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London-based Definely, whose AI tools help law firms draft and review legal contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Revaia, with Clio and others participating (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/09/uk-legaltech-de…

UK legaltech Definely secures $30M to boost global reach and AI development
UK legaltech company Definely has raised $30 million in Series B funding to accelerate its global expansion and AI product roadmap. This additional funding brings the total amount raised by Definely since its inception to $40 million. Launched in 2020 by Nnamdi Emelifeonwu and Feargus MacDaei, Definely was born from lived experience, including that of co-founder MacDaeid, who is registered blind after being diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition at age 11. Throughout his life, he consiste…

Last leg on our brief history of NLP (so far) is the advent of large language models with GPT-3 in 2020 and the introduction of learning from the prompt (aka few-shot learning).
T. B. Brown et al. (2020). Language models are few-shot learners. NIPS'20
https://…

from my link log —
Client rate throttling in the Heroku platform API Ruby gem.
https://www.schneems.com/2020/07/08/a-fast-car-needs-good-brakes-how-we-added-client-rate-throttling-to-the-platform-a…

A Fast Car Needs Good Brakes: How We Added Client Rate Throttling to the Platform API Gem
When API requests are made one-after-the-other they’ll quickly hit rate limits and when that happens:

“Niemand zag aankomen dat het aantal arbeidsongeschikten zo snel zou toenemen”.
Niemand? Wie in de zomer van 2020 zichzelf informeerde over #LongCovid weet dit dus al vijf jaar.
“Vooral jongeren met psychische problemen” … die zullen er heus bijzitten maar je wilt de mensen niet de kost geven bij wie de #LongCovid

Schrik over wachtlijsten WIA-keuring, 'het is ook veel te ingewikkeld'
De Landelijke Cliëntenraad, verzekeringsartsen en de Tweede Kamer maken zich zorgen over de fors oplopende WIA-wachtlijsten. "Het hele systeem is het probleem".

Der Mai 2025 war global der zweitwärmste Mai seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen.
Laut ERA5-Daten lag die durchschnittliche #Oberflächentemperatur 0,53 °C über dem Mittel von 1991–2020 und 1,40 °C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Nur der Mai 2024 war wärmer. In den letzten 23 Monaten überschritt die globale Temperatur 14-mal deutlich die 1,5-Grad-Marke.

this is the first time since 2020 i've been okay with dailying linux on my desktop with at least 90% of my stuff working, and also the first time i've felt like VR on linux on my quest 3 is nearly as usable as it is on windows. most of the online multiplayer games i've been playing don't block linux too, shoutout splitgate 1/2, the finals and RIP xdefiant

Enhancing air-shower observations: Results from an IceCube Surface Array Prototype Station
Megha Venugopal (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09806

Enhancing air-shower observations: Results from an IceCube Surface Array Prototype Station
The Surface Array Enhancement of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is set to equip the existing surface cosmic-ray array of ice-Cherenkov detectors, IceTop, with radio antennas and scintillation detectors. This can lower the energy threshold of detection and increase the measurement accuracy of IceTop. The antenna readout uses a multiplicity trigger from the scintillation detectors. A fully functioning prototype station of the enhancement was deployed at the South Pole in 2020 and upgraded in 20…

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

"Finding Flow"
8 instrumental compositions that helped me find my way back to F-L-O-W
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/finding-flow-nowplaying/…

Finding Flow #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

IBM unveils Power11 chips, its first major Power line update since 2020, available July 25, and says they can detect and respond to ransomware within a minute (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ibm-rolls-out-ne…

A Flexible Measure of Voter Polarization
Boris Ginzburg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07770 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07770

A Flexible Measure of Voter Polarization
This paper introduces a definition of ideological polarization of an electorate around a particular central point. By being flexible about the location or width of the center, this measure enables the researcher to analyze polarization around any point of interest. The paper then applies this approach to US voter survey data between 2004 and 2020, showing how polarization between right-of-center voters and the rest of the electorate was increasing gradually, while polarization between left-wing…

