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Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
VARON: Perhaps they should have.
MAJA: What do you mean?
VARON: I don't know. Perhaps Blake is guilty. Even so it's... too perfect.
MAJA: Where're you going?
VARON: The Public Records computer.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/101/259…

I think this tedious reviewer needs to see more "lush landscapes, epic struggles, pointed political allegories and delicious, disgusting monsters" in The Sandman ->
The Sandman season two review – Neil Gaiman’s emo drama is so pretentious it ruins everything | Television | The Guardian

A Spectroscopic Hunt for Post-Red Supergiants in the Large Magellanic Cloud II: Turbulent Line Broadening in the Spectra of LMC Yellow Supergiants
Trevor Z. Dorn-Wallenstein, Kaitlyn M. Chen, Samantha C. Wu, Jared A. Goldberg, Anna J. G. O'Grady, Ayanna T. Mann, Poderosa I. Don-Wallanchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14971

A Spectroscopic Hunt for Post-Red Supergiants in the Large Magellanic Cloud II: Turbulent Line Broadening in the Spectra of LMC Yellow Supergiants
Massive stars in the Hertzsprung gap are a mixed population of objects in short-lived evolutionary phases: yellow supergiants (YSGs) evolving towards the red supergiant (RSG) phase, partially-stripped post-RSGs, and other, rarer outcomes of stellar evolution. Studies of sufficiently large samples of these objects can constrain massive star structure and evolution during these poorly-understood phases. As part of our ongoing program searching for post-RSGs, we characterized the spectral line pro…

Automatic layout of railroad diagrams
Shardul Chiplunkar, Cl\'ement Pit-Claudel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15834 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.15834

Automatic layout of railroad diagrams
Railroad diagrams (also called "syntax diagrams") are a common, intuitive visualization of grammars, but limited tooling and a lack of formal attention to their layout mostly confines them to hand-drawn documentation. We present the first formal treatment of railroad diagram layout along with a principled, practical implementation. We characterize the problem as compiling a *diagram language* (specifying conceptual components and how they connect and compose) to a *layout language* (specifying …

Mineral cloud formation above magma oceans in sub-Neptune atmospheres
Elspeth K. H. Lee, Aaron Werlen, Caroline Dorn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15097 https://

Mineral cloud formation above magma oceans in sub-Neptune atmospheres
The potential presence of a magma surface below a thick atmosphere primarily composed of hydrogen in some sub-Neptune exoplanets suggests a strong link between the interior composition and atmosphere through chemical coupling of volatile and refractory species. In this study, we aim to model the possibility for mineral cloud formation in the atmosphere of sub-Neptunes from outgassing of refractory species at the magma surface. In our specific cases, we find that mineral clouds easily form near …

What new story could a Democrat tell?
I’m not talking just about policy positions.
I’m talking about the bigger picture: Things like
“restore the soul of America” (ala Biden 2020),
or “hope and change” (ala Obama 2008)
or “make America great again” (sigh),
or any of the many iterations of restoring the American dream/rebuilding the American dream/the promise of America for working people/etc that candidates try to ladder their policy positions up into.

Stories Democrats could tell
Should we make people rich? Should we fight loneliness? What's the bigger goal?

Language Generation in the Limit: Noise, Loss, and Feedback
Yannan Bai, Debmalya Panigrahi, Ian Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15319 https://

Language Generation in the Limit: Noise, Loss, and Feedback
Kleinberg and Mullainathan (2024) recently proposed a formal framework called language generation in the limit and showed that given a sequence of example strings from an unknown target language drawn from any countable collection, an algorithm can correctly generate unseen strings from the target language within finite time. This notion was further refined by Li, Raman, and Tewari (2024), who defined stricter categories of non-uniform and uniform generation. They showed that a finite union of …

from my link log —
Get the location of the ISS using DNS.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/get-the-location-of-the-iss-using-dns/
saved 2025-07-06

Get the location of the ISS using DNS
I love DNS esoterica. Weird little things that you can shove in the global directory to be distributed around the world instantly(ish). Domain names, like www.example.com usually resolve to servers. As much as we think of "the cloud" as being some intangible morass of ethereal Turing-machines floating in probability space, the more prosaic reality is that they're just boxen in data centres. They …

Quantum Boltzmann Machines using Parallel Annealing for Medical Image Classification
Dani\"elle Schuman, Mark V. Seebode, Tobias Rohe, Maximilian Balthasar Mansky, Michael Schroedl-Baumann, Jonas Stein, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Florian Krellner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14116

Quantum Boltzmann Machines using Parallel Annealing for Medical Image Classification
Exploiting the fact that samples drawn from a quantum annealer inherently follow a Boltzmann-like distribution, annealing-based Quantum Boltzmann Machines (QBMs) have gained increasing popularity in the quantum research community. While they harbor great promises for quantum speed-up, their usage currently stays a costly endeavor, as large amounts of QPU time are required to train them. This limits their applicability in the NISQ era. Following the idea of Noè et al. (2024), who tried to allev…

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
DORIAN: Relax. Your problems are over. [Draws a hand gun. Scene - Planet Terminal. Exterior. Avon is crouched next to Tarrant. Tarrant sits drinking from a canteen.]
AVON: Pass out again and I'll leave you, Tarrant.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/401/105