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#Gaza #Kaag

(2020) Archived at https://archive.ph/jSwr6 A new implant for blind people jacks directly into the brain; 5 years later, no Neuralink Blindsight brain implant in sight yet

Lullabies and Love Songs
- music written for my grandsons -
#Lullabies #NowPlaying
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Lullabies and Love Songs #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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(2020) Economic growth is incompatible with biodiversity conservation #environment

Economic growth is incompatible with biodiversity conservation
The increase in resource consumption and polluting emissions as a result of economic growth is not compatible with biodiversity conservation. However, most international policies on biodiversity and sustainability advocate economic growth. These are the main conclusions of the study "Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth," published this week in the scientific journal Conservation Letters. This contradiction became clear after a review of international scientific and policy work on the sub…

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):

Since 2020, there have been at least 52 stalking cases involving sports figures https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6547129/2025/08/12/prominent-athlete-stalking-incidents-cases-list/

Note to self: grijze haren inkleuren bij profiel foto.
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Gewoon een uur de tijd nemen om een partijleider te laten uitpraten en kritisch te bevragen.
Mogen we daar meer van?
(Of nee ... We vullen de tv wel met kletsprogramma's. 🙃)
Fijn dat er even duidelijk in het links/rechtsigheid gedoken wordt waar Volt gewoon anders in de race staat.
Met daardoor andere keuzes dan traditioneel links/rechts.
#TK2025 #Volt

Servus #Gauting,
wir(@…) treten wieder zur Wahl an mit dem Bündnis "Menschen für Gauting"(aka MfG).
Mit dem drittbesten Ergebnis 2020 als unabhängige Kraft wird auch 2026 wieder angetreten.
Besucht gerne die Infove…

On Tuesday the man who usually has a comment on everything told NBC News: “I don’t comment on something that’s a dead issue.”
Bullshit. The 2020 election has been over for a while.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/09/trump-response-epstein-files…

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…

"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

A Systematic Literature Review of Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Techniques, Metrics, and Challenges
Andrew Brown, Muhammad Roman, Barry Devereux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06401

A Systematic Literature Review of Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Techniques, Metrics, and Challenges
This systematic review of the research literature on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) provides a focused analysis of the most highly cited studies published between 2020 and May 2025. A total of 128 articles met our inclusion criteria. The records were retrieved from ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and the Digital Bibliography and Library Project (DBLP). RAG couples a neural retriever with a generative language model, grounding output in up-to-date, non-parametric m…

Internal memo: Paramount Streaming President and CEO Tom Ryan is stepping down; Ryan became CEO in October 2020 after co-founding Pluto TV (Joe Otterson/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/paramount-streaming-president-ceo-tom-ryan-exit-12…

Paramount Streaming President and CEO Tom Ryan to Step Down
Tom Ryan, president and CEO of Paramount Streaming, is stepping down.

from my link log —
Rendezvous hashing explained.
https://randorithms.com/2020/12/26/rendezvous-hashing.html
saved 2025-09-16 https://

A dark money group that was founded by one of former President Trump’s key allies raised over $20 million in 2020 and used the money to help finance various conservative groups.
Leonard Leo’s The 85 Fund received the money through the Donors Trust, a donor-advised nonprofit group that funnels money from wealthy conservative financiers to other organizations, according to a tax filing first seen by CNBC.
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA received $200,000 for a “TP Campus Project” fr…

Trump ally's fund received over $20 million last year, then funneled cash to other right-leaning groups
A dark money group that was founded by one of ex-President Trump's key allies raised over $20 million in 2020.

Stability and Superconductivity of Ternary Polyhydrides
Dmitrii V. Semenok, Di Zhou, Wuhao Chen, Alexander G. Kvashnin, Andrey V. Sadakov, Toni Helm, Pedro N. Ferreira, Christoph Heil, Vladimir M. Pudalov, Ivan A. Troyan, Viktor V. Struzhkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22877

Stability and Superconductivity of Ternary Polyhydrides
We review five years of experimental and theoretical attempts (2020-2025) to enhance the superconducting critical temperature ($\textit{T$_c$}$) of hydrogen-rich compounds by alloying binary superhydrides with additional elements. Despite predictions of higher $\textit{T$_c$}$ in ternary systems such as La-Y-H, La-Ce-H, and Ca-Mg-H, experiments consistently show that the maximum $\textit{T$_c$}$ in disordered ternary superhydrides does not exceed that of the best binary parent hydrides within e…

Addiction Among Indie Musicians: Tips to Help Get Health Care
#MusicianTips
https://muz4now.com/2020/addiction-among-indie-musicians-tips-to-hel…

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

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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BREAKING: Ukraine appoints new special envoy to US: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/breaking-ukraine-appoints-new-special.html

Synergy, not size: How collaboration architecture shapes scientific disruption
Bili Zheng, Jianhua Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06212 https://arxiv.org/p…

