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Spectroscopic measurements of graphite electrode erosion on the ZaP-HD sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch device
Amierul Aqil Khairi, Elyse Lian, Uri Shumlak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03414

Spectroscopic measurements of graphite electrode erosion on the ZaP-HD sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch device
The ionizations per photon, or S/XB, method uses spectroscopic measurements of radiating impurity ions to determine the influx from a solid surface. It is highly useful as a non-perturbing, in-situ measure of the gross erosion flux of plasma-facing components (PFCs). In sheared-flow-stabilized (SFS) Z-pinch devices, the electrode supplies the plasma current and directly contacts the core Z-pinch plasma. Electrode erosion due to the large particle and heat fluxes affects electrode durability, wh…

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Caveat: I’m not sure how rigorous and reliable the AQI data is here: this is a company selling air quality products, not some kind of scientifically peer-reviewed model (AFAICT), and it seems like maybe they’re extrapolating based on models of air currents instead of direct measurements? They don’t actually appear to have measurement stations spread across the Atlantic, for example.
(I will say that, checking it all summer, this map does generally check out against other sources for where I live. They’re not obviously juicing the numbers for MSP, at least.)

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Explainable Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Medical Image Classification
Aqib Nazir Mir, Danish Raza Rizvi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15251 https://ar…

Explainable Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Medical Image Classification
This study comprehensively explores knowledge distillation frameworks for COVID-19 and lung cancer classification using chest X-ray (CXR) images. We employ high-capacity teacher models, including VGG19 and lightweight Vision Transformers (Visformer-S and AutoFormer-V2-T), to guide the training of a compact, hardware-aware student model derived from the OFA-595 supernet. Our approach leverages hybrid supervision, combining ground-truth labels with teacher models' soft targets to balance accuracy…

More reasonable distance today, better weather, meh AQI. Hoping to get in a few more runs in this week. Dropping some medications, so far it has helped a bit in some areas of #longfcovid recovery.
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Air quality map of the entire planet. Apparently Earth is mostly not a good place to breathe right now.
Is this…normal? I haven’t seen this kind of simultaneous global AQI map before, and wonder how typical this is for August (in the past decade, century, millennium).
(Source: https://www.iqair.com/us/air-quality-map Turn off stations & fires on the right side to get the image below.)

More reasonable distance today, better weather, meh AQI. Hoping to get in a few more runs in this week. Dropping some medications, so far it has helped a bit in some areas of #longfcovid recovery.
#running