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Finding Flow
- composed when my life was anything but flowing -
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/finding-flow-nowplaying/

Finding Flow #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Wisconsin judge rejects motions to dismiss charges against Trump aides (Scott Bauer/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-trump-2020-election-fake-electors-5d81f9963737eca7df7db3b5693d02c8
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p127#a250822p127

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

MehrKraft für den @… - aktuell sind wir bei 52% - macht mit!
https://adfc-dresden.de/mehrkraft
Seit 2020 stärkt unsere MehrKraft-Kampagne die Arbeit des AD…

People handing in comments for my blog don't want to have their name/nick added because they fear negative consequences by #reddit administrators. 😲 🤦‍♂️
This is also why I wrote:
https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-…

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

From Nothingness - How Emptiness Inspires Us
#inspiration #CreativeProcess
https://muz4now.…

From Nothingness - How Emptiness Inspires Us
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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 …

"Green hydrogen development threatens wildlife in Chile"
#Chile #GreenHydrogen #Energy

Green hydrogen development threatens wildlife in Chile
Green hydrogen promoters tout it as the clean energy of the future. In 2020, Chile launched its National Green Hydrogen Strategy, looking to position the country as a leader in producing and exporting hydrogen by 2030 while reaching carbon neutrality. “Today we are taking a new step forward in producing clean energy, protecting nature and […]

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

📢 Ex-Verkehrsminister Scheuer wegen Falschaussage angeklagt
Die Berliner Staatsanwaltschaft hat Anklage gegen den ehemaligen Bundesverkehrsminister Andreas Scheuer wegen des Vorwurfs einer falschen uneidlichen Aussage vor dem Maut-Untersuchungsausschuss des Bundestags erhoben. Das bestätigte die Staatsanwaltschaft dem ARD-Hauptstadtstudio.
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Ex-Verkehrsminister Scheuer wegen Falschaussage angeklagt
Die Berliner Staatsanwaltschaft hat Anklage gegen den ehemaligen Bundesverkehrsminister Scheuer erhoben. Sie wirft ihm vor, bei einer Befragung im Bundestag 2020 zu den Plänen der letztlich gescheiterten Pkw-Maut falsch ausgesagt zu haben.

Weymouth Ambient (2020-08) - Ambient soundscape from a week in Weymouth late in August: boats, beach, amusements, eating... #Weymouth #soundscape #fieldRecording -

Weymouth Ambient (2020-08)
Ambient soundscape from a week in Weymouth late in August: boats, beach, amusements, eating... #Weymouth #soundscape #fieldRecording

"As a collective of homeless and marginally housed mothers, Moms 4 Housing organizes to reclaim vacant property warehoused by investors. In 2020, another group of mothers began squatting in vacant foreclosed properties owned by Philadelphia’s Housing Authority (PHA)." ❤️‍🔥
https://rosalux.nyc/self-help-housing/

How the number of days per year that temperature exceeds 85F (29.4°C) exploded within one generation. Look at Spain, but also Italy, Greece, Bulgaria!
And underneath those lighter shades, the number is growing too.
By NY Times via María Ramirez on Bluesky.

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…

Cowboys add veteran Michael Ojemudia for CB depth https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-add-veteran-michael-ojemudia-for-cb-depth

Addiction Among Indie Musicians: Tips to Help Get Health Care https://muz4now.com/2020/addiction-among-indie-musicians-tips-to-help-find-health-care/

Addiction Among Indie Musicians: Tips to Help Get Health Care
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.

Hack of federal court filing system exploited security flaws known since 2020
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/federal-courts-hack-security-flaw-00506392

Newsmax pays $67 million to settle defamation case linked to 2020 election coverage (Maddy Lauria/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/18/nx-s1-5506062/newsmax-pays-67-million-to-settle-defamation-case-linked-to-2020-election-coverage
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p60#a250818p60

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

Die F-35-Kosten explodieren – bis zu 1,3 Mrd. CHF mehr.
2020 versprach der Bundesrat einen Fixpreis. Jetzt will er ohne Volksentscheid weitermachen.
✍️ Petition unterzeichnen
#F-35 #StopF-35

Stopp dem F-35-Debakel - Keine neuen Kampfjet-Kosten ohne Volksentscheid!
Der Bundesrat will Milliarden-Mehrkosten für F-35-Kampfjets einfach durchwinken, ohne das Volk zu fragen. Wir sagen: Stopp! Unterzeichne jetzt unsere Petition für Transparenz und einen neuen Volksentscheid. #F-35 #StopF-35

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him
An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says
the 2020 election wasn’t stolen,
tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market
and Barack Obama is seen favorably

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him 
An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market and Barack Obama is seen favorably.

