this work, we first present an efficient method for preparing a four-qubit Dicke state, and then demonstrate how a four-qubit Dicke state can be expanded to a five-qubi…

🫵 Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/hackers-bullet-proof-hosts-deliver-malware-from-blockchains/

Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains
Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns.

Nothing to see here. Just a Nazi saying Nazi things.
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/115187032207649435

There’s another name for that…
Analysis | The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics - The Wall Street Journal https://apple.news/AX_EJXTACTMSc4TPv3huykQ

Just bought Club tix to the Maryland Terrapins @ #UCLA Bruins #football game.
Gonna grill burgers with my ol' PAC-12 tailgate friends who decided after beating Penn State & Michigan State...
...we have a product on the field worth buying $24 Rose Bowl nachos for. 🤪

Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy
AJ Alvero, Ruohong Dong, Klint Kanopka, David Lang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08199 https://

Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy
Computational sociology is growing in popularity, yet the analytic tools employed differ widely in power, transparency, and interpretability. In computer science, methods gain popularity after surpassing benchmarks of predictive accuracy, becoming the "state of the art." Computer scientists favor novelty and innovation for different reasons, but prioritizing technical prestige over methodological fit could unintentionally limit the scope of sociological inquiry. To illustrate, we focus on compu…

Why Asthon Jeanty's Time to Carry Raiders Has Arrived https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-ashton-jeanty-pete-carroll-tennessee-titans-boise-state

The excited state of the $\alpha$-particle: a benchmark study
Pierre-Yves Duerinck, Arnoldas Deltuva, J\'er\'emy Dohet-Eraly, Mario Gattobigio, Alejandro Kievsky, Rimantas Lazauskas, Darius Likandrovas, Michele Viviani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08181

The excited state of the $α$-particle: a benchmark study
A benchmark study is performed for the excited state of $^4$He. When the Coulomb interaction is switched off, the $^4$He nucleus exhibits a bound excited state in the vicinity of $p-{}^3$H threshold. As the Coulomb interaction is gradually introduced, the excited state crosses the threshold and eventually becomes a resonant state. Using three numerical methods, we track the evolution of this excited state and determine the resonance energy and width. Comparisons of the theoretical predictions…

If Kirk had a say, he'd probably ask for an AR-15 to lie in state at the Capitol.

Here is some useful and wise advice for living in the 21st-century surveillance-state epoch: https://aphyr.com/posts/395-geoblocking-multiple-localities-with-nginx

Not sure about this...
Microsoft To Provide Free AI Tools For Washington State Schools - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0012220/microsoft-to-provide-free-ai-tools-for-washington-state-schools

Isomer- and state-dependent ion--molecule reactions between Coulomb-crystallised Ca$^ $ ions and 1,2-dichloroethene
Lei Xu, Richard Karl, Jutta Toscano, Stefan Willitsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08791

Isomer- and state-dependent ion--molecule reactions between Coulomb-crystallised Ca$^+$ ions and 1,2-dichloroethene
We report a systematic investigation of isomer- and state-dependent reactions between Coulomb-crystallised laser-cooled Ca$^+$ ions and \emph{cis/trans}-1,2-dichloroethene (DCE) isomers. By manipulating the electronic state populations of Ca$^+$ through tuning of laser cooling parameters, we observed distinct reactivities in its ground and excited states, as well as with the geometric isomers of DCE. Our experiments revealed two primary reaction channels, formation of CaCl$^+$ and C$_2$HCaCl$^+…

WATCH: Hidden camera catches red-state university admins admitting how they 'cleverly' disguised DEI agenda (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-hidden-camera-catches-red-state-university-admins-admitting-how-they-cleverly-disguised-dei-agenda
http://www.memeorandum.com/251112/p75#a251112p75

Three HBCU colleges on lockdown and/or canceled classes due to threats after Charlie Kirk’s death. No, the suspect in the photo circulated by law enforcement is not black, he’s apparently white.
#HBCU #lockdown #threat

Three Historically Black Colleges and Universities on lockdown for 'terroristic threats': reports
Alabama State University, Hampton University and Virginia State University locked down the morning of Sept. 11 after threats were made against all three campuses.

