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Russland beschießt mehrere Städte
Die Ukraine hat einen nächtlichen russischen Angriff mit 86 Drohnen gemeldet. Davon seien 34 abgeschossen worden, teilte die Luftwaffe mit. Weitere 36 Fluggeräte seien entweder Attrappen ohne Sprengsatz gewesen oder seien verloren gegangen.
Zugleich räumte die Luftwaffe ein, dass acht Ziele in der Ukraine von russischen Drohnen getroffen worden seien. Neben dem Schwarzmeerhafen Odessa nahm R…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Viele Verletze bei Drohnenangriff auf Odessa ++
Russland hat mehrere Städte mit Drohnen angriffen - in Odessa starb ein Mensch, 14 wurden verletzt. Präsident Putin will auf dem Internationalen Wirtschaftsforum in St. Petersburg vor großem Publikum sprechen.

Focusing on Students, not Machines: Grounded Question Generation and Automated Answer Grading
G\'er\^ome Meyer, Philip Breuer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12066

Focusing on Students, not Machines: Grounded Question Generation and Automated Answer Grading
Digital technologies are increasingly used in education to reduce the workload of teachers and students. However, creating open-ended study or examination questions and grading their answers is still a tedious task. This thesis presents the foundation for a system that generates questions grounded in class materials and automatically grades student answers. It introduces a sophisticated method for chunking documents with a visual layout, specifically targeting PDF documents. This method enhance…

Recursive Semantic Anchoring in ISO 639:2023: A Structural Extension to ISO/TC 37 Frameworks
Bugra Kilictas, Faruk Alpay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06870 h…

Recursive Semantic Anchoring in ISO 639:2023: A Structural Extension to ISO/TC 37 Frameworks
ISO 639:2023 unifies the ISO language-code family and introduces contextual metadata, but it lacks a machine-native mechanism for handling dialectal drift and creole mixtures. We propose a formalisation of recursive semantic anchoring, attaching to every language entity $χ$ a family of fixed-point operators $ϕ_{n,m}$ that model bounded semantic drift via the relation $ϕ_{n,m}(χ) = χ\oplus Δ(χ)$, where $Δ(χ)$ is a drift vector in a latent semantic manifold. The base anchor $ϕ_{0,0}$ re…

I am keenly aware of others who are much more seriously impaired, & actually are, or can be quite disabled. I get angry when I see people who feel entitled do things like parking in disabled parking slots. They should be ashamed of themselves. The elderly, disabled woman who arrives who is capable of getting from her vehicle to the door, and getting onto the elevator, now has to park down in the main parking area with a long walk up to the building. That is impossible for her. What is she to do?

Med-U1: Incentivizing Unified Medical Reasoning in LLMs via Large-scale Reinforcement Learning
Xiaotian Zhang, Yuan Wang, Zhaopeng Feng, Ruizhe Chen, Zhijie Zhou, Yan Zhang, Hongxia Xu, Jian Wu, Zuozhu Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12307

Med-U1: Incentivizing Unified Medical Reasoning in LLMs via Large-scale Reinforcement Learning
Medical Question-Answering (QA) encompasses a broad spectrum of tasks, including multiple choice questions (MCQ), open-ended text generation, and complex computational reasoning. Despite this variety, a unified framework for delivering high-quality medical QA has yet to emerge. Although recent progress in reasoning-augmented large language models (LLMs) has shown promise, their ability to achieve comprehensive medical understanding is still largely unexplored. In this paper, we present Med-U1, …

Quorum sensing of light-activated colloids in nematic liquid crystals
Antonio Tavera-V\'azquez, David Martin, Haijie Ren, Sam Rubin, Andr\'es C\'ordoba, Rui Zhang, Vincenzo Vitelli, Juan J. de Pablo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10866

Quorum sensing of light-activated colloids in nematic liquid crystals
Motile living organisms routinely probe their surroundings to adapt in ever-evolving environments. Although synthetic microswimmers offer surrogates for self-propelled living entities, they often lack the complex feedback mechanisms that enable organisms to adapt. In this work, we present an experimental platform in which light-activated colloids dispersed in a nematic liquid crystal can (i) switch from directed to active Brownian motion depending on the nematic anchoring and (ii) mechanically …

Selenskyj: "Es war eine brutale, schlaflose Nacht"
Der jüngste russische Angriff auf die Ukraine in der Nacht war einer der bisher größten, teilte der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj auf X mit. Er nannte den Angriff "absichtlich massiv und zynisch". "Es war eine brutale, schlaflose Nacht", so Selenskyj. Erst gegen 9 Uhr morgens endete der Luftalarm in Kiew. Russland zeige erneut, dass es n…
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Massive russische Angriffe auf Kiew
Erneut hat es in der Nacht russische Angriffe auf die ukrainische Hauptstadt Kiew und das Umland gegeben - sie dauerten mehrere Stunden an. Es gab mehrere Verletzte und Schäden in sechs der zehn Kiewer Bezirke.

So I've found my answer after maybe ~30 minutes of effort. First stop was the first search result on Startpage (https://millennialhawk.com/does-poop-have-calories/), which has some evidence of maybe-AI authorship but which is better than a lot of slop. It actually has real links & cites research, so I'll start by looking at the sources.
It claims near the top that poop contains 4.91 kcal per gram (note: 1 kcal = 1 Calorie = 1000 calories, which fact I could find/do trust despite the slop in that search). Now obviously, without a range or mention of an average, this isn't the whole picture, but maybe it's an average to start from? However, the citation link is to a study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32235930/) which only included 27 people with impaired glucose tolerance and obesity. Might have the cited stat, but it's definitely not a broadly representative one if this is the source. The public abstract does not include the stat cited, and I don't want to pay for the article. I happen to be affiliated with a university library, so I could see if I have access that way, but it's a pain to do and not worth it for this study that I know is too specific. Also most people wouldn't have access that way.
Side note: this doing-the-research protect has the nice benefit of letting you see lots of cool stuff you wouldn't have otherwise. The abstract of this study is pretty cool and I learned a bit about gut microbiome changes from just reading the abstract.
My next move was to look among citations in this article to see if I could find something about calorie content of poop specifically. Luckily the article page had indicators for which citations were free to access. I ended up reading/skimming 2 more articles (a few more interesting facts about gut microbiomes were learned) before finding this article whose introduction has what I'm looking for: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3127503/
Here's the relevant paragraph:
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The alteration of the energy-balance equation, which is defined by the equilibrium of energy intake and energy expenditure (1–5), leads to weight gain. One less-extensively-studied component of the energy-balance equation is energy loss in stools and urine. Previous studies of healthy adults showed that ≈5% of ingested calories were lost in stools and urine (6). Individuals who consume high-fiber diets exhibit a higher fecal energy loss than individuals who consume low-fiber diets with an equivalent energy content (7, 8). Webb and Annis (9) studied stool energy loss in 4 lean and 4 obese individuals and showed a tendency to lower the fecal energy excretion in obese compared with lean study participants.
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And there's a good-enough answer if we do some math, along with links to more in-depth reading if we want them. A Mayo clinic calorie calculator suggests about 2250 Calories per day for me to maintain my weight, I think there's probably a lot of variation in that number, but 5% of that would be very roughly 100 Calories lost in poop per day, so maybe an extremely rough estimate for a range of humans might be 50-200 Calories per day. Interestingly, one of the AI slop pages I found asserted (without citation) 100-200 Calories per day, which kinda checks out. I had no way to trust that number though, and as we saw with the provenance of the 4.91 kcal/gram, it might not be good provenance.
To double-check, I visited this link from the paragraph above: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022316622169853?via=ihub
It's only a 6-person study, but just the abstract has numbers: ~250 kcal/day pooped on a low-fiber diet vs. ~400 kcal/day pooped on a high-fiber diet. That's with intakes of ~2100 and ~2350 kcal respectively, which is close to the number from which I estimated 100 kcal above, so maybe the first estimate from just the 5% number was a bit low.
Glad those numbers were in the abstract, since the full text is paywalled... It's possible this study was also done on some atypical patient group...
Just to come full circle, let's look at that 4.91 kcal/gram number again. A search suggests 14-16 ounces of poop per day is typical, with at least two sources around 14 ounces, or ~400 grams. (AI slop was strong here too, with one including a completely made up table of "studies" that was summarized as 100-200 grams/day). If we believe 400 grams/day of poop, then 4.91 kcal/gram would be almost 2000 kcal/day, which is very clearly ludicrous! So that number was likely some unrelated statistic regurgitated by the AI. I found that number in at least 3 of the slop pages I waded through in my initial search.

EU importierte für 33 Milliarden Euro russisches Flüssiggas
Seit dem Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine hat die Europäische Union einem Bericht zufolge für 32,7 Milliarden Euro russisches Flüssiggas importiert. Das berichtet das Magazin Stern, dem Eurostat-Zahlen dazu vorliegen, die das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) beim Statistischen Bundesamt abgefragt hatte.
Demnach beläuft…
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EU und Deutschland: Russisches Flüssigerdgas - weiter willkommen
Deutschland und die EU wollen nicht mehr, dass der Gasverkauf Putins Krieg finanziert. Doch bei Flüssigerdgas endet die Entschlossenheit. Das kommt weiter in die EU, und am Export verdient Deutschland sogar mit.

Lawrow bekräftigt Rückhalt Nordkoreas
Russlands Außenminister Sergej Lawrow hat bei seinem Besuch in Nordkorea die Fortsetzung der militärischen Allianz beider Länder betont. "Unsere koreanischen Freunde haben ihre eindeutige Unterstützung gegenüber allen Zielen der militärischen Spezialoperation und den Handlungen der russischen Führung und der russischen Armee bekräftigt", sagte Lawrow nach einem Gespräch mit seiner nordkor…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Strom- und Wasserausfall in besetzten Gebieten ++
Weite Teile der von russischen Truppen besetzten südukrainischen Region Saporischschja sind ohne Strom- und Wasserversorgung. Durch russische Angriffe sollen mindestens vier Menschen in der Ukraine getötet worden sein.