Tootfinder

a feature that i wish was built into mastodon from the start & hope it eventually comes to heads.social. feel like being able to communicate only with people on your local server is one of the missing pieces in actually making local servers work. (i'd certainly be more apt to live-toot live shows/streams if i knew the readers were specifically the heads server.)

Parece que finalmente acabou a época dos mosquitos aqui em Portimão. Mas as marcas continuam cš. Tenho as pernas todas pintalgadas.
Nunca passei por nada assim. Nunca fui devorado desta forma. Culpo os palermas que destroem ninhos de andorinha porque "ai, sujam tudo".

Die ePetition 174803 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Internationale Verträge und Abkommen mit dem Titel
Sperrung von Karten bei Verlust von Debitkarten und anderen Zahlungskarten
kann bis zum Mittwoch 03. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, …

Die ePetition 174803 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Internationale Verträge und Abkommen mit dem Titel
Sperrung von Karten bei Verlust von Debitkarten und anderen Zahlungskarten
kann bis zum Mittwoch 03. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, …

Learning the Topic, Not the Language: How LLMs Classify Online Immigration Discourse Across Languages
Andrea Nasuto, Stefano Maria Iacus, Francisco Rowe, Devika Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06435

Learning the Topic, Not the Language: How LLMs Classify Online Immigration Discourse Across Languages
Large language models (LLMs) are transforming social-science research by enabling scalable, precise analysis. Their adaptability raises the question of whether knowledge acquired through fine-tuning in a few languages can transfer to unseen languages that only appeared during pre-training. To examine this, we fine-tune lightweight LLaMA 3.2-3B models on monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual data sets to classify immigration-related tweets from X/Twitter across 13 languages, a domain character…

Dynamical neutron-star tides: The signature of a mode resonance
P. Pnigouras, N. Andersson, F. Gittins, A. R. Counsell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06416 https://

Dynamical neutron-star tides: The signature of a mode resonance
Motivated by future opportunities in gravitational-wave astronomy and the ongoing effort to constrain physics under extreme conditions, we consider the signature of individual mode resonances excited during the inspiral of binary systems involving neutron stars. Specifically, we quantify how each resonant mode contributes to the effective (frequency-dependent) tidal deformability. The resonant solution is shown to be accurately represented by a new closed-form approximation, which sheds light o…

Interessanter Beitrag dazu, dass in unserer Welt vieles auf Männer ausgerichtet ist. Diesmal: Fußball
Da Frauen im Schnitt 15 % kleiner sind als Männer u. weniger Muskelmasse haben, müssten Spielfeld und Tor um 15 % verkleinert und die Spielzeit entsprechend verkürzt werden.
Das Experiment wurde tatsächlich gemacht, allerdings anders rum: Alles wurde vergrößert u. verlängert (der Ball wurde zudem schwerer) und dann haben die Männer unter diesen Bedingungen gespielt 🧵

Spent time today helping a VAR upgrade from one support appliance to another. Not my job but I get sucked into these things. While racking the new one I found an unknown box in the rack. "What is this?" "Oh, thats <vendor>'s box. We stopped using them years ago." Cue me finding a Ubuntu 16.04 box STILL ON OUR NETWORK FROM A VAR WE DON'T USE. Keep in mind, these are the same folks that run around screaming about security. Some days I really want to just wa…

Identifying the secondary jet in the RadioAstron image of OJ~287
Mauri J. Valtonen, Lankeswar Dey, Staszek Zola, Alok C. Gupta, Shubham Kishore, Achamveedu Gopakumar, Paul J. Wiita, Minfeng Gu, Kari Nilsson, Zhongli Zhang, Rene Hudec, Katsura Matsumoto, Marek Drozdz, Waldemar Ogloza, Andrei V. Berdyugin, Daniel E. Reichart, Markus Mugrauer, Tapio Pursimo, Stefano Ciprini, Tatsuya Nakaoka, Makoto Uemura, Ryo Imazawa, Michal Zejmo, Vladimir V. Kouprianov, James W. Davidson, Jr., Alberto …

Identifying the secondary jet in the RadioAstron image of OJ~287
The 136 year long optical light curve of OJ~287 is explained by a binary black hole model where the secondary is in a 12 year orbit around the primary. Impacts of the secondary on the accretion disk of the primary generate a series of optical flares which follow a quasi-Keplerian relativistic mathematical model. The orientation of the binary in space is determined from the behavior of the primary jet. Here we ask how the jet of the secondary black hole projects onto the sky plane. Assuming that…

Signal processing and data acquisition system for the BTO detectors onboard COSI
Shunsaku Nagasawa, Tadayuki Takahashi, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Hannah Gulick, Claire Chen, Hiroki Yoneda, Keigo Okuma, Matt Dexter, Josh Forgione, Nihal Gulati, Andrew Ji, Kaylie Ching, Isabel Schmidtke, Sarah Jauregui, Eric Yang, Andreas Zoglauer, Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros, John Tomsick

Signal processing and data acquisition system for the BTO detectors onboard COSI
The energy range from a few hundred keV to a few MeV includes important probes such as nuclear gamma-rays and the 511 keV annihilation line. However, compared to X-rays and GeV/TeV gamma-rays, this range suffers from lower sensitivity by orders of magnitude. The upcoming NASA SMEX satellite mission Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI), scheduled for launch in 2027, is expected to break through this limitation with its Compton telescope utilizing a germanium semiconductor detector, covering th…