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Im 3. Quartal 2025 stammten 65,1 Prozent des Stroms in #Deutschland aus #ErneuerbarenEnergien. Das ist mehr als im gesamten Vorjahr.
#Photovoltaik und

💬 All talks and workshops from #hacklu2025 have their own Discourse topic — making it easy to comment, share feedback, and follow updates per session.
👉 https://discourse.ossbase.org/c/hack-lu/…

hack.lu
Hack.lu (and CTI summit) is an open convention/conference where people can discuss about computer security, privacy, information technology and its cultural/technical implication on society. It’s the 19th edition (21st → 24th October) of hack.lu in Luxembourg.

on the topic of #posiwid, I much too frequently repost Mitchell and Webb's brilliant sketch: The Death Ray
#helpfulbullets #doommelon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HgejSCHRi8

Torquing Cars
Each week we will bringing you the latest motoring news and reviews as well as breaking down out Top 5 topic...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/torquing-cars/

What influenced the lack of diversity in CSR after the company's losses: evidence from topic modeling
Ruiying Liu, Yuchi Li, Zhanli Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23424 https…

What influenced the lack of diversity in CSR after the company's losses: evidence from topic modeling
The diversity of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure is a crucial dimension of corporate transparency, reflecting the breadth and resilience of a firm's social responsibility. Using CSR reports of Chinese A-share firms from 2006 to 2023, this paper applies Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to extract topics and quantifies disclosure diversity using the Gini-Simpson index and Shannon entropy. Regression results show that corporate losses significantly compress CSR topic diversity, c…

OPNsense 25.7.8 released
November 26, 2025, 12:17:59 PM
#opnsense

The Death of the LGBTQ #SuicidePrevention Line
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/29/the-death-of-the-lgbtq-suicide-prevention…

The Death of the LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Line - The Scholarly Kitchen
In today’s post, Teodoro (Teo) Pulvirenti and Marianne Calilhanna join Randy Townsend to unpack the disturbing topic of suicide among the LGBTQ+ community.

Magnon squeezing near a quantum critical point in a cavity-magnon-qubit system
Gang Liu, Gen Li, Rong-Can Yang, Wei Xiong, Jie Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24295 https://

Magnon squeezing near a quantum critical point in a cavity-magnon-qubit system
Preparing magnon nonclassical states is a central topic in the study of quantum magnonics. Here we propose to generate magnon squeezed states in a hybrid cavity-magnon-qubit system by engineering an effective Rabi-type magnon-qubit interaction. This is achieved by adiabatically eliminating the cavity mode and driving the qubit with two microwave fields, of which the driving frequencies and amplitudes are properly selected. By operating the system around the critical point associated with the gr…

Security Issues on the OpenPLC project and corresponding solutions
Chaerin Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22664 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22664

Security Issues on the OpenPLC project and corresponding solutions
As Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) became a useful device and rose as an interesting research topic but remained expensive, multiple PLC simulators/emulators were introduced for various purposes. Open-source Programmable Logic Controller (OpenPLC) software, one of the most popular PLC simulators, is designed to be vendor-neutral and run on almost any computer or low-cost embedded devices, e.g., Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and other controllers. The project succeeded in introducing itself as an a…

Snapchat launches Topic Chats, which enables public conversations on subjects like F1, and plans to use AI and other safety tech to moderate the chats (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/snapchat-rolls-out-topic-chats-for-publ…

Snapchat rolls out 'Topic Chats' for public conversations | TechCrunch
The social network says the new feature will let users chat about what’s happening in the world and across various communities, from Formula 1 to the reality TV show "Below Deck."

Create RSS feeds from any Google News webpage, search result or topic
(World, Technology, Business, Sports).
Just copy and paste the Google News URL below to get started.
https://rss.app/rss-feed/google-news-rss-feed

Google News RSS Feed
Instantly create Google News RSS Feeds from any Google News webpage, topic or search result with RSS generator.