Synergy, not size: How collaboration architecture shapes scientific disruption
The mechanisms driving different types of scientific innovation through collaboration remain poorly understood. Here we develop a comprehensive framework analyzing over 14 million papers across 19 disciplines from 1960 to 2020 to unpack how collaborative synergy shapes research disruption. We introduce the synergy factor to quantify collaboration cost-benefit dynamics, revealing discipline-specific architectures where Physics peaks at medium team sizes while humanities achieve maximal synergy t…

« Des soldats nous ont dit de nous déshabiller » : en Ethiopie, le silence sur les viols de masse commis pendant la guerre au Tigré
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/202…

« Des soldats nous ont dit de nous déshabiller » : en Ethiopie, le silence sur les viols de masse commis pendant la guerre au Tigré
Entre 2020 et 2022, 120 000 femmes ont été victimes de viols dans cette région en proie à une rébellion. La réticence des autorités, aussi bien fédérales que régionales, à ouvrir les yeux sur ce fléau, entrave le processus de reconstruction des victimes.

Calm In The Middle of Huge Changes
#Resilience #change
https://muz4now.com/2020/calm-in-the-m

Calm In The Middle of Huge Changes
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

All Models Are Wrong, But Can They Be Useful? Lessons from COVID-19 Agent-Based Models: A Systematic Review
Emma Von Hoene, Sara Von Hoene, Szandra Peter, Ethan Hopson, Emily Csizmadia, Faith Fenyk, Kai Barner, Timothy Leslie, Hamdi Kavak, Andreas Zufle, Amira Roess, Taylor Anderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13346

All Models Are Wrong, But Can They Be Useful? Lessons from COVID-19 Agent-Based Models: A Systematic Review
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a surge in computational models to simulate disease dynamics and guide interventions. Agent-based models (ABMs) are well-suited to capture population and environmental heterogeneity, but their rapid deployment raised questions about utility for health policy. We systematically reviewed 536 COVID-19 ABM studies published from January 2020 to December 2023, retrieved from Web of Science, PubMed, and Wiley on January 30, 2024. Studies were included if they used ABMs …

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…

Pathwidth of 2-Layer $k$-Planar Graphs
Yuto Okada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21864 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21864…

Pathwidth of 2-Layer $k$-Planar Graphs
A bipartite graph $G = (X \cup Y, E)$ is a 2-layer $k$-planar graph if it admits a drawing on the plane such that the vertices in $X$ and $Y$ are placed on two parallel lines respectively, edges are drawn as straight-line segments, and every edge involves at most $k$ crossings. Angelini, Da Lozzo, Förster, and Schneck [GD 2020; Comput. J., 2024] showed that every 2-layer $k$-planar graph has pathwidth at most $k + 1$. In this paper, we show that this bound is sharp by giving a 2-layer $k$-plan…

Admissible convergence behavior and mirroring of stagnation in restarted (block) GMRES
Marie Kub\'inov\'a, Kirk M. Soodhalter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17077 https://…

Admissible convergence behavior and mirroring of stagnation in restarted (block) GMRES
In this work, we describe how to construct matrices and block right-hand sides the exhibit a specified restarted block GMRES convergence pattern, such that the eigenvalues and Ritz values at each iteration can be chosen independent of the specified convergence behavior. This work is a generalization of the work in [Meurant and Tebbens, Num. Alg. 2019] in which the authors do the same for restarted non-block GMRES. We use the same tools as were used in [Kubínová and Soodhalter, SIMAX 2020], na…

Melting down a tetraquark: $D^{\ast}D^{(\ast)}$ interactions and $T_{cc}(3875)^ $ in a hot environment
Victor Montesinos, Gloria Montana, Miguel Albaladejo, Juan Nieves, Laura Tolos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13319

Melting down a tetraquark: $D^{\ast}D^{(\ast)}$ interactions and $T_{cc}(3875)^+$ in a hot environment
We discuss the modification of the properties of the tetraquark-like $T_{cc}(3875)^+$ and its heavy quark spin partner, $T_{cc}(4016)^{*+}$ immersed in a hot bath of pions. We consider these exotic states as purely isoscalar $DD^\ast$ and $D^\ast D^\ast$ $S$-wave bound states, respectively. Finite temperature effects are incorporated through the $D$ and $D^\ast$ state-of-the-art thermal spectral functions calculated in [G. Montana et al., Phys. Rev. D, 102 (2020) 096020], using the imaginary-ti…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to me. It's my 69th, and mentally, I feel young, but parts of my body have exceeded the "best before date." According to bornglorious .com there are 137 "famous" Canadians born on August 24th. Most are nobodies like me - politicians, actors, or NHL players you've never heard of. But there are a few notables. Like Alex Colville (1920-2013), a favourite Canadian conceptual painter. Or chain-smoker René Lévesque (1922-1987), who tried to tear Canada apart. But perhaps the Canadian born on this day with the most impact is Rocky Johnson (1944-2020). Born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Johnson was a Canadian pro wrestler and the first black champion in WWE history. Oh yeah.... he was also the father of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Famous
https://youtu.be/dhdOPhTHeoE?si=U6ddnjhi5-iyXywU