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An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic "algorithm films" intended for broad appeal, with AI set to further entrench the production style (Phil Hoad/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20…

RIVM update rioolwaarden en percentage positief.
Met een flinke inhaalslag in de data: maar liefst 10 nieuwe dagen sinds vorige week woensdag. Het gaat om 18 t/m 27 juli met 70%-3% van de meetstations.
De stijging van vorige week is in de tussentijd eerst afgenomen, gedurende een aantal dagen omgeslagen in een daling, maar de laatste dagen geven juist weer een stijging aan.
Kortom, het schommelt wat, maar de 17e golf lijkt niet hard te gaan ondanks het dominant geworden zijn v…

How do Monarch butterflies survive?
I've planted several California native milkweeds - the Monarchs have a definite preference for it. (It's fun to work in the garden and have Monarchs flying around me.)
Eventually the milkweeds are covered by very healthy looking, strikingly patterned caterpillars. The caterpillars consume the milkweed plant until the plant is a leafless hulk. And the caterpillars vanish.
But I have yet to see a chrysalis.
I'm going to…

thank goodness we had a peaceful transfer of power
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/07/president-biden-rose-garden-speech-trump-election/76108284007/

Biden says 'giving up is unforgivable,' assures peaceful transfer of power after Trump win
President Biden vowed Thursday to ensure a "peaceful transfer of power" following Donald Trump's decisive victory in 2024 election.

Flowing Straighter with Conditional Flow Matching for Accurate Speech Enhancement
Mattias Cross, Anton Ragni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20584 https://arxiv…

Flowing Straighter with Conditional Flow Matching for Accurate Speech Enhancement
Current flow-based generative speech enhancement methods learn curved probability paths which model a mapping between clean and noisy speech. Despite impressive performance, the implications of curved probability paths are unknown. Methods such as Schrodinger bridges focus on curved paths, where time-dependent gradients and variance do not promote straight paths. Findings in machine learning research suggest that straight paths, such as conditional flow matching, are easier to train and offer b…

A regret minimization approach to fixed-point iterations
Joon Kwon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21653 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21653

A regret minimization approach to fixed-point iterations
We propose a conversion scheme that turns regret minimizing algorithms into fixed point iterations, with convergence guarantees following from regret bounds. The resulting iterations can be seen as a grand extension of the classical Krasnoselskii--Mann iterations, as the latter are recovered by converting the Online Gradient Descent algorithm. This approach yields new simple iterations for finding fixed points of non-self operators. We also focus on converting algorithms from the AdaGrad family…

Zaluzhnyi declined call from Vance days after Oval Office clash, Guardian reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/zaluzhnyi-declined-call-from-vance.html

The decay of values continues...
https://climatejustice.social/@PeterRu/115277445442427554

Hmm… to be lucky, perhaps, but to be proud of having been born somewhere may well be the problem.
Letter in The Guardian: