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from my link log —
Rendezvous hashing explained.
https://randorithms.com/2020/12/26/rendezvous-hashing.html
saved 2025-09-16 https://

Spotify reinstates integration with third-party DJ software for Premium subscribers in 51 markets, including the US, after pulling support in 2020 (Lawrence Bonk/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/music/spotify-now-di…

Spotify now directly integrates with DJ software
Spotify just announced integration with popular DJ software platforms. This will allow users to create DJ sets by dipping into their playlists.

Chinese movies have averaged ~20% of the global box office since 2020, with 98% of their earnings coming from their domestic market, as America's dominance ebbs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-china-box-office/

Delving into Cryptanalytic Extraction of PReLU Neural Networks
Yi Chen, Xiaoyang Dong, Ruijie Ma, Yantian Shen, Anyu Wang, Hongbo Yu, Xiaoyun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16620

Delving into Cryptanalytic Extraction of PReLU Neural Networks
The machine learning problem of model extraction was first introduced in 1991 and gained prominence as a cryptanalytic challenge starting with Crypto 2020. For over three decades, research in this field has primarily focused on ReLU-based neural networks. In this work, we take the first step towards the cryptanalytic extraction of PReLU neural networks, which employ more complex nonlinear activation functions than their ReLU counterparts. We propose a raw output-based parameter recovery attack …

Toward Affordable and Non-Invasive Detection of Hypoglycemia: A Machine Learning Approach
Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Vikas Ashok, Sampath Jayarathna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17842

Toward Affordable and Non-Invasive Detection of Hypoglycemia: A Machine Learning Approach
Diabetes mellitus is a growing global health issue, with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) requiring constant monitoring to avoid hypoglycemia. Although Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) are effective, their cost and invasiveness limit access, particularly in low-resource settings. This paper proposes a non-invasive method to classify glycemic states using Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), a biosignal commonly captured by wearable sensors. We use the merged OhioT1DM 2018 and 2020 datasets to build a machine l…

Source: McLaurin seeks more opinions on injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46356868/commanders-mclaurin-seeks-more-input-quad-injury

Yeah.... Cool story, bro. We're in the fever pitch of the bubble now.

In May 2020, Barry Warsaw (developer of GNU Mailman) released a song with lyrics that may be familiar to anyone who ever typed “import this” into the Python interpreter.
https://youtu.be/i6G6dmVJy74

Optimal 4-Approximation for the Correlated Pandora's Problem
Nikhil Bansal, Zhiyi Huang, Zixuan Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17029 https://arxiv.org/…

Optimal 4-Approximation for the Correlated Pandora's Problem
The Correlated Pandora's Problem posed by Chawla et al. (2020) generalizes the classical Pandora's Problem by allowing the numbers inside the Pandora's boxes to be correlated. It also generalizes the Min Sum Set Cover problem, and is related to the Uniform Decision Tree problem. This paper gives an optimal 4-approximation for the Correlated Pandora's Problem, matching the lower bound of 4 from Min Sum Set Cover.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 19.09.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 66 nodes and 65 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020) - Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZWF01483W-freestanding-washing-machine-REVIEW.html

On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020)
Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles.

Admissible convergence behavior and mirroring of stagnation in restarted (block) GMRES
Marie Kub\'inov\'a, Kirk M. Soodhalter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17077 https://…

Admissible convergence behavior and mirroring of stagnation in restarted (block) GMRES
In this work, we describe how to construct matrices and block right-hand sides the exhibit a specified restarted block GMRES convergence pattern, such that the eigenvalues and Ritz values at each iteration can be chosen independent of the specified convergence behavior. This work is a generalization of the work in [Meurant and Tebbens, Num. Alg. 2019] in which the authors do the same for restarted non-block GMRES. We use the same tools as were used in [Kubínová and Soodhalter, SIMAX 2020], na…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Blaze Foley:
🎵 Picture Cards (Live)
#BlazeFoley
https://jbself.bandcamp.com/track/picture-cards-cant-picture-you-blaze-foley-2020
https://open.spotify.com/track/6IdnFwwOfAcvJHfMFq4pnM

Quotegraph: A Social Network Extracted from Millions of News Quotations
Marko \v{C}uljak, Robert West, Andreas Spitz, Akhil Arora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17626 https://

Quotegraph: A Social Network Extracted from Millions of News Quotations
We introduce Quotegraph, a novel large-scale social network derived from speaker-attributed quotations in English news articles published between 2008 and 2020. Quotegraph consists of 528 thousand unique nodes and 8.63 million directed edges, pointing from speakers to persons they mention. The nodes are linked to their corresponding items in Wikidata, thereby endowing the dataset with detailed biographic entity information, including nationality, gender, and political affiliation. Being derived…

Ordered Multi-Signatures with Public-Key Aggregation from SXDH Assumption
Masayuki Tezuka, Keisuke Tanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17709 https://arxiv.or…

Ordered Multi-Signatures with Public-Key Aggregation from SXDH Assumption
An ordered multi-signature scheme allows multiple signers to sign a common message in a sequential manner and allows anyone to verify the signing order of signers with a public-key list. In this work, we propose an ordered multi-signature scheme by modifying the sequential aggregate signature scheme by Chatterjee and Kabaleeshwaran (ACISP 2020). Our scheme offers compact public parameter size and the public-key aggregation property. This property allows us to compress a public-key list into a s…

RSF says Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, jailed from 2020 to 2024, has been sentenced to four more years on a charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-c…

Quantum optical model of an artificial neuron
Vivek Mehta, Utpal Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17349 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17349

Quantum optical model of an artificial neuron
Magnini \emph{et al.} [\emph{Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 1 (2020) 045008}] recently introduced a qubit-based model of an artificial neuron, along with its applications. The design of its quantum circuit is pivotal for effective implementation. In this context, we present two quantum circuit synthesis algorithms tailored for the realisation of the quantum neuron. Comprehensive circuit simulations are conducted, and the resulting performance is assessed using the circuit cost metric. Additionally…

One early stunner among the NFL's undefeated, plus an incredible catch https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6650195/2025/09/22/nfl-undefeated-teams-the-pulse/

Continued fractions with large prime partial quotients
Gerardo Gonz\'alez Robert, Mumtaz Hussain, Benjamin Ward, Lauren White
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17167

Continued fractions with large prime partial quotients
We determine the Lebesgue measure and Hausdorff dimension of various sets of real numbers with infinitely many partial quotients that are both large and prime, thus extending the well-known theorems by Łuczak (1997) and Huang-Wu-Xu (2020). To this end, we obtain new asymptotics on the tail end of the almost prime zeta function. Our results include some recent work by Schindler-Zweim{ü}ller (2023).

Scaling and Population Loss in Mexican Urban Centres
Gonzalo G. Peraza-Mues, Eugen Resendiz, Rodolfo Figueroa-Soriano, Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Roberto Ponce-Lopez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16110

Scaling and Population Loss in Mexican Urban Centres
Despite its pervasive implications, many cities around the world continue to expand in a fragmented and horizontal manner. Here, we analyse the complex dynamics of urban growth across 69 metropolitan areas in Mexico, using census data from 1990 to 2020, and develop a model of urban form change that considers changes in population size, density, and spatial configuration. We employ a radial probability density function and the urban expansion factor to create a framework for comparing urban expa…

Zündstoff – Der Bozen-Krimi (S01/E12) #ARD
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/der-boze…

Van in voedsel tot via de lucht: hoe (een in de EU sinds 2020 verboden) #pesticide langdurige hersenschade bij kinderen veroorzaakt na blootstelling tijdens zwangerschap https://share.google/jINLtgiyYqx2dPD1x

Spain just had an extremely hot summer: warmest on record, 2.1°C above the already warmed 1991-2020 average, with long heatwaves and temperatures up to 45.8°C. A preview of things to come.
https://www.aemet.es/es/noticias/2025/09/resumen_verano_2025

El verano de 2025 fue el más cálido de la serie histórica - Agencia Estatal de Meteorología - AEMET. Gobierno de España