Exoplanet Atmospheric Escape Observations with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Leonardo A. Dos Santos, Eric D. Lopez, Luca Fossati, Antonio Garc\'ia Mu\~noz, Shingo Kameda, Munazza K. Alam, Keighley Rockcliffe, Seth Redfield, Yuichi Ito, Joshua Lothringer, Shreyas Vissapragada, Hannah R. Wakeford, Apurva V. Oza, Girish M. Duvvuri, Raissa Estrela, Ryoya Sakata, Chuanfei Dong, Ziyu Huang

Exoplanet Atmospheric Escape Observations with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
The Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 highlights the importance of advancing research focused on discovering and characterizing habitable worlds. In line with this priority, our goal is to investigate how planetary systems evolve through atmospheric escape and to develop methods for identifying potentially Earth-like planets. By leveraging the ultraviolet (UV) capabilities of the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), we can use transit spectroscopy to observe atmospheric escape in…

Symmetry and symmetry breaking in interpolation inequalities for two-dimensional spinors -- Preliminary results
Jean Dolbeault, Rupert L. Frank, Jonte Weixler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08318

Symmetry and symmetry breaking in interpolation inequalities for two-dimensional spinors -- Preliminary results
On the two-dimensional Euclidean space, we study a spinorial analogue of the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality involving weighted gradient norms. This (SCKN) inequality is equivalent to a spinorial Gagliardo-Nirenberg type interpolation inequality on a cylinder as well as to an interpolation inequality involving Aharonov-Bohm magnetic fields, which was analyzed in a paper of 2020. We examine the symmetry properties of optimal functions by linearizing the associated functional around radial m…

Packers releasing Pro Bowl cornerback Jaire Alexander: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6413409/2025/06/09/jaire-alexander-green-bay-packers-release/

Fourier Spectral Method for Nonlocal Equations on Bounded Domains
Ilyas Mustapha, Bacim Alali, Nathan Albin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05034 https://

Fourier Spectral Method for Nonlocal Equations on Bounded Domains
This work introduces efficient and accurate spectral solvers for nonlocal equations on bounded domains. These spectral solvers exploit the fact that integration in the nonlocal formulation transforms into multiplication in Fourier space and that nonlocality is decoupled from the grid size. As a result, the computational cost is reduced to $O(N\log N)$ for an $N$-point discretization grid. Our approach extends the spectral solvers developed by Alali and Albin (2020) for periodic domains by incor…

A portrait throughout perihelion of the NH$_2$-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
Sophie E. Deam, Michele T. Bannister, Cyrielle Opitom, Matthew M. Knight, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Darryl Z. Seligman, Alan Fitzsimmons, Aur\'elie Guilbert-Lepoutre, Emmanuel Jehin, Laurent Jorda, Michael Marsset, Youssef Moulane, Philippe Rousselot, Pierre Vernazza, Bin Yang

A portrait throughout perihelion of the NH$_2$-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
The interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is the first interstellar object where compositional characterisation was possible throughout its entire perihelion passage. We report all 16 epochs of a comprehensive optical observation campaign with ESO VLT's integral field spectrograph MUSE, spanning 126 days from 2019 November 14 to 2020 March 19. The spatial dust emission of 2I/Borisov was predominantly smooth, with no seasonal effect. A jet-like feature was consistently visible. The gas production morpho…

From Nothing
#StrangeInspiration #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/from-nothing-

From Nothing #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Evolution of the ZTF SLRN-2020 star-planet merger
Ricardo Yarza, Morgan MacLeod, Benjamin Idini, Ruth Murray-Clay, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05365

Evolution of the ZTF SLRN-2020 star-planet merger
We model the optical and infrared transient ZTF SLRN-2020, previously associated with a star-planet merger. We consider the scenario in which orbital decay via tidal dissipation led to the merger, and find that tidal heating within the star was likely unobservable in the archival image of the system taken $12\mathrm{yr}$ before the merger. The observed dust formation months before the merger is consistent with a planet of mass $M_\mathrm{p} \gtrsim 5M_\mathrm{J}$ ejecting material as it skims t…

Extended c-differential distinguishers of full 9 and reduced-round Kuznyechik cipher
Pantelimon Stanica, Ranit Dutta, Bimal Mandal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02181

Extended c-differential distinguishers of full 9 and reduced-round Kuznyechik cipher
This paper introduces {\em truncated inner $c$-differential cryptanalysis}, a novel technique that for the first time enables the practical application of $c$-differential uniformity to block ciphers. While Ellingsen et al. (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 2020) established the notion of $c$-differential uniformity using $(F(x\oplus a), cF(x))$, a key challenge remained: multiplication by $c$ disrupts the structural properties essential for block cipher analysis, particularly key addition. We resolv…

Joel Bitonio: Browns getting back to 2020, 2021 running schemes, 'a strength' of Cleveland's O-line https://www.nfl.com/news/joel-bitonio-browns-returning-running-schemes-a-strength-offensive-line

Harder, shorter, sharper, forward: A comparison of women's and men's elite football gameplay (2020-2025)
Rebecca Carstens, Raj Deshpande, Pau Esteve, Nicol\`o Fidelibus, Sara Linde Neven, Ramona Ottow, Lokamruth K. R., Paula Rodr\'iguez-S\'anchez, Luca Santagata, Javier M. Buld\'u, Brennan Klein, Maddalena Torricelli
https://

Harder, shorter, sharper, forward: A comparison of women's and men's elite football gameplay (2020-2025)
Elite football is believed to have evolved in recent years, but systematic evidence for the pace and form of that change is sparse. Drawing on event-level records for 13,067 matches in ten top-tier men's and women's leagues in England, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the United States (2020-2025), we quantify match dynamics with two views: conventional performance statistics and pitch-passing networks that track ball movement among a grid of pitch (field) regions. Between 2020 and 2025, average pass…

Trump calls for special prosecutor for 2020 election, after again claiming fraud with no evidence (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates/?id=122881881&entryId=123041987
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p58#a250620p58

"Lilt"
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/lilt-pianoimp

Lilt #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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…

On the Exceptional Sets of Transcendental Analytic Functions in Several Variables with Integer Coefficients
Jean Lelis, Bruno De Paula Miranda, Carlos Gustavo Moreira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15914

On the Exceptional Sets of Transcendental Analytic Functions in Several Variables with Integer Coefficients
In 2020, Marques and Moreira proved that every subset of $\overline{\mathbb{Q}} \cap B(0,1)$, which is closed under complex conjugation and contains $0$, is the exceptional set of uncountably many transcendental analytic functions with integer coefficients. In this paper, we extend this result to transcendental analytic functions in several variables. In particular, we show that every subset of $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}^m$ contained in the unit polydisc $Δ(0;1)$, closed under complex conjugation …

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Least Squares Estimation For Hierarchical Data
The U.S. Census Bureau's 2020 Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS) bases its output on noisy measurements, which are population tabulations added to realizations of mean-zero random variables. These noisy measurements are observed for a set of hierarchical geographic units, e.g., the U.S. as a whole, states, counties, census tracts, and census blocks. The Census Bureau released the noisy measurements generated in the DAS executions for the two primary 2020 Census data products, in part to allow da…

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 …

Spectral evolution of GX 17 2 using AstroSat and NICER observations
Sree Bhattacherjee, Ranjeev Misra, Biplob Sarkar, V. Jithesh, Jayashree Roy, Yashpal Bhulla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21679

Spectral evolution of GX 17+2 using AstroSat and NICER observations
We study the spectral evolution of the Z-track source GX 17+2 using AstroSat and NICER observations taken between 2016 and 2020. The AstroSat observations cover the period when the source is in the normal branch (NB) and the flaring branch (FB), while for the NICER ones the variability can be associated with the FB branch. The source spectra at different regions of the branches are well described by accretion disk emission, blackbody surface emission and a thermal Comptonization component. In t…