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🕯️Simple casting and heat treatment yields alloy with both strength and ductility
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-simple-treatment-yields-alloy-strength.html

Simple casting and heat treatment yields alloy with both strength and ductility
In the world of metals, it has long been considered common knowledge that achieving both strength and ductility (the ability to stretch without breaking) at the same time is nearly impossible. When a metal is made stronger, it typically becomes brittle, and when it is made more ductile, it usually loses strength—like a seesaw, where one property increases as the other decreases.

Folks, Mohamed is scheduled for a verification call with us. Please help him if you can. https://mastodon.social/@Mohamed_Dawed/115391257122690419

Sonnet 023 - XXIII
As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,
O'ercharg'd with burthen of mine own love's might.
O! let my looks be then the eloquence
And …

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

"Aspiring American authoritarians will only win if they are allowed to do so. None of this has to happen. Both of these terrible possibilities, land war and self-terrorism, are signs of weakness rather than strength. They can be prevented, but only if we name them, and use their horror as the first step to describe something much better."
http…

Land War or Self-Terrorism?
Trump's Likely Next Step

Voters blame Trump for their economic woes (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-voters-blame-trump-for-their
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p24#a251219p24

Cowboys' Cooper Beebe takes big step toward return as o-line nears full strength https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-cooper-beebe-big-step-toward-return-offensive-line-nears-full-strength

As the US betrays Ukraine yet again, Ukraine displays the strength and integrity that has long been absent from US politics and media.
Craven sycophants of billionaires continue to reveal their true colors, while Ukraine shows the world how to fight, and what true heroes look like.
Each day is a new descent of shame for being an American.
The irony of Italy providing a voice of democracy and true journalism while the US does the opposite is not lost on me.
Georgio rep…

Investing in Ukraine to Defend Europe
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Metropolitana VII - FORM ⭕️
城 VII - 型 ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Watching Ball x Pit and its auto selected stat upgrades makes me wonder is there a game where you pick up items that feed into the next chosen stat upgrade? Like you're picking up votes and if you want to lean into Agility you need to avoid Strength?
Maybe the number of total votes you pickup doesn't matter so there's no incentive to get them all and it becomes a bit bullet hell to avoid stats you're not maxing?

🚫 If you use #Steam, I have a #fascist you can block! 🚫
His bio says:
"There are only two genders
The only "strength" in diversity, is diversity of thought!
There is no such place as "palestine""
Link:

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-kings-day-protests-likely
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p1#a251019p1

eToro reports Q3 net contribution up 28% YoY to $215M, vs. $208M est., adjusted EBITDA up 43% to $78M, and announces a $150M share buyback; ETOR closed up 8% (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/11/10/eto…

EToro (ETOR) Third-Quarter Results Top Estimates on Crypto Trading Strength, KBW Says
The trading platform’s adjusted Ebitda beat expectations as higher crypto trading and net interest income offset weaker equities and commodities results.

Strength Culture's Podcast
Strength Culture's podcast is hosted by Jamie Smith and the boythes...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/melbourne-strength-culture/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
This Mortal Coil:
🎵 Strength of Strings
#ThisMortalCoil
https://open.spotify.com/track/771PoHfzfi4pseTfweKzC7

They say only the mightiest of systems can handle the journey to Mordor. Tonight, my Linux PC proves its strength! Streaming Lord of the Rings Online and continuing my adventure. Find out what secrets lie ahead! ⚔️ #LOTR #Linux

"Biodegradable Plastic Made from Bamboo Is Stronger and Easy to Recycle"
#Bamboo #Plastic #Plastics

Biodegradable Plastic Made from Bamboo Is Stronger and Easy to Recycle
The rigid yet biodegradable plastic outperforms not only alternative biodegradable options, but plastic itself for mechanical strength.

Jerry Jones makes bizarre 'real strength' comment on Cowboys' pass rush https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/jerry-jones-makes-bizarre-real-strength-comment-cowboys-pas…

Metropolitana VII - 🆙 🆙 🆙
城 VII - 🆙 🆙 🆙
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

The first step on the road to #TNC26 starts today… with the opening of the Call for Proposals!
Next year, our community will gather in Helsinki 🇫🇮 under the theme Digital Sisu—inspired by the Finnish word “sisu,” which embodies inner strength, tenacity, and determination in the face of adversity.
💡 If you have a story to share, or a vision that can shape the conversation—we want to hear f…

News flash: Billionaires are unpopular. But, the strength of the sentiment and how fast the needle has moved were both surprises to me. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/opinion/billionaires-politics-money.html

Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
The first rule of dark money is to quit blabbing about it. Did they think people would thank them for it?

Tiny Giants: How a baby boom and 'dad strength' has helped unite New York's locker room https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6841121/2025/12/09/ny-giants-baby-boom-dad-strength/

Les chimpanzés sont presque aussi rationnels que nous, selon une série d'expériences menées par l'anthropologue évolutionniste Jan Engelmann.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/the-evolution-of-rationality-h…

Tears, strength, and gratitude: Ukraine honors heroes under enemy fire: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/tears-strength-and-gratitude-ukraine.html

“In fact, while the trauma and terror that Bovino’s unit instills is certainly real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how _ineffective_ the force has turned out to be. Time and again, these agents — and the broader DHS and White House policies behind it — are being exposed not for their strength, but their weakness. Ordinary Americas are stronger — braver _and_ better.”

Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.

Kontinuous Kontext: Continuous Strength Control for Instruction-based Image Editing
Rishubh Parihar, Or Patashnik, Daniil Ostashev, R. Venkatesh Babu, Daniel Cohen-Or, Kuan-Chieh Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08532

Kontinuous Kontext: Continuous Strength Control for Instruction-based Image Editing
Instruction-based image editing offers a powerful and intuitive way to manipulate images through natural language. Yet, relying solely on text instructions limits fine-grained control over the extent of edits. We introduce Kontinuous Kontext, an instruction-driven editing model that provides a new dimension of control over edit strength, enabling users to adjust edits gradually from no change to a fully realized result in a smooth and continuous manner. Kontinuous Kontext extends a state-of-the…

Digital Father, for who art thou in Cyber-Heaven, give me the strength to reprogram my #dotnet muscle memory for this upcoming change.
Screw it, Digital Devil can probably help too. 😈

Surprisingly useful device for #WiFi debugging: robot vacuum.
Roomba, Dreame (and probably others) make a map of WiFi signal strength.

Mathematical Modeling of Networks in Strength of Materials
Ioannis Dassios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10132 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10132

Mathematical Modeling of Networks in Strength of Materials
We study a material modeled as a network of nodes connected by edges. Using a discrete approach, we build a nonlinear algebraic system that connects applied forces to internal forces and node positions. The model can describe elasticity, plasticity, and possibly cracking. The goal is to solve this system and understand how the material responds. Students are asked to start with a simple triangle example and then apply the method to larger structures. The final aim is to solve the full system an…

Combined effects of particle geometry and applied vibrations on the mechanics and strength of entangled materials
Saeed Pezeshki, Francois Barthelat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09933

Combined effects of particle geometry and applied vibrations on the mechanics and strength of entangled materials
Entangled materials offer attractive structural features including tensile strength and large deformations, combined with infinite assembly and disassembly capabilities. How the geometry of individual particles governs entanglement, and in turn translates into macroscopic structural properties, provides a rich landscape in terms of mechanics and offers intriguing possibilities in terms of structural design. Despite this potential, there are major knowledge gaps on the entanglement mechanisms an…

Read today’s pathetic remarks as an attempt to mock the military and all the people who serve in it so that the fascists can get what they crave: a monopoly on the perception of strength. It is a “culture war” in the truest sense of the word: an attempt to make lies about strength trump actual strength. (The very same principle is at play when fascists mock protestors, but I think the dissonance is culturally easier to spot here.)
Also read it as an attempt to consolidate military power. It is both. These things go together.
Dangerous times.
/end

Chirality reversal at finite magnetic impurity strength and local signatures of a topological phase transition
Ruiqi Xu, Arnab Seth, Itamar Kimchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11707

Chirality reversal at finite magnetic impurity strength and local signatures of a topological phase transition
We study the honeycomb lattice with a single magnetic impurity modeled by adding imaginary next-nearest-neighbor hopping ih on a single hexagon. This Haldane defect gives a topological mass term to the gapless Dirac cones and generates chirality. For a small density of defects Neehus et al [arXiv:2405.19289] found that the system's chirality reverses at a critical hc ~ 0.95 associated with an unexpected tri-critical point of Dirac fermions at zero defect density. We investigate this zero-densit…

