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Umerov: Ukraine, U.S., and European partners agree on next steps in talks on Trump’s Ukraine peace plan: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/umerov-ukraine-us-and-european.html

I have finally fixed two long-standing mistakes in my book about Principal Component Analysis.
https://peterbloem.nl/publications/unraveling-pca
To celebrate, I'm now selling the paperback at cost, which is about 17E. The PDF is (still) free. I've also added a crop…

I'm old enough to remember the unraveling of the Watergate cover-up, and the Epstein story has a very familiar stench. #USpol

House, feds probe to unravel mystery of 'Squad' Rep. Ilhan Omar's skyrocketing wealth: 'It's not possible' (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/17/us-news/house-probe-to-unravel-mystery-of-squad-rep-ilhan-omars-skyrocketing-wealth/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p46#a260117p46

Zooming-in on cluster #RadioRelics - how density fluctuations explain the Mach number discrepancy, microgauss magnetic fields, and spectral index variations: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11947 -> Shocked galaxy clusters - Unravelling the mysteries of radio relics: https://www.aip.de/en/news/shocked-galaxy-clusters-unravelling-the-mysteries-of-radio-relics/

The unwrap thing is the equivalent of ignoring the return value of C functions that can fail.
I still prefer the Rust syntax for this, at least ignoring the error is explicit text in code.
In C ignoring a possible error is silent. To spot the error one would need to know the function signature and documentation in advance.
Side note: exceptions are even worse in my humble opinion. They have the advantage of giving more information about an error than just a null or a negativ…

Be the Result::unwrap you want to see in the world

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/115926521660141152
“Menschen, die permanent Unreflektiertes von sich geben, sind bisweilen etwas anstrengend. Einer dieser Menschen ist Friedrich

Zelensky sends Budanov and Umerov to the U.S. for peace talks on Ukraine’s peace plan: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/16/zelensky-sends-budanov-and-umerov.html

The Diamond Ring in Cygnus X - advanced stage of an expanding #bubble of ionised carbon: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/11/aa56159-25/aa56159-25.html -> A sparkling ‘Diamond Ring’ in space - astronomers in Cologne unravel the mystery of a cosmic ring: https://uni-koeln.de/en/university/news/news/news-detail/a-sparkling-diamond-ring-in-space-astronomers-in-cologne-unravel-the-mystery-of-a-cosmic-ring