Compensation behaviour in trilayered anisotropic 6-state clock model
Olivia Mallick, Muktish Acharyya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09567 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Compensation behaviour in trilayered anisotropic 6-state clock model
The equilibrium behaviours of a trilayered 6-state clock model has been investigated by Monte Carlo simulation. The intralayer interaction is considered ferromagnetic, whereas the interlayer interaction is antiferromagnetic. Open boundary conditions are applied in all directions. The thermodynamic behaviours of sublattice magnetisation, total magnetisation, magnetic susceptibility and the specific heat are studied as functions of the temperature. The interesting compensation phenomenon, i.e., t…

Quantized Charge Accumulation in a Quantum Anomalous Hall System
Yuanze Li (State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), Jiahao Chen (State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), Renfei Wang (International Center for Quantum Materials, Peking University, Beijing, China), Yifan Zhang (School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech …

Quantized Charge Accumulation in a Quantum Anomalous Hall System
We report the first experimental observation of magnetic-field-induced quantized charge accumulation in a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) system -- a phenomenon originating from the intrinsic two-dimensional surface state and fundamentally distinct from conventional edge-dependent transport phenomena. Our approach employs a novel out-of-plane capacitive detection method to directly probe this charge accumulation, revealing its distinction and correlation with other surface state properties, such a…

Basis Vector Metric: A Method for Robust Open-Ended State Change Detection
David Oprea, Sam Powers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07308 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Basis Vector Metric: A Method for Robust Open-Ended State Change Detection
We test a new method, which we will abbreviate using the acronym BVM (Basis Vectors Method), in its ability to judge the state changes in images through using language embeddings. We used the MIT-States dataset, containing about 53,000 images, to gather all of our data, which has 225 nouns and 115 adjectives, with each noun having about 9 different adjectives, forming approximately 1000 noun-adjective pairs. For our first experiment, we test our method's ability to determine the state of each n…

Sonnet 064 - LXIV
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-raz'd,
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss, and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself conf…

EDGE: A Theoretical Framework for Misconception-Aware Adaptive Learning
Ananda Prakash Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07224 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07…

EDGE: A Theoretical Framework for Misconception-Aware Adaptive Learning
We present EDGE, a general-purpose, misconception-aware adaptive learning framework composed of four stages: Evaluate (ability and state estimation), Diagnose (posterior infer-ence of misconceptions), Generate (counterfactual item synthesis), and Exercise (index-based retrieval scheduling). EDGE unifies psychometrics (IRT/Bayesian state space models), cog-nitive diagnostics (misconception discovery from distractor patterns and response latencies), contrastive item generation (minimal perturbati…

Exponential Runge-Kutta methods for parabolic equations with state-dependent delay
Qiumei Huang, Alexander Ostermann, Gangfan Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08902 https://

Exponential Runge-Kutta methods for parabolic equations with state-dependent delay
The aim of this paper is to construct and analyze exponential Runge-Kutta methods for the temporal discretization of a class of semilinear parabolic problems with arbitrary state-dependent delay. First, the well-posedness of the problem is established. Subsequently, first and second order schemes are constructed. They are based on the explicit exponential Runge-Kutta methods, where the delayed solution is approximated by a continuous extension of the time discrete solution. Schemes of arbitrary…

CFP: 2026 Gods and Monsters Conference at Texas State University
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University of Alaska - Fairbanks - Alaska & Polar Regions Area Studies Bibliographer & Curator of…
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us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

This might qualify as a "sophisticated" cyberattack, no?
North Korean state-sponsored hackers hijacked Google accounts to remotely control and wipe smartphones and tablets held by individuals in South Korea, then exploited their KakaoTalk messenger as a channel to spread malware to their contacts

North Korean hackers hijack Google, KakaoTalk accounts to control South Korean phones: Report
The attack marks the first confirmed case of a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group compromising Google accounts. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The town of Rochester, NY really does have a cricket pitch in a public city park!

Huh, fascinating: https://opencollective.com/opensource/updates/public-service-announcement-re-salt-typhoon Following this development with interest.

