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It's busy at the fair. #WIStateFair #StateFair

Mixpanel founder Suhail Doshi calls out Soham Parekh, who he says "works at 3-4 startups at the same time" and has "been preying on YC companies and more" (Bhavya Sukheja/NDTV)
https://www.ndtv.c…

AI Founder Accuses Indian Techie Soham Parekh Of Scamming Multiple Startups: "Fired This Guy In First Week"
A US-based AI founder has accused an Indian techie of working at multiple startups simultaneously under false pretences.

This is the one non-food thing that I bought at the #Wisconsin State Fair, this year.
(They were out of the shirts that said "Ice only belongs in a brandy old fashioned")
#GulfOfMexico

I almost never hold my camera diagonally but this works out OK for #abstractaugust -- this is the facade of the Vet Research Tower at Cornell University
#photo #photography

See how the game works?
Republicans have long instinctively understood, far better than their oft-bumbling opponents,
that capturing the language is crucially important.
When you do that, when you frame the terms of debate,
you have a darn good shot at winning hearts and minds. Particularly weak minds.
I’ll leave it to the shrinks to diagnose the passivity of the Democratic mindset,
to try to fathom why the blue party has long allowed "class warfare&qu…

"#ResearchSoftware Is an Important Research Output. Let’s Act Like It." https://katinamagazine.org/content/art

I just took the dogs out to do their business and I don't think that I'm going to need to water the plants at all today. #Milwaukee #Moist

There's still a few things I want to improve, like maybe adding some tags and having the archival links in the feed as well, but at least it works for now!

from my link log —
Behind the scenes of Rust string formatting and format_args!().
https://blog.m-ou.se/format-args/
saved 2023-12-05 https://

Turn of events this evening:
- wanted to try out @…
- v1.3.4 doesn't seem to have a #macOS binary in the release but release notes mention that 1.3.4 includes upstreamed fixes from MacPorts
- look at the

I got myself a portable solar panel, which I can use while camping and at home for charging power banks. I’m very impressed with how well it works, even on a cloudy day! The purpose of the panel is basically to power my power banks so I have green energy to charge my phone, tablet, headphones, USB lights, and electric toothbrush. It’s not much, but every bit helps to keep the bill lower.
#PortableSolarPanel

HCVR: A Hybrid Approach with Correlation-aware Voting Rules for Feature Selection
Nikita Bhedasgaonkar, Rushikesh K. Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02073

HCVR: A Hybrid Approach with Correlation-aware Voting Rules for Feature Selection
In this paper, we propose HCVR (Hybrid approach with Correlation-aware Voting Rules), a lightweight rule-based feature selection method that combines Parameter-to-Parameter (P2P) and Parameter-to-Target (P2T) correlations to eliminate redundant features and retain relevant ones. This method is a hybrid of non-iterative and iterative filtering approaches for dimensionality reduction. It is a greedy method, which works by backward elimination, eliminating possibly multiple features at every step.…

Does anyone know a developer who works at Wayfair?

There are 3 weeks until I go up to Oshkosh for 2 days at the EAA fly-in. I might make an overnight solo adventure an annual thing.

@… I was thinking of you when I just tried this AI prompt: “> spawn 5 agents using batchtool to replace the react webui with html/css with no javascript, remove all the react code and references, keep the same functionality and layout. “. I will let you know how it works out. It’s a throwaway app at this point anyway, but it it works I’ll keep it this way.…

«This can be immensely empowering, and can improve public trust: it’s hard (and unwise) to give yourself over to a technology that won’t tell you how it works, particularly when its predefined settings allow only for meagre approaches to “user privacy”. As I ask my students, if you could develop an AI at your own home, and programme it to reflect your values and prioritise your safety, wouldn’t you trust it more? Well, the idea isn’t so outlandish – it only feels impossible because big tech fir…

I saw a tweet/post somewhere about if you put the word "fucking" into your search term, Google (if you still use it) will not show you the LLM "AI" blurb at the top of the results. Tried it, IT WORKS.

Cowboys' Tyler Guyton works out at OL summit at UFC PI in Las Vegas https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-tyler-guyton-works-out-ol-summit-ufc-pi-in-las-vegas

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I pay $50/yr for @… and at some point (once it's fully baked), I'm going to be paying $100/yr for @… but I don't feel like I use it enough. I need to remedy that.

