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Beatles, The:
🎵 Come Together (Remastered)
#NowPlaying #Beatles #The
https://jacobgroening.bandcamp.com/track/the-beatles-come-together-jacob-groening-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2EqlS6tkEnglzr7tkKAAYD

🐝 Flowering time and pollinator visits together shape which plants thrive each season
#flowers

Flowering time and pollinator visits together shape which plants thrive each season
A new paper in Annals of Botany indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and pollinators become uncoordinated, even for a brief time, they can change who reproduces best and change plant diversity. The paper offers new insights into how evolution works in real time.

Keeping screens out of bedrooms, talking, and learning how to manage passwords together are three ways you can help your child build healthy and safe online habits.
https://theprivacydad.com/three-tips-for-parents-to-help-your-chi…

Scientists Build Quantum Computer That Snaps Together Like LEGOs
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-build-quantum-computer-that-snaps-together-like-legos/

IDC: in Q1 2025, the world's top four robot vacuum makers, all from China, together accounted for 54.1% of shipments, as iRobot fell from first to fifth place (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/compa…

China's Roomba killers sweep up in vacuum market despite US tariffs
US robot pioneer on brink of default as Chinese brands expand rapidly

Komitee Equal Shares: Choosing Together as Voters and as Groups with a Co-designed Virtual Budget Algorithm
Joshua C. Yang, Noemi Scheurer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02040 https…

Komitee Equal Shares: Choosing Together as Voters and as Groups with a Co-designed Virtual Budget Algorithm
Public funding processes demand fairness, learning, and outcomes that participants can understand. We introduce Komitee Equal Shares, a priceable virtual-budget allocation framework that integrates two signals: in voter mode, participants cast point votes; in evaluator mode, small groups assess proposals against collectively defined impact fields. The framework extends the Method of Equal Shares by translating both signals into virtual spending power and producing voting receipts. We deployed t…

Trump has shown his admiration for Putin, Xi, and Kim Jong Un. But he may not have expected that they would team up together.

Contrast this with the whole Weak Moderate style of “some reasonable concerns, middle ground, blah blah blah, maybe we should throw trans people under the bus but only about sports, we have to come together.”
Obama isn’t having it. He can’t believe their BS. These Trump people are ridiculous, and he ridicules them — and then points out that their BS is a complete con.

Dan Jones is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains
after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid
led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building.
🔥Armed federal agents in military fatigues busted down their doors overnight,
🆘 pulling men, women and children from their apartments,
some of them naked, residents and witnesses said.
❌Agents ap…

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

#NowPlaying a throwback to the late 90s/early 2000s. Add N to (X) were a very strange, synthy, blippy electronic band that were only together for a few years at the middle/end of the 90s, and barely into the 2000s (they broke up in 2003). They made some catchy, weird songs.
Add N to (X) did a few LPs, this is my favorite, 'Insult to Injury', from 2000:

aivi & surasshu make my fav background music when reading
#music

"...one notable policy initiative from the world body was not discussed by world leaders when it should have been. UN secretary-general António Guterres has put together a high-level group of specialists to propose new indicators for human and planetary prosperity that go ‘Beyond GDP’."
A #Nature journal editorial:
End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity

End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity
The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can now help to devise better indicators.

District 9 BART director @… is hosting a community workshop on what the redesigned, renovated 16th St Mission BART plazas should look like.
Wednesday, November 5th, 6-8pm
1950 Mission St
https://www…

Edward Wright on Instagram: "Join us 6pm this Wednesday at 1950 Mission Street, and let BART know what you want to see happen at our 16th St. plazas."
Join us for a community workshop on November 5th at 6 PM at 1950 Mission Street to share your ideas and help shape the future of the 16th St Mission Bart station and plazas. We're committed to improving conditions and creating a safer, more welcoming environment. Your input is crucial in making a positive impact. Let's work together to make a difference!

From SPEC
Repair Café News
Next up:
📍 Kitsilano Community Centre
📅 Saturday, October 11, 2025
🕤 9:30am–1:30pm PT
Bring your small appliances, clothing, bikes, and more — our team of volunteer fixers is ready to help you repair, learn, and connect with your community. Full schedule available and registration for the October Café available at

Repair Café - SPEC
SPEC brings together repair volunteers and community members at Repair Cafés in Metro Vancouver to fix household items and divert waste.

Last week, GÉANT joined #CoRDI2025 in Aachen 🇩🇪 with 600 participants from the research & infrastructure community.
Our CCO Cathrin Stöver gave a keynote on why GÉANT and our German NREN member @… — together with Europe’s NRENs — are indispensable for scientific le…

that was a really fun night
#deltron3030

@… IMO it *should* in an ideal world reside somewhere entirely outside of any nation state. Like DC is supposed to not be in any state.
But barring our leaders ever actually getting together and figuring that out (Fat chance), outside the U.S. would be a good place to start.

Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
JENNA: But you've been against it all until now.
AVON: I know, but I'm still going down. Vila?
JENNA: [To Cally] You know what all this is about, don't you?
CALLY: [Nodding] I think I can guess.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/319

Warm moist meets cool damp
Weather fronts swirl together
Autumn rains supreme.
#dailyhaikuprompt - swirl
#haiku
#poem

Gandi.net want £65 for a year's email hosting. @… is £20. My gandi.net mailbox expires in 16 days. Will I get my shit together to sort out a new account and move all my IMAP folders, or will I run out of time and grit my teeth and just pay £45 to not have to do it for another year?

What are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
#USPol

Friend: Want to come to my get together tomorrow?
Me: Oh, I'll have to ch–
Friend: My cat has kittens
Me: On my way!!

Day 9: Eniko Fox
Edit: added a store link for Kitsune Tails.
We're back to videogames, and with another author who's on the fediverse: @…
Fox has developed a few games, but the one that I've played and love is Kitsune Tails. It's a sapphic romance take on Super Mario Bros. 3, and (critically for a platformer) it's got very crisp controls and runs smoothly. I think one thing a lot of indie platforms devs struggle with is getting those fundamentals right, because on the technical side they require very challenging things like optimization of your code and extremely careful input handling that go beyond the basic skills necessary to put together a game. From following her on Twitter and now the Fediverse, it's clear that Fox is a deeply competent programmer, and her games reflect that. Beyond the fundamentals, Kitsune Tails has a very sweet plot with a very cool twist in the middle, and without spoilers, that twist made both the levels and gameplay very difficult to design, but Fox rose to that challenge and put together a wonderful game. Particularly past the plot twist (but in subtle ways before it) Fox is able to build beyond SMB3 mechanics in ways that gracefully complement the original, and the movement in the game ends up being difficult but extremely satisfying, with an excellent skill/speed response allowing for both slower, easier approaches that work for a range of players and high-skill extremely-fast options for those who want to push themselves.
There have been plenty of people I follow with indie game projects that are kinda meh in the end, and I'll still boost them without much comment if they're decent. Fox' work is actually amazing, which is why if you've followed me for a while you'll know I tend to mention it periodically, and which is why she makes this list of authors I respect.
You can buy Kitsune Tails here: #20AuthorsNoMen

What in the fungal fuck is this atrocity? No combination of “#mushroom,” “instant,” or “#coffee” is ever acceptable, but all three together has to be unconstitutional. Maybe even a war crime.

Folks, @… is in Egypt with her kids, living under very hard conditions as her husband is stuck in Gaza. We helped her husband and the seven families they’re responsible for move South with the Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal last week but Abeer still needs ongoing help to feed her family in Egypt and send money to Gaza for her husband to do the same.

An Epidemiological Knowledge Graph extracted from the World Health Organization's Disease Outbreak News
Sergio Consoli, Pietro Coletti, Peter V. Markov, Lia Orfei, Indaco Biazzo, Lea Schuh, Nicolas Stefanovitch, Lorenzo Bertolini, Mario Ceresa, Nikolaos I. Stilianakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02258

An Epidemiological Knowledge Graph extracted from the World Health Organization's Disease Outbreak News
The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), together with the increased availability of social media and news for epidemiological surveillance, are marking a pivotal moment in epidemiology and public health research. Leveraging the power of generative AI, we use an ensemble approach which incorporates multiple Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract valuable actionable epidemiological information from the World Health Organization (WHO) Disease Outbreak News (DONs). DONs is a collectio…

How priorities change:
My #framework12 arrived on Monday. I have hardly opened the package, not even properly inspected the device. Why? Because the children want to help me build a laptop, and we did not find the time yet to do it together. 😅
A few years ago, the package would have been open before the door from the delivery was closed. 🤷‍♂️

Putting the Pieces Together | Mick Shots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37I-YkGzOP8

7 Seconds "Walk Together, Rock Together" is comfort music for me...

What do kids want these days?
https://www.freerangekids.com/want-kids-to-spend-less-time-in-the-virtual-world-give-them-back-the-real-one/

Want Kids to Spend Less Time in the Virtual World? Give Them Back the Real One! - Free-Range Kids
Are kids on their phones all the time because that’s what they love the most? An explosive new Harris Poll finds that actually, what kids 8-12 REALLY want to do is hang out together in real life – with no adults hovering, and no screens. They go online because that’s the only place they can

Today we celebrate all the wonderful creatures who share our planet. Happy World Animal Day! May every animal live a life full of love, kindness, and care.
#worldanimalday

Disentangled Multi-Context Meta-Learning: Unlocking robust and Generalized Task Learning
Seonsoo Kim, Jun-Gill Kang, Taehong Kim, Seongil Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01297 h…

Disentangled Multi-Context Meta-Learning: Unlocking robust and Generalized Task Learning
In meta-learning and its downstream tasks, many methods rely on implicit adaptation to task variations, where multiple factors are mixed together in a single entangled representation. This makes it difficult to interpret which factors drive performance and can hinder generalization. In this work, we introduce a disentangled multi-context meta-learning framework that explicitly assigns each task factor to a distinct context vector. By decoupling these variations, our approach improves robustness…

Less than 2 years ago, the right and far-right parties later forming the now double-failed Dutch government coalition got 88 out of 150 seats in parliament. They're now polling at 53 seats.
The two parties still in the caretaker government together at 21 seats.

