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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SoundOfCinema
- Cinema Paradiso and the long hot summer
Matthew Sweet packs his bags in search of the films that bring back memories of summer - with music from Roman Holiday, Swallows and Amazons and Cinema Paradiso.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00224g2

Don't Unwrap Options: There Are Better Ways #Rust
https://corrode.dev/blog/rust-option-handling-best-practices/

#WaterfallWednesday, pretty much a year ago...
(Coincidentally there on the same day as @…... but didn't know)
#LandscapePhotography

Calamus 28 When I peruse the conquered fame of heroes
My surface reading is this is a celebration of the common man, perhaps soldiers, over the more famous generals and presidents. But this commentary encourages me to dig deeper.
First, to highlight the gay text...
the brotherhood of lovers ... Through youth, and through middle and old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were
Very homoromantic language! Male lovers who stay together through their whole lives, affectionate.
The last fillip here is Whitman's own stance: "pensive... filled with the bitterest envy". Whitman admires these lovers and envies them. That's a striking feeling to disclose!

Failing Banks
Sergio Correia, Stephan Luck, Emil Verner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06082 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06082

Failing Banks
Why do banks fail? We create a panel covering most commercial banks from 1863 through 2024 to study the history of failing banks in the United States. Failing banks are characterized by rising asset losses, deteriorating solvency, and an increasing reliance on expensive noncore funding. These commonalities imply that bank failures are highly predictable using simple accounting metrics from publicly available financial statements. Failures with runs were common before deposit insurance, but thes…

For Trump,
“it’s no billionaire left behind
— and good luck to everyone else.”
“It’s telling that President Trump has chosen to release his budget on a Friday night with no fanfare whatsoever,”
said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee,
following the administration’s release of approximately 1,200 pages of budget documents.
“That’s probably because his budget would raise costs for working people,
destroy basic s…

'No Billionaire Left Behind' in Trump Budget Request That Trashes Workers, Struggling Families | Common Dreams
One expert critic said the updated request "confirms once again that the president continues to break his promises to lower families' costs and help people who are struggling to make ends meet."

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03108 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Writing with AI Lowers Psychological Ownership, but Longer Prompts Can Help
The feeling of something belonging to someone is called "psychological ownership." A common assumption is that writing with generative AI lowers psychological ownership, but the extent to which this occurs and the role of prompt length are unclear. We report on two experiments to examine the relationship between psychological ownership and prompt length. Participants wrote short stories either completely by themselves or wrote prompts of varying lengths. Results show that when participants wrot…

Modelling of Counter-Current Gas-Liquid Annular Flow in a Vertical Annulus
Mahshid Firouzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10270 https://a…

Modelling of Counter-Current Gas-Liquid Annular Flow in a Vertical Annulus
Annular two-phase flow involving upward-moving gas and downward-flowing liquid within a vertical annular geometry is a common configuration in various engineering systems. In such systems, accurately predicting the pressure gradient is essential for understanding flow stability, equipment performance, and system design under counter-current conditions. This paper presents a general mechanistic model to predict the pressure gradient in counter-current annular flow within a vertical annular space…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16144 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

A Survey of the Holroyd-Talbot Conjecture
A family of sets is intersecting if every pair of its members has an element in common. Such a family of sets is called a star if some element is in every set of the family. Given a graph $G$, let $μ(G)$ denote the size of the smallest maximal independent set of $G$. In 2005, Holroyd and Talbot conjectured the following generalization of the Erdős-Ko-Rado Theorem: for $1\le r\le μ(G)/2$, there is a maximum size intersecting family of independent $r$-sets that is a star. In this paper we pres…

To cross or not to cross, that's the question...
(One of the more intense streams — the outflow of a glacier — I had to cross in my life, that bridge looks a lot safer that it was IRL...)
#FootpathFriday #Hiking