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Without even planning it, I got myself two vaccinations just in time for Yom Kippur
We'll see how tonight's Day of Atonement goes; perhaps I'll sweat out my sins with a fever

log scales like "number of nines" are fun when you start to get to poor levels of performance.
... in a room full of people who would have laughed at them if they had said "let's get up to three nines of reliability",
a team I work with took a KPI to "get loss rates down below 20%" and received wise nods from most of the engineers in the room.
...but that's the equivalent of "let's get up to 0.5 nines"
that's a …

The g-2 in the neutral Electroweak model with cutoff: convergent expansion, RG and the Jackiw-Weinberg formula
Vieri Mastropietro, Michele Bianchessi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02092

The g-2 in the neutral Electroweak model with cutoff: convergent expansion, RG and the Jackiw-Weinberg formula
The prediction of the anomalous gyromagnetic factor of the electron, started with the evaluation of the electromagnetic contribution by Schwinger (1948) and of the weak contribution by Jackiw and Weinberg (1972), is one of the major successes of Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model. The results obtained truncating the series are in spectacular agreement with experiments. Yet, a mathematical justification and an estimate of the truncation error are problematic, being such series diverging…

Anyone (academic / researcher) had recent experience with submitting to #ScienceAdvances (https://www.science.org/journal/sciadv)? Good or bad?
We submitted there about 3 months ago and hear…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SHERELLE
Lord Kitchener:
🎵 London is the Place for Me
#LordKitchener
https://honestjonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/london-is-the-place-for-me-8-lord-kitchener-in-england-1948-1962
https://open.spotify.com/track/1pETAnznla509bUKb34xnS

Läs läkaren Ahed Ghabens vittnesmål: "Jag har aldrig upplevt sådan fara. Eller sådan förödmjukelse". #Gaza https://www.dn.se/varlden/inga-fel-hittade-i-nio-av-…

"Thousands of anti-Trump protesters march in London as king and senior royals host US president in Windsor"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/17/donald-trump-uk-state-visit-k…

#Gaza: 86% of cultivation destroyed and 12% Inacessible (probably an underestimate now). Much of the land from which Palestinians expelled in 1948 afforested with non native, non-food trees, to obliterate traces of Palestinians ties with and care for the soil, and to build the lie of 'making the desert bloom'.
Palestinian culture lives with the land. Israeli culture seeks it's domina…

Los árboles que cuentan la historia de la Palestina que un día fue y que Israel quiere erradicar
La escritora e historiadora Paola Caridi relata en su libro 'La morera de Jerusalén' como la vegetación ha sido un instrumento fundamental de la ocupación y de la creación de Israel

Många tycks tro att "AI" kommer att leda till enorma produktivitetsvinster. Men hittills är den automatisering som sker i dessa system så opålitlig att det är svårt ens att låta dem hantera extremt regelstyrda processer som bokföring.
Absurt nog (och möjligen därför) har kreativa verksamheter som skrivande och filmskapande lyfts fram. Men om människan slutar vara kreativ och överlåter kreativ verksamhet till automatiserade bottar som producerar generiskt, mediokert innehåll – …

I have signed this petition, together with hundreds of other experienced correspondents, photographers and media professionals. We demand immediate authorization to enter Gaza and report independently. https://freedomtoreport.org/

Freedom To Report : Gaza Mission
media enquiries: gazapressmission@pm.me Instagram The Issue What’s happening in Gaza today reveals a far broader crisis: the erosion of press freedom as a pillar of democracy. The people most directly affected are not only the millions of civilians in Gaza enduring war beyond public scrutiny, but also global citizens everywhere whose right to receive free […]

Just in time as I'm watching that new documentary "Becoming Led Zepplin" and of course listing to their music on repeat again.
It's amazing to see their early days footage and their interviews. The people in the audience of their early years where like stunned and couldn't figure what just happened to their ears hearing them play. All four of them were (are) a force of nature in their domain. Playing together as a band they came over you like a huge wave

Eric Alper (@EricAlper@mastodon.social)
Angehängt: 1 Bild Happy birthday to Robert Plant, born on this day in 1948! From Led Zeppelin’s thunderous “Whole Lotta Love” to his Grammy-winning ‘Raising Sand’ with Alison Krauss, his voice has defined generations of rock and beyond.

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds.
(...)Israeli(...) forces committed four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, namely killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of the Palestinians in whole or in part, and imposing measures intended to prevent births.

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today.

Ibland måste man fråga sig: vad händer där egentligen - bakom det vi ser på skärmen? Läkaren Ahed Ghaben berättar om det förödmjukande sökandet efter mat till barnen. https://www.dn.se/varlden/lakaren-ahed-i-gaza-tvingas-ta-mat-fran-la…

Läkare i Gaza berättar om kaoset och hungern: ”Aldrig upplevt sådan fara eller sådan förödmjukelse”
Läkare i Gaza berättar om en livsfarlig jakt på mat: ”Aldrig upplevt en sådan fara och sådan förödmjukelse”.

Good Morning #Canada
A Canadian inventor gave Mothers across North America a device that was beneficial and a little scary. We are, of course, talking about the Jolly Jumper, once referred to as "the Canadian Nanny" on a 1957 CBC broadcast. Susan Olivia Poole (1889–1975) was an Indigenous Canadian inventor who created the Jolly Jumper in 1910, but it was not until 1948 that they were produced for the retail market, and patented in 1957. They continue to be manufactured in Ontario by the company that purchased the rights in 1960.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Inventors
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/olivia-poole

Phase 2 of the #GazaGenocide:
Israel occupies >53%.
Friday, killed a family travelling in a vehicle: 7 children, 2 men, 2 women.
Invisible kill line like the "temporary" 1948 Green Line.
50 million tonnes of rubble, mixed with human remains and unexploded munitions.
Continued blockade of aid and human passage.
Since the Trump plan signed, more than 50…

Fase 2 del genocidio israelí: ocupación del 53% de Gaza, asesinatos, segregación y línea amarilla
En una semana de tregua Israel ha matado a 59 personas, varios niños y niñas, mantiene bloqueado el paso de Rafah, y consolida su ocupación en más de la mitad de la Franja, con la señalización de una línea de separación

Trade, Political Distance and the World Trade Organization
Samuel Hardwick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17303 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.17303

Trade, Political Distance and the World Trade Organization
Trade agreements are often understood as shielding commerce from fluctuations in political relations. This paper provides evidence that World Trade Organization membership reduces the penalty of political distance on trade at the extensive margin. Using a structural gravity framework covering 1948 to 2023 and two measures of political distance, based on high-frequency events data and UN General Assembly votes, GATT/WTO status is consistently associated with a wider range of products traded betw…

Exact Polynomial Families Solving the Erdos-Straus Equation
Bilal Ghermoul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07383 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07383

Exact Polynomial Families Solving the Erdos-Straus Equation
The Erdős-Straus conjecture, proposed in 1948 by Paul Erdős and Ernst G. Straus, asks whether the Diophantine equation \[ \frac{4}{a} = \frac{1}{b} + \frac{1}{c} + \frac{1}{d} \] admits positive integer solutions $b, c, d \in \mathbb{N}^*$ for every integer $a \geq 2$. While the conjecture has been confirmed for all even integers and for all integers congruent to $3 \pmod{4}$, the case $a \equiv 1 \pmod{4}$ remains the central open challenge. In this work, we construct four explicit unbounded…

How I Built ASR for Endangered Languages with a Spoken Dictionary
Christopher Bartley, Anton Ragni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04832 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

How I Built ASR for Endangered Languages with a Spoken Dictionary
Nearly half of the world's languages are endangered. Speech technologies such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) are central to revival efforts, yet most languages remain unsupported because standard pipelines expect utterance-level supervised data. Speech data often exist for endangered languages but rarely match these formats. Manx Gaelic ($\sim$2,200 speakers), for example, has had transcribed speech since 1948, yet remains unsupported by modern systems. In this paper, we explore how litt…

1944 kaufte der Bundesrat 12 Kampfflugzeuge von Nazideutschland (zum Fixpreis).
Problème: ce sont des casseroles. Vraisemblablement sabotés par les travailleurs forcés détenus dans les usines allemandes, ces avions sont dangereux pour les pilotes, interdits de vol dès septembre 1944, et mis Š la ferraille en 1948.
https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/chroniques/avant-les-f-35-il-y-a-eu-le-bf-109-l-avion-nazi-vendu-a-prix-fixe

Procedural Mixture Sets
Hendrik Rommeswinkel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07588 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07588

Procedural Mixture Sets
The paper characterizes the Shannon (1948) and Tsallis (1988) entropies in a standard framework of decision theory, mixture sets. Procedural mixture sets are introduced as a variant of mixture sets in which it is not necessarily true that a mixture of two identical elements yields the same element. This allows the process of mixing itself to have an intrinsic value. The paper proves the surprising result that simply imposing the standard axioms of von Neumann-Morgenstern on preferences on a pro…