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Amid rising tensions, Poland urges citizens to 'immediately' leave Belarus: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/26/amid-rising-tensions-poland-urges.html

🐀 Land mines and tuberculosis are no match for Tanzanian 'hero rats' sniffing out danger and disease
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-tuberculosis-tanzanian-hero-rats-sniffing.html

Land mines and tuberculosis are no match for Tanzanian 'hero rats' sniffing out danger and disease
A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, toppled furniture and scattered clothes to find him and pull a trigger on its pack, alerting searchers above.

Tangent structures for divided power algebras
Sacha Ikonicoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16302 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16302

Tangent structures for divided power algebras
We build a tangent structure on the category of divided power algebras using a particular notion of semidirect product. We show that this tangent structure admits an adjoint tangent structure, which involves a version of Kähler differentials, and which is similar to the Zariski cotangent space for affine schemes. We study vector fields and differential bundles for these two structures, which correspond respectively to a notion of special derivation, and to the category of modules over the unde…

Almost 12 minutes of gameplay from Resident Evil Requiem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnJIENzdgkg
And a brief overview of the game from GameSpot- it'll be playable at the Capcom booth at Tokyo Game Show 2025:

RESIDENT EVIL 9 REQUIEM New Tokyo Game Show 2025 Demo | Best ZOMBIE SURVIVAL HORROR in RTX 5090 4K
Check out this new exclusive preview demo look at the upcoming Resident Evil 9 Requiem running in RE Engine. We captured this gameplay footage with RTX 5090 ...

Dynamical Tension Strings with Target Scale Symmetry producing DE, DM and why 4D?
Eduardo Guendelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17333 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Dynamical Tension Strings with Target Scale Symmetry producing DE, DM and why 4D?
In the modified measure formulation string or branes the tension appear as an additional dynamical degree of freedom . Furthermore in the presence of an additional background scalar field that couples to the strings and locally changes the tension, the tension field really dynamical and the theory has an intrinsic target space scale symmetry. When many types of strings probing the same region of space are considered this tension scalar is constrained by the requirement of quantum conformal inva…

#TimjanGrumpsOnComputers
"Gathering crash information failed for unknown reasons"
#Linux #kde

Btw. I know there hasn't been much new work on #ThingUmbrella over the past month. That's because I've been spending _a lot_ more time on my multi-faceted toolchain for note taking, asset management (images/videos, incl. auto-creation of different versions) and also aimed as generator for blogs/websites, feeds, visualizations (e.g. incl. those on the current

Open source building blocks for computational design. Est. 2006
thi.ng is a set of ~350 complementing code libraries & projects, a long-term effort devoted to Computational Design and Art in its many forms.

How HP's poor strategic and systematic thinking by HP destroyed WebOS and $1.2 billion, a platform before it's time that deserved better.
https://philmckinney.substack.com/p/i-convinced-hps-board-to-buy-palm
(Fun fact: the lead desig…

I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days
The systematic thinking errors that kill breakthrough technology and the decision framework that prevents these disasters

Thinking Augmented Pre-training
Liang Wang, Nan Yang, Shaohan Huang, Li Dong, Furu Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20186 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20186

Thinking Augmented Pre-training
This paper introduces a simple and scalable approach to improve the data efficiency of large language model (LLM) training by augmenting existing text data with thinking trajectories. The compute for pre-training LLMs has been growing at an unprecedented rate, while the availability of high-quality data remains limited. Consequently, maximizing the utility of available data constitutes a significant research challenge. A primary impediment is that certain high-quality tokens are difficult to le…

Ukraine, Hungary spat highlights tensions over pipeline attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/ukraine-hungary-spat-highlights-tensions.html