Our meetup was well-attended with two interesting talks:
📋 Sarah Julia Kriesch presented "Docker vs Podman" - a beginner-friendly introduction to container basics and key differences between these tools.
🔧 Philip Laine showcased "Spegel", an OCI Registry Mirror that leverages torrent technology for efficient container image distribution - saving traffic costs and safeguarding against registry outages.
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My daughter told me she is getting a third job. (Yes, she two right now!) And then mentioned (jokingly) that she is a DEI hire.
It's at a climbing gym, where her partner has been working for a few years, and she hang out there (works out, climbs) all the time.
I said, "It's all duded there, right?" and she confirmed it's almost all male employees...
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There is a long abandoned industrial park that I go to to practice figure eights on the bike. It was closed and blocked off for a solid month. I finally got back to it and saw this at one of the entrances. I am slightly curious what DMV is.

Visited the Fine Arts Museum here in Budapest, and it was great. Many more important works than I was expecting. The temporary exhibition ”Master MS and his age” https://www.mfab.hu/exhibitions/master-ms-and-his-age/ was great, too.
Apart from the art on display…

Master MS and his Age - Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
  The exhibition showcases one of the most significant yet enigmatic figures of medieval Hungarian art, known as Master MS. At the heart of the monographic exhibition is Master MS’s most famous work: the former high altarpiece of Saint Catherine’s Church in Selmecbánya (now Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia). The seven surviving panel paintings of this monumental …

VTS-Guided AI Interaction Workflow for Business Insights
Sun Ding (Ati), Ude Enebeli (Ati), Atilhan (Ati), Manay, Ryan Pua, Kamal Kotak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00347

VTS-Guided AI Interaction Workflow for Business Insights
Modern firms face a flood of dense, unstructured reports. Turning these documents into usable insights takes heavy effort and is far from agile when quick answers are needed. VTS-AI tackles this gap. It integrates Visual Thinking Strategies, which emphasize evidence-based observation, linking, and thinking, into AI agents, so the agents can extract business insights from unstructured text, tables, and images at scale. The system works in three tiers (micro, meso, macro). It tags issues, links t…

We have always been at war with Eastasia.
"President Donald Trump on Friday fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol

Neural Network-based Universal Formulas for Control
Pol Mestres, Jorge Cort\'es, Eduardo D. Sontag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24744 https://

Neural Network-based Universal Formulas for Control
We study the problem of designing a controller that satisfies an arbitrary number of affine inequalities at every point in the state space. This is motivated by the use of guardrails in autonomous systems. Indeed, a variety of key control objectives, such as stability, safety, and input saturation, are guaranteed by closed-loop systems whose controllers satisfy such inequalities. Many works in the literature design such controllers as the solution to a state-dependent quadratic program (QP) who…

How popular media gets love wrong
Okay, so what exactly are the details of the "engineered" model of love from my previous post? I'll try to summarize my thoughts and the experiences they're built on.
1. "Love" can be be thought of like a mechanism that's built by two (or more) people. In this case, no single person can build the thing alone, to work it needs contributions from multiple people (I suppose self-love might be an exception to that). In any case, the builders can intentionally choose how they build (and maintain) the mechanism, they can build it differently to suit their particular needs/wants, and they will need to maintain and repair it over time to keep it running. It may need winding, or fuel, or charging plus oil changes and bolt-tightening, etc.
2. Any two (or more) people can choose to start building love between them at any time. No need to "find your soulmate" or "wait for the right person." Now the caveat is that the mechanism is difficult to build and requires lots of cooperation, so there might indeed be "wrong people" to try to build love with. People in general might experience more failures than successes. The key component is slowly-escalating shared commitment to the project, which is negotiated between the partners so that neither one feels like they've been left to do all the work themselves. Since it's a big scary project though, it's very easy to decide it's too hard and give up, and so the builders need to encourage each other and pace themselves. The project can only succeed if there's mutual commitment, and that will certainly require compromise (sometimes even sacrifice, though not always). If the mechanism works well, the benefits (companionship; encouragement; praise; loving sex; hugs; etc.) will be well worth the compromises you make to build it, but this isn't always the case.
3. The mechanism is prone to falling apart if not maintained. In my view, the "fire" and "appeal" models of love don't adequately convey the need for this maintenance and lead to a lot of under-maintained relationships many of which fall apart. You'll need to do things together that make you happy, do things that make your partner happy (in some cases even if they annoy you, but never in a transactional or box-checking way), spend time with shared attention, spend time alone and/or apart, reassure each other through words (or deeds) of mutual beliefs (especially your continued commitment to the relationship), do things that comfort and/or excite each other physically (anywhere from hugs to hand-holding to sex) and probably other things I'm not thinking of. Not *every* relationship needs *all* of these maintenance techniques, but I think most will need most. Note especially that patriarchy teaches men that they don't need to bother with any of this, which harms primarily their romantic partners but secondarily them as their relationships fail due to their own (cultivated-by-patriarchy) incompetence. If a relationship evolves to a point where one person is doing all the maintenance (& improvement) work, it's been bent into a shape that no longer really qualifies as "love" in my book, and that's super unhealthy.
4. The key things to negotiate when trying to build a new love are first, how to work together in the first place, and how to be comfortable around each others' habits (or how to change those habits). Second, what level of commitment you have right now, and what how/when you want to increase that commitment. Additionally, I think it's worth checking in about what you're each putting into and getting out of the relationship, to ensure that it continues to be positive for all participants. To build a successful relationship, you need to be able to incrementally increase the level of commitment to one that you're both comfortable staying at long-term, while ensuring that for both partners, the relationship is both a net benefit and has manageable costs (those two things are not the same). Obviously it's not easy to actually have conversations about these things (congratulations if you can just talk about this stuff) because there's a huge fear of hearing an answer that you don't want to hear. I think the range of discouraging answers which actually spell doom for a relationship is smaller than people think and there's usually a reasonable "shoulder" you can fall into where things aren't on a good trajectory but could be brought back into one, but even so these conversations are scary. Still, I think only having honest conversations about these things when you're angry at each other is not a good plan. You can also try to communicate some of these things via non-conversational means, if that feels safer, and at least being aware that these are the objectives you're pursuing is probably helpful.
I'll post two more replies here about my own experiences that led me to this mental model and trying to distill this into advice, although it will take me a moment to get to those.
#relationships #love

NY&NJ Harbor&Tributaries Focus Area Feasibility Study Draft Report was just released.
In it, US Army Core of Engineers looks at seawalls and similar to mitigate coastal storm surge risk in the #NYC metro
Public comment period July 24, 2025 – August 25, 2025
There are 3 spots of actionable items (FY2028 cost, added value):
1) East Harlem (cost $762million, $1.264 billion)
2) East Riser Meadowlands (cost $249million, value added $428 million)
3) Oakwood Beach Staten Island (cost $55million, value added $87 million)
I only know item 1 well enough to comment.
https://www.nan.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Projects-in-New-York/New-York-New-Jersey-Harbor-Tributaries-Focus-Area-Feasibility-Study/
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Customs and Border Protection held a veteran political adviser for 45 minutes after returning to the U.S. from a vacation.
Rick Taylor thought it may have been -- because of an Obama-Biden T-shirt in his luggage.
Taylor, 71, was returning home from a weeklong vacation in Turks and Caicos with his wife and daughter on June 20
when he was placed in a holding room along with several Latino families at Miami International Airport.
“I know how the system works and have pr…

Veteran LA political adviser detained at US airport – and thinks having Obama-Biden T-shirt in his luggage may have been why
‘I know how the system works and have pretty good connections and I was still freaking out,’ Rick Taylor says

@… It’s almost as if people were not lying when they told me I need a sleep cycle. :-p
Seriously, I am really glad it works for you. And TBH, I think I need to do the same. I have always cherished my alone time at night, but I’m discovering that alone time at 6am is just as good.

