Interesting write-up of the history of Project Xanadu / the history of the Web before the Web
Included quite a few characterizations I wasn't at all aware of.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-project-xanadu-the-internet
Scientific Objectives of the Xue-shan-mu-chang 15-meter Submillimeter Telescope
XSMT Project Collaboration Group, Yiping Ao, Jin Chang, Zhiwei Chen, Xiangqun Cui, Kaiyi Du, Fujun Du, Yan Gong, Zhanwen Han, Gregory Herczeg, Luis C. Ho, Jie Hu, Yipeng Jing, Sihan Jiao, Binggang Ju, Jing Li, Xiaohu Li, Xiangdong Li, Lingrui Lin, Zhenhui Lin, Daizhong Liu, Dong Liu, Guoxi Liu, Zheng Lou, Dengrong Lu, Ruiqing Mao, Wei Miao, Yuan Qian, Keping Qiu, Zhiqiang Shen, Yong Shi, Shengcai Shi, Cheng…
TGPO: Tree-Guided Preference Optimization for Robust Web Agent Reinforcement Learning
Ziyuan Chen, Zhenghui Zhao, Zhangye Han, Miancan Liu, Xianhang Ye, Yiqing Li, Hongbo Min, Jinkui Ren, Xiantao Zhang, Guitao Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14172
Wan-Animate: Unified Character Animation and Replacement with Holistic Replication
Gang Cheng, Xin Gao, Li Hu, Siqi Hu, Mingyang Huang, Chaonan Ji, Ju Li, Dechao Meng, Jinwei Qi, Penchong Qiao, Zhen Shen, Yafei Song, Ke Sun, Linrui Tian, Feng Wang, Guangyuan Wang, Qi Wang, Zhongjian Wang, Jiayu Xiao, Sheng Xu, Bang Zhang, Peng Zhang, Xindi Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Jingren Zhou, Lian Zhuo
10:00 AM
The lessons for today:
- Compiling from FreeBSD ports for KDE 6.4.5 is too much
- Gentoo KDE testing doesn't update due to a spaghetti of dependencies
- Updated Tilers edition breaks the SDDM theme (and the margins in Hyprland are a mess)
- Xanmod kernel update on Trixie is held back
It's gonna be a long nuke-and-pave day.
Toronto-based quantum computing company Xanadu says it will go public in the US and Canada via a SPAC, in a deal that values the combined business at ~$3.6B (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/xanadu-to-go-public-on-nasdaq-and-tsx-in-3-6-billion-u…
TeraSim-World: Worldwide Safety-Critical Data Synthesis for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Jiawei Wang, Haowei Sun, Xintao Yan, Shuo Feng, Jun Gao, Henry X. Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13164
SURGIN: SURrogate-guided Generative INversion for subsurface multiphase flow with quantified uncertainty
Zhao Feng, Bicheng Yan, Luanxiao Zhao, Xianda Shen, Renyu Zhao, Wenhao Wang, Fengshou Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13189
Energy Efficiency Maximization for Movable Antenna-Enhanced MIMO Downlink System Based on S-CSI
Xintai Chen, Biqian Feng, Yongpeng Wu, Xiang-Gen Xia, Chengshan Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12036