In late 2020, I wrote an odd little musing of thoughts. Just re-read it today, and I like these lines:
"Love must have compassion and empathy at its beck and call.
As uncomfortable as truth can so often be, it remains true without any believers, without any champions arguing its case.
Pain is, heartrendingly, unavoidable. Misery is an option we can choose willfully by thinking we know everything and have nothing to learn."

Midas Touch but for Pain
some people have the ability to diminish all they touch

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland. Stand: 09.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wü…

Instant goosebumps on each listen:
Antonio Ruscito - Alodrone (original, no beats, 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtRGiE-DnXM
Another version in this stunning 1h45m joint performance with Luigi Tozzi (timestamped link):

"Illegal goldmines (garimpos) cluster along the banks of the Crepori River."
Parš state, Brazil. Multispectral image by Richard Mosse at Art Vault, Santa Fe, New Mexico, part of a larger exhibition focusing on deforestation in the Amazon. 1/3

Cowboys add veteran Michael Ojemudia for CB depth https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-add-veteran-michael-ojemudia-for-cb-depth

I hope everyone currently fleeing #GitHub is also aware that #npm belongs to GitHub since 2020

Sub-THz Power Amplifiers: Measurements, Behavioral Modeling and Predistortion Algorithms
Lutfi Samara, Simon Haussmann, Erind Tufa, Antonio Alberto D'Amico, Tommaso Zugno, Ingmar Kallfass, Thomas K\"urner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09545

Sub-THz Power Amplifiers: Measurements, Behavioral Modeling and Predistortion Algorithms
With global IMT traffic expected to grow 10-100 times from 2020 to 20301, the Terahertz (THz) spectrum offers a promising solution to satisfy such forecasts. However, occupying the THz spectrum comes with its own challenges, an important one being impairments caused by broadband RF components in THz transceivers. Nonlinearities in power amplifiers (PAs) complicate meeting link budget requirements, with amplitude and phase distortions degrading the system's performance, especially when adopting …

Excessive Screen Time is Associated with Mental Health Problems and ADHD in US Children and Adolescents: Physical Activity and Sleep as Parallel Mediators
Ying Dai, Na Ouyang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10062

Excessive Screen Time is Associated with Mental Health Problems and ADHD in US Children and Adolescents: Physical Activity and Sleep as Parallel Mediators
To examine associations between screen time and anxiety, depression, behavior or conduct problems, and ADHD among children and adolescents during the pandemic, and to assess whether physical activity, sleep duration, and bedtime regularity mediate these associations. Data from 50231 US children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years in the 2020 to 2021 National Survey of Childrens Health were analyzed. Exact natural effect models and structural equation modeling assessed mediation by physical activ…

@… : Es lebe der König!
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/tatort/e

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…

Matt DePerno, still facing charges tied to election probes, takes step to run for AG again (Craig Mauger/The Detroit News)
https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/14/republican-matt-deperno-attorney-general-campaign-pending-criminal-charges-2020-election-machines/85656383007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p14#a250815p14

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Joy Division:
🎵 Transmission (2020 Remaster)
#NowPlaying #JoyDivision
https://odditymusic.bandcamp.com/track/transmission-joy-division-cover

I haven't visited the U.S. since January 2020 (business travel prior to retirement), but my social media commentary, like the example above, means I won't be traveling there anytime soon. I'm likely to be "disappeared" once they get access to my phone.
Thankfully, I'm not remotely interested in going there.
#ElbowsUp