Some leftists have criticized #NoKingsDay2 as useless. Though it was the largest protest in US history, it didn't change anything. I would go further to say that protests like these generally won't change anything. Dictators aren't forced to step down by 2% of the population coming out for one day. If they're forced to step down by protests, those protests are sustained. They are every single day. They are accompanied by general strikes.
We've been watching that happen all over the world. Portland in 2020 gave us a taste of that in the US. The George Floyd Rebellion was the type of resistance that actually brings down dictators like Trump. Occasional protests, no matter how large, can simply be ignored. That is precisely the reason the US developed a militarized police force in the first place. You need more, more than the largest protests in US history, more than Occupy, more than the resistance of the 60's and 70's, more than, and different from, anything we've seen in our lives.
And yet... Each protest has grown, and grown bolder. Some have grown more persistent. If you think of protest as the path to achieve change, you will lose. It is not. But it is a path to escalate. Some people, some otherwise comfortable white folks, came out for their first time. Some people got pepper sprayed for the first time. Some people questioned authority, stood up for the first time, and have had an experience that will radicalize them for the rest of their lives.
Protest is not useful in and of itself. It is training. It's making connections. Authoritarian regimes rely on the illusion of compliance, so visual resistance does actually undermine their power.
Liberals like to teach that non-violence is all about staying peaceful no matter what, that there's some way that morality simply overwhelms an enemy. I remember reading Langston Hughes' A Dream Deferred in high school. I said it was a threat. My teacher said, "you're wrong, he was a pacifist." Pacifism is a threat. If you can spit at me, beat me, shoot me, and I will not move, if I have the strength to absorb violence without flinching, without even rising to violence, what will happen when you push me too far?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
For peaceful resistance to work, there must be ambiguity. It must not be clear if or when the resistance will stop being peaceful. Peaceful resistance with no possibility of escalation is just cowardice.
My critique then is not so harsh as some other anarchists. If you think that protest alone will work, you're probably going to lose. If you are prepared to escalate, if you are prepared to absorb violence without flinching, then it could be possible for protest alone to topple the dictator. The cracks are already beginning to show.
And then what?
The problems that lead to the George Floyd uprising were never resolved. The problems that lead to Occupy where never resolve. The DAPL was built, protesters were maimed, it leaked multiple times (exactly as predicted). Segregation never went away, it only changed forms. The fact that immigrants have different courts and different rights means that anyone can be arbitrarily kidnaped and renditioned to an arbitrary country. We never did anything about the torture black site. FFS, people can still be stripped of their voting rights and slavery is still legal in the US. The people who control both parties in the US are killing our children and grand children with oil wars and climate change.
Toppling the dictator does nothing to resolve all of the problems that existed before him.
No, #NoKingsDay was absolutely not useless. #NoKings and related protests are extremely useful but they aren't sufficient. But, I think we still need to challenge the movement on two points:
How do you escalate after you're ignored or brutalized?
What do you demand after you win?
#USPol

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Strength of schedule for all 32 teams, plus A.J. Brown's struggles and Week 5 matchups https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6687155/2025/10/03/strength-of-schedule-for-all-32-teams-plus-a-j-browns-struggles-an…

Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the agency's long-term cyber capabilities (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/11/lea

A leadership vacuum and staff cuts threaten NSA morale, operational strength
The signals intelligence giant has halted recruitment for its Legal Honors Program, two people familiar say, slowing inflow of top legal talent. Other long-term capabilities are at risk.

The Strength of Local Structures in Decentralized Network Formation
Jose M. Betancourt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10997 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10997

The Strength of Local Structures in Decentralized Network Formation
I study dynamic network formation games in which agents assign arbitrary values to network structures. Any such game admits an equivalent representation in terms of the values agents assign to its sub-structures, linking local valuations to equilibrium behavior. The game is a potential game precisely when all participants in a structure value it equally, yielding a closed-form stationary distribution. When valuations are restricted to a finite set of repeated sub-structures, or motifs, the mode…

Invisible Languages of the LLM Universe
Saurabh Khanna, Xinxu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11557 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11557

Invisible Languages of the LLM Universe
Large Language Models are trained on massive multilingual corpora, yet this abundance masks a profound crisis: of the world's 7,613 living languages, approximately 2,000 languages with millions of speakers remain effectively invisible in digital ecosystems. We propose a critical framework connecting empirical measurements of language vitality (real world demographic strength) and digitality (online presence) with postcolonial theory and epistemic injustice to explain why linguistic inequality i…

Leadership Spotlight By Tradewind Australia
We know that the strength of the social services sector lies in its people - not only the dedicated professionals on the frontline, but also the leaders who guide organisations with vision, empathy, and determination...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.