Betelgeuse, the Prototypical Red Supergiant
Andrea K. Dupree, Miguel Montarg\`es
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15966 https://arxiv.org/p…

Betelgeuse, the Prototypical Red Supergiant
The behavior of the bright red supergiant, Betelgeuse, is described with results principally from the past 6 years. The review includes imaging, photometry, and spectroscopy to record the Great Dimming of 2019--2020. This event was followed by a slow ongoing recovery from the massive surface mass ejection after which the stellar characteristics changed. Theoretical simulations address the cause of this episodic mass ejection and the optical Dimming. Recent publications evaluating the perplexing…

Never good for a bookstore to close. #Oklahoma #bookstore #amreading

Losing a place for community: Fulton Street Books & Coffee announces closure
Tulsa’s only Black-owned bookstore opened in 2020 amid protests against police brutality. Now, Oklahoma politics are causing it to close.

Four old posts updated this week:
For Google’s AI Edge Gallery:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-dont-care-what-google-or-apple-or-whomever-did.html#:~:text=Go…

I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did
Please do not use this post as an excuse to beat up the devs at Apple or Google. If you are doing that, you have missed the point of this post and you are being unnecessarily mean to individuals who may have no control over broader organizational decisions. Do not…

2025 Ig Nobel prize winners, including
PEACE PRIZE [THE NETHERLANDS, UK, GERMANY]
Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language.
https://improbable.com/ig/winners/?amp

Past Ig Winners
Ig® Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2025 : 2024 : 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 2013 : 20…

work music for writing https://open.spotify.com/track/6xuemAoELVBVeREbM1oya2?si=525788e402c1444e

The Impact of AI Adoption on Retail Across Countries and Industries
Yunqi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15885 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.15885

The Impact of AI Adoption on Retail Across Countries and Industries
This study investigates the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption on job loss rates using the Global AI Content Impact Dataset (2020--2025). The panel comprises 200 industry-country-year observations across Australia, China, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom in ten industries. A three-stage ordinary least squares (OLS) framework is applied. First, a full-sample regression finds no significant linear association between AI adoption rate and job loss rate ($β\approx -0.0026$, $p = …

I'm a little shocked that I still have access to my university's MATLAB license

And you thought 2020 was bad...

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Oh boy, we have Ig Noble Prize 2025!
#igNobel #funny

Past Ig Winners
Ig® Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2025 : 2024 : 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 2013 : 20…

The 'criminal alien' slander: A recent study of 150 years of US incarceration data found immigrant men were far less likely to be sent to prison than men born in the U.S. A 2020 study compared crime rates of undocumented immigrants vs. U.S.-born citizens: U.S.-born “are over 2x more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5x more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4x more likely to be arrested for property crimes.”
‘We Voted for Retribution’
https://www.aol.com/voted-retribution-200056494.html

https://lostplate.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Riyang-Tea-classificationEN-1024x667.jpg

A judge in Michigan dismissed the felony charges against a slate of electors who falsely signed on to documents claiming Donald Trump won the 2020 election
in the latest blow to efforts to hold the president and his allies accountable for attempting to overturn the results of the White House race he lost to Joe Biden.
Sixteen people were initially charged with eight felonies each related to forgery and conspiracy by the Democratic attorney general, Dana Nessel, in 2023,
tho…

Mother Jones gets this right. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/charlie-kirk-legacy-ezra-klein-2020-election-trump-turning-point/
«Kirk’s advocacy of vigorous debate ought not be separated from wh…

No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way
His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped.

