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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Arthur Russell:
🎵 This Is How We Walk on the Moon
#ArthurRussell
https://bewilderedhallelujah.bandcamp.com/track/arthur-russell-this-is-how-we-walk-on-the-moon-bewhal-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/74LbkcDTjFV1WtMmTAtORI

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The All Seeing I feat. Tony Christie:
🎵 Walk Like A Panther
#NowPlaying #TheAllSeeingI #TonyChristie
https://theallseeing.bandcamp.com/track/walk-like-a-panther-feat-tony-christie-remastered
https://open.spotify.com/track/6WdxUix0wtxxoAMTAcG71I

Ik heb geen woorden en zou willen dat iedereen deze film ziet.
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’
https://cineville.nl/films/put-your-soul-on-your-hand-and-walk

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
200 dagen videobelt Sepideh Farsi met fotojournalist Fatma in Gaza-stad. Vanuit Fatma’s woning ontvouwt zich een zeldzaam perspectief op een onmenselijk bestaan.

Random walk on hyperbolic groups and proper powers
Mikael de la Salle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05438 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.05438

Random walk on hyperbolic groups and proper powers
The probability that a symmetric random walk in a hyperbolic group reaches a proper power has the same exponential rate of decay as the probability of return to the identity.

✅ Morning walk in the rain

Two huge narcissists walk into a bar.. erm, I mean election. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/07/game-of-chicken-eric-adams-cuomo-want-each-other-out-of-nyc-mayoral-race-00441398

What @… said here, and so well said.
Note that deciding it’s the wrong time to rub somebody’s nose in how incredibly wrong they were doesn’t make them any less wrong. Listening is not the same thing as accepting. Sometimes it’s a moment to say “you dumbass,” and sometimes it’s a moment to say “And how did that work out for you?” The wise know the difference.
People who were taken in by the likes of these scammers •can• walk out of it in moments of cognitive dissonance — and if you’re in a position to do what Luna describes with someone you know, you might just change a life.
https://defcon.social/@corbden/115329960629783431

Providence folks: tried buying a ticket for a film festival show tomorrow. Saw tons of seats. Went to discuss plans w/ family. Came back, tried again, and now ticket page says "The sale has ended". There's no contact info for RIIFF! Any idea if you can do a walk-in purchase? Cash? Card? Help!

The U.S. Army is being ordered to terrorize the American people.
https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3ltfvcmozn22o

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
Military documents confirm that the LA operation today was a “show of presence” intended to send a message to LA residents about the power of the federal government. After staging with armed soldiers and Border Patrol agents on horse, they packed up and left after a short walk. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

We went for our first walk after a month of staggered illnesses and uninviting weather. It was only a little amble over to the cafe where we sat and drank our coffee and then ambled off home again. It was lovely and civilised and felt like we were back in our normal life again.
#Winter #Suburbia

it’s a beautiful day to walk around downtown and campus

Car culture at its absolute worst meets an unjust legal system. Parents lose a son and are then convicted of a felony because they let him walk across the street. Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion

Opinion | They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They’re Felons
They went to jail when their boy was killed. Why don’t road planners bear some guilt?

I am liking London a lot. But it sure is hard getting around. Everything I want to see in central London is a 20-30 minute walk: great! But if you don't want to walk, it's also a 20-30 minute cab ride (traffic) or 20-30 minute bus/underground. Bicycles are probably the answer.

Herschel Walker confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas (Joe Walsh/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/herschel-walker-trump-ambassador-bahamas-senate/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p129#a251007p129

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

review: Walk Like a Cow debut cover album
#UnsignedMusician #CoolCovers
https://muz4now.com/2…

review: Walk Like a Cow debut cover album
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Random Walks and the Meeting Time for Trees
Andrew Beveridge, Ben Bridenbaugh, Ari Holcombe Pomerance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02804 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Random Walks and the Meeting Time for Trees
Consider a random walk on a tree $G=(V,E)$. For $v,w \in V$, let the hitting time $H(v,w)$ denote the expected number of steps required for the random walk started at $v$ to reach $w$, and let $π_v = \mathrm{deg}(v)/2|E|$ denote the stationary distribution for the random walk. We characterize the extremal tree structures for the meeting time $T_{\mathrm{meet}}(G) = \max_{w \in V} \sum_{v \in V} π_v H(v,w)$. For fixed order $n$ and diameter $d$, the meeting time is maximized by the b…

Sigh. Paging Sam Altman.

Series D, Episode 03 - Traitor
VILA: He's not the man for the job. Tarrant has about as much subtlety as a Tarzian Warg Strangler. All I'm saying is Tarrant's going to walk straight into trouble and get himself killed or captured. If he's dead he can't talk. But if the Federation find out we're hanging around, we won't stand a chance. Not in this ship. At least in the Liberator we could always outrun them.
AVON: Vila, if the Federation do have some ne…

Until today, I had never, in my life, felt the urgent need to use an electrical fan at home. The cat is not happy. I was not happy to go out in the middle of the morning and buy one. I just hope in 10 years I won't need a space suit to walk outside.

Yes. Whenever people present you with Slop Content (outside of active criticism of course) refuse. Refuse to engage and accept.
https://mastodon.social/@geospacedman/115326594934803871

Buccaneers-Seahawks takeaways: Baker Mayfield, Lavonte David spark Tampa Bay's walk-off win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6692149/2025/10/05/buccaneers-seahawks-score-result-takeaways-nfl/

Boundary contacts for reflected random walks in the quarter plane
Viet Hung Hoang, Kilian Raschel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04745 https://

Boundary contacts for reflected random walks in the quarter plane
We investigate reflected random walks in the quarter plane, with particular emphasis on the time spent along the reflection boundary axes. Assuming the drift of the random walk lies within the cone, the local time converges -- without the need for normalization -- to a limiting random variable as the walk length tends to infinity. This paper focuses on the properties of these discrete limiting variables. The problem is rooted in probability theory but also has natural connections to statistical…

Depth-Aware Initialization for Stable and Efficient Neural Network Training
Vijay Pandey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05018 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05018

Depth-Aware Initialization for Stable and Efficient Neural Network Training
In past few years, various initialization schemes have been proposed. These schemes are glorot initialization, He initialization, initialization using orthogonal matrix, random walk method for initialization. Some of these methods stress on keeping unit variance of activation and gradient propagation through the network layer. Few of these methods are independent of the depth information while some methods has considered the total network depth for better initialization. In this paper, comprehe…

Moody Urbanity - Up 😶‍🌫️
情绪化城市 - 上面 😶‍🌫️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

So Robert "Fuckwit" Jenrick is upset he didn't see any white faces in a short (likely no more than 3 minute) walk aroind Birmingham. I bet my Brummie folk were more upset at having to see that cunts face, ferreting around like the worthless, fat, little circus showman he is.
#fucktories #fuckjenrick

Walking, Rolling, and Beyond: First-Principles and RL Locomotion on a TARS-Inspired Robot
Aditya Sripada, Abhishek Warrier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05001 https://

Walking, Rolling, and Beyond: First-Principles and RL Locomotion on a TARS-Inspired Robot
Robotic locomotion research typically draws from biologically inspired leg designs, yet many human-engineered settings can benefit from non-anthropomorphic forms. TARS3D translates the block-shaped 'TARS' robot from Interstellar into a 0.25 m, 0.99 kg research platform with seven actuated degrees of freedom. The film shows two primary gaits: a bipedal-like walk and a high-speed rolling mode. For TARS3D, we build reduced-order models for each, derive closed-form limit-cycle conditions, and valid…

Quantum Stochastic Walks for Portfolio Optimization: Theory and Implementation on Financial Networks
Yen Jui Chang, Wei-Ting Wang, Yun-Yuan Wang, Chen-Yu Liu, Kuan-Cheng Chen, Ching-Ray Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03963

Quantum Stochastic Walks for Portfolio Optimization: Theory and Implementation on Financial Networks
Financial markets are noisy yet contain a latent graph-theoretic structure that can be exploited for superior risk-adjusted returns. We propose a quantum stochastic walk (QSW) optimizer that embeds assets in a weighted graph: nodes represent securities while edges encode the return-covariance kernel. Portfolio weights are derived from the walk's stationary distribution. Three empirical studies support the approach. (i) For the top 100 S\&P 500 constituents over 2016-2024, six scenario portfolio…

Car culture at its absolute worst meets an unjust legal system. Parents lose a son and are then convicted of a felony because they let him walk across the street. Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion

Opinion | They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They’re Felons
They went to jail when their boy was killed. Why don’t road planners bear some guilt?

Proximity-based cities emit less mobility-driven CO2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00094

Proximity-based cities emit less mobility-driven CO$_2$
In the quest for more environmentally sustainable urban areas, the concept of the 15-minute city has been proposed to encourage active mobility, primarily through walking and cycling. An urban area is considered a ``15-minute city" if every resident can access essential services within a 15-minute walk or bike ride from their home. However, there is an ongoing debate about the effectiveness of this model in reducing car usage and carbon emissions. In this study, we conduct a large-scale data-dr…

NeuroPDE: A Neuromorphic PDE Solver Based on Spintronic and Ferroelectric Devices
Siqing Fu, Lizhou Wu, Tiejun Li, Chunyuan Zhang, Sheng Ma, Jianmin Zhang, Yuhan Tang, Jixuan Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04677

NeuroPDE: A Neuromorphic PDE Solver Based on Spintronic and Ferroelectric Devices
In recent years, new methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) such as Monte Carlo random walk methods have gained considerable attention. However, due to the lack of hardware-intrinsic randomness in the conventional von Neumann architecture, the performance of PDE solvers is limited. In this paper, we introduce NeuroPDE, a hardware design for neuromorphic PDE solvers that utilizes emerging spintronic and ferroelectric devices. NeuroPDE incorporates spin neurons that are capable…

A group of cancer survivers was just called to the front to lead the runners and walkers. A speech by one of the women has brought forth the tears. My wife had to walk away as she found it tough to listen. Too close to our daughter's story.

#ShamelesslyStolenFromTumblr

Efficient structure-preserving scheme for chemotaxis PDEs with singular sensitivity in crime and epidemic modeling
Rui Wang, Yunfeng Xiong, Zhengru Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04826

Efficient structure-preserving scheme for chemotaxis PDEs with singular sensitivity in crime and epidemic modeling
The system of chemotaxis PDEs with singular sensitivity was originally proposed by Short et al. [Math. Mod. Meth. Appl. Sci., 18:1249-1267, 2008] as the continuum limit of a biased random walk model to account for the formation of crime hotspots and environmental feedback successfully. Recently, this idea has also been applied to epidemiology to model the impact of human social behaviors on disease transmission. In order to characterize the phase transition, pattern formation and statistical pr…

Gaussian Process Modeling Coronal X-ray Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei
Haiyun Zhang, Dahai Yan, Li Zhang, Niansheng Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04715

Gaussian Process Modeling Coronal X-ray Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei
The corona is an integral component of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) which can produce the X-ray emission. However, many of its physical properties and the mechanisms powering this emission remain a mystery. In this work, we study the coronal X-ray variabilities of 13 AGNs by Gaussian Process. 2-10 keV light curves of 13 AGNs can be successfully described by the damped-random walk (DRW) model. The extracted coronal X-ray timescales range from 3 to 50 days. In the plot of variability timescale v…

Scale dependence in hidden Markov models for animal movement
Th\'eo Michelot, Emma Storey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03958 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0…

Scale dependence in hidden Markov models for animal movement
Hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been used increasingly to understand how movement patterns of animals arise from behavioural states. An animal is assumed to transition between behavioural states through time, as described by transition probabilities. Within each state, the movement typically follows a discrete-time random walk, where steps between successive observed locations are described in terms of step lengths (related to speed) and turning angles (related to tortuosity). HMMs are discret…

Memory behavior of a randomly driven model glass
Roni Chatterjee, Smarajit Karmakar, Muhittin Mungan, Damien Vandembroucq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05537 https://

Memory behavior of a randomly driven model glass
We investigate by atomistic simulations the memory behavior a model glass subjected to random driving protocols. The training consists of a random walk of forward and/or backward shearing sequences bounded by a maximal shear strain of absolute value γT . We show that such a stochastic training protocol is able to record the training amplitude. Different read-out protocols are also tested and are shown to be able to retrieve the training amplitude. We then emphasize the ten- sorial character of…

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
-- Daniel Knowles
https://

Daniel Knowles (@dlknowles.bsky.social)
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Have been out for my morning walk. Todays bag.:
2 roe deer
1 grey heron
1 kestrel

FBI Reportedly Mulling a Comey Perp Walk With ‘Large, Beefy’ Agents
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fbi-reportedly-mulling-comey-perp-022538470.html