Hybrid Terrain-Aware Path Planning: Integrating VD--RRT\(^{*}\) Exploration and VD--D\(^{*}\) Lite Repair
Akshay Naik, William R. Norris, Dustin Nottage, Ahmet Soylemezoglu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12169

Hybrid Terrain-Aware Path Planning: Integrating VD--RRT\(^{*}\) Exploration and VD--D\(^{*}\) Lite Repair
Autonomous ground vehicles operating off-road must plan curvature-feasible paths while accounting for spatially varying soil strength and slope hazards in real time. We present a continuous state--cost metric that combines a Bekker pressure--sinkage model with elevation-derived slope and attitude penalties. The resulting terrain cost field is analytic, bounded, and monotonic in soil modulus and slope, ensuring well-posed discretization and stable updates under sensor noise. This metric is evalu…

Polar Filaments Capture High Latitude Solar Poloidal Field Interactions and can Foretell the Future Sunspot Cycle Amplitude before Polar Field Precursors
Srinjana Routh, Shaonwita Pal, Dibyendu Nandy, Subhamoy Chatterjee, Dipankar Banerjee, Mohd. Saleem Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12142

Polar Filaments Capture High Latitude Solar Poloidal Field Interactions and can Foretell the Future Sunspot Cycle Amplitude before Polar Field Precursors
Polar fields at the minimum of a sunspot cycle -- which are a manifestation of the radial component of the Sun's poloidal field -- are deemed to be the best indicator of the strength of the toroidal component, and hence the amplitude of the future sunspot cycle. However, the Sun's polar magnetic fields are difficult to constrain with ground-based or space-based observations from near the plane-of-ecliptic. In this context, polar filaments -- dark, elongated structures that overlie polarity inve…

Investigating into mechanisms of high temperature strength of refractory high-entropy alloys
Sai Anandhi Seetharaman, Soumyadipta Maiti, Ambesh Gupta, Beena Rai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04589

Investigating into mechanisms of high temperature strength of refractory high-entropy alloys
The yield strength plateau of two BCC refractory high entropy alloys (RHEAs) - MoNbTaVW and MoNbTaW was examined through hybrid Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics (MC/MD) simulations. By analyzing atomic diffusivities derived from vacancy formation and migration energies around the edge dislocation cores, the number of critical atomic swaps were calculated at different temperatures. Using hybrid MC/MD simulations of these critical swaps, we demonstrate that above 1400K, the stress required to m…

😳 New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-link-endorsing-easily-disproven-prioritizing.html

New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength
Why do some people endorse claims that can easily be disproved? It's one thing to believe false information, but another to actively stick with something that's obviously wrong.

Probeless vs Probe-Based Variable-Strength Eavesdropping in Quantum Key Distribution
Yuval Idan, Tal Gofman, Ziv Abelson, Isabelle Cestier, Elad Mentovich, Eliahu Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25890

Probeless vs Probe-Based Variable-Strength Eavesdropping in Quantum Key Distribution
Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a provably secure way of generating a secret key, which can later be used for encoding and decoding information. In this paper we analyze the effects of an eavesdropper's variable-strength measurements on QKD. Two types of measurements have been considered: (i) a probe-based model, commonly referred to as a "weak measurement", in which each qubit is weakly coupled to a continuous variable probe which is later projectively measured (ii) a probeless model, usuall…

Temperature and conditions for thermalization after canonical quenches
Lennart Dabelow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12696 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12696

Temperature and conditions for thermalization after canonical quenches
We consider quenches of a quantum system that is prepared in a canonical equilibrium state of one Hamiltonian and then evolves unitarily in time under a different Hamiltonian. Technically, our main result is a systematic expansion of the pre- and post-quench canonical ensembles in the quench strength. We first demonstrate how this can be used to predict the system's temperature after the quench from equilibrium properties at the pre-quench temperature. For a thermalizing post-quench system, it …

A Generalized Formulation for Accurate and Robust Determination of Soil Shear Strength from Triaxial Tests
Altamirano-Mu\~niz Emilio Fernando
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13985 ht…

Tropical islands are turning their biggest challenge into their greatest strength.
Vulnerable to climate change and dependent on expensive fossil fuels, island nations are proving that carbon neutrality by 2050 is economically viable. Solar PV is leading the charge, with innovative Solar-to-X tech converting sunshine into e-fuels and e-chemicals to power hard-to-decarbonize sectors.

Small islands, big impact: the role of solar PV for the tropics
Low-cost renewables provide an opportunity for tropical islands to drive a sustainable, secure and self-sufficient economy. Solar PV emerges as the bulk energy provider, driven by excellent resource conditions and fast-improving economic attractiveness. The anticipated momentum of solar PV in tropical islands can best be characterised as a Solar-to-X Economy.

