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#Neurotypicals: You need to be bored. Next time you go to the gym, don't listen to that podcast. Just try to be in your head for a while. Maybe you'll think about the meaning of life, and maybe you'll figure it out.
My #ADHD brain trying to unload the dishwasher without a podcast: Hey, Remember the intro to Clifford the Big Red Dog? That song? You sort of paid attention to it for a few seconds while our kid was watching it. I remember those 5 seconds. Let's sing that intro... just that first part though. We're just going to keep doing that, over and over, hundreds of times in a row.
Neurotypicals: People don't like to be bored. People will give themselves electric shocks to not be bored. They don't want to think about the big questions
My ADHD brain, still trying to unload the dishwasher without a podcast: ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪ ♪ Welcome to Birdwell island, Sun and the sky is smilin' ♪ ♪
https://youtu.be/orQKfIXMiA8

More #sliceoflife -- I took this water bottle after nobody claimed it after 24 hours; I think people might have been afraid it was contaminated with PFAS or something; it's made of metal and coated with enamel, but when I opened it I used my hand to waff smells towards my nose like I would in a chemical lab -- the square in the background is poyo_party's Lana from Pokémon Sun and …

just updated https://detondev.com again for the first time in about a year. ever since my mental health spiraled and i dropped outta college cause of it. just some little quality of life adjustments and typo fixes. this comes with the notice that i dont like this, it's really the zombie husk of the prolly-better pers…

Intra-DP: A High Performance Collaborative Inference System for Mobile Edge Computing
Zekai Sun, Xiuxian Guan, Zheng Lin, Zihan Fang, Xiangming Cai, Zhe Chen, Fangming Liu, Heming Cui, Jie Xiong, Wei Ni, Chau Yuen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05829

Intra-DP: A High Performance Collaborative Inference System for Mobile Edge Computing
Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained mobile devices presents significant challenges, particularly in achieving real-time performance while simultaneously coping with limited computational resources and battery life. While Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) offers collaborative inference with GPU servers as a promising solution, existing approaches primarily rely on layer-wise model partitioning and undergo significant transmission bottlenecks caused by the sequential execution…

Reassessment of Kepler's habitable zone Earth-like exoplanets with data-driven null-signal templates
Jakob Robnik, Uro\v{s} Seljak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07409 https://

Reassessment of Kepler's habitable zone Earth-like exoplanets with data-driven null-signal templates
One of the primary mission goals of the Kepler space telescope is to detect Earth-like terrestrial planets in the habitable zone around Sun-like stars. Unfortunately, such planets are at the detection limit. Estimating their statistical significance via false alarm probability (FAP) is crucial for their validation, and has a large impact on the estimate of their occurrence rate, which is of central importance for future spectroscopic missions searching for life signatures. Current methods estim…

I always find the use of first person plural pronouns in discussions of the distant future to be too cute…
Humans didn’t exist a million years ago. There were some crafty hominid apes but not the sort you could clean up and mistake for a human.
There is no “us” 7 billion years from now. There is very likely no “us” in half a million years. We may or may not have descendants but they won’t be “us” in any sense.
A billion years is longer than Earth has had visible life

Update: The "Mountain Life" calendars are all gone (#NoirCountry

Love and Life
Interested me so
That I dared to knock
On the Door of the Cosmos

There is a piano in there.*
#train life of a #commuter
#photography
*Ok, that’s from a line a podcast just dropped while I listened and typed. 99÷ Invisible

Gold after Randomized Sand: Model-X Split Knockoffs for Controlled Transformation Selection
Yang Cao, Hangyu Lin, Xinwei Sun, Yuan Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01732

Gold after Randomized Sand: Model-X Split Knockoffs for Controlled Transformation Selection
Controlling the False Discovery Rate (FDR) in variable selection is crucial for reproducibility and preventing over-selection, particularly with the increasing prevalence of predictive modeling. The Split Knockoff method, a recent extension of the canonical Knockoffs framework, offers finite-sample FDR control for selecting sparse transformations, finding applications across signal processing, economics, information technology, and the life sciences. However, its current formulation is limited …

Maria Montessori:
❝Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.❞
❝We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.❞
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SCENIC: A Location-based System to Foster Cognitive Development in Children During Car Rides
Liuqing Chen, Yaxuan Song, Ke Lyu, Shuhong Xiao, Yilang Shen, Lingyun Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17058

SCENIC: A Location-based System to Foster Cognitive Development in Children During Car Rides
Car-riding is common for children in modern life. Given the repetitive nature of daily commutes, they often feel bored and turn to electronic devices for entertainment. Meanwhile, the rich and dynamic scenery outside the car naturally attracts children's curiosity and offers valuable resources for cognitive development. Our formative study reveals that parents' support during car rides is often fleeting, as accompanying adults may struggle to consistently guide children's exploration. To addres…

Anatomic Feature Fusion Model for Diagnosing Calcified Pulmonary Nodules on Chest X-Ray
Hyeonjin Choi, Yang-gon Kim, Dong-yeon Yoo, Ju-sung Sun, Jung-won Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12562

Anatomic Feature Fusion Model for Diagnosing Calcified Pulmonary Nodules on Chest X-Ray
Accurate and timely identification of pulmonary nodules on chest X-rays can differentiate between life-saving early treatment and avoidable invasive procedures. Calcification is a definitive indicator of benign nodules and is the primary foundation for diagnosis. In actual practice, diagnosing pulmonary nodule calcification on chest X-rays predominantly depends on the physician's visual assessment, resulting in significant diversity in interpretation. Furthermore, overlapping anatomical element…

Ashes or Breath: Exploring Moral Dilemmas of Life and Cultural Legacy through Mixed Reality Gaming
Black Sun, Ge Kacy Fu, Shichao Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13074 https://…

Ashes or Breath: Exploring Moral Dilemmas of Life and Cultural Legacy through Mixed Reality Gaming
Traditional approaches to teaching moral dilemmas often rely on abstract, disembodied scenarios that limit emotional engagement and reflective depth. To address this gap, we developed \textit{Ashes or Breath}, a Mixed Reality game delivered via head-mounted displays(MR-HMDs). This places players in an ethical crisis: they must save a living cat or a priceless cultural artifact during a museum fire. Designed through an iterative, values-centered process, the experience leverages embodied interac…

Natural Intelligence: the information processing power of life
Seth Lloyd, Michele Reilly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16478 https://ar…

Natural Intelligence: the information processing power of life
Merely by existing, all physical systems contain information, and physical dynamics transforms and processes that information. This note investigates the information processing power of living systems. Living systems harvest free energy from the sun, from geothermal sources, and from each other. They then use that free energy to drive the complex set of chemical interactions that underlie life. All molecules -- be they simple molecules such as water, or complex molecules such as DNA -- register…

Influencias astron\'omicas sobre la evoluci\'on geol\'ogica y biol\'ogica de la tierra (Parte II)
Carlos Alberto Olano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15070

Influencias astronómicas sobre la evolución geológica y biológica de la tierra (Parte II)
With the same general purposes as Part I of this monograph, we analyze here major events in the history of the Earth, such as the formation of the Earth itself, the origin of life, the great glaciations and the mass extinctions of species, and we also analyze the astronomical context in which they occurred. We argue that the Sun was captured around 500-700 Myr ago by a supercloud, of which the Orion arm and Gould's belt are currently part, and that this event marked the history of the Earth. Wi…