The FBI is weighing an arrest and perp walk for Comey -- and suspended an agent for refusing to help, sources say (Daniel Klaidman/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-arrest-perp-walk-james-comey-suspended-agent-refusing-doj-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p144#a251003p144

CFS is exhausting. On days like today, I can barely finish washing my hair before I'm so exhausted that I collapse into bed to rest before I finish drying off.
But I wouldn't have started washing my hair unless I thought I had the energy.
Some days I can walk a kilometer and do almost normal things. Some days even mental exertion is too much, let alone social or physical.
#CFS

Cowboys, playoff hopes will walk into the Lions Den in Week 14 https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-playoff-hopes-will-walk-into-the-lions-den-in-week-14

I flooded the bathroom here in Hungary. Here it is looking a lot better than it had done (which was practically a mini swimming pool on the floor.) 🤪 I hadn’t slept all night, was in some frenzy with rushing thoughts for a story on Genghis Khan, and then the water went out in the village. I have no memory of doing this, but apparently I turned the shower on and nothing happened. Anyway, I went for a couple of hours long walk, and came back to the shower now on, spraying the floor.
Tha…

Apparently one can just walk right up to it via Norway but do NOT misstep across into Russia or Finland. https://mendeddrum.org/@fanf/114972973520519404

Love a night walk on the beach. Looks like I interrupted someone’s dinner.

On The Road - To Xi’An ☁️
在路上 - 去西安 ☁️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
E-Z Rollers:
🎵 Walk This Land
#EZRollers
https://extramedium.bandcamp.com/track/e-z-rollers-walk-this-land-extra-medium-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/0FpKiUm6TKb1LJEOGt5AL0

There are three things at the core of every Philadelphian's identity: Cheesesteaks, Liberty, and the 6abc Action News theme song
https://6abc.com/post/conshohocken-baseball-player-chooses-action-news-theme-walk-music/17657880/

8-year-old baseball player chooses Action News theme song as walk-up music
A young slugger has the ultimate hype music when he walks up to bat. His anthem is a theme song that is breaking news and making headlines.

Don't have anyone to walk the Airborne with this year.
Got half a mind to walk solo and hang a sign around my neck "Free hugs and/or headpats".
Might just yolo it.

FBI agent relieved of duty over refusing Comey perp walk, four people familiar say (Sarah N. Lynch/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-agent-relieved-duty-over-refusing-comey-perp-walk-four-people-familiar-say-2025-10-03/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p130#a251003p130

QSearchNet: A Quantum Walk Search Framework for Link Prediction
Priyank Dubey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00325 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00325

QSearchNet: A Quantum Walk Search Framework for Link Prediction
Link prediction is one of the fundamental problems in graph theory, critical for understanding and forecasting the evolution of complex systems like social and biological networks. While classical heuristics capture certain aspects of graph topology, they often struggle to optimally integrate local and global structural information or adapt to complex dependencies. Quantum computing offers a powerful alternative by leveraging superposition for simultaneous multi-path exploration and interferenc…

I was just out with my wife on a good 2.5h walk in a nearby valley to scout some possible photo locations.
We were quite well prepared for rain but luckily didn't need a lot. 🍀 Well, photo result: I might walk further some time when it hadn't rained so much. Ground was very wet and a stream I need to cross was filled pretty well.
Also it might look pretty nice there in autumn.

At the opening ceremony. Since 1992 this event has raised $522M for research and treatment, and survival rates have doubled. Looks like close to 1,000 people here getting ready to run and walk.
#RunForTheCure #BreastCancerAwareness

Temporal Exploration of Random Spanning Tree Models
Samuel Baguley, Andreas G\"obel, Nicolas Klodt, George Skretas, John Sylvester, Viktor Zamaraev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03361

Temporal Exploration of Random Spanning Tree Models
The Temporal Graph Exploration problem (TEXP) takes as input a temporal graph, i.e., a sequence of graphs $(G_i)_{i\in \mathbb{N}}$ on the same vertex set, and asks for a walk of shortest length visiting all vertices, where the $i$-th step uses an edge from $G_i$. If each such $G_i$ is connected, then an exploration of length $n^2$ exists, and this is known to be the best possible up to a constant. More fine-grained lower and upper bounds have been obtained for restricted temporal graph classes…

Spectral gap for the signed interchange process with arbitrary sets
Gil Alon, Subhajit Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04244 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04…

Spectral gap for the signed interchange process with arbitrary sets
In 2020, F.Cesi introduced a random walk on the hyperoctahedral group $B_n$ and analysed its spectral gap when the allowed generators are transpositions and diagonal elements corresponding to singletons. In this paper we extend the allowed generators to transpositions and any diagonal elements, and characterise completely the set of representations from which the spectral gap arises. This settles a conjecture posed in Cesi's paper.

