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{testthat} is great for automatic testing. Here are some tricks for the heavy user: #rstats

This week's #ThursDeath is a twofer. Death-doom two piece GRAVE EATER from Wales, UK put out two filthy demos in 2020, one in January and one in September. Not sure which I like more, but they're both chock full of raw, cavernous, growly, sludgy, often slow, plodding riffs and grooves. Even some actual power tools in the last track of the first demo here, 'Powertool Lobotomy'. Hope we se…

"Finding Flow"
8 instrumental compositions that helped me find my way back to F-L-O-W
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/finding-flow-nowplaying/…

Finding Flow #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Hallo Presse: wieso fragt ihr die Regierung nicht danach, wie sie diese¹ Klimaziele erreichen will? Wo sind die Schlagzeilen? Wo ist der Skandal?
Und: redet mit euren Wissenschafts­redaktionen, verweist auf deren Artikel zu den Folgen. Wenn ihr Politik­journalismus wirksam betreiben wollt, müßt ihr darin fit sein, was die Wissenschaft sagt. Laßt euch nicht von Politikys verarschen.
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I came across these guys during lockdown in 2020-21. It's been at the top of my list of #writing music ever since.
Totorro, Come To Mexico (Album, 2016)
https://totorro.bandcamp.com/album/com

Mark your calendars for our upcoming events this Fall from the Love of Children program. You can read and register for these events at https://yaleyouthministryinstitute.org/upcoming-events/

A Generic Construction of $q$-ary Near-MDS Codes Supporting 2-Designs with Lengths Beyond $q 1$
Hengfeng Liu, Chunming Tang, Zhengchun Zhou, Dongchun Han, Hao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16793

A Generic Construction of $q$-ary Near-MDS Codes Supporting 2-Designs with Lengths Beyond $q+1$
A linear code with parameters $[n, k, n - k + 1]$ is called maximum distance separable (MDS), and one with parameters $[n, k, n - k]$ is called almost MDS (AMDS). A code is near-MDS (NMDS) if both it and its dual are AMDS. NMDS codes supporting combinatorial $t$-designs have attracted growing interest, yet constructing such codes remains highly challenging. In 2020, Ding and Tang initiated the study of NMDS codes supporting 2-designs by constructing the first infinite family, followed by severa…

Agile and Student-Centred Teaching of Agile/Scrum Concepts
Maria Spichkova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14369 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Agile and Student-Centred Teaching of Agile/Scrum Concepts
In this paper, we discuss our experience in designing and teaching a course on Software Engineering Project Management, where the focus is on Agile/Scrum development and Requirement Engineering activities. The course has undergone fundamental changes since 2020 to make the teaching approach more student-centred and flexible. As many universities abandoned having face-to-face exams at the end of the semester, authentic assessments now play an even more important role than before. This makes asse…

Another useful article:
"What to know about Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to LA protests"
https://apnews.com/article/insurrection-act-trump-troops-newsom-military-national-guard-…

What to know about Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to LA protests
President Donald Trump says he’s deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to respond to immigration protests, over the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. It’s not the first time Trump has activated the National Guard to quell protests. In 2020, he asked governors of several states to send troops to Washington, D.C. to respond to demonstrations that arose after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officers. Here are some things to know about when and …

A new Lagrange multiplier approach for constructing structure preserving schemes, III. Bound preserving and energy dissipating
Qing Cheng, Tingfeng Wang, Xiaofei Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12402

A new Lagrange multiplier approach for constructing structure preserving schemes, III. Bound preserving and energy dissipating
In the third part of this series, we continue to explore the idea of the Lagrange multiplier introduced in the first part [2020, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engr., 391, 114585] and refined in the second part [2022, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 60, 970-998] to further develop efficient and accurate numerical schemes that preserve the maximum bound principle (MBP) and energy dissipation for solving gradient flows. The proposed framework allows us to begin with any conventional scheme as a predictor step…

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing
Eric J. Korpela (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), David P. Anderson (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Jeff Cobb (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Matt Lebofsky (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Wei Liu (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Dan Werthimer (Space Sciences Laboratory, Univ…

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing
SETI@home is a radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, looking for technosignatures in data recorded at multiple observatories from 1998 to 2020. Most radio SETI projects analyze data using dedicated processing hardware. SETI@home uses a different approach: time-domain data is distributed over the Internet to $\gt 10^{5}$ volunteered home computers, which analyze it. The large amount of computing power this affords ($\sim 10^{15}$ floating-point operations per second (FPO…

Just now: we're celebrating 5 years of CLARIN-CH 🇨🇭and the fact that Switzerland is a full member of #CLARIN since beginning of 2025
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5 Tools to Amp Up Your Keyboard Rig
#DigitalPiano #MusicianTips
https://muz4now.com/2020…

5 Tools to Amp Up Your Keyboard Rig
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Quantum Radar and Research Assessment
Gaspare Galati, Gabriele Pavan, Frederick Daum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13797 https://arxiv.o…

Quantum Radar and Research Assessment
Quantum Radar was studied in many Nations for about fifteen years with the production of some hundred publications. In the post 2020 literature, it is shown that, due to the exceedingly low transmitted power, Quantum Radar cannot produce neither significant results nor real world applications. Regrettably, most of the scientific community ignored this negative outcome: a fact worth of exam. A detailed study of such an assessment failure depicts the main shortcomings of the present situation, ca…

"Vermont plastic bag use dropped 91% following ban, researchers find"
#US #USA #America #Vermont

Vermont plastic bag use dropped 91% following ban, researchers find
In the midst of 2020 COVID measures, another change took place in Vermont: A law went into effect banning businesses from offering plastic bags to customers, with paper bags only available for a fee.

Detection, attribution, and modeling of climate change: key open issues
Nicola Scafetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13994 https://arxi…

Detection, attribution, and modeling of climate change: key open issues
The CMIP global climate models (GCMs) assess that nearly 100% of global surface warming observed between 1850-1900 and 2011-2020 is attributable to anthropogenic drivers like greenhouse gas emissions. These models also generate future climate projections based on shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs), aiding in risk assessment and the development of costly Net-Zero climate mitigation strategies. Yet, the CMIP GCMs face significant scientific challenges in attributing and modeling climate change,…