Reminder that most of our political rules & institutions are purely extra-constitutional norms,
held together by shared beliefs in democracy & a lot of duct tape,
& we’re all out of shared norms
& have shredded our last rolls of tape.
“Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections”
h…

Norm Ornstein (@normornstein.bsky.social)
The constitution does not explicitly say that members have to be sworn in by the Speaker. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

The (PXP)$^2$ model: long-range quantum scars in optical cavities
Hossein Hosseinabadi, Riccardo J. Valencia-Tortora, Aleksandr N. Mikheev, Darrick E. Chang, Johannes Zeiher, Roderich Moessner, Jamir Marino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02246

The (PXP)$^2$ model: long-range quantum scars in optical cavities
Rydberg-cavity systems are emerging as promising platforms for quantum simulation and quantum information processing. These hybrid architectures combine two complementary interaction mechanisms: cavity photons mediate collective long-range couplings, while Rydberg excitations generate strong short-range interactions. Together, they offer a setting for engineering many-body phases characterized by a hierarchy of interactions across widely different length scales. In this work, we introduce a min…

#silentSunday
Ducks on a pond

LLM-based Triplet Extraction for Automated Ontology Generation in Software Engineering Standards
Songhui Yue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00140 https://arxiv…

LLM-based Triplet Extraction for Automated Ontology Generation in Software Engineering Standards
Ontologies have supported knowledge representation and whitebox reasoning for decades; thus, the automated ontology generation (AOG) plays a crucial role in scaling their use. Software engineering standards (SES) consist of long, unstructured text (with high noise) and paragraphs with domain-specific terms. In this setting, relation triple extraction (RTE), together with term extraction, constitutes the first stage toward AOG. This work proposes an open-source large language model (LLM)-assiste…

The Price of Sparsity: Sufficient Conditions for Sparse Recovery using Sparse and Sparsified Measurements
Youssef Chaabouni, David Gamarnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01809 http…

The Price of Sparsity: Sufficient Conditions for Sparse Recovery using Sparse and Sparsified Measurements
We consider the problem of recovering the support of a sparse signal using noisy projections. While extensive work has been done on the dense measurement matrix setting, the sparse setting remains less explored. In this work, we establish sufficient conditions on the sample size for successful sparse recovery using sparse measurement matrices. Bringing together our result with previously known necessary conditions, we discover that, in the regime where $ds/p \rightarrow +\infty$, sparse recover…

Chip Kelly’s Raiders Offense Has ‘Perplexed’ People Around NFL for Wrong Reason https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/chip-kelly-offense-ripped-the-athletic/?adt_ei=[email]

Final joint on the north frame if the workshop. I cut the mortice horizontally, which was a lot more awkward, but not as awkward as dismantling the whole frame and putting it together again.
Still ill, but I've managed this.

Tate-valued Characteristic Classes II: Applications
Shachar Carmeli, Kiran Luecke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01488 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01488

Tate-valued Characteristic Classes II: Applications
We present a construction that manufactures $\E_\infty$ orientations of Tate fixed-point objects together with useful formulas for these maps, and then give a number of applications. For example, we produce a formula for the Frobenius homomorphisms of Thom spectra such as $\MU$ as well as certain lifts of Frobenius. We prove a rigidity property of $\MU$ as a \emph{cyclotomic} object. We construct a general obstruction theory for $\E_n$ complex orientations and establish various non-existence re…

Stranded in a K-Pop restaurant with Heiko Paulheim, talking about Korean Pop music, Death Metal and 1980s musical icons. #ISWC2025 in Nara, Japan.
#semanticweb #academiclife

Protecting the Amazon: Indigenous voices leading the way in the fight against climate change. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Voices from the land: Seven Indigenous paths to protect the Amazon (commentary)
This series, Voices from the Land, brings together opinion pieces led and written by Indigenous peoples from around the world. Through these commentaries, we share our lived realities and reflections on urgent issues shaping our time — environmental destruction, our relationship with nature, and systemic injustice. We write from the heart of our communities, where […]

Bootstrapping supersymmetric (matrix) quantum mechanics
Samuel Laliberte, Brian McPeak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01356 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01356

Bootstrapping supersymmetric (matrix) quantum mechanics
We apply the quantum-mechanics bootstrap to supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SUSY QM) and to its matrix relative, the Marinari-Parisi model, which is conjectured to describe the worldvolume of unstable $D0$ branes. Using positivity of moment matrices together with Heisenberg, gauge, and (zero-temperature) thermal constraints, we obtain rigorous bounds on ground-state data. In the cases where SUSY is spontaneously broken, we find bounds that apply to the lowest-energy normalizable eigenstate. …

Glue up on the first leaf of the Lego table.
#woodworking
#inprogress

from my link log —
ALS Lamon typeface review.
https://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/als-lamon/
saved 2025-08-05 https:/…

ALS Lamon
I still remember being immediately attracted to ALS Lamon because of its incredibly novel concept and brilliant execution. The design has a very difficult brief: first, both upper- and lowercase letters appear together in the same glyph; second, the letters are (mostly) drawn with single strokes. This creates an interesting...