So, the state of Israel (as distinguished from the citizens and residents of Israel) has resorted to high seas piracy to promote its killing of innocents in Gaza and the sale of all of that beach-shore land to Trump and friends to develop as hotels and golf courses.
Israel has a right and just claim to exist as a sovereign nation. So do the people of Palestine.
The force and strength of that claim is increasing for the Palestinians.
And the force and strength of that claim…

On the Strength of Linear Relaxations in Ordered Optimization
V\'ictor Blanco, Diego Laborda, Miguel Mart\'inez-Ant\'on
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09166 https://

On the Strength of Linear Relaxations in Ordered Optimization
We study the conditions under which the convex relaxation of a mixed-integer linear programming formulation for ordered optimization problems, where sorting is part of the decision process, yields integral optimal solutions. Thereby solving the problem exactly in polynomial time. Our analysis identifies structural properties of the input data that influence the integrality of the relaxation. We show that incorporating ordered components introduces additional layers of combinatorial complexity t…

Acceleration of Ultrahigh Energy Particles from Fast Radio Bursts
Lin Yu, Tianxing Hu, Zhiyu Lei, Dong Wu, Suming Weng, Min Chen, Jie Zhang, Zhengming Sheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08037

Acceleration of Ultrahigh Energy Particles from Fast Radio Bursts
Two extreme events in the universe, fast radio bursts (FRBs) and cosmic rays (CRs), could be corelated, where FRBs with extreme field strength near their sources may contribute to CRs. This study investigates localized particle acceleration driven by FRB-like ultra-relativistic electromagnetic pulses. It is found ultra-high energy neutral plasma sheets form constantly via the front erosion of an FRB pulse. There are two ion acceleration regimes depending upon the field strength and the plasma d…

Never before have I felt so on a mission with music - to do as much of it as possible, to as high a degree of quality as possible, with whatever faculties and time remain. We never know how long we’ll have - not just of life itself, but the strength to make something within it.
(Apologies for the obviousness and potentially melodramatic tone of my post, as always!)

Just finished "The Word for World is Forest" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Can't believe I didn't read this one earlier, and this strengthens my resolve to finish off the rest of her stuff I have yet to read sooner. I think it benefits somewhat from having read it after "Four Ways to Forgiveness" which gives more of the Hainish context. Certainly none of the blurbs I had read about it did it any measure of justice, which is one reason I hadn't prioritized it. More than being about colonization, it's about a solution to the paradox of tolerance, and both the price and imperfections of that solution. As usual with Le Guin's science fiction, it's a rich companion to anarchist thought.
I think the typical objection to seeing it as an answer to the warlord question would be that it serendipitously positions the indigenous population with more power and a less ruthless opponent than in the imagined scenario, and it uses the League of Worlds as a sort of deus ex machina to foreclose further retribution. Ultimately that's why I think it's more about the paradox of tolerance than anything else, but I also think in regards to the warlord problem that we are too quick to underestimate just how numerous and enthusiastic the opponents of a warlord might be, and to overestimate the strength of technological weapons wielded by frail (and psychologically unarmored) humans.
In any case, Le Guin gives this book's alien humans yet another fascinatingly credible capability, and getting to see the introduction of ansible technology with all its implications is pretty cool too. Maybe not

FAC-FACodec: Controllable Zero-Shot Foreign Accent Conversion with Factorized Speech Codec
Yurii Halychanskyi, Cameron Churchwell, Yutong Wen, Volodymyr Kindratenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10785

FAC-FACodec: Controllable Zero-Shot Foreign Accent Conversion with Factorized Speech Codec
Previous accent conversion (AC) methods, including foreign accent conversion (FAC), lack explicit control over the degree of modification. Because accent modification can alter the perceived speaker identity, balancing conversion strength and identity preservation is crucial. We present an AC framework that provides an explicit, user-controllable parameter for accent modification. The method targets pronunciation while preserving suprasegmental cues such as intonation and phoneme durations. Res…

Garrett: Browns defense ready to attack Lions https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46389606/browns-lions-trade-run-game-barbs-strength-vs-strength

Climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa's destructive winds and rain, analysis finds https://phys.org/news/2025-11-climate-boosted-hurricane-melissa-destructive.html
‘New reality’: Hurricane Melissa strength multiplied by climate crisis, study…

Climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa's destructive winds and rain, analysis finds
Human-caused climate change boosted the destructive winds and rain unleashed by Hurricane Melissa and increased the temperatures and humidity that fueled the storm, according to an analysis released Thursday.

On the Isles of Scilly, seagoing rowing gigs
—32-foot boats built from fine elm planks for strength and lightness
—once played a vital role in maritime life.
These boats carried pilots to ships navigating treacherous waters,
rescued lives and cargo from wrecks,
served in island farming and in coastal trades such as kelp making,
and supported the building and maintenance of lighthouses and other maritime infrastructure.
Though traditional gig rowing dec…

This is my flag.
It means unity, freedom, peace, democracy, equality, civilization, diversity, rule of law, science, beauty and strength.
There is nothing more important to fight for our values!
If you don’t like it, pack your bags and leave!
Long live Europe!

