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Capital Games and Growth Equilibria
Ben Abramowitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00472 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00472

Capital Games and Growth Equilibria
We examine formal games that we call "capital games" in which player payoffs are known, but their payoffs are not guaranteed to be von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities. In capital games, the dynamics of player payoffs determine their utility functions. Different players can have different payoff dynamics. We make no assumptions about where these dynamics come from, but implicitly assume that they come from the players' actions and interactions over time. We define an equilibrium concept called "gr…

Did Performance

Played two Loopy gigs

Just a tiny birthday party and in a camping field with friends.
This is probably about the target number really.
It's nice to play now and then but couldn't be monthly or anything even more frequent.
Didn't feel like either went great. Health issues affecting performance plus nerves
Just one with video of any kind.
Added a couple of great songs to the playlists, need to practise more really.
At the end of a Hoopla class and the end of
a self-organised group class.
They were good fun.
But having to book a course every eight weeks means constantly churning co-players and long gaps where I don't get around to it or it was all booked up.
Tried to get a more permanent group going...
Trying to get some sort of indie-group off
the group rather than just short runs of
classes with new people all the time.
We found a group an booked the room but didn't get most of the actual people to turn up. Need to presumably meet more people up for that sort of thing.
So there will be new improv class starting
in Jan.
A new show in March at least.

Campaign-spending driven polarization transition in a double-random field model of elections
Jan Korbel, Remah Dahdoul, Stefan Thurner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00612 https://

Campaign-spending driven polarization transition in a double-random field model of elections
We model bipartisan elections where voters are exposed to two forces: local homophilic interactions and external influence from two political campaigns. The model is mathematically equivalent to the random field Ising model with a bimodal field. When both parties exceed a critical campaign spending, the system undergoes a phase transition to a highly polarized state where homophilic influence becomes negligible, and election outcomes mirror the proportion of voters aligned with each campaign, i…

P371 Experiment at CERN -- quest for polarized antiprotons
M. Zielinski, D. Grzonka, G. Khatri, P. Kulessa, J. Ritman, T. Sefzick, J. Smyrski, V. Verhoeven, H. Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00825

P371 Experiment at CERN - quest for polarized antiprotons
Polarization effects in the production of antiprotons at the CERN PS beam line T11 at 3.5 GeV/c have been investigated within the P371 experiment. These effects, if found to be significant could provide a simple method to generate polarized antiproton beams with existing facilities. First precursor measurements were carried out by the P349 collaboration, though the available statistics were insufficient for a quantitative conclusion. With an upgraded detector setup and extended beam time, the e…

🎃 Where Winds Meet Players Are Finding Clever And Sexy Ways To Screw With The Game’s AI NPCs
#games



Both Quikscript and Shavian were essentially the results of a design competition,
sponsored--posthumously--by playwright George Bernard Shaw,
who laid out the terms in his will.
Shaw wanted someone to create an ideal phonetic alphabet for English that trumped Pitman shorthand.
British designer Ronald Kingsley Read, a finalist in the 1960s competition, designed both Quikscript and Shavian, the latter being named in Shaw's honor

Here are 50 Different Written Languages. Can You Tell Which are Fake? - Core77
Below are examples of 50 different written languages. Unless you're Indiana Jones, I doubt you'll recognize more than a handful. However, of these 50 scripts, five of them are contrived 20th Century creations. Two of them are shorthand-style phonetic alphabets designed for English; one of them is an ideographic writing

Trump Is Demolishing Four Pillars of American Power (Michael McFaul/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/trump-cold-war-alliances/684715/?gift=47TjPNd1fvywdLyCkprj-DIs6wmsGj4QJbq3pZpn2Ww&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p3#a251029p3

Faraday Depolarization Study of a Radio Galaxy Using LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey: Data Release 2
Samantha Sneha Paul, Abhik Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00440 https://…

Faraday Depolarization Study of a Radio Galaxy Using LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey: Data Release 2
We present a detailed depolarization analysis of a radio galaxy ILTJ012215.21+254334.8, utilizing polarimetric data from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) Data Release 2 (DR2) catalogue. The selected source exhibits a rotation measure (RM) of ~ - 47 rad/m^2 and a projected linear size of 335 kpc at a redshift z ~ 0.05. Depolarization model fitting was performed on LOFAR High Band Antenna data (120 - 168 MHz), with fractional polarization detected at 3.0%. Five depolarization models were te…

So, what do I love about #NoMansSky?
This picture shows where you have followed a clue correctly, but in the wrong place.
All those little ball terminals?
Messages left from other players getting you on right path (and saying “hi”) Behind them? Someone built a base to help you get back.
Pretty cool