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All of which was of the utmost importance for subsequent developments in the medicine of the mind. In its positivist incarnation, this was little more than the combination of the two experiences that classicism had juxtaposed without ever joining them together: a social, normative and dichotomous experience of madness that revolved entirely around the imperative of confinement, formulated in a style as simple as ‘yes or no’, ‘dangerous or harmless’, and ‘good or not good for confinement’, and a finely differentiated, qualitative, juridical experience, well aware of limits and degrees, which looked into all the aspects of the behaviour of the subject for the polymorphous incarnations that insanity might assume. The psychopathology of the nineteenth century (and perhaps our own too, even now) believes that it orients itself and takes its bearings in relation to a homo natura, or a normal man pre-existing all experience of mental illness. Such a man is in fact an invention, and if he is to be situated, it is not in a natural space, but in a system that identifies the socius to the subject of the law. Consequently a madman is not recognised as such because an illness has pushed him to the margins of normality, but because our culture situates him at the meeting point between the social decree of confinement and the juridical knowledge that evaluates the responsibility of individuals before the law. The ‘positive’ science of mental illness and the humanitarian sentiments that brought the mad back into the realm of the human were only possible once that synthesis had been solidly established. They could be said to form the concrete a priori of any psychopathology with scientific pretensions.
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Constrained free energy minimization for the design of thermal states and stabilizer thermodynamic systems
Michele Minervini, Madison Chin, Jacob Kupperman, Nana Liu, Ivy Luo, Meghan Ly, Soorya Rethinasamy, Kathie Wang, Mark M. Wilde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09103

Constrained free energy minimization for the design of thermal states and stabilizer thermodynamic systems
A quantum thermodynamic system is described by a Hamiltonian and a list of conserved, non-commuting charges, and a fundamental goal is to determine the minimum energy of the system subject to constraints on the charges. Recently, [Liu et al., arXiv:2505.04514] proposed first- and second-order classical and hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for solving a dual chemical potential maximization problem, and they proved that these algorithms converge to global optima by means of gradient-ascent app…

Control-affine Schr\"odinger Bridge and Generalized Bohm Potential
Alexis M. H. Teter, Abhishek Halder, Michael D. Schneider, Alexx S. Perloff, Jane Pratt, Conor M. Artman, Maria Demireva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08511

Control-affine Schrödinger Bridge and Generalized Bohm Potential
The control-affine Schrödinger bridge concerns with a stochastic optimal control problem. Its solution is a controlled evolution of joint state probability density subject to a control-affine Itô diffusion with a given deadline connecting a given pair of initial and terminal densities. In this work, we recast the necessary conditions of optimality for the control-affine Schrödinger bridge problem as a two point boundary value problem for a quantum mechanical Schrödinger PDE with complex pot…

Application of association rule mining to assess forest species distribution in Italy considering abiotic and biotic factors
Valeria Aloisi, Sergio Noce, Italo Epicoco, Cristina Cipriano, Massimo Cafaro, Giuseppe Brundu, Lorenzo Arcidiaco, Donatella Spano, Giovanni Aloisio, Simone Mereu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07076

Application of association rule mining to assess forest species distribution in Italy considering abiotic and biotic factors
Biodiversity monitoring represents a pressing global priority, and assessing forest community composition plays a crucial role due to its influence on ecosystem functions. The spatial distribution of forest species becomes essential for understanding biodiversity dynamics, territorial planning, aiding nature conservation and enhancing ecosystem resilience amid global change. Association Rule Mining, commonly applied to other scientific contexts, is now innovatively adopted in the ecological fie…

Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
VILA: I think I'm going to win this time, Avon.
DAYNA: Congratulations. [Avon pauses by the board to remove three black pieces and shift one white piece.]
VILA: You can't. Oh. Yes, you can.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/16 B7B4

Through Their Eyes: User Perceptions on Sensitive Attribute Inference of Social Media Videos by Visual Language Models
Shuning Zhang, Gengrui Zhang, Yibo Meng, Ziyi Zhang, Hantao Zhao, Xin Yi, Hewu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07658

Through Their Eyes: User Perceptions on Sensitive Attribute Inference of Social Media Videos by Visual Language Models
The rapid advancement of Visual Language Models (VLMs) has enabled sophisticated analysis of visual content, leading to concerns about the inference of sensitive user attributes and subsequent privacy risks. While technical capabilities of VLMs are increasingly studied, users' understanding, perceptions, and reactions to these inferences remain less explored, especially concerning videos uploaded on the social media. This paper addresses this gap through a semi-structured interview (N=17), inve…

Die Verarbeitung medizinischer Forschungsdaten ohne datenschutzrechtliche Einwilligung: Der Korridor zwischen Anonymisierung und der Forschungsausnahme in \"Osterreich
Saskia Kaltenbrunner, Michael Schmidbauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08841

Die Verarbeitung medizinischer Forschungsdaten ohne datenschutzrechtliche Einwilligung: Der Korridor zwischen Anonymisierung und der Forschungsausnahme in Österreich
Modern, data-driven medical research requires the processing of sensitive health data on a large scale. However, this data is subject to special protection under the GDPR, which is why processing regularly raises data protection concerns in practice. These concerns are particularly prevalent when sensitive personal data is processed without informed consent. This article analyses options for data processing in the field of medical research without consent and describes the legal framework for a…

SpaceX is seeking approval to nearly double rocket launches from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base -- to 95 per year,
putting the company on a collision course with the California Coastal Commission
over concerns about wildlife, noise, and state oversight
That represents a sharp climb from early 2024,
when SpaceX, owned by billionaire Elon Musk and working with the U.S. Air Force,
agreed to only six launches a year under a deal with the commission.

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DORIAN: How long before we make planet fall?
SLAVE: One hour, Master. That is Earth standard time, of course. I hope that is satisfactory.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/45 B7B3