Matrix product state classification of 1D multipole symmetry protected topological phases
Takuma Saito, Weiguang Cao, Bo Han, Hiromi Ebisu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09244 https…

Matrix product state classification of 1D multipole symmetry protected topological phases
Spatially modulated symmetries are one of the new types of symmetries whose symmetry actions are position dependent. Yet exotic phases resulting from these spatially modulated symmetries are not fully understood and classified. In this work, we systematically classify one dimensional bosonic symmetry protected topological phases protected respecting multipole symmetries by employing matrix product state formalism. The symmetry action induces projective representations at the ends of an open cha…

Just a reminder:
Each of you ought to take a look at your state's "unclaimed property" website. You may find something owed to you or to someone you know.
The amounts can be trivial or they can be large - and you won't know until you check.
Usually getting the funds owed to you is as simple as filling out a government form on a web page (and perhaps submitting something that proves you are who you say you are.)
Here is the link for California:

State-dependent brain responsiveness, from local circuits to the whole brain
A. Destexhe, J Goldman, N. Tort-Colet, A. Roques, J. Fousek, S. Petkoski, V. Jirsa, O. David, M. Jedynak, C. Capone, C. De Luca, G. De Bonis, P. S. Paolucci, E. Mikulan, Pigorini, M Massimini, A. Galluzzi, A. Pazienti, M. Mattia, A. Arena, B. E. Juel, E. Hagen, J. F. Storm, E. Montagni, F. Resta, F. S. Pavone, A. L. Allegra Mascaro, A. Dwarakanath, T. I. Panagiotaropoulos, J. Senk, M. Diesmann, A. Camassa, L.…

State-dependent brain responsiveness, from local circuits to the whole brain
The objective of this paper is to review physiological and computational aspects of the responsiveness of the cerebral cortex to stimulation, and how responsiveness depends on the state of the system. This correspondence between brain state and brain responsiveness (state-dependent responses) is outlined at different scales from the cellular and circuit level, to the mesoscale and macroscale level. At each scale, we review how quantitative methods can be used to characterize network states base…

V Sge - Supersoft Source or Exotic Hot Binary? An X-Shooter campaign in the high state: #star is eating its cosmic twin at rate never seen before: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/09/hungry-star-is-eating-its-cosmic-twin.page

Maybe I am just a naïve European and I just don’t get the process of a government shutdown in the USA. But I must say that I simply do not understand the approach whereby, in the event of disagreement, the state (the richest state in the world!!!) can cease its basic functions and not pay salaries.

Israel is a terrorist state.
A terrorist state that is committing genocide.
Anyone who does not understand this at this point does not want to understand it on purpose and is a genocide denier. (And thus complicit in genocide as genocide denial is the last and final stage of genocide.)
#israel #sumud

Several days after announcing the state had joined in the West Coast Health Alliance – to set vaccine policy with Oregon, California, and Hawaii – Washington state announced that anyone over six months of age – including pregnant people – can receive a COVID vaccine without a prescription
https://

Confused about your eligibility for the Covid shot? In Washington state, you’re covered
Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.

AFC contender attempted to make trade with Cowboys for Micah Parsons, per insider https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/penn-state/news/afc-contender-attempted-trade-cowboys-micah-parsons-ins…

How to simulate magic state cultivation with around $8$ Clifford terms on average
Kwok Ho Wan, Zhenghao Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08658 https://arxi…

How to simulate magic state cultivation with around $8$ Clifford terms on average
Building upon [arXiv:2509.01224], we present a sketch on how to simulate the non-Clifford $d=5$ magic state cultivation circuits [arXiv:2409.17595] with a sum of $\approx 8$ Clifford ZX-diagrams on average, at $0.1\%$ noise. Compared to a magic cat state stabiliser decomposition of all $53$ non-Clifford spiders ($6{,}377{,}292$ terms required), this is more than $7 \times 10^{5}$ times reduction in the number of terms. Our stabiliser decomposition has the advantage of representing the final non…

The world's chemical pollution: Current state of research #environment

The world's chemical pollution: Current state of research
Two authors from ETH Zurich and RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau have concluded that the rapid production and distribution of chemicals in the environment means that regulatory risk assessment can no longer keep pace with their ever-increasing numbers.

