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`Be advised that a recent version of MATLAB is required. Once you have downloaded or cloned the Tensor Toolbox, use addpath to add the tensor_toolbox directory to your path. Type help tensor_toolbox for a list of functions and classes provided by the toolbox.` www.tensortoolbox.org […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h

`If you are on mastodon.online or another server running nightly updates, you already have early access to the redesign. We are planning to enable this new design on mastodon.social tomorrow, on the 20th October, and then release the first Mastodon 5.0 beta version so server administrators can […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

`Many sensing networks operate in heterogeneous environments...In these settings, it may not be enough for an agent to learn only its local state... To address this problem, we propose cluster-aware social learning, a decentralized method that enables each agent to recover all hidden states […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

proof of Earth's flatness can be found in the folk tales mentioning the "four corners of the Earth" :-P

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

flawed software being more destructive than nuclear weapons is a neat plot twist

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

has it struck anyone that the reason politics is so effed is because the job requirement is wanting to have cameras on you at all times? hmmm

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

technically, all code is one line of code if you ignore newline characters :-P

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

can confirm `Results. Definitely the Aroy-D tom yum paste has a richer flavor, one that rivals any tom yum served in restaurants or made from scratch. While Cock brand is good, Aroy-D is a lot better.` importfood.com/products/thai-curry-…

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Tom Yum Paste - Aroy D Brand vs Cock Brand - ImportFood

We compare two popular brands of tom yum paste from Thailand. Aroy D and Cock brand.

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

in many ways, jazz is applied music theory, in the sense that the goal is to factorize the form of a composition into separable elements that enable the same form to be performed in many different ways #music #theory #musicTheory #jazz

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

"We introduce a flexible parametrization for the transport map that not only meets these conditions but is also expressive enough to model complex distributions. Our theoretical analysis establishes that the proposed transport QMC estimator achieves faster convergence rates than standard Monte […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

`We propose training a transport map to push forward the uniform distribution on the unit hypercube to approximate the target distribution. Inspired by normalizing flows, the transport map is constructed as a composition of simple, invertible transformations.` […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

`Here, using nearly integrable ultracold Bose gases, we realize such intermixtures of Bethe strings out of equilibrium, by dynamically tuning interactions from repulsive to attractive. We measure the average binding energy of the strings, revealing the presence of bound states of more than six […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

`Archaeological and genomic data can work in tandem to reveal subtle details of population history. The peopling of the Americas is a good example of the complementarity of each discipline.` doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2026.102534

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

`The concealment is not guaranteed to succeed, but it exploits a common gap. If your company ships laptops to new hires without verifying the physical destination, that workflow is a documented exposure point.` www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/fbi-… #kvm […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

nice quantum version of an infinite shadow velocity

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

`Our observations show a breakdown of the particle-singularity analogy: phase singularities accelerate towards formally divergent velocities in the moment before annihilation, indicated by measurements of velocities exceeding the speed of light.` […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

`Critics praised it not just as a film score but as a work of art in its own right. In France, it reinforced Miles’ status as the embodiment of modern cool. In the United States, it caught the attention of musicians interested in new harmonic ideas.` […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

`The paper gives scientists a new way to look at the effects of plastic pollution, Wagner says. “It implies microplastics themselves are a source of oxidative species ... and oxidative stress is not a secondary effect of exposure.”` […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

`The natural exponential families (NEF) are a subset of the exponential families. A NEF is an exponential family in which the natural parameter η and the natural statistic T(x) are both the identity.` en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_expon…

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

i get it now... ol whiskey P was the agent the whole time

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

`First occurrence of phytoliths in pterosaurs—evidence for herbivory` www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

`The first find was an enormous stone head measuring approximately 5 feet, 3 inches tall, according to Hisham El-Lithi, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. The head depicts Ramses II wearing the double crown, which symbolized the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt.` […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

`Those differences helped researchers determine that the fossil belonged to a previously unknown member of the megaraptoran group, according to Swiss news outlet Blue News.` www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles… #megaraptor #raptor […]

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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 15/10/2026

At Baotou, China, a vast lake of thorium sludge reflects the toll of decades of rare-earth dominance. Unlocking monazite for dysprosium and terbium offers great geopolitical leverage, but it extracts an immutable physical price: the indefinite custody of radioactive decay chains.

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What A Radioactive Lake In China Can Teach The World About Rare Earths

Billions are driving a race against Beijing’s decades-long lead

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @adamshostack.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Apropos of nothing in particular, the “Administration of Justice” act was one of the three intolerable acts. It allowed the King to remove his agents from the scene of their crimes and ensure they weren’t tried in the community where they broke the law […]

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Marc Abrahams @marcabrahams.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Saul Newman‘s book, titled Morbid, is now loosed upon the world of people who want to read books that make people laugh, then really think. Published by MIT Press, it’s based on and extends the research that won Newman an Ig Nobel Prize […] [Original post on mstdn.science]

bits of snippets of the book, including part of a newspaper headline that says "Oldest nan celebrates his 137th birthday"

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Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Some fish species also use rocks to smash open bivalve shells! #clamFacts youtu.be/85fmnY2AAsI?t=54&is=RE9rHu…

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

`We propose that differential evolutionary constraints across the coleoid 3D genome allow macroevolutionary processes to shape genome topology in distinct ways, facilitating the emergence of novel regulatory entanglements and ultimately contributing to the evolution and maintenance of complex […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

i think i only caught a tiny glimpse of it, but from what i saw, the Gene Golub vs. Walter Murray static was epic

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

`... Birkhoff's theorem says that the exterior geometry must be Schwarzschild; the only effect of the pulsation is to change the location of the stellar surface. This means that a spherically pulsating star cannot emit gravitational waves, which requires at least a mass quadrupole structure` […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

`This higher-order architecture identifies a regulatory strategy in methanogens in which PII proteins drive nitrogenase oligomerization to control activity. The finding that nitrogenase activity may be modulated through direct assembly into higher-order structures indicates future directions for […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

`Parker played a Grafton saxophone on this date; he could not be listed on the original album cover for contractual reasons, so was billed as "Charlie Chan", an allusion to the fictional detective and to Parker's wife Chan.` en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_at_Masse…

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Jazz at Massey Hall - Wikipedia

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

if you look at code that you wrote >5 years old, you might want to... not be nice to your former self hehe :)

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

top level mathematicians responding to a rug-pull attempt by an overly-leveraged software startup was not on my bingo card for 2026, but it might trigger some kind of serious pushback from academia over the irresponsible hijacking of scientific terminology involving imprecise terminology... that […]

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

who cares about humanoid robots? i'm still waiting for some actual "pocket monsters"... come on, biohackers! this "pokemon" stuff is not the real thing :-P

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

someone said there was a country that should get a new president, eh? :-P

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katch wreck @katchwreck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

kinda funny that there will soon be a new generation of professionals who learned almost everything they know how about coding by copying & pasting together snippets that were written by generative models

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