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The totality of the evidence supports the thesis that displacement of long-established dietary patterns by ultra-processed foods is a key driver of the escalating global burden of multiple diet-related chronic diseases.
Monteiro CA, Louzada ML, Steele-Martinez E, Cannon G, Andrade GC, Baker P, et al. (2025): Ultra-processed foods and human health: the main thesis and the evidence. The Lancet 0. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01565-X

thesis: vs code is a game engine. consider:
- produced by a billion dollar company
- renders using opengl
- optimized like dogshit
- ships using a cursed runtime inheited down generations
- people hate it but use it anyway
- updates every few weeks, if something breaks the developer mostly just ignores you
- building anything involves gigabytes of artefacts
- there's ai in it for inexplicable reasons

🎞️ High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips
#graphics

master-thesis/main.pdf at main · LaurenzV/master-thesis
My master's thesis about the topic "High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips" - LaurenzV/master-thesis

“Core Thesis: The target I care about is simple: can you make space-based, commodity compute cost-competitive with the cheapest terrestrial alternative? That's the whole claim. Not "space is big." Not "the sun is huge." Not "launch will be cheap." Can you deliver useful watts and reject the waste heat at a price that beats a boring Crusoe-style tilt-wall datacenter tied into a 200–500 MW substation? If you can't beat that, the rest is just vibes.”
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Decoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications.  Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…

Decoupling …… again
If you’ve been reading our material for long you’ll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: …

Why put effort into writing your thesis when you can put in the same amount of effort into making it look as if you had written it?
#AcademicChatter

Decoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications.  Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…

Decoupling …… again
If you’ve been reading our material for long you’ll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: …

EXCLUSIVE: Wes Moore Won a Key White House Post Claiming He Was 'Touted as a Foremost Expert' ... (Andrew Kerr/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/wes-moore-won-a-key-white-house-post-claiming-he-was-touted-as-a-foremost-expert-on-radical-islam-and-was-studying-for-an-oxford-phd-but-his-thesis-is-missing-and-theres-no-evidence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p52#a251211p52

(PDF, PhD thesis 2018) Improving visual-to-auditory cross-modality information conversions https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/55721/ by Shern Shiou Tan, on visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (VASS) devices.
"The integration of visual recognition in parallel with the soundscape will be the…

from my link log —
Naming the Net: The Domain Name System, 1983-1990.
https://gade.us/thesis/
saved 2025-11-25 https://dotat.at/:/RHHY8.html

Naming the Net: The Domain Name System, 1983-1990
An early history of the Internet's Domain Name System

There's a thought leader (derogatory) who is the main character of linkedin today for claiming, and I quote, "Most designers won't make it past 35."
This guy's whole thesis is premised on one "insight": that orgs have more junior employees and fewer senior employees
#ux #UXDesign

I just published a post on an interesting MSc thesis I supervised. Arvid Rydberg and Selina Sand Engberg took on the computational challenge of level-p-complexity (D_p(f)) of Boolean functions.
They optimised the algorithms using hash-consing & normalisation, and developed tools for exact calculations using algebraic numbers.
Details:
https:/…

Marginally deformed AdS$_5$/CFT$_4$ and spindle-like orbifolds
Paul Merrikin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12448 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12448

Marginally deformed AdS$_5$/CFT$_4$ and spindle-like orbifolds
In this thesis, the AdS/CFT correspondence is used as a tool to explore novel AdS$_5$ Supergravity backgrounds (containing five-dimensional Anti-de Sitter spacetime) and their dual (four dimensional) Conformal Field Theory descriptions. In order to obtain precise results, both conformal symmetry and supersymmetry play an important role. However, in order to align with experimental observation, supersymmetry must be broken at low energies. In the absence of supersymmetry, finding deformations of…

Nonlocal Games Through Communication Complexity and Quantum Cryptography
Pierre Botteron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09457 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09457

Nonlocal Games Through Communication Complexity and Quantum Cryptography
This thesis explores foundational aspects of quantum information theory and quantum cryptography. First, we investigate quantum correlations in interactive settings, including the CHSH and graph isomorphism games. We aim to distinguish quantum correlations from non-signaling correlations by leveraging the principle of communication complexity. To this end, we employ techniques such as distributed computation, majority-function-based distillation protocols, the algebraic and geometric properti…

Two interesting articles about the dubious financials of OpenAI and the recent NVIDIA earnings report (which regardless of positive outcome triggered a sell-off):
The Structural Collapse: How Google’s Integrated Stack Is Dismantling the OpenAI Thesis
https://shanakaanslemperera.substack…

The Structural Collapse: How Google’s Integrated Stack Is Dismantling the OpenAI Thesis
A leaked internal memo reveals the tectonic shift reshaping artificial intelligence, where platform economics are defeating venture-backed innovation at the exact moment markets assumed the opposite.

We are so multi-modal today! The train runs electric ⚡ and the passenger is powered by 'pâté au riesling' 😋 .
Thesis review is done 👍👨‍🎓 but no change in the weather, grey and wet on the Mosel(le).

Homomorphism Problems in Graph Databases and Automatic Structures
R\'emi Morvan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07422 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07422

Homomorphism Problems in Graph Databases and Automatic Structures
This thesis investigates the central role of homomorphism problems (structure-preserving maps) in two complementary domains: database querying over finite, graph-shaped data, and constraint solving over (potentially infinite) structures. Building on the well-known equivalence between conjunctive query evaluation and homomorphism existence, the first part focuses on conjunctive regular path queries, a standard extension of conjunctive queries that incorporates regular-path predicates. We study t…

The last time I used MS Word to write a significant document was my PhD thesis. Since I've done everything of consequence in latex. More recently, I've used #emacs' #orgmode to write the latex: much easier for the routine stuff but you can include pure latex as you need. (15 yrs pure latex…

Just one more course, a Zoom call, a meeting with a prospective PhD student, and a thesis defense—and I'm already done for this week.
#AcademicChatter

Just one more course, a Zoom call, a meeting with a prospective PhD student, and a thesis defense—and I'm already done for this week.
#AcademicChatter

If anything, one piece of evidence supporting Liz Truss's thesis about the decline of Britain, is the national indignity of a former Prime Minister appearing on Rumble to rant about the deep state wokes.
(She *was* Prime Minister, there are citations for this on Wikipedia.)

“the book's thesis: that the AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector,”
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115277162069992407…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Like you, I'm sick to the back teeth of talking about AI. Like you, I keep getting dragged into AI discussions. Unlike you‡, I spent the summer writing a book about why I'm sick of writing about AI⹋, which Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish in 2026. ‡probably ⹋"The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI" -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: …

A Computational Framework for Interpretable Text-Based Personality Assessment from Social Media
Matej Gjurkovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02811 https://

A Computational Framework for Interpretable Text-Based Personality Assessment from Social Media
Personality refers to individual differences in behavior, thinking, and feeling. With the growing availability of digital footprints, especially from social media, automated methods for personality assessment have become increasingly important. Natural language processing (NLP) enables the analysis of unstructured text data to identify personality indicators. However, two main challenges remain central to this thesis: the scarcity of large, personality-labeled datasets and the disconnect betwee…

Mathematically rigorous proofs for Shapley explanations
David van Batenburg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03281 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03281

Mathematically rigorous proofs for Shapley explanations
Machine Learning is becoming increasingly more important in today's world. It is therefore very important to provide understanding of the decision-making process of machine-learning models. A popular way to do this is by looking at the Shapley-Values of these models as introduced by Lundberg and Lee. In this thesis, we discuss the two main results by Lundberg and Lee from a mathematically rigorous standpoint and provide full proofs, which are not available from the original material. The fi…

#PhDCongratulations! 🥳🥳 🥳 Johannes Hölken of the @… has successfully defended his PhD thesis “Towards solar many-line inversions” at the @…