Updated Running Quark and Lepton Parameters at Various Scales
Stefan Antusch, Kevin Hinze, Shaikh Saad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01312 https://arxiv.org/p…

Updated Running Quark and Lepton Parameters at Various Scales
In the light of the recent Particle Data Group (PDG) release, we revisit the running quark and lepton Yukawa couplings, together with the quark mixing parameters, across a range of energy scales. The 2024 PDG determinations of low-energy fermion masses feature significantly smaller uncertainties, resulting from a reduced estimate of systematic errors compared to the more conservative treatment in the 2022 analysis. To assess the impact of these changes, we present running parameters obtained us…

Crowning the Queen: Membership, Age, Rotation, and Activity for the Open Cluster Coma Berenices
M. A. Ag\"ueros (Columbia University, Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux), J. L. Curtis (Columbia University), A. N\'u\~nez (Columbia University), C. Burhenne (Rutgers), P. Rothstein (Columbia University), B. J. Shaham (Columbia University), K. Singh (Columbia University), P. Bergeron (Universit\'e de Montr\'eal), M. Kilic (University of Oklahoma), K. R. Covey (West…

Crowning the Queen: Membership, Age, Rotation, and Activity for the Open Cluster Coma Berenices
Despite being only 85 pc away, the open cluster Coma Berenices (Coma Ber) has not been extensively studied. This is due in part to its sparseness and low proper motion, which together made Coma Ber's membership challenging to establish. Gaia data for $\approx$400 previously cataloged candidate cluster stars allowed us to identify $\approx$300 as members. With [Fe/H] measurements for nine members, we found that Coma Ber has a solar metallicity, and then fit isochrones to its color--magnitude dia…

Optimal control of SDEs with merely measurable drift: an HJB approach
Kai Du, Qingmeng Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01054 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0105…

Optimal control of SDEs with merely measurable drift: an HJB approach
We investigate an optimal control problem for a diffusion whose drift and running cost are merely measurable in the state variable. Such low regularity rules out the use of Pontryagin's maximum principle and also invalidates the standard proof of the Bellman principle of optimality. We address these difficulties by analyzing the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. Using PDE techniques together with a policy iteration scheme, we prove that the HJB equation admits a unique strong s…

Franglais from hell—and a health insurance that uses the slogan of a defense company!?

Peripheral subgroups of Kleinian groups
Alex Elzenaar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00297 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00297

Peripheral subgroups of Kleinian groups
The conformal boundary of a hyperbolic $3$-manifold $M$ is a union of Riemann surfaces. If any of these Riemann surfaces has a nontrivial Teichmüller space, then the hyperbolic metric of $M$ can be deformed quasi-isometrically. These deformations correspond to a small pertubations in the matrices of the holonomy group of $M$, which together give an island of discrete representations around the identity map in $ X=\mathrm{Hom}(π_1(M), \mathsf{PSL}(2,\mathbb{C})) $. Determining the extent of th…

I still don’t understand how an institution can announce a new #CorporateDesign without having a CD manual ready, but still immediately start using the new logo. The manual has now been announced for September 22, 4 months later.
Apparently, somebody noticed that courses already start on September 15, so they scrambled to put together PowerPoint and Keynote templates, while at the…

I still don’t understand how an institution can announce a new #CorporateDesign without having a CD manual ready, but still immediately start using the new logo. The manual has now been announced for September 22, 4 months later.
Apparently, somebody noticed that courses already start on September 15, so they scrambled to put together PowerPoint and Keynote templates, while at the…

Complex Scaling for the Junction of Semi-infinite Gratings
Fruzsina J. Agocs, Tristan Goodwill, Jeremy Hoskins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02951 https://arx…

Complex Scaling for the Junction of Semi-infinite Gratings
We present and analyze an integral equation method for the scattering of a non-periodic source from a geometry consisting of two semi-infinite, periodic structures glued together in two dimensions. The two structures may involve a periodic wall, several layers of transmission surfaces with a shared period, or periodic sets of obstacles. This integral equation is posed on the infinite interface between the two periodic structures using kernels built out of the Green's function for each structure…

Data-Driven Motion Planning for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems
Babak Esmaeili, Hamidreza Modares, Stefano Di Cairano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00154 https://…

Data-Driven Motion Planning for Uncertain Nonlinear Systems
This paper proposes a data-driven motion-planning framework for nonlinear systems that constructs a sequence of overlapping invariant polytopes. Around each randomly sampled waypoint, the algorithm identifies a convex admissible region and solves data-driven linear-matrix-inequality problems to learn several ellipsoidal invariant sets together with their local state-feedback gains. The convex hull of these ellipsoids, still invariant under a piece-wise-affine controller obtained by interpolatin…

💗 An old PC case becomes a Halloween vending machine
#arduino

An old PC case becomes a Halloween vending machine | Arduino Blog
Halloween is creeping up on us like some kind of impatient ghoul, which means that half the maker community is currently scrambling to throw together some spooky projects. Those projects become a lot more approachable when you start with something the already exists—anything, really. For example, Appalachian Forge Works began this Halloween vending machine project […]

Oh my, it took a journal 8 years for publishing a letter to the editors... https://bayes.club/@statmodeling_bot/115123839200920674

Effective Theories of Redshift-Space Galaxy Peculiar Velocities
Shi-Fan Chen, Cullan Howlett, Yan Lai, Fei Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00066 https://arx…