The Value of One Raiders Vet Was Proven in His Absence https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-michael-mayer-tennessee-titans-brock-bowers

scPPDM: A Diffusion Model for Single-Cell Drug-Response Prediction
Zhaokang Liang, Shuyang Zhuang, Xiaoran Jiao, Weian Mao, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11726

scPPDM: A Diffusion Model for Single-Cell Drug-Response Prediction
This paper introduces the Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction Diffusion Model (scPPDM), the first diffusion-based framework for single-cell drug-response prediction from scRNA-seq data. scPPDM couples two condition channels, pre-perturbation state and drug with dose, in a unified latent space via non-concatenative GD-Attn. During inference, factorized classifier-free guidance exposes two interpretable controls for state preservation and drug-response strength and maps dose to guidance magnitude…

When you don't know the gender of a person because he/she/they doesn't talk about it, what is the best/preferred approach in English?
1) Gender the person based on their appearance, based on the heuristic that most people are cisgender
I don't like this heuristic because it gives strength to stereotypes and the notion of "normality"
2) Use a neutral pronoun like the singular they
It feels more natural, but maybe some people will consider this som…

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
- Audre Lorde
#quote #AudreLorde

Any sort of •actual• strength is a threat to that illusion. A real strongman makes the photo cut-out look cheap, laughable.
Say what you will about US imperialism and the military-industrial complex, but the military is truly full of people who possess actual strength and discipline and do extremely difficult jobs well. It is full of people whose daily life makes a mockery of fascism’s cartoonish masculinity. And — devastating!! — many of those people are women! brown people! Black people! with all kids of bodies! who look all kinds of ways! The existence of a competent military is a threat to fascism that must be contained for fascism to spread.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/115666454691421015
The only choice left to Europe is to strive, with all the strength it can muster, for independence from America, China, and Russia, and to ensure it won't be dependent for anything from any single other sou…

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/dineshydv/aol-user-session-collection-500k

Enhancement of diffusivity and plastic deformation in ultrasound-assisted cold spray of tungsten: a molecular dynamics study
Md Tusher Ahmed, Farid Ahmed, Jianzhi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09803

Enhancement of diffusivity and plastic deformation in ultrasound-assisted cold spray of tungsten: a molecular dynamics study
Tungsten ($W$) is widely valued for its exceptional thermal stability, mechanical strength, and corrosion resistance, making it an ideal candidate for high-performance military and aerospace applications. However, its high melting point and inherent brittleness pose significant challenges for processing $W$ using additive manufacturing (AM). Cold spray (CS), a solid-state AM process that relies on high-velocity particle impact and plastic deformation, offers a promising alternative. In this stu…

Systematic evolution of superconducting pairing strength and Seebeck coefficients in correlated infinite-layer La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$NiO$_2$
Motoki Osada, Shusaku Imajo, Yuji Seki, Kousuke Ishida, Tsutomu Nojima, Kohei Fujiwara, Koichi Kindo, Yusuke Nomura, Atsushi Tsukazaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04431

Systematic evolution of superconducting pairing strength and Seebeck coefficients in correlated infinite-layer La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$NiO$_2$
The recently discovered superconducting infinite-layer nickelates offer a novel platform to explore an exotic pairing mechanism in multi-band systems towards high-temperature superconductivity and associated rich quantum phases, contrasting with cuprates. Here, we show that infinite-layer (La,Sr)NiO$_2$ exhibits strong-coupling superconductivity, resilient to in-plane magnetic fields exceeding 47 T at optimal doping - more than twice the Pauli limit for conventional BCS superconductors. This vi…

The challenging first direct measurement of the 65 keV resonance strength in the $^{17}$O(p,$\gamma$)$^{18}$F reaction at LUNA
D. Piatti, LUNA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04597

The challenging first direct measurement of the 65 keV resonance strength in the $^{17}$O(p,$γ$)$^{18}$F reaction at LUNA
A precise determination of the proton capture rates on oxygen is mandatory to predict the abundance ratios of oxygen isotopes in a stellar environment where the hydrogen burning is active. The 17O(p,γ)18F reaction, in particular, plays a crucial role in AGB nucleosynthesis as well as in explosive hydrogen burning occurring in novae and type I supernovae. At the temperature of interest for the former scenario (from 20 MK to 80 MK) the main contribution to the astrophysical reaction rate comes f…