In any case, day 2: Ursula K Le Guin.
As I've said elsewhere, part of her science fiction thesis is that "human" can encompass much more than what we mere Terrans think of it as, and that moral standing extends broadly throughout the universe. This is the antithesis of Tokens fantasy, wherein "race" is real and determines moral standing. For Le Guin, it's barely okay to intervene in complex alien politics unless you carefully ensure you're not causing systemic harms; for Tolkien, it's okay to ambush and murder orc children, because they are by nature evil.
Add to her excellent politics Le Guin's masterful worldbuilding and unparalleled range of plots, and you have the one author I loved as a decidedly liberal and naïve teen and love even more now that I'm an adult. She's an absolute legend and deserves a very high place on any list of women authors (or list of authors, period.).
For a short story, try "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" which you can read here: https://www.utilitarianism.com/nu/omelas.pdf
For fantasy "A Wizard of Earthsea" (also has a nice graphic novel adaptation), or for science fiction, "The Left Hand of Darkness" or if you want a more anarchist flavor, "The Dispossessed."
I'll close this with an amazing quote from her:
"""
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
"""

Manche der von der Google-KI auf die Frage nach Literaturhinweisen gegebenen Antworten schaffen es, mich zu verblüffen, weil es sich eben nicht um "Halluzinationen" handelt; zB existiert der auf die Frage "Gibt es Publikationen zur Bedeutung des Suseok im Film Parasite?" angegebene Artikel mit dem Titel "Using Parasite’s Scholar’s Stone (水石) in a Critical Race Decoding of Racism and Class" tatsächlich.

Quantization of charged fields in the presence of intense electromagnetic fields
\'Alvaro \'Alvarez-Dom\'inguez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09447 https://

Quantization of charged fields in the presence of intense electromagnetic fields
This thesis applies techniques from quantum field theory in curved spacetimes to study particle creation in external fields, focusing on the Schwinger effect (i.e., the production of particle-antiparticle pairs by intense electric fields). Although experimental verification remains out of reach, theoretical analysis advances our understanding of this phenomenon and its broader implications. The work develops the theoretical framework for quantizing charged fields in nontrivial backgrounds, ad…

Studies on Response Uniformity of RPC and Exploring Oscillation Dip and Valley, Non-Standard Interactions, and Earth's Core using Atmospheric Neutrinos at ICAL-INO detector
Anil Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20094

Studies on Response Uniformity of RPC and Exploring Oscillation Dip and Valley, Non-Standard Interactions, and Earth's Core using Atmospheric Neutrinos at ICAL-INO detector
In this thesis, experimental and physics simulation studies are performed in the context of the proposed 50 kt Iron Calorimeter (ICAL) detector at the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). ICAL would detect atmospheric muon neutrinos and antineutrinos separately in the multi-GeV range of energies over a wide range of baselines. In the experimental part of the thesis, the effect of the non-uniformity of the graphite layer on the detector response of the resistive plate chamber is studied. In t…

A meshfree approach for rapid reconstruction of compact binary sources detected in the network of international gravitational wave detectors
Lalit Pathak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20104

A meshfree approach for rapid reconstruction of compact binary sources detected in the network of international gravitational wave detectors
This thesis explores parameter estimation methods for rapidly reconstructing compact binary sources generating gravitational waves. It employs numerical linear algebra and meshfree approximation techniques to expedite waveform generation and likelihood evaluation, crucial for estimating binary parameters like masses, spins, distance, and sky location. The thesis demonstrates the effectiveness of these methods through simulations and real GW events, highlighting their potential for multimessenge…

Second connection made in rainy Brussels 👍. More thesis-reading for now 📖.
Then I'll be back on the rails on Monday.
Have a great weekend! 👋

"This title is reasonable" – a commentary on LW, speaking to the title of the book "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies"
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/voEAJ9nFBAqau8pNN/the-title-is-reasonable
(audio: 28min)
I've read …