Looked at @…'s Signals page (https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/cc-signals/) again.
I think this…

CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI - Creative Commons
TL;DR – What are CC signals? CC signals are a proposed framework to help content stewards express how they want their works used in AI training—emphasizing reciprocity, recognition, and sustainability in machine reuse. They aim to preserve open knowledge by encouraging responsible AI behavior without limiting innovation. 💗Love it! How can I show my support?…

The latest estimate that I have seen now suggests that the cost of FFOTUS' sales tax (also known as "tariffs") amounts to $2,400 per year per family.
(To me that feels low, but that's just a bit of my personal truthiness.)
The Census Bureau says that there are about 129 million households in the US. At $2400 each that works out to be about $310 Billion, which is on par with the projected tariff/sales tax receipts that I've seen so far.
But those recei…

The thing that I've been working on at work for the past 2 months finally works, so I celebrated a little.

Hm, do Firefox and Vivaldi really not accept my system-wide custom CA(s)? On Windows, at least Firefox works fine if you set “security.enterprise_roots.enabled” to true, but on Linux it doesn't seem to make any difference. While in Firefox I can at least import a custom CA, I can't find anything similar in Vivaldi. 🤔
#firefox

PAT: a new algorithm for all-gather and reduce-scatter operations at scale
Sylvain Jeaugey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20252 https://a…

PAT: a new algorithm for all-gather and reduce-scatter operations at scale
This paper describes a new algorithm called PAT, for Parallel Aggregated Trees, and which can be used to implement all-gather and reduce-scatter operations. This algorithm works on any number of ranks, has a logarithmic number of network transfers for small size operations, minimizes long-distance communication, and requires a logarithmic amount of internal buffers, independently from the total operation size. It is aimed at improving the performance of the NCCL library in cases where the ring …

nice coverage of new bus-stop benches kindly installed by some unidentified people!
https://sfist.com/2025/06/09/renegade-transit-activists-install-their-own-guerilla-benches-at-sf-bus-stops-that-do…

Renegade Transit Activists Install their Own ‘Guerilla Benches’ at SF Bus Stops That Don’t Have Benches
A rogue group of activists won’t stand for the lack of benches at many SF Muni stops, so they went and installed a bunch of their own unauthorized benches this past weekend. But we’ll see how this sits with SF Public Works.

Interesting new aggregator for consumer flexibility in Norway: reduce the load on the power grid with your EV, for example, and earn between NOK 500 and NOK 4,000 (€40 - €440) per year. Works with any energy supplier (and soon also with the Norgespris capped electricity price).
https://byge.no/bli-med-pa-flex/

Byge
Forstår du strøm, betaler du mindre. Med Byge-appen kan du lettere planlegge hvordan du bruker strøm slik at du får en lavere strømregning. Last ned appen og få full kontroll over forbruket ditt nå!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14853 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Near-Optimal Nonconvex-Strongly-Convex Bilevel Optimization with Fully First-Order Oracles
In this work, we consider bilevel optimization when the lower-level problem is strongly convex. Recent works show that with a Hessian-vector product (HVP) oracle, one can provably find an $ε$-stationary point within ${\mathcal{O}}(ε^{-2})$ oracle calls. However, the HVP oracle may be inaccessible or expensive in practice. Kwon et al. (ICML 2023) addressed this issue by proposing a first-order method that can achieve the same goal at a slower rate of $\tilde{\mathcal{O}}(ε^{-3})$. In this pap…

What annoys me the most about the current state of AI
I've dabbled with ML ever since the very first stanford ML class. That was almost 15 years ago.
On a technical level, it is mind meltingly insane. Just the fact that the stuff that was released in just half a decade works *at all* the way it does is just... amazing.
There is genunely amazing tech in there. Especially in pattern recognition and processing.
But then it gets tarnished by *gestures around broadly*

Turns out that if you model online spaces after real world ones, it works pretty well. Online spaces let you be in many places at once which changes the dynamics, but as an example of something that ports well,
https://www.patternlanguageindex.com/patterns/intimacy-gradient
This pattern works not just for the design of houses but online spaces. Let people get to know a group in less-intimate space before they end up in the more-intimate space. Having a few gradations works really well, and it doesn't have to be a power play or status game.

Advocacy works, if done right. Find out how investigations by WorkerRights Consortium led to a joint effort along the supply chain to eliminate gender-based violence in Indonesia’s garment factories – more in my feature with TriplePundit.
https://www.triplepundi…

Is there a way for a web page to query whether increased contrast is turned on at the OS level?
I think the answer is no, but if there’s a way in the W3C works, I figure Fedi knows.
EDIT: The answer is yes! See replies. Thank you Fedi.