Energy Efficiency in Robotics Software: A Systematic Literature Review (2020-2024)
Aryan Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12170 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

Energy Efficiency in Robotics Software: A Systematic Literature Review (2020-2024)
This study presents a systematic literature review of software-level approaches to energy efficiency in robotics published from 2020 through 2024, updating and extending pre-2020 evidence. An automated-but-audited pipeline combined Google Scholar seeding, backward/forward snowballing, and large-language-model (LLM) assistance for screening and data extraction, with ~10% human audits at each automated step and consensus-with-tie-breaks for full-text decisions. The final corpus comprises 79 peer-…

On Tuesday the man who usually has a comment on everything told NBC News: “I don’t comment on something that’s a dead issue.”
Bullshit. The 2020 election has been over for a while.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/09/trump-response-epstein-files…

Was sind die erstaunlichsten Ergebnisse der #Kommunalwahl2025 in NRW?
Der Zugewinn der Grünen in Düsseldorf und Münster?
Für mich ist es eindeutig: der Gewinn von OB #Herter in #Hamm un…

Every company that has ever been involved with fascism, slavery, or exploitation of labor should have open statements like this on their website
But I'm impressed that BMW is this blunt about it — and has actual pictures of Dachau
https://www.bmwgroup.com/en/company/histo…

Towards Skeletal and Signer Noise Reduction in Sign Language Production via Quaternion-Based Pose Encoding and Contrastive Learning
Guilhem Faur\'e (MULTISPEECH), Mostafa Sadeghi (MULTISPEECH), Sam Bigeard (MULTISPEECH), Slim Ouni (LORIA, MULTISPEECH)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14574

Towards Skeletal and Signer Noise Reduction in Sign Language Production via Quaternion-Based Pose Encoding and Contrastive Learning
One of the main challenges in neural sign language production (SLP) lies in the high intra-class variability of signs, arising from signer morphology and stylistic variety in the training data. To improve robustness to such variations, we propose two enhancements to the standard Progressive Transformers (PT) architecture (Saunders et al., 2020). First, we encode poses using bone rotations in quaternion space and train with a geodesic loss to improve the accuracy and clarity of angular joint mov…

A profile of Song-Chun Zhu, an AI scientist and NSF and Pentagon grantee, who left the US after 28 years to lead China's state-backed AI institute BIGAI in 2020 (Chang Che/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/n…

Disaster Informatics after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Bibliometric and Topic Analysis based on Large-scale Academic Literature
Ngan Tran, Haihua Chen, Ana Cleveland, Yuhan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16820

Disaster Informatics after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Bibliometric and Topic Analysis based on Large-scale Academic Literature
This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric and topic analysis of the disaster informatics literature published between January 2020 to September 2022. Leveraging a large-scale corpus and advanced techniques such as pre-trained language models and generative AI, we identify the most active countries, institutions, authors, collaboration networks, emergent topics, patterns among the most significant topics, and shifts in research priorities spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings hig…

I had not noticed this until someone sent me a pointer...
"Justice Department requests access to Dominion voting equipment used in Missouri in 2020"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/doj-voting-equipment-states

Justice Department requests access to Dominion voting equipment used in Missouri in 2020
The US Department of Justice has requested access to voting equipment used in the 2020 election in two Missouri counties in what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to more closely monitor election processes around the country.

Improving Accuracy and Efficiency of Implicit Neural Representations: Making SIREN a WINNER
Hemanth Chandravamsi, Dhanush V. Shenoy, Steven H. Frankel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12980

Improving Accuracy and Efficiency of Implicit Neural Representations: Making SIREN a WINNER
We identify and address a fundamental limitation of sinusoidal representation networks (SIRENs), a class of implicit neural representations. SIRENs Sitzmann et al. (2020), when not initialized appropriately, can struggle at fitting signals that fall outside their frequency support. In extreme cases, when the network's frequency support misaligns with the target spectrum, a 'spectral bottleneck' phenomenon is observed, where the model yields to a near-zero output and fails to recover even the fr…

🌠 Ryugu asteroid research reveals mineral history predating any on Earth
#astronomy

Ryugu asteroid research reveals mineral history predating any on Earth
In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, providing the first pristine samples from a carbonaceous asteroid. Grains from those samples were studied at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), revealing new details into the asteroid's composition and origin. This insight could ultimately help answer big questions about how water and organic matter came to exist on early Earth, forming the building blocks of lif…

Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/us/politics/federal-courts-computer-hacks.html?mid=1#cid=3061919

Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking
After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again.