The title is reasonable — LessWrong
Alt title: "I don't believe you that you actually disagree particularly with the core thesis of the book, if you pay attention to what it actually sa…

Just one more course, a Zoom call, a meeting with a prospective PhD student, and a thesis defense—and I'm already done for this week.
#AcademicChatter

Dual-Language General-Purpose Self-Hosted Visual Language and new Textual Programming Language for Applications
Mahmoud Samir Fayed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20426 https://

Dual-Language General-Purpose Self-Hosted Visual Language and new Textual Programming Language for Applications
Most visual programming languages (VPLs) are domain-specific, with few general-purpose VPLs like Programming Without Coding Technology (PWCT). These general-purpose VPLs are developed using textual programming languages and improving them requires textual programming. In this thesis, we designed and developed PWCT2, a dual-language (Arabic/English), general-purpose, self-hosting visual programming language. Before doing so, we specifically designed a textual programming language called Ring for…

A Lie Theoretic Framework for Controlling Open Quantum Systems
Corey O'Meara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04719 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04719

A Lie Theoretic Framework for Controlling Open Quantum Systems
This thesis focuses on the Lie-theoretic foundations of controlled open quantum systems. We describe Markovian open quantum system evolutions by Lie semigroups, whose corresponding infinitesimal generators lie in a special type of convex cone - a Lie wedge. The Lie wedge associated to a given control system therefore consists of all generators of the quantum dynamical semigroup that are physically realisable as a result of the interplay between the coherent and incoherent processes the quantum …

(PhD thesis, 2024) Prototyping phosphene vision: Simulation-based optimization of visual neuroprosthetics using deep learning #BCI

Robot Learning with Sparsity and Scarcity
Jingxi Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16834 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16834…

Robot Learning with Sparsity and Scarcity
Unlike in language or vision, one of the fundamental challenges in robot learning is the lack of access to vast data resources. We can further break down the problem into (1) data sparsity from the angle of data representation and (2) data scarcity from the angle of data quantity. In this thesis, I will discuss selected works on two domains: (1) tactile sensing and (2) rehabilitation robots, which are exemplars of data sparsity and scarcity, respectively. Tactile sensing is an essential modalit…

Transporting Baguettes With Minimal Action: The Geometry of Optimal Nonequilibrium Processes in Stochastic Thermodynamics
Adrianne Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22886 https:/…

Transporting Baguettes With Minimal Action: The Geometry of Optimal Nonequilibrium Processes in Stochastic Thermodynamics
What are the fundamental limitations placed by the laws of thermodynamics on the energy expenditure needed to carry out a given task in a nonequilibrium environment in finite time? In this thesis, we investigate "optimal nonequilibrium processes": how nonequilibrium state changes in a thermodynamic system may be performed most efficiently, in the sense of requiring the least amount of thermodynamic work. Surprisingly, there is a hidden, fundamental geometric structure in this optimization probl…

Intelligent Algorithm Selection for Recommender Systems: Meta-Learning via in-depth algorithm feature engineering
Jarne Mathi Decker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20134 https://

Intelligent Algorithm Selection for Recommender Systems: Meta-Learning via in-depth algorithm feature engineering
The "No Free Lunch" theorem dictates that no single recommender algorithm is optimal for all users, creating a significant Algorithm Selection Problem. Standard meta-learning approaches aim to solve this by selecting an algorithm based on user features, but treat the fundamentally diverse algorithms themselves as equivalent, "black-box" choices. This thesis investigates the impact of overcoming this limitation by engineering a comprehensive feature set to explicitly characterize the algorithms …

On bifoliated planes, their structure and group actions
Mauro Camargo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19961 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19961

