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Have I missed something or is there no way with openssh to exempt certain netblocks from the MaxStartups setting?
There's PerSourcePenaltyExemptList but that's spoecifically for the "penalties" things which are separate from MaxStartups, right?
https://

Active Prostate Phantom with Multiple Chambers
Sizhe Tian (CRIStAL, DEFROST), Yinoussa Adagolodjo (CRIStAL, Polytech Lille, DEFROST), Jeremie Dequidt (CRIStAL, DEFROST)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15873

Active Prostate Phantom with Multiple Chambers
Prostate cancer is a major global health concern, requiring advancements in robotic surgery and diagnostics to improve patient outcomes. A phantom is a specially designed object that simulates human tissues or organs. It can be used for calibrating and testing a medical process, as well as for training and research purposes. Existing prostate phantoms fail to simulate dynamic scenarios. This paper presents a pneumatically actuated prostate phantom with multiple independently controlled chambers…

The Illusion of Readiness: Stress Testing Large Frontier Models on Multimodal Medical Benchmarks
Yu Gu, Jingjing Fu, Xiaodong Liu, Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu, Noel Codella, Reuben Tan, Qianchu Liu, Ying Jin, Sheng Zhang, Jinyu Wang, Rui Wang, Lei Song, Guanghui Qin, Naoto Usuyama, Cliff Wong, Cheng Hao, Hohin Lee, Praneeth Sanapathi, Sarah Hilado, Bian Jiang, Javier Alvarez-Valle, Mu Wei, Jianfeng Gao, Eric Horvitz, Matt Lungren, Hoifung Poon, Paul Vozila

The Illusion of Readiness: Stress Testing Large Frontier Models on Multimodal Medical Benchmarks
Large frontier models like GPT-5 now achieve top scores on medical benchmarks. But our stress tests tell a different story. Leading systems often guess correctly even when key inputs like images are removed, flip answers under trivial prompt changes, and fabricate convincing yet flawed reasoning. These aren't glitches; they expose how today's benchmarks reward test-taking tricks over medical understanding. We evaluate six flagship models across six widely used benchmarks and find that high lead…

Of course, I don't know 'hardware', as you can tell from my technical description, but I have a sample from another tuning peg gear, and the peg and gear for testing, I get to Home Hardware and they have loose bolts of small dimension. I quickly learn that #6 is too large, #4 is too small and they have no #5's where the thread matches.
But you know what works? Do you remember those little chrome bolts with the hex-wrench heads that used to hold expansion cards in the ibm-pc? Perfect match, only 5mm too long, easily compensated by buying a matching nut and my 53-years owned pawnshop 5-string, my first banjo, is back in action!

Characterizing and Testing Configuration Stability in Two-Dimensional Threshold Cellular Automata
Yonatan Nakar, Dana Ron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14569 …

Characterizing and Testing Configuration Stability in Two-Dimensional Threshold Cellular Automata
We consider the problems of characterizing and testing the stability of cellular automata configurations that evolve on a two-dimensional torus according to threshold rules with respect to the von-Neumann neighborhood. While stable configurations for Threshold-1 (OR) and Threshold-5 (AND) are trivial (and hence easily testable), the other threshold rules exhibit much more diverse behaviors. We first characterize the structure of stable configurations with respect to the Threshold-2 (similarly, …

Development and testing of integrated readout electronics for next generation SiSeRO (Single electron Sensitive Read Out) devices
Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, Haley R. Stueber, Abigail Y. Pan, Sven Herrmann, Peter Orel, Kevan Donlon, Steven W. Allen, Marshall W. Bautz, Michael Cooper, Catherine E. Grant, Beverly LaMarr, Christopher Leitz, Andrew Malonis, Eric D. Miller, R. Glenn Morris, Gregory Prigozhin, Ilya Prigozhin, Artem Poliszczuk, Keith Warner, Daniel R. Wilkins

Development and testing of integrated readout electronics for next generation SiSeRO (Single electron Sensitive Read Out) devices
The first generation of Single electron Sensitive Read Out (SiSeRO) amplifiers, employed as on-chip charge detectors for charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have demonstrated excellent noise and spectral performance: a responsivity of around 800 pA per electron, an equivalent noise charge (ENC) of 3.2 electrons root mean square (RMS), and a full width half maximum (FWHM) energy resolution of 130 eV at 5.9 keV for a readout speed of 625 Kpixel/s. Repetitive Non Destructive Readout (RNDR) has also been…

Great to see Gentoo has moved Plasma 6.4.5 already to the stable repo. Prior Stable was always one major version behind (like on Debian, so 6.3.6) and the latest version was in Testing.
Tells you something about the stability of KDE now. Chapeau!
#kdeplasma6

5 Things to Test With List Parameters - #dotNet #testing #development

5 Things to Test With List Parameters - Improve & Repeat
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Analytics of Adaptive Online Testing in Practice Over a Decade
Hideo Hirose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08643 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08643