Australia's spy chief said Chinese state hackers probed telecom networks and critical infrastructure; Australia lost $8B last year to espionage (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/austra

Supercritical fluids as a distinct state of matter characterized by sub-short-range structural order
Sha Jin, Xinyang Li, Xue Fan, Matteo Baggioli, Yuliang Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07385

Supercritical fluids as a distinct state of matter characterized by sub-short-range structural order
A supercritical fluid (SCF)--the state of matter at temperatures and pressures above the critical point--exhibits properties intermediate between those of a liquid and a gas. However, whether it constitutes a fundamentally distinct phase or merely a continuous extension of the liquid and gas states remains an open question. Here we show that a SCF is defined by sub-short-range (SSR) structural order in the spatial arrangement of particles, setting it apart from the gas (disordered), liquid (sho…

Parity Requires Unified Input Dependence and Negative Eigenvalues in SSMs
Behnoush Khavari, Mehran Shakerinava, Jayesh Khullar, Jerry Huang, Fran\c{c}ois Rivest, Siamak Ravanbakhsh, Sarath Chandar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07395

Parity Requires Unified Input Dependence and Negative Eigenvalues in SSMs
Recent work has shown that LRNN models such as S4D, Mamba, and DeltaNet lack state-tracking capability due to either time-invariant transition matrices or restricted eigenvalue ranges. To address this, input-dependent transition matrices, particularly those that are complex or non-triangular, have been proposed to enhance SSM performance on such tasks. While existing theorems demonstrate that both input-independent and non-negative SSMs are incapable of solving simple state-tracking tasks, such…

Kansas officials to pay $3M over raid on Marion newspaper
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5601069-police-raid-newspaper-homes/

Ain’t no violence but state violence.
This time they’re “taking” someone while putting pressure on their neck, possibly making it so they can’t breathe, and then committing a hit and run to evade people peacefully standing filming them with phones.
ice is a clear and present danger to the safety and national security of the American People.
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us_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…

Power and limitations of distributed quantum state purification
Benchi Zhao, Yu-Ao Chen, Xuanqiang Zhao, Chengkai Zhu, Giulio Chiribella, Xin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08691

Power and limitations of distributed quantum state purification
Quantum state purification, which mitigates noise by exploiting multiple noisy copies of unknown states, has applications in quantum communication and computation with imperfect devices. Despite its importance, the fundamental capabilities and limitations of purification in distributed quantum systems remain largely unexplored. Here, we systematically study distributed quantum state purification under local operations and classical communication (LOCC). We prove that no nontrivial two-to-one LO…

Jerry Jones had 4 words to describe Micah Parsons negotiations https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/penn-state/news/jerry-jones-had-4-words-micah-parsons-negotiations/8e01e23e1b171124603d083a

Newsom condemns 'reprehensible' Charlie Kirk shooting (Julia Mueller/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5496656-newsom-kirk-shooting-reprehensible-violence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p128#a250911p128

Conditional splitting probabilities for hidden-state inference in drift-diffusive processes
Emir Sezik, Jacob Knight, Henry Alston, Connor Roberts, Thibault Bertrand, Gunnar Pruessner, Luca Cocconi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07386

Conditional splitting probabilities for hidden-state inference in drift-diffusive processes
Splitting probabilities quantify the likelihood of particular outcomes out of a set of mutually-exclusive possibilities for stochastic processes and play a central role in first-passage problems. For two-dimensional Markov processes $\{X(t),Y(t)\}_{t\in T}$, a joint analogue of the splitting probabilities can be defined, which captures the likelihood that the variable $X(t)$, having been initialised at $x_0 \in \mathbb{L}$, exits $\mathbb{L}$ for the first time via either of the interval bounda…

💸 Idaho State University may buy a private med school: What would it mean for Idaho's doctor shortage?
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-idaho-state-university-buy-private.html

Idaho State University may buy a private med school: What would it mean for Idaho's doctor shortage?
Idaho State University appears to be getting more serious about buying the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine in Meridian—at least, serious enough to spend $100,000 on a study that could help make the case for a purchase.

