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@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-16 11:50:52

🥄 'Self-fixturing' friction stir technique removes barriers for US manufacturing
techxplore.com/news/2025-09-fi

'Self-fixturing' friction stir technique removes barriers for US manufacturing
A spinning tool plunges into two pieces of metal, rotating at a high rate of speed. As the tool begins to move, it softens and mixes the metal, creating a powerful weld—one that can securely join similar and dissimilar materials (particularly metals and alloys) without rivets, fasteners, or adhesive. This advanced manufacturing technique—called friction stir welding—requires only a fraction of the energy required by conventional techniques, but it isn't used on many assembly lines today.

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2025-12-16 19:51:03

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-11-17 09:19:45

“TABS [by Mozilla] pulls exactly the data you need—from HTML to Markdown to JSON—using the fastest, most efficient method for each page. It adapts to the structure and complexity of the site, staying stealthy and reliable so your [AI] agents always get what they need without friction.”
Ethical Stealthy AI Scraping (tm) by Mozilla.
#Mozilla

elilla&, famigerada travesti (@elilla@transmom.love)
If you haven't cancelled #Mozilla yet, check out https://tabstack.ai/ yes that's a captcha-dodger scraper bot for "AIs". as a service. powered by the Mozilla Corporation. now you know how they're planning to make bank. oddly under-the-cover project, isn't it? not even showing in search engines. I wonder why :thaenkin:

@axbom@axbom.me
2025-10-16 17:51:10
@… I was trying to do exactly that yesterday and it didn’t get it to work in all browsers, and then I just decided against it in the moment to make it consistent across browsers. I don’t think I’ve fully decided yet one way or the other but I kind of like the friction that this imposes, because it lets people think more on what is actually going on.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2025-11-17 03:23:04

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-12-08 17:04:03

Process creates friction, so we got rid of process. But that friction was necessary for holding workslop at bay.
Because without slowing down, we can't ask "is this good? is this right?" We can only ask "when will it be done?" And that's a world where #LLM outputs will always beat people.
Fortunately, an "optimized" process moves slowly, because prod…

The myth of "no design process"
Process can add friction, but trying to get rid of friction by getting rid of process dooms design to irrelevance.

@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-17 09:49:10

MAPS: A Mode-Aware Probabilistic Scheduling Framework for LPV-Based Adaptive Control
Taehun Kim, Guntae Kim, Cheolmin Jeong, Chang Mook Kang
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12695

MAPS: A Mode-Aware Probabilistic Scheduling Framework for LPV-Based Adaptive Control
This paper proposes Mode-Aware Probabilistic Scheduling (MAPS), a novel adaptive control framework tailored for DC motor systems experiencing varying friction. MAPS uniquely integrates an Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) estimator with a Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) based control strategy, leveraging real-time mode probability estimates to perform probabilistic gain scheduling. A key innovation of MAPS lies in directly using the updated mode probabilities as the interpolation weights for onli…

@arXiv_qfinTR_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-17 08:35:29

Myopic Optimality: why reinforcement learning portfolio management strategies lose money
Yuming Ma
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12764 arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Myopic Optimality: why reinforcement learning portfolio management strategies lose money
Myopic optimization (MO) outperforms reinforcement learning (RL) in portfolio management: RL yields lower or negative returns, higher variance, larger costs, heavier CVaR, lower profitability, and greater model risk. We model execution/liquidation frictions with mark-to-market accounting. Using Malliavin calculus (Clark-Ocone/BEL), we derive policy gradients and risk shadow price, unifying HJB and KKT. This gives dual gap and convergence results: geometric MO vs. RL floors. We quantify phantom …

@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy
2025-12-14 19:51:03

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-05 17:34:38

âś‹ Small digital frictions can slow the spread of misinformation
#misinformation

Small digital frictions can slow the spread of misinformation
New research from the University of Copenhagen points to a simple yet effective method for combating misinformation on social media: make it slightly harder to share content.