Effective Theories of Redshift-Space Galaxy Peculiar Velocities
We present predictions for redshift-space peculiar velocity statistics in the Lagrangian and Eulerian formulations of the effective field theory (EFT) of large-scale structure. We compute 2-point pairwise velocity statistics up to the second moment at next-to-leading (1-loop) order, showing that they can be modeled together with redshift-space galaxy densities with a consistent set of EFT coefficients. We show that peculiar velocity statistics have a distinct dependence on long-wavelength bulk …

$C^1$ invariant and inertial manifolds for non-autonomous dynamical systems
Rados{\l}aw Czaja, Piotr Kalita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00165 https://arxiv.…

$C^1$ invariant and inertial manifolds for non-autonomous dynamical systems
Recent article by Carvalho et al. [J. Differential Equations 416 (2025)] presents in a~unified framework the Lyapunov--Perron construction of invariant and inertial manifolds together with the saddle point property. We extend their results on the existence of non-autonomous inertial manifolds by considering the gap condition which is known to be sharp. Moreover, we show that the constructed inertial manifolds have $C^1$ regularity.

Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
JENNA: If you hand over this ship, you'll lose a fortune.
TARVIN: Me? How can I lose?
JENNA: Oh, I'd expect a share.
TARVIN: Of what?
JENNA: Three hundred million credits. Give or take the odd ten million.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/111/376

Amplitude analysis of the $\Xi^ _c\to pK^-\pi^ $ decay and $\Xi^ _c$ baryon polarization measurement in semileptonic beauty-hadron decays
LHCb collaboration, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00492

Amplitude analysis of the $Ξ^+_c\to pK^-π^+$ decay and $Ξ^+_c$ baryon polarization measurement in semileptonic beauty-hadron decays
An amplitude analysis of the $Ξ^+_c\to pK^-π^+$ decay together with a measurement of the $Ξ^+_c$ polarization vector in semileptonic beauty-hadron decays is presented. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collision data collected by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 ${\rm fb}^{-1}$. An amplitude model is developed and the resonance fractions as well as two- and three-body decay parameters are reported. A sizeable $Ξ^+_c$ polarization is found. A la…

Surface Effects on the Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy of IrMn$_3$
Robert A. Lawrence, Matt I. J. Probert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00620 https://arxiv.org/…

Surface Effects on the Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy of IrMn$_3$
Magnetic anisotropy is a key parameter to describe the exchange bias effect in heterostructures. In this paper, we describe explicit density functional calculations of the magnetic structure of an interface between the industrially critically antiferromagnetic material, IrMn, and Fe, which together form a simple ferromagnet-antiferromagnet heterostructure. Additionally, the magnetic anisotropy was evaluated for several terminations of the IrMn. It was found that the [111] surface had a perpendi…

Paul of 65daysofstatic has made a little mash up and it did make me smile.
https://knru.polin.ski/one-of-those-days-when-you-really-just-have-to-smash-two-songs-together/

Opening the Gates of Hasidic Thought: A Fall Symposium
https://ift.tt/J6SXder
ANN: New Book on Matriculture, Shamanism, and the Authority of Women: The Powers That Be Linnéa…
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A fire will be lit in Galway this September as
Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures returns for its seventh annual gathering.
It celebrates and brings together nomadic voices from Traveller, Roma, Sšmi, Inuit, and other indigenous communities in a crossroads of cultures.
https://…

Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures will light a fire in Galway this month - This is Galway
A fire will be lit in Galway this September as Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures returns for its seventh annual gathering. Find out more about the festival programme here...

The Early Career Workshop of GR-Amaldi 2025
S Al-Shammari, C P L Berry, C E A Chapman-Bird, F T Chowdhury, K Cunningham, M Emma, R Gray, C Hoy, I S Heng, M Korobko, E Maggio, A-K Malz, H Middleton, M Prathaban, I M Romero-Shaw, G Shaifullah, S Singh, J Steinlechner, K Toland, D Williams, M J Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03360…

The Early Career Workshop of GR-Amaldi 2025
Gravitational physics and astronomy have developed rapidly over the last decade, driven by new observations and theoretical breakthroughs. As new as the science and technology of this field are, its greatest asset may be the body of early-career researchers actively engaged in driving it forward. With the aim of bringing together this community of enthusiastic scientists from a broad array of disciplines, the organisers of the GR-Amaldi meeting joined with the Gravitational-Wave Early Career Sc…

ALMA Deep Field in SSA22: Reconstructed [CII] Luminosity Function at z = 6
Natsuki H. Hayatsu, Rob J. Ivison, Paola Andreani, Fabrizia Guglielmetti, Zhi-Yu Zhang, Andy Biggs, Hideki Umehata, Yuichi Matsuda, Naoki Yoshida, Mark A. Swinbank, Kotaro Kohno, Yoichi Tamura, Bunyo Hatsukade, Kouichiro Nakanishi, Yiping Ao, Tohru Nagao, Mariko Kubo, Tsutomu T. Takeuchi, Minju Lee, Takuma Izumi, Soh Ikarashi, Tohru Yamada

ALMA Deep Field in SSA22: Reconstructed [CII] Luminosity Function at z = 6
The ADF22 line survey reported detections of two high-$z$ line-emitting source candidates above 6-$σ$, both of which were shown to be spurious after follow-up observations. We investigate the detectability of far-infrared emitters in ALMA deep fields using mock observations by injecting artificial line-emitting sources into the visibility planes. We also discuss our investigation, conducted together with the ALMA operations team, of a possible technical problem in the original observations. Fi…

