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Dmitry Shostakovich, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Steven Sloane:
🎵 Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1: Little Polka; Lyric Waltz
#DmitryShostakovich #StevenSloane
https://open.spotify.com/track/05WDqLHKcWYpxSoQu9LU3x

Renormalized quark masses using gradient flow
Matthew Black, Robert V. Harlander, Anna Hasenfratz, Antonio Rago, Oliver Witzel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16327

Renormalized quark masses using gradient flow
We propose a new and simple method for determining the renormalized quark masses from lattice simulations. Renormalized quark masses are an important input to many phenomenological applications, including searching/modeling physics beyond the Standard Model. The non-perturbative renormalization is performed using gradient flow combined with the short-flow-time expansion that is improved by renormalization-group (RG) running to match to the $\overline{\text{MS}}$-scheme. RG running connects the …

Controversial airport watchlist program terminated by DHS amid weaponization concerns (Cameron Arcand/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/controversial-airport-watchlist-program-terminated-dhs-amid-weaponization-concerns
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p118#a250605p118

Reconstruction theorems for coadmissible D-cap-modules
Finn Wiersig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12601 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12601…

Reconstruction theorems for coadmissible D-cap-modules
We prove a Riemann-Hilbert correspondence for Ardakov-Wadsley's coadmissible D-cap-modules and, more generally, for Bode's $\mathcal{C}$-complexes. More precisely, we show that any given $\mathcal{C}$-complex can be reconstructed out of its solutions. As a corollary, we find that slight modifications of the solution and de Rham functors introduced by the author are fully faithful on $\mathcal{C}$-complexes and, in particular, on coadmissible D-cap-modules. One of the many steps of our proof is …

Stellar Velocity Dispersion versus Age: Consistency across Observations and Simulations, with the Milky Way as an Outlier
Fiona McCluskey, Andrew Wetzel, Sarah Loebman, Jorge Moreno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11840

Stellar Velocity Dispersion versus Age: Consistency across Observations and Simulations, with the Milky Way as an Outlier
Within disk galaxies, the velocity dispersion, $σ$, of stars increases with age, $τ$, as measured in the Milky Way (MW) and nearby galaxies. This relation provides a key window into galactic formation history, tracing both the kinematics of stars at birth and the dynamical heating of stars after birth. We compile and compare observational measurements of the MW, M31, M33, and 16 galaxies from the PHANGS survey. The MW exhibits significantly colder stellar kinematics, with 2-3 times lower $σ(…

Distillation Robustifies Unlearning
Bruce W. Lee, Addie Foote, Alex Infanger, Leni Shor, Harish Kamath, Jacob Goldman-Wetzler, Bryce Woodworth, Alex Cloud, Alexander Matt Turner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06278

Distillation Robustifies Unlearning
Current LLM unlearning methods are not robust: they can be reverted easily with a few steps of finetuning. This is true even for the idealized unlearning method of training to imitate an oracle model that was never exposed to unwanted information, suggesting that output-based finetuning is insufficient to achieve robust unlearning. In a similar vein, we find that training a randomly initialized student to imitate an unlearned model transfers desired behaviors while leaving undesired capabilitie…

#ACAB All Cops Are Broadcasting
https://it4sec.substack.com/p/breaking-tetra-a-backdoor-in-cryptography

The National Research Platform: Stretched, Multi-Tenant, Scientific Kubernetes Cluster
Derek Weitzel, Ashton Graves, Sam Albin, Huijun Zhu, Frank W\"urthwein, Mahidhar Tatineni, Dmitry Mishin, John Graham, Elham E Khoda, Mohammad Firas Sada, Larry Smarr, Thomas DeFanti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22864

The National Research Platform: Stretched, Multi-Tenant, Scientific Kubernetes Cluster
The National Research Platform (NRP) represents a distributed, multi-tenant Kubernetes-based cyberinfrastructure designed to facilitate collaborative scientific computing. Spanning over 75 locations in the U.S. and internationally, the NRP uniquely integrates varied computational resources, ranging from single nodes to extensive GPU and CPU clusters, to support diverse research workloads including advanced AI and machine learning tasks. It emphasizes flexibility through user-friendly interfaces…

Good to notice that The Last of Us can now be deleted from my watchlist. Season 1 was okay, S02 way way less so, I'll let them run around for another milking out of probably another 6 seasons.