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Commonwealth Fusion Systems partners with Google DeepMind to use Google's open-source plasma simulator, TORAX, for accelerating fusion energy development (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/16/google-deepmind-clean-energy-fusion

Exclusive: Google DeepMind partners with fusion startup
Commonwealth Fusion Systems aims to speed up the development of clean energy.

"In summary, #AGI, as commonly conceived, will not happen because it ignores the physical constraints of computation, the exponential costs of linear progress, and the fundamental limits we are already encountering. Superintelligence is a fantasy because it assumes that intelligence can recursively self-improve without bound, ignoring the physical and economic realities that constrain all systems. …

Hey.
Pre-order “Digital Accessibility Ethics”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/11/pre-order-digital-accessibility-ethics.html
Or wait until it comes out if you have to. I’m not your dad / boss / spaghetti monster.

Pre-order “Digital Accessibility Ethics”
Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, and Chancey Fleet gathered 36 authors across 10 countries and a commonwealth to write 32 chapters about ethics in digital accessibility. I am one of those 36 authors. The painting on the cover was created by Ana Maria Vidalon, a Spanish-speaking artist with a disability originally…

(To the tune of "Rock me Amadeus")
Chamomile, chamomile, chamomile,
Chamomile, chamomile, chamomile,
Chamomile, chamomile, oh, oh, oh chamomile.
Come and calm me chamomile.

Good Morning #Canada
On this day in 1948, the longest serving political leader in the British Commonwealth retired. William Lyon Mackenzie King served 21 years and 154 days as Prime Minister of Canada, in non-consecutive terms, from 1921–1926, 1926–1930, and 1935–1948. He led Canada through the Great Depression, introduced Old Age Pensions, nationalized the Bank of Canada, passed the 1938 National Housing Act to improve housing affordability, established the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Trans-Canada Air Lines, and the National Film Board, and implemented Unemployment Insurance. His government was also responsible for Japanese Internment Camps, and he believed strongly in the occult.
This video from TVO is an excellent overview of King's career. It's probably a two coffee viewing this morning if you have the time, but IMO worth the investment.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.tvo.org/video/mackenzie-king-at-150

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CV. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CV/new
[4/8]:
- Boosting Adversarial Transferability via Commonality-Oriented Gradient Optimization
Yanting Gao, Yepeng Liu, Junming Liu, Qi Zhang, Hongyun Zhang, Duoqian Miao, Cairong Zhao

Communal Affiliation in Early Islam #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20131537/communal-affiliation-early-islam

Torrential rain here today, and communal parking lot is flooded again, with water levels reaching the rim of the alloy wheels on cars parked there. Fortunately, the spot that I park my car is close to my house, and doesn't get flooded.

Faster State Preparation with Randomization
Yue Wang, Xiao-Ming Zhang, Xiao Yuan, Qi Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12247 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12247…

Faster State Preparation with Randomization
Quantum state preparation remains a dominant cost in many quantum algorithms. We introduce a randomized protocol that fundamentally improves the accuracy-cost trade-off for states with hierarchical amplitude structures, where amplitudes decay exponentially or by a power law with exponent greater than one. Rather than commonly employed deterministically truncating small amplitudes, we prepare an ensemble of simple circuits: each retains all large amplitudes while amplifying a single small one. W…

Gesture-Based Robot Control Integrating Mm-wave Radar and Behavior Trees
Yuqing Song, Cesare Tonola, Stefano Savazzi, Sanaz Kianoush, Nicola Pedrocchi, Stephan Sigg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12008

Gesture-Based Robot Control Integrating Mm-wave Radar and Behavior Trees
As robots become increasingly prevalent in both homes and industrial settings, the demand for intuitive and efficient human-machine interaction continues to rise. Gesture recognition offers an intuitive control method that does not require physical contact with devices and can be implemented using various sensing technologies. Wireless solutions are particularly flexible and minimally invasive. While camera-based vision systems are commonly used, they often raise privacy concerns and can strugg…