New zero-free regions for Dedekind zeta-functions at small and large ordinates
Sourabhashis Das, Swati Gaba, Ethan Simpson Lee, Aditi Savalia, Peng-Jie Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19319

New zero-free regions for Dedekind zeta-functions at small and large ordinates
Given a number field $L\neq \mathbb{Q}$, we obtain new and explicit zero-free regions for Dedekind zeta-functions of $L$, which refine the previous works of Ahn--Kwon, Kadiri, and Lee. In particular, for low-lying zeros, we extend Kadiri's result to all number fields while improving the main constant.

Calamus 43 O you whom I often
A short and sweet love poem, Whitman at his most writerly. The spare and simple words have a light musicality that's often missing from his more didactic blank verse.
The literal meaning is Whitman telling someone how his very presence inspires feelings of love. It's so short and precise I'm just going to quote the whole poem.
O you whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you,
As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you,
Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
I love the lack of action. Whitman simply wants to sit in the same room as his beloved, a quiet devotion I appreciate. And that phrase "subtle electric fire". Electric had a different meaning in pre-Edison America but it works both ways.
Mostly this poem is just a lovely mood.
(The linked video and commentary are more than usually good.)

For extremely generous definitions of “pretty soon.”
Evolution is bound by the mutation rate and the length of generational cycles. Humans are essentially unchanged genetically by the past hundred centuries, despite substantial climate change and social evolution from omnivore hunter-gatherers thru nomadic herders and farmers to city-dwellers.

Convergent perturbative series via finite path integral limits: application to energy at strong coupling of the anharmonic oscillator
Ariel Edery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08782 …

Convergent perturbative series via finite path integral limits: application to energy at strong coupling of the anharmonic oscillator
Solving quantum field theories at strong coupling remains a challenging task. The main issue is that the usual perturbative series are asymptotic series which can be useful at weak coupling but break down completely at strong coupling. In this work, we show that if the limits of integration in the path integral are finite, the perturbative series is remarkably an absolutely convergent series which works well at strong coupling. For now, we apply this perturbative approach to $λ\,ϕ^4$ theory i…

Call for Papers: 25th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin, April 1st to 5th, 2026
https://ift.tt/iBNzwTc
Digitisation, Orphan Works & Copyright: New Resource for the GLAM sector CREATe, the RCUK…
via Input 4 RELCFP

I think we will soon see an AlphaGo moment somewhere in embodiment. Maybe in robot football?
pi_0 is the Atari moment: https://www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi0 We now know that training at scale works and generalizes remarkably well.
This is the trigge…

Our First Generalist Policy
Our first generalist policy, π0, a prototype model that combines large-scale multi-task and multi-robot data collection with a new network architecture to enable the most capable and dexterous generalist robot policy to date.

Backpropagation in unstable diffusions
Angxiu Ni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21497 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21497

Backpropagation in unstable diffusions
We derive the adjoint path-kernel method for the parameter-gradient of SDEs, where the observable is averaged at a particular time or over the stationary measure. Its cost is almost independent of the number of parameters; it extends the conventional backpropagation method to cases with gradient explosion. It works for non-hyperbolic systems with multiplicative noise controlled by parameters. We derive a Monte-Carlo-type algorithm and demonstrate it on the 40-dimensional Lorenz 96 system.

Beautiful palettes based on art for R and python: #rstats #ggplot

GitHub - BlakeRMills/MetBrewer: Color palette package in R inspired by works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
Color palette package in R inspired by works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York - BlakeRMills/MetBrewer

Part of being the retired guy whose wife works 45 miles away in a job that doesn't allow her to always catch her shuttle home means always being ready to hop into the car and brave LA traffic. Off I go!
On one hand it sorta sucks, but on the other hand at least I get to spend half the drive with my wife, which is something I like.

There's a lot of pressurefor businesses to get ahead with AI.
And I imagine at many companies
there's a sense that if you don't keep up, you're leaving innovation on the table.
At the same time, there's a gap between the excitement around AI and understanding what it means for each role.
CarGurus started an internal initiative "AI Forward" to meet business units and function where they are.
The group works together to evaluate u…

How CarGurus's new working group helps employees experiment with AI
The online marketplace for cars is helping its employees adopt and explore new tech with AI Forward, a working group designed to lead AI adoption.