An extension of the Stein/Malliavin-Stein method to independent random variables
Aleksandar Bala\v{s}ev-Samarski, Abdol-Reza Mansouri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02780 https://…

An extension of the Stein/Malliavin-Stein method to independent random variables
Stein's method is a powerful method for characterizing laws of random variables and deriving estimates on the distance in law between a given random variable and a target random variable. In recent work, Stein's method for normal distributions has been extended to provide a characterization of normality together with independence with respect to an auxiliary random variable. We provide here an extension of Stein's method to include independence with respect to an auxiliary random variable, for …

This might become one of my next projects. Sounds very promising.
Building a Dedicated Diretta Link with Audiolinux on Raspberry Pi
by David Snyder
https://www.audiophi…

Building a Dedicated Diretta Link with Audiolinux on Raspberry Pi - Audiophile Foundation
This month's Tech Talk is provided courtesy of David Snyder, who has shared several presentations with the Audiophile Foundation on a range of digital audio topics from digital basics to network streaming. David has put together a comprehensive How-To g

In case anyone knows any good documents that explain in easy terms how email, smtp, and utf-8 work together, what exactly SMTPUTF8 and 8BITMIME do, and how that all works together with DKIM, I'd appreciate any pointers.

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Kaytranada:
🎵 Together
#NowPlaying #Kaytranada
https://odjlino.bandcamp.com/track/kaytranada-together-feat-alunageorge-goldlink-x-808-luke-maui-hipnose-linos-blends-007
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TDErCJDnkz8iJkfR11tP8

Jerry Jones shares Micah Parsons trade timeline of when Packers deal came together https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jerry-jones-shares-micah-parsons-trade-timeline-when-packers-deal-came-together

RELATE-Sim: Leveraging Turning Point Theory and LLM Agents to Predict and Understand Long-Term Relationship Dynamics through Interactive Narrative Simulations
Matthew Yue, Zhikun Xu, Vivek Gupta, Thao Ha, Liesal Sharabi, Ben Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00414

RELATE-Sim: Leveraging Turning Point Theory and LLM Agents to Predict and Understand Long-Term Relationship Dynamics through Interactive Narrative Simulations
Most dating technologies optimize for getting together, not staying together. We present RELATE-Sim, a theory-grounded simulator that models how couples behave at consequential turning points-exclusivity talks, conflict-and-repair episodes, relocations-rather than static traits. Two persona-aligned LLM agents (one per partner) interact under a centralized Scene Master that frames each turning point as a compact set of realistic options, advances the narrative, and infers interpretable state cha…

GitHub plans to launch Agent HQ, a hub to let developers access third-party AI coding agents, including Claude and OpenAI's Codex, in the coming months (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/githubs-huge-agent-hq-…

GitHub's huge 'Agent HQ' upgrade brings Codex, Claude, and Jules together - here's how
The new agentic development platform integrates the most popular AI coding agents directly into GitHub.

Understanding Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution and its Variational form
Angl\'es-Castillo Andreu, Ion Luca, Pandit Tanmoy, Gomez-Lurbe Rafael, Mart\'inez Rodrigo, Garcia-March Miguel Angel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02015

Understanding Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution and its Variational form
Many computationally hard problems can be encoded in quantum Hamiltonians. The solution to these problems is given by the ground states of these Hamiltonians. A state-of-the-art algorithm for finding the ground state of a Hamiltonian is the so-called Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution (QITE) which approximates imaginary time evolution by a unitary evolution that can be implemented in quantum hardware. In this paper, we review the original algorithm together with a comprehensive computer program, …

Speculative Design of Equitable Robotics: Queer Fictions and Futures
Minja Axelsson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01643 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01643

Speculative Design of Equitable Robotics: Queer Fictions and Futures
This paper examines the speculative topic of equitable robots through an exploratory essay format. It focuses specifically on robots by and for LGBTQ+ populations. It aims to provoke thought and conversations in the field about what aspirational queer robotics futures may look like, both in the arts and sciences. First, it briefly reviews the state-of-the-art of queer robotics in fiction and science, drawing together threads from each. Then, it discusses queering robots through three speculativ…

Raiders Tight Ends Are Having Big Impact on Offense https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-brock-bowers-michael-mayer-pete-carroll-tom-brady-training-camp

Clean Rivers partners with Ellen MacArthur Foundation to address plastic waste infrastructure gaps in key countries. . #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Clean Rivers joins Ellen MacArthur Foundation to tackle plastic waste infrastructure gaps in key countries
Together, they will look at how to build collection and recycling infrastructure in various countries, with an initial focus on Brazil.