Analytics of Adaptive Online Testing in Practice Over a Decade
Adaptive online testing efficiently assesses examinee proficiency by dynamically adjusting the difficulty of test items based on their performance. To achieve this, items are selected so that their difficulty closely matches the test taker's estimated ability at each stage of the test. This alignment implies that the probability of a correct answer tends toward 0.5. However, in practical settings, this probability may not converge to 0.5 unless the test comprises a sufficiently large number of …

Testing it rn
@… https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115220480846307303

Testing time order and Leggett-Garg inequalities with noninvasive measurements on public quantum computers
Tomasz Rybotycki, Tomasz Bia{\l}ecki, Josep Batle, Bart{\l}omiej Zglinicki, Adam Szereszewski, Wolfgang Belzig, Adam Bednorz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07904

Testing time order and Leggett-Garg inequalities with noninvasive measurements on public quantum computers
We present two protocols, with one and two two-qubit gates, to noninvasively measure two incompatible observables on a qubit. Both protocols are completed with a projective measurement. By gathering sufficiently large statistics, we have been able to violate Leggett-Garg inequality and time-order invariance. The detailed analysis of the data on 10 qubit sets from 5 devices available on IBM Quantum and one on IonQ reveals violations beyond 5 standard deviations in almost all cases. The noninvasi…

So #Zope released new versions of their packages, with pkg-resources style namespace removal.
Totally normal way to do the bumps:
1. At first, keep the existing testing hack (writing `__init__.py`).
2. Notice that the next package fails because it expects test paths relative to `zope` subdirectory. Skip it for now.
3. While doing the next package, realize you could remove that hack and simply run tests within the `zope` subdirectory! Go back and update all the previous packages, including the one that failed before.
4. Back to bumping. Notice that in the very next package you've had an even better solution: instead of `cd`, you just called `python -m unittest -s …`. Go back and update all the previous packages.
5. Back to bumping. The very next package turns out to actually expects test paths relative to the top-level site-packages directory. Well, you can use a hybrid of the `__init__.py` hack with `python -m unittest -s …`.
#Gentoo #Python

Spacetime Curvature as a Probe of Exotic Core Phases in Neutron Stars within Modified Gravity
Sayantan Ghosh, Bharat Kumar, Subhash Mahapatra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08866 ht…

Spacetime Curvature as a Probe of Exotic Core Phases in Neutron Stars within Modified Gravity
In this study, we investigate the effect of Energy-Momentum Squared Gravity (EMSG) on the curvature of neutron stars (NSs) by using three relativistic mean-field (RMF) equations of state (EOSs) and three hadron-quark phase transition (HQPT) EOSs. Neutron stars, with their extreme densities and strong gravitational fields, provide an ideal laboratory for testing General Relativity (GR) in the high-curvature regime and for exploring possible deviations via modified gravity. EMSG extends GR by inc…

Hydrogen-induced fast fracture in a 1.5 GPa dual-phase steel
Rama Srinivas Varanasi, Motomichi Koyama, Shuya Chiba, Saya Ajito, Eiji Akiyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06323 htt…

Hydrogen-induced fast fracture in a 1.5 GPa dual-phase steel
This study clarifies the hydrogen embrittlement (HE) behavior in a 1.5 GPa ferrite-martensite dual-phase (DP) steel. Hydrogen pre-charging (3.8 mass ppm diffusible hydrogen), followed by slow strain tensile testing (10-4 s-1), resulted in a brittle fracture at 900 MPa within the elastic regime. Fractographic studies indicated that surface crack initiation consists of intergranular and quasi-cleavage morphology; site-specific transmission electron microscopy (TEM) investigations revealed sub-sur…

10:00 AM
The lessons for today:
- Compiling from FreeBSD ports for KDE 6.4.5 is too much
- Gentoo KDE testing doesn't update due to a spaghetti of dependencies
- Updated Tilers edition breaks the SDDM theme (and the margins in Hyprland are a mess)
- Xanmod kernel update on Trixie is held back
It's gonna be a long nuke-and-pave day.

Experimental plasmonic sensing of malaria using an aluminum metasurface
A. S. Kiyumbi, M. S. Tame
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06560 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Experimental plasmonic sensing of malaria using an aluminum metasurface
A wide range of methods currently exist for testing the presence of malaria, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. New technologies are urgently needed to develop more effective diagnosis tools to fight and eradicate malaria. Optical biosensors that employ surface plasmon resonance (SPR) techniques are a promising category of devices for detecting malaria biomarkers. One such biomarker is plasmodium lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH), a protein produced during the life cycle of the malaria …

It's incredible to me how quickly this age verification censorship push is spreading!
UK: implemented
US: YouTube **is currently rolling it out**
EU: in testing phase; 5 countries
AU: starts for social media in December; expansion to 6 further domains proposed/in consultation

Features of Two-Quasiparticle Rotational Bands in Deformed Odd-Odd Nuclei, $156 \le A \le 168$
Pinky, Sushil Kumar, Sukhjeet Singh, A. K. Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05447 h…