Boston-based Teradar, which aims to launch a solid-state sensor for autonomous cars in 2028 that it says can outperform lidar and radar, raised a $150M Series B (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/tera

Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar | TechCrunch
Teradar's sensor uses the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and combines the best traits of radar and lidar sensors without some of the drawbacks.

A Method for Constructing Quasi-Random Peaked Quantum Circuits
O. G. Udalov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07491 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07491

A Method for Constructing Quasi-Random Peaked Quantum Circuits
An algorithm is proposed for constructing quasi-random "peaked" quantum circuits, i.e., circuits whose final qubit state exhibits a high probability concentration on a specific computational basis state. These circuits consist of random gates arranged in a brick-wall architecture. While the multiqubit state in the middle of the circuit can exhibit significant entanglement, the final state is, with high probability, a predetermined pure bitstring. A technique is introduced to obscure the final b…

Person of interest in fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk in custody, FBI says (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5497301-suspect-fatal-shooting-charlie-kirk-in-custody-fbi-says/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p162#a250910p162

"**A proposal to reopen the U.S. government that passed the Senate on Monday contains language that would outlaw the sale of consumable hemp products across the nation.**"
Federal action may end fight over intoxicating hemp products in Texas
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5600856-federal-action-may-end-fight-over-intoxicating-hemp-products-in-texas/

Activity-driven clustering of jamming run-and-tumble particles: Exact three-body steady state by dynamical symmetry
Leo Hahn, Arnaud Guillin, Manon Michel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08945

Activity-driven clustering of jamming run-and-tumble particles: Exact three-body steady state by dynamical symmetry
We exactly resolve the three-particle steady state of run-and-tumble particles with jamming interactions, providing the first microscopic description beyond two bodies. The invariant measure, derived via a piecewise-deterministic Markov process description and symmetry principles, reveals persistent, separated, and diffusive regimes. A cascade of scales in the activity parameter organizes the structural weights, showing the separated phase dominates at finite activity, while non-uniformity play…

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas (Jaclyn Ramkissoon/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5550530-abbott-texas-wildfire-risk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p60#a251011p60

Agnostic Product Mixed State Tomography via Robust Statistics
Alvan Arulandu, Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel Kane, Jerry Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08472 https://

Agnostic Product Mixed State Tomography via Robust Statistics
We consider the problem of agnostic tomography with \emph{mixed state} ansatz, and specifically, the natural ansatz class of product mixed states. In more detail, given $N$ copies of an $n$-qubit state $ρ$ which is $ε$-close to a product mixed state $π$, the goal is to output a nearly-optimal product mixed state approximation to $ρ$. While there has been a flurry of recent work on agnostic tomography, prior work could only handle pure state ansatz, such as product states or stabilizer state…

Amkor breaks ground on advanced chip packaging campus in Arizona, with production expected by early 2028; state officials say Amkor's investment could reach $7B (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry

Amkor breaks ground on Arizona advanced packaging campus, plugging critical gap in US semiconductor supply chain — production expected in 2028, investment could extend to $7 billion with 3,000 jobs in tow
Amkor moves in next door to TSMC as CHIPS Act funding continues to turn the Phoenix metro area into a chips hub.

A Unified Nonequilibrium Framework: Thermodynamic Distance, Dissipation, and Stationary Laws via Effective State Count, Variational Stationarity, and Thermodynamic Bounds
Mesfin Taye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09041

A Unified Nonequilibrium Framework: Thermodynamic Distance, Dissipation, and Stationary Laws via Effective State Count, Variational Stationarity, and Thermodynamic Bounds
We propose a variational framework for nonequilibrium thermodynamics built around the effective number of accessible state, a multiplicative count that ranges from for a uniform distribution to one under complete localization, and whose logarithm coincides with the Gibbs Shannon entropy. This gives a natural thermodynamic distance to equipartition that bounds statistical distinguishability and grows monotonically under doubly stochastic relaxation. The construction extends to arbitrary nonequil…

Most Americans Who Rely on Obamacare Live in Republican Areas (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/11/us/politics/obamacare-aca-enrollment-state-map.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk8.VIKL.1squlRdLsEKF&smid=bs-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251011/p51#a251011p51