As a Debian user for three years, and Linux for 5 years, I find it hilarious that I know more about Windows than my friends who actually use Windows as their main OS.
At this point, I feel like their go-to tech support, except I’m the only one who gets confused when I see a Windows license key that actually works!
#Debian

#EroticMusings 8: Do you consume much erotica? Is it similar to your work? Share your favourite works or creators!
As mentioned on last week's prompt, I respond to erotica mainly on an aesthetic level (I think it's pretty) and only ever look at comics and drawings, or read fiction.
Most of my favs are in German, but I have some favourite artists who create in English/in…

I used to self host, up until about 2022 or so, but it became too much of a pain and after an outage I just jumped to Google because I had used it at previous job.
I ended up switching to @… which I used almost 20 years ago (before GMail was around.) I know some people don't care for Fastmail but it works well for me.
I tend to avoid the web int…

geekery
Spent part of yesterday watching how-to videos on OBS (Open Broadcaster Software), which I have in mind to start using in conjunction with Zoom.
I'm amused at my own level of enthusiasm haha! "Ooh i could do _this_! Ooh I wanna try if _that_ works!"
"New toy" energy, and I haven't even downloaded it yet :-)
#OBS #geekery

Last year, we bought a collection of 17 Georgia paintings by 19th- and 20th-century artists, many of whom are lesser known. Even the ones who are better known, like #NellChoateJones, aren't exactly _well_ known. We're excited to start studying these works and learning about the Georgia scenes many of them show.

Comcast IPv6 decided to bork itself again. Nothing I've tried (restarting DHCPv6 client, power cycling the modem) works.
My router gets a v6 address, can hit the internet without issues.
Router makes a DHCPv6 request, gets a delegated /59 out of my static /56.
But when I try to use an address out of the /59 on the local network (via radvd handing out /64's) it gets nowhere, traceroutes stop at the CPE/CMTS.

From macro to micro: Economic complexity indicators for firm growth
Valerio De Stefano, Maddalena Mula, Manuel Sebastian Mariani, Andrea Zaccaria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21754

From macro to micro: Economic complexity indicators for firm growth
A rich theoretical and empirical literature investigated the link between export diversification and firm performance. Prior theoretical works hinted at the key role of capability accumulation in shaping production activities and performance, without however producing product-level indicators able to forecast corporate growth. Building on economic complexity theory and the corporate growth literature, this paper examines which characteristics of a firm's export basket predict future performance…

I continue my practice of writing back to posts on social media. Also its antidote: writing back to works of art served up at random. It’s a little like surfing, taking the waves as they come. It’s a little like dancing. It’s one way to reclaim my attention, one way to stay alive to the present.
https://

More Fresh Hells & A Few Heavens
Brief responses to social media posts (hells) and random paintings (heavens).

Some Geophysical Aspects Of The 1908 Tunguska Event
Andrei Ol'khovatov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21296 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21296

Some Geophysical Aspects Of The 1908 Tunguska Event
This paper is a continuation of a series of works, devoted to various aspects of the 1908 Tunguska event. In this paper its author would like to draw attention to some geophysical aspects of the 1908 Tunguska event. A review of some geophysical aspects and some minor analysis of the aspects is presented in this paper. Special attention is paid to global seismic events at those times. As the epicenter of the forest-fall was in the center of a paleovolcano, so some info concerning the paleovolcan…

DefFusionNet: Learning Multimodal Goal Shapes for Deformable Object Manipulation via a Diffusion-based Probabilistic Model
Bao Thach, Siyeon Kim, Britton Jordan, Mohanraj Shanthi, Tanner Watts, Shing-Hei Ho, James M. Ferguson, Tucker Hermans, Alan Kuntz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18779

DefFusionNet: Learning Multimodal Goal Shapes for Deformable Object Manipulation via a Diffusion-based Probabilistic Model
Deformable object manipulation is critical to many real-world robotic applications, ranging from surgical robotics and soft material handling in manufacturing to household tasks like laundry folding. At the core of this important robotic field is shape servoing, a task focused on controlling deformable objects into desired shapes. The shape servoing formulation requires the specification of a goal shape. However, most prior works in shape servoing rely on impractical goal shape acquisition meth…