A #MiniMoon that wasn't: the 'asteroid' 2025 US6 - https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25UL8.html, retracted in https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25UM3.html - has been swiftly ID'd as the Chinese lunar test satellite Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) B: https://groups.io/g/mpml/topic/115959056#msg41014. Here is its fun orbit around the Earth in an animation: https://bsky.app/profile/tony873004.bsky.social/post/3m44my3hgis24

Jon Gruden Gets Honest About Tom Brady’s Raiders Role https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-jon-gruden-gets-honest-about-tom-brady-role

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Le Tigre:
🎵 Hot Topic
#LeTigre
https://bikinikill.bandcamp.com/track/hot-topic
https://open.spotify.com/track/4otN5ZboeohAAAXaGnLCIH

Greenleaf Book Group and Amplify Publishing Group have been acquired by Civica Media, a new publishing company formed by private equity firm BlackBern Partners (Jim Milliot/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.…

Private Equity Firm Acquires Two Leading Hybrid Publishers
Greenleaf Book Group and Amplify Publishing Group, two of the country’s oldest and best-known hybrid publishing companies, have been acquired by Civica Media, a new publisher formed by private equity firm BlackBern Partners.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PrototypeFund/115626856685738684
A VERY important topic right now… resilience is so critical!

List coloring ordered graphs with forbidden induced subgraphs
Marta Piecyk, Pawe{\l} Rz\k{a}\.zewski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22160 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

List coloring ordered graphs with forbidden induced subgraphs
In the List $k$-Coloring problem we are given a graph whose every vertex is equipped with a list, which is a subset of $\{1,\ldots,k\}$. We need to decide if $G$ admits a proper coloring, where every vertex receives a color from its list. The complexity of the problem in classes defined by forbidding induced subgraphs is a widely studied topic in algorithmic graph theory. Recently, Hajebi, Li, and Spirkl [SIAM J. Discr. Math. 38 (2024)] initiated the study of List $3$-Coloring in ordered grap…

Trying to build a nice Corsi-Rosenthal style air filter. We have Xiaomi ones but tbh are tbh a bit meh - ok not a surprise to anyone who spent more than 2 minutes googling this topic - been quite interesting.
Got some proper air testers etc. will soon know how it works.
Wonder if there is interest in a few good quality designs in some kind of open hardware project

Spectral equivalence of unsymmetric kernel matrices and applications
Tizian Wenzel, Armin Iske
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24561 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Spectral equivalence of unsymmetric kernel matrices and applications
Symmetric kernel matrices are a well researched topic in the literature of kernel based approximation. In particular stability properties in terms of lower bounds on the smallest eigenvalue of such symmetric kernel matrices are thoroughly investigated, as they play a fundamental role in theory and practice. In this work, we focus on unsymmetric kernel matrices and derive stability properties under small shifts by establishing a spectral equivalence to their unshifted, symmetric versions. This e…

If you're using Pi-hole with Sky Broadband, you can't directly change the DNS settings for the router (in my case a Sky Hub).
However, if you save the settings as a file, edit the file to add the Pi-hole's address in the DNS field, and re-import it, it appears to work.
https://www.pistonheads.co…

Foundation models for high-energy physics
Anna Hallin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21434 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21434

Foundation models for high-energy physics
The rise of foundation models -- large, pretrained machine learning models that can be finetuned to a variety of tasks -- has revolutionized the fields of natural language processing and computer vision. In high-energy physics, the question of whether these models can be implemented directly in physics research, or even built from scratch, tailored for particle physics data, has generated an increasing amount of attention. This review, which is the first on the topic of foundation models in hig…

Anisotropy of the chiral, semiconducting phase LaRhC$_{2}$: a handedness resolved study
Volodymyr Levytskyi, Ulrich Burkhardt, Markus K\"onig, Christoph Hennig, Eteri Svanidze, Yuri Grin, Roman Gumeniuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21510

Anisotropy of the chiral, semiconducting phase LaRhC$_{2}$: a handedness resolved study
Chirality in quantum materials is a topic of significant importance due to its profound effects on the electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of these systems. However, it is non-trivial to decouple the behavior of two enantiomorphs within the same material -- perhaps explaining why the influence of chirality on electrical properties has remained largely unexplored. In this work, we examine the electrical conductivity, magnetoresistance, and thermal expansion coefficient of LaRhC$_{2}$ --…

Efficient Sketching and Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithms for Sparse Vector Sets
Sebastian Bruch, Franco Maria Nardini, Cosimo Rulli, Rossano Venturini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24815

Efficient Sketching and Nearest Neighbor Search Algorithms for Sparse Vector Sets
Sparse embeddings of data form an attractive class due to their inherent interpretability: Every dimension is tied to a term in some vocabulary, making it easy to visually decipher the latent space. Sparsity, however, poses unique challenges for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) which finds, from a collection of vectors, the k vectors closest to a query. To encourage research on this underexplored topic, sparse ANNS featured prominently in a BigANN Challenge at NeurIPS 2023, where appr…

In #StarTrek, humanity did not just wait for other species to come visit them, but actively sought them out by sending out a number of probes into deep space. And one of them is the topic of today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for othe…

Nice, I wanted to write about that topic. And there.. Someone wrote about it already.
That's the reason why I never recorded myself walnut walking into the scene.
Even though it looks really cool,it really disturbs my hiking experience and totally turns into filming.
https://blog.lauram…

People filming themselves in nature
A lot of hiking, camping, and cycling youtube video makers choose to film third-person footage of themselves alone in nature... sometimes with a drone, but s...