Performance limit of on-chip speckle spectrometers
Bhupesh Kumar, Graham D. Bruce, Luca Dal Negro, Sebastian A. Schulz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09077 https://

Performance limit of on-chip speckle spectrometers
Disorder-driven, integrated speckle spectrometers offer exceptional spectral resolution within a compact design. They benefit from enhanced optical path lengths due to multiple light scattering events, however, often at the cost of low optical throughput. Here, we investigate the relationship between these two figures of merit by systematically varying the scattering strength of random-uniform disorder distributions. Furthermore, we also investigate the temperature stability of such spectromete…

✈️ Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-printable-aluminum-alloy-strength-enable.html

Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts
MIT engineers have developed a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and is five times stronger than traditionally manufactured aluminum.

Defense is going from a liability to a strength for Cowboys since Quinnen Williams trade https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/defense-is-going-from-a-liability-to-a-strength-for-cowboys-since-quinnen-williams-trade

SoM-1K: A Thousand-Problem Benchmark Dataset for Strength of Materials
Qixin Wan, Zilong Wang, Jingwen Zhou, Wanting Wang, Ziheng Geng, Jiachen Liu, Ran Cao, Minghui Cheng, Lu Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21079

SoM-1K: A Thousand-Problem Benchmark Dataset for Strength of Materials
Foundation models have shown remarkable capabilities in various domains, but their performance on complex, multimodal engineering problems remains largely unexplored. We introduce SoM-1K, the first large-scale multimodal benchmark dataset dedicated to evaluating foundation models on problems in the strength of materials (SoM). The dataset, which contains 1,065 annotated SoM problems, mirrors real-world engineering tasks by including both textual problem statements and schematic diagrams. Due to…

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Trembling motion of electrons driven by Larmor spin precession
I. Stepanov, M. Ersfeld, A. V. Poshakinskiy, M. Lepsa, E. L. Ivchenko, S. A. Tarasenko, B. Beschoten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12187

Trembling motion of electrons driven by Larmor spin precession
We show that the initialization of an ensemble of electrons in the same spin state in strained n-InGaAs subject to a perpendicular magnetic field triggers an AC electric current at GHz frequencies. The AC current emerges in the absence of any driving force and survives until the coherent precession of the electron spins is lost. The current amplitude increases linearly with both the spin-orbit coupling strength and the external magnetic field. The generation mechanism of the observed oscillator…

Ranking the five NFL teams with scariest remaining strength of schedule: Chiefs and Colts face brutal slates

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-five-nfl-t…

The Value of One Raiders Vet Was Proven in His Absence https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-michael-mayer-tennessee-titans-brock-bowers

What Jerry Jones said: Supporting Matt Eberflus, playoff hopes still and trade talks https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6717733/2025/10/15/cowboys-jerry-jones-eberflus-playoffs-trade/

WildElder: A Chinese Elderly Speech Dataset from the Wild with Fine-Grained Manual Annotations
Hui Wang, Jiaming Zhou, Jiabei He, Haoqin Sun, Yong Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09344

WildElder: A Chinese Elderly Speech Dataset from the Wild with Fine-Grained Manual Annotations
Elderly speech poses unique challenges for automatic processing due to age-related changes such as slower articulation and vocal tremors. Existing Chinese datasets are mostly recorded in controlled environments, limiting their diversity and real-world applicability. To address this gap, we present WildElder, a Mandarin elderly speech corpus collected from online videos and enriched with fine-grained manual annotations, including transcription, speaker age, gender, and accent strength. Combining…

Giant optical anisotropy in CrSBr from giant exciton oscillator strength
Georgy Ermolaev, Tagir Mazitov, Arslan Mazitov, Adilet Toksumakov, Dmitriy Grudinin, Anton Minnekhanov, Gleb Tselikov, Dmitry Yakubovsky, Gleb Tikhonowski, Nikolay Pak, Umer Ahsan, Aleksandr Slavich, Mikhail Mironov, Alexey Tsapenko, Andrey Vyshnevyy, Ivan Kruglov, Zdenek Sofer, Aleksey Arsenin, Kostya Novoselov, Andrey Katanin, Valentyn Volkov

Just finished "Hunger's Bite" by Taylor Robin. A pretty great graphic novel bringing paranormal horror elements to a Titanic-era transatlantic voyage. I loved the characters and I had quite good plotting, which is not always a strength of graphic novels...
I think one of my favorite threads was how the villain's heteronormative assumptions became a small part of their downfall.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Twist-Free Enhancement of Strength and Modulus in Electrospun Yarns via Liquid-Assisted Capillary Densification
Saujatya Mandal, Sonu Dhiman, Debashish Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23658

