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Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island
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https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/6g6DnHs3W4U6qMERbKwpDd

Wagner mercenary who trained Russian boxing champion, fought in Ukraine, was killed in Mali, intelligence source says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/wagner-mercenary-who-trained-russian.html

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Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/6g6DnHs3W4U6qMERbKwpDd

Towards a Physics Foundation Model
Florian Wiesner, Matthias Wessling, Stephen Baek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13805 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13805

Towards a Physics Foundation Model
Foundation models have revolutionized natural language processing through a ``train once, deploy anywhere'' paradigm, where a single pre-trained model adapts to countless downstream tasks without retraining. Access to a Physics Foundation Model (PFM) would be transformative -- democratizing access to high-fidelity simulations, accelerating scientific discovery, and eliminating the need for specialized solver development. Yet current physics-aware machine learning approaches remain fundamentally…

The original Wigner's-Friend scenarios
Jay Lawrence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13470 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13470

The original Wigner's-Friend scenarios
We describe the Wigner's-Friend scenario according to Wigner, then a similar but earlier version according to Everett. Wigner and Everett provide different resolutions of essentially the same paradox. Decoherence theory provides a third resolution. Despite different interpretations (or their absence), these three stories fit together to form a consistent picture without a paradox.

Choosing the Right Engine in the Virtual Reality Landscape
Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13116 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Choosing the Right Engine in the Virtual Reality Landscape
Virtual reality (VR) development relies on game engines to provide real-time rendering, physics simulation, and interaction systems. Among the most widely used game engines, Unreal Engine and Unity dominate the industry, offering distinct advantages in graphics rendering, performance optimization, usability, resource requirements, and scalability. This study presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of both engines, evaluating their capabilities and trade-offs through empirical assessments …

CS-FLEURS: A Massively Multilingual and Code-Switched Speech Dataset
Brian Yan, Injy Hamed, Shuichiro Shimizu, Vasista Lodagala, William Chen, Olga Iakovenko, Bashar Talafha, Amir Hussein, Alexander Polok, Kalvin Chang, Dominik Klement, Sara Althubaiti, Puyuan Peng, Matthew Wiesner, Thamar Solorio, Ahmed Ali, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Shinji Watanabe, Chih-Chen Chen, Zhen Wu, Karim Benharrak, Anuj Diwan, Samuele Cornell, Eunjung Yeo, Kwanghee Choi, Carlos Carvalho, Karen Rosero

CS-FLEURS: A Massively Multilingual and Code-Switched Speech Dataset
We present CS-FLEURS, a new dataset for developing and evaluating code-switched speech recognition and translation systems beyond high-resourced languages. CS-FLEURS consists of 4 test sets which cover in total 113 unique code-switched language pairs across 52 languages: 1) a 14 X-English language pair set with real voices reading synthetically generated code-switched sentences, 2) a 16 X-English language pair set with generative text-to-speech 3) a 60 {Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish}-X langu…

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Pulp:
🎵 Spike Island
#Pulp
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/spike-island
https://open.spotify.com/track/6g6DnHs3W4U6qMERbKwpDd

Harvesting Contextuality from the Vacuum
Philip A. LeMaitre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11773 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11773

Harvesting Contextuality from the Vacuum
Quantum contextuality is the notion that certain measurement scenarios do not admit a global description of their statistics and has been implicated as the source of quantum advantage in a number of quantum information protocols. It has been shown that contextuality generalizes the concepts of non-local entanglement and magic, and is an equivalent notion of non-classicality to Wigner negativity. In this paper, the protocol of contextuality harvesting is introduced and it is shown that Unruh-DeW…

iTrace: Click-Based Gaze Visualization on the Apple Vision Pro
Esra Mehmedova, Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12268 https://

iTrace: Click-Based Gaze Visualization on the Apple Vision Pro
The Apple Vision Pro is equipped with accurate eye-tracking capabilities, yet the privacy restrictions on the device prevent direct access to continuous user gaze data. This study introduces iTrace, a novel application that overcomes these limitations through click-based gaze extraction techniques, including manual methods like a pinch gesture, and automatic approaches utilizing dwell control or a gaming controller. We developed a system with a client-server architecture that captures the gaze …