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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…

this is my favorite review ever

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kate Bush:
🎵 The Kick Inside
#NowPlaying #KateBush
https://iwannabekate.bandcamp.com/track/the-kick-inside-2020-remaster

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

Friday Links 25-23
A few interesting articles about AI this week. A good interview with Jane Goodall from 2020, and a weird assembler tutorial game.
Also check out the link from Jason at the bottom, I could have copied them all.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/10/fri…

Friday Links 25-23
A few interesting articles about AI this week. A good interview with Jane Goodall from 2020, and a weird assembler tutorial game. Also check...

'Categorically untrue' that China hacked UK intelligence systems, say officials https://therecord.media/claim-of-china-uk-2020-hack-refuted

Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-…

There’s a line in the Times piece about Dominic Cummings claiming that the Cabinet Office secure systems had been breached by China circa 2020:
“He said he was warned at the time that disclosing some specific details of the breach would be a criminal offence.“
And I presume this is Official Secrets Act, but no article mentions this?

TIL: in 2020, someone added some verses to the German workers song "Bet und arbeit" (also known as Bundeslied) by Georg Herwegh:
Wirkst am Bildschirm früh am Tage
Zoom und Skype und Faktenlage
Und die Chefs und Server drängen
Füllen sich mit Datenmengen.
[…]
Frau der Arbeit, aufgewacht,
Und erkenne deine Macht!
Care und Pflege stehen still
Wenn dein kluger Kopf es will!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_noJuQRIg1Q
[I'll put the English translation of the stanzas in a post below]

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…

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.

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…

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…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Yes, you can do insane things in the smartd.conf file. https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/115436609310786604

NextEra Energy and Google sign a 25-year power supply deal, which includes restarting the 615MW Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa, shut down in 2020 (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nexter…

Comment on "A Note on Over-Smoothing for Graph Neural Networks"
Razi Hasson, Reuven Guetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04178 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Comment on "A Note on Over-Smoothing for Graph Neural Networks"
We comment on Cai and Wang (2020, arXiv:2006.13318), who analyze over-smoothing in GNNs via Dirichlet energy. We show that under mild spectral conditions (including with Leaky-ReLU), the Dirichlet energy of node embeddings decreases exponentially with depth; we further extend the result to spectral polynomial filters and provide a short proof for the Leaky-ReLU case. Experiments on edge deletion and weight amplification illustrate when Dirichlet energy increases, hinting at practical ways to re…

Lions Player Gives Honest Message About Raiders Stint https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/lions-player-honest-message/?adt_ei=[email]

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

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…

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 6618 nodes and 185239 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Am I going insane or are there people sometimes saying "several" and not always meaning seven, like "several years ago" and we're talking about 2020, did I miss a class or something.

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…

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…

A recent paper in the American Economic Review analysed the performance of 51 populist presidents and prime ministers, from 1900 to 2020. It found that on average, after 15 years, gross domestic product per head tends to be 10% lower in countries run by populist leaders than in similar economies with more mainstream regimes.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/26/do-populists-always-crash-the-economy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other