Features of Two-Quasiparticle Rotational Bands in Deformed Odd-Odd Nuclei, $156 \le A \le 168$
In present work, we evaluated the experimental data pertains to two quasiparticle rotational structures in deformed odd-odd nuclei in rare earth mass region. The compilation includes total 234 rotational bands among which 173 are rotational bands and 61 bandhead states. Gallagher Moszkowski doublets are identified for 63 two quasiparticle configurations which provide a good testing ground for np residual interaction systematics. The highest excitation energies reach approximately 18 MeV in 164L…

Evaluating Interactions between Automated Vehicles and Cyclists using a coupled In-the-Loop Test Environment
Michael Kaiser, Clemens Gro{\ss}, Lisa Marie Otto, Steffen M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21859

Evaluating Interactions between Automated Vehicles and Cyclists using a coupled In-the-Loop Test Environment
Testing and evaluating automated driving systems (ADS) in interactions with vulnerable road users (VRUs), such as cyclists, are essential for improving the safety of VRUs, but often lack realism. This paper presents and validates a coupled in-the-loop test environment that integrates a Cyclist-in-the Loop test bench with a Vehicle-in-the-Loop test bench via a virtual environment (VE) developed in Unreal Engine 5. The setup enables closed-loop, bidirectional interaction between a real human cycl…

Testing hydrodynamic response to initial-state geometry in Pb $d^\uparrow$ collisions
Heikki M\"antysaari, Bj\"orn Schenke, Chun Shen, Wenbin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00511

Testing hydrodynamic response to initial-state geometry in Pb+$d^\uparrow$ collisions
Deuterons with different polarization states have distinct shapes for their wavefunctions. This offers a unique opportunity to experimentally control the initial-state collision geometry with the polarization of the light-ion targets in relativistic heavy-ion experiments. We study the charged hadron elliptic flow coefficients with respect to the polarization angle of deuterons in Pb + polarized deuteron collisions using a hydrodynamics + hadronic transport model. Hydrodynamic response to initia…

Design and performance of "R-FLEX", a flexure-based fiber positioning robot for spectroscopic cosmology
Nicholas R. Wenner, Joseph H. Silber, David J. Schlegel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02730

Design and performance of "R-FLEX", a flexure-based fiber positioning robot for spectroscopic cosmology
We present the design, fabrication, and testing of R-FLEX, a novel flexure mechanism for next-generation fiber-fed astronomical instruments. As the current Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) revolutionizes cosmology with over 56 million collected spectra using 5,000 robotic fiber positioners at 10.4 mm pitch, we project that future instruments will require 2.5-3x smaller fiber robots by area. R-FLEX enables precision radial motion for fiber robots mountable at 6.2 mm pitch, delivering …

Application of Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for MRI-Based Brain Tumor Detection and Classification
Sugih Pratama Nugraha, Ariiq Islam Alfajri, Tony Sumaryada, Duong Thanh Tai, Nissren Tamam, Abdelmoneim Sulieman, Sitti Yani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02582

Application of Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks for MRI-Based Brain Tumor Detection and Classification
This study explores the application of Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks (QCNNs) for brain tumor classification using MRI images, leveraging quantum computing for enhanced computational efficiency. A dataset of 3,264 MRI images, including glioma, meningioma, pituitary tumors, and non-tumor cases, was utilized. The data was split into 80% training and 20% testing, with an oversampling technique applied to address class imbalance. The QCNN model consists of quantum convolution layers, flatten…

Laboratory testing and characterization of a hybrid fast/slow readout mode for the H2RG detectors in SCALES
Peyton Benac, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Eric Wang, Kenneth Magnone, Chris Johnson, Andrew J. Skemer, Philip Hinz, Nick MacDonald, Dale Sandford, R. Deno Stelter, William Deich, Brittany E. Miles, Steph Sallum, Thomas Greene, Markus Loose, Richard Blank
https…

Laboratory testing and characterization of a hybrid fast/slow readout mode for the H2RG detectors in SCALES
The upcoming SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy) instrument for W.M. Keck Observatory will enable new imaging and low-/mid-resolution coronagraphic integral field spectroscopic observations over the wavelength range from 2-5 microns. At the heart of the instrument are two HgCdTe Teledyne Imaging H2RG detectors, designed for a 100kHz pixel clock rate (slow mode) with a fixed 4-channel readout. However, in ground-based operation at these wavelengths, the res…

Semi-tail Units: A Universal Scale for Test Statistics and Efficiency
Paul W. Vos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22910 https://arxiv.org/…

Semi-tail Units: A Universal Scale for Test Statistics and Efficiency
We introduce $ζ$- and $s$-values as quantile-based standardizations that are particularly suited for hypothesis testing. Unlike p-values, which express tail probabilities, $s$-values measure the number of semi-tail units into a distribution's tail, where each unit represents a halving of the tail area. This logarithmic scale provides intuitive interpretation: $s=3.3$ corresponds to the 10th percentile, $s=4.3$ to the 5th percentile, and $s=5.3$ to the 2.5th percentile. For two-tailed tests, $�…