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Family Reunion
This weekend marks the 70th reunion of Albert Campbell Smith and Mary Susan Mallow's descendants in West Virginia. I take a nostalgic trip through familiar places, reflecting on family history and memories. I also wonder about my grandmother's estrangement from her relatives.
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Family Reunion – Bob Mueller
This weekend marks the 70th reunion of Albert Campbell Smith and Mary Susan Mallow's descendants in West Virginia. I take a nostalgic trip through familiar places, reflecting on family history and memories. I also wonder about my grandmother's estrangement from her relatives.

Had the post done Friday. Forgot to schedule it last night. I'm traveling for a #family #reunion.
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Family Reunion – Bob Mueller
This weekend marks the 70th reunion of Albert Campbell Smith and Mary Susan Mallow's descendants in West Virginia. I take a nostalgic trip through familiar places, reflecting on family history and memories. I also wonder about my grandmother's estrangement from her relatives.

Pierrepont Holme Hall, February 2025
#photography #heritagephotography #sunlight #silentsunday

Spin Correlations in Recirculating Multipass Alkali Cells for Advancing Quantum Magnetometry
Qian Ling Kee, Lingyi Zhao, Ruvi Lecamwasam, Biveen Shajilal, Xinan Liang, Joel K Jose, Yao Chen, Ping Koy Lam, Tao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14160

Spin Correlations in Recirculating Multipass Alkali Cells for Advancing Quantum Magnetometry
Multipass cells are critical components in a variety of quantum technologies, including atomic magnetometers and optical quantum memories, due to their ability to achieve long optical paths within compact volumes. In optical magnetometry, increasing the optical depth through multipass geometries enhances sensitivity by reducing photon shot noise and enabling quantum nondemolition (QND) detection. In this work, we present a novel recirculating multipass alkali cell that improves the active-to-ce…

Let me think about what really radicalized me. I’m autistic, so I forget things fast. I need to dig into my brain and find that quirky, weird thing or topic that made me feel radical years ago.
It might be something I hyperfocused on or a strange idea that stuck with me for a long time. I’ll try to find it and figure out what pushed me to where I am now.
I’ll post it when I find it. Sometimes it takes me a bit to dig through all the thoughts and memories in my brain, especially w…

Hey! We just came back from a nice afterwork cycling.
Currently we do an hour of easy cycling every day.
Especially after work it really a blessing.
As I'm STILL behind with the recent trips I just browsed the archives for some beautiful memories of a hike last year.
This trail doesn't offer epic vistas but the trail itself is just a gem.
The blog:

Crafting Hanzi as Narrative Bridges: An AI Co-Creation Workshop for Elderly Migrants
Wen Zhan, Ziqun Hua, Peiyue Lin, Yunfei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01548

Crafting Hanzi as Narrative Bridges: An AI Co-Creation Workshop for Elderly Migrants
This paper explores how older adults, particularly aging migrants in urban China, can engage AI-assisted co-creation to express personal narratives that are often fragmented, underrepresented, or difficult to verbalize. Through a pilot workshop combining oral storytelling and the symbolic reconstruction of Hanzi, participants shared memories of migration and recreated new character forms using Xiaozhuan glyphs, suggested by the Large Language Model (LLM), together with physical materials. Suppo…

Visualization of nonlinear optics in a microresonator
Hao Zhang, Haochen Yan, Alekhya Ghosh, Shuangyou Zhang, Toby Bi, Yaojing Zhang, Lewis Hill, Jolly Xavier, Arghadeep Pal, Yongyong Zhuang, Jijun He, Shilong Pan, Pascal DelHaye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05450

Visualization of nonlinear optics in a microresonator
A precise understanding of nonlinear optical phenomena in whispering gallery mode (WGM) microresonators is crucial for developing next-generation integrated photonic devices. Applications include on-chip sensors for biomedical use, optical memories for all-optical networks and frequency combs for optical clocks. However, our ability to spatially localize nonlinear optical processes within microresonators has been limited because optical feedback is often only collected through a bus waveguide. …

Decoupling Local Electrostatic Potential and Temperature-Driven Atomistic Forming Mechanisms in TaOx/HfO2-Based ReRAMs using Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Simanta Lahkar, Valeria Bragaglia, Behnaz Bagheri, Donato Francesco Falcone, Matteo Galetta, Marilyne Sousa, Aida Todri-Sanial
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24468

Decoupling Local Electrostatic Potential and Temperature-Driven Atomistic Forming Mechanisms in TaOx/HfO2-Based ReRAMs using Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Resistive random access memories (ReRAMs) with a bilayer TaOx/HfO2 stack structure have been shown to possess uniquely promising resistive switching characteristics. However, the key atomistic forming mechanisms and the physical processes that govern the behavior of this kind of device remain to be clarified. Here, we present a detailed analysis of the physical mechanisms underlying its forming at the atomistic level through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using an extended charge equilibra…

Interior, Wells Cathedral, Somerset, April 2025
#photography #heritagephotography #documentingplaces #nikon

Interior, Wells Cathedral, Somerset, April 2025
#photography #photomonday #heritagephotography #documentingplaces

Lincoln Cathedral, April 2025
#photography #heritagephotographer #documentingplaces #lincoln

Sheep in the wood and snowdrops.
Holme Pierrepont Hall, February 2025
#photography #naturephotography #countrylife #silentsunday