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Utilised the time to bake another bread today. I did so yesterday as well but I took it out of the oven too early. 😕
This now looks waaays better. I'm curious about the taste and consistency.
And yes, in this regard I'm a typical German: bread is really a thing for me.
(So, I wasn't 'Breaking Bad' but 'Baking Bread'. 😉)
#baking

Modular SAIL: dream or reality?
Petr Kourzanov, Anmol
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12471 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.12471

Modular SAIL: dream or reality?
In order to truly benefit from RISC-V ISA modularity, the community has to address the issue of compositionality, going beyond modules at the specification level covering larger subsets of the RISC-V development flow including emulation, simulation and verification. In this paper we introduce modular SAIL, an experiment to inject compositionality into the SAIL-RISCV golden model. We show that it is, in principle, not difficult to adapt the SAIL-RISCV flow (and ideally the SAIL compiler itself) …

Goldman Sachs CTO Marco Argenti says the bank is "going to start augmenting our workforce with Devin", Cognition's AI coding assistant, as Wall Street adopts AI (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/goldman-sachs-auto…

Goldman Sachs is piloting its first autonomous coder in major AI milestone for Wall Street
The arrival of agentic AI at Goldman Sachs, in which programs don't just help with tasks but execute complex jobs, signals a shift on Wall Street.

The Discovery of Little Red Dots in the Local Universe: Signatures of Cool Gas Envelopes
Xiaojing Lin, Xiaohui Fan, Zheng Cai, Fuyan Bian, Hanpu Liu, Fengwu Sun, Yilun Ma, Jenny E. Greene, Michael A. Strauss, Richard Green, Jianwei Lyu, Jaclyn B. Champagne, Andy D. Goulding, Kohei Inayoshi, Xiangyu Jin, Gene C. K. Leung, Mingyu Li, Yichen Liu, Junjie Mao, Maria Anne Pudoka, Wei Leong Tee, Ben Wang, Feige Wang, Yunjing Wu, Jinyi Yang, Haowen Zhang, Yongda Zhu

The Discovery of Little Red Dots in the Local Universe: Signatures of Cool Gas Envelopes
JWST observations have revealed a population of high-redshift "little red dots" (LRDs) that challenge conventional AGN models. We report the discovery of three local LRDs at $z = 0.1-0.2$, initially selected from the SDSS database, with follow-up optical/near-IR spectroscopy and photometry. They exhibit properties fully consistent with those of high-redshift LRDs, including broad hydrogen and helium emission lines, compact morphologies, V-shaped UV-optical SED, declining near-IR continua, and n…

When Trump encounters a demographic he doesn’t care for, he “disappears” them–in many cases, the very record of their existence.
Meet America’s new “missing persons," and the govt campaign to delete statistical evidence of anyone who doesn't fit Trump’s idea of our new golden age... including Jackie Robinson & Rosa Parks.
(taken from Catherine Rampell on BlueSky)
☑️ The people Trump is trying to delete from government records - Washington Post

“This is the new model,”
the secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick, said in an interview with CNBC last month,
“where you work in these kind of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here.”
The reality is that this particular campaign
— this effort to de-skill the working population of the United States
— is more likely to immiserate the country and impoverish its residents than it is to inaugurate a golden age of prosp…

Opinion | Trump Is Waging War on the Future
We can contest the dark dreams of those in power.

YEAHH! Finally starting #blogging about #hiking and #photography during our vacation 2 weeks ago!
We started with a nice walk along a lake. As usualy I didn't expect a lot but was eager to…

Self-Powered Triboelectric Sensing System for Gait-Based Physiological and Psychological Assessment in Track and Field
Tiehuai Liang, Dongyuan Wei, Qi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09903

Self-Powered Triboelectric Sensing System for Gait-Based Physiological and Psychological Assessment in Track and Field
Wearable sensors are critical components in smart sports systems for real-time monitoring of athletic performance, physiological conditions, and psychological states. In this work, a sodium alginate/gelatin-based triboelectric nanogenerator (SG-TENG) was developed for mechanical energy harvesting and real-time sensing in track and field applications. The SA/gelatin composite film exhibits high transparency, good flexibility, and uniform morphology, enabling stable triboelectric output. The SG-T…

Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, an open-source public blockchain for regulated financial institutions, raised $135M co-led by DRW and Tradeweb (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/24/goldman-sachs-citadel-digital-asset.html

Goldman Sachs and Citadel back crypto firm Digital Asset in $135 million funding round
The company said it will use the funding to advance adoption of the Canton Network, a blockchain for financial institutions.