On bifoliated planes, their structure and group actions
Bifoliated planes arise naturally in the study of Anosov flows on $3$-manifolds. To any Anosov flow on a $3$-manifold $M$, one can associate a bifoliated plane equipped with an action of the fundamental group of $M$ which encodes the topology of the flow. This thesis begins by showing left-orderability of any group acting faithfully on a bifoliated plane. We then describe the bifoliated planes associated with two families of Anosov flows which are constructed from algebraic and combinatorial …

Rotating Isospectral Drums
Anton Lebedev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02397 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02397

Rotating Isospectral Drums
In this thesis I demonstrate that isospectral domains, that is domains of differing geometric shapes that possess identical spectra, do not remain isospectral when subject to uniform rotation. One thus *can* hear the shape of a rotating drum. It is shown that the spectra diverge as $\propto\left(\fracω{c}\right)^2$ similarly to a square but different from a circle, whose degenerate eigenfrequencies split $\propto \left(\fracω{c}\right)$. The latter two cases are studied analytically and used …

Faster-Than-Nyquist Signalling - Theoretical Limits on Capacity and Techniques to Approach Capacity
Sathwik Chadaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19272 https://

Faster-Than-Nyquist Signalling - Theoretical Limits on Capacity and Techniques to Approach Capacity
Faster-Than-Nyquist (FTN) Signalling is a non-orthogonal transmission scheme that violates the Nyquist zero-ISI criterion providing higher throughput and better spectral efficiency than a Nyquist transmission scheme. In this thesis, the inter symbol interference (ISI) introduced by FTN signalling is studied, and conditions on pulse shapes and $τ$ (time acceleration factor) are derived so that the ISI can be avoided completely. Further, these conditions are reinforced by investigating the theor…

Chern-Simons Theories and Integrability
Joaquin Liniado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19188 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19188

Spatial-mode demultiplexing for quantum-inspired superresolution experiments
Nickolay Erin Titov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17115 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Spatial-mode demultiplexing for quantum-inspired superresolution experiments
Conventional optical imaging is limited by diffraction, preventing discrimination of closely spaced incoherent sources. Inspired by quantum parameter estimation, this thesis explores spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE) as a method to overcome this limit by projecting light onto an orthonormal mode basis. In this work, we design and experimentally validate a practical implementation of spatial-mode demultiplexing via Multi-Plane Light Conversion (MPLC).

Cosmological and Dynamical Aspects of Teleparallel Gravity and its Extension
L K Duchaniya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02491 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0249…

Cosmological and Dynamical Aspects of Teleparallel Gravity and its Extension
This thesis investigates the characteristics of modified teleparallel gravity models that incorporate a scalar field and a trace of the energy-momentum tensor, with particular attention to their cosmological effects, especially regarding late-time cosmic acceleration. Teleparallel gravity, as an alternative framework to General Relativity, defines gravity through torsion rather than curvature, and when combined with a scalar field, it allows exploration of a wider variety of cosmological scenar…

Bandits roaming Hilbert space
Josep Lumbreras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24569 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24569

Bandits roaming Hilbert space
This thesis studies the exploration and exploitation trade-off in online learning of properties of quantum states using multi-armed bandits. Given streaming access to an unknown quantum state, in each round we select an observable from a set of actions to maximize its expectation value. Using past information, we refine actions to minimize regret; the cumulative gap between current reward and the maximum possible. We derive information-theoretic lower bounds and optimal strategies with matching…

Asymptotic Higher Spin Symmetries: Noether Realization & Algebraic Structure in Einstein-Yang-Mills Theory
Nicolas Cresto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17137 https://

Asymptotic Higher Spin Symmetries: Noether Realization & Algebraic Structure in Einstein-Yang-Mills Theory
This thesis deals with the phase space realization of asymptotic higher spin symmetries, in 4d asymptotically flat spacetimes. In the gravitational case for instance, these symmetries generalize the BMS algebra to include an infinite tower of symmetry generators constructed from tensors on the sphere of arbitrary high rank $s$. Building on a first series of results on their canonical representation, we develop the necessary framework to define Noether charges for all degrees $s$. Importantly,…