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Zhu on AI/AGI: 'A sign of true intelligence... is the ability to reason towards a goal with minimal inputs ... a “small data, big task” approach, compared with the “big data, small task” approach employed by large language models like ChatGPT. AGI... is characterised by qualities such as resourcefulness in novel situations, social and physical intuition, and an understanding of cause and effect. Large language models... will never achieve this.'

Metacast 1: Blue Yeti, Shy Eurasian Footwear (2020-04) - About podcasting - a new microphone for better sound. - https://www.earth.org.uk/metacast-1.html

Metacast 1: Blue Yeti, Shy Eurasian Footwear (2020-04)
About podcasting - a new microphone for better sound.

Overview of LifeCLEF Plant Identification task 2020
Herve Goeau, Pierre Bonnet, Alexis Joly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19402 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.194…

Overview of LifeCLEF Plant Identification task 2020
Automated identification of plants has improved considerably thanks to the recent progress in deep learning and the availability of training data with more and more photos in the field. However, this profusion of data only concerns a few tens of thousands of species, mostly located in North America and Western Europe, much less in the richest regions in terms of biodiversity such as tropical countries. On the other hand, for several centuries, botanists have collected, catalogued and systematic…

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…

Futzing around with Narrator (because of its new Braille viewer, which I am working on testing) and reminded of the new speech log (“Speech Recap”):
Narrator Key Alt X
Wanted to confirm this is also true with Narrator:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech…

Speech Viewer Logs of Lies
The headline is intentional hyperbole, chosen mostly for the sloppy alliteration. When sighted users test with a screen reader it is common to rely on the visual output — checking to see where focus goes, confirming that controls behave, watching the spoken output in a text log. The problem is…

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On the asymptotic profile of solutions to semilinear damped wave equations with critical nonlinearities
Dinh Van Duong, Trung Loc Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19835 https://

On the asymptotic profile of solutions to semilinear damped wave equations with critical nonlinearities
In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for a semilinear damped wave equation with the nonlinear term $|u|^{1+2/n} μ(|u|)$, where $μ$ is a modulus of continuity. In recent papers by Ebert,Girardi,Reissig (Math. Ann. 378 (2020)) and Girardi (Nonlinear Differ. Equ. Appl. 32 (2025)), the authors obtained a sharp critical condition on $μ$ in low space dimensions $n=1,2,3$, which determines the threshold between global (in time) existence of small data solutions and blow…

Randall Munroe's #XKCD comic has the power to make you laugh, to make you think ... and sometimes to make you cry. For the right reasons.

• Posted in Nov 2012: #FuckCancer

The Fourth-Moment Theorem on Hilbert Spaces
Marie-Christine D\"uker, Pavlos Zoubouloglou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20342 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.2…

The Fourth-Moment Theorem on Hilbert Spaces
In a work by Bourguin and Campese [Electron. J. Probab. 25, 1-30 (2020)], a fourth-moment theorem for weak convergence to a Gaussian measure on separable Hilbert spaces was proposed. However, a very recent work by Bassetti, Bourguin, Campese, and Peccati [arXiv:2509.13427 (2025)] showed that the distance employed in the former article does not metrize weak convergence on such spaces; consequently, one of the main results therein does not hold as stated. In this paper, we characterize converge…

Today's the 2nd day I'm wearing my black-yellow Engelbert-Strauss e.s.motion 2020 to work - in an office.
It's also the 2nd day of people making derogatory comments like "Are you going to a construction site?" and "You can't go to a customer like this, they'll think you've come to fix your bath." and "At least noone will run you over, reflecting like that."
You already banned me from wearing my kilt in summer! They are comfort…

Changes in varieties of capitalism within the OECD between 2010 and 2020
Zoltan Bartha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19416 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19416

Changes in varieties of capitalism within the OECD between 2010 and 2020
This study aims to reveal different varieties of capitalism and to uncover new patterns of development that emerged between 2010 and 2020. A hybrid model is applied that quantifies three pillars of development (Future - F, Outside - O, Inside - I) using supply-side and demand-side indicators that measure norms, institutions, and policies. Investigating 34 OECD members, this study describes five varieties of capitalism: traditional, dualistic, government-led, open market-based, and human capital…

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…

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 …

Damning Recording of Trump 2020 Call Exposed: “Who’s Gonna Stop You?”
More evidence reveals how Donald Trump tried to overturn the results in Georgia’s state election.
https://newrepublic.com/post/204607/recording-trump-call-georgia-2020-election…

Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a 'criminal scheme' to overturn 2020 election - NBC https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jack-smith-tells-congress-prove-trump-enga…

Jack Smith tells Congress he could prove Trump engaged in a 'criminal scheme' to overturn 2020 election
WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith told a congressional committee Wednesday that his team found "proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that President Donald Trump engaged in a “criminal scheme” to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to parts of his opening statement obtained by NBC News

Trump vs BBC
Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion
over a documentary he claims removed portions of his speech on Jan 6, 2021,
in which he urged supporters to protest the 2020 election results peacefully.
Lawsuit's claims
The lawsuit accuses the BBC of defamation and violations of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act,
seeking $5 billion in damages for each claim.
BBC's response
The BBC says it will defend the lawsu…

Trump sues BBC for $10B over edited Jan. 6 speech
President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion over a documentary that edited his Jan. 6, 2021, speech at the Capitol Ellipse.

Diarycast - Summer Catch-up (2020-09-25) - Lots of catching up after one (UK) break rather than three, D3, a sound walk and bats, and more! #podcast #soundscape #lockdown2020 -

Diarycast - Summer Catch-up (2020-09-25)
Lots of catching up after one (UK) break rather than three, D3, a sound walk and bats, and more! #podcast #soundscape #lockdown2020

The Baltimore Banner names Audrey Cooper as its EIC, replacing founding editor Kimi Yoshino; Cooper has been EIC of WNYC since 2020 (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-baltimore-banner-names-wnycs-audrey…

Life after lockdown: five years on, this is how Australia has changed since Covid first started
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/09/25/the-stats-guy-covid-5-years

Five years on, this is how Australia changed since Covid 
In March 2020 we wondered how Covid would change us. Five years on, the data shows the pandemic pressed fast-forward on a host of changes.

Strong winds topple Brazil's
Statue of Liberty replica
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-12-16/Strong-winds-topple-Statue-of-Liberty-replica-in-Brazil--1J9N9EgK8ve/p.html

Strong winds topple Statue of Liberty replica in Brazil
A replica of the Statue of Liberty collapsed during a powerful storm in Guaiba, Brazil, on Monday. The replica, nearly 24 meters tall, was installed in 2020 as a promotional symbol for a Brazilian retail store chain called Havan. No injuries were reported,

1997-2016 Instruction ⚖️
2016 : premier procès.
2017 : Spatz condamné Š 4 ans avec sursis. Les cadres sont déclarés « sous emprise ».
2020 : deuxième procès, 8 mois d’audiences. Verdict : Spatz coupable d’emprise, violences et abus sur mineurs, mais seulement 5 ans avec sursis.

None of the 25 dramas and comedies in N. American theaters in the last three months had $50M in sales; October had the lowest box office on record, except 2020 (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/business/media/box-office-co…

Why Hollywood’s Star-Studded Movies Are Failing at the Box Office
It has been a brutal three months for dramas and comedies.