With that mortgage stupidity I decided to see what would happen if I bought today and instead of 15 years I go to 50 years.
House price - 325,000
Downpayment - 162,500 (Yes we put that much down)
Interest 4.00 - what I renewed at this year, it was 1.97 in 2020
15 year mortage -
payment 1,209.99
total interest 216,358
50 year mortgage -
payment 627.99
total interest 376,064
At my age when I bought I would be 110 years old before t…
KPMG citing PitchBook data: UK fintech investment totaled almost $11B in 2025 across 418 deals, down from ~$13.4B in 2024 across 527 deals; Revolut raised $4B (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Yesterday, Trump gave passes to all his convicted cronies who are now scott free.
Trump voters & people who didn't vote: This is your fault.
✅ Trump issues pardons for Rudy Giuliani and others in fake elector plot - The Independent
https://www.
Seeing photos of people huddling at conferences and also reading about how on average people had COVID 5 times since 2020
Fascinating stuff
The FBI raided an elections office in Georgia
and seized ballots from the 2020 presidential election
in connection with a federal investigation into
“deficiencies or defects” into Donald Trump’s loss in the state, according to newly unsealed documents.
An affidavit for the search signed by a judge last month reveals that
the investigation followed a referral from Trump’s former campaign-linked attorney
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…
An F.B.I. search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday shows that
a criminal investigation into 2020 election results in Fulton County, Ga.,
was set off by a leading election denier in the Trump administration
and relied heavily on claims about ballots that have been widely debunked.
The unsealing of the affidavit in Fulton County is likely to raise more questions
about the Trump administration’s use of the F.B.I. and Justice Department to revive old, largely di…
Wichtige Themen laut Tagespresse heute:
- Neue Regeln für den Ausbau der Infrastruktur
- USA eskalieren in Venezuela
- Anklage Ex-ÖRR-Intendatin
- Pflegekrise
- Organisierte Kriminalität in Berlin
Derweil das #Klima, im Vergleich zum langjährigen Mittelwert:
Quelle:
Diarycast - Lockdown Lawnmowing Sadly Allowed (2020-04-13) - Apparently the lockdown does not prevent lawn mowing (or home cooking)! #podcast #coronavirus - h…
Recording of Monday's SpaceX #Crew12 Prelaunch News Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12pFrHAuQI - see also https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/02/09/nasa-spacex-adjust-crew-12-launch-date-due-to-weather/ for how weather predictions for a specific area led to a launch delay of at least one day.
NASA’s #Arcstone instrument, designed to improve the accuracy of lunar calibration, successfully completed its technology demonstration, and now begins extended operations: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/smallsatellites/2026/01/28/nasas-arcstone-instrument-successfully-completes-primary-mission/ - Arcstone launched on June 23 on a SpaceX Transporter-14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, on a six-month mission to measure light reflected by the Moon, which is a stable and potentially highly-accurate calibration source, for satellite sensors
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
Approximate Cartesian Tree Matching with Substitutions
Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Jonas Ellert, Manal Mohamed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08570 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08570 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08570
arXiv:2602.08570v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Cartesian tree of a sequence captures the relative order of the sequence's elements. In recent years, Cartesian tree matching has attracted considerable attention, particularly due to its applications in time series analysis. Consider a text $T$ of length $n$ and a pattern $P$ of length $m$. In the exact Cartesian tree matching problem, the task is to find all length-$m$ fragments of $T$ whose Cartesian tree coincides with the Cartesian tree $CT(P)$ of the pattern. Although the exact version of the problem can be solved in linear time [Park et al., TCS 2020], it remains rather restrictive; for example, it is not robust to outliers in the pattern.
To overcome this limitation, we consider the approximate setting, where the goal is to identify all fragments of $T$ that are close to some string whose Cartesian tree matches $CT(P)$. In this work, we quantify closeness via the widely used Hamming distance metric. For a given integer parameter $k>0$, we present an algorithm that computes all fragments of $T$ that are at Hamming distance at most $k$ from a string whose Cartesian tree matches $CT(P)$. Our algorithm runs in time $\mathcal O(n \sqrt{m} \cdot k^{2.5})$ for $k \leq m^{1/5}$ and in time $\mathcal O(nk^5)$ for $k \geq m^{1/5}$, thereby improving upon the state-of-the-art $\mathcal O(nmk)$-time algorithm of Kim and Han [TCS 2025] in the regime $k = o(m^{1/4})$.
On the way to our solution, we develop a toolbox of independent interest. First, we introduce a new notion of periodicity in Cartesian trees. Then, we lift multiple well-known combinatorial and algorithmic results for string matching and periodicity in strings to Cartesian tree matching and periodicity in Cartesian trees.
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RE: https://mamot.fr/@bonpoteofficiel/116047400036063084
En tant que Sénateur, il porte la loi qui facilite son exploitation (lui permettant de s'agrandir énormément).
Il touche plus d'1M€ de subventions depuis 2020, dont 450K€ en juin 2025 p…
Fulton County argues FBI seizure of 2020 ballots shows ‘callous disregard’ for constitutional rights - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/08/fulton-county-fbi-seizure-2020-ballots-constitution-00770938
Isotopic evidence for volatile loss driven by South Pole-Aitken basin–forming impact: #Moon Is Asymmetrical: https://eos.org/articles/primordial-impact-may-explain-why-the-moon-is-asymmetrical - analysis of surface samples from the Chang’e-6 mission suggests that an asteroid may have vaporized parts of the lunar mantle, suppressing volcanic activity on the farside of the Moon.
Im Geiste der aktuellen Bestrebungen, sich von ausbeuterischen Großkonzernen frei zu machen (#DID, #DUD), möchte ich auf meinen Artikel hinweisen, wo ich erkläre, weshalb man bei der Auswahl, wo man sich im Internet einbringt, genauer hinschauen soll.
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J'ai reçu le troisième Opus, 'Histoire sans faim' et je dois dire que j'ai hâte de la lire. Elle n'est pas encore disponible sur le site de scriptarium, mais cela ne saurait tarder.
https://ludovic.hirlimann.net/2020/11/le-bal-au-pont.html
So, Gableman's argument is that if he isn't allowed to pick which judges hear his case, it is a violation of due process? I don't think that is the way the law is meant to work.
"Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman says his due process rights have been denied during the ongoing fallout of his investigation of the 2020 presidential election."
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol
@… Awww. So sorry.
As you requested, here's Izzy. We adopted her in 2020. She had been taken to a high kill shelter in South Carolina with four very young puppies. She had to raise them in the shelter for about 10 weeks, then was spayed and had heartworm treatment. When she came to us, she was terrified of everything. In 5 1/2 years, she's come …
In 2020, after it became clear I’m unlikely to die of COVID, I’ve switched my perspective from fear to fascination.
I looked around & ~enjoyed~ experiencing unprecedented times. Couldn’t change them, so I channeled my inner Jocko Willink & made the best out of it.
Today, I feel similarly about AI. 1/3
GWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020 (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-te…
San Franciscans! Here's a petition you can sign asking Mayor Lurie and the board of supervisors to fund social housing. You might have seen the flyers around the city.
We voted to fund it with 2020's Prop I, but for obscure reasons of state law, the use of the revenue wasn't legally binding, only intended. And then-Mayor Breed refused to do it. But we can fund it now!
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
I have owned my 2016 EV since 2020. (I like buying my cars four and a half years old because four years is the length of a typical lease and when supply goes up, price goes down). I like the fact that (because it's an EV), beyond tire rotations, it's only been in the shop once. That one time, was due to the fact that the start button got stuck in and wouldn't come out again. The car is nearing ten years old, and I think that I might need to take it to the shop for new tires. ...
From CBC in partnership with The Narwhal
Hundreds of animals killed by trains on B.C. railways, documents reveal. So, what’s being done to stop it?
CN reported 340 wildlife collisions between 2020 and 2023, These numbers include 202 collisions involving moose and 67 involving bears.
CPKC reported 182 animals were killed and injured by trains in the Kootenay region of B.C. in 2022 and 2023.
This book, "Last Boat from Tangier" by James von Leyden, published in 2020, seems nevertheless more relevant year after year. You'll know why when you follow the news.
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.
@… *me, 1000 years later, hooked up to a life-extension machine, still responding to GitHub issues opened in 2020*
Lest we forget: "The U.S. exit from Afghanistan happened during former President Joe Biden's term, but it was set in motion by the first Trump administration, which signed a deal with the Taliban in 2020 to withdraw after two decades in the country."
A history of ‘Operation Allies Welcome,’ which allowed Afghans U.S. entry : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/27/nx-s1-5622991/afghan-refugee-program-national-guard-shooting-suspect
The people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have more power than ever – and they plan to use it.
Bolstered by the president,
they have prominent roles in key parts of the federal government.
🔸Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who helped advance Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election in 2020, now leads the civil rights division of the justice department.
An election denier, 🔸Heather Honey, now serves as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the …
from my link log —
Dumbindent: because 93% of the time was spent in clang-format.
https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2020/dumbindent.html
saved 2020-06-15
On Website Technicals (2020-08) - Tech updates: Review rework, CSS contain and large pages, AutoAds and floats, moar moves, reviews fixed, MODBUS et al, Brotli, FAQ droop. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-39.html
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…
It's hard to overstate Nvidia’s AI dominance.
Founded in 1993, Nvidia first made its mark in the then-new field of graphics processing units (GPUs) for personal computers.
But it’s the company’s AI chips,
not PC graphics hardware,
that vaulted Nvidia into the ranks of the world’s most valuable companies.
It turns out that Nvidia’s GPUs are also excellent for AI.
As a result, its stock is more than 15 times as valuable as it was at the start of 2020;
Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/11/18/tho…
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…
from my link log —
RISC OS and NetBSD running on the same SoC.
http://www.update.uu.se/~micken/ronetbsd.html
saved 2020-04-03 https://
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 16.11.2025.
323 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
The SEC drops its 2023 case against SolarWinds and its CISO Tim Brown, which alleged they concealed vulnerabilities ahead of the Russia-linked 2020 cyberattack (Chris Prentice/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u
The Justice Department has backed off a dubious claim about President Nicolšs Maduro that the Trump administration promoted last year in laying the groundwork to remove him from power in Venezuela
-- that he leads a #drug #cartel called "Cartel de los Soles".
That claim traces back to a 2020 grand jury …
The #Artemis stack on the pad in a good image from the ISS: https://x.com/Astro_ChrisW/status/2018365716181705015 - processed with IrfanView, using AutoAdjustColors and contrast adjustment. Meanwhile the Wet Dress Rehearsal is in trouble because of - you guessed it - a hydrogen leak. Since the updates on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/ have become super-sparse it's hard to tell how serious the problem is.
State conviction, no jurisdiction.
Trump calls for disgraced election official linked to his ‘Big Lie’ to be freed – as Colorado officials dig their heels in | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-colorado-tina-peters-2020-b2870926.html
Anzahl der #Batteriespeicher je #Batterietechnologien in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 16.11.2025.
2372 nicht aktive und 2 Batteriespeicher ohne Inbetriebnahmedatum wurden a…
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
Filing: Meta axed research based on a Nielsen survey in 2020 that found evidence of social media harms, claiming the survey was tainted by the "media narrative" (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustain…
Trump's pardon of Rudi Guilliani
could wind up having a huge effect on election conspirators like Matthew Alan Laiss,
who is accused of voting in both Pennsylvania and Florida in the 2020 election.
According to a federal indictment handed down in September,
Laiss moved from Pennsylvania to Florida in August of 2020 and voted first with a mail-in ballot in Pennsylvania and then in person in Florida on election day.
Both votes were for Trump, Laiss’ lawyers …
from my link log —
Optimizations in C compilers: a practical journey.
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3372264
saved 2020-07-13 https://
The case against Donald Trump and his co-defendants in Georgia ended on Wednesday
with a filing for dismissal by the state prosecutor who took over after the removal of Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney.
Pete Skandalakis, the prosecutor and the executive director of the prosecuting attorneys’ council of Georgia, confirmed to the Guardian that
“it’s over”after superior court judge Scott McAfee issued a one-page order on Wednesday dismissing the 2020 racketeeri…
#Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern nach Marktakteur in #Deutschland ab 2012 mit Stand vom 16.11.2025.
Betrachtet werden Datensätze mit Betriebsstatus „akti…
Did President Trump accidentally pardon acts of voter fraud committed in the 2020 election? - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=153193
The Groq deal shows the challenges Nvidia faces as options to deploy its cash flood narrow; its annual free cash flow has risen from $4.2B in 2020 to $80B now (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tec…
from my link log —
Computer animation in 1961: the Stanford card stunt program. (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN1opFMXJbY
saved 2020-02-20 https://
Meta’s 2020 research project, Project Mercury,
measured the effect of ‘deactivating’ Facebook & Instagram
According to Meta docs obtained via discovery…
’people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness & social comparison’
https://
A Sharper View of the X-Ray Spectrum of MCG–6-30-15 with XRISM, XMM-Newton, and NuSTAR: #BlackHole: https://www.xrism.jaxa.jp/en/topics/science/1249/
Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated.
Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had
a “17x” strike policy
for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
https://
For two decades, the media defaulted to portraying
Chief Justice John Roberts as a moderate institutionalist,
pointing to high-profile decisions
—to uphold parts of the Affordable Care Act or striking down President Donald Trump’s attempt to ask about citizenship in the 2020 census
—in which he broke from conservative orthodoxy.
But those decisions were always the exception.
Today, as the Roberts court rewrites the Constitution in the image of Trumpian aut…
Rand Paul, the Senate homeland security committee's chair has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism
hand over years worth of documentation on
federal watch list programs,
the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
vaccine mandates,
the 2020 election,
and Trump supporters,
according to information obtained by WIRED.
When the FBI executed a warrant on Wednesday
to seize records from the 2020 presidential vote in Fulton County, Georgia,
it marked both an extraordinary event in the history of American elections
and a significant escalation in Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms, several legal experts said.
Trump has long claimed, without evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen from him
and blamed Georgia, in particular,
for his loss to Joe Biden.
Afte…
By any measure, the F.B.I.’s search of an election center in Fulton County, Ga., last week was extraordinary.
Agents seized truckloads of 2020 ballots, as Trump harnessed the levers of government to not only buttress his false claims of widespread voter fraud,
but also to try to build a criminal case against those he believes wronged him.
What happened the next day was in some ways even more unusual, The New York Times has learned.
Behind closed doors, Tulsi Gabbard,…
Trump's latest pardons underscore the breadth of his efforts to clear anyone involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, which was won by Joe Biden.
Donald Trump on Friday issued a second pardon to Daniel Edwin Wilson,
whom he had previously pardoned for participation in the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021,
but was in prison on a separate gun charge. The action was announced Saturday morning.
Trump also pardoned Suzanne Kaye, who had been sentenced to…