»PQConnect: Automated post-quantum end-to-end tunnels«
— by Daniel J. Bernstein
After AI, PQC will be the current topic in IT. It is actually already but not popular. Almost every (larger) IT company is now working on being able to carry out the communication and data transfer securely without the influence of third parties.
📺 https://www.

these endless threads where everything is repeated a hundred times just because people are too lazy to open the topic in the browser 🙄
unbelievable fucking annoying.... 😞
btw: so much hdd wasted on this planet
#WTF #GITHUB

The Qantas board's decision to dock the pay of its CEO over a cyber incident reflects a new era of breach accountability for top executives.
Check out my latest CSO piece on this topic. Thanks to Joe Sullivan, Martin Tully of Redgrave, and Paul Mee of OliverWyman for their insights.
Qantas cutting CEO pay signals new era of cyber accountability

Qantas cutting CEO pay signals new era of cyber accountability
With boards, regulators, and investors turning up the heat, corporate leaders, not just CISOs, are facing financial and legal consequences for data breaches.

XTRA: Cross-Lingual Topic Modeling with Topic and Representation Alignments
Tien Phat Nguyen, Vu Minh Ngo, Tung Nguyen, Linh Van Ngo, Duc Anh Nguyen, Sang Dinh, Trung Le
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02788

XTRA: Cross-Lingual Topic Modeling with Topic and Representation Alignments
Cross-lingual topic modeling aims to uncover shared semantic themes across languages. Several methods have been proposed to address this problem, leveraging both traditional and neural approaches. While previous methods have achieved some improvements in topic diversity, they often struggle to ensure high topic coherence and consistent alignment across languages. We propose XTRA (Cross-Lingual Topic Modeling with Topic and Representation Alignments), a novel framework that unifies Bag-of-Words …

Even #Nature now uses #AI to generate content: Sensory substitution devices and perception https://www.

So, the new twitter appears to be Mastodon? At least on this topic? I posted exactly same thread (ht
@… ) on both here and blue sky platforms and had considerably more comment and additional input onthere than on there. I don't really get why, the other feels like there may be more users but masto is certainly the #Cybersecurity hang out, maybe there are also more Europeans?
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115255377612495056

Virginia Woolf Miscellany Special Topic: Panoramic Woolf (Fall 2026)
https://ift.tt/1cUvPQH
updated: Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:52amfull name / name of organization: Virginia Woolf…
via Input 4 RELCFP

'Tarik - A Golden Axe Story' is being ported/worked on for the Atari 2600 - it's a WIP. Here's POC and the latest version: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/369085-tarik-a-golden-axe-story-great-update-2025

A new finding demonstrates the brutal carbon math of AI video: a 6-second clip can burn 4x the energy of a 3-second one. I’ve updated the What Uses More digital footprint calculator to show why “just a bit longer” gets disproportionately expensive.
https://www.

This looks a useful bookshelf addition. The history of the high street https://bsky.app/profile/dranniegray.bsky.social/post/3lzomvpplpk2a @…

Annie Gray (@dranniegray.bsky.social)
Happy paperback release day to me! This beauty is now out, and available in all good bookshops and also some which you really should avoid because, especially given the topic, your best bet is to toddle off to your (or someone else's) high street to shop at an actual shop.

Day 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen

I wrote a post about my attempts to map my bike rides... (More posts on this topic are in the works!)
#biking

Mapping Bike Rides (Part 1)
Where have I been all this time?