Aspects of 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ $ADE$ gauge theories from M-theory: decomposition, automorphisms, and generalised symmetries
Osama Khlaif, Marwan Najjar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00564

Aspects of 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ $ADE$ gauge theories from M-theory: decomposition, automorphisms, and generalised symmetries
We study the decomposition of 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ gauge theories with Lie algebras of type $\mathfrak{su}(N)$, $\mathfrak{so}(2N)$, and $\mathfrak{e}_{6}$, realized via M-theory geometric engineering. These theories, together with their novel decomposition structure, arise from quotienting the Bryant--Salamon spin bundle over the 3-sphere by special finite subgroups acting simultaneously on both the fiber and base. We show that these gauge theories admit both inner and outer automorphisms, enabl…

Exponential convergence of a distributed divide-and-conquer algorithm for constrained convex optimization on networks
Nazar Emirov, Guohui Song, Qiyu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01511

Exponential convergence of a distributed divide-and-conquer algorithm for constrained convex optimization on networks
We propose a divide-and-conquer (DAC) algorithm for constrained convex optimization over networks, where the global objective is the sum of local objectives attached to individual agents. The algorithm is fully distributed: each iteration solves local subproblems around selected fusion centers and coordinates only with neighboring fusion centers. Under standard assumptions of smoothness, strong convexity, and locality on the objective function, together with polynomial growth conditions on the …

Trying to find a way to elegantly portmanteau-mangle together “Liquid Glass” and “fiasco”…
Liquid Fiass
Liquid Figlassco
Liquid Gliassco
…and failing

I still don’t understand how an institution can announce a new #CorporateDesign without having a CD manual ready, but still immediately start using the new logo. The manual has now been announced for September 22, 4 months later.
Apparently, somebody noticed that courses already start on September 15, so they scrambled to put together PowerPoint and Keynote templates, while at the…

The ASPIICS solar coronagraph aboard the Proba-3 formation flying mission. Scientific objectives and instrument design
A. N. Zhukov, C. Thizy, D. Galano, B. Bourgoignie, L. Dolla, C. Jean, B. Nicula, S. Shestov, C. Galy, R. Rougeot, J. Versluys, J. Zender, P. Lamy, S. Fineschi, S. Gunar, B. Inhester, M. Mierla, P. Rudawy, K. Tsinganos, S. Koutchmy, R. Howard, H. Peter, S. Vives, L. Abbo, C. Aime, K. Aleksiejuk, J. Baran, U. Bak-Steslicka, A. Bemporad, D. Berghmans, D. Besliu-Ionescu, S…

The ASPIICS solar coronagraph aboard the Proba-3 formation flying mission. Scientific objectives and instrument design
We describe the scientific objectives and instrument design of the ASPIICS coronagraph launched aboard the Proba-3 mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) on 5 December 2024. Proba-3 consists of two spacecraft in a highly elliptical orbit around the Earth. One spacecraft carries the telescope, and the external occulter is mounted on the second spacecraft. The two spacecraft fly in a precise formation during 6 hours out of 19.63 hour orbit, together forming a giant solar coronagraph called AS…

Techniques for mass peak reconstruction in Searches for Long-Lived Heavy Neutral Leptons Decaying to a Lepton and a \(\rho\) Meson
Marzieh Bahmani, Alessandro Guida, Maral Khandan, Heiko Markus Lacker, Anupama Reghunath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01357

Techniques for mass peak reconstruction in Searches for Long-Lived Heavy Neutral Leptons Decaying to a Lepton and a \(ρ\) Meson
The precise reconstruction of the mass peak of long-lived heavy neutral leptons (HNLs) helps to improve the sensitivity for sterile neutrino searches in both fixed-target and collider environments (e.g., SHiP and the LHC). We present an analytical framework for reconstructing the HNL mass peak in the semileptonic HNL decay channel \(N\rightarrow lρ\) with \(ρ\toππ^0\), using only the lepton and the charged pion emerging from the decay vertex together with kinematic constraints and the known…

Years ago I got these NeoPixel strips that did not come all attached with the ability to snap them apart *or* leave them as one big unit...
So I made a jig to hold them together so I can solder them all in series.
#maker #diy

High-Performance Trajectory Tracking MPC for Quadcopters with Coupled Time-Varying Constraints and Stability Proofs
Maedeh Izadi, A. T. J. R. Cobbenhagen, R. L. Sommer, A. R. P. Andrien, E. Lefeber, W. P. M. H. Heemels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01767

High-Performance Trajectory Tracking MPC for Quadcopters with Coupled Time-Varying Constraints and Stability Proofs
In this paper, we present a cascade control structure to address the trajectory tracking problem for quadcopters, ensuring uniform global asymptotic stability of the state tracking error dynamics. An MPC strategy based on a 12-dimensional prediction model is proposed for the outer loop, explicitly accounting for time-varying coupled constraints, where multiple variables are interdependent and need to be handled together. The outer-loop controller generates an acceleration reference, which is th…

Hey everyone,
You know Joy. We run Gaza Verified together. But while I’m safely tucked away in Ireland, Joy is in Gaza, being forced to endure Israel‘s ongoing genocide and the resulting famine.
Last week, we raised $40,200 for families in Gaza stuck under the bombs in the North to help them evacuate South.
Joy got $0 of that.
She and her family need your help too.
Please take some time to donate to her fundraiser.
Joy is one of the most selfless people I …

Numerical solution of 2D boundary value problems on merged Voronoi-Delaunay meshes
M. M. Chernyshov, P. N. Vabishchevich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00557 https://

Numerical solution of 2D boundary value problems on merged Voronoi-Delaunay meshes
Computational technologies for the approximate solution of multidimensional boundary value problems often rely on irregular computational meshes and finite-volume approximations. In this framework, the discrete problem represents the corresponding conservation law for control volumes associated with the nodes of the mesh. This approach is most naturally and consistently implemented using Delaunay triangulations together with Voronoi diagrams as control volumes. In this paper, we employ meshes w…

Highly tunable band structure in ferroelectric R-stacked bilayer WSe$_2$
Zhe Li, Prokhor Thor, George Kourmoulakis, Tatyana V. Ivanova, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Hongyi Yu, Mauro Brotons-Gisbert, Brian D. Gerardot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02886

Highly tunable band structure in ferroelectric R-stacked bilayer WSe$_2$
Transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers unite two frontiers of quantum materials research: sliding ferroelectricity, arising from rhombohedral (R) stacking, and moiré quantum matter, emerging from small-angle twisting. The spontaneous polarization of ferroelectric R-stacked homobilayers produces a highly tunable band structure, which, together with strain-induced piezoelectricity, governs the topology and correlated electronic phases of twisted bilayers. Here we present a systematic low-t…

Dual-Mode Magnetic Continuum Robot for Targeted Drug Delivery
Wendu Zhang, Heng Wang, Shuangyi Wang, Yuanrui Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01761 https://

Dual-Mode Magnetic Continuum Robot for Targeted Drug Delivery
Magnetic continuum robots (MCRs) enable minimally invasive navigation through tortuous anatomical channels, yet axially magnetized designs have largely been limited to bending-only motion. To expand deformation capabilities, this paper presents a simple assembly that embeds permanent magnets radially within the catheter wall, allowing a single externally steered permanent magnet to independently induce either bending or torsion. A physics-based formulation together with finite-element analysis …

Opening the Gates of Hasidic Thought: A Fall Symposium https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20124054/opening-gates-hasidic-thought-fall-symposium

"We're bringing them together to hear the views of America's most famous draft dodger, Donald Trump and this frat boy who's spent a few years in the military, but whose life after that in veterans' organizations and everything else was marred by scandal and mismanagement"
'Offends them': Analyst warns top military brass is seething over Hegseth 'waste of time' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2674106548/

Community-Centered Spatial Intelligence for Climate Adaptation at Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore
Gabriel Spadon, Oladapo Oyebode, Camilo M. Botero, Tushar Sharma, Floris Goerlandt, Ronald Pelot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01845

Community-Centered Spatial Intelligence for Climate Adaptation at Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore
This paper presents an overview of a human-centered initiative aimed at strengthening climate resilience along Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore. This region, a collection of rural villages with deep ties to the sea, faces existential threats from climate change that endanger its way of life. Our project moves beyond a purely technical response, weaving together expertise from Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, and Coastal Geography to co-create tools with the community. By integrating generat…

Combinatorial Aspects of Weighted Free Poisson Random Variables
Nobuhiro Asai, Hiroaki Yoshida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01143 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Combinatorial Aspects of Weighted Free Poisson Random Variables
This paper will be devoted to study weighted (deformed) free Poisson random variables from the viewpoint of orthogonal polynomials and statistics of non-crossing partitions. A family of weighted (deformed) free Poisson random variables will be defined in a sense by the sum of weighted (deformed) free creation, annihilation, scalar, and intermediate operators with certain parameters on a weighted (deformed) free Fock space together with the vacuum expectation. We shall provide a combinatorial mo…

Tzeporah Berman’s campaign group believes Cop30 will help its initiative to phase out oil, coal and gas take shape
The fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty initiative aims to sidestep slow-moving UN climate talks by gathering together nations, cities and companies that want to rapidly phase out oil, coal and gas.
At the coming Cop30 summit in Belém, it hopes to gather support so it can launch negotiations for a new treaty next year.
The group’s founder, Tzeporah Berman, expl…

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Jalen Ngonda:
🎵 Just as Long as Were Together
#NowPlaying #JalenNgonda
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

SmartPoser: Arm Pose Estimation with a Smartphone and Smartwatch Using UWB and IMU Data
Nathan DeVrio, Vimal Mollyn, Chris Harrison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03451 https://

SmartPoser: Arm Pose Estimation with a Smartphone and Smartwatch Using UWB and IMU Data
The ability to track a user's arm pose could be valuable in a wide range of applications, including fitness, rehabilitation, augmented reality input, life logging, and context-aware assistants. Unfortunately, this capability is not readily available to consumers. Systems either require cameras, which carry privacy issues, or utilize multiple worn IMUs or markers. In this work, we describe how an off-the-shelf smartphone and smartwatch can work together to accurately estimate arm pose. Moving be…

Well, I bought a bike. I also realized I don’t think I ever bought a bike for myself before! Most of my bikes were gifts, or built from random parts I’d bought, or pieced together from the dumpster. So this is sort of exciting! And after today’s ride I think an ebike is perfect for me. It’s not easy to ride with people 15 years younger than be, and with occasional knee & hip pain, pedal assist will save my ass.

Unions are challenged with protecting their members from the Trump Administration's immigration raids, cuts in Medicaid services and a weakened National Labor Relations Board.
In June, tens of thousands of demonstrators showed up for "No Kings" protests across Southern California.
Now union organizers have put together the nationwide protest
"Workers over Billionaires,"
calling it a "refusal to let billionaires slash care, scapegoat immigran…