A note on spectral Monte-Carlo method for fractional Poisson equation on high-dimensional ball
Lisen Ding, Mingyi Wang, Dongling Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04427 https://…

A note on spectral Monte-Carlo method for fractional Poisson equation on high-dimensional ball
Recently, a class of efficient spectral Monte-Carlo methods was developed in \cite{Feng2025ExponentiallyAS} for solving fractional Poisson equations. These methods fully consider the low regularity of the solution near boundaries and leverage the efficiency of walk-on-spheres algorithms, achieving spectral accuracy. However, the underlying formulation is essentially one-dimensional. In this work, we extend this approach to radial solutions in general high-dimensional balls. This is accomplished…

Things I spotted on my walk today - a freshly molted cicada and some sort of moth? butterfly? #bloomscrolling

The first day of school means the first day in a while of having to deal with the parents who think their convenience is more important than everyone else's life. If you have to drive the little ones to school, please consider parking a block or two away and walking to the door instead of clogging the street in front of the school. And please, please just let that kid ride/walk by first. You can wait. I'm tired of having to defend my children from other parents in death machines.

Run don't walk to the best Baklava, in Vancouver!
Emilee’s Sweet House — Authentic Turkish Baklava, Pastries & Coffee
This is the best baklava and Turkish coffee I’ve ever had in Vancouver.
The organic teas were amazing, I loved their matcha latte. Their costumer service was excellent and environmentally friendly. I will be coming back for more baklava and try their regular coffees.

I just played Dog Walk by the @… team and I loved it!
It's so beautiful and well-made! And it's super cute, too!
Thank you so much for making it!

Pretty good walk for the day! 7km.
#truthandreconciliationday

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

If, like me, you weren’t familiar with #DSPy, this was a great talk given at the Databricks Data & AI summit to walk you through why you should care.
If you’re writing prompts by hand in your apps, stop now and read this article by @…

Let the Model Write the Prompt
Notes from a talk I delivered at the 2025 Data + AI Summit, detailing the problem with prompts in your code and how DSPy can make everything better.

Walk the Talk: Is Your Log-based Software Reliability Maintenance System Really Reliable?
Minghua He, Tong Jia, Chiming Duan, Pei Xiao, Lingzhe Zhang, Kangjin Wang, Yifan Wu, Ying Li, Gang Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24352

Walk the Talk: Is Your Log-based Software Reliability Maintenance System Really Reliable?
Log-based software reliability maintenance systems are crucial for sustaining stable customer experience. However, existing deep learning-based methods represent a black box for service providers, making it impossible for providers to understand how these methods detect anomalies, thereby hindering trust and deployment in real production environments. To address this issue, this paper defines a trustworthiness metric, diagnostic faithfulness, for models to gain service providers' trust, based o…

Decentralized Federated Averaging via Random Walk
Changheng Wang, Zhiqing Wei, Lizhe Liu, Qiao Deng, Yingda Wu, Yangyang Niu, Yashan Pang, Zhiyong Feng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21286

Decentralized Federated Averaging via Random Walk
Federated Learning (FL) is a communication-efficient distributed machine learning method that allows multiple devices to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data. FL can be categorized into centralized and decentralized paradigms. The centralized paradigm relies on a central server to aggregate local models, potentially resulting in single points of failure, communication bottlenecks, and exposure of model parameters. In contrast, the decentralized paradigm, which does not require …

Semantic Network Analysis of Achievement Standards in Physics of 2022 Revised Curriculum
Jibeom Seo, Jun Cho, Sukyung Han, Meesoon Ha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02864 https://…

Semantic Network Analysis of Achievement Standards in Physics of 2022 Revised Curriculum
We investigate semantic networks of achievement standards for physics subjects in the 2022 revised curriculum to derive information embedded in the curriculum. We extract each subject's keywords with node strength and random-walk betweenness, detect communities of physics terms by the optimized greedy algorithm, and find the connectivity of physics subjects using bipartite networks. The network analysis reveals three remarkable results: First, keywords are about scientific thinking and practice…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Ruby Rushton:
🎵 Walk To Regio's
#RubyRushton
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zfzGKJGgnzubOz5PaOYnb

EU competition commissioner Teresa Ribera says the EU must be ready to walk away from the US trade deal if the US demands a watered-down DSA and DMA (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/010c5b1e-e900-4ec2-b22a-61300c70e531

is taking his lunch walk.

