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Helical Locomotion in Yield Stress Fluids
Farshad Nazari Kourosh Shoele, Hadi Mohammadigoushki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06655 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Helical Locomotion in Yield Stress Fluids
We report three stages for locomotion of a helical swimmer in yield stress fluids. In the first stage, the swimmer must overcome material's yield strain to generate rotational motion. However, exceeding the first threshold is not sufficient for locomotion. Only when the viscous forces are sufficiently strong to plastically deform the material to a finite distance away from the swimmer, net locomotion will occur. Once locomotion is underway in the third stage, the yield stress retards swimming a…

Off-Trajectory Reasoning: Can LLMs Collaborate on Reasoning Trajectory?
Aochong Oliver Li, Tanya Goyal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06410 https://arxiv.org/p…

Off-Trajectory Reasoning: Can LLMs Collaborate on Reasoning Trajectory?
Reasoning LLMs are trained to verbalize their reasoning process, yielding strong gains on complex tasks. This transparency also opens a promising direction: multiple reasoners can directly collaborate on each other's thinking within a shared trajectory, yielding better inference efficiency and exploration. A key prerequisite, however, is the ability to assess the usefulness and build on another model's partial thinking -- we call this off-trajectory reasoning. Our paper investigates a critical …

In-Field Mapping of Grape Yield and Quality with Illumination-Invariant Deep Learning
Ciem Cornelissen, Sander De Coninck, Axel Willekens, Sam Leroux, Pieter Simoens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04864

In-Field Mapping of Grape Yield and Quality with Illumination-Invariant Deep Learning
This paper presents an end-to-end, IoT-enabled robotic system for the non-destructive, real-time, and spatially-resolved mapping of grape yield and quality (Brix, Acidity) in vineyards. The system features a comprehensive analytical pipeline that integrates two key modules: a high-performance model for grape bunch detection and weight estimation, and a novel deep learning framework for quality assessment from hyperspectral (HSI) data. A critical barrier to in-field HSI is the ``domain shift" ca…

Battle, n.:
A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that
will not yield to the tongue.
-- Ambrose Bierce

Durbin to Bondi
in this morning's Senate hearing:
"Although you've been a registered foreign agent for Qatar,
you didn't recuse yourself from signing off on Trump's solicitation of a free jet from the royal family,
even though this gift was clearly illegal.
Connections to Bondi seem to yield more favorable outcomes for defendants."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Durbin to Bondi: "Although you've been a registered foreign agent for Qatar, you didn't recuse yourself from signing off on Trump's solicitation of a free jet from the royal family, even though this gift was clearly illegal. Connections to Bondi seem to yield more favorable outcomes for defendants."

I couldn't agree more.
"This summer the bunting came out. It felt cheap and vulgar. We were remembering winning a war, not why it had been fought"
"I heard raw fury at President Trump for appeasing Vladimir Putin, echoing Neville Chamberlain’s yielding to Hitler."
Anthony Seldon

🚜 One-time nitrogen application boosts ammonia emissions in maize fields
#nitrogen

One-time nitrogen application boosts ammonia emissions in maize fields
Recently, a research team in the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed that one-time nitrogen (N) application, a labor-saving practice favored by many farmers, increases both soil and canopy ammonia (NH3) emissions in maize fields, while reducing grain yield and nitrogen use efficiency.

Large circular dichroism in the total photoemission yield of free chiral nanoparticles created by a pure electric dipole effect
Sebastian Hartweg, Dusan k. Bozanic, Gustavo A. Garcia-Macias, Laurent Nahon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05945

Large circular dichroism in the total photoemission yield of free chiral nanoparticles created by a pure electric dipole effect
Spectroscopic techniques that are sensitive to molecular chirality are important analytical tools to quantitatively determine enantiomeric excess and purity of chiral molecular samples. Many chiroptical processes however produce weak enantio-specific asymmetries due to their origin relying on weak magnetic dipole or electric quadrupole effects. Photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD) in contrast, is an intense effect, that is fully contained in the electric dipole description of light matter in…

Over 1300 days of Russian war crimes and genocide on Ukrainians, and the west has still done nothing substantial to stop it.
Wringing your hands and asking "please" of a murderous monster yields the expected results.
Meanwhile, the military industrial complex grows richer, and Europe continues to buy Russian oil and gas.
Fuckery of the first degree.
Witness Ukraine, and understand the disgusting truth of the horror you see. This is the protection that Americ…

An Unending Terror Funded By Those Who Ought Stop It
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Sonnet 122 - CXXII
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full charactered with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain,
Beyond all date, even to eternity:
Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
Till each to razed oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be missed.
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Ther…