Discover ColPali at Berlin Buzzwords 2025 with Sonam Pankaj. This session covers what ColPali is, how its "late-interaction" works, and how you can deploy its quantised version on your laptop.
Learn more: https://2025.berlinbuzzwords.de/sessio

Most of the time I like widescreen and ultra-widescreen, but when I'm just puttering around on a computer, I find 5:4/4:3 oddly cozy. Incidentally, it works really well for browsing the modern web, because images fit pretty well in both square and vertical formats while wider formats still look ok.
Yes, I'm coming at you live in 1280x1024.

A Zero-overhead Flow for Security Closure
Mohammad Eslami, Ashira Johara, Kyungbin Park, Samuel Pagliarini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17385 https://arxiv.o…

A Zero-overhead Flow for Security Closure
In the traditional Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design flow, the concept of timing closure implies to reach convergence during physical synthesis such that, under a given area and power budget, the design works at the targeted frequency. However, security has been largely neglected when evaluating the Quality of Results (QoR) from physical synthesis. In general, commercial place & route tools do not understand security goals. In this work, we propose a modified ASIC design flo…

Happen to be in Frankfurt/Main some time the next few weeks? Go and see Annegret Soltau's works at Städel Museum, ending Aug 17: #art…

I sat looking at "a bread of banana" for a long time, thinking "what the f#%k?!?" #duolingo

ADHO (adho.org) updates at the opening of #DH2025 from Diane and Michael - the Italian Digital Humanities association officially joins ADHO, and announces awards including the Zampoli prize to Stylo software, the conference bursaries winners and Fortier prize nominees. Also note the Code of Conduct!

@… That works! I always have the entire back catalogue of some podcast to listen to when I’m out of the regular stuff.
Gonna have to check out Friends At The Table. Worlds Beyond Number is my go-to actual-play podcast right now. And I have a guilty spot in my heart for The Adventure Zone.

A radiative lepton model in a non-invertible fusion rule
Jingqian Chen, Chao-Qiang Geng, Hiroshi Okada, Jia-Jun Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11951 https:/…

A radiative lepton model in a non-invertible fusion rule
We propose a new mechanism in which electron and muon masses are induced at one-loop level after dynamically violating the symmetry of the Ising fusion rule. In the neutrino sector, while the neutrino mass is generated at one-loop level, the Ising fusion rule plays a role in stabilizing the particles inside the loop. As a result, the symmetry works like a $Z_2$ symmetry that is not broken at any loop order. Subsequently, we discuss the lepton flavor violating processes, muon anomalous magnetic …

A U.S. Army veteran who was arrested during an immigration raid at a Southern California farm last week
said Wednesday he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray
before being dragged from his vehicle and pinned down by federal agents who arrested him.
George Retes, 25, who works as a security guard at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, said he was arriving at work on July 10
when several federal agents surrounded his car and
— despite him identifying himself as …

Army veteran detained by ICE in California farm raid speaks out
A U.S. Army veteran arrested during an immigration raid at a California marijuana farm says he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle on his way to work. George Retes, a native of Ventura City, California, says he was pinned to the ground by ICE officials on his back and his neck after getting caught between protesters and authorities last week at Glass House Farms in Camarillo. Retes was held for three days before being release without charges and with…

from my link log —
Type inference zoo.
https://zoo.cuichen.cc/research
saved 2025-06-18 https://dotat.at/:/QG9V1.html

Looking back at the #Laradock hashtag, I am starting to get the feeling that I am the only person trying to do this crap. 😒

Is the Pratt & Whitney 747SP still at the #EAA #AirVenture?

A profile of Twitch streamer and YouTuber Ross Minor, blind since age 8, who is an advocate and consultant for blind-accessible video games like Sea of Thieves (Dexter Thomas/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ross-minor-the-blind-leading-the-gamers/

He’s Blind. He Plays Video Games. Here’s How That Works
Ross Minor lost his eyesight at 8 years old. Today, he’s a hardcore gamer who runs YouTube and Twitch channels and consults for big studios. This is not—necessarily—an inspirational story.