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

Finished “In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife” by Sebastian Junger.
In 2020, the author nearly died from an aneurysm in his abdomen. While in the OR, as medical staff rushed to save his life, he had an extraordinary experience. The doctors and nurses all to his right, an empty void to his left, and his dead father telling him it’s OK.
Part autobiography, part scientific inquiry, all goodness.
4/5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the I…
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful re…

Homeownership as Life Cycle Goldmine: Evidence from Macrohistory
Yang Bai, Shize Li, Jialu Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17624 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507…

Homeownership as Life Cycle Goldmine: Evidence from Macrohistory
Should a household buy a home? Using data from 16 developed countries spanning 1870 to 2020, this study provides a resounding affirmative answer. Contrary to popular expert advice, homeownership enhances life cycle wealth by up to 9% and welfare by up to 23%, compared to all-equity investment strategy. Homeownership reduces wealth portfolio risk and improves wealth equality, though it comes at the cost of lower working-life wealth and curtailed financial asset holdings. Gains are heterogeneous:…

Lullabies and Love Songs
#Lullaby #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/lullabies-and

Lullabies and Love Songs #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

A dark money group that was founded by one of former President Trump’s key allies raised over $20 million in 2020 and used the money to help finance various conservative groups.
Leonard Leo’s The 85 Fund received the money through the Donors Trust, a donor-advised nonprofit group that funnels money from wealthy conservative financiers to other organizations, according to a tax filing first seen by CNBC.
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA received $200,000 for a “TP Campus Project” fr…

Trump ally's fund received over $20 million last year, then funneled cash to other right-leaning groups
A dark money group that was founded by one of ex-President Trump's key allies raised over $20 million in 2020.

(2020) Archived at https://archive.ph/jSwr6 A new implant for blind people jacks directly into the brain; 5 years later, no Neuralink Blindsight brain implant in sight yet

The limit of repetition thresholds of rich sequences
Lubom\'ira Dvo\v{r}\'akov\'a, Edita Pelantov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06104 https://

The limit of repetition thresholds of rich sequences
The repetition threshold of a class of sequences is the smallest number $r$ such that a sequence from the class contains no repetition with exponent $> r$. We focus on the class $\mathcal{C}_d$ of $d$-ary sequences rich in palindromes. In 2020, Currie, Mol, and Rampersad determined the repetition threshold for $\mathcal{C}_2$. In 2024, Currie, Mol and Peltomäki found the repetition threshold for $\mathcal{C}_3$ and conjectured that the repetition threshold for $\mathcal{C}_d$ tends to 2 with $…

Non self-similar metabelian groups
Dessislava Hristova Kochloukova, Melissa de Sousa Luiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05798 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05798…

Non self-similar metabelian groups
We show some sufficient conditions for a finitely presented group $G = A \rtimes Q$, with $A$ and $Q$ abelian and the Krull dimension of $A$ equals to $2$ to be not self-similar. This is in contrast to the case of the Krull dimension of $A$ equals to $1$ considered by Kochloukova and Sidki in 2020.

A Caveat on Metrizing Convergence in Distribution on Hilbert Spaces
Federico Bassetti, Solesne Bourguin, Simon Campese, Giovanni Peccati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13427 https:/…

A Caveat on Metrizing Convergence in Distribution on Hilbert Spaces
We consider Sobolev-type distances on probability measures over separable Hilbert spaces involving the Schatten-$p$ norms, which include as special cases a distance first introduced by Bourguin and Campese (2020) when $p=2$, and a distance introduced by Giné and Leon (1980) when $p=\infty$. Our analysis shows that, unless $p=\infty$, these distances fail to metrize convergence in distribution in infinite dimensions. This clarifies several inconsistencies and misconceptions in the recent litera…

On the common index jump theorem and further developments
Huagui Duan, Yiming Long, Wei Wang, Chaofeng Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11119 https://arxiv.o…

On the common index jump theorem and further developments
In [LZ02], Long and Zhu established originally the common index jump theorem (CIJT) for symplectic paths in 2002, which was later generalized to its enhanced version (ECIJT) by Duan, Long and Wang in [DLW16] in 2016. Started from [GGM18] of 2018 and [GG20] of 2020, and finally in [CGG24] of 2024, a similar index theorem was obtained, i.e., Theorem 3.3 of [CGG24], which was called the index recurrence theorem there. In this short note, we give detailed proofs to show that the first 4 assertions …

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

In 2020, Twitter had become utterly intolerable because of the Woke Left. Now it is utterly intolerable because of the Woke Right. It's a ruin.

Aggregate-Combine-Readout GNNs Are More Expressive Than Logic C2
Stan P Hauke, Przemys{\l}aw Andrzej Wa{\l}\k{e}ga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06091 https://

Aggregate-Combine-Readout GNNs Are More Expressive Than Logic C2
In recent years, there has been growing interest in understanding the expressive power of graph neural networks (GNNs) by relating them to logical languages. This research has been been initialised by an influential result of Barceló et al. (2020), who showed that the graded modal logic (or a guarded fragment of the logic C2), characterises the logical expressiveness of aggregate-combine GNNs. As a ``challenging open problem'' they left the question whether full C2 characterises the logical ex…

August 2025 was the third-warmest August globally, behind only 2023 and 2024, with an average surface air temperature of 16.60°C, 1.29°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temper…

Long-term monitoring of a dynamically new comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF)
Goldy Ahuja, K. Aravind, Shashikiran Ganesh, Said Hmiddouch, Mathieu Vander Donckt, Emmanuel Jehin, Devendra Sahu, T. Sivarani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05902

Long-term monitoring of a dynamically new comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF)
Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF) is categorized as a dynamically new long-period comet, making its first approach to the inner Solar system. We have observed this comet for around 32 months (from January 2022 to July 2024) at heliocentric distances from 5.41 au (pre-perihelion) to 5.26 au (post-perihelion) through various telescopes, employing photometric (60 epochs) and spectroscopic techniques (5 epochs). Using these observations, we derived the production rates of different molecules such as CN$(0-0)$,…

All Models Are Wrong, But Can They Be Useful? Lessons from COVID-19 Agent-Based Models: A Systematic Review
Emma Von Hoene, Sara Von Hoene, Szandra Peter, Ethan Hopson, Emily Csizmadia, Faith Fenyk, Kai Barner, Timothy Leslie, Hamdi Kavak, Andreas Zufle, Amira Roess, Taylor Anderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13346

All Models Are Wrong, But Can They Be Useful? Lessons from COVID-19 Agent-Based Models: A Systematic Review
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a surge in computational models to simulate disease dynamics and guide interventions. Agent-based models (ABMs) are well-suited to capture population and environmental heterogeneity, but their rapid deployment raised questions about utility for health policy. We systematically reviewed 536 COVID-19 ABM studies published from January 2020 to December 2023, retrieved from Web of Science, PubMed, and Wiley on January 30, 2024. Studies were included if they used ABMs …

Die letzte Kommunalwahl in NRW war 2020, damals stand das Thema Klima ganz oben auf der Agenda. Jetzt geht es um Wirtschaft, Sicherheit, Migration. Klimaschutz ist kaum ein Thema mehr. Und das in einem der Bundesländer der Flutkatastrophe im Ahrtal 2021. Ob der Klimawandel weiß, dass er sich jetzt mal zurückhalten soll, weil er kein Trendthema mehr ist?
#KommunalwahlNRW

Sources: Jack Ma has returned to Alibaba's campuses after disappearing from public view during China's 2020 tech crackdown, influencing Alibaba's pivot to AI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Optimal Portfolio Construction -- A Reinforcement Learning Embedded Bayesian Hierarchical Risk Parity (RL-BHRP) Approach
Shaofeng Kang, Zeying Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11856

Optimal Portfolio Construction -- A Reinforcement Learning Embedded Bayesian Hierarchical Risk Parity (RL-BHRP) Approach
We propose a two-level, learning-based portfolio method (RL-BHRP) that spreads risk across sectors and stocks, and adjusts exposures as market conditions change. Using U.S. Equities from 2012 to mid-2025, we design the model using 2012 to 2019 data, and evaluate it out-of-sample from 2020 to 2025 against a sector index built from exchange-traded funds and a static risk-balanced portfolio. Over the test window, the adaptive portfolio compounds wealth by approximately 120 percent, compared with 1…

16WW Coronalog - Timeline - A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown - https://www.earth.org.uk/cor…

16WW Coronalog - Timeline
A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown

An Open Benchmark Dataset for GeoAI Foundation Models for Oil Palm Mapping in Indonesia
M. Warizmi Wafiq, Peter Cutter, Ate Poortinga, Daniel Marc G. dela Torre, Karis Tenneson, Vanna Teck, Enikoe Bihari, Chanarun Saisaward, Weraphong Suaruang, Andrea McMahon, Andi Vika Faradiba Muin, Karno B. Batiran, Chairil A, Nurul Qomar, Arya Arismaya Metananda, David Ganz, David Saah

An Open Benchmark Dataset for GeoAI Foundation Models for Oil Palm Mapping in Indonesia
Oil palm cultivation remains one of the leading causes of deforestation in Indonesia. To better track and address this challenge, detailed and reliable mapping is needed to support sustainability efforts and emerging regulatory frameworks. We present an open-access geospatial dataset of oil palm plantations and related land cover types in Indonesia, produced through expert labeling of high-resolution satellite imagery from 2020 to 2024. The dataset provides polygon-based, wall-to-wall annotatio…

The Atlantic settled a defamation lawsuit by Ruth Shalit Barrett for $1M , resolving a dispute over the magazine's 2020 retraction of her story on youth sports (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12…

Atlantic Settles Writer’s Suit Over Article It Retracted
The writer, Ruth Shalit Barrett, had accused the magazine of defaming her in a lengthy editor’s note.

Room acoustics affect communicative success in hybrid meeting spaces: a pilot study
Robert Einig, Stefan Janscha, Jonas Schuster, Julian Koch, Martin Hagmueller, Barbara Schuppler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11709

Room acoustics affect communicative success in hybrid meeting spaces: a pilot study
Since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, universities and companies have increasingly integrated hybrid features into their meeting spaces, or even created dedicated rooms for this purpose. While the importance of a fast and stable internet connection is often prioritized, the acoustic design of seminar rooms is frequently overlooked. Poor acoustics, particularly excessive reverberation, can lead to issues such as misunderstandings, reduced speech intelligibility or cognitive and vocal fatigue. Thi…

Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe
After nearly a decade in limbo and years of negotiations,
a treaty announced in June and set to come into effect over coming months,
will scrap most barriers to travel and trade that went up after Britain’s divorce from the E.U. became official at the end of 2020.

Some 40,000 Gibraltarians will regain what millions of traveling Brits miss most:
the ability to wander unfettered, without passports or time limits, througho…

The Brits who beat Brexit: Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe
Nearly a decade after Britain quit the E.U., British residents of Gibraltar on the southern tip of Spain, will regain travel and commercial access under a treaty.

Three old posts updated this afternoon, but linking to the same ref:
• https://adrianroselli.com/2020/11/under-engineered-responsive-tables.html#Update05
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Under-Engineered Responsive Tables
I have written a bunch about responsive tables. Maybe too much. I keep trying to give developers the information they need to make informed decisions — ARIA attributes, screen reader & browser pairing results, bugs, and so on. I have spread things out over years of posts. I have filed…

Neuroplasticity in adult human visual cortex (2020) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763419303288 by @EliCastaldi et al.; "early visual deprivation" [...] "leads to plastic reorganization of the visual cortices and permanent visua…

What makes a sound musical?
#sound and #psychology
https://muz4now.com/2020/what-makes-a-

What makes a sound musical?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

16WW Coronalog - Timeline - A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown - https://www.earth.org.uk/cor…

16WW Coronalog - Timeline
A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/heather-honey-dhs-election-security

Unredacted court docs in Smartmatic's Fox News lawsuit show how Maria Bartiromo and other Fox hosts privately aided Trump's bid to overturn the 2020 US election (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/smartma

Vorschau: Der Bozen-Krimi: Blutrache • Deutschland 2020 | #ARD #HR
https://www.ardmediathek.de/tv-programm/68

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 06.09.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum

The Trump administration wants the last four digits of every voter’s Social Security number
—as part of its sweeping efforts to compile a federal voting database
The administration could use the database to investigate claims of noncitizen voting,
an obsession of Trump and other Republicans who claimed the 2020 election had been stolen through massive voter fraud.
In reality, the only ones concocting a scheme to fake votes in that election were in Donald Trump’s camp.

In Disturbing Move, Trump’s DOJ Demands Voting Data From States
It’s part of a sweeping project led by election deniers. Voting rights advocates are alarmed.

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

49ers, OL Colton McKivitz reach 3-year, $45 million extension: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6610481/2025/09/08/49ers-colton-mckivitz-extension/

PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B since 2022, including €1.4B in the first 7 months of 2025, up from €30M in 2020 and €150M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a194942b-93ff-49a0-8aa9-02460055748e

Europe’s defence tech start-ups attract investment surge
Russia’s war in Ukraine and fears over US security relationship drive wave of VC funding

"Pure Movement"
- 2 neo-classical composers have told me this is my best work -
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/pure-movement-nowplaying/

Pure Movement #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Trump’s DOJ seeks voting equipment in Missouri ahead of 2026 election

A top official in Trump’s Justice Department recently sought access to voting equipment used by two Republican clerks in Missouri during the 2020 election
-- an unusual request from federal officials amid continued efforts by the president to malign the integrity of the nation’s voting systems.

Trump’s DOJ seeks voting equipment in Missouri ahead of 2026 election
The unusual request for equipment used by two Republican clerks in the 2020 election comes after Trump said he would lead a movement to get rid of voting machines.

Related to my last boost, still annoyed this DID NOT make it into WCAG 2.2:
3.2.7 Hidden Controls (Level AA): Controls needed to progress or complete a process are visible at the time they are needed without requiring pointer hover or keyboard focus, or a mechanism is available to make them persistently visible.
https://www.…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2020) - Learn how I became active observing and recording the various local bats... - https://www.earth.org.uk/bats-at-16WW-1.html

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2020)
Learn how I became active observing and recording the various local bats...

Newly unredacted documents in the Smartmatic-Fox News defamation case show former host Jeanine Pirro, now a US attorney, bragging about aiding Trump and the GOP (Jeremy Barr/Washington Post)

Jeanine Pirro bragged about helping Trump and GOP while a Fox News host
The former Fox host complained of “CENSORSHIP” by Fox over her coverage of the 2020 election, according to newly unredacted documents in the Smartmatic defamation case.

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

ThinkBroadband: 78% of UK properties have access to full-fiber broadband, up from 12% in Jan. 2020, which experts credit to Ofcom's 2021 pro-competition push (Financial Times)

The FCC votes to confirm a $920K fine against the operator of a New Jersey pirate radio station from November 2023 to January 2024, under the PIRATE Act of 2020 (Inside Radio)
https://www.insideradio.com/free/fcc-issue

FCC Issues Near-Million Dollar Fine Against New Jersey Pirate.
The FCC has affirmed a $920,000 fine against Masner Beauplan for operating “Radio Leve Kanpe” on 91.7 FM in Irvington and Maplewood, NJ from November 2023 to January 2024. Field

Statscast - Load Profile (2020-12) - Stats from 16WW for the end of 2020. #podcast #stats #loadProfile -

Statscast - Load Profile (2020-12)
Stats from 16WW for the end of 2020. #podcast #stats #loadProfile

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 27105 nodes and 334495 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

For those who forgot or never knew,
Mickey Flacks was among Santa Barbara’s most dogged advocates for affordable housing, among other struggles for social justice, environmental sanity, and other progressive causes.
The Independent launched the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund back in 2020 to honor her memory and keep Mickey’s work alive.
The $100,000 we’ve raised since have empowered numerous editorial projects, and the Mickey Flacks Fellowship marks the epitome of those ef…

Why Donate to the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund?
Support reporters like Christina McDermott, who’s starting her second year of the Mickey Flacks Fellowship.