One of the obligatory classics on the general topic, ht @…:
https://mastodon.online/@carto/115237953550201658
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MTOS: A LLM-Driven Multi-topic Opinion Simulation Framework for Exploring Echo Chamber Dynamics
Dingyi Zuo, Hongjie Zhang, Jie Ou, Chaosheng Feng, Shuwan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12423

MTOS: A LLM-Driven Multi-topic Opinion Simulation Framework for Exploring Echo Chamber Dynamics
The polarization of opinions, information segregation, and cognitive biases on social media have attracted significant academic attention. In real-world networks, information often spans multiple interrelated topics, posing challenges for opinion evolution and highlighting the need for frameworks that simulate interactions among topics. Existing studies based on large language models (LLMs) focus largely on single topics, limiting the capture of cognitive transfer in multi-topic, cross-domain c…

I think I have a whole blog post/talk/video in me on this topic, but I feel like most ppl lack imagination when thinking about the DB repository pattern. It doesn't have to be just add/list/get—it's probably even wasteful!
Catchy: ”Database Repository Pattern for People Who Don't Hate Databases”

I just decided that I won't blog about the last two days of our #Schwarzwald vacation. I don't have shareable photos or stories from those days. It just feels like writing for the sake of completeness,not for the photos.
All the days can be viewed here:

#PSA Since I've just been asked again if I could use more topic-specific accounts and not mix my photography with other topics — Unfortunately, nope! I'm on a single user managed instance and cannot create new accounts on this server nor do I want to create an account for every single topic I'm interested in or posting about. However, you can filter my posts by hashtags, which I'm tr…

@… It worked! https://…

Today at the Town Hall Theatre: A Way with Media association with Up Close and Personal Promotions John Lydon - John Lydon - aka Johnny Rotten - changed the face of music and sparked a cultural revolution.
Today at the Town Hall Theatre: A Way with Media association with Up Close and Personal Promotions John Lydon - John Lydon - aka Johnny Rotten - changed the ...

Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam https://www.zdnet.com/article/europes-plan-to-ditch-us-tech-giants-is-built-on-open-source-and-its-gaining-steam/
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Huxe, an app built by three former NotebookLM developers that offers users personalized daily briefs and topic exploration with AI podcast hosts, raised $4.6M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/former…

Former NotebookLM devs' new app, Huxe, taps audio to help you with news and research | TechCrunch
Three devs who worked on NotebookLM are now building an app called Huxe, which can help users dive deep into topics by generating a "podcast" with multiple AI hosts.

Virginia Woolf Miscellany Special Topic: Panoramic Woolf (Fall 2026)
https://ift.tt/1cUvPQH
updated: Monday, October 27, 2025 - 10:52amfull name / name of organization: Virginia Woolf…
via Input 4 RELCFP

A 7-mag. #comet with a 3° tail nobody saw coming is grazing southern skies today: "SWAN 25B" (preliminary name) was discovered by amateurs in spacecraft images and seems to be in its 0.5 au perihelion today. Whether it's undergoing an outburst or will stay bright remains TBD: here's an image from Chile while a lot of discussion can be found in the threads https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/115202009 and https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/115202920

#OpenTelemetry Sampling update
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/sampling-milestones/

Excited to see Publishers Weekly feature YDS professor Yii-Jan Lin and her book "Immigration and Apocalypse"! https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/99026-aar-sbl-2025…

AAR/SBL 2025: Changing People, Changing Worlds
Yale University religious studies scholar Yii-Jan Lin sees parallels between immigration stories and the Book of Revelation.

Issue of Ukraine's territories – the most sensitive topic in negotiations, says Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/18/issue-of-ukraines-territories-the.html

Topic Modeling as Long-Form Generation: Can Long-Context LLMs revolutionize NTM via Zero-Shot Prompting?
Xuan Xu, Haolun Li, Zhongliang Yang, Beilin Chu, Jia Song, Moxuan Xu, Linna Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03174

Topic Modeling as Long-Form Generation: Can Long-Context LLMs revolutionize NTM via Zero-Shot Prompting?
Traditional topic models such as neural topic models rely on inference and generation networks to learn latent topic distributions. This paper explores a new paradigm for topic modeling in the era of large language models, framing TM as a long-form generation task whose definition is updated in this paradigm. We propose a simple but practical approach to implement LLM-based topic model tasks out of the box (sample a data subset, generate topics and representative text with our prompt, text assi…

The Lean project is looking for someone to work on a documentation tool for math/technical communication. This is likely to be very influential, so a chance for someone with the right skills to have great impact. See the announcement here:
https://

Public view of Lean | Zulip team chat
Browse the publicly accessible channels in Lean without logging in.