Fast and efficient long-distance quantum state transfer in long-range spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ models
F. Faria, C. C. Nelmes, T. J. G. Apollaro, T. P. Spiller, I. D'Amico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08182

Fast and efficient long-distance quantum state transfer in long-range spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ models
Quantum state transfer is investigated beyond the nearest-neighbour coupling scheme in long spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ linear chains. Exploiting the properties of the next-nearest neighbour Hamiltonian's dispersion relation, it is shown that with minimal engineering, i.e., an on-site magnetic field on the two end sites and only a few symmetrically-modified end inter-site couplings, an average transfer fidelity above $99\%$ can be achieved. To leading order, the required time scales linearly with the le…

China says the December 2020 theft of 127,272 BTC, now worth ~$13B, from Chinese mining pool LuBian is likely a "state-level hacker operation" led by the US (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-11/c…

China Accuses US of Orchestrating $13 Billion Bitcoin Hack
China’s cybersecurity agency accused the American government of orchestrating the theft about $13 billion worth of Bitcoin, representing China’s most recent attempt to attribute major cyberattacks to the US.

Robust Belief-State Policy Learning for Quantum Network Routing Under Decoherence and Time-Varying Conditions
Amirhossein Taherpour, Abbas Taherpour, Tamer Khattab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08654

Robust Belief-State Policy Learning for Quantum Network Routing Under Decoherence and Time-Varying Conditions
This paper presents a feature-based Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework for quantum network routing, combining belief-state planning with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to address partial observability, decoherence, and scalability challenges in dynamic quantum systems. Our approach encodes complex quantum network dynamics, including entanglement degradation and time-varying channel noise, into a low-dimensional feature space, enabling efficient belief updates and scala…

State Bar reams GOP for threats to impeach judge who smacked down election-rigging scheme - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/utah-judge/

Apple delays iPhone Air pre-orders in China, likely over eSIM regulatory issues, replacing the original schedule with "release information to be updated later" (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tec…

Apple postpones iPhone Air in China as Beijing keeps tight grip on eSIM approval
Apple says all three state-owned telecoms network operators would provide eSIM support ‘subject to regulatory approval’.

Exponential Lindbladian fast forwarding and exponential amplification of certain Gibbs state properties
Zhong-Xia Shang, Dong An, Changpeng Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09517

Exponential Lindbladian fast forwarding and exponential amplification of certain Gibbs state properties
We investigate Lindbladian fast-forwarding and its applications to estimating Gibbs state properties. Fast-forwarding refers to the ability to simulate a system of time $t$ using significantly fewer than $t$ queries or circuit depth. While various Hamiltonian systems are known to circumvent the no fast-forwarding theorem, analogous results for dissipative dynamics, governed by Lindbladians, remain largely unexplored. We first present a quantum algorithm for simulating purely dissipative Lindbla…

Implementing a Universal Set of Geometric Quantum Gates through Dressed-State assisted STA
M. Estefan\'ia Rus, Alejandro Ferr\'on, Omar Osenda, Sergio S. Gomez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08723 …

Implementing a Universal Set of Geometric Quantum Gates through Dressed-State assisted STA
Geometric quantum computation relies on the geometric phase that arises in adiabatic cyclic evolutions of non-degenerate quantum systems, enabling the design of robust quantum gates. However, the adiabatic condition requires long evolution times, making the system vulnerable to decoherence. In this work, we propose a scheme to realize fast and high-fidelity geometric quantum gates by applying the Superadiabatic Transitionless Driving (SATD) protocol within the dressed-state framework. We analyz…

Coinbase plans to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, saying Delaware "once provided companies with consistency" but now has "unpredictable outcomes" (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/12/coinbase-m

Coinbase moves incorporation to Texas from Delaware, following Musk's lead
Coinbase's legal chief wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that the crypto platform is moving its state of incorporation to Texas.