PageRank Centrality in Directed Graphs with Bounded In-Degree
Mikkel Thorup, Hanzhi Wang, Zhewei Wei, Mingji Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01257 https://…

PageRank Centrality in Directed Graphs with Bounded In-Degree
We study the computational complexity of locally estimating a node's PageRank centrality in a directed graph $G$. For any node $t$, its PageRank centrality $π(t)$ is defined as the probability that a random walk in $G$, starting from a uniformly chosen node, terminates at $t$, where each step terminates with a constant probability $α\in(0,1)$. To obtain a multiplicative $\big(1\pm O(1)\big)$-approximation of $π(t)$ with probability $Ω(1)$, the previously best upper bound is $O(n^{1/2}\min…

On local large deviations for decoupled random walks
Dariusz Buraczewski, Alexander Iksanov, Alexander Marynych
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05178 https://ar…

On local large deviations for decoupled random walks
A decoupled standard random walk is a sequence of independent random variables $(\hat{S}_n)_{n \geq 1}$ such that, for each $n \geq 1$, the distribution of $\hat{S}_n$ is the same as that of $S_n = ξ_1 + \ldots + ξ_n$, where $(ξ_k)_{k \geq 1}$ are independent copies of a nonnegative random variable $ξ$. We consider the counting process $(\hat{N}(t))_{t\geq 0}$ defined as the number of terms $\hat{S}_n$ in the sequence $(\hat{S}_n)_{n \geq 1}$ that lie within the interval $[0, t]$. Under var…

Cowboys fan takes walk of shame at training camp for fantasy football failures https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-fan-takes-walk-shame-training-camp-fantasy-football-failures

An elderly Asian woman was mauled to death by a pair of large dogs in San Bernardino County, California, last week.
Soon Han, 80, was out for a morning walk on Friday when two Dogo Argentinos attacked her near the intersection of Vinton Street and Mesa Road in Baldy Mesa.
Sheriff’s deputies arrived after 11 a.m. and found Han unresponsive along the roadway. She had suffered major injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene

Elderly woman mauled to death by Dogo Argentino dogs while on morning walk in California
An elderly Asian woman was mauled to death by a pair of large dogs in San Bernardino County, California, last week. The Dogo Argentino is a large, white and...

Beautiful Canberra day. Went for a lovely coffee walk and now husband is barbequing English pork sausages (for him) and Slovenian kransky (for me) for lunch with salad.
#Canberra #Spring #Saturday

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Bnny:
🎵 Time Walk
#Bnny
https://bnnyband.bandcamp.com/album/time-walk
https://open.spotify.com/track/2GmJzA4SwQityiYlFS7mCJ

Krugman’s musical coda today was the walk-up music for my keynote address at the 2024 NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie!

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Boy & Bear:
🎵 Walk The Wire
#NowPlaying #Boy #Bear
https://open.spotify.com/track/3Ozi9spKM8yb3LeaFLwNvm

On The Road - To Xi’An ⛅️
在路上 - 去西安 ⛅️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Inside Jordan Davis' blocked FG, historic walk-off TD for Eagles in stunning comeback win vs. Rams

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/inside-

Having a real calm day today with a leisure walk.
(REALLY Calm this time)
#badtölz #tölzerland #bayern

Replaced article(s) found for math.PR. https://arxiv.org/list/math.PR/new
[1/1]:
- A Chernoff bound for branching random walk
Changqing Liu
https://

Moody Urbanity - Somewhere 🔲
情绪化城市 - 某处 🔲
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Everly Brothers:
🎵 Walk Right Back (2022 remaster)
#TheEverlyBrothers
https://onlyeverlybrothers.bandcamp.com/track/walk-right-back

Eagles vs. Cowboys Odds: 'Wiseguys Aren’t Betting Philly at Bad Numbers' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/eagles-vs-cowboys-odds-wiseguys-arent-betting-philly-bad-numbers

Dalvin Cook meets Caleb Williams? How Tyriq Withers brought Cameron Cade to life https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/46282896/tyriq-withers-florida-state-seminoles-walk-cameron-cade-mov…