Hey #FOSS friends! 🚴‍♂️
I just got into biking again as an adult, and I’m loving it!
Now I’m on the hunt for a simple open source app to track how far I ride. Bonus points if it’s on GitHub, if not, at least F-Droid works. If there’s nothing bike-specific, I’m cool with any travel or hiking tracker too.
I use a Pixel 9a with GrapheneOS.
Any recs? Drop ’em here! 🙌

I have been waiting in this line for around an hour at this point. #EAA #airventure

Back in 1964, microbiologist Tom Brock received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how life works at high temperatures,
a question that took him to Yellowstone’s hot springs in search of extremophiles.
There, he and his student discovered a bacteria they called Thermus aquaticus,
which had enzymes that could work at incredibly high temperatures.
Two decades later, this discovery paved the way for the development of a technique called polymerase ch…

What It Would Mean To Lose The National Science Foundation
In a companion piece to our previous article on the NIH, we discuss the importance of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and how the agency is currently being affected by political interference.

`scx_bpfland` works really well as scheduler, I can compile Zed which mostly maxes out my CPU and still browse the web comfortably in Firefox.
https://github.com/sched-ext/scx/tree/main/scheds/rust/scx_bpfland

CFP: 2026 Gods and Monsters Conference at Texas State University
https://ift.tt/7KHmv0O
Digitisation, Orphan Works & Copyright: New Resource for the GLAM sector CREATe, the RCUK…
via Input 4 RELCFP

I am using two @… devices at home and I really wish I had more. OMG, they are nice.

Geological resources may be able to provide billions—or even trillions—of metric tons of clean hydrogen,
according to estimates from US government researchers.
By tapping into existing hydrogen accumulations and stimulating underground rocks to make more of the electron-rich gas,
a new crop of energy entrepreneurs think they can put low-carbon hydrogen on the market for as little as $1 per kilogram.
The concept is proven at just one site today -- But if it works as w…

Trillions of tons of hydrogen may be waiting under our feet
A new energy industry is emerging around hydrogen made by rocks instead of renewables

Happy #AutisticPrideDay! ♾️💙
I’m proudly autistic, my brain works in its own unique way, full of different thoughts and feelings all at once. Being autistic is part of who I am, not something to fix. 🧠🧠
I’m also queer and genderfluid, and that’s just another part of my colorful identity. Some days I feel one way, some days another, and that’s okay. 🏳️‍🌈☂️
Neurodiver…

"Free Falling" is a weird song to be playing on the speakers at a booth for an airplane company

I've seen a lot of randos trying to get folks on the local developer slack to do this. It's usually something like "we will pay you monthly to maintain a fleet of laptops at your house". There is always someone desperate enough or ignorant enough to say yes.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6rokcE6/

I am going to be at the #EAA Fly-in in #Oshkosh, this week. I usually just go on the weekend but this year I'm going during the week.

is at the #Milwaukee Air and Water show.

I'm eating lunch at a tiny neighborhood Chinese joint and I just heard a bunch of Chinese on a duo call with "skip school" and "study" in English. 🤨

I got out and bought some eggs, veggies, and peaches at the local farmers market

I saw the price for a half a hog at the farmers market and I'm kind of curious how much processing would cost.

I need to go pick up my CSA share today. It still feels weird that the pickup site is at a grocery store.

I just saw someone dressed as Ben Franklin and carrying a poster board at the coffee shop.

The last person I still speak with at my old employer was let go earlier this week.

I figured out how to use a Windows Server 2022 machine as an endpoint for time machine backups. :)
(Don't worry. I'll document this at some point.)

I bought a 15 pack of this stuff at the store earlier today. That felt like a big gamble.

I already have a phone that is less than six months old but if google released a "Pixel 10 Flip" at a price point that similar to the 2025 Motorola Razr, I would buy it.

I got a call at 10:00 a.m. this morning from somebody I used to work with saying that they had just been laid off. I really wish I had some decent advice to give to her beyond taking a day or two to breathe and do something pleasurable.

Over the weekend, I bought a $10/mo "movie club" membership that's good at the movie theater that is one county over. I wish that the theater in my actual town had something like that.