‘Discriminatory And Unlawful Executive Orders’: State AGs Take Aim at Trump Edicts
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/discriminatory-and-unlawful-executive

Optimality of universal conclusive entanglement purification protocols
Alexandre C. Orthey, Aby Philip, Tulja Varun Kondra, Alexander Streltsov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09423 …

Optimality of universal conclusive entanglement purification protocols
Entanglement purification is essential for quantum technologies; yet, rigorous bounds on the success probability for universal protocols -- those requiring no prior knowledge about the input state -- have remained underexplored. We establish such fundamental limits for conclusive protocols distilling perfect Bell states from a pure two-qubit states by deriving the optimal success probability starting with: two copies of a state with known Schmidt basis, and four copies of a state with unknown S…

Steady state properties of periodically driven quantum systems
Milan \v{S}indelka, David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07674 https://arxiv…

Steady state properties of periodically driven quantum systems
Periodic driving is used to steer physical systems to unique stationary states or nonequilibrium steady states (NESS), producing enhanced properties inaccessible to non-driven systems. For open quantum systems, characterizing the NESS is challenging and existing results are generally limited to specific types of driving and the Born-Markov approximation. Here we go beyond these limits by studying a generic periodically driven $ N$-level quantum system interacting with a low-density thermal gas.…

Loss-tolerant parallelized Bell-state generation with a hybrid cat qudit
Z. M. McIntyre, W. A. Coish
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08577 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Loss-tolerant parallelized Bell-state generation with a hybrid cat qudit
Having multiple Bell pairs shared by distant quantum registers provides a key resource for both quantum networks and distributed quantum computing. In this paper, we present a protocol for parallelized Bell-pair generation that uses the phase of a coherent light pulse to encode a qudit, enabling the simultaneous generation of multiple Bell pairs. By encoding a qudit in a basis of light-matter Schrödinger's cat states, the loss of a photon in transit can be detected through an $XX$ parity syndr…

From Physical to Logical: Graph-State-Based Connectivity in Quantum Networks
Mateo M. Blanco, Manuel Fern\'andez-Veiga, Ana Fern\'andez-Vilas, Rebeca P. D\'iaz-Redondo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08384

From Physical to Logical: Graph-State-Based Connectivity in Quantum Networks
Entanglement is a key resource in quantum communication, but bipartite schemes are often insufficient for advanced protocols like quantum secret sharing or distributed computing. Graph states offer a flexible way to represent and manage multipartite entanglement in quantum networks, enabling logical connectivity through local operations and classical communication (LOCC). In this work, we extend existing approaches based on bi-star configurations to more complex multi-star topologies. We analyz…

Adaptive Quantum Computers: decoding and state preparation
Niels M. P. Neumann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08718 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08718

Adaptive Quantum Computers: decoding and state preparation
Interacting with a standard computer can enhance the capabilities of current quantum computers already today, particularly by offloading certain computations to the standard computer. Quantum computers that interact with standard computers to perform computations are called adaptive quantum computers. This work formalizes a model that describes these adaptive quantum computers. As quantum computers are still under development, this work focuses on computations that terminate after a fixed numbe…

Rotation Errors Due to Field Quantization for Simultaneously Driven Atoms
Hunter Lindemann, Shanon Vuglar, Julio Gea-Banacloche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06769 https://

Rotation Errors Due to Field Quantization for Simultaneously Driven Atoms
When an electromagnetic field in a coherent or quasiclassical (e.g., squeezed) state is used to simultaneously drive an ensemble of two-level atoms, the quantum nature of the field will, in general, cause the final state of the atoms to differ from the one predicted for a totally classical field. This is a potential source of error in quantum logic gates in which the gate is the rotation of the atoms by a laser. In this paper, we use second order perturbation theory to find how this error scale…

Extracting and charging energy into almost unknown quantum states
Andrea Canzio, Vasco Cavina, Roberto Menta, Vittorio Giovannetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08899 https://

Extracting and charging energy into almost unknown quantum states
In this work, we investigate the amount of energy that can be extracted or charged through unitary operations when only minimal information about the state is known. Assuming knowledge of only the mean energy of the state, we start by developing optimal upper bounds for the work that can be unitarily extracted or charged in this scenario. In deriving these upper bounds, we provide a complete characterization of the minimum ergotropy and anti-ergotropy for density matrices with fixed average ene…