Gov. Moore invites President Trump to Maryland for public safety walk after National Guard Deployment in D.C. (Tara Lynch/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/maryland-president-donald-trump-wes-moore-safety-walk/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p16#a250824p16

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Cure:
🎵 The Walk
#TheCure
https://djaf.bandcamp.com/track/the-cure-the-walk-everything-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4UvcIxaBqIVlljqqncrpyr

Yeah! Last night, this morning and just now, I finished and uploaded the Blog post, the photos and a short video of our rain-walk in the #schwarzwald
I haven't written a LOT this time as I recorded more video than photos. But having the camera in the rain wasn't my preferred option that day ;)
But the motto of the day was:
We Fear No Rain!

Day 2 in the Schwarzwald / We Fear no Rain
Day three in the Black Forest brought a mix of misty mornings, challenging humidity, and expected rain on one of Baiersbronn’s certified Genießerpfade trails.

On The Road - To Xi’An 🪭
在路上 - 去西安 🪭
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️Kentmere Pan 200
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Responsive dormancy of a spatial population among a moving trap
Helia Shafigh, Leo Tyrpak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01288 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01288…

Responsive dormancy of a spatial population among a moving trap
In this paper, we study a spatial model for dormancy in a random environment via a two-type branching random walk in continuous-time, where individuals switch between dormant and active states depending on the current state of a fluctuating environment (responsive switching). The branching mechanism is governed by the same random environment, which is here taken to be a simple symmetric random walk. We will interpret the presence of this random walk as a trap which attempts to kill the individu…

Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey wants to pick a walk-out song, like an MLB closer, and he has his choice https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-kicker-brandon-aubrey-walk-out-song-…

I tried batch uploading "a couple" (several hundreds) of my GPX tracks from the recent years into #wanderer . It went all smooth! And I finally have the "white areas" which I didn't walk or cycle -- yet! :D
When people ask me if I'm out and about often, I never know what to say. I try to get into nature once in a while, yes.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Isaac Hayes:
🎵 Walk On By
#IsaacHayes
https://magnetikmoments.bandcamp.com/track/isaac-hayes-walk-on-by
https://open.spotify.com/track/1jwKdqb7OindD204ocIryP

$K$-Branching Random Walk with Noisy Selection: Large Population Limits and Phase Transitions
Colin Desmarais, Emmanuel Schertzer, Zs\'ofia Talyig\'as
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26254

$K$-Branching Random Walk with Noisy Selection: Large Population Limits and Phase Transitions
We analyze a variant of the Noisy $K$-Branching Random Walk, a population model that evolves according to the following procedure. At each time step, each individual produces a large number of offspring that inherit the fitness of their parents up to independent and identically distributed fluctuations. The next generation consists of a random sample of all the offspring so that the population size remains fixed, where the sampling is made according to a parameterized Gibbs measure of the fitne…

Elephant random walks on infinite Cayley trees
Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03048 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03048

Elephant random walks on infinite Cayley trees
In this article, we initiate the study of elephant random walks on finitely generated infinite groups whose Cayley graphs are homogeneous trees of degree $d \ge 3$ (e.g., groups of the form $\mathbb{Z}^{* d_1} * \mathbb{Z}_2^{*d_2}$ with $2d_1 + d_2 \ge 3$). We show that the asymptotic speed of the walk does not depend on the memory parameter $p \in [0, 1)$ and equals $\frac{d - 2}{d}$, the asymptotic speed of simple random walk on these graphs. The rate of convergence to the limiting speed tur…

Concrete Jungle III 🏗️
水泥丛林 III 🏗️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

City Snaps - Chengdu 🌠
城市抓拍 - 成都 🌠
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford Pan 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Matrix-Valued Orthogonal Polynomials Related to a Class of Random Walk
P. Roman, S. Menchon, Y. Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01761 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Matrix-Valued Orthogonal Polynomials Related to a Class of Random Walk
The foundational work of Karlin and McGregor established a powerful connection between random walks with tridiagonal transition matrices and the theory of orthogonal polynomials. We consider a particular extension of this framework, where the transition matrix is given by a polynomial in a tridiagonal matrix. This generalization leads to transitions beyond the nearest neighbors. We investigate the matrix-valued orthogonal polynomials associated with these extended models, derive the correspondi…