A survey of moment bounds for $\zeta(s)$: from Heath Brown's work to the present
Alexandra Florea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20335 https://arxiv.org/pd…

A survey of moment bounds for $ζ(s)$: from Heath Brown's work to the present
In this expository article, we review some of the ideas behind the work of Heath-Brown (D.~R. Heath-Brown, {\em Fractional moments of the Riemann Zeta Function}, J. Lond. Math. Soc., (2), {\bf 24}, no.1, (1981), 65--78) on upper and lower bounds for moments of the Riemann zeta-function, as well as the impact this work had on subsequent developments in the field. We survey recent results on the topic, which essentially recover the expected rate of growth for all moments - unconditionally for sma…

We (Anja Lehmann, abhi shelat, and I) have uploaded a first draft of our proposal for EUDI pseudonyms as input to the debate that is currently happening between EU countries. What is a pseudonym, what requirements does it need to tackle, and how can we potentially solve it? We'd be happy to open the discussion for any kind of feedback.

Topic E - Pseudonyms, including User authentication mechanism · eu-digital-identity-wallet eudi-doc-architecture-and-reference-framework · Discussion #375
Welcome to the discussion on the Topic E - Pseudonyms, including User authentication mechanism, part of the ongoing development of the Architecture and Reference Framework (ARF) for the European Di...

Huxe, an app built by three former NotebookLM developers that offers users personalized daily briefs and topic exploration with AI podcast hosts, raised $4.6M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/former…

Former NotebookLM devs' new app, Huxe, taps audio to help you with news and research | TechCrunch
Three devs who worked on NotebookLM are now building an app called Huxe, which can help users dive deep into topics by generating a "podcast" with multiple AI hosts.

Automated Radiology Report Generation Based on Topic-Keyword Semantic Guidance
Jing Xiao, Hongfei Liu, Ruiqi Dong, Jimin Liu, Haoyong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10873 https:/…

Automated Radiology Report Generation Based on Topic-Keyword Semantic Guidance
Automated radiology report generation is essential in clinical practice. However, diagnosing radiological images typically requires physicians 5-10 minutes, resulting in a waste of valuable healthcare resources. Existing studies have not fully leveraged knowledge from historical radiology reports, lacking sufficient and accurate prior information. To address this, we propose a Topic-Keyword Semantic Guidance (TKSG) framework. This framework uses BiomedCLIP to accurately retrieve historical simi…

Seems like a good day to bring back this 2021 post: https://systemsapproach.org/2021/07/19/decentralizing-the-internet-again/

This is a good video about Masculinity. I generally agree with it. Galloway get a lot wrong on gender. Though I don't really think he is a grifter. I think he cares about the topic and wants a good out come not too far off what the person in this video wants.
As I think more about big tent politics I wonder if this video could do more calling in then calling out. There are real enemies out there and to me, at this time, Galloway is a mistaken ally rather then an enemy

This fascinates me. Probably part of the same brain structures that inform my love of history, and my love of figuring out how to get certain old guitar tones
How to Emulate Film Grain in Your Digital Photos | PetaPixel https://petapixel.com/2025/09/19/how-t

How to Emulate Film Grain in Your Digital Photos
It's time to make this complicated topic easy to understand for all photographers chasing a nostalgic feel in their edits.

Whoops. My »USB Sticks Are Not a Back-Up« seminar at ​Convention Zero got the 8am EST slot on Nov 22nd. I've held similar sessions during HistoCamp and LitCampHD, and the topic has never been a crowd favourite. I guess I'll see how many people will be awake enough at that hour. 😬
Relevant Links:
https://conventionzero.carrd.co/

Prof. Paul Smaldino @… will join us in Copenhagen on Wed, Sep 24, 12:30-13:15 to present at an exciting data science seminar!
Topic: Why Use An Evolutionary Perspective To Study Culture?
To attend, see:

Agentic AutoSurvey: Let LLMs Survey LLMs
Yixin Liu, Yonghui Wu, Denghui Zhang, Lichao Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18661 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18661…

"Personal blogs show the passion you have for your topic, how it gives you joy and wanting to share it with others. If it sparks joy in you it’s likely to spark joy in me simply because you shared it."
https://nothingoriginalhere.com/posts/

Personal blogs are the best, I love yours and I’ll try and tell you why - Nothing Original Here
A favourite thing to do on a Sunday morning is to make a coffee and then sit catching up on the part of my rss feed containing personal blogs. I...

Diversity mitigates polarization and consensus in opinion dynamics
Sidharth Pradhan, Sangeeta Rani Ujjwal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19860 https://arxiv.or…

Diversity mitigates polarization and consensus in opinion dynamics
We study the opinion dynamics in a population by considering a variant of Kuramoto model where the phase of an oscillator represents the opinion of an individual on a single topic. Two extreme phases separated by $π$ represent opposing views. Any other phase is considered as an intermediate opinion between the two extremes. The interaction (or attitude) between two individuals depends on the difference between their opinions and can be positive (attractive) or negative (repulsive) based on the…

Once you are done fighting it, documents typeset with #TexLaTeX are pretty damn rad! 🚀
The automations you can put into place to help you focus on the actual writing are really something else:
- different modes for notes, submission, and publishing
- acronym or physical unit expansion only upon first mention
- auto-generated glossary or symbol list
- and of course a ton…

The Bills might be in trouble, plus drama in Laker-land https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6824633/2025/11/21/bills-texans-josh-allen-the-pulse/

Tides of Memory: Digital Echoes of Netizen Remembran
Lingyu Peng, Chang Ge, Liying Long, Xin Li, Xiao Hu, Pengda Lu, Qingchuan Li, Jiangyue Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16579 h…

Tides of Memory: Digital Echoes of Netizen Remembran
This artwork presents an interdisciplinary interaction installation that visualizes collective online mourning behavior in China. By focusing on commemorative content posted on Sina Weibo following the deaths of seven prominent Chinese authors, the artwork employs data scraping, natural language processing, and 3D modeling to transform fragmented textual expressions into immersive digital monuments. Through the analysis of word frequencies, topic models, and user engagement metrics, the system …

Every company that has ever been involved with fascism, slavery, or exploitation of labor should have open statements like this on their website
But I'm impressed that BMW is this blunt about it — and has actual pictures of Dachau
https://www.bmwgroup.com/en/company/histo…

I’d venture that the situation depicted in the classic and obligatory xkcd on the topic (https://xkcd.com/2347/) is rooted in the failure to distinguish (1) and (2).
So is a lot of OSS burnout: somebody shares something cool in the spirit of (1), maybe even tries to be a good individual steward of it, and next thing you know people are beating down their door with demands and complaints as if they are (2).
6/

Hybrid Topic-Semantic Labeling and Graph Embeddings for Unsupervised Legal Document Clustering
Deepak Bastola, Woohyeok Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00990 https://

Hybrid Topic-Semantic Labeling and Graph Embeddings for Unsupervised Legal Document Clustering
Legal documents pose unique challenges for text classification due to their domain-specific language and often limited labeled data. This paper proposes a hybrid approach for classifying legal texts by combining unsupervised topic and graph embeddings with a supervised model. We employ Top2Vec to learn semantic document embeddings and automatically discover latent topics, and Node2Vec to capture structural relationships via a bipartite graph of legal documents. The embeddings are combined and c…

I love it when @… goes on long nerd dives on YouTube and the topic of his latest video focuses on why #Jesus is traditionally depicted with long hair.
An icing on the cake is that early in the video he donated $250 to

Piecing together formic acid isomerism in dark clouds. Detection of cis-formic acid in TMC-1 and astrochemical modeling
G. Molpeceres, M. Ag\'undez, M. Mallo, C. Cabezas, M. Sanz-Novo, V. M. Rivilla, J. Garc\'ia de la Concepci\'on, I. Jim\'enez-Serra, J. Cernicharo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18315

I'm thinking of (1) recording my #PIM lecture as a larger set of 5-30min video snippets (1 for each sub-topic) and/or
(2) writing a book with even more background information on the same subject including further links.
What would you consider more important to you personally?
Please do limit yourself to not more than 2 choices even if they are hard to do.

EngravingGNN: A Hybrid Graph Neural Network for End-to-End Piano Score Engraving
Emmanouil Karystinaios, Francesco Foscarin, Gerhard Widmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19412 http…

EngravingGNN: A Hybrid Graph Neural Network for End-to-End Piano Score Engraving
This paper focuses on automatic music engraving, i.e., the creation of a humanly-readable musical score from musical content. This step is fundamental for all applications that include a human player, but it remains a mostly unexplored topic in symbolic music processing. In this work, we formalize the problem as a collection of interdependent subtasks, and propose a unified graph neural network (GNN) framework that targets the case of piano music and quantized symbolic input. Our method employs…

#EroticMusings 25: Does your erotica ever explore chronic or terminal health?
I plan to write a short series focused on that topic - Namalenia is suffering from a progressing illness that picks up speed as she ages and Rhaise is suffering from a chronical condition after literally falling off an airship, almost drowning and barely surviving the ordeal. They meet on the island where …

After almost two centuries,
Baker & Taylor,
a nationwide library book distributor,
will reportedly shut down operations in January.
Baker & Taylor CEO Aman Kochar told employees Monday that following a recent failed acquisition deal with ReaderLink, the Charlotte-based company has no viable path forward, though he had hoped to find another solution

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down
At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

Topic-Guided Reinforcement Learning with LLMs for Enhancing Multi-Document Summarization
Chuyuan Li, Austin Xu, Shafiq Joty, Giuseppe Carenini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09852 h…

Topic-Guided Reinforcement Learning with LLMs for Enhancing Multi-Document Summarization
A key challenge in Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) is effectively integrating information from multiple sources while maintaining coherence and topical relevance. While Large Language Models have shown impressive results in single-document summarization, their performance on MDS still leaves room for improvement. In this paper, we propose a topic-guided reinforcement learning approach to improve content selection in MDS. We first show that explicitly prompting models with topic labels enhanc…

Set Contribution Functions for Quantitative Bipolar Argumentation and their Principles
Filip Naudot, Andreas Br\"annstr\"om, Vicen\c{c} Torra, Timotheus Kampik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14963

Set Contribution Functions for Quantitative Bipolar Argumentation and their Principles
We present functions that quantify the contribution of a set of arguments in quantitative bipolar argumentation graphs to (the final strength of) an argument of interest, a so-called topic. Our set contribution functions are generalizations of existing functions that quantify the contribution of a single contributing argument to a topic. Accordingly, we generalize existing contribution function principles for set contribution functions and provide a corresponding principle-based analysis. We in…

OPNsense 25.7.7 released
This update ships a number of third party security updates, firewall live
log improvements based on user feedback from 25.7.6, plus minor fixes and
improvements like usual.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=49616.msg25204…

Yesterday I was surprised that my blog post about IP tracking vs "conspiracy" my-phone-is-spying gets low but constant visits. - I reviewed it, corrected a couple of spelling mistakes and added some details.
After all, I'm just happy that I wrote this blog post. I often simply use the blog to "offload" a thought process out of my brain. No matter if someone reads it.

Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult *SPECIAL TOPIC* https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/13/divination-witchcraft-the-occult-special-topic

@…
PLEASE BRING BACK THE DARK MODE !!!!!! PLEASE !!!!!!
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/112807/and-again-the-dark-m…

LiteLong: Resource-Efficient Long-Context Data Synthesis for LLMs
Junlong Jia, Xing Wu, Chaochen Gao, Ziyang Chen, Zijia Lin, Zhongzhi Li, Weinong Wang, Haotian Xu, Donghui Jin, Debing Zhang, Binghui Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15568

LiteLong: Resource-Efficient Long-Context Data Synthesis for LLMs
High-quality long-context data is essential for training large language models (LLMs) capable of processing extensive documents, yet existing synthesis approaches using relevance-based aggregation face challenges of computational efficiency. We present LiteLong, a resource-efficient method for synthesizing long-context data through structured topic organization and multi-agent debate. Our approach leverages the BISAC book classification system to provide a comprehensive hierarchical topic organ…

What I'm hearing about Brandon Aiyuk, Joe Burrow's status and Shedeur Sanders' first start https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6828031/2025/11/22/nfl-rumors-news-joe-burrow-brandon-aiyuk-shedeur-sanders/

Day 26: Emily Short
If you know who Short is, you know exactly why she's on this list. If you don't, you're probably in the majority. She's an absolutely legendary author within the interactive fiction (IF) community, which gets somewhat pigeonholed by stuff like Zork when there's actually a huge range of stuff in the medium some of which isn't even puzzle-focused, and Short has been writing & coding on the bleeding edge of things for decades.
I was lucky enough to be introduced to Short's work in graduate school, where we played "Galatea" as part of an interactive fiction class. Short uses a lot of clever parser tricks to make your conversation with a statue feel very fluid and conversational, giving to contemporary audiences a great example of how vibrant interaction with a well-designed agent can be in contrast to an LLM, if you're willing to put in some work on bespoke parsing & responses (although the user does need to know basic IF conventions). While I didn't explore the full range of Galatea's many possible outcomes, it left a strong impression on me as a vision for what IF could be besides dorky puzzles, and I think that "visionary" is a great term to describe Short.
If you'd like you get a feel for her (very early) work, you can play Galatea here: #30AuthorsNoMen

Doc2Query : Topic-Coverage based Document Expansion and its Application to Dense Retrieval via Dual-Index Fusion
Tzu-Lin Kuo, Wei-Ning Chiu, Wei-Yun Ma, Pu-Jen Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09557

Doc2Query++: Topic-Coverage based Document Expansion and its Application to Dense Retrieval via Dual-Index Fusion
Document expansion (DE) via query generation tackles vocabulary mismatch in sparse retrieval, yet faces limitations: uncontrolled generation producing hallucinated or redundant queries with low diversity; poor generalization from in-domain training (e.g., MS MARCO) to out-of-domain data like BEIR; and noise from concatenation harming dense retrieval. While Large Language Models (LLMs) enable cross-domain query generation, basic prompting lacks control, and taxonomy-based methods rely on domain-…

First the nucleus of #comet SWAN split - https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-2-november-2025/#Nov06 ("Der Kern des Kometen C/2025 R2 (SWAN) ist zerbrochen ...") - and now C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) has suffered the same fate: a 2-meter-telescope image from https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17487 ("Multiple Fragmentation Observed"), also https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/116216567 (several amateur observations) and https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17488 (Hubble detections of more fragments, sadly no pictures included).

OPNsense 25.7.5 released
This updates provides for a new GeoIP database source by IPinfo, stability
fixes for several network drivers and the recent OpenSSL security update
amongst others.
https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=49220.msg249339#msg2493…

Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
https://ift.tt/ECyVln9
Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
via Input 4 RELCFP

DiTTO-LLM: Framework for Discovering Topic-based Technology Opportunities via Large Language Model
Wonyoung Kim, Sujeong Seo, Juhyun Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09724 https:/…

DiTTO-LLM: Framework for Discovering Topic-based Technology Opportunities via Large Language Model
Technology opportunities are critical information that serve as a foundation for advancements in technology, industry, and innovation. This paper proposes a framework based on the temporal relationships between technologies to identify emerging technology opportunities. The proposed framework begins by extracting text from a patent dataset, followed by mapping text-based topics to discover inter-technology relationships. Technology opportunities are then identified by tracking changes in these …

1/2 Got some new reading material about digital sovereignty.
It's a really nice topic / hobby to spend time with: doing IT stuff for my own, playing around with RaspberryPIs and VPCs - and maybe(!) increasing some data protection.
Someone once told me that it's absurd as I'm posting online so much. But posting online is something I do explicitly. I control what I put online.
In case of services that I use form any company, I give away control (as I hardly ever rea…

HICode: Hierarchical Inductive Coding with LLMs
Mian Zhong, Pristina Wang, Anjalie Field
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17946 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17946

HICode: Hierarchical Inductive Coding with LLMs
Despite numerous applications for fine-grained corpus analysis, researchers continue to rely on manual labeling, which does not scale, or statistical tools like topic modeling, which are difficult to control. We propose that LLMs have the potential to scale the nuanced analyses that researchers typically conduct manually to large text corpora. To this effect, inspired by qualitative research methods, we develop HICode, a two-part pipeline that first inductively generates labels directly from an…

Searching for Difficult-to-Translate Test Examples at Scale
Wenda Xu, Vil\'em Zouhar, Parker Riley, Mara Finkelstein, Markus Freitag, Daniel Deutsch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26619

Searching for Difficult-to-Translate Test Examples at Scale
NLP models require test data that are sufficiently challenging. The difficulty of an example is linked to the topic it originates from (''seed topic''). The relationship between the topic and the difficulty of its instances is stochastic in nature: an example about a difficult topic can happen to be easy, and vice versa. At the scale of the Internet, there are tens of thousands of potential topics, and finding the most difficult one by drawing and evaluating a large number of examples across al…

Biased Tales: Cultural and Topic Bias in Generating Children's Stories
Donya Rooein, Vil\'em Zouhar, Debora Nozza, Dirk Hovy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07908 https://

Biased Tales: Cultural and Topic Bias in Generating Children's Stories
Stories play a pivotal role in human communication, shaping beliefs and morals, particularly in children. As parents increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) to craft bedtime stories, the presence of cultural and gender stereotypes in these narratives raises significant concerns. To address this issue, we present Biased Tales, a comprehensive dataset designed to analyze how biases influence protagonists' attributes and story elements in LLM-generated stories. Our analysis uncovers stri…