Twist-Free Enhancement of Strength and Modulus in Electrospun Yarns via Liquid-Assisted Capillary Densification
Electrospun yarns often fall short of the strength and stiffness of their constituent nanofibers because of loose packing and inter-fiber slip. We report a simple, twist-free route to close this gap by liquid-assisted rolling: yarns are briefly wetted (water or ethanol) and subjected to gentle rolling action (mechanical strokes perpendicular and parallel to the yarn axis), then dried under controlled conditions so that meniscus forces compact the assembly into tightly bound bundles. The treatme…

5 reasons to submit your idea for #TNC26 Call for Proposals - Part 2
Next June, Helsinki 🇫🇮 will welcome our global R&E community under the theme Digital Sisu—inspired by the Finnish concept of “sisu:” inner strength, perseverance, and determination when things get tough.
In our digital era, sisu is about taking action, meeting challenges with courage, creativity, and collaboration to…

Now at the end of his eighth decade, Donald Trump and the people around him still talk about him as if he is the Energizer Bunny of presidential politics.
The reality is more complicated:
Trump, 79, is the oldest person to be elected to the presidency,
and he is aging.
https://www.

Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
President Trump has always used his stamina and energy as a political strength. But that image is getting harder for him to sustain.

Broncos clinch second straight postseason berth with win over Packers https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-clinch-second-straight-postseason-berth-with-win-over-packers

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

Seven data-driven lessons from the 2025 elections (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data-driven-takeaways-from
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p30#a251105p30

5 reasons to submit your idea for #TNC26 Call for Proposals - Part 1
Next June, Helsinki 🇫🇮 will welcome our global R&E community under the theme Digital Sisu—inspired by the Finnish concept of “sisu:” inner strength, perseverance, and determination when things get tough.
In our digital era, sisu is about taking action, meeting challenges with courage, creativity, and collaboration to…

Magnetometry with Broadband Microwave Fields in Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond
Arezoo Afshar, Andrew Proppe, Noah Lupu-Gladstein, Lilian Childress, Aaron Z. Goldberg, Khabat Heshami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11720

Magnetometry with Broadband Microwave Fields in Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond
Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are optically addressable and versatile light-matter interfaces with practical application in magnetic field sensing, offering the ability to operate at room temperature and reach sensitivities below pT/$\sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}}.$ We propose an approach to simultaneously probe all of the magnetically sensitive states using a broadband microwave field and demonstrate that it can be used to measure the external DC magnetic field strength with sensitivities below…

Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you and, as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God.
In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.
There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families, some who fear for their lives.
And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry fa…

Full Transcript of the 2025 Inauguration Prayer Service Address by the Rt. Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde, the Bishop of Washington - San Francisco Bay Times
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of all our hearts be acceptable in your sight, oh God, for you are our strength and our Redeemer. Amen. Please be seated. Again, my warm welcome to all who have gathered in this House of prayer for all people and for those who are joining […]

👭 The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together
#sports

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

How a Brock Purdy strength turned into a 49ers weakness early this season: Watch video https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6687284/2025/10/04/brock-purdy-49ers-analysis-interception/

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

What the special election in Tennessee's Seventh District means for the 2026 midterms (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-the-special-election-in-tennessees
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p175#a251202p175

Trump is very, very angry about a New York Times piece
that carefully documents his obvious physical decline.
Trump raged over the piece,
letting out a stream of lies about his performance in office
and even attacking the reporter who wrote the piece as ugly.
This may seem typical of Trump,
but we think it gets at something deeper.
Trump’s entire political mystique is premised on the fiction that he’s a strong, virile, formidable figure
who …

Transcript: Trump Fury Erupts at NYT as Mental Decline Visibly Worsens
As Trump’s rage at the paper of record reveals too much, the author of piece on Trump as “lame duck dictator” explains how devastating it is for him that his carefully-cultivated illusion of strength is collapsing.

'This will be the week' Cowboys expeect OL at full strength for first time in long time https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/30/cowboys-center-cooper-beebe-week-9-status/86972403007/

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

Brock Purdy unravels early with three first-half INTs, but 49ers still lead Panthers on strength of defense

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brock-purdy-ints-vs-panthers-49ers-result/

train_terrorists: Madrid train bombing terrorists (2004)
A network of associations among the terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombing, as reconstructed from press stories after-the-fact. Edge weights encode four levels of connection strength: friendships, ties to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, co-participants in wars, and co-participants in previous terrorist attacks.
This network has 64 nodes and 243 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata