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Das Strecken und Recken der erschöpften Knochen nach acht abgeschlossenen Aufführungen und wer weiß wie vielen Generalproben zuvor neigt scih dem Ende. In ungefähr sechs Stunden hat der Spaß ein Ende und unsere Akrobaten und Akrobatinnen können sich dem Volke mit erhobenem Haupt stellen. Bis dahin aber wird noch so manch Dompteur auf eine "Fake-Meldung" hereinfallen ;) #dem25 ^mr

Solar cells on cattle holding pens seems like a great idea! Probably tons of buildings and farms that would be fine with solar cells on top.
I'm no (food) scientist but I am a lot more confident that it doesn't pose a risk to the food source. But I'm less confident of growing crops under solar cells or solar cells floating on aquatic farms. Likely need significant maintenance over the years to prevent leaching and it's always hard for politicians to fix old instead of …

Azerbaijan detains alleged Russian spies as relations with Moscow nosedive: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/azerbaijan-detains-alleged-russian-spies.html

In #Walldürn wurde mit Neusaß II eine der größten #AgriPV-Anlagen Baden-Württembergs eingeweiht.
Auf fast neun Hektar wachsen künftig #Gemüse und

In "Neusaß II" wachsen künftig Kartoffeln im Windschatten von Solarpanelen
In Walldürn ist am Montag ein Pilotprojekt der erneuerbaren Energiegewinnung ans Netz gegangen. "Neusaß II" gilt als eine der größten Agri-Photovoltaikanlagen Baden-Württembergs.

Die Ausschreibung für #Solarparks der #BNetzA zum 1. Dezember 2024 war stark überzeichnet.
Nur 242 von 524 Geboten erhielten einen Zuschlag. Die Vergütung sank auf 3,88 bis 4,95 Cent pro Kilowattstunde. Bayern erhielt den größten Anteil.
Neue Regeln aus dem

BNetzA: Ausschreibung für Solarparks deutlich überzeichnet
Entdecken Sie, warum die starke Überzeichnung der Solarpark-Ausschreibung trotz sinkender Preise Chancen für größere Projekte birgt. Wichtige

Best bounds for the dual Hardy operator minus identity on decreasing functions
Achraf Ben Said, Gord Sinnamon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02290 https://

Best bounds for the dual Hardy operator minus identity on decreasing functions
The distance from the identity operator $I$ to $H^*$, the dual of the Hardy averaging operator, is studied on the cone of nonnegative, nonincreasing functions in Lebesgue space. The exact value is obtained. Optimal lower bounds are also given for difference, $H^*-I$, of these two operators acting on the same cone. A positive answer is given to a conjecture made in ``The norm of Hardy-type oscillation operators in the discrete and continuous settings'' by A. Ben Said, S. Boza, and J. Soria. Prep…

I read "Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It" by Christof Koch.
Interesting book which spends like 8 or 9 chapters detailing all the experiments which prove beyond much doubt that consciousness, and self awareness, is a thing done by a brain.
It describes how perception is a construction of a description, has a chapter called "computational mind"
And then spends the last two chapters describing why he thinks the mind can't be computed, because drugs have made him think experience is some kind of magic associated with highly interconnected causal structures.
Apparently, he thinks, once things become interconnected enough they become able to cause things independently of the physics running those connections.
Which is crazy, obviously. There's nothing causal in direct connections between neurons that isn't equally causal in modeled connections between virtual neurons.
All his evidence in the book from neural MRI scans to the effects of psychedelic drugs and symptoms of strokes and disease point to the brain simulating a virtual reality which is the basis of perception.
That simulated world in which we live is full of colour and shape and sounds and emotions and millions of mental constructs that are built to be correlated by the senses with the outside world, but are not equal to the world itself. We live in a dream constructed to correlate with reality.
But then instead of taking the next step: That consciousness itself is a property of a simulated being inside that mental model of the universe, a property which the brain simulates and applies to the virtual self that's doing the experiencing inside that model, he jumps towards some magic implying pan-psychism or that sufficiently interconnected networks become causally self-complete for some reason nobody can fathom.
Sure, colour and shape and emotions are all made up by the brain but experience can't be! For some reason.
You see in truth dualism is false, in that there is no spirit realm in which ghosts animate the matter of the body somehow.
Yet also, dualism is true, in that there is a simulated mental reality which we live in, computed by the brain in which all perception and experience are created, which is related-to but separate-from the unfolding complicated dance of energy that is the universe our bodies interact with.
People take some DMT trip, and the model of the universe emulated by their brain collapses and breaks. Their virtual simulated self inside their mind has these experiences of being one with the universe or the experience of feeling dead yet conscious or whatever, and these hippies think that the broken down simulated experience is real and reflects how consciousness is more fundamental than the atoms that make up the neurons in their brain.
Instead of realizing it shows them that their experienced universe is a simulacrum, they think they get a more direct experience of reality somehow. A consciousness more pure than any mere base atom.
"Then I am myself the world" is a great title. Everything you ever experience is created and simulated in your brain like a dream, the whole universe is inside your head. Even the fact of experience itself.
But that isn't the conclusion Koch reaches somehow, he just jumps from describing the evidence that this is so straight into ascribing super-causal magic consciousness to particular arrangements of atoms that integrated information theory suggest have high correlation, and thinks therefore conciousness is itself the entire universe.
Ah well, fun book. I like arguing in my head with authors that are wrong.
#reading #books #consciousness #thenIAmMyselfTheWorld

Latent Representation Learning of Multi-scale Thermophysics: Application to Dynamics in Shocked Porous Energetic Material
Shahab Azarfar, Joseph B. Choi, Phong CH. Nguyen, Yen T. Nguyen, Pradeep Seshadri, H. S. Udaykumar, Stephen Baek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12996

Latent Representation Learning of Multi-scale Thermophysics: Application to Dynamics in Shocked Porous Energetic Material
Coupling of physics across length and time scales plays an important role in the response of microstructured materials to external loads. In a multi-scale framework, unresolved (subgrid) meso-scale dynamics is upscaled to the homogenized (macro-scale) representation of the heterogeneous material through closure models. Deep learning models trained using meso-scale simulation data are now a popular route to assimilate such closure laws. However, meso-scale simulations are computationally taxing,…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Všclav Trojan, Ksenija Sidorova, BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Clark Rundell:
🎵 The Acrobatic Fairytale
#VáclavTrojan #KsenijaSidorova #BBCNationalOrchestraofWales #ClarkRundell