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

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

Cowboys Sign Veteran Cornerback Who Had ‘Standout’ UFL Season https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/michael-ojemudia-signing/?adt_ei=[email]

Research on Quality Measurement and Dynamic Transmission of Higher Education in China from the Perspective of Dual Circulation: An Empirical Analysis Based on Entropy Weight-TOPSIS and PVAR Models
Zhangming Yang, Xiaoting Yin, Dahai Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09216

Research on Quality Measurement and Dynamic Transmission of Higher Education in China from the Perspective of Dual Circulation: An Empirical Analysis Based on Entropy Weight-TOPSIS and PVAR Models
Drawing on the new pattern of 'dual circulation', an evaluation system for the development level of China's higher education has been constructed, utilizing data from Chinese provinces over the period 2020 to 2022. Initially, the evaluation model is established, followed by the screening of initial indicators through correlation analysis. Subsequently, an entropy weight-TOPSIS model are employed for static quantification, and the PVAR model is introduced for the first time to describe the dynam…

Because there are so many lunar eclipses that aren't full moons...
(think about it) https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/115164183095682187

Bis zu 68 Prozent mehr - Seit 2020: Diese Lebensmittel wurden am teuersten! #News #Nachrichten

Weymouth Ambient (2020-08) - Ambient soundscape from a week in Weymouth late in August: boats, beach, amusements, eating... #Weymouth #soundscape #fieldRecording -

Weymouth Ambient (2020-08)
Ambient soundscape from a week in Weymouth late in August: boats, beach, amusements, eating... #Weymouth #soundscape #fieldRecording

Die ePetition 183278 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Berufsbildungsgesetz mit dem Titel
Nachträgliche Anerkennung der Bezeichnung ”Bachelor Professional” für vor 2020 erworbene Fachwirt-Abschlüsse
kann bis zum Montag 15. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition …

Die ePetition 183278 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Berufsbildungsgesetz mit dem Titel
Nachträgliche Anerkennung der Bezeichnung ”Bachelor Professional” für vor 2020 erworbene Fachwirt-Abschlüsse
kann bis zum Montag 15. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition …

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…

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 …

What began as a silent infiltration into one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining pools has now been confirmed as
the biggest crypto theft in history.
The LuBian mining pool, once a dominant force in the Bitcoin network, quietly lost over 127,000 Bitcoins in 2020.
The breach was only uncovered in 2025 by Arkham Intelligence, revealing a staggering $14.5 billion worth of stolen assets that had remained untouched and undetected for half a decade

The biggest heist of all time involved over $14 billion of crypto being stolen - and it went undetected for five years
Five years of silence before exposure

Analysis and Constructive Criticism of the Official Data Protection Impact Assessment of the German Corona-Warn-App
Rainer Rehak, Christian R. K\"uhne, Kirsten Bock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06267

Analysis and Constructive Criticism of the Official Data Protection Impact Assessment of the German Corona-Warn-App
On June 15, 2020, the official data protection impact assessment (DPIA) for the German Corona-Warn-App (CWA) was made publicly available. Shortly thereafter, the app was made available for download in the app stores. However, the first version of the DPIA had significant weaknesses, as this paper argues. However since then, the quality of the official DPIA increased immensely due to interventions and interactions such as an alternative DPIA produced by external experts and extensive public disc…

Trump didn't like the fact that the US jobs report showed the weakest pace of hiring for any three-month period since the pandemic recession in 2020.
So he fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/01/bus

Trump fires a senior official over jobs numbers
President Donald Trump has fired Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, whom he accused of manipulating the monthly jobs reports for “political purposes.”

Some leftists have criticized #NoKingsDay2 as useless. Though it was the largest protest in US history, it didn't change anything. I would go further to say that protests like these generally won't change anything. Dictators aren't forced to step down by 2% of the population coming out for one day. If they're forced to step down by protests, those protests are sustained. They are every single day. They are accompanied by general strikes.
We've been watching that happen all over the world. Portland in 2020 gave us a taste of that in the US. The George Floyd Rebellion was the type of resistance that actually brings down dictators like Trump. Occasional protests, no matter how large, can simply be ignored. That is precisely the reason the US developed a militarized police force in the first place. You need more, more than the largest protests in US history, more than Occupy, more than the resistance of the 60's and 70's, more than, and different from, anything we've seen in our lives.
And yet... Each protest has grown, and grown bolder. Some have grown more persistent. If you think of protest as the path to achieve change, you will lose. It is not. But it is a path to escalate. Some people, some otherwise comfortable white folks, came out for their first time. Some people got pepper sprayed for the first time. Some people questioned authority, stood up for the first time, and have had an experience that will radicalize them for the rest of their lives.
Protest is not useful in and of itself. It is training. It's making connections. Authoritarian regimes rely on the illusion of compliance, so visual resistance does actually undermine their power.
Liberals like to teach that non-violence is all about staying peaceful no matter what, that there's some way that morality simply overwhelms an enemy. I remember reading Langston Hughes' A Dream Deferred in high school. I said it was a threat. My teacher said, "you're wrong, he was a pacifist." Pacifism is a threat. If you can spit at me, beat me, shoot me, and I will not move, if I have the strength to absorb violence without flinching, without even rising to violence, what will happen when you push me too far?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
For peaceful resistance to work, there must be ambiguity. It must not be clear if or when the resistance will stop being peaceful. Peaceful resistance with no possibility of escalation is just cowardice.
My critique then is not so harsh as some other anarchists. If you think that protest alone will work, you're probably going to lose. If you are prepared to escalate, if you are prepared to absorb violence without flinching, then it could be possible for protest alone to topple the dictator. The cracks are already beginning to show.
And then what?
The problems that lead to the George Floyd uprising were never resolved. The problems that lead to Occupy where never resolve. The DAPL was built, protesters were maimed, it leaked multiple times (exactly as predicted). Segregation never went away, it only changed forms. The fact that immigrants have different courts and different rights means that anyone can be arbitrarily kidnaped and renditioned to an arbitrary country. We never did anything about the torture black site. FFS, people can still be stripped of their voting rights and slavery is still legal in the US. The people who control both parties in the US are killing our children and grand children with oil wars and climate change.
Toppling the dictator does nothing to resolve all of the problems that existed before him.
No, #NoKingsDay was absolutely not useless. #NoKings and related protests are extremely useful but they aren't sufficient. But, I think we still need to challenge the movement on two points:
How do you escalate after you're ignored or brutalized?
What do you demand after you win?
#USPol

Honestly nothing about Eric Adams surprises me any more.
#FuckEricAdams

The shape of economics before and after the financial crisis
Alberto Baccini, Lucio Barabesi, Carlo Debernardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09079 https://arx…

The shape of economics before and after the financial crisis
This paper investigates the impact of the global financial crisis on the shape of economics as a discipline by analyzing EconLit-indexed journals from 2006 to 2020 using a multilayer network approach. We consider two types of social relationships among journals, based on shared editors (interlocking editorship) and shared authors (interlocking authorship), as well as two forms of intellectual proximity, derived from bibliographic coupling and textual similarity. These four dimensions are integr…

Former Raiders Star Darren Waller Gets Huge Dolphins Injury Update from Agent https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/darren-waller-gets-injury-update/?adt_ei=[email]

The impact of Alfvenic shear flow on magnetic reconnection and turbulence
Tamar Ervin, Alfred Mallet, Stefan Eriksson, Marc Swisdak, James Juno, Orlando M. Romeo, Tai Phan, Trevor A. Bowen, Roberto Livi, Phyllis L. Whittlesey, Davin E. Larson, Stuart D. Bake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12608

The impact of Alfvenic shear flow on magnetic reconnection and turbulence
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental and omnipresent energy conversion process in plasma physics. Novel observations of fields and particles from Parker Solar Probe (PSP) have shown the absence of reconnection in a large number of current sheets in the near-Sun solar wind. Using near-Sun observations from PSP Encounters 4 to 11 (Jan 2020 to March 2022), we investigate whether reconnection onset might be suppressed by velocity shear. We compare estimates of the tearing mode growth rate in the …

Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp, who has held that position since 2020, says he will step down and lead a new S&S imprint that will publish six books a year (Elizabeth Harris/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/books/review/jona…

Jonathan Karp to Step Down as Head of Simon & Schuster
Jonathan Karp, the chief executive since 2020, will oversee a new imprint that publishes six books year.

Threshold-Driven Streaming Graph: Expansion and Rumor Spreading
Flora Angileri, Andrea Clementi, Emanuele Natale, Michele Salvi, Isabella Ziccardi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23533

Threshold-Driven Streaming Graph: Expansion and Rumor Spreading
A randomized distributed algorithm called RAES was introduced in [Becchetti et al., SODA 2020] to extract a bounded-degree expander from a dense $n$-vertex expander graph $G = (V, E)$. The algorithm relies on a simple threshold-based procedure. A key assumption in [Becchetti et al., SODA 2020] is that the input graph $G$ is static - i.e., both its vertex set $V$ and edge set $E$ remain unchanged throughout the process - while the analysis of RAES in dynamic models is left as a major open questi…

When is String Reconstruction using de Bruijn Graphs Hard?
Ben Bals, Sebastiaan van Krieken, Solon P. Pissis, Leen Stougie, Hilde Verbeek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03433 https:…

When is String Reconstruction using de Bruijn Graphs Hard?
The reduction of the fragment assembly problem to (variations of) the classical Eulerian trail problem [Pevzner et al., PNAS 2001] has led to remarkable progress in genome assembly. This reduction employs the notion of de Bruijn graph $G=(V,E)$ of order $k$ over an alphabet $Σ$. A single Eulerian trail in $G$ represents a candidate genome reconstruction. Bernardini et al. have also introduced the complementary idea in data privacy [ALENEX 2020] based on $z$-anonymity. The pressing question i…

Man kann sich nun das Wien-Modern-Programm anschauen, ahem.
https://www.wienmodern.at

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Und, wie ist die Stimmung? Gut, es ist natürlich Zufall, dass unser Festivalthema ausgerechnet in dieses seltsame Pandemie-Jahr 2020 fällt, in dem sich auf einmal vieles genau so ungreifbar, wechselhaft und unerklärlich anfühlt wie der Begriff „Stim

Contact binary asteroid (153201) 2000 WO107: rotation, shape model, and density
Yurij Krugly, Oleksiy Golubov, Ihor Kyrylenko, Veronika Lipatova, Irina Belskaya, Vasilij Shevchenko, Ivan Slyusarev, Raguli Inasaridze, Shuhrat Ehgamberdiev, Oleksandra Ivanova, Marek Husarik, Sergey Karpov, Daniel Hestroffer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04535…

Contact binary asteroid (153201) 2000 WO107: rotation, shape model, and density
We combine different methods to investigate the rotation, determine the shape and estimate the density of near-Earth asteroid (153201) 2000 WO$_{107}$. We carried out photometric observations of the asteroid during the 2020 apparition. Then we created a program able to simulate the lightcurves, and used it within a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm to reconstruct the asteroid shape model from the observational data. The Goldstone radar observations of the asteroid were used as an additi…

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 …

Superpolynomial convergence in the Riemann Rearrangement Theorem
Stefan Steinerberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02489 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02489

Superpolynomial convergence in the Riemann Rearrangement Theorem
Let $x \in \mathbb{R}$ be arbitrary and consider the `greedy' approximation of $x$ by signed harmonic sums: given $a_n = \sum_{k \leq n} \varepsilon_k/k$ with $\varepsilon_k \in \left\{-1,1\right\}$, we set $\varepsilon_{n+1} = 1$ if $a_n \leq x$ and $\varepsilon_{n+1} = -1$ otherwise. Bettin-Molteni-Sanna showed (Adv. Math. 2020) that this procedure has remarkable approximation properties: for almost all $x \in \mathbb{R}$ one has superpolynomial convergence in the sense that for every $k \in …

I'm 69. Today I did 108 decline push-ups before brunch. Here they are! Counter included. Middle seven minutes are sped up 7x for your viewing ease. I started this journey in 2020. It's been a life-changing gift! Don't look back. Thanks for your encouragement!
#fitness #calisthenics

Automated Discovery of Test Oracles for Database Management Systems Using LLMs
Qiuyang Mang, Runyuan He, Suyang Zhong, Xiaoxuan Liu, Huanchen Zhang, Alvin Cheung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06663

Automated Discovery of Test Oracles for Database Management Systems Using LLMs
Since 2020, automated testing for Database Management Systems (DBMSs) has flourished, uncovering hundreds of bugs in widely-used systems. A cornerstone of these techniques is test oracle, which typically implements a mechanism to generate equivalent query pairs, thereby identifying bugs by checking the consistency between their results. However, while applying these oracles can be automated, their design remains a fundamentally manual endeavor. This paper explores the use of large language mode…

Didn't realize this at the time but some time in 2020 my radio show surpassed the length of time it took for the confederacy to be established and die, now it's been more than double the amount lol

From Nothing
#inspiration #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/from-nothing-nowplay…

From Nothing #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 04.10.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum

A jury has awarded at least $2.2m to a protester who was shot in the face with a less-lethal munition by a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy during a demonstration against police brutality in 2020.
In the verdict last week, the jury found LA county liable for the injuries sustained by the man,
Cellin Gluck, and determined that he suffered $3.5m in damages.
They also awarded his daughter, who was there with him that day, an additional $300,000 for emotional distress

Sunset over Pismo Beach, California, New Year's Day 2020.
Little did we know the magnitude of how the world would change in a few short months. #SilentSunday

Global Drought Escalation Since 2014: Multivariate Insights for Ecosystem Resilience and Water Security
Qianqian Han, Yijian Zeng, Bob Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20195 https:…

Global Drought Escalation Since 2014: Multivariate Insights for Ecosystem Resilience and Water Security
How is climate change altering the global patterns, frequency, and intensity of drought? To investigate this, we analyzed global drought events from 2000-2020 using a composite of hydrological indices (Σ(ET-P), SSMI, and GRACE-DSI). Our results reveal that near-normal to severe droughts became increasingly widespread after 2014. Unexpectedly, extreme, 100-year return period droughts occurred not only in semi-arid zones but also in high latitude and typically wet regions. The frequency of these…

Artificial Intelligence for CRISPR Guide RNA Design: Explainable Models and Off-Target Safety
Alireza Abbaszadeh, Armita Shahlai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20130 https://…

Artificial Intelligence for CRISPR Guide RNA Design: Explainable Models and Off-Target Safety
CRISPR-based genome editing has revolutionized biotechnology, yet optimizing guide RNA (gRNA) design for efficiency and safety remains a critical challenge. Recent advances (2020--2025, updated to reflect current year if needed) demonstrate that artificial intelligence (AI), especially deep learning, can markedly improve the prediction of gRNA on-target activity and identify off-target risks. In parallel, emerging explainable AI (XAI) techniques are beginning to illuminate the black-box nature …

Fringeless - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2020/fringeless-pianoimprov…

Fringeless - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

US power prices are climbing, but clean energy isn't to blame. Find out what's driving the increase and how we can tackle the challenges ahead. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Chart: Yes, US power prices are rising. Don’t blame clean energy.
Household costs have been going up since 2020 due to an aging grid, natural disasters, and volatile gas prices. Trump is making things worse.

[Thread] Filings in the Fox News/Smartmatic case show internal criticism from Fox employees about coverage, including their condemnation of opinion hosts (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/1975673724885213391

Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) on X
Some filings made public yesterday in the Fox News/Smartmatic case include some internal criticisms from Fox employees about coverage (I BELIEVE from an internal 2020 company survey) One said: "The content we produce has made the world, and especially our country, a worse

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…

Report: Irsay suffered drug relapses before death https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46098659/ex-colts-owner-irsay-suffered-drug-relapses-death

When an Alaska Native group asked state law enforcement officials in June for a list of murders investigated by state police
— one of the most fundamental pieces of data needed to understand the issue
— the state said no.
Charlene Aqpik Apok launched
"Data for Indigenous Justice"
in 2020 after trying to collect the names of missing and murdered Indigenous people to read at a rally,
only to discover no government agency had been keeping track.

Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications
Fidan Badalova, Julian Sienkiewicz, Philipp Mayr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01783 https://…

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications
The PreprintToPaper dataset connects bioRxiv preprints with their corresponding journal publications, enabling large-scale analysis of the preprint-to-publication process. It comprises metadata for 145,517 preprints from two periods, 2016-2018 (pre-pandemic) and 2020-2022 (pandemic), retrieved via the bioRxiv and Crossref APIs. Each record includes bibliographic information such as titles, abstracts, authors, institutions, submission dates, licenses, and subject categories, alongside enriched p…

https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/07/trumps-cisa-nominee-confident-he-can-get-funding-cyber-agency-where-needed/406961/
Trump’s CISA nominee is confident he can get funding to cyber agency wh…

Trump’s CISA nominee is confident he can get funding to cyber agency where needed
Sean Plankey, a former Energy Department cyber official, tussled with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., over 2020 election security during his confirmation hearing. He also committed to the renewal of a key cyber information-sharing law before it soon expires.

Analyzing the Performance of a 2.72kWp Rooftop Grid tied Photovoltaic System in Tarlac City, Philippines
Aldrin Joar Rodrigo Taduran, Leo P. Piao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03487

Analyzing the Performance of a 2.72kWp Rooftop Grid tied Photovoltaic System in Tarlac City, Philippines
Residential and industrial areas are using rooftop grid-tied Photovoltaic (PV) systems, which are becoming increasingly popular. This is because solar energy reduces electrical consumption and provides free energy, while also lowering carbon emissions to create a more sustainable environment. This paper aims to analyze the 2.72kW p rooftop grid-tied PV system performance between 2020 and 2023 in Tarlac City, Philippines. The PV generated yearly is measured by Array Yield (YA), Reference Yield (…

How Spotify's Discovery Mode has become the new normal in music marketing, five years after its 2020 launch when it faced a backlash and "payola" accusations (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Trump is changing the Department of Justice to the Department of Revenge.
First, he granted pardons to all the criminals who had been found guilty or pled guilty to invading the halls of Congress on January 6th, 2020.
They were protesting the outcome of the presidential election and trying to overturn the results in favor of Trump.
These were people who assaulted policeman and vandalized offices of members of Congress,
stealing documents and souvenirs on their rampag…

A Bedroom Producer's Guide to Mixing Vocals
#RecordingStudio #MusicianTips
https://muz4n…

A Bedroom Producer's Guide to Mixing Vocals
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

What makes a sound musical?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Raiders fans will get chance to watch training camp practices https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-fans-will-get-chance-to-watch-training-camp-practices-3399855/

Unintended Consequences of Early Driving Access: Evidence from Graduated Driver Licensing Policies and Adolescent Health Outcomes
Sharareh Massahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23578

Unintended Consequences of Early Driving Access: Evidence from Graduated Driver Licensing Policies and Adolescent Health Outcomes
Graduated driver licensing systems effectively reduce adolescent traffic fatalities but create unintended health consequences. Using state-level variation in licensing policies from 1999-2020 and difference-in-differences analysis, we provide the first causal evidence that early driving access generates significant health risks for female adolescents aged 15-19. States allowing learner's permits before age 16 experienced sharp increases in drug-related mortality (+1.331 per 100,000, p<0.001) an…

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…

A comparison of variable selection methods and predictive models for postoperative bowel surgery complications
\"Ozge \c{S}ahin, Annemiek Kwast, Annemieke Witteveen, Tina Nane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22771

A comparison of variable selection methods and predictive models for postoperative bowel surgery complications
Accurate prediction of postoperative complications can support personalized perioperative care. However, in surgical settings, data collection is often constrained, and identifying which variables to prioritize remains an open question. We analyzed 767 elective bowel surgeries performed under an Enhanced Recovery After Surgery protocol at Medisch Spectrum Twente (Netherlands) between March 2020 and December 2023. Although hundreds of variables were available, most had substantial missingness or…